THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

I was in a furious mood for most of yesterday so I failed to register my enthusiasm for Kairon and Black Cilice, but yayyy!

I’m not familiar with Kairon’s previous stuff (though will make it a priority to check out), but this album gradually set up residence in my brain throughout the year and wouldn’t leave. It is just such pristine, glimmering psych and is as enduring as it is catchy. The shoegazey bits are refreshing too. It’s just so pretty and positive! Shame that none of this is reflected in either band name or album cover. I totally thought this would be thrash metal from the cover.

Black Cicile are roooough.

Black Cilice is so great. It's all I desire in my black metal, this impenetrable wall of despair. Nihil nihil nihil. The vocals sound so detached and unsettling.

I forgot to add the Black Cilice to my ballot, but I doubt it would have made much of a difference to the ranking.

I was one of the votes for the Cloud Rat split at 100, though I do prefer the ones with Moloch and Crevasse, that's just me. I didn't know they had two others as well so I saved that link to the tape for future digging, thanks who posted that.

this impenetrable wall of despair.

Have to correct myself here, because it's really quite the opposite of 'impenetrable' tbrh. It's an ocean easy to completely dissolve in.

LBI turning into David Tibet there lol

I'm quite enjoying Venenum! Not usually so much into this style but it's proving my theory that it's almost always all about the songwriting for me - no matter what style you're in, you've got to write good, arrestingly-composed songs. I think Venenum do that

Huge compliment :D

Definitely a compliment haha

I’m going to disappear for a while now, but sadly not into Black Cilice. Will still be catching furtive glimpses of the poll but probably won’t be able to listen to anything until nightfall

Afraid I won't be able to follow the roll-out or comment until this evening, too.

Is anyone going to be around?

yes

40 Krallice with Dave Edwardson - Loüm 212 Points, 7 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/TnZ1AYZ.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6Ykm8o5HJ3XygAILXNU0QS?si=KZJ7zbDERTS_nS3f5moz_w

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/lo-m
https://yourlastrites.com/2017/11/15/krallice-loum-review/

I'm around but I'll spend most of my time holding my kid's head over a bucket

vomit is so metal

this one felt a bit dull

Poor Krallice, votesplitting themselves haha

they had another album out too?

i guess it went and got forgotten

I've not heard this one yet

paging ultros!

Haha, my daughter's been vomiting all morning too. Take care, Dinsdale!

Gannnet are basically God Is An Astronaut, as promised by DAM, lol

39 Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy 213 Points, 6 votes
https://i.imgur.com/OMVetxw.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1CICQQAxvXbayxDF5jJETJ?si=WmUAJZ29RP-DTbLyt4ug8A

https://fullofhell.bandcamp.com/album/trumpeting-ecstasy
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23129-trumpeting-ecstasy/

they had another album out too?

― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:07 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess it went and got forgotten

― imago, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:08 PM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hehe. I voted for Go Be Forgotten iirc.

Impetuous Ritual are music for when you've given up on ever seeing light again

btw a very good prog album with some standout songs coming up next

progge?

i'm listening to Black Cilice now. Catching up slowly on you

not your kinda prog though, you're too prejudiced to like this :P

they dont sound like the cardiacs (thankfully)

let's see it then

38 Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand 219 Points, 6 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/mITWotU.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1VzmKgEG38fsUBZVe15wuF?si=U1daR4yUS1i6QKSn8D2Uyg

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23019-emperor-of-sand/

haha!

crack the skye was ok (i know ultros looooves it) but idk this at all. someone stan

give 'show yourself' a listen

I liked some of the songs on this but found the production/mixing made it a tiring listen tbh

my first vote of the day (I think?) is coming up

37 Oxbow - Thin Black Duke 219 Points, 7 Votes , One #1
https://i.imgur.com/axkVZ2M.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1uZoVW3i1tMteI8AaqozR6?si=GRR_DfQwSgicjSHLvMa6cg
https://oxbowofficial.bandcamp.com/album/thin-black-duke

Lightyears away from the unpredictable, exhausting pacing of their early work, *Thin Black Duke *reflects a formalism that places it closer to Faith No More than Scratch Acid. Where past albums find Oxbow trapped in the eye of the storm with nowhere to run, Thin Black Duke’s tracklist contains a clear arc: a gnarled beginning, all clattering riffs and piercing screams, a dreamlike middle swath. And the six-and-a-half-minute closer “The Finished Line” is a satisfying climax, uniting the album’s scattered stylistic flirtations under the banner of carnal dramaturgy. With Thin Black Duke, Oxbow once again envision a world domineered by disorder, a carnivalesque arena where music’s most intimidating, grandiose genres (free jazz, high-concept chamber pop, noise, neoclassical, metal) can duke it out like gladiators one minute, and come together for a grotesque group hug the next. It may not be their definitive show of force, but it’s a dazzling spectacle nonetheless.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23192-thin-black-duke/

oh I voted for this! it's not really metal but it is really good. and heavy.

great album, is it just me or is it a big year for horns

in heavy music? yeah maybe!

Not knowing the remaining result, I've made a (written) list of 35 albums I think will make it. I expect maybe 25 tops will be accurate.

oh yeah there will be a few weird ones

there are only 17 I'm *certain* will place.

goddamn it 'letter of note' is so good

couldn't get with the mastodon btw sorry

And when the Duke talks he sounds like a mime

With his hands doing all the talking

36 The Obsessed - Sacred 220 Points, 5 votes
https://i.imgur.com/tJPI1rH.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/59pwSVxWEHNFkYwwUjy8o5?si=qUPM_ML4SI2-wWJBoWWpYg

https://theobsessed.bandcamp.com/album/sacred

http://www.metalinjection.net/reviews/the-obsessed-sacred
http://www.angrymetalguy.com/the-obsessed-sacred-review/
http://thesludgelord.blogspot.com/2017/04/album-review-obsessed-sacred.html

See? I completely missed this one and have no idea what it is, lol

appears to be a comeback record from an old band

ah, Wino.

can't see the point in this music at all but then i've always been a trad metal skeptic

k3rr, state the case!

If you don't like The Obsessed you're a falser