finishing tomorrow?
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
I ranked the Gridlink high but would have ranked it even higher if it had just a bit more of the noise and grit of their last album in it
― anonanon, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
I'm with Fastnbulbous, I'm kinda amazed that Have A Nice Life finished so high on a thread where the discussion tends to pretty consistently focus on things that are more traditionally metal. I mean, it beat Spectral Lore and Thantifaxath and Horrendous and Primoridial ... that's pretty stunning, imo.
None of which is bad, or a dig at anyone here or the thread, of course.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
Siegbran: Thanks for the Wijlen Wij and Ea recommendations up-thread. I'll check them both out. I was one of the folks who voted for Have a Nice Life. I agree that they're not metal at all, but they can be pretty heavy at times. It's cool to see Spectral Lore in the top 40! I adore that album -- think I had it at #3 or #4.
― Bloody Pelt Found Near the Scene of the Crime (Skrot Montague), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
no, thursday i think. xpunless everyone wants 10 a day so it finishes friday but traditionally I finish it on a thursday as it allows friday for people to discuss it instead of working.
it also allows for extra time if ilx is down or im ill etc
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
I think with HANL (and maybe other things like woven hand) is that people really really rate them but theyre quite unknown so want to boost their profile in the poll.
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
I love the clarity on this one. It gives the chaos kind of an aerial feel, like it's all set against a beautiful clear blue sky.
― jmm, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
Here is stereogums top 50 metal albums.
50. Old Man Gloom - The Ape Of God 49. Piss Vortex - Piss Vortex48. Ides Of Gemini - Old World New Wave47. Psalm Zero - The Drain46. Anguish - Mountain45. Incantation - Dirges Of Elysium44. Witch Mountain - Mobile Of Angels43. Yautja - Songs Of Descent42. Ingurgitating Oblivion - Continuum Of Absence41. A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn’t Have A Name40. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata39. Tombs - Savage Gold38. Diskord - Oscillation37. Sargeist - The Crawling Shadows 36. Jute Gyte - Vast Chains35. Krieg - Transient34. Brutal Blues - Brutal Blues 33. Emptiness - Nothing But the Whole 32. Nasheim - Solens Vemod31. High Spirits - You Are Here30. Couch Slut - My Life As A Woman29. Fluisteraars - Dromers28. Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer27. Diocletian - Gesundrian 26. Slugdge - Gastronomicon25. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire24. Teitanblood - Death23. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden22. Falls Of Rauros - Believe In No Coming Shore21. Giant Squid - Minoans20. Gridlink - Longhena19. Panopticon - Roads To The North18. Sivyj Yar - From The Dead Villages' Darkness17. Behemoth - The Satanist16. Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise15. Indian - From All Purity14. Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall13. Winterfylleth - The Divination Of Antiquity12. Martyrdöd - Elddop11. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen10. Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation09. Thou - Heathen08. At The Gates - At War With Reality07. Woods Of Desolation - As The Stars06. Morbus Chron - Sweven05. Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere04. Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica03. Horrendous - Ecdysis02. YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend01. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry
― satans favourite son, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
31 Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God I 406 Points, 11 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/sppcUij.jpgspotify:album:5bTs4HY0zZaG7BBUvLtED6http://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-ape-of-god
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
only jute gyte ive seen in any lists has been vast chains.
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
so Ape of God I and II are being counted separately?
― anonanon, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
they were, yes
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
<i>I love the clarity on this one. It gives the chaos kind of an aerial feel, like it's all set against a beautiful clear blue sky.
― jmm, dinsdag 16 december 2014 20:48 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink</i>
This is the best description I have read about this album. Missed this poll, but I'm sure I'm gonna put the Gridlink album really high in the regular poll.
Love reading this poll and all the postings and the albums and stuff, but the way.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
Shit, html.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
The output of music from the Cave In guys is astounding.. it mind boggling, actually.
― SeanWayne, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
i had a Cave In CD back in the day ... what bands are they in now?
― alpine static, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
RECAP102 The Cosmic Dead - Easterfaust 143 Points, 4 votestie100 Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves 143 Points, 5 votes100 Lantlos - Melting Sun 143 Points, 5 votes99 Ulaan Markhor - Spiral Horns, Black Onions, et al 144 Points, 4 votes, One #198 Seven that Spells - The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: IO 146 Votes, 3 voters , One #197 Death Penalty - Death Penalty 146 Points, 5 votes96 Ambergris - Ambergris 147 Points, 3 votes, One #195 Body Count - Manslaughter 147 Points,6 votes94 Monarch - Sabbracadaver 148 Points, 6 votes93 Truckfighters - Universe 152 Points, 5 votes, One #1Tie91 Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy 155 Points, 6 votes91 Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII 155 Points, 6 votes
90 A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A Name 156 Points, 4 votes, 1 #189 Conan - Blood Eagle 157 Points, 5 votes88 Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestite 157 Points, 6 votes87 Wo Fat - The Conjuring 158 Points, 5 votes86 Karma To Burn - Arch Stanton 160 Points, 4 votes85 Monster Magnet - Milking the Stars: A Re-Imagining of Last Patrol 160 Points, 5 votes84 At The Gates - At War With Reality 161 Points, 5 votes83 Rigor Mortis - Slaves To The Grave 161 Points, 6 votes82 Hands Of Orlac - Figli Del Crepuscolo 162 Points, 5 votes
TIE80 Saor - Aura 163 Points , 5 votes80 The Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LI 163 Points, 5 votes79 Bongripper - Miserable 163 Points, 6 votes78 The Flight of Sleipnir - V. 168 Points, 4 votes77 Skull Fist - Chasing the Dream 171 Points, 5 votes76 Myrkur - Myrkur 173 Points, 6 votes75 Opeth - Pale Communion 177 Points, 7 votes74 Mournful Congregation - Concrescence Of The Sophia 186 Points, 6 votes73 Petrychor - Makrokosmos 189 Points, 5 votes72 Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails 190 Points, 6 votes71 Inter Arma - The Cavern 190 Points, 7 votes
70 Towers - II 193 Points, 7 votes69 Comet Control - s/t 194 Points, 5 votes , One #1Tie67 AEvangelist - Writhes in the Murk 205 Points, 6 votes67 Shooting Guns - Street Rock 205.0 6 votes 66 Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls 209 Points, 8 votes65 Wizard Rifle - Here In The Deadlights 210 Points, 6 votes64 Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel 214 Points, 7 votes63 Nadja - Queller 223 Points, 6 votes, One #162 Atlas Moth - The Old Believer 234 Points, 8 votes61 Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io 236 Points, 6 votes
60 The Wounded Kings - Consolamentum 251 Points, 7 votes59 Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless 255 Points, 7 votes58 Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate 262 Points, 7 votes57 Woods of Desolation - As the Stars 267 Points, 10 votes56 Teitanblood - Death 270 Points, 9 votes55 Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall 272 Points, 8 votes54 Fen - Carrion Skies 274 Points, 8 votes53 The Oath - The Oath 274 Points, 9 votes52 Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi 282 Points, 9 votes51 Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem 290 Points, 8 votes
50 Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind 297 Points, 9 votes49 Goat - Commune 301 Points, 9 votes48 Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith 311 Points, 9 votes47 Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha 329 Points, 9 votes46 Indian - From All Purity 329 Points, 10 votes45 Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen 333 Points, 11 votes44 The Body - I Shall Die Here 335 Points 10 votes43 Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise 337 Points, 9 votes42 Eyehategod - Eyehategod 339 Points, 11 votes41 Horrendous - Ecdysis 349 Points, 9 votes
40 Boris - Noise 353 Points, 11 votes39 Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer 356 Points, 11 votes38 Morbus Chron - Sweven 358 Points , 10 votes, One #137 Spectral Lore - III 360 Points, 12 votes, One #136 Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica 366 Points, 11 votes35 Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World 373 Points, 11 votes34 Gridlink - Longhena 376 Points, 10 votes , TWO #1s 33 Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels 378 Points, 15 votes32 Thou - Heathen 392 Points, 12 votes31 Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God I 406 Points, 11 votes
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
digging the lack of lord mantis, keep it up ilx
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
Old Man Gloom
Santos Montano – drums (1999–present) Aaron Turner (Isis, Mamiffer) – guitar, vocals (1999–present) Nate Newton (Converge, Doomriders) – guitar, vocals (2000–present) Caleb Scofield (Cave In, Zozobra) – bass guitar, vocals (2000–present)
funnily enough I got into OMG before Isis, Converge, Cave In with that first album
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
Re-listening to the Morbus Chron now, and really wishing I placed it higher. Haven't heard the Gridlink yet, and from the descriptions it sounds like my kind of Grind ('cause the Trap Them left me feeling a little cold this year) - really hoping to pick it up soon.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
if rocky and colonel poo had voted i think some of these albums you mentioned would have been higher
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
i hope the botanist is yet to come
― auto focus, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
Surely it is
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Bunch of stuff in the top 50 that was (and still is) in my stuff-to-check-out list: Thantifaxath (top 5 g.o.a.t. band name), The Body, Thou, Witch Mountain, Hail Spirit Noir, Have a Nice Life. Listened to some of the Boris album; that's p cool yoo. Reminds me a little of the Vaura album; seems like a lot of twilit postpunk mixed in there--I'd almost call it their White Pony...
― wonderful about a proletariat-Vorticist version of James Brown (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
Giving up on Haikai No Ku though, which is a shame bcz that album is super cool...
― wonderful about a proletariat-Vorticist version of James Brown (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
Is 'Thantifaxath' just a totally made-up word? If so, does this make them the Moxy Früvous of black metal?
― jmm, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
Botanist better make it xxxp...!
― wonderful about a proletariat-Vorticist version of James Brown (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
i really like the witch mountain, from today's results - think it's the only thing from today that i voted 4
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
100% agree with this. it doesn't do the same stuff to my brain that most grind does. extremely fast and busy but highly structured (not chaotic) and not at all rigid. it's a little hard to describe but I find it easy to get lost in.
I was the other one with gridlink at #1
― original bgm, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
cover is really funny but I do wish it were on some other album. heavy cosplay vibes.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
i just think it's an appropriate cover for the sleekest gridlink album
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
I like that cover. It's a nice cue that the emotions to be explored on this album are closely related to anime melodramatics.
It's also an example of cosplay gone good.
― jmm, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
It's not cosplay as much as latex fetish wear. I participated in a fashion show with a designer who specialized in latex about 14 yrs ago. Looked great on the women, men, not so much ;)
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
Were there any other noteworthy funeral doom records this year?
'Kadotetut' by Vainaja had some funeral-y parts and was very well executed imo
― cornelius pardew (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah that Vainaja record is better than either of the Wijlen Wij en Ea records. Forgot where I placed it in my ballot exactly but it made my top 50.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 09:47 (nine years ago) link
loving this rundown.
via this thread, i think i have come to realise my sweetspot : 70s stoner/doom styled
my take so far :
love the oath - going to buylove electric wizard (i know they have not yet appeared in this list, but have been reading/listening following advise here and elsewhere) - going to buyenjoyed the witch mountain - may buylove monster magnet - but i now have 4 albumsby them, and not sure i need more.enjoyed have a nice life - not metal
did not like gridlinkdid not like myrkurdid not like comet control
i could not vote as i did not qualify for the minimum of 5 albums in the poll.however, had i been able to do so, i would have dropped earths album, primitive and deadly, at the #1 spot, followed closely by blues pills, both of which have been top of my playlist this year.
keep up the good work folks.
― mark e, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:38 (nine years ago) link
Is 'Thantifaxath' just a totally made-up word? If so, does this make them the Moxy Früvous of black metal?― jmm,
― jmm,
It's a perfectly cromulent word
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:53 (nine years ago) link
this poll has embigenned us all
xp would have thought Comet Control might hit the stoner/doom sweet-spot? More heavy psych I guess. I need to check Witch Mountain and The Oath.
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:54 (nine years ago) link
re comet control : yeah, it does tick the boxes, think it was the lo-fi production that disappointed. what i heard sounded lifeless and lacking. i may dip in again with my proper headphones on.
― mark e, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
digging the Slowdive-gone-metal of Lantlos
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:34 (nine years ago) link
Since there's people around chatting I will post the next one early
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:38 (nine years ago) link
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:39 (nine years ago) link
30 Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God II 415 Points, 11 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/XW6OTPa.jpgspotify:album:2xw5rvGcsyXvLFF0dO37fAhttp://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-ape-of-god-2
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:41 (nine years ago) link
huh ?
that was 31 ?
― mark e, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
like the music, don't like the gruff vocals - a common issue i have with metal.
― mark e, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
no its The Ape Of God II . They released 2 albums
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
God II sounds like an interesting theological concept.
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
would probably just be a lame sequel to the orig big feller though i guess
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:18 (nine years ago) link
Wah. So goddam pissed to have missed out on this. Great list as usual, though, lots of new stuff to check out. Plus hi, everybody!
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:21 (nine years ago) link
Some metal albums:
Ancient Ascendant – Echoes and CinderArtificial Brain – Labyrinth ConstellationsBehemoth – The SatanistBlood of Kingu – Dark Star on the Right Horn of the Crescent MoonBloodbath – Grand Morbid FuneralBlut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian PoetryBoris – NoiseColtsblood – Into the Unfathomable AbyssConan – Blood EagleDarkest Era – Severance
Darkspace – Darkspace III IElectric Wizard – Time to DieExecration – Morbid DimensionsEyehategod – EyehategodFloor – OblationGodflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire / Decline and Fall (EP)Grand Magus – Triumph and PowerHail Spirit Noir – Oi MagoiHorrendous – EcdysisHowls of Ebb – Vigils of the Third Eye
Inconcessus Lux Lucis – Disintegration: Psalms of Veneration for the Nefarous EliteInter Arma – The CavernsKing Buzzo – This Machine Kills ArtistsMare Cogitum – Phobos MonolithMelvins – Hold It InMidnight – No Mercy for MayhemMorbus Chron – SwevenMortuary Drape – Spiritual IndependenceOld Man Gloom – The Ape of God I + IIOld Wainds – Nordraum
Pallbearer – Foundations of BurdenPanopticon – Roads to the NorthPrimordial – Where Greater Men Have FallenRigor Mortis – Slaves to the GraveSatan's Satyrs – Die ScreamingSlough Feg – Digital ResistanceSlugdge – GastronomiconSpectral Lore – IIITaake – Stridens HusThou – Heathen
Tombs – Savage GoldTrap Them – BlissfuckerTriptykon – Melana ChasmataVainaja – KadotetutVallenfyre – SplintersVampire – VampireVaura – The MissingWolves in the Throne Room – CelestiteYob – Clearing the Path to AscendYoung and in the Way – When Life Comes to Death
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link