THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

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.

xp

TOOOO LOOOOOW

It's totally fair to compare. Electric Wizard leaves Rise Above and talks s**t about Lee Dorian. So Dorian takes two ex-Electric Wiz members (Greening since left after first album) and arguably does a better job at being E Wiz than the originals, at least for last year's albums. Love it. My second favorite thing about With The Dead was the huge, floppy hat Leo Smee wore at Roadburn '16.

https://i2.wp.com/www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/19989260_803549843153579_759513701822139386_n.jpg

Leo Smee is in them? I'll have to check it out

55 Loss - Horizonless 167 Points, 5 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/53DdI8l.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Ej4vZJWBrdIHC7yY1qJjS?si=vCPSpSIMQGOi9Wisr59M5w
https://loss.bandcamp.com/album/horizonless

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23240-horizonless/

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/loss-horizonless-review/

another great cover!

surprisingly low after the rolling metal thread reception

It's a particularly demanding subgenre as far as vocals are concerned, and I'm still not sold on theirs.

today's theme remains TOOO LOOOOW (this will continue)

I'm not mad about this next placement. I'm laughing, actually

54 Propagandhi - Victory Lap 168.0 Points, 4 Votes, 1 #1 Vote
https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2017/09/Propagandhi-Victory-Lap-1506443436-640x640.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/01lJjCxlvrddTRzIbtKHmP?si=7J0e7a87T9aaiv4McsRUJg

There’s one song on Victory Lap expressing awestruck reverence for Quang Duc, the Vietnamese monk who burned himself alive in Saigon in 1963 to protest oppression of Buddhists. There’s a song about a Winnipeg sewer crew finding the bones of ancient extinct bison, a song that uses that incident to consider a future where we’re all bones at the bottom of some other species’ shit canal. The song with the catchiest opening — “We came here to rock! / Single moms to the front! / Deadbeat dads to the back!” — devolves into an extended metaphor about a Molière play. As ever, Propagandhi are a band who practically demand that you read their lyric sheet with a dictionary and an open Wikipedia tab.

But all of this works, partly because the writing really is as crisp and layered and intense and sharp and partly because Hannah is probably the one singer in a million who can belt out these syntactically tortured sentiments and make them sound like they’re clawing their way out of his gut like the alien in Alien. The band itself is a huge part of it, too. In recent years, Propagandhi have been pushing themselves more and more toward the thrash metal that Hannah and Samolesky grew up on. They’ve still got plenty of pop-punk snot in them, but they play with a merciless intensity, never afraid to show off their genuinely stunning musicianship. Their songs are fast and loud and complicated, and they play them like they can somehow alter the course of human history if they can become the tightest band on earth. It’s been five years since Failed States, the band’s last album, and Victory Lap is their first with new guitarist Sulynn Hago, an absolute monster. But the chemistry is still ferocious. Together, they still sound like a machine.

I am late to the party. Some thoughts on the first batch of albums...

98 Bathsheba - Servus

I was an early supporter in the ILM thread. I became Facebook friends with Michelle Neocon, the vocalist. Unfortunately she barged onto a post on my Facebook with a cryptic comment that seemed to support Donald Trump. She was asked to clarify, she didn't and it became a huge clusterfuck involving PMing people on my friends list to complain, including my wife. She eventually sent me a screed and unfriended me. I never read the screed. That turned me off from the band and the album didn't make my ballot because of it.

97 Code Orange - Forever

Tried to get into it. Didn't work. That said, surprised to see how low it is here.

92 Big|Brave - Ardor

I championed this one in the ILM thread and saw them live last year. Excellent release.

89 Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine

I got this on the ballot. I understand some people see it more a 2016 release but it finally got a CD release with a label that reissued it. The Pazz & Jop poll managed to handle such albums in the past so I was surprised to see such resistance (some here, mostly on my Invisible Oranges list where I literally had to block someone who would Just. Not. Shut. Up. about it).

72 Violet Cold - Anomie
70 Brutus - Burst

Both were in my top ten. Love them both.

68 Nortt - Endeligt

Glad this got a bunch of votes. The advantage of doing the poll later is that this disc, released on 12/29, didn't fall through the cracks.

66 Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now

Love this album, didn't think it was "metal" but maybe I should rethink.

as always, bear in mind it's technically the "metal n' heavy rock" poll, and by that standard PJ qualify pretty uncontroversially

just think of all the classic 'heavy metal' that wouldn't have made any lists or polls once thrash metal came along as it wasn't 'metal enough'.
Though I'm guessing Slayer fans would like that since most of them probably only ever listen to slayer

Absolute shocker that someone called Neocon turned out to be a chud lol

I actually saw a comment online somewhere saying iron maiden, judas priest and black sabbath are classic rock not metal

:/

Anyway, Victory Lap was my #1, a towering but humble achievement from one of the very best rock bands my dumb country has ever produced

Let's have a listen

(The final three songs on the Spotify version are fun-but-forgettable covers.)

53 Planning for Burial - Below the House 168.0 Points, 5 Votes
https://newnoisemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Planning-For-Burial-Below-The-House.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/31lWxuVOP2hrbyqetVueTW?si=jTvwphjgRECmV5KCdIuGdg

There isn’t a glimmer of sun on Below the House, the latest from post-metal outfit, Planning For Burial. Think of the gloom of a UV index of 0.

In this world, sunglasses are merely cosmetic.

The hints of cheerlessness should come as no surprise. Throughout the record, I continually conjured up vivid images of a kind of pestilent wintertime death that begins in the soil, born in the rush of cold, fetid air. Perhaps the album title implies that there is a person being interred. Perhaps they met with a violent fate.

Planning For Burial is the alter ego of Scranton, Pennsylvania artist Thom Wasluck, a devilish creator who plays and records all instruments. Wasluck has been prolific in the studio over these last couple of years, using Bandcamp as a platform for spreading his peculiar brand of darkness to some grassroots acclaim (it’s curious to not that he has also distributed music through cassette and floppy computer disk).

are Propaghandi a poppunk barenaked ladies?

"When All Your Fears Collide" or "Comply/Resist" should answer that for you.

I like this Planning for Burial record very much; I think it made my ballot.

Aw, way too low for Planning for Burial :(

Reminded me of the Mt Eerie black wooden records. I miss that sound, though I don't begrudge Elverum for doing something else.

That and Fred's comparison with metal Mt Eerie will make me want to check this out.

older Mt Eerie made metal poll