2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

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?

i voted for babymetal!

definitely forgot what my ballot was though

Siegbran's weighted ballot

"Kriegsmaschine - Enemy Of Man
Fluisteraars - Dromers
Vader - Tibi Et Igni
Behemoth - The Satanist
Wælwulf - Heresiarch
Ifing - Against This Waeld
Old Soul / ██████ - Split
Basarabian Hills - Groping In A Misty Spread
Doom:VS - Earthless
Saor - Aura
Bölzer - Soma
Blood Of Kingu - Dark Star On The Right
Sabaton - Heroes
Woods of Desolation - As the Stars
Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
Belphegor - Conjuring The Dead
H.E.A.T - Tearing Down The Walls
Behemoth - Xiądz EP
Ethereal Riffian - Aeonian
Body Count - Manslaughter
Dub Buk - Цвях
Schammasch - Contradiction
Countess - Ancient Lies And Battlecries
Furia - Nocel
Darkspace - Dark Space III I
Vainaja - Kadotetut
Goatpenis - Flesh Consumed In The Battlefield
Kampfar - Djevelmakt
Vardan - Enjoy Of Deep Sadness
Neoheresy - Noc Która Dniem Się Stała
Gluttony - Beyond The Veil Of Flesh
Benighted - Carnivore Sublime
Drudkh / Winterfylleth - Thousands Of Moons Ago / The Gates (split)
Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
Decembre Noir - A Discouraged Believer
Incantation - Dirges of Elysium
Tengger Cavalry - Ancient Call
Cemetery Lust - Orgies Of Abomination
Al-Namrood - Heen Yadhar Al Ghasq
Bergrizen - Scherbengericht
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Waldgeflüster - Meine Fesseln
Accept - Blind Rage
Zgard - Contemplation
Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
Taiga - Ashen Light
Vuyvr - Incinerated Gods
Nocturnal Depression/Myrd/Vspolokh - Longing For Death (split)
Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer
Forteresse/Chasse-Galerie/Monarque/Csejthe - Legendes (split) "

brad check your fb pm's

my ballot:

Morbus Chron - Sweven
Necrophagia - WhiteWorm Cathedral
Disentomb - Misery
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Devin Townsend Project - Sky Blue
Crucifyre - Black Magic Fire
Flaming Tusk - Inquisitor
Delain - The Human Contradiction
Rigor Mortis - Slaves To The Grave
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Dir en Grey - Arche
Vader - Tibi Et Igni
Cauldron Black Ram - Stalagmire
Horrendous - Ecdysis
BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL
Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves

Mine:

BABYMETAL – BABYMETAL
Triptykon – Melana Chasmata
Skull Fist - Chasing the Dream
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
At The Gates - At War With Reality
Behemoth - The Satanist
Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere
Death Penalty - Death Penalty
Gridlink – Longhena
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Opeth - The Pale Communion
Morbus Chron - Sweven
Devin Townsend Project - Sky Blue
Machine Head - Bloodstones & Diamonds
The Oath - The Oath
Occultation - Silence in the Ancestral House
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
Body Count – Manslaughter
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Midnight - No Mercy No Mayhem
Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
Necrophagia - Whiteworm Cathedral
Amberian Dawn - Magic Forest
Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind
John Garcia - John Garcia
Solstafir - Otta
Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
Darkspace - Dark Space III I
Floor – Oblation
Eyehategod - Eyehategod
Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep
Trap Them - Blissfucker
Castle - Under Siege
Hark – Crystalline

thanks ag and seandalai for running the poll, and thankyall who've been chating along. good roll out, some unexpected/out of the box placings and that's only one of the reasons imo it highlights this poll. waving at alan n

my ballot weighted, bold didn't place

Martyrdöd - Elddop
Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica
Impetuous Ritual - Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence
Just Before Dawn - The Aftermath
Diocletian - Gesundrian
Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
Bölzer - Soma
Dead in the Manger - Transience
Morbus Chron - Sweven
Obliterations - Poison Everything

Nuclearhammer - Serpentine Hermetic Lucifer
Babymetal - Babymetal
Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem
Skelethal - Interstellar Knowledge of the Purple Entity
Thou - Heathen
Deathcult - Pleading for Death... Choking on Life
Nausea - Condemned to the System
Teitanblood - Death
Full of Hell - Full of Hell & Merzbow
Cretin - Strange

P.L.F. - Ultimate Whirlwind of Incineration
Columns - Please Explode
Gust - Gust
Today is the Day - Animal Mother
Lord Mantis - Death Mask
Incantation - Dirges of Elysium
Torch Runner - Endless Nothing
Lvcifyre - Sun Eater
Indian - From All Purity
Serpentine Path - Emanations

My entire ballot has already shown up over the course of my halfhearted rants but for the sake of conciseness and in order of weightedness:

Domains - Sinister Ceremonies
Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
Horrendous - Ecdysis
The Deathtrip - Deep Drone Master
Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
Behemoth - The Satanist
Diocletian - Gesundrian
Overkill - White Devil Armory
Old Wainds - Nordraum
Tortorum - Katabasis

Disappointment of the year was Mayhem. I won't even embolden it. However, were I to make a list of songs of 2014, "MILAB" would've made the cut easily. Cool groovy track.

Stuff that may very well have either expanded or blipped onto my list, had I gotten around to hearing:
Devin Townsend - Sky Blue
Spectral Lore - III
Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer
Gridlink - Longhena
Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless
Blut Aus Nord - MV3
Rigor Mortis - Slaves to the Grave
Kriegsmaschine - Enemy of Man

Stargazer and Gridlink I've actually heard (now); the others I'm basing on everything I've heard about them. The Rigor Mortis' absence is ironic because I contributed to their crowdfunding thing but chose the reissue of their s/t for swag.

Furia's Nocel seems the awesome norm for them but I think I picked the wrong year to learn about and then get obsessed with this band. Literally bought all three of their prior full lengths this year so by the time Nocel got here I may have been Furia'd out.

And yes thanks to Sosmic Clop and seandalai for running this madness.

obligatory SKULL FIST
(I did like it but kind of forgot about it.)

SKULL FIST

Dammit I never heard Cretin either.

I just remember I had Alcest at #1

I also voted for The Atlas Moth, Pallbearer, Crosses, BABYMETAL and Kayo Dot but I don't remember the order (probably this tho?)

Band logo of the year:

http://i.imgur.com/3DZm2WH.jpg

Also, winner of the most unreadable logo of the year is Basarabian Hills:
http://f1.bcbits.com/img/0000204172_10.jpg

That's probably because they don't want anybody to know that their album's called 'Groping In A Misty Spread' tbf

xpost to me

I guess I can not be coy and actually post their bandcamp.
http://hothmusic.bandcamp.com/

Relatively unexciting but well done melodic black metal, maybe like a Kampfar or a less reeling and jigging Mithotyn, a concept album about Darth Vader. Didn't make my list but kind of fun for background music.