!!! Under New Management !!! It's The ILM NON-ELITIST METAL ALBUMS POLL 2012 NOMINATIONS THREAD

I'd much rather list more -- like somebody else said above, more votes makes these polls more interesting, not less, and I've heard my favorite 30 albums this year way more than once -- but then again I'm not the one doing the tabulating. So I can live it.

15 or 20 then as anymore would dilute the quality imo. The poll is to decide this years favorite metal albums on ILM. I.e. voting for albums you already know and rate highly.

15 or 20 imo. 10 is too few. 20 seems like a good number, but it wouldn't kill me to do 15.

Well I voted in the Stonerhive list and I think a few other may have (Sean?)

Personally I think 10 votes is way too small but I guess this new era of metal polling has different purposes and I can understand that.

OK unless there is lots of complaints about wanting less I will go for min of 1 album max 20 votes.

No fuss no muss.

Sounds good to me!

thanks for taking this on NM. I like to think AG is looking down from heaven, a wry smile on his face. RIP big man!

LOL more like spinning in his grave!

Good call J3ff (multiple xposts):

Astra -The Black Chord

AG didn't die.. lol!!!

He lurks..

yeah he's still around, was just kidding.

Who shot the Algerian Goalkeeper? CLIFFHANGER

AG is most welcome to participate in nominations and voting but the rules are set.

You rock for doing this and I'm happy to participate with the rules as they stand.

PS - nice trolling "glumdalclitch."

Krallice - Years Past Matter
Bosse-de-Nage - III
Car Bomb - w^w^^w^w
Wizard Rifle - Speak Loud, Say Nothing
Dog Shredder - Brass Tactics EP

Is trolling normally a feature of metal poll?

1) Yes
2) They're real records
3) I think, from memory, the Wizard Rifle record is good enough to be nommed (though I might be thinking of someone else)

Was talking about the other dude

The Wizard Rifle record is great.

Sorry, I was only skimming this. I don't normally get involved in nomination threads.

So far, there are 247 album nominations which is a lot but do remember Nominations will close at 7pm EST on Friday, December 21st 2012 (that's midnight for the Britishes and 4pm for our friends on the left coast of the US). so if there are more albums you wish to add then you have only a few more days to do so.

Eagle Claw - Timing Of The Void

Not sure how I missed that one first time around.

Seandalai will be doing the counting up votes dealio (thank ye kindly) and has suggested, in his communications with the new management team, ending the voting period a week or so earlier in order to influence some late voters in the proper ILM poll into voting some metal from this list. One assumes that will be A-OK with the majority of y'all? It will mean voting will end on Friday January 4th 2013 with roll-out commencing on the Monday. With voting opening this weekend it will give everyone time before Christmas as well as a few days into the new year for the stragglers. With smaller ballots than the past I do not foresee any problems especially as your favorite albums will have formed over the year. I fail to see how an album heard in nominating period could be a favorite or best of the year like what AG insisted on in previous polls. As we stated earlier the point of the poll is to decide on the BEST hard rock/metal albums of 2012 not a list of every album released. A separate list thread could be started for that.
I couldn't start nominations earlier because I had not got a reply from AG initially as the web-mail went to his spam folder. Luckily he found it and got back to us. So thanks to AG for that.

sounds good.

Also anything that was released for the 1st time in the US in 2012 is eligible. So The Devil's Blood album xhuxx nominated is added and so will other US releases from 2012 if there are any, and of course get nominated.

I think the question in that case is – you're cool with something that placed on last year's poll placing in this one?

My answer would be if you don't want it in the poll then don't vote for it but those who do can. What if you didn't vote for something last year as it wasn't out in the US? Not everyone lives in Europe or illegally downloads. I don't know what won last year but its highly unlikely it falls under this category. xhuxx nominated an album and it's up to individuals whether they vote for it or other US 2012 releases or not.

Just FYI – 11. The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre (1,056 Points, 29 Votes, 3 #1s)

xhuxx can always withdraw his nomination but someone else will probably just nominate it.

I'll leave it up to you guys. It won't make my Top 20 anyway, so whatever you decide is fine. But I'm not sure why placing in two separate years would be a problem, if it got released in two different places and people therefore heard it for the first time in both years. (That's happened numerous times in Pazz & Jop, where literal release dates haven't even been a mandate since 1979 or 1980.)

xhuxk im fine with it and if its good enough for P&J its good enough for here.

Fair enough, just trying to ascertain what the new rules are.

Trying to keep rules to a minimum really. Voting will sort out any issues and I strongly believe the previous system of vetoes led to too many problems.

I listened to what the majority wanted and I believe this will make the poll work better.

guys, "New Management" has bravely stepped up to create the kind of "Metal" poll that everybody on the "Who Wants a Metal Poll" voted for except the people who voted for "No Metal Poll" wanted so you should probably cut "him" some slack and just enjoy the "Metal" poll that all you "Metal" fans want to vote for

Thank you

xp - Hear hear! I'm not gonna complain, metal is pretty much the only genre I pay attention to these days so the main EOY poll is not really something I get very excited about (but I do vote in it). I'd much rather have a metal poll that isn't exactly how I'd run it than have none at all.

Secrets of the Moon - Seven Bells
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Old Man Gloom - No
Unsane - Wreck
Necro Deathmort - The Colonial Script
JK Flesh - Posthuman

thanking you for nomming the Spawn of Possession and OMG records, loved both. have been literally working 13+ hour days at work this week so i'm not sure i'll have a chance to add before the deadline

Ash Borer - Cold of Ages
Horseback - Half Blood

I just got the Deiphago album I ordered from the States. I haven't listened to loads of metal this year, so I fidn voting in a poll like this a bit difficult... Can I vote for just one/two things pls?

1 album minimum, so go ahead.

I plan on voting, but maybe just for 10 albums, which are the 10 I listened to and liked, not like TOP TEN OF A ZILLION or w/e
Not even sure if I have 10? Either way, the ones I liked I liked a lot.

Just to be clear, the due date for ballots is Jan 11?
Voting must finish by January 11th

Voting will start this weekend. You may vote for anything between 1 & 20 albums. Voting will end Friday 11.59pm (UK time) January 11. Results -Monday 13th.

I will add albums from http://pitchfork.com/features/show-no-mercy/9021-the-top-40-metal-albums-of-2012/ that are not already nominated.

Anyone have full lists for Revolver or Terrorizer? Any other metal publications? Does Hit Parader still exist? Was there a Spin metal list?

Here's my favourites of the metal and metal-ish stuff I've reviewed or heard this year (that aren't already nominated). I'm probably missing something but anyway:

Dead Neanderthals - Jazzhammer/Stormannsgalskap
Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
Jodis - Black Curtain
Murder Construct - Results
On Pain Of Death - Year Naught Doom
Serpentine Path - Serpentine Path
Wölfbait - Wölfbait

Removed lostprophets due to the singers arrest as mentioned here can't believe ilx has no lostprophets thread

There was a spin list, actually. I am out so I don't have the link at hand, but should be fairly easy to find.

Also, sorry for being kind of a prat on this thread.

Can only find http://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/10-spin-highest-rated/2012/1 but will look further

2012 NON-ELITIST ILM METAL POLL VOTING THREAD (Closes Jan 11th 2013 11:59pm Britishes Time)