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.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
đđđ´đ
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
Good! I want time to anticipate what he's going to come up with next. (The Spectral Lore split is lovely, of course)
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
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.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
My #1. This really does feel like a culmination of just a massive obsessive agon with conventional rock music
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
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!
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
It's all one body of work, really though, and I feel privileged to be able to experience it
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
100-10
100 Cloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LP 99.0 3 098 Contrarian - To Perceive Is To Suffer 99.0 4 098 Bathsheba - Servus 99.0 4 097 Code Orange - Forever 100.0 4 095 Tau Cross - Pillar of Fire 101.0 3 095 Necrot - Blood Offerings 101.0 3 094 White Ward - Futility Report 101.0 4 093 Colotyphus - Spiritual Journey of a Forlorn Soul 102.0 3 092 Big|Brave - Ardor 102.0 4 091 Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black 104.0 3 090 Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis 104.0 4 089 Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine 105.0 3 088 The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light 106.0 487 Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worlds 107.0 2 186 Dodecahdron - Kwintessens 108.0 4 085 Nokturnal Mortum - Veria 113.0 3 084 Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II 114.0 3 082 Obituary - Obituary 116.0 4 082 Dreadnought - A Wake in Sacred Waves 116.0 4 081 Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer 117.0 4 080 Succumb - Succumb 118.0 4 079 Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms 119.0 3 078 Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine 120.0 476 Usnea - Portals Into Futility 120.0 5 076 Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna 120.0 5 075 Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos 121.0 4 074 Grails - Chalice Hymnal 121.0 5 073 Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky 126.0 5 072 Violet Cold - Anomie 127.0 4 071 Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains 131.0 3 070 Brutus - Burst 133.0 5 069 Akvan - Forgotten Glory 135.0 5 068 Nortt - Endeligt 140.0 4 167 Flight Of Sleipnir - Skadi 144.0 5 066 Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now 147.0 3 165 Amenra - Mass VI 147.0 4 064 Mesarthim - Presence 147.0 6 062 Ungfell - TĂ´tbringĂÂŚre 150.0 4 062 Ingurgitating Oblivion - Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light 150.0 4 061 Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity 151.0 5 060 Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out 153 Points, 4 Votes59 Circle - Terminal 157 Points, 6 Votes58 Corpse Garden - IAO 269 159 Points, 5 Votes57 With The Dead - Love From With The Dead 162 Points, 5 votes56 Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival 162 Points, 7 votes55 Loss - Horizonless 167 Points, 5 Votes54 Propagandhi - Victory Lap 168.0 Points, 4 Votes, 1 #1 Vote53 Planning for Burial - Below the House 168.0 Points, 5 Votes52 Ehnahre - The Marrow 171.0 Points, 5 Votes51 Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense 174.0 Points, 7 Votes50 Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument 177.0 Points, 4 Votes, 1 #1 Vote49 Venenum - Trance of Death 183.0 Points, 6 Votes48 Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial 184 Points, 7 Votes47 Undergang - Misantropologi 190 Points, 5 Votes , One #146 Paradise Lost - Medusa 195 Points, 7 Votes45 Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination 196 Points, 6 Votes44 Enslaved - E 197 Points, 6 Votes43 Sannhet - So Numb 204 Points, 5 Votes, ONE #142 Black Cilice - Banished from Time 209.0 Points, 5 Votes41 Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience 212.0 Points, 6 Votes40 Krallice with Dave Edwardson - LoĂźm 212 Points, 7 Votes39 Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy 213 Points, 6 votes38 Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand 219 Points, 6 Votes37 Oxbow - Thin Black Duke 219 Points, 7 Votes , One #136 The Obsessed - Sacred 220 Points, 5 votes35 Les Discrets - Predateurs 222 Points, 6 votes, One #134 Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon 230.0 Points, 10 Votes33 Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre 231.0 Points 7 Votes32 Boris - Dear 234 Points, 7 Votes31 SĂłlstafir - Berdreyminn 254 Points, 6 Votes, One #130 Ufomammut - 8 255.0 Points, 9 Votes29 Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard 256.0 Points 6 Votes, 1 #1 Vote28 Fen - Winter 259 Points, 7 Votes 27 Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie 269.0 Points 9 Votes26 Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley 275.0 Points 6 Votes25 Unsane - Sterilize 277 Points, 8 Votes24 Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die 284 Points, 7 Votes, TWO #1s23 Immolation - Atonement 302 Points, 8 Votes22 Power Trip - Nightmare Logic 321 Points, 10 Votes21 Spirit Adrift - Curse Of Conception 323 Points, 9 Votes20 Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter 326.0 Points 11 Votes19 Cleric - Retrocausal 336.0 Points 8 Votes 2 #1 Votes18 Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper 338.0 Points, 10 Votes 1 #1 Vote17 Pillorian - Obsidian Arc 386.0 Points 10 Votes 1 #1 Vote16 Au champ des morts - Dans la joie 393.0 Points 11 Votes15 Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing 401.0 Points 11 Votes14 The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia 405.0 Points 11 Votes 1 #1 Vote13 King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering 419.0 Points 13 Votes12 Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven 436 Points, 12 Votes11 Jute Gyte - Oviri 438 Points, 12 Votes, ONE #1
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
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
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
ElderEx EyeBotanistCouch SlutI half suspect Lunatii to show up
thats only 5
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Schammasch, Ex Eye, Couch Slut, Botanist, Converge, Blut Aus Nord, Elder, Krallice AND TWO OTHERS
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
ElderConvergeEx EyeChelsea WolfeGodfleshCouch SlutKralliceSchammaschBotanistMyrkur?
― gman59, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
GodfleshKralliceElder At the Drive-InPallbearerLunatiiEx EyeConvergeAosothPharmakon
had to throw a few wildcards in there cause it's been a wildcard kinda rollout
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
Forgot about that Pallbearer. Maybe instead of Myrkur on my list.
― gman59, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
Oh shit, Pallbearer, C Wolfe AND Godflesh? That means one of mine has to drop out. Probably one of Schammasch or BAN - but which?
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
Ex EyeElderConvergeChelsea WolfePallbearerBotanistSchammaschGodfleshCouch SlutTchornobog
Similar to everyone else's I guess...
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
I'm not sure if the BAN album was nominated - I forgot to vote for it either way (xposts).
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
i think only one of you has got reasonably close
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
King Woman above Ruins Of Beverast, Spectral Voice and Power Trip - I've seen it all. I really thought the King Woman record suuuucked.
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
Dom't forget to subscribe to the SPOTIFY RESULS PLAYLIST
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
you might even get some results
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 8 February 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
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
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 8 February 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
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.
― gman59, Friday, 9 February 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Friday, 9 February 2018 01:58 (six years ago) link
Wow, Psudoku is wonderful. Feels really fresh. Are they this precise live??
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 9 February 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 07:47 (six years ago) link
Loving the stabscotch and white ward, looks like no cavern light in the countdown.
― auto focus, Friday, 9 February 2018 08:42 (six years ago) link
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.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, 9 February 2018 08:56 (six years ago) link
oh i didn't check out his other bands! interesting indeed...
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 09:05 (six years ago) link
oh shit that Full of Hell record starts with a Werner Herzog sample, immediately sold!
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Friday, 9 February 2018 09:37 (six years ago) link
DONINGTON ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?!
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
hell yeah https://cdn2.gigantic.com/static/images/campaign/820x500/download_festival-5149765533.jpg
― Nabozo, Friday, 9 February 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-WuR51w9yU
Rock over London. Rock on Chicago. I am a rock and roller.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 9 February 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link
That was supposed to be this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg6ZZ4I0U68
10 Pallbearer - Heartless 441 Points, 12 Votes ONE #1https://i.imgur.com/1H5uBRV.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/7lDurtFAXb8mObKJonzgeN?si=yb9urOztRruVACYO9i-AZw
https://pallbearer.bandcamp.com/album/heartless
Pallbearerâs 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 90âs 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 workâs 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: âInstead of staring into to the voidâboth above and withinâHeartless 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 spacesâyou 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 itâs 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 âI Saw the Endâ to the earth-shaking (and heartbreaking) 13-minute closer âA Plea for Understanding,â 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 âDancing in Madnessâ 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 theyâve gone and set their sights on rock and roll itself. Which doesnât seem at all impossible on the back of a record like Heartless. creditsreleased March 24, 2017
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 spacesâyou 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 itâs 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 âI Saw the Endâ to the earth-shaking (and heartbreaking) 13-minute closer âA Plea for Understanding,â 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 âDancing in Madnessâ 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 theyâve gone and set their sights on rock and roll itself. Which doesnât seem at all impossible on the back of a record like Heartless. creditsreleased March 24, 2017
http://www.angrymetalguy.com/pallbearer-heartless-review/
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 13:09 (six years ago) link
why is metal guy angry
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Friday, 9 February 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
He's a music writer.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link
\m/
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 9 February 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link
Beautiful album.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 9 February 2018 13:17 (six years ago) link
never really fully got into this one
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
I liked this, but thought the quality of songwriting wasn't too consistent. Some tracks were exciting (Thorns, A Plea for Understanding), and others seemed a little too familiar. That said, I see it somehow managed to make it halfway up my ballot, so I must have liked it enough!
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Friday, 9 February 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
I never really kept up with Wolves in the Throne Room after Diadem. This is pretty nice, generally.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 9 February 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link