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

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

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/dc404mini.jpg
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

^^^^
seems about right. I also wondered if it was unmastered.

xp groovy bass? no. but some low-end presence would be nice.

#14 , 380 Points , 18 votes

http://elsercho.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/gates_edited-1.jpg
The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZSYHW8bZiA

Anyone else heard the new Gates of Slumber track on the Deciblog? The new record just might wind up being better than Conqueror if this song is any indication.

http://decibelmagazine.com/Content.aspx?ncid=323526

― A. Begrand,

I'm listening to it now! The really long one (http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=242424 ) is arguably the only 'doom' number on it - they couldn't be any more clear that they want to do straight up early 80s metal, albeit with the advantages of modern production. lol oh man there's a folky interlude type song with female vocals!

― Tim Krul ringmaster (DJ Mencap),

Is it sacrilege to say I think I now worship Karl Simon of Gates of Slumber more than Wino? Cause Hymns of Blood and Thunder is fucking owning my world right now, to such a degree that I don't even think I need the Shrinebuilder album to come out; this is my doom-biker-metal album of 2009.

― unperson,

So the new Gates of Slumber album is awfully impressive.

― A. Begrand,

Interesting review of The Gates Of Slumber - Hymns Of Blood and Thunder: http://decibelmagazine.com/Content.aspx?ncid=329277. I haven't heard it yet, so my question is, are they paying homage to More's (awesome) 1982 album, Blood & Thunder, or is it just a coincidence?

― Fastnbulbous,

No idea, but I can say that the album's every bit as good as that.

― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson),

i completely (well, almost completely) take back what i said about The Gates of Slumber above. wasn't really feeling it after the first couple of listens, tbh. but now, i kinda love it...and Conqueror too.

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

Had some trouble with Gates Of Slumber's Conqueror. Have now bought Hymns Of Blood And Thunder and yyyyeahhh this is more like it. Added NWOBHM feel suits me down to the ground.

― make love to a c.h.u.d. in the club (Jon Lewis),

I like this one much better than the last, but I'm not a big fan of the vocals. They're also so forward in the mix that I find it hard to ignore. The band otherwise is smokin' which made it hard for me to leave this off my ballot. But I did.

Funny how after that huge rave review, it barely made Decibel's top 25.

I don't think john justen is going to be happy with the next entry..

he hoped it would be top ten

#13 , 390 Points , 16 votes , Two #1 votes

http://indivision.ca/imageland//stored_originals/1140860.jpg
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH1j-TECdTc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eik8nGmzG6c

I forget to mention the latest Slough Feg - Ape Uprising is still getting major play.

― EZ Snappin,

slough feg isnt going to make any of these lists, are they. booooo.

― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten),

xpost I goddamn love Slough Feg, fuck a list.

― five minutes of iguana time (Jon Lewis),

I wish I had room to include Ape Uprising on my list. What an awesome CD.

― A. Begrand,

Slough Feg should make these lists.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname),

Love these guys live. Scalzi is a nut. The first time he stayed at my house, we geeked out about Erol Otus and early D&D art for hours.

Terrorizer interviewed Scalzi when Gary Gygax died. I thought that was highly appropriate and made sure to give him major kudos next time I saw him.

― Nate Carson,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough_Feg

I really like this record the couple of times I've listened to it, also one for the true metal brigade!

Great album! Should have been higher.

Am I the only one who thinks this is sub-par compared to for instance Atavism and Traveller? I like Slough Feg a lot, but this one was just not good enough to make my list. I would say it has something to do with the departure of John Cobbett, but then again I liked the previous album just fine.

Such a drop off in quality for OM and Khanate (even though it's an odds and sods). Neither of thes records deserve to stand next to Pilgramage or Things Viral.

Slayer on the other hand. If I could die naked on that unicorn in a state of arousal listening to Ditto Head I'd feel like I'd achieved something in life.

OK so GoS did not make top 10 but it has the most votes so far right

xp agree re: Om and esp Khanate (I think both of them might have made the lower reaches of my poll but that's because I didn't hear everything I'd've liked last year)

i am not tr00...boo hoo hoo.

Slough Feg has been the all-time favorite band of a good friend of mine. I liked what I heard, but was totally converted by the performance at the 2008 Alehorn of Power Metal Fest. I feel a little less disappointed that I was too young to see Iron Maiden and Judas Priest when they were playing in small clubs in the 70s now! Also saw them at last year's Alehorn fest, where Scalzi wore some freaky tribal body paint.

#12 , 401 Points, 17 votes , Three #1 votes

http://www.zombi.us/spiritanimal.jpg
Zombi - Spirit Animal (Relapse)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvj5ETfafNw

New Zombi album on Relapse is terrific. I think it's a lot better than their last album and quite possibly the best thing they have done.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname),

Anyone who says it's not metal can go fuck themselves :)

it's not metal

zing!

Okay dudes, listening to the whole of Ape Uprising! right now and fuck yes this is awesome. What albums should I check out next?

whoa - three #1 votes for zombi!

it is really good tho.

xps

i see a trend emerging.

I think I've just worked out how this board works. It only took five years.

I had assumed Zombi weren't going to appear tbh. Never expected it to place that high.

Dontcha just love an unpredictable poll?

Nice to see the least metal thing on here do so well.

I think Oneida is far less metal than Zombi.