THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

listening! this is proper closing-credits music isn't it

it's very nice

they have been on an amazing run the past 3 albums

30 Ufomammut - 8 255.0 Points, 9 Votes
http://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Ufomammut-8.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3JQb1Dum7c78tkb20XDjc5?si=IYc-7_6VRQaRlLarjgMZig

When I am searching for doom I want something that is just Black Sabbath worship. I’ve listened to those albums for over 35 years and can pull them off the shelf at any moment to revisit as needed… So it gets me excited to hear a band like these men from from Italy who must set bongs aflame across the world with their super psyche-filled doom.

Ufomammut take you out into the cosmos with a fuzzed-out density that is obscured by clouds of trippy haze. The vocals feel more Pink Floyd-like to me than carrying any kind of an Ozzy influence. Each song takes you further into the depths of their warped rabbit hole.

xp I kinda gave up on these guys after the one that came after Köld

yeah for Der Weg Einer Freiheit and Ufomammut!

Based on this, Solstafir would make a cracking movie soundtrack I reckon. They should work with the people who made Rams!

After this one, a brief lunchtime intermission

29 Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard 256.0 Points 6 Votes, 1 #1 Vote
http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/electricwizardbloodycd.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5SbXE9Lt0jGoZsy7BtTeYg?si=yex5TKMBT4qTeyw6Y39KzQ

There’s a patent absurdity to this tribute. ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ is by far Black Sabbath’s most experimental album, while this record is by far Electric Wizard’s least. However, given that this is the band that gave us the ridiculous slowness of 'Witchcult Today' and the terrifying, feedback-drenched 'Let Us Prey', this means that they pretty much manage to meet their heroes halfway. 'Wizard Bloody Wizard' is certainly their most attention-grabbing record since the unexpectedly commercially successful 'Dopethrone' in 2000. It might even replace that record as the one you'd reach for to introduce an uninitiated friend to Electric Wizard’s distinctive sound for the first time.

Les Discrets has some pretty moments but isn't even remotely heavy so far.

I voted for Solstafir. Just a good emotional anthemic hard rock album.

Btw, ultros, I did get into Loüm before Go Be Forgotten, probably because the presence of Edwardson more obviously distinguished from all the other good Krallice albums.

28 Fen - Winter 259 Points, 7 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/okQcES3.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/0wcHVvKiuokXMhTAsPtfzG?si=HcnAowYDQdqq6aWnmDIzEw
https://fenuk.bandcamp.com/album/winter

http://echoesanddust.com/2017/03/fen-winter/

This was alright. Lots of stuff like this around and Fen don't exactly stand out.

Finding Les Discrets exceedingly dull, oooof.

Sund4r I hope you're not implying there are bad Krallice albums I will fite u irl

Finding Les Discrets exceedingly dull, oooof.

they are def super false but i'm kinda clicking with that record. prob due to the appearance of the word "trip-hop" in the one sheet

Finding Fen to be better than I expected. It's nothing remarkable but it hits its marks, if you catch me

And it does sound enormous, at least

Trip Hop and Pop Punk records in the ILM Metal yearly countdown - surely, these are the end times.

Fuck me though it's long

lmao we've had way falser records in past metal lists than anything that's placed this year iirc

^otm

No way the Les Discrets album can be less metal than Oxbow tbph

27 Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie 269.0 Points 9 Votes
https://i1.wp.com/www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/yellow-eyes.jpg?fit=700%2C700
https://open.spotify.com/album/7K73RBoqxp4pDgE4Z2f8E7?si=NurQ2ToJSTGU_iYBXh3yGA

What is notable with black metal releases recently, something that, on one hand, is a break from the norm when considering the past days of the genre, but on the other re-establishes the ethos of black metal, is the heavy layering apparent in more works. This is has been the case for different varieties of black metal bands, from the nonconformists, such as Deafheaven, to the extreme progressivists, in the likes of Castevet, and many in between. Yellow Eyes take this method very seriously, managing to further condense the energy and ferocity of their work without expanding its duration. The guitar layers of Immersion Trench Reverie are suffocating, allowing no light to pierce through their thick veil. The tracks take on an overwhelming quality, resulting in kaleidoscopic visions of lead guitar parts, as in “Velvet of Horns,” or insanely intense delivery, as with the final track, “Jubilat.”

great little record

yay Artificial Brain!

I hope that ‘Velvet of Horns’ indicates a horn section. I am also a big fan of that trend in this year’s metal, though I do favour the midi variety too :D

I wasn't complaining about Les Discrets being false or whatever! I just found it boring.

Yellow Eyes always sound the same and I always love it.

Ultros, I've liked all the Krallice albums to varying degrees.

Oh ultros, I was responding to BlackIronPrison and pulled the Oxbow album (which I couldnt really get with) out of a hat

Trip Hop and Pop Punk records in the ILM Metal yearly countdown - surely, these are the end times.

ok I promise this is the actual last time I'll say it but Propagandhi are not a pop punk band

i think they're still mad about creeper

ok yeah lol

the last album of today's rollout is completely unknown to me

and it wrecks my "shorter albums this year!" thesis

26 Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley 275.0 Points 6 Votes
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2287499593_5.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5OSsCAsBHH2YUtU0D0gQ6J?si=mVSi_vZ7TL2SagQbhbAL_g

A trio out of Bloomington, Indiana, the band’s second album (but label debut) is a barely classifiable nightmare of avant-garde metal, psychedelia, and noise that, in rejecting almost every received notion of “rock music,” alienates itself from every pre-existing rock scene. Sure, it contains recognizable sonic landmarks (distorted guitars, flailing drums, rasping vocals, tape abuse), yet it’s clear that they’re pushing them to unrecognizable extremes, playing and structuring them in a way that transforms them from affirmations of rock to the genre’s negation. But more than this, it’s also clear that the quest to do something different and be something different has taken its toll on Stabscotch, and that because of their strivings for artistic freedom, their music speaks of the suffering and strain of lacking social freedom, of being an outcast.

This strain and suffering is evident in “Open Sesemji,” where syncopated drums introduce a fractured succession of doomy, swirling guitars; intermittent and abrupt pauses of silence; an echoing, reverb-soaked, minatory guitar line; bursts of feedback’d noise; a tormented coda featuring plenty of delay and tremolo picking. As unsettling as these disjointed elements are on their own, vocalist Tyler Blensdorf spends their duration fulminating about his departure from readymade value systems, which in this case appear to take the form of religion.

voters, show yourselves!

Meeeee

In case you're wondering this is heavy avant-noise rock (or something) that's very long but it's worth it. Very uncomfortable listening.

Ufomammut is one of my all-time favorites. I don't know why the blurb babbled about Sabbath, they have little to do with Sabbath-influenced doom. There's more Hawkwind, and even Chrome in their DNA, plus extra lysergic cosmic horror. Great art on t-shirts and posters too. You can circumvent import prices and get the paperback collecting The Art of Ufomammut (the members also make up the Malleus art collective) at All That Is Heavy.

There was some bitter complaining about the Electric Wizard album, but glad to see some people can appreciate their tribute to their proto-metal influences, which really is not a hugely different direction.

Oh yeah Stabscotch was my #3! This album is fantastic!

I love you guys but I can't imagine ever listening to all 104 mins of this

My #3 as well, I think! They sent imago a coffin with some ‘tea-like’ substance in it. The album is a wild and chaotic ride. ‘Black Effigy Speaks’ is a favourite track from it, though it works well as a noisy lysergic whole too.

i wanna catch up but unfortunately i'm still hooked on the wode album

My #2. Absolutely incredible trip

They sent imago a coffin with some ‘tea-like’ substance in it

Haha wtf

The Stabscotch album is enormous, meandering--often surprisingly so--and p much entirely in the vein of stuff like from this thread

The 40 Weirdest Post-'Nevermind' Major-Label Albums (according to Spin)

tt has described it better. it's the fierce and uncompromising chaos of young people out of step with the world yet hungry and intelligent enough to try and devour it all. perfect for the boiling sun and the freezing snow. true delirium

I am one of twenty worldwide owners of their follow-up live album The Witness, it's true :D the coffin also contained a USB stick

Yeah that's a lot better xp

appears to be a comeback record from an old band...can't see the point in this music at all but then i've always been a trad metal skeptic

Just saw this. Nearly everything here (black metal, shoegaze, doom, thrash) originated at least as far back as the 1983-85. There is absolutely a point to the existence of The Obsessed. It may not be your thing, but you really can't make a case that it's inherently inferior to other genres -- they're all old. We're all old.

Oh I wasn't denying its right to be here! Just that it wasn't for me

Stabscotch are not old though :D

Still on track 1 but this is sounding like 'my thing' so far. (I'm a little surprised it's not Simon's.)

Also DAM that was an xpost, I meant tt explained it better than me with 'absolutely incredible trip' - that poll offers a fair swathe of comparison

But most of the subgenres are over 35 yrs old. Stabscotch is pretty good -- definitely brings me back to noise rock of the late 80s -- Tragic Mulatto, feedtime, Skullflower, Lubricated Goat :) Oxbow part of that too.

And yeah Sund4r you are required to be all over this

FNB I've seen plenty of SST comparisons with Oxbow - maybe I'll have to check all that stuff out soon :) in a way Stabscotch feels like the heir to that stuff