"The One You Know", "Drone", and "So Far Under" are as heavy and sludgey as any classic Seattle grunge, for a start. I almost feel like you just listened to the two ballads or something.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Monday, 4 February 2019 01:16 (five years ago) link
dissonant metal guitars.
Maybe I should say "dissonant blackgaze guitars"? Idk, trying to not make it sound like nu-metal.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Monday, 4 February 2019 01:24 (five years ago) link
Can someone kindly explain the difference between weighted and unweighted with regard to this poll?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 4 February 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
Sund4r, go right ahead and vote for AiC
NYCNative, unweighted means that all entries have the same point amount. Not exactly sure what point amount that is, though...let me get back to you on that...
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 4 February 2019 04:22 (five years ago) link
Okay, that's actually fine. I didn't know if there was a way to weight your polls a la the Pazz & Jop.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 4 February 2019 06:01 (five years ago) link
2018 was an excellent year for metal because, for the first time in eons, I kept up with new releases. Also because overt metalcoreisms and proggery (I get my avant kicks elsewhere) are only tangentially my thing so maybe it was a bad year for those two subterrains, I wouldn't know.
― pomenitul, Monday, 4 February 2019 08:22 (five years ago) link
noone here cares for core though
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
Converge won the poll a few years ago?
― Siegbran, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:50 (five years ago) link
Converge are their own thing though
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
Ghost and Yob just placed in the ILM’s Top 77 Albums of 2018
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 4 February 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
and Senyawa which gives me high hopes for em in this poll. that album has blown my mind. going through their back back catalog and im digging all of it so far
― gman59, Monday, 4 February 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
I just voted
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link
excellent
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
I'm listening to a lot of these campaigned albums, and even the stuff that's not usually in my wheelhouse--such as 1914 & Funeral Winds--is sounding pretty good to me...
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
the armed album turned up in metal poll
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
i mean big poll, lol
Sleep just placed. Lots of albums nommed in this poll has made big poll
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
Nice of you to forget to mention D********n
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
I dont get the hate for Deafheaven from you. It's usually the purist snobs who hate them.
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
They're the most corny fuxxor band to really gain traction in the metal sphere
and as we all know, imago has an antifuxxor ratio of infinity
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
I love some """hipster""" metal but DH just come off as trite and cynical, and their song construction is really clumsy in an extremely uninteresting way
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
^this
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
also they utilise the most pandering and corny of post-rock melodies
let's fight this in the actual poll tho
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
It's a losing battle :C
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
I reckon thats all the metal out the way in big poll and none will crack the top 30 which is where the big votes will be , will be interesting to see where those albums place here.
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
tritones only!!!!
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
Diabolus in musica is metal af.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
This song is pretty crackers:
https://youtu.be/1ND8EpzVSVo
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link
Voted
― o. nate, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link
thanks!
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
Spoke to seandalai and he says its fine to extend the voting until friday 15th 11.59 which is basically saturday morning when seandalai gets up and tabulates.
everything of course depends on LJ keeping up his side of the bargain!
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
anyone who wants to resubmit still can, just let us know here
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
Spotify Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mWZOMQIfPnXb7wuSFQsr9
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
I also forgot to nominate Kevin Hufnagel - Messages to the Past.:( Can I write it in as well?
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Thursday, 7 February 2019 03:34 (five years ago) link
Absolutely
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 7 February 2019 06:07 (five years ago) link
Kevin Huffingglue added to pastebin noms list
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 7 February 2019 12:22 (five years ago) link
Good call tt & pomenitul: the Fluisteraars / Turia album is the first thing I've heard that makes me actively want to re-do my ballot
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 7 February 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link
Be sure to check out their back catalogue too, esp the Fluisteraars debut is excellent.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 7 February 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
I will try to do a vote, figured I'd be almost done by now but I just spent the past 3 days trying to breathe normal so the extra week will for sure help
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
It was inevitable as we have hardly any ballots in. We had 6 the last time I asked seandalai a day or 2 ago and 3 have since said they voted.
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
I guess it wouldn't hurt to use the extra time for a little last-minute campaigning.
Uncreation - Overwhelming Chaos - if you like your death metal without too many hyphens, this is the stuffhttps://youtu.be/xlZ6hyoUctU
Taphos - Come Ethereal Somberness - on the blackened-death tip with zip, from the fetid Copenhagen scenehttps://youtu.be/IYIycFKkPtU
Demonomancy - Poisoned Atonement - deathened-black anyone? relentless and foulhttps://youtu.be/-Ztl0nB2p9Q
― o. nate, Friday, 8 February 2019 02:58 (five years ago) link
Thanks for adding my late-ass write-ins to the noms list, Oor Neechy.
― silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Friday, 8 February 2019 02:59 (five years ago) link
no probs. Lets hope we get some extra votes as I think we only have 9 so far
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 8 February 2019 11:53 (five years ago) link
No matter how long they have most people always leave voting to the last minute, try not to panic Neechy
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 8 February 2019 12:04 (five years ago) link
yeah, I know. Extend a week and instead of listening for a week they just postpone oting for a week. Makes extensions pointless usually but I think people did need it what with the big poll
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 8 February 2019 12:18 (five years ago) link
glad I had time to appreciate this Shylmagoghnar album before voting.
― beard papa, Friday, 8 February 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
well there's an extra week to vote now as ballots aren't due until next friday night. Hoping some big poll voters will check it out and vote.
Don't forget to subscribe to the spotify playlist
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 8 February 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
Also with hardly any votes in it means your campaigning and boosting could help
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 8 February 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
I will vote, i just like hugging the deadline.
― Siegbran, Friday, 8 February 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link