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

Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Elder – Omens
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Couch Slut – Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll
Azusa – Loop of Yesterdays
Afterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh
Igorrr – Spirituality and Distortion
Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions
Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville
Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Hum – Imlet
Human Impact – Human Impact
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Turia – Degen van licht
Machine Girl – U–Void Synthesizer
Mrs. Piss – Self–Surgery
Enslaved – Utgard
Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata
Krallice – Mass Cathexis
Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Paradise Lost – Obsidian
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Pig Destroyer – The Octagonal Stairway
Poppy – I Disagree
Skeletal Remains – The Entombment of Chaos
Testament – Titans of Creation
Wake – Devouring Ruin
Void Rot – Descending Pillars
Uniform – Shame
Feminazgûl – No Dawn for Men
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Haken – Virus
Ihsahn – Telemark
Lowrider – Refractions
Pyrrhon – Abscess Time
Voidceremony – Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel
The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
Cryptic Shift – Visitations from Enceladus
Darren Korb – Hades: Original Game Soundtrack
Kvelertak – Splid
Omnivortex – Diagrams of Consciousness
Died – Less Life
Neptunian Maximalism – Éons
Old Man Gloom – Darkness of Being/Light of Meaning
Botanist – Photosynthesis
Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Ripped to Shreds – Luan
Sumac – May You Be Held

here's mine -

Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Azarath – Saint Desecration
Bog Body / Primitive Warfare – The Gate of Grief / Undulating Torment
Oksennus – Työn orjat sorron yöstä nouskaa
Afterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh
200 Stab Wounds – Piles of Festering Decomposition
Yoth Iria – Under His Sway
Deliquesce – Engineered Frailty
Faceless Burial – Speciation
Mystras – Castles Conquered and Reclaimed
Kryptamok – Verisaarna
Undeath – Lesions of a Different Kind
Thaetas – Shrines to Absurdity
Torture Tomb – Killing to See How It Feels
Denunciation – California Commando
Necrot – Mortal
Skeletal Remains – The Entombment of Chaos
Crushing the Scepter – Echoing Screams of Madness and Delusion
Serration – Shrine of Consciousness
Kommand – Terrorscape
Striges – Verum veterum
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Gravesend – Preparations for Human Disposal
Dkharmakhaoz – Proclamation ov the Black Suns
Terrestrial Hospice – Indian Summer Brought Mushroom Clouds
Isengard – Vårjevndøgn
Internal Rot – Grieving Birth
Vassafor – To the Death
Moldé Volhal – Into the Cave of Ordeals…
Aethyrick – Gnosis
Lustre – The Ashes of Light
Triptykon – Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
Exhumation – Eleventh Formulae
GreVlaR – Cloud of Death
Ifernach – The Green Enchanted Forest of the Druid Wizard
Onirik – The Fire Cult Beyond Eternity
Left Cross – Prophecy of Conquest
Chasmdweller – Bacterial Lotus
Herxheim – Incised Arrival
Rat King – Vicious Inhumanity
Vader – Solitude in Madness
Aborted – La grande mascarade
Ventr – Numinous Negativity
Faustian Pact – Outojen tornien varjoissa

I'm not going through the whole list, but here are the albums from the top 100 that I would have at least considered voting for. (Spirit Adrift would have been my #1.)

5 Neptunian Maximalism - Éons
8 Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
12 Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still
19 Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
24 Necrot - Mortal
26 Faceless Burial - Speciation
27 Behold… the Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove
35 Deftones - Ohms
40 Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
52 Triptykon - Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
73 Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus
87 Spirit Adrift - Enlightened in Eternity
93 Voidceremony - Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel

Weighted, bdnp:

Turia – Degen van licht
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Sunken – Livslede
Svartsyn – Requiem
Lowrider – Refractions
Paysage d’Hiver – Im Wald
Förfallet – Förfallet
Neptunian Maximalism – Éons
Undeath – Lesions of a Different Kind
Atramentus – Stygian
Empyrean Grace – Bestowment of the Seraphic Key
Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata
Undergang – Aldrig i livet
Mamaleek – Come & See
Omination – The Pale Horseman
Armagedda – Svindeldjup Ättestup
Wytch Hazel – III: Pentecost
Kaunis Kuolematon – Syttyköön toinen aurinko
Slutet – Love & Beauty
Deftones – Ohms
Draug – Irreelle sindelag
Ayyur – Balkarnin
Angel Morgue – In the Morgue of Angels
Faceless Burial – Speciation
Black Flux – Black Stream
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Cultum Interitum – Poison of Being
Ænigmatum – Adorned in Wrath
Fortress of the Olden Days – Verlassenheit
Mourning Beloveth / The Ruins of Beverast – Don’t Walk on the Mass Graves
Ahab – Live Prey
Skáphe – Skáphe³
Voidsphere – To Sense | To Perceive
Chaotian – Festering Excarnation
Mystras – Castles Conquered and Reclaimed
Valravn – Prey
Kraken Duumvirate – The Stars Below, the Seas Above
Kaatayra – Toda história pela frente
Atavisma / Void Rot – Atavisma / Void Rot
Nero di Marte – Immoto
Montuln – Arquetipo
Wayfarer – A Romance with Violence
Serment – Chante, ô flamme de la liberté
Void Rot – Descending Pillars
Spectral Lore & Mare Cognitum – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Plague – Portraits of Mind
Mourners – Act I: Tragedies
Blasphamagoatachrist – Bastardizing the Purity
Bognor – Brain Paralysis
Ad Infinitum – Chapter I – Monarchy

I am far more of a hiveminder in this poll than the general one.

I thought people had enjoyed the Sunken? It's also very pretty and shoegazey, albeit actual BM.

unperson, you should definitely vote next year. As you can see, there's a fair amount of overlap with your own hypothetical ballot.

weighted, bold dnp

Afterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh
Of Feather and Bone – Sulfuric Disintegration
Defeated Sanity – The Sanguinary Impetus
Neptunian Maximalism – Éons
Undeath – Lesions of a Different Kind
Spirit Adrift – Enlightened in Eternity
Thaetas – Shrines to Absurdity
Faceless Burial – Speciation
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Xythlia – Immortality Through Quantum Suicide
Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron
Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Wake – Devouring Ruin
Ripped to Shreds – Luan
Cosmic Putrefaction – The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers
Drown – Subaqueous
Cytotoxin – Nuklearth
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Cryptic Shift – Visitations from Enceladus
Putrid Pile – Revel in Lunacy
Glorious Depravity – Ageless Violence
Pyrrhon – Abscess Time
Midnight Dice – Hypnotized
Void Rot – Descending Pillars
Solicitor – Spectral Devastation
Old Nick – Haunted Loom!!!
Feminazgûl – No Dawn for Men
Question – Reflections of the Void
Judicator – Let There Be Nothing
Stillbirth – Revive the Throne
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Duma – Duma
200 Stab Wounds – Piles of Festering Decomposition
Ingested – Where Only Gods May Tread
Pharmacist – Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition
Havukruunu – Uinuos syömein sota
Bütcher – 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Putrescent Seepage – Dead and Demented
Plague Organ – Orphan
Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment
Exocrine – Maelstrom
Internal Rot – Grieving Birth
Undergang – Aldrig i livet
Deeds of Flesh – Nucleus
Coffin Curse – Ceased to Be
Cadaver – Edder & Bile
Xenobiotic – Mordrake
Behold… the Arctopus – Hapeleptic Overtrove

My ballot:

1 Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald (Kunsthall Produktionen)
2 Dola - Dola (Independent)
3 Duma - Duma (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
4 Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst (Season of Mist)
5 Thy Catafalque - Naiv (Season of Mist)
6 Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville (Century Media)
7 Cirith Ungol - Forever Black (Metal Blade Records)
8 Sólstafir - Endless Twilight of Co-Dependent Love (Season of Mist)
9 Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full (Sacred Bones Records)
10 Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi (Nuclear Blast America)
11 Krallice - Mass Cathexis (Hathenter)
12 Lucifer - III (Century Media)
13 Maggot Heart - Mercy Machine (Rapid Eye Records)
14 Rebel Wizard - Magickal Mystical Indifference (Prosthetic Records)
15 Melted Bodies - Enjoy Yourself (Sweatband Records)
16 Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism (Century Media)
17 Early Moods - Spellbound (Dying Victim Productions)
18 Liturgy - Origin Of The Alimonies (YLYLCYN)
19 Feminazgûl - No Dawn For Men (Independent)
20 Mesarthim - Degenerate Era (Avantgarde Music)
21 Fluisteraars - Bloem (Eisenwald)
22 Lotus Thief - Oresteia (Prophecy)
23 Witching - Vernal (Independent)
24 Zeal & Ardor - Wake of a Nation [EP] (Zeal & Ardor)
25 Horn - Mohngang (Iron Bonehead)
26 Ensiferum - Thalassic (Metal Blade Records)
27 Smoulder - Dream Quest Ends [EP] (Cruz Del Sur Music)
28 Serpent Omega - II (Icons Creating Evil Art)
29 Myrkur - Folkesange (Relapse Records)
30 Triptykon - Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019) (Century Media)
31 Wolftooth - Valhalla (Ripple Music)
32 Eye of Nix - Ligeia (Prophecy)
33 Of Feather And Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration (Profound Lore)
34 Frayle - 1692 (Aqualamb Records)
35 Chrome Waves - Where We Live (Disorder Recordings)
36 Evangelist - Ad Mortem Festinamus (Nine Records)
37 Protokult - Transcending The Ruins (Self-Released)
38 Warbringer - Weapons Of Tomorrow (Napalm Records)
39 Griiim - Bête Immonde (Purity Through Fire)
40 Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron (No Remorse Records)
41 Drottinn - Í helgum dýrðar ljóma (Terratur Possessions)
42 Onslaught - Generation Antichrist (AFM Records)
43 Venom Prison - Primeval (Prosthetic Records)
44 Insect Ark - The Vanishing (Profound Lore)
45 Cosmic Burial - Impakt (Purity Through Fire)
46 Finntroll - Vredesvävd (Century Media)
47 Macabre - Carnival Of Killers (Nuclear Blast)
48 Tombs - Under Sullen Skies (Season of Mist)
49 Lili Refrain - ULU (Subsound Records)
50 AC/DC - Power Up (Columbia Records)

I am hivemindy.

Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Hum – Inlet
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Kaatayra – Só quem viu o relâmpago à sua direita sabe
Triptykon – Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
Drown – Subaqueous
Wobbler – Dwellers of the Deep
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Aktor – Placebo
Sightless Pit – Grave of a Dog
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Poppy – I Disagree
Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies
Necrot – Mortal
Lamp of Murmuur – Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism

My ballot:

Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Armagedda – Svindeldjup Ättestup
Prometheus – Resonant Echoes from Cosmos of Old
Sentient Divide – Haunted by Cruelty
Gulch – Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
Angel Morgue – In the Morgue of Angels
Bedsore – Hypnagogic Hallucinations
Worm – Gloomlord
Malokarpatan – Krupinské ohne
Aktor – Placebo
The Spirit Cabinet – Bloodlines
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals
Beast of Revelation – The Ancient Ritual of Death
Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse
Raspberry Bulbs – Before the Age of Mirrors
Lychgate – Also sprach Futura
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Caustic Wound – Death Posture
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Eternal Rot – Putridarium
Biesy – Transsatanizm
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Horn – Mohngang
Mamaleek – Come & See
Sólstafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
Head of the Demon – Deadly Black Doom
Bütcher – 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
Undergang – Aldrig i livet
Svartsyn – Requiem
Hellripper – The Affair of the Poisons
Lie in Ruins – Floating in Timeless Streams
Spell – Opulent Decay
Herxheim – Incised Arrival
Black Magnet – Hallucination Scene
Expander – Neuropunk Boostergang
Ulthar – Providence
Skeleton – Skeleton
Akhlys – Melinoë

Poppy getting 77 points is significant in some way.

Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Pharaoh Overlord – 6
Psalm Zero – Sparta (everyone's favourite plainchant progster goes industrial metal, with frankly ecstatic results)
Slift – Ummon
Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata
Machine Girl – U–Void Synthesizer
Mystras – Castles Conquered and Reclaimed
Azusa – Loop of Yesterdays
Victory Over the Sun – A Tessitura of Transfiguration
Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville
Stabscotch – Twilight Dawn
Biesy – Transsatanizm
Kairon; IRSE! – Polysomn
Moldé Volhal – Into the Cave of Ordeals… (unbelievably tight and well-written trad BM with the album cover OTY)
Couch Slut – Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll
Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse
Salqiu – Orfeu (absolute fucking weirdness)
Black Foxxes – Black Foxxes (anthemic heavy alt-rock/emo)
Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies
Melted Bodies – Enjoy Yourself
Elder – Omens
Neptunian Maximalism – Éons
Akhlys – Melinoë (An Actual Nazi, alas, but with a good album, always tricky when that happens)
Dawnwalker – Ages (an IRL pal of mine, and boy hasn't he made a lovely post-metal record)
Mamaleek – Come & See
Crisis Sigil – Small Towns (Ada Rook of Black Dresses does grindcore, it's actually sick)
Wyrmwoods – Gamma (more absolute fucking weirdness)
Gezan – Klue
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Hum – Inlet

Ah yes, Akhlys.

I listened to so few metal this year, but Sunken was the album I listened to most.

Oh my, that was some points jump to the number one! Has there ever been one like that in metal poll history? My number #1 also, which reflects how truly hivemindy I was with this poll as well.

The metal poll is always an absolute joy and wealth of amazing music. Thanks so much to pom and Neechy for making this another cracker!

My thanks to Seandalai as always because without him we would have no poll!

My ballot (can't be bothered to bold etc, but I'm v happy overall with what showed up):

Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Kairon; IRSE! – Polysomn
Pharaoh Overlord – 6
Couch Slut – Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll
Azusa – Loop of Yesterdays
Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville
Victory Over the Sun – A Tessitura of Transfiguration
Akhlys – Melinoë
Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies
Botanist – Photosynthesis
Machine Girl – U–Void Synthesizer
Stabscotch – Twilight Dawn
Psalm Zero – Sparta
Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata
Biesy – Transsatanizm
Elder – Omens
Dola – Dola
Died – Less Life
Duma – Duma
Völur – Death Cult
Envy – The Fallen Crimson
Slift – Ummon
Vile Creature – Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse
Wyrmwoods – Gamma
Lychgate – Also sprach Futura
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Mamaleek – Come & See
Sumac – May You Be Held
Izthmi – To Traipse Alone
Touché Amoré – Lament
Uboa – The Flesh of the World
Mourning Beloveth / The Ruins of Beverast – Don’t Walk on the Mass Graves
Greg Puciato – Child Soldier: Creator of God
Boris – No
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Poppy – I Disagree
Malokarpatan – Krupinské ohne
Skáphe – Skáphe³
Serpent Column – Endless Detainment
Shaam Larein – Sculpture
Paradise Lost – Obsidian
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Defeated Sanity – The Sanguinary Impetus
Bring Me the Horizon – Post Human: Survival Horror
Circle of Ouroborus – Viimeinen juoksu
Lamp of Murmuur – Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism
My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion
Sightless Pit – Grave of a Dog
Sadness – Alluring the Distant Eye

ty pom and neechy

weighted, bdnp

Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Behold… the Arctopus – Hapeleptic Overtrove
Bastard Priest – Vengeance… of the Damned
Utzalu – The Grobian Fall
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Vile Command – Obscene Conjurations
Void Rot – Descending Pillars
Necrot – Mortal
Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Plague Organ – Orphan
Seeds in Barren Fields – Sånger som rämnar
Duma - Duma
Fuck the Facts – Plene noirceur
Cryptae – Nightmare Traversal
Geld – Beyond the Floor
Deafkids & Petbrick – Deafbrick
Jordablod – The Cabinet of Numinous Song
Old Man Gloom – Darkness of Being/Light of Meaning
Okkultokrati – La ilden lyse
Socialstyrelsen – Med rädsla för livet
Caustic Wound – Death Posture
Ahna – Crimson Dawn
Raspberry Bulbs – Before the Age of Mirrors
Bleeding Out – Lifelong Death Fantasy

mine and tt's #1s could have been removed and it'd still have won by over 150 points lol

this year my favourite gaudio discovery has ended up being Black Curse I think

Lots of great discoveries for me in this poll. Well done, everyone.

Albums on my list that didn't place:

4 Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst (Season of Mist)
12 Lucifer - III (Century Media)
13 Maggot Heart - Mercy Machine (Rapid Eye Records)
14 Rebel Wizard - Magickal Mystical Indifference (Prosthetic Records)
17 Early Moods - Spellbound (Dying Victim Productions)
20 Mesarthim - Degenerate Era (Avantgarde Music)
22 Lotus Thief - Oresteia (Prophecy)
23 Witching - Vernal (Independent)
24 Zeal & Ardor - Wake of a Nation [EP] (Zeal & Ardor)
25 Horn - Mohngang (Iron Bonehead)
26 Ensiferum - Thalassic (Metal Blade Records)
27 Smoulder - Dream Quest Ends [EP] (Cruz Del Sur Music)
28 Serpent Omega - II (Icons Creating Evil Art)
29 Myrkur - Folkesange (Relapse Records)
31 Wolftooth - Valhalla (Ripple Music)
32 Eye of Nix - Ligeia (Prophecy)
34 Frayle - 1692 (Aqualamb Records)
35 Chrome Waves - Where We Live (Disorder Recordings)
36 Evangelist - Ad Mortem Festinamus (Nine Records)
37 Protokult - Transcending The Ruins (Self-Released)
38 Warbringer - Weapons Of Tomorrow (Napalm Records)
39 Griiim - Bête Immonde (Purity Through Fire)
41 Drottinn - Í helgum dýrðar ljóma (Terratur Possessions)
42 Onslaught - Generation Antichrist (AFM Records)
43 Venom Prison - Primeval (Prosthetic Records)
44 Insect Ark - The Vanishing (Profound Lore)
45 Cosmic Burial - Impakt (Purity Through Fire)
46 Finntroll - Vredesvävd (Century Media)
47 Macabre - Carnival Of Killers (Nuclear Blast)
48 Tombs - Under Sullen Skies (Season of Mist)
49 Lili Refrain - ULU (Subsound Records)

Bolded are albums that I, and I alone, voted for.

Has the main poll become a surefire predictor of our metal top 10?

#36: Hum - Inlet - 324 points - 11 votes - 2 Nº1 votes
#38: Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi - 317 points - 9 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#74: Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn - 188 points - 5 votes

Not quite, I suppose.

I honestly was surprised Poppy didn't make it after making the general ILM poll, but we had fewer voters this year and I assume several of the high profile Poppy fans didn't vote this year.

Hey, I am confused about something...

Tombs - Under Sullen Skies only got one vote in the poll according to the final roundup but I voted for it and so did Oor Neechy according to his/her post above.

What happened? Did the Tombs EP get confused with one of our votes? Or did one of us have a ballot that didn't count (that would be terrible).

Thanks for a great rollout and all the effort! Much appreciated.

Here's my weighted ballot. Too busy with some things to do the 'bdnp':

Hum – Inlet
Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Dropdead – Dropdead 2020
Lowrider – Refractions
Deftones – Ohms
Necrot – Mortal
Cryptic Shift – Visitations from Enceladus
Undeath – Lesions of a Different Kind
AC/DC – Power Up
Blue Öyster Cult – The Symbol Remains
Draghkar – At the Crossroads of Infinity
Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron
White Stones – Kuarahy
Autonoesis – Autonoesis
Khthoniik Cerviiks – Æequiizoiikum
Spirit Adrift – Enlightened in Eternity
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Serpent Column – Kathodos
Skeletal Remains – The Entombment of Chaos
Mongrel's Cross – Arcana, Scrying and Revelation
Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Faceless Burial – Speciation
Of Feather and Bone – Sulfuric Disintegration
Afterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh
Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Slift – Ummon
Elder – Omens
Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Ripped to Shreds – Luan
Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions
Wayfarer – A Romance with Violence
Kaatayra – Toda história pela frente
Worm – Gloomlord
-(16)- – Dream Squasher
Motorpsycho – The All Is One
Lamp of Murmuur – Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism
Defeated Sanity – The Sanguinary Impetus
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Black Crown Initiate – Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape
Glorious Depravity – Ageless Violence
Bloodsoaked Necrovoid – Expelled Into the Unknown Depths of the Unfathomable
Hellripper – The Affair of the Poisons
Omegavortex – Black Abomination Spawn
Hexer – Realm of the Feathered Serpent
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Sumac – May You Be Held

Hmm… gotta ask seandalai.

xp

It was last in my ballot so would only have got 1 point from me.

because I only heard it the week before i voted

Tombs got 3 points, indicating that your ballot was the one where it counted, NYC Native, as you had it in 48th position

Does this mean that ON's ballot DIDN'T count? lol if so

Really fun poll. Thanks to everyone! I'm blaming you for my lack of productivity this week.

imago somehow I completely missed the Wyrmwoods album from last year, listening to it now and it's great, thanks

great results overall! thanks to the poll runners! here's my ballot:

Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse
Elder – Omens
Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies
Bell Witch / Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough Vol. I
Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Hum – Inlet
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Horisont – Sudden Death
Thy Catafalque – Naiv
Zombi – 2020
Macabre – Carnival of Killers
Worm – Gloomlord
Kadavar – The Isolation Tapes
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – May Our Chambers Be Full
Pharaoh Overlord – 6
Malokarpatan – Krupinské ohne
Atramentus – Stygian
Griiim – Bête immonde
Kaatayra – Toda história pela frente
Early Moods – Spellbound
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Carcass – Despicable
Pallbearer – Forgotten Days
Smoulder – Dream Quest Ends
Mourning Beloveth / The Ruins of Beverast – Don’t Walk on the Mass Graves
Lethian Dreams – A Shadow of Memories
Colour Haze – We Are
Sólstafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
Lustre – The Ashes of Light
Dan Weiss / Starebaby – Natural Selection
Wake – Devouring Ruin
Dwaal – Gospel of the Vile
Dirt Woman – Lady of the Dunes
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Temple Nightside – Pillars of Damnation
Tombstone Eyes – Land in the Sky
Núll – Entity
Wytch Hazel – III: Pentecost
Garganjua – Toward the Sun
Spell – Opulent Decay
Zopp – Zopp
Wayfarer – A Romance with Violence
Occlith – Gates, Doorways, and Endings
Armagedda – Svindeldjup Ättestup
Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions

Zopp?

What's wrong with Zopp? They have teapots and teapots are metal. (It's a lovely album)

Looking forward to the Zopp With Rager album then

I kinda don't get Oranssi Pazuzu at all. Nor Elder. I mean, it's fine, but it kinda just sounds like psych to me, whereas there is so many fucked up avant soundscapes elsewhere on the list. Neptunian Maximalism! Passage d'Hiver! 26 minute death metal about a spacefarer or something? Black metal covers of Messiaen? It's amazing, so much of it. And I look forward to delving deeper into the results. Thanks to the poll runners!

My ranked top twenty. Bold didn't place:

Sightless Pit – Grave of a Dog
Feminazgûl – No Dawn for Men
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Pyrrhon – Abscess Time
Touché Amoré – Lament
Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies
Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville
Septage - Septic Decadence
Senyawa & Stephen O'Malley – Bima Sakti
Vladislav Delay – Rakka
Cryptic Shift – Visitations from Enceladus
Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron
Sumac – May You Be Held
Orm – Mit blod
Afsky – Ofte jeg drømmer mig død
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Zeal and Ardor – Wake of a Nation
Behold… the Arctopus – Hapeleptic Overtrove
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Pallbearer - Forgotten Days

I want more Danish bands on the list next year! Though I guess none of you like BAEST?

Bæst is good but why didn't you vote for Sunken? :(

Or Chaotian? I suppose Festering Excarnation is technically a compilation, but that didn't stop me.

Because I don't know them... I still just stumble around in this genre.

Fair enough. Do check out Sunken's Livslede at least, I think you'd really enjoy it.

I didn't vote for the Afsky but I thought it was very good btw. I'll look into the Orm – that one slipped under my radar.

The Orm ep has brass! Still waiting for an album.

The bass-player from Afsky released a solo album last month as Udånde. It's called Life of a Purist, and, well, it doesn't exactly invent a new genre. But it's ok.

Thanks for the tip. Solbrud are also going to release a new album a couple of weeks from now.

Oh! Didn't know that! Yay!

150 Nechochwen / Panopticon – Nechochwen / Panopticon
9 Liturgy - Origin of the Alimonies
95 Vile Creature - Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
6 Elder - Omens
182 Body Void / Keeper – Body Void / Keeper
187 Bernelius - Grave Dancer
192 Yuri Gagarin (SWE) – The Outskirts of Reality
30 Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
205 Limalla – ¿Ké futuro? Directo
61 Drown - Subaqueous
29 Victory Over the Sun - A Tessitura of Transfiguration
218 Gareth Davis and Merzbow - Broken Landscapes
50 Sightless Pit - Grave of a Dog
11 Slift - Ummon
80 Khthoniik Cerviiks – Æequiizoiikum
147 Ensiferum - Thalassic
247 Thee Arcadians - Current Events
257 Barishi - Old Smoke
264 Terminal Nation - Holocene Extinction
93 Bell Witch / Aerial Ruin – Stygian Bough Vol. I
21 Krallice - Mass Cathexis
8 Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
234 Serment – Chante, ô flamme de la liberté
7 Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
130 Senyawa & Stephen O'Malley – Bima Sakti
307 Bong Wizard - Left Hand Pass
18 Lowrider - Refractions
320 Faron - Interloper
53 Pallbearer - Forgotten Days
332 Modarin – In the Distance…
335 Fuzzriders – Fuzzriders
342 Bring Me the Axe - Bring Me the Axe
100 Atramentus - Stygian
69 Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better?
64 Fuck the Facts - Plene noirceur
363 Adzes - No One Wants to Speak About It
101 Primitive Man - Immersion
32 Couch Slut – Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll
207 Stephen O'Malley – Auflösung der Zeit
382 Desolate Entity - Deconstruction
124 Caustic Wound - Death Posture
1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
43 Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – May Our Chambers Be Full
24 Necrot - Mortal
400 Nawaharjan - Lokabrenna
12 Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still
191 Escuela Grind - Ppoowweerrvviioolleennccee
38 Boris - No
381 Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment
127 Cosmic Putrefaction - The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers

I really can't believe nobody else voted for the Nechochwen/Panopticon split, "Rune's Heart" is such an incredible song.

methanietanner as expected, your ballot was the closet to mine of anybody's

including the Ingested album, lol

forgot to bold my list, but at a quick pass, this is the stuff that didn't place in the top 100, I think -

Bog Body / Primitive Warfare – The Gate of Grief / Undulating Torment
Oksennus – Työn orjat sorron yöstä nouskaa
200 Stab Wounds – Piles of Festering Decomposition
Yoth Iria – Under His Sway
Deliquesce – Engineered Frailty
Kryptamok – Verisaarna
Undeath – Lesions of a Different Kind
Thaetas – Shrines to Absurdity
Torture Tomb – Killing to See How It Feels
Denunciation – California Commando
Crushing the Scepter – Echoing Screams of Madness and Delusion
Serration – Shrine of Consciousness
Kommand – Terrorscape
Striges – Verum veterum
Gravesend – Preparations for Human Disposal
Dkharmakhaoz – Proclamation ov the Black Suns
Terrestrial Hospice – Indian Summer Brought Mushroom Clouds
Isengard – Vårjevndøgn
Internal Rot – Grieving Birth
Vassafor – To the Death
Moldé Volhal – Into the Cave of Ordeals…
Aethyrick – Gnosis
Lustre – The Ashes of Light
Exhumation – Eleventh Formulae
GreVlaR – Cloud of Death
Ifernach – The Green Enchanted Forest of the Druid Wizard
Onirik – The Fire Cult Beyond Eternity
Left Cross – Prophecy of Conquest
Chasmdweller – Bacterial Lotus
Herxheim – Incised Arrival
Rat King – Vicious Inhumanity
Vader – Solitude in Madness
Aborted – La grande mascarade
Ventr – Numinous Negativity
Faustian Pact – Outojen tornien varjoissa

gonna rep for a few that really stood out to me...

bog body / undulating torment split:
https://stygianblackhand.bandcamp.com/album/the-gate-of-grief-undulating-torment

the bog body side is just really in my sweet spot. slow and heavy bass/drums duo that is also pretty propulsive. not unlike ride for revenge and has me primed for more from them.

undulating torment side is messy grind, also cool.

oksennus:
https://necrolatryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ty-n-orjat-paholaisten-y-st-nouskaa

nothing like the other oksennus material I've heard, which was more like gorguts. loose and jammy but great vibe. feels a bit like something corrupted might have put out on a split.

200 stab wounds:
https://200stabwounds-maggotstomp.bandcamp.com/album/piles-of-festering-decomposition

this was pretty hyped I thought but only one other person voted for it so... death metal that grooves pretty hard for its brief runtime. "she was already dead" is my fav cut.

crushing the scepter:
https://crushingthescepter.bandcamp.com/album/echoing-screams-of-madness-and-delusion

very sparse and atmospheric, feels a bit like disembowlment gone black metal.

deliquesce:
https://deliquesceau.bandcamp.com/album/engineered-frailty

another short and sweet death metal release. love the twangy bass work. it's like 6mins long, just give it a shot!

kryptamok:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhg2YAHibPU

could mostly be the similarities between the covers but I always think of emperor's nightside eclipse when I play this one. obv, it isn't as good as that but... it's pretty damn good.

I was wondering who else on here was brootal enough to vote for the Ingested, Neanderthal. Were you also the other voter for Putrid Pile perchance?