THE ILM METAL POLL 2011 RESULTS (All lurkers/non metalheads welcome to join in!)

Direct Link to poll recap & full results

found it!
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lssuudTgAj1qh4utio1_500.jpg

Need to check out some of these; all I've done so far is listen to the one Pharaoh Overlord album that's on Spotify (from 2005) and been appropriately impressed.

While you're all waiting for part 2 of the countdown tomorrow, why not put together your ballot for the big ILM poll? The more metal-inclined voters we get, the more metal-inclined the results will be and the more enjoyment you'll get from exposing other ILXors to e.g. your favourite grindcore band. The voting thread is here and the ballot form is here.

http://heavyartillery.bandcamp.com/album/outer-isolation (Vektor)
http://blacktusk.bandcamp.com/releases

Windham and Vektor look fun. I look forward to hearing 'em. A pretty high average quality for 125-101, nice start.

yeah I think it's a pretty good list so far. Yeah there's albums i don't know but they seem to be pretty highly rated in their sub-genres.
Surprised with the within temptation placing. Goth metal has never had any traction round here outside of like 2 posters. It's a concept album, right? Maybe that's what attracted votes?
To anyone who has heard it (or any of the albums in the list, its never too late to chime in even if they were posted ages ago) want to tell us more?

I've heard it and it's ok. Just played it again today, didn't notice it was a concept album apart from maybe some silly spoken word parts. I don't hear much "gothic" metal in it tbh, it's basically a Kelly Clarkson pop/rock album with a little bit of 80s AOR thrown in (I'm hearing bits of Heart, Bon Jovi). I realise I'm not selling this album very well.

^^^ Within Temptation, that is.

Ahh, so the description way above about it looking like an album for 12 year old girls is accurate then?

Or for boomers who don't hear "music like this made anymore".

bound to do well in the P&J poll then..

It's like music from alternative chart-rock universe, where grunge and nu-metal never happened

(a parallel universe)

you mean Holland?

Wonder if any non metal folks have stuck around to listen to anything. Though I realise the albums at the top end of the poll will be of more interest, I'd still like to see their comments if they did check anything out. If you have and didn't like anything then dont give up! The poll is varied.

I didn't listen to anything because I'm non metal and just assume most of this stuff sounds like ass. I'm just checking in to see if LULU has shown up yet.

judging by siegbran/mordys posts you should give Within Temptation a try

we have a loose definition of metal btw

and its a broad broad church full of sub-genres of sub-genres of sub-genres. So to dismiss it as 'ass' is silly. Even though I assume you were joking.

Damn it!! I should of voted... Weekend Nachos and Trap Them were my favs of the year and you guys have em that low?!?! whats wrong with you people?!? lol!!

because guys with beards from hell forgot to vote or didn't reply to emails!

Hey mane long time no see!

xp

Interested in what lesser known albums people want to place tomorrow (or highly rated albums they want to crash n burn).
Not many predicting what will go top 10. Go on stick your neck out !

just think that 12 months ago Hellbeard crashed into the poll

I'm a bad person, what do you want from me! lol!
I totally was looking foward to voting, and I got all your emails and heads up, I was just being, as some of you might say, a wanker.. lol!

well we will forgive you if you hang around this week commenting on the albums as they roll out!
ps i bet you like within temptation ;)

hey whats up seanwayne! good to see you around here man

NO! lol.. Chick singing and symphonic shit? is it metal or Celtic Women?

whens the next Hellbeard album?

And thanks for te welcome back, folks... I didn't know I was missed! Cheers!

Hellbeard hopes to record within the next few months probably an EP.. We've been down a while, one our guitarists had a apretty major surgery in October to repair the affectas of Bursidis, which is tendonitis for the ball and socket parts of your corpes.. They had to do some pretty major repairs to his shoulder, but they didn't go bionic, which we are all bummed about.. lol
So he is just now playing agian, so rehearsals shall commence shortly, hopefully in a few weeks.. We all have a shit ton of new material to sort through..

you never did send Terrorizer your cd did you?

Ha!
No... total fail!

you should still send it. Did you send one to Decibel? half of their writers are on ilm i think!

btw here is something to discuss. This band finished at #131 in this poll
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/13/norway-top-music-prize
Dont know them at all tbh. Seen the name around but that's it.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2012/1/13/1326456111600/Taakes-Noregs-Vaapen-007.jpg
Controversial nomination … Norwegian band Taake have lyrics attacking Muslims

A notoriously "anti-Islamic" band has been nominated for Norway's top metal prize. Taake are one of six nominees for a prestigious Spellemann award, despite a song that declares: "To hell with Muhammad and the Muhammadans!"

"Norway will soon awaken!" read the lyrics to Orkan (Hurricane), on Taake's album Noregs Vaapen. The Spellemanns are Norway's equivalent of the Brits or the Grammys, and Noregs Vaapen is nominated for best metal album. Elsewhere on Orkan, singer Ørjan Stedjeberg refers to Muslims' "unforgivable customs" and calls for a new "kingdom" to "shine through [the] bad years, shame and Christian times".

Despite complaints, Spellemann officials defended the band's nomination. "We enjoy full freedom of expression in Norway and [our] jury is not going to censor content in any way," chairman Marte Thorsb told Aftenposten. But the Norwegian Humanist Association argues the lyrics go too far. Norway is still shaken from last summer's "anti-multiculturalist" attacks by Anders Breivik, which left 69 people dead. "In the aftermath of July 22nd [Taake's lyrics] are completely over the edge," said Didrik Søderlind. "I'd imagine Taake aren't particularly proud of these lyrics after Utøya."

Despite lyrics damning Muslims, Taake "do not encourage either violence or racism", Stedjeberg said. "Our view … is that it is shameful to adhere to Christianity or Islam." He also criticised the media for ignoring Taake's (relatively tame) lyrics about Christianity. "Taake has never been a political band," he said.

Stedjeberg's comments come less than four years after he painted a swastika on his chest for a Taake concert in Essen, Germany. In the outcry over that event, he again insisted Taake are "not a political Nazi band". "Our whole concept is built on provocation and anything evil- and death-related," he said.

The Spellemanns will be awarded on Saturday night.

oh and if anyone wants to check out youtubes of bands who may or may not have made it please go to ~ YOUTUBE COMPANION THREAD FOR ILM METAL POLL 2011
Also feel free to add stuff as others place here or if you just want ilxors to check out cool stuff.

I didn't vote for them xp

7 people did.

i get the impression theyre anti-christian anti all religion. but someone who knows more about the band should chime in rather than my guessing

will post next one soon

Still catching up on yesterday's placings, and by catching up I mean listening to 3 you tubes of the respective albums.

Really dug Windhand, and flat out loved Red Fang! Thank you very much voters, lots to enjoy so far (I'm a non-metaller so this stuff is all new to my ears)

hurrah, posts like that really makes it all worthwhile!

100. Agrypnie - Asche (343 Points, 12 Votes)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jZ43ct0Ugj8/TsWsJATOwoI/AAAAAAAAFTk/0tLYfKw7CZA/s1600/Agrypnie%2B-%2BAsche.jpg
Spotify
http://www.last.fm/music/Agrypnie

Avant Garde Black Metal

Glenn metal

hmmm ilx seems dead today.

hi

hey! hoping for anything to place today? or are you just happy with yesterday momentous day?

uh I'm hoping for Hills to place today, a lot of the other stuff I voted for I am hoping will place higher

Liked Trap Them a lot also.

TIE
98. Ash Borer - Ash Borer (345 Points, 12 Votes)
http://www.lurkerspath.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Ash-Borer-Ash-Borer.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Ash+Borer

Black Metal from Arcata

Disma was formed in January 2007 by guitarists Bill Venner( Incantation, Body of Christ) and Daryl Kahan (Abazagorath, Funebrarum, Assück etc) with the intention of creating some heavy and morbid Death Metal.

Aah but Agrypnie sorts out the men from the boys and I find myself a boy I'm afraid. Too much for my delicate sensibilities.