~~~ 15 YEARS OF ILM POLL!!! ~~~ (Metal & Heavy Rock [+ related sub-genres] Edition) VOTING & DISCUSSION THREAD. ALL ILXORS WELCOME TO PARTICPATE!! Voting Ends 11.59pm UK Time September 9 2016 .

Remember to keep checking pastebin before voting. The nominations requested earlier will be added by seandalai. I have no access to pastebin

Pop fans obv. should be reevaluating Andrew W.K., who I feel is chronically underrated and disrespected.

well, people should remember it's not just a metal poll , it's heavy rock too.

I've only ever heard a few songs by andrew wk that I like. What is his best album?

as for AWK here's my rundown: Mother of Mankind > The Wolf > Close Calls With Brick Walls > I Get Wet > his other things (soundtracks, piano stuff, etc.)

His best power ballads are on The Wolf, imo. Close Calls + MoMK was released as a double album at one point so if nothing else I'd say check that out it has a great mix of stuff. If you can get past the realization that his melodies and lyrics have the depth of nursery rhymes he's really really fun.

I suppose his advice article in the Village Voice is actually the best thing he's produced, but that's not music.

A couple more duplicates in the list:
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
Dark Space III

Wrong album title:
Grand Supreme Blood Court - Bow Down Before The Blood Court

Hoping that my policy of not nominating anything works out

well that was a silly policy

I don't even remember metal

you never metal her

Just realised no Deftones albums were nominated, was hoping to vote for them as my token nu-metal act.

Well if you follow the Artist - Album format I can add it to google docs and seandalai will add it to the pastebin noms. But only request these things if you actually do at least consider voting for it.

I dont think seandalai has updated pastebin from yesterday so it shouldnt be a problem.

Cool, thanks:

Deftones - White Pony
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Deftones - Koi no yokan

Pretty sure all three of these will make my ballot.

Ok, I dont know when seandalai will get round to adding them as he's a busy chap.

I managed to cut down my draft longlist from 150 to 100. Sorted out my provisional top 10. That was really really tough. I wish I had asked seandalai to make the top 15 get extra points not just the top 10.

Is that possible seandalai?

Limp Bizkit looked promising as the flag for nu-metal voters to rally around.

If the top 15 or top 20 had extra weight then that would make it easier then everyone could then just fill upto 100 or whatever number they can manage and have that part unweighted so they get the same amount of points but those who love to rank 1-100 can do so too.

I hope everyone iwll try make the largest ballot they can. The two months voting period means noone has to rush in ballots and can use the time to listen or relisten to albums.

Which they can add on the playlist for everyone to check out
https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/4S8akTlAsZqRGc0eSPnoqy
spotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:4S8akTlAsZqRGc0eSPnoqy

Siegbran, Frobisher and dj martian will have trouble cutting down to a top 100 I'm sure!

Hate to spoil the fun, but this is from 1995:
Petrucci, John- Rock Discipline (DVD)

it should not have been in it anyway. there's always one stupid cunt who has to troll, lol

Anybody have any albums they wish to recommend to those reading the thread?

that noisy one

serious answers please

I want to put a word in for that Plebeian Grandstand album I nominated - sort of discordant black metal/metalcore crossover (someone on RYM called them 'Deathscreamo Omega'). Really great.

Are EPs eligible as well? Or only full lengths?

That was one for the nominations thread. I dont actually remember what was decided.

I nominated an EP and intend to vote for it.

new board description

Unlike the all-time poll, which everyone knew who would win (but not which album), I dont see any actual certain winner standing out.
There's about at least 20 classics could win but none have sold so much that it makes them overwhelming favourites.

I think the past 15 years has been a great time for metal and heavy rock has been making a comeback to as people get fed up with extremity for extremities sake.

How is everyone deciding their tops tens? Most listened to albums? Or do you need to cut that shortlist down by ways such as 'game-changers'?

And how about the rest of the top 100 or whatever you choose to do?

Contenderizer and imago you always have convoluted ways of making ballots , how are you approaching this?

I'm just going to go through the nominations list and put the ones I've heard in order

Not going to use the time to re-listen or listen to albums you haven't heard?

The scope here is huge...danger of being too disparate for a consensus?

Might not be a bad thing?

ILM has a weird thing of wanting weird results unlike everywhere else who that has people who complains that *insert album here* isnt at #1 or whatever.

I slogged through the As and only saw 14 albums I'd heard (and most of those were by Amon Amarth) so I'm gonna chalk this up to "ILM's version of metal is not metal as I understand it" once again and walk away.

In before Cosmic Slop yells "IT'S NOT JUST A METAL POLL" again

yeah, a poll too disparate to achieve consensus is the best kind of poll. Nothing to reach against, no canon to alter -- just a list of the actual favorite albums by the people voting, where everyone is likely to be surprised and learn about new stuff

(誤訳侮辱), you nominated SHITLOADS of stuff you claimed to like.

Want some actual metal for your metal poll? Here you go.

Disturbed - The Sickness
Disturbed - Believe
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Disturbed - Indestructible
Disturbed - Asylum
Disturbed - Immortalized
Trivium - Ascendancy
Trivium - The Crusade
Trivium - Shogun
Trivium - In Waves
Trivium - Vengeance Falls
Trivium - Silence in the Snow
Korn - The Path of Totality
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
Lacuna Coil - Comalies
Lacuna Coil - Karmacode
Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy
In This Moment - The Dream
In This Moment - A Star-Crossed Wasteland
In This Moment - Blood
Ozzy Osbourne - Down To Earth
Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
Ozzy Osbourne - Scream
Rob Zombie - The Sinister Urge
Rob Zombie - Educated Horses
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe 2
Rob Zombie - Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
Slipknot - Iowa
Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Slipknot - All Hope is Gone
Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter
Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
Machine Head - The Blackening
Machine Head - Unto the Locust
Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Lamb of God - New American Gospel
Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Lamb of God - Wrath
Lamb of God - Resolution
Lamb of God - VII: Sturm und Drang
Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Dream Theater - Dream Theater
Dream Theater - The Astonishing
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Deliverance
Opeth - Damnation
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Opeth - Watershed
Opeth - Heritage
Opeth - Pale Communion
Amon Amarth - The Crusher
Amon Amarth - Versus the World
Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 25 February 2016 14:13 (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Motörhead - We are Motörhead
Motörhead - Hammered
Motörhead - Inferno
Motörhead - Kiss of Death
Motörhead - Motörizer
Motörhead - The Wörld is Yours
Motörhead - Aftershock
Motörhead - Bad Magic
Metallica - St. Anger
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Megadeth - United Abominations
Megadeth - Endgame
Megadeth - Thirteen
Megadeth - Super Collider
Megadeth - Dystopia
Slayer - God Hates Us All
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Slayer - World Painted Blood
Slayer - Repentless
Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
Cavalera Conspiracy - Blunt Force Trauma
Cavalera Conspiracy - Pandemonium
Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Cannibal Corpse - Torture
Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
Soulfly - Primitive
Soulfly - 3
Soulfly - Dark Ages
Soulfly - Prophecy
Soulfly - Conquer
Soulfly - Omen
Soulfly - Enslaved
Soulfly - Savages
Soulfly - Archangel

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱),

what would a metal poll be without a virtual passive aggressive mosh pit

Phil seems to have a thing about hating lots of nominations. He tells us every poll.

Got my top 50 ready now

Contenderizer and imago you always have convoluted ways of making ballots , how are you approaching this?

― Cosmic Slop, Monday, July 18, 2016 12:09 PM (Yesterday)

i'm gonna vote for some albums i like

also ban alcest

why

Everyone vote Alcest!

actually nobody nominated Le Secret. When they actually were black metal.
I must ask seandalai to add that.

Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde is going to be pretty high up my ballot I reckon. At least Les Voyages... will probably make an appearance too.

If anyone wants to recommend any early-'00s black metal stuff on the noms list I will definitely give it a listen, that's kind a blind spot for me.

Pre-2003, say.

bedtime alas, need to wake at 7 tomorrow

excited for the roll-out though! top 101? 200 last time out was a little ott maybe

I dont do piffling 100's

Ideally it would start at 666

If Turisas dont win the poll btw blame their biggest fan for not voting

for imago
http://i.imgur.com/OpzyAHo.png

i'm up for metal on plug!

Decibel’s Top 100 Albums of the Decade

1 - Converge - Jane Doe

Cave In – Jupiter (Hydra Head 2000)
Opeth – Blackwater Park (Koch 2001)
Isis – Oceanic (Ipecac 2002)
Mastodon – Remission (Relapse 2002)
Katatonia – Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Peaceville 2001)
Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (Interscope 2002)
Iron Maiden – Brave New World (Columbia 2000)
Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb (Relapse 2007)
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (Rise Above 2000)
Torche – Meanderthal (Hydra Head 2008)
Discordance Axis – The Inalienable Dreamless (Hydra Head 2000)
Baroness – Blue Record (Relapse 2009)
Napalm Death – Enemy Of The Music Business (Dream Catcher 2000)
Pelican – The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw (Hydra Head 2005)
The Red Chord – Clients (Metal Blade 2005)
Converge – Axe To Fall (Epitaph 2009)
Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets (Relapse 2001)
Melt-Banana – Cell Scape (A-Zap 2003)
Agalloch – Ashes Against The Grain (The End 2006)
Enslaved – Isa (Candlelight 2004)
Tragedy – Tragedy (Tragedy 2000)
Fugazi – The Argument (Dischord 2001)
Mare – Mare EP (Hydra Head 2004)
Celtic Frost – Monotheist (Century Media 2006)
Jesu – Silver EP (Hydra Head 2006)
High On Fire – Surrounded By Thieves (Relapse 2002)
Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon (Nuclear Blast 2003)
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine (Relapse 2004)
Andrew W.K. – I Get Wet (Island 2001)
Mastodon – Leviathan (Relapse 2004)
Craft – Fuck The Universe (Carnal 2005)
Isis – Panopticon (Ipecac 2004)
Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro (Mordgrimm 2001)
Shellac – 1000 Hurts (Touch & Go 2000)
Witchcraft – Witchcraft (Rise Above / Music Cartel 2004)
Killswitch Engage – Alive Or Just Breathing (Roadrunner 2001)
Pig Destroyer – Prowler In The Yard (Relapse 2001)
Converge – You Fail Me (Epitaph 2004)
Deathspell Omega – Fas – Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum (Ajna 2007)
Primordial – The Gathering Wilderness (Metal Blade 2005)
Opeth – Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner 2005)
Nile – Annihilation Of The Wicked (Relapse 2005)
Watain – Sworn To The Dark (Ajna 2007)
Between The Buried And Me – Alaska (Victory 2005)
Evoken – Quietus (Avantgarde 2001)
Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today (Rise Above 2007)
Mastodon – Blood Mountain (Reprise 2006)
Arsis – A Celebration Of Guilt (Willowtip 2004)
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works (Relapse 2007)
Ludicra – Fex Urbis, Lex Orbis (Alternative Tentacles 2006)
At The Drive-In – Relationship Of Command (Grand Royal / Virgin 2000)
Isis – Celestial (Escape Artist 2000)
Jesu – Jesu (Hydra Head 2004)
Enslaved – Below The Lights (The End 2003)
Cult Of Luna – Somewhere Along The Highway (Earache 2006)
High On Fire – Death Is This Communion (Relapse 2007)
Disfear – Live The Storm (Relapse 2008)
Dying Fetus – Destroy The Opposition (Relapse 2000)
Napalm Death – Time Waits For No Slave (Century Media 2009)
Deftones – White Pony (Maverick 2000)
Botch – An Anthology Of Dead Ends EP (Hydra Head 2002)
Converge – No Heroes (Epitaph 2006)
Hatebreed – Perseverance (Universal 2002)
Withered – Memento Mori (Lifeforce 2005)
Leviathan – Tentacles Of Whorror (Moribund 2004)
Meshuggah – Catch 33 (Nuclear Blast 2005)
Thorns – Thorns (Moonfog 2001)
Rotten Sound – Murderworks (Death Vomit 2002)
Trap Them – Seizures In Barren Praise (Deathwish 2008)
Deathevokation – The Chalice Of Ages (Xtreem Music 2007)
Nachtmystium – Assassins: Black Meddle, Part I (Century Media 2008)
Immortal – Sons Of Northern Darkness (Nuclear Blast 2002)
Nasum – Human 2.0 (Relapse 2000)
Fucked Up – Hidden World (Jade Tree 2006)
Neurosis – Given To The Rising (Neurot 2007)
Taint – The Ruin Of Nova Roma (Rise Above 2005)
System Of A Down – Toxicity (American 2001)
Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (Earache 2005)
Warhorse – As Heaven Turns To Ash (Southern Lord 2001)
Mayhem – Chimera (Season Of Mist 2004)
Gojira – From Mars To Sirius (Listenable 2005)
Drowningman – How They Light Cigarettes In Prison EP (Revelation 2000)
Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer (Relapse 2004)
Watain – Casus Luciferi (Drakkar 2003)
Killswitch Engage – The End Of Heartache (Roadrunner 2004)
Psyopus – Ideas Of Reference (Black Market Activities 2004)
The Haunted – The Haunted Made Me Do It (Earache 2000)
Cryptopsy – …And Then You’ll Beg (Century Media 2000)
Asunder – Works Will Come Undone (Profound Lore 2006)
Godflesh – Hymns (Koch 2001)
Cathedral – Endtyme (Earache 2001)
The Paper Chase – Now You Are One Of Us (Kill Rock Stars 2006)
Decapitated – Nihility (Earache 2002)
Coalesce – Ox (Relapse 2009)
In Flames – Clayman (Nuclear Blast 2000)
Battle Of Mice – A Day Of Nights (Neurot 2006)
Cobalt – Gin (Profound Lore 2009)
My Dying Bride – The Dreadful Hours (Peaceville 2001)
Slayer – World Painted Blood (American 2009)

How many of those will make our top 100?

i predict that all of them will

They're all tied for 2

#2

Ohhh I forgot to vote for Cell Scape!!!

you aren't changing your ballot now Mr two months study time for voting!

Let the record show that I never once asked if we could have an extended nominations/voting period for this poll

And I've never once asked for a two-month voting period for any poll.

defense, your witness

ok the rollout will be starting sometime tonight! seandalai is sending me the results tonight!

http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=104546#unread

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