THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

It has been a good year for covers. I love the Artificial Brain one.

oh yeah

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
40 Krallice with Dave Edwardson - Loüm 212 Points, 7 Votes
39 Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy 213 Points, 6 votes
38 Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand 219 Points, 6 Votes
37 Oxbow - Thin Black Duke 219 Points, 7 Votes , One #1
36 The Obsessed - Sacred 220 Points, 5 votes
35 Les Discrets - Predateurs 222 Points, 6 votes, One #1
34 Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon 230.0 Points, 10 Votes
33 Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre 231.0 Points 7 Votes
32 Boris - Dear 234 Points, 7 Votes
31 Sólstafir - Berdreyminn 254 Points, 6 Votes, One #1
30 Ufomammut - 8 255.0 Points, 9 Votes
29 Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard 256.0 Points 6 Votes, 1 #1 Vote
28 Fen - Winter 259 Points, 7 Votes
27 Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie 269.0 Points 9 Votes
26 Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley 275.0 Points 6 Votes

SPOTIFY results playlist

We resume tomorrow when Odysseus is returned from the hospital, yes?

i will post #25 myself tomorrow lunchtime before I leave and simon will handle the rest

ayyyyy

holy hell that stabscotch album, not heard of them before now.

I've seen plenty of SST comparisons with Oxbow

Well they were technically on SST themselves, for a fleeting moment.

What's your favourite cover so far? Mine might still be Succumb

― imago, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 11:57 AM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Anakim, Succumb, Circle, With the Dead, Loss

i'm a sucker for gaping maws on rotting skeletons & sci-fi nightmares.

I really like the Planning for Burial cover.

Re-listened to Succumb now, and kinda wish it made my ballot - it has a great ugly black death sound.

Also, glad to see Full of Hell making it, that band is the real deal. Love this album and love the Body collabs too

I thoroughly agree. This Full of Hell album has been my favourite thing from either of them for a while - fully crushing, sonorous darkness. Incidentally it’s probably my favourite album cover of this lot too, although Succumb and Loss also excellent as has been noted.

Going to admit that Stabscotch started to grow fatiguing. I'll try again.

certainly doesn't need to be swallowed in one sitting

Probably the best approach.

otoh it's also fun to get lost in. it changes so much. you drift for a few minutes and you're in another country

Yeah I found Stabscotch fatiguing too

I'm enjoying the Necrot album though, great old skool death metal

it took me a while to realize I didn't already have that Necrot album (I had bought their compilation), so I just got it.

I'm guessing either all of my votes will be in the top 10 or won't be here at all.

it will be 25-11 today. Will post #25 in about an hour. In the meantime you can tell us which albums you hope will make it today

Just looking at muy own ballot, I expect to see Godflesh, King Woman, Couch Slut and Spectral Voice today. Ex Eye and Chelsea Wolfe will be top ten, I'd guess.

muy ballot = muy bien

who the hell are couch slut?

excellent noise-rock band with notes of sludge and doom

https://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/contempt

I would be very happy if Unsane end up in the top 25, but I'm not holding my breath.

aww man that would've been great

Hey, don't spoil it!

well, instead you will need to look away then

25 Unsane - Sterilize 277 Points, 8 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/O5T2jnz.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/5yTE6eWdQLw8z49Y4wIbYB?si=9oLySGOSRMGuNkLgVB8I2A

https://unsanesl.bandcamp.com/releases

http://thequietus.com/articles/23324-unsane-sterilize-album-review

https://media.tenor.com/images/fe357c2eaa4cf893309411b9ba80a3ee/tenor.gif

The first concert I ever tried to record was Unsane around the release of Total Destruction. To limit the recording volume of the walkman I was using, I tied cotton balls around the microphone. You can imagine what the results sounded like.

Nickelback?

Unsane are one of the few legendary bands who have reformed and come back as good as they ever were with each album. Such a great great underappreciated band by most people outwith their 'scene' though

luckily ILM metal regulars and metal poll voters do appreciate them as they always make the countdown

24 Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die 284 Points, 7 Votes, TWO #1s
https://i.imgur.com/oiOymel.jpg
https://linguaignota.bandcamp.com/album/all-bitches-die

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/kzqzwn/lingua-ignotas-liturgical-noise-is-a-celebration-of-obliteration

Right on.

Two #1s!

Heard this about 5 hours before voting and instantly made it my #6. It's staggering.

All of it is unbelievably intense, but a special mention to the third track, which destroys everything it touches, and will ensure you can never look at the New English Hymnal the same way again

"LORD GOD..."

Yeah, Unsane!

"Each little flower that opens,
Each little bird that sings,
He made their glowing colors,
He made their tiny wings."

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/Images/WE12.jpg

This was my #1, on paper this is over-the-top gothy hysteria but when it’s executed with an intensity like this I’m all for it.

the Unsane album is so goddamn good

23 Immolation - Atonement 302 Points, 8 Votes
https://i.imgur.com/3J5rxl7.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5NUH1pgRUS3ikU5DQiHqeX?si=zvC7519LSHODy0JF6upeFQ

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/immolation-atonement-review/

Toooo low

corrreeeect plaaaaacemeeeent

the lingua ignota placement is especially impressive since it was an extremely late ballot addition

Catching up all the way back at Venenum (which is sounding full of ideas and generally great), but excited to see Unsane and Lingua Ignota placing!

the lingua ignota interview linked above is sobering stuff

listening to unsane now! wow it's off to a good start

I know we're still a few minutes away but I was frankly stunned by the placement of the next album