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

Both Wetnurse and Hammers Of Misfortune are great.

Onimo> hows the listening of the albums coming? (or indeed anyone else doing the same?)

a hoy hoy > how is the hip hop poll coming? Post the url on the trax poll as everyone is reading it for the results today and ppl are complaining about the lack of rap in it. So I think you will find you get lots more noms! Go for it!

i dunno. i think it's just not gonna happen. if there was more enthusiasm before i went back to school, it would have been great but i think starting it so late was the problem. next year maybe :)

i'm starting to really get into some of these records though. i have listened to the harvey milk/torche/boris a couple times and like them a lot. still not sure about the jesu/earth i got, and still haven't listened to the wetnurse. That's from my initial handful i grabbed anyway.

one thing i noticed - and like my crazy thing about covers - none of it seemed as heavy as i thought it would be. nothing seems remotely close my cliched idea of just STUPIDLY HUGE RIFFS + SCREAMING/SHOUTING etc. as metal and my reasonable knowledge of heavier and sludgier indie/punk/etc. doesn't seem that far away. So whereas I thought I'd be diving into an ocean I knew nothing about, I already had my feet in the water. Cheers anyway.

none of it seemed as heavy as i thought it would be. nothing seems remotely close my cliched idea of just STUPIDLY HUGE RIFFS + SCREAMING/SHOUTING etc. as metal and my reasonable knowledge of heavier and sludgier indie/punk/etc.

LISTEN TO THE WETNURSE

Onimo> hows the listening of the albums coming?

So far from the final 100 I think I've heard

Harvey Milk
Earth
Gojira
Cynic
Marnie Stern
Opeth
Torche
Meshuggah
Boris
Sunn 0)))
Grails

Maybe a couple of others I can't remember. Can't see me ever being more than an occasional metal listener but I'm enjoying working my way through and I'll no doubt find a few things that'll merit repeat listening.

Favourites so far?

In no particular order: Cynic, Opeth, Earth, Boris, Sunn 0)))

Sunn0))) and Boris weren't new to me, the others were.

Were the Harvey Milk vocals too much for you?

Though I think they fit the music.

a hoy hoy, wetnurse is a good mention. also, try out the belphegor.

it's been added to my ever growing list of things i'll eventually get around to listening too. :)

So far from the final 100 I think I've heard

Harvey Milk
Earth
Gojira
Cynic
Marnie Stern
Opeth
Torche
Meshuggah
Boris
Sunn 0)))
Grails

Maybe a couple of others I can't remember. Can't see me ever being more than an occasional metal listener but I'm enjoying working my way through and I'll no doubt find a few things that'll merit repeat listening.

This is really similar to my short list of stuff I've heard, also. You owe it to yourself to check out the Melvins album and also the Nachtmystium, both are great and pretty accessible and interesting for us "occasional" metal listeners.

second to recommendableness of nachtmystium to non-super-metal folks. esp anyone with like for epic, vaguely psych-proggy rock musics

lots of psych

At high volumes it's a kind of druggy, disoriented psych that for some reason works REALLY well with what they're doing on this record.

I really like the vocals on it

Who all voted in the main ILX Albums poll as well as this one? I wonder how the albums from here will place (if any)

Anyone?

hahaha

I did. Nine of the ones I voted for here made it on to my general ballot.

I voted for Boris, Earth, Melvins here and in the regular poll also.

Should have voted Gutter Twins, but wasn't nominated...

It was!

Oh, it was?

Fuck.

Oh well.

yeah but as a self-titled as I messed up the nomination hehe

I forgot to vote for it though.
I'll post my ilx list here since noones likely to have ventured over to this thread (even tho i did post it in the original voting thread)

Ranked albums:

Torche - Meanderthal
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Dear Up The Hill
Portishead - Third
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Bug, The - London Zoo
Lau Nau - Nukkuu
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
Woods Family Creeps - Woods Family Creeps
Growing - All The Way
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled (Gnarled Forest)
James Blackshaw - Litany Of Echoes
Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness
Goslings - Occasion
Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
Melvins - Nude With Boots
Sunn 0))) - Domkirke
Cave - Hunt Like Devil

9 from my metal list. Didn't realise I had voted nearly half "metal".

I voted in the general poll, too. Would have filed my real 10-metal/10-non-metal ballot, but I missed nominating one of my non-metal choices, and my 11th metal choice was available, so 11 and 9...

Will you be doing stats comparing ilx album poll and metal poll?

We might find out tomorrow if any albums from this poll makes ILX albums poll.
Last year High On Fire and Jesu cracked the top 50, Om was 31 and Alcest was no 26!

Boris at no 50!

Nothing else so far :(

ok youre still on this

Er--on what planet is Marnie Stern even remotely metal?

on planet shred.

Enough metal people liked it enough to vote for it. So what's the problem?

Portishead would've got plenty of votes too if it had been in(I drew the line at allowing thm nominated though as I know some people would vote for it and nothing else.) Geoff barrow loves his doom/psych/stoner/drone and has a record label devoted to it! I know a lot of metal folks into them. Some metalheads are open minded you know.
Infact most of the aphex twin and squarepusher fans I know are metalheads.

okay, so aphex twin and squarepusher should also be in the METAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR POLL, clearly.

hah, that's not what I said.

I only heard a bit of 'Worship Me Or Die' or whatever that Marnie album is called, but the bit I heard could have reasonably been deemed Van Halen dickwaving if you didn't know who was waving it, so it's legit imo

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i still just plain dont get the love for marnie stern, metal or not. shit just sounds awful to me.

the lex was in agreement with you jj

noooooooooooooo

that was his reaction to finding out about 2 girls one cup

Earth at no 33!!

If Stern is in the running for best metal something-or-other then yeah, Aphex Twin for best ELP impressionist. I mean, they both use synths, so clearly...

loooooooool @ Herman's enthusiasm on the other thread. If only people did that with every album, I'd have an actual idea of what half those records are. Personally, I get the Earth disc, it's nice and all, but there just seems... I dunno, something lacking. I think i'll go back to it but as 'nice' is all i can come up with, I think i'll only be going back because i can't actually afford to go buy lots of records.

The one Marnie Stern thing I heard made her sound like a Sylvia Juncosa for the 00's.

ouch.