63 Mare Infinitum - Alien Monolith God 244 Points, 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/FFVlZgL.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3n2Il5fcLmHspCn0nZbhyospotify:album:3n2Il5fcLmHspCn0nZbhyo
https://mareinfinitum.bandcamp.com/album/alien-monolith-god
http://www.metalsucks.net/2015/04/24/mare-infinitum-the-best-new-band-you-will-hear-today/
The best bands are the ones that completely defy classification. Sure, you can point to specific elements of their sound that might loosely fit into a predefined genre box, but taken as a whole there’s no simple, reductive way you can describe the band’s sound.Mare Infinitum are one such band, and I’ve been completely hooked ever MS Mansion indentured servant Kelsey introduced them to me earlier this week. There are elements of death metal, doom, prog, sludge, trad metal, shred and goth present in their music, but at no moment does the finished product sound like any one of those. It also doesn’t sound like a jumbled mish-mash of genre tropes: everything works within the context of each song, and it all flows together seamlessly. Earth-shaking death growls right into soaring, Dio-esque highs? No problem. A sludgy doom riff with an epic guitar solo on top of it? Psssh, got it. In short, the whole is much, much greater than the sum of its parts, so much so that Mare Infinitum may have created a genre all their own.Stream their new album Alien Monolith God below. It just came out this week, and can be purchased on Bandcamp for less than five bucks.Metal Archives tells me that Mare Infinitum released another full-length in 2011. If any MS readers are hip to that one, holler below in the comments and tell us how this one compares.
Mare Infinitum are one such band, and I’ve been completely hooked ever MS Mansion indentured servant Kelsey introduced them to me earlier this week. There are elements of death metal, doom, prog, sludge, trad metal, shred and goth present in their music, but at no moment does the finished product sound like any one of those. It also doesn’t sound like a jumbled mish-mash of genre tropes: everything works within the context of each song, and it all flows together seamlessly. Earth-shaking death growls right into soaring, Dio-esque highs? No problem. A sludgy doom riff with an epic guitar solo on top of it? Psssh, got it. In short, the whole is much, much greater than the sum of its parts, so much so that Mare Infinitum may have created a genre all their own.
Stream their new album Alien Monolith God below. It just came out this week, and can be purchased on Bandcamp for less than five bucks.
Metal Archives tells me that Mare Infinitum released another full-length in 2011. If any MS readers are hip to that one, holler below in the comments and tell us how this one compares.
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 14 December 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
HELL YEAH
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 14 December 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link
62 Drudkh - A Furrow Cut Short 244 Points, 8 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/FVICRbO.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1LxyiZgZRpa6pnB1LR6zXLspotify:album:1LxyiZgZRpa6pnB1LR6zXL
https://drudkh.bandcamp.com/album/a-furrow-cut-short
http://www.angrymetalguy.com/drudkh-furrow-cut-short-review/
Ah, Drudkh. Not too long ago (early-to-mid 2000s) in a country quite far away (the Ukraine), these pagan sons released a string of solid albums back to back, and were at one point heralded by critics to be the new kings of black metal. Then Handful of Stars happened, and while the sudden shift injected some much-needed variety into the groups’ sound, it did rub fans and critics the wrong way with its slowed drumming and shoegazing elements. Since then, the band has been playing catch-up stylistically, bringing back some faith in their diehard fans with 2012’s Eternal Turn of the Wheel. So is their newest, A Furrow Cut Short, a further extension of the olive branch?It’s both a yes and a no, honestly. One thing you won’t find on A Furrow Cut Short is an atmospheric intro, as the band wastes no time going forth with the blast beats and tremolo picking in “Cursed Sons I.” Vlad has some incredible control over his kit and has plenty of attention-grabbing cymbal flourishes, and Roman Sayenko once again knows how to write commanding, icy-cold black metal melodies, especially at the :51-1:49 section. The riffing does get very monotonous after a while, clinging on to a proven theme for a little too long, only slowing things down around the 5:21 mark to add much-needed variance, but even then it’s well-written and catchy, with Krechet’s bass sounding loud and thunderous. At over nine minutes, it’s a bit long in the tooth, even with this style of black metal, but it’s a good, if repetitive, introduction.Things do become a bit more varied later into A Furrow Cut Short. “Embers” starts off with a beautiful guitar melody that reminds me a bit of their earlier albums before going into a powerful mid-paced march, with more soft arpeggios lurking in the background, adding shades of much-needed color. “Dishonour I” has some interesting bass melodies under a turbulent sea of tremolo riffing, with an interesting break coming in at 5:49. Album standout “To The Epoch of Unbowed Poets” has some incredible melodic interplay between Roman’s guitar lines, interweaving like a battle-tattered flag, while Thurios’s keyboards provide a nice atmospheric backdrop, reminding me of a sunset on a bloodied battlefield, while his screeches are as shrill as ever.So what’s the hold-up? In small doses, Drudkh hits that blackened sweet-spot quite well. For extended listening sessions, however, it does get a bit fatiguing and blurry, with several riffs repeating themselves, or being too long and drawn out (“Dishonoured II,” “Cursed Sons I”). In fact, there have been many times that I’ve had to check out before the last two songs (“Dishonoured II” and the awesomely-titled “Till Foreign Ground Shall Cover Eyes”) started playing, as that’s a lot to digest in one sitting, especially at almost an hour. Thankfully, the production is quite warm, especially with the bass being so audible and the cymbals bright, yet not painfully so.Drudkh seems to be taking extra care in crafting quality black metal, and with A Furrow Cut Short, they are definitely heading in the right direction. While not exactly as mind-blowing as their earlier efforts, it’s a solid outing worthy of at least a listen. Here’s to them regaining their footing through the blood-stained snow on their path to the blackened throne.
It’s both a yes and a no, honestly. One thing you won’t find on A Furrow Cut Short is an atmospheric intro, as the band wastes no time going forth with the blast beats and tremolo picking in “Cursed Sons I.” Vlad has some incredible control over his kit and has plenty of attention-grabbing cymbal flourishes, and Roman Sayenko once again knows how to write commanding, icy-cold black metal melodies, especially at the :51-1:49 section. The riffing does get very monotonous after a while, clinging on to a proven theme for a little too long, only slowing things down around the 5:21 mark to add much-needed variance, but even then it’s well-written and catchy, with Krechet’s bass sounding loud and thunderous. At over nine minutes, it’s a bit long in the tooth, even with this style of black metal, but it’s a good, if repetitive, introduction.
Things do become a bit more varied later into A Furrow Cut Short. “Embers” starts off with a beautiful guitar melody that reminds me a bit of their earlier albums before going into a powerful mid-paced march, with more soft arpeggios lurking in the background, adding shades of much-needed color. “Dishonour I” has some interesting bass melodies under a turbulent sea of tremolo riffing, with an interesting break coming in at 5:49. Album standout “To The Epoch of Unbowed Poets” has some incredible melodic interplay between Roman’s guitar lines, interweaving like a battle-tattered flag, while Thurios’s keyboards provide a nice atmospheric backdrop, reminding me of a sunset on a bloodied battlefield, while his screeches are as shrill as ever.
So what’s the hold-up? In small doses, Drudkh hits that blackened sweet-spot quite well. For extended listening sessions, however, it does get a bit fatiguing and blurry, with several riffs repeating themselves, or being too long and drawn out (“Dishonoured II,” “Cursed Sons I”). In fact, there have been many times that I’ve had to check out before the last two songs (“Dishonoured II” and the awesomely-titled “Till Foreign Ground Shall Cover Eyes”) started playing, as that’s a lot to digest in one sitting, especially at almost an hour. Thankfully, the production is quite warm, especially with the bass being so audible and the cymbals bright, yet not painfully so.
Drudkh seems to be taking extra care in crafting quality black metal, and with A Furrow Cut Short, they are definitely heading in the right direction. While not exactly as mind-blowing as their earlier efforts, it’s a solid outing worthy of at least a listen. Here’s to them regaining their footing through the blood-stained snow on their path to the blackened throne.
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 14 December 2015 22:16 (eight years ago) link
Drudkh trying too hard to please their old black metal fans?
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 14 December 2015 22:25 (eight years ago) link
Last one for the night coming up
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 14 December 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
are you waiting for someone to opine about drudkh first
their name is fun to say, that's all i got
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Monday, 14 December 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
I hate talking (irl) about Drudkh because I have no idea how to pronounce it, lol
But that can be said for a lot of metal bands. Akhlys?
― Tom Violence, Monday, 14 December 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
61 Sannhet - Revisionist 247 Points, 7 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/ORW3kwG.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5Dv7QLsBC4axWiYzJvJL8Aspotify:album:5Dv7QLsBC4axWiYzJvJL8A
https://theflenser.bandcamp.com/album/revisionist
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20098-revisionist/8.1
Revisionist feels grander than it is, and bigger than the band that made it. The second album from the metallic Brooklyn instrumental trio Sannhet lasts only nine tracks, or 38 minutes. But its overall density—of emotions and dynamics, of textures and melodies, of strengths and surprises—makes each moment so compelling that the record seems at least twice that length. The album’s brilliant centerpiece, "Empty Harbor", rises from a slow, electrified fusion that suggests ECM in the '80s to a blast beat-backed surge powerful enough to match the best codas of Temporary Residence Ltd. Driven by masterful drummer Christopher Todd, it sounds like a little symphony, both in execution and effect; looking at the clock, however, it’s shocking to find that the song lasts for less than five minutes.Sannhet have always defied quick taxonomy. They are a byproduct of Brooklyn’s emergent metal scene; Saint Vitus, one of the city’s heavy hubs, issued their 2013 debut LP, Known Flood, which featured a tirade of screams from bar booker David Castillo. Although their new home, The Flenser, is an aggressively eclectic imprint, the core of its catalog remains metal, however soft or mercurial. From the pummeling black-metal drums during the exhilarating climax of "Lost Crown" to the tense rhythmic lock of death metal near the middle of "False Pass", traces of that pedigree populate Revisionist. But AJ Annunziata’s bass distortion during songs like "Enemy Victorian" implies the astral ascendance of space-rock. The same goes for John Refano, a guitarist who likes to widen the band’s sound with layers of background noise perhaps more than he prefers to lead with coiled riffs. There are astutely applied electronics that suggest the abstraction of Touch Music masters like Philip Jeck, and careful but brief drone passages that conjure Kranky. If metal made for the most convenient tag for Known Flood, it is at best an awkward fit for Revisionist, a record that revels and delights in a trove of outsider influences. American post-rock and post-metal have often offered the scores of wide-open spaces, be they the football fields and Texas hills of Explosions in the Sky’s Friday Night Lights accompaniment or the rivers and valleys of their fellow Lone Star residents Balmorhea. Labradford, Red Sparowes and ISIS suggested settings more vast and hospitable than the cities they called home. But Sannhet take many of those same sweeping, cinematic impulses and apply them to cramped urban landscapes and lifestyles. They begin "Mint Divine" with a sample of voices, which blur into the mind-numbing chatter endemic to busy city streets. The band works to overcome the pervasive din, or to at least carve out a sheltered space within it. Refano and Annunziata deliver a delicate duet, their gentle guitar notes and pulsing bass competing with the hubbub. The voices waft into the next track, "False Pass", but Todd battles them back with his heavy hands and deep, floor-tom thuds. Together, Sannhet finally overpower their environment, finding solace in the solidarity of volume.This metropolitan sense of setting also explains Sannhet’s concision. Only "Enemy Victorian", the album’s one listless point, breaks the six-minute mark. Otherwise, Sannhet push the parts together, moving at a rate that suggests they’re worried the city will swallow them if they don’t press ahead. "You Thy_" collapses feelings of romance, terror and longing into four breathless minutes, maximizing emotional impact and efficiency all at once. By oscillating between lumbering, loping patterns and sustained blast beats, Todd turns the three-minute "Lost Crown" into a frantic, crazed quest in an unsympathetic environment, where no one else cares if you ever recover your holy grail. Sannhet make music for subway stations and unlit street corners, not winding hikes and idyllic vistas.If Explosions in the Sky and similar bands create accompaniment for Hollywood productions, Sannhet offer a vivid, real-life counterpoint. There’s no lighting, no scripting, no catering—just the exigencies and anxieties of existence, delivered by a band battling pedestrian frustrations with uncommon focus. Revisionist, turns out, is bigger than its 38 minutes or the trio that made it; these nine songs are as big as whatever life it is they soundtrack.
Revisionist feels grander than it is, and bigger than the band that made it. The second album from the metallic Brooklyn instrumental trio Sannhet lasts only nine tracks, or 38 minutes. But its overall density—of emotions and dynamics, of textures and melodies, of strengths and surprises—makes each moment so compelling that the record seems at least twice that length. The album’s brilliant centerpiece, "Empty Harbor", rises from a slow, electrified fusion that suggests ECM in the '80s to a blast beat-backed surge powerful enough to match the best codas of Temporary Residence Ltd. Driven by masterful drummer Christopher Todd, it sounds like a little symphony, both in execution and effect; looking at the clock, however, it’s shocking to find that the song lasts for less than five minutes.
Sannhet have always defied quick taxonomy. They are a byproduct of Brooklyn’s emergent metal scene; Saint Vitus, one of the city’s heavy hubs, issued their 2013 debut LP, Known Flood, which featured a tirade of screams from bar booker David Castillo. Although their new home, The Flenser, is an aggressively eclectic imprint, the core of its catalog remains metal, however soft or mercurial. From the pummeling black-metal drums during the exhilarating climax of "Lost Crown" to the tense rhythmic lock of death metal near the middle of "False Pass", traces of that pedigree populate Revisionist. But AJ Annunziata’s bass distortion during songs like "Enemy Victorian" implies the astral ascendance of space-rock. The same goes for John Refano, a guitarist who likes to widen the band’s sound with layers of background noise perhaps more than he prefers to lead with coiled riffs. There are astutely applied electronics that suggest the abstraction of Touch Music masters like Philip Jeck, and careful but brief drone passages that conjure Kranky. If metal made for the most convenient tag for Known Flood, it is at best an awkward fit for Revisionist, a record that revels and delights in a trove of outsider influences.
American post-rock and post-metal have often offered the scores of wide-open spaces, be they the football fields and Texas hills of Explosions in the Sky’s Friday Night Lights accompaniment or the rivers and valleys of their fellow Lone Star residents Balmorhea. Labradford, Red Sparowes and ISIS suggested settings more vast and hospitable than the cities they called home. But Sannhet take many of those same sweeping, cinematic impulses and apply them to cramped urban landscapes and lifestyles. They begin "Mint Divine" with a sample of voices, which blur into the mind-numbing chatter endemic to busy city streets. The band works to overcome the pervasive din, or to at least carve out a sheltered space within it. Refano and Annunziata deliver a delicate duet, their gentle guitar notes and pulsing bass competing with the hubbub. The voices waft into the next track, "False Pass", but Todd battles them back with his heavy hands and deep, floor-tom thuds. Together, Sannhet finally overpower their environment, finding solace in the solidarity of volume.
This metropolitan sense of setting also explains Sannhet’s concision. Only "Enemy Victorian", the album’s one listless point, breaks the six-minute mark. Otherwise, Sannhet push the parts together, moving at a rate that suggests they’re worried the city will swallow them if they don’t press ahead. "You Thy_" collapses feelings of romance, terror and longing into four breathless minutes, maximizing emotional impact and efficiency all at once. By oscillating between lumbering, loping patterns and sustained blast beats, Todd turns the three-minute "Lost Crown" into a frantic, crazed quest in an unsympathetic environment, where no one else cares if you ever recover your holy grail. Sannhet make music for subway stations and unlit street corners, not winding hikes and idyllic vistas.
If Explosions in the Sky and similar bands create accompaniment for Hollywood productions, Sannhet offer a vivid, real-life counterpoint. There’s no lighting, no scripting, no catering—just the exigencies and anxieties of existence, delivered by a band battling pedestrian frustrations with uncommon focus. Revisionist, turns out, is bigger than its 38 minutes or the trio that made it; these nine songs are as big as whatever life it is they soundtrack.
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 14 December 2015 22:49 (eight years ago) link
I like to imagine Drudkh rhyming with Ruettiger as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_%28film%29
― anonanon, Monday, 14 December 2015 22:52 (eight years ago) link
I had Sannhet and Liturgy right next to each other somewhere in the middle of my ballot. I couldn't decide which I liked better and they seemed somewhat of a piece.
― Tom Violence, Monday, 14 December 2015 22:53 (eight years ago) link
ILM Metal Albums of 2015 Poll Recap
103 Khemmis - Absolution 153 Points, 7 Votes102 Corsair - One Eyed Horse 155 Points, 5 Votes101 Absconditus - Katabasis/Kατάβασις 156 Points, 4 Votes100 Nameless Coyote - Blood Moon 157 Points, 5 Votes99 Black Cilice - Mysteries 158 Points, 4 Votes98 Lucifer - Lucifer I 161 Points, 5 Votes97 Imperial Triumphant - Abyssal Gods 163 Points, 4 Votes96 Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed 163 Points, 5 Votes93 Vastum - Hole Below 163 Points, 6 Votes93 Locrian - Infinite Dissolution 163 Points, 6 Votes93 KEN Mode - Success 163 Points, 6 Votes92 Kylesa - Exhausting Fire 164 Points, 5 Votes91 Sigh - Graveward 164 Points, 7 Votes90 Ahab - The Boats of the Glen Carrig 168 Points, 6 Votes89 Noisem - Blossoming Decay 169 Points, 4 Votes, One #188 Amestigon - Thier 169 Points, 5 Votes87 Nechochewn - Heart of Akamon 173 Points, 5 Votes86 Intronaut - The Direction of Last Things 175 Points, 6 Votes85 Brothers of the Sonic Cloth - Brothers of the Sonic Cloth 180 Points, 5 Votes84 Boris - Asia 181 Points, 6 Votes83 Lamb of God - VII: Sturm und Drang 188 Points, 5 Votes82 Dead To A Dying World - Litany 193 Points, 5 Votes81 Caïna - Setter of Unseen Snares 194 Points, 6 Votes
80 Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls 195 Points, 6 Votes79 Arcturus - Arcturian 196 Points, 6 Votes78 Huntress - Static 196 Points, 7 Votes77 Killing Joke - Pylon 196 Points, 9 Votes76 Kult of the Wizard - The White Wizard 197 Points, 5 Votes, One #175 Dispirit - Separation 198 Points, 6 Votes74 Melechesh - Enki 198 Points, 7 Votes73 Thou & The Body - Released From Love / You, Whom I Have Always Hated 202 Points, 6 Votes72 Akhlys - The Dreaming I 203 Points, 6 Votes71 Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere 210 Points, 6 Votes70 False - Untitled 212 Points, 6 Votes69 Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud 214 Points, 6 Votes68 Shining - International Blackjazz Society 214 Points, 7 Votes67 Tyranny - Aeons in Tectonic Interment 220 Points, 7 Votes66 Midnight Odyssey - Shards Of Silver Fade 236 Points, 7 One #165 Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours 237 Points, 7 Votes64 Mastery - Valis 241 Points, 6 Votes63 Mare Infinitum - Alien Monolith God 244 Points, 7 Votes62 Drudkh - A Furrow Cut Short 244 Points, 8 Votes61 Sannhet - Revisionist 247 Points, 7 Votes
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
Hope some of you have made some good discoveries yesterday and today. Feel free to post about any albums so far you have listened to or even liked.
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:01 (eight years ago) link
Enjoying the Sannhet so far! Will plunge deeper back into today's albums in due course...I've not heard many of them!
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:06 (eight years ago) link
thought that band was called GANNNET for a moment
― seb mooczag (NickB), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:10 (eight years ago) link
no because it didn't have me going 'MY NUMBER ONE FOR ALL TIME' after it, which is what would have happened had it been called that
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:11 (eight years ago) link
it would be a great name it's true
― seb mooczag (NickB), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link
they're arguably britain's most metal bird in fact
- they live entirely pelagic lives
- they only come to land on remote islands they have completely colonised
- and covered completely in their own shit
- they have bills that act as giant sea-knives to spear fish
- they mate for life
- they produce one of the most majestic and terrifying natural spectacles one might imagine
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link
- they fucking dive into the sea at 60 mph in order to survive
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:16 (eight years ago) link
- they produce one of the most majestic and terrifying natural spectacles one might imagine (the Republican nomination race)
dontcha just love the Americans!
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:18 (eight years ago) link
the 3rd day of the poll is always where people have realised that the rest of their ballots wont place so lose interest.
but there's always that one person who hangs on forlornly hoping that Nightwish will be top 10
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:21 (eight years ago) link
nah p sure everyone's got some horses they're backing still - i mean i know my entire top 5 will place and we've only had one so far
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
Albums I will visit (revisit in some cases)100 Nameless Coyote - Blood Moon93 Vastum - Hole Below93 KEN Mode - Success92 Kylesa - Exhausting Fire84 Boris - Asia81 Caïna - Setter of Unseen Snares
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:27 (eight years ago) link
hahaha i feel like every time you say that regarding a poll it ends in hilarity lj xpost
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
imago is confident his top 5 will be in the top 10.
I dunno what is in his ballot but seandalai sent me a link to them so i will go have a looksie once ive finished my cup of tea
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:30 (eight years ago) link
oh wow, lj's #1 was five finger death punch. Wasn't expecting that.
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:31 (eight years ago) link
Albums that made my Ballot (Bolded was the highest)77 Killing Joke - Pylon74 Melechesh - Enki73 Thou & The Body - Released From Love / You, Whom I Have Always Hated68 Shining - International Blackjazz Society67 Tyranny - Aeons in Tectonic Interment
Albums that made my Top 10180 Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls65 Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours62 Drudkh - A Furrow Cut Short
Albums I will visit (revisit in some cases)78 Huntress - Static76 Kult of the Wizard - The White Wizard72 Akhlys - The Dreaming I66 Midnight Odyssey - Shards Of Silver Fade63 Mare Infinitum - Alien Monolith God
Album I most disliked69 Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
Some very good albums in that set! Four of them are in my Top 21 for the year!And I still can't shake the feeling I am underrating the Bosse-de-Nage...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
imago disagrees
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 00:13 (eight years ago) link
I'll get over it.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 00:31 (eight years ago) link
Only two of mine have placed thus far: KEN Mode and Dead to a Dying World. Strangely enough I'm going to see Dead to a Dying World play in a couple of hours. Should be fun.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 00:37 (eight years ago) link
not voting for the one you're on seems unnecessarily honourable tbh
need to listen to DTADW, shall do when I wake probably, hope the gig is great
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 00:55 (eight years ago) link
Oh, man, that Mastery album was great, and I totally forgot about it and almost certainly didn't vote for it here. Glad to be reminded.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 01:41 (eight years ago) link
Hooray for VALIS, which was my #5. Yay fir Sannhet which was on my ballot. Think tgats prob all we're going to see from the Flenser here though
― how much longer for italo-disco Robbie Basho? (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 01:42 (eight years ago) link
98 Lucifer - Lucifer I 161 Points, 5 Votes81 Caïna - Setter of Unseen Snares 194 Points, 6 Votes78 Huntress - Static 196 Points, 7 Votes
I voted for these, good albums although none were in my top 10.
― jmm, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 01:52 (eight years ago) link
I played the shit out of "S.T.A.R.S.E.E.K.E.R." this year but I don't think I ever listened to the entire Mastery album. Work to do!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 04:16 (eight years ago) link
Albums that made my ballot so far:
100 Nameless Coyote - Blood Moon 157 Points, 5 Votes99 Black Cilice - Mysteries 158 Points, 4 Votes97 Imperial Triumphant - Abyssal Gods 163 Points, 4 Votes72 Akhlys - The Dreaming I 203 Points, 6 Votes70 False - Untitled 212 Points, 6 Votes65 Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours 237 Points, 7 Votes64 Mastery - Valis 241 Points, 6 Votes
Of these, I had Black Cilice and Akhlys ranked the highest.
― Musical strategies to eliminate the ego (Skrot Montague), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 04:19 (eight years ago) link
^a list to pay attention to
― how much longer for italo-disco Robbie Basho? (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 04:57 (eight years ago) link
At this point I'm torn between 'my top 3 will make the top 50', which would be great and unexpected, and 'if they haven't made the list by now it's over', which would be a fucking OUTRAGE.
(although I haven't saved my ballot so maybe Akhlys was top 3, I don't remember)
I'm surprised to see Sannhet here, I don't think it's been discussed at all in the metal thread? Maybe I missed it.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 08:13 (eight years ago) link
was new to me until i bought it from bandcamp yesterday due to this poll
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 09:04 (eight years ago) link
I think I totally forgot to include Akhlys in my ballot, top 10 for sure. Lots of great records in this last run, I even really like the Amorphis. Sulphur Aeon, Mare Infinitum. I really can't bring myself to enjoy Drudkh anymore though, they're just going through the motions it seems. Also I'm afraid the other (Swedish) Shining won't place which is a shame.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 09:04 (eight years ago) link
Akhlys was your #4 dinsdale
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 09:06 (eight years ago) link
thank you pollmaster
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 09:08 (eight years ago) link
feel free to talk about more obscure things you hope will place because we're probably mostly past that stage of them sneaking in but the rest of us can then go check em out anyway.
ps #60 is a very big name
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 09:32 (eight years ago) link
so Iron Maiden then
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 09:43 (eight years ago) link
I'm oblivious to what is and what is not obscure these days. I haven't seen Abyssal on any major pub list so either they're completely under the radar or no one likes the album (in which case: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU). Deserves at least top 30. I've seen a bit of love for Glaciation on the board so maybe it will place too, but they're rather obscure in the grand scheme of things, and not signed to a hip label like The Flenser, Gilead Media or Profound Lore, so maybe I'm 100% crazy about them having even a slight chance of making it.
Misthyrming and Sarpanitum seem more likely to place. Or maybe not.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 10:28 (eight years ago) link
There's some false as hell stuff yet to place and I for one am excited
Gnaw Their Tongues, I guess, is the one on my ballot I'm most unsure about at this point - by now I'm sure most of my ballot will make it, but that both Basarabian Hills and Lustre won't, because metal isn't keyboards really now is it, guys? :D
(but it is! :'( poor neglected keyboard warriors)
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 10:33 (eight years ago) link
I love it when really good obscure stuff places not due to elitism but purely because I've usually not heard of it and I get to check it out. Hopefully it's the same for others even if lots of people do just like to see where their fave albums place in the top 20 (which is fine)
Im a bit disappointed in a few folk on the rolling metal thread who didn't vote this year. Presumably as I am running the poll.
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 10:38 (eight years ago) link
never heard of Basarabian Hills, Imago
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 10:39 (eight years ago) link
They're one of Siegbran's ambient synth loners - this one making music exclusively about the forests of Moldova. His previous album caught my attention on Siegbran's ballot last year as it was called 'Groping In A Misty Spread' and lol etc but upon listening I found it to be actually vv pretty and this year's album is no different. Also I googled him and one of the first results was a metal archives forum thread about 'banned acts' and it featured him cursing the metal archives dudes for not allowing his work to be classified as metal, poor dude, so I am ON HIS SIDE.
― roughest.contoured.silks (imago), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 10:43 (eight years ago) link
I've seen a bit of love for Glaciation on the board so maybe it will place too,
I actually ordered the lp due to the positive mention by someone on the thread.
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 10:48 (eight years ago) link
we post the full list of albums at the end btw so you can see where albums that people did vote for that missed out.
― Trump's Gaz Coombesover (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 10:49 (eight years ago) link