!!!!!!!! ILX METAL ALBUMS of 2009 POLL RESULTS!!!!!! (FINAL RESULTS NOW IN! LISTENING TO THESE ALBUMS WILL MAKE YOU STRONGER FRAIL INTERNET PERSON!)

I actually just finally streamed the Revocation album from the Relapse site and was really sorry I didn't get to it sooner, it surely would have made it on to my list. Great to hear a young American metal band with such promise.

Im not a fan of death metal much but you guys at least make me want to check it out.

It's not death metal per se, lots of thrash, black, NWOAHM, even fusion and twang stuff on there. I only wish they would do away with the overblown modern drum sound, that's a bit too much for my liking really.

that drum triggering type of stuff?

Yup, especially the clockwork double kick is way too prominent in the mix. Not so prominent that it ruins the album tho, so yeah, do check it out.

Ok shall do since it's on spotify.

The next album goes out to all you canadians. A canadian metal institution, anyone want to guess who?

Sacrifice?

Actually I forgot to vote for Sacrifice.

no...

Voivod?

i dont think you actually voted for this album adrien.

#87, 53 Points, 4 votes

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Anvil - This Is Thirteen

Listening to the new Anvil album right now. It's...good! Much heavier than I thought it would be, almost reminds me of the Heaven and Hell disc in a way, and the vocals are almost Ian Gillan-esque. Note: this is my first experience with Anvil - haven't heard the back catalog, haven't seen the movie. So if anyone can tell me if this is a major change for them (if age has slowed them down) or if they were always sorta doomy classic/power metal?

― unperson,

I'm so glad those guys are finally getting paid.

― Nate Carson,

I take back what I said about Anvil upthread, I'll never trust a listen through shitty Borders headphones again.. the record is indeed pretty good. Not great, the lyrics are sometimes painful, but some of the tunes really hit me. "Thumb Hang" was on repeat for a bit last night.

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0),

Anvil this low?

(xpost - ha!)

http://purerockradio.org/requests/pictures/Anvil-This-Is-Thirteen.jpg
Perhaps a mod can replace the url that didn't work and add this one then remove this post?

Sheesh, hadn't seen the cover art for that one yet. Ouch.

thrash > Roberta from Spotify > thrash doesn't work. I'm still not paying for it though.

Listened to all of Týr and Municipal Waste so far and have thoroughly enjoyed it, despite having to play it at don't wake the kids volume. Anything droney on the list so far that I can check out?

That Anvil album is actually good. And they'd been putting out a lot of mediocre music as of late.

No drone yet but the Masters Of Reality is a good late night non heavy album.

thanks everyone for posting here and making this thread more fun than the vampire weekend thread!

Oh great. Lex baiting. Do you really wanna hear him explain how the lyrics on the Revocation album are terrible? :P

(Btw, great album. I'm sorry I didn't hear it in time to vote for it.)

None of my votes turned up yet, and from memory I'm not sure I've heard much, if any, of it. Some listening ahead, then.

I'm sure LJ will be along in a minute to say how it's not innovative or prog enough ;)

6 songs in and I'm not feeling Masters of Reality.

Suppose I should give Them Crooked Vultures a go. Their existence sort of passed me by until recently.

I like the masters of reality album, but its not as good as their 1st 5 granted, but then again i love the albums others dont so i guess I'm a fan.

Check out their first album Onimo.

The first two Masters of Reality albums are straight-through awesome. There is definitely some decline over time, but there are good tracks on the next couple at least. Haven't heard their latest, nor the Revocation album; will be rectifying that shortly.

#86,54 Points, 2 Voters ,1 #1
http://www.unrestprod.com/FRONTS/VOM%20Primitive%20Arts.jpg
Vom - Primitive Arts

Is that supposed to be #86?

I wonder if I decided to wait for vinyl. God i really need to catalog my records n cds so i know what i have. The days of having colour vinyl doubles are long gone for me.

Ahh bollocks ive managed to miss out 86

#85 , 54 Points, 3 votes

http://samorast.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/white-tomb2.jpg
Altar of Plauges - White Tomb

New Altar of Plagues on Profound Lore - metalgaze music from Ireland

Altar of Plagues
http://www.myspace.com/altarofplagues

nice epic production sound on the track: Earth as a Womb - starts Isis like but as the track unwinds it reminds me of the last Withered album with the hyper-speed backwards reverb meets Isis / Cult of Luna atmsospherics

ALTAR OF PLAGUES Completes Work On New Album
http://bit.ly/14mNw
Ireland's most promising extreme metal band since PRIMORDIAL, namely ALTAR OF PLAGUES, has completed work on its debut full-length album, "White Tomb".

...

The album's warm-edged sound and uncompromising production portray's the band's visceral wall-of-sound effect without falling into a typical synthetically triggered digital-sounding paradigm nor falling into a post-whatever sounding mess. Other elements such as KHANATE/BURNING WITCH-esque painful slow trudging doom also find their way into the mix, as "White Tomb" also features guest vocals from Nathan Misterek of the now-defunct doom gods GRAVES AT SEA, minimalistic electronica and haunting Cold Meat Industry industrial ambient, along with the towering apocalyptic vibes of OLD MAN GLOOM and old-school ISIS ("Mosquito Control"/"Celestial" era) layered with the instrumental textures that bands like MOGWAI and RED SPAROWES portray, "White Tomb" (mastered by Colin Marston of KRALLICE/BEHOLD… THE ARCTOPUS/DYSRHYTHMIA etc.) is a vicious and atmospheric pillage that orchestrates the collapse of Earth; a depiction of civilization (or what's left of it) in despair attempting to re-build a world destroyed and shattered by their own hands.

"White Tomb" will be released April 17 via Profound Lore Records.

― djmartian,

Funny, I just happen to be listening to this album. It does not disappoint...the aforementioned "Earth as a Womb" really blew me away. Actually, if anything it's more stylistically varied than I was expecting, and far more interesting than Cult of Luna, that's for sure. Love the production as well, epic like you said, but also quite warm.

― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:32 (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I need to get on Profound Lore's promo list. HINT HINT

― jon /via/ chi 2.0,

Sorry, but I just edit a full on stereotypical djmartian post. I JUST CAN'T YOU PLANKS!

I meant to buy this album but haven't yet I don't think, Im pretty sure I liked it a lot and intended to buy it. Oh well im skint and hardly bought anything for months. Not that ive been out lately due to being ill.

DJ Mencap calls this kinda stuff Wuss BM btw. Great term.

vom! whoa!

Another one I dont know and not something searchable on ilx!

I bought ^that from the label guy last week when he was having a Jan sale - it is pretty good on initial plays. Killing Joke basslines and 80s noize bleakness sort of thing. Not a metal album but hey. Clockcleaner are still the best modern example of gothpunknoize I know of but I'm down w/ this lot

also I don't recall coming up w/ wuss BM as a 'genre' name but it was probably not too serious if it was me - Altar of Plagues do have about as much uh post-metal in them from what I remember (and are good) so it's all gravy

*Whistles*

Keeping on the Altar of Plagues/wuss BM/kind of stuff djmartian c+p's press blurb for into this thread tip, I have 'Kold' by Solstafir on right now. This probly needs way more time to get involved with than I have to review it, which is a shame, but they do that Neurosis-with-blastbeats-and-then-some-quiet-tinkles thing pretty well it seems

― Peter Andre Test Tube Babies (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:57 (11 months ago)

#84 , 54 Points, 4 votes
http://dyingmusic.com/shop/images/1349%20-%20Revelations%20of%20the%20Black%20Flame.jpg
1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame

I'm at least tentatively in favor of the new 1349.

― glenn mcdonald,

Surprised to see how much Cosmo L33 didn't like that 1349 record, I have yet to hear it. But really, his negative descriptions made me want to hear it more than I did before!

― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0),

Well, that was pretty much the antithesis of a memorable quote from me about 1349, but I think RotBF is a pretty interesting album, and might come to be seen as 1349's Cold Lake for all the atmosphere instead of constant slamming. I think all bands should have at least one album that risk, at least a little bit, alienating all their existing fans.

Ha, I never did get around to checking out the full album. I heard a couple songs and decided that was probably enough for me.

lol that was the only talk about the album I could find, Glenn. The albums without quotes are because I can't find any. I need blurbs!

I didn't like the 1349 album much at all...the Floyd cover is terrible.

Someone asked earlier about albums that got a #1 vote but didn't make the top 100. There were only 3 of those, and all three got just the single vote. #s 50-100 have three more albums that got any #1s (1 each in all three cases). Vom, the lowest, is also the highest-ranking album with just 2 votes.

thinking i might have been the highest 1349 vote. I like it!

jj can you fix the album order cock up? vom should be 85 and altar of plagues 86

please?

i have to run out and eat steak and hang out w/dudes right now, but ill do it when i get home.

if i fail in this, feel free to harass me without guilt

akinator said you liked to hang out with dudes so i dont see how you can fail..

#83 , 58 Points, 4 votes

http://farbeyondmusic.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/obscura-1.jpg
Obscura - Cosmogenesis

This new Obscura album, Cosmogenesis, is ridiculously great. Total tech-death madness with two ex-members of Necrophagist and one ex-member of Pestilence. Ultra-complex riffing with jazz-fusion interludes (including some Cynic-style computer voice!) and really prominent fretless bass lines, including bass solos. It's like the best aspects of Necrophagist, Pestilence and Cynic all wadded up into one big ball of awesome.

― unperson,

"Cosmogenesis", the second full-length album from German death metallers OBSCURA, is available for streaming in its entirety at ObscuraCosmogenesis.com. The CD is being released in the U.S. today (February 17) via Relapse Records (March 2 internationally). The CD features guest appearances from Ron Jarzombek (WATCHTOWER, SPASTIC INK, BLOTTED SCIENCE) and Tymon Kruidenier (CYNIC, EXIVIOUS). "The new album sounds very intense and brutal", the band says in a statement.

Obscura - Cosmogenesis
http://www.obscuracosmogenesis.com/

― djmartian,

I think the Obscura is one of my surprise albums of the year so far. It has better songwriting than Necrophagist and some great fretless bass playing. I've had a few people compare it to Human-era Death so far, but I don't really think they're comparable. Two completely different beasts.

Picked it up on vinyl a few weeks ago when I was in Philadelphia. Cool packaging with a diecut sleeve inside and nice blue vinyl.

― S. Palmerston,