THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

Actually, you know what? You're right. Only going to 61 makes divvying up the remaining days neater. Good looking out imago

MAH BOYS

61 Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity 151.0 Points, 5 Votes
http://www.cvltnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/TMa0329422211_10-700x700.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4fOMUmQ1NpOKW7g2SVEPeM?si=9S8R7M8wT5GCbXZA9PpZNQ

You’re initially greeted by throbbing and ominous ambient noise until “They Grow Inside” violently births itself across the floor in a gory explosion of blastbeats, guttural death bleats and unusually twangy, discordant riffs. It coalesces into a d-beaty stomper with more than a little early Carcass influence, but the whacked out guitar tone never stops bouncing and prancing atop the maelstrom in a way you need to hear to fully appreciate.

That unusual tone is the reason Tomb Mold‘s music stands out and every song is like a unsolvable conflict between the traditional death metal instrumentation and the off-kilter riffing. It makes for quite the quirky listening experience on cuts like “Bereavement of Flesh,” a reworked demo track, and fresh monstrosities like “Clockwise Metamorphosis.” It’s almost like the jazz-fusion death made famous by Pestilence, but without the jazz. In its place is minimalist weirdness that falls somewhere between brilliant and deranged. Riffs corkscrew here and there, always impossible to ignore because of the weird sound and the mix which puts them dead center in your attention zone.

As long as 61's a good'un ;)

(Kidding - they're ALL good'uns obv)

oh never heard of this!

amazing album cover

Love Tomb Mold. The demo comp they did recently is well worth checking out, too, might be a little less... like... soul-annihilating.

ingurgitating oblivion was high on my list. that album is staggering

A pretty great first day! Favourite discoveries were: Cloud Rat, Akvan, Wiegedood, Dreadnought, and Grails.

the standings so far

100 Cloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LP 99.0 3 0
98 Contrarian - To Perceive Is To Suffer 99.0 4 0
98 Bathsheba - Servus 99.0 4 0
97 Code Orange - Forever 100.0 4 0
95 Tau Cross - Pillar of Fire 101.0 3 0
95 Necrot - Blood Offerings 101.0 3 0
94 White Ward - Futility Report 101.0 4 0
93 Colotyphus - Spiritual Journey of a Forlorn Soul 102.0 3 0
92 Big|Brave - Ardor 102.0 4 0
91 Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black 104.0 3 0
90 Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis 104.0 4 0
89 Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine 105.0 3 0
88 The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light 106.0 4
87 Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worlds 107.0 2 1
86 Dodecahdron - Kwintessens 108.0 4 0
85 Nokturnal Mortum - Veria 113.0 3 0
84 Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II 114.0 3 0
82 Obituary - Obituary 116.0 4 0
82 Dreadnought - A Wake in Sacred Waves 116.0 4 0
81 Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer 117.0 4 0
80 Succumb - Succumb 118.0 4 0
79 Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms 119.0 3 0
78 Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine 120.0 4
76 Usnea - Portals Into Futility 120.0 5 0
76 Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna 120.0 5 0
75 Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos 121.0 4 0
74 Grails - Chalice Hymnal 121.0 5 0
73 Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky 126.0 5 0
72 Violet Cold - Anomie 127.0 4 0
71 Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains 131.0 3 0
70 Brutus - Burst 133.0 5 0
69 Akvan - Forgotten Glory 135.0 5 0
68 Nortt - Endeligt 140.0 4 1
67 Flight Of Sleipnir - Skadi 144.0 5 0
66 Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now 147.0 3 1
65 Amenra - Mass VI 147.0 4 0
64 Mesarthim - Presence 147.0 6 0
62 Ungfell - Tôtbringære 150.0 4 0
62 Ingurgitating Oblivion - Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light 150.0 4 0
61 Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity 151.0 5 0

fun (to me) fact: only one of these albums is longer than an hour, and just under half don't even cross the 40-minute mark. good year for concision!

instantly knew the long one was the colotyphus. like, without even looking at them all. haha

aw fuck make that two; the other one is Nokturnal Mortum. still!

ukrainians have a lot to say about themselves

Niiice. Pissed Jeans were my #1 and Creeper my #2. Might get some kind of false award for this but those albums are both incredible. PJ never let me down and came out more focused than ever on this one. Creeper just hit me on a really nostalgic level for a sound I had missed for awhile. Still play both if these a ton. Glad they both made the cut.

Out of curiosity (though I will need to confer w other poll folks so the right to overrule remains), would folx prefer the rest be rolled out like:

20-20-20
or
20-20-10-10
or
20-15-15-10
or
15-15-15-15?

(These are your only options.)

I too voted for both PJ and Creeper. I'm sad I may never get the chance to see Pissed Jeans live - they don't seem to hit Canada at all.

They’re in the running for band i’ve seen the most live. They play ny and philly area quite a bit if you’re ever nearby. Really fun show.

I'm checking out the Dodecahedron album now. It's pretty good, although I think I was hoping it would be more obtuse (like the last DHG or something). Akvan was my #4, nothing else I voted for came up. I might check out the Cloud Rat/Disrotted split next.

I think I liked the Disrotted side better than the Cloud Rat side, I think I might be a Falser.

20-20-20
or
20-20-10-10
or
20-15-15-10
or
15-15-15-15?

or 30-30 and finishing weds

60 Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out 153 Points, 4 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/67ji8wA.jpg
https://gasplapsychviolence.bandcamp.com/releases

First new GASP material in over 18 years. Hell is frozen. GASP is back. 1997 told us to come to the future and scramble your brain around a bit. Can we spend the night? We brought drugs.
credits
released October 3, 2017

quite like 20-15-15-10 myself

is that your photo btw?

i cant do thursday. go to take my mum to the hospital for her appointment with the consultant.

lol, no. its from bandcamp and i thought it seemed a better photo to post. ive never heard of the band

59 Circle - Terminal 157 Points, 6 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/oMobUao.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7zggczopZJBxLwZrGTVh3A?si=eIwS9CH7S4Wn67sf-qIgww

https://circlesl.bandcamp.com/releases

http://thequietus.com/articles/22769-circle-terminal-review

think richard dawson dubbed this his album of the year fwiw

Hope your mum is doing okay xp

getting there (with aid of a zimmer) it will take months for to get back to normal after a legbreak, but at least we can finally find out quite how long once we can speak to the consultant

anyway do you guys want the poll to finish wednesday or friday?

probably friday. will simon be able to handle a few on thurs or would you rather be around for it (best to your mum obv)

its no problem letting simon do thursday (but it would be a shame me not being able to see the 2nd last day rollout)

Good luck with it all. Best to you both! And yeah, a Friday finish sounds good but I don’t really mind either way.

of course maybe we could start the rollout friday tea-time. i hope we are back by 6pm

erm thursday tea-time

We can always have a day-long hiatus

58 Corpse Garden - IAO 269 159 Points, 5 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/vOIj5nb.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/63zHZv42xmMHZpMX4mFi8l?si=7g9gUV5mT3yvMDAvgNvjCQ

https://corpsegarden.bandcamp.com/album/iao-269

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/corpse-garden-iao-269/

my #4, absolutely amazing drug-magic-death metal from costa rica

This Gasp Psych is too aimless, even for me

Accidental capitalisation. Ah yes, the Corpse Garden is wonderful!

(starting the rollout if/when you're back on thursday sounds ideal!)

everyone listen to this though it's insanely good. the fretless bass is a monster

only Tomb Mold has been on my ballot so far -- hoping I'm a lot more populist than usual. The Gasp is OK -- reminds me of any number of ad hoc jam bands that happen after house shows in Oakland. Nice enough, but nowhere near as interesting (or forward looking) as Drome Triler.

the sound swarms rather than strikes

btw if it was up to me we would finish tomorrow while we still have momentum but if enough say friday then friday it will be

57 With The Dead - Love From With The Dead 162 Points, 5 votes
https://i.imgur.com/kAYHhVo.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4GGU5lB02dzjdTEjEFxoTo?si=O7my44vkSNK8-DYpwrMkBA

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/ever-heavier-with-the-deads-love-from-with-the-dead/

When the hype machine started rolling for With the Dead’s eponymous debut in 2015, we had a pretty good idea of what it would sound like. Lee Dorrian with Electric Wizard’s rhythm section? Check. Doom upon doom, lots of witches, Hammer films, motorcycles… take your pick. To a degree, that’s part of what we got, but there was more....

Another smithy fave iirc

I much preferred this to the new EW (if it’s fair to compare them). Nice and dark and magical.

Damn it, we broke the short-album streak. Anyway, this is really not for me.

Corpse Garden is sounding good.

wait til you get to 'the elevenfold vibration'

56 Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival 162 Points, 7 votes
https://i.imgur.com/WLeeAQG.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/322db45S6X4FrBdHSIN7dA?si=7LrgQ8u2QcOub61SDu-2zg
https://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/what-passes-for-survival

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/pyrrhon-passes-survival-review/

Props if their name is an allusion to The Waste Land.

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