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

Did you like it?

(not heard it myself but I like that album cover)

Is it possible to get a short one-sentence description for each one? A couple adjectives?

yay, first year of this where i have spotify!

not really considering i havent heard half of the albums. I am providing links to last.fm though. I have my handsfull at this end y'know just doing this.
And people reading this thread who voted for it can tell us what the album is like!

short description of WN: rym lists the album's genre as Powerviolence; this is also the name of a song on the album

http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/6FNGd20uP6dyX5W1jzFE6Z

Gonna try to throw all of these in this playlist.

if someone following the poll wants to help with descriptions after i post the album I'd be utterly grateful

xp

thanks George!

xps thanks mordy that will save me doing it!

124. Azarath - Blasphemers' Malediction (236 Points, 9 Votes)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WhPWv5gkYX0/ThgbOeLZ9kI/AAAAAAAAB7I/XiWXdQ2Bzpw/s1600/Azarath+-+Blasphemers%2527+Malediction+%25282011%2529.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Azarath

^ death metal afaik i call it Siegbran Metal.

Ok, thanks. I could look it up, I realize, but if the purpose of results threads is to get people to listen to stuff they wouldn't have heard otherwise, a few identifying characteristics might help someone decide to listen (or not listen) to something that rated on the poll. Powerviolence sums it up, ty.

no prob :D

ha i just realized that the name of the song is Jock Powerviolence

there is also a song called Dubviolence, which I will be playing in outloud here soon

theres enough to do without asking me to do extra stuff. You can volunteer to help!

xps

123. Peste Noire - l'Ordure a l'Etat Pur (237 Points, 9 Votes, 1 #1)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5BPXSzYb1gs/Tdl38gVm-TI/AAAAAAAAAEU/YIAVuRH2ELo/s1600/300.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Peste+Noire

Peste Noire is a medieval black metal band from Avignon, France, formed by La sale Famine de Valfunde in 2000.

this is JJJ music correct?

Hoping Nyan Cat places, or at least some brutal black metal representative.

yup henry's fave bm band.

xp's

122. Grails - Deep Politics (242 Points, 7 Votes)
http://www.soundproofmagazine.com/images/articles/5001/grailscover.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Grails

Grails are an American instrumental rock band from Portland, Oregon.

sweet! my first to place!

your vote got it into the top 125

whoa!

so if anyone shouts DEATH TO FALSE METAL i'll direct them to you.

ha I'm 99% positively that I gave points to every false metal option available

121. Zebulon Pike - Space Is the Corpse of Time (243 Points, 10 Votes)
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4111/cover_1934111372011_r.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Zebulon+Pike

Hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota, ZEBULON PIKE is an instrumental prog-doom metal band formed in late 2002. Inspired in equal parts by heavy sounds of the 70’s (Mountain, Pentagram, Captain Beyond, early Judas Priest), progressive rock (King Crimson, Rush), and 20th century classical (Bela Bartok, Arvo Part, and many others).

These guys opened for Rwake, and are all kinds of awesome. Their older albums are nice too.

a certain person loves them

btw i'll do one more for tonight

120. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving (244 Points, 11 Votes)
http://www.cdinzane.com/images/P/WITHIN%20TEMPTATION-UNFORGIVING.jpg
Spotify
http://www.last.fm/music/Within+Temptation

Within Temptation is a shite Dutch symphonic metal band formed in 1996 in Waddinxveen, Netherlands. The group consists of Sharon den Adel (vocals), Robert Westerholt (guitars), Jeroen van Veen (bass), Martijn Spierenburg (keyboards), Ruud Adrianus Jolie (guitars) and Mike Coolen (drums). Despite being labeled by the media as a gothic metal band, Within Temptation consider themselves “more a symphonic rock/metal band … we are… no gothic band”.

i voted for them, but they're not very good. i played them once for my mom and she was like, "i like this. they sound like evanescence," then after a song or two played she asked, "they're kinda generic aren't they?"

haha why did you vote for them then? your vote got them in the rollout!

i've since soured on them

also, i think they were already the last band on my ballot, so they barely sneaked on in the first place

Fans of the band at #126 (inc you lol) are going to be ever so mad at you, they missed out by 4 points. you gave Within Temptation 30 points!

30 seems like a lot. is that true? i just listed my 21 picks in order of best to worst. i'm shocked that the worst still got 30 points.

and no, im not telling you what missed out. you can sweat on it til the end!

lots of people did the full 50. More than half probably. Glenn can answer that one.

Zeb pike zeb pike zeb pike!!

what does henry have to say about #123?

Henry's paws are too big for my iPhone, but I will say that isn't nearly as good as last years album, so start there if you are unfamiliar. This one is still worth a listen tho!

Re:peste noire.

Neige from Alcest used to be in them didn't he?

and doesn't 'Famine' have some ...err... dodgy views?

btw will resume countdown somewhere between midday and 2pm uk time depending on whether enough people are around posting.

I will add the genres so we can have a results-by-genre part on needle too like previous years as i know that's quite popular.
btw feel free to make predictions as its a lot of fun at the end where we can see who was closest or who was way off. Predicting later on is a lot easier.
And if anyone has any comments on what is in the countdown so far please post away!

i predict Pitom in the #1 spot

Oh crap I forgot to vote for them! :(

Within Temptation, weird. I've never heard of them. The cover is hilarious. It looks like a young adult mystery, like a slutty Nancy Drew/Trixie Belden and the case of the creepy tweeners who practice occult sacrifices in the woods. Is this band's demographic kids who were too young to read when the first Harry Potter came out?

Okay, based on the small sample size of 3+ tracks of each of these

Disliked - Within Temptation, Azareth
Okay, but wouldn't check again - Zebulon Pike
Liked, but blimey the tracks are long - Peste Noire
Liked, will listen to again - Weekend Nachos, Grails

Looking frwd to the rest of the countdown

Grails are the first of my votes to place. Totally false metal!

I'm not sure why, because they seem totally my thing, but I'm just not into Weekend Nachos. And yet I have had two picks place already (Peste Noir and Grails).

I predict Uncle Acid will do a lot less well than people think it will - I love the album but really fought as to whether I should vote for it (I did in the end) because it's not really a metal record, it's completely freakbeat. If I'd been more involved in the nominations thread I might have been tempted to veto it. I also predict my #1 will not be higher than #20.

best bet for Uncle Acid would be seeking out the Youtubes...there are a few in the thread here Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust (One of the best rock albums this year)

I feel like you might not hate it, esp if you dug this year's Blood Ceremony

Well then Rhapsody should get in gear and stream more albums for their star employee!

Independent contractor, actually -- but point well taken.

Got 2 cds in mail today Condenados - A Painful Journey Into Nihil and Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg.

I bought In Solitude and Devil's Blood CDs at Reckless. Also picked up Ghost finally. I thought I'd get one at the show but they had sold out, but Reckless has 'em. My Uncle Acid CD finally arrived. I'm also really liking Altar Of Plagues and especially Thy Catafalque. How are their older albums?

Pitom album sounded immense on my headphones at 2am this morning whilst I was at work.

FnB All good choices! My Catalfaque cd came but as i had never heard of them until the votes came in for them i have no idea about their older stuff, i think Glenn says its good but Siegbran says they never used to be but hadnt heard the last few before this one(which he liked)

so fuck knows. I dont even have them on mp3.

Argus cd arrived today

I assume it boldly strode in.

smashed the door with an axe while singing a rousing battle anthem

Hey Kerr what albums from the countdown do you think will show up this week? I def think Yob and Uncle Acid have good shots...

uncle acid and maybe mastodon. those 2 have non-metal crossover potential i think.(did many metal thread regs vote? im guessing not enough) Dont think yob made it last time.

and liturgy!

lol (it just placed)

dont forget WITTR

Their #21 had only 17 votes. Looks like there weren't as many participants as on the metal poll. We could have totally taken over that poll. So much power wasted. Instead of Graveyard, YOB and Devil's Blood it'll be Adele, Pistol Annies and fucking Bon Iver. Perhaps Uncle Acid has a chance.

METAAAAALLLLLLLLL

the big poll got 120+ votes. Way more than us . Im guessing the top 10 albums will be getting a shitload with the 21-77 not so much,
but i told you lot all to vote. but metal ilxors just dont like to vote. just lurkers (who arent allowed in big poll afaik)

i dont think hammers of misfortune will place now. Bit weird our #1 didn't make it tbh. Though it seems the metal that did make it was stuff that crossed over to non metal regs. They didn't vote in our poll (5 ppl judging by the comments on the thread)but voted for liturgy,wittr,mastodon. If everyone pulled together we could've got a dozen albums in easy. We obviously could never agree enough on anything to get a top 10.

We could have totally taken over that poll. So much power wasted.
I did my part, but I did fail to nominate Bruce Lamont, which was stupid. He didn't exactly take over the metal poll though, so who am I kidding?!

For some reason I flipped out talking about the manifesto when really I should have been busy plotting for next year. If Bon Iver wins or is even in the top 3 I will lose a little bit of faith in the people of ILM. Not much, but a little.

Well we're on the topic, Thanks for playing that Lamont last night. I don't enjoy Yakuza so I ignored his solo record, obviously to my detriment.

I have to warn you -- there is some singing that you might hate, and it's in the first song, which is interminable. If you can make it past the first 3 min of that without turning it off, it's pretty good the rest of the way.

He does have a really versatile voice though.

that seems like a really good excuse to post this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux6v5iIn5NA

Lol u guys! :) Kerr is otm in that most of the metal ranks is filled out by the hidden army of lurkers (I know you're out there, Magnus B!) who may or may not be allowed to vote in the big poll.

Also I voted for Pistol Annies; that was a really good record. It might sound like Dolly Parton's Greatest Hits but its soul lies somewhere between Cut and Nebraska...

oh yea also: I'm a bit skeptical that Bon Iver or Adele are going to show up today. I mean, anything's possible--and I don't remember if the #1 P4k album of the year has never not shown up--but I think Tuneyards and Yuck will probably be the worst of it. Adele had probably the biggest song of the year and she couldn't manage to make the tracks poll at all, so I wouldn't worry...

that 'never' should be 'ever' :/

I wish it sounded like Dolly! I couldn't get past the production to give a shit what they were saying.

Kerr is otm in that most of the metal ranks is filled out by the hidden army of lurkers (I know you're out there, Magnus B!) who may or may not be allowed to vote in the big poll.

Everyone's allowed to vote btw...we do ask for a username in the cause of transparency but I don't check that it corresponds to a registered user.

xp I still don't get that complaint! I think the whole old-timey sound gives the record a kind of edge, in ways that I am just not talented enough to delineate...

I didn't hear it as old-timey, which is probably on me not them. I dig old-timey.

That "Cortez" youtube is pretty amazing.

Isn't it? I think the lights add a lot. Also, Bruce: more loops and wordless noises pls.

Re: PA -- I love old timey, and I made the mistake of watching a Pistol Annies video instead of just listening to the song.

I'm just going by what kjb and emil.y were saying (or at least what I thought they were saying) more than anything EZ...

I dont...get your complaint either?

iirc it was really glossy. Not to my liking, and that impression made me not like the song because...I am a feeble minded monkey?

It's old-timey instrumentation with a bright. unnatural sheen (to my ears, at least). That's what I meant by production; I would bet they would be much more my thing live where the mix and mastering wouldn't have that gloss.

xpost, obv!

I think La Lechera and I both were bothered by the same thing

but we should probably take the conversation elsewhere and leave this for metal

well I spent most of my year being forced to listen to country music radio, so the productions sounds really understated to me.

Like I'm listening to "Beige" right now, and it still sounds to me like a dolled up version of one of the slower cuts on American Beauty

I mean, this is all subjective opinion--I mean, I never expected it to not have pop sheen, so I wasn't disappointed...

^oh sorry yeah another thread

Dolly should do a metal covers album.

haha yeah

Finally got around to listening to Corrupted - wasn't really bothered about the 1st 2 tracks, but the 3rd track is awesome.

Wittled down the Top 125 to about 20 I might like, of course by the time I've listened to those it'll be 2013 and Kerr will be moaning at me for not voting in Metal Poll 2012.

like you did last year

Could I be a pain in the arse and ask someone to c&p the results for this? Can't display all messages without serious browser weirdness.

Direct Link to poll recap & full results

Brilliant, thanks.