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

Hahaha

oops that got ONE #1 vote

hilarious.

next?

Aldo what do you think of the poll?

Did you vote in that poll? Either way, what would you vote for?

I didn't vote in the "first metal album" poll because no one has ever actually explained to my satisfaction what metal is, so I couldn't decide what the first metal album was.

what hair metal was jj into before he got into heavier stuff?

lol afaik he was always into heavier stuff; we bonded over Anthrax shortly after we first met

The bands represented here that I voted for from the 70s/80s are bands that made it into my house via my older brothers and father (Aerosmith, Rush, Led Zepplin) or bands that my close friends turned me on to (Iron Maiden, Anthrax). Most of the kids in my school, due to the time period and to where we were, had WEIRD ideas about race and most of them spanned the gamut of albums represented on this poll (possibly not the most extreme end of things but that is likely because they didn't know it existed). Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest (btw never had a problem with JP, just didn't care one way or the other), Bon Jovi, Poison, Winger, Skid Row, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Scorpions, Cinderella, Dokken, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Aerosmith, Rush, Megadeth, AC/DC... all of these bands were very, very popular with a lot of kids.

would strongly recommend AAL to Dan, actually - really melodically intricate and arresting, the only thing he might baulk at is the lack of vocals

yeah, the dude who spent the years from 1994 through 2000 listening primarily to techno/rave/acid/dnb is REALLY gonna have a problem with instrumental music

mayhem are awesome for srs

have you enjoyed being wrong as usual, lj?

Bill did you vote for a slayer album made in the last 19 years?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, August 13, 2010 11:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^no. How is that relevant at all?

btw if anyone has last fm, you should join http://www.last.fm/group/ILX+Rolling+Metal+Group

I'm really surprisd, to be honest. My tracks listing had far more extreme records placing than the albums one (which I thought was pretty canonical), yet the album listing has been really, really varied.

Not that surprised at the amount of Boris placing (I'm not going to say Hipster Metal but you could see a lot of people you might not expect to vote in this poll doing so, and for Boris), but amazed by the amount of doom and BM doing exceptionally well. Would never have guessed at multiple YOB placings to be honest and thought I was probably the only one who voted for more than one Corrupted. And Grief! How did so many of their records place?

Maybe the strangest thing though is that the BM placings are actually intelligent i.e. it doesn't appear to be random ilxors skewing the votes, they seem to be in roughly the order (wrt which albums are better than others by the same band) as is generally thought. I don't think I voted for much BM if any, mainly because I don't think of it as truly great, just something I'm listening to and loving at the time, but stoked at how much is making it.

Mayhem at #14? this poll just reached the parody stage. I loved the songs poll, this one is not turning out well.

http://perso.wanadoo.es/thesentinel2002/entrevista_euronymous2.jpg

"Euronymous had this total Satan attitude. I didn't have that - he had that. He was such a devil worshipper you wouldn't believe it."

Why does serious metal hate the finer points of graphic design, btw? The logos and album art are the stuff of 14 year-old boys doodling on canvas binders with blue ink pens in history class.

because they are dorks. look at the picture before your post. dork.

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:99y7c32kIIkQgM:http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1653/panterametalmagic1983cdmz3.jpg&t=1

Michaelangelo by comparison, that.

Good point. Serious metal dudes are the chess team of music.

hahahahaha

lol pantera, while we talk about racist pricks in metal.

which leads nicely to..

13 Burzum · Hvis Lyset Tar Oss (1994) (891 Points, 19 votes - TWO #1 votes
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/3/8/0/380.jpg

What was Henry's #1 album?

I dunno, any albums with "steak" in it?

http://www.myspace.com/caninus

I know this Burzum album had 19 votes and two #1's, but we're not talking about it. Carry on.

despite varg being a racist murdering nazi prick, that album is still genius.
Noone knew that at the time (well, they knew he was a prick)

Yeah, whatever.

he's the 90s killer version of vince neil

yeesh

Will seriously LOL (and then cringe) if Filosofem breaks into the top ten.

Oh plz, Vince Neil (whom I really do think is a human turd) did not murder anyone with malice. He was driving drunk with a willing passenger. xps

norwegian metal dudes had to take it further though, always the same!

So silly. Did a bunch of 12 year old geeks make up the voting in this poll?

12 Celtic Frost · Monotheist (2006) (901 Points, 21 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/0/4/5/104518.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5zzEbzGo0VQzemHtO0HnrW

Greatest metal comeback album of all time.

LJ, play it now

See my post at 12:46. Geek city here.

i call bullshit. this is turning into herman's greatest hits.

Totally.

yeah im making it all up as i go along.

The #1 album will be "No Sleep till Nerdville" by the Slough Feg/Darkthrone All Stars.

johnny, think of the fun you will have when you do an "alternate alltime heavy rock/metal poll" with no albums from the top 300 allowed.

(ps its not like i even care for most of these BM/DM albums that have placed)

i never saw the nominations list but i'd be kinda surprised if ghostreveries was the only opeth album in the top 300

Did I miss it, or has Hvis Lyset Tar Oss not placed yet? Cause lol to the max if we're giving that asshole a #1 album in the ILX metal poll :P

Oh, nevermind -- I see it just placed at 13.

This poll is an excellent argument in the doing away with of polls on ILM forever.

This next album got pushed out of the top 10 at the last min by hair metal fan J3ff "girly metal" T

Varg needs our support!

Pink?

xp

the top ten better redeem all this high-placing bullshit.