THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

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

thats only 5

Schammasch, Ex Eye, Couch Slut, Botanist, Converge, Blut Aus Nord, Elder, Krallice AND TWO OTHERS

Elder
Converge
Ex Eye
Chelsea Wolfe
Godflesh
Couch Slut
Krallice
Schammasch
Botanist
Myrkur?

Godflesh
Krallice
Elder
At the Drive-In
Pallbearer
Lunatii
Ex Eye
Converge
Aosoth
Pharmakon

had to throw a few wildcards in there cause it's been a wildcard kinda rollout

Yayte Gyte! My #5. I was struck by how much more ambient it was, comparatively. And that rubbed me right way after, as lj already said, Perdurance was a pinnacle. He needed to do something different, and I think the bastard did it again.

Forgot about that Pallbearer. Maybe instead of Myrkur on my list.

Oh shit, Pallbearer, C Wolfe AND Godflesh? That means one of mine has to drop out. Probably one of Schammasch or BAN - but which?

Ruins of Beverast too low, King Woman too high. The whole time I wanted her voice to metamorphose into Chelsea Wolfe's, who I assume is coming up.

Ex Eye
Elder
Converge
Chelsea Wolfe
Pallbearer
Botanist
Schammasch
Godflesh
Couch Slut
Tchornobog

Similar to everyone else's I guess...

I'm not sure if the BAN album was nominated - I forgot to vote for it either way (xposts).

Go, Be Forgotten won't have been forgotten. I don't even know what Tchornobog is, lol! Think we have our ten now though. BUT IN WHAT ORDER

i think only one of you has got reasonably close

But you wont find out unless Brad posts!

I've bumped ILM : The Top 100 Metal/Heavy Rock Tracks Of All Time - Presented By Our Host, Henry, ILM's Favourite Heavy Metal Dog! THE END IS NIGH! (FIN) so we can consider the great metal/heavy rock tracks of recent years fyi

King Woman above Ruins Of Beverast, Spectral Voice and Power Trip - I've seen it all. I really thought the King Woman record suuuucked.