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
Following Gira's lead I see contendo
― wonderful about a proletariat-Vorticist version of James Brown (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
21 Behemoth - Jolly Christian Singalongsongs 537 Points, 18 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/cIKk50J.jpgspotify:album:6yjTdaBIgDXAwCl8NpBEyG
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
Lol
― wonderful about a proletariat-Vorticist version of James Brown (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
...I don't know, in 2014 I think it's mostly safe to conflate prog-rock and metal audiences into one blob.
like you, i first heard of gazpacho through AMG. i spun demon a few times early this year, eventually filed it away as interesting but not really for me. and i suppose you're right about the lack of separation between metal and prog circa now. kindly bent to free us still might show, right?
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
Idk, is Slipknot's fanbase listening to a lot of prog? (Maybe they are.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
xp not sure, I nom'd it and still didn't vote for it
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
There's a big difference between mainstream metal fans and underground metal fans (whether extreme or not)
Are you guys ready for the start of the TOP TWENTY
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
20 Blues Pills - Blues Pills 557 Points, 13 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/PG8Fcjg.jpgspotify:album:46S8YoOhkWQhHKRCcvflfDhttp://bluespills.bandcamp.com/
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
Either she's sitting on someone or her leg is in a really weird position.
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
who are they? didn't think there'd be stuff in the top 20 i'd not heard of.
― auto focus, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
She's sitting on the SURFACE OF YOUR MIND, MAN
― J3ff T., Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Ooh!
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Swedish blues-rockers. They're really good. I just heard them a few weeks ago.
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
cheers, playing in london this year - i'll check em out!
― auto focus, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
If we've reached Behemoth, we will not be reaching the other 7 of my 10. Stuff like Tortorum, Old Wainds, The Deathtrip, I can understand; I'm kinda flummoxed that Domains, Emptiness, even Overkill didn't make it.
I just listened to Sinister Ceremonies again last night for what I assume is the millionth time this year, and it still gets better with each listen, to the point where I'm sticking it next to stuff like Altars of Madness, Onward to Golgotha, Consuming Impulse, Leprosy -- ahistorically of course; I'm just speaking of pure musical enjoyment on my part. I don't think a single bar of music passes by without something really inspired/inspiring happening. I'm wondering if their main writer isn't classically trained because the level of songwriting and thematic development is among the best I've ever heard. Each time a musical idea appears, as great as it is at its starting point, it gets decorated, expanded, emphasized each time it returns so that you're practically cheering on every riff as it's brought back over the course of a song. I'm still noticing little details in the guitars and even the fleeting keys all this time later -- and this is not some kind of complex, layered, symphonic metal extravaganza. It's ... pretty straightforward blackened death metal. My initial assessment of the album was "Altars of Madness played with a black metal mindset" or something; this assessment hasn't changed at all. I thought it would be quite some time before my #1 of a year would compete with last year's Colored Sands but this Domains thing assuredly does.
Their album is free, even. Insane. Though their distribution presence kind of sucked; I got mine through Ajna. Maybe their lack of web presence was the problem.http://domainsofdeath.bandcamp.com/
I have no idea why the listenable mp3's have been reduced to two. It doesn't matter, though: every song is the best song.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link