I need to give the Furia more listens (obviously)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
Can't participate much today, but this is such an exciting countdown! The Furia was pretty great.
― dance band (tangenttangent), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
Wow, so it comes down to Aluk Todolo and Oranssi Pazuzu. I've had those two albums linked together in my head all year.
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
I feel like I'm still getting my head round this one.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
This album still feels like such an obscurity to me, so despite being my #1 it's kind of odd to see it place this high. It hasn't gotten much attention at the other forums I visit.
Actually got a little fluttery feeling when I saw the album art pop up in the thread just now.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
I've always had both bands linked in my head
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
but talk furia for another 20 mins since it placed at #3
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
the furia is a masterpiece
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
I happened to have just read a thing comparing it to Interpol in positive way.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
Jute Gyte - my #4. I was just listening to it yesterday, and I feel like I'm just now starting to wrap my head around it. Esp. the polytempi, which for me create a disorienting "feedback effect" which causes the riffs and different sections (wow those songs are getting more and more labyrinthine) to bleed into each other. Also, "Consciousness is Nature's Nightmare" might be my new favorite JG songSchammasch - my # 15? I kind of thought the first disc wasn't all that but it won me over with the other two discs.Deathspell Omega - my #10. This is definitely some really smart extreme metal. You really can't fuck with itCobalt - man, there's no site like P4k to just turn me off with a positive review. At least for rock/metal.Vektor - Legit shocked this didn't even make top 3
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
Also I think Sund4r is orob right about JG needung a mixing engineer: I think Perdurance potentially could've been an album full of microtonal black metal Hurricane Edwards, which would have made it #1 iny heart forever.
Also, want to take a moment to acknowledge that Brad's done really good work for P4k, and usually if I've read one of their reviews and I didnt feel like I wasted my time, it was either Brad or M4rc M4sters.
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
Lol @ me. Well we know why I dont write for Pitchfirk
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
Pitchferk
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
thanks drugs! i would also like to celebrate m4rc
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
microtonal black metal Hurricane Edwards
don't do this to me
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link
The vocals on Furia are giving me fond flashbacks to Laibach.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
2 Aluk Todolo - Voix 806 Points, 20 Votes, TWO #1'shttp://i.imgur.com/6FKOQYp.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7jD9s09XGBfwhf3tct7DuQspotify:album:7jD9s09XGBfwhf3tct7DuQ
https://aluktodolo.bandcamp.com/album/voix
7.9
French power trio Aluk Todolo have used the basic instruments and fundamental techniques of hard rock and metal to pursue what may seem a musical unicorn—hyperkinetic, heavy instrumental music that’s meditative and absorbing. Voix feels meditative like Sunn O))) or Bardo Pond, Ash Ra Tempel or even Les Rallizes Dénudés. This is, as intended, music meant for submission.
During the last decade, the French power trio Aluk Todolo have used the basic instruments and fundamental techniques of hard rock and metal to pursue what may seem a musical unicorn—hyperkinetic, heavy instrumental music that’s meditative and absorbing. That is, they hope to produce a trance for the listener through sheer activity, with shifting rhythms and repeating riffs forming a sort of blanket of busyness.
In interviews and press releases, the former black metal dudes often speak about mysteries and mysticism, summonings and spirits, submitting to the music and sealing off the world. Maybe that sounds like mumbo jumbo or even sonic snake oil. But on Voix—the best and most incisive album the band has yet made—that last bit actually happens. Their carefully coordinated commotion becomes overwhelming and atmospheric somehow, a cocoon of activity. Not in nature but in effect, Voix feels meditative like Sunn O))) or Bardo Pond, Ash Ra Tempel or even Les Rallizes Dénudés. This is, as intended, music meant for submission.
The 43-minute Voix zigs and zags through six untitled, interlocking, and loud pieces. The songs are separated by, at most, a tension-ratcheting full rest, though many slide right into the next through beats that don’t shift and melodies that don’t stop. This maintains the athletic trio’s momentum but also the listener’s state of mind—you hang in this space with them, waiting for the next wave. Aluk Todolo achieve this fugue state by keeping up a sense of constant motion, even when they’re indulging in repetition. During the back half of the second piece, for instance, drummer Antoine Hadjioannou and bassist Matthieu Canaguier march dead ahead with the insistence of something like heavy metal krautrock. But some element is always morphing. Here, it is guitarist Shantidas Riedacker, dancing with his instrument and amplifier and sculpting several sheets of low-level feedback into a rainbow of musical grays.
More often, though, the trio slyly slips between disparate parts, webbing together separate elements with skills that suggest an interest in the symphony and perhaps the Grateful Dead. There is so much going on in these songs, with so many icons and influences distilled into each moment. But at their best, Aluk Todolo force you not to think about what they’ve heard in the past and what you may be hearing now. You notice the specific choices and changes less than the music’s overall embrace and intensity.
Voix will, no doubt, appeal to fans of Sannhet’s Revisionist, the 2015 album that best positioned itself at the restless, roiling intersection of heavy metal tenacity and post-rock sweep. Voix shares many of the same tones and feelings, and the French trio can be every bit as thrilling and heavy as their American counterparts. But there is an essential distinction: Where Sannhet’s music seems like a soundtrack to the city, where busily interconnecting parts score the machinations of some place that never sleeps, Aluk Todolo somehow offers a shield from much the same, a place to hide out while the band takes care of the busy work. How they do that, exactly, remains a little mysterious—maybe it’s those radiant, circular drones that sneak between the beats or the judicious repetition in certain parts. Either way, Aluk Todolo creeps closer to its goal of turning the combined swagger of rock and metal inside out without losing its essence than ever before on Voix. This band works hard so you don’t have to.
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä 1372 Points, 33 Votes, FIVE #1'shttp://i.imgur.com/wNCwCwI.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/252sRljXI2rVMvC1DCCtGNspotify:album:252sRljXI2rVMvC1DCCtGN
https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/album/v-r-htelij
Four albums into their career, the Finnish quintet Oranssi Pazuzu may have at last sidestepped the confines of the tag “black metal." Their latest 69-minute opus folds in Krautrock, electric Miles Davs, stoner, thrash and more, finding the band lost—wonderfully, strangely—somewhere between heaven and hell.
Four albums into their career, the Finnish quintet Oranssi Pazuzu may have at last sidestepped the confines of the tag "black metal." During the last decade, the adventurous band has explored the astral infinity of extreme psychedelia and the grim oblivion of extreme metal. As the name Oranssi Pazuzu (essentially "orange demon") suggests, the band’s sound was often an even split, with the two pieces of their musical personality meant to fit like complementary puzzle pieces. Even so, they were often referred to as a metal band, albeit one with some extracurricular interests, Värähtelijä, a 69-minute escapist escapade, should finally, fundamentally correct that misperception.
Heavy metal hasn’t disappeared from their sound. "Havuluu," for instance, folds great, big, back-of-the-throat yells into its fuzz and, about halfway in, pivots on a blast beat and a ghastly scream that suggest Darkthrone. "Lahja" is powered by a Deep Purple proto-metal riff, and "Hypnotisoitu Viharukous" somehow fits stoner and thrash nods into the same five-minute span. More than ever, though, those roots lurk beneath the surface, acting as the foundation for a much more open-ended approach. Tilt your ears slightly, and the title track’s gray glow seems less like funeral doom with an accelerated pulse and more like narcotized Krautrock; imagine Harmonia succumbing to seasonal affective disorder. "Lahja" suggests a snippet of a grueling Swans marathon, with barked imprecations and martial drums pitted against sparkling vibraphone and guitars so free and bright they recall Sonny Sharrock. With Värähtelijä, Oranssi Pazuzu’s music has become a refraction of sorts, so that what you hear depends on your perspective—how you listen, what you bring to it, what you expect from it.
On 2013’s very good Valonielu, Oranssi Pazuzu seemed to strive to orchestrate its opposing impulses, to make them work together through relatively concise songs with discrete structures. You could almost imagine those tunes coming through the speakers of some large outdoor festival, like the aggressive Finnish answer to Sweden’s Dungen. Here, though, Oranssi Pazuzu show no such concern for restraint or expectation. The 17-minute "Vasemman Käden Hierarkia" feels like an album unto itself, brilliantly twisting between noise-rock outbursts and electric Miles allusions, distorted doom passages and sinister soundtrack references.
Typically, when bands dig themselves out of black metal pigeonholes (or, really, metal pigeonholes at large) and fold their ideas inside other, more accessible styles, worlds of possibility and popularity can open up. See, for instance, Tribulation’s own turn out of death metal basics during the last two years or Deafheaven’s climb toward the light across its own half-decade. Oranssi Pazuza’s step out of metal, though, finds them burrowing deeper into a world of their own creation. Värähtelijä is a weird, grotesque record, where genres are superimposed on one another and where eccentric choices are the rule and not the exception. Yes, Oranssi Pazuzu is out of the old black metal box and lost—wonderfully, strangely—somewhere between heaven and hell.
That's quite a blowout.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
the right order I think
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
Cool. I got to see this set, which felt historic! Oranssi Pazuzu at Roadburn 2016 - https://youtu.be/kwgUBvyRAZ8
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
And rightly so :p
My #2, kept from first place only by my unaccountable hypnotism at the hands of Mr Gyte.
But if there's a more jawdropping, kickass, monstrous track than Vasemman Käden Hierarkia this year, I haven't heard it
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
Weird how I find Aluk Todolo so boring and Oranssi Pazuzu so awesome
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
me too but I'll work on it
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Furia sort of sneaks up on you. The first couple minutes I wasn't sure what you guys were talking about. Now the bleak expressionist aspect is coming out.
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
One of the problems with the Furia album for me is that I took it as a chance to get acquainted with their older stuff and I tend to end up listening to their one from 2007 instead
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
Furia really builds. The last two songs are esp massive.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
^that is true
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
Dunno if seandalai has any stats as ive not heard from him all week
but You can post your ballots here if you want
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
Cheers for this! Great results :p
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
"orange demon"
Fuck, he won this too?
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
I hereby announce that FASTNBULBOUS won the predictor sweepstakes fairly handily!
send yr mailing address to suckerblues (at) gmail (dot) com to claim yr prize
It will probably not be there in time for xmas but you never know
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
Will the official Manowar loincloth fit him?
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
I'm voting for Lemon Demon in the main poll too, lol xxp
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
Thanks! I didn't think I was doing that well when Nails (63) and Ulcerate (54) messed me up!
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
Oh congratulations Pazuzu! It was the right winner, it really was.
Thanks for a great rollout, CS!
― dance band (tangenttangent), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
Yes thanks for doing this.
Here's my ballot:
Deathspell Omega – The Synarchy of Molten BonesWormed - KrighsuOranssi Pazuzu – VärähtelijäVirus – Memento ColliderHail Spirit Noir – Mayhem in BlueGorguts - Pleiades' DustEhnahre – DouveForgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity)Krallice - HyperionDysrhythmia – The Veil Of ControlZealotry – The Last WitnessSumac – What One BecomesGlyptoglossio – GLYPTOGLO5510Vektor – Terminal ReduxThree Trapped Tigers – Silent EarthlingNeurosis – Fires Within FiresEcferus – PangaeaTemisto - TemistoNocte Obducta - Mogontiacum (Nachdem die Nacht herabgesunken)Palace Of Worms – The LadderOphidian Forest - SusurrusFyrnask – FórnAlcest – KodamaMare Cognitum – Luminiferous AetherGeryon – The Wound and The BowIn The Woods ... - PureXoth – Invasion of the TentacubeHelen Money – Become ZeroEntropia - UfonautShataan – Weigh Of The WolfAstronoid – AirWithered – Grief RelicUrfaust – Empty Space MeditationBlood Incantation – StarspawnBorknagar – Winter ThriceKhthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia)Polyptych – Defying the MetastasisFuria - Księżyc milczy lutyCadaveric Fumes – Dimensions ObscureTemple Of Hallucinations - Mantis
Probably wouldn't have believed you if you told me I'd have a br00tal dm album at #2 and a thrash album in my top 20 before this year.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
Most surprising omissions imo: Katatonia (I'm betting they're the ones that landed at #103), Moonsorrow, Destroyer 666
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
thanks for the rollout/effort Slop/sendai - much appreciated
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
Full Results -
1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä 1372.0 33 52 Aluk Todolo - Voix 806.0 20 23 Furia - Księżyc milczy luty 751.0 20 24 Vektor - Terminal Redux 657.0 17 35 Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of Ages 648.0 16 26 Cobalt - Slow Forever 563.0 14 17 Sumac - What One Becomes 559.0 15 18 Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones 558.0 16 19 Schammasch - Triangle 543.0 15 110 Jute Gyte - Perdurance 539.0 14 211 Bölzer - Hero 511.0 13 012 Alcest - Kodama 482.0 14 013 Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue 473.0 12 114 Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust 464.0 13 015 Neurosis - Fires Within Fires 444.0 11 016 Thy Catafalque - Meta 424.0 10 117 Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity) 413.0 9 318 Hammers of Misfortune - Dead Revolutions 408.0 12 019 Horse Lords - Interventions 384.0 11 020 Virus - Memento Collider 371.0 12 021 Dysrhythmia - The Veil Of Control 341.0 10 022 Gojira - Magma 337.0 9 123 Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows 319.0 10 024 Kvelertak - Nattesferd 316.0 8 025 Khemmis - Hunted 307.0 8 126 Völur - Disir 302.0 8 027 Entropia - Ufonaut 298.0 9 028 40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky 284.0 7 029 Metallica - Hardwired...To Self Destruct 270.0 9 030 Mesarthim - Isolate 266.0 7 031 Opeth - Sorceress 265.0 7 032 Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love 263.0 7 033 Oathbreaker - Rheia 262.0 7 134 Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder 259.0 8 035 Krallice - Hyperion 246.0 8 035 Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason 246.0 8 037 Comet Control - Center of the Maze 235.0 6 038 Wormed - Krighsu 231.0 6 039 Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP 228.0 9 040 Mesarthim - .- -... ... . -. -.-. . 228.0 7 041 Ophidian Forest - Susurrus 222.0 6 042 Moon Tooth - Chromaparagon 219.0 5 143 Blood Incantation - Starspawn 216.0 7 044 Deftones - Gore 215.0 5 145 Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd Dwell 209.0 6 046 Astronoid - Air 201.0 6 047 Russian Circles - Guidance 200.0 6 048 Megadeth - Dystopia 200.0 5 149 Blues Pills - Lady In Gold 200.0 4 150 Inquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith 198.0 7 051 The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation 196.0 6 052 Skáphe - Skáphe² 195.0 6 053 Sabaton - The Last Stand 190.0 5 054 Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis 187.0 5 055 Lotus Thief - Gramarye 186.0 6 056 Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner 185.0 5 057 Mesarthim - Pillars [EP] 180.0 5 058 Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crépuscule 177.0 6 059 Amon Amarth - Jomsviking 174.0 5 060 Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law 166.0 5 061 Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night 166.0 4 162 The Body - No One Deserves Happiness 165.0 6 063 Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EP 164.0 5 063 Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us 164.0 5 065 Anicon - Exegeses 160.0 4 066 Eight Bells - Landless 156.0 5 067 Sumerlands - s/t 154.0 6 068 Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows 148.0 5 069 Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis 143.0 4 070 Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure 142.0 4 070 Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake 142.0 4 072 Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed 141.0 4 073 High Spirits - Motivator 140.0 4 074 The Body, Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache 139.0 5 075 Asphyx - Incoming Death 139.0 3 076 Saor - Guardians 138.0 6 077 Wormrot - Voices 138.0 4 078 Anciients - Voice of the Void 137.0 4 079 Car Bomb - Meta 134.0 3 080 Void Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the Dead 131.0 4 081 ColdWorld - Autumn 129.0 3 082 Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether 128.0 6 083 Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation 128.0 4 184 Wretch - Wretch 128.0 4 085 Bloodiest - Bloodiest 128.0 3 086 Batushka - Litourgiya 127.0 3 087 Melvins - Basses Loaded 126.0 4 088 Wrong - Wrong 124.0 3 089 Rotting Christ - Rituals 123.0 4 090 Grand Magus - Sword Songs 122.0 3 091 Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh 121.0 4 092 Atomikylä - Keräily 118.0 3 093 Truckfighters - V 116.0 4 094 Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers 112.0 3 095 Madder Mortem - Red In Tooth and Claw 110.0 4 095 Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok 110.0 4 097 Dawnwalker - In Rooms 109.0 4 098 Abbath - Abbath 109.0 3 098 Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule 109.0 3 098 Lord Vicar - Gates of Flesh 109.0 3 0101 Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia) 108.0 4 1102 Voivod - Post Society EP 108.0 3 1103 Babymetal - Metal Resistance 108.0 3 0104 Sorcier Des Glaces - North 107.0 3 0105 Sinistro - Semente 105.0 3 0106 Xoth - Invasion of the Tentacube 101.0 4 0107 In The Woods ... - Pure 99.0 3 0108 Goatess - Purgatory Under New Management 98.0 3 0109 Kurushimi - Kurushimi 98.0 2 0110 Witchery - In His Infernal Majesty's Service 97.0 4 0111 Borknagar - Winter Thrice 97.0 3 0112 Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika 94.0 4 0113 Ghoulgotha - To Starve the Cross 93.0 3 0114 Horseback - Dead Ringers 92.0 3 0114 Uada - Devoid of Light 92.0 3 0116 Geryon - The Wound and The Bow 89.0 3 0117 Cough - Still They Pray 89.0 2 0117 Head of the Demon - Sathanas Trismegistos 89.0 2 0119 Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik - Skuggsjá 88.0 3 0120 Every Time I Die - Low Teens 87.0 2 0121 Sun Worship - Pale Dawn 85.0 2 0122 Basarabian Hills - Attraction 83.0 3 0122 Temisto - Temisto 83.0 3 0122 The Cosmic Dead - Rainbowhead 83.0 3 0122 Winterfylleth - The Dark Hereafter 83.0 3 0126 Destroyer 666 - Wildfire 83.0 2 0126 Ghost B.C. - Popestar 83.0 2 0128 Helen Money - Become Zero 82.0 3 0128 Insomnium - Winter's Gate 82.0 3 0130 Blut aus Nord/Ævangelist - Codex Obscura Nomina 81.0 3 0131 Baby Woodrose - Freedom 80.0 2 0132 Zealotry - The Last Witness 79.0 2 0133 Ripper - Experiment Of Existence 77.0 3 0134 Wakedead Gathering - Fuscus: Strings of the Black Lyre 77.0 2 0135 Imperial Triumphant - Inceste 76.0 3 0135 Zao - The Well-Intentioned Virus 76.0 3 0137 Fuath - I 76.0 2 0138 Spirit Adrift - Chained to Oblivion 75.0 3 0139 Desaster - The Oath Of An Iron Ritual 75.0 2 0140 Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts 74.0 3 0141 Wrekmeister Harmonies - Light Falls 74.0 2 0142 Downfall of Gaia - Atrophy 73.0 2 0142 Drudkh - One Who Talks with the Fog 73.0 2 0142 Panphage - Drengskapr 73.0 2 0145 LLNN - Loss 72.0 3 0146 Khanus - Rites of Fire EP 72.0 2 0146 Krypts - Remnants of Expansion 72.0 2 0146 Sxuperion - Cosmic Void 72.0 2 0149 Eternal Champion - The Armor Of Ire 71.0 3 0150 Electric Citizen - Higher Time 71.0 2 0151 Norma Jean - Polar Similar 70.0 2 0151 Vircolac - The Cursed Travails of the Demeter 70.0 2 0153 Mutterlein - Orphans of the Black Sun* 68.0 2 0154 Mithras - On Strange Loops 67.0 3 0155 Black Mountain - IV 67.0 2 0155 Goatpenis - Apocalypse War 67.0 2 0157 Ecferus - Pangaea 66.0 2 0157 Virvum - Illuminance 66.0 2 0159 Dunbarrow - Dunbarrow 64.0 2 0159 Motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters 64.0 2 0159 Waldgefluster - Ruinen 64.0 2 0162 Castle - Welcome To The Graveyard 63.0 2 0162 Mars Red Sky - Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul) 63.0 2 0162 Spellcaster - Night Hides The World 63.0 2 0162 Terra Tenebrosa - The Reverses 63.0 2 0166 Bloody Hammers - Lovely Sort Of Death 62.0 2 0166 Oceans of Slumber - Winter 62.0 2 0166 Zhrine - Unortheta 62.0 2 0169 Absolute Power - Absolute Power 61.0 2 0169 Uskumgallu - Rotten Limbs in Dreams of Blood 61.0 2 0171 Anagnorisis - Peripeteia 60.0 1 1172 Sahg - Memento Mori 59.0 2 0173 Ahpdegma - Seolfkwyllem 58.0 2 0173 Oozing Wound - Whatever Forever 58.0 2 0175 Vader - The Empire 57.0 3 0176 Caïna - Christ Clad In White Phosphorus 57.0 2 0176 Deviant Process - Paroxysm 57.0 2 0176 Kayo Dot - Plastic House on Base of Sky 57.0 2 0176 Qrixkuor - Three Devils Dance 57.0 2 0176 Whores. - Gold 57.0 2 0181 Goat - Requiem 56.0 4 0182 Palace of Worms - The Ladder 56.0 2 0183 Waldgefluster/Panopticon - Split 55.0 2 0184 Ash Borer - Irrepassable Gate 54.0 2 0185 Eerie - Eerie 53.0 2 0185 Witchcraft - Nucleus 53.0 2 0187 Graves at Sea - the curse that is 52.0 2 0187 Lycus - Chasms 52.0 2 0189 Arizmenda ‎ - Beneath This Reality Of Flesh 50.0 2 0189 Bekëth Nexëhmü ‎ - De Dunklas Återkomst 50.0 2 0191 Crowbar - The Serpent Only Lies 49.0 2 0192 Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Wake to a New Dawn of Another Astro Era 49.0 1 0192 Interment - Scent of the Buried 49.0 1 0194 Jambinai - A Hermitage 48.0 2 0195 Agatus - The Eternalist 48.0 1 0195 Mourning Sun - Último Exhalario 48.0 1 0197 Be'lakor - Vessels 47.0 1 0197 Child Bite - Negative Noise 47.0 1 0199 Shataan - Weigh Of The Wolf 46.0 2 0200 Asteroid - III 46.0 1 0200 Warm - The Human Exemplar 46.0 1 0202 Death Angel - The Evil Divide 45.0 2 0203 Begrime Exemious - The Enslavement Conquest 44.0 2 0203 Withered - Grief Relic 44.0 2 0205 Ehnnahre - Douve 44.0 1 0205 Wytch Hazel - Prelude 44.0 1 0207 Magrudergrind - II 43.0 2 0207 Mizmor - Yodh 43.0 2 0209 Holy Grail - Times Of Pride And Peril 43.0 1 0209 Lucifer’s Hammer - Beyond The Omens 43.0 1 0211 An Autumn for Crippled Children - Eternal 42.0 1 0211 Blizaro - Cornucopia Della Morte 42.0 1 0211 Hostium - The Bloodwine of Satan 42.0 1 0211 Spiritus Mortis - The Year Is One 42.0 1 0215 Soulburn - Earthless Pagan Spirit 41.0 2 0216 Brimstone Coven - Black Magic 41.0 1 0216 Dark Forest - Beyond The Veil 41.0 1 0216 Spell - For None and All 41.0 1 0216 Teleport - Ascendance 41.0 1 0216 Void Omnia - Dying Light 41.0 1 0221 Nokturnal Mortum/Graveland - The Spirit Never Dies (split) 39.0 1 0221 Oneida & Rhys Chatham - What’s Your Sign? 39.0 1 0221 Rangda - The Heretic's Bargain 39.0 1 0221 Suma - The Order Of Things 39.0 1 0221 Venomous Concept - Kick Me Silly VC III 39.0 1 0226 Glyptoglossio - GLYPTOGLO5510 38.0 1 0226 Predatory Light - Predatory light 38.0 1 0226 Vindland - Hanter Savet 38.0 1 0229 Fleshgod Apocalypse - King 37.0 2 0230 Abnormality - Mechanisms of Omniscience 37.0 1 0230 Psychonaut 4 - Neurasthenia 37.0 1 0232 Mike & the Melvins - Three Men and a Baby 36.0 2 0233 Ghold - PYR 36.0 1 0233 In Mourning - Afterglow 36.0 1 0233 Nucleus - Sentient 36.0 1 0233 Obake - Mutations 36.0 1 0233 Obed Marsh - Innsmouth 36.0 1 0233 Perturbator - The Uncanny Valley 36.0 1 0233 The Well - Pagan Science 36.0 1 0233 Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling 36.0 1 0241 Ihsahn - Arktis 35.0 1 0241 Plebeian Grandstand - False Highs, True Lows 35.0 1 0243 Bestial Raids ‎ - Master Satan's Witchery 34.0 1 0243 Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma 34.0 1 0245 Conan - Revengeance 33.0 1 0245 Mortem - Deinos Nekromantis 33.0 1 0245 Obscura - Akroasis 33.0 1 0248 Forteresse - Thèmes Pour La Rébellion 32.0 2 0249 Fallujah - Dreamless 32.0 1 0249 Gjendod - 2016 demo 32.0 1 0249 Nocte Obducta - Mogontiacum (Nachdem die Nacht herabgesunken) 32.0 1 0249 Spidergawd - III 32.0 1 0253 Gehennah - Too Loud To Live Too Drunk To Die 31.0 2 0254 Armory - World Peace ... Cosmic War 31.0 1 0254 Greenleaf - Rise Above the Meadow 31.0 1 0254 Marsh Dweller - The Weight of Sunlight 31.0 1 0254 Obscure Sphinx - Epitaphs 31.0 1 0254 Vermin Womb - Decline 31.0 1 0259 Okkultokrati - Raspberry Dawn 30.0 2 0260 Crippled Black Phoenix - Bronze 30.0 1 0260 Monomyth - Exo 30.0 1 0262 Horseburner - Dead Seeds, Barren Soi 29.0 2 0262 Nordjevel - Nordjevel 29.0 2 0264 Diamond Head - Diamond Head 29.0 1 0264 Fyrnask - Fórn 29.0 1 0264 Gevurah - Hallelujah! 29.0 1 0264 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity 29.0 1 0268 Helms Alee - Stillicide 28.0 2 0268 Violet Cold - Magic Night 28.0 2 0270 Bat - Wings of Chains 28.0 1 0270 Hemelbestormer - Aether 28.0 1 0272 Troll - Troll 27.0 1 0273 Book of Sand - Occult Anarchist Propaganda 26.0 1 0274 Amphisbaena - Amphisbaena 25.0 1 0274 Caverne ‎ - Aux Frontières du Monde 25.0 1 0274 Church of Misery - And Then There Were None 25.0 1 0274 Coffin Lust - Manifestation of Inner Darkness 25.0 1 0274 Cvinger - Embodied in Incense 25.0 1 0274 Dagger Moon - Citadel 25.0 1 0274 Dark Tranqillity - Atoma 25.0 1 0274 Deiquisitor - Deiquisitor 25.0 1 0274 Demontage - Fire of Iniquity 25.0 1 0274 Distant Sun - Into The Nebula 25.0 1 0274 Djevel - Norske ritualer 25.0 1 0274 Dreamtime - Strange Pleasures 25.0 1 0274 DÉMONOS - From Sacred to Profane 25.0 1 0274 Grave Miasma - Endless Pilgrimage 25.0 1 0274 Haken - Affinity 25.0 1 0274 Irkallian Oracle ‎ - Apollyon 25.0 1 0274 Morphinist - Giants 25.0 1 0274 Mourning Beloveth - Rust & Bone 25.0 1 0274 Mystik ‎ - Dunkla Klangor... (Kapitel I) 25.0 1 0274 Nox Formulae - The Hidden Paths to Black Ecstacy 25.0 1 0274 Nécropole ‎ - Nécropole 25.0 1 0274 Phobocosm - Bringer of Drought 25.0 1 0274 Revocation - Great Is Our Sin 25.0 1 0274 Ride For Revenge - Thy Horrendous Yearning 25.0 1 0274 Ritual Chamber - Obscurations (To Feast on the Seraphim) 25.0 1 0274 Sapaudia - Sainte Nuit 25.0 1 0274 Skyforest - Unity 25.0 1 0274 Svlfvr - Shamanic Lvnar Cvlt 25.0 1 0274 Trap Them - Crown Feral 25.0 1 0274 Ur Draugr - With Hunger Undying 25.0 1 0274 Usurpress - The Regal Tribe 25.0 1 0274 Vile Creature - A Pessimistic Doomsayer 25.0 1 0306 Cardinals Folly - Holocaust Of Ecstacy And Freedom 24.0 1 0307 Sorrow Plagues - Sorrow Plagues 23.0 1 0308 Countess - Fires Of Destiny 22.0 1 0309 Latitudes - Old Sunlight 21.0 1 0310 Melankoli - Fallen 18.0 1 0310 Messa - Belfry 18.0 1 0310 Monolord - Lord of Suffering / Die in Haze 18.0 1 0313 Is - Glimpses Of Sorrow 17.0 1 0313 The Hazytones - The Hazytones 17.0 1 0315 Earthless/Harsh Toke - Acid Crusher/Mount Swan split 15.0 1 0315 The Rare Breed - Looking For Today 15.0 1 0317 11Paranoias - Reliquary For A Dreamed Of World 14.0 2 0318 Pensées Nocturnes - À Boire Et À Manger 14.0 1 0318 Polyptych - Defying the Metastasis 14.0 1 0320 Capra Informis - Womb of the Wild 13.0 1 0320 Shadow Witch - Sun Killer 13.0 1 0322 Autumn, Leaves, Scars/Dreams Of Nature/Lumnos - A Desolate Landscape (split) 11.0 1 0322 Eternity's End - The Fire Within 11.0 1 0322 Kandodo/McBain - Lost Chants/Last Chance 11.0 1 0322 Temple Of Hallucinations - Mantis 11.0 1 0326 Exmortus - Ride Forth 10.0 1 0326 Lethargic Euphoria - Standstill 10.0 1 0326 Vokonis - Olde One Ascending 10.0 1 0329 Bright Curse - Before The Shore 9.0 1 0329 Brutus - Murwgebeukt 9.0 1 0331 Trna - Lose Yourself To Find Peace 8.0 1 0332 Black Tomb - Black Tomb 6.0 1 0333 Beastmaker - Lusus Naturae 5.0 1 0333 Nonsun - Black Snow Desert 5.0 1 0335 Gygax - Critical Hit 4.0 1 0335 The Re-Stoned - Reptiles Return 4.0 1 0337 Mistur - In Memoriam 2.0 1 0338 Black Shape Of Nexus - Carrier 1.0 1 0
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
I was the other No.1 for Jute Gyte. This hit me on a level his other albums weren't able to. Maybe it's because its a bit more accessible than the others but every track on Perdurance floors me completely. I'm a sucker for Branca-ish metal and no other avant release this year warped my brain quite like this.
Thank you as always for this poll. So far, Skáphe and Forgotten Spell are blowing me away. Very much appriciate you all putting this together every year.
― gman59, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
oh cool there were two other LLNN voters!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:37 (seven years ago) link
Yes, all hail CS and seandalai!
if jeff had voted Babymetal woulda made it
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
this is prob my favorite metal poll i've ever participated in good work everyone
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
Lol otm. This poll just keeps getting better and better imo
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
That was ace, thank you. Not heard the vast majority of this stuff so lots to catch up on. Fwiw I've not subscribed to the playlist cos it's too damn intimidating and YUGE to navigate.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
I gotta do more campaigning next year
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
My ballot.
Vektor - Terminal ReduxHammers of Misfortune - Dead RevolutionSubRosa - For This We Fought The Battle of AgesAluk Todolo - VoixOranssi Pazuzu - VärähtelijäCult of Luna & Julie Christmas - MarinerHigh Spirits - MotivatorMoon Tooth - ChromaparagonOceans of Slumber - WinterDark Forest – Beyond The Veil
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
My favourite discoveries during the rollout have been Entropia, Blood Incantation, and Furia.
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link