THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

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
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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

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

― Simon H., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:20 (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Complete opposite for me lol

Opposite for me as well, probably

Enslaved, Sannhet and Black Cilice all made my ballot - the latter was a last-minute find from the voting/campaigning thread. Lots more to catch up on further up - I feel like I didn't dig very deeply into metal in 2017 but this is always a good time of year for it.

Can I also upgrade my verdict on FoR from decent to SOARING THE CELESTIAL MYSTICKAL SPHERES

It scratches the Agalloch itch better than the Pillorian record did.

if i was born without an agalloch itch would you recommend it to me

If the last few minutes of "White Granite" don't hook you, you can probably skip it

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to me, the new Portal wasn't cavernous -- that's really the aspect of the record that makes it different from their other stuff. I thought the pfork review was otm in the respect that it's very easy to see just how weird they really are now, and short of trying something totally new in their writing, cleaning up the production was IMO the best thing they could have done.

the new portal cleans up their production? i'm here for that

They did that on Vexovoid as well and I do like that album. It's just me I think.

It scratches the Agalloch itch better than the Pillorian record did.

― Simon H., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:27 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That didn't occur to me but I agree they fill the gap somewhat. But fair play on Haughm not just doing Agalloch 2.0 though. I assume Pillorian will end up being quite high.

Yeah I didn't mean that as a shot at Haughm/Pillorian necessarily

It scratches the Agalloch itch better than the Pillorian record did.

― Simon H.

fantastic recommendation!

I haven't heard most of the stuff that placed today, but I did listen to that Gasp album and I thought it was really good -- very noisy sludge psych stuff, very worth a listen imo.

YESSSSS to GASP & Circle

I'm going to check out that Psudoku album some more, esp since Dominique compared it to Melt Banana

I didnt vote for Kairon IRSE but I really wish I had; that album is awesome

I did vote for Sannhet though. Back and forth whether it's 3 or 4 stars but it's totally solid. Pretty much the same for Fall of Rauros

YESSSS to Black Cilice. The vocals are so much more unhinged than they were on Mysteries

Wish I had nominated the untitled Skaphe EP. And that the Rubedo Nocturno album was on youtube. That album is kvlt taken to chilling extremes

Pouring one out for Multishiva ;_;

Frobisher if you like the GASP, you might want to check out Liquidarlo Celuloide, which is admittedly more straightforward, kind of a spacerock equivalent to GVSB, but a very strong noisy psych element nonetheless

I did listen to Liquidarlo Celuloide when you brought them up the other day, I liked them but I'd voted by then.

The clip of Rubedo Nocturno was really enticing. Wish I could have heard more than two minutes of it!

xxp I will check them out!

There's a SPOTIFY RESULTS PLAYLIST that you all can subscribe to

@Drugs, do you mean the 'O Grande Pai: Abismo Incriado' album by Rubedo Nocturno?

also...is the Gannnet album good then?

I'm listening to the Falls of Rauros and I like what I'm hearing. It's a little too sweet and clean, lacking some folly, but that's very nice craftsmanship and production, and they concentrate a lot of good influences while avoiding pitfalls, there's Agalloch in there for sure but I also hear a little maudlin of the well (that interlude). Good discovery.

I'm especially fond of the opening minutes of "Labyrinth Unfolding Echoes"

the wode record is amaaaaazing

i was so unsure of it at first and then i hit "chaosspell"

Yes Le Bateau Ivre

Lol LJ I think if there's one album you'd rail against in the rollout it might be Sannhet. It's got a real goth flavor (they used to be on Flenser ♡) but I feel like it might strike you as by-the-numbers post-rock...? like Gravenhurst maybe, or maybe a darkwave Surface of Eceon

(xps)

Ehhh maybe not Gravenhurst

Its just slightly gothy post rock

fuck all like Gravenhurst

Planning for Burial is really lovely goth metalgaze. Enjoyed Violet Cold last night too, on a somewhat similar tip.

I totally forgot to vote for Planning for Burial. I listened to it earlier in the year but I guess I only remembered the slowcore parts. It's sounding great on this gorgeous winter morning.

I was in a furious mood for most of yesterday so I failed to register my enthusiasm for Kairon and Black Cilice, but yayyy!

I’m not familiar with Kairon’s previous stuff (though will make it a priority to check out), but this album gradually set up residence in my brain throughout the year and wouldn’t leave. It is just such pristine, glimmering psych and is as enduring as it is catchy. The shoegazey bits are refreshing too. It’s just so pretty and positive! Shame that none of this is reflected in either band name or album cover. I totally thought this would be thrash metal from the cover.

Black Cicile are roooough.