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

#18 , 293 Points , 15 votes
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Slayer - World Painted Blood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFw9l_TFokU

The album artwork perfectly encapsulates what Slayer means in relevance to modern extreme metal in my world today
-J0hnD

You can't go wrong with Slayer - they've never made a bad record.

― unperson,

my prediction: it sounds EXACTLY like a Slayer album!

― scott seward,

I liked Christ Illusion quite a bit, but I have to say, World Painted Blood is better. The title track is the best thing I've heard from Slayer in quite a while.

― A. Begrand,

My track-by-track (p)review of the forthcoming Slayer album can be read here http://music.msn.com/superfans/heavy-metal/blog/slayer-s-world-painted-blood-track-by-track-review/. Short version: It's good.
-unperson,

Oh, and I agree with you, Phil, the Slayer is really good. Nice preview piece!

― A. Begrand,
God, Araya looks ancient. And Lombardo looks like Andy Garcia.

― Bill Magill,

Nice Slayer write-up Phil, makes me a lot more excited to hear it than I was.

― 3 mods 1 banhammer (jon /via/ chi 2.0),

So, I've finally heard Slayer - Oh yes!

I hope they don't clean it up too much . . .

― Doran,

The difference on the Slayer thing is that Psychopathy Red and that other track have both been released as singles, therefore are the finished product. I kind of wish they'd just release the rest of it all punky.

Well, like I said, I checked up on it and the whole promo is 'finished product', apparently.

― Thijs,

Unicorn chaser!

Kerry King's not going to be happy about this.

hahaha.

kinda want to hear this, kinda don't care too much anymore. I tuned out after this one:

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/Large/superd_2984565.jpg

He's too busy watching WWE dvds to care
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XkYKIv0Tig

IMO not as good as Christ Illusion.

#17 , 315 Points , 17 votes, One #1 vote

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Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul (Hydrahead)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKIl4KKcJ6w

New Khanate has leaked, for some reason I thought they'd broken up.

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo),

Khanate broke up in 2006. This new disc was recorded during the Capture & Release sessions; the band improvised a bunch of stuff in the studio, and then they waited three years for Alan Dubin to get around to recording vocals. Which is sort of why they broke up. (I was at James Plotkin's apartment on Friday interviewing him about something else, and this subject came up. I have not heard the new record, though.)

― unperson,

OK, listening to Clean Hands Go Foul now. It's fucking amazing. It may be Khanate's greatest achievement. The first track sounds like Fushitsusha, for fuck's sake. And the last track (which I haven't gotten to yet) is 33 minutes long!

― unperson,

The Khanate album is crushing and so much better than Capture & Release. top 10 album of 2009 for sure.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname),

Any thoughts on the Khanate? Giving it my first listen right now, sounding good to these ears.

― display names have been changed to protect the innocent (jon /via/ chi 2.0),

It's great, more people need to hear this. Those checking out Sunn 0))) should be checking this out too, even though it's completely different
-pfunkboy

Far too low.

Was that your #1 vote Aldo?

nah, i'd say it's about right.

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Khanate's is the highest-ranking album here that got no votes in the Pazz & Jop (although they did get one song-vote, at least).

Nah, my #1 was Big Business, loved that record. I would have expected Khanate to have come in about 10 places higher, as it's a blinding achievement. Mind you, potential votes split with Gnaw, Greymachine, Sunn and maybe Jodis? And Katatonia kind of showed returning legends don't necessarily get votes.

I reckon still to come we definitely have Sunn 0))), Mastodon, Baroness, Kylesa, Zu, YOB, Shrinebuilder and OM. Not sure apart from that, ISIS maybe?

I'm biased obviously, but I prefer this poll to P&J :)
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aldo that leaves room for another 8 guesses

I KNOW THAT

I'm now listening to the Kylesa record, very good, but not that far removed from the likes of Pissed Jeans. Not troo metal!

Anyone have thoughts on placings for Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, or Lamb of God? I have a feeling that one or more may not place at all...

Kylesa come from the same sorta background as Baroness

#16 , 334 Points , 17 votes , One #1 vote

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Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL4BkunJqes

In which I express my misgivings about the whole Shrinebuilder thing http://bit.ly/tmZIY (that name's becoming increasingly ironic, btw, given how many people are willing to fall to their knees without having heard a note of music)...

― unperson,

i think i like the Shrinebuilder disc even more tho.

― where u draw the liney, Whiney? (Ioannis),

I think I slightly prefer the new Shrinebuilder for not being quite as, I dunno, relentless.

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

kind of wish everyone in Shrinebuilder would ditch their current projects and go forth with that one.

― richie aprile (rockapads),
I second that.

― Chonus,

really? thought shrinebuilder was fine but nothing special

― call all destroyer,

That's pure insanity. Shrinebuilder are one of the few current metal bands who make tracks live up to their preposterously awesome song titles.

― Doran,

The Shrinebuilder album is good IMO, but I would take OM, Melvins or Hidden Hand (or any other Weinrich project) over it. Haven't heard any Neurosis.

I just want Wino to go back to Spirit Caravan.

Given who the members are, it was pretty easy to get excited about Shrinebuilder without hearing a note. I heard they only rehearsed for a day before recording the album, but it sounds pretty great to me. Nice show too.

What's left - probably YOB, Krallice, 3 Inches of Blood, Gates of Slumber, Converge, Slough Feg, Cobalt, Zu, Mastodon... Raise The Red Lantern probably didn't make it, I think probably not enough people heard it.

Hmmm. Eight of my top ten are yet to come. I had Coalesce at #9 and Shrinebuilder at #5.

Add Sunn O))) and Baroness to that list above.

it's up there with OM for me--could fully live well without the rest (except Neurosis, of course).

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7 of my top 10 have already placed. Obviously I love stuff other people just like, and vice versa.

everyone seems to have a different prediction, but i like that. Means the poll isn't too predictable!

Right, and OM and Kylesa. I didn't like the OM as much, and their live show suffered from switching the drummer. That leaves three more in question. Gwynbleidd? Wolf? Kreator?

assuming all those guesses are right..

Isis and WITTR.

you just never know... some of those albums predicted in the thread so far might make it.. or might not.. maybe there's other surprises? ...or not....

Yeah, Isis seemed to get a lot of love. I would love to see Wolf up there, but I don't remember a ton of people enthusing about it really, besides Phil.

I like Wolf too, but discovered it too late to put it on my list.

Plenty of stuff that's in the poll doesn't get much chat on the rolling metal thread fwiw. Hence the struggle for finding posts.

I'd be tickled to see the Wolf album make it - I'd place it higher on my ballot today because it is just such fun.

Anyone think the Bergraven album has a chance?

Re: Zu: great band, saw them do a fantastic show last year, but it would be quite something for a band without a guitar player to reach the top 15 in a metal poll...

It would be AWESOME.

I'd be incredibly surprised if Zu, Yob or Slough Feg didn't make it.

Zu have received a lot of love on non-metal threads, haven't they. I think they're a shoo-in.

but it would be quite something for a band without a guitar player to reach the top 15 in a metal poll...

and funnily enough.......

I'll tell you in 5 mins.

Ah well, can't really argue with the metal-ness of a baritone sax, right? Like I said, great band, *almost* voted for them.

#15 , 335 Points , 16 votes

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Om - God Is Good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXEQCZg4Nns

It's very good.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname),

the first side is pretty good, the new drummer doesn't sound too lightweight on it. something's changed about the vocals that i'm not sure i dig. second side feels a bit flaily and noodly at times, but "cremation ghat II" is some pretty awesome krautrocky dope.

wanna hear an om/jajouka collaboration.

― HURL CROCKERY AT THE MOSQUE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ),
with this and the new sunno))) i was kinda wary about the added instrumentation but upon listening i find it very pleasant to hear how these other sounds fit into the whole "eternal vibration" thing

― LEGOS by Atlas Sound (coming eventually, 2009 or 2010) (Future_Perfect),

been playing this all week... wasn't expecting from the new drummer after the last single, but this actually is pretty damn good.

One side long heavy piece in the vein of the previous records. The remaining tracks do show quite a bit of development, with some sitar-drones, flute and some variance in the rhythms.

Have changed my opinion of the new drummer, some of the fills, especially on the first track are pretty crazy..

― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack),

hmmm, well i really liked this album on first listen, though i don't have the energy or time to mount any sort of spirited defense of it right now. surprised how many people here didn't like it, though.

― moonship journey to baja,

btw ppl complaining about the production on this--are you sure you're playing it loud enough? i had to turn my stereo up a lot more than usual but i thought it sounded pretty gd great.

― don't blame pitchfork, blame america (call all destroyer),

yeah i played this super-loud in my car w/ the bass turned up to +5 (all the way) and the treble set to +2 and it was banging

― moonship journey to baja,

No baritone sax!!1!!!!!

decent album but one that doesn't really deserve this high a spot, imo.

speaking of production matters and things related to this poll, is it me or is world painted blood a really odd-sounding record, and not necessarily in a good way? some good songs, but I found it a bit thin and clattery. the bass is pretty much inaudible too.

The guy who produced the Slayer is doing the new High On Fire , right?

The production on WPB is one of the things I liked best about it.

Groovy bass playing isnt really what you're looking to Slayer for. Even Araya would admit that.

BTW, any thoughts on the production of World Painted Blood yet? I quite like it actually, but it's extremely small, dry and off-the-cuff, isn't it? I actually double checked with the distributor whether they'd sent me an unmastered promo or a rough mix or something. Especially because the production seems to vary from song to song. For instance, the already leaked track 'Psychopathy Red' seems to have a much bigger sound than a lot of the other songs. Regardless, it's a fine, lively and surprising album.

― Thijs, vrijdag 16 oktober 2009 20:54 (3 months ago) Bookmark