THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

i forgot who recommended this in the campaigning thread but this album is gross and i love it

cookie monster?

xp

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds even lower-pitched than the trad cookie monster style.

this is approaching the Demilich-style "burp" vocal

also there's no way I'd have guessed this was a new record if I didn't see it here first!

I assume you're referring to Demilich the band but I choose to believe you meant a burping D&D demilich.

lol yeah the band, who doubtlessly got their name from D&D

46 Paradise Lost - Medusa 195 Points, 7 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/u11NSGk.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1K4grcFMjbuao5doCFgt1J?si=5vtVx1h1QuiSlTbBt7WwRQ

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/paradise-lost-medusa-review/

Yay for Undergang! That was my #1. Gross is an apt description.

huh, paradise lost is way too low

i like undergang! i haven't even heard that album. i'll bet it's good though.

power trip record is gonna be number one, right?

i'm guessing imago is to blame for the next one

paradise lost was almost my no. 1. i think it ended up third on my ballot? anyway it's them totally realizing the pivot back to depressive death/doom that occurred on the last record imo. the songs are all so strong

45 Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination 196 Points, 6 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/M3ioFdF.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4BK3y0c0JWVFU9dcC6uwHu?si=i-ogxrxrQT2CWz1YYsjWXA

https://kaironirse.bandcamp.com/album/ruination

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/kairon-irse-ruination-review/

immolation has to be top ten or i cry foul. such a good record. i even got the vinyls.

~~~proggggge~~~

tt much more responsible than I but it's bloody great, so many fantastic tunes, tones and twists. and grooves! almost all the songs, especially the penultimate track, blossom into something truly marvellous by the end. Oranssi Pazuzu involvement too, albeit this is softer

fantastic album!

immolation has to be top ten or i cry foul. such a good record. i even got the vinyls.

― scott seward, Tuesday, February 6, 2018 10:17 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

after i submitted my ballot i thought "fuck i definitely underrated the immolation." magnificent record

Solid retro-prog. Maaaaybe like their shoegaze album a bit better though.

A little too retro for me, even though I'm fond of their influences.

Immolation made a shoegaze album? no wonder scott loves them

Yes - the shoegaze debut is a better overall record - this one has its moments, though.

Lol, the names of the tracks in themselves are to gross for me on that Undergang album...

i'm still kinda going through everything i find remotely interesting in the results. the akercocke record, renaissance in extremis, is both good and a little too complicated to focus on (i love the vocals, i wish i heard this kind of vocal versatility on more extreme metal records)

Enslaved - E 197 Points, 6 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/nhMZGiZ.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/384vCqFNNWXumypoRHeKDN?si=JpH5m-7WQC-5UIlriSEd4Q

http://www.metalinjection.net/reviews/enslaved-e

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/enslaved-e-review/

I've made peace with the fact I'll never get into this band.

43 Sannhet - So Numb 204 Points, 5 Votes, ONE #1
https://i.imgur.com/awazLv9.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/7wdOUoAUF79Cwl27oNdS4N?si=6vhQZGVTTt-A1gP3TiBspQ

https://sannhet.bandcamp.com/album/so-numb

The cover of Sannhet’s third album, So Numb, features a mother shielding her son’s eyes with her hands - an allegory depicting the protection one receives from their parents, but it isn’t meant to be sentimental. As the mother shelters her child, she inadvertently creates a false sense of safety. The child, in turn, spends it's life seeking comfort and escape in temporary solutions.

Though Sannhet meditate on life’s imperfect escapes, So Numb’s nine songs showcase the band facing life’s pain and joy with their eyes wide open. The collection’s emotional landscape is one of existential dread, melancholy, and loss - ammunition for escapists. Despite these existential conundrums, So Numb has an uplifting, euphoric feel.

The collection was recorded and produced by Peter Katis, who’s known for his work with Mercury Rev, Interpol, the National, and Oneida among others. Working with Katis, the production illuminates a more open sound for the band. While Sannhet’s second album, 2015’s Revisionist, was bigger and harsher than their 2013 debut, Known Flood, they offer a more wistful, melodic approach here.

The first track, “Indigo Illusion,” opens with Christopher Todd’s eviscerating, but anchoring drums locked in... more
credits
released August 25, 2017

Produced, engineered, and mixed by Peter Katis

Sannhet Are:
Christopher Todd - drums and samples
John Refano - guitar and loopers
AJ Annunziata - bass guitar and visuals

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sannhet-so-numb/ 8/10

really great album

What, no one wants to take post-metal? well, you're in luck then...

*talk lol

K V L T

42 Black Cilice - Banished from Time 209.0 Points, 5 Votes
https://newnoisemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Black-Cilice-Banished-From-Time.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_5kdIhx_to

Since the release of debut full length A Corpse, A Temple (2011), Mr. Black Cilice has been on a steady tear, releasing a new album every two years. I would not say there’s a palpable difference in aesthetic between the first three albums. They sound more or less the same, and if you don’t spend much time listening to raw, lo-fi black metal then you could be forgiven for mistaking them all for the same exact album. For fans of the style though, your preference among the three most likely hinges on all sorts of unknown variables like how much iron is in your diet, who you voted for in the last mid-term elections or whether or not your mother breast fed you. As a trio, these albums stand as a bold and uncompromising testament to black metal’s pioneering spirit, to its willingness to subvert and pervert, to its insane disregard for its own safety. There is, of course, a bull-headed black metal orthodoxy which stands like a kidney stone in the urinary tract of time, but the fringe is where all the really cool shit is happening. Mr. Black Cilice has been skirting the fringe all along, and with his latest offering, Banished from Time, we are given no reason to believe that he will ever come back.

I've been working along with Sannhet, which makes for okay, moody background post-rock wallpaper. I doubt I'd ever intentionally reach for it again. I realize folks here have adventurous, eclectic tastes, but it would be kind of odd if not a single heavy metal album (to be specific, an album with primary genre listed as "heavy metal" on RYM and/or Metal Archives) made this poll.

Okay, I guess Tau Cross checked that box, so one so far ;)

Chatter has slowed down quite a bit so I think this may be it for today!

41 Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience 212.0 Points, 6 Votes
http://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Impetuous-Ritual-art-e1505354348600.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/74KuFi8RmoxAIERCvpg4DW?si=1_P2hcpkR9GzUyBuf7CGTg

Blight Upon Martyred Sentience is infused with feeling, the kind of old-school climax that one usually only gets in small doses here and there. The novelty here is that for Impetuous Ritual, that climax must be taken beyond, given in overwhelming doses until your senses get, not into a climax, but into outright paroxysm.

The ambience is totally darkened. They do not need imagery, masks, props, or anything else along those lines. They express pretty much everything I hold dear in metal with their music. The album is probably one of the darkest jewels out there. However, it starts with a subtle, familiar sound that only serves to contrast what is right to come. The truly dark sound cuts in and starts dragging you down into a black chaos of distorted strings. You start spiraling down and are met with a familiar old-school solo frenzy, only interrupted by a heavy overwhelming bass that makes it all darker and leads you toward an abyss full of voices.

y'all love to post albums

if anyone had been around we could've posted another 10

idk why it's gone quiet. For my part I just haven't really been into the last stretch. I found the Falls of Rauros surprisingly decent though.

who wants another 10 results tonight?

Venenum was one I meant to go back to before voting, but forgot. I’ll definitely give it a listen when I get home.

xp More results sound good to me but can’t promise much in the way of comments

Will try to comment!

Recap

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
60 Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out 153 Points, 4 Votes
59 Circle - Terminal 157 Points, 6 Votes
58 Corpse Garden - IAO 269 159 Points, 5 Votes
57 With The Dead - Love From With The Dead 162 Points, 5 votes
56 Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival 162 Points, 7 votes
55 Loss - Horizonless 167 Points, 5 Votes
54 Propagandhi - Victory Lap 168.0 Points, 4 Votes, 1 #1 Vote
53 Planning for Burial - Below the House 168.0 Points, 5 Votes
52 Ehnahre - The Marrow 171.0 Points, 5 Votes
51 Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense 174.0 Points, 7 Votes
50 Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument 177.0 Points, 4 Votes, 1 #1 Vote
49 Venenum - Trance of Death 183.0 Points, 6 Votes
48 Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial 184 Points, 7 Votes
47 Undergang - Misantropologi 190 Points, 5 Votes , One #1
46 Paradise Lost - Medusa 195 Points, 7 Votes
45 Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination 196 Points, 6 Votes
44 Enslaved - E 197 Points, 6 Votes
43 Sannhet - So Numb 204 Points, 5 Votes, ONE #1
42 Black Cilice - Banished from Time 209.0 Points, 5 Votes
41 Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience 212.0 Points, 6 Votes

You guys are moving so fast! Sannhet was my number one.

well since nobody is around we've stopped for the night i think unless a bunch of posts persuade us its worth it

Catching up:

I expected to like Impetuous Ritual more than I do. This will sound bonkers but it sounds a bit directionless to me? The switching between atmospheric ambient-y stuff and riffage feels artificial. Perhaps it's just not for me. Couldn't really get into Sannhet either. It's not bleak enough idk.

Black Cilice though.. Why did I not know about this? This is my shit.

I wonder if anyone will give their thoughts on every album so far like they do in big poll? you dont need to have voted or even follow metal to post btw!

i hated the impetuous ritual record, just fluctuating emptiness imo, i get why other ppl dig it still

every year I get less and less interested in the kvlty stuff

the succumb record that placed yesterday is f a n t a s t i c

yeah that one is really good, kinda gave me Immortal Bird vibes in terms of the synthesis of styles (more br00tal tho I think)

Would you count Black Cilice as kvulty?

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My lukewarm response to the latest Portal jams confirms that I'm pretty much over "cavernous" death metal, Impetuous Ritual did nothing for me either. Can I also upgrade my verdict on FoR from decent to SOARING THE CELESTIAL MYSTICKAL SPHERES