that's the barbed version, yeah
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
Have a Nice Life are goth-tastic but enjoyable! I found the Alcest record dull in the extreme (and also not trv metal)
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Friday, 19 December 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
you think HANL are what Alcest should sound like?
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
my list, weighted:
Gridlink - LonghenaKriegsmaschine - Enemy Of ManBlut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian PoetryTeitanblood - DeathCyntia - Limit Break
Horrendous - EcdysisIndian - From All PurityAEvangelist - Writhes in the MurkYOB - Clearing the Path to AscendDisentomb - Misery
Sick/Tired - DissolutionFull of Hell - Full of Hell & MerzbowSerpentine Path - EmanationsBehemoth - The SatanistNeoheresy - Noc Która Dniem Się Stała
Darkspace - Dark Space III INecrophagia - WhiteWorm CathedralMournful Congregation - Concrescence Of The SophiaIncantation - Dirges Of ElysiumThou - Heathen
Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The FallSkull Fist - Chasing the DreamBABYMETAL - BABYMETALMayhem - Esoteric WarfareJute Gyte - Ressentiment
Triptykon - Melana ChasmataAnaal Nakhrath - DesideratumVainaja - KadotetutEmptiness - Nothing But The WholeAutopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
Varathron - The Untrodden Corridors of HadesDecaying Purity - Malignant Resurrection of the Fallen SoulsPallbearer - Foundations of BurdenGodflesh - A World Lit Only By FireArchspire - The Lucid Collective
didn't think about the ordering a whole lot
brb, groping in a misty spread
― original bgm, Friday, 19 December 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
It's interesting to see Kriegsmaschine toward the top of a couple lists. I'm a huge fan of their sister band Mgla, but the Kriegsmaschine didn't do much for me the few times I listened to it. I guess it's yet another one I'll need to spend more time with. That's the beauty of this countdown -- having some potential blind spots in my listening habits exposed and rectified. Thanks so much Cosmic Slop for running things. It's been a fun time for us metal geeks.
― Bloody Pelt Found Near the Scene of the Crime (Skrot Montague), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Gladsomany enjoyed it and Ihope you all (and lurkers from the rest of ilx) will check out albums and keep returning to posting their thoughts here.
Perhaps you might nominate and vote in ILM's 2014 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
I think Botanist is closer to what I want shoegaze-metal to be, i.e. something that synthesizes the strengths of black metal and shoegaze/post-rock (as opposed to straight-up 90s nostalgia-pop, which seems pointless to me unless you can actually make something as good as Loveless). The drums could probably stand to be produced with more presence but it's something I can live with. I guess this mean that, for me, the metallic/screamo vocals and drums do cut through the sweetness enough. Plus, the distorted hammered dulcimer is so resonant and shimmery.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
screamo vox or just black metal? the balance is better on III, at least relative to my tastes.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
so a few non ilxors have been moaning that Emptiness did not make the countdown so anything else really good that didn't make it that was really great and under the radar?
Preferably , for me, no death/power/viking metal.
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
feel like you'd love the serpentine path if you haven't already heard it. just straight-up mean, bludgeoning sludgy riffs p much the whole way through.
― original bgm, Friday, 19 December 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Both Old Wainds and Inconcessus Lux Lucis didn't make it, and they're both considered good underground (though hardly "experimental" or post) black metal, of the Darkthrone variety. Really well done, and especially in ILL's case, playing with the style enough to make it seem not just a revival of 2nd wave bands.
― Dominique, Friday, 19 December 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
When I tried III, I found it plodding (like a lot of post-rock, actually) but I love IV. I'm fine with hearing emo/hc elements mixed in with my metal: I liked a lot of that stuff in the 90s.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 19 December 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
sund4r is very emo
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, December 19, 2014 10:48 AM (9 minutes ago)
Well, Dominique OTM abt Old Wainds & Inconcessus Lux Lucis. Both made my short list, ILL might have gone top 20 if i'd bothered to rank things. Of course, since then i've heard another 10 or 15 really excellent 2014 metal albums, so who knows how things'd fall out now... Love year-end catch-up time!
StuffI at least kind of halfway dug that didn't make the top 100:
Ancient Ascendant – Echoes and Cinder (blackened death metal, weirdly understated yet powerful, classic-sounding but not retro)Artificial Brain – Labyrinth Constellations (kind of amazed this didn't make the top 100, given local fondness for Gorguts et al)Blood of Kingu – Dark Star on the Right Horn of the Crescent Moon (all Drudkh-related caveats, plus enchanted by gravemould)Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral (retro death metal supergroup w/ Katatonia, Opeth and now Paradise Lost folk, not essential but entertaining)Bloody Hammers – Under Satan's Sun (a bad record, but the two singles are ridiculous catchy, like occult rock Tom Petty, I swear [in case you were really wanting some occult rock Tom Petty])Coltsblood – Into the Unfathomable Abyss (awesome cromag doom sludge w Conan's John McNulty on vocals, a favorite)Cretin – Cretin (just out, "overhyped" as someone is bound to say [streaming on NPR], a blast)Darkest Era – Severance (i don't know what to call this, Primordial gone pop I guess, a guilty pleasure)Emptiness – Nothing but the Whole (Devilock said so and is a notable hair formation)Execration – Morbid Dimensions (still more blackened death metal, heavy on dreary atmosphere, lots of variety)Grand Magus – Triumph and Power (far from their best, but it's definitely got moments, "Dominator" gets stuck in my head for days)Howls of Ebb – Vigils of the Third Eye (repeat mention, compelling & unorthodox black/death for dedicated murk-dwellers)Inconcessus Lux Lucis – Disintegration: Psalms of Veneration for the Nefarous Elite (as above, so below)Melvins – Hold It In (worth it for the three resoundingly un-metal Paul Leary tunes alone - Paul Fucking Leary, you know?)Mortuary Drape – Spiritual Independence (buried in the late-year rush? deserved better)Nuclear Hammer – Serpentine Hermetic Lucifer (fucked up, like Aevangelist's special kid brother on discount cough syrup)Old Wainds – Nordraum (as Dominique said)Satan's Satyrs – Die Screaming (totally Hell's Headbangers-style, tho not on that label & as much garage rock as metal, fucking great)Slugdge – Gastronomicon (okay, so they're a concept band about a war waged against humanity by Lovecraftian space slugs and...)Taake – Stridens Hus (gets kind of black 'n' roll on "Orm", which is weird, and generally quote weak in comparison to prior work, but sue me, I dug it)Tombs – Savage Gold (sanding off a few of the Metallum-offending edges got them approved but looks like it cost them wider appeal - a grower)Trap Them – Blissfucker (basically want the whole thing to crawl like "Savage Climbers", but pretty great for teenage mallcore smash it up style shit)Vampire – Vampire (OSDM working the death/thrash vein, heavy on the autumnal graveyard vibes, fucking rips)Vaura – The Missing (guess this came out last year *shrug* - similar to Solitude's Sister but better, which is saying something)Young and in the Way – When Life Comes to Death (works about as well as Red Bull, cheaper)
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
i was so disappointed by the tombs that i barely played it all year to see if it would grow on me : (
― j., Friday, 19 December 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
it's good! i did the same, just put it sadly away after an initial spin. didn't look back until about a month ago when i dug it out and found it had improved considerable w age.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
still a big step down from path of totality tho :(
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Tombs usually make these countdowns but I hadn't heard it (or even know it was out) but figured with nobody really voting for it it cant be that great
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
it's as great as you want it to be, see
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure if the Tombs was that poorly written or if it was just that the much drier production that stripped away a lot of the atmosphere and thick sludginess that I enjoyed about their previous stuff
― anonanon, Friday, 19 December 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
argument for strong songwriting & sympathetic production on the tombs rec:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ecRGfgk90c
sound is clean but cavernous, lots of bass space, think it works really fucking well on this track
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
not that the image is doing them any favors ffs
Has Bastard Feast gone completely under the radar or do people just not like them? I was their only vote but I put it pretty high, maybe even top 5.
For anyone who liked this year's Trap Them, Young and in the Way, etc. I thought these guys' take on that vein of crusty blackened hardcore was a lot more interesting and well-executed:
https://bastardfeast.bandcamp.com/album/osculum-infame
was super disappointed in this year's Trap Them
― anonanon, Friday, 19 December 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
Compare all the previous polls Previous Metal Poll EOY Results Thread
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
yeah, not on my radar, that's all. tbh, i think i only heard the other two due to incessant hype. not my kind of thing generally speaking. both are pretty middle of the road & rock-oriented relative to bastard feast (which is prob why they appeal to me). love YAITW's monster bass sound, the slower trap them tracks.
xp
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Dominique you might be interested in that link plus the
YOU TOTALLY MISSED THE ILX HEAVY ROCK/METAL ALBUM POLL COUNTDOWN, SUCKA (CLICK FOR A RECAP)
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
gah, "Solitude" up there now equals In Solitude, plus whatever other magic erasings as needed. so much stupid.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Cannot believe that with all my anticipation of things Polish this year I missed out on Neoheresy. I love this "cloaked arm gesturing toward the horizon" style of cinematic black metal. Sort of like Summoning. Actually a lot like Summoning. Listening now, enjoying, and realizing it's long past time for me to familiarize myself with Hellveto.
― Devilock, Friday, 19 December 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
I saw it on someone's list, is why I'm mentioning it now.
Alan N's list, now that I've gone back to check for proper attribution.
― Devilock, Friday, 19 December 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
I had Neoheresy on my ballot too it's excellent.
― Siegbran, Friday, 19 December 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
Surprised no one liked Fluisteraars I would've thought it would appeal to loads of people, it being halfway between Moonsorrow and Agalloch & all...
― Siegbran, Friday, 19 December 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
maybe noones heard it?
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
only heard Fluisteraars a week ago and that was after i posted my ballot. they sound great tho.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 19 December 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
Listening to Fluisteraars for the first time and I would have to be in a totally different state of mind to get caught up in this kind of repetition. Kind of reminds me of something that would be on Hypnotic Dirge Records, which isn't a bad thing at all.
― Devilock, Friday, 19 December 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
btw for those who were feeling the inaccessibility of Emptiness, this live clip makes the music seem a little less alien and a little more rockin'. The masks on the audience was an interesting idea.http://youtu.be/sKTJFA0lbWo
― Devilock, Friday, 19 December 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
we're playing tracks from the metal poll in here tonight so come spin the tracks you really want people to hear or just your fave metal
https://plug.dj/ilxors/
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 19 December 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
I seem to be in a strange virtual world with hydrocephalic avatar people so I must be in the plug.dj thing. And I am listening to Yob.
― Devilock, Friday, 19 December 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
Pallbearer now come join us all and play your faves of the year
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 20 December 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
we need siegbran
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 20 December 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
My list, weighted:
Triptykon - Melana ChasmataThe Skull - For Those Which Are AsleepBlues Pills - Blues PillsWovenhand - Refractory ObdurateYOB - Clearing the Path to AscendThou - HeathenHorrendous - EcdysisIndian - From All Purity Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun Beyond Creation - Earthborn EvolutionInsomnium - Shadows of the Dying SunMidnight - No Mercy for Mayhem Behemoth - The SatanistPallbearer - Foundations of Burden Orange Goblin - Back from the AbyssExmortus - Slave to the SwordAgalloch - The Serpent & the SphereDawnbringer - Night of the HammerPanopticon - Roads to the NorthSerpent Venom - Of Things Seen And UnseenDarkspace - Dark Space III IWo Fat - The ConjuringOpeth - Pale CommunionHail Spirit Noir - Oi MagoiTruckfighters - Universe Electric Wizard - Time to DieSaor - AuraOverkill - White Devil Armory Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and GravesApostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And WoundsJudas Priest - Redeemer of SoulsFallujah - The Flesh Prevails Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen Satan's Satyrs - Die ScreamingSpectral Lore - III Vallenfyre - SplintersMorbus Chron - SwevenEarth - Primitive and DeadlyDir en Grey - ArcheAnatomy of Habit - Ciphers + AxiomsWitch Mountain - Mobile of AngelsLord Mantis - Death MaskCannibal Corpse - A Skeletal DomainTeitanblood - DeathBrimstone Coven - Brimstone CovenDoom:VS - EarthlessNe Obliviscaris - CitadelMurmur - S/T Accept - Blind RageTrap Them - Blissfucker
― BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 20 December 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
If you like the trippy stuff then proceed to Howls of Ebb's Vigils of the 3rd Eye.
Great call. I'm listening to this now and it's right up my alley. Thanks to everyone who helped run the poll and who voted in it - I've already discovered at least 4 great records here, and I've still got a lot of list left to listen to.
― o. nate, Saturday, 20 December 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
https://plug.dj/ilxors still rocking
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 20 December 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
hey um can "tuonetar" turn off the three-song sudzy bubblebath playlist? because like every third song is alcest or saor or suchlike.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Saturday, 20 December 2014 06:25 (nine years ago) link
not heard of Fluisteraars until the mention upthread - good stuff. another one for my increasingly lengthy list
― auto focus, Saturday, 20 December 2014 09:53 (nine years ago) link
really loving the howl's of ebb's too - having a hard job convincing my wife and kids that it's good breakfast listening though
― auto focus, Saturday, 20 December 2014 09:57 (nine years ago) link
on the strength of last night's demonstration, adding Saor and Alcest to 2014's do not want list, no surprise
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Saturday, 20 December 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link
lol
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 20 December 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
howls of ebb - additional apostrophes a well known side effect of xmas man-flu.
― auto focus, Saturday, 20 December 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
man-flu could be a name of a core band
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 21 December 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link