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

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

*in a PURGATORY

https://tinyurl.com/RYM-2017-Best-Metal

Voted for the first time in a year or two! It was a good year for metal and I *still* feel like I missed so much, looking at that nominations list.

I had heard both Krallice releases but hadn't given them enough time. Loum is pretty great, esp, and I just bought it. The Thantifaxath surprises me: pretty eclectic with some dazzlingly intense passages.

the general poll voting has started
ILM's 2017 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

I've been listening to In Contact by Caligula's Horse a lot. They blend prog-metal with some mildly djenty elements to uncommonly good effect, and pull off a few gambits that really shouldn't work, most notably a three minute spoken-word-only track (!) and a fifteen-minute closer. Their make-or-break clean vocals sound great to me - there's even a moment in "Dream the Dead" (one of the best openers of the year) that evokes my beloved Anneke-era The Gathering.

I voted. Has anyone else?

I'm taking the time to discover more stuff, there's almost a whole month left.

I voted a week or so ago.

pollrunners have to vote early as seandalai prefers it that way. but like anybody else we can change our ballot if we hear something new we want to include.

I'll try to submit a ballot by week's end

Did anyone give these a listen?

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

― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus),

Also what did you all think of the Electric Wizard album? It seems that those who didn't like the last few loved this one.

oh and I hope Agalloch fans checked out the excellent Pillorian album. I wonder when the other ex members of Agalloch will get an album out

the Solstafir record is pretty solid

Au champ des morts is excellent indeed!

Sannhet is great, although I'm not sure if I would call it metal.

they will always be Gannnet to me

Sannhet is great, although I'm not sure if I would call it metal.

I liked the Sannhet a lot

seandalai how many ballots do we have so far?

On a less false note, I need to also stump for Lich King's insanely fun the Omniclasm, the rare metal album that a) has a non-corny sense of humor and b) still manages to rock the fuck out. Even the sequencing is witty, pairing "Cut the Shit", a rant against scene police and self-serious political bands, with "Our Time to Riot"...a sincere political song about destroying the American government. Also: a song about how awful parenting is ("Preschool Cesspool"), and (along with Kreator) one of the year's two explicitly pro-LGBT thrash songs ("Offense").

I know this hasn't actually been discussed among the pollrunners yet but I'm wondering if it might be wise to extend the voting period for one more week, since the main trax/albums rollout won't actually wrap up until (I believe) February 2nd, and I'm a little concerned there may not leave be lot of spare air for \metal/ while that's going on

To be honest? I'd prob move it back to Sunday, to give people the weekend to focus on their metal ballots, but I doubt much more would be needed. That way you benefit from the momentum coming off the albums poll

I think this is the first time that metal poll happens after the big poll...? Usually metal poll acts an okay hype vehicle for like the top 2 or 3 to make it onto the albums poll, but I don't really kniw what the effect will be now that we're reversing the order. Shoukd be interesting...

Yeah this is a first try at doing it in this order AFAIK

the longer we open the poll the more people put things off and wait til the last hour to vote

and then ask for another 24 hours..

we only have 6 ballots so far btw, hoping to see more campaigning for albums to encourage others.

I will definitely be voting. Be patient.

I likely won't wait until the last minute either since I am very happy with my Top 60 and placing. I had to get some lists together for earlier deadlines and don't anticipate changing much when I vote here.

For those who are interested, I created a Spotify list of my favorite tracks from my favorite albums of 2017. The metal-to-non-metal ratio is about 4-to-1 so if you put it on random and let 'er rip, it won't all be the devil's music. But most of it is.

http://open.spotify.com/user/nyc_native/playlist/6AgLUwOX0KciLqQFAGfWob

I totally forgot to nominate Emyn Muil - Elenion Ancalima but it is total Summoning worship that will be high on my ballot, easily better than the actual new Summoning record.

Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam : excellent Canadian BM, excellent mix of the usual fast/furious and catchy rockin' stuff.

Goatpenis is absolutely kickass. Ungfell - Tôtbringære if you like Peste Noire. Slagmaur if you like Ceremony-era Samael. Colotyphus if you like Drudkh. Contaminated if you'd have liked Entombed to be doomier. Lingua Ignota if you like Diamanda Galas.

Goatpenis

Let's make a Goatpenis victory happen, we can do it.

Siegbran, I added Emyn Muil to the list.

Merci!

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