2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

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

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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.

Thanks for running this folks.

I had a dream last night that Domains' Sinister Ceremonies places #1 in Rolling Stone. Mmkay that's my story.

placed*

hey someone else voted for Secret Cutter, nice

really well done little noise/grind/sludge album

i loved that secret cutter, nicely grim

doing think i voted for it though

Thanks for running this folks.

Thanks guys, it's been a blast

Yes thanks for keeping the Metal EOY Poll alive, its great, and this year was no exception. A fun roll-out and a great selection of albums to check out. Job well done.

what did the # of albums voted for go up to, btw? Do we have a #666?

haha !

I voted for 20 albums, 15 were in the top 100... not bad. I guess I do still have my finger on the pulse of modern metal.

395 albums got at least one vote - it's all on the spreadsheet

I was at a funeral and had to resis the urge to check on this. Classic ILM with the constant bitchin about the top 10 lol.

Doom dominated that top 5! Glad to see the poll had plenty of participation. Driving through dark dreary north Wisconsin woods feels like I'm in an Agalloch cover.

of course there was bitchin' its an ilm poll

thanks for doing this! Definitely jamming both Bolzer EPs as a result right at this very moment.

Bolzer are very special and cannot wait for a proper album.

Nobody wanting to share their ballots?

My ballot

weighted

Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
Electric Wizard - Time to Die
Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere
Darkspace - Dark Space III I
Jute Gyte - Vast Chains
Jute Gyte - Ressentiment
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
Today is the Day - Animal Mother
Earth - Primitive and Deadly
The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep
The Wounded Kings - Consolamentum
Solstafir - Otta
Swans - To Be Kind
Botanist - Vi: Flora
Panopticon - Roads to the North
Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials
Scott Walker & SunnO))) - Soused
Floor - Oblation
Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Alcest - Shelter
Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World
Menace Ruine - Venus Armata
Goat - Commune
The Body - I Shall Die Here
Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha
Boris - Noise
Eyehategod - Eyehategod
Fen - Carrion Skies
Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer
Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
Bölzer - Soma
Atlas Moth - The Old Believer
Bongripper - Miserable
Sigiriya - Darkness Died Today
Bong - Stoner Rock
The Cosmic Dead - Easterfaust
Inter Arma - The Cavern
Monarch - Sabbracadaver
Mournful Congregation - Concrescence Of The Sophia
Spectral Lore - III
Towers - II
Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestite

Jute Gyte - Vast Chains
Goat - Commune
Godflesh - Flesh Consumed in the battlefield
Jute Gyte - Ressentiment
Blues Pill - Blues Pills
Babymetal - Babymetal

I hope seandalai caught and corrected your godflesh mistake

not that it would have made any difference at all to the placings as it was 200 behind triptykon

I wasn't blown away by the Pallbearer on first listen (and I loved their debut), but apparently I need to revisit it.

my ballot (unweighted)

Alcest - Shelter
BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Cold World - How The Gods Chill
Dir en Grey - Arche
Earth - Primitive and Deadly
Electric Wizard - Time to Die
Eyehategod - Eyehategod
Floor - Oblation
Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha
Jute Gyte - Ressentiment
Jute Gyte - Vast Chains
Nausea - Condemned to the System
Scott Walker & SunnO))) - Soused
Solstafir - Otta
Trap Them - Blissfucker
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Winterfylleth - The Divination of Antiquity
Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend

Thanks for organising it! I'd love to share my ballot but I didn't save it after I submitted it - could you retrieve it, Cosmic Slop?

I think everyone is scared to post their ballots because everyone will see who voted for babymetal

xp
sure I'll post it

want me to remove babymetal from it?