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

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