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

yeah really. wont much matter since as far as i can see the album has only been released on limited run cassette, so not much chance of getting my hands on it?

its fucking insane though, the song i found on youtube was the one with the "la la la la" section in it and its really great and super legit creepy

ok john one of your faves is up next i think

if this is pearl jam you are getting stricken from the metal christmas card list

actually its not you, it was whiney i think.

and dj mencap and jess and colonel poo, so they can post here why they rated it so highly

#23 , 193 Points, 8 votes , Two #1 votes

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Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans

It's tighter, doomy almost. "Spent" is like Swans, if Gira lived in a milltown.

― bendy,

like "Hope For Men" tried to be emotionless. just this boring album about scrapbooking and jogging and shit. To wit:

"Mainly we just wanted to bludgeon the listener with dull, monotonous droning rock music that just sucks the energy out of you, the musical equivalent to watching a toilet flush.”

And now they have balls, and play like they give a shit, and are awesome. The end.

― kschoice (Whiney G. Weingarten),

this is awesome

― plax (I know, right?),

I'm digging this one way more than "hope for men", it's great.
"she is science fiction" is the jam. These guys are getting better with age!

― chad,

Just listened to it again after gorging on it for a review. I'm thinking it's my fav of the year now, displacing Future of the Left.

― bendy,

or to put it in terms whiney might better understand: think of it as "break stuff" for people who want to skip the middleman and get right to the self-abasement and self-disgust that's pooling under the i-hate-everybody attitude. with appropriate sonics to match.

― strongohulkingtonsghost,

posts taken from the pissed jeans thread.

I wrote some stuff about it here http://thequietus.com/articles/02527-pissed-jeans-king-of-jeans-album-review

See, I love that album but I didn't even think of voting for it in this poll. I guess its a very thin line separating early 90s style pigfuck from metal sometimes, but I just didn't associate those guys with metal at all.

hahaha glad that got straightened out, i would have been really confused since i dont really like pissed jeans much at all

some of your faves are bound to come john

feel free to start speculating on whats still to come

I think the next entry will shock people..

great band/album though..

i want slough feg to be in the top five, this better not be that

Wolf?

ok so wait if pissed jeans really now sounds like early 90's pigfuck i will give them another go, that isnt what i remembered them sounding like AT ALL

and bear in mind that initially it was stoner rockers that were into this band (in europe at least) before the band got labelled it and hated it and moved away from it.
xp

I'm honestly no expert on pigfuck, but I've heard Pissed Jeans mentioned as similar to that many times. And from what I have heard of pigfuck bands, there are similarities.

There's quite a run of great albums going on right now.

#22 , 205 Points , 10 votes , Two #1's

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Oneida - Rated O

don't even know where to start with Rated O, in a good way. i've listened maybe 5-7 times and can't find anything that isn't mind blowing about it

― I'M IN MIAMI, TRICK-OR-TREAT (Beatrix Kiddo),

OMG
am listening to 'rated o'

it is quite something

― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic),

It is feckin' brilliant.

― Doran,

okay, so i picked up Rated O the other day. holy shit this is great! by far by far BY FAR the best thing i've ever heard oneida do, like Each One Teach One made more and better longer louder crazier crazier world without end. on that note kinda funny how the MC who does vocals on the opening epic dub track even namechecks EOTO (each one a teacha waaaan).

surprised by the mixed reviews. i mean, if yr averse to epic length hammering on a single change (or chord!) this obviously isn't the band for you, but if yr at all interested in the space btwn heavy garage rock, noise & space/kraut hypnosis, this is the fucking GODHEAD. space ritual shit right here. three lps, each aesthetically/conceptually distinct, and all fucking fantastic. i even like "the human factor", which seems to be the sticking point/bellwether for folks who don't quite "get it". yeah, he's shrieking hoarsely for like five minutes, but it's kinda funny and the drumming is awesome.

SO glad i made time for this. instant top-of-the-heap album of the year contender, displacing a lot of potential favorites.

― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer),

Kid just emailed me the other day. He's sending me the triple vinyl. Stoked!

― Nate Carson,

Fucking great album

Don't recall Oneida having stoner rock attached to them at all as a thing but that doesn't mean it wasn't the case - I was really into 'Come On Everybody Let's Rock' (which I'll grant you is a red flag of a title, and also features a song about coke) when it came out (2001, 2002?) but didn't really have a handle of where they sprang from I don't think

trust me they did, it was because of that i bought their 1st or 2nd album. Kerrang definitely had them down as stoner rock for the album you mentioned.
Back when Kerrang was still decent pre-emo days.

Dudes! Off the rails! They're good albums an all, but this is indie rock!

#21 , 239 Points , 11 Points , One #1 vote

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Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars

I'm really liking the new Blut Aus Nord album. It is, as the Memoria Vetusta II title implies, a little more accessible than their last couple, but I kind of think that maybe (unlike with Deathspell Omega) they were closer to their personal strengths in that mode, and the combination of focus plus distance ("maturity"? experience?) sounds pretty good to me.

I've also been doing some remedial catalog-spelunking while things are still pretty quiet on the new-release front, and am really enjoying Ven Buens Ende's old album Written in Waters. A Black Metal Classic, I've been assured by the internet, but I had never heard of it until a few days ago. Excitingly strange, in no small part because it was done in 1995 before as many of the genre-tropes had been trope-ified.

― glenn mcdonald,

Switched over to the new blut aus nord instead. loving it on first listen. surprisingly melodic for a hypnotic, repetitive black metal album. (especially after that dissonance fest a couple years back.) plus, it swings.

― Alan N, Friday,

man, the blut aus nord is KILLER. I wish the longest track on it went on forever. and I found it on youtube! compressed as all hell but hey...

the melodic guitar leads on this are just fantastic. almost remind me of a more polished countess. work so well with the head-nodding drums.

and I've liked bits-and-pieces of what I've heard for blut aus nord before but I love this whole thing. well, maybe except for the generic black metal keyboard intro, but that's hardly offensive and kind of funny in a "how to make a black metal album" checklist kind of way.

― Alan N,

Wow, Blut Aus Nord has really found a perfect middle ground between their experimental side and raw black metal. Brilliant album..."Meditant" (Alan N is right) and "Disciple's Libration" really stand out, plenty of gorgeous melodies in there.

― A. Begrand,

from what I've heard of the new Blut Aus Nord, I am going to love this album for a long time.

― The Lost Boys Buff Guy Playing Sax (rockapads),

still loving that blut aus nord. anyone even mildly interested should check that one out, imo.

― picture me lolin' (Alan N),

Yeah, I like Oneida, but calling them (and Mount Eeerie) metal is pushing it. But then again, I voted for Amesoeurs, so what do I know?

so, I'm the only one voted blut aus nord at #1... :-/

also - wtf @ katatonia barely cracking the top 30!!!

Yeah, wow @ Oneida. I mean that was my overall fifth favorite album of the year, but no way was I voting for it here!

oneida are totally not metal but I think oneida dudes are in knyfe hits and they cover "running free" so oh well.

mind you, the album is first class

and I'll just say it again - the blut aus nord album is really special. check it out if you have any interest at all. masterpiece.

also - wtf @ katatonia barely cracking the top 30!!!

It kind of mirrors the album's sales. I was one of two people who gave it a Pazz & Jop vote, too.

Hey guys remember to go vote in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~FINALLY - 2009 ILX Albums 'n' Trax Poll voting thread ahoy~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ballots due TOMORROW)

I'll start the top 20 about midday prob, will try finish by midnight UK time so americans at work can see it.

Thanks again for all your hard work!

oh and since i didnt do it upthread, thx to glenn for all the work he put into this, esp considering i was a chump and didn't send in my ballot on time.

Glenn rules!
JJ can you change thread title to 20 (Final Day Of Poll Results) now?

Everyone reading feel free to have a guess at predicting what will make it as well as what you think of the poll and the albums in it so far.
Good conversation on the thread makes it all worthwhile especially if ilxors then discover stuff they may otherwise have missed.

The top 20 might have albums you will be surprised are in it, surprised at being lower than you thought, higher than you thought and maybe even something you expected to make it wont. Perhaps the order will surprise you.

It was very close btw so no runaway winner like last year.
So lets the predictions and suspense start now!

And finally for tonight

A recap of 100-21

100. Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressor
99. Tyr - By the Light of the Northern Star
98. Burnt by the Sun - Heart of Darkness
97. Masters of Reality - Pine/Cross Dover
96. Saviours - Accelerated Living
92. Them Crooked Vultures - S/T
Saros - Acrid Plains
Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
91. Revocation - Existence Is Futile
90. Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
88. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign
87. Anvil - This Is Thirteen
86. Vom - Primitive Arts
85. Altar of Plauges - White Tomb
84. 1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame
83. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
82. Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
81. Gnaw - This Face
80. Jodis - Secret House
78. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Crows Eat the Eyes From the Leviathan's Carcass
Behemoth - Evangelion
76. Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine - The Audacity of Hype
Dethklok - Dethalbum II
75. Black Boned Angel - Verdun
74. Megadeth - Endgame
73. SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells
72. Magrudergrind - S/T
71. Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
70. Eluveitie - Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
69. Voivod - Infini
68. Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire
67. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
66. Melvins - Chicken Switch
65. Hacride - Lazarus
64. Nadja and Black Boned Angel - S/T
63. Keelhaul - Triumphant Return to Obscurity
62. Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
61. Lifelover - Dekadens
60. Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans
59. Xasthur - All Reflections Drained
58. Bloody Panda - Summon
57. Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
56. Greymachine - Disconnected
55. Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis
54. Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga
53. Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy
52. Jesu - Infinity
51. Dysrhythmia - Psychic Maps
50. Part Chimp - Thriller
49. Pyramids With Nadja - S/T
48. Nadja - When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV
47. Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows
46. Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
45. Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
44. Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
43. Big Business - Mind the Drift
42. Portal - Swarth
41. Coalesce - Ox
40. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
39. Immortal - All Shall Fall
38. Marduk - Wormwood
37. Pelican - What We All Come to Need
36. Orthodox - Sentencia
35. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
34. Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
33. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
32. Drudkh - Microcosmos
31. Goatwhore - Carving Out the Eyes of God
30. Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick
29. Jesu - Opiate Sun
28. Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
27. Tombs - Winter Hours
26. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
25. Absu - Absu
24. Funeral Mist - Maranatha
23. Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
22. Oneida - Rated O
21. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars

Amesoeurs/Absu/Funeral Mist is my favorite run so far. Maranatha slipped a little ways down my list, in the end, but that was due to other greatnesses, not my getting sick of it at all. Amesoeurs I liked a few songs better than others. Blut Aus Nord I cooled on in the same way I did with their last album: the more attention I paid to it, the more samey it started sounding to me. Which is the opposite of what happens to me with Deathspell Omega, to whom Blut Aus Nord are often compared.

Sadly, most of the bands I personally care about have now gone by. But not quite all, and there's something very interesting waiting to happen with one of them...

But you guys will have to wait to find out who he means..

So, any thoughts about big hitters (as in mainstream-ish or long-term popular acts) yet to place? Slayer? Lamb Of God? Pearl Jam? Mastodon? We've already had Megadeth, of course...

― Neil S, Thursday, 21 January 2010 17:27 (Yesterday)

thinking mastodon will make top ten
lamb of god and slayer in top twenty

― D@n P3rry is the drummer on Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (jjjusten),

Join in the guesses. Will they all make it? Who will make the top 10? Any surprise omissions or placings?
You will find out friday...

Oh and anyone wanting to write blurbs? pm them to me.

you forgot to mention my deep hope that pearl jam eats shit in this poll xpost

Apparently I missed something re: Pearl Jam.

There's always gonna be disappointments for some people, john. (thanks for changing the title)

Who would you like to see in the top 20? (everyone can answer that)

I love that Pissed Jeans record, and I'm glad it posted high. In lieu of any new Jesus Lizard material (and I'm unsure if that would be a good thing anyway), its the best noise rock going IMO.

I'm going out on a limb - number one will be Converge.

I still think it will be Baroness or Sunn0)))) personally.