devilock and others who think stuff should be higher - that is why you need to campaign for albums. I say it every year but you ignore it!
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
what might be the last surprise coming of the poll?
BARGHEST?
― auto focus, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
Ya know, when I look at the albums I mention for the sake of imbuing a selection with metal cred, and then I scroll through most of the stuff making this year-end list, I have to wonder if I've not become one of those metal purists I loathe so much. Oh god. Get me a DFHVN stream, stat.
xpost: I think my Domains campaign expired, considering it really only consisted of my initial awe-struck post about it. Back in like April or something. I didn't think that one through.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
hey, i voted for that, devilock, but it was down in the teens on my ranked ballot.
― j., Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
Liking the Domains right now, thanks for posting -- on first listen, it sounds like it fits in with "revival death metal". I can say that I've only gotten into the metal the last couple of years, but already I can tell my tastes are outside a lot of stuff in this poll. Like, it never occurred to me Stargazer or Thantifaxath wouldn't be super popular. I hate "campaigning", especially just to place something on a list, so I guess I can't complain but...
― Dominique, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
love that blues pills album.
― mark e, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
Blues Pills I tried to listen to just now, but it reminded me of Sharon Jones.
(I actually like Sharon Jones, but not in metal mindframe)
― Dominique, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Stargazer does seem to be pretty fantastic, yeah, but I heard it way too late to figure out how it would fit into my ten.
Still I've been turned on to quite a few things from this countdown, so it's all good. I'm expecting to be surprised by pretty much everything that comes between now and the end.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
and I say this as a bug Autopsy fan. They should pack it in, their best days are behind them.
― Frobisher, Friday, December 12, 2014 5:05 PM (5 days ago)
going way back to the beginning of the thread, but tourniquets, hacksaws & graves deserves a more respectful send-off than this. not all-time great, maybe, but consistently entertaining, appealingly crude and more wildly energetic than you might expect. hell of a lot better than what cannibal corpse and obituary put out this year...
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
it was better than the cannibal corpse record. think the best of the old dudes this year was incantation though.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
19 Jute Gyte - Vast Chains 599 Points, 15votes , THREE #1shttp://i.imgur.com/lXDwfJZ.jpgspotify:album:6d6v23GFBa74XhHD9DgKMuhttp://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/vast-chains
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
yaaaay!
― Frobisher, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
woop!
rather it was higher but its all good
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Envisioning that Autopsy criticism coming from protagonist of Kafka's Metamorphosis, antennas twitching, spindly legs scrabbling at the keyboard.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
lol!
― Frobisher, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
Could have been higher if lj had voted
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
I remember trying to get into Jute Gyte, not just this year's stuff but his whole discography (mistake to take that all on at once) and getting so confused by the alternating wonderment and boredom that I sort of gave up. I probably need to go back and pace myself.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
Trouble fan not in house but on the road taking a break from driving. Oly wanted to rock ha ha. Such surprisingly great songs.
I like how Blues Pills had this French teen prodigy guitarist and took their time over a couple years to put out the album. Perhaps he had to finish school? They've gotten great responses at festivals
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
JUTE GYTE
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
I also hear lots of Graveyard's influence same producer
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
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...
listening for the first time, and yeah, it's awesome. figure most voters either never heard it or just aren't into the vibe (and more likely the former). thanks for the tips, btw. looking forward to the emptiness album, too.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
Jute Gyte - Vast Chains
\m/
I believe that Michael and I were two of the #1 voters. Who was the third?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
i didn't like the emptiness album at all but i get what y'all see in it, and i am verrry surprised it isn't here (...yet?)
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
woah, I just realized that Overkill didn't make the poll. It's a sad day for Legacy Thrash.
― Frobisher, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
18 Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry 609 Points, 17 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/acg4BDd.jpghttp://dmp666.bandcamp.com/album/memoria-vetusta-iii-saturnian-poetry
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
super bored by that overkill album, but maybe it just hit me wrong. also, like devilock, intrigued by and struggled with jute gyte (discontinuities and vast chains), but ultimately didn't much out of the experience.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
ahh! A big one for me w/ Blut Aus Nord. For me they deliver the goods every time. Even though their album naming is tedious.... Yeah it's like some big Saga, WE GET IT!
― Frobisher, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
It's time for the high-class BM portion of the list.
― jmm, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
I think BAN does the serializing thing because of the vast differences in their albums' sounds. They have those Liber and 777 trilogies as well.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
and fuck yeah, memoria vetusta iii is gorgeous. up there with and just a notch above spectral lore's iii for my favorite black metal this year. get so so much more out of this side of the project than the work which transforms god and similar.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
I still haven't heard MV3 which is absurd because MV2 is one of the pinnacles of 21st C metal. Or maybe that's why I haven't listened yet.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
this is an album I think you can safely label as "expansive"
― Frobisher, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
memoria vetusta ii is a masterpiece. memoria vetusta iii is very, very good.
I couldn't get into the emptiness album at all either but I'll try a bit more. I do love the cover.
voted for jute gyte but I kinda respect it more than I listen to it. could see it really clicking one day. respect this dude's dedication his niche subgenre.
behemoth album sounded great when I first heard it but I never really went back to it. never do with them for some reason. didn't end up listening enough to have anything interesting to say but voted bc it felt right anyway.
babymetal album has some real junk on it (one track is basically limp bizkit) but the good tracks are super fun ("gimmie chocloate" duh, the more overtly power metal ones, and that one produced by the coaltar of the deepers guy that sounds like rob zombie) and the live show is a blast. NO MORE BULLYING FOREVER.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
having spent a lot of time with it in the last few weeks.... mv3 >mv2
just slightly
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
I can take it down to 16 tonight as planned or I can take it down to ELEVEN if all of you will still be around posting.If lots keep posting and say they will be around I can keep going til #11
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
17 Alcest - Shelter 612 Points, 18 votes, One #1http://i.imgur.com/nH1Hxam.jpgspotify:album:7gy7foOitAK66NYaitOZLzhttp://alcest.bandcamp.com/album/shelter
that's a cool looking cover
― vigetable (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
really thought mviii would be in the top ten, a really beautiful album, and yeah, better than their other trilogies.
― auto focus, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
thought it was a bit wimpy tbh. its basically Ride
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
I think he prefers the Slowdive comparison
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
another surprise, i gave this a quick listen and nothing grabbed me. Not hugely metal (IMHO) either, but yeah, i get why it belongs in this poll.
― auto focus, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
couldn't get into the emptiness album at all either
Weird thing about Emptiness is that despite being my second favorite of the year it doesn't come off as something I can "get into" either. Hard to explain. It's fascinating but has almost zero emotional resonance. I don't find myself relating to it (like Domains or The Deathrip, both signatures of styles I love); I just sort of sit mesmerized by it and assume that one day it will unravel and make sense for me yet I know it won't. And thus the charm.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
It puts the volume to 11...
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
we should do a poll for metal albums with the least metally covers.
― Frobisher, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
the Star Trek symbol in the middle is my favorite part of that Alcest cover.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 8:21 PM (57 seconds ago)
lol at least someones taking notice
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
xxxpost yes make this one go to 11
beaten
― Devilock, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
so do we finish tonight at #16 or #11 you all get to choose
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
having spent a lot of time with it in the last few weeks.... mv3 >mv2just slightly
it mostly comes down to production for me, mv2 sounds a bit warmer to my ears. strangely, it comes down to the drums for me. altho it's live this time, the playing on mv3 strikes me as a bit rigid. mv2 actually swings in places and I love the way they're mixed on that record.
anyway, nitpicking. compositionally, they're both way, way solid. my #3 pick. (kriegsmaschine was my #2, sure doesn't seem like it will place at this point)
― original bgm, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link