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
Here's mine - I'm so enjoying the new Krallice and it probably would have been top ten had I heard it prior to noms. I've cooled on the 11Paranoias, and probably should have had the Mizmor higher based on how much I still listen to it and enjoy it. Same with Desaster. I really dug the Khanus EP and the Wormed rekkid and they were bubbling under for sure.
Vektor - Terminal ReduxUlcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä Krypts - Remnants of Expansion Testament - Brotherhood of the SnakeEntropia - UfonautInter Arma - Paradise GallowsThe Dillinger Escape Plan - DissociationInsomnium - Winter's GateVirvum - IlluminanceInverloch - Distance|CollapsedSuma - The Order Of ThingsFuria - Księżyc milczy luty Zhrine - Unortheta In The Woods ... - PureWormrot - VoicesDysrhythmia - The Veil Of ControlDeathspell Omega - The Synarchy Of Molten BonesCult of Luna & Julie Christmas - MarinerObscure Sphinx - EpitaphsNails - You Will Never Be One of UsDeftones - Gore Desaster - The Oath Of Iron RitualSumac - What One Becomes Panphage - DrengskaprAnaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law Darkthrone - Artic Thunder Gojira - MagmaMare Cognitum - Luminiferous AetherSchammasch - Triangle Cobalt - Slow Forever Crowbar - The Serpent Only LiesMeshuggah - The Violent Sleep of ReasonGorguts - Pleiades DustVoivod - Post-SocietyMizmor - YodhSumerlands - S/TWhores. - Gold 11Paranoias - Reliquary For A Dreamed World Eternity’s End - The Fire WithinMoonsorrow - Jumalten Aika Saor - GuardiansWitchery - In His Infernal Majesty's ServiceUada - Devoid Of LightBlack Tomb - Black TombMagrudergrind - IIKatatonia - The Fall of Hearts Mithras - On Strange Loops Spirit Adrift - Chained To OblivionSubrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of The Ages
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 22 December 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure this isn't a complete list, but it's interesting to see which non-metal albums metal voters like. One notable album that wasn't nominated that has had metalhead support in the past was Wovenhand.
19 Horse Lords - Interventions 384.0 11 020 Virus - Memento Collider 371.0 12 028 40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky 284.0 7 031 Opeth - Sorceress 265.0 7 037 Comet Control - Center of the Maze 235.0 6 044 Deftones - Gore 215.0 5 146 Astronoid - Air 201.0 6 047 Russian Circles - Guidance 200.0 6 049 Blues Pills - Lady In Gold 200.0 4 193 Truckfighters - V 116.0 4 094 Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers 112.0 3 095 Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok 110.0 4 098 Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule 109.0 3 0114 Horseback - Dead Ringers 92.0 3 0122 The Cosmic Dead - Rainbowhead 83.0 3 0
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 22 December 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
The new Wovenhand is very good - but yes - not metal - much like some of the nomination polluters above. Funny how I personally still consider the stoner rock/alt metal/former stars genre-changing (40 Watt Sun) still somewhat eligible as metal. Oh well. I guess the poll title did include "Hard N' Heavy Rock" so I should stop grousing.
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 22 December 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
Another one I thought would get more attention:
260 Crippled Black Phoenix - Bronze 30.0 1 0
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 22 December 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
I would argue that Astronoid totally counts as metal.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 22 December 2016 23:29 (seven years ago) link
Astronoid are definitely metal...but by way of New Found Glory. I am besotted with it.
I always get Wovenhand mixed up with Windhand.
― dance band (tangenttangent), Thursday, 22 December 2016 23:52 (seven years ago) link
One's a hand made of yarnOne's when you fart in your hand and wave it in someone's face
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 22 December 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
X-(
― dance band (tangenttangent), Friday, 23 December 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link
That's the reaction it tends to get.
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 23 December 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
HOLY SHIT THIS FURIA ALBUM WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SAY ANYTHING?!
― alpine static, Friday, 23 December 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
I bought the Astronoid album tonight. "Tin Foil Hats" is really jumping out at me right now.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Friday, 23 December 2016 02:34 (seven years ago) link
yeah, Tin Foil Hats is the best. did you buy it on CD, Sund4r? or did you find vinyl?
― alpine static, Friday, 23 December 2016 04:44 (seven years ago) link
I put the vinyl on my xmas wish list but no one claimed it :/
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 23 December 2016 10:40 (seven years ago) link
(first-world metal problems)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 23 December 2016 10:44 (seven years ago) link
I bought Astronoid on ALAC. Does that make me false?
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Friday, 23 December 2016 13:56 (seven years ago) link
alas &
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Friday, 23 December 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
it makes you smug :P
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 23 December 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
3 Furia - Księżyc milczy luty 751 Points, 20 Votes, TWO #1's
Well somebody must have said something at some point.
― Tom Violence, Friday, 23 December 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
I also forgot to nominate, campaign for, or vote for this year's Solium Fatalis album. They're local to where I went to high school and they're pretty darn good. I keep meaning to spend more time with the new album (their third).
― Tom Violence, Friday, 23 December 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
Oh and the Abbath record is really good so far. Is this what late period Darkthrone sound like, heavy metal by black metal guys?
― Tom Violence, Friday, 23 December 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
Not really. Stylistically, Abbath closer to something like Inquisition.
― Dominique, Friday, 23 December 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
Not at all, Darkthrone is al garage-y retro-thrashy fun, Abbath is super tight and heavy.
― Siegbran, Friday, 23 December 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
If you like Abbath, you'll probably dig Desaster too.
― Siegbran, Friday, 23 December 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
(xxxxxxpost: i was making a dumb joke.)
― alpine static, Friday, 23 December 2016 23:52 (seven years ago) link
Here's a metal poll that seems could have a lot to say to ILXors (& not just bcz FS is #5 lol)
http://antigravitybunny.com/?p=10923
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link
Not poll, EOY list actually
Cool to see at least one other person heard Nevoa, heh
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
That is a fuckin list ty
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link
I feel like the next Zeal & Ardor album is going to be massive
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link
A friend who introduced me to Slough Feg in the late 90s put this in his top 10 this year:
RAVENSIRE "The Cycle Never Ends" - "Portugal's answer to the best metal band ever, Slough Feg"https://ravensire.bandcamp.com/album/the-cycle-never-ends
He also likes black metal more than I do, here's those + Cough:
ASHBRINGER "Yugen" (crazy-melodic and dense black metal by teenagers from Minnesota)MANTAR "Ode To The Flame" (thick and evil old-school black metal)COUGH "Still They Pray" (the best Electric Wizard album in at least a decade)DRAUGNIM "Vulturine" (heroic black metal from Finland)
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link