2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

I'm sure this EW album is fine but I dunno a little burned out on these guys even before the mixed reviews came in

btw there's only 7 points between #1 and #2. on the last day they swapped a few times

most of the bad reviews tended to come from those who were fb friends with the ex drummer funnily enough

its a very good album

I was hoping beyond hope it wouldn't place.

I'm surprised it's so high

agalloch next?

people still like agalloch? or did they get better

they didn't

hadn't heard triptykon until tonight - sounds amazing so far.

lol sorry to be a bummer about this part of the list, seeing agalloch live at deathfest crystallized why i don't like them

Which is...? I'm curious.

i mean most of my criticisms amount to "they're boring"

I've only listened to Soused once but I seriously doubt I'm going to like it near as much as Bish Bosch, Tilt and Drift. Not that that's a big deal really. Bish Bosch was so much fun (for a surprising amount of the duration).

I really appreciate these voted metal lists, I'm so far out the loop now I can't imagine keeping up with all this, even in years to come. Just keeping my fingers crossed that between these and the RYM genre lists, I'll be able to get to all the sounds I want to hear most.
Ne Obliviscaris sounds intriguing.

I'm really shocked so many people like that slog of an EW record. They've done really good work in the past, and the fact that people seemingly can't tell good EW from bad is a fucking bummer.

3 Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere 1165 Points, 31 votes, Three #1s
http://i.imgur.com/T3eXiay.jpg
spotify:album:5Jsktg0XuRYrH3vVXPJhcG
http://agalloch.bandcamp.com/album/the-serpent-the-sphere

fuck this thread moves fast : xpost.

re electric wizard :

i suspect i will succumb and buy this next year.

most of the bad reviews tended to come from those who were fb friends with the ex drummer funnily enough

hahah : i.e. this is the evidence that someone is wayyyyy to close to the source/detail.

that said, its kinda what i love re threads like this ..

there is always someone on ILM that knows way too much re a release.

not talking about ilxors btw mark

i know.
but my point generally stands.

i did like the new EW but i found the last one compulsively listenable so i just couldn't get with the new one in the same way

i bought The Oath album yesterday bc of this thread, thanks guys. death penalty is probably next up for me.

i bought The Oath album yesterday bc of this thread,

ha. me too - nearly.

instead i got baroness blue/yellow/green (been wanting them for ages), and mastodon 'the hunter'.

so, yeah, this thread has totally put my current listening needs into a new groove

my kids are hating it, but f*ck'em.

anyone else feel like the sequencing on this Agalloch album was bizarre? starting with a 10 min slo mo dirge is one thing but then following that with an acoustic instrumental interlude...

seeing agalloch live kinda soured me on em as well. never bothered with this record, prob haven't listened to em since then.

What a great time to have to spend two hours dealing with my wireless provider!

But then I look at the top 10 and maybe mean that nonsarcastically. Haha, well, at least there was some black metal in the Darkspace, there. Also, I thought Melana Chasmata was kind of a step down from the last one (but how couldn't it be).

I'll be sure to check out some of this doomy stuff. I still need to actually hear the lauded earlier stuff. And I have yet to hear a single Yob song; the track lengths look a little daunting, but hopefully I my preconceived notion of what they sound like turns out to be false and those 10+ minute sprawlers will be as engrossing as I find older Opeth -- or for that matter, Darkspace.

Onward!

^still need to hear the lauded earlier stuff of Electric Wizard, he meant to say

I quite like Yob, not even in my top 20 of the year but it's doom with a bit of character, at least

The sequencing is definitely weird on the Agalloch, and as much as I generally love Billy Anderson's production work, it just doesn't seem to suit them on this album. Also, "Marrow of the Spirit" seemed really inspired and dynamic; the new one just seems kinda lackluster, in pretty much all ways. Obviously us detractors are in the minority, though, because #3 -- wow.

I can see why people find Agalloch boring but they bring the atmospheric goods for me

did not like what i heard of yob.

but hey, i suspect they are indeed in the top 5

ooops : top 2 ..

marrow sounded so vital, but this album sounds leaden. Ive given it a lot of listens in case it grew on me, but nope.

Saw Pallbearer and Yob live - Yob blew Pallbearer away! hopefully yob make no 1.

woah I made it back home for the top 2... I have no idea what they are, I thought Scott 0))) and Earth were clinchers. YOB??? Didn't know they were that well liked.

xp otm

and I enjoyed pallbearer live, YOB was just supernatural

bet Pallbearer is #1. That Earth album is great, btw. If you haven't listened I recommend it.

Pallbearer has more mass appeal that YOB imo.

YOB record is way better tho

i think this is the first album where YOB have captured what is great about seeing them live on record. Mike Scheidt seems a really cool guy too.

The Pallbearer album just missed being really great.

and Marrow just destroys me every time i hear it

i loved love loved 'burning the altar' but ever since yob seem to keep getting more boring even though they also keep doing things that are obviously good to do, hmph

This Triptikon album is a fucking snoozefest...

I've still never listened to Yob. Is this a good one to start on, then?

unless....unless we're all wrong and it's Barghest and Goat Penis battling for 1 and 2

xp yeah, i think its their best album

how exciting is this !

i realise i am not a metal fan boy, and only dip into the stuff that fits a very particular need, but damn this thread has been f*cking ace ..

2 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden 1233 Points, 33 votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/qhE80nt.jpg
spotify:album:5hcHyM3KYY97gUZzfRlNZb
http://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/foundations-of-burden

1 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend 1240 Points, 32 votes , THREE #1s
http://i.imgur.com/f2z0mZm.jpg
spotify:album:6i97CIfeHYCaTFcTBn6gYK

nice

booom ..

(guess i need to listen to yob again .. )

yay!