2015 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal(ish) Albums of the Year

it's more what they exclude

― roughest.contoured.silks (imago),

dude get over it, noone covers the wildhearts or devin townsend anymore its not just pitchfork

lol

i dont actually read pitchfork unless someone links to a review on facebook, but when looking for blurbs for the poll i came across a lot of reviews and I thought they were good reviews.

I dont think jonviachi posts here now but I do feel his frustration of no new best music tho (except for deafheaven)

They could even call it New Best Metal. Missing a trick I say!

Best Nu-Metal

there's no real "they" with that metal list. that's just brandon's list of his own favorite records

there are a bunch of equally detailed contributor lists on the next page too

sorry i got heated at pitchfork

ay it's totally cool to get heated at pitchfork

its an ilm sport

I don't know why I didn't spend more time with the Panopticon. It's really good.

told you!

Not sure how I missed both Lost Soul and Cradle of Filth making the list. An earlier comment I made was in light of that. Yet there they are at 113 and 105, now that I'm going over the results another time. I can rest easy now.

they missed the top 103 rollout though

just a few hot takes.

Zombi
Zombi can no longer be comfortable in being one of a very few acts doing what they do. They need to answer to recent newcomers to the 70's & 80s italo-prog film score 'thing' like Perturbator and Dance with the Dead, and even Goblin themselves have returned. They fail to measure up to the new kids. This album is too slow, and it has no teeth. Where's the grit, the sense of the ominous or dreadful? There's nothing in the music that conjures up fleeing from hordes of zombies, or outracing a death car or escaping from any sort of cannibal holocaust. Also, if I want to hear Neil Pert drumming -- Rush is still touring and making albums.

Iron Maiden
A few people like taking the piss out of the last song about zeppelin pirates or whatever the hell its about, but I thought it was amazing and some of the best prog-rock to come out in ages.

Leviathan's music is terrible and has always terrible. Not surprised (at the time, or still) it comes from a rapist/attempted murderer. A shame this guy hasn't been cast into outer darkness of shame or righteously executed. More evidence that the Portland metal scene is the morally void heroin den I thought it was. Clean up your dogshit, Portland -- ffs, run this guy outta town.

The whole top 20 is amazing, minus its starter High on Fire, which has always been a dud for me even though I am a fan of Matt Pike in general.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6786020/rush-drummer-neil-peart-retire

High on Fire was one of my favorite bands of the 00s, but for some reason I stopped liking tgem with Death is the Communion

A shame this guy hasn't been cast into outer darkness of shame or righteously executed. More evidence that the Portland metal scene is the morally void heroin den I thought it was. Clean up your dogshit, Portland

wtf

is Leviathan from/in Portland? i didn't think so.

He moved to Oregon recently, right?

maybe! would just be the first I'd heard of it. which of course doesn't mean it ain't true.

Leviathan's music is terrible and has always terrible. Not surprised (at the time, or still) it comes from a rapist/attempted murderer.

Have you ever heard of the term "libel"? Have you ever heard of the concept of "due process"? Can you point me to a shred of credible evidence to back up your claim that Wrest is a "rapist/attempted murderer"? (No, you can't.)

If you don't like his music or personality, that is your right, and feel free to blab about it all day. But it doesn't give you an excuse to make shit up about him and libel him (or anybody) in public.

haha yeah that definitely counts as libel lol

I'm not saying there's a snowball's chance in hell that anyone would attempt to charge Frobisher for libel, but posts on message boards can indeed be admitted to libel trials if necessary. And my larger point is that it's ignorant to make stuff up about people and then post this ignorance on the internet. It's part of what makes the internet such a pain in the ass to visit some days, and it isn't usually the type of behavior that is accepted on ILM (which is why I like ILM a lot compared to some of the other hideous message boards out there). I guess maybe I just need to stay off message boards for a while. Peace.

Oh yeah, and Frobisher is a rapist/attempted murderer. (How do you like it, buddy?)

Sorry for the negativity everyone. I just firmly believe that every "criminal" deserves a second chance. I'm obviously taking things way too seriously, though. And sorry to Frobisher, too. I'm sure you're a decent person, even if you say stupid shit online sometimes. I still stand by my point, but it probably didn't really need to get made the way I made it.

Any recent thoughts on 2015 albums? I can't get into the Baroness record too much, despite the adoration it's been getting in various places. The production is indeed weird. I wish they would've gone for a more Albini-type of stripped-down production, since the playing is so tight. In particular, the reverb on the cymbals just muddles the mix and buries the guitar sounds in places.

Any recently discovered lost gems?

I've mentioned it before, I think, but at metal-archives there's a "worthwhile albums of 2015" thread, updated almost daily, and it's where I learn about half the shit I post about here. I highly recommend browsing it from time to time:
http://www.metal-archives.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=108625

(The end of the thread especially is where the lesser known stuff pops up in a year-end scramble, so: work backwards!)

The more I listen to it, the more I think that if I'd heard the Batushka record early enough, it might have ended up at #1 on my list. Holy fuck.

Terrorizer Albums of 2015

50 Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages
49 With The Dead - With The Dead
48 Torche - Restarter
47 Solefad - World Metal Kosmpolis Sud
46 Ufommamut - Ecate
45 Undersmile - Anhedonia
44 Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
43 Mutoid Man - Bleeder
42 Therapy? - Disquiet
41 Ares Kingdom - The Unburial Dead
40 Arcturus - Arcturian
39 Gnaw Their Tongues - Abyss Of Longing Throats
38 Black Breath - Slaves Beyond Death
37 Poison Idea - Confuse and Conquer
36 Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper
35 Pissgrave - Suicide Euphoria
34 Enforcer - From Beyond
33 A Forest of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See
32 Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
31 Ken Mode - Success
30 Corrections House - How To Carry a Whip
29 Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
28 High On Fire - Luminiferous
27 Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
26 Revenge - Behold.Total.Rejection
25 Gruesome - Savage Land
24 Horrendous - Anareta
23 Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
22 Satan - Atom By Atom
21 Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
20 Ghost - Meliora
19 Cloud Rat - Qliphoth
18 Lucifer - Lucifer 1
17 Myrkur - M
16 Melechesh - Enki
15 Sigh - Graveward
14 Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors
13 Vhol - Deeper Than Sky
12 Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
11 Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
10 Goatsnake - Black Age Blues
9 My Dying Bride - Feel The Misery
8 Tau Cross - Tau Cross
7 Tribulation - The Children Of The Night
6 Mgla - Exercises In Futility
5 Clutch - Psychic Warfare
4 Baroness - Purple
3 Killing Joke - Pylon
2 Faith No More - Sol Invictus
1 Napalm Death - Apex Predator-Easy Meat

Time to go and vote for Glaciation, Krallice, Chelsea Wolfe and Envy

(you can vote for Ghost and Faith no More too but I'd rather not)

have you considered voting in the big poll? I think voting ends tomorrow night
ILM's 2015 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD

So has anyone discovered anything else from metal poll in the aftermath?

Not yet, Im still listening.

This never got past the nominations thread, but had I heard this in December it wouldve been top 5 of my ballot, holy shit Rwake's Xenoglossalgia

https://rwake.bandcamp.com/album/xenoglossalgia-the-last-stage-of-awareness

yeah i listened to that monumental closer on your recommendation - had some very cool passages from what i could tell, will def return to it. you know it's a remaster/reissue of an album from 17 years ago, right?

Yeah, an EP, Calibros/So Fucking Tired is new, I thought?, and takes over half of the album, so I figured it would count

(I swear imago that this was not a veiled attempt to get you to answer my post on the other thread though lol)

yes it was

You never said anything on the nominations thread did you, CS?

I don't believe so