2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

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
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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!

a victory for cover art

so close!

well I'll be damned!

I think Pallbearer took the lead with the 2nd last ballot but YOB pulled it back with the last

This Triptikon album is a fucking snoozefest...

― ultros ultros-ghali,

I tend to agree, not sure why everyone loves it so much.

a worthy winner

what am i going to do in the evening now this has finished

I can put up a spreadsheet with the full results in a minute

cheers for running the poll guys

102 The Cosmic Dead - Easterfaust 143 Points, 4 votes
tie
100 Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves 143 Points, 5 votes
100 Lantlos - Melting Sun 143 Points, 5 votes
99 Ulaan Markhor - Spiral Horns, Black Onions, et al 144 Points, 4 votes, One #1
98 Seven that Spells - The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: IO 146 Votes, 3 voters , One #1
97 Death Penalty - Death Penalty 146 Points, 5 votes
96 Ambergris - Ambergris 147 Points, 3 votes, One #1
95 Body Count - Manslaughter 147 Points,6 votes
94 Monarch - Sabbracadaver 148 Points, 6 votes
93 Truckfighters - Universe 152 Points, 5 votes, One #1
Tie
91 Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy 155 Points, 6 votes
91 Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII 155 Points, 6 votes

90 A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A Name 156 Points, 4 votes, 1 #1
89 Conan - Blood Eagle 157 Points, 5 votes
88 Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestite 157 Points, 6 votes
87 Wo Fat - The Conjuring 158 Points, 5 votes
86 Karma To Burn - Arch Stanton 160 Points, 4 votes
85 Monster Magnet - Milking the Stars: A Re-Imagining of Last Patrol 160 Points, 5 votes
84 At The Gates - At War With Reality 161 Points, 5 votes
83 Rigor Mortis - Slaves To The Grave 161 Points, 6 votes
82 Hands Of Orlac - Figli Del Crepuscolo 162 Points, 5 votes

TIE
80 Saor - Aura 163 Points , 5 votes
80 The Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LI 163 Points, 5 votes
79 Bongripper - Miserable 163 Points, 6 votes
78 The Flight of Sleipnir - V. 168 Points, 4 votes
77 Skull Fist - Chasing the Dream 171 Points, 5 votes
76 Myrkur - Myrkur 173 Points, 6 votes
75 Opeth - Pale Communion 177 Points, 7 votes
74 Mournful Congregation - Concrescence Of The Sophia 186 Points, 6 votes
73 Petrychor - Makrokosmos 189 Points, 5 votes
72 Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails 190 Points, 6 votes
71 Inter Arma - The Cavern 190 Points, 7 votes

70 Towers - II 193 Points, 7 votes
69 Comet Control - s/t 194 Points, 5 votes , One #1
Tie
67 AEvangelist - Writhes in the Murk 205 Points, 6 votes
67 Shooting Guns - Street Rock 205.0 6 votes
66 Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls 209 Points, 8 votes
65 Wizard Rifle - Here In The Deadlights 210 Points, 6 votes
64 Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel 214 Points, 7 votes
63 Nadja - Queller 223 Points, 6 votes, One #1
62 Atlas Moth - The Old Believer 234 Points, 8 votes
61 Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io 236 Points, 6 votes

60 The Wounded Kings - Consolamentum 251 Points, 7 votes
59 Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless 255 Points, 7 votes
58 Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate 262 Points, 7 votes
57 Woods of Desolation - As the Stars 267 Points, 10 votes
56 Teitanblood - Death 270 Points, 9 votes
55 Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall 272 Points, 8 votes
54 Fen - Carrion Skies 274 Points, 8 votes
53 The Oath - The Oath 274 Points, 9 votes
52 Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi 282 Points, 9 votes
51 Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem 290 Points, 8 votes

50 Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind 297 Points, 9 votes
49 Goat - Commune 301 Points, 9 votes
48 Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith 311 Points, 9 votes
47 Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha 329 Points, 9 votes
46 Indian - From All Purity 329 Points, 10 votes
45 Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen 333 Points, 11 votes
44 The Body - I Shall Die Here 335 Points 10 votes
43 Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise 337 Points, 9 votes
42 Eyehategod - Eyehategod 339 Points, 11 votes
41 Horrendous - Ecdysis 349 Points, 9 votes

40 Boris - Noise 353 Points, 11 votes
39 Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer 356 Points, 11 votes
38 Morbus Chron - Sweven 358 Points , 10 votes, One #1
37 Spectral Lore - III 360 Points, 12 votes, One #1
36 Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica 366 Points, 11 votes
35 Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World 373 Points, 11 votes
34 Gridlink - Longhena 376 Points, 10 votes , TWO #1s
33 Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels 378 Points, 15 votes
32 Thou - Heathen 392 Points, 12 votes
31 Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God I 406 Points, 11 votes

30 Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God II 415 Points, 11 votes
29 Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds 422 Points, 11 votes
28 Menace Ruine - Venus Armata 432 Points, 12 votes
27 Floor - Oblation 434 Points, 14 votes
26 Swans - To Be Kind 441 Point, 13 votes
25 Today is the Day - Animal Mother 460 Points, 11 Votes, TWO #1s
24 Solstafir - Otta 465 Points, 14 votes
23 The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep 489 Points, 13 votes
22 BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL 500 Points, 14 votes One #1
21 Behemoth - Jolly Christian Singalongsongs 537 Points, 18 votes

20 Blues Pills - Blues Pills 557 Points, 13 votes
19 Jute Gyte - Vast Chains 599 Points, 15votes , THREE #1s
18 Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry 609 Points, 17 votes
17 Alcest - Shelter 612 Points, 18 votes, One #1
16 Botanist - Vi: Flora 619 Points, 18 votes, One #1
15 Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials 621 Points, 17 votes, One #1
14 Panopticon - Roads to the North 654 Points, 18 votes , One #1
13 Slough Feg - Digital Resistance 662 Points, 19 votes, One #1
12 Bölzer - Soma EP 666 Points, 18 votes , One #1
11 Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun 680 Points, 19 votes, One #1

10 Jute Gyte - Ressentiment 697 Points, 18 votes
9 Earth - Primitive and Deadly 738 Points, 21 votes , ONE #1
8 Scott Walker & SunnO))) - Soused 799 Points, 21 votes, TWO #1s
7 Darkspace - Dark Space III I 813 Points, 22 votes , ONE #1
6 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 876 Points, 23 votes, THREE #1s
5 Triptykon - Melana Chasmata 1078 Points, 27 votes FIVE #1's
4 Electric Wizard - Time to Die 1130 Points, 27 votes THREE #1's
3 Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere 1165 Points, 31 votes, Three #1s
2 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden 1233 Points, 33 votes, One #1

1 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend 1240 Points, 32 votes , THREE #1s

Full results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nFiRpK3N_EorNATXjGJVj1w5embUwW-l0kVuUcoXeOU/edit?usp=sharing

Spotify playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/4DzhT7xPiDI3oy9tWVMGos
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haw, if i'd voted, both devin and emptiness might have made it

not that i've heard the devin yet tho lol

ty for the poll erryone

yes great work guys, many thanks

Voter stats: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AV9ntndYG2tb1S490DMsu9ZEQqf9qloIPkVPN-X1gx4/edit?usp=sharing

*waves at neighbours*

Glad you all enjoyed it and I hope everyone checks out the albums they haven't heard and find stuff they like and can vote for in the big eoy poll

ILM's 2014 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

loved it cosmic sloppy ..

ta muchly for all the noise.

haw, if i'd voted, both devin and emptiness might have made it

not that i've heard the devin yet tho lol

imo sky blue is his best since addicted if not before

i'm listening to it right now and yeah it's great (i liked deconstruction too tho obv lol)

addicted is his best album except maybe ocean machine tho so yeah fair

imo terria is his best album, ocean machine not far behind

terria is up there too, sometimes it's too huge for me tho, it's rly rly huge

am enjoying this subversion of the YOB/pallbearer axis of doom with popmetal discush

(I haven't been able to get into Triptykon so far either.)

*checks voter stats, waves at ultros-ultros ghali*

If you guys like the acoustic interludes on the Agalloch btw, check out Woodfall by Musk Ox (who wrote and played them, I believe). I nominated it in the ILM poll.