2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

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

bah, i hoped panopticon would make the top 10 - to me there is a real honesty to everything panopticon does, even the lord of the rings sounding stuff on this album

Top 3

Scott)))0
Electric Wizard
Earth

yob or pallbearer in the top 3??

#1: D'Angelo

pallbearer will place above YOB, prob.

#1: D'Angelo

otm

he may well release a metal album between now and tomorrow!

d'angelo death

NICE

Well done.

no more panopticon fans??

13 Slough Feg - Digital Resistance 662 Points, 19 votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/1MqL7Ft.jpg
spotify:album:4BPyUjCnERSNMLQ23Z5P1w

Old man yells at cloud: The album

lol

1 Black Veil Brides - S/T 1300 points, 26 votes, 8 #1s

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Black_Veil_Brides_IV_%28Black_Veil_Brides_album%29.jpeg

a day early for the joke #1s i think

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

More people should have bought the Japanese 2CD version, then. Bonus track with Attila Csihar! (Plus a demo version of one of the Disc 1 tracks that was basically identical to the final version.)

I do what I want to!

i very much intend to listen to that black veil brides record

Album 666 must be coming up next.

awesome that Jute Gyte made it! however I do find it utterly weird how Vast Chains came 19th in this poll, whereas Ressentiment (which I think is slightly better) is outside the top hundred. guess ppl had to pick one? or there's no accounting for taste. idk. well done ilm anyway. both albums truly next-level

o shit j3ff, this midnight odyssey album

I'm surprised Slough Feg made it, let alone this high. For trad metal I thought Accept, or maybe even something Falconer, was better. Or Grand Magus. But I guess they may be coming.

something ^like Falconer

My top 3 were Vast Chains, Botanist, Panopticon. I'm liking this stretch!

xposts Do we know that Ressentiment didn't make it? I couldn't connect with it as much.

Ressentiment is still coming right? That was my #2; I'd be shocked

Of course CS did say virtually no one else liked that album better. Itd be weird if it showed uo higher

completely forgot about the jute gyte when i made my list, both would have placed high. xp - i couldn't decide between botanist and panopticon as my number 1, went botanist in the end as i thought it needed more help in the poll

slough feg album is definitely uneven, but the best tracks ("laser enforcer" for obvs) are among the best of the year by anyone period, and the whole thing has a winning (and, yeah, slough feg typical) combination of true oddity, catchy songcraft, musicianship, smarts and human personality.

12 Bölzer - Soma EP 666 Points, 18 votes , One #1
http://i.imgur.com/wJsrScx.jpg
http://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/soma

no more panopticon fans??

me for one. love the band/album. would have likely made my top 10, if i'd managed to put a ballot together. mostly, though, i'm pissed that the vinyl was so stupid limited.

sweet! Nice album to get 666 points!!

i def. got some use out of panopticon this year

for BM bands I learned about this year, Botanist > Panopticon.

i think both bands have put together a fantastic run of albums, i can't say which i prefer. Soma is great too, again surprised it placed quite so high.

One more to come tonight. Why do people never try to guess the top 10 before we get to it!