ILM METAL POLL 2018 RESULTS THREAD!

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
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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.