ILM METAL POLL 2018 RESULTS THREAD!

my ballot
Yob - Our Raw Heart
Sleep The Sciences
Ghost - Prequelle
Thy Catafalque - Geometria
Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma
Evoken - Hypnagogia
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Wasteland
KHôRADA - Salt
Entropia - Vacuum
Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
Dispirit - Enantiodromian Birth
SUMAC - Love in Shadow
Turnstile - Time & Space
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness (I and II)
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
High On Fire - Electric Messiah
Windhand - Eternal Return
Sumac & Keiji Haino - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On
Sorcier des glaces - Sorcier des glaces
Dark Buddha Rising - II
Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben het Goed III
ASG - Survive Sunrise
Tropical Fuck Storm -A Laughing Death in Meatspace
The Body - I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer.
Jute Gyte - Penetralia
awakebutstillinbed - what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the
The Skull - The Endless Road Turns Dark
Zeal and Ardor - Stranger Fruit
Senyawa - Sujid
Anthroprophh - Omegaville
Earthless - Black Heaven
Khemmis - Desolation
ST 37 - ST 37
Yawningman - The Revolt Against Tired Noises
Alameda 4 - Czarna Woda
Pharaoh Overlord - Zero

1. Ungfell - Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz
2. Iskandr - Euprosopon
3. Fluisteraars / Turia - De Oord
4. Burial Invocation - Abiogenesis
5. Messa - Feast for Water
6. Kriegsmaschine - Apocalypticists
7. Paara - Riitti
8. Hamferð - Támsins likam
9. Severoth - When the Night Falls…
10. Basalte - Vertige
11. Sunsunmoon - Demons in Medieval Times
12. Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury
13. Atavisma - The Chthonic Rituals
14. Vargrav - Netherstorm
15. HWWAUOCH - HWWAUOCH
16. Argonavis - Passing the Igneous Maw
17. Evoken - Hypnagogia
18. Convocation - Scars Across
19. Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
20. Skeletal Remains - Devouring Mortality
21. Cosmic Church - Täyttymys
22. Esoctrilihum - Inhüma
23. Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms
24. Wayfarer - World’s Blood
25. Dautha - Brethren of the Black Soil
26. Xenoblight - Procreation
27. Det eviga leendet - Lenience
28. Convulsing - Grievous
29. Mylingar - Döda drömmar
30. Eosphoros - Eosphoros
31. Wormlight - Wrath of the Wilds
32. Svrm - Лихиї вітри стогнуть без упину
33. Infernal Coil - Within a World Forgotten
34. Horrendous - Idol
35. Lago - Sea of Duress
36. Mare - Ebony Tower
37. NONE - Life Has Gone On Long Enough
38. Stortregn - Emptiness Fills the Void
39. Churchburn - None Shall Live… The Hymns of Misery
40. Voodus - Into the Wild
41. Shylmagoghnar - Transience
42. Varathron - Patriarchs of Evil
43. Scorched - Ecliptic Butchery
44. Svartidauði - Revelations of the Red Sword
45. Skullcave - FEAR
46. Ultha - The Inextricable Wandering
47. Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
48. Carpe Noctem - Vitrun
49. Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice
50. Drudkh - Їм часто сниться капіж

Hello everyone! Sorry I wasn’t around for the rollout, it’s been a busy week. Glad you enjoyed the images!

Here’s the album if you want to see the full top 20 in image form:

https://m.imgur.com/a/uwvR6Cc

Great stuff, Moka! Very evocative images.

My ballot, weighted. (Bold did not place - virtually nothing this year!)

The Armed - Only Love
Summoning, With Doom We Come
Khorada - Salt
Shylmagoghnar - Transience
Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Closer - All This Will Be
Yhdarl - Loss
Blosse - Era Noire
Sectioned - Annihilated
Ails - The Unravelings
Alameda 4 - Czarna Woda
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Ungfell - Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz
LLNN - Deads
Azusa - Heavy Yoke
Deszcz - III
Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice
Voivod - The Wake
Ling Tosite Sigure - #5
A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
envy - Alnair In August
Fluisteraars / Turia - De Oord
Dark Buddha Rising - II
Lychgate - The Contagion in Nine Steps
Machine Girl - The Ugly Art
Ostraca - Enemy
The Body - I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer.
Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit
Paara - Riitti
Yob - Our Raw Heart
Spectral Wound - Infernal Decadence
Mesarthim - The Density Parameter
Gnaw Their Tongues - Genocidal Majesty
Funeral Winds - Sinister Creed
Windhand - Eternal Return
Protoplasma - -
Messa - Feast for Water
Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets And Dead Messiahs
Storm {O} - Ere
Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma
Cadaveric Fumes - Heirs Of Hideous Secrecies
Gost - Possessor
Hamferð - Támsins likam
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness I And II
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard / Slomatics - Totems
Necronomidol - Voidhymn
DMBQ - Keeenly
Q'uq'umatz - Kukulkan
Windhand / Satan's Satyrs - Split

My ballot:

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Wasteland
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Horrendous - Idol
Chapel of Disease - ...And as We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye
Voïvod - The Wake
Satan - Cruel Magic
Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
Obliteration - Cenotaph Obscure
Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms
Sleep - The Sciences
Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos
Burial Invocation - Abiogenesis
Khemmis - Desolation
High On Fire - Electric Messiah
Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury
Svartidauði - Revelations of the Red Sword
Messa - Feast for Water
Judas Priest - Firepower
The Skull - The Endless Road Turns Dark
Haunt - Burst Into Flame
Sepulcher - Panoptic Horror
Cult Leader - A Patient Man
Pale Divine - Pale Divine
Agrimonia - Awaken
Convulsing - Grievous
House of Atreus - From the Madness of Ixion
Esoctrilihum - Inhüma
Black Viper - Hellions of Fire
Mortuous - Through Wilderness
Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice
Eneferens - The Bleakness of our Constant
Ulthar - Cosmovore
Psycroptic - As the Kingdom Drowns
Embrace of Thorns - Scorn Aesthetics
Yob - Our Raw Heart
Mongrel's Cross - Psalter of the Royal Dragon Court
Deathhammer - Chained to Hell
Arsis - Visitant
Varathron - Patriarchs of Evil
Faustcoven - In the Shadow of Doom
Wayfarer - World’s Blood
Evoken - Hypnagogia
Windhand - Eternal Return
Drawn And Quartered - The One Who Lurks
Runemagick - Evoked From Abysmal Sleep
Witch Mountain - Witch Mountain
Entropia - Vacuum
Weedpecker - III
Vein - Errorzone
Deceased - Ghostly White

My overall year-end list (which changed a lot due to listens from this poll - loved Alameda 4 - even though it's not metal - and Ails, Shylmagoghnar and a couple of others moved higher up, thanks to more listens) - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/mctsonic/2018-faves-cranking-music-up-over-the-worlds-din/

Weighted - by the way ;-)

Many thanks to the poll runners and Moka for the images!

Good year for doom apparently.

Could someone please post my ballot if you can? I seem to have neglected to save it anywhere

Ultros

A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
Mamaleek - Out of Time
Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice
Koenjihyakkei - Dhorimviskha
Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma
El Efecto - Memórias do fogo
Eigenlicht - Self-Annihilating Consciousness
ION - A Path Unknown
Dispirit - Enantiodromian Birth
Soldat Hans - es taut
Ophidian Forest - votIVe
Entropia - Vacuum
Spectral Lore/Jute Gyte - Helian
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - Dirt
Yhdarl - Loss
Ungfell - Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz
Nishaiar - Irix Zerius
Voivod - The Wake
Iskandr - Euprosopon
Serpent Column - Invicta
Ails - The Unraveling
Geryon - Astomatous
Moss Upon The Skull - In Vengeful Reverence
Panegyrist - Hierurgy
Kły - Szczerzenie
Estuarine - Sic Erat Scriptum
Protoplasma - -
Sunsunmoon - Demons in Medieval Times
Hamferð - Támsins likam
Urarv - Argentum
Onirism - Falling Moon
Zealotry - At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds
Benthik Zone - Causa modicum temporis spatium
Faal - Desolate Grief
Monotheist - Scourge
Basalte - Vertige
Wild Hunt - Afrterdream of the Reveller
Monolithe - Nebula Septem
Ataraxy - Where All Hope Fades
Vouna - Vouna
The Armed - Only Love
In the Woods... - Cease the Day
Aura Noir - Aura Noire
Sorcier des glaces - Sorcier des glaces
Vihameditaatio - Demo I
Inexorum - Lore of the Lakes
Echtra -BardO
Scaphe - Factory Gleam
Ehnahre & Hadean - Rites for Winter
Nahtrunar - Mysterium Tremendum

Thanks!

I'm a metal plastic tbh. tt is way more metal than me. That said, plenty of what I've heard would be added you his ballot; some, such as Alameda 4 or Voivod, would be pretty high

The Armed - Only Love
Machine Girl - The Ugly Art
Dark Buddha Rising - II
Azusa - Heavy Yoke
Lychgate - The Contagion in Nine Steps
Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Shylmagoghnar - Transience
Mesarthim - The Density Parameter
Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice
Progenie Terrestre Pura - StarCross
Koenjihyakkei - Dhorimviskha
Inhumankind - Self-Extinction
Protoplasma - -
A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
Summoning, With Doom We Come
Q'uq'umatz - Kukulkan
Cadaveric Fumes - Heirs Of Hideous Secrecies
Agrimonia - Awaken
SUMAC - Love in Shadow
Basarabian Hills - Eerie Light of Fireflies
Erdve - Vaitojimas

*to this ballot

For an album that didn't place Mamaleek got mentioned a hell of a lot

I think they got released too late in the year to make much impact and I don't think I mentioned them, but Moss Upon the Skull and Zealotry are both very good if you like twisted and gross death metal

Not a big death metal fan, but Moss Upon the Skull is a band name that deserves to be listened to.

Hope everyone has found some good new to them albums

Earthling Society - MO-The Demon
The Armed - Only Love
ST 37 - ST 37
The Oscillation - Wasted Space
DMBQ - Keeenly
Alameda 4 - Czarna Woda
Sumac & Keiji Haino - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On
Pharaoh Overlord - Zero
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - Dirt
Minami Deutsch - With Dim Light
Yawningman - The Revolt Against Tired Noises
Star Period Star - Daylight Spending Time
A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
Ails - The Unraveling
Deep Space Destructors - Visions from the Void
Dylan Carson - Conquistador
Windhand - Eternal Return
Divide and Dissolve - Abomination
CB3 - From Nothing to Eternity
ION - A Path Unknown
Melvins - Pinkus Abortion Technician

My weighted ballot which might actually be different if I made it today:

LLNN - Deads
KEN Mode - Loved
The Armed - Only Love
The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
Shylmagoghnar - Transience
Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
Pig Destroyer - Head Cage
Dimmu Borgir - Oenian
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Agrimonia - Awaken
Aura Noir - Aura Noire
Behemoth - I Loved You at your Darkest
Sleep - The Sciences
Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
Entropia - Vacuum
Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
Kriegsmaschine - Apocalypticists
Windhand - Eternal Return
ASG - Survive Sunrise
Summoning, With Doom We Come
Ancestors - Suspended in Reflections
Evoken - Hypnagogia
SUMAC - Love in Shadow
Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms
Xenoblight - Procreation
The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir
Paara - Riitti

This was my ballot:

Gorycz - Piach
Tribulation - Down Below
Khanus - Flammarion
Aura Noir - Aura Noire
Uncreation - Overwhelming Chaos
Lie in Ruins - Demise
Demonomancy - Poisoned Atonement
Kriegsmaschine - Apocalypticists
Taphos - Come Ethereal Somberness
KEN Mode - Loved
Ghost - Prequelle
Golgothan Remains - Perverse Offerings to the Void
Deszcz - III
Lychgate - The Contagion in Nine Steps
Black Salvation - Uncertainty Is Bliss
Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed

My weighted ballot:

Pharaoh Overlord
Sulphur Aeon
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
Sleep
High on Fire
Ails
Voivod
Ghost
YOB
Senyawa
Funeral Mist
Horrendous
Khemmis
Mournful Congregation
Tribulation

Thanks for the poll!

Thanks for organising! Unfortunately Im on holiday so not a lot of time to contribute in this thread but it’s a great result and lots of stuff to try out the next couple of weeks. My weighted ballot:

Kriegsmaschine - Apocalypticists
Chapel of Disease, …And as We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye
Stortregn - Emptiness Fills The Void
Ghost - Prequelle
Funeral Winds - Sinister Creed
Fluisteraars / Turia - De Oord
1914 - The Blind Leading the Blind
Summoning, With Doom We Come
Cosmic Church - Täyttymys
Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben het Goed III
Alrakis - Echoes from η Carinae
Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
Cantique lépreux - Paysages polaires
Basarabian Hills - Eerie Light of Fireflies
Délétère - De Horae Leprae
Abigor - Höllenzwang (Chronicles of Perdition)
Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice
Amorphis - Queen of Time
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
None - Life Has Gone On Long Enough
Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog
Sepulcher - Panoptic Horror
Judas Priest - Firepower
In the Woods... - Cease the Day
A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
Behemoth - I Loved You at your Darkest
Drudkh - They Often See Dreams About the Spring
Thy Catafalque - Geometria
Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
Ungfell - Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz
Aeternus - Heathen
ColdWorld - Nostalgia
Autarcie - Seqvania
Primordial - Exile Amongst the Ruins
Sylvaine - Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
Progenie Terrestre Pura - StarCross
Craft - White Noise and Black Metal
Kły - Szczerzenie
Kwade Droes - De Duivel En Zijn Gore Oude Kankermoer
Rauhnåcht - Unterm Gipfelthron
Sorcier des glaces - Sorcier des glaces
The Body - I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer.
Svartidauði - Revelations Of The Red Sword
Kroda - Selbstwelt
Elderwind - The Colder The Night
Shining - X (Varg Utan Flock)
Sojourner - The Shadowed Road
Entropy Created Consciousness - Impressions of the Morning Star
Svrm - Лихиї вітри стогнуть без упину

your presence was missed

My weighted ballot.

1. Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit
2. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Wasteland
3. Yob - Our Raw Heart
4. Voivod - The Wake
5. Spiders - Killer Machine
6. Satan - Cruel Magic
7. Tribulation - Down Below
8. Cloud Rat - Clipped Beaks // Silk Panic
9. Witch Mountain - Witch Mountain
10. Khemmis - Desolation
11. Spiral Skies - Blues For A Dying Planet
12. Stone Deaf - Royal Burnout
13. Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
14. Summoning - With Doom We Come
15. Veiled - Black Celestial Orbs
16. Rebel Wizard - Voluptuous worship of rapture and response
17. Cauldron - New Gods
18. Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
19. Evoken - Hypnagogia
20. To End It All - Scourge of Woman
21. Sylvaine - Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
22. The Skull - The Endless Road Turns Dark
23. Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
24. ION - A Path Unknown [LP]
25. Panopticon - Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Part 1
26. Eye of Nix - Black Somnia
27. Horrendous - Idol
28. Deceased - Ghostly White
29. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
30. Scumpulse - Rotten
31. Sektarism - Fils de Dieu
32. Ghost - Prequelle
33. The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer
34. Unreqvited - Stars Wept to the Sea
35. Judas Priest - Firepower
36. Gygax - Second Edition
37. Mesarthim - The Density Parameter
38. Hyborian - Hyborian, Vol. 1
39. Sleep - The Sciences
40. Graveyard - Peace
41. Crippled Black Phoenix - Great Escape
42. Exxxekutioner - Death Sentence
43. A Storm Of Light - Anthroscene

I had an overall list of 60 which I pared down. I could have probably included a few more had I thought about it - I own well over 100 albums from last year.

The missus asked "is this new Pumpkins?" when I had Uncle Acid on this morning. Obv, it was a compliment and I'm digging the hooks and riffs on this. Prequelle was just what I wanted to hear when I was drunk and cleaning up last night.

I only voted for albums I listened to a significant number of times in 2018 and felt a strong connection with. Mixed:

Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Yob - Our Raw Heart
awakebutstillinbed - what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people see you
Andrew W.K. - You’re Not Alone
Senyawa - Sujud
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - Dirt
Kevin Hufnagel - Messages to the Past
-
Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog
Voivod - The Wake
Basalte - Vertige

It's so good. I did a Twitter-length LP review on it.

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats
Wasteland
(@RiseAboveRecord)

That '70s Show returns with doom mostly replaced by genuine pop-craft as if Bowie joined Big Star or Cheap Trick. Crafty types decry glitter's permanence but it's okay when the stuff gets stuck in yer head. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/1Moyc8hnvH

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) October 14, 2018

Nice. Also nice solo on "Exodus".

Mournful Congregation have me with the delayed E-bowed lead guitar part in the intro of the first song.

the solos on the last track are great

Yeah, I'm p into the lead guitar sound.

Poll caused me to go back and listen to past year's personal ballots, & I gotta say the 2016 release of the sadly defunct Vektor's 'Terminal Redux' still holds up - probably my fave metal release of the decade.

I wont be doing a decade poll btw as the turnout and enthusiasm for the eoy polls seems to be gone

Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Closer - All This Will Be
Sleep - The Sciences
Senyawa - Sujud
The Armed - Only Love
Portal - ION
YOB - Our Raw Heart
Thou - Magus
Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar
Turnstile - Time & Space
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The HIRS Collective - Friends. Lovers. Favorites
Sumac - Love in Shadow
Gnaw Their Tongues - Genocidal Majesty
Ghost - Prequelle
The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer.
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - Dirt
Summoning - With Doom We Come
Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want
Judas Priest - Firepower
Andrew W.K. - You’re Not Alone
Tomb Mold - Manor Of Infinite Forms
Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light

I didn't write down the other 6 but I think they were Machine Girl, Neckbeard Deathcamp, Pharaoh Overlord, Blackwater Holylight, Thy Catafalque and Usurpress.

Best discovery from this years list is definitely Entropia - Vacuum. Holy shit this is a monster of an album. I wrote them off after not loving Ufonaut but that was so very dumb. This is on another level.

Thanks again everyone for putting this on every year. Really a great place to check out some stuff that passed by me.

cheers gman, glad you made some new discoveries. Entropia i think are capable of something very special.