THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

xp I should really give Qliphoth another try! I wasn’t mad about it first time round, but it might have just been a bad day.

Thanks a lot to the poll runners. I, too, liked the Lich King a lot, kind of wish I made room for it on my ballot.

Here's by ballot (weighted) - the '[would have been here]' designation is for my personal year-end list, and they would have gotten a vote in this poll at those placements, had they been nominated:

Converge - The Dusk in Us
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Venenum - Trance of Death
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Tomb Mold - Cryptic Transmissions
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
Amenra - Mass VI
Pallbearer - Heartless
Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Blaze of Perdition - Conscious Darkness
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Dumal - The Lesser God
Immolation - Atonement
Godflesh - Post Self

[Evilfeast - Elegies of the Stellar Wind - would have been here]

Fen - Winter
Necrot - Blood Offerings
Acrimonious - Eleven Dragons
Cleric - Retrocausal
Corpse Garden- IAO 269
Ensnared - Dysangelium
Hellripper - Coagulating Darkness
Bonehunter - Sexual Panic Human Machine
Serpent Column - Ornuthi Thalassa

[Resurgency - No Worlds... Nor Gods Beyond - would have been here]

[Firebreather - Firebreather would have been here]

Spirit Adrift - Curse of Conception
Dying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck With

[Bufihimat - I - would have been here]

Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
Unsane - Sterilize

[Droid - Terrestrial Mutations - would have been here]

Havukruunu - Kelle surut soi

[Slow V - Oceans - would have been here]

Desolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless Void
Aether Realm - Tarot
Temple of Void - Lords of Death
Ufomammut - 8
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon

[Sutrah - Dunes - would have been here]

[Madrost - The Essence of Time Matches No Flesh - would have been here]

Monolord - Rust
Heavydeath - Sarcophagus in the Sky
Cardinals Folly - Deranged Pagan Sons
Der Weg einer Freiheit - Finisterre
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows
Au-Dessus - End of Chapter
Anomalie - Visions

[Toxic Shock - TWENTYLASTCENTURY - would have been here]

All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal
Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
Phrenelith - Desolate Endscape
Aosoth - The Inside Scriptures
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Pyrrhon - What Passes for Survival

My ballot, weighted, bold did not place:

Cleric – Retrocausal
Krallice - Loüm
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Vin de Mia Trix - Palimpsests
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Cormorant – Diaspora
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
Shardik - Shardik
Locust Leaves - A Subtler Kind of Light
Ungfell - Tôtbringære
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
Black Anvil - As Was
Execration – Return to the Void
Ehnahre - The Marrow
Corpse Garden - IAO 269
Njiqahdda - Clouds Upon the Sanctuary
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Urarv - Aurum
Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out
Dodecahdron – Kwintessens
Dreadnought - A Wake in Sacred Waves
The Clearing Path - Watershed Between Firmament and the Realm of Hyperborea
Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
Entheos - Le Zahir
Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer
GGUW – BEHAUPTUNGSANIMALITÄT
Rubedo Nocturno - O grande pai: Abismo incriado
Weeping Sores - Weeping Sores
Blattaria – Blattaria
Klabautamann - Smaragd
Árstíðir lífsins – Heljarkviða
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Bagarre générale – Tohu-Bohu
Qhwertt - Sympathetic Horror
Wintaar - Wintaar
Hathenter - Hathenter Ouija
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
Shaarimoth - Temple of the Adversarial Fire
Pryapisme - Diabolicus felinae pandemonium
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna

Ha am I the only one who picked the Atriarch record? It's so good, really.

That's a great ballot UUG - lots of great stuff that didn't make the cut

Thanks BIP! I can't help but think I should've been more vocal about Cormorant and Black Anvil, both quite progge but accessible too.

Your ballot is full of stuff I never quite got round to lol, onto the endless backlog they go

next time let's count down every album that got a vote. two-month rollout.

whoa just saw i should have bolded Blaze of Perdition above - that was a great black metal last year.

Weighted ballot, bold did not place:

Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Glassjaw - Material Control
Enslaved - E
Fen - Winter
Chaos Moon - Eschaton Mémoire
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Sannhet - So Numb
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Brutus - Burst
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Tchornobog - Tchornobog
The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos
Black Anvil - As Was
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Sun of the Sleepless - To the Elements
Myrkur - Mareridt
All them Witches - Sleeping Through the War

Glassjaw did an album?!

EMO GOON SQUAD should hear the Ostraca if they haven’t yet...

bold DNP

Propagandhi - Victory Lap
Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
Couch Slut - Contempt
Caligula's Horse - In Contact
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Anathema - The Optimist
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Lich King - The Omniclasm
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
Lör - In Forgotten Sleep
Cloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LP
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Big|Brave - Ardor
Lunatii - Elimino
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Code Orange - Forever
Unsane - Sterilize
Godflesh - Post Self
Havukruunu - Havulinnaan
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
Soen - Lykaia
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
Brutus - Burst
Paradise Lost - Medusa
Unleash The Archers – Apex
Galneryus - Ultimate Sacrifice
Emptiness - Not for Music
Black Sites - Monochrome
Ragana - You Take Nothing
Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
Sorcerer – The Crowning Of The Fire King
Saule - s/t
Planning for Burial - Below the House
Grails - Chalice Hymnal
Glassjaw - Material Control
Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

Glassjaw did indeed do an album, much weirder and more discordant than their old stuff

I can’t wait to hear it! Btw you should check out the Wobbler album too if you didn’t - really solid lovely prog.

it's on my list!

the Cloud Rat split ended up being my most pivotal vote since it kept their lovely cover art at the top of the thread :)

Has Louis' gif loaded for him yet?

Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Sufferer - Sufferer
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Clouds Taste Satanic – The Glitter Of Infinite Hell
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Lich King - The Omniclasm
GWAR - The Blood of Gods
Pallbearer - Heartless
Dopelord - Children of the Haze
Motorpsycho - The Tower
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Ufomammut - 8
Kreator - Gods of Violence
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Orthodox - Supreme

I'm listening to Sufferer right now. It's probably a hard sell for this group, but it's a few Equal Vision people (Shane Gann, Blake Dahlinger) doing a concept hardcore album about living with severe anxiety and it's really good.

I didn't get excited about a lot of metal this year, I'm only really big on my top nine or so.

TV, Sufferer sounds cool as hell, I'm gonna put that on next.

And I totally missed this year's Ne Obliviscaris album, I'll have to check that out after work.

It's very good. I should have put it higher. (I probably had Pyrrhon too high.)

Hmmmm Exuvia is sounding a lot better to me now than it did when it came out.

Ha!

Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
Nokturnal Mortum - Істина
Colotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душі
Emyn Muil - Elenion Ancalima
Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam
Goatpenis - Anesthetic Vapor
Ungfell - Tôtbringære
Abigor / Nightbringer / Thy Darkened Shade / Mortuus - Split
Myrkur - Mareridt
Lustre - Still Innocence
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Immolation - Atonement
Árstíðir lífsins - Heljarkviða
Sinister - Syncretism
Death Like Mass - Jak zabija Diabeł
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Drudkh / Paysage d'Hiver - Somewhere Sadness Wanders / Schnee (IV)
Azarath - In Extremis
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Paradise Lost - Medusa
Fen - Winter
Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II
Wearg - Hæðen War Metal
Entrails - World Inferno
Undergang - Misantropologi
Mesarthim - Presence
Kartikeya - Samudra
Exquirla - Para quienes aún viven
Grav - Tomb Of Agony
Tomb Mold - Cryptic Transmissions
Wederganger / Urfaust - Split
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
God Dethroned - The World Ablaze
Suffocation - Of The Dark Light
Grav - Fordærvet Djævelskab
Incantation - Profane Nexus
Sinmara - Within The Weaves Of Infinity
Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Contaminated - Final Man
Contrarian - To Perceive Is To Suffer
Fides Inversa - Rite of Inverse Incarnation
Widziadło - Void
Forteresse - Récits Patriotiques
Les Discrets - Predateurs
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Severoth - Forestpaths
Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
W - Winterwomb
Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum

Oh and Brad totally otm about worst album cover

I cribbed quite a few titles from your nominations, Siegbran, as I almost systematically enjoy your picks (with a few notable exceptions, such as Nokturnal Mortum), so I look forward to checking out the rest.

And Goatpenis deserved better.

xp

yep, meanwhile there are at least 20 contenders for best imo xp

also the Sufferer album is sounding *fantastic* to me so kudos TV

I need to give the long Cloud Rat track a second listen. I mainly listened to the Moloch split from their slew of releases last year. That one flowed really nicely.

Maybe the best part of the rollout for me was seeing people get into Dreadnought, their other two albums are also very good btw

Falls of Rauros probably the best discovery personally.

Looking forward to hearing more Dreadnought! Maybe I’ll lurk around rolling metal a bit more this year.

Thanks to the pollrunners! I've got a lot of album to check out but I'm saving it for next week cuz I'll be all by myself for a few days and I plan to immerse myself in these picks. As far as ballot goes, here's mine (bold didn't place)

1. Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worlds
2. Entheos - Le Zahir (:sad face:)
3. Ex Eye - Ex Eye
4. Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
5. Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
6. Cavernlight - As We Cup Our Hands And Drink From the Stream of Our Ache
7. Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
8. Immolation - Atonement
9. Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II
10. Woe - Hope Attrition
11. Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
12. Pyrolatrous - Teneral
13. Draugsol - Volaða Land
14. Grails - Chalice Hymnal
15. Aosoth - The Inside Scriptures (really surprising absence)
16. Ufomammut - 8
17. Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense
18. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
19. Multishiva - Time Messer
20. Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
21. Boris - Dead
22. The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
23. Contrarian - To Perceive is to Suffer
24. Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
25. Spirit Adrift - Curse Of Conception
26. Undergang - Misantropologi
27. Celeste - Infidèle(s)
28. Oxbow - The Thin Black Duke
29. Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
30. Farsot - Fail·Lure

I hadn't realized so many of my picks had placed.

Forgot to bold Cavernlight, that one didn't make it.

xp Thanks pomenitul!

Unweighted:

Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Pallbearer - Heartless
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Árstíðir lífsins - Heljarkviða
Krallice - Loüm
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Godflesh - Post Self
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
Solstafir - Berdreyminn
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite

I meant to say yesterday that the Lingua Ignota album is quite something. Would definitely have made my list if I had heard it, but I didn't get the chance to hear much new stuff, even in the longer voting period, for obvious reasons.

Also What in the end do you prefer: results before Christmas or in February after the Big Poll?

either tbh. guess earlier is nicer BUT you get things like those mesarthim EPs missing cos they came out in the last week of december

Before Christmas. Im 95% wrong about longer voting periods

Xp ok 90%

Weighted

Jute Gyte - Oviri
Imajinary Friends - The Imajinary Friends
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
Vespero - Shum-Shir
Sundays & Cybele - Chaos & Systems
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Multishiva - Time Messer
Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out
Liquidarlo Celuloide - Superfriccion
Couch Slut - Contempt
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer
Rubedo Nocturno - O grande pai: Abismo incriado
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Azonic - Prospect of the Deep Volume 1
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom
ST 37 - Fuck You, You Rule: ST 37's Greatest "Hits"
10000 Russos - Distress Distress
Korto - Korto
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Feral Ohms - Feral Ohms
Unsane - Sterilize
Deep Space Destructors - Psychedology
Yagow - Yagow
Sxuperion - Myriad
Slowly Building Weapons - Sunbirds
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Nik Turner - Life in Space
Circle - Terminal
Ecstatic Vision - Raw Rock Fury
Sannhet - So Numb
Shardik - Shardik
Succumb - Succumb
Mara Balls - Elävä kivi
Moths & Locusts - Intro/Outro
The Spacelords - Water Planet
The Cosmic Dead - Psych is Dead
Void Generator - Prodromi
Grails - Chalice Hymnal
Maat Lander - Season in Space Vol. 1
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite

Siegbran is the only person who had a ballot similar to mine, lol

aye, longer voting period kills momentum and everyone just leaves it to the last week before listening and voting anyway!
the old way of 2 week nominations and 2 weeks voting was enough i think.

Personally I want all of you to tell me about all these great albums before the vanilla ilx poll so that I can put White Ward on my ballot and seem cool...

most metal albums wouldnt make it even if they extended the rollout to 150.

Chelsea Wolfe only got 3 votes i think in big poll. Was #3 here.

only elder snd ex eye made the big poll 77 iirc

btw i forgot to say during the roll out but my fave song on the converge album is the title track.

Thanks so much Simon and Kerr for doing this <3