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

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.

Liking Mt Eerie so far, but it's fair to say, it's not metal. If you like this THEN YOU MUST HEAR HAVE A NICE LIFE - DEATHCONSCIOUSNESS.

I'd go as far to say that this is the 'metal' album KJB has been looking for.

Liking this as well, metal or no. Reminds me, Marissa Nadler is going to be on the new Xasthur. Allegedly.

o right i need to hear the revocation as well.

Only thing with that Spotify playlist is that when I go to play something I haven't heard i end up seeing Ahab or Ameseours or Absu and listen to that instead. :)

loving the spotify playlist, though I've foolishly had it on random play whilst doing other things, so have no idea what the good stuff was. except absu, which was ace.

Wish Spotify had more 'underground' stuff. It doesn't even have Southern Lord catalog or anything. I dont expect obscure stuff but it does lack some bigger non major labels.

Spotify definitely has to get its act together when it comes to metal...not only underground, but a lot of classic albums aren't on there either.

It seems to get bigger metal albums from recent years on it, but stuff that is big on ILM or DFFD is lacking.

tbf Spotify are more interested in the really big mainstream bands now so i dont expect much. It's different to when I was first using it, it seemed to be aimed at music nerds, now it's a big name in tabloid world and seems to be going for that audience so it can try and at least break even. You wont make money if you're trying to target the likes of us.

The Ameseours sounds better every listen actually, I've not tired of it since it first came out. I probably should have top tenned it. I'm really looking forward to the new Alcest now.

Watch out for Les Secrets as well, that's the new band by the other guitarist from Amesoeurs. I actually prefer that to the new Alcest tracks on the bands' recent split CD.

anything you guys strongly reccomend i check out?

Just looking at your ballot
1. Mastodon- Crack the Skye
2. Baroness- Blue Record
3. Converge- Axe to Fall
4. Sunn 0)))- Monoliths and Dimensions
5. Isis-Wavering Radiant
6. Nile- Those Whom The Gods Detest
7. Zu-Carboniferous
8. Absu-Absu
9. Coalesce-Ox
10. Kylesa- Static Tensions

I'd say start with anything at the top end that wasnt in your list.

Like Yob, Cobalt , Slough Feg, Zombi, The Gates Of Slumber if you havent heard them, then work your way down the list.

Btw everyone feel free to recommend highly some albums I need to play as there's so much to look through. I do know most of the top 50 and a fair bit of the top 100, si if there's anything really good outside of the top I should hear suggest away! (to me or anyone else)

thanks i'll start to check those out, my year in metal last year was pretty thin, so i have to catch up on a lot of things

Remember to post how you get on.

also lol @ jj's mod edit.

trve!

f there's anything really good outside of the top I should hear suggest away! (to me or anyone else)

some other stuff I was the only one to vote for...

pulling teeth - paranoid delusions / paradise illusions

maybe a tougher sell around these parts than the horseback album I was talking about earlier... but if you like converge, I'd say check out the pulling teeth record as well. short and sweet, awesome solos, crunchy riffs, kinda doomy and psychedelic at points (for hardcore kids from baltimore, anyway). though the converge album is more accomplished and ambitious, for whatever reason, I was way more into the pulling teeth record this year.

arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ

I checked this one out because siegbran mentioned it on a thread about wolves in the throne room. said it bests the new wittr in every department and I can't say I disagree. driving, drum-driven black metal. great.

my full list, btw:

1. blut aus nord - memoria vetusta ii: dialogue with the stars
2. baroness - blue record
3. pulling teeth - paranoid delusions / paradise illusions
4. katatonia - night is the new day
5. the gates of slumber - hymns of blood and thunder
6. kylesa - static tensions
7. yob - the great cessation
8. arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
9. converge - axe to fall
10. horseback - the invisible mountain

kind of boring, I know. :-/

Yeah , you didn't vote for Slough Feg or Cobalt booooooooo

I haven't heard slough feg yet (tho I want to) and cobalt didn't do much for me the one time I listened.

but I will probably give cobalt another go someday.

Yes, you should. Both are essential.

Anyone going to do the other by genre lists?

Sam blindly listens to things off the list on spotify and rates them with random images #1

Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive

http://www.medieval-entertainers.co.uk/Images/Jester-fire-eating.jpg
8/10