~~~ 15 YEARS OF ILM POLL!!! ~~~ (Metal & Heavy Rock [+ related sub-genres] Edition) RESULTS & DISCUSSION THREAD

What is the best music for walking through London for an hour in the baking heat to from the rollout so far?

Dude, don't even stress yourself. We have almost 200 albums to entertain ourselves with in the meantime.

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Cultes des Ghoules Henbane if you want to watch decay in real time.

Mgla Exercises in Futility if you just want to feel above it all.

I'd go with Motörhead - Inferno.

I don't often say this with black metal -- who does -- but read Mgla's lyrics. They're Ligotti, Schopenhauer, Cioran, and your own viscera rolled into one.

118 Witchcraft - Witchcraft 1337.1 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/bmxEjnv.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/78bxf4S7ckC7ZIledDl1qO
spotify:album:78bxf4S7ckC7ZIledDl1qO

Much better placing than previously but still would've expected it to be top 40

117 Sunn 0))) - The GrimmRobe Demos 1342 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/vAzwEQK.jpg
https://youtu.be/VmiAq0jJymw?list=PLwPBM4hpb3mP2RgkDJQRZOy2E_85gU_AP

I'll definitely read Mgla's misanthropic lyrics later. Will revisit CDG too. Abzu is great.

116 Immolation - Close to A World Below 1343.6 Points, 7 Votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/nXthCib.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/12hFv6ZaHpXWYs5SXR4JKT
spotify:album:12hFv6ZaHpXWYs5SXR4JKT

Completely meat-and-potatoes Death Metal, but cooked to perfection.

115 The Goslings - Occasion 1345.6 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/mVBrRFC.jpg

What is YOUR favourite Goslings, CS?

Close to a World Below is just straight up evil, even when played on piano:
https://youtu.be/16zL4VMzs4g

Not sure, Imago maybe this one? theyre all good. Some of them are very different

114 Torche - Torche 1345.7 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/JZ4w7hv.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5kzGbJLPEVeSWmDxpbnhef
spotify:album:5kzGbJLPEVeSWmDxpbnhef

Still my fave Torche

I think I missed immolation in the nominations spreadsheet bc that should've been in my top five and I totally didn't vote for it :(

It's terrifying!

Woo, Torche! Hoping Meanderthal will crack the top 100.

113 Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal 1364 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/ji6zUaN.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6tD82S3aEWoeBLUnJ95ezK
spotify:album:6tD82S3aEWoeBLUnJ95ezK

Surprised this is so low though I think I ended up leaving it off my ballot

i also missed bolt thrower somehow???? ugh

anyway that immolation album should be top ten on this poll, along with immortal. i have no idea what's going to show up in the top 100 lol

There's got to be more Electric Wizard and Mastodon coming. Trying to think of some ILM favourites who haven't had anything place yet. Isis?

Woo, Torche! Hoping Meanderthal will crack the top 100.

― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:52 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same. If Harmonicraft was nommed I probably voted for that too (I can't check rn)

Isis and Mastodon are dead certs, or so I would hope.

112 Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today 1365.2 Points, 9 Voters
http://i.imgur.com/VSjfGMS.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/58sqqnhsiCuuDwHTjLFB6z
spotify:album:58sqqnhsiCuuDwHTjLFB6z

Wow, glad you reworked the listings, now a bunch of my picks placed in respectable positions.
Do people really like Witchcult Today? I think of it alongside with Let Us Prey -- middling EW bested by their 2010's releases, but I guess it's really its pretty popular.

The second track is great, not sure about the rest

111 Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun 1371.7 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/LrakD6B.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/44zxsD8WYyaxxPhdswZZAa
spotify:album:44zxsD8WYyaxxPhdswZZAa

Good album that I didn't vote for. Not sure why, really. The best bits are the theremin solos

Oh and since Rated R already placed I have to assume we are gonna have Songs for the Deaf still in the future.

Or at least, they were done live with a theremin. (Outros of Like Music and Funebre)

MY favorite Ulver came out way before 2000, there was one I liked that came out just a few years ago but I couldn't remember which one.

This is mellower and synthy, right? Another album that is in my iTunes library that I don't remember much about.

xps Huh, there are theremin solos?

you liked this one iirc

XXXP but didn't know it had theremin solos! I need to give it a listen.

This is my favourite post-90s Ulver album and it featured in my top ten. So warm and enveloping.

Lol, thanks for the reminder, CS.

The two songs I mentioned are the standouts imo, Like Music especially

i was talking to frobisher! lol

Xxxp

Listening to Immolation. I've not listened to anything like this in a good while. It is kinda terrifying,

I have Dawn of Possession on cassette. The most metal of all the formats.

There's not really much between this and Blood Inside imo, may be slightly better infact but Blood Inside gets more props for coming first

And for having better songs ;)

I think Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today is the best of their post dopethrone releases but theyve never released a less than good album. We Live is probably their weakest but they crushed on the tour for that album.

Completely agree about EW. I would love to see them live.

110 Swans - The Seer 1372 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/Kl0kJow.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6cl6u3OMuyObk20qBb1jbx
spotify:album:6cl6u3OMuyObk20qBb1jbx

shadows of the sun is amazing and i didn't vote for it either, lol. i just prefer blood inside that much, the compositions are staggering, like fifteen different kinds of music all being compressed into each other. shadows is in turn a gorgeous ambient-ish album with a really specific atmosphere i've never found in similar music

it took me a long time to realize that i have zero use for reunion swans. a lot of super intense build but with what feels like no purpose

I don't get Swans. Any of it. I don't think I ever will.