~~~ 15 YEARS OF ILM POLL!!! ~~~ (Metal & Heavy Rock [+ related sub-genres] Edition) VOTING & DISCUSSION THREAD. ALL ILXORS WELCOME TO PARTICPATE!! Voting Ends 11.59pm UK Time September 9 2016 .

have you heard comet control?

nope

I'm going to need to investigate about 95% of the nominees before I prepare a ballot, I guess I haven't been listening to very much metal lately, I'm more of a "heavy rock" guy it seems...

To that end, I think the first two Tomahawk records are pretty unimpeachable, not really metal I guess but to my ears they sound like the kind of music serial killers would make.

Refused is from 1998 so its not eligible for this poll

So does anyone want to actually talk about albums that were nominated?

apparently not! is metal dead?

I can only comment on my own noms for the time being, and nobody wants to talk about Tomahawk, so does anyone want to have a go at Probot?

metal/heavy rock I should say

man I never felt so old as when I just realized I've spent several years of my life in a metal/heavy rock band

I didn't care much about the Probot

Tomahawk was great live but their albums haven't really caught me yet. I think I like Patton's stage presence more than his music, maybe?

I also recently listened to the s/t Mr Bungle album and wasn't impressed. I could swear I used to really like that record.

I swear you used to love it....about a decade ago

I feel like I've already repped records like Tara, The Voice Of Steel and Oath Bound an awful lot over the years, but I'd definitely like to throw my weight behind Rammstein Mutter, the finest pop album that metal has produced in two decades, and urge people to give Sabaton Carolus Rex a chance even though the thought of enjoying power metal might sound impossible.

I hope people dont forget to check out that Absu album 'Tara' that Siegbran mentions

I think Probot is a great idea anyway, what the world needs now is a metal Alan Parsons Project.

Tomahawk's third record is super intresting, though I didn't bother nominating it, doubt they will receive any votes besides my own anyway, but Duane Denison gets his hands on a book of Native American songs, transcibed ~100 years ago, and...that's the record! Never heard anything else like it. Well worth a listen if that sounds remotely appealing to you

I like tomahawk but they didn't make my longlist of 150 albums

I submitted mine! Now I feel anxious that I've missed something obvious.

haha we all do that. Luckily seandalai allows you to resubmit if you do

this is going to be harder now that I have more nominations to work with... I swear I'll turn in my ballot soon.

You have plenty of time, but a good idea if everyone starts!

Voted! Only my top 23 were weighted, though. I didn't have time to rank the rest. Not that voting time was too short, I just only had a few hours per week to listen to stuff, even if I'd devoted my life to listening to and ranking Enslaved albums I only would have gotten halfway through arbitrary half-assed decisions.

cheers!

Isa and Ruun are the enslaved albums i think are good, if that helps

I think Siegbran likes to pretend Enslaved had split by then?

I'm not sure I've listened to any Enslaved albums made in the past 15 years! At least, I don't remember any of them.

Oh god I just realized I lost my ballot list. I have to restart from scratch!

folks: save your spreadsheets, take it from me!

aww can I also nominate:
Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony

it's still my favorite of their's.

OK. Added

well except I forgot to add it. Its there now

There is now exactly 1000 albums nominated so we wont be allowing any more.
Please start on your ballots as there's not long left now and you do not want to leave it too late.

Probably your last week to boost albums by campaigning too

I should have nommed some Ildjarn or Vordr for this

Not like you purists to forget to nominate :)

Ildjarn doesn't really fit the 2000-2015 timeslot though, unless re-released demo material from the 90s is allowed.

its a bit late to argue about that. the months long nominations thread should have covered that.

In future 2 weeks for nominating and 2 weeks voting will be the maximum.

ps never ever let me listen to George again, right? :)

Everyone has until September 9 to vote. Its not that far away now so dont leave it to the last minute!

You guys need to listen to me for sure. Listen to me & listen to the Goslings

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4vz-2nVlD1E&feature=youtu.be

I think I overestimated how much interest was in this poll. Has the longer voting period and lack of thread chat put off people?

Even contenderizer and dj martian arent around

Well the genesis of the poll was basically excitement from extreme metal poll carried over, right? I think the hige gaps in the nominations thread kinda killed that zeitgeist

Dont fret yet though. I'm going to turn away from defeatism and start lobbying for all my noms

Seriously that Goslings album is the business, folks. Like Merzbow sitting in on a slowed down version of Bardo Pond's Lapsed

I'm still tinkering with the order but I'll probably vote today.

Anyway, it doesn't seem to have been mentioned on the noms thread, but whoever nominated Paintbox - Trip, Trance & Travelling is a champ. It's not my usual kind of thing, melodic hardcore, but it's got a good dose of eccentricity and dips into all kinds of things including psych-rock and that incomprehensibly fast type of Japanese hardcore amongst others.

everyone don't forget to vote for Devin Townsend - Addicted, you know, if that's your thing..

I voted!

Thanks!

Has anyone else discovered something they like from the nominations they hadn't heard before?

Anyone?

Bolt Thrower! don't think I'd listened to them before this exercise

also enjoying the Garden of Shadows record, low-budget overambitious prog-death

I thought everybody liked Bolt Thrower?

My kingdom for a ballot!

Looks like the mods are promising cake if you vote or something

what else could you take from this?

http://imgur.com/a/HcQU2

http://i.imgur.com/d5P60V5.png

Voted!