#2Hum – Inlet663 points, 17 votes, 1 #1 vote
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https://humband.bandcamp.com/album/inlet
Rumors of a fifth Hum album have been circulating since 2016, and there’s some poetry in its surprise drop coinciding with the 20th-anniversary celebration of Deftones’ White Pony, this century’s most influential vision for heavy melodic rock and something that wouldn’t exist without Hum. In the past decade, an entire galaxy of bands equally indebted to shoegaze, emo and alt-rock has emerged from the niche Hum occupied in their heyday—seen as intimidating older brothers by fellow bands on the upstart Polyvinyl label in their home base of Champaign-Urbana, overshadowed and unfairly likened to upstate neighbors/tour mates Smashing Pumpkins. Yet, Inlet doesn’t indicate a band awaiting a hero’s welcome or trying to connect with the world at large. Rather, the massive album presents an invitation to block out everything in existence and ponder the enormity of the universe.Hum’s wanderlust for inner odysseys was evident in the titles of their two major-label albums: You’d Prefer an Astronaut, Downward is Heavenward. Inlet doesn’t evoke the same playful adventurousness; its heavily fortified exteriors are more reflective of their standoffish relationship with media attention; a decade before it soundtracked a Cadillac commercial, the modest success of “Stars” allowed Hum to terrorize the Howard Stern Show with glass-shattering volume and confound Matt Pinfield by wearing chicken suits on 120 Minutes. “Step Into You” is the only thing here that could possibly give Hum a second chance at the mainstream success they tried their hardest to avoid—mostly because it’s the only thing here less than five minutes, though the cyclical, deadpan melody, head-nodding midtempo groove and hair gel-slick guitar solo could’ve shared space on the alt-rock dial next to Collective Soul.Hum’s legacy has largely been stewarded by acolytes like Greet Death, Narrow Head, and the Talbott-produced Cloakroom, all of whom have embraced their more funereal aspects and ignored their commercial flirtations. In that light, Inlet is essentially fan service. Talbott’s rhythm guitar, moves with the velocity of a mudslide or molten lava, while Tim Lash’s textured leads evoke water and air, replicating an algae bloom in “Waves” or a slow-motion geyser on the chorus of “Shapeshifter.” And the riffs—the riffs!—are Black Sabbath-slow and simple, like Hum really spent 22 years stockpiling and eliminating anything that couldn’t withstand at least six minutes of repetition or maintain its melodic thrust at the slowest possible tempos.
Hum’s wanderlust for inner odysseys was evident in the titles of their two major-label albums: You’d Prefer an Astronaut, Downward is Heavenward. Inlet doesn’t evoke the same playful adventurousness; its heavily fortified exteriors are more reflective of their standoffish relationship with media attention; a decade before it soundtracked a Cadillac commercial, the modest success of “Stars” allowed Hum to terrorize the Howard Stern Show with glass-shattering volume and confound Matt Pinfield by wearing chicken suits on 120 Minutes. “Step Into You” is the only thing here that could possibly give Hum a second chance at the mainstream success they tried their hardest to avoid—mostly because it’s the only thing here less than five minutes, though the cyclical, deadpan melody, head-nodding midtempo groove and hair gel-slick guitar solo could’ve shared space on the alt-rock dial next to Collective Soul.
Hum’s legacy has largely been stewarded by acolytes like Greet Death, Narrow Head, and the Talbott-produced Cloakroom, all of whom have embraced their more funereal aspects and ignored their commercial flirtations. In that light, Inlet is essentially fan service. Talbott’s rhythm guitar, moves with the velocity of a mudslide or molten lava, while Tim Lash’s textured leads evoke water and air, replicating an algae bloom in “Waves” or a slow-motion geyser on the chorus of “Shapeshifter.” And the riffs—the riffs!—are Black Sabbath-slow and simple, like Hum really spent 22 years stockpiling and eliminating anything that couldn’t withstand at least six minutes of repetition or maintain its melodic thrust at the slowest possible tempos.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/hum-inlet/
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
Good record that I'd outright love if the singing was a bit more involved.
Too false!
Glad I voted for this in the end. I almost removed it from my ballot, CORRECTLY GUESSING it would be the biggest threat to the Champions Of Music, but it is goddamn epic so I couldn't not. Those outros!
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
Almost hit the 666 too
all this talk of falseness seems a bit premature when we can clearly look forward to Anal Stabwound winning next year's poll.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 12 March 2021 21:39 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Nikhil really does have that come-here-to-save-metal Chosen One vibe doesn't he
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
Don't overburden the poor lad, he's got enough to achieve as is.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
My first response to hearing this Hum album was to say "they've come back metal" because it really is that heavy
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
Yeah I honestly don't mind this album's inclusion at all from a taxonomical perspective.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
Where did Hum place in the general poll?
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
pretty solid record, I didn't realize hum was this popular tbh
prob should have campaigned for this idol group that kinda sounds like hum sometimes:https://open.spotify.com/track/0Cv9wrH9k8D8kWj7k6BdqH?si=2UfeZ-9iS3KhJOiPBaOgWg
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 12 March 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
And I'd like to point out that this poll has never been an exclusively metal poll.
Metal fans have always listened to heavy rock plus for 30 years now alternative rock, so Hum, Kairon and Poppy belong as much as Imperial Triumphant or Sweven in this poll.
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
Well said!
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
re: Kairon; IRSE! -- I'm all for melody and catchiness in metal. The majority of DM and BM I hear sounds like somebody growling over a vacuum cleaner. I don't definitely don't think there is any one correct way to be "heavy". I loved the Poppy, Hum, and Machine Girl albums. Voted for all three of them. Nominated the Hades OST and considered nominating (and voting for) Pink Siifu. But I just don't feel like this one gets there in its tone, as noisy as it can be at points. It's just not... heavy. Anyway that's all I will say about that.
xp Hum deserves to be in this poll and I hope they placed high in the general, but I didn't think it was good enough by any metric to place this high. There are a few really good songs on here, the tone of the album is great, but the album is a slog to get through start to end. I don't feel that there is enough variance of tone and it just wears me down after a bit.
― beard papa, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
yanakoto sotto mute were robbed tbh
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 12 March 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
if only there was one album we could all agree on
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
I wonder which one it might be?
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
honestly surprised hum didn't win
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 12 March 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
I knew who'd win this poll from the moment the heavy guitars kicked in 5 minutes into my first listen of Ilmestys
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
anyway congrats to Loathe on topping the poll
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 12 March 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
and the winner is: Mrs Piss
― beard papa, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
you're all very cute
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
You'll never guess which celebrated 2020 metal album didn't make the top 101!
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
was hoping thaetas would make it in, that thing rules
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 12 March 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
Only one album with a #1 vote didn't make the 101
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
Tom knows who it is, lol
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
I don't think any of us saw the crabcore revival of 2020 coming, much less Attack! Attack! winning the poll.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 12 March 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
jon knows what's up.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
Alright, 'tis time.
#1Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi945 points, 24 votes, 2 #1 votes
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https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/album/mestarin-kynsi
While loosely categorized as black metal, there has never been anything straightforward about the sounds generated by Finland's ORANSSI PAZUZU throughout their decade-long existence. Their musical output so far is definitely discordant enough to earn the genre tag, and the vocals — shared by guitarist Jun-His, bassist/keyboardist Ontto, and keyboardist/percussionist EviL — are hauntingly corrosive and blood curdling. The group will start though with black metal as a basic launching point and endeavor on a path loaded with twists and turns through psychedelic jazz, synthesizer-driven movie scores, and krautrock, all while maintaining an ominously dark aura. The results are the aural equivalent of an acid trip gone horribly awry, and in the end, come off as scarier and more dangerous than the latest pretenders to the black metal throne who are donning corpse paint and recycling old MAYHEM riffs on self-released demo cassettes.The group's latest effort, "Mestarin kynsi", is the group's most spectacular descent into psychedelic musical madness to date. More overtly accessible metal sounds have taken more and more of a backseat as the band's musical progression has evolved, and this album establishes the band's ambitions fairly quickly. "Ilmestys" begins the record with a slow-burning collage of tribal drumming from Korjak, sitar-like guitar work from Ikon, a disturbingly rumbling bass line from Ontto and science-fiction sound effects before a discomforting assortment of vocal grunts begins to emanate after a few minutes. Harder riffs and heavier drums don't begin until the five-minute mark, but the group has already built up such a sense of menacing dread by then that the final few minutes become a musical catharsis.
The group's latest effort, "Mestarin kynsi", is the group's most spectacular descent into psychedelic musical madness to date. More overtly accessible metal sounds have taken more and more of a backseat as the band's musical progression has evolved, and this album establishes the band's ambitions fairly quickly. "Ilmestys" begins the record with a slow-burning collage of tribal drumming from Korjak, sitar-like guitar work from Ikon, a disturbingly rumbling bass line from Ontto and science-fiction sound effects before a discomforting assortment of vocal grunts begins to emanate after a few minutes. Harder riffs and heavier drums don't begin until the five-minute mark, but the group has already built up such a sense of menacing dread by then that the final few minutes become a musical catharsis.
https://www.blabbermouth.net/cdreviews/mestarin-kynsi/
the best metal band in the world
the best rock band in the world
the best prog band in the world
the best psych band in the world
the best band in the world
thank you to the pollrunners
hail to finland
and goodnight
― imago, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link
and it's not even their best album
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link
Fantastic record. Only my #26, however, since there was no way in hell it wouldn't reach the top 5.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link
Agree with beard papa that Hum is definitely heavy rock and good but not #2 good.
Oranssi Pazuzu otoh a predictable but deserved winner.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Friday, 12 March 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
I gotta run to take care of a few things, was waiting for this to warp up.
Thanks again for running a great poll guys, what a fantastic roll-out!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 12 March 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
A little bit samey with the last one, but still phenomenal.
(full disclosure: Oranssi Pazuzu was my gateway into metal)
― enochroot, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
Thanks to everyone who participated and made this such a lively experience!
METAL'S NOT DEAD!
(Even though it looks a hell of a lot like heavy psych/shoegazing these days.)
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:06 (three years ago) link
Metal looked like heavy psych when it was born!
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Friday, 12 March 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link
V fun poll. Thanks, pom and Oor Neechy.
I appreciate this album a lot, and I'm fine with it winning. I've loved OP for years and got to see them play at a small venue not long before everything shut down. It was one of the better shows I've seen. That said: I found the constant tension-building in this album to be something that evoked an unwelcome amount of stress in me. As much as I appreciate this album, I found to my disappointment that there was no good time to listen to it. Too stressful for background music; too slow-developing for foreground. I think maybe the ultimate way of listening to this is just to be seeing them perform it in person and be 100% focused on it. Kind of a dumb complaint, I guess, but it is what it is.
Thanks for doing the poll. Had a good time reading it and discovered some new music.
― beard papa, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
FULL RESULTS
Rank Name Score Votes #1 Votes1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi 945 24 22 Hum - Inlet 663 17 13 Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn 537 13 14 Sweven - The Eternal Resonance 534 10 65 Neptunian Maximalism - Éons 515 12 46 Elder - Omens 493 13 17 Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald 491 14 18 Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville 477 12 09 Liturgy - Origin of the Alimonies 421 12 010 Pharaoh Overlord - 6 394 9 011 Slift - Ummon 391 10 012 Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still 381 12 013 Black Curse - Endless Wound 326 10 014 Thy Catafalque - Naiv 326 8 015 Fluisteraars - Bloem 317 9 016 Botanist - Photosynthesis 314 9 017 Stabscotch - Twilight Dawn 309 8 018 Lowrider - Refractions 307 9 019 Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism 300 9 120 Sumac - May You Be Held 299 10 021 Krallice - Mass Cathexis 299 9 022 Hail Spirit Noir - Eden in Reverse 298 8 123 Duma - Duma 275 8 024 Necrot - Mortal 274 8 025 Sólstafir - Endless Twilight of Codependent Love 254 7 026 Faceless Burial - Speciation 245 7 027 Behold… the Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove 242 7 028 Old Man Gloom - Darkness of Being/Light of Meaning 235 9 029 Victory Over the Sun - A Tessitura of Transfiguration 228 6 130 Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore - Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine 221 8 031 Colour Haze - We Are 220 6 032 Couch Slut - Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll 218 6 032 Dark Buddha Rising - Mathreyata 218 6 034 Mystras - Castles Conquered and Reclaimed 215 6 035 Deftones - Ohms 214 6 036 Aktor - Placebo 211 5 137 Undeath - Lesions of a Different Kind 210 5 038 Boris - No 203 6 139 Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron 202 6 040 Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh 202 5 141 Cryptic Shift - Visitations from Enceladus 198 6 042 AC/DC - Power Up 193 6 143 Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full 191 6 043 Mamaleek - Come & See 191 6 045 Kaatayra - Toda história pela frente 188 7 046 Of Feather and Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration 187 5 047 Void Rot - Descending Pillars 184 6 148 Esoctrilihum - Eternity of Shaog 183 6 149 Machine Girl - U-Void Synthesizer 182 5 050 Sightless Pit - Grave of a Dog 177 5 151 Azarath - Saint Desecration 166 4 052 Triptykon - Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) 165 6 053 Pallbearer - Forgotten Days 163 6 054 Molassess - Through the Hollow 161 4 054 Zombi - 2020 161 4 056 Feminazgûl - No Dawn for Men 160 5 057 Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo 157 4 058 Touché Amoré - Lament 154 4 059 Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress 151 3 160 Gezan - Klue 148 4 161 Drown - Subaqueous 147 4 062 Kaatayra - Só quem viu o relâmpago à sua direita sabe 144 4 063 Blues Pills - Holy Moly 139 4 064 Fuck the Facts - Plene noirceur 137 5 065 Azusa - Loop of Yesterdays 135 3 066 Raspberry Bulbs - Before the Age of Mirrors 134 4 067 Pyrrhon - Abscess Time 133 5 068 Boris & Merzbow - 2R0I2P0 133 4 069 Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better? 131 5 070 Envy - The Fallen Crimson 129 4 071 Melted Bodies - Enjoy Yourself 127 3 172 Geld - Beyond the Floor 124 3 073 Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus 123 5 074 Malokarpatan - Krupinské ohne 121 4 075 Blue Öyster Cult - The Symbol Remains 119 3 076 Dola - Dola 117 3 076 Ocrilim - Plvence Abrost R Msitloun 117 3 078 Eternal Rot - Putridarium 114 3 079 Vladislav Delay - Rakka 113 3 080 Khthoniik Cerviiks - Æequiizoiikum 112 3 081 Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals 110 4 082 Angel Morgue - In the Morgue of Angels 109 3 082 Regarde les hommes tomber - Ascension 109 3 084 Turia - Degen van licht 108 3 185 Cirith Ungol - Forever Black 106 3 086 Ripped to Shreds - Luan 105 4 087 Biesy - Transsatanizm 105 3 087 Spirit Adrift - Enlightened in Eternity 105 3 089 Skeletal Remains - The Entombment of Chaos 102 4 090 Horisont - Sudden Death 101 4 091 Okkultokrati - La ilden lyse 101 3 092 Lamp of Murmuur - Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism 100 5 093 Bell Witch / Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough Vol. I 97 3 093 Voidceremony - Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel 97 3 095 Vile Creature - Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! 96 3 095 Ulthar - Providence 96 3 095 Worm - Gloomlord 96 3 098 Dan Weiss / Starebaby - Natural Selection 95 3 099 Undergang - Aldrig i livet 94 4 0100 Atramentus - Stygian 93 3 0101 Primitive Man - Immersion 92 4 0
102 Deep Purple - Whoosh! 92 3 0102 Pig Destroyer - The Octagonal Stairway 92 3 0104 Armagedda - Svindeldjup Ättestup 91 3 0105 Wyrmwoods - Gamma 89 3 0105 Wytch Hazel - III: Pentecost 89 3 0105 Zeal and Ardor - Wake of a Nation 89 3 0108 Psalm Zero - Sparta 86 2 0109 Skáphe - Skáphe³ 84 4 0110 Akhlys - Melinoë 84 3 0111 Mesarthim - The Degenerate Era 82 3 0112 Thaetas - Shrines to Absurdity 82 2 0113 Wake - Devouring Ruin 80 3 0114 Macabre - Carnival of Killers 79 3 0114 Plague Organ - Orphan 79 3 0116 Xibalba - Años en infierno 79 2 0117 Poppy - I Disagree 77 3 0118 Secrets of the Moon - Don’t Look Now 76 2 0119 Serpent Column - Kathodos 75 3 0120 Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst 75 2 0121 Herxheim - Incised Arrival 74 3 0122 Edenic Past - Red Amarcord 74 2 0123 Wayfarer - A Romance with Violence 72 4 0124 Caustic Wound - Death Posture 72 3 0125 All Them Witches - Nothing as the Ideal 72 2 0125 Rebel Wizard - Magickal Mystical Indifference 72 2 0127 Cosmic Putrefaction - The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers 71 3 0128 Black Foxxes - Black Foxxes 71 2 0129 Svartsyn - Requiem 69 2 0130 Fu Manchu - Fu30, Pt. 1 68 2 0130 Ahab - Live Prey 68 2 0130 Senyawa & Stephen O'Malley - Bima Sakti 68 2 0133 My Dying Bride - The Ghost of Orion 67 3 0134 Maggot Heart - Mercy Machine 67 2 0135 Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions 66 3 0136 Enslaved - Utgard 66 2 0137 Mourning Beloveth / The Ruins of Beverast - Don’t Walk on the Mass Graves 65 3 0137 Serpent Column - Endless Detainment 65 3 0139 Jordablod - The Cabinet of Numinous Song 64 2 0140 Carcass - Despicable 63 2 0140 Human Impact - Human Impact 63 2 0142 200 Stab Wounds - Piles of Festering Decomposition 62 2 0143 Chaotian - Festering Excarnation 61 2 0143 Fire-Toolz - Rainbow Bridge 61 2 0143 Motorpsycho - The All Is One 61 2 0146 Nothing - The Great Dismal 60 3 0147 Dawnwalker - Ages 60 2 0147 Ensiferum - Thalassic 60 2 0147 Lychgate - Also sprach Futura 60 2 0150 Nechochwen / Panopticon - Nechochwen / Panopticon 60 1 1151 Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant 59 2 0152 Afsky - Ofte jeg drømmer mig død 58 2 0152 Lucifer - III 58 2 0152 Moldé Volhal - Into the Cave of Ordeals… 58 2 0152 Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep 58 2 0156 Putrid Pile - Revel in Lunacy 55 2 0156 Revenge - Strike.Smother.Dehumanize 55 2 0158 Horn - Mohngang 54 2 0159 Rat King - Vicious Inhumanity 53 3 0160 Expander - Neuropunk Boostergang 53 2 0160 Mesarthim - Planet Nine 53 2 0162 Internal Rot - Grieving Birth 52 3 0163 Smoulder - Dream Quest Ends 51 2 0164 Havukruunu - Uinuos syömein sota 49 2 0164 Incantation - Sect of Vile Divinities 49 2 0164 Völur - Death Cult 49 2 0167 Thy Catafalque - Zápor 49 1 0168 Lotus Thief - Oresteia 48 2 0168 Venom Prison - Primeval 48 2 0170 Bastard Priest - Vengeance… of the Damned 48 1 0170 Bog Body / Primitive Warfare - The Gate of Grief / Undulating Torment 48 1 0170 Prometheus - Resonant Echoes from Cosmos of Old 48 1 0170 Sunken (DEN) - Livslede 48 1 0170 Taras Bulba - Soul Weaver 48 1 0175 Testament - Titans of Creation 47 3 0176 Green Druid - At the Maw of Ruin 47 2 0177 Drain - California Cursed 47 1 0177 Oksennus - Työn orjat sorron yöstä nouskaa 47 1 0177 Sentient Divide - Haunted by Cruelty 47 1 0177 Utzalu - The Grobian Fall 47 1 0181 Fuzz - III 46 2 0182 Body Void / Keeper - Body Void / Keeper 46 1 0182 Dropdead - Dropdead 2020 46 1 0184 Uniform - Shame 45 3 0185 Griiim - Bête immonde 45 2 0185 Omegavortex - Black Abomination Spawn 45 2 0187 Bernelius - Grave Dancer 45 1 0187 Vile Command - Obscene Conjurations 45 1 0187 Ygg - The Last Scald 45 1 0190 Warbringer - Weapons of Tomorrow 44 3 0191 Escuela Grind - Ppoowweerrvviioolleennccee 44 2 0192 Bedsore - Hypnagogic Hallucinations 44 1 0192 Bindrune Recordings - OVERGROW TO OVERTHROW 44 1 0192 Förfallet - Förfallet 44 1 0192 Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion 44 1 0192 Shezmu - À travers les lambeaux 44 1 0192 Yoth Iria - Under His Sway 44 1 0192 Yuri Gagarin (SWE) - The Outskirts of Reality 44 1 0199 The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic 43 2 0
200 Benediction - Scriptures 43 1 0200 Deliquesce - Engineered Frailty 43 1 0200 Septage - Septic Decadence 43 1 0203 Cadaver - Edder & Bile 42 2 0203 Greg Puciato - Child Soldier: Creator of God 42 2 0205 Limalla - ¿Ké futuro? Directo 42 1 0205 Moor Jewelry - True Opera 42 1 0207 Lustre - The Ashes of Light 41 2 0207 Stephen O'Malley - Auflösung der Zeit 41 2 0209 CCR Headcleaner - Street Riffs 41 1 0209 Infant Island - Beneath 41 1 0209 King Buffalo - Dead Star 41 1 0209 Oil Spill - Ashlands 41 1 0209 Xythlia - Immortality Through Quantum Suicide 41 1 0214 Died - Less Life 40 2 0215 Empyrean Grace - Bestowment of the Seraphic Key 40 1 0215 Kryptamok - Verisaarna 40 1 0215 The Spirit Cabinet - Bloodlines 40 1 0218 Gareth Davis and Merzbow - Broken Landscapes 39 1 0218 OvO - Miasma 39 1 0218 Seeds in Barren Fields - Sånger som rämnar 39 1 0221 Kvelertak - Splid 38 3 0222 Beast of Revelation - The Ancient Ritual of Death 38 1 0222 Cosmovore - Into the Necrosphere 38 1 0222 Draghkar - At the Crossroads of Infinity 38 1 0222 Exhumed / Gruesome - Rot Your Brain / A Mind Decayed 38 1 0222 Kadavar - The Isolation Tapes 38 1 0222 Saigan Terror - Anatomy of Saigan 38 1 0228 Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot 37 2 0228 Deeds of Flesh - Nucleus 37 2 0228 Paradise Lost - Obsidian 37 2 0231 Azath - Through a Warren of Shadow 37 1 0231 Orm - Mit blod 37 1 0231 Torture Tomb - Killing to See How It Feels 37 1 0234 Serment - Chante, ô flamme de la liberté 36 2 0234 Glorious Depravity - Ageless Violence 36 2 0234 Insect Ark - The Vanishing 36 2 0237 Anhedonist / Spectral Voice - Abject Darkness / Ineffable Winds 36 1 0237 Cryptae - Nightmare Traversal 36 1 0237 Denunciation - California Commando 36 1 0237 Ivan - Silver Screens 36 1 0237 Necrophobic - Dawn of the Damned 36 1 0237 Omination - The Pale Horseman 36 1 0243 Konvent - Puritan Masochism 35 2 0243 Midnight - Rebirth by Blasphemy 35 2 0245 Ceremonial Bloodbath - The Tides of Blood 35 1 0245 Hex A.D. - Astro Tongue in the Electric Garden 35 1 0247 Cytotoxin - Nuklearth 34 1 0247 Deafkids & Petbrick - Deafbrick 34 1 0247 Grayceon - Mothers Weavers Vultures 34 1 0247 Loathe - I Let It In and It Took Everything 34 1 0247 Mindforce - Swingin Swords Choppin Lords 34 1 0247 Salqiu - Orfeu 34 1 0247 Sons of Otis - Isolation 34 1 0247 Thee Arcadians - Current Events 34 1 0247 White Stones - Kuarahy 34 1 0256 Vader - Solitude in Madness 33 2 0257 Autonoesis - Autonoesis 33 1 0257 Barishi - Old Smoke 33 1 0257 Cianide - Unhumanized 33 1 0257 Crushing the Scepter - Echoing Screams of Madness and Delusion 33 1 0257 Kaunis Kuolematon - Syttyköön toinen aurinko 33 1 0257 Lonker See - Hamza 33 1 0257 Mrs. Piss - Self-Surgery 33 1 0264 Cro-Mags - In the Beginning 32 1 0264 Deafheaven - 10 Years Gone 32 1 0264 Etoile Filante - Magnum opus caelestis 32 1 0264 HWWAUOCH - Protest Against Sanity 32 1 0264 High Spirits - Hard to Stop 32 1 0264 Serration - Shrine of Consciousness 32 1 0264 Slutet - Love & Beauty 32 1 0264 Terminal Nation - Holocene Extinction 32 1 0264 Witches Hammer - Damnation Is My Salvation 32 1 0273 Coagulate - The Art of Cryptosis 31 1 0273 Early Moods - Spellbound 31 1 0273 Kommand - Terrorscape 31 1 0276 Spell - Opulent Decay 30 2 0277 Draug - Irreelle sindelag 30 1 0277 Lanterns - Dimensions 30 1 0277 Socialstyrelsen - Med rädsla för livet 30 1 0277 SouphL - Commérages 30 1 0277 Starbenders - Love Potion 30 1 0277 Striges - Verum veterum 30 1 0277 Valkyrie - Fear 30 1 0284 Aara - En Ergô Einai 29 1 0284 Ayyur - Balkarnin 29 1 0284 Meth Leppard - Woke 29 1 0287 Kraken Duumvirate - The Stars Below, the Seas Above 28 2 0288 Ahna - Crimson Dawn 28 1 0288 Lingua Ignota - The Caligula Demos 28 1 0288 Skelethal - Unveiling the Threshold 28 1 0288 Witching - Vernal 28 1 0292 Ingested - Where Only Gods May Tread 27 2 0292 Onslaught - Generation Antichrist 27 2 0294 Mongrel's Cross - Arcana, Scrying and Revelation 27 1 0294 Borgne - Y 27 1 0294 Gravesend - Preparations for Human Disposal 27 1 0294 Midnight Dice - Hypnotized 27 1 0294 Perdition Temple - Sacraments of Descension 27 1 0294 Siege Column - Darkside Legions 27 1 0300 Hellripper - The Affair of the Poisons 26 2 0
301 Black Flux - Black Stream 26 1 0301 Bleeding Out - Lifelong Death Fantasy 26 1 0301 Dkharmakhaoz - Proclamation ov the Black Suns 26 1 0301 Gnaw - Barking Orders 26 1 0301 Nimbifer - Demo II 26 1 0301 Omerta - Hyperviolence 26 1 0307 Bong Wizard - Left Hand Pass 25 1 0307 Crisis Sigil - Small Towns 25 1 0307 Head of the Demon - Deadly Black Doom 25 1 0307 Lethian Dreams - A Shadow of Memories 25 1 0307 Solicitor - Spectral Devastation 25 1 0307 Terrestrial Hospice - Indian Summer Brought Mushroom Clouds 25 1 0313 Code Orange - Underneath 24 1 0313 Cultum Interitum - Poison of Being 24 1 0313 Dødskvad - Krønike I 24 1 0313 Isengard - Vårjevndøgn 24 1 0313 Lugubrum - Plage chômage 24 1 0313 Old Nick - Haunted Loom!!! 24 1 0319 Myrkur - Folkesange 23 2 0320 Faron - Interloper 23 1 0320 Horna - Kuoleman kirjo 23 1 0320 Kind - Mental Nudge 23 1 0320 Serpent Omega - II 23 1 0320 Ænigmatum - Adorned in Wrath 23 1 0320 殞煞 Vengeful Spectre - 殞煞 Vengeful Spectre 23 1 0326 -(16)- - Dream Squasher 22 2 0327 Bríi - Entre tudo que é visto e oculto 22 1 0327 Fortress of the Olden Days - Verlassenheit 22 1 0327 Haunt - Flashback 22 1 0327 Question - Reflections of the Void 22 1 0327 Vassafor - To the Death 22 1 0332 Izthmi - To Traipse Alone 21 1 0332 Judicator - Let There Be Nothing 21 1 0332 Modarin - In the Distance… 21 1 0335 Aethyrick - Gnosis 20 1 0335 Fuzzriders - Fuzzriders 20 1 0335 Katalepsy - Terra mortuus est 20 1 0335 Lie in Ruins - Floating in Timeless Streams 20 1 0335 Nishaiar - Awaxhun 20 1 0335 Stillbirth - Revive the Throne 20 1 0335 Wolftooth - Valhalla 20 1 0342 Old Nick - The Night of the Ambush and the Pillage by the Queen Ann Styl'd Furniture, Animated by One of the Dozen or So Spells That Thee Eastern Vampyre Has Studied (T.N.O.T.A.A.T.P.B.T.Q.A.S.F.A.B.O.O.T.D.O.S.S.T.T.E.V.H.S) 19 1 0342 Bring Me the Axe - Bring Me the Axe 19 1 0342 Dwaal - Gospel of the Vile 19 1 0342 Eye of Nix - Ligeia 19 1 0342 Uboa - The Flesh of the World 19 1 0347 Dirt Woman - Lady of the Dunes 18 1 0347 Forlesen - Hierophant Violent 18 1 0347 Three Knee Deep - Three Knee Deep 18 1 0347 Voidsphere - To Sense | To Perceive 18 1 0351 Black Magnet - Hallucination Scene 17 1 0351 Exhumation - Eleventh Formulae 17 1 0351 Frayle - 1692 17 1 0351 Haken - Virus 17 1 0351 Urfaust - Teufelsgeist 17 1 0356 Chrome Waves - Where We Live 16 1 0356 GreVlaR - Cloud of Death 16 1 0356 Ihsahn - Telemark 16 1 0356 Infant Island - Sepulcher 16 1 0356 Nudie Mag - Our Milk 16 1 0356 Temple Nightside - Pillars of Damnation 16 1 0356 Vihameditaatio - Kuoleman silmän kontinuumi 16 1 0363 Adzes - No One Wants to Speak About It 15 1 0363 Evangelist - Ad mortem festinamus 15 1 0363 Ifernach - The Green Enchanted Forest of the Druid Wizard 15 1 0363 Pharmacist - Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition 15 1 0363 Sallow Moth - The Larval Hope 15 1 0363 Tombstone Eyes - Land in the Sky 15 1 0363 Valravn - Prey 15 1 0370 Núll - Entity 14 1 0370 Onirik - The Fire Cult Beyond Eternity 14 1 0370 Protokult - Transcending the Ruins 14 1 0370 Skeleton - Skeleton 14 1 0374 Left Cross - Prophecy of Conquest 13 1 0374 Sutrah - Aletheia 13 1 0376 Atavisma / Void Rot - Atavisma / Void Rot 12 1 0376 Chasmdweller - Bacterial Lotus 12 1 0376 Garganjua - Toward the Sun 12 1 0376 Geryon - Minoan Owl Goddess 12 1 0376 The Atomic Bitchwax - Scorpio 12 1 0381 Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment 11 2 0382 Desolate Entity - Deconstruction 11 1 0382 Fleshvessel - Bile of Man Reborn 11 1 0382 Nero di Marte - Immoto 11 1 0382 Putrescent Seepage - Dead and Demented 11 1 0386 Darren Korb - Hades: Original Game Soundtrack 10 1 0386 Drottinn - Í helgum dýrðar ljóma 10 1 0386 Junior Bruce - Pray for Death 10 1 0386 Mahr - Maelstrom 10 1 0386 Montuln - Arquetipo 10 1 0386 Shaam Larein - Sculpture 10 1 0386 Zopp - Zopp 10 1 0393 Occlith - Gates, Doorways, and Endings 8 1 0393 Aborted - La grande mascarade 8 1 0393 Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape 8 1 0393 Exocrine - Maelstrom 8 1 0393 Omnivortex - Diagrams of Consciousness 8 1 0398 Green Carnation - Leaves of Yesteryear 7 1 0398 Ventr - Numinous Negativity 7 1 0
400 Bloodsoaked Necrovoid - Expelled Into the Unknown Depths of the Unfathomable 6 1 0400 Bring Me the Horizon - Post Human: Survival Horror 6 1 0400 Cosmic Burial - Impakt 6 1 0400 Faustian Pact - Outojen tornien varjoissa 6 1 0400 Nawaharjan - Lokabrenna 6 1 0400 Turnstile & Mall Grab - Share a View 6 1 0406 Circle of Ouroborus - Viimeinen juoksu 5 1 0406 Finntroll - Vredesvävd 5 1 0406 Plague - Portraits of Mind 5 1 0409 Coffin Curse - Ceased to Be 4 1 0409 Mourners - Act I: Tragedies 4 1 0411 Blasphamagoatachrist - Bastardizing the Purity 3 1 0411 Fates Warning - Long Day Good Night 3 1 0411 Hexer - Realm of the Feathered Serpent 3 1 0411 Tombs - Under Sullen Skies 3 1 0415 Bognor - Brain Paralysis 2 1 0415 Lili Refrain - ULU 2 1 0415 Xenobiotic - Mordrake 2 1 0418 Ad Infinitum - Chapter I: Monarchy 1 1 0418 Sadness - Alluring the Distant Eye 1 1 0
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
thank you so much pomenitul and Neechy!
― gman59, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
Indeed. I've liked that stuff for longer than I've liked trve metal, so you won't hear me complaining (except performatively and/or for fun, of course).
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
Who was the "literal nazi" people expected to place so high?
I can't believe I'm the only person who voted for Mrs Piss! I can believe that I'm the only person who voted for Igorr. Oh well.. ya'll's loss.
― beard papa, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
You can post your ballots here btw.
xp I think imago was just trolling with the literal nazi (unless I missed something).
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
If anybody actually saved their ballots feel free to post them.
Pom & I do not have access to them yet, so best say a loud prayer to the metal god that is Seandalai, make your sacrifice, and perhaps he will post them for you.
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
Hate Forest had an album last year but he meant #110
My Ballot
Neptunian Maximalism - EonsKairon; IRSE! - PolysomnOranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsiPaysage d'Hiver – Im WaldSlift - UmmonLowrider – RefractionsPharaoh Overlord - 6Elder - OmensBoris - NoBotanist - PhotosynthesisRegarde Les Hommes Tomber - AscensionSUMAC - May You Be HeldSólstafir - Endless Twilight of Codependent LoveThy Catafalque - NaivOld Man Gloom - Darkness of Being/Light of MeaningEnvy - The Fallen CrimsonGrayceon – Mothers Weavers VulturesEmma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be FullHum - InletBehold...The Arctopus - Hapeleptic OvertroveBoris with Merzbow - 2R0I2P0Blues Pills - Holy MolyZombi - 2020Borgne – YCirith Ungol – Forever BlackColour Haze – We AreDark Buddha Rising – MathreyataPallbearer – Forgotten DaysHail Spirit Noir – Eden in ReverseSvalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better?Kaatayra – Só quem viu o relâmpago à sua direita sabeKaatayra – Toda história pela frenteKrallice – Mass CathexisMare Cognitum & Spectral Lore – Wanderers: Astrology of the NineMesarthim – Planet NineMesarthim – The Degenerate EraTriptykon – Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)Turia – Degen van lichtVictory Over the Sun – A Tessitura of TransfigurationSenyawa & Stephen O'Malley - Bima SaktiAhab - Live PreyNechochwen / Panopticon - Nechochwen / PanopticonThy Catafalque - ZáporYuri Gagarin (SWE) - The Outskirts of RealityThe Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | CenozoicStephen O'Malley - Auflösung der ZeitSons of Otis - IsolationDrown - SubaqueousDola - DolaTombs - Under Sullen Skies
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link
hailz to the pollrunners and everyone else for making the rollout inteersting and fun as ever. With a wirthy winner, too.
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 12 March 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link
Weighted (bold dnp):
Victory Over the Sun – A Tessitura of TransfigurationDan Weiss / Starebaby – Natural SelectionKaatayra – Toda história pela frenteDeep Purple – Whoosh!Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsiBlue Öyster Cult – The Symbol RemainsKrallice – Mass CathexisSumac – May You Be HeldWytch Hazel – III: PentecostUlcerate – Stare Into Death and Be StillBotanist – PhotosynthesisHum - InletAC/DC – Power Up
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Friday, 12 March 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link
actually forgot to vote for oranssi pazuzu. glad it beat out hum and seems like they did just fine without me.
thanks for running this poll! it's been a fun distraction from work and other terrible things.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 12 March 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link