2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

and nor did you :P

Is Fuck the Facts grindcore? If so, I think they're still the only grindcore band I like.

something non doom, stoner, psych, black, ambient, shoegaze up next btw

(Ha, was about to post "That would be striking five subgenres from a 102-album list!":P)

Enjoying Thou.

oh, forgot vader in that list up there. strike young & in the way so i can pretend-vote for vader.

26 Swans - To Be Kind 441 Point, 13 votes
http://i.imgur.com/JQyl2Nt.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1Nt5SpidxOjgIpTrhrfwAF
http://swans.bandcamp.com/album/to-be-kind

xp yeah, thou-dude's vocals have always bugged me, but everything else about heathen won me over. now i even like the vocals.

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

:/

but yeah, Floor too

something non doom, stoner, psych, black, ambient, shoegaze metal up next btw

― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 4:50 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

;)

hey adam I'm getting that Ulver box for xmas :)

we're about to enter the Top 25. Hope everyone is suitably excited.

I'm hitting the road for northern Wisconsin. Will try to have my wife read me updates while I'm driving. So if my phone battery dies and we get stranded in a blizzard and die, it's all y'all's fault.

im sure hell has wifi

xxxp jealousbutstillhappyforyou face

http://hell_wisconsin.livejournal.com

25 Today is the Day - Animal Mother 460 Points, 11 Votes, TWO #1s
http://i.imgur.com/gWJUhLu.jpg
spotify:album:5GneBbqzhQ9Smj1biPjDXW
http://todayistheday.bandcamp.com/album/animal-mother

Glad to see this place.

http://www.kerrang.com/26297/top-50-rock-metal-punk-albums-2014/

mirrors our top 50 exactly

All #1 voters should be obligated to show up at the right moment to defend their picks.

you think today is the day did not deserve 2 #1 votes?

24 Solstafir - Otta 465 Points, 14 votes
http://i.imgur.com/WuLGm20.jpg
spotify:album:48YUS7Bb70nhn7bLMY7CSC
http://solstafir.bandcamp.com/album/tta

great album this

I mean, I'm glad the ILM metal polls have the slant they do. Afaict, most metal lists don't really intersect with my tastes nearly as much as these tend to. I think it was the 07 poll or so that got me to realize that, often, what I sought in contemporary rock music was most present in certain branches of metal (or else in niches that are categorized as "jazz").

^this

feeling a bit bad for not voting Jute Gyte into this rundown, obv, sorry Sund4r. wd have been 1 & 2 for me even i dare say if i'd heard every single album here

you said that last year LJ!

I think there was a post on the nominations thread that summed it up along the lines of its a poll of albums the ilx metal fans like rather than just a "metal" poll.

Ha, I didn't nominate Bill Frisell or Owen Pallett, though.

Solstafir seem cool. I need to give it more listens.

Did anyone follow prog-rock this year? I only heard one thing I really liked, this band Gazpacho: https://soundcloud.com/kscopemusic/sets/gazpacho-demon

Any Trouble fans in the house?

23 The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep 489 Points, 13 votes
http://i.imgur.com/HsUrZPE.jpg
spotify:album:2LBdt08fhIzXNtbSlz7ZC7

The Skull is a doom metal band founded by three former members of Trouble, vocalist Eric Wagner, bassist Ron Holzner and drummer Jeff "Oly" Olson. In May 2012, Olson departed from The Skull due to his desire to "wait for a real Trouble reunion with original members or not play Trouble's music at all." However, on August 19th, 2013 Olson rejoined The Skull stating, "I want to rock again." [1] The Skull performs a large portion of Trouble's first two pioneering doom metal albums; Psalm 9 and self-titled The Skull; and perform a large catalogue of several other Trouble classics.

This 'comeback' was a wonderful surprise

Happy to see this get so many votes. It didn't generate a ton of talk on the Rolling thread.

really?

22 BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL 500 Points, 14 votes One #1
http://i.imgur.com/yGHaQzp.jpg
spotify:album:3lYyAPBY8OGVCNBzsEG7uf

The only band that matters.

listening to FTWAA, and yeah, this is excellent. don't know why i slept on it. maybe cuz i wasn't really into that blackfinger joint.

(Gazpacho are sounding p good.)

I heard their next album is to be a concept album about a super hero hamster

The number one vote was me.

Also, SKULL FIST

BABYMETAL!! at last an album I voted for

I think I put Babymetal in my top 5. If we'd polled metal tracks, "Gimme Chocolate" would have absolutely been my first pick.

was the babymetal album ever released in the uk on cd ?
never seen it in the racks.

A J-pop/metal hybrid sounds like it has potential on paper but I've never been able to click with Babymetal so far.

that gazpacho album has been showing up on all kinds of metal sites/lists. weird, cuz i don't hear anything metal about it, and their previous albums haven't made much of a dent in "the community" (so far as i can tell). half suspect it's down to the title and cover. then again, it does get pretty spooky from time to time, esp on "death room".

lol there is a band called gazpacho?!

yeah, lol. delicious, artistically compelling, and surprisingly easy to prepare.

I've never been able to click with Babymetal so far.

going with this in favor of something much less kind