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

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?

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nope, or lemmy

holy crap! where's Lemmy? i feel ever so cheated!

can I please big up and laud all manner of false metal? ta.

Pearl Jam @ #1 surely.

nooooooooooooooo

My #2 was 200% trve hardkore Dvtch girly metal. Didn't place :-/

#9 , 437 Points , 22 votes , One #1 vote

http://www.kommandot.se/wp/wp-content/uploads/ISIS_wr_hires2.jpg
Isis - Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS3NkhjsBf0

ve heard "20 Minutes/40 Years," because it's the first song on the CD that'll come with the last(?) issue of Metal Edge. It's seven minutes long and it's one of the heaviest things they've done in years. I like it more than I liked anything on the last album.

― unperson,

Yeah, every time I say I'm bored with the NeurIsis sound, Neurosis and Isis come along and remind me why they're the best at what they do. Looking forward to the new Isis, silly title and all.

― A. Begrand,

Neurosis and Isis are the masters of the sound. There's always going to be lame imitators but then some of the imitators are very good at it ie Cult Of Luna.
But it's silly to blame Neurosis/Isis for crappy imitators.

― Boring Sign In Name (Herman G. Neuname),

Meanwhile, it's been a day of good post-metal (or whatever you want to call it) for yours truly...first the impressive new Isis, and then my first listen to the new Irepress album, which is really knocking my socks off.

― A. Begrand,

i've been listening to wavering radiant for awhile now, and i really like it. it's very 'isis' but definitely distinct from their other albums. it's about 10 minutes shorter than the last record, and there's definitely an absence of filler, which is refreshing.

aaron turner's vocals haven't sounded this awesome/grating in a loooong time.

― borntohula,

also, i've found there's more emphasis on tight rhythms this time around. the band really sound together.

― borntohula,

wavering radiant is a step up.

I mean, it's still isis, so if you think isis are boring, it probably won't change your mind. but it compares favorably to the best of their post-celestial stuff, imo.

― picture me lolin' (Alan N),

btw anyone who can listen to Slough Feg - "Simian Manifesto" without being overcome by the urge to rock the fuck out is not to be trusted imo

also "Overborne" gives me weird Wasp - Inside the Electric Circus flashbacks - who would have guessed that that would be a good thing?

ah fuck i love this album, do not want to go back to work ;_;

lol @ my comment about krallice which was from before i heard the new one; was totally disappointed that the bassist was singing more (and apparently will be even more in the future according to barr). he's not bad, just super-generic to my ears

Just curious: How many ppl who voted for Ape Uprising didn't hear any of Slough Feg's previous albums?

john does dan rock out to slough feg?

Thijs i own them all apart from the 1st 3 which either arent on vinyl or $200 on ebay. Jeff is a fan also.

If overlap with the Pazz & Jop is any indication, we're working through the truest metal right now. Krallice got only 1 P&J mention, Isis got only 4.

Which one is your favorite?

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Hardworlder felt like a bit of a letdown, so I was very happy that Ape Uprising turned out to be so great.

Down Amongst The Deadmen despite not owning the damn thing. But really i love them all.

Ape Uprising was my second exposure to Slough Feg. I'm working my way back now (have the last four). Atavism was my first listen, then I completely missed Hardworlder; I like them both but neither as much as Ape Uprising. I don't care nearly as much for Traveller despite nerd-geeking over the cover illo.

I really think Ape Uprising is too low on NWOBHM goodness and too high on sorta okayish doom compared to their other stuff. Really surprised at the high praise for it, I'm just trying to understand why everybody but me seems to like it a lot; not trying to be a smartass or anything like that.

I really like doom. Got enough of NWOBHM growing up.

Down Among The Deadmen is available on emusic fyi, as is traveller, atavism, hardworlder, and ape uprising.

i dont know why ape uprising is my favorite, but it is.

Want it on vinyl with the rest of my slough feg

#8 , 454 Points , 21 votes , One #1 vote

http://theonlythingiknowforsure.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/zu.jpg
Zu - Carboniferous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-xJcKxcOco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcZlKwbvgCE

Also still haven't decided what I think about the new album on Ipecac by Zu, but I liked the last couple I heard by them, and the new one at least sounds interesting

-xhukk

Got this via email, from somebody named Moogle:

your post in the 2009 metal thread got me really intrigued about this band Zu... I can't find any links to any of their albums anywhere on the web (unless I'm blind!), can I ask where you found their new one and if you could PM me a link?

I wouldn't know how to "PM a link" even if I wanted to, but I got an advance of the new album from their label, to review. Link to their myspace page is below. Previous Zu albums I liked (possibly more than this one since those may have had more of a sense of humor to go with all the undeniably banging and bracing harmelodic fusoid-metal skronk, though I haven't decided for sure yet) were Motorhellington (2001, all-covers Eugene Chadbourne collab) and The Way of Animal Powers (2005). But I get the idea that their apparently recent discovery by Mike Patton and jump up the label ladder to Ipecac will give the new one more visibility. (For sonic reference points, think Blood Ulmer, Last Exit, Gone, Glen Branca, Primus, Lightning Bolt, etc.)

http://www.myspace.com/zuband

― xhuxk,

That Zu album is fantastic.

― A. Begrand,

the new zu album is dope

― 14 karat gold steen computer wizard (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver),

I'll give it another spin then, though I've already listened to it plenty last year for a review.

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