2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock/Heavy Music Poll: RESULTS – Top 100 Countdown

pom metal?

― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 16:17 (fifty seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

imagining a (Canadian) deathened neoromantic BM act called Vortex Of Bruckner

I'd listen to that.

"we cobbled together and built you a metal band"

Looking forward to their split with Anal Stabwound.

tbf Ruins Of Beverast are kind of that

Yeah, and you're also a fan!

Still need to hear this year's one! Have bought, but am saving it for the right moment. ANYWAY we're digressing...

#14

Thy Catafalque – Naiv

326 points, 8 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4087607355_10.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/2eH5WM6pIPFsFylP5sbOi9?si=pMz-hSuySgaxwbHre4I5dA
https://thycatafalqueuk.bandcamp.com/album/naiv

What is there to say about Thy Catafalque that couldn’t be said by themselves? Or perhaps ‘themself’; after all, the project is mostly one man, Tamás Kátai, who can (and does) do just about everything required for his art to take its diverse shape. No matter how you choose to view the band, one thing’s for certain: they’ve been around for a hell of a long time! Since 1998, to be exact. I just came in with their 2018 album Geometria, which I found to be an deft assortment of styles wrapped up in a dark atmosphere. Naiv aims to achieve the same, with some neat progression and tweaked attitude to make for some more nuanced moments.

Referring back to how I started this review, Thy Catafalque are definitely one of those bands that are better heard than explained, but what kind of writer am I if I’m unable do to the latter? They’re best described as an amalgamation of sonic flavors, elegantly segued to and from each other to provide a wide array of emotional responses and spine tingles. Because if music’s impact could be measured by any one metric, surely it should be spine tingles.

The first three songs alone are a damn journey, and kind of a CliffsNotes version of what modern Thy Catafalque have to offer. “A bolyongás ideje” is a black metal blast. Kátai and the band have never bothered to eschew their dark roots, only opting to add to the formula. This is why, while “A bolyongás ideje” isn’t a cvlt cross-burner of a track, it has a distinct edge that other tracks don’t. Even still, we get lovely vocals from Martina Veronika Horváth (who also appeared on Geometria); spacey synths to contrast the blast beats and harsh guitars the fill much of the space of the song. If you’re into this, also check out “A valóság kazamatái”, which is a similar affair with the added flair of having an oud in it.

https://everythingisnoise.net/reviews/thy-catafalque-naiv/

Scotland's greatest-ever metal band

Very good record that I almost voted for.

Oh wait he's not in Scotland any more!

I've not actually heard it yet haha

extremely cool album that made my ballot

Where is he now? I can't imagine wanting to be back in Hungary these days – artists are having an especially hard time of it.

Hell yeah re: stabscotch. Lots of really cool industrial noise stuff coming out of PGH these days

there are 13 albums yet to place and I think I voted for 11 of them. I am so sorry ILX

Tbf there's two of you.

There is not!

:D

I guess next year's poll will be the true test of that though lol

I'd rather think of it as a large phalanx striding in my wake #bigheaded

can you keep it down, tryin to listen to Mortuary Drape here

^^^needs to raise his own phalanx imo

we'll have proper, old-school feuds, it'll be fun

#13

Black Curse – Endless Wound

326 points, 10 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0522392822_10.jpg

https://blackcurse-svr.bandcamp.com/album/endless-wound

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

there ya go :D

oh yeah, forgot about that one. have dug some of their older records.

have never been able to get into fluisteraars at all. life's too short, so I stopped trying a long time ago.

botanist record sounds cool but didn't get around to it. great band name.

pom you gave me a youtube review?

OMFG. Black Curse. how the hell did I forget to vote for this? jesus, my skimming of the nominees was terrible. this was one of my favorites the week it came out. so massive.

black curse was solid enough but I didn't go back to it much. I think I put it somewhere low on my list bc I vaguely remembered being into it.

but jeez, ewww no fantano embeds plz! yuck!

It turns out that BM and DM don't have to feud after all

Seeing as some who still haunt ILX have renounced this poll for inscrutable reasons, raising a new phalanx should be easier for the upstarts.

xps haha I'm sorry but I couldn't help but include that embed, it was beyond my control.

blame pom

xxp

My way of making up for the absence of fakeouts.

This is sounding pretty sick ngl

oh yeah, forgot about that one. have dug some of their older records.

this was in ref to thy catafalque btw

yup, we dont do comedy fakeouts here

blimey Alan N has returned!

Spectral Voice and Blood Incantation fucking rule, obviously, but I found the Black Curse extremely overrated, and I tried repeatedly. It's a 6-6.5/10 at best.

oops wrong DN lol

tempted to hate watch vlog hot take but I know I'll just have to see this guy on my recommendation grid for months if I do, so doesn't seem worth it

the black curse album is almost hilariously intense, couldn't not throw it some points

feeling very conflicted as this is my first vote to place today (it made my top 10, it rules) but the image of Mr. Fantano channeling the Vancome Lady from MadTV will haunt me until the end of days.

I'm so sorry.

I would say that this, yes, rips, but also, crucially, slays

I had no idea bgm was alan!

it may even crush, but let's not go too far yet

It ticks all the right boxes yet I found it kind of… boring. The songs themselves didn't click with me.

trying not to use my govt name, thanx in advance! (x-post)

at least I know who you are now! I thought you were lost to the metal gods long ago!

nice one adam, now everyone knows your real name