THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

Second track's my favourite I think but it's all great

I'm home

their records have a nice enveloping feel that makes them easy to get lost in

good stuff, hope all's well

I had a 2 hr meeting and thought I'd have missed the rest of the rollout, but it's a slow 'n' low roll I see!

aye, it was just her appointment with the consultant. Got an xray and they said its healing nicely but it can take a long time so she's to go back in 4 months. She asked for some crutches type walking stick and they werent sure but because she'd used them with the physio in hospital when she was in, they okayed it. She can use them or the zimmer, whichever she feels best.
I hope that there will be contact about physio for her.

tick.jpg :)

That sounds positive, I'm glad to hear it. :) And good luck with her getting physio, too.

imago, I can't believe Ruins of Beverast wasn't like your #3...you talk about it every day.

I find it weird that the middle two tracks aren't available on spotify (whole album is on bandcamp iirc)

I bought the album just for those two tracks, and they're worth it

also it was a really great year for metal!

wait, did I miss something? Brad's gone? He was absolutely essential in my keeping up with emo/pop-punk! NOOOOOOOOOO

13 King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering 419.0 Points 13 Votes
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1256656107_5.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3Hfzq8ppZoC0pkwTuEMF4g?si=3W1kDCBuQJGCKJy6IWsfww

No one gets off easy here. Esfandiari scorns the self-medicating faithful during “Deny,” her soft but haunting voice riding a riff that feels as sharp as a reaper’s scythe. “Shame,” meanwhile, spotlights the existential dread of Esfandiari’s former fellow adherents. She wonders how they find comfort in doomsday prophecies and punitive proclamations, why they seek shelter in something that feels so vengeful. She worries less about what people worship than how they worship—specifically, how they use their beliefs to ensnare themselves and those around them, herself included. During Doubt, King Woman seemed to be learning how to communicate these concerns as a group; here, they preach together as a mighty team. The band pounds away behind her questions and observations, the bellicose rhythm section and snarling guitars demanding answers from a society of self-delusion.

The real strength of this still-new quartet becomes clear on “Hierophant,” the centerpiece of these eight songs. Esfandiari funnels the language of the sacred into a series of profane come-ons: “If you’re a holy church, I wanna worship,” she sings. “If you’re a sacred script, I am the Hierophant.” She treats actual human lust with the same sort of obsessive, accidentally prurient language evangelicals sometimes use for God. It’s funny, seductive, and coming from someone who has seen both sides, tragic. And with a chorus that hits like an electrified lullaby with a heretic’s sense of mischief, it wouldn't be hard to imagine “Hierophant” as a rock radio anthem. Now that would be a coveted fall from grace.

Au champ was my #5.

LJ otm: please, someone get Brad back asap :/

Never heard of the last two tbh

The last three albums are all wonderful and I'm thrilled to see them placing this high.

Also, agreed that Brad is essential.

Brad is an especially big booster of King Woman. Who were first recommended to me, if you'll allow the namedrop, by MC Dälek! Who should have been in this poll really ;)

incidentally, their recent cover of "I Wanna Be Adored" is fantastic

spotify:album:4ZrSA3klsa1Vl4XKfZjyvm

err

https://open.spotify.com/track/2IbbPqpU1uchOWCMULOuJD?si=HdUiFs0UQheUzLGg3Yu7_A

Listening now - it's lovely :)

12 Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven 436 Points, 12 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/9xrPCDP.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1Uw3L9tXHZFuTS1lepKNVk?si=QzxCZqwWRmuhhdnSIywcNA

https://wolvesinthethroneroom.bandcamp.com/album/thrice-woven

http://thequietus.com/articles/23239-wolves-in-the-throne-room-thrice-woven-album-review

King Woman album is a total gem

way too high imo! Celestial Lineage was more memorable.

i heard they knitted this album out of recycled quinoa

also I was half expecting a sludged-out She Bangs The Drum to kick in after that cover. do the whole album lol

honestly I wish more non-trad metal bands would do covers albums! the one Nadja did was neat.

Love the "brutal prog" genre tag for Cleric, credited to Weasel Walter of The Flying Luttenbachers. I remember when Weasel was just a guy who worked at a record store I frequented. Now his name pops up all over the place -- I'm reading the Post Punk Then & Now collection, and in the chapter on Lydia Lunch, she mentions Weasel repeatedly (he's in her current band).

I really like Thrice Woven, they're not exactly challenging themselves but it's very enjoyable.

I guess I had my hopes up for something a little more ambitious given the six-year gap (not counting the zzzz ambient album). I should give it another shot.

The track titles are very cute.

the wittr is a cracking album, very enjoyable to listen to

This will be the last one, not just for tonight until Brad comes back!

then we will do the top 10

11 Jute Gyte - Oviri 438 Points, 12 Votes, ONE #1
https://i.imgur.com/EyYbBvP.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/6fSKj1tCGgNxzu7ZqumE7X?si=Y74F9x4jSZeLo8yGu4IpOQ
https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/oviri

http://thequietus.com/articles/23139-jute-gyte-oviri-album-review

Has he learnt how to tune his guitar yet?

lmao

Too low! haha

My #5, which is 4 places lower than you'd think eh? Not his best IMO but still completely amazing. A bit wilder and more fragmented than before - perhaps sacrificing a bit of compositional focus in order to signify the extent of his pessimism and discomfort. When it hits though it hits so hard. Second and third tracks appear to be consensus favourites

The track titles are very cute.

lol

I was ready to feel fatigued by Jute Gyte this year, his music being a somewhat permanent feature in this household and there having been SO many releases recently, but how can you dislike this? Unendingly innovative work. I think either track 2 or 4 is my favourite, but track 3 is definitely the pop hit.

🐁🐁🍴🏅

AK has said he probably won't release another metal album this year btw - well, apart from the (very worthy) Spectral Lore split he's already released, lol

Good! I want time to anticipate what he's going to come up with next. (The Spectral Lore split is lovely, of course)

I sometimes think Oviri might be his best actually, sometimes I find JG a bit of a drag and I welcome more electronic/processed voice weirdness.

My #1. This really does feel like a culmination of just a massive obsessive agon with conventional rock music

I reckon he's been improving and deepening with every album, but basically reached some kind of compositional pinnacle with Perdurance, and has had to break it apart in order to build up to what I assume will be even greater heights. Perhaps the breaking-apart is the particularly exciting bit for some though!

It's all one body of work, really though, and I feel privileged to be able to experience it

100-10

100 Cloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LP 99.0 3 0
98 Contrarian - To Perceive Is To Suffer 99.0 4 0
98 Bathsheba - Servus 99.0 4 0
97 Code Orange - Forever 100.0 4 0
95 Tau Cross - Pillar of Fire 101.0 3 0
95 Necrot - Blood Offerings 101.0 3 0
94 White Ward - Futility Report 101.0 4 0
93 Colotyphus - Spiritual Journey of a Forlorn Soul 102.0 3 0
92 Big|Brave - Ardor 102.0 4 0
91 Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black 104.0 3 0
90 Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis 104.0 4 0
89 Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine 105.0 3 0
88 The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light 106.0 4
87 Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worlds 107.0 2 1
86 Dodecahdron - Kwintessens 108.0 4 0
85 Nokturnal Mortum - Veria 113.0 3 0
84 Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II 114.0 3 0
82 Obituary - Obituary 116.0 4 0
82 Dreadnought - A Wake in Sacred Waves 116.0 4 0
81 Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer 117.0 4 0
80 Succumb - Succumb 118.0 4 0
79 Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms 119.0 3 0
78 Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine 120.0 4
76 Usnea - Portals Into Futility 120.0 5 0
76 Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna 120.0 5 0
75 Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos 121.0 4 0
74 Grails - Chalice Hymnal 121.0 5 0
73 Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky 126.0 5 0
72 Violet Cold - Anomie 127.0 4 0
71 Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains 131.0 3 0
70 Brutus - Burst 133.0 5 0
69 Akvan - Forgotten Glory 135.0 5 0
68 Nortt - Endeligt 140.0 4 1
67 Flight Of Sleipnir - Skadi 144.0 5 0
66 Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now 147.0 3 1
65 Amenra - Mass VI 147.0 4 0
64 Mesarthim - Presence 147.0 6 0
62 Ungfell - Tôtbringære 150.0 4 0
62 Ingurgitating Oblivion - Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light 150.0 4 0
61 Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity 151.0 5 0
60 Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out 153 Points, 4 Votes
59 Circle - Terminal 157 Points, 6 Votes
58 Corpse Garden - IAO 269 159 Points, 5 Votes
57 With The Dead - Love From With The Dead 162 Points, 5 votes
56 Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival 162 Points, 7 votes
55 Loss - Horizonless 167 Points, 5 Votes
54 Propagandhi - Victory Lap 168.0 Points, 4 Votes, 1 #1 Vote
53 Planning for Burial - Below the House 168.0 Points, 5 Votes
52 Ehnahre - The Marrow 171.0 Points, 5 Votes
51 Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense 174.0 Points, 7 Votes
50 Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument 177.0 Points, 4 Votes, 1 #1 Vote
49 Venenum - Trance of Death 183.0 Points, 6 Votes
48 Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial 184 Points, 7 Votes
47 Undergang - Misantropologi 190 Points, 5 Votes , One #1
46 Paradise Lost - Medusa 195 Points, 7 Votes
45 Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination 196 Points, 6 Votes
44 Enslaved - E 197 Points, 6 Votes
43 Sannhet - So Numb 204 Points, 5 Votes, ONE #1
42 Black Cilice - Banished from Time 209.0 Points, 5 Votes
41 Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience 212.0 Points, 6 Votes
40 Krallice with Dave Edwardson - Loüm 212 Points, 7 Votes
39 Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy 213 Points, 6 votes
38 Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand 219 Points, 6 Votes
37 Oxbow - Thin Black Duke 219 Points, 7 Votes , One #1
36 The Obsessed - Sacred 220 Points, 5 votes
35 Les Discrets - Predateurs 222 Points, 6 votes, One #1
34 Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon 230.0 Points, 10 Votes
33 Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre 231.0 Points 7 Votes
32 Boris - Dear 234 Points, 7 Votes
31 Sólstafir - Berdreyminn 254 Points, 6 Votes, One #1
30 Ufomammut - 8 255.0 Points, 9 Votes
29 Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard 256.0 Points 6 Votes, 1 #1 Vote
28 Fen - Winter 259 Points, 7 Votes
27 Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie 269.0 Points 9 Votes
26 Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley 275.0 Points 6 Votes
25 Unsane - Sterilize 277 Points, 8 Votes
24 Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die 284 Points, 7 Votes, TWO #1s
23 Immolation - Atonement 302 Points, 8 Votes
22 Power Trip - Nightmare Logic 321 Points, 10 Votes
21 Spirit Adrift - Curse Of Conception 323 Points, 9 Votes
20 Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter 326.0 Points 11 Votes
19 Cleric - Retrocausal 336.0 Points 8 Votes 2 #1 Votes
18 Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper 338.0 Points, 10 Votes 1 #1 Vote
17 Pillorian - Obsidian Arc 386.0 Points 10 Votes 1 #1 Vote
16 Au champ des morts - Dans la joie 393.0 Points 11 Votes
15 Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing 401.0 Points 11 Votes
14 The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia 405.0 Points 11 Votes 1 #1 Vote
13 King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering 419.0 Points 13 Votes
12 Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven 436 Points, 12 Votes
11 Jute Gyte - Oviri 438 Points, 12 Votes, ONE #1

I am the only person with the top 10 (except seandalai) who wants to try predict the top 10?

Yeah 'wilder' & 'more fragmented' are definitely big plusses for me! xxxp

Elder
Ex Eye
Botanist
Couch Slut
I half suspect Lunatii to show up