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

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!

Yeah yeah I know...

"I really enjoyed the Skeletonwitch record, and despite it being proper old-school thrash, it reminded me quite a bit of Carcass." Better?

Not heard Ancestors either.

― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 25 January 2010 10:21 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Worth a punt imo - loads of mellotron/70s arena prog moves but with heavier guitars - I'd say there was an above average chance you'd like it

municipal waste is quite good as well

Never been a thrash fan so i dunno if i'd like them. When I got into metal in like 1991(along with alt metal/rock) i'd already heard thrash metal for years as i listened to tommy vance radio 1 rock show and was a bit bored with it. Maybe a young me thought it was still tired 80s stuff that wasn't "mine", but i doubt it as i still liked metallica,megadeth, some anthrax.
I think grungy stuff being so slow felt new to my 18 year old ears, it's certainly the reason i got into stoner/doom.

just took a glance at the vote breakdown, and unsurprisingly, I'm the only one who voted for this one:

horseback - the invisible mountain (utech)

it's... not really metal aside from the black metal vox. but it is dark and if you're into hypno-rock locked groove stuff like circle, loop, and oneida, I really recommend you check this one out. highest caliber grooves.

(a bit of isis in there too tbh but I liked this one way more than anything isis has done for a while.)

dope packaging too if you still pay for music.

this write-up nails it:
http://invisibleoranges.com/2009/11/horseback-invisible-mountain.html

A note, first of all, on the Sunn O))) victory. Sunn O))) got 163 points from people who did not vote for Converge. Converge got 159 points from people who did not vote for Sunn O))). But of the 23 ballots with both Sunn O))) and Converge, Sunn O))) was ranked higher on 15 of them, Converge on 8. There's your margin of victory.

Still, the consensus behind the top 5 here was really impressive, and YOB is definitely the winner compared to the outside world, where by "outside world" we mean the Pazz & Jop.

― glenn mcdonald,

What's the better world, ILM Rolling Metal thread or Pazz & Jop?

you bought it, alan?

yeah

How much was it?

I got it when utech were having a flat $10 sale for everything but I don't think it's much more now.

(that's shipped to the U.S. tho)

It's $13 from Utech (which is my favorite label in the world right now.)

Will give it a listen first. I'm skint just now. I need to keep money to pay for the Baroness 3xLP that I pre-ordered months ago that Relapse haven't shipped yet so therefore not been charged yet either.
http://shop.relapse.com/store/product.aspx?ProductID=36490
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o84/888888eight/baronesslp-1.jpg

utech is really an awesome label. much thanks scott for tipping me off to that via his many raves about gog.

and if I'd heard them on time, I could have easily have voted for the gog or aluk todolo 2009 releases as well.

and holy shit, is the aluk tolodo just a distilled slab of evil or what? it actually was freaking me out too much to listen to one night.

xpost

Aluk Todolo are great. Krautrocky black metal. What's not to love?

You got their 1st album , Alan?

nah, haven't heard it. I take it I should?

Yeah you should. I forget what label it was on but I think it's a UK one.

What else you gonna check out?

Listening to Neil's spotify playlist. Gnaw Their Tongues is on then Mt Eerie after it.

oh, I'm gonna check out tons of stuff! like I said way upthread, I really didn't seek out too much new metal this year. here's what I'm most eager to hear:

Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
Revocation - Existence Is Futile
Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
Hacride - Lazarus
Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga
Drudkh - Microcosmos

Jeff says there's a new Drudkh album.

Oh and that Minsk is good. I have their previous albums.

yeah, I like all the minsk I've heard. cool band.

Terrorizer Critics’ Albums Of The Decade

http://newmusicexcess.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/terrorizer-critics-albums-of-the-decade/

Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (Rise Above, 2000)
Celtic Frost – Monotheist (Century Media, 2006)
Watain – Sworn Of The Dark (Season Of Mist, 2007)
Converge – Jane Doe (Equal Vision, 2001)
Opeth – Blackwater Park (Music For Nations, 2001)
Negura Bunget – Om (Code 666, 2006)
Deathspell Omega – Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice (Norma Evangelium Diaboli, 2004)
Enslaved – Ruun (Tabu, 2006)
Clutch – Pure Rock Fury (Atlantic, 2001)
Emperor – Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise (Candlelight, 2001)
Immortal – Sons Of Northern Darkness (Nuclear Blast, 2002)
Iron Maiden – A Matter Of Life And Death (EMI, 2006)
Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer (Relapse, 2004)
Mastodon – Leviathan (Relapse, 2004)
Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro (Mordgrimm, 2001)
Gojira – From Mars To Sirius (Listenable, 2005)
Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree (Nuclear Blast, 2005)
Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets (Relapse, 2001)
Primordial – To The Nameless Dead (Metal Blade, 2007)
Napalm Death – Enemy Of The Music Business (Dreamcatcher, 2000)
Isis – Oceanic (Ipecac, 2002)
Drudkh – Forgotten Legends (Supernal, 2003)
Dissection – Reinkaos (Black Horizon, 2006)
Motorhead – Inferno (Steamhammer/SPV, 2004)
Reverend Bizarre – In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend (Sinister Figure, 2002)
Blut Aus Nord – The Work Which Transforms God (Candlelight, 2003)
Thorns – Thorns (Moonfog, 2001)
Wolf – Black Things (No Fashion, 2002)
Hammers Of Misfortune – The August Engine (Cruz Del Sur, 2003)
Hate Eternal – King Of All Kings (Earache, 2002)
Lightning Bolt – Ride The Skies (Load, 2001)
Ephel Duath – The Painters Palette (Elitist, 2003)
High On Fire – Death Is Communion (Relapse, 2007)
Discordance Axis – The Inalienable Dreamless (Hydra Head, 2000)
Strapping Young Lad – Alien (Century Media, 2005)
Whitehouse – Bird Seed (Susan Lawley, 2003)
Melt-Banana – Cell Scape (A-Zap, 2003)
Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (Earache, 2005)
Bloodbath – Resurrection Through Carnage (Century Media, 2002)
Tool – Lateralus (Zoo, 2001)
Nile – Black Seeds Of Vengeance (Relapse, 2000)
Rammstein – Mutter (UMVD, 2001)
Weakling – Dead As Dreams (Tumult, 2000)
Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal (Metal Blade, 2005)
Cynic – Traced In Air (Season Of Mist, 2008)
Insect Warfare – World Extermination (625 Thrash, 2007)
Nasum – Helvete (Relapse, 2003)
Behemoth – Demigod (Regain, 2004)
Anata – The Conductor’s Departure (Earache, 2006)
Entombed – Serpent Saint: The Ten Amendments (Candlelight, 2007)
Sunn O))) – Black One (Southern Lord, 2005)
Warhorse – As Heaven Turns To Ash (Southern Lord, 2001)
Decapitated – Organic Hallucinosis (Earache, 2006)
Big Business – Here Come The Waterworks (Hydrahead, 2007)
Warning – Watching From A Distance (The Miskatonic Foundation, 2006)
Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine (Relapse, 2004)
Unsane – Visqueen (Ipecac, 2007)
Funeral Mist – Salvation (Norma Evangelium Diaboli, 2003)
Municipal Waste – Hazardous Mutation (Earache, 2005)
Between The Buried And Me – Colors (Victory, 2007)
Deicide – The Stench Of Redemption (Earache, 2006)
Necrophagist – Epitaph (Relapse, 2004)
Amorphis – Eclipse (Nuclear Blast, 2006)
Disfear – Live The Storm (Relapse, 2008)
Ensiferum – Ensiferum (Spinefarm, 2001)
Metallica – Death Magnetic (Warner Bros, 2008)
Ulver – Shadows Of The Sun (Jester, 2007)
Wolves In The Throne Room – Diadem Of The 12 Stars (Southern Lord, 2006)
Witchcraft – Firewood (Rise Above, 2005)
Angels Of Light – We Are Him (Young God, 2007)
Darkest Hour – Hidden Hands Of A Sadist Nation (Victory, 2003)
Kreator – Enemy Of God (Steamhammer/SPV, 2005)
Absu – Tara (Osmose, 2001)
Death Breath – Stinking Up The Night (Black Lodge, 2006)
Melechesh – Sphynx (Osmose, 2003)
Rotting Christ – Theogonia (Season Of Mist, 2007)
The Red Chord – Fused Together In Revolving Doors (Robotic Empire, 2002)
Melvins – (A) Senile Animal (Ipecac, 2006)
Torche – Meanderthal (Hydra Head, 2008)
Anathema – A Natural Disaster (Music For Nations, 2003)
Cathedral – The garden Of Unearthly Delights (Nuclear Blast, 2005)
Turisas – Battle Metal (Century Media, 2004)
Xasthur – Telepathic With The Deceased (Moribund, 2004)
Nightwish – Once (Nuclear Blast, 2004)
Paradise Lost – Paradise Lost (Gun, 2005)
Slough Feg – Traveller (Dragonheart, 2003)
Enforcer – Into The Night (Heavy Artillery, 2008)
Laibach – Wat (Mute, 2003)
Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Frozen Corpses Stuffed With Dope (Relapse, 2002)
Nifelheim – Servants Of Darkness (Blacksun, 2000)
Katatonia – The Great Cold Distance (Peaceville, 2006)
Dying Fetus – Stop At Nothing (Relapse, 2003)
Porcupine Tree – Deadwing (Lava, 2005)
Cryptopsy – And Then You’ll Beg (Century Media, 2000)
Morbid Angel – Gateways To Annihilation (Earache, 2000)
Boris – Pink (Caroline, 2005)
Sonata Arctica – Winterhearts Guild (Spinefarm, 2003)
Shining – V: Halmstad (Osmose, 2007)
Satyricon – Now, Diaboolical (Roadrunner, 2006)
Children Of Bodom – Hate Crew Deathroll (Spinefarm, 2003)

― djmartian,

djmartian should run the ilx one

weird that catch 33 is the go-to meshuggah album for critics

That's critics for you. What's your fave?

Listening to Mt Eerie now.

for the decade... the i ep but obzen is close.

chaosphere is prob my all-time fave.

for me generally, the I ep but obzen is close.