The 2017 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 3rd!

And remember to campaign for your faves as boosting really works!

Also the spotify playlist!
https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/74IL7uL4YEy2tTiBYtRJ4G

imago, you might get some mileage from the Multishiva album? It's basically blackened sludge with lots of Värähtelijä-style effects on top

https://multishiva.bandcamp.com/album/time-messer

― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, December 23, 2017 12:45 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We'll all be dead by February

Well in that case everyone needs to make sure that they hear Retrocausal then.

Youre not getting out of voting that easily, Dinsdale!

redle

I hope you all give the Solstafir, Sannhet and Au Champ des Morts albums a listen

Aside from Retrocausal, the one I'd like you all (and D.A.M. in particular) to hear is the Corpse Garden, a brilliantly psychedelic death-trip through Costa Rican drug magic, led by a wondrous fretless bass performance

Enjoying the Multishiva

2nd and 4th tracks go off nicely

I may vote later today since I have a day off from visiting my mum in hospital.
(she fell last week and broke her leg on the icy pavement because the council didn't salt them despite the weather being treacherous and she lay on the pavement for two hours in excruciating agony waiting for the ambulance because they had thousands of similar scenarios across the country ) and she wont be home for Christmas.

Fuck the Council!

best to you and yours. although i'm not sure quite how metal a sentiment 'fuck the council' is haha

remember to keep nominating in big poll

ILM's 2017 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

If all goes according to plan, I shd def have listened to Cleric & Corpse Garden by Christmas

Merry Christmas folks!

\m/erry xmas :)

Hope everyone had a good Christmas. My dad and I visited my mum in the hospital on Christmas Day.

Anybody voted yet?

Not yet.

Wow, that Couch Slut album is pretty rad, isn't it? Some high-quality noise-rock going around this year

I'm going to do some campaigning in the new year for sure. Couch Slut will def be on my ballot.

yeah it's great! closing track is best doom of the year too imo

My mum's getting out of hospital tomorrow btw so I shall be voting in the next day or 2

Such good news, dude!

^^^^^co-sign!!!

my mum is home!

welcome back, \m/o\m/

Spirit Adrift has a lot of what I like about Pallbearer but I think is a better, more musically interesting band overall.

Here's an progressive black metal album that is at risk of being overlooked:

Entheos - Le Zahir

Listen to Cité Perdue for a taste.

Happy Hogmanay everybody!

How many voters have we had so far?

Is it too late to have things added to the spreadsheet? I have a ranked list of 61 metal albums and only 38 of the albums are on the spreadsheet.

Like, three of my top 10 ain't there... :(

im sure simon could add it

sure, list 'em off here!

Super! Thanks! I tried to format them in the same manner as the spreadsheet.

Alestorm - No Grave But The Sea
Antisect - The Rising of the Lights
Big|Brave - Ardor
Cursed Moon - Rite of Darkness
Disharmony - Goddamn The Sun
Eluveitie - Evocation II: Pantheon
Falaise - My Endless Immensity
Farsot - Fail Lure
Horn - Turm Am Hang
Ides of Gemini - Women
Light of the Morning Star - Nocta
Mammoth Mammoth - Mount the Mountain
Naudiz - Wulfasa Kunja
Nortt - Endeligt
Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
Pyriphlegethon - The Murky Black of Eternal Night
Reverorum ib Malacht - Ter Agios Numini
Selcouth - Heart Is the Star of Chaos
Slagmaur - Thill Smitts Terror
Tau Cross - Pillar of Fire
The Midnight Ghost Train - Cypress Ave.
The Wizards - Full Moon in Scorpio
Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine

Kinda surprised that a few of these didn't make the list since many of them were discussed in Rolling Metal 2017 extensively.

There's always someone who says they missed the nomination period

Has anyone voted yet? I don't have access to check and just wondered if people have voted but didn't post here saying so.

Happy to add these, I think the Zeal and Ardor album is 2016 though?

It definitely got some votes last year though I don't think it cracked 101.

The Zeal & Ardor was released independently and also saw a vinyl release in 2016 however MVKA Records gave it an 'official' US release on 2/24/2017 and it was also the first time it appeared on CD anywhere.

(deliberates wisely) I'll allow it

Thank you, your honor.

I'm sort of amazed we missed Big|Brave in the nomination process

Slagmaur missing was the head-scratcher for me. We discussed that one a lot in rolling metal.

Sadly a lot of regulars on that thread don't participate in polls.
Hopefully Simon can persuade them? Brian you should try too!

I'll begin the pestering campaign sometime this week.

The ones I've listened to a lot this year are Jute Gyte, Akvan (Iranian folk/black metal hybrid that integrates oud with intense black metal), and Árstíðir lífsins (epic progressive Icelandic folk metal). Converge is catching up too. Are there any Branca-metal releases I should check out urgently? Gnaw Their Tongues?

If you haven't heard them already 2 Krallices and a Thantifaxath

Also Blattaria

2 Krallices
And a Thantifaxath in a pear tree

Abyss was #6 in the metal poll and #26 in the general one

new album too metal for regular poll this year?

Voted.

got it, thanks! 36 ballots in now

re: Simon can add to the noms for you if you nominate them here

I'm just about to vote, I have 49 albums lined up .. plus 1 that wasn't previously nominated

Please add the following album:

Ulsect - Ulsect
https://ulsect.bandcamp.com/

voted !

I ended up voting for only one of the albums I belatedly nominated today to simplify matters.

you can still vote for them, but just dont expect them to get more than 1 vote at this late stage. You can be the new gareth saer

Is voting a little after the deadline ok?

If it's because you haven't heard Der Weg Einer Freiheit's 'Finisterre' or Nortt's 'Endeligt' yet, to name but a few, then yes ofcourse it is.

Just sampled those two. Makes me wish I'd had more time…

well the deadline is US time. so you have what 8 hours or something

Oh! OK!

so im sure you dont need to vote *after* the deadline.

technically you have until seandalai closes the voting form

But 8am UK time is certainly the earliest it will close. Cant guarantee anything after though

Who all intends on voting? Best to let us know here so seandalai can check before closing the voting form

Voting momentarily! Just cross-referencing my list with imago's, just in case I forgot Jute Gyte or something

Voted!

And voted!

Lingua Ignota were the big beneficiaries of my last-minute listening. Incredible

Voted!

ahaha this Summoning album is just dungeon synth done with a budget.

farted, then voted

seandalai isnt around yet so voting form is still open if anyone wants to vote

We just going to do a top 77 this year? 100?

feel like some of the albums I voted on here that I loved, I haven't listened to in months. too much new stuff. had to dig back into the recesses.

I think the Wolves in the Throne Room is the one I played the most. second was the latest Suffocation.

Top 500 this year iirc

Don't know until we see results. Should have them tonight so may post a few tonight as tradition dictates.

I think we normally do a 101?

btw I have no idea what will win, or even make up the top 10. There's no front runners this year that I can tell from the metal thread or metal mags EOY lists

I do hope we get lots more participation on results thread than last year. I love reading what people think, even if they haven't voted.

damn there's a couple of things that I forgot to vote for. next time I won't rush.

i think you can still resubmit as seandalai hasnt closed the voting form

meh, it's ok. it is what it is.

what are the things you forgot

Rollout wont be starting tonight

I do hope we get lots more participation on results thread than last year. I love reading what people think, even if they haven't voted.

― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Sunday, February 4, 2018 10:52 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i couldn't vote in good conscience. just way too much that i haven't kept up with. but i'll be listening as things roll out and will definitely try to post interesting things that come into my mind about the records.

"interesting" probably a stretch but

you really shouldnt let that put you off voting

Its ok we don't do poser-shaming for new voters

I haz poll results

How many ballots did you get in the end?

40

On a par with last year then, not too bad. I know he got ribbed for it but thanks to Odysseus for campaigning for the poll itself so vehemently

At least 5 people said they voted after you said 36 but you only have 40?

A couple of people voted twice.

ahhh

one man, one two votes

Siegbran's here. You can start! :D

THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD