THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

Brad did say I should listen to all of it though, so I guess now's the time

I guess I'd say Elder and Godflesh. Anything else I voted for I can't see -- Locust Leaves, Endon, Argus, Lör, Night Viper, Purple Hill Witch, Disperse...

well a big comeback album from an old band just missed out

or did it..

tune in next week for the next edition of S.O.A.P.

last chance for you to do fakes

It's gotta be Danzig!

no, that was definitely des'ree

I should have promoted Telekinetic Yeti more. I'm just as excited to see them tomorrow as I would be Elder! The Doomsday Kingdom, Tchornobog, Pagan Altar, naw I'll stick with my original guess.

All three of the things I voted for that won't place would have made for quite a funny fake #2

Todesstoß probably the funniest

2 GWAR - The Blood of Gods 753 Points, 19 votes TWO #1s
https://i.imgur.com/L4Rq4My.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Ps3txaybLW14aDROZ48sL?si=lIFZ1knjTqifGZtY3twrDg

https://gwar.bandcamp.com/album/the-blood-of-gods

http://www.metalsucks.net/2017/10/11/album-review-gwars-the-blood-of-gods/

:D

I'll post the #1 in 10 mins

lol

happy to see Wolfe place so high, album knocks. I want Nadler to go metal next!

Both #1 votes for Gwar were mine.

It's down to Elder and Paramore. This is tense.

ahaha

Would listen to a new GWAR song before 90% of what actually placed in this poll.

I'm listening to the first track of this just coz I don't really know what GWAR sound like

Real Metal :D

I'll say this for GWAR, it's serious commitment to a shtick.

https://i.imgur.com/Zl8ZS8C.gif

ffs my page refreshed and it'll be another 5 minutes now

lmao this is an excellently torturous gif

2 Godflesh - Post Self 713 Points, 19 Votes, TWO #1s
https://i.imgur.com/K5a56j3.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4yLRI4kaOy4LhSPZ2sCVbE?si=QzbOwl0EQJmXsMmY4VkOkg

https://godflesh1.bandcamp.com/album/post-self

PRODUCED BY JUSTIN K BROADRICK /
BC GREEN - BASS, JK BROADRICK - GUITAR, VOICE / MACHINES /

Published by Mute Song Ltd /
credits
released November 17, 2017

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/godflesh-post-self/
http://www.metalsucks.net/2017/11/17/album-review-godfleshs-post-self/

1 Elder - Reflections of a Floating World 931 Points, 21 Votes, FOUR #1s
https://i.imgur.com/xCYlpGy.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/15yxKj4XCoCfSVJsgRjZQt?si=lVaPIx3GTW-cP8nH_P9wbw

https://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/album/reflections-of-a-floating-world

Reflections of a Floating World is Elder's fourth full length album and second LP released via Stickman Records (EU) and Armageddon Label (US). Long, undulating and dense tracks float between psychedelic passages and progressive rock without missing a beat; adventurous and unpredictable songs are punctuated by hypnotic jams, all colored by the tendency toward melody and dynamism that has become the band's hallmark. In keeping with their motto of expanding and expanding upon their repertoire, guest musicians Mike Risberg and Michael Samos joined the core three in the studio to add extra guitar, keys and pedal steel, adding vibrancy and lushness to the album. In all regards, Reflections shows a band with a clear vision honing their skills with every year.
credits
released June 2, 2017

Nicholas DiSalvo - Guitar, keys, vocals

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/elder-reflections-of-a-floating-world-review/

https://www.stereogum.com/1943347/album-of-the-week-elder-reflections-of-a-floating-world/franchises/album-of-the-week/

I'm a Viking god
Don't you understand?
If you wanna fuck me, let me see a show of hands

-GWAR

woah, not even close!

hey all, interrupting my extended hiatus to briefly weigh in (i lasted all of two days lol, but this is the only thread i've been lurking before i block everything again bc it is extremely necessary that i take a break):

- the best album on this list is no. 49, venenum's trance of death. had i heard it before the countdown it would've been no. 1 on my ballot. it gets the balance exactly right between brutal churning death metal and insane prog spirals. what an impressive album and band
- best discoveries from this list overall so far: venenum, dreadnought, white ward, falls of rauros, brutus, tomb mold, nortt, colotyphus, WODE (i had a real melodic black metal moment as this thread was rolling out i guess), gasp (this record is so bizarre and cool and i'll prob never listen to it again but i felt the need to shout it out)
- was it tt who said the falls of rauros record was real coheed-y? she's right. it's also one of my favorite records on the list now. so generous melodically and... emotionally? it almost feels not metal even though it's def metal
- that said i'm glad my actual no. 1 (godflesh) placed so high. feel like broadrick outdid himself in a way i couldn't have anticipated. it's a real journey between almost every style he's ever employed, yet it's so compact and odd and remarkably coherent. when i listen to it i feel like i'm in the future war scenes in the terminator movies. songs for lonely metaphysical post-apocalyptic nightclub djs, etc.
- elder and godflesh is such a good top 2
- worst album art: electric wizard
- the immolation record is actually too low, simon
- wtf is wrong with you nerds, nightwish rules

Hope imago gets to see the whole gif, lol

I figured tomb mold would be up yr alley brad!

Elder/Godflesh is indeed a very worthy 1/2. Well done, all

my lesson this year is not to bother promoting prog-metal albums because no one votes for them (except for.......the one that won)

but Elder are stoner rock

hi brad! venenum is indeed great and probably my favourite discovery too. listening to godflesh now and rly enjoying it! seems a great upgrade on the first comeback. hope you're OK and come back when you're ready

great poll k3rr/sean as ever and thanks to all contributors, it is always a fine festival of damnation

oh, there's definitely a heavy prog element in there. xp

hope you all dug the gif

Listening to Elder now. I think I fell a bit out of the conversation, as the middle part of the list was filled with bands I already know about and don't really care for, but I've still already discovered a great amount of cool new music.

Thank you to all pollrunners, you're truly doing the work of Azazel.

And that's a pun for you, Simon, as elsewhere on ilx you always get my goat.

never heard Elder to my knowledge, listening now (sounds kinda classic rock-y?)

thanks again to the poll runners for doing this thing! My biggest discoveries were Psudoku and Lingua Ignota, which might very well have been my #1 had I heard it in time.

lmao xp

I've never really got Godflesh but Elder's a good winner. It sounds like ...Trail of Dead making a stoner-prog album! Tracks 2 and 3 especially impressed me.

Would listen to a new GWAR song before 90% of what actually placed in this poll.

― grawlix (unperson), Friday, February 9, 2018 1:01 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, I was sort of waiting for you to say something like this.

I'm clearly not getting something wrt Elder's songs. I only listened to the Godflesh a couple of times before voting but I liked it enough to buy it right away and vote for it.

And thanks to the pollrunners as always

Godflesh blew my mind in 1989 with Streetcleaner. Awesome live show. I was a bit surprised by this doing so well, as their 2014 comeback, A World Lit Only by Fire, really isn't all that different, but was met with mostly indifference.

Elder is one of my favorites of course, they just keeping better. Fans would enjoy their Polish labelmates Weedpecker.

I've not had any stats from seandalai yet btw

damn I should not have slept on the Venenum album

I listened to a few tracks from the Godflesh record, it's not bad but I can't imagine voting for it. Listening to Falls of Rauros now (since someone said it was Coheed-y).

100-1
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

10 Pallbearer - Heartless 441 Points, 12 Votes ONE #1
9 Couch Slut - Contempt 487 Points, 13 Votes
8 Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Come 490 Points, 13 Votes, ONE #1
7 Krallice - Go Be Forgotten 500 Points, 13 Votes ONE #1
6 Myrkur - Mareridt 509 Points, 14 Votes
5 Converge - The Dusk In Us 640 Points, 16 Votes, ONE #1
4 Ex Eye - Ex Eye 656 Points, 16 Votes, ONE #1
3 Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun 666 Points Of The Devil, 15 Votes, THREE #1s
2 Godflesh - Post Self 713 Points, 19 Votes, TWO #1s

1 Elder - Reflections of a Floating World 931 Points, 21 Votes, FOUR #1s

https://i.imgur.com/Zl8ZS8C.gif

Thanks for running this, guys! A lot of new music to check out.

Here's my very hivemindy ballot. Bold did not place:

1. Sannhet - So Numb
2. Ex Eye - Ex Eye
3. Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
4. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
5. Violet Cold - Anomie
6. Big|Brave - Ardor
7. Bathsheba - Servus
8. Unsane - Sterilize
9. Godflesh - Post Self
10. Rope Sect - Personae Ingratae
11. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
12. Succumb - Succumb
13. Myrkur - Mareridt
14. Pallbearer - Heartless
15. Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
16. Couch Slut - Contempt
17. Paradise Lost - Medusa
18. Amenra - Mass VI
19. Nortt - Endeligt
20. Unearthly Trance - Stalking the Ghost