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
I got Howl of Ebb after I cast my ballot, totally would've voted for it. Great trippy blackened deathness.
― GUARD YOUR EARS!!! ...with Gorman's. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 21 December 2014 08:21 (nine years ago) link
HOWLS
there's something about howls of ebb that just invites misspelling, isn't there!
― auto focus, Sunday, 21 December 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
unable to find image suitable to planned "howls of ebsen" joke :/
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Sunday, 21 December 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
howls of esben the witch?
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 21 December 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
Did they get way heavier recently? I haven't listened to the new one. Surprised to see them in this poll.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 21 December 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
howls of ebsen the buddy
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Monday, 22 December 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
http://images2.static-bluray.com/products/22/18228_1_large.jpg
unhowling
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Monday, 22 December 2014 03:36 (nine years ago) link
Was gonna look for a meme to post from Airplane with the capt. and kid in the cockpit but then realized that's Peter Graves.
― Devilock, Monday, 22 December 2014 03:56 (nine years ago) link
youve lost me now
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 22 December 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
This won't help:
http://i.imgur.com/mk1Rcjq.jpg
― Devilock, Monday, 22 December 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Monday, 22 December 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
I liked the bit where the little girl liked her coffee like her metal, black.
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 22 December 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
My bad. Forgot to go for the trifecta.
https://i.imgflip.com/flv0s.jpgvia Imgflip Meme Maker
Anyway so yeah, I'm already looking forward to 2015, Melechesh and Lost Soul especially. I would love to be totally surprised by this Marduk album that's coming but I fear they're never gonna recapture whatever they were on during Romans 5:12. But please prove me wrong, Marduk!
Supposedly Leviathan has a new one on the way, too. Despite all the baggage, I'm hoping for something interesting.
― Devilock, Monday, 22 December 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
I never heard the last Leviathan - lots of lukewarm to negative reviews of it.
― GUARD YOUR EARS!!! ...with Gorman's. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 22 December 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
going to give the YOB another go.
my head has retuned unto this kind of groove in recent times ..
i may make more sense this time around.
― mark e, Monday, 22 December 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
i may = it mat
then again ..