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

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

I'm not above some self-promotion so please check out Kult of the Wizard.

ok, shall nominate

King Woman - Doubt

Church - Unanswered Hymns
Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
Deathhammer -Evil Power
Unleashed- Dawn of the Nine
Gruesome -Savage Land

Are you guys trolling smithy by not nominating the Horrendous? It wont suddenly make him join us and nominate it, but nice try ;)

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.

Looks like whiney is the only one here who thinks 2015 sucks for metal then

I found it pretty mediocre, but I also find myself moving further and further away from anything that could be considered even mainstream extreme metal with each passing year.

I attempted to cross-reference this list with what is already above. Sorry for any duplicates.

Put in alphabetical order in an attempt to make someone's life easier.

Abigail Williams - The Accuser
The Agonist - Eye of Providence
Ahab - The Boats of the Glen Carrig
Akhlys - The Dreaming I
All That Remains - The Order of Things
Annihilator - Suicide Society
Antigama - The Insolent
Archgoat - The Apocalyptic Triumphator
Archivist - Archivist
Armored Saint - Win Hands Down
The Atomic Bitchwax - Gravitron
August Burns Red - Found in Far Away Places
Author & Punisher - Melk en Honing
An Autumn for Crippled Children - The Long Goodbye
Barbatos - Straight Metal War
Battlecross - Rise to Power
Between the Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic
Black Sheep Wall - I'm Going to Kill Myself
The Black Dahlia Murder - Abysmal
Black Tide - Chasing Shadows
Blessthefall - To Those Left Behind
The Body - The Tears of Job
The Body & Krieg - The Body & Krieg
Boris - Asia
Bullet for My Valentine - Venom
Byzantine - To Release Is to Resolve
Caïna - Setter of Unseen Snares
Caspian - Dust and Disquiet
Children of Bodom - I Worship Chaos
Clandestine Blaze - New Golgotha Rising
Clutch - Psychic Warfare
Coliseum - Anxiety's Kiss
Corsair - One Eyed Horse
The Crown - Death Is Not Dead
Death Karma - The History of Death & Burial Rituals Part I
Dew-Scented - Intermination
Die Krupps - V - Metal Machine Music
Disarmonia Mundi - Cold Inferno
Disturbed - Immortalized
Dog Fashion Disco - Ad Nauseam
Dopethrone - Hochelaga
Draconian - Sovran
Enshine - Singularity
Envy - Atheist's Cornea
Extreme Noise Terror - Extreme Noise Terror
Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Fear Factory - Genexus
Finsterforst - Mach dich frei
Five Finger Death Punch - Got Your Six
Fuck the Facts - Desire Will Rot
Fuzz - II
Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie
Gnaw Their Tongues - Abyss of Longing Throats
Gorgoroth - Instinctus Bestialis
Gorod - A Maze of Recycled Creeds
Graveworm - Ascending Hate
Hacavitz - Darkness Beyond
Hate - Crusade: Zero
Hate Eternal - Infernus
Helloween - My God-Given Right
Hooded Menace - Darkness Drips Forth
Horna - Hengen tulet
Horrendous - Anareta
Ilsa - The Felon's Claw
Indian Handcrafts - Creeps
Intronaut - The Direction of Last Things
iwrestledabearonce - Hail Mary
Jungle Rot - Order Shall Prevail
Karyn Crisis' Gospel of the Witches - Salem's Wounds
Kataklysm - Of Ghosts and Gods
Keep of Kalessin - Epistemology
Khors - Night Falls Onto the Fronts of Ours
Killing Joke - Pylon
Korpiklaani - Noita
Krisiun - Forged in Fury
Lamb of God - VII: Sturm und Drang
Leaves' Eyes - King of Kings
Leprous - The Congregation
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
Lord Dying - Poisoned Altars
Lustre - Blossom
Malevolent Creation - Dead Man's Path
Manilla Road - The Blessed Curse
Marduk - Frontschwein
Maruta - Remain Dystopian
Melechesh - Enki
METZ - II
Monster Magnet - Cobras and Fire (The Mastermind Redux)
Morgoth - Ungod
Motörhead - Bad Magic
Mustasch - Testosterone
My Dying Bride - Feel the Misery
Negură Bunget - Tău
Nightrage - The Puritan
Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
Peste Noire - La Chaise-Dyable
Pitbulls in the Nursery - Equanimity
Poison Idea - Confuse & Conquer
Praying Mantis - Legacy
Prong - Songs From the Black Hole
Pro-Pain - Voice of Rebellion
Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
Psycroptic - Psycroptic
Pyogenesis - A Century in the Curse of Time
Raven - ExtermiNation
Revenge - Behold.Total.Rejection
Rivers of Nihil - Monarchy
Rosetta - Quintessential Ephemera
Rotting Christ - Lucifer Over Athens
Sadist - Hyaena
Saxon - Battering Ram
Sigh - Graveward
Sirenia - The Seventh Life Path
Skeletal Remains - Condemned to Misery
Skinless - Only the Ruthless Remain
Slayer - Repentless
Soilwork - The Ride Majestic
Solefald - World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud
Soulfly - Archangel
Speedtrap - Straight Shooter
Stormwitch - Season of the Witch
Subterranean Masquerade - The Great Bazaar
Tank - Valley of Tears
Tempel - The Moon Lit Our Path
TesseracT - Polaris
Theologian - Pain Of The Saints
Therapy? - Disquiet
Thou & The Body - You, Whom I Have Always Hated
Trivium - Silence in the Snow
Tsjuder - Antiliv
Veil of Maya - Matriarch
Venom - From the Very Depths
Viking - No Child Left Behind
Vreid - Sólverv
W.A.S.P. - Golgotha
Weedeater - Goliathan
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Xibalba - Tierra y libertad
Zombi - Shape Shift

If NYCNative is going to nominate Zombi then:

Mammatus - Sparkling Waters

yeah zombi is fine, been in it before and im gonna add the Chelsea Wolfe

I feel last year was pretty weak, I had trouble even filling up a top 10 with records that I really loved. This year is excellent so far.

I agree this year is considerably better than last year.

Missed this one:

Amiensus - Ascension

and

Sannhet - Revisionist

Oh and

Vehemence - Forward without Motion

if you like melodic death metal that doesn't Amon Amarth you to sleep.

<b>violet cold - desperate dreams</b>

<o><wat?>

[ b ]

Hope Drone - Cloak of Ash

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/hope_drone/cloak_of_ash/

Red Apollo - Altruist

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/red_apollo/altruist/

Deluge - Æther

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/deluge_f4/aether/

Dimesland - Psychogenic Atrophy
Saturnalia Temple - To The Other

Sundays & Cybele - Heaven

Oh yeah

Destruction Unit - Negative Feedback Resistor

Ice Dragon - A Beacon on the Barrow

Blood Folke - My Heart in the Brilliance of Fire

(Cool epic black/crusty stuff with a guitar+vocals/drums/viola line-up.)

Not to be a false-ass pedant, but I thought the Misthyrming and the Dimesland came out in very late 2014?

Nope, sorry, the Misthyrming came out in February. I think the Dimesland album was December of last year though.

Would the other Jute Gyte album from thus year be eligible? I wont nominate it bcz Ive never got into Autechre and therefore opted to skip it, but someone else could maybe

not eligible

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.

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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