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As for more extreme stuff placing lower than you expect, a lot of the extreme metal fans don't vote, possibly because an ilm poll wont vote for them. Also quite a few of the rolling metal thread regulars don't post. So I'm surprised the extreme stuff has placed so well til now.

but a 3-way tie!

167
Sunn O))) · Monoliths and Dimensions (2009) (311 Points, 10 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/2/5/8/225822.jpg

I expected shouts of "too low" and "thank fuck its not top 100" then LJ

you savages

two outta three ain't bad

an unhappy lj?
hey louis you should answer Paula's post upthread

165 TIED
Megadeth · Peace Sells...But Who's Buyin? (1986) (311 Points, 11 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f574/f57435kz54x.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4hKRbsCbBnyTdXY02qNmwm

165 TIED
Manilla Road - Mystification (1987) (311 Points, 11 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg900/g934/g93410k412t.jpg

Expected Monoliths & Dimensions to be way higher. Not looking forward to the all Sabbath/Maiden top 20 tbh.

not unhappy but M&D is a great album that I'd imagine a few metal folk are reticent to even hear let alone praise because O'Malley/Anderson have SULLIED THE METAL with AVANT SHIT

Not looking forward to the all Sabbath/Maiden/Metallica/Slayer/Led Zep top 20 tbh.

oh christ so so so so so so so so so so so so so much this

or there's just at least 166 better metal records xp

Are you going all the way to the top 20 tonight?

would strongly, strongly doubt that, in my non-kvlt naivety

xpost and not xpost haha

xxpost

Ha just because I am disappointed that the record is so low, doesn't mean I therefore think it should be a lock for no 1. Geez.

pfunkboy couldn't ya just add on 60 points or w/e the maximum is for Through Silver In Blood

dude

cant do that, sorry.

btw has there been too much thrash and death metal for some of you?

just coz Neurosis didn't invent slaying doesn't mean they didn't do it better than anyone else :D

*walks around with BAN ME sign on arse*

not enough death metal

Totally cool with me, my two favourite sub-genres.

xpost

163 TIED
Manic Street Preachers · The Holy Bible (1994) (312 Points, 9 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f597/f59770cy174.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4LFir9jift1iINKWLAblS8

163 TIED
Iron Maiden · Powerslave (1983) (312 Points, 9 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre600/e672/e67242pbej0.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3CaXWQ1q1os9hvonksXDwN

actually no it has been a really good list tbh

or there's just at least 166 better metal records xp

― underwater, please (bear, bear, bear),

lj hasn't heard 166 metal albums

I'm taking it up to #151 tonight btw

Holy Bible's the only Manics I have much time for.

just I feel like some really good records have come pretty low (Dissection, Lysol, Cryptopsy, Gorguts, Swans), so it makes me wonder what is to come. Hopefully more black metal. And Melvins. And Godflesh.

At the end of this though, I feel like I am going to have a lot of great new stuff to check, particularly at this end of the poll.

yeah, pretty stoked on the list so far

death & thrash have outperformed BM so far, but kvltists dont vote on ilm.

sunn O))) i don't think are metal, and although their music "sounds" heavy, the lack of riffage makes me think it shouldn't even be on this list. it isn't metal or hard rock it's just noise.

I think it's fair to say the list is nothing like what people expected (which means some have lots to complain about) but it's a good list.

the lack of riffage

guh?

it's just noise.

guhhhhhhh

At the end of this though, I feel like I am going to have a lot of great new stuff to check, particularly at this end of the poll.

OTM, next time I have a couple of free hours I'm going to methodically check out lots of this stuff.

I beg to differ re: Sunn0))), but it isn't really a fun argument tbh.

I beg to differ with *marc IV* that should have said

Monoliths & Dimensions won the ILM 2009 Metal Poll btw

I really can't get my head round noise rock.

that's because people without weird preconceived ideas about what metal is or should be voted in that one xp

HOW HE DOTH TROLL

but seriously, 'just noise'?! fucking hell

They are definitely not Noise (with a big N) though, whatever else they may or may not be.

'just noise' is the lazy criticism blockheaded laymen aim at metal, so to use it about ANYTHING other than Noise is kinda unforgivable for a metal fan

LJ I think the track poll and the beginning of this one have proved there is on ILM standard wrt "weird preconceived ideas about what metal is or should be"

162
Baroness · Red Album (2007) (313 Points, 9 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drj000/j016/j01606bm0s5.jpg

LJ I think the track poll and the beginning of this one have proved there is on ILM standard wrt "weird preconceived ideas about what metal is or should be"

The Holy Bible is a magnificent album, but I didn't feel quite right voting for it - it's heavy as all hell, but not at all a 'metal' thing. Gold Against The Soul I've become very fond of in that regard, but I don't expect it'll place.

Anyway, The Holy Bible is dense and uncomfortable and claustrophobic, befitting the £50-a-day studio they banged it out in, and at least half the tracks are really powerful musically. The lyrics are demented and horrible, as opposed to the demented and fun things they used to come up with, but for all that there's a poised beauty about the whole thing.

sorry for the dbl post above, also 'no' not 'on'

bear, bear, bear - I was jusssss kidding with that one

gotcha

also, just guessin, but there might not be a ton of 2009 recs (def a few) placing higher here than M&D