2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

yayyyyy! my number one. i love everything about this, the music, the artwork, the eco terror concept

i think i forgot to vote for this but i would have

"stargazer" is such a great track

i haven't heard it but i like the look of it! what does it sound like? are there words?

btw this year we did get a placing with 666 points incase anyone was wondering

the botanist album is awesome

xp hammered dulcimer black metal

fyi that Alcest album fucking rules and I've played "Deliverence" to death this year

all "metal" should be shoegaze IMO

the lyrics are mixed low on this one.

i think you can guess who voted it #1 now

(Alcest)

Oh wow. I had no idea that the dude behind Botanist is the dude behind Maelstron zine. Roberto (Martinelli) = Otrebor. Huh.

maelstrom, rather

edit: the guy who was behind Maelstrom zine, I should say. I'm out of the loop. Used to read that zine all the time, though. They had massive amounts of reviews and god knows how much I discovered through them.

xpost i generally love shoegaze-metal too, Dan. just thought it was a bit too soft for my liking. ill go back and give it another try though.

Botanist sure is good.

the other otrebor band, lotus thief, is worth checking too

I'm not that fussed about a few tracks on Shelter though it's still a good listen, but if we had a tracks poll I probably would have voted Voix Sereines #1. So beautiful.

The Botanist album is lush as well.

ty for the tip.

Contenderizer, if you're at all interested, I found Ressentiment much more palatable. Maybe thatd be more your thing...? Of course I really like Discontinuities as well...

i should dig a little deeper, yeah. albums that combine some component of intriguing attractiveness with utter (initial) inaccessibility often wind up becoming favorites in the long run. like i finally figured out how to hear colored sands this year. now i'm baffled by how "unlistenable" it first seemed.

After my first listenthrough (of Shelter) I felt like I'd found a long-lost Catherine Wheel album

I then listened to it about 50 more times

this emptiness album is cool as hell. did anybody else dig howls of ebb's visions of the third eye?

15 Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials 621 Points, 17 votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/kfuJNWU.jpg
spotify:album:1boq333z569Vu7VICUjqXO
http://sunnulversl.bandcamp.com/

huh

okay?

Listened to that the other weekend. It holds up quite well.

yeah it's good i just wouldn't rate it over most of the records that have already appeared

I think if there had been one more track to make it longer then maybe more may have liked it

I didn't like it. Sounded like some dark ambient thing I'd download from the old version of mp3.com

did anybody else dig howls of ebb's visions of the third eye?

I remember listening to it at least once, thinking it was really good and definitely different, then for whatever reason forgetting about it for the rest of the year. I have a feeling that if I listen to it now it'll become another of those "shoulda made my list" albums.

That label, I, Voidhanger, has cool things.

sunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

xp - otm, i'd never noticed i, void before this year, but four of their releases wound up making my list

There's something off-putting about Ulver and I can't really identify it but it makes me not want to listen to them. I think they think what they're doing is way more interesting than it actually is.

I sound like Peter Griffin: IT INSISTS ON ITSELF.

14 Panopticon - Roads to the North 654 Points, 18 votes , One #1
http://i.imgur.com/hC2RBbt.jpg
spotify:album:3Wj3kaoFezsJQrPAkgi4a6
http://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/roads-to-the-north

I'm with J3ff on Sunnzzzzzzz. Was the other Sunn record nominated? Are we gonna get that one in the top 10?

panopticon record isn't for me but even then i can tell it's special

I, Voidhanger released the Midnight Odyssey album a few years back (Funerals from the Astral Sphere), and I still maintain it's one of the best albums of the decade so far. https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/funerals-from-the-astral-sphere "> https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/funerals-from-the-astral-sphere

feel free to predict the top 10

Well, I fucked up that formatting.

I thought you were quoting Vision Creation Newsun.

There's something off-putting about Ulver and I can't really identify it but it makes me not want to listen to them. I think they think what they're doing is way more interesting than it actually is.

i can see why someone would think this but uh blood inside is one of the best records ever made, so many things going on at once on that record

their collab with sunn is a little snoozy but i'm generally underwhelmed by collab albums of that nature

funny that a decibel scribe doesnt like sunn o))) is it a clause albert insists on?

I think it's a clause reality insists on.

yeah I recently discovered I, Voidhanger on my own... has some pretty great artists there.

is that skeleton doing praying hands

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a1026826450_2.jpg

It's thanking heaven for awesome metal.

same

skeleton is me

Skeleton is praying for no more Sunn