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...
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 9 February 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
well a big comeback album from an old band just missed out
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
or did it..
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
tune in next week for the next edition of S.O.A.P.
last chance for you to do fakes
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
It's gotta be Danzig!
― jmm, Friday, 9 February 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
no, that was definitely des'ree
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 9 February 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
All three of the things I voted for that won't place would have made for quite a funny fake #2
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
Todesstoß probably the funniest
2 GWAR - The Blood of Gods 753 Points, 19 votes TWO #1shttps://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/
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
:D
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
I'll post the #1 in 10 mins
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
lol
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 9 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
happy to see Wolfe place so high, album knocks. I want Nadler to go metal next!
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
Both #1 votes for Gwar were mine.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Friday, 9 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
It's down to Elder and Paramore. This is tense.
― jmm, Friday, 9 February 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
ahaha
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
Would listen to a new GWAR song before 90% of what actually placed in this poll.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
I'm listening to the first track of this just coz I don't really know what GWAR sound like
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
Real Metal :D
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
I'll say this for GWAR, it's serious commitment to a shtick.
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Zl8ZS8C.gif
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
ffs my page refreshed and it'll be another 5 minutes now
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
lmao this is an excellently torturous gif
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
2 Godflesh - Post Self 713 Points, 19 Votes, TWO #1shttps://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 /creditsreleased November 17, 2017
Published by Mute Song Ltd /creditsreleased 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 #1shttps://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.creditsreleased June 2, 2017Nicholas DiSalvo - Guitar, keys, vocals
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/
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
I'm a Viking godDon't you understand?If you wanna fuck me, let me see a show of hands
-GWAR
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
woah, not even close!
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
Hope imago gets to see the whole gif, lol
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
I figured tomb mold would be up yr alley brad!
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
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)
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
but Elder are stoner rock
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
oh, there's definitely a heavy prog element in there. xp
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
hope you all dug the gif
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Friday, 9 February 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
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.
― Dominique, Friday, 9 February 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
lmao xp
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
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.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
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
― 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.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
And thanks to the pollrunners as always
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 9 February 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
I've not had any stats from seandalai yet btw
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
damn I should not have slept on the Venenum album
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
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).
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
100-1100 Cloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LP 99.0 3 098 Contrarian - To Perceive Is To Suffer 99.0 4 098 Bathsheba - Servus 99.0 4 097 Code Orange - Forever 100.0 4 095 Tau Cross - Pillar of Fire 101.0 3 095 Necrot - Blood Offerings 101.0 3 094 White Ward - Futility Report 101.0 4 093 Colotyphus - Spiritual Journey of a Forlorn Soul 102.0 3 092 Big|Brave - Ardor 102.0 4 091 Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black 104.0 3 0
90 Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis 104.0 4 089 Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine 105.0 3 088 The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light 106.0 487 Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worlds 107.0 2 186 Dodecahdron - Kwintessens 108.0 4 085 Nokturnal Mortum - Veria 113.0 3 084 Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II 114.0 3 082 Obituary - Obituary 116.0 4 082 Dreadnought - A Wake in Sacred Waves 116.0 4 081 Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer 117.0 4 0
80 Succumb - Succumb 118.0 4 079 Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms 119.0 3 078 Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine 120.0 476 Usnea - Portals Into Futility 120.0 5 076 Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna 120.0 5 075 Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos 121.0 4 074 Grails - Chalice Hymnal 121.0 5 073 Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky 126.0 5 072 Violet Cold - Anomie 127.0 4 071 Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains 131.0 3 0
70 Brutus - Burst 133.0 5 069 Akvan - Forgotten Glory 135.0 5 068 Nortt - Endeligt 140.0 4 167 Flight Of Sleipnir - Skadi 144.0 5 066 Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now 147.0 3 165 Amenra - Mass VI 147.0 4 064 Mesarthim - Presence 147.0 6 062 Ungfell - Tôtbringære 150.0 4 062 Ingurgitating Oblivion - Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light 150.0 4 061 Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity 151.0 5 0
60 Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out 153 Points, 4 Votes59 Circle - Terminal 157 Points, 6 Votes58 Corpse Garden - IAO 269 159 Points, 5 Votes57 With The Dead - Love From With The Dead 162 Points, 5 votes56 Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival 162 Points, 7 votes55 Loss - Horizonless 167 Points, 5 Votes54 Propagandhi - Victory Lap 168.0 Points, 4 Votes, 1 #1 Vote53 Planning for Burial - Below the House 168.0 Points, 5 Votes52 Ehnahre - The Marrow 171.0 Points, 5 Votes51 Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense 174.0 Points, 7 Votes
50 Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument 177.0 Points, 4 Votes, 1 #1 Vote49 Venenum - Trance of Death 183.0 Points, 6 Votes48 Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial 184 Points, 7 Votes47 Undergang - Misantropologi 190 Points, 5 Votes , One #146 Paradise Lost - Medusa 195 Points, 7 Votes45 Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination 196 Points, 6 Votes44 Enslaved - E 197 Points, 6 Votes43 Sannhet - So Numb 204 Points, 5 Votes, ONE #142 Black Cilice - Banished from Time 209.0 Points, 5 Votes41 Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience 212.0 Points, 6 Votes
40 Krallice with Dave Edwardson - Loüm 212 Points, 7 Votes39 Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy 213 Points, 6 votes38 Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand 219 Points, 6 Votes37 Oxbow - Thin Black Duke 219 Points, 7 Votes , One #136 The Obsessed - Sacred 220 Points, 5 votes35 Les Discrets - Predateurs 222 Points, 6 votes, One #134 Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon 230.0 Points, 10 Votes33 Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre 231.0 Points 7 Votes32 Boris - Dear 234 Points, 7 Votes31 Sólstafir - Berdreyminn 254 Points, 6 Votes, One #1
30 Ufomammut - 8 255.0 Points, 9 Votes29 Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard 256.0 Points 6 Votes, 1 #1 Vote28 Fen - Winter 259 Points, 7 Votes 27 Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie 269.0 Points 9 Votes26 Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley 275.0 Points 6 Votes25 Unsane - Sterilize 277 Points, 8 Votes24 Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die 284 Points, 7 Votes, TWO #1s23 Immolation - Atonement 302 Points, 8 Votes22 Power Trip - Nightmare Logic 321 Points, 10 Votes21 Spirit Adrift - Curse Of Conception 323 Points, 9 Votes
20 Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter 326.0 Points 11 Votes19 Cleric - Retrocausal 336.0 Points 8 Votes 2 #1 Votes18 Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper 338.0 Points, 10 Votes 1 #1 Vote17 Pillorian - Obsidian Arc 386.0 Points 10 Votes 1 #1 Vote16 Au champ des morts - Dans la joie 393.0 Points 11 Votes15 Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing 401.0 Points 11 Votes14 The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia 405.0 Points 11 Votes 1 #1 Vote13 King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering 419.0 Points 13 Votes12 Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven 436 Points, 12 Votes11 Jute Gyte - Oviri 438 Points, 12 Votes, ONE #1
10 Pallbearer - Heartless 441 Points, 12 Votes ONE #19 Couch Slut - Contempt 487 Points, 13 Votes8 Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Come 490 Points, 13 Votes, ONE #17 Krallice - Go Be Forgotten 500 Points, 13 Votes ONE #16 Myrkur - Mareridt 509 Points, 14 Votes5 Converge - The Dusk In Us 640 Points, 16 Votes, ONE #14 Ex Eye - Ex Eye 656 Points, 16 Votes, ONE #13 Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun 666 Points Of The Devil, 15 Votes, THREE #1s2 Godflesh - Post Self 713 Points, 19 Votes, TWO #1s
1 Elder - Reflections of a Floating World 931 Points, 21 Votes, FOUR #1s
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
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 Numb2. Ex Eye - Ex Eye3. Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing4. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun5. Violet Cold - Anomie6. Big|Brave - Ardor7. Bathsheba - Servus8. Unsane - Sterilize9. Godflesh - Post Self10. Rope Sect - Personae Ingratae11. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering12. Succumb - Succumb13. Myrkur - Mareridt14. Pallbearer - Heartless15. Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die16. Couch Slut - Contempt17. Paradise Lost - Medusa18. Amenra - Mass VI19. Nortt - Endeligt20. Unearthly Trance - Stalking the Ghost
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 9 February 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
I missed the rollout of 40-21, which is where the majority of albums I liked landed. Overall, there were 17 albums here that I liked, which surprises me.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 9 February 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link