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

I also forgot to put Millions in my list of stuff that won't place.

Next entry is the highest placed album with no #1 votes.

Predictions?

#7 , 490 Points , 22 votes

http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/kylesa-static-tensions.jpg
Kylesa - Static Tensions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF_uecAA0M4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w_8KvFCxK0

Got my physical promo for the new Kylesa in the mail yesterday, still such an awesome album. I'm figuring it to end up on my list come end of year.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0,

Kylesa's a contender, that's for sure. I like the new one a lot more than anythnig else they've done.

― A. Begrand,

yeah i like kylesa a lot and an somewhat down w/intronaut.

― He grew in Pussyville. Population: him. (call all destroyer)

Helps that the new Kylesa is so damned good. I'm hoping I can score a ticket for this show when they go on sale tomorrow. I've had horrible luck getting tickets for really popular shows at the Metro.

― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0),

I have never had much use for Kylesa, but I really like what I've heard from their new album. I get really strong Fugazi vibes from several songs, and a few times there's almost a stoney Grails vibe to some of the lead guitar work.

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

gaK! blah, why'd ya have to go and mention fugazi in the same breath as a great band like kylesa.

people who like fugazi should be loveless.

― scott seward,

Also agree with all the positive pixels spilled about the new Kylesa. They've really come a long way since boring the hell out of me opening for High on Fire in 2005.

― Kickstart My Heartwork (J3ff T.),

so i'm pretty psyched by the first half of the kylesa album. they seem to be doing the improve slightly with each album thing perfectly. i could hear a lot more cool two-drummer stuff on this one.

― He grew in Pussyville. Population: him. (call all destroyer),

So good, and even better live.

I was into that kylesa but not hugely at first. but it was a serious grower for me. like it a bunch.

yeah, damn thing grows on you for sure. my #3 pick! great album period.

I think, like Rwake, I'd really like them live but the record didn't excite me. It wasn't bad or anything - far from it - just not my cup of tea.

#6 , 566 Points , 24 votes , One #1

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/slymlym/gin.jpg
Cobalt - Gin (Profound Lore)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnHjKGcEfa4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZooVbizwEk

Meanwhile, I'm still obsessing over the incredible new Cobalt album. Along with the Neurosis, Swans, and crust influences, I kept hearing siliarities to Tool popping up every so often, but I wasn't too sure what an underground black metal band would think if I started mentioning Tool in the interview, but whaddya know, if Erik doesn't start bringing up Tool in our conversation. Gotta love any band that's willing to piss off the USBM scenesters.

― A. Begrand,

^^^so OTM - track two has this really great piercing wash of guitar that Tool do really well. In fact the whole song sounds like something off 'Aenima' but gnarlier.

― Pescetarian Reich (DJ Mencap),

New Cobalt is pretty badass like Abe says. Time will tell if I like it more than 'Eater of Birds'. I think BM dorks will probably get annoyed.
― Pescetarian Reich (DJ Mencap),

Cobalt: myspace
http://www.myspace.com/stinktown666

are both Cobalt and Sólstafir influenced by The God Machine?

― djmartian,

I am really liking Cobalt. Did you guys see one of the two members has been in Iraq since October? :-/

― fwiw (rockapads),
Yeah, and he's reenlisted for five more years, too. He's quite an interesting guy.

― A. Begrand,

Still loads and loads of metal to hear in 09, but the Cobalt is looking pretty darn unbeatable right now. It just keeps getting better the more I hear it.

― A. Begrand,

My #1 right there.

lol I am actually listening this right now. And not b/c of this poll - my itunes queued it up randomly as I clicked on this thread. Creeeeeepy.

My #2

Finally, the top 5! There's only one thing left that didn't cross over to the P&J, but that's not the only surprise left!

No chance that 3 Inches of Blood would be higher than Cobalt. Sad! I love that album!

come on guys post the order you think the top 5 will be before i post #5

It took me some time to get over the stiff and uneven drumming (and the strummy limp-wristed guitars)on Gin, sounds like he's a bit in over his head with the Tool thing, but this is just too good to let that really be a problem in the end. It even fits in with the alcohol / debauchery / Hemingway / Thompson theme, in a wobbly kind of way. Great all-over vibe on this one.

Not posting it unless you guess :)

5-1: Mastodon, Converge, YOB, Sunn0)),) Baroness.

YOB, Converge, Mastodon, SunnO))), Baroness.

Mastodon, Converge, Sunn, Yob, Baroness.

To say it for the 10,000 time, I hope I'm wrong about #1.

Me too... bleedin' baroness.

Given some of the non-metal shit that's popped up so far the top five could have Animal fuckin' Collective in it. I'm not placing any bets one way or the other.

*Wonders if EZ Snappin is really that voegtlin dude from the VV*

Mastodon, Yob, Converge, Sunn o))), Baroness.

YOB, Converge, Sunn 0))), Baroness, Mastodon

I love Baroness, and their show was my favorite of last year. But it also convinced me they're not metal, so I didn't vote for 'em.

*looks forward to phil's MSN blog dissection of the ilx metal albums of 2009 next week*

Come on then Pfunkboy, don't leave us hanging!

well I guess it's time for the #5 and a shock low placing maybe?
ezsnappin are you ready?

*Wonders if EZ Snappin is really that voegtlin dude from the VV*

― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname)

Hey man, don't forget I love Torche!

Though, I don't like any of the other bands Stewart disparaged with his thesaurus.

well time for a shock low placing from one of the rolling metal threads most gushed over albums.
if #5 is considered low.

fifth place seems about right for me.

#5 , 705 Points , 28 VOTES , FIVE #1 VOTES

http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/YOB_The_Great_Cessation_album_cover.jpg
YOB - The Great Cessation (Profound Lore)

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

I've got the pre-master of the new YOB record. Sanford recorded it. Another fucking masterpiece. Get ready.

― Nate Carson,

The new YOB is really monumental. I'm going to try and sit down and blog about it soon.

― Nate Carson,

The new YOB is in the process of killing me right now. Yikes, it's good.

― A. Begrand,

Again, that YOB album...wow. Scheidt's outdone himself, I think.

― A. Begrand,

That YOB album just keeps getting better the more I hear it.

― A. Begrand,

and YOB. YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname),

Meanwhile, over at Hellbound, my decidedly YOBerrific feature is up:

http://www.hellbound.ca/2009/07/yob-zen-and-the-art-of-crushing-skulls/

― A. Begrand,

Nice piece Adrien. I think this new YOB is my album of the year at this point. I wish they would come eastward on tour, but I am getting a Bloody Panda/Ocean double bill next month so I shouldn't complain too much.

― EZ Snappin,

My store had the Yob last week - it's amazing, easily their best and at this point the best new thing I've heard this year.

― EZ Snappin,

Yeah can't say enough good about the YOB. The more you listen to it, the more you'll like it. It's their heaviest and most brutal as well. But still exceptionally listen-able and rewarding.

― Nate Carson,

Brilliant album, that YOB. I was a big fan of The Unreal Never Lived, but this one tops it. Love the vocals.

― A. Begrand,

all praise deserved--the yob album is amazing.

― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer),

Yeah, even PFork likes it. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13327-the-great-cessation/

― Nate Carson,

or, you could say, even Cosmo likes it. i'll take his word over the entity that is pitchfork.

― scott seward,

man, it's pretty hard NOT to love the new yob album after that last song ends!

agreed on the vocals. awesome.

― picture me lolin' (Alan N),

I'll vote just so Scott can complain. And Phil too, because YOB is my favorite album this year.

― EZ Snappin,

My #1 album, Kudos to the 4 others who voted for it.

My #1 too. Album of the year for me, regardless of genre.

ha! i was expecting Baroness.

My #5. Big fan of the vocals and modest, slighty psych production, which for some other apparently are a bit of a turn-off. "The Lie That Is Sin" is what Mastodon should have sounded like on Crack the Skye IMO.

as low as this? You thought it was a lock for #1 yesterday!
xp to ioannis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUKz-Zh6j4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqau4gjVFyM

as in a SHOCK low placing? yeah.

Just tuning back into this thread... Oneida was my #1.

Looking forward to the remaining four. Sunn O))) will be first overall.

s, c, m, b.

I don't have anything nice to say about the (presumed) top 4 so I'll just quietly lurk and shake my head.

1. Sunn O)))
2. Baroness
3. Mastodon
4. Converge

All four of these bands have eight-character names, btw.

All two bands with no guitar player have two-character names.

came very late to the yob party, so didn't feel justified in giving it a high position... but it is indeed something of a monster.

is johnjusten around?

hey guys pop over to !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~FINALLY - 2009 ILX Albums 'n' Trax Poll voting thread ahoy~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ballots due RIGHT NOW AT THIS VERY SECOND) and vote NOW! voting ends today!

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Friday, January 22

Echo Chamber: Colin Meloy

"Decemberists vs. Mastodon. On bumper cars. It happened."

-- Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy, a brave man indeed. (via @colinmeloy)

Posted by Tom Breihan on January 22, 2010 at 4:30 p.m.

Tags: Colin Meloy, Echo Chamber, Mastodon, The Decemberists

I gotta head out, but I'm letting you all know that Mastodon is for sure #1. I think you're all underestimating its broad, accessible appeal.