Hey, did I miss anything?
― 8. Opeth - Watershed (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, we inaugurated the first black metal president.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
rofl
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
32http://www.citypaper.com/sb/143748/trax_jesu.jpgJesu - Why Are We Not Perfect (Hydra Head) 78 points
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
― 8. Opeth - Watershed (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Why Are You Not Perfect?
― 8. Opeth - Watershed (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Glenn I dont have my notes on this comp, did jesu get in a lot of top 10s? Or did it just pick up votes from most voters? I don't recall it being that high in many lists. I love Jesu but it's one of many releases last year by JK and I don't remember being that struck by it. I wonder if he's taken Jesu as far as he can, as the recent ep's arent anywhere as good as the 1st ep and the 2 albums.
Maybe he just needs some quality control.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
New Final out next month and Godflesh reissues.
― Doran, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I think he may have been concentrating on Final lately
x-post
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
disagree abt broadyrick quality control he's totally acing that clutching kitten while passively masturbating vibe plus KILLS alcest at making MBV sound like Venom
― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
The Jesu got 6 votes. One #6, one #23 (from me), the other four squarely mid-ballot.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
31http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41dy7AvYBTL._SL500_AA240_.jpgMoonspell - Night Eternal (SPV/Steamhammer) 81 points
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I have nothing interesting to say about the above. I'll leave the stats stuff to glenn
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked the Jesu, but most of it was on the split with Eluvium which made my 2007 list. Most shoegazer stuff he's done is on there (“Blind and Faithless"). Thought the remixes were crap.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Hope he releases some heavier stuff next time. I think he's taken the shoegaze as far as he can.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll post the next one once Glenn has done his stats stuff. (thanks again glenn for doing this)
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked the Moonspell album a lot. I think since Sentenced disbanded, Moonspell have been the kings of that kind of gothic/death metal. As with Jesu, 6 votes: one high, one low, four in the middle.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
To recap the stats for #s 50-31 (Rank - Points - Votes - Artist - Album):
48 - 50 - 4 - Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled48 - 50 - 3 - Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood47 - 52 - 5 - Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth45 - 54 - 4 - Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness45 - 54 - 4 - Withered - Folie Circulaire43 - 55 - 4 - Metallica - Death Magnetic43 - 55 - 6 - Unearthly Trance - Electrocution42 - 59 - 4 - Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony41 - 60 - 4 - Disfear - Live the Storm40 - 61 - 4 - Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It39 - 62 - 5 - Darkspace - III38 - 63 - 6 - Intronaut - Prehistoricisms37 - 66 - 5 - Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth36 - 68 - 6 - Genghis Tron - Board Up the House35 - 70 - 5 - Witch - Paralyzed34 - 71 - 3 - Hammers of Misfortune - Fields/Church of Broken Glass33 - 72 - 6 - Ascend - Ample Fire Within32 - 78 - 6 - Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect31 - 81 - 6 - Moonspell - Night Eternal
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks Glenn!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link
30http://www.stonerrock.com/store/images/covers/ath-5299.jpgThe Gates of Slumber - Conqueror (Profoundlore) 83 points
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 06:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I forgot to mention when posting the Blood Ceremony album that it got 1 number 1 vote.Glenn what other albums got a no1 vote that were outside the top 50?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 07:31 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^that was by me I believe
― Pescetarian Reich (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 08:04 (fifteen years ago) link
29 (tied)http://www.stonerrock.com/store/images/covers/ath-5589.jpgEarthless - Live at Roadburn (Tee Pee) 88 Points
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
29 (Tied)http://www.stonerrock.com/store/images/covers/ath-5177.jpgUFOmammut - Idolum (Supernatural Cat) 88 points
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Here are the albums outside the top 49 that got a #1 vote (Rank - Points - Votes - Artist - Album):
50 - 48 - 3 - Zebulon Pike - Intransience63 - 39 - 3 - Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness74 - 33 - 2 - Samothrace - Lifes Trade76 - 32 - 2 - Equilibrium - Sagas78 - 31 - 2 - Pyramids - Pyramids89 - 27 - 2 - In This Moment - The Dream91 - 25 - 1 - Gevolt - Sidur91 - 25 - 1 - Mar De Grises - draining the waterheart
In This Moment was mine.91 - 25 - 1 - Rose Tattoo - Blood Brothers
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Disfear at no42 got a no1 vote I think
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
it did.
i just had a feeling that would be the disc i listened to the most over the next five years. which isn't the only criteria, just the only argument one way or the other for the three or four picks that could have been my number one.
― mte, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I totally would have voted for Sex Vid had I heard it before voting ended. Oh well.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
That will teach you to not keep up with the rolling metal thread. Bear that in mind for 2009!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Sex Vid's not even metal though!
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
dont you start!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
48 - 50 - 4 - Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled
wha... why?
― HELPING CHILDREN THROUGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
or you! ;)
Did you vote btw?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I like that Gates of Slumber album - real metal cover included.And the Ascend cd, that I bought under Pfunk Boy instigation, is excellent.
― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
xp: i didn't vote, sorry. just didn't really hear enough to feel like it was worth bothering. might've moved blood ceremony up another fraction of a point, i guess...
― HELPING CHILDREN THROUGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Marco,I am glad you enjoyed it. I really do think it's the best thing Greg has done in a while(and I do like recent sunn 0))) stuff) The Gates Of Slumber album is really good too.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
The next 2 albums are tied. I will post one now and keep the suspense going on the other until I've finished my dinner.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
27 (tied)http://www.seventhrule.com/store/wetnurse/invisiblecity.jpgWetnurse - Invisible City (Seventh Rule Recordings) 89 points
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Great, great album, which I would never have heard if J0hn hadn't been hyping it incessantly in Rolling Metal 2008.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
27 (Tied)http://www.stonerrock.com/store/images/covers/ath-5333.jpgMoss - Sub Templum (Rise Above) 89 Points
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought the Moss album was a good step up from Cthonic Rites. I think Olly said elsewhere there was new material coming soon. I'm looking forward to that immensely. No doubt it will be crushing doom as ever and for that I say Huzzah!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I was DJing at a best of 2008 night a couple of weeks ago and I played 'Stigma' by UFOmammut and it literally made someone shit their pants on the dancefloor.
― Doran, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Sure that wasn't the Guinness?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Well it was the first Saturday after NYE, so perhaps there were a few loose stomachs in the joint.
As luck would have it one or two regular ILX posters were there and can back me up.
It was horrible really.
― Doran, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Was it one of them?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
It was horrible really.― Doran
― Doran
would expect so
― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
25The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (Sub Pop) 98 Points (1 Number One Vote.)
Having spent nearly a year dissecting Saturnalia, I'm ready to declare this the best album either Dulli or Lanegan has been involved with since the Afghan Whigs' swan song in 1998. It's not "metal" by a long shot (many albums on this list are not "metal" in a strict sense, mind) – it is, however, dark, aggressive, haunting and intense in equal measure. The album kicks off with a rock solid 1-2-3 punch, then unravels into a brooding, downtrodden set of gothic-folk tunes with Lanegan nearly stealing the show before Dulli picks up the pace by album's end. These two musicians have shared career parallels and a personal friendship over the past 15 years, and I'm amazed they took so long to record an album together… but my Lord, was it ever worth the wait. All said, it's a solid, memorable set of tunes from two musicians who have continually raised the bar for themselves since the Whigs and Trees were put out to pasture. ---- ilxor
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
http://991.com/newGallery/The-Gutter-Twins-Saturnalia-430003.jpg
24http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/1/5/1/215198.jpgOcean - Pantheon of the Lesser (Important Records) 100 Points
Kicks the shit out of all the indie I listened to in 2008. I Am reborn! I am REFORMED! ---- ilxor
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
23http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jNDkoLw8L._SL500_AA240_.jpgAmon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (Metal Blade) 109 Points (1 Number One Vote)
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link