THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

killer album. stetson and fox are absolute beasts

Greg Fox's solo record was pretty cool as well (though not remotely metal)

yeah they're amazing musicians. but it also helps that the material is really strong too!

I like this album a lot but... too high man, too high. No comment on #5.

Regarding a tracks poll personally I'm really bad at remembering individual tracks for the most part, I tend to let albums sink in as a whole which means sometimes I'm fairly forgiving of weak patches or what have you. Totally stumped thinking of top 10 metal tracks from the last decade but I'll try to come up with a list at some point.

Fuck, I’m missing so much! Today has been pretty amazing, though Ex Eye would have made a lovely #1

3 Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun 666 Points Of The Devil, 15 Votes, THREE #1s
https://i.imgur.com/jwKsqNx.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1nnenAgIzIipcodyg879Vx?si=_PdKr-JVRfyBAnp1m1IRSQ

https://chelseawolfe.bandcamp.com/album/hiss-spun

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/chelsea-wolfe-hiss-spun-review/

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/chelsea-wolfe-hiss-spun/

http://thequietus.com/articles/23273-chelsea-wolfe-hiss-spun-album-review

https://www.popmatters.com/chelsea-wolfe-hiss-spun-2495376625.html

666 points!

totally by accident too! ;)

it really was sheer coincidence.

I guess this makes up for her absence from the vanilla poll.

Just woke up -- took today off, which is good timing as I'm snowed in. I'd say every album in the top 10 each make their kind of powerful statement. Good poll.

Aye, still amazed this missed the 77

Not fully my thing but I'm giving it a listen now

I've also forgotten one of the things that will be in the top two! Haha. I could check upthread and remind myself, but I won't

So people really liked the Godflesh that much?

Oh THAT was it

hmph

Brad did say I should listen to all of it though, so I guess now's the time

I guess I'd say Elder and Godflesh. Anything else I voted for I can't see -- Locust Leaves, Endon, Argus, Lör, Night Viper, Purple Hill Witch, Disperse...

well a big comeback album from an old band just missed out

or did it..

tune in next week for the next edition of S.O.A.P.

last chance for you to do fakes

It's gotta be Danzig!

no, that was definitely des'ree

I should have promoted Telekinetic Yeti more. I'm just as excited to see them tomorrow as I would be Elder! The Doomsday Kingdom, Tchornobog, Pagan Altar, naw I'll stick with my original guess.

All three of the things I voted for that won't place would have made for quite a funny fake #2

Todesstoß probably the funniest

2 GWAR - The Blood of Gods 753 Points, 19 votes TWO #1s
https://i.imgur.com/L4Rq4My.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Ps3txaybLW14aDROZ48sL?si=lIFZ1knjTqifGZtY3twrDg

https://gwar.bandcamp.com/album/the-blood-of-gods

http://www.metalsucks.net/2017/10/11/album-review-gwars-the-blood-of-gods/

:D

I'll post the #1 in 10 mins

lol

happy to see Wolfe place so high, album knocks. I want Nadler to go metal next!

Both #1 votes for Gwar were mine.

It's down to Elder and Paramore. This is tense.

ahaha

Would listen to a new GWAR song before 90% of what actually placed in this poll.

I'm listening to the first track of this just coz I don't really know what GWAR sound like

Real Metal :D

I'll say this for GWAR, it's serious commitment to a shtick.

https://i.imgur.com/Zl8ZS8C.gif

ffs my page refreshed and it'll be another 5 minutes now

lmao this is an excellently torturous gif

2 Godflesh - Post Self 713 Points, 19 Votes, TWO #1s
https://i.imgur.com/K5a56j3.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4yLRI4kaOy4LhSPZ2sCVbE?si=QzbOwl0EQJmXsMmY4VkOkg

https://godflesh1.bandcamp.com/album/post-self

PRODUCED BY JUSTIN K BROADRICK /
BC GREEN - BASS, JK BROADRICK - GUITAR, VOICE / MACHINES /

Published by Mute Song Ltd /
credits
released November 17, 2017

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/godflesh-post-self/
http://www.metalsucks.net/2017/11/17/album-review-godfleshs-post-self/

1 Elder - Reflections of a Floating World 931 Points, 21 Votes, FOUR #1s
https://i.imgur.com/xCYlpGy.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/15yxKj4XCoCfSVJsgRjZQt?si=lVaPIx3GTW-cP8nH_P9wbw

https://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/album/reflections-of-a-floating-world

Reflections of a Floating World is Elder's fourth full length album and second LP released via Stickman Records (EU) and Armageddon Label (US). Long, undulating and dense tracks float between psychedelic passages and progressive rock without missing a beat; adventurous and unpredictable songs are punctuated by hypnotic jams, all colored by the tendency toward melody and dynamism that has become the band's hallmark. In keeping with their motto of expanding and expanding upon their repertoire, guest musicians Mike Risberg and Michael Samos joined the core three in the studio to add extra guitar, keys and pedal steel, adding vibrancy and lushness to the album. In all regards, Reflections shows a band with a clear vision honing their skills with every year.
credits
released June 2, 2017

Nicholas DiSalvo - Guitar, keys, vocals

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/elder-reflections-of-a-floating-world-review/

https://www.stereogum.com/1943347/album-of-the-week-elder-reflections-of-a-floating-world/franchises/album-of-the-week/

I'm a Viking god
Don't you understand?
If you wanna fuck me, let me see a show of hands

-GWAR

woah, not even close!

hey all, interrupting my extended hiatus to briefly weigh in (i lasted all of two days lol, but this is the only thread i've been lurking before i block everything again bc it is extremely necessary that i take a break):

- the best album on this list is no. 49, venenum's trance of death. had i heard it before the countdown it would've been no. 1 on my ballot. it gets the balance exactly right between brutal churning death metal and insane prog spirals. what an impressive album and band
- best discoveries from this list overall so far: venenum, dreadnought, white ward, falls of rauros, brutus, tomb mold, nortt, colotyphus, WODE (i had a real melodic black metal moment as this thread was rolling out i guess), gasp (this record is so bizarre and cool and i'll prob never listen to it again but i felt the need to shout it out)
- was it tt who said the falls of rauros record was real coheed-y? she's right. it's also one of my favorite records on the list now. so generous melodically and... emotionally? it almost feels not metal even though it's def metal
- that said i'm glad my actual no. 1 (godflesh) placed so high. feel like broadrick outdid himself in a way i couldn't have anticipated. it's a real journey between almost every style he's ever employed, yet it's so compact and odd and remarkably coherent. when i listen to it i feel like i'm in the future war scenes in the terminator movies. songs for lonely metaphysical post-apocalyptic nightclub djs, etc.
- elder and godflesh is such a good top 2
- worst album art: electric wizard
- the immolation record is actually too low, simon
- wtf is wrong with you nerds, nightwish rules

Hope imago gets to see the whole gif, lol

I figured tomb mold would be up yr alley brad!

Elder/Godflesh is indeed a very worthy 1/2. Well done, all

my lesson this year is not to bother promoting prog-metal albums because no one votes for them (except for.......the one that won)

but Elder are stoner rock