2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

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

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/

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.

Pallbearer now come join us all and play your faves of the year

we need siegbran

My list, weighted:

Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Thou - Heathen
Horrendous - Ecdysis
Indian - From All Purity
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying Sun
Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem
Behemoth - The Satanist
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Orange Goblin - Back from the Abyss
Exmortus - Slave to the Sword
Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere
Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer
Panopticon - Roads to the North
Serpent Venom - Of Things Seen And Unseen
Darkspace - Dark Space III I
Wo Fat - The Conjuring
Opeth - Pale Communion
Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
Truckfighters - Universe
Electric Wizard - Time to Die
Saor - Aura
Overkill - White Devil Armory
Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Satan's Satyrs - Die Screaming
Spectral Lore - III
Vallenfyre - Splinters
Morbus Chron - Sweven
Earth - Primitive and Deadly
Dir en Grey - Arche
Anatomy of Habit - Ciphers + Axioms
Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
Lord Mantis - Death Mask
Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
Teitanblood - Death
Brimstone Coven - Brimstone Coven
Doom:VS - Earthless
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
Murmur - S/T
Accept - Blind Rage
Trap Them - Blissfucker

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.

https://plug.dj/ilxors still rocking

hey um can "tuonetar" turn off the three-song sudzy bubblebath playlist? because like every third song is alcest or saor or suchlike.

not heard of Fluisteraars until the mention upthread - good stuff. another one for my increasingly lengthy list

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

on the strength of last night's demonstration, adding Saor and Alcest to 2014's do not want list, no surprise

lol

howls of ebb - additional apostrophes a well known side effect of xmas man-flu.

man-flu could be a name of a core band

I got Howl of Ebb after I cast my ballot, totally would've voted for it. Great trippy blackened deathness.

HOWLS

there's something about howls of ebb that just invites misspelling, isn't there!

unable to find image suitable to planned "howls of ebsen" joke :/

howls of esben the witch?

Did they get way heavier recently? I haven't listened to the new one. Surprised to see them in this poll.

howls of ebsen the buddy

http://images2.static-bluray.com/products/22/18228_1_large.jpg

unhowling

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.

youve lost me now

This won't help:

http://i.imgur.com/mk1Rcjq.jpg

lol

I liked the bit where the little girl liked her coffee like her metal, black.

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.

I never heard the last Leviathan - lots of lukewarm to negative reviews of it.

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.

i may = it mat

then again ..

i may = it may

i am sober, honest.

jammin this vader record right now and it's really giving poking around google analytics a sense of grandeur

That Vader record is great and probably the best album they've done in almost 15 years.

that vader record was on my ballot, it is fuckin awesome

yup it's sick

DAmn... I wish I would've given that Piss Vortex a better listen...it would've been very high on my list.

Yeah, that one's kind of interesting. I just gave it a first listen a couple nights ago. Like a grindy Gorguts.

http://pissvortex.bandcamp.com/

I like a 14 song record in less than 15 mins.. lol

xps

Yeah, Tibi et Igni is excellent. Lots of fun, not "experimental" or "progressive" to any discernible degree, just kick-ass thrashy death metal delivered w/ utter conviction (and a bit of unintentional humor). Probably not gonna displace De Profundis or Litany or w/e as anyone's very favorite Vader album, but damn near peerless in its niche. Problem w/ having been on a roll for 20-some years is that you never get to have the glorious comeback that makes everyone take notice.

Lol, missed Siegbran's comment. Best since Litany? Maybe so, but I don't know that it's such a massive improvement over, like, Impressions in Blood and Welcome to the Morbid Reich.

Haven't heard (or heard of) Piss Vortex. Not typically a grind fan, but curious...

...and shit yeah, Gorguts loom large, right there in the opening track's guitar tone. Good but mostly affirms my not-grindness. HC vocal bug.

Of the few grind records I've heard this year, I like the Brutal Blues album a lot more. The 'psychedelic' tag is weirdly fitting.

http://nervealtar.bandcamp.com/album/brutal-blues

Mansion's Uncreation EP is up on Bandcamp now too! I nominated this one unheard.

https://weshalllive.bandcamp.com/

fuck, this brutal blues ep is killer! half the "psychedelic" seems to consist of vocal echo, but i love the manic repetitions, lazer streak guitars, natural-sounding kit, everything. never liked noxagt half this much.

also, was superstupid to cut alraune's the process of self-immolation from my list at the last minute. devastating album.

I got the Menace Ruine cd in the mail today an early xmas present to myself

yeah, that alraune album is really good

haha, just been listening to the longest track on the YOB record - this is basically a straight-up post-rock reboot of Wicked Game, lol @ all you hardcore metalheads