Oh wow I *loved* the last Cloud Rat LP, didn't know they did something! And an 18-minute thing at that!
― imago, Monday, 5 February 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
Very excited about this poll! \m/
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 5 February 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
TIE98 Bathsheba - Servus 99 Points, 4 Voteshttps://i.imgur.com/wXw9Auw.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/04XP1VTwrTCuVCG1InqOzI?si=PCbVOArnRBWThnD1idpFeghttps://bathshebakills.bandcamp.com/
http://www.angrymetalguy.com/bathsheba-servus-review/
98 Contrarian - To Perceive Is To Suffer 99 Points, 4 Voteshttps://i.imgur.com/JZk9liW.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/5eGjsGCGUbmVaoVnYMwtMm?si=51fBNBQnQrKEpFGvdBdn4ghttps://contrarianmetal.bandcamp.com/album/to-perceive-is-to-suffer
https://svbterranean.net/2017/11/03/review-contrarian-to-perceive-is-to-suffer/
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 5 February 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
If you liked Qliphoth I recommend seeking out all the splits Cloud Rat did last year. they said at some point they'll be releasing them together on a CD comp.
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link
I really appreciate you posting reviews under the records, K!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 5 February 2018 13:14 (six years ago) link
97 Code Orange - Forever 100 Points, 4 Voteshttps://i.imgur.com/jiwEenw.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/2V7axnEU5HQoN9Tu5JVl4S?si=AbYQ-yjaTjeTXD8-8aqd2w
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22717-forever/
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 5 February 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
Bathsheba on my ballot! Wonderfully heavy. Conjuration of Fire was my favourite of these.
Me and imago are out to lunch atm but opinions will surely follow. Definitely agree that the reviews are a great idea
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 5 February 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
I will now hand you over to my lovely assistant...
Code Orange is sickeningly low. Great, unique record.
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link
Code Orange didn’t quite make it onto my ballot as I was only alerted to it by Brad and Simon discussing it on the campaigning thread, but I loved what I heard. Slightly emo-leaning iirc and pretty explosive
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 5 February 2018 13:26 (six years ago) link
tbh there are even moments on the record that remind me of slipknot. brutal record, harder even than the new converge imo
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
TIE
95 Necrot - Blood Offerings 101.0 Points, 3 Voteshttps://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/4/4/3/644386.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0hpGhj6drVKP0wOEQ6vR9g?si=9W0GDn_FTEGxjp1P4v6LYQ
Necrot doesn’t clutter up their death metal with constant, unrelenting speed, blinding technical ability or brain-twisting time signatures. By not blasting all the time, or writing riffs that only a seasoned headbanger could decipher, Necrot has nowhere to hide. Instead of ripping your guts out and showing them to you, the trio lets their songs churn at an even pace, spreading the punishment out nicely. Subsequent songs like “Shadows And Light” and “Breathing Machine” spotlight this with slow grooves that run into four on the floor rumblings. Tucked in between all the crushing riffs, Reinhardt will drop in a mean, squealing rock ’n’ roll solo now and again. His solo chops give a big nod to the blues scales of Bill Steer from Carcass. They fit well with the death metal barrage, but they are far enough removed to make them stand up in the muck.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/necrot-blood-offerings-review.html
95 Tau Cross - Pillar of Fire 101.0 Points, 3 Voteshttp://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cover_1495657280734439-500x500.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2cfjnAssAwJ6B1cyg7ybtm?si=HtUm8tgqQkGYVznI4DpxQw
Tau Cross is the natural continuation of Amebix's final, excellent release Sonic Mass. The cover of Sonic Mass, displaying the tau cross symbol, confirms this lineage. Miller has taken the helm and turns Tau Cross into a rocking act that oozes of crust and punk rock ethos, alongside a heavy metal attitude. Without remaining static, confined in a specific genre, Tau Cross open up the range, accompanying the roaring Motorhead stench and Prong-ian edge with the post-punk spirit of Killing Joke and even New Model Army.
https://www.popmatters.com/tau-cross-pillar-of-fire-2495386169.html
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 13:40 (six years ago) link
I don't think I properly checked out the Necrot album but it's sounding good this morning.
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
That Tau Cross album was really good. I liked the debut, but figured it for a one-off; when a sequel appeared, I was very pleasantly surprised.
(I did not vote in this poll.)
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
Somehow this one completely passed me by.
94 White Ward - Futility Report 101.0 Points, 4 Voteshttp://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/White-Ward-Futility-Report.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4Elh1BDe2G5VabPDxYhkdZ?si=_ncGLL0CSYeP0ZicNnOs2g
http://www.angrymetalguy.com/white-ward-futility-report-review/
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
excellent cover
― nxd, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
sax alert!!!
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link
Seeing a bolded Steely Dan in the Angry Metal Guy review was… unexpected.
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
this honestly sounds good as hell on first listen, how did I miss this one?!
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link
Giving this a go...I think I heard it before but didn't give it enough ear
― imago, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link
brad needs to hear this immediately
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
Yay, looking forward to following this poll, and learning of great new records. Last year the greatest discoveries were Vektor and Astronoid, hoping to find something equally good this year :)
― Frederik B, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
93 Colotyphus - Spiritual Journey of a Forlorn Soul 102.0 Points, 3 Votes
https://shop.season-of-mist.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/500x500/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/C/o/Colotyphus-Spiritual-Journey-Of-A-Forlorn-Soul-CD-64052-1.jpg
https://colotyphus.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-journey-of-a-forlorn-soul-3
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
Not that I've heard enough to really say but: too low.
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
Ooh! I threw this Siegbran-fare a whole load of points - wonder who the third voter was? Really strong songwriting and I think it's distinctive enough to transcend being mere Drudkh-worship (despite the cover at the end). I enjoyed it more than Drudkh, even. Obviously I have no interest in their politics (not to tar Ukraine with one brush, but...things are...strange there) but thankfully I don't have to find out :)
― imago, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
They're led by a woman, which might mean they dial back some of the macho nationalism
― imago, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that came as a pleasant surprise.
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
2:30 into that White Ward album is one of the best musical moments I've heard from 2017. Lol.
― Frederik B, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link
Just wait till you get to "Rain as Cure"
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
This Cloud Rat track is intense! I found them a little bit difficult to get into before, but having their sound stretched out like this has warped it in all the right ways.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
I'm so glad that split made it in, if just barely.
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 14:27 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I liked Cloud Rat's sound on this. They're usually more like short bursts of grindcore? On the Disrotted track now. Idk if I can do 23m of this, ha, unless there are some changes coming up.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
I only listened to Disrotted's half once or twice. I voted purely for the Rat.
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
I know I should just follow along with the metal thread, but I would love a thread for 'metal groups who are clearly doing it wrong' a la the one for techno/house :)
― Frederik B, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
92 Big|Brave - Ardor 102.0 Points, 4 Votes
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/59aed63d8318ae33b373b527/1:1/w_600/bigbrave_ardor.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7F9GqRTn1u9x0sCkWRivRM?si=ge8hszpEQxOTFn2HMmKkAQ
In places, Ardor is an album of quiet restraint. The second of the three tracks, “Lull,” gives most of its running time to moody slowcore rumination, with peals of guitar feedback snaking in gradually as the track gains weight. Other moments suggest an affinity for the brutal excesses of noise rock and no wave. There are echoes of Swans in the mantra-like repetitions of “Sound” and “Borer,” their clanging riffs cast out in the direction of the horizon. Meanwhile, Wattie’s siren-like vocals vacillate between imploring sensuality, raw self-flagellation, and blank affect in a way that’s reminiscent of Lydia Lunch. Lunch’s music was often jagged like razorblades, though, while BIG|BRAVE are big and oceanic, their music flowing and crashing like waves.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bigorbrave-ardor/
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
We should definitely have a Rolling False Metal thread.
Where do you draw the line though?
― imago, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
Haha the Rat was well worth it! I'm so glad.
I'm also not sure about this Disrotted...it isn't often that I want to crawl through tar.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
Big|Brave made it onto my ballot thanks to the campaigning
Not sure, but it would be funny to have a thread where bands are accused of being "too kvlt" or whatever
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
i knew once i heard the sax solo on the white ward album that i had to vote for it
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
lol that's true xp
tt you didn't play this to me did you? may check it out later.
White Ward are nice but the songwriting isn't quite getting me. Lovely sound and production though!
― imago, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
I did play it to you but you didn't respond!
Just scared myself by forgetting that I was printing something whilst listening to Bathsheba.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
NB there's always this thread that I started, although it's focused on a specific kind of metal-adjacent aesthetic: Search: Metal that Sounds Like Glenn Branca
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
Not feeling anything on this rollout so far unfortunately. Heard some of these last year, wasn't impressed with White Ward apparently though I don't even remember hearing it. Code Orange seem to be Converge if they were groove metal so it's almost like they're TRYING to be my least favourite band in the world.
― scroot gyte (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
Besides, isn't there a part for tenor sax in Branca's 1st symphony?
― pomenitul, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
Colotyphus is pretty OK.
― scroot gyte (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
91 Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black 104.0 Points, 3 Voteshttps://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/347/MI0004347220.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Ecgc9nNxJpXd3gboFPbvz?si=KhwG3u0kSoGGVl82-2iqFw
Songs like the title track are propelled at maximum speed, while other songs like “Shedding My Human Skin” and “Remaimed” have both deliberate grooves and frenzied, rocket-propelled sections. The shifting tempos and intensities help add variety to the proceedings.Over the years Cannibal Corpse have been able to add more melody and catchy parts to their songwriting repertoire without sacrificing any heaviness. You won't hear “Firestorm Vengeance” or “In the Midst of Ruin” on rock radio, but they are more memorable than many songs on the commercial charts.After working with producer Erik Rutan on some earlier releases, Cannibal Corpse brought him back for Red Before Black. Being an outstanding death metal musician in his own right, Rutan knows exactly what Cannibal Corpse bring to the table. He captures the rawness and power of their sound while keeping the crisp and focused feel of their playing.
Over the years Cannibal Corpse have been able to add more melody and catchy parts to their songwriting repertoire without sacrificing any heaviness. You won't hear “Firestorm Vengeance” or “In the Midst of Ruin” on rock radio, but they are more memorable than many songs on the commercial charts.
After working with producer Erik Rutan on some earlier releases, Cannibal Corpse brought him back for Red Before Black. Being an outstanding death metal musician in his own right, Rutan knows exactly what Cannibal Corpse bring to the table. He captures the rawness and power of their sound while keeping the crisp and focused feel of their playing.
http://loudwire.com/cannibal-corpse-red-before-black-album-review/
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
That's it from me for now - Odysseus will resume his duties shortly.
Best thing on the White Ward was probably the closing track
― imago, Monday, 5 February 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
Has Louis' gif loaded for him yet?
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
Elder - Reflections of a Floating WorldSufferer - SuffererKrallice - Go Be ForgottenAkvan - Forgotten GloryBell Witch - Mirror ReaperClouds Taste Satanic – The Glitter Of Infinite HellBlack Cilice - Banished from TimeLich King - The OmniclasmGWAR - The Blood of GodsPallbearer - HeartlessDopelord - Children of the HazeMotorpsycho - The TowerChelsea Wolfe - Hiss SpunYellow Eyes - Immersion Trench ReverieUfomammut - 8Kreator - Gods of ViolenceAu champ des morts - Dans la joieBotanist - Collective: The Shape of He to ConeOrthodox - Supreme
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
I'm listening to Sufferer right now. It's probably a hard sell for this group, but it's a few Equal Vision people (Shane Gann, Blake Dahlinger) doing a concept hardcore album about living with severe anxiety and it's really good.
I didn't get excited about a lot of metal this year, I'm only really big on my top nine or so.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
TV, Sufferer sounds cool as hell, I'm gonna put that on next.
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
And I totally missed this year's Ne Obliviscaris album, I'll have to check that out after work.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
It's very good. I should have put it higher. (I probably had Pyrrhon too high.)
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
Hmmmm Exuvia is sounding a lot better to me now than it did when it came out.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
Ha!
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
Lingua Ignota - All Bitches DieNokturnal Mortum - ІстинаColotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душіEmyn Muil - Elenion AncalimaDélétère - Per Aspera Ad PestilentiamGoatpenis - Anesthetic VaporUngfell - TôtbringæreAbigor / Nightbringer / Thy Darkened Shade / Mortuus - SplitMyrkur - MareridtLustre - Still InnocenceThe Ruins of Beverast - ExuviaImmolation - AtonementÁrstíðir lífsins - HeljarkviðaSinister - SyncretismDeath Like Mass - Jak zabija DiabełProgenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLunaDrudkh / Paysage d'Hiver - Somewhere Sadness Wanders / Schnee (IV)Azarath - In ExtremisChelsea Wolfe - Hiss SpunParadise Lost - MedusaFen - WinterWiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed IIWearg - Hæðen War MetalEntrails - World InfernoUndergang - MisantropologiMesarthim - PresenceKartikeya - SamudraExquirla - Para quienes aún vivenGrav - Tomb Of AgonyTomb Mold - Cryptic TransmissionsWederganger / Urfaust - SplitTomb Mold - Primordial MalignityGod Dethroned - The World AblazeSuffocation - Of The Dark LightGrav - Fordærvet DjævelskabIncantation - Profane NexusSinmara - Within The Weaves Of InfinityBeheaded - Beast IncarnateAu champ des morts - Dans la joieContaminated - Final ManContrarian - To Perceive Is To SufferFides Inversa - Rite of Inverse IncarnationWidziadło - VoidForteresse - Récits PatriotiquesLes Discrets - PredateursAkvan - Forgotten GlorySeveroth - ForestpathsTodesstoß - Ebne GraunW - WinterwombLaster - Ons Vrije Fatum
― Siegbran, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
Oh and Brad totally otm about worst album cover
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
I cribbed quite a few titles from your nominations, Siegbran, as I almost systematically enjoy your picks (with a few notable exceptions, such as Nokturnal Mortum), so I look forward to checking out the rest.
And Goatpenis deserved better.
xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
yep, meanwhile there are at least 20 contenders for best imo xp
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
also the Sufferer album is sounding *fantastic* to me so kudos TV
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
I need to give the long Cloud Rat track a second listen. I mainly listened to the Moloch split from their slew of releases last year. That one flowed really nicely.
― jmm, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
Maybe the best part of the rollout for me was seeing people get into Dreadnought, their other two albums are also very good btw
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
Falls of Rauros probably the best discovery personally.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
Looking forward to hearing more Dreadnought! Maybe I’ll lurk around rolling metal a bit more this year.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
Thanks to the pollrunners! I've got a lot of album to check out but I'm saving it for next week cuz I'll be all by myself for a few days and I plan to immerse myself in these picks. As far as ballot goes, here's mine (bold didn't place)
1. Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worlds2. Entheos - Le Zahir (:sad face:)3. Ex Eye - Ex Eye4. Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre5. Krallice - Go Be Forgotten6. Cavernlight - As We Cup Our Hands And Drink From the Stream of Our Ache7. Au champ des morts - Dans la joie8. Immolation - Atonement9. Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II10. Woe - Hope Attrition11. Elder - Reflections of a Floating World12. Pyrolatrous - Teneral13. Draugsol - Volaða Land 14. Grails - Chalice Hymnal15. Aosoth - The Inside Scriptures (really surprising absence)16. Ufomammut - 817. Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense 18. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun19. Multishiva - Time Messer20. Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial21. Boris - Dead22. The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension 23. Contrarian - To Perceive is to Suffer24. Pillorian - Obsidian Arc25. Spirit Adrift - Curse Of Conception 26. Undergang - Misantropologi27. Celeste - Infidèle(s)28. Oxbow - The Thin Black Duke29. Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die30. Farsot - Fail·Lure
― Dinsdale, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
I hadn't realized so many of my picks had placed.
― Dinsdale, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Forgot to bold Cavernlight, that one didn't make it.
xp Thanks pomenitul!
― Siegbran, Friday, 9 February 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
Unweighted:
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to ConeJute Gyte - OviriConverge - The Dusk In UsPallbearer - HeartlessAkvan - Forgotten GloryÁrstíðir lífsins - HeljarkviðaKrallice - LoümKrallice - Go Be ForgottenGodflesh - Post SelfThantifaxath - Void Masquerading as MatterOranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / VärimyrskySolstafir - BerdreyminnEx Eye - Ex EyeSchammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 9 February 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
I meant to say yesterday that the Lingua Ignota album is quite something. Would definitely have made my list if I had heard it, but I didn't get the chance to hear much new stuff, even in the longer voting period, for obvious reasons.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
Also What in the end do you prefer: results before Christmas or in February after the Big Poll?
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
either tbh. guess earlier is nicer BUT you get things like those mesarthim EPs missing cos they came out in the last week of december
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
Before Christmas. Im 95% wrong about longer voting periods
Xp ok 90%
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
Weighted
Jute Gyte - OviriImajinary Friends - The Imajinary FriendsStabscotch - Uncanny ValleyVespero - Shum-ShirSundays & Cybele - Chaos & SystemsBotanist - Collective: The Shape of He to ConeEx Eye - Ex EyeMultishiva - Time MesserGasp - Ghost in Scow OutLiquidarlo Celuloide - SuperfriccionCouch Slut - ContemptKing Woman - Created in the Image of SufferingForgotten Spell - The NecromancerRubedo Nocturno - O grande pai: Abismo incriadoBlack Cilice - Banished from TimeAzonic - Prospect of the Deep Volume 1Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Thunderbolt of Flaming WisdomST 37 - Fuck You, You Rule: ST 37's Greatest "Hits"10000 Russos - Distress DistressKorto - KortoElder - Reflections of a Floating WorldFeral Ohms - Feral OhmsUnsane - SterilizeDeep Space Destructors - PsychedologyYagow - YagowSxuperion - MyriadSlowly Building Weapons - SunbirdsThantifaxath - Void Masquerading as MatterNik Turner - Life in SpaceCircle - TerminalEcstatic Vision - Raw Rock FurySannhet - So NumbShardik - ShardikSuccumb - SuccumbMara Balls - Elävä kiviMoths & Locusts - Intro/OutroThe Spacelords - Water PlanetThe Cosmic Dead - Psych is DeadVoid Generator - ProdromiGrails - Chalice HymnalMaat Lander - Season in Space Vol. 1Falls of Rauros - Vigilance PerennialSchammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
Siegbran is the only person who had a ballot similar to mine, lol
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
aye, longer voting period kills momentum and everyone just leaves it to the last week before listening and voting anyway! the old way of 2 week nominations and 2 weeks voting was enough i think.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
Personally I want all of you to tell me about all these great albums before the vanilla ilx poll so that I can put White Ward on my ballot and seem cool...
― Frederik B, Friday, 9 February 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
most metal albums wouldnt make it even if they extended the rollout to 150.
Chelsea Wolfe only got 3 votes i think in big poll. Was #3 here.
only elder snd ex eye made the big poll 77 iirc
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
btw i forgot to say during the roll out but my fave song on the converge album is the title track.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
Thanks so much Simon and Kerr for doing this <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
Ballot, weighted:
Nortt - EndeligtKrallice - Go Be ForgottenDer Weg Einer Freiheit - FinisterreJute Gyte - OviriAu champ des morts - Dans la joieWolves in the Throne Room - Thrice WovenBlanck Mass - World EaterArchspire - Relentless MutationChelsea Wolfe - Hiss SpunAcid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Wandering The Outer SpaceGnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
I don't think the noms period should end before the end of the year; that's the only thing I'd be concerned about. Thanks so much to Simon and Odysseus for this!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
My weighted ballot. Bold did not place.
1. Oxbow - Thin White Duke2. Brutus - Burst3. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun4. Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven5. The Midnight Ghost Train - Cypress Ave.6. Rebel Wizard - Triumph Of Gloom7. Light of the Morning Star - Nocta8. Violet Cold – Anomie9. Slagmaur - Thill Smitts Terror10. The Obsessed – Sacred11. Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum12. Beastmaker - Inside The Skull13. The Wizards - Full Moon in Scorpio14. Godflesh - Post Self15. Paradise Lost - Medusa16. Ufomammut - 817. Tau Cross - Pillar of Fire18. Mammoth Mammoth - Mount the Mountain19. Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine20. Myrkur - Mareridt21. Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows22. Alestorm - No Grave But The Sea23. Sólstafir - Berdreyminn24. Pyriphlegethon - The Murky Black of Eternal Night25. Pallbearer - Heartless26. Ides of Gemini - Women27. Full Of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy28. Venenum - Trance Of Death29. Usnea - Portals into Futility30. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering31. Nortt – Endeligt32. Reverorum ib Malacht - Ter Agios Numini33. Obituary - Obituary34. Horn - Turm Am Hang35. Botanist - The Shape of He to Come36. Disharmony - Goddamn The Sun37. Jagged Vision - Death Is This World38. Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perrenial39. Ensiferum - Two Paths40. Integrity - Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume41. Selcouth - Heart Is the Star of Chaos42. Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival43. Eluveitie - Evocation II: Pantheon44. Antisect - The Rising of the Lights45. Anomalie - Visions46. Uniform - Wake In Fright47. Dread Sovereign - For Doom The Bell Tolls48. White Ward - Futility Report49. Lorn - Arrayed Claws50. Big|Brave - Ardor
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 10 February 2018 05:54 (six years ago) link
My unweighted ballot, I only picked things I'd heard and remembered (and it's obviously missing a few I've noted above in the thread):
Artificial Brain - Infrared HorizonAtriarch - Dead as TruthBig|Brave - ArdorChepang - DadheloCircle - TerminalCloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LPCouch Slut - ContemptFull of Hell - Trumpeting EcstasyGodflesh - Post SelfImpetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred SentienceOxbow - Thin Black DukePower Trip - Nightmare LogicPsudoku - Deep Space PsudokumentPyrrhon - What Passes For SurvivalThe Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy LightUniform - Wake in FrightWhite Suns - Psychic DriftWreche - Wreche
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link
I must say I'm a little disappointed by the #1. I'm not a fan of the singing and I can't really make out the songs as they just meander, without strong or hooking passages (track 3 a distinct exception). The last two songs feel like an addition of twenty minutes. I'm not sure if it's because I've never been a fan of stoner or because of the progressiveness.
― Nabozo, Saturday, 10 February 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
Maybe I spoke too fast though, I'm relistening to parts at home now and it sounds better than in the train.
― Nabozo, Saturday, 10 February 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
the last track is amazing
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Saturday, 10 February 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
They definitely meander, that's part of the fun. They open with a hook, riff on it a bit, jam for five minutes, come back to the hook at the end. I think the hooks on Lore might have been a bit more memorable, but the new one is a little more layered, which is why I liked it better.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Saturday, 10 February 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
My unweighted and monumentally unsuccessful ballot
Bloodway - A Fragile Riddle Crypting CluesCelestial Bodies - Spit Forth From ChaosCemetery Urn - Cemetery UrnCircle - TerminalContaminated - Final ManCryptic Fog - Staring Through the VeilCrystal Fairy - Crystal FairyDaemogog – Ancient Extradigestional RitesDemon Head - Thunder on the FieldsDreaming Dead - Funeral TwilightElder - Reflections of a Floating WorldExcommunion - ThronosisFather Befouled - Desolate GodsFell Ruin - To the Concrete DriftsFleshpress - Hulluuden MuuriGigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic IridescenseImmolation - AtonementIncantation - Profane NexusJohn Hoyles - Night FlightKairon; IRSE! - RuinationLivid - Beneath This Shroud, The Earth ErodesLo-Ruhamah - AnointingLorn - Arrayed ClawsLoss - HorizonlessMidnight Rider – ManifestationMind Mold – Mind MoldMorast - Ancestral VoidMorbid Angel - Kingdoms DisdainedMorbid Evils – DeceasesNightbringer - Terra DamnataOccasvs - Nocturnal Majestic MysteriaOculus - The Apostate of LightPoison Blood - Poison BloodPontiak - Dialectic of IgnorancePyrrhon - What Passes For SurvivalRude - Remnants...Ruin - Drown in BloodSlowly Building Weapons - SunbirdsSpectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of UnbeingSuccumb - SuccumbSuffering Hour - In Passing AscensionTchornobog - TchornobogThe Mass – Ghost FleetTomb Mold - Primordial MalignityTome of the Unreplenished – Cosmoprism: The TheurgyTongues - HreiliaUlulatum Tollunt - Quantum Noose of UsurpationUsnea – Portals Into FutilityVenenum - Trance of DeathWildspeaker - Spreading Adder
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
Most of my ballot is tied for 286th place lol
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
I thought Immolation and Incantation were both ILM faves? And I could swear people in this very thread were praising Tchornobog. I think my memory's going.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
Immolation made it, Incantation was at 105. Thought they were both very solid albums tbh. And I remember there being some excitement over Tchornobog in rolling metal but I guess it didn't carry over.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 10 February 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
I like Incantation a lot, but the new album was not as good as the one before.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 11 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
I didn't discover quite as much this year in the rollout as the last couple of years
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link