2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock/Heavy Music Poll: RESULTS – Top 100 Countdown

Looking at my ballot, I definitely had this about 10 places too high haha. IT'S STILL GOOD THO

If Panos Cosmatos decides to do the 80s rather than the 70s he should rope this lot in

did you mean this the other way around as both Panos movies have been set in 1983?

The album is a bit scooby doom in places

oh shit haha. well in that case get 'em involved

idk why I assumed both Cosmatos movies were set in about 1978

Heh, I just assumed Mandy was present-day.

they're both as if the 70s never ended, nor will end, tbf

Or rather, I didn't think it had a 'date'. I think of it as its own fantasy world.

#21

Krallice – Mass Cathexis

299 points, 9 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1618789199_10.jpg

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/mass-cathexis

Krallice’s post-hiatus work has been focused on surprise releases, organized entirely around particular themes; whether it is the heavier, Dave Edwardson focused Loum or the second-wave influenced Go Be Forgotten, the Brooklyn black metal explorers have percolated experiments into crystallized experiences. Mass Cathexis, the band’s ninth album, feels both a return to their original trajectory— before Ygg Hur and it’s heavier oddities—and a new phase in its own right. Mass Cathexis takes the salient lessons learned in Krallice’s experimental years, like shorter song lengths and more diversified riffing, and applies it to the quirky metal of their Interdimensional Bleedthrough and Years Past Matter era.

To be fair, the movement of Krallice’s abject sound has been minimal over their career. The riffs and production are still clinical and sharp, with Colin Marston and Mick Barr conjuring the same technical guitar and bass interplay that’s defined the band. This laser focus and obsession with an overtly “technical” sound are felt most strongly in the rhythm section, which Mass Cathexis features, again, quite prominently. Maybe this is controversial, but the aforementioned riffs and rhythm have always given Krallice the implication of a black metal band. The pieces and parts are there, but It became clear with Years Past Matter that Krallice was doing something different in black metal, especially since heading in a death metal-lite direction. Luckily, Mass Cathexis continues that trend while retaining the sort-of kvlt flair born in Go Be Forgotten. But make no mistakes, despite re-visiting familiar ground, Mass Cathexis is Kralice’s strangest and most unwieldy collection to date.

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/81933/Krallice-Mass-Cathexis/

Spotify Results Playlist

Their latest seems like a more successful iteration of what they attempted on Mass Cathexis.

So far:

101. Primitive Man – Immersion

100. Atramentus – Stygian

99. Undergang – Aldrig i livet

98. Dan Weiss/Starebaby – Natural Selection

95 TIE. Worm – Gloomlord

95 TIE. Ulthar – Providence

95 TIE. Vile Creature – Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!

93 TIE. VoidCeremony – Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel

93 TIE. Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin – Stygian Bough Volume I

92. Lamp of Murmuur – Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism

91. Okkultokrati – La ilden lyse

90. Horisont – Sudden Death

89. Skeletal Remains – The Entombment of Chaos

87 TIE. Spirit Adrift – Enlightened in Eternity

87 TIE. Biesy – Transsatanizm

86. Ripped to Shreds – Luan

85. Cirith Ungol – Forever Black

84. Turia – Degen van licht

82 TIE. Regarde les hommes tomber – Ascension

82 TIE. Angel Morgue – In the Morgue of Angels

81. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals
80. Khthoniik Cerviiks – Æequiizoiikum
79. Vladislav Delay – Rakka
78. Eternal Rot – Putridarium
76 TIE. Ocrilim – Plvence Abrost R Msitloun
76 TIE. Dola – Dola
75. Blue Öyster Cult – The Symbol Remains
74. Malokarpatan – Krupinské ohne
73. Defeated Sanity – The Sanguinary Impetus
72. Geld – Beyond the Floor
71. Melted Bodies – Enjoy Yourself
70. Envy – The Fallen Crimson
69. Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better?
68. Boris & Merzbow – 2R0I2P0
67. Pyrrhon – Abscess Time
66. Raspberry Bulbs – Before the Age of Mirrors
65. Azusa – Loop of Yesterdays
64. Fuck the Facts – Pleine noirceur
63. Blues Pills – Holy Moly!
62. Kaatayra – Só quem viu o relâmpago à sua direita sabe
61. Drown – Subaqueous
60. Gezan – Klue
59. Gulch – Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
58. Touché Amoré – Lament
57. Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo
56. Feminazgûl – No Dawn for Men
54 TIE. Zombi – 2020
54 TIE. Molasses – Through the Hollow
53. Pallbearer – Forgotten Days
52. Triptykon – Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
51. Azarath – Saint Desecration
50. Sightless Pit – Grave of a Dog
49. Machine Girl – U-Void Synthesizer
48. Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
47. Void Rot – Descending Pillars
46. Of Feather and Bone – Sulfuric Disintegration
45. Kaatayra – Toda história pela frente
43 TIE. Mamaleek – Come & See
43 TIE. Thou & Emma Ruth Rundle – May Our Chambers Be Full
42. AC/DC – Power Up
41. Cryptic Shift – Visitations from Enceladus
40. Afterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh
39. Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron
38. Boris – No
37. Undeath – Lesions of a Different Kind
36. Aktor – Placebo
35. Deftones – Ohms
34. Mystras – Castles Conquered and Reclaimed
32 TIE. Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata
32 TIE. Couch Slut – Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll
31. Colour Haze – We Are
30. Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
29. Victory Over the Sun – A Tessitura of Transformation
28. Old Man Gloom – Darkness of Being / Light of Meaning
27. Behold… the Arctopus – Hepeleptic Overtrove
26. Faceless Burial – Speciation
25. Sólstafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
24. Necrot – Mortal
23. Duma – Duma
22. Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse
21. Krallice – Mass Cathexis

xp I'd say the new one is going for something completely different, they're forced to get weird with it, Mass Cathexis feels more like they're trying to consolidate the atmoblack era with teh mad techy stuff they've been doing recently. It fucking rules anyway. I love this band too much.

Enjoying the rollout pom and neechy, thank you :)

My favorite Hail Spirit Noir is Oi Magoi. Each one since then I've liked a little bit less. Still voted for this one though.

Just out of interest: What do you think of the extended nominations and voting period?

Would you guys prefer the same again or prefer it the week after big EOY poll or back to the before Christmas days of olde?

I think I prefer it the way it is this year.

helps to make March a bit heavier

It does give plenty of time for late year albums to sink in.

hail spirit noir too low

was kinda cold on the necrot record at fist but warmed up to it over the year. there's nothing new there but it rips just the same.

no comment

Any hopes for top 20 placement tomorrow?

The Krallice was so good!

I think I've voted for 12 of them, so I am hoping that at least one of the other 8 is a pleasant surprise!

I'm pretty certain a good 4 of my favourite albums are all still to come. There's also something that's almost definitely going to place that I'm going to get Very Angry Online about, fair warning.

There's also something that's almost definitely going to place that I'm going to get Very Angry Online about, fair warning.

I think I voted for this :/

Haha, looking forward to it.

always tricky when a cast-iron no-defence Awful Cunt makes a good album

Leviathan?

let's wait and see

(no)

if we get a couple more 'nothing new but it rips' records that aren't REM with some distortion or something, I'll be happy

you know what, you DM folks have earned it, let it rip

REM with some distortion or something

Haha which records from the list do you put in this category??

There's also a DM album which a) I voted for and which b) I think has a shot of winning the whole thing

you know what, you DM folks have earned it, let it rip

the remaining 20 records will be all be completely indistinguishable albums by vader

Haha which records from the list do you put in this category??

lol just being a dick about the inevitable hum record (I like hum)

If only Matt Talbott sounded like Michael Stipe…

hearing this in my head now and... 🤔

is it a hum?

I have to say I didn't really keep up last year so I may have missed out on which albums were big last year.

With Terrorizer gone I don't even know who is big in the UK now.

Any big new metal bands last year?

Hmmmm
https://www.metalsucks.net/2020/10/22/the-50-most-popular-metal-bands-right-now-according-to-the-internet-2/

Static X cant still be that popular, right?

I'm trying to think if there have been or will be any debut albums in this top 101!

Anal Stabwound a lock for the 2021 poll obv

Christ, that list is grim.

well surely one placed today?

xps

There have been several debuts since the start of this year's rollout.

Oh yeah, I am a total Duma ss

#29 must be their debut too come to think of it

It isn't!

really?