THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

fave title+cover combo of the poll so far

75 Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos 121.0 Points, 4 Votes
http://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Wode-Servants-of-the-Countercosmos--e1497889150334.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3H2DBHz90QNuEezDMACfj2?si=2XUGKFxpT_CnsGsFOgDgIQ

ooh what is this

dreadnought still kicking my ass btw, i usually don't go for songs this long but they're packed with ideas

The Wode record rules hard - probably my fave black metal release last year.

also there's some good flutin' on the second track of the dreadnought

Also - why do we have Pop Punk records and 2016 records shutting out, probably better 2017 metal records in the poll - it blows.

Ooh yeah Wode, I forgot to vote for that one, it’s really good!

BIP I count 1 (one) of each of those things you're complaining out of 25 records so far (and I haven't seen the full results but I don't anticipate any more of either out of the 100 slots) so maybe relax

Also - why do we have Pop Punk records and 2016 records shutting out, probably better 2017 metal records in the poll - it blows.

― BlackIronPrison, Monday, February 5, 2018 12:23 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk, the nominations thread included the phrase "heavy rock" which adds p huge margins to the poll

Yeah! This made it onto my ballot. It brings a heavy wizardry and some twisty tunefulness and is never boring.

I still can't process how much more metal you listened to than me

also the creeper record seems appropriate here to me, tbh? in ambition and mood it feels, at the very least, metal adjacent, even though what happens within that mood is gothy pop-punk. which is essentially why i voted for it and didn't vote for other similar records on the list

Man you’re going to be bummed out when Paramore turns out to have won.

lol

lol

Just imagine a Napalm Death version of Hard Times if things get too much, BIP. It's easier than you'd think

can't believe i found two records i'm gonna love forever in the results already, satan bless the metal poll

I agree that Creeper are definitely metal adjacent. It's hardly on the sunny end of pop punk.

xp haha it's because I didn't listen to a certain album on repeat

74 Grails - Chalice Hymnal 121 Points, 5 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/8V7NAXZ.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1yc17D4aHQRfltXlln9Mcq?si=lpM8j5ZFSni8LCBwCkm5Ow
https://grails.bandcamp.com/album/chalice-hymnal

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22906-chalice-hymnal/

Never heard of this, but it looks very baroque and I hope that proves to be correct.

are we talking about Peasant or DAMN there haha xxp

Grails are kind of Indian mysticism drone-doom iirc

probably the falsest album that's gonna place. gothy dinner party music. (I like them v much)

Beginning of Dreadnought third track is like some French jazz-pop lol. Can tell things are about to get hea. vy. though

This is a vibe I can very much favour. I would like to host a dinner party and play this. Everyone's invited! It's tonight.

will there be tostones

goat's cheese tostadas

I voted for this but I kind of thought it dropped off after the first few tracks

Beginning of Dreadnought third track is like some French jazz-pop lol. Can tell things are about to get hea. vy. though

― imago, Monday, February 5, 2018 12:35 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it actually doesn't ever get that heavy? and i'm so into it

yeah it doesn't, but it is so very elegant

73 Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky 126 Points, 5 votes
https://i.imgur.com/78bHSVD.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/0CBu7fiAdwNVsbY3rWvYT6?si=7PvLjj8NSDSR372Au_d5MQ

http://www.metalinjection.net/av/full-album-stream/oranssi-pazuzu-goes-gloom-and-doom-with-kevat-varimyrsky

I didn't even know that came out! jesus...:/

yasss

Q1: Is Grails really post-rock
Q2: Do we not have a post-rock thread (any more) on ilm?

A two-track, sixteen-minute EP on which one of the tracks is kind of dull. But the second track is just so fucking triumphant, I couldn't not vote for it. It's pretty much heavy psych-rock at this point, but some of the coolest and most badass rock music in the world

Wode was one I discovered from the nominations list, nice to see it here.

love how all the guitars get subtracted from the last track on the dreadnought record for a piano solo

yeah I'm listening to that right now! it's really, really nice

oh shit then an a cappella ending

god what a cool album

72 Violet Cold - Anomie 127 Points, 4 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/8zHqIrt.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/58VkYUmTfWXFfpPJB5U3q2?si=ifLShJ7mS0iPfjErC1m8hQ
or
Instrumental version https://open.spotify.com/album/0yHiAlmSakN7Z3YWiQxY9b?si=P_7Z3qWpTqymasXrC7PvsA

https://violetcold.bandcamp.com/album/anomie

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/violet-cold-anomie-review/

yeah it takes a lot of subtly unexpected turns. will enjoy returning to it

anyway, hope you're all headbanging to the extended bridge of Värimyrsky

ooh what's THIS? probably tt tried to show me it at some point idk

Yes damnit yes

you guys want simon to take us down to 61 tonight?

Opening melody of the first track reminds me a bit too much of Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive' sadly, but it picks up after that :)

“anomie” is a “condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals,” a form of social disorder that was first outlined in the 1897 book “Suicide” by Émile Durkheim. Durkheim and others exhort that anomie represents a schism between the collective goal of a society and the individual’s inability to achieve it, leading to potential deviant behaviour. Anomie can also describe individuals ignored and vilified because they run counter to a society’s groupthink.

progenie terrestre pura record kinda feels like all of the right elements are aligned but i'm unable to engage with it for some reason. should i check out the debut?

you guys want simon to take us down to 61 tonight?

― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, February 5, 2018 1:06 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also yes

oh man I have some catching up to do in this thread

The song on PTP's debut that's a really long Italian word with 'robot' in the middle is the one, Brad