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

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?

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/victory-over-the-sun

hmmm, I need to check those out then.

Metal doesn't seem to do great debuts as often as other music does. For every Bergtatt there's a hundred callow early fumblings that later flowered into darkness

Black Sabbath and Metallica might disagree

There's always a few that get lucky

Plenty of debut albums have done well in the history of ILM metal poll

Any cracked the top 3?

the 1st Korn album was so popular it launched a whole sub-genre of copycats that dominated rock in the last half of the 90s/1st half of the early 00s

Not sure about top 3 but the 1st Ghost album must've been top 10.

but a decent amount must have made top 20

Black Sabbath and Metallica might disagree

And Candlemass, Celtic Frost, Cryptopsy, Death, Dismember, Dissection, Emperor, Entombed, Exodus, Godflesh, Immolation, Incantation, Katatonia, Mayhem, Mercyful Fate, Necrophobic, Slayer, Suffocation, etc.

Not counting reconfigurations or combinations of existing onces, like Waste Of Space Orchestra

pomenitul, those bands are all well old!

As are Ulver I guess. FINE

I think it's harder to land a telling debut punch now though maybe!

Is there any older genre for which this doesn't hold true?

mediocre post-punk?

Kill 'Em All far from the best Metallica imo.

Oh most definitely, but imago didn't stipulate that the debut had to be the discography highlight.

How did we compile this list? So glad you asked. We looked at the top 5,000 MetalSucks articles to receive traffic between June 1, 2018 and September 30, 2020 and calculated the total number of pageviews for each post in which the name of the band was contained in the headline. We then added all those pageviews together to come up with a total number for each band. These numbers include headlines that feature a key member of the band — so, for example, any headline with the name “Dave Mustaine” in it was counted towards Megadeth. Any headline which contained the name of the band and the name of a prominent member of that band — e.g., “Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine” — was only counted once.

Doesn't really sound like the most reliable methodology

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I know plenty of people who like Kill Em All best of all their albums. Quite a lot of Iron Maiden albums think their debut is best.

Do you?

My fave Maiden is indeed their debut actually, lol