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

#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.

Very good album, but no, not metal.

#11 , 405 Points , 22 votes

http://www.phantomcityrecords.net/store/images/wolves-cascade.jpg
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ibBdXJ3Jg

whoa, didn't realize their was a new wolves in the throne room LP coming out so soon. psyched.

― Alan N,

The Wolves in the Throne Room is as good as you'd expect, as usual the songs really take off during the extended passages after the vocals. Pretty much on top of their game, but I'm already thinking I prefer the previous two albums, there was a little more diversity to them.

― A. Begrand,

"Crystal Ammunition" is where the WITTR album really starts to get great, in my opinion. Pity it's the last track. Good stuff overall, though.

― A. Begrand,

Wolves in the Throne Room is an American ambient black metal band based in Olympia, Washington. Their sound is influenced by Scandinavian black metal, doom metal, dark ambient, and folk music.[

Folk? Is this worth checking out?

― Mordy, Monday,

I have a pretty low tolerance for black metal on my most open-minded days, and I really don't hear WITTR doing enough to separate themselves from the pack (no pun intended). Other folks here (and loads of critics) like them a hell of a lot more than I do, apparently. I also interviewed one of 'em once and found him to be pretty insufferable.

― unperson,

new wolves in the throne room ep and album are great, some great ambient drone sections. Are they on their own in what they do? or can anyone reccomend similar artists to this part time metaller (other than the obvious burzum/southern lord etc)

― straightola,

the wolves in the throne room album from this year will be in my top 10 for sure.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname),

i blame pfunkboy.

Ended up #16 in mine, Zombi was #5.

i blame you anyway. (still haven't had a chance to listen to it.)

Haha, funnily enough, Black Cascade was my #11 too!

I think Oneida is far less metal than Zombi.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0)

I don't really care for either!

Stuff that was on my list that I'm pretty sure isn't going to show up at this point - Cattle Decapitation, Between the Buried and Me, Novembers Doom.

Stuff on my list I wrote off pretty much before the results were tabulated: Crimfall, Manatees, Monkey3, Loan, Disappearer. Stuff I thought would place but would surprise me now: Wolf, Bergraven.

Predictions for top 10?

I don't think anyone has mentioned the next one yet..

Avenger?

Clutch? I'd be surpirsed.

I can spell usually.

intersting ;)

#10 , 412 Points , 22 votes

http://stereogum.com/img/krallice-dimensional-album-art.jpg
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough (Profound Lore)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2yz6JW-2hg

i never pay attention to metal lyrics but the quality of the vocals matters a lot to me--timbre, timing, style, and just generally fitting in well with the music. a lot of solid bands are dragged down by a boring singer, but most of my favorite bands have a singer who is really trying to do something interesting. for example anaal nathrakh is to me a sort of forgettable band without their singer, and one thing that really elevated krallice was that mick barr did a nice job with the vocals.

― call all destroyer,

There's certainly a lot to digest on the new Krallice album. It's something like 78 minutes long. Liking it so far, though.

― A. Begrand,

The new Krallice is due out next week, but whether that's a major release (in the gravity sense) is in the eye of the beholder.

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara)

It is for me. I loved the last one. Im waiting for the vinyl version next year though since I have the last one on lp.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname),

Barring any late-year surprises, it's the last biggie of 2009, I think.

― A. Begrand,

Krallice is a serious contender. What an amazing record. For me, it's a substantial improvement on their debut, and I thought their debut was incredible.

― Sonic Bum,

Credit where it's due- Fastnbulbous picked this one as top 15.

Yeah, I'll be amazed if Bergraven places now.

would have liked to see slough feg higher, love that krallice album, dig the WITTR as well.

Yeah, despite what some asshole purists think, I like the WITTR a lot.

And Krallice came through with a quality follow-up.

hows that title edit work for you kerr?

pretty sure that i only have 2 of my votes left with a chance to place

haha fantastic , john

i would just like to take this rare opportunity to publicly and unhesitatingly denounce falsey meatal. ahem... falsey meatal, i denounce thee!!!!!!

\m/BAH!\m/

heck, unreservedly, even.

can I also take this opportunity to denounce girly hair metallers too?

Remembered Krallice as something that might well be somewhere earlier but didn't post it - cool album tho

speaking of which, has anybody seen Jeff recently?

xp

nope, or lemmy