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

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!)

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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...

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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

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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

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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.

don't make AG cry. V O T E

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Nik Turner - Life in Space
https://nikturnermusic.bandcamp.com/album/life-in-space-3

Nobody understands the impulse to write this off more than me; I was all set to play this once and forget. I half-suspect this was the album that made GOTT PUNCH say "fuck it" & nominate Pontiak. Even after the first track, an ok-to-middling ballad, I still figured this was some sort of throwaway anachronism. Then the second track came on, and by the time I made it to the fairly transporting echo-drenched gutar solo, I was won over. Featuring the drummer and guitarist from the old punk band UK Subs

Don't make simon cry, V O T E

did no one nominate the cannibal corpse album? how did i forget to nominate the cannibal corpse album

are write-ins ok? not that it'll make it in lol

yes but simon can add it to the noms too

since i assume most are still to vote

also anyone can resubmit their ballot as long as they say so on here so we can check

anyway, it's v late in the game, but i'd like to particularly rep for

- lunatii's elimino, basically a fake early katatonia record, beautifully, shatteringly depressing, it's all i wanted to listen to last year (https://lunatiiofficial.bandcamp.com/album/elimino-2017)
- the new godflesh, it's so cool and good and i can never stop thinking about it, it's like broadrick employing every style he's ever explored at once (https://godflesh1.bandcamp.com/album/post-self)
- paradise lost's medusa, obv, feels like after the shift in style in their last record they've really arrived on this one
- spectral voice, who are mentioned upthread, and who are one of the rare bands who really get the death/doom balance right, mesmerizing record
- ingurgitating oblivion's vision wallows in symphonies of light which iirc was a joan crawford recommendation. it lives up to the title (https://ingurgitatingoblivion1.bandcamp.com/album/vision-wallows-in-symphonies-of-light)
- fucking couch slut, my god
- king woman! stoner metal packed with hooks!
- idk the new cannibal corpse and immolation records fucking rock

yeah i think that's it

Couch Slut and King Woman are both going to be very prominent on my ballot

Closing track of Couch Slut is best doom of the year, and they're not a doom band

I was just listening to King Woman! Will have to re-check-out Couch Slut.

i didn't manage to listen to it until this year but the code orange album is so, so, so brutal

love the code orange record, pretty unique sound

if we were doing a tracks poll "Bleeding in the Blur" might top mine

they're so stylistically varied while remaining 100 percent punishing, what a great unique band

i also forgot to nominate the new blood command but for me it ended up feeling like kind of a step down from funeral beach. the title track was still one of the best things i heard all year

I added cannibal corpse <3

thank u friend

wow, last year's obituary album really fucking cooks

yo dinsdale, thanks for recommending the anakim record. the production sucks but everything else about it is amazing

like what if progressive death metal..... was super fun?

you're welcome and yeah that's a good way to describe it

sorry i need to reiterate how badass this album is

we have 16 ballots, we need more!

i think my ballot is basically done but i just wanted to mention that the undergang album is nasty af

voted!

17 ballots now! We're on a roll!

Voted!

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voting finishes tomorrow!