Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer Lotus Thief - Rervm
― auto focus, Sunday, 30 November 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
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 ElectricSlough Feg - Digital ResistanceCastle - Under SiegeThe Oath - The OathSerpent Venom - Of Things Seen And UnseenPurson - In The Meantime EPApostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And WoundsOgre - The Last NeanderthalDemon Eye - Leave The LightAlunah - Awakening The ForestThe Well - SamsaraHands Of Orlac - Figli Del CrepuscoloOvvl - ScreechHeat - LabyrinthSatan's Satyrs - Die ScreamingMonolord - Empress RisingMoab - BillowElectric Citizen - SateenThe Socks - The SocksGreenleaf - Trails & PassesDwellers - Pagan FruitLo-Pan - ColossusHessian - Bachelor Of Black ArtsLé Betre - MelasJeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus - Spirit KnifeSpiral Shades - Hypnosis SessionsHornss - No Blood, No SympathyBlack Trip - Goin' UnderIce Dragon - Seeds From A Dying GardenCardinals Folly - Our Cult Continues!Purple Hill Witch - Purple Hill WitchSigiriya - Darkness Died TodayMars Red Sky - Stranded In ArcadiaJohn Garcia - John GarciaSaturn - Ascending: Live In SpaceBig Red Panda - Big Red PandaJohn Gallow - Violet DreamsJess & The Ancient Ones - Castaneda EPHoly Mountain - Ancient AstronautsLecherous Gaze - Zeta Reticuli BluesDeep Space Destructors - IIIHelms Alee - Sleepwalking SailorsHypnos - HypnosKröwnn – MagnafröstFellwoods - Gyromancer EPThe Shrine - Bless OffBlood Farmers - Headless EyesValley Of The Sun - Electric Talons Of The ThunderhawkHouse Of Lightning - LightworkerSalem's Pot - Lurar ut dig på prárienAdmiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell - Check 'Em Before You Wreck 'EmThe Grand Astoria - La Belle EpoqueAleph Null - NocturnalSeason Of Arrows - Season Of ArrowsBelow - Across The Dark RiverConvent Guilt - Guns For HireMortalicum - Tears From The GraveThe Order Of Israfel - WisdomDarkest Era - SeverancePilgrim - II: Void WorshipVestal Claret - The Cult Of Vestal ClaretMount Salem - EndlessSlomatics - EstronMausoleum Gate - Mausoleum Gate11 Paranoias - Stealing Fire From HeavenHorseback - Piedmont Apocrypha
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 30 November 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
An important nomination has been forgot.
The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage?
― jmm, Sunday, 30 November 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
Woccon - Solace in Decay Falls of Rauros - Believe In No Coming Shore Aureole - Alunar Sivyj Yar - From the Dead Villages' Darkness
― auto focus, Sunday, 30 November 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
<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.
― auto focus, Sunday, 30 November 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
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
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 30 November 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
I'm surprised i didn't nominate the slough feg. I would have remembered eventually.
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 30 November 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Inter Arma - The Cavern Revocation - Deathless Wold - Postsocial
― auto focus, Sunday, 30 November 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
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 - ExquisitenessThe Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LI Helevorn - Compassion Forlorn Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying SunLost 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=107747full 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-fullalbum only released by Warner New Zealand. no international / UK release yet.Jaz Coleman produced
― djmartian, Sunday, 30 November 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
Wizard Rifle - Here In The Deadlights
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 30 November 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
Vorde - Vorde
― auto focus, Sunday, 30 November 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
I just saw a list that called itself "best heavy music of 2014".I think that is what our poll is like
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 30 November 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
http://www.steelforbrains.com/post/103989943657/rb-best-of-2014
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 30 November 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that's a good site.
If the hope for a 1991 or 1984 music history repeat is what keeps you pushing play, though, then disappoint will likely top your EOTY list every damn time.
There were some important albums those years, but I think 2014 is more fun and diverse. I have no complaints about the amount of good music this year.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 30 November 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
I thought it was a year with a ton of decent records but few great ones. Certainly less than the last several years.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 30 November 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
Is the Steel for Brains podcast still happening? I was enjoying them.
― jmm, Sunday, 30 November 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
Yeah. We just had life force us both to take a break. Plan is to record a new one this week.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 30 November 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
And thanks! I'm glad you enjoy it.
missed this thread yesterday ... two things:
1. lol at arguing Wovenhand and Mastodon's metal status within the same space. no shade at anyone, just, y'know ... that's pretty funny.
2. no way Woods of Desolation is the token metal pick this year. just not enough momentum behind it, plus it came out in January. and not with Pallbearer, Mastodon and, to a lesser extent, Triptykon and At The Gates albums available for those slots. i wish i thought we'd see a mini-Deafheaven-style surge for WoD but it ain't gonna happen.
― alpine static, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
I'd have pegged Agalloch for the Deafheaven slot, but I'm not sure anyone's still listening to that album.
― jmm, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
As The Stars just isn't good enough, and their choice for a much rougher sound also doesn't help their crossover appeal. Torn Beyond Reason would've been huge if it were released this year.
― Siegbran, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
I love As The Stars and think it's as good or better than Sunbather (yes, I like Sunbather), but I haven't heard Torn Beyond Reason. I should remedy that...
― alpine static, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
OMG this Spectral Lore.
Also, the Blut Aus Nord is surprisingly different from the last one but is really nice.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 December 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
Wait, Spectral Lore turned into U2 for a minute.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 December 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link
2014 is probably one of the best years for metal I've ever known, though I've got a preference for experimental/proggy/shoegazey stuff rather than 'metal' metal though. Y'know what I mean.
At the start of the year I thought I was pretty much done with metal and then I kept hearing crazy shit and well, here we are. It's weird that the older I get the more metal black metal I listen to. idgi.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 1 December 2014 02:49 (nine years ago) link
I never got U2 vibes from Spectral Lore I must admit
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 1 December 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
It was just that break in "Cold March". Album is mostly awesome so far.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 December 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
Also, I may have been listening from the next room at that point.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 December 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
Bastard Feast - Osculum InfameBaptists - BloodminesCode Orange - I Am KingCouch Slut - My Life as a WomanIdylls - Prayer for TerreneForeseen HKI - Helsinki Savagery Krokofant - KrokofantOozing Wound - Earth SuckSecret Cutter - "Self Titled"Trioscapes - Digital Dream SequenceVampire - VampireYautja - Songs of Descent
― anonanon, Monday, 1 December 2014 08:13 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure we allowed Wind's Poem by Mount Eerie a couple of years ago. If that fits a BM definition then Wovenhand is surely ok.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 1 December 2014 08:38 (nine years ago) link
It's weird that the older I get the more metal black metal I listen to. idgi.― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 1 December 2014 02:49 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkp
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same
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 December 2014 10:39 (nine years ago) link
I got big into it once i passed 30 and once I passed 40 it hasnt changed
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, 30 was when it started clicking for me too. Seems to be the norm here!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
Looking back, I guess it was more 28/29.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
tbh it was the nazi association stuff that put me off investigating. It was much easier to find who was and wasnt than it was at the time
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
Just the one nom from me, it came out very recently and is great
Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Serpentine Path - Emanations
― original bgm, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
i'm 27 & enjoy some black/extreme/etc. metal as well as classic thrash like slayer but am OCCASIONALLY put off by the real dirge-y stuff or make snap judgments to not easily pursue bands/albums with names & titles that sound like third-rate lovecraft.
so what y'all are saying is in 3 years i'll be like "this shit is absolutely the move"?
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
*not readily pursue
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
many xposts to whoever mentioned this agalloch record: i quite like it thus far.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
The Agalloch is excellent but maybe not quite as good as the previous 2. Not far off it mind you. Agalloch never do anything less than excellent imo. Ashes Against The Grain is quite bloody marvellous and , for me, up there with any metal album of the last 20 year,
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 December 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
xpost to talk of this years crossover hit - -Yob make the rolling stone top 50 albums of the year. I was a bit disappointed with this years Agalloch album after Marrow of the Spirit.
― auto focus, Monday, 1 December 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
i think the band were bemused with that. It certainly was a pure wtf moment
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
2 days left to nominate
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 11:22 (nine years ago) link
erm 3 days left
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 11:23 (nine years ago) link
Interesting, I got into black metal at around 30 too. That was 2000. However by the end of the decade I got sick of it and mostly stopped, except for an occasional Enslaved and Darkthrone album. Yr 30s perhaps you encounter some truths that are far more horrifying than your 20s angst, but by 40 you're ready to leave it behind ;)
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
I'm 30 now, and I'm definitely much less interested in black metal than I was three years ago. A big part of that is that I'm bored with harsh vocals. I want to hear powerful and expressive sung vocals.
― jmm, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
Yes but there's only so many Sabaton records you can listen to before you crave some good oldfashioned throat-tearing roars.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
it works both ways as people get fed up with screaming/singing and seek out the opposite
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link