2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

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 ;)

Were there any other noteworthy funeral doom records this year?

'Kadotetut' by Vainaja had some funeral-y parts and was very well executed imo

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.

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 buy
love electric wizard (i know they have not yet appeared in this list, but have been reading/listening following advise here and elsewhere) - going to buy
enjoyed the witch mountain - may buy
love 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 gridlink
did not like myrkur
did 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.

Is 'Thantifaxath' just a totally made-up word? If so, does this make them the Moxy Früvous of black metal?

― jmm,

It's a perfectly cromulent word

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.

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.

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.

digging the Slowdive-gone-metal of Lantlos

Since there's people around chatting I will post the next one early

via this thread, i think i have come to realise my sweetspot : 70s stoner/doom styled

30 Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God II 415 Points, 11 votes
http://i.imgur.com/XW6OTPa.jpg
spotify:album:2xw5rvGcsyXvLFF0dO37fA
http://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-ape-of-god-2

huh ?

that was 31 ?

like the music, don't like the gruff vocals - a common issue i have with metal.

no its The Ape Of God II . They released 2 albums

God II sounds like an interesting theological concept.

would probably just be a lame sequel to the orig big feller though i guess

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!

Some metal albums:

Ancient Ascendant – Echoes and Cinder
Artificial Brain – Labyrinth Constellations
Behemoth – The Satanist
Blood of Kingu – Dark Star on the Right Horn of the Crescent Moon
Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral
Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Boris – Noise
Coltsblood – Into the Unfathomable Abyss
Conan – Blood Eagle
Darkest Era – Severance

Darkspace – Darkspace III I
Electric Wizard – Time to Die
Execration – Morbid Dimensions
Eyehategod – Eyehategod
Floor – Oblation
Godflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire / Decline and Fall (EP)
Grand Magus – Triumph and Power
Hail Spirit Noir – Oi Magoi
Horrendous – Ecdysis
Howls of Ebb – Vigils of the Third Eye

Inconcessus Lux Lucis – Disintegration: Psalms of Veneration for the Nefarous Elite
Inter Arma – The Caverns
King Buzzo – This Machine Kills Artists
Mare Cogitum – Phobos Monolith
Melvins – Hold It In
Midnight – No Mercy for Mayhem
Morbus Chron – Sweven
Mortuary Drape – Spiritual Independence
Old Man Gloom – The Ape of God I + II
Old Wainds – Nordraum

Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden
Panopticon – Roads to the North
Primordial – Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Rigor Mortis – Slaves to the Grave
Satan's Satyrs – Die Screaming
Slough Feg – Digital Resistance
Slugdge – Gastronomicon
Spectral Lore – III
Taake – Stridens Hus
Thou – Heathen

Tombs – Savage Gold
Trap Them – Blissfucker
Triptykon – Melana Chasmata
Vainaja – Kadotetut
Vallenfyre – Splinters
Vampire – Vampire
Vaura – The Missing
Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestite
Yob – Clearing the Path to Ascend
Young and in the Way – When Life Comes to Death

There is so much goddamn metal. I always feel like I'm falling behind.

xxxp God II Electric Boogaloo

no its The Ape Of God II . They released 2 albums

ahhh .. the cover art for each is different !

did not notice.

not sure why they didn't just present it as a double. 2nd definitely makes more sense as "pt 2" than as a standalone release.

So this Horrendous album is really great, and sort of refreshing in that it's not 60mins plus!

DJ Mencap / Siegbran: I just added Vainaja to my Spotify playlists. Thanks.

I listened to the Ea record last night and thought it sounded great. They're from Wyoming, I guess? Cool.

xp - not recommended to the hm-2 haters tho

Been lurking on this thread with interest. New to me stuff that's caught my ears the most is Lantlos and Fen - guess I'm in an expansive post-BM kind of mood.

Gridlink pleasingly mental as well.

welcome lurkers. always glad to see lots of comments whether you voted or not

29 Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds 422 Points, 11 votes
http://i.imgur.com/dT85FOt.jpg
spotify:album:3iBC1o1j4FcwMnCzehQeuz
http://cruzdelsurmusic.bandcamp.com/album/of-woe-and-wounds

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wonder how much better OMG would have done without the pre-release fuckery

going back a few placings, but man that Morbus Chron album is dope. the delirious energy of early Entombed or Dismember with amazing psych crosscurrents!

also reminds me (fondly) of the delightful avant-garde disarray of those first couple of At The Gates albums.

Horrendous is another very fine retro-saturated album.

Gave horrendous a cursory listen, great riffing but the guy's vocals haven't clicked for me yet.

28 Menace Ruine - Venus Armata 432 Points, 12 votes
http://i.imgur.com/iHyOQIB.jpg
spotify:album:6lFdI9cl8OD8Jv8Yw0jDp3
http://menaceruine.bandcamp.com/album/venus-armata

Great album this and I love her vocals

This one sounds amazing on paper but I didn't get around to checking it out.

Listening now.

Pretty good placing for Apostle of Solitude, a solid doom album that I didn't think got that much attention. Some complain about the vocals approaching that sort of melodic post-grunge/nu-metal grey area, but I like 'em.

So this is where all the #metalgate pish started

http://www.deathmetal.org/article/metalgate/

and metalsucks reply http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/12/15/what-the-fck-is-metalgate/

love the metal sucks reply

So I started digging into it. The term was apparently coined by Death Metal Underground, and seeks to draw a parallel with #gamergate by alleging that Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) are attacking metal to cleanse it of everything that makes it what the author thinks it is and should be: angry, misogynystic, homophobic music for conservative white people.

It's about anti-ethics in metal journalism.

it's all amount a small amount of sexist homophobic racist cunts latching on to that #gamergate pish

poor m@tt first they try to ruin his gaming and now his music. Guy cant catch a break.

anyway lets get back to the music

tho m@tt must be dreading the inevitable #rapgate that is going to happen at some point.

this next placing was the pre-Torche band who reformed and made a new album

27 Floor - Oblation 434 Points, 14 votes
http://i.imgur.com/peItZz4.jpg
spotify:album:6TRu1SImiHmeXNxUGPRYgC
http://officialfloor.bandcamp.com/album/oblation

Wish I could have afforded that Floor vinyl box set from a few years ago