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

Post Metal

1. Isis - Wavering Radiant
2. Tombs - Winter Hours
3. Pelican - What We All Come to Need
4. Jesu - Infinity
5. Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
6. Maserati - Passages
7. Disappearer - The Clearing
8. Woburn House - Monstrous Manoeuvres in the Mushroom Maze
9. A Storm of Light - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
10. Callisto - Providence

Here's my ballot (1 at the top, 30 at the bottom):

Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Baroness – Blue Record
Augury – Fragmentary Evidence
Born of Osiris – A Higher Place
Slayer – World Painted Blood
Converge – Axe to Fall
Heaven & Hell – The Devil You Know
Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
Job for a Cowboy – Ruination
The Gates of Slumber – Hymns of Blood and Thunder
Anvil – This is Thirteen
Revocation – Existence is Futile
Obscura – Cosmogenesis
Cauldron – Chained to the Nite
Funeral Mist – Maranatha
Marduk – Wormwood
Gwynbleidd – Nostalgia
Lamb of God – Wrath
Napalm Death – Time Waits for No Slave
Suffocation – Blood Oath
Skeletonwitch – Breathing the Fire
Megadeth – Endgame
Isis – Wavering Radiant
Immortal – All Shall Fall
Katatonia – Night is the New Day
Greymachine – Disconnected
Ulcerate – Everything is Fire
Hacride – Lazarus
Bergraven – Till Makabert Väsen
God Forbid – Earthsblood

Black Metal clearly the winner in the poll this year.

I guess my lack of interest in black metal really comes through when you calculate centricity.

― EZ Snappin,

You got one of your wishes at least.

I actually like this poll - it reflects ILM consensus pretty well. Not liking the very top doesn't mean I'm not very happy with YOB's placement, or seeing things like Wardruna and Madder Mortem exposed to more people. Also, there are 4 or 5 bands I'm dying to check out because of this, and I couldn't ask for more. And neither Baroness nor Mastodon won! (I liked Sunn live even though their records bore me to tears)

Again, well done and thanks particularly to you and Glenn, and to everyone who participated.

For those who are interested in individual ballots.
They're in order #1 (Mastodon) to #30 (Black Cobra)

Mastodon -Crack The Skye
Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick
Voivod - Infini
Converge - Axe To Fall
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Crows Eat The Eyes From the Leviathans Carcass
Kylesa -Static Tensions
Them Crooked Vultures - S/T
Yob - The Great Cessation
Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
Baroness - Blue Record
Krallice -Dimensional Bleedthrough
Shrinebuilder - S/T
Funeral Mist -Maranatha
Immortal -All Shall Fall
Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos
Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
Pelican - What We All Come To Need
Xasthur - All Reflections Drained
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
Marduk -Wormwood
Anvil - This Is Thirteen
Tombs -Winter Hours
Isis -Wavering Radiant
Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West
Behemoth - Evangelion
Cobalt - Gin
Napalm Death -Time Waits No Slave
Black Cobra - Chronomega

So the top 4 black metal albums are USBM, and only two on the whole list are Norwegian!

My ballot:

Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
Mastodon-Crack The Skye
Isis-Wavering Radiant
Zu - Carboniferous (Ipecac)
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
Oneida - Rated O ( Jag Jaguar)
Nadja - When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV
Megadeth – Endgame
Baroness - Blue Record (Relapse)
Slayer - World Painted Blood (American)
Pissed Jeans - King Of Jeans (Sub Pop)
Shrinebuilder - S/T (Neurot)
Converge - Axe To Fall (Epitaph)
Cobalt - Gin (Profound Lore)
Gnaw Their Tongues: All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity

Only 15 because I haven't heard much more this year and/or didn't like what I had heard.

Death Metal

1. Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
2. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
3. Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
4. Portal - Swarth
5. Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
6. Magrudergrind - S/T
7. Dethklok - Dethalbum II
8. Behemoth - Evangelion
9. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
10. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
11. Revocation - Existence Is Futile
12. Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
13. Burnt by the Sun - Heart of Darkness

That's including grindcore, and obviously stretching it a bit here & there (#1!).

I wasn't sure myself what Katatonia were these days. They used to be death/doom didnt they? A lot of those paradise lost/anathema death/doom bands moved away from it (funny then that doom became "in" so those bands missed out again)

Cheers for compiling the death list.
Burnt By The Sun is more in the Converge/Coalesce/Keelhaul, cant call it metalcore anymore as its nothing like the metalcore shite that is so ubiquitous these days, kinda stuff, no?

Wonder if there's a florida vs sweden(or just gothenburg even) DM poll on ILM anywhere

not that i know shit about DM but it would be funny to see j0hn get all patriotic ;)

actually Scott, j0hn, roxy and the rest of the troo metallers, what do you think of the top 100? even if you didn't vote I had hoped you would post comments on the poll results.

Not a Katatonia fan myself, gimme Bloodbath any day.

Metalcore à la Burnt by the Sun is listed under DM at Metal Archives, so I went with that. I thought Keelhaul was sludge.

Dunno, aren't Keelhaul more sort of pigfuck-lite? Maybe even almost arsequake?

Anyway, thanks again to the com pilers, I have a shitload of new stuff I had ignored/slept on to check out. Who else voted for Woods of Ypres btw? I am now thinking I might have placed it too low.

Woods of Eeep didn't make their album available until too late in the year, so I missed the boat on that one when it came to year-end lists, but it does sound good.

Too bad Adrien voted for Goatwhore's previous album :-/

Whoops.

Since it's dropped off the last 50 posts here is the recap again
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

Results by genre

Doom Metal

1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
2. YOB - The Great Cessation
3. The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder
4. Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
5. Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul
6. Orthodox - Sentencia
7. Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows
8. Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans
9.Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
10. Goblin Cock - Come With Me If You Want to Live

Drone Metal

1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
2. Om - God Is Good
3. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
4. Nadja and Black Boned Angel - S/T
5. Black Boned Angel - Verdun
6. Jodis - Secret House
7. Gnaw - This Face

Black Metal

1. Cobalt - Gin
2. Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
3. Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
4. Liturgy - Renihilation
5. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
6. Funeral Mist - Maranatha
7. Absu - Absu
8. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
9. Drudkh - Microcosmos
10. Marduk - Wormwood
11. Immortal - All Shall Fall
12. Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
13. Xasthur - All Reflections Drained
14. Lifelover - Dekadens
15. Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
16. Behemoth - Evangelion
17. 1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame
18. Altar of Plauges - White Tomb
19. Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign
20. Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor
21. Saros - Acrid Plains
22. Nargaroth - Jahreszeiten
23. Nachtmystium - Doomsday Derelicts
24. Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt
25.Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm
26. Circle of Ouroborus - Tree of Knowledge
27. Vreid - Milorg
28. L'acephale - Malefeasance
29. Diamatregon - Crossroad
30. Bergraven - Till Makabert Vasen
31. Arckanum
32. Endstille - Verführer
33. The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite
34. Urna - Iter Ad Lucem
35. Woods of Ypres - Wood IV: The Green Album
36. Nihil - Grond
37. Code - Resplendent Grotesque
38. Satyricon - Age of Nero
39. Monarque - Ad Nauseam
40. Samael - Above
41. Nahemah - A New Constellation
42. Borgia - Ecclesia
43. Old Man's Child - Slaves of the World

And thanks to Thijs for this one

Death Metal

1. Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
2. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
3. Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
4. Portal - Swarth
5. Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
6. Magrudergrind - S/T
7. Dethklok - Dethalbum II
8. Behemoth - Evangelion
9. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
10. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
11. Revocation - Existence Is Futile
12. Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
13. Burnt by the Sun - Heart of Darkness
14. Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
15. Suffocation - Blood Oath
16. Born of Osiris - A Higher Place
17. Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way
18. The Few Against Many - SOT
19. Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
20. Amorphis - Skyforger
21. Job for a Cowboy - Ruination
22. The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
23. Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
24. Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence
25. Wine From Tears - Through the Eyes of a Mad
26. Swallow the Sun - New Moon
27. Necrophobic - Death to All
28. Borgia - Ecclesia
29. Obituary - Darkest Day
30. Bosnia - Nazarene Hallucinations

If anyone wants to fully do the death metal one or do a folk metal (for mordy), Trad Metal, noise ,Grind, Prog/Art (for louis j), Thrash , goth metal or any other genre please do so. Even False Metal if you like ;)

aldo i was the other woods of ypres voter, had them at 15

I hope i didn't miss anything out in the genre lists. Hope some of you find it interesting.

Expanded (with sludge and other sub-genres like drone,sludge,stoner etc)
Doom Metal

1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
2. YOB - The Great Cessation
3. The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder
4. Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
5. Om - God Is Good
6. Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul
7. Orthodox - Sentencia
8. Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows
9. Nadja - When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV
10. Pyramids With Nadja - S/T
11. Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy
12. Bloody Panda - Summon
13. Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans
14. Keelhaul - Triumphant Return to Obscurity
15. Nadja and Black Boned Angel - S/T
16.Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
17. Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
18. Black Boned Angel - Verdun
19. Jodis - Secret House
20. Gnaw - This Face
21. Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
22. Masters of Reality - Pine/Cross Dover
23. Goblin Cock - Come With Me If You Want to Live
24. Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal
25. Clutch - Strange Cousins From the West
26. Black Sun - Twilight of the Gods
27. Firebird - Grand Union
28. Manatees - Icarus, the Sunclimber
29. Disappearer - The Clearing
30. Woburn House - Monstrous Manoeuvres in the Mushroom Maze
31. Solitude Aeturnus - Hour of Despair
32. Zoroaster - Voice of Saturn
33. Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck
34. Doomraiser - Erasing the Remembrance
35. Shadow of the Torturer - Shadow of the Torturer
36. My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
37. Wreck of the Hesperus - The Sunken Threshold
38. Isole - Silent Ruins
39. Lord Mantis - Spawning the Nephilim
40. Monkey3 - Undercover
41. Hey Colossus/Dethscalator - Split LP
42. Callisto - Providence
43. H.C. Minds - The Beginning of the End
44. Black Cobra - Chronomega

Hopefully I left nothing out.

And a repeat

Okay Spotify list finished (apologies N American people):
http://open.spotify.com/user/nstewart/playlist/0bPofQLVRFL7VoiAHYaRim

It has a fair representation of the list, so have a look.

― Neil S,

Might do a genre one depending on whether theres enough to put in it.

Neil will do it he says. Woohoo!

Listening to the spotify playlist and really enjoying the Hacride so far.

that's a "might" Herman! I have to go to work tomorrow :-( so will see what time I have...

we all have faith in you.

Ok the Hacride did indeed rule. Lets see what else I might like that I haven't already heard.

Tho since Ahab is on Spotify I ended up playing that. Not played it in a while. Must get the vinyl sometime.

OK Mordy, just for you, I am now listening to Jamie Saft.

OK this is pretty good, definitely has a laswell early 90s metal vibe to it but better.

I love this last.fm comment

matetoth wrote:
February 2009

Black Shabbis is just too metal.

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What I voted for:

1. Dirty Little Rabbits – Simon (The End EP)
2. Diagonal – Diagonal (Rise Above)
3. Voivod – Infini (Relapse)
4. Angus Khan – Black Leather Soul (Nickel and Dime)
5. Baroness - Blue Record (Relapse)
6. Rufus Huff – Rufus Huff (Zoho Roots)
7. White Wizzard – High Speed GTO (Earache EP)
8. Sinner – Crash And Burn (Candlelight USA)
9. Meercaz – Meercaz (Gulcher)
10. Blackberry Smoke – Little Piece Of Dixie (BamaJam)
11. Cauldron – Chained To The Nite (Earache)
12. Steadlür – Everything Is Nothing (Roadrunner)
13. Flyleaf – Memento Mori (A&M)
14. The Last Vegas – Whatever Gets You Off (Eleven Seven)
15. Edguy – Tinnitus Sanctus (Nuclear Blast)
16. The Answer – Everyday Demons (The End)
17. The Reds – Early Nothing (Tarock)
18. Status Quo – In Search Of The Fourth Chord (Eagle)
19. Saxon – Into The Labyrinth (SPV)
20. Firebird -- Grand Union (Rise Above)
21. Anvil – This Is Thirteen (VH1 Classic)
22. The Pinx – Look What You Made Me Do (The Pinx)
23. Dead Man – Euphoria (Crusher)
24. Church Of Misery – Houses Of The Unholy (Rise Above)
25. Fires Of Rome – You Kingdom You (The Hours)
26. Rammstein – Liebe Est Fur Alle De (Vagrant)

I'm really enjoying checking some of these bands out. How does someone who loves Sabbath and Zeppelin know nothing (and I mean nothing) about today's scene!? I think Converge is freakin awesome. For some reason I don't think I can get that Sunn O))) to play at the right speed?

Did you come around on that Baroness Chuck? I seemed to remember you being a little iffy on it after a first spin?

Still iffy. Still don't think it has memorable songs. Still think it sounds really nice in the background, though, if I'm in the right mood and performing the right activity. (Opinion of it actually slipped a little, the more I listened, to be honest.)

Really really nice, I mean. Which is why it finished so high on my list above -- Some of the best metal Muzak of the year. But at one point I thought it might squeeze into my Pazz & Jop Top 10, and in the end it would've been more Top 30 (of the year, overall) or so.

Chuck are you going to check out anything in the top 100 you haven't heard?

Might check out either funeral mist or xasthur next

Last night I checked out Ameoseurs and Mt Eerie thanks to this poll.

still to get round to Mt Eerie

Zombi, Slough Feg, and The Gates of Slumber are all choice listens. Thanks folks.

Aye, all on my ballot and all faves of mine. Check out all their other stuff too.

Xasthur was ok. Might try Novembers Doom next.

Do try Funeral Mist tho :)

Will do, what are you going to check out?

Liturgy album is awesome, should've listened to it earlier so I could've put it on my ballot. Gonna check out Funeral Mist, Slough Feg, Bloody Panda, Eluveitie, and Part Chimp. Clearly, I have a lot of shit to hear.

ok in case you are wondering about the peste noire and unable to locate a cassette because of your geographical area or are queasy about giving dude your money, there is a very interesting article about them here

I listened to a lot of the stuff that I'd missed earlier. I liked Ancestors so much that I bought the CD. Someone snagged the cheap promo of it from Reckless before I could get to it -- I wonder if it's anyone from here? I just got a new copy instead. I liked Mount Eerie, Greymachine, Maserati, Nadja & Black Boned Angel and Blue Sabbath Black Cheer. Though I wouldn't classify them as metal, they may have made my top 100 overall list. Love the Tombs, which would have placed between Gates of Slumber and Minsk. I'd put Ahab just under Keelhaul. Goatwhore, Orthodox and Portal were okay, but not my thing.

Will do, what are you going to check out?

Zombi, Lifelover, Magrudergrind, Ahab, Ancestors and maybe I'll even give Gates of Slumber another try, though their previous album bored the heck out of me.

Not heard Ancestors either.

I really enjoyed the Skeletonwitch record, proper old-school thrash, reminded me quite a bit of Carcass.

Who weren't thrash!