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

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

Is that the new Arsenal top?

y

listening to Tombs' Winter Hours right now: Holy Toledo! this would definitely have made my top fifteen had i heard it in time for the poll. (likewise the Slough Feg, methinks.)

I thought you would like Tombs. How come you hadn't checked out Slough Feg?

i had listened to it once and kinda liked it, but nowhere near enough to vote for it--what can i say, it didn't really grab me until recently.

You could've got it higher in the poll :(
Anything else you going to check out?

Think I'll listen to Tombs again, ioannis put me in the mood, one day i'll get round to listening to stuff i havent heard.
Hows everyone else getting on?

I've checked out a few things that I thought might be up my alley (or at least the write-ups intrigued me) - Revocation, Dysrhythmia, Gnaw Their Tongues, Part Chimp, Tombs and Oneida. On listening I realized I had heard the Tombs earlier in the year and decided it wasn't my thing. Out of the six, I really liked Gnaw Out Their Tongues, and kinda like the Oneida. The rest I'd categorize like Tombs - not my thing.

im still kind of stuck on/obsessed with the peste noire.

part chimp didnt do it for me either and (sorry dudes) not that down with YOB, at least so far

I haven't listened to the Part Chimp yet but I saw them live last year and am expecting it to be good.

ok, also listened to the following over the past few days:

Goatwhore - good, solid American blackened death; nice riffs, man

Marduk - too samey over the long haul on first hearing for my tastes

City of Ships (hai, decibel list!) - annoyingly post-adolescent/post-hardcore/post-whatever

Altar of Plagues - really nice ambient BM

Burnt by the Sun - so this is Metalcore? gets kinda tedious after awhile, don't it?

Funeral Mist - like parts of this a lot

Mournful Congregation (more from decibel)
- frigid doom from down under--what could be better? yay!

Converge and Burnt By The Sun might be labelled 'metalcore' but it's pretty far removed from the pish that record labels have pushed on metal in the noughties.

Was gonna play the Funeral Mist but as it's midnight I think I'll leave it til tomorrow. Any good midnight music on the list I haven't heard?

Peste Noire!

wait no

I think I'll give that one a miss at this time of night.

started to listen to stuff from the list and then Necronomitron popped up when i wasn't paying attention and now i am derailed and just listening to them.

speaking of which, hearing this again makes me want to make the analogy about how Gay Witch Abortion is basically a tighter heavier sludgier version of these dudes but i am not sure that that is going to be useful to uh anyone because im not sure anyone other than me cares about Necronomitron. goddamn they're great tho.

haha never mind, having just done a necronomitron search i think the only other dudes on ilx that are into them are ian and bob snoom, neither of which are hanging out on this thread (i think)

Haven't heard them. Where to start?

AFAIK they only have the one s/t record? (btw they are lightning bolty kinda, although more metal imo) theres a mp3 here: http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/necronomitron.html

the 2 songs i would listen to if you have access to them somehow would be "small field of death" and "incephalopod"

btw i am thinking that the best entry point for GWA for the uninitiated is "Scythian Sculls", but make sure you give it time, its worth the full 4 minutes, trust me.

Thanks! The GWA comparison intrigued me. I think I'd seen the name Necronomitron but never investigated. That "Broken Glass for Dinner" track is pretty cool - enough to make me more intrigued at least. Again, the vocals are pretty weak though; I wish bands wouldn't bother if they weren't going to be as good as the surrounding music.

Amazed (in a good way) by the Mount Eerie. Pretty much stopped listening to Phil post-Microphones (although I have the Mt Eerie album) - even to the stage where I couldn't be arsed walking 1/2 a mile to see him a couple of years ago, I had no idea he was doing this sort of thing now.

Peste Noir or Funeral Mist time?

haha i ended up playing Alcest while I wait on everyones answer!

Make my playlist for today!

or tonight?

Amazed (in a good way) by the Mount Eerie. Pretty much stopped listening to Phil post-Microphones (although I have the Mt Eerie album) - even to the stage where I couldn't be arsed walking 1/2 a mile to see him a couple of years ago, I had no idea he was doing this sort of thing now.

what's the other Mt Eerie stuff like?