yes! and death goes to the winner...
― willem, Friday, 23 January 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I can guess what number one is.
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Friday, 23 January 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Lets talk about this album, not what you think is no1. This album deserves discussion.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 23 January 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm sure there's nothing like this album in the rest of the metal top100, or is there?
― willem, Friday, 23 January 2009 23:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I would say no. but I don't know every album in the top 100. Only DJ Martian would know that!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 23 January 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
after downloading, listening and loving the shit out of this album i went for special wishes but that didn't ring with me like this one did. there's a sense of spaciousness one life... that's lacking in special wishes. but maybe i need more time with that album.
― willem, Friday, 23 January 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i think the cover is so cute
― roxymuzak, Friday, 23 January 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
one = on
I'll post the no1 at midnight. Give those Ameicans time to get home from work to see it then the stats
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 23 January 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Willem have you checked out Courtesy And Good Will Toward Men? that is their true masterpiece
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 23 January 2009 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
No I haven't. Will remedy. Thanks!
but first let me find a 20 minute drumroll...
― willem, Friday, 23 January 2009 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Or the ZZ Top influenced The Pleaser?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 23 January 2009 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link
The early albums were reissued by Relapse and then got the vinyl treatment too. Or you can find online if you want to check out 1st..
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 23 January 2009 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
So check em out
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 23 January 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Is Life... available on vinyl too? Would love that. I ordered the cd ages ago but am still waiting. This is my first encounter with HM, consider me ignorant. Thanks again for the recommendations.
― willem, Friday, 23 January 2009 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Not yet, I'm still waiting on that. Hydra Head are always sloooooooooow. They are like Southern Lord and milk cd sales for all they can then bring out 10 different colour vinyls .
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 23 January 2009 23:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Winner is obviously Cave's Hunt Like Devil.
― the maximum value that ZS obtains given its constraint is 8 (Z S), Friday, 23 January 2009 23:53 (fifteen years ago) link
My bet is on Dragonforce.
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Friday, 23 January 2009 23:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i reckon the winner is 287 on rateyourmusic for 2008http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2008
― djmartian, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
the top rated metal album on rateyourmusic NOT in the ilm top 100 is
Skepticism - Alloy
― djmartian, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:04 (fifteen years ago) link
at number 15
― djmartian, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
A Runaway winner..
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
The Winner of ilxor.com's Metal Album Of The Year 2008 is...
1http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61tsQgcbeFL._SS500_.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/2704704683_8e51e6187b.jpg?v=0Torche - Meanderthal (Hydrahead (CD)/Robotic Empire(LP/Pic Disk) 457 Points (2 Number One Votes)
This should be no real surprise. From sublime power pop to space rock to stoner metal to a freaking Ian Gillan-era Black Sabbath tribute, Torche threw everything but the proverbial kitchen sink into Meanderthal (although I wouldn't bet against one of those being in there somewhere), and the miracle is that it works beautifully. Even though there's something to appeal to everyone, the album's wide reach never dilutes the band's consistent vision. Superb stuff, and it's only their second record! --- J3ff TFrom the ashes of Sludge legends Floor came Torche. Steve Brooks called it "Stoner Pop" the 1st album was a masterpiece and this time they made it more wide ranging,heavier in places, without losing the "stoner pop". This band deserves to be huge. I recommend buying the vinyl version of this as the packaging is amazing. On a par with Earth's vinyl "bible"? Sure! --- pfunkboy
From the ashes of Sludge legends Floor came Torche. Steve Brooks called it "Stoner Pop" the 1st album was a masterpiece and this time they made it more wide ranging,heavier in places, without losing the "stoner pop". This band deserves to be huge. I recommend buying the vinyl version of this as the packaging is amazing. On a par with Earth's vinyl "bible"? Sure! --- pfunkboy
More pics of the glorious vinylhttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/2705526294_e195131a1e.jpg?v=0http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3211/2705525754_4f50349416.jpg?v=0
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
The pic disk versionhttp://www.earshot.com/images/torchevinyl.jpg
Now lets talk about the awesome music
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
nah lets just talk about that awesome packaging cause O_O
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Do both!!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/2705526294_e195131a1e.jpg?v=0
^^^ pwn.
― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link
order of how much i liked the top 5 albums
1. opeth (only one i voted for)2. harvey milk3. boris4. earth5. torche (not a big foo-fighters fan, sorry.)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
(not a big melvins fans either, which explains why i didn't vote for a couple of those other ones, maybe.)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:18 (fifteen years ago) link
CHUCK ZING
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
foo fighters (apart from the 1st 2) suck and I've never thought Torche sounded like them at all.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
for the record / contrast...metal / heavy rock albums currently in the rateyourmusic top 100 of 2008 but NOT in the ilm top 100
25: Colour Haze - All 34: Coldworld - Melancholie² 39: In Mourning - Shrouded Divine 52: Misery Index - Traitors 53: Krisiun - Southern Storm 56: Ihsahn - angL 58: After the Burial - Rareform 64: Saint Deamon - In Shadows Lost From the Brave [apparently a power metal band]75: Testament - The Formation of Damnation 80: Exodus - Let There Be Blood 88: The Monolith Deathcult - Trivmvirate 91: Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels 92: The Faceless - Planetary Duality 99: Pharaoh - Be Gone [apparently a power metal band]
― djmartian, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry, I don't know why I did that. It seemed appropriate.
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Testament probably would have been high in this poll if it had been nominated.
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh man I have the colour haze vinyl and the packaging on that is amazing too. It's their best album in eons but it still didn't make my final list (i had a list of 30 that i had to cut and that was one)But if you like Kyuss style stoner/psych made by krazy germans then check it out.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah jeff. I was surprised at their omission. Guns N Roses probably would've picked up votes too if it had been nominated, just due to the fact some struggled to make 25 and most people did hear it.Dragonforce I expected to do a lot better. I can't even remember where that placed. I only have the 100-1 list that Glenn gave me here just now that I will post shortly. Glenn will be along later with the tally for all 191 albums that received a vote plus his other stuff he has planned.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:26 (fifteen years ago) link
for the record...
top 10 metal / heavy rock studio albums on rateyourmusic for 2008
5: OpethWatershed
9: BurstLazarus Bird
10: GojiraThe Way of All Flesh
11: CynicTraced in Air
12: Amon AmarthTwilight of the Thunder God
15: SkepticismAlloy
16: Cult of LunaEternal Kingdom
25: Colour HazeAll
31: EnslavedVertebrae
32: Septic FleshCommunion
― djmartian, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd rep for the Skepticism. Cult Of Luna was good as well.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:30 (fifteen years ago) link
have BW&BK released their albums of 2008 list?
― djmartian, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't seen any mentions
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Thank you again to all who voted AND especially Musically & Glenn with without them I would not have been able to provide this.
Here are some stats Glenn gave me and he will be along shortly to give a full rundown of stats including how it compares to the Pazz & Jop poll results that also came out this week AND A LOT MORE.
Rank - Points - Voters - Artist - Album
97 - 23 - 1 - A Storm of Light - And We Wept the Black Ocean Within97 - 23 - 2 - Black Elk - Always a Six, Never a Nine97 - 23 - 1 - Everon - North97 - 23 - 1 - Legless - Finding Mr. Perfect97 - 23 - 1 - RTX - JJ Got Live RATX97 - 23 - 3 - Trees - Lights Bane94 - 24 - 1 - Burst - Lazarus Bird94 - 24 - 1 - Fuck the Facts - Disgorge Mexico94 - 24 - 1 - The Lizards - archeology91 - 25 - 1 - Gevolt - Sidur91 - 25 - 1 - Mar De Grises - draining the waterheart91 - 25 - 1 - Rose Tattoo - Blood Brothers89 - 27 - 3 - Graveyard - Graveyard89 - 27 - 2 - In This Moment - The Dream84 - 28 - 2 - Aldebaran - dwellers in twilight84 - 28 - 2 - Aura Noir - Hades Rise84 - 28 - 2 - In Flames - A Sense of Purpose84 - 28 - 3 - Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward84 - 28 - 3 - Morkobot - Morto82 - 29 - 3 - Dir En Grey - Uroboros82 - 29 - 2 - Dornenreich - In Luft Geritzt80 - 30 - 2 - Ayreon - 0101100180 - 30 - 2 - Candlemass - Lucifer Rising78 - 31 - 2 - Helrunar - Baldr Okk Iss78 - 31 - 2 - Pyramids - Pyramids76 - 32 - 2 - Equilibrium - Sagas76 - 32 - 4 - Tyr - Land74 - 33 - 3 - Journey To Ixtlan - S/t74 - 33 - 2 - Samothrace - Lifes Trade70 - 34 - 2 - Black Boned Angel - The Endless Coming Into Life70 - 34 - 3 - Death Angel - Killing Season70 - 34 - 3 - Ocrilim - Annwn70 - 34 - 2 - Septicflesh - Communion69 - 35 - 4 - Motorhead - Motorizer68 - 36 - 2 - Girlschool - Legacy67 - 37 - 2 - Sex/Vid - Communal Living64 - 38 - 3 - Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom64 - 38 - 2 - Helms Alee - Night Terror64 - 38 - 4 - US Christmas - Eat the Low Dogs63 - 39 - 3 - Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness61 - 40 - 2 - Brave - Monuments61 - 40 - 2 - Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum58 - 41 - 2 - Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie58 - 41 - 2 - Conifer - Crown Fire58 - 41 - 3 - Jarboe - Mahakali56 - 42 - 3 - Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master56 - 42 - 2 - Trinacria - Travel Now Journey Infinitely54 - 44 - 4 - Amen Ra - Mass IIII54 - 44 - 3 - Cough - Sigillum Luciferi53 - 46 - 4 - The Sword - Gods of the Earth52 - 47 - 5 - Eluveitie - Slania50 - 48 - 3 - Racebannon - Acid or Blood50 - 48 - 3 - Zebulon Pike - Intransience48 - 50 - 4 - Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled48 - 50 - 3 - Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood47 - 52 - 4 - Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth45 - 54 - 4 - Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness45 - 54 - 4 - Withered - Folie Circulaire43 - 55 - 4 - Metallica - Death Magnetic43 - 55 - 5 - Unearthly Trance - Electrocution42 - 59 - 4 - Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony41 - 60 - 4 - Disfear - Live the Storm40 - 61 - 4 - Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It39 - 62 - 4 - Darkspace - III38 - 63 - 6 - 0 - Intronaut - Prehistoricisms37 - 66 - 5 - 0 - Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth36 - 68 - 6 - 0 - Genghis Tron - Board Up the House35 - 70 - 5 - 0 - Witch - Paralyzed34 - 71 - 3 - 1 - Hammers of Misfortune - Fields/Church of Broken Glass33 - 72 - 6 - 0 - Ascend - Ample Fire Within32 - 78 - 6 - 0 - Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect31 - 81 - 6 - 0 - Moonspell - Night Eternal30 - 83 - 6 - 0 - The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror28 - 88 - 7 - 0 - Earthless - Live at Roadburn28 - 88 - 8 - 0 - UFOmammut - Idolum26 - 89 - 6 - 0 - Moss - Sub Templum26 - 89 - 5 - 0 - Wetnurse - Invisible City25 - 98 - 5 - 1 - The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia24 - 100 - 6 - 0 - Ocean - Pantheon of the Lesser23 - 109 - 8 - 0 - Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God22 - 111 - 8 - 0 - Coffins - Buried Death21 - 118 - 7 - 2 - Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday20 - 123 - 8 - 0 - Sunn 0))) - Domkirke18 - 126 - 8 - 0 - Cynic - Traced in Air18 - 126 - 8 - 1 - Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier17 - 128 - 8 - 0 - Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life16 - 137 - 8 - 0 - Krallice - Krallice15 - 140 - 8 - 0 - Caina - Temporary Antennae14 - 141 - 10 - 0 - Melvins - Nude With Boots13 - 145 - 9 - 0 - Enslaved - Vertebrae12 - 155 - 10 - 0 - Meshuggah - obZen11 - 158 - 11 - 1 - The Goslings - Occasion10 - 163 - 10 - 0 - Gojira - The Way of All Flesh9 - 165 - 10 - 2 - Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner8 - 179 - 12 - 0 - 5ive - Hesperus7 - 183 - 10 - 2 - Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale6 - 203 - 11 - 1 - Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 15 - 212 - 13 - 1 - Opeth - Watershed4 - 227 - 16 - 0 - Boris - Smile3 - 276 - 19 - 0 - Earth - The Bees Made Honey...2 - 357 - 19 - 3 - Harvey Milk - Life...the Best Game in Town1 - 479 - 25 - 2 - Torche - Meanderthal
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
btw, two albums that finished here that i really wanted to like, but didn't: cynic and moonspell. people kept telling me what a great prog-rock album the cynic one is (i think Decibel called it the best prog album in years), but i just don't hear it. (that new album by diagonal sounds like WAY better prog to me; cynic was okay, but mostly bored me, as much as i kept trying to convince myself otherwise.) as for moonspell, i like moonspell, have for a really long time. or at least i used to -- sin/pecado just barely missed my pazz & jop ballot in 1997, and i'm a fan of irreligious and wolfheart, too. but with their last few albums i've been increasingly losing the plot, and the new one, to my ears, seems like a drastic leap into averageness. my loss, i guess.
― xhuxk, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:38 (fifteen years ago) link
torche doesn't remind me of foo fighters. but they do sometimes remind me of big country. which is, imo, a VERY GOOD THING. anyway, i didn't vote in this poll for the same reason as roxy, but i'm glad to see that my token metal album of the year is also the ilx metal album of the year...
(also, thanks for doing this -- gives me lots of stuff to check out.)
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:38 (fifteen years ago) link
i know, i know, i didn't vote in the ilx metal poll. sorry. maybe next year! i've been busy. and i forgot to vote in the pazz & jop! oops. anyway, for the record, here are my top 15 albums of the year:
Drautran - Throne of the Depths
Otesanek/Loss/Orthodox/Mournful Congregation - Four Burials
Execration - Syndicate of Lethargy
Septic Flesh - Communion
Brown Jenkins - Angel Eyes
Dornenreich - In Luft Geritzt
Blood of the Black Owl - A Feral Spirit
Cold Northern Vengeance - Domination and Servitude
Caina - Temporary Antennae
Impiety - Dominator
Mourning Beloveth - A Disease For The Ages
Velnias - Sovereign Nocturnal
Animus Mortis - Atrabilis (Residues From Verb & Flesh)
Ars Diavoli - Nihilo Esse
Winterfylleth - The Ghost of Heritage
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Well the whole point of the poll was to provide an end list of albums for everyone to check out. I am glad people are doing or planning to do exactly that.x-post
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i still haven't heard the torche album. i'd like to hear it. i liked the harvey milk album a bunch, but not as much as special wishes. i worked a day at the record store pricing vinyl in exchange for the fancy version of the earth album on vinyl. and i hadn't even heard it! good thing i ended up liking it so much. the made out of babies album was probably my fave indie rock album of the year. very cool.
as far as torche go, i'm a way bigger fan of the band their drummer is in, mehkago n.t., but i still want to hear the new torche. and i still need a copy of the mehkago n.t. split single with religious as fuck too. too bad i'm so poor.
http://www.noidearecords.com/bands/releases/covers/religiousasfuck_mehkago.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
i havent felt this nauseated since i first saw reek of putrefaction cover
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean now i eat off it like a plate fwiw
but yeah that is a sick cover