(Ha, was about to post "That would be striking five subgenres from a 102-album list!":P)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Enjoying Thou.
oh, forgot vader in that list up there. strike young & in the way so i can pretend-vote for vader.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
26 Swans - To Be Kind 441 Point, 13 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/JQyl2Nt.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/1Nt5SpidxOjgIpTrhrfwAFhttp://swans.bandcamp.com/album/to-be-kind
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
xp yeah, thou-dude's vocals have always bugged me, but everything else about heathen won me over. now i even like the vocals.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Wish I could have afforded that Floor Ulver vinyl box set from a few years ago this year
:/
but yeah, Floor too
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
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
;)
― imago, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
hey adam I'm getting that Ulver box for xmas :)
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
we're about to enter the Top 25. Hope everyone is suitably excited.
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
im sure hell has wifi
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
xxxp jealousbutstillhappyforyou face
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
http://hell_wisconsin.livejournal.com
― imago, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
25 Today is the Day - Animal Mother 460 Points, 11 Votes, TWO #1shttp://i.imgur.com/gWJUhLu.jpgspotify:album:5GneBbqzhQ9Smj1biPjDXWhttp://todayistheday.bandcamp.com/album/animal-mother
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
Glad to see this place.
http://www.kerrang.com/26297/top-50-rock-metal-punk-albums-2014/
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
mirrors our top 50 exactly
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
All #1 voters should be obligated to show up at the right moment to defend their picks.
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
you think today is the day did not deserve 2 #1 votes?
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
24 Solstafir - Otta 465 Points, 14 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/WuLGm20.jpgspotify:album:48YUS7Bb70nhn7bLMY7CSChttp://solstafir.bandcamp.com/album/tta
great album this
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
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").
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
^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
― imago, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
you said that last year LJ!
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I didn't nominate Bill Frisell or Owen Pallett, though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
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
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
Any Trouble fans in the house?
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
23 The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep 489 Points, 13 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/HsUrZPE.jpgspotify: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.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
really?
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
22 BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL 500 Points, 14 votes One #1http://i.imgur.com/yGHaQzp.jpgspotify:album:3lYyAPBY8OGVCNBzsEG7uf
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
The only band that matters.
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
(Gazpacho are sounding p good.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
I heard their next album is to be a concept album about a super hero hamster
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
The number one vote was me.
― J3ff T., Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
Also, SKULL FIST
― J3ff T., Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
BABYMETAL!! at last an album I voted for
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
I think I put Babymetal in my top 5. If we'd polled metal tracks, "Gimme Chocolate" would have absolutely been my first pick.
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
was the babymetal album ever released in the uk on cd ? never seen it in the racks.
― mark e, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
A J-pop/metal hybrid sounds like it has potential on paper but I've never been able to click with Babymetal so far.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
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".
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
lol there is a band called gazpacho?!
― vigetable (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
yeah, lol. delicious, artistically compelling, and surprisingly easy to prepare.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
I've never been able to click with Babymetal so far.
going with this in favor of something much less kind
I just don't fucking get Babymetal either.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
xxp
super
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
Gazpacho got an extremely positive review on Angry Metal Guy, a site which tends to favour prog-metal. I think that's how I heard them. They're also #2 on RYM's prog-rock list this year, which has a lot of prog-metal crossover. I don't know, in 2014 I think it's mostly safe to conflate prog-rock and metal audiences into one blob.
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link