THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

This will be the last one, not just for tonight until Brad comes back!

then we will do the top 10

11 Jute Gyte - Oviri 438 Points, 12 Votes, ONE #1
https://i.imgur.com/EyYbBvP.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/6fSKj1tCGgNxzu7ZqumE7X?si=Y74F9x4jSZeLo8yGu4IpOQ
https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/oviri

http://thequietus.com/articles/23139-jute-gyte-oviri-album-review

Has he learnt how to tune his guitar yet?

lmao

Too low! haha

My #5, which is 4 places lower than you'd think eh? Not his best IMO but still completely amazing. A bit wilder and more fragmented than before - perhaps sacrificing a bit of compositional focus in order to signify the extent of his pessimism and discomfort. When it hits though it hits so hard. Second and third tracks appear to be consensus favourites

The track titles are very cute.

lol

I was ready to feel fatigued by Jute Gyte this year, his music being a somewhat permanent feature in this household and there having been SO many releases recently, but how can you dislike this? Unendingly innovative work. I think either track 2 or 4 is my favourite, but track 3 is definitely the pop hit.

🐁🐁🍴🏅

AK has said he probably won't release another metal album this year btw - well, apart from the (very worthy) Spectral Lore split he's already released, lol

Good! I want time to anticipate what he's going to come up with next. (The Spectral Lore split is lovely, of course)

I sometimes think Oviri might be his best actually, sometimes I find JG a bit of a drag and I welcome more electronic/processed voice weirdness.

My #1. This really does feel like a culmination of just a massive obsessive agon with conventional rock music

I reckon he's been improving and deepening with every album, but basically reached some kind of compositional pinnacle with Perdurance, and has had to break it apart in order to build up to what I assume will be even greater heights. Perhaps the breaking-apart is the particularly exciting bit for some though!

It's all one body of work, really though, and I feel privileged to be able to experience it

100-10

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
25 Unsane - Sterilize 277 Points, 8 Votes
24 Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die 284 Points, 7 Votes, TWO #1s
23 Immolation - Atonement 302 Points, 8 Votes
22 Power Trip - Nightmare Logic 321 Points, 10 Votes
21 Spirit Adrift - Curse Of Conception 323 Points, 9 Votes
20 Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter 326.0 Points 11 Votes
19 Cleric - Retrocausal 336.0 Points 8 Votes 2 #1 Votes
18 Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper 338.0 Points, 10 Votes 1 #1 Vote
17 Pillorian - Obsidian Arc 386.0 Points 10 Votes 1 #1 Vote
16 Au champ des morts - Dans la joie 393.0 Points 11 Votes
15 Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing 401.0 Points 11 Votes
14 The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia 405.0 Points 11 Votes 1 #1 Vote
13 King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering 419.0 Points 13 Votes
12 Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven 436 Points, 12 Votes
11 Jute Gyte - Oviri 438 Points, 12 Votes, ONE #1

I am the only person with the top 10 (except seandalai) who wants to try predict the top 10?

Yeah 'wilder' & 'more fragmented' are definitely big plusses for me! xxxp

Elder
Ex Eye
Botanist
Couch Slut
I half suspect Lunatii to show up

thats only 5

Schammasch, Ex Eye, Couch Slut, Botanist, Converge, Blut Aus Nord, Elder, Krallice AND TWO OTHERS

Elder
Converge
Ex Eye
Chelsea Wolfe
Godflesh
Couch Slut
Krallice
Schammasch
Botanist
Myrkur?

Godflesh
Krallice
Elder
At the Drive-In
Pallbearer
Lunatii
Ex Eye
Converge
Aosoth
Pharmakon

had to throw a few wildcards in there cause it's been a wildcard kinda rollout

Yayte Gyte! My #5. I was struck by how much more ambient it was, comparatively. And that rubbed me right way after, as lj already said, Perdurance was a pinnacle. He needed to do something different, and I think the bastard did it again.

Forgot about that Pallbearer. Maybe instead of Myrkur on my list.

Oh shit, Pallbearer, C Wolfe AND Godflesh? That means one of mine has to drop out. Probably one of Schammasch or BAN - but which?

Ruins of Beverast too low, King Woman too high. The whole time I wanted her voice to metamorphose into Chelsea Wolfe's, who I assume is coming up.

Ex Eye
Elder
Converge
Chelsea Wolfe
Pallbearer
Botanist
Schammasch
Godflesh
Couch Slut
Tchornobog

Similar to everyone else's I guess...

I'm not sure if the BAN album was nominated - I forgot to vote for it either way (xposts).

Go, Be Forgotten won't have been forgotten. I don't even know what Tchornobog is, lol! Think we have our ten now though. BUT IN WHAT ORDER

i think only one of you has got reasonably close

But you wont find out unless Brad posts!

I've bumped ILM : The Top 100 Metal/Heavy Rock Tracks Of All Time - Presented By Our Host, Henry, ILM's Favourite Heavy Metal Dog! THE END IS NIGH! (FIN) so we can consider the great metal/heavy rock tracks of recent years fyi

King Woman above Ruins Of Beverast, Spectral Voice and Power Trip - I've seen it all. I really thought the King Woman record suuuucked.

Dom't forget to subscribe to the SPOTIFY RESULS PLAYLIST

you might even get some results

Not sure what time to start tomorrow. So this is a good chance for everyone to tell us about best albums they've discovered from the poll and also to tell us about best albums you think have missed out on the rollout

PSUDOKU! Had never heard this dude before. It's blowing me away. Similar to Melt Banana, The Locust, Discordance Axis, Marston's Behold...The Arctopus and Indricothere which are some of my favorite acts ever. And much like those, this is a real pleasure to listen to which can't always be said about a lot of spastic and technical metal like this. Really stoked to go further back than just Deep Space Psudokument.

Not too long ago - well probably about 4 years ago - I would lurk on the roll-out thread and I knew maybe 10% of the top 100. Usually, I made a lot of good discoveries that way. Now that metal has become probably the main style I listen to, and I tend to check everything out during the course of the year, the ratio is reversed: with only about 10% being stuff I haven't at least sampled a track from. I did add the Grails, "Chalice Hymnal", to my wishlist. Sort of an interesting cross between dinner music and metal. There's a few more I still need to check out.

Nice to see Lingua Ignota, Immolation and Power Trip placing from my ballot in this batch. I certainly expected the Immolation to place higher.

Wow, Psudoku is wonderful. Feels really fresh. Are they this precise live??

I'm certain it isn't replicated live, being all one person's work. fwiw I went back and heard his previous stuff and this one appears to be the big quantum leap forward

Loving the stabscotch and white ward, looks like no cavern light in the countdown.

Psudoku is the dude behind Parlamentarisk Sodomi - and Brutal Blues, which is a duo with Anders Hana (Noxagt, MoHa!, etc), is just as interesting as Psudoku and apparently will be playing live shows some time this year.

oh i didn't check out his other bands! interesting indeed...

oh shit that Full of Hell record starts with a Werner Herzog sample, immediately sold!

DONINGTON ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?!

hell yeah
https://cdn2.gigantic.com/static/images/campaign/820x500/download_festival-5149765533.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-WuR51w9yU

Rock over London. Rock on Chicago. I am a rock and roller.

That was supposed to be this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg6ZZ4I0U68

10 Pallbearer - Heartless 441 Points, 12 Votes ONE #1
https://i.imgur.com/1H5uBRV.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7lDurtFAXb8mObKJonzgeN?si=yb9urOztRruVACYO9i-AZw

https://pallbearer.bandcamp.com/album/heartless

Pallbearer’s third album, Heartless, is an inspired collection of monumental rock music. The band offers a complex sonic architecture that weaves together the spacious exploratory elements of classic prog, the raw anthemics of 90’s alt-rock, and stretches of black-lit proto-metal. Lyrics about mortality, life, and love are set to sharp melodies and pristine three-part harmonies. Vocalist and guitarist Brett Campbell has always been a strong, assured singer, and on Heartless, his work’s especially stunning. This may in part be due to the immediacy of the lyrics. Written by Campbell and bassist/secondary vocalist Joseph D Rowland, the words have moved from the metaphysical to something more grounded. As the group explains: “Instead of staring into to the void—both above and within—Heartless concentrates its power on a grim reality. Our lives, our homes and our world are all plumbing the depths of utter darkness, as we seek to find any shred of hope we can."

Pallbearer emerged from Little Rock, Arkansas in 2012 with a stunning debut full-length, Sorrow and Extinction. The record, which played like a seamless 49-minute doom movement, melded pitch-perfect vintage sounds with a triumphant modern sensibility that made songs about death and loss feel joyfully ecstatic. Pallbearer possessed what many other newer metal groups didn't: perfect guitar tone, classic hooks, and a singer who could actually sing.

For their 2014 followup, Foundations of Burden, the band worked with legendary Bay Area producer Billy Anderson (Sleep, Swans, Neurosis) for an expansive album that was musically tighter and especially adventurous. Armed with a more technical drummer, Mark Lierly, Foundations feels like it was built for larger shared spaces—you could imagine these songs ringing off the walls of a stadium. It was a hint of things to come. While the debut earned the band a Best New Music nod from Pitchfork and rightly landed the band on year-end lists at places like SPIN and NPR, along with the usual metal publications, Foundations of Burden charted on the Billboard Top 100 and earned the band album of the year from Decibel and spots on year-end lists for NPR and Rolling Stone.

Returning to where it all began, the quartet recorded their third full-length, Heartless on their own in Arkansas, and it’s grander in scope, showcasing a natural progression that melds higher technicality and more ambitious structures with their most immediate hooks to date. The collection, which follows the 3-song Fear & Fury EP from earlier this year, was captured entirely on analog tape at Fellowship Hall Sound in Little Rock this past summer and then mixed by Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool, Melvins, Soundgarden).

From the gloriously complex, sky-lit opener “I Saw the End” to the earth-shaking (and heartbreaking) 13-minute closer “A Plea for Understanding,” the entire group puts forth the full realization of their vision: More than a doom band, Pallbearer is a rock group with a singular songwriting talent and emotional capacity. Heartless finds the group putting forth their strongest individual efforts to date: Campbell and Rowland, along with guitarist/vocalist Devin Holt and drummer Mark Lierly, turn in peak marathon performances. Both Campbell and Rowland also handle synthesizers alongside their normal duties, and there are plenty of gently strummed acoustic guitars amid the crunchy electric ones, adding a moody, ethereal spareness to the towering metal. The almost 12-minute “Dancing in Madness” opens with dark post-rock ambience and moves toward emotional blues before exploding into a sludgy psychedelic anthem. A number of the seven songs feature a humid rock swagger.

By fusing their widest musical palette to date, Pallbearer make the kind of heavy rock (the heavy moments are *heavy*) that will appeal to diehards, but could also find the group crossing over into newer territories and fanbases. After having helped revitalize doom metal, it almost feels like they’ve gone and set their sights on rock and roll itself. Which doesn’t seem at all impossible on the back of a record like Heartless.
credits
released March 24, 2017

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/pallbearer-heartless-review/