2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

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!

what am i saying, only one of those bands dress as plants when they perform, so botanist it is

Hey, Bölzer did well. I thought being an EP might have kept it from getting votes. That was definitely my favourite death metal this year.

earth, yob, pallbearer, scottO))), what else..

xp cause its never what we think it is.

oh, agalloch too

I can predict YOB being within the 10-7 range.

Darkspace, Triptykon

Oh yeah, the Agalloch album has a good chance of hitting #10.

IMO the Triptykon album will be in the top 5

e-wiz (maybe?)

bolzer mix up black death doom etc you cant really pigeonhole them and that's why so many like them

i've got to go back to the agalloch - i thought marrow of the spirit was astonishing, but the latest disappointed me.

Looks like everyone forgot about this next album then

the agalloch is wonderful but its a real proper grower

11 Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun 680 Points, 19 votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/gy5sI55.jpg
spotify:album:7mEkBi9a2p2f1WQbnH8Qk5

oh yeah

xp i really wanted to love the agalloch but i miss the black metal elements of marrow

same here

oh an godflesh - or did that already show?

Mastodon have watered down everything good about their music and turned it into a boring grey mush. No matter what the album cover might suggest.

Well I sure forgot about Mastadon, like almost a decade ago... lol.

i guess electric wizard too, can't see it not polling

xpost Crack the Sky is seriously one of the best heavy metal records of all time (if you like prog widdling and unwieldy concepts)

the mastodon album is a very good catchy album

i bailed after blood mountain, which i loved.

they have never made anything less than very good