~~~ End Of Year ILM Metal - Albums & Tracks Poll- Nominations 2014 (Ends friday11.59pm UK time Dec 5th) ~~~

Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII
Fluisteraars - Dromers
Khuda - Molasses Constricts the Clinostat
Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
Nadja - Queller
Woods of Desolation - As the Stars

Blue Pills are awesome. I need to get this album.

yes! i love it.

Abazagorath - The Satanic Verses
Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer
Abysmal Dawn - Obsolescence
Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius
Accept - Blind Rage
Anaal Nakhrath - Desideratum
Apostulum - Winds Of Disillusion
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
As Light Dies - The Love Album I
At The Gates - At War With Reality
Basarabian Hills - Groping In A Misty Spread
Belphegor - Conjuring The Dead
Benighted - Carnivore Sublime
Bergrizen - Scherbengericht
Blood Of Kingu - Dark Star On The Right
Body Count - Manslaughter
Cemetery Lust - Orgies Of Abomination
Countess - Ancient Lies And Battlecries
Darkspace - Dark Space III I
Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
The Deathtrip - Deep Drone Master
Decembre Noir - A Discouraged Believer
Deep Mountains - Lake Of Solace
Domains - Sinister Ceremonies
Doom:VS - Earthless
Drudkh / Winterfylleth - Thousands Of Moons Ago / The Gates (split)
Dub Buk - Цвях
Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
Ethereal Riffian - Aeonian
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
Forteresse/Chasse-Galerie/Monarque/Csejthe - Legendes (split)
Freedom Call - Beyond
Furia - Nocel
Ghost Bath - Funeral
Gluttony - Beyond The Veil Of Flesh
Goatpenis - Flesh Consumed In The Battlefield
Graveland - Ogień Przebudzenia
H.E.A.T - Tearing Down The Walls (or is this too AOR?)
The Haunted - Exit Wounds
Wælwulf - Heresiarch
Horrendous - Ecdysis
Horrified - Descent Into Putridity
Ifing - Against This Waeld
Illdisposed - With The Lost Souls On Our Side
Incantation - Dirges Of Elysium
Kampfar - Djevelmakt
Kanashimi/Happy Days - The Great Depression II (split)
Kauan - Muistumia
Kriegsmaschine - Enemy Of Man
Lethian Dreams - Red Silence Lodge
Mourning Dawn - Les Sacrifiés
My Useless Life - Negative Memories
Mysticum - Planet Satan
Nasheim - Solens Vemod
Neoheresy - Noc Która Dniem Się Stała
Nervosa - Victim Of Yourself
Nocturnal Depression/Myrd/Vspolokh - Longing For Death (split)
Old Soul / ██████ - Split
Old Wainds - Nordraum
Peste Noire / Diapsiquir - Rats Des Villes vs Rats Des Champs (split)
Pestilential Shadows - Ephemeral
Rigor Mortis - Slaves To The Grave
Rippikoulu - Ulvaja
Sabaton - Heroes
Saille - Eldritch
Saor - Aura
Schammasch - Contradiction
Shadow Sun - Грім в ковальні Бога (Thunder In God’s Forge)
Stryvigor - Forgotten By Ages
Taiga - Ashen Light
Tengger Cavalry - Ancient Call
Vader - Tibi Et Igni
Vainaja - Kadotetut
Vallenfyre - Splinters
Vanhelga - Längtan
Vardan - Enjoy Of Deep Sadness
Verlies - Le Domaine Des Hommes
Vintersorg - Naturbål
Vuyvr - Incinerated Gods
Waldgeflüster - Meine Fesseln
Whispered - Shogunate Macabre
Woman Is The Earth - Depths
Zgard - Contemplation

Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate
Is this metal?

I thought Swans would be the first to get that after the controversies the time it wasn't allowed then the time it was.

idk obv i defer to the community but when i heard this i thought metal

IDK, do we need a Swans clause? They're on most of the metal magazine polls this year.

we have around 157 albums/eps nominated.

well i believe they got included last time. if someone nominates it then it will be included.

I listened to a few Wovenhand tracks on youtube... hard to pin them down - They seem like metal, but then they also kinda seem like Dead Can Dance stuff. I'd let them in, they're spooky and heavy.

No I was genuinely surprised, I have a couple Wovenhand records and they're mostly acoustic country singer/songwriter-type stuff. If they've gone full-on metal, good on them.

I dont think they have gone full on metal but most of the people i know who love them are into metal, esp doom. The doomy vibe christian lyrics fits.
I'm all for allowing it , no one need vote for it if they dont want to.

Id certainly say it's something a metal fan might like.

purists dont vote anyway so who cares!

lol it's true...

I honestly would be surprised if Wovenhand got enough votes to get in.
Mordy why not start a youtube campaigning thread and post a vid or 2?

Remember to add your nominations folks to the Spotify playlist! spotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:57D8hoVdmqW88MQPHTKtZc

A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A Name
Cuscuta - The Wildness Within
Funeral Sutra - meditations
Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith

Petrychor - Makrokosmos

Solstafir - Otta

Floor - Oblation
Eyehategod - Eyehategod

Wasn't gonna nominate, only vote, but what the hell...

AEvangelist - Writhes in the Murk
Baring Teeth - Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins
Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
Cavalera Conspiracy - Pandemonium
Cretin - Stranger
Crown the Empire - The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways
Decapitated - Blood Mantra
Emmure - Eternal Enemies
Exmortus - Slave to the Sword
Incantation - Dirges of Elysium
Job for a Cowboy - Sun Eater
Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Enfant Terrible
Obituary - Inked in Blood
Opeth - Pale Communion
Ringworm - Hammer of the Witch
Torch Runner - Endless Nothing

Hedvig Mollestad Trio seem really good. Another that I will have to check out further.

Old Man Gloom - Ape Of God I
Old Man Gloom - Ape Of God II

Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
Cauldron Black Ram - Stalagmire
Crucifyre - Black Magic Fire
Dark Fortress - Venereal Dawn
Delain - The Human Contradiction
Devin Townsend Project - Sky Blue
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid: Dark Matters
Dir en Grey - Arche
Disentomb - Misery
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Flaming Tusk - Inquisitor
Hierophant - Peste
Inanimate Existence - A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement
Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis
Mongol - Chosen by Tengri
Morbus Chron - Sweven
Scientist - Scientist
Skull Fist - Chasing the Dream

ok I'll do it
Swans - To Be Kind

Columns - Please Explode
Electric Funeral - Total Funeral
Indian - From All Purity
Innsmouth - Consumed by Elder Sign
Lord Mantis - Death Mask
Nausea - Condemned to the System
P.L.F. - Ultimate Whirlwind of Incineration
Skelethal - Interstellar Knowledge of the Purple Entity
Teitanblood - Death
Thou - Heathen

Seven that Spells - The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: IO
Sungod - s/t
Sungod - Vision Space
The Cosmic Dead - Easterfaust
Comet Control - s/t

The only thing I'd add (so far) is

Overkill - White Devil Armory

I say "so far" because there's still I've not heard which I know I need to hear. Time is running out!

there's still stuff*

argh

Generation of Vipers - Coffin Wisdom
Black Bombaim - Far Out
Giant Squid - Minoans
Tweak Bird - Any Ol' Way
Brownout - Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath
Unconscious Collective - Pleistocene Moon
Wo Fat - The Conjuring
Vulgar Trade - Gross Century
Death Penalty - Death Penalty
The Body - I Shall Die Here
Taurus - No/Thing
Shooting Guns - Street Rock
Towers - II
Wizard Rifle - Here in the Deadlights
Bludded Head - Reign in Bludd

The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep

also, this is a comp of stuff released in very small numbers in the 70s but I think considered for 2014:

various artists - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles

Oh, that Abyssal was a 2013 release. (And it was awesome.)

Dragonforce - Maximum Overload

Not saying I'm gonna vote for it; just making sure it's represented.

Drunk Dad - Ripper Killer
Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica
Obliterations - Poison Everything
Occultation - Silence in the Ancestral House

i can think of a few who would vote for it

Grand Magus - Triumph and Power

Harakiri For The Sky - Aokigahara
Origin - Omnipresent

If those Sunn O))) collaborations count, then I think this counts:

Zvi - Zvi

Re Wovenhand, on one hand I feel it's crazytalk to include in a metal poll. There's folk and post-punk, but zero metal content. On the other hand, there is a darkness that appeals to metal fans. It is my #2 overall so far so I definitely recommend it, even if I won't vote for it. I also noticed several metalheads in the crowd when I saw Shellac this summer. I could see the latest by both groups doing well in Rock-A-Rolla's poll possibly.

Acheron - Kult Des Hasses
Decaying Purity - Malignant Resurrection of the Fallen Souls
Loudblast - Burial Ground
Sick/Tired - Dissolution

I dunno bout wovenhand. I love them but..

Boris - Noise
Epistasis - Light Through Dead Glass (EP)
Lantlos - Melting Sun
Opium Warlords - Taste My Sword Of Understanding

I did not listen to a ton of metal this year but here's the stuff I happened to like & took the time to seek out

Black Monolith - Passenger
Woods of Desolation - As the Stars
Swans - To be Kind (someone said swans counted!)
Boris - Noise

I also liked the latest mastodon album but I don't think they fit the criteria round here anymore

I can think of no reason to disallow Mastodon

boris, swans, woods of desolation already nominated. There's a spreadsheet to check nominations
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d8-3k-kVVhO2-0yA7OCWhN2c1jFTG4xxOlW0UH2GIXA/edit#gid=0

of course Mastodon count

whoops my bad

seems strange to nominate swans then say mastodon shouldnt count :)

It's great if you like loud guitars, plodding rhythms, dynamic heavy songs without words. I figure it fits in here better than anywhere else.
I'll see if there's anything else I can think of in the next 6 hrs or w/e.

right some more to add in:

Arcana Coelestia - Nomas
Archspire - The Lucid Collective
Black Crown Initiate - The Wreckage of Stars
Cormorant - Earth Diver
Dust Sculptures - Far Above the Pines
Epitimia - (Un)reality
Execration - Morbid Dimensions
Frozen Dawn - Those of the Cursed Light
Infestus - The Reflecting Void
Moanaa - Descent
Morowe - S
Mors Principium Est - Dawn of the 5th Era
Neurotech - Infra Versus Ultra
Opus of a Machine - Simulacra
Order of Isaz - Seven Years of Famine
PoiL - Brossaklitt
The Room Colored Charlatan - Primitives
Septicflesh - Titan
Singularity - Singularity
Teramaze - Esoteric Symbolism
The Austerity Program - Beyond Calculation
Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet

all the above are available on spotify, apart from these:

Dust Sculptures - Far Above the Pines
http://dustsculptures.bandcamp.com/album/far-above-the-pines
atmospheric black metal / blackgaze / post-rock from USA - Nashville, Tennessee

Moanaa - Descent
http://moanaa.bandcamp.com/album/descent
post-metal / atmospheric sludge metal from Poland

Opus of a Machine - Simulacra
https://opusofamachine.bandcamp.com/album/simulacra
modern progressive metal from Australia

others notes:

Epitimia - (Un)reality
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/epitimia/_un_reality/
From Russia
Genres Atmospheric Black Metal
Melodic Black Metal, Blackgaze, Avant-Garde Metal, Electronic
an album 1hr 52 long - one for the experimental-metal fans
ethereal female vocals
this is their 5th and best rated so far on rym, this is the first i have listened to.

Mors Principium Est - Dawn of the 5th Era
released today on spotify, from one of the contemporary leading bands within melodic death metal

PoiL - Brossaklitt
Brutal avant-prog
one of the very best experimental / avant rock releases of 2014, dynamic, intense, chaotic, expansive, heavy
also on bandcamp
http://poil.bandcamp.com/album/brossaklitt

Teramaze - Esoteric Symbolism
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/teramaze/esoteric_symbolism/
From Australia, their 4th - new band to me, their first album was released in 1995
not the normal sort of metal i listen to, progressive metal with some symphonic / power metal
excellent production, flowing yet technical sound, although the vocal style can be a bit trad for my liking

Yellow Eyes - The Desert Mourns

and another one

<b>Mournful Congregation - Concrescence Of The Sophia</b>

Phobocosm - Deprived: "weird," massive Canadian death metal. http://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deprived or https://play.spotify.com/album/7eqtKPcf4pceb0SSwMAzST

Rude - Soul Recall: phenomenal recreation of that Consuming Impulse/Leprosy sound. https://play.spotify.com/album/5UZNmxariiySiX9g5aOIFh

Tortorum - Katabasis: a less rockin', more engrossing kind of Watain thing. http://www.terrorizer.com/news/stream-tortorums-new-album-katabasis-full-terrorizer/ or https://play.spotify.com/album/4jk8m0NnGDJ6RI1MjI3rES

I have no idea what's going on with the text formatting there. Possibly all the links made everything screwy.

Black Veil Brides – Black Veil Brides
††† – †††
Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown
Issues - Issues
Motionless In White – Reincarnate
Suicide Silence – You Can’t Stop Me

first time listening to this Serpentine Path - Emanations and it's kinda dope. good find

Blaspherian - Upon the Throne... of Eternal Blasphemous Death
Gust - s/t
Just Before Dawn - The Aftermath
Krieg - Transient
Skelethal - Deathmanicvs Revelation
Today is the Day - Animal Mother

and maybe someone could actually vote for this, right?
Entombed A.D. - Back to the Front

oh good call on the TITD. thats in my list for sure.

seem to be lacking hamster friendly girlie power metal from japan

1 hour to go. form will go live at midnight so if any early birds want to start compiling their list go for it

i've got just a few more

Aramaic - The Fallen
Aras - Pest
Ferium - Reflections
Seal of Solomon - I the King

seem to be lacking hamster friendly girlie power metal from japan

yer not talking about me but I'll bite (and maybe actually listen to these too)

Cyntia - Limit Break
Albion - Campanula
Aldious - Dazed and Delight
Mary's Blood - Countdown to Evolution

is babymetal not hamster friendly girlie power metal from japan?

hamster friendly girlie power metal from japan for noobs

i actually hope it wins just to see the reaction

i dig mary's blood

maybe we can get babymetal in the big eoy poll top 10 if we form a voting bloc

You guys got most of mine. Here are a few people might've missed.

Amberian Dawn - Magic Forest
Monster Magnet - Milking the Stars
Amaranthe - Massive Addictive
Goatwhore - Constricting Rage of the Merciless
Trap Them - Blissfucker
Hark - Crystalline
Portrait - Crossroads
Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion
Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out
Sister Sin - Black Lotus

Oh yeah, and for fans of Blood Stain Child, here's the solo album from their former singer:

Season of Ghosts - The Human Paradox

Inconcessus Lux Lucis - Crux Lupus Corona EP
Inconcessus Lux Lucis - Disintegration: Psalms of Veneration for the Nefarious Elite

Forgot to bold because I'm a terrible person.

voting will start in 2 mins

nominations closed

Jucifer - District of Dystopia

tho i will add them to the spreadsheet for silly latecomers but be aware it wont be on the ilm thread and ppl may have already voted

~~~ ILM METAL POLL 2014 - ALBUMS - VOTING & CAMPAIGN THREAD~~~ (VOTING ENDS FRIDAY December 12th 11.59pm UK time/6.59pm EST) ALL ILXORS inc LURKERS WELCOME

No one nominated the Hellbeard EP this year... damn.. LOL!

I just voted... think there's still a couple hours?

add Necrophagia - WhiteWorm Cathedral i guess?

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ps thats on the list afaik

oh yeah jesus, i was so confused