2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 21st of February)

Last year we only got 33 ballots so lets see if we can smash that. We got over 70 one year I think way back.

I'll be sending mine in a few hours!

OK I voted, got myself to 40 on the ballot!

Listening to Caligula rn...it's something else, though I def see why ILX loves it so much. Speaking for myself, personally, I think this is basically this year's Haino/Sumac: a ferocious forbidding avant album whose raw fury is undeniable but is also a little too *Serious Art* for me to know exactly what to do with

I plan to vote from work tomorrow. I have a mixed ballot so just need to confirm the order.

or just ranked with no care given to the last 20 entries..

That's totally fine, you don't need to overthink it. Much of my bottom 20 is more or less interchangeable.

To whom it may concern:

Don't forget to vote, yo.

yeah yeah

It's-a-comin'

please keep em coming

got from 81 down to 58. almost there...

doing some last-minute relistening but planning to submit a ballot today

Sweet!

ayyyy

ballot ordered! sending momentarily. a culling most brutal.

when does the rollout begins? looking forward. are you doin' top 100 as usual?

Top 100, yeah. Was thinking 20 per day, from Monday to Friday.

TOO LOW!!!! -> i'm ready!

I should add that we will need to have enough votes to make a top 100. If we don't then it will have to be a shorter rollout.

Sent a short unweighted ballot

so fingers crossed and get those 50 vote ballots in to make sure!

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i think i failed you Oor. yeah, i could have put a 50 vote ballot together. didn't feel right, sorry. 30 vote ballot, but love'em all

thanks for voting!

I'm annoyed with myself for not doing better campaigning! Putting my ballot in order now and hoping that enough people loved the Jambinai album - Korean psych intensity with dynamic and always interesting post-metal progressions.

Me too! Hope everyone voted for Black Mountain and Neptune Power Federation and Rainbow Grave.

Submitted my ballot of 50. I hadn't heard of 10,000 Russos before this morning and it almost made my ballot. I might regret that. I left off a few favorites that might qualify as heavy rock, but I just couldn't and I might regret that, too. Toward the bottom was a bunch of indistinct death and black metal that I enjoyed throughout the year, but wouldn't be able to identify if heard in a bar.

Looking forward to seeing the results.

i prob should've campaigned too. this immortal bird record is even better than i fucking remembered

That one made the upper part of my list. Another one I really loved that I didn't see get a lot of mention here was the Vanum album. It slipped by my notice for a while I think due to being too close to Vastum and Venom Prison.

if people are still to vote then there's still time to campaign as people may give it a listen before voting.

Polling will be open til seandalai closes the voting form which I assume will be in the morning.

And anyone can resubmit a ballot (just make sure you post here saying you have)

Another one I really loved that I didn't see get a lot of mention here was the Vanum album. It slipped by my notice for a while I think due to being too close to Vastum and Venom Prison.

One of these made my ballot....

Where were Immortal Bird during our bird game marathon the other day? Haha. This is sounding lovely excellent mad.

I love them so.

vote 4 a sanity deranged by nightfell

thanks

I hope everyone who votes will post on the rollout thread but also those who didn't vote who might hear some cool new music or just want to chat on the thread. That's where the fun should be.

Only one mention of Warforged on ILX, which was BlackIronPrison's nomination? Oh wow, you've all got to hear it. Absolutely off the walls blackened death, but prog.

I'll try to post on the rollout thread, but what usually happens is by the time I catch up to it others have said what I was doing to say better than I would've.

a few reminders for anyone still making a ballot:

XOTH: insanely fun sci-fi death metal with a perfect balance of goofiness and serious chops
HAUNTER: kitchen sink black-death-whatever with a ton of incredible ornamental flourishes
WEEPING SORES: Stunning violin-aided techy death-doom ft Doug Moore of Pyrrhon
WORMED: the best grindcore(?) band on the planet
NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE DEAD THINK: the best grindcore band on the planet
FALLS OF RAUROS: Of all the bands doing the "wintry sweeping melodic BM you would listen to on a trek through the woods" thing, FOR do it best

^ Seconding those Xoth and NOKWtDT takes. I did not know Falls of Rauros had released a new album in 2019!

If you only have space in your ballot for one more tragically beautiful sun-drenched blackgaze album, make it 'Circle of Veins' by Sadness. At the very least, skip ahead to 'Cerrien' and weep.

FoR are seriously under-known/promoted considering how great they are.

I like that Cloud Rat and Monolord both had a song called 'Last Leaf' last year

speaking of, this cloud rat record is a... masterpiece?

i liked it before but it's really hitting me today

it is obviously a huge step up from qliphoth which i thought was incredible

I preferred qliphoth for its greater ratio of dreamy moments, but still think Pollinator is brilliant.

Much as I adore the PUP and Microwave albums, I cannot vote for them in good conscience in this poll.

Oor Neechy / pomenitul - very sorry - I re-submitted - Imprecation and Xoth had just been getting so many spins lately, I couldn't NOT re-submit! Hope that's cool.

reminder that oozing wound good

resubmitting is fine!

2008 30 Ballots
2009 50 Ballots
2010 80 Ballots
2011 74 Ballots
2012 51 Ballots
2013 53 Ballots
2014 62 Ballots
2015 61 Ballots
2016 42 Ballots
2017 40 Ballots
2018 33 Ballots
2019 ?

Lol Brad I fuckin love oozing wound and almost listed them upthread

Sadly there's a lot less interest in the poll now.

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