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

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 :)

I guess I wasn't sure if the past two mastodon albums were metal or more like hard rock, like queens of the Stone Age-ish (especially the hunter). then again as you said, swans latest albums aren't exactly traditional metal either and they def get love from metalheads.

tbf its still a hard rock/metal poll. Metal is a very broad church. Rolling Metal thread is hardly full of purists.

I'm somewhat surprised the Mastodon album hasn't featured in non-metal EOY lists like the last one. It's good enough and got good reviews inmost places.
Maybe metal isn't as in fashion as it was the past 5 years? Noticed a lack of metal and hip-hop this year in lists.

Has critical coverage started getting narrower?

I'm guessing it might be the token pick on a few forthcoming lists, although woods of desolation could take that honor as well, given its post-rock vibes, which ended up giving deafheaven the annual "metal album loved by non metal critics" designation last year

I expect Pallbearer to be the crossover hit, but I've been wrong more often than not.

mastodon's two late-aughts albums both ended up on multiple general albums lists with high rankings in several instances. skye was #3 in bloody time magazine!! and those are definitely full-stop metal albums.

flash forward to 2012 - the latest converge album was #1 on most metal/hard rock only lists and got me, before that point not a huge metal/hardcore guy aside from occasional mastodon dalliances - deep in love with that band and exploring a lot of really hard shit I wouldn't have previously explored. but it got little to no love from many general albums lists. and then the next year deafheaven is adored by tons of people who aren't traditionally into metal. it's impossible to predict

Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer
Lotus Thief - Rervm

Maybe we should change the title to Hard Rock & Metal Poll then?

I'll go ahead and include all my hard rock/stoner/occult/psych then, as they certainly won't get any attention in the main ILM poll other than Goat. That is, unless we take over... Also, there's more than enough active writers here who could make a big difference in the Pazz & Jop poll. It only took 6 votes to get some albums in the top 100! Ask to be included at pazzandjop at villagevoice.com, it might not be too late!

Glad someone acknowledges Dawnbringer. Can't believe no one's mentioned Slough Feg yet.

I second Mansion - Uncreation EP. At 36:32 it's as long as some full lengths, and they are progressing nicely. Full length due early next year. Also, everyone listen to Spiders, please.

Spiders - Shake Electric
Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
Castle - Under Siege
The Oath - The Oath
Serpent Venom - Of Things Seen And Unseen
Purson - In The Meantime EP
Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds
Ogre - The Last Neanderthal
Demon Eye - Leave The Light
Alunah - Awakening The Forest
The Well - Samsara
Hands Of Orlac - Figli Del Crepuscolo
Ovvl - Screech
Heat - Labyrinth
Satan's Satyrs - Die Screaming
Monolord - Empress Rising
Moab - Billow
Electric Citizen - Sateen
The Socks - The Socks
Greenleaf - Trails & Passes
Dwellers - Pagan Fruit
Lo-Pan - Colossus
Hessian - Bachelor Of Black Arts
Lé Betre - Melas
Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus - Spirit Knife
Spiral Shades - Hypnosis Sessions
Hornss - No Blood, No Sympathy
Black Trip - Goin' Under
Ice Dragon - Seeds From A Dying Garden
Cardinals Folly - Our Cult Continues!
Purple Hill Witch - Purple Hill Witch
Sigiriya - Darkness Died Today
Mars Red Sky - Stranded In Arcadia
John Garcia - John Garcia
Saturn - Ascending: Live In Space
Big Red Panda - Big Red Panda
John Gallow - Violet Dreams
Jess & The Ancient Ones - Castaneda EP
Holy Mountain - Ancient Astronauts
Lecherous Gaze - Zeta Reticuli Blues
Deep Space Destructors - III
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors
Hypnos - Hypnos
Kröwnn – Magnafröst
Fellwoods - Gyromancer EP
The Shrine - Bless Off
Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes
Valley Of The Sun - Electric Talons Of The Thunderhawk
House Of Lightning - Lightworker
Salem's Pot - Lurar ut dig på prárien
Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell - Check 'Em Before You Wreck 'Em
The Grand Astoria - La Belle Epoque
Aleph Null - Nocturnal
Season Of Arrows - Season Of Arrows
Below - Across The Dark River
Convent Guilt - Guns For Hire
Mortalicum - Tears From The Grave
The Order Of Israfel - Wisdom
Darkest Era - Severance
Pilgrim - II: Void Worship
Vestal Claret - The Cult Of Vestal Claret
Mount Salem - Endless
Slomatics - Estron
Mausoleum Gate - Mausoleum Gate
11 Paranoias - Stealing Fire From Heaven
Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha

An important nomination has been forgot.

The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage?

Woccon - Solace in Decay
Falls of Rauros - Believe In No Coming Shore
Aureole - Alunar
Sivyj Yar - From the Dead Villages' Darkness

<b>Auroch - Taman Shud </b>
<b>Atlas Moth - The Old Believer </b>
<b>Barghest - The Virtuous Purge </b>
<b>Wolvhammer - Clawing into Black Sun </b>

just realising how many profound lore releases i've loved this year.

Auroch - Taman Shud
Atlas Moth - The Old Believer
Barghest - The Virtuous Purge
Wolvhammer - Clawing into Black Sun

and here they are in bold.

the more the merrier. If people dont think theyre metal enough then they needn't vote. afaic these polls are to highlight stuff we like

I'm surprised i didn't nominate the slough feg. I would have remembered eventually.

Inter Arma - The Cavern
Revocation - Deathless
Wold - Postsocial

my nominations:

Aenaon - Extance
Anatomy of Habit - Ciphers + Axioms
Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
The Contortionist - Language
Downfall of Gaia - Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
Fen - Carrion Skies
Foscor - Those Horrors Wither
Ghost Brigade - IV – One With the Storm
Goatech - Exquisiteness
The Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LI
Helevorn - Compassion Forlorn
Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying Sun
Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron - Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery
Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
Nero di Marte - Derivae
Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
Novembers Doom - Bled White
Shihad - FVEY
Skyharbor - Guiding Lights
Voices - London
Winterfylleth - The Divination of Antiquity
Words of Farewell - The Black Wild Yonder

most of the above are on spotify apart from:

Downfall of Gaia - Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=107747
full album, but on spotify two tracks missing

Foscor - Those Horrors Wither
https://soundcloud.com/alone-records/sets/foscor-those-horrors-wither

Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron - Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery
http://lostubikystinapeiron.bandcamp.com/

Shihad - FVEY
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/40239/Listen-to-Shihads-brutal-new-album-FVEY-in-full
album only released by Warner New Zealand. no international / UK release yet.
Jaz Coleman produced

Wizard Rifle - Here In The Deadlights

Vorde - Vorde

I just saw a list that called itself "best heavy music of 2014".
I think that is what our poll is like

http://www.steelforbrains.com/post/103989943657/rb-best-of-2014

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

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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