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

Mastodon - Remission (their best album) has sludgey/doom bits. I miss those elements so hopefully the next album will bring those back and combine with the psychedelic and prog parts they are doing.

Anyone ready for the #2? or anyone wish to make more predictions?

"The Czar" is actually really, really great.

Sunn O))) up next, given that #1 is a surprise and Sunn O))) at #1 wouldn't be nearly as much of a surprise as Converge.

It won the poll by a landslide, and rightly so. Crack the Skye was #18 on my list.

xp

Converge won Terrorizer's album of the year and was no 2 in Decibel, both ahead of Sunn o))) (who didn't get into the decibel list)

btw do not disappear after the results as Glenn will be posting loads of stats and stuff. You would miss a lot of great stuff.
Also i will publish the full list of votes AND you can all post your ballots then too.

#2 , 722 Points , 30 votes , TWO #1 votes

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nIWiKIscZJY/Sxqfmvvf07I/AAAAAAAACSk/hjT8NtPWv28/s400/converge_axe_to_fall.jpg
Converge - Axe to Fall (Epitaph)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asam2mLd5S0

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CF36C34D69FDC589&search_query=converge+axe+to+fall

I forget who was enthusing about the new Converge, but damn. Got it today and it is ferocious.

― unperson,

so the new converge album is pretty great. anyone else heard it? it's a really solid set of songs. i'm not really sure how i feel about the barrage of guests, because i don't think they really make the disc unfocused like some others have been saying, but some of them just strike me as being unnecessary.

― borntohula,

The new Converge really is deserving of that '10' from Decibel, isn't it? I'm guessing this is by far the best record Epitpah has released in at least a decade.

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

Man, it might be redundant and obvious to talk about how the new Converge record slays me and impales my head on the city gates so I may be an example, but it does, I got friends who are all like, "Man they ain't evolving dramatically anymore" but who needs evolution when you are disembodied head warning travelers of the severe carnage done by the opening four songs.

― Brad Nelson (BradNelson),

I still don't have the issue yet, so Phil's thorough run-through is helping me realize that there are far too many hardcore titles on a list that does state "metal" on its cover. Though every one of those Converge records should be on there, they're more metal than most metal bands. If that makes sense. But Axe to Fall is definitely the best of the four.

― A. Begrand,

Awh.

I don't think I "get" Sunn o))). I like a lot of doom/drone music but I listen to Sunn o))) and think yeah this is OK but not much more than that.

I predict Sunn will be #1.

#1 , 1,422 Points , 68 votes , THIRTEEN #1 votes

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61BkrspKgqL._SS500_.jpg

Brokencyde - I'm Not A Fan But The Kids Like It (Breaksilence)

dude, that "freaxxx" song is either the most offensive thing my ears have ever been exposed to, or it's genius (assuming it's calculated satire)

― k3vin k., Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:03 PM (1 year ago)

phat j was robbed, his dani filth stylings are peerless

― J0hn D., Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:22 PM (1 year ago)

all this haterade-drinking by warped tour dudes and concerned mothers makes me want to like these guys

― Marrakesh and Ashley Olsen (m bison), Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:00 AM (10 months ago)

e-40 is so shit. can't believe brokencyde have sullied their good name with this clown.

hyphail.

― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:55 AM (8 months ago)

more pop punk than screamo crunk isn't it?

― am0n, Tuesday, September 8, 2009 10:06 AM (4 months ago)

holy hell these guys are mind-bogglingly terrible, like to the point where I suspect their mothers want to kill them

― RETARTED (HI DERE), Monday, October 19, 2009 12:51 PM (3 months ago)

That is a surprise.

oh yeah. axe to fall is STUNNING. absolutely amazing.

'effigy' was the only song I heard last year that nigh-on made me vomit in the street on account of its brilliance.

brokencyde a worthy victor though.

Attack Attack was robbed.

You know, on the noms thread I'm sure I got a bit of flak for saying Sunn would do at least as well as Earth did last year and being told that was stupid because they didn't have the same sort of crossover appeal and it wasn't as good a record (which I can get behind, certainly).

So, obviously in the wrong order, but my votes 1-4 were the top four finishers. Does that mean I'm lame and you guys are going to kick me out of the metal thread?

#1 , 757 Points , 31 votes , FOUR #1 votes

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/Sunn%20O%29%29%29.jpg
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKUOapQIl9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG0_i_Dkk2Q

Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

Oh yes.

My ballot:

1. Baroness - Blue Record
2. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
3. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
4. Converge - Axe To Fall
5. Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
6. Kylesa - Static Tensions
7. Isis - Wavering Radiant
8. Cobalt - Gin
9. Coalesce - OX
10. Om - God is Good
11. Tombs - Winter Hours
12. YOB - The Great Cessation
13. Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
14. Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
15. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
16. The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder
17. 3 Inches of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom
18. Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal
19. Saviours - Accelerated Living
20. Big Business - Mind the Drift
21. Wolf - Ravenous
22. Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire
23. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
24. Clutch - Strange Cousins from the West
25. Slayer - World Painted Blood
26. Dysrhythmia - Psychic Maps
27. Millions - Gather Scatter
28. Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
29. Born of Osiris - A Higher Place
30. Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor

Ballots, anyone?

Here are my 28 ranked albums. Oneida is #1, Om is #2, etc.

Oneida - Rated O ( Jag Jaguar)
Om - god is good
Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
Isis-Wavering Radiant
Shrinebuilder - S/T (Neurot)
Jesu - Opiate Sun
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
Nadja - When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV
Melvins - Chicken Switch
Black Boned Angel - Verdun
Greymachine - Disconnected
Jesu - Infinity
Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul (Hydra Head)
Zu - Carboniferous (Ipecac)
Nadja and Black Boned Angel - s/t
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
Baroness - Blue Record (Relapse)
Slayer - World Painted Blood (American)
Pyramids with Nadja s/t (Hydrahead)
Tombs-Winter Hours
Big Business - Mind The Drift (Hydra Head)
Xasthur: All Reflections Drained
Pelican - What We All Come To Need (Southern Lord)
Mastodon-Crack The Skye
Converge - Axe To Fall (Epitaph)
Krallice-Dimensional Bleedthrough
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

YOB- The Great Cessation
Bloody Panda - Summon
Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick
Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga
Zu - Carboniferous
Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
Minsk - With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone
Hacride - Lazarus
Tyr - By The Light Of The Northern Star
SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells
Disappearer - The Clearing
Loan - Hontzira
Eluveitie - Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
Monkey3 - Undercover
Wolf - Ravenous
Bergraven - Till Makabert Väsen
Manatees - Icarus, The Sunclimber
Crimfall - As the Path Unfolds...

My top twelve all placed.

sunn o))) victory. fair enough.

I've said it before, but I consider this their first great album. for me, they've always but amazing live, but a bit disappointingly drab on record. this is really not. it's expansive, intricately layered and melodically rich, but still as oppressively heavy as it gets. a fantastic bit of work (though most of the highlights can be attributed to eyvind kang).

the way 'alice' blossoms towards the end is one of my favourite-ever moments in music, regardless of genre.

my ballot

1 YOB - The Great Cessation
2 Cobalt - Gin
3 Converge - Axe To Fall
4 Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
5 Zombi - Spirit Animal
6 Mastodon - Crack The Skye
7 Baroness - Blue
8 OM - God Is Good
9 Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul
10 Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
11 Isis - Wavering Radiant
12 Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
13 Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
14 The Gates of Slumber - Hymns Of Blood And Thunder
15 SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells
16 Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
17 Orthodox - Sentencia
18 Liturgy - Renihilation
19 Zu - Carboniferous
20 Kylesa -Static Tensions
21 Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
22 Shrinebuilder - S/T
23 Oneida - Rated O
24 Disappearer - The Clearing
25 Gnaw - This Face
26 GREYMACHINE - Disconnected
27 Jesu - Infinity
28 Coalesce - Ox
29 Church of Misery – Houses Of The Unholy
30 Candlemass - Death Magic Doom

Glenn will be along shortly to do his stuff so please stick around, the fun is only starting!

Glad to see you voted for the Disappearer disc. Really slept on.

1 Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick
2 Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
3 Vreid - Milorg
4 Portal - Swarth
5 Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
6 The Few Against Many - SOT
7 1349 - Revelations Of The Black Flame
8 Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
9 Baroness - Blue Record
10 Mastodon - Crack The Skye
11 Zombi - Spirit Animal
12 Zu - Carboniferous
13 Liturgy - Renihilation
14 The Devil's Blood - The Time of No Time Evermore
15 Woods of Ypres - Wood IV: The Green Album.
16 Tyr - By The Light of the Northern Star
17 A Storm of Light - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
18 Wine From Tears - Through the Eyes of a Mad
19 Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of the Black Widow
20 Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares
21I mpetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution Of Ceremonial Excrescence
22 Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressor
23 Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy
24 Melvins - Chicken Switch
25 Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
26 Old Man's Child - Slaves of the World

I think I need to check out that new Storm of Light disc.

The ILX Metal Albums of 2009 Poll Results 100-1

100. Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressor
99. Tyr - By the Light of the Northern Star
98. Burnt by the Sun - Heart of Darkness
97. Masters of Reality - Pine/Cross Dover
96. Saviours - Accelerated Living
92. Them Crooked Vultures - S/T
Saros - Acrid Plains
Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
91. Revocation - Existence Is Futile
90. Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
88. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign
87. Anvil - This Is Thirteen
86. Vom - Primitive Arts
85. Altar of Plauges - White Tomb
84. 1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame
83. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
82. Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
81. Gnaw - This Face
80. Jodis - Secret House
78. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Crows Eat the Eyes From the Leviathan's Carcass
Behemoth - Evangelion
76. Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine - The Audacity of Hype
Dethklok - Dethalbum II
75. Black Boned Angel - Verdun
74. Megadeth - Endgame
73. SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells
72. Magrudergrind - S/T
71. Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
70. Eluveitie - Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
69. Voivod - Infini
68. Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire
67. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
66. Melvins - Chicken Switch
65. Hacride - Lazarus
64. Nadja and Black Boned Angel - S/T
63. Keelhaul - Triumphant Return to Obscurity
62. Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
61. Lifelover - Dekadens
60. Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans
59. Xasthur - All Reflections Drained
58. Bloody Panda - Summon
57. Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
56. Greymachine - Disconnected
55. Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis
54. Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga
53. Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy
52. Jesu - Infinity
51. Dysrhythmia - Psychic Maps
50. Part Chimp - Thriller
49. Pyramids With Nadja - S/T
48. Nadja - When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV
47. Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows
46. Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
45. Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
44. Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
43. Big Business - Mind the Drift
42. Portal - Swarth
41. Coalesce - Ox
40. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
39. Immortal - All Shall Fall
38. Marduk - Wormwood
37. Pelican - What We All Come to Need
36. Orthodox - Sentencia
35. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
34. Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
33. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
32. Drudkh - Microcosmos
31. Goatwhore - Carving Out the Eyes of God
30. Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick
29. Jesu - Opiate Sun
28. Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
27. Tombs - Winter Hours
26. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
25. Absu - Absu
24. Funeral Mist - Maranatha
23. Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
22. Oneida - Rated O
21. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
20. Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
19. Liturgy - Renihilation
18. Slayer - World Painted Blood
17. Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul
16. Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
15. Om - God Is Good
14. The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder
13. Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
12. Zombi - Spirit Animal
11. Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
10. Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
9. Isis - Wavering Radiant
8. Zu - Carboniferous
7. Kylesa - Static Tensions
6. Cobalt - Gin
5. YOB - The Great Cessation
4. Baroness - Blue Record
3. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
2. Converge - Axe to Fall
1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

Honestly very surprised the 3 Inches of Blood album didn't place anywhere.

Thanks to Glenn for tabulating it all and thanks to all who voted and to those who posted on the thread making it a fun read!

Glenn will be along to do his stats stuff shortly so please hang around for that.

What is everyone's thoughts on the rest of the poll as well as the winner?

And here are the full list of votes from Glenn.

"#","Album","Points","Votes","1s","Enthusiasm"
"1","Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions","757","31","4","24.419"
"2","Converge - Axe to Fall","722","30","2","24.067"
"3","Mastodon - Crack the Skye","709","31","6","22.871"
"4","Baroness - Blue Record","708","30","6","23.6"
"5","YOB - The Great Cessation","705","28","5","25.179"
"6","Cobalt - Gin","566","24","1","23.583"
"7","Kylesa - Static Tensions","490","22","","22.273"
"8","Zu - Carboniferous","454","21","1","21.619"
"9","Isis - Wavering Radiant","437","22","1","19.864"
"10","Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough","412","22","","18.727"
"11","Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade","405","22","","18.409"
"12","Zombi - Spirit Animal","401","17","3","23.588"
"13","Slough Feg - Ape Uprising","390","16","2","24.375"
"14","The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder","380","18","","21.111"
"15","Om - God Is Good","335","16","","20.938"
"16","Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder","334","17","1","19.647"
"17","Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul","315","17","1","18.529"
"18","Slayer - World Painted Blood","293","15","","19.533"
"19","Liturgy - Renihilation","260","16","","16.25"
"20","Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights","253","13","","19.462"
"21","Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars","239","11","1","21.727"
"22","Oneida - Rated O","205","10","2","20.5"
"23","Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans","193","8","2","24.125"
"24","Funeral Mist - Maranatha","175","9","1","19.444"
"25","Absu - Absu","168","10","","16.8"
"26","Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs","163","11","","14.818"
"27","Tombs - Winter Hours","147","11","","13.364"
"28","Katatonia - Night Is the New Day","147","7","","21"
"29","Jesu - Opiate Sun","143","9","","15.889"
"30","Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick","141","7","1","20.143"
"31","Goatwhore - Carving Out the Eyes of God","137","7","","19.571"
"32","Drudkh - Microcosmos","131","7","","18.714"
"33","Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse","131","6","","21.833"
"34","Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest","129","9","","14.333"
"35","Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know","126","7","","18"
"36","Orthodox - Sentencia","124","7","","17.714"
"37","Pelican - What We All Come to Need","123","8","","15.375"
"38","Marduk - Wormwood","122","8","","15.25"
"39","Immortal - All Shall Fall","121","8","","15.125"
"40","Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem","119","5","1","23.8"
"41","Coalesce - Ox","116","10","","11.6"
"42","Portal - Swarth","112","8","","14"
"43","Big Business - Mind the Drift","110","7","1","15.714"
"44","Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity","108","5","","21.6"
"45","Madder Mortem - Eight Ways","107","6","1","17.833"
"46","Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave","106","8","1","13.25"
"47","Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows","105","7","","15"
"48","Nadja - When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV","103","7","","14.714"
"49","Pyramids With Nadja - S/T","98","6","","16.333"
"50","Part Chimp - Thriller","98","5","","19.6"
"51","Dysrhythmia - Psychic Maps","96","7","","13.714"
"52","Jesu - Infinity","96","6","","16"
"53","Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy","94","8","","11.75"
"54","Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga","93","4","",""
"55","Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis","91","4","1",""
"56","Greymachine - Disconnected","88","8","","11"
"57","Ancestors - Of Sound Mind","88","4","",""
"58","Bloody Panda - Summon","83","5","","16.6"
"59","Xasthur - All Reflections Drained","82","6","","13.667"
"60","Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans","82","5","","16.4"
"61","Lifelover - Dekadens","81","4","",""
"62","Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow","79","4","",""
"63","Keelhaul - Triumphant Return to Obscurity","78","5","1","15.6"
"64","Nadja and Black Boned Angel - S/T","78","5","","15.6"
"65","Hacride - Lazarus","75","4","",""
"66","Melvins - Chicken Switch","73","4","",""
"67","Candlemass - Death Magic Doom","70","8","","8.75"
"68","Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire","70","6","","11.667"
"69","Voivod - Infini","70","3","",""
"70","Eluveitie - Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion","69","4","",""
"71","Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone","66","4","",""
"72","Magrudergrind - S/T","66","3","",""
"73","SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells","63","6","","10.5"
"74","Megadeth - Endgame","62","6","","10.333"
"75","Black Boned Angel - Verdun","62","4","",""
"76","Dethklok - Dethalbum II","61","3","",""
"76","Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine - The Audacity of Hype","61","3","",""
"78","Behemoth - Evangelion","60","4","",""
"78","Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Crows Eat the Eyes From the Leviathan's Carcass","60","4","",""
"80","Jodis - Secret House","59","4","",""
"81","Gnaw - This Face","58","6","","9.667"
"82","Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive","58","5","","11.6"
"83","Obscura - Cosmogenesis","58","4","",""
"84","1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame","54","4","",""
"85","Altar of Plauges - White Tomb","54","3","",""
"86","Vom - Primitive Arts","54","2","1",""
"87","Anvil - This Is Thirteen","53","4","",""
"88","Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague","53","3","",""
"88","Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign","53","3","",""
"90","Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution","53","2","",""
"91","Revocation - Existence Is Futile","51","4","",""
"92","Augury - Fragmentary Evidence","51","3","",""
"92","Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor","51","3","",""
"92","Saros - Acrid Plains","51","3","",""
"92","Them Crooked Vultures - S/T","51","3","",""
"96","Saviours - Accelerated Living","50","4","",""
"97","Masters of Reality - Pine/Cross Dover","49","4","",""
"98","Burnt by the Sun - Heart of Darkness","47","4","",""
"99","Tyr - By the Light of the Northern Star","47","3","",""
"100","Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressor","46","6","","7.667"
"101","Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor","46","3","",""
"101","Cauldron - Chained to the Nite","46","3","",""
"101","Goblin Cock - Come With Me If You Want to Live","46","3","",""
"101","Lamb of God - Wrath","46","3","",""
"105","Suffocation - Blood Oath","43","3","",""
"106","Dyse - Lieder Sind Bruder de Revolution","43","2","",""
"106","Nargaroth - Jahreszeiten","43","2","",""
"108","Nachtmystium - Doomsday Derelicts","42","3","",""
"108","Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal","42","3","",""
"110","The Devil's Blood - The Time of No Time Evermore","42","2","",""
"111","Kreator - Hordes of Chaos","41","4","",""
"112","Loan - Hontzira","41","2","",""
"113","3 Inches of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom","40","4","",""
"114","Cave - Psychic Summer","40","2","",""
"114","Iron Age - The Sleeping Eye","40","2","",""
"116","Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt","39","2","",""
"117","Celan - Halo","36","2","",""
"118","Maserati - Passages","35","3","",""
"119","Diagonal - Diagonal","34","2","",""
"120","Sólstafir - Köld","33","2","",""
"121","Wolf - Ravenous","32","3","",""
"122","Clutch - Strange Cousins From the West","31","4","",""
"123","Black Sun - Twilight of the Gods","31","2","",""
"124","Firebird - Grand Union","30","3","",""
"125","Infernal Stronghold - Godless Noise","30","2","",""
"125","Manatees - Icarus, the Sunclimber","30","2","",""
"127","Circle of Ouroborus - Tree of Knowledge","30","1","1",""
"127","Dirty Little Rabbits - Simon","30","1","1",""
"127","Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic","30","1","1",""
"130","Disappearer - The Clearing","29","3","",""
"131","Born of Osiris - A Higher Place","29","2","",""
"132","Autumn - Altitude","29","1","",""
"132","Mantic Ritual - Executioner","29","1","",""
"132","Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm","29","1","",""
"132","Woburn House - Monstrous Manoeuvres in the Mushroom Maze","29","1","",""
"136","Solitude Aeturnus - Hour of Despair","28","3","",""
"137","Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way","28","1","",""
"137","The Devin Townsend Project - Addicted!","28","1","",""
"137","Pulling Teeth - Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions","28","1","",""
"137","Raise the Red Lantern - Raise the Red Lantern","28","1","",""
"137","Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió","28","1","",""
"137","Vreid - Milorg","28","1","",""
"143","Gwynbleidd - Nostalgia","27","2","",""
"144","Admiral Angry - Buster","27","1","",""
"144","Alestorm/Heidevolk/Tyr - Black Sails Over Europe","27","1","",""
"144","Angus Khan - Black Leather Soul","27","1","",""
"144","Antigua & Barbuda - Try Future","27","1","",""
"144","Kong - Snake Magnet","27","1","",""
"144","Zoroaster - Voice of Saturn","27","1","",""
"150","God Forbid - Earthsblood","26","3","",""
"151","Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life","26","1","",""
"152","A Storm of Light - Forgive Us Our Trespasses","25","3","",""
"153","Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect","25","2","",""
"153","L'acephale - Malefeasance","25","2","",""
"155","Diamatregon - Crossroad","25","1","",""
"155","The Few Against Many - SOT","25","1","",""
"155","Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse","25","1","",""
"155","Heirs - Alchera","25","1","",""
"155","Rufus Huff - Rufus Huff","25","1","",""
"160","Bergraven - Till Makabert Vasen","24","3","",""
"161","Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck","24","2","",""
"161","Worm Ouroboros - Worm Ouroboros","24","2","",""
"163","Argus - Argus","24","1","",""
"163","Ea - Ea II","24","1","",""
"163","White Wizzard - High Speed GTO","24","1","",""
"166","Arckanum - ___________","23","1","",""
"166","Sinner - Crash and Burn","23","1","",""
"168","Amorphis - Skyforger","22","1","",""
"168","Doomraiser - Erasing the Remembrance","22","1","",""
"168","Endstille - Verführer","22","1","",""
"168","Job for a Cowboy - Ruination","22","1","",""
"168","Meercaz - Meercaz","22","1","",""
"173","Shadow of the Torturer - Shadow of the Torturer","21","2","",""
"174","Blackberry Smoke - Little Piece of Dixie","21","1","",""
"174","Cantata Sangui - On Rituals and Correspondence in Constructed Realities","21","1","",""
"174","God Dethroned - Passiondale","21","1","",""
"174","Haud Mundus/Wormlust - Oblivio Appositus","21","1","",""
"174","Horseback - The Invisible Mountain","21","1","",""
"174","Ross the Boss - New Metal Leader","21","1","",""
"180","The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite","20","2","",""
"180","Wodensthrone - Loss","20","2","",""
"182","Flyleaf - Memento Mori","19","2","",""
"183","The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm","19","1","",""
"183","My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire","19","1","",""
"183","Steadlür - Everything Is Nothing","19","1","",""
"183","Urna - Iter Ad Lucem","19","1","",""
"187","Wreck of the Hesperus - The Sunken Threshold","18","2","",""
"188","Isole - Silent Ruins","18","1","",""
"188","Trippy Wicked & the Cosmic Children of the Knight - Movin' On","18","1","",""
"190","Arabrot - I Rove","17","2","",""
"190","Woods of Ypres - Wood IV: The Green Album","17","2","",""
"192","Elitist - Elitist","17","1","",""
"192","The Last Vegas - Whatever Gets You Off","17","1","",""
"192","Lord Mantis - Spawning the Nephilim","17","1","",""
"195","Monkey3 - Undercover","16","2","",""
"195","Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire","16","2","",""
"197","Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus","16","1","",""
"198","Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence","15","2","",""
"198","Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us,Death Unites Us","15","2","",""
"200","Alestorm - Black Sails at Midnight","15","1","",""
"200","The Answer - Everyday Demons","15","1","",""
"202","Hull - Sole Lord","14","1","",""
"202","Nihil - Grond","14","1","",""
"202","The Reds - Early Nothing","14","1","",""
"205","Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle De","13","2","",""
"206","Hey Colossus/Dethscalator - Split LP","13","1","",""
"206","Majeure - Timespan","13","1","",""
"206","The Mars Volta - Octahedron","13","1","",""
"206","Status Quo - In Search of the Fourth Chord","13","1","",""
"206","Wine From Tears - Through the Eyes of a Mad","13","1","",""
"211","Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second","12","2","",""
"212","Saxon - Into the Labyrinth","12","1","",""
"212","Swallow the Sun - New Moon","12","1","",""
"214","Code - Resplendent Grotesque","11","1","",""
"214","Crimfall - As the Path Unfolds...","11","1","",""
"214","Satyricon - Age of Nero","11","1","",""
"214","Switchblade - Switchblade","11","1","",""
"214","Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares","11","1","",""
"219","Callisto - Providence","9","1","",""
"219","Necrophobic - Death to All","9","1","",""
"219","The Pinx - Look What You Made Me Do","9","1","",""
"222","Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders","8","1","",""
"222","The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate","8","1","",""
"222","Culted - Below the Thunders of the Upper Deep","8","1","",""
"222","Dead Man - Euphoria","8","1","",""
"222","Javelina - Beasts Among Sheep","8","1","",""
"222","Monarque - Ad Nauseam","8","1","",""
"222","Samael - Above","8","1","",""
"229","Borgia - Ecclesia","7","1","",""
"229","Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - III","7","1","",""
"229","Raven's Creed - Albion's Thunder","7","1","",""
"232","Fires of Rome - You Kingdom You","6","1","",""
"232","Sirenia - 13th Floor","6","1","",""
"234","H.C. Minds - The Beginning of the End","5","2","",""
"235","Nahemah - A New Constellation","5","1","",""
"235","Obituary - Darkest Day","5","1","",""
"235","Old Man's Child - Slaves of the World","5","1","",""
"238","Birds of Prey - The Hellpreacher","4","1","",""
"238","Entwine - Painstained","4","1","",""
"238","Millions - Gather Scatter","4","1","",""
"241","Bosnia - Nazarene Hallucinations","3","1","",""
"241","Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg","3","1","",""
"243","Black Cobra - Chronomega","2","2","",""
"244","Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays","1","1","",""

wow, so i own 11-1 except for the zu record

Thanks gentlemen! It's an interesting list, and plenty of things I now need to hear. To quote myself on the winner:

"Unfortunately, Sunn bring out the (((YYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNN!!!!))) in me."

I really didn't think Sunn O))) would take the top spot. It's been getting so much good press in the non-metal media that I felt there'd be, well not exactly a backlash, but a feeling of "everyone else likes them now, it's inevitable, so let's vote for something else". I don't mean that in a bad way, of course (the Sunn O))) is great, it was my #4).

so many things to check out on this list... going to be a fun few days of follow-up listening.

"241","Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg","3","1","",""

This makes me so fucking happy.

Haha, I finally heard that Wolfmother last week. Its really not bad. I still wouldn't have voted for it, but it isn't awful.

Only four votes for 3 Inches of Blood? I didn't vote for it but I thought it had a lot of fans here.

I think Lamb Of God missing out on the top 100 was the big shock. Not so much Job For A Cowboy as they don't have too many fans round here.

seems odd that the accused failed to appear anywhere. was it even nominated?

And everyone who hasnt already please go vote in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~FINALLY - 2009 ILX Albums 'n' Trax Poll voting thread ahoy~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ballots due RIGHT NOW AT THIS VERY SECOND)

xpost -- I don't see it on the nom. list.

thanks for putting this together! i've already found a lot of really interesting stuff from this thread.

Alice In Chains also didn't get nominated, otherwise I'm sure that may have cracked the top 100.

onimo or neil will be along later with a spotify playlist with as many albums from this poll as there is on spotify i think.

Sorry, I've been really busy the past few days. I call bullshit on the winner, though. Baroness all the way!

Look how close the top 5 was.

Still the wrong order.

posting your ballot, jeff?

Glenn says he will be along shortly. I guess he's still working.

Here's mine:

1. Cobalt – Gin
2. Converge – Axe to Fall
3. Katatonia – Night is the New Day
4. Baroness – The Blue Record
5. Kylesa – Static Tensions
6. Goatwhore – A Haunting Curse
7. Sunn O))) – Monoliths and Dimensions
8. Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs
9. Isis – Wavering Radiant
10. Funeral Mist – Maranatha
11. YOB – The Great Cessation
12. Slayer – World Painted Blood
13. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
14. Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
15. Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest
16. Liturgy – Renihilation
17. Marduk - Wormwood
18. Krallice – Dimensional Bleedthrough
19. Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague
20. Revocation – Existence is Futile
21. Megadeth - Endgame
22. Portal - Swarth
23. The Gates of Slumber - Songs of Blood and Thunder
24. Saviours - Accelerated Living
25. Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
26. God Forbid - Earthsblood
27. Behemoth - Evangelion
28. Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
29. Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
30. 3 Inches of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom