YOU TOTALLY MISSED THE ILX HEAVY ROCK/METAL ALBUM POLL COUNTDOWN, SUCKA (CLICK FOR A RECAP)

no gapdyx img missing left hand, thus demonstrably FALSE. off with his head!

xp

i need more enslaved in my life.

eh, no you don't

^_^

wow my life would be a lot better if spotify worked in my goddamn country

get a proxy

john check email

^^^didn't work for me. :-(

107
Voivod · Nothingface (1989) (365 Points, 10 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f549/f54987e607k.jpg

^ better than anything Rush ever did

106
Alice in Chains · Dirt (1992) (373 Points, 9 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d126/d126685546t.jpgp
http://open.spotify.com/album/4zdKr9gtXNGj0stfss4ZzL

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d126/d126685546t.jpg

*YAAAAWWN*

I always get "Woman In Chains" stuck in my head whenever I see that band name

#16 on my ballot

it's a good record, Cantrell is a great guitarist, and I voted for it!

check the first post now,lol. Thanks ilxor!

105
Thin Lizzy · Jailbreak (1976) (373 Points, 10 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f656/f65647intu6.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/35g1RdojcIv7HKBKOMypbf

Ah, I see we are in the top 5.

i expected shouts of too low

THE JAILBREAK The Warrior locked himself into his video scanner and gazed throughout the Universe...until he came upon Dimension 5.

DIMENSION 5 was now in the hands of the Overmaster, whose lust for ultimate power had become an obsession. Religion and the media were all under his control and computer files were kept on all known persons within the city zones.

Many were arrested and jailed.

It was therefore significant that The Jailbreak represented a freedom for so many yet those involved at the time it was a series of events, the outcome of which no-one could have foreseen. The plan was simple. By knocking out the alarm systems in a riot, they then would cause an explosion which would blow half the cell blocks away. Outside help came from an organisation known as Phono-Graphics, who if the plan was successful would eventually capitalize on the whole project.

The night of The Jailbreak all hell broke loose. A Red Alert was issued by the Overmaster himself. Robot trackers, military police, dogs and all available vehicles were on the hunt. All were caught except four, who made it to the Rampic Buildings on the south side of the city. It was in these buildings that they broadcast and recorded selected material, some of which still survives today. Through these recordings they built up a following who eventually took to the streets in what was to become the Final War.

The Warrior had become weary and disillusioned with war, but seeing how the people struggled to be free he knew once again he must raise up his sword...

The music sailed out into the night then upward towards the skies, traveling on that thin border between reality and imagination.

not had any BM for a while..

104
Emperor · In the Nightside Eclipse (1994) (374 points, 11 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/9/3/93.jpg

I like that cover

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relax bill you have the entire top 20 to look forward to!

hahaha there are a lot of reactions that i can imagine to that album but nodding off is def not one of them xpost

yknow lj if you are so convinced that the ILM voting block is going to be totally boring and predictable for the top 20 you could just stop bothering to look at the countdown now

not trying to be a dick, its just that like 50% of the people complaining are saying "where are all the predictable favorites!" and the other half are all "oh yawn look at all these well-worn classics bah". its kind of hilarious, but at times also kinda irritating

nah JJ I might sleep on something awesome like that Godflesh album

Emperor are pretty righteous IMO

I want the top 20 to be mostly predictable! A handful of surprises, yes, but nothing worse than two-thirds you haven't heard of and they're not even that good, just some bloc's current hobby-horses.

check the first post now,lol. Thanks ilxor!

\m/ O_O \m/

103
Torche · Torche (2005) (381 Points, 11 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/8/4/0/1/84014.gif

its just that like 50% of the people complaining are saying "where are all the predictable favorites!" and the other half are all "oh yawn look at all these well-worn classics bah".

...........

I want the top 20 to be mostly predictable! A handful of surprises, yes, but nothing worse than two-thirds you haven't heard of and they're not even that good, just some bloc's current hobby-horses.

will you (or anyone) check out the stuff you haven't heard?

it seems the people who only wanted a top 100, dont care about anything other than the established canon, have no intention of checking out other stuff either.

i don't see what the point would be of doing a list to end up looking like a kerrang or spin list.

also Yay Torche!

If the rest of the list is as varied as it has been so far (and I don't imagine it won't be), I'll be happy. Also having fun trying to guess what subgenre the albums I've never heard of are just going by the artwork (drew a complete blank on Drudkh...).

Well I'm not really in a rock place right now but am filing it away. I had Siamese Dream on earlier - pretty good, heavier than I'd expected, bits of it anyway, though maybe I just had the bass cranked up. 'Geek USA' and 'Cherub Rock' are excellent tracks. I like the way it meanders off out-of-focus at the end, it makes it feel like a journey, or at least a whole album rather than a collection of tracks.

The buzzy guitar tones on that album are superb.

right now

it's time to..

102
MC5 · Kick Out the Jams (1969) (383 Points, 10 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f550/f55009ig97o.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2nnhbHps1fxTXVEy7d3yA6

Yeah, I noticed that! Some mean solos too, played with economy - it's quite an uptight thing on the whole, meandering notwithstanding.

xp

101
Jesu · Jesu (2005) (385 Points, 11 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/0/7/6/60765.jpg

^ wonderful album.

Will be commencing the top 100 shortly. Someone better give ez snappin & emil.y a shout

jj check email

I'm listening to Below The Lights right now, this is really really good.

I just want to cosign gavin's post upthread. I haven't had too mu6ch free time to listen to stuff, but I've got a heaping to-do list of metal.