2015 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal(ish) Albums of the Year

Enjoying the Sannhet so far! Will plunge deeper back into today's albums in due course...I've not heard many of them!

thought that band was called GANNNET for a moment

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

it would be a great name it's true

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

- they fucking dive into the sea at 60 mph in order to survive

- they only come to land on remote islands they have completely colonised

- and covered completely in their own shit

- they produce one of the most majestic and terrifying natural spectacles one might imagine (the Republican nomination race)

dontcha just love the Americans!

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

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

Albums I will visit (revisit in some cases)
100 Nameless Coyote - Blood Moon
93 Vastum - Hole Below
93 KEN Mode - Success
92 Kylesa - Exhausting Fire
84 Boris - Asia
81 Caïna - Setter of Unseen Snares

hahaha i feel like every time you say that regarding a poll it ends in hilarity lj xpost

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

oh wow, lj's #1 was five finger death punch. Wasn't expecting that.

Albums that made my Ballot (Bolded was the highest)
77 Killing Joke - Pylon
74 Melechesh - Enki
73 Thou & The Body - Released From Love / You, Whom I Have Always Hated
68 Shining - International Blackjazz Society
67 Tyranny - Aeons in Tectonic Interment

Albums that made my Top 101
80 Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
65 Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours
62 Drudkh - A Furrow Cut Short

Albums I will visit (revisit in some cases)
78 Huntress - Static
76 Kult of the Wizard - The White Wizard
72 Akhlys - The Dreaming I
66 Midnight Odyssey - Shards Of Silver Fade
63 Mare Infinitum - Alien Monolith God

Album I most disliked
69 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...

imago disagrees

I'll get over it.

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.

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

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.

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

98 Lucifer - Lucifer I 161 Points, 5 Votes
81 Caïna - Setter of Unseen Snares 194 Points, 6 Votes
78 Huntress - Static 196 Points, 7 Votes

I voted for these, good albums although none were in my top 10.

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!

Albums that made my ballot so far:

100 Nameless Coyote - Blood Moon 157 Points, 5 Votes
99 Black Cilice - Mysteries 158 Points, 4 Votes
97 Imperial Triumphant - Abyssal Gods 163 Points, 4 Votes
72 Akhlys - The Dreaming I 203 Points, 6 Votes
70 False - Untitled 212 Points, 6 Votes
65 Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours 237 Points, 7 Votes
64 Mastery - Valis 241 Points, 6 Votes

Of these, I had Black Cilice and Akhlys ranked the highest.

^a list to pay attention to

the 3rd day of the poll is always where people have realised that the rest of their ballots wont place so lose interest.

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.

was new to me until i bought it from bandcamp yesterday due to this poll

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.

Akhlys was your #4 dinsdale

thank you pollmaster

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

so Iron Maiden then

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.

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)

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.

never heard of Basarabian Hills, Imago

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.

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.

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.

seandalai how many nominated albums got zero votes?

imago - people are still scarred by the burzum keyboard albums and Mortiis albums.

dont think even Siegbran loved those

Thing is, there are some occasional fuzzy guitars and screaming on those Basarabian Hills albums but it's reverbed to hell and back and mixed in so low that most of the time I'm not sure if the guitars have just kicked in or if my neighbour has started vacuuming.

When it comes to my ballot: I think my #1 will make it, sure my #2 will, sure my #3 won't

how mysterious

Kylesa album is really great pop-metal songwriting btw, lovely stuff

they used to do very well in metal poll but it seems that ilm prefers their earlier less pop stuff

did you vote for the new one? I think it's really lovely although at times closer to hard-rock than metal really. also it sounds like The Cure

I did

I own it too

on vinyl that is