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

Electric Wizard wasn't even nominated for the big poll.

I suppose Jute Gyte might get in since less votes might be needed and his usual 5 voters amongst us might sneak him in

One year the metal poll winner didn't even get in the top 100 in the big poll. Was it Hammers Of Misfortune?

Don't think Jute Gyte will make it this time. There hasn't been so much clamour.

I think Ex Eye has a chance

I have no idea what will even win *this* poll. Seandalai hasn't sent me access to the ballots or anything yet as he's so busy with big poll

This was my Top Ten at The Agit Reader, one of two websites I write for these days. Consider that my campaigning!

http://agitreader.com/wp2/something-wicked-top-10-of-2017

Has there been any debut albums by bands that have made an impact this year?
Most of the big impact albums I can think of this year are by established acts or related to big bands (Pillorian, avatarium,Au champ des morts)

The Tchornobog debut has gotten a lot of love critically.

Anyone who likes the 90s Norwegian school of avant-garde/post-black metal should hear Urarv's debut. Aldrahn on vox and guitar!

And I also endorse the Entheos album, I included it in my ballot

YES

we may as well discuss the big (on ilm) albums then, what did you guys think of the albums by
Mastodon
Electric Wizard
Converge
Cleric
Elder
Bell Witch
Pallbearer
Godflesh
Wolves in the Throne Room

and jute gyte?

enh, enh, pretty good, not my thing, awesome, pretty good (tho excessive), not bad, v good, enh, and pretty good, in that order.

I couldn't even tell you what the big metal albums out in the real world are tbh. Was there any platinum metal albums?

I've only heard 3 of those

Elder = A+
Godflesh, WITTR = meh

Mastodon Not heard, but I haven't liked anything else that they've done after Crack the Skye so I assume it's pretty lame
Electric Wizard Not for me thanks
Converge NO
Cleric YES
Elder I didn't like their last one but this is really great!
Bell Witch Decent, not a keeper for me though
Pallbearer Haven't heard, didn't like their previous much, should give it a go maybe since I liked Elder
Godflesh Always been lukewarm on this band
Wolves in the Throne Room Overall solid and very impressive in parts
Jute Gyte Sometimes think this could be his best? Very good, anyway

That formatting is bad and I feel bad sorry

did Terrorizer publish their EOY list yet? Fuckers sent me about 3 or 4 issues instead of the supposed 13 you got for subscribing.

Just missed my main ballot but I think Elder might be one of the best rock bands out there rn. I'm holding out meager hope that their album and/or Botanist and/or Ex Eye might scrape the lower reaches of the countdown. Obv Jute Gyte as well...

This might be my favourite metal song of the year
Electric Wizard - Necromania

https://youtu.be/HqO_gPaxLYU

remember the year we tried a tracks poll and hardly anyone voted? I thought it was a shame it didn't work out.

I was just wondering the other day why there were no tracks poll... Then again I'm not a tracks person myself and my ballot would likely have 3 items top. Doesn't mean I wouldn't be interested if others started to list their favorite tracks in this thread or elsewhere.

the problem was nobody was interested in a tracks poll

Metal is an album-oriented form for most adherents. It certainly is for me.

Voted. So Power Trip (#65) was the top metal/rock album on Pazz & Jop, followed by Elder (83) and QOTSA (86). No other results available.

Who else plans to vote? less than a week to vote! You have until saturday!

Will vote!

we only have 13 ballots so far, Hope there's a lot more to come!

I will likely be voting minutes from the deadline - still a few things to check out first...

If anyone's still looking to fill their ballot, or even radically change it at the last second, then I'd be thrilled to see any of these placing (sorry if they're obvious, I haven't kept up with the ILX zeitgeist much this last year):

Kairon; IRSE - Ruination: This is a very beautiful sprawling psych album in the same kind of wheelhouse as Elder, but considerably more shoegaze (at times).
https://kaironirse.bandcamp.com/album/ruination

Psudoku - Psudokument: I'm sure imago's mentioned this plenty already, but if you've not listened yet and your tolerance for glittering electro-grindcore is high, then it's well worth hearing.
https://psudoku.bandcamp.com/

Black Cilice - Banished from Time: The grimiest, strangest kind of atmospheric. Genuinely frightening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXbfMKz9Bi8

Oops sorry, didn't mean to post that as a video...

Yeah to Black Cilice! That album made my main ballot, all the driney mystique of the previous album but mych more chilling priduction and those vocals!

New Forgotten Spell us v much along those lines as well

Another way super lo-fi black metal album I've bern getting into--though its nowhere near as visceral, a lit more synths--is Rubedo Nocturno. I think you can only find it on soundcloud tho

Oh, looks like its only a sample :(

https://m.soundcloud.com/blackgangrene/rubedo-nocturno

Voted. As far as campaigning -- everyone should listen to the Spectral Voice album, which is a perfectly idiomatic example of spooky, doomy death. Atmospheric in places, crushing in others. The whole vibe is spot on.

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eroded-corridors-of-unbeing

That's sounding good.

Closing track of the Forgotten Spell (see Youtube for more) is one of the best metal songs of the year, yeah.

The Psudoku is not really for anyone except tt, ultros and I. Maybe Dominique. Hyperactive Cardiacsy grindcore, y'all. You've been warned.

never heard of Psodouku until now, but it's fun after 2 tracks! Kind of Melt Banana-ish? Also, I sincerely hope the name is a combination of Psyopus and Sudoku.

Count me in on Psudoku, though I heard it too late to vote for it. Not normally my thing.

xp

you can always resubmit your ballot ;)

track 5 (the REALLY unpronounceable one) is my pick

Will listen to Spectral Voice a bit later too, cheers

Spectral Voice is great

ok, time to go through all the things mentioned in this thread before voting

Check out Azonic too--Blind Idiot God's "orchestral doom" project, cuts a path between the drone of Sunn 0))) & the maelstroms of Fushitsusha, plus tympani and gong

https://azonicsonic.bandcamp.com/album/prospect-of-the-deep-volume-one

It's probably a little late in the game but I'll try to promote some more of my favorite space-rock choices here. I'm always a little embarrassed trying to justify dragging this stuff into this poll, but it does tend to draw some decent reactions here & there...

(Also: don't forget Multishiva!)

IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU'RE NOT SCREAMING part 1:

The Imajinary Friends - The Imajinary Friends
https://theimajinaryfriends.bandcamp.com

Admittedly, it's already a stretch to include space rock in this poll, but its prob an even further stretch to consider this 'space rock': more like potent zone-out acid rock, maybe the most potent head music album I've heard since Black Bananas' Rad Time Xpress IV. It's true that this was a one-off side project for shoegazers like Swervedriver & Brian Jonestown Massacre, their sole caustic acid-fried album released over 20 years ago. And it's true the lead off track brings to mind a lost Broadcast song, prob the least metal thing to touch this thread. Still: this stuff is heavy in the best sense of the world...

IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU'RE NOT SCREAMING part 2:

Vespero - Shum-Shir
http://music.vespero.ru/album/shum-shir

Maybe even less metal than Imajinary Friends but this isn't really that out of place among other stuff like Sungod, Zombi & Kayo Dot's Coffins on Io. These Russian space-rockers have shown up on my radar once or twice before, but this is the first album that really broke through to me. Basically the concept reads to me as "Fela in space", but there's many unusual elements, like violin and breakbeats, along with the weird alien hyperclarity in the production which often accompany the nerdier corners of *rock*, all of which serves to denaturalize matters quite a bit. I mean, yeah I see how 'neoprog Ozric clones deconstruct afrobeat' might not be the most appealing proposition, but I found this engaging and offbeat

IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU'RE NOT SCREAMING part 3:

https://youtu.be/s4b4rXvh3

^the other key track from Choas & Systems. probably should've led off with this one, seeing as it doesn't bite "Pink Lady Lemonade"

In the metal thread no one can hear you campaigning

IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU'RE NOT SCREAMING part 4:

Liquidarlo Celuloide - Superfriccion
https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/br84-liquidarlo-celuloide-superfricci-n

More like 'space punk' this time. Apparently this Peruvian band has been around for a long time. They're totally bonkers, and come across like a more psychedelic Brainiac. This album tends to have two modes: 'manic' and 'frantic'. That said, this might be a touch too much straightforward garage rock for attn defct crew, but I think the first 50 seconds of "Sin piel por no fabricar pegamento" might be sufficient to provide imago with a stray grin

this poll ends on saturday night so dont leave it too late to vote. We NEED to get the runout started on Monday so no extra days , voting period has been very long (longest ever)

I was hoping to sneak in a bit more time to listen to other nominees, but I think I'm just going to have to suck it up and vote.