ILX METAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2008 RESULTS (NOW COUNTING DOWN THE TOP TEN, BTW)

a hoy hoy what album are you picking up?

Torche should appeal to all pop fans. The band themselves label it "stoner pop" or "sludge pop".

I might read about it first but 36 looks too great to shy away from.

Well thats one I dont know but of course troo metallers will tell you its not metal its punk or something.

I cant find any pics of the deluxe versions of Earth or Colour Haze. Which is a shame as they're really nice.

The Colour Haze gatefold was a sleeve like a hard backed book, inside it was like a photo book. Really really nice. I don't have a cam or I would take photos. Same with the Earth vinyl.

http://squirrellgripprecords.com.au/product.php?productid=573832
http://squirrellgripprecords.com.au/images/P/colourhaze_all.jpg

DLP limited luxury edition: clothbound book cover, 4 page booklet and many nice features.
2 x 180gr. ltd. and handnumbered to 500 copies.

TRACKLIST:

1. Silent
2. Moon
3. Turns
4. Lights
5. If
6. Stars
7. All
8. Fall
9. One
10. Remains

"Colour Haze’s “All” lives up to its name. It seems to capture practically “All” of Colour Haze’s reach and breadth in one single amazing disc. Each album they have released has been, to me, a cause of celebration. But this one is a revelation—never before have they ever packed so much range into an album, and such a superb blend of studio precision and free flowing abandon. This album adds even more psychedelia (was that possible?) to the mix, along with the most effective set of shorter songs they’ve ever released."

http://www.southernlord.com/press/earthbeesmadehoney/images/cover_small.jpg
http://www.southernlord.com/images/merch/85/b3959053707ebdb90865e2f16ca878a1.jpg

EARTH - "THE BEES MADE HONEY IN THE LION'S SKULL"
sunn90 CD&2XLP

Earth's latest incarnation will be available FEBRUARY 2008. After refaceting some old gems for greater illumination on "Hibernaculum". The band returns once again to it's continuing evolution. Where "Hex" reveled in dark satanic twang and austere american beauty, "The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull" finds Dylan Carlson and the band growing into a harder, more rock, american Gospel and impovisitory direction framed by truly psychedelic production and blazing guitar sounds.

Earth shows it's affinity with a nod to the best elements of the more adventurous San Francisco bands of the late 60's and 70's, and the more spiritually aware and exciting forms of Jazz-Rock from the same era. This is no nostalgia trip but a thoroughly inspired and original metamorphosis. Earth is also very honored to be joined on this record for three songs by legendary and virtuoso guitarist BILL FRISELL (doing some of his most fuzzed out playing in years!) .

Bill Frisell adds a brilliant texture and counterpoint to the scintillating and inspired riffs of Dylan Carlson and the band. Adrienne Davies joins again on drums lending a classic and steady feel to the proceedings. Steve Moore also returns adding heavy hammond organ and his intense jazz inspired piano playing. Live Bassist Don McGreevy also makes his full length Earth debut on this record.

Earth will begin touring throughout the world when the album is released, Australia, Europe and a full US campaign and on from there. The new songs are equally compelling live where EARTH takes the vehicles and expand and explore them for further musical and meditative exploration. Enjoy "The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull".

"From Strength, sweetness. From darkness, Light, The bees made honey in the Lion's Skull"

1. Omens And Portents I : The Driver (mp3)
2. Rise To Glory
3. Miami Morning Coming Down II (Shine)
4. Engine Of Ruin
5. Omens And Portents II: Carrion Crow
6. Hung From The Moon
7. The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull

Dylan Carlson: Electric Guitars and Amplifiers Adrienne Davies: Drums and Percussion Steve Moore: Acoustic Grand Piano and Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Hammond Organ Don Mcgreevy: Electric Bass and Acoustic Upright Bass

Songs One, Four, Five Featuring: Bill Frisell: Electric Guitar and Amplifier

Further Information:

www.myspace.com/earthofficial
www.thronesanddominions.com
www.billfrisell.com

So even if you dont like Metal, you might still like Earth

I had no idea Frisell played on an Earth album TBH. Will get for certain.

Everything I have downloaded so far is really good. Why did I never hear Caina before? And Torche indeed seems as good as "Foo Fighters in Southern Lord jeans" made them sound. (Actually, they remind me of Sunny Day Real Estate at times.)

(Had Opeth and Meshuggah before, liked both but thought both bands had done better, as my question upthread might have suggested.)

But, in the case of Meshuggah, it might be that I just really like "I".

If anyone wants to show what they voted for, then post below and lets see how they compare with the actual results.
I wont be posting other peoples ballots as that would be unfair. But please post your own if you're so inclined.

My Ballot

Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Torche - Meanderthal
Harvey Milk - Life . . . the Best Game in Town
5ive - Hesperus
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
Ascend - The Fire Within
Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
Ocean - Pantheon Of The Lesser
Moss - Sub Templum
Sunn 0))) - Domkirke
The Goslings - Occasion
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Caïna - Temporary Antennae
Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness
Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth
Journey To Ixtlan - S/t
Melvins - Nude With Boots
UFOmammut - Idolum
Unearthly Trance - Electrocution
Morkobot - Morto
Trees - Lights Bane
The Austrasian Goat - pieces to oblivian
Cave - Hunt Like Devil
Coffins - Buried Death

My ballot:

Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
Harvey Milk - Life . . . the Best Game in Town
Wetnurse - Invisible City
Conifer - Crown Fire
Torche - Meanderthal
The Goslings - Occasion
UFOmammut - Idolum
Caïna - Temporary Antennae
Ocean - Pantheon Of The Lesser
Witch - Paralyzed
5ive - Hesperus
Cough - Sigillum Luciferi
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Opeth - Watershed
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
Tyr - Land
Viking Skull - Doom Gloom Heartache & Whiskey

Ha. I was going to check out a couple things on the list. So even if that one isn't metal, another I look up might be.

From that Thor wiki entry

Zombie Nightmare Actor, composer (1986)

This is, by a country mile, the worst film I have ever seen.

So... I am going to hopefully find/listen to one of these a week. My plan:

Today, after the football (am currently listening to the Marnie Stern, but that doesn't count): Genghis Tron - Board Up the House (Relapse)

Tomorrow: Gojira - The Way of All Flesh (Listenable Records)

Tuesday: Boris - Smile (Diwphalanx Records/Southern Lord)

Wednesday: Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull (Southern Lord)

Thursday: Wetnurse - Invisible City (Seventh Rule Recordings)

Friday: Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect

Saturday: (the no. 1 album) Torche - Meanderthal (Hydrahead (CD)/Robotic Empire(LP/Pic Disk)

Sunday: Harvey Milk - Life…the Best Game in Town (Hydra Head)

Also, I asked on autogoon about the rap list and i dunno...

It's gonna take me a year to digest this list.
Not sure when I'll find time for new stuff.
Guess I'll just be a year behind.

my ballot:

Disfear - Live The Storm
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Coffins - Buried Death
Nachmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
5ive - Hesperus
Wetnurse - Invisible City
Withered - Folie Circulaire
Torche - Meanderthal
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
Harvey Milk - Life . . . the Best Game in Town
Boris - Smile
Opeth - Watershed
Cynic - Traced In Air
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Lair Of The Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
Motörhead - Motörizer
Meshuggah - obZen
Hate Eternal - Fury and Flames
Neuraxis - The Thin Line Between
Ocrilim - Annwn
Krallice – Krallice
Arsis - We Are the Nightmare
Earth - The Bees Made Honey...

It's gonna take me a year to digest this list.
Not sure when I'll find time for new stuff.
Guess I'll just be a year behind.

― steampig67,

I think Scott feels your pain. Didn't he say he couldn't keep up with new music as he had lots of old but great stuff to catch up on?

OK, one more stats thing. After a little more experimenting, I've come up with a way to calculate Kvltosis (a statistical measure of cultishness) from the poll data itself, basically by retabulating it with votes inversely weighted by voter-centricity. That is, the farther from the consensus a voter was, the more cultishness their votes represent. So here's the ranking of albums that got 3 or more votes, by cultishness.

1 - 0.683 - 54 - 3 - Trinacria - Travel Now Journey Infinitely
2 - 0.582 - 54 - 3 - Graveyard - Graveyard
3 - 0.526 - 42 - 4 - Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony
4 - 0.501 - 26 - 6 - Moonspell - Night Eternal
5 - 0.497 - 26 - 6 - Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
6 - 0.492 - 54 - 3 - Dir En Grey - Uroboros
7 - 0.468 - 54 - 3 - Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum
8 - 0.449 - 35 - 5 - Eluveitie - Slania
9 - 0.446 - 42 - 4 - The Sword - Gods of the Earth
10 - 0.439 - 35 - 5 - Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth
10 - 0.439 - 42 - 4 - Metallica - Death Magnetic
12 - 0.429 - 54 - 3 - Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood
13 - 0.421 - 54 - 3 - Journey To Ixtlan - S/t
14 - 0.417 - 35 - 5 - Darkspace - III
15 - 0.413 - 42 - 4 - Tyr - Land
16 - 0.41 - 26 - 6 - Moss - Sub Templum
17 - 0.408 - 5 - 13 - Opeth - Watershed
18 - 0.407 - 54 - 3 - Hammers of Misfortune - Fields/Church of Broken Glass
19 - 0.404 - 24 - 7 - Earthless - Live at Roadburn
20 - 0.398 - 26 - 6 - Ascend - Ample Fire Within
21 - 0.397 - 15 - 8 - Cynic - Traced in Air
22 - 0.382 - 54 - 3 - Racebannon - Acid or Blood
22 - 0.382 - 26 - 6 - Unearthly Trance - Electrocution
24 - 0.381 - 15 - 8 - Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
24 - 0.381 - 15 - 8 - Sunn 0))) - Domkirke
26 - 0.38 - 54 - 3 - Death Angel - Killing Season
26 - 0.38 - 26 - 6 - Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect
28 - 0.379 - 15 - 8 - Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
29 - 0.374 - 14 - 9 - Enslaved - Vertebrae
30 - 0.372 - 54 - 3 - Morkobot - Morto
31 - 0.368 - 54 - 3 - Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward
32 - 0.366 - 9 - 10 - Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
32 - 0.366 - 42 - 4 - Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness
32 - 0.366 - 35 - 5 - Wetnurse - Invisible City
35 - 0.363 - 26 - 6 - The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
36 - 0.358 - 42 - 4 - US Christmas - Eat the Low Dogs
37 - 0.354 - 42 - 4 - Amen Ra - Mass IIII
38 - 0.352 - 24 - 7 - Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
39 - 0.351 - 9 - 10 - Meshuggah - obZen
40 - 0.347 - 15 - 8 - Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
41 - 0.341 - 15 - 8 - Coffins - Buried Death
41 - 0.341 - 9 - 10 - Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
43 - 0.34 - 1 - 25 - Torche - Meanderthal
44 - 0.337 - 4 - 16 - Boris - Smile
44 - 0.337 - 54 - 3 - Cough - Sigillum Luciferi
46 - 0.336 - 7 - 11 - Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
46 - 0.336 - 42 - 4 - Withered - Folie Circulaire
48 - 0.329 - 35 - 5 - Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
49 - 0.328 - 6 - 12 - 5ive - Hesperus
49 - 0.328 - 42 - 4 - Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
51 - 0.326 - 35 - 5 - The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
52 - 0.325 - 54 - 3 - Trees - Lights Bane
53 - 0.323 - 54 - 3 - Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
54 - 0.322 - 9 - 10 - Melvins - Nude With Boots
55 - 0.319 - 35 - 5 - Witch - Paralyzed
56 - 0.316 - 54 - 3 - Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
56 - 0.316 - 15 - 8 - Krallice - Krallice
58 - 0.315 - 54 - 3 - Zebulon Pike - Intransience
59 - 0.314 - 54 - 3 - Helms Alee - Night Terror
60 - 0.312 - 2 - 19 - Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
61 - 0.311 - 7 - 11 - The Goslings - Occasion
62 - 0.31 - 54 - 3 - Jarboe - Mahakali
62 - 0.31 - 15 - 8 - UFOmammut - Idolum
64 - 0.309 - 26 - 6 - Ocean - Pantheon of the Lesser
65 - 0.306 - 54 - 3 - Ocrilim - Annwn
66 - 0.304 - 54 - 3 - Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
66 - 0.304 - 9 - 10 - Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
68 - 0.303 - 15 - 8 - Caina - Temporary Antennae
69 - 0.299 - 2 - 19 - Harvey Milk - Life...the Best Game in Town
70 - 0.296 - 26 - 6 - Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
71 - 0.294 - 42 - 4 - Disfear - Live the Storm
72 - 0.287 - 42 - 4 - Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled
73 - 0.28 - 42 - 4 - Motorhead - Motorizer

Normally I'd expect the poll winner to be the least cultish album, but since in this poll nearly everybody voted for it, it comes out in the middle almost by definition.

Oh, sorry, the numbers in that last table are:

Kvltosis Rank - Kvltosis - Poll Rank - Votes - Artist - Album

Dare you to do a rundown of sub-genre ;)
Doom
Drone
Death
Black
etc

Ok, my first metal experience since I was about 13 was a lot more enjoyable than I expected! On to tomorrow with Gojira then; I'm actually excited.

That's so going to end up on the ilx comments taken out of context thread.

lol

Torche made the ILXOR Group Album Charts charts on Last.fm this week because of this poll !

change you can believe in

it wasn't me.

Roxy, why you not add me to last.fm friend list? ugh!

I almost never use lastfm, it's blocked at work. Nothing personal.

;*(

torche album is dope-- thanks 4 this poll pfunk

I never know when grady is being serious or not.

a hoy hoy are you running a rap poll then?

Ok lets compare this poll to

Decibel

40. Coffins, Buried Death (20 Buck Spin)
39. Withered, Folie Circulaire (Prosthetic)
38. Graveyard (Tee Pee)
37. North, What You Were (Cavity)
36. Decrepit Birth, Diminishing Between Worlds (Unique Leader)
35. Witch, Paralyzed (Tee Pee)
34. Aura Noir, Hades Rise (Tyrant Syndicate)
33. Cynic, Traced in Air (Season of Mist)
32. Meshuggah, obZen (Nuclear Blast)
31. This Comp Kills Fascists Vol. 1 (Relapse)
30. Samothrace, Life's Trade (20 Buck Spin)
29. Blacklisted, Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God (Deathwish, Inc.)
28. Bloodbath, The Fathomless Mastery (Peaceville)
27. Testament, The Formation of Damnation (Nuclear Blast)
26. 5ive, Hesperus (Tortuga)
25. Hennes Siste Host, Host (Init)
24. Gridlink, Amber Gray (Hydra Head)
23. Trap Them, Seizures in Barren Praise (Deathwish, Inc.)
22. Hour of 13 (Shadow Kingdom)
21. Hail of Bullets, Of Frost and War (Metal Blade)
20. Intronaut, Prehistoricisms (Century Media)
19. Gods And Queens (Robotic Empire)
18. Toxic Holocaust, An Overdose of Death (Relapse)
17. Esoteric, The Maniacal Vale (Season of Mist)
16. Enslaved, Vertebrae (Nuclear Blast)
15. Gojira, The Way of All Flesh (Prosthetic)
14. Pyramids (Hydra Head)
13. Amon Amarth, Twilight of the Thunder God (Metal Blade)
12. Krallice (Profound Lore)
11. Harvey Milk, Life . . . the Best Game in Town (Hydra Head)
10. Disfear, Live the Storm (Relapse)
9. Made Out of Babies, The Ruiner (The End)
8. Wetnurse, Invisible City (Seventh Rule)
7. Origin, Antithesis (Relapse)
6. Rotten Sound, Cycles (Spinefarm)
5. The Gates of Slumber, Conqueror (Profound Lore)
4. Opeth, Watershed (Roadrunner)
3. Genghis Tron, Board Up the House (Relapse)
2. Nachmystium, Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1 (Century Media)
1. Torche, Meanderthal (Hydra Head)

The Metal Edge Top 50 of 2008:

49. TIE: Motörhead, Motörizer/Prostitute Disfigurement, Descendants Of Depravity
48. Belphegor, Bondage Goat Zombie
47. In Flames, A Sense Of Purpose
46. Hate Eternal, Fury And Flames
45. Moonspell, Night Eternal
43. TIE: Iced Earth, The Crucible Of Man/Staind, The Illusion Of Progress
41. TIE: Eluveitie, Slania/Saviours, Into Abaddon
40. DragonForce, Ultra Beatdown
38. TIE: Blessed By A Broken Heart, Pedal To The Metal/Boris, Smile
37. Ayreon, 01011001
36. Into Eternity, The Incurable Tragedy
35. Cynic, Traced In Air
34. Intronaut, Prehistoricisms
33. Disfear, Live The Storm
32. Coffins, Buried Death
31. Gates Of Slumber, Conqueror
28. TIE: Annihilation Time, Annihilation Time III/Melvins, Nude With Boots/Trivium, Shogun
27. Equilibrium, Sagas
26. All That Remains, Overcome
25. Lair Of The Minotaur, War Metal Battle Master
23. TIE: Bleeding Through, Declaration/Mötley Crüe, Saints Of Los Angeles
22. Children Of Bodom, Blooddrunk
21. Made Out Of Babies, The Ruiner
20. GridLink, Amber Gray
19. Disturbed, Indestructible
17. TIE: Genghis Tron, Board Up The House/Wetnurse, Invisible City
16. The Sword, Gods Of The Earth
15. Judas Priest, Nostradamus
14. Neuraxis, The Thin Line Between
13. Krallice, Krallice
11. TIE: Cavalera Conspiracy, Inflikted/Torche, Meanderthal
10. Testament, The Formation Of Damnation
9. Enslaved, Vertebrae
8. Nachtmystium, Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1
7. Harvey Milk, Life…The Best Game In Town
6. Amon Amarth, Twilight Of The Thunder God
5. Gojira, The Way Of All Flesh
4. Slipknot, All Hope Is Gone
3. Meshuggah, obZen
2. Metallica, Death Magnetic
1. Opeth, Watershed

Kerrang
20 Johnny Truant - No Tears For The Creatures
19 Enslaved - Vertebrae
18 Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
17 AC/DC - Blck Ice
16 Meshuggah - Obzen
15 The Mars Volta
14 The Night Marchers - See You In Magic
13 Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
12 Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season
11 Weezer - Weezer
10 Alkaline Trio - Agony & Irony
09 Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
08 Stars On Broadway - Stars On Broadway
07 Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
06 Slaves To Gravity - Scatter The Crow
05 The Bronx - The Bronx
04 Amon Amarth - Twilightt Of The Thunder god
03 Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
02 The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
01 Metallica - Death Magnetic

Terrorizer's Top 40

01. ENSLAVED - Vertebrae (Indie Recordings)
02. CYNIC - Traced In Air (Season Of Mist)
03. NACHTMYSTIUM - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1 (Candlelight)
04. GOJIRA - The Way Of All Flesh (Listenable)
05. TORCHE - Meanderthal (Hydra Head)
06. MESHUGGAH - ObZen (Nuclear Blast)
07. OPETH - Watershed (Roadrunner)
08. METALLICA - Death Magnetic (Warner)
09. BLOODBATH - The Fathomless Mastery (Peaceville)
10. ESOTERIC - The Maniacal Vale (Season Of Mist)
11. EARTH - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (Southern Lord)
12. AC/DC - Black Ice (Sony)
13. ASVA - What You Don't Know Is Frontier (Southern Lord)
14. HAIL OF BULLETS - ...Of Frost And War (Metal Blade)
15. SEPTICFLESH - Communion (Season Of Mist)
16. DARKTHRONE - Dark Thrones And Black Flags (Peaceville)
17. LEVIATHAN - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (Moribund)
18. GRAND MAGUS - Iron Will (Rise Above)
19. HARVEY MILK - Life... The Best Game In Town (Hydra Head)
20. SATYRICON - The Age Of Nero (Roadrunner)
21. DEICIDE - Til Death Do Us Part
22. TRAP THEM - Seizures in barren praise
23. MOSS - Sub Templum
24. MELVINS - Nude With Boots
25. GENGHIS TRON - board up the house
26. AURA NOIR - Hades Rise
27. VIRUS - The Black Flux
28. BLOOD CEREMONY - Blood Ceremony
29. ORIGIN - Antithesis
30. JEX THOTH - Jex Thoth
31. ENFORCER - Into The Night
32. MOTORHEAD - Motorizer
33. KRALLICE - Krallice
34. TOXIC HOLOCAUST - An Overdose Of Death
35. WITHERED - Folie Circulaire
36. MISERY INDEX - Traitors
37. BURST - Lazarus Bird
38. CAVALERA CONSPIRACY - Inflikted
39. AMON AMARTH - Twilight Of The Thundergod
40. PORTRAIT - Portrait

Rank - Points - Votes - #1s - Artist - Album

1 - 479 - 25 - 2 - Torche - Meanderthal
2 - 357 - 19 - 3 - Harvey Milk - Life...the Best Game in Town
3 - 276 - 19 - 0 - Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
4 - 227 - 16 - 0 - Boris - Smile
5 - 212 - 13 - 1 - Opeth - Watershed
6 - 203 - 11 - 1 - Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
7 - 183 - 10 - 2 - Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
8 - 179 - 12 - 0 - 5ive - Hesperus
9 - 165 - 10 - 2 - Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
10 - 163 - 10 - 0 - Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
11 - 158 - 11 - 1 - The Goslings - Occasion
12 - 155 - 10 - 0 - Meshuggah - obZen
13 - 145 - 9 - 0 - Enslaved - Vertebrae
14 - 141 - 10 - 0 - Melvins - Nude With Boots
15 - 140 - 8 - 0 - Caina - Temporary Antennae
16 - 137 - 8 - 0 - Krallice - Krallice
17 - 128 - 8 - 0 - Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
18 - 126 - 8 - 1 - Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
18 - 126 - 8 - 0 - Cynic - Traced in Air
20 - 123 - 8 - 0 - Sunn 0))) - Domkirke
21 - 118 - 7 - 2 - Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
22 - 111 - 8 - 0 - Coffins - Buried Death
23 - 109 - 8 - 0 - Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
24 - 100 - 6 - 0 - Ocean - Pantheon of the Lesser
25 - 98 - 5 - 1 - The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
26 - 89 - 6 - 0 - Moss - Sub Templum
26 - 89 - 5 - 0 - Wetnurse - Invisible City
28 - 88 - 7 - 0 - Earthless - Live at Roadburn
28 - 88 - 8 - 0 - UFOmammut - Idolum
30 - 83 - 6 - 0 - The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
31 - 81 - 6 - 0 - Moonspell - Night Eternal
32 - 78 - 6 - 0 - Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect
33 - 72 - 6 - 0 - Ascend - Ample Fire Within
34 - 71 - 3 - 1 - Hammers of Misfortune - Fields/Church of Broken Glass
35 - 70 - 5 - 0 - Witch - Paralyzed
36 - 68 - 6 - 0 - Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
37 - 66 - 5 - 0 - Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth
38 - 63 - 6 - 0 - Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
39 - 62 - 5 - 0 - Darkspace - III
40 - 61 - 4 - 0 - Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
41 - 60 - 4 - 1 - Disfear - Live the Storm
42 - 59 - 4 - 1 - Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony
43 - 55 - 4 - 0 - Metallica - Death Magnetic
43 - 55 - 6 - 0 - Unearthly Trance - Electrocution
45 - 54 - 4 - 0 - Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness
45 - 54 - 4 - 0 - Withered - Folie Circulaire
47 - 52 - 5 - 0 - Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
48 - 50 - 4 - 0 - Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled
48 - 50 - 3 - 0 - Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood
50 - 48 - 3 - 1 - Zebulon Pike - Intranscience
50 - 48 - 3 - 0 - Racebannon - Acid or Blood
52 - 47 - 5 - 0 - Eluveitie - Slania
53 - 46 - 4 - 0 - The Sword - Gods of the Earth
54 - 44 - 4 - 0 - Amen Ra - Mass IIII
54 - 44 - 3 - 0 - Cough - Sigillum Luciferi
56 - 42 - 3 - 0 - Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
56 - 42 - 3 - 0 - Trinacria - Travel Now Journey Infinitely
58 - 41 - 2 - 0 - Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie
58 - 41 - 2 - 0 - Conifer - Crown Fire
58 - 41 - 3 - 0 - Jarboe - Mahakali
61 - 40 - 2 - 0 - Brave - Monuments
61 - 40 - 3 - 0 - Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum
63 - 39 - 3 - 1 - Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
64 - 38 - 3 - 0 - Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
64 - 38 - 3 - 0 - Helms Alee - Night Terror
64 - 38 - 4 - 0 - US Christmas - Eat the Low Dogs
67 - 37 - 2 - 0 - Sex/Vid - Communal Living
68 - 36 - 2 - 0 - Girlschool - Legacy
69 - 35 - 4 - 0 - Motorhead - Motorizer
70 - 34 - 2 - 0 - Black Boned Angel - The Endless Coming Into Life
70 - 34 - 3 - 0 - Death Angel - Killing Season
70 - 34 - 3 - 0 - Ocrilim - Annwn
70 - 34 - 2 - 0 - Septicflesh - Communion
74 - 33 - 2 - 1 - Samothrace - Lifes Trade
74 - 33 - 3 - 0 - Journey To Ixtlan - S/t
76 - 32 - 2 - 1 - Equilibrium - Sagas
76 - 32 - 4 - 0 - Tyr - Land
78 - 31 - 2 - 1 - Pyramids - Pyramids
78 - 31 - 2 - 0 - Helrunar - Baldr Okk Iss
80 - 30 - 2 - 0 - Ayreon - 01011001
80 - 30 - 2 - 0 - Candlemass - Lucifer Rising
82 - 29 - 3 - 0 - Dir En Grey - Uroboros
82 - 29 - 2 - 0 - Dornenreich - In Luft Geritzt
84 - 28 - 2 - 0 - Aldebaran - dwellers in twilight
84 - 28 - 2 - 0 - Aura Noir - Hades Rise
84 - 28 - 2 - 0 - In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
84 - 28 - 3 - 0 - Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward
84 - 28 - 3 - 0 - Morkobot - Morto
89 - 27 - 2 - 1 - In This Moment - The Dream
89 - 27 - 3 - 0 - Graveyard - Graveyard
91 - 25 - 1 - 1 - Gevolt - Sidur
91 - 25 - 1 - 1 - Mar De Grises - draining the waterheart
91 - 25 - 1 - 1 - Rose Tattoo - Blood Brothers
94 - 24 - 1 - 0 - Burst - Lazarus Bird
94 - 24 - 1 - 0 - Fuck the Facts - Disgorge Mexico
94 - 24 - 1 - 0 - The Lizards - archeology
97 - 23 - 1 - 0 - A Storm of Light - And We Wept the Black Ocean Within
97 - 23 - 2 - 0 - Black Elk - Always a Six, Never a Nine
97 - 23 - 1 - 0 - Everon - North
97 - 23 - 1 - 0 - Legless - Finding Mr. Perfect
97 - 23 - 1 - 0 - RTX - JJ Got Live RATX
97 - 23 - 3 - 0 - Trees - Lights Bane
103 - 22 - 2 - 0 - Capricorns - River, Bear Your Bones
103 - 22 - 1 - 0 - Helix - The Power of Rock and Roll
103 - 22 - 2 - 0 - Moho - Chotocabra
103 - 22 - 1 - 0 - Orakle - Tourments & perdition
107 - 21 - 1 - 0 - Ayat - Six Years of Dormant Hatred
107 - 21 - 2 - 0 - The Devil's Blood - Come, Reap
107 - 21 - 2 - 0 - Ihsahn - angL
107 - 21 - 2 - 0 - Taint - Secrets and Lies
107 - 21 - 1 - 0 - Ted Nugent - Sweden Rocks
112 - 20 - 1 - 0 - Colour Haze - All
113 - 19 - 2 - 0 - Atavist/Nadja - II: Points at Infinity
113 - 19 - 2 - 0 - DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown
113 - 19 - 1 - 0 - The Human Abstract - Midheaven
113 - 19 - 1 - 0 - Into Eternity - The Incurable Tragedy
113 - 19 - 1 - 0 - Oceans of Sadness - The Arrogance of Ignorance
118 - 18 - 2 - 0 - Cave - Hunt Like Devil
118 - 18 - 1 - 0 - Celestia - Frigidiis Apotheosia: Abstinencia Genesiis
118 - 18 - 2 - 0 - Grand Magus - Iron Will
118 - 18 - 1 - 0 - Mouth of the Architect - Quietly
118 - 18 - 1 - 0 - Night Ranger - Hole In the Sun
118 - 18 - 1 - 0 - Salome - Salome
124 - 17 - 2 - 0 - Black Boned Angel & Nadja - Christ Send Light
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Disturbed - Indestructible
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Gyongyver - Vilagok Viraga
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Janvs - Vega
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Klabautamann - Our Journey Through the Woods
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Ondo - Mahavishnu
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Wrath of the Weak - Alogon
132 - 16 - 1 - 0 - The Death of Her Money - Spirit of the Stairwell
132 - 16 - 1 - 0 - Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus
132 - 16 - 2 - 0 - Martriden - The Unsettling Dark
132 - 16 - 1 - 0 - Other Fools - 12 More Lies
132 - 16 - 2 - 0 - Zozobra - Bird of Prey
137 - 15 - 1 - 0 - Arkona - Ot Serdca K Nebu
137 - 15 - 1 - 0 - Desalvo - Mood Poisoner
137 - 15 - 2 - 0 - Origin - Antithesis
140 - 14 - 2 - 0 - The Austrasian Goat - pieces to oblivian
140 - 14 - 2 - 0 - Early Man - Beware the Circling Fin
140 - 14 - 2 - 0 - Hate Eternal - Fury and Flames
140 - 14 - 1 - 0 - Hey Colossus - Happy Birthday
140 - 14 - 1 - 0 - Noekk - The Minstrel's Curse
145 - 13 - 1 - 0 - Monolith Deathcult - Trivmvirate
145 - 13 - 1 - 0 - Mount Logan - Mount Logan
147 - 12 - 1 - 0 - Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
147 - 12 - 1 - 0 - Don Caballero - Punkgasm
147 - 12 - 1 - 0 - Tecumseh - Avalanche and Inundation
150 - 11 - 1 - 0 - Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living
150 - 11 - 1 - 0 - Elder - Elder
150 - 11 - 1 - 0 - Hail of Bullets - Of Frost and War
150 - 11 - 1 - 0 - The Haunted - Versus
150 - 11 - 1 - 0 - Mourning Beloveth - A Disease for the Ages
150 - 11 - 2 - 0 - Pentemple - 0))) Presents
156 - 10 - 1 - 0 - Arckanum - Antikosmos
156 - 10 - 1 - 0 - Black Shape of Nexus (B.son) - Microbarome Meetings
156 - 10 - 1 - 0 - Catley, Bob - Immortal
156 - 10 - 2 - 0 - Guapo - Elixirs
160 - 9 - 1 - 0 - Akimbo - Jersey Shores
160 - 9 - 1 - 0 - Amassfer - Slaves For Life
160 - 9 - 1 - 0 - Draconian - Turning Season Within
160 - 9 - 1 - 0 - Fiftywatthead - Fogcutter
160 - 9 - 1 - 0 - Nadja - The Bungled And the Botched
160 - 9 - 1 - 0 - Textures - Silhouettes
166 - 8 - 1 - 0 - Lantlos - Lantlos
167 - 7 - 1 - 0 - Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy
167 - 7 - 1 - 0 - Isole - Bliss of Solitude
169 - 6 - 1 - 0 - Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
169 - 6 - 1 - 0 - In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
169 - 6 - 1 - 0 - The Lamp of Thoth - Portents, Omens and Doom
169 - 6 - 1 - 0 - Viking Skull - Doom Gloom Heartache & Whiskey
173 - 5 - 1 - 0 - Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
173 - 5 - 1 - 0 - Cursed - III
173 - 5 - 1 - 0 - Dalriada - Szelek
173 - 5 - 1 - 0 - Hyatari - They will surface
173 - 5 - 1 - 0 - Khold - Hundre a Gammal
173 - 5 - 1 - 0 - Neuraxis - The Thin Line Between
179 - 4 - 1 - 0 - Gods And Queens - S/T
179 - 4 - 1 - 0 - Heavy Winged - Alive in My Mouth
179 - 4 - 1 - 0 - My Silent Wake - A Garland of Tears
182 - 3 - 2 - 0 - Poisonblack - A Dead Heavy Day
182 - 3 - 1 - 0 - White Lion - Return of the Pride
184 - 2 - 1 - 0 - The Amenta - nOn
184 - 2 - 1 - 0 - Arsis - We Are the Nightmare
184 - 2 - 1 - 0 - Farmakon - Robin
187 - 1 - 1 - 0 - Cor Scorpii - Monument
187 - 1 - 1 - 0 - Indian - Slights and Abuse / the Sycophant
187 - 1 - 1 - 0 - Metsatoll - Iivakivi
187 - 1 - 1 - 0 - Suspyre - When Time Fades...

Maybe Glenn can run some stats comparing, but I'd assume the Decibel list was closest to ours.

rolling autogoon seems to nay say the idea, and given a bit of thought, I don't think it would be worth it this late, after so many lists, and people are warn out on 2008 lists etc.. Next year I will though.

Just check out that ABN record and the Guilty Simpson and you're set, really.

well they still said they would contribute a list, and im sure those who dont post on that thread would contribute too. That's what happened with this poll, a lot of the contributors werent rolling metal thread posters. Some were lurkers who i dont know on ilx. So this kind of email poll does get a decent turn out. 30 was more than I expected. A rap poll would get a lot more i reckon.
You should give it a go, it will help get people discovering stuff they wouldnt always know about. As far as I can see only a few of the usual suspects will get in the ilx poll if P&J is anything to go by.
I'd say have a go doing a rap poll!

Ok, fuck it. Tomorrow I'll start it up.

Metal Edge has 29 things that are in our top 100. Decibel and Terrorizer each have 25. Kerrang has 5.

Interesting. Metal Edge has really changed since Phil took over as editor then. (As I said before Metal Edge isn't available in Smiths anymore despite it always having been until a year or so ago).

Not surprised at the lack of Kerrang stuff.

What about the top 50? How many are in that?

Metal Edge has 29 things in common because nearly all the writers for that magazine post here.

Well, Phil didn't vote as he said he forgot, I know you write for it but who else? (and don't you all write for Decibel too?) I only know of one Terrorizer writer here (who voted). Does Stevie Chick still write for Kerrang? (not that he voted as far as i'm aware)

Metal Edge, Decibel and Terrorizer each have a 21-allbum overlap with this poll's top 50. Terrorizer overlaps 15 with this poll's top 25, the other two 14.

thanks for that Glenn!! Very interesting.
Going to give this Cynic album a spin, it's on spotify. Quite handy! If you're on spotify then check out the albums from our poll that are on it(not licensed to usa/canada yet im afraid)

Which ones are on it (if you already know it saves me doing 100 searches)?

I haven't looked. I just remembered Ned, I think it was saying, Cynic were a bit proggy. I'm surprised tho, no death metal at all. It's definitely prog metal with clean singing. Not what I expected at all.

Torche arent on it

Cheers, just found it, I'll give that a quick listen then see what else I can find. I did search for the other day and found a few of the artists but it was mostly older material.

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