ILX EOY Metal Poll 2015 Nominations & Discussion Thread. ALL welcome to participate whether you are into metal or not!

No, because if a poll is gonna restart from zero, then previously existing ballots should be eligible for a do-over.

well, I dunno what has happened to that other poll but afaik its still gonna have the results once the pollrunners busy life has been sorted out.

This is the end of year poll and you and everyone who voted in the extreme poll are welcome to take part as well as anyone else on ilx.

So uh

Absconditus - Katabasis
Adversarial - Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of Nihilism
Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
Blaze of Perdition - Near Death Revelations
Bloodway - Mapping the Moment With the Logic of Dreams
Crypt Sermon - Out of the Garden
Embrional - The Devil Inside
Howls of Ebb - The Marrow Veil
Snail - Feral
Tribulation - Children of the Night
Tyranny - Aeons in Tectonic Interment
Undergang - Døden læger alle sår

Kauan - Sorni Nai
Fluisteraars - Luwte
Grift - Syner
Nechochewn - Heart of Akamon
Sivyj Yar - Burial Shrouds
Spectral Lore - Gnosis
Vattnet Viskar - Settler
Au-dessus - Au-dessus

Magic Circle - Journey Blind
Golden Void - Berkana
Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence
Ufomammut - Ecate
Sunder - Sunder
Snail - Feral
Jess And The Ancient Ones - Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes
Valkyrie - Shadows
Horisont - Odyssey
Roundtable - Dread Marches Under Bloodied Regalia
Mirror - Mirror
Komara - Komara
Witchskull - The Vast Electric Dark
Demon Eye - Tempora Infernalia
Northwinds - Eternal Winter
Vidunder - Oracles & Prophets
Mondo Drag - Mondo Drag
Black Trip - Shadowline
Weedpecker - II
The Sword - High Country
Demon Head - Ride The Wilderness
Lucifer - Lucifer I
Devil Worshipper - Devil Worshipper
Monolord - V
Pentagram - Curious Volume
Holy Serpent - Holy Serpent
Night Demon - Curse Of The Damned
Disenchanter - Strange Creations
Lord Fist - Green Eyleen
Sorcerer - In The Shadow Of The Inverted Cross
Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
Flight - Flight
Saviours - Palace Of Vision
Shepherd - Stereolithic Riffalocalypse
Acid King - Middle Of Nowhere, Center Of Everywhere
Kylesa - Exhausting Fire
Dark Quarterer - Ithaca
Ironsword - None But The Brave
Satan - Atom By Atom
Enforcer - From Beyond
RAM - Svbversvm

why do i never find out about new jess and the ancient ones stuff until the end of year polling

Just this one, with a big thank you to Scott who mentioned it on the Deafheaven thread:

Echoes of the Moon - Entropy

Album of the year for me.

Jess & Ancient Ones isn't officially out 'til Dec. 5!

VHÖL – Deeper Than Sky
Huntress – Static
Dead Temple – Cult of Acid
Visigoth - The Revenant King

Kinda bummed I won't be hearing the new Kult Mogil until after voting's over.

If I add a list of things and some are repeats from above, will anyone other than Kerr be angry with me?

I will be fucking ENRAGED

DON'T YOU EVEN

Off the top of my head the only glaring omission I see so far is

Leviathan - Scar Sighted

Kind out metaled myself out earlier this month by listening to nothing but brutal death for like two straight weeks. Infusing myself with lots of Brahms and Schubert to regain equilibrium.

Imperial Triumphant - Abyssal Gods
Clouds Taste Satanic - Your Doom Has Come
Mastery - Valis
Triosphere - The Heart of the Matter

ALL welcome to participate whether you are into metal or not!

what does this mean btw. how would i participate if i haven't listened to any of these records and have no desire to.

Well, you could check out some of our many and varied nominations, maybe something would appeal. Or maybe he's just inviting you guys in to pad the Liturgy vote, who knows.

Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere
Kronos - Arisen New Era
Black Breath -Slaves Beyond Death
Barren Earth --On Lonely Towers

what GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ said.
Apparently its an ilx tradition to catch up on the year by listening to nominated albums and voting on the ones you like, just like the big eoy poll.

You can even listen to the collaborative spotify playlist that everyone should subscribe to (and add their nominations)
https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/2fZQglorvuVBQalU6J0L9K
spotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:2fZQglorvuVBQalU6J0L9K

Forgot this one:

Cloud Rat - Qliphoth

noones gone for the horrendous or dhg albums yet. waiting for imago?

Quttinirpaaq - Dead September
Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus
Pinkish Black - Bottom of the Morning
Ecstatic Vision - Sonic Praise

I haven't exactly cleaved to a scrupulous conception of 'metal' so far in my nominations, but do you folks mind if I nominate Destruction Unit?

Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega

there it is

listening to the Pinkish Black btw, it's cool :)

A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See
Arcturus - Arcturian
Ad Nauseum - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
Encenathrakh - Encenathrakh
Momentum - The Freak is Alive
Erraunt - The Portent
Minsk - The Crash and the Draw
Mutoid Man - Bleeder
byssion - Luonnon harmonia ja vihreä liekki
Dystopia Nå! - Dweller on the Threshold
Shroud of the Heretic - Unorthodox Equilibrium
Dispirit - Separation
Todesstoß - Hirngemeer
Maïeutiste - Maïeutiste
Nameless Coyote - Blood Moon
Hivelords - Tapered Limbs of a Human Star
Ævangelist - Enthrall to the Void of Bliss
Beaten to Death - Unplugged
Genevieve - Escapism
Fluisteraars - Luwte
Petrychor - Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Awe - Providentia
Bränd Jord - Ont Krut

Most of my faves were already nominated so uh, well done gents

I've seen elsewhere people saying 2015 is one of the worst years for metal ever, do people really think like that? Or are they just fans of mainstream metal ignoring the underground?

they're just lazy

ultros, what do you especially recommend from your list?

I think 2015 is one of the best years of metal in quite a while!

…and oh, I do have a nomination that probably nobody else will think about

Lychgate - An Antidote To The Glass Pill

;-)

Pissgrave - Suicide Euphoria
Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat

I've seen elsewhere people saying 2015 is one of the worst years for metal ever, do people really think like that? Or are they just fans of mainstream metal ignoring the underground?

― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, November 24, 2015 11:11 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're just lazy

ultros, what do you especially recommend from your list?

― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, November 24, 2015 11:12 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is some real RYM bullshit. this year really sucks!

whiney, much as the napalm death is amazing, it's already been nominated

oh fuck wait it hasn't sorry

i got this thread confused with the decibel eoy list

Tau Cross - Tau Cross
Refused - Freedom

'Luonnon harmonia ja vihreä liekki' is by Abyssion not byssion ffs. They're like a rawer Oranssi Pazuzu in any case.

I'd recommend Nameless Coyote - Blood Moon because it's gotten pretty much ignored everywhere, though I can hear why, it's way too weird for the normal blackgaze crowd. It ain't Deafheaven that's for sure. Anyone who likes Mamaleek and/or Pyramids should give it a go though.

Genevieve - Escapism is a great example of the dissonant warped post-BaN sort of thing, and Awe - Providentia is in many ways very much an "orthodox" bm record but it's very good for it and doesn't sound like a lesser Deathspell like a lot of these bands tend to. I kept forgetting to bring it up in the rolling metal thread.

This has been a really strong year for metal. Just like every other year.

MC Dälek told me after the London gig yesterday that Blut Aus Nord had proposed a collaboration a few years ago, but hadn't turned up to their Paris show, or rather had sent a friend instead that might have been him, and was generally just too weird. Pity coz that'd have been amazing

I've seen elsewhere people saying 2015 is one of the worst years for metal ever, do people really think like that? Or are they just fans of mainstream metal ignoring the underground?

― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, November 24, 2015 11:11 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're just lazy

ultros, what do you especially recommend from your list?

― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Tuesday, November 24, 2015 11:12 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is some real RYM bullshit. this year really sucks!

― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten),

why do you think it sucks compared to recent years?

<offtopic>imago, do Dalek have a new album in the works? It's been a while.</offtopic>

He's nostalgic for the nu metal of his youth.

Yeah, early next year, a 6-track EP on Profound Lore </notactuallyofftopictheneh>

also the dude recommended me the King Woman EP which is some sweet doom, might nominate it

Cepheide - Respire
Kjeld - Skym
Regnmoln - Regnmoln
Taiga - Gaia
Vanum - Realm of Sacrifice

because my top 4 is not nominated yet

Noisem - Blossoming Decay
Vastum - Hole Below
Abyss - Heretical Anatomy
Blind Idiot God - Before Ever After

I've seen elsewhere people saying 2015 is one of the worst years for metal ever, do people really think like that? Or are they just fans of mainstream metal ignoring the underground?

I'm always behind and buying shit from one or two years ago, but I feel like there's been some great stuff this year.

also the dude recommended me the King Woman EP which is some sweet doom

Yeah, that's a great EP! Their Dove/Fond Affections tape EP is also worth checking out.

Oh and adding

Stellar Master Elite - III: Eternalism - The Psychospherical Chapter

All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker
Big Brave - Au De La
Dark Buddha Rising - Inversum
Dead To A Dying World - Litany
Exxasens - Back to Earth
The Great Tyrant - The Trouble With Being Born
Grusom - Grusom
Hills - Frid
KEN Mode - Success
Kowloon Walled City - Grievances
Nightslug - Loathe
Ommadon - Empathy For the Wicked
Sabbath Assembly - Sabbath Assembly
Sacri Monti - Sacri Monti
Satan - Atom By Atom
Shooting Guns/Hawkeyes - Brotherhood of the Nod split
Sweat Lodge - Talismana
Unmothered- UMBRA
Wailin Storms - One Foot in the Flesh Grave
Watertank - Destination Unknown
We Hunt Buffalo - Living Ghosts
Wo Fat - Live Juju: Wo Fat at Freak Valley

*gives

Hanging Garden - Blackout Whiteout

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/hanging_garden/blackout_whiteout/

Metal Storm - Forthcoming Releases
http://www.metalstorm.net/events/new_releases.php?upcoming=1

Suggestion, If there is anything on the december listings that interests you, stick it on the nominations

like this for example

Monolithe - Epsilon aurigae
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/monolithe/epsilon_aurigae/

Special Providence - Essence of Change

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/special_providence/essence_of_change/

Alustrium - A Tunnel to Eden

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/alustrium/a_tunnel_to_eden/

Öxxö Xööx - Nämïdäë

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/oxxo_xoox/namidae/

Sans Soleil - A Holy Land Beneath A Godless Sky

It came out December 30, 2014 but it deserves to be on here. I'm voting for it.

Caligula's Horse - Bloom

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/caligulas_horse/bloom/

Artrosis - Odi et Amo

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/artrosis/odi_et_amo/

Regarde les hommes tomber - Exile

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/regarde_les_hommes_tomber/exile_f1/

I dont want to postpone the poll until january as guys like phil have said they feel burnt out by then and dont vote and that is why i changed the dates a year or 2 ago to accommodate them.There's a way to accommodate everyone: Have a long deadline. People who want to get their ballots in early can do so. Those who prefer to wait can do so. Worst case here is someone submits a ballot and is jonesing for a while for results to be published but is someone really going to get upset about that?

Kingcrow - Eidos

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/kingcrow/eidos/

its entirely up to seandalai but the big EOY poll will open for noms etc and people concentrate on that whereas just now they are a bit more open to checking out the metal poll when its run earlier

but with the holidays coming up noone ever votes in that period. so that means we need an extra week for when people start work again as almost everybody leaves it to the last minute (and claims they didnt know it was time up)

Windfaerer - Tenebrosum

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/windfaerer/tenebrosum/

djmartian we dont need the rym links can you not just dump all your noms in one big post so that its easy to C+P please? seandalai is sorting out the forms n stuff and im fed up importing stuff every 2 mins :)

ive also got a stinking sore head i cant get rid of

I'd prefer to have voting close by Christmas because after that I'll be working on the main ILM poll.

Ok, Do you want me to do a summary recap of the last hour?

its ok, I got them thanks.

Worst case here is someone submits a ballot and is jonesing for a while for results to be published but is someone really going to get upset about that?

One more at the mo

INI - If Nothing Is

Phil and others, if you are reading, are you OK with moving the closing date to january? The voting will still open right away and you can vote (with option to resubmit later if you need to change)

Anyone against moving?

Whatever's clever - always just happy someone puts forth the effort.

re: Nominations will be open until Saturday morning December 5th

is the nominations closing time December 5th 11:59am GMT UK time?

tbh it should be over NOW. but it all depends on when seandalai does the voting forms. could be now could be in the morning.

There shouldnt be an important albums left to nominate

Can you leave it till my time suggestion, please? Also gives Americans some slack with time zones.

Whatever's clever - always just happy someone puts forth the effort.

OTM

Chaos Divine - Colliding Skies
Dekadent - Veritas
Earthside - A Dream in Static
Indesinence - III
Izah - Sistere
Perihelion - Zeng
The Arcane Order - Cult of None
Vola - Inmazes

btw if people want anyone to check out their nominations then they should be adding those albums to this
https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/2fZQglorvuVBQalU6J0L9K
spotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:2fZQglorvuVBQalU6J0L9K

just noticed this

I'd prefer to have voting close by Christmas because after that I'll be working on the main ILM poll.

― a cruet of destiny (seandalai),

So that's that.

Going to open voting now but if there's anything important to be nominated I can add it to the noms list.

~~~ ILM METAL POLL 2015 - ALBUMS - VOTING & CAMPAIGN THREAD~~~ (VOTING ENDS Saturday December 12th 11.59pm UK time/6.59pm EST) ALL ILXORS inc LURKERS WELCOME

sorry Cultes des Ghoules - Rise of Lucifer EP

CS, Arenna - Given to Emptiness is listed twice in the spreadsheet.

please add to nominations list,

InAeona - Force Rise the Sun

Fit For An Autopsy - Absolute Hope Absolute Hell

added/removed.

thanks guys