London is not very metal, despite Dawnwalker's best efforts
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
It was actually not very fun, I just have huge chunks of that night I don't remember. I woke up at work, in my new No One Deserves Happiness shirt. xp
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
lol
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
cheers for doing this, loads of stuff on here i need to check out. my top 2 - anagnorisis and graves at sea were nowhere to be seen....
― auto focus, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
If I read the results correctly, Anagnorisis are the only band to get a #1 vote and no other votes!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
That's always a mandatory listen
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
333 Nonsun - Black Snow Desert 5.0 1 0
I@n W@tkins joins Mansun?
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
Simon, what was your ballot?
― dance band (tangenttangent), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
Ohhhh, Anagnorisis were founded by that beer guy
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
lol I didn't save my ballot, I can only tell you there were 50 albums on it and Vektor was my #1
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
Austin Lunn from panopticon was in anagnorisis early on
― auto focus, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
hence
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
indeed
― auto focus, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
xps ah okay. I will just imagine it.
Mine had Forgotten Spell, Jute Gyte and 48 others
― dance band (tangenttangent), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
including megadeth
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
j/k <3
CS kindly emailed me my ballot! Bold dnp, asterisked sole voter
Vektor - Terminal ReduxXoth - Invasion of the Tentacube40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The SkySubrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of AgesHail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in BlueHammers of Misfortune - Dead RevolutionsDeftones - GoreEvery Time I Die - Low TeensAstronoid - AirSpell - For None and AllWormed - KrighsuKvelertak - NattesferdJute Gyte - PerduranceInter Arma - Paradise Gallows*In Mourning - Afterglow*Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The LawHarakiri for the Sky - III: TraumaDysrhythmia - The Veil Of ControlKrallice - HyperionKatatonia - The Fall of HeartsAnicon - ExegesesOozing Wound - Whatever ForeverSinistro - SementeOranssi Pazuzu - VärähtelijäSumac - What One BecomesZao - The Well-Intentioned VirusWormrot - VoicesCobalt - Slow ForeverVader - The Empire*Latitudes - Old Sunlight*Khemmis - HuntedDeathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones*Messa - Belfry*Insomnium - Winter's GateAnciients - Voice of the VoidLotus Thief - GramaryeMadder Mortem - Red In Tooth and ClawLLNN - LossNails - You Will Never Be One of UsSumerlands - s/t*Exmortus - Ride Forth*Virus - Memento ColliderMetallica - Hardwired...To Self DestructDawnwalker - In RoomsThe Body - No One Deserves HappinessForteresse - Thèmes Pour La RébellionThe Dillinger Escape Plan - DissociationViolet Cold - Magic Night*Mistur - In Memoriam*Gehennah - Too Loud To Live Too Drunk To Die
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
email me my ballot cs
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link
Pretty sure in the 8th track of the forgotten spell album - Metamorphosis In A Spiritual Spectral Sphere about 4 mins 5 secs in the 'singer' goes for a long guttural roar and you can hear him fart.
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link
Fartgotten Spell
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
He might've been playing some dubstep in the background.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
First time that ILM's #1 is also my #1. CS if you have my ballot could you post it?
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
Moon Tooth - ChromaparagonIvar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik - SkuggsjáCult of Luna & Julie Christmas - MarinerChild Bite - Negative NoiseWarm - The Human ExemplarInquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar (etc)Wo Fat - Midnight ComethDeathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten BonesBorknagar - Winter ThriceRussian Circles - GuidanceOranssi Pazuzu - VärähtelijäVenomous Concept - Kick Me Silly VC IIITestament - Brotherhood Of The SnakeGorguts - Pleiades' DustDeftones - GoreDrudkh - One Who Talks with the FogSubrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of Ages.Conan - RevengeanceFallujah - DreamlessUskumgallu - Rotten Limbs in Dreams of BloodAluk Todolo - VoixNorma Jean - Polar SimilarMizmor - YodhInter Arma - Paradise GallowsZao - The Well-Intentioned VirusFuria - Ksiezyc milczy lutyImperial Triumphant - IncesteTruckfighters - VJute Gyte - PerduranceQrixkuor - Three Devils Dance31 Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic VowsBegrime Exemious - The Enslavement ConquestWaldgefluster/Panopticon - SplitChthe'ilist - Le dernier crépusculeVirus - Memento ColliderEarthless/Harsh Toke - Acid Crusher/Mount Swan splitFleshgod Apocalypse - KingAbsolute Power - Absolute Power Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia)Melvins - Basses LoadedMike & the Melvins - Three Men and a BabySchammasch - TriangleHammers of Misfortune - Dead Revolutions
― Tom Violence, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
I can't fucking believe Skuggsjá didn't make it, that record is incredible.
Also I thought Warm had about the same odds of making it as Moon Tooth, I saw them both at the same show. Guess that's the power of campaigning!
― Tom Violence, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
my ballot, #1 at the top
Furia - Księżyc milczy lutyHail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in BluePanphage - DrengskaprAgatus - The EternalistDeathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten BonesVircolac - The Cursed Travails of the DemeterHowls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic VowsGorguts - Pleiades' DustHostium - The Bloodwine of SatanTeleport - AscendanceAnicon - ExegesesBorknagar - Winter ThriceVindland - Hanter SavetVoid Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the DeadNucleus - SentientWakedead Gathering, the - Fuscus: Strings of the Black LyreOccult Burial - Hideous ObscureMortem - Deinos NekromantisGjendod - s/t demoArmory - World Peace ... Cosmic War
Armory zipped in right at the end; I'm a sucker for those Jon Oliva styled vox and the whole fear-of-apocalypse/blacklight poster artwork vibe. Plus "Artificial Slavery" is one of the best songs I heard all year.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
Must revisit Xoth, plus all the solitary votes.
I'll post my ballot when home in many many hours
― dance band (tangenttangent), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I'll post mine later too
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
Will listen to the Xoth album based on the title alone.
Thanks pollrunners! Great results, excellent #1, wish I'd been able to participate in this thread more but it's been a busy few days.
My ballot (based on my rough notes, think my saved copy is on my work PC):
Gojira - MagmaEntropia - UfonautSchammasch - TriangleOranssi Pazuzu - VärähtelijäDeftones - GoreEight Bells - LandlessColdWorld - AutumnAlcest - KodamaNeurosis - Fires Within FiresFuath - IHorseback - Dead RingersBlut aus Nord/Ævangelist - Codex Obscura NominaTerra Tenebrosa - The ReversesChthe'ilist - Le dernier crépusculeSubrosa - For This We Fought the Battle of AgesPlebeian Grandstand - False Highs, True LowsKayo Dot - Plastic House on Base of SkyWinterfylleth - The Dark HereafterEcferus - PangaeaKhemmis - HuntedLotus Thief - GramaryeOathbreaker - RheiaVirus - Memento ColliderMetallica - Hardwired...to Self-Destruct
Lots to listen to as usual, best discoveries so far: Astronoid and Urfaust
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
fuck i wish i had heard the xoth earlier, it's ridiculous
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
told you so!!!!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
I like the last track on the forgotten spell but its just a badly played Like A Hurricane cover innit?
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
I did an unweighted ballot with seven albums. I think they were: Jute Gyte, Gorguts, Dysrhythmia, Oranssi Pazuzu, Schammasch, Horse Lords, Mesarthim - Pillars
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
The last track and "Along the Ocean of Funeral Sun" are the ones that suffer the most from the drumming. The fast stuff is full-barrel and the drums sound chaotic in the best way, pushing the music over the top with a sort of seething abandon. The gorgeous interludes are percussion-free. Hell, even the fourth track, "Aesthetics of Necromantic Manifestation", where I first began to notice what Brad & co. were talking about, there's an element of high drama to the haplessness, where the song is just going to pieces, everything is out of phase, playing an endless amplified reprise of the track directly preceding it, and the song just WILL. NOT. END.--again, in the best way possible--nothing holding it together except for maniacal willpower. In a context as peculiar as this, I think it's probably inevitable that the midtempo stuff is what suffers the most upon re-listens...
Not sure if there's any Neil Young influence though
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
My ballot (thank you CS)
Oranssi Pazuzu - VärähtelijäWrekmeister Harmonies - Light FallsDeathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten BonesBloodiest - BloodiestForgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity)Gorguts - Pleiades' DustMars Red Sky - Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)Aluk Todolo - VoixSunwatchers - SunwatchersWoman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final NightBlack Mountain - IVRangda - The Heretic's BargainInter Arma - Paradise GallowsUlver - ATGCLVLSSCAPGhold - PYRSumac - What One BecomesRussian Circles - GuidanceVölur - DisirEight Bells - Landless40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The SkyEntropia - UfonautHorseback - Dead RingersHemelbestormer - Aether
Shame for Wrekmeister Harmonies, I think this one is their best yet.
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
Also forgot Mamiffer, but maybe it wasn't nominated.
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link
Is it too late to vote for the new Krallice album? It's really good.
― Tom Violence, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
Long as we're talking regrets, this wasn't even nominated - if I had heard it in time, it would have been way up there for me. Melancholic doom with some of the most restrained vocals I've ever heard in metal.
https://treesofeternity.bandcamp.com/
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
RIYL Mandylion-era Gathering
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
I will check that out. Oceans of Slumber have a Gathering vibe too and only got a couple votes.
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link
Mourning Sun, which made my top 3, sit right in between Mandylion-era The Gathering and The 3rd & The Mortal. Very much recommended.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link
oooh, duly noted! I want way more music that sounds like mid-90s-to-early-aughts Gathering.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
I was the other Furia #1 voter. Very happy to see it do so well here. On the other hand, I was the only voter for my #2 pick so the hivemind doesn't always come through. Great job everyone. I'll be studying Devilock's ballot closely. It seems we are on the same wavelength.
― o. nate, Thursday, 22 December 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link
oh cool there were two other LLNN voters!
One of them should've been me... they were my number 1, but unweighted.
My ballot:
LLNN - LossHorse Latitudes - Primal GnosisMutterlein - Orphans of the Black SunOranssi Pazuzu - VärähtelijäHowls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic VowsKrypts - Remnants of ExpansionVölur - DisirMammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd DwellDarkthrone - Arctic ThunderOkkultokrati - Raspberry Dawn
Abbath - AbbathInquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar (etc)Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten BonesGorguts - Pleiades' DustSvlfvr - Shamanic Lvnar CvltNox Formulae - The Hidden Paths to Black EcstacyGoatess - Purgatory Under New ManagementAhpdegma - SeolfkwyllemGhoulgotha - To Starve the CrossVoid Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the Dead
Geryon - The Wound and The BowHammers of Misfortune - Dead RevolutionsMeshuggah - The Violent Sleep of ReasonEerie - EerieWretch - WretchRitual Chamber - Obscurations (To Feast on the Seraphim)Cvinger - Embodied in IncenseUsurpress - The Regal TribeVektor - Terminal ReduxBlood Incantation - Starspawn
Ur Draugr - With Hunger UndyingAmphisbaena - AmphisbaenaBegrime Exemious - The Enslavement ConquestDagger Moon - CitadelUrfaust - Empty Space MeditationDemontage - Fire of IniquityCoffin Lust - Manifestation of Inner DarknessPhobocosm - Bringer of DroughtTrap Them - Crown FeralTemisto - Temisto
Bekëth Nexëhmü – De Dunklas ÅterkomstBölzer - HeroChthe'ilist - Le dernier crépusculeKhanus - Rites of Fire EPLycus - ChasmsArizmenda – Beneath This Reality Of FleshSoulburn - Earthless Pagan SpiritWinterfylleth - The Dark HereafterSpirit Adrift - Chained to OblivionVile Creature - A Pessimistic Doomsayer
I forgot Hail Spirit Noir and feel dumb.
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 22 December 2016 00:51 (seven years ago) link
Here's mine, and thanks again for running this thing.
Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia)Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EPHead of the Demon - Sathanas TrismegistosKhanus - Rites of Fire EPCultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of LoveDarkthrone - Arctic ThunderVoid Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the DeadGhoulgotha - To Starve the CrossWakedead Gathering - Fuscus: Strings of the Black LyreGorguts - Pleiades' DustRipper - Experiment Of ExistenceZealotry - The Last WitnessOccult Burial - Hideous ObscureSkáphe - Skáphe²Qrixkuor - Three Devils DanceOranssi Pazuzu - VärähtelijäForgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity)Bestial Raids – Master Satan's WitcheryBlood Incantation - StarspawnChthe'ilist - Le dernier crépuscule
― Dominique, Thursday, 22 December 2016 02:58 (seven years ago) link
Urfaust - Empty Space MeditationAsphyx - Incoming DeathMourning Sun - Último ExhalarioDesaster - The Oath Of An Iron RitualMetallica - Hardwired...To Self DestructColdWorld - AutumnBatushka - LitourgiyaAnaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The LawDestroyer 666 - WildfireFuria - Księżyc milczy lutyWardruna - Runaljod - RagnarokNokturnal Mortum/Graveland - The Spirit Never Dies (split)Eternal Champion - The Armor Of IreMoonsorrow - Jumalten AikaAbbath - AbbathFuath - ISchammasch - TriangleWitchery - In His Infernal Majesty's ServiceMesarthim - IsolateSabaton - The Last StandGehennah - Too Loud To Live Too Drunk To DieMegadeth - DystopiaBat - Wings of ChainsForteresse - Thèmes Pour La RébellionThy Catafalque - MetaAlcest - KodamaGoatpenis - Apocalypse WarInsomnium - Winter's GateCountess - Fires Of DestinyBasarabian Hills - AttractionDeath Angel - The Evil DivideInquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial ZenithMelankoli - FallenIs - Glimpses Of SorrowSoulburn - Earthless Pagan SpiritMesarthim - .- -... ... . -. -.-. .Pensées Nocturnes - À Boire Et À MangerSkáphe - Skáphe²Ripper - Experiment Of ExistenceAutumn, Leaves, Scars/Dreams Of Nature/Lumnos - A Desolate Landscape (split)Lethargic Euphoria - StandstillBrutus - MurwgebeuktTrna - Lose Yourself To Find PeaceMare Cognitum - Luminiferous AetherSaor - GuardiansNonsun - Black Snow Desert
― Siegbran, Thursday, 22 December 2016 08:57 (seven years ago) link
Bolded didn't make it:
Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity)Wormrot - VoicesMammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd DwellCar Bomb - MetaSinistro - SementeMesarthim - PillarsComet Control - Center of the MazeJute Gyte - PerduranceOphidian Forest - SusurrusVölur - DisirThe Dillinger Escape Plan - DissociationVirus - Memento ColliderOranssi Pazuzu - VärähtelijäOathbreaker - RheiaMesarthim - IsolateDawnwalker - In RoomsWormed - KrighsuSubrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of Ages.Sumac - What One BecomesCadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EPHail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in BlueMoon Tooth - ChromaparagonBasarabian Hills - AttractionAlcest - KodamaGorguts - Pleiades' DustHorse Latitudes - Primal GnosisSchammasch - TriangleSorrow Plagues - Sorrow PlaguesCult of Luna & Julie Christmas - MarinerHelen Money - Become ZeroVektor - Terminal ReduxThe Body - No One Deserves HappinessMonolord - Lord of Suffering / Die in HazeDysrhythmia - The Veil Of ControlBlut aus Nord/Ævangelist - Codex Obscura NominaIvar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik - SkuggsjáThe Body, Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I AcheCapra Informis - Womb of the WildAluk Todolo - VoixDeathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten BonesHelms Alee - StillicideWardruna - Runaljod - RagnarokEntropia - UfonautKrallice - HyperionJambinai - A HermitageOkkultokrati - Raspberry DawnThe Re-Stoned - Reptiles ReturnXoth - Invasion of the TentacubeGoat - RequiemUlver - ATGCLVLSSCAP
― dance band (tangenttangent), Thursday, 22 December 2016 12:22 (seven years ago) link
We could have got Basarabian Hills into this so easily lol, and then everyone would have heard the title track, and then the metal poll would have been cancelled forever
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 22 December 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link
His logo is a cloud of trees
― dance band (tangenttangent), Thursday, 22 December 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
Glad everyone enjoyed it, big thanks to everyone who voted and commented and of course seandalai for doing the hard work running it.
Hope everyone discovered new albums and will post about it here!
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 22 December 2016 13:48 (seven years ago) link
Based on the first two tracks, this could be the first Alcest album I've really liked since Souvenirs. Sounds great so far.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 22 December 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link