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

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!

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

Don't overburden the poor lad, he's got enough to achieve as is.

My first response to hearing this Hum album was to say "they've come back metal" because it really is that heavy

Yeah I honestly don't mind this album's inclusion at all from a taxonomical perspective.

Where did Hum place in the general poll?

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

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.

Well said!

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.

yanakoto sotto mute were robbed tbh

if only there was one album we could all agree on

I wonder which one it might be?

honestly surprised hum didn't win

I knew who'd win this poll from the moment the heavy guitars kicked in 5 minutes into my first listen of Ilmestys

anyway congrats to Loathe on topping the poll

and the winner is: Mrs Piss

you're all very cute

You'll never guess which celebrated 2020 metal album didn't make the top 101!

was hoping thaetas would make it in, that thing rules

Only one album with a #1 vote didn't make the 101

Tom knows who it is, lol

I don't think any of us saw the crabcore revival of 2020 coming, much less Attack! Attack! winning the poll.

jon knows what's up.

Alright, 'tis time.

#1
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
945 points, 24 votes, 2 #1 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2961622067_10.jpg

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.

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

and it's not even their best album

Fantastic record. Only my #26, however, since there was no way in hell it wouldn't reach the top 5.

Agree with beard papa that Hum is definitely heavy rock and good but not #2 good.

Oranssi Pazuzu otoh a predictable but deserved winner.

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!

A little bit samey with the last one, but still phenomenal.

(full disclosure: Oranssi Pazuzu was my gateway into metal)

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.)

Metal looked like heavy psych when it was born!

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.

FULL RESULTS

Rank Name Score Votes #1 Votes
1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi 945 24 2
2 Hum - Inlet 663 17 1
3 Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn 537 13 1
4 Sweven - The Eternal Resonance 534 10 6
5 Neptunian Maximalism - Éons 515 12 4
6 Elder - Omens 493 13 1
7 Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald 491 14 1
8 Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville 477 12 0
9 Liturgy - Origin of the Alimonies 421 12 0
10 Pharaoh Overlord - 6 394 9 0
11 Slift - Ummon 391 10 0
12 Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still 381 12 0
13 Black Curse - Endless Wound 326 10 0
14 Thy Catafalque - Naiv 326 8 0
15 Fluisteraars - Bloem 317 9 0
16 Botanist - Photosynthesis 314 9 0
17 Stabscotch - Twilight Dawn 309 8 0
18 Lowrider - Refractions 307 9 0
19 Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism 300 9 1
20 Sumac - May You Be Held 299 10 0
21 Krallice - Mass Cathexis 299 9 0
22 Hail Spirit Noir - Eden in Reverse 298 8 1
23 Duma - Duma 275 8 0
24 Necrot - Mortal 274 8 0
25 Sólstafir - Endless Twilight of Codependent Love 254 7 0
26 Faceless Burial - Speciation 245 7 0
27 Behold… the Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove 242 7 0
28 Old Man Gloom - Darkness of Being/Light of Meaning 235 9 0
29 Victory Over the Sun - A Tessitura of Transfiguration 228 6 1
30 Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore - Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine 221 8 0
31 Colour Haze - We Are 220 6 0
32 Couch Slut - Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll 218 6 0
32 Dark Buddha Rising - Mathreyata 218 6 0
34 Mystras - Castles Conquered and Reclaimed 215 6 0
35 Deftones - Ohms 214 6 0
36 Aktor - Placebo 211 5 1
37 Undeath - Lesions of a Different Kind 210 5 0
38 Boris - No 203 6 1
39 Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron 202 6 0
40 Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh 202 5 1
41 Cryptic Shift - Visitations from Enceladus 198 6 0
42 AC/DC - Power Up 193 6 1
43 Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full 191 6 0
43 Mamaleek - Come & See 191 6 0
45 Kaatayra - Toda história pela frente 188 7 0
46 Of Feather and Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration 187 5 0
47 Void Rot - Descending Pillars 184 6 1
48 Esoctrilihum - Eternity of Shaog 183 6 1
49 Machine Girl - U-Void Synthesizer 182 5 0
50 Sightless Pit - Grave of a Dog 177 5 1
51 Azarath - Saint Desecration 166 4 0
52 Triptykon - Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) 165 6 0
53 Pallbearer - Forgotten Days 163 6 0
54 Molassess - Through the Hollow 161 4 0
54 Zombi - 2020 161 4 0
56 Feminazgûl - No Dawn for Men 160 5 0
57 Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo 157 4 0
58 Touché Amoré - Lament 154 4 0
59 Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress 151 3 1
60 Gezan - Klue 148 4 1
61 Drown - Subaqueous 147 4 0
62 Kaatayra -  Só quem viu o relâmpago à sua direita sabe 144 4 0
63 Blues Pills - Holy Moly 139 4 0
64 Fuck the Facts - Plene noirceur 137 5 0
65 Azusa - Loop of Yesterdays 135 3 0
66 Raspberry Bulbs - Before the Age of Mirrors 134 4 0
67 Pyrrhon - Abscess Time 133 5 0
68 Boris & Merzbow - 2R0I2P0 133 4 0
69 Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better? 131 5 0
70 Envy - The Fallen Crimson 129 4 0
71 Melted Bodies - Enjoy Yourself 127 3 1
72 Geld - Beyond the Floor 124 3 0
73 Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus 123 5 0
74 Malokarpatan - Krupinské ohne 121 4 0
75 Blue Öyster Cult - The Symbol Remains 119 3 0
76 Dola - Dola 117 3 0
76 Ocrilim - Plvence Abrost R Msitloun 117 3 0
78 Eternal Rot - Putridarium 114 3 0
79 Vladislav Delay - Rakka 113 3 0
80 Khthoniik Cerviiks - Æequiizoiikum 112 3 0
81 Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals 110 4 0
82 Angel Morgue - In the Morgue of Angels 109 3 0
82 Regarde les hommes tomber - Ascension 109 3 0
84 Turia - Degen van licht 108 3 1
85 Cirith Ungol - Forever Black 106 3 0
86 Ripped to Shreds - Luan 105 4 0
87 Biesy - Transsatanizm 105 3 0
87 Spirit Adrift - Enlightened in Eternity 105 3 0
89 Skeletal Remains - The Entombment of Chaos 102 4 0
90 Horisont - Sudden Death 101 4 0
91 Okkultokrati - La ilden lyse 101 3 0
92 Lamp of Murmuur - Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism 100 5 0
93 Bell Witch / Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough Vol. I 97 3 0
93 Voidceremony - Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel 97 3 0
95 Vile Creature - Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! 96 3 0
95 Ulthar - Providence 96 3 0
95 Worm - Gloomlord 96 3 0
98 Dan Weiss / Starebaby - Natural Selection 95 3 0
99 Undergang - Aldrig i livet 94 4 0
100 Atramentus - Stygian 93 3 0
101 Primitive Man - Immersion 92 4 0

102 Deep Purple -  Whoosh! 92 3 0
102 Pig Destroyer - The Octagonal Stairway 92 3 0
104 Armagedda - Svindeldjup Ättestup 91 3 0
105 Wyrmwoods - Gamma 89 3 0
105 Wytch Hazel - III: Pentecost 89 3 0
105 Zeal and Ardor - Wake of a Nation 89 3 0
108 Psalm Zero - Sparta 86 2 0
109 Skáphe - Skáphe³ 84 4 0
110 Akhlys - Melinoë 84 3 0
111 Mesarthim - The Degenerate Era 82 3 0
112 Thaetas - Shrines to Absurdity 82 2 0
113 Wake - Devouring Ruin 80 3 0
114 Macabre - Carnival of Killers 79 3 0
114 Plague Organ - Orphan 79 3 0
116 Xibalba - Años en infierno 79 2 0
117 Poppy - I Disagree 77 3 0
118 Secrets of the Moon - Don’t Look Now 76 2 0
119 Serpent Column - Kathodos 75 3 0
120 Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst 75 2 0
121 Herxheim - Incised Arrival 74 3 0
122 Edenic Past - Red Amarcord 74 2 0
123 Wayfarer - A Romance with Violence 72 4 0
124 Caustic Wound - Death Posture 72 3 0
125 All Them Witches - Nothing as the Ideal 72 2 0
125 Rebel Wizard - Magickal Mystical Indifference 72 2 0
127 Cosmic Putrefaction - The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers 71 3 0
128 Black Foxxes - Black Foxxes 71 2 0
129 Svartsyn - Requiem 69 2 0
130 Fu Manchu -  Fu30, Pt. 1 68 2 0
130 Ahab - Live Prey 68 2 0
130 Senyawa & Stephen O'Malley - Bima Sakti 68 2 0
133 My Dying Bride - The Ghost of Orion 67 3 0
134 Maggot Heart - Mercy Machine 67 2 0
135 Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions 66 3 0
136 Enslaved - Utgard 66 2 0
137 Mourning Beloveth / The Ruins of Beverast - Don’t Walk on the Mass Graves 65 3 0
137 Serpent Column - Endless Detainment 65 3 0
139 Jordablod - The Cabinet of Numinous Song 64 2 0
140 Carcass - Despicable 63 2 0
140 Human Impact - Human Impact 63 2 0
142 200 Stab Wounds - Piles of Festering Decomposition 62 2 0
143 Chaotian - Festering Excarnation 61 2 0
143 Fire-Toolz - Rainbow Bridge 61 2 0
143 Motorpsycho -  The All Is One 61 2 0
146 Nothing - The Great Dismal 60 3 0
147 Dawnwalker -  Ages 60 2 0
147 Ensiferum - Thalassic 60 2 0
147 Lychgate - Also sprach Futura 60 2 0
150 Nechochwen / Panopticon - Nechochwen / Panopticon 60 1 1
151 Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant 59 2 0
152 Afsky - Ofte jeg drømmer mig død 58 2 0
152 Lucifer - III 58 2 0
152 Moldé Volhal - Into the Cave of Ordeals… 58 2 0
152 Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep 58 2 0
156 Putrid Pile - Revel in Lunacy 55 2 0
156 Revenge - Strike.Smother.Dehumanize 55 2 0
158 Horn - Mohngang 54 2 0
159 Rat King - Vicious Inhumanity 53 3 0
160 Expander - Neuropunk Boostergang 53 2 0
160 Mesarthim - Planet Nine 53 2 0
162 Internal Rot - Grieving Birth 52 3 0
163 Smoulder - Dream Quest Ends 51 2 0
164 Havukruunu - Uinuos syömein sota 49 2 0
164 Incantation - Sect of Vile Divinities 49 2 0
164 Völur - Death Cult 49 2 0
167 Thy Catafalque - Zápor 49 1 0
168 Lotus Thief - Oresteia 48 2 0
168 Venom Prison - Primeval 48 2 0
170 Bastard Priest - Vengeance… of the Damned 48 1 0
170 Bog Body / Primitive Warfare - The Gate of Grief / Undulating Torment 48 1 0
170 Prometheus - Resonant Echoes from Cosmos of Old 48 1 0
170 Sunken (DEN) - Livslede 48 1 0
170 Taras Bulba - Soul Weaver 48 1 0
175 Testament - Titans of Creation 47 3 0
176 Green Druid - At the Maw of Ruin 47 2 0
177 Drain - California Cursed 47 1 0
177 Oksennus - Työn orjat sorron yöstä nouskaa 47 1 0
177 Sentient Divide - Haunted by Cruelty 47 1 0
177 Utzalu - The Grobian Fall 47 1 0
181 Fuzz - III 46 2 0
182 Body Void / Keeper - Body Void / Keeper 46 1 0
182 Dropdead -  Dropdead 2020 46 1 0
184 Uniform - Shame 45 3 0
185 Griiim - Bête immonde 45 2 0
185 Omegavortex -  Black Abomination Spawn 45 2 0
187 Bernelius - Grave Dancer 45 1 0
187 Vile Command - Obscene Conjurations 45 1 0
187 Ygg - The Last Scald 45 1 0
190 Warbringer - Weapons of Tomorrow 44 3 0
191 Escuela Grind - Ppoowweerrvviioolleennccee 44 2 0
192 Bedsore - Hypnagogic Hallucinations 44 1 0
192 Bindrune Recordings - OVERGROW TO OVERTHROW 44 1 0
192 Förfallet - Förfallet 44 1 0
192 Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion 44 1 0
192 Shezmu - À travers les lambeaux 44 1 0
192 Yoth Iria - Under His Sway 44 1 0
192 Yuri Gagarin (SWE) - The Outskirts of Reality 44 1 0
199 The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic 43 2 0

200 Benediction - Scriptures 43 1 0
200 Deliquesce - Engineered Frailty 43 1 0
200 Septage - Septic Decadence 43 1 0
203 Cadaver - Edder & Bile 42 2 0
203 Greg Puciato - Child Soldier: Creator of God 42 2 0
205 Limalla -  ¿Ké futuro? Directo 42 1 0
205 Moor Jewelry - True Opera 42 1 0
207 Lustre - The Ashes of Light 41 2 0
207 Stephen O'Malley -  Auflösung der Zeit 41 2 0
209 CCR Headcleaner - Street Riffs 41 1 0
209 Infant Island - Beneath 41 1 0
209 King Buffalo - Dead Star 41 1 0
209 Oil Spill - Ashlands 41 1 0
209 Xythlia - Immortality Through Quantum Suicide 41 1 0
214 Died - Less Life 40 2 0
215 Empyrean Grace - Bestowment of the Seraphic Key 40 1 0
215 Kryptamok - Verisaarna 40 1 0
215 The Spirit Cabinet - Bloodlines 40 1 0
218 Gareth Davis and Merzbow - Broken Landscapes 39 1 0
218 OvO - Miasma 39 1 0
218 Seeds in Barren Fields - Sånger som rämnar 39 1 0
221 Kvelertak - Splid 38 3 0
222 Beast of Revelation -  The Ancient Ritual of Death 38 1 0
222 Cosmovore - Into the Necrosphere 38 1 0
222 Draghkar - At the Crossroads of Infinity 38 1 0
222 Exhumed / Gruesome - Rot Your Brain / A Mind Decayed 38 1 0
222 Kadavar - The Isolation Tapes 38 1 0
222 Saigan Terror -  Anatomy of Saigan 38 1 0
228 Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot 37 2 0
228 Deeds of Flesh  -  Nucleus 37 2 0
228 Paradise Lost - Obsidian 37 2 0
231 Azath - Through a Warren of Shadow 37 1 0
231 Orm - Mit blod 37 1 0
231 Torture Tomb - Killing to See How It Feels 37 1 0
234 Serment - Chante, ô flamme de la liberté 36 2 0
234 Glorious Depravity - Ageless Violence 36 2 0
234 Insect Ark - The Vanishing 36 2 0
237 Anhedonist / Spectral Voice - Abject Darkness​ / ​Ineffable Winds 36 1 0
237 Cryptae - Nightmare Traversal 36 1 0
237 Denunciation - California Commando 36 1 0
237 Ivan - Silver Screens 36 1 0
237 Necrophobic - Dawn of the Damned 36 1 0
237 Omination -  The Pale Horseman 36 1 0
243 Konvent - Puritan Masochism 35 2 0
243 Midnight - Rebirth by Blasphemy 35 2 0
245 Ceremonial Bloodbath - The Tides of Blood 35 1 0
245 Hex A.D. - Astro Tongue in the Electric Garden 35 1 0
247 Cytotoxin - Nuklearth 34 1 0
247 Deafkids & Petbrick - Deafbrick 34 1 0
247 Grayceon - Mothers Weavers Vultures 34 1 0
247 Loathe - I Let It In and It Took Everything 34 1 0
247 Mindforce - Swingin Swords Choppin Lords 34 1 0
247 Salqiu - Orfeu 34 1 0
247 Sons of Otis - Isolation 34 1 0
247 Thee Arcadians -  Current Events 34 1 0
247 White Stones - Kuarahy 34 1 0
256 Vader - Solitude in Madness 33 2 0
257 Autonoesis - Autonoesis 33 1 0
257 Barishi - Old Smoke 33 1 0
257 Cianide - Unhumanized 33 1 0
257 Crushing the Scepter - Echoing Screams of Madness and Delusion 33 1 0
257 Kaunis Kuolematon - Syttyköön toinen aurinko 33 1 0
257 Lonker See - Hamza 33 1 0
257 Mrs. Piss - Self-Surgery 33 1 0
264 Cro-Mags - In the Beginning 32 1 0
264 Deafheaven -  10 Years Gone 32 1 0
264 Etoile Filante - Magnum opus caelestis 32 1 0
264 HWWAUOCH - Protest Against Sanity 32 1 0
264 High Spirits - Hard to Stop 32 1 0
264 Serration - Shrine of Consciousness 32 1 0
264 Slutet - Love & Beauty 32 1 0
264 Terminal Nation - Holocene Extinction 32 1 0
264 Witches Hammer - Damnation Is My Salvation 32 1 0
273 Coagulate - The Art of Cryptosis 31 1 0
273 Early Moods - Spellbound 31 1 0
273 Kommand - Terrorscape 31 1 0
276 Spell - Opulent Decay 30 2 0
277 Draug - Irreelle sindelag 30 1 0
277 Lanterns - Dimensions 30 1 0
277 Socialstyrelsen - Med rädsla för livet 30 1 0
277 SouphL - Commérages 30 1 0
277 Starbenders - Love Potion 30 1 0
277 Striges - Verum veterum 30 1 0
277 Valkyrie - Fear 30 1 0
284 Aara - En Ergô Einai 29 1 0
284 Ayyur - Balkarnin 29 1 0
284 Meth Leppard - Woke 29 1 0
287 Kraken Duumvirate -  The Stars Below, the Seas Above 28 2 0
288 Ahna - Crimson Dawn 28 1 0
288 Lingua Ignota -  The Caligula Demos 28 1 0
288 Skelethal - Unveiling the Threshold 28 1 0
288 Witching - Vernal 28 1 0
292 Ingested - Where Only Gods May Tread 27 2 0
292 Onslaught - Generation Antichrist 27 2 0
294 Mongrel's Cross - Arcana, Scrying and Revelation 27 1 0
294 Borgne - Y 27 1 0
294 Gravesend - Preparations for Human Disposal 27 1 0
294 Midnight Dice - Hypnotized 27 1 0
294 Perdition Temple - Sacraments of Descension 27 1 0
294 Siege Column - Darkside Legions 27 1 0
300 Hellripper - The Affair of the Poisons 26 2 0

301 Black Flux - Black Stream 26 1 0
301 Bleeding Out - Lifelong Death Fantasy 26 1 0
301 Dkharmakhaoz - Proclamation ov the Black Suns 26 1 0
301 Gnaw - Barking Orders 26 1 0
301 Nimbifer - Demo II 26 1 0
301 Omerta - Hyperviolence 26 1 0
307 Bong Wizard - Left Hand Pass 25 1 0
307 Crisis Sigil - Small Towns 25 1 0
307 Head of the Demon - Deadly Black Doom 25 1 0
307 Lethian Dreams - A Shadow of Memories 25 1 0
307 Solicitor - Spectral Devastation 25 1 0
307 Terrestrial Hospice - Indian Summer Brought Mushroom Clouds 25 1 0
313 Code Orange - Underneath 24 1 0
313 Cultum Interitum - Poison of Being 24 1 0
313 Dødskvad - Krønike I 24 1 0
313 Isengard - Vårjevndøgn 24 1 0
313 Lugubrum - Plage chômage 24 1 0
313 Old Nick - Haunted Loom!!! 24 1 0
319 Myrkur - Folkesange 23 2 0
320 Faron - Interloper 23 1 0
320 Horna -  Kuoleman kirjo 23 1 0
320 Kind - Mental Nudge 23 1 0
320 Serpent Omega - II 23 1 0
320 Ænigmatum - Adorned in Wrath 23 1 0
320 殞煞 Vengeful Spectre - 殞煞 Vengeful Spectre 23 1 0
326 -(16)- - Dream Squasher 22 2 0
327 Bríi - Entre tudo que é visto e oculto 22 1 0
327 Fortress of the Olden Days - Verlassenheit 22 1 0
327 Haunt - Flashback 22 1 0
327 Question - Reflections of the Void 22 1 0
327 Vassafor - To the Death 22 1 0
332 Izthmi - To Traipse Alone 21 1 0
332 Judicator - Let There Be Nothing 21 1 0
332 Modarin - In the Distance… 21 1 0
335 Aethyrick - Gnosis 20 1 0
335 Fuzzriders - Fuzzriders 20 1 0
335 Katalepsy - Terra mortuus est 20 1 0
335 Lie in Ruins - Floating in Timeless Streams 20 1 0
335 Nishaiar -  Awaxhun 20 1 0
335 Stillbirth - Revive the Throne 20 1 0
335 Wolftooth - Valhalla 20 1 0
342 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 0
342 Bring Me the Axe - Bring Me the Axe 19 1 0
342 Dwaal - Gospel of the Vile 19 1 0
342 Eye of Nix - Ligeia 19 1 0
342 Uboa - The Flesh of the World 19 1 0
347 Dirt Woman - Lady of the Dunes 18 1 0
347 Forlesen - Hierophant Violent 18 1 0
347 Three Knee Deep - Three Knee Deep 18 1 0
347 Voidsphere - To Sense | To Perceive 18 1 0
351 Black Magnet - Hallucination Scene 17 1 0
351 Exhumation - Eleventh Formulae 17 1 0
351 Frayle - 1692 17 1 0
351 Haken -  Virus 17 1 0
351 Urfaust - Teufelsgeist 17 1 0
356 Chrome Waves - Where We Live 16 1 0
356 GreVlaR - Cloud of Death 16 1 0
356 Ihsahn - Telemark 16 1 0
356 Infant Island - Sepulcher 16 1 0
356 Nudie Mag - Our Milk 16 1 0
356 Temple Nightside - Pillars of Damnation 16 1 0
356 Vihameditaatio - Kuoleman silmän kontinuumi 16 1 0
363 Adzes - No One Wants to Speak About It 15 1 0
363 Evangelist - Ad mortem festinamus 15 1 0
363 Ifernach - The Green Enchanted Forest of the Druid Wizard 15 1 0
363 Pharmacist - Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition 15 1 0
363 Sallow Moth - The Larval Hope 15 1 0
363 Tombstone Eyes - Land in the Sky 15 1 0
363 Valravn - Prey 15 1 0
370 Núll - Entity 14 1 0
370 Onirik - The Fire Cult Beyond Eternity 14 1 0
370 Protokult - Transcending the Ruins 14 1 0
370 Skeleton - Skeleton 14 1 0
374 Left Cross - Prophecy of Conquest 13 1 0
374 Sutrah - Aletheia 13 1 0
376 Atavisma / Void Rot - Atavisma / Void Rot 12 1 0
376 Chasmdweller - Bacterial Lotus 12 1 0
376 Garganjua - Toward the Sun 12 1 0
376 Geryon - Minoan Owl Goddess 12 1 0
376 The Atomic Bitchwax - Scorpio 12 1 0
381 Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment 11 2 0
382 Desolate Entity - Deconstruction 11 1 0
382 Fleshvessel - Bile of Man Reborn 11 1 0
382 Nero di Marte - Immoto 11 1 0
382 Putrescent Seepage -  Dead and Demented 11 1 0
386 Darren Korb - Hades: Original Game Soundtrack 10 1 0
386 Drottinn - Í helgum dýrðar ljóma 10 1 0
386 Junior Bruce - Pray for Death 10 1 0
386 Mahr - Maelstrom 10 1 0
386 Montuln -  Arquetipo 10 1 0
386 Shaam Larein - Sculpture 10 1 0
386 Zopp - Zopp 10 1 0
393 Occlith - Gates, Doorways, and Endings 8 1 0
393 Aborted - La grande mascarade 8 1 0
393 Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape 8 1 0
393 Exocrine - Maelstrom 8 1 0
393 Omnivortex -  Diagrams of Consciousness 8 1 0
398 Green Carnation - Leaves of Yesteryear 7 1 0
398 Ventr - Numinous Negativity 7 1 0

400 Bloodsoaked Necrovoid - Expelled Into the Unknown Depths of the Unfathomable 6 1 0
400 Bring Me the Horizon - Post Human: Survival Horror 6 1 0
400 Cosmic Burial - Impakt 6 1 0
400 Faustian Pact - Outojen tornien varjoissa 6 1 0
400 Nawaharjan - Lokabrenna 6 1 0
400 Turnstile & Mall Grab - Share a View 6 1 0
406 Circle of Ouroborus - Viimeinen juoksu 5 1 0
406 Finntroll - Vredesvävd 5 1 0
406 Plague - Portraits of Mind 5 1 0
409 Coffin Curse - Ceased to Be 4 1 0
409 Mourners - Act I: Tragedies 4 1 0
411 Blasphamagoatachrist - Bastardizing the Purity 3 1 0
411 Fates Warning - Long Day Good Night 3 1 0
411 Hexer - Realm of the Feathered Serpent 3 1 0
411 Tombs - Under Sullen Skies 3 1 0
415 Bognor - Brain Paralysis 2 1 0
415 Lili Refrain - ULU 2 1 0
415 Xenobiotic - Mordrake 2 1 0
418 Ad Infinitum - Chapter I: Monarchy 1 1 0
418 Sadness - Alluring the Distant Eye 1 1 0

thank you so much pomenitul and Neechy!

Metal looked like heavy psych when it was born!

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).

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.

You can post your ballots here btw.

xp I think imago was just trolling with the literal nazi (unless I missed something).

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.

Hate Forest had an album last year but he meant #110

My Ballot

Neptunian Maximalism - Eons
Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Slift - Ummon
Lowrider – Refractions
Pharaoh Overlord - 6
Elder - Omens
Boris - No
Botanist - Photosynthesis
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension
SUMAC - May You Be Held
Sólstafir - Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
Thy Catafalque - Naiv
Old Man Gloom - Darkness of Being/Light of Meaning
Envy - The Fallen Crimson
Grayceon – Mothers Weavers Vultures
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full
Hum - Inlet
Behold...The Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove
Boris with Merzbow - 2R0I2P0
Blues Pills - Holy Moly
Zombi - 2020
Borgne – Y
Cirith Ungol – Forever Black
Colour Haze – We Are
Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata
Pallbearer – Forgotten Days
Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse
Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Kaatayra – Só quem viu o relâmpago à sua direita sabe
Kaatayra – Toda história pela frente
Krallice – Mass Cathexis
Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Mesarthim – Planet Nine
Mesarthim – The Degenerate Era
Triptykon – Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
Turia – Degen van licht
Victory Over the Sun – A Tessitura of Transfiguration
Senyawa & Stephen O'Malley - Bima Sakti
Ahab - Live Prey
Nechochwen / Panopticon - Nechochwen / Panopticon
Thy Catafalque - Zápor
Yuri Gagarin (SWE) - The Outskirts of Reality
The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
Stephen O'Malley -  Auflösung der Zeit
Sons of Otis - Isolation
Drown - Subaqueous
Dola - Dola
Tombs - Under Sullen Skies

hailz to the pollrunners and everyone else for making the rollout inteersting and fun as ever. With a wirthy winner, too.

Weighted (bold dnp):

Victory Over the Sun – A Tessitura of Transfiguration
Dan Weiss / Starebaby – Natural Selection
Kaatayra – Toda história pela frente
Deep Purple – Whoosh!
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Blue Öyster Cult – The Symbol Remains
Krallice – Mass Cathexis
Sumac – May You Be Held
Wytch Hazel – III: Pentecost
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Botanist – Photosynthesis
Hum - Inlet
AC/DC – Power Up

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.

xxp WORTHY