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

Haha, fuck yeah!

My no 2.

I wonder if LJ has heard/likes Carcass.

Ned loves them, It was him who got me to check out this album.

Carcass are putatively on a to-listen list! ANATOMY METAL 4EVA

So you like Heart?

Still can't bring myself to listen to a band called Carcass.

Shallow, I know.

Heartwork kind of marks their break from anatomy metal. It has incredibly solid, almost traditional songwriting wrapped up in the most perfectly calibrated overdriven soundscapes.

ha if that name is a no go, there are going to be a lot of unpassable hallways in the metal world imo xpost

I really like that Agalloch song until the singer breaks into the "scary" voice around 7 minutes. It's really hard to take that shit seriously.

A sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeds8qK6u8o

It isn't even the names for me as much as it is some of the album covers

like, vivisection drawings are just not my bag

No Cannibal Corpse for Dan?

oh hell no

I know exactly what Dan means

50 High on Fire · Blessed Black Wings (2005) (593 Points, 18 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/8/0/5/68050.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2Fez8YmdKDD9732QTBeJzt

one of my favorite album openings EVER

damn right!

x-post MIssed that Ministry album because it shows the "Rape and Honey" cover rather than the correct cover. Retroactive fix?

JJ can you fix 253 album cover for josh please?

great band. just found out that they are coming to town in a few months with Kylesa and Torche. amazing

where do you live gman?

Awesome start to the top 50 imo.

oh jj, nice thread title but how about NEVERMIND THE GAPYDYX HERE'S:
Also please say its a Heavy Rock/Metal Poll.

cheers!

I saw High on Fire circa that album, I think, at some lame show in Chicago called the Festival of the Extreme that featured Motorhead, Mortis (I think?) and was supposed to be hosted by Dana Plato, but she killed herself a few days before. There were something like 11 people standing there watching HIgh on Fire, half with fingers in ears but all smiling like children.

Nice list so far. Some albums from these results that are new to me and my first impressions:

Lord Weird Slough Feg - Twilight of the Idols
This is okay. I don't really like the vocals or the bagpipes. Reminds me of Iron Maiden I guess, but I don't think I needed another Iron Maiden (I do like Iron Maiden). I like it enough to give it a few more chances to overwhelm me though.

Trouble - Manic Frustration
I don't really like this. Sounds like corny late 80's metal with bad vocals and too much of that high-pitched wailing that I can pretty much only tolerate from Rob Halford.

Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells
I really like this. Not sure that I like it as metal qua metal. I'm not sure if I would put this on if I was in the mood to listen to metal, but it's really good (and clearly metal) and would definitely fulfill some other type of music listening mood for me.

Enslaved - Below the Lights
I liked this, but it's too symphonic for my tastes. I like my metal pummeling, like Seasons in the Abyss or Leviathan, not so epic and grandiose.

High on Fire - Surrounded by Thieves
This is pretty good on initial listen, but I need a few more listens to digest it, I guess. Pretty good though. Pretty thunderous.

Venom - Actually listened to At War With Satan, and not the album that ranked in this list, but I thought it was really great. Loved everything about it. Looking forward to giving it another listen, and also checking out Black Metal and Welcome to Hell.

josh, i saw them on that album tour too (twice i think)

jj, cheers!

Wait, this most of been behind the first album, "Art of Self Defense." My bad. Not many folks knew what to expect!

TRD> hello. That Trouble album is very different to what came before, it's not a doom album, it's very much a psychedelic rock album, the most accessible thing they ever did, but great! but a couple of the earlier doom metal albums are even better!

Now is when all the Motley Crue and Dokken and Ratt start showing up, right? RIGHT?

I never saw hof before the bbw tour, despite being a big fan from the beginning (loved Sleep discovered circa jerusalem)

Now is when all the Motley Crue and Dokken and Ratt start showing up, right? RIGHT?

god I hope not, I hate all three of those bands

49 Yob · The Great Cessation (2009) (600 Points, 16 votes - ONE #1 vote)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/4/1/4/241433.jpg

The "Shameful music teens used to get to second base to" poll is right down the hall on the left johnny fever

man i just do not get the appeal of Yob at all

^^^

shame on you
xp
both of you

listening to a Yob song right now and it kind of sounds like lo-fi, droney Korn...?

now listening to another one and it's less Korn-y and more like... Queensryche?

nothing like either you mentalist!

its spacey doomy sludge

Those are two bands I've never connected to Yob, so I can't even get where you're coming from.

xpost to Dan

pfuunk, new york. they are coming 10/24. pretty psyched.

I think Dan is trying to fool johnny fever into liking them

the second song I played made me just want to listen to Labradford rather than wait for something to happen

(the songs were "Breathing From the Shallows" and "The Great Cessation Pt 1")

(I only listened to about 3 min of both on Youtube)

Here's what I wrote about The Great Cessation at the end of 2009, when I chose it as my favorite record of that year (pardon the flowery cheese - it comes naturally):

Yob was one of the first bands I discovered when I got back into metal. Their combination of epic build and sustained release is like a snapping wire in a vacuum, the tension building until it breaks and then carries that momentum indefinitely. Listening to this changes my state of mind. It isn’t a meditative cleansing like Grandeur Of Hair, but a kind of heightened awareness; a releasing of constraints that keep things distant. I swear I have a better understanding of the world and its possibilities afterward. Also, it does a damn good job of freeing me of whatever hangups I was fretting about before putting it on, thus living up to it’s title. All this justification of purpose should not downplay just how amazing this album sounds. Scheidt’s vocals have never been better, from his clean soaring lines to his growls of multitrack menace; the band has never sounded as together, the moments of space amidst the tumult natural and effective. This is doom with feeling, as odd as that sounds.

Godspeed! You Doom Metal Band

made me just want to listen to Labradford

^ describes 90% of my music listening experience to tedious shit.

YOB are not tedious. Pitchfork is over there ---------------->