NOMINATIONS AND DISCUSSION THREAD FOR 2016 METAL/HEAVY ROCK POLL (Nominations end December 7)

Wytch Hazel – Prelude
Brimstone Coven – Black Magic
Troll – Troll
Cardinals Folly – Holocaust Of Ecstacy And Freedom
Dunbarrow – Dunbarrow
The Rare Breed - Looking For Today
Castle – Welcome To The Graveyard
Truckfighters - V
Asteroid - III
Kremlin - I
The Well - Pagan Science
Electric Citizen - Higher Time
Spidergawd - III
Greenleaf - Rise Above The Meadow
Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule
Motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters
Baby Woodrose - Freedom
Vokonis – Olde One Ascending
Beastmaker – Lusus Naturae
Gygax – Critical Hit
Helstar – Vampiro
Spiritus Mortis – The Year Is One
The Order Of Israfel – Red Robes
Holy Grail – Times Of Pride And Peril
Spellcaster – Night Hides The World
Sinister Haze – Laid Low In The Dust Of Death
Denner/Shermann - Masters Of Evil
Dark Forest – Beyond The Veil
Grand Magus – Sword Songs
Lizzies - Good Luck
HammerFall – Built To Last
Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree
Haunted – Haunted
Curse The Son – Isolator
Altar Of Oblivion – Barren Grounds
Diamond Head – Diamond Head
Sabaton - The Last Stand
11Paranoias – Reliquary For A Dreamed Of World
Spider Kitten – Ark Of Octofelis
Horseburner – Dead Seeds, Barren Soi
Ghoul – Dungeon Bastards
Atomikylä – Keräily
Black Shape Of Nexus – Carrier
Red Fang – Only Ghosts
Bloody Hammers – Lovely Sort Of Death
Dunsmuir – Dunsmuir
Valient Thorr – Old Salt
Hellbringer – Awakened From The Abyss
Headless Kross – Projections I
Cardinal Wyrm – Cast Away Souls
Lucifer’s Hammer – Beyond The Omens
Attalla – Attalla
Amon Amarth - Jomsviking
Hypnos - Cold Winds
Mars Red Sky - Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)
The Hazytones - The Hazytones
Shadow Witch - Sun Killer
Bright Curse - Before The Shore
Svartanatt - Svartanatt
Black Rainbows - Stellar Prophecy
Mondo Drag - The Occultation Of Light
Blues Funeral - The Search
Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell - Keep It Greasy!
Turnip - Window Killer
Dreamtime - Strange Pleasures
Salem's Pot - Pronounce This!
Big Jesus - Oneiric
Moths & Locusts - Helios Rising
Blaak Heat - Shifting Mirrors
Wight - Love Is Not Only What You Know
Nightstalker - As Above, So Below
Child - Blueside
Pyrior - Portal

I completely missed that Truckfighters had one this year

Xoth is crazy btw, thanks for posting that.

Apparently they've been opening for Vektor, now that's a bill

Today is the last day for nominating

Okay really the last one here:

Demontage - Fire of Iniquity

nobody nominating babymetal this year? how fickle you all are

oh wait, its there

Oh man, this one. The singer can be kinda dodgy, and some of his high notes make me cringe, but otherwise he sounds like Jon Oliva back in the Sirens/Dungeons Are Calling days -- and the music is balls out thrashing speed metal. I remember listening to it a week or so ago, only to forget the band name and where I'd found the link. Add them to that Vektor/Xoth bill.

Armory - World Peace ... Cosmic War

https://armory417.bandcamp.com/

Cover art's pretty wicked, too.

Kerrang top 50

50 Electric Century - From The Night To Control
49 Alcest - Kodama
48 Vodun - Possession
47 Pup - The Dream Is Over
46 Descendents - Hypercaffum Spazzinate
45 Billy Talent - Afraid Of Heights
44 Black Peaks - Statues
43 Against The Current - In Our Bones
42 The Pretty Reckless - Who You Selling For
41 Swmrs - Drive North
40 With Confidence - Better Weather
39 Brian Fallon - Painkillers
38 Cane Hill - Smile
37 Bury Tomorrow - Earthbound
36 Sum 41 - 13 Voices
35 Russian Circles - Guidance
34 The Amity Affliction - This Could Be Heartbreak
33 Beach Slang - A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings
32 Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
31 Letlive - If I'm The Devil.
30 Weezer - (The White Album)
29 Waterparks - Double Dare
28 Alter Bridge - The Last Hero
27 Asking Alexandria - The Black
26 Lonely the Brave - Things Will Matter
25 Beartooth - Aggressive
24 A Day To Remember - Bad Vibrations
23 Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
22 Hellions - Opera Oblivia
21 The Black Queen - Fever Daydream
20 Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us
19 Milk Teeth - Vile Child
18 Muncie Girls - From Caplan to Belsize
17 The Dillinger Escape Plan
16 Biffy Cunto - Ellipsis
15 Gojira - Magma
14 Moose Blood - Blush
13 Blink-182 - California
12 Pierce The Veil - Misadventures
11 Every Time I Die
10 Twin Atlantic - GLA
9 BABYMETAL - Metal Resistance
8 Panic At The Disco - Death Of A Bachelor
7 Deftones - Gore
6 Against Me - Shape Shift With Me
5 Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage
4 Frank Iero And The Patience - Parachutes
3 Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
2 Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct
1 Green Day - Revolution Radio

hey brad is the frank iero album any good

There hasn't been a lot of enthusiasm this year in metal thread (except for Vektor) but I dont know if that's because people are unimpressed with 2016 releases, fed up with metal in general, and/or fed up with polls. But rolling metal thread has been really quiet this year.

I actually thought this was a wonderful year for metal, though for me "a wonderful year" means four or five releases I really dig - I'm never going to listen to 161 albums in a year and get some huge-breadth sense of what's going on, but when I find a good handful that I think I'll be listening to next year & the year after that, too, then that's a good year for me. New Mithras, the underrated SVLFVR record, Skuggja, Skaphe, Moon Tooth, Defiled, a really nice Church of Misery album...not like a trailblazing year or anything but who cares honestly. Plenty to chew on for me

hey brad is the frank iero album any good

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, December 7, 2016 7:06 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

never knowingly listened to a frank iero song, will report back

What about Mesarthim? Wasn't it you who tipped me off on them smithy?

xp

i listened to a lot less metal this year but what i found i really loved, so imo it's a good year! mesarthim, furia (seriously what a record), kvelertak, that ghoulgotha record is still surprising me, etc.

also wow i love the new vader, surprise

I didn't have my mind blown a lot this year but I look forward to being proven wrong when we do the poll

What about Mesarthim? Wasn't it you who tipped me off on them smithy?

I think so, maybe -- wow was that really this year? love it, but it feels so long ago!

digital release last year physical release this year and you messaged me on fb about about january i think. They've had 2 releases since I think!

Armory - World Peace ... Cosmic War

Nice find! I really like this.

Only Isolate is on Spotify fwiw (for some reason)

yeah they seem to be headed into a heavier keyboard direction while I head in a heavier metal direction. Isolate's good though.

pillars is super keyboardy but the morse code one feels real pared down to me. fav band of the year at least, easily

also the zao record is extremely good thank u simon

yeah it really comes alive in the middle section

I completely missed that Truckfighters had one this year

I love that band, could never miss a new release from them, though there's less fanfare I suppose since it's been only two years since Universe. Greenleaf is great but I still think Truckfighters do the desert fuzz thing best. I forgot to CTRL-F for Greenleaf, hopefully there's no other repeats in my list.

Abnormality - Mechanisms of Omniscience

Oh wow, I was completely misremembering Mesarthim as something else! This is the little space one. I like it a lot. Yeah, Pillars is beautiful. Listening to Isolate now for the first time - lovely majestic fuzz.

Mesarthim are the band that sounds like Summoning IN SPACE

It is also a bit like if Botanist were upset and tending to his greenhouse IN SPACE

Wow though, this is really too much.

Isolate is a 2015 record it seems

i really love that abnormality record, feel like they stepped it up all around, the riffs are better and even a little metalcore-y in parts, and the song structures occasionally get real abstract without losing their sense as songs (a problem in tech death)

Mesarthim did two EPs (Spire, Pillars) and an album (Absence) this year - that's plenty. Nominate Spire I guess

Isolate PHYSICAL release came out this year. It stays.

Oh OK! Will listen to it then ;)

O it's quite something

Vale of Pnath - II

Deceptionist - Initializing Irreversible Process
ALTARAGE - Nihl
Auroch - Mute Books
Ordinance - The Ides of March
Autokrator - The Obedience to Authority
Carnophage - Monument
Cognizant - Cognizant

If anyone needs more atmospheric black metal IN SPACE you should try Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether, it's reet good

So glad someone nominated Xoth upthread. Saw them with Vektor and they stole the show. The bass player is a total character and also their producer. They seem to be on all the good metal bills in Seattle so I'm happy to have a rad local band to follow.

This year has been a giant leap for space metal.

All the metal is escaping this planet.

and not on horses

Caïna - Christ Clad In White Phosphorus

Have we got everything then?

Now closed and just waiting on voting form to be set up by seandalai.

Voting will end FRIDAY DECEMBER 16 regardless so I suggest forming your shortlists/listening now.

Dammit. Bloodiest.

just realized Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia) was nominated, came out Dec '15. This is a great record! For fans of the Cadaveric Fumes/Khanus end of weirdo death metal.

seandalai has told me he will set up voting tonight and sorry for the delay. If anyone has forgotten to nominate anything now is your chance.

I suggest you may want to start your shortlists anyway as voting will have to end next friday.

Nominations

I nominate:

Wrekmeister Harmonies - Light Falls

Ghold - PYR

Hemelbestormer - Aether

Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night

and Bloodiest - Bloodiest