THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

aw fuck make that two; the other one is Nokturnal Mortum. still!

ukrainians have a lot to say about themselves

Niiice. Pissed Jeans were my #1 and Creeper my #2. Might get some kind of false award for this but those albums are both incredible. PJ never let me down and came out more focused than ever on this one. Creeper just hit me on a really nostalgic level for a sound I had missed for awhile. Still play both if these a ton. Glad they both made the cut.

Out of curiosity (though I will need to confer w other poll folks so the right to overrule remains), would folx prefer the rest be rolled out like:

20-20-20
or
20-20-10-10
or
20-15-15-10
or
15-15-15-15?

(These are your only options.)

I too voted for both PJ and Creeper. I'm sad I may never get the chance to see Pissed Jeans live - they don't seem to hit Canada at all.

They’re in the running for band i’ve seen the most live. They play ny and philly area quite a bit if you’re ever nearby. Really fun show.

I'm checking out the Dodecahedron album now. It's pretty good, although I think I was hoping it would be more obtuse (like the last DHG or something). Akvan was my #4, nothing else I voted for came up. I might check out the Cloud Rat/Disrotted split next.

I think I liked the Disrotted side better than the Cloud Rat side, I think I might be a Falser.

20-20-20
or
20-20-10-10
or
20-15-15-10
or
15-15-15-15?

or 30-30 and finishing weds

60 Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out 153 Points, 4 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/67ji8wA.jpg
https://gasplapsychviolence.bandcamp.com/releases

First new GASP material in over 18 years. Hell is frozen. GASP is back. 1997 told us to come to the future and scramble your brain around a bit. Can we spend the night? We brought drugs.
credits
released October 3, 2017

quite like 20-15-15-10 myself

is that your photo btw?

i cant do thursday. go to take my mum to the hospital for her appointment with the consultant.

lol, no. its from bandcamp and i thought it seemed a better photo to post. ive never heard of the band

59 Circle - Terminal 157 Points, 6 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/oMobUao.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7zggczopZJBxLwZrGTVh3A?si=eIwS9CH7S4Wn67sf-qIgww

https://circlesl.bandcamp.com/releases

http://thequietus.com/articles/22769-circle-terminal-review

think richard dawson dubbed this his album of the year fwiw

Hope your mum is doing okay xp

getting there (with aid of a zimmer) it will take months for to get back to normal after a legbreak, but at least we can finally find out quite how long once we can speak to the consultant

anyway do you guys want the poll to finish wednesday or friday?

probably friday. will simon be able to handle a few on thurs or would you rather be around for it (best to your mum obv)

its no problem letting simon do thursday (but it would be a shame me not being able to see the 2nd last day rollout)

Good luck with it all. Best to you both! And yeah, a Friday finish sounds good but I don’t really mind either way.

of course maybe we could start the rollout friday tea-time. i hope we are back by 6pm

erm thursday tea-time

We can always have a day-long hiatus

58 Corpse Garden - IAO 269 159 Points, 5 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/vOIj5nb.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/63zHZv42xmMHZpMX4mFi8l?si=7g9gUV5mT3yvMDAvgNvjCQ

https://corpsegarden.bandcamp.com/album/iao-269

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/corpse-garden-iao-269/

my #4, absolutely amazing drug-magic-death metal from costa rica

This Gasp Psych is too aimless, even for me

Accidental capitalisation. Ah yes, the Corpse Garden is wonderful!

(starting the rollout if/when you're back on thursday sounds ideal!)

everyone listen to this though it's insanely good. the fretless bass is a monster

only Tomb Mold has been on my ballot so far -- hoping I'm a lot more populist than usual. The Gasp is OK -- reminds me of any number of ad hoc jam bands that happen after house shows in Oakland. Nice enough, but nowhere near as interesting (or forward looking) as Drome Triler.

the sound swarms rather than strikes

btw if it was up to me we would finish tomorrow while we still have momentum but if enough say friday then friday it will be

57 With The Dead - Love From With The Dead 162 Points, 5 votes
https://i.imgur.com/kAYHhVo.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4GGU5lB02dzjdTEjEFxoTo?si=O7my44vkSNK8-DYpwrMkBA

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/ever-heavier-with-the-deads-love-from-with-the-dead/

When the hype machine started rolling for With the Dead’s eponymous debut in 2015, we had a pretty good idea of what it would sound like. Lee Dorrian with Electric Wizard’s rhythm section? Check. Doom upon doom, lots of witches, Hammer films, motorcycles… take your pick. To a degree, that’s part of what we got, but there was more....

Another smithy fave iirc

I much preferred this to the new EW (if it’s fair to compare them). Nice and dark and magical.

Damn it, we broke the short-album streak. Anyway, this is really not for me.

Corpse Garden is sounding good.

wait til you get to 'the elevenfold vibration'

56 Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival 162 Points, 7 votes
https://i.imgur.com/WLeeAQG.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/322db45S6X4FrBdHSIN7dA?si=7LrgQ8u2QcOub61SDu-2zg
https://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/what-passes-for-survival

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/pyrrhon-passes-survival-review/

Props if their name is an allusion to The Waste Land.

xp

TOOOO LOOOOOW

It's totally fair to compare. Electric Wizard leaves Rise Above and talks s**t about Lee Dorian. So Dorian takes two ex-Electric Wiz members (Greening since left after first album) and arguably does a better job at being E Wiz than the originals, at least for last year's albums. Love it. My second favorite thing about With The Dead was the huge, floppy hat Leo Smee wore at Roadburn '16.

https://i2.wp.com/www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/19989260_803549843153579_759513701822139386_n.jpg

Leo Smee is in them? I'll have to check it out

55 Loss - Horizonless 167 Points, 5 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/53DdI8l.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Ej4vZJWBrdIHC7yY1qJjS?si=vCPSpSIMQGOi9Wisr59M5w
https://loss.bandcamp.com/album/horizonless

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23240-horizonless/

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/loss-horizonless-review/

another great cover!

surprisingly low after the rolling metal thread reception

It's a particularly demanding subgenre as far as vocals are concerned, and I'm still not sold on theirs.

today's theme remains TOOO LOOOOW (this will continue)

I'm not mad about this next placement. I'm laughing, actually

54 Propagandhi - Victory Lap 168.0 Points, 4 Votes, 1 #1 Vote
https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2017/09/Propagandhi-Victory-Lap-1506443436-640x640.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/01lJjCxlvrddTRzIbtKHmP?si=7J0e7a87T9aaiv4McsRUJg

There’s one song on Victory Lap expressing awestruck reverence for Quang Duc, the Vietnamese monk who burned himself alive in Saigon in 1963 to protest oppression of Buddhists. There’s a song about a Winnipeg sewer crew finding the bones of ancient extinct bison, a song that uses that incident to consider a future where we’re all bones at the bottom of some other species’ shit canal. The song with the catchiest opening — “We came here to rock! / Single moms to the front! / Deadbeat dads to the back!” — devolves into an extended metaphor about a Molière play. As ever, Propagandhi are a band who practically demand that you read their lyric sheet with a dictionary and an open Wikipedia tab.

But all of this works, partly because the writing really is as crisp and layered and intense and sharp and partly because Hannah is probably the one singer in a million who can belt out these syntactically tortured sentiments and make them sound like they’re clawing their way out of his gut like the alien in Alien. The band itself is a huge part of it, too. In recent years, Propagandhi have been pushing themselves more and more toward the thrash metal that Hannah and Samolesky grew up on. They’ve still got plenty of pop-punk snot in them, but they play with a merciless intensity, never afraid to show off their genuinely stunning musicianship. Their songs are fast and loud and complicated, and they play them like they can somehow alter the course of human history if they can become the tightest band on earth. It’s been five years since Failed States, the band’s last album, and Victory Lap is their first with new guitarist Sulynn Hago, an absolute monster. But the chemistry is still ferocious. Together, they still sound like a machine.