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

An Imago vote one assumes

Oh yay! I am wearing my DHG t-shirt even now. A Umbra Omega is a grand and astonishing work.

My #2! VERY nearly my #1. There's no track pick. You just have to hear it all, and to trust me. One of maybe the five best prog albums of all time

Vicotnik is like the Garm that nobody's heard of, and he might be an even more complex and interesting songwriter

And this is one of those gargantuan albums whose length is a bonus, not a chore. I never want it to end. It's like peak VDGG

A dark adventure through the very limits of metal composition

(post the next one or I'll keep going)

A traipse through lucid madness! A theatrical dirge to the psychedelic power of true sadness!

Can you handle the hunger?

And another former EOY poll winner coming up next..

84 Torche - Meanderthal 1668.7 Points, 12 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/ansnLd3.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/06wsfNFbTnic3IgNmKQArq
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Amnesian is a jam

83 Devin Townsend - Terria 1675.3 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/OTW5J2W.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/52QGCpnnpPzD6qD9Y6eU0L
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Most of this is a jam. Try 'Canada' or 'The Fluke'

Love that Torche album so much. Thick slabs of melody.

I tried with DHG but couldn't stand the guy's voice.

Ashamed to say I've still not heard those early Baroness EPs.

82 Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower 1688 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/m3clQVu.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5vH0eEpO8S3Nr6bGpE3cL1
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is this ^ gonna be higher than SOMA?? because that would be a mistake. (apologies if I missed SOMA earlier in the rollout.)

Voted for Surrounded by Thieves AZ nd Discontinuities. Thieves is my #22!

Xp and Grief's Infernal Flower too! Some great records that were probably TOO LOW on my ballot

81 Negură Bunget - Om 1689.6 Points, 11 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/8unMOCf.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1EbBtf7i8sopqERrvrBAC1
spotify:album:1EbBtf7i8sopqERrvrBAC1

Good album, but Tesarul De Lumini towers above everything (and most other BM, tbf)

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I voted for this too. So beautiful! Listening now and I also wish I'd put it higher. Kingfisher is something else

And this! Majority of my votes already featured by this point.

Another good one.

80 Pantheist - Pantheist 1698 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/lG3742M.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/71TZFUstJFDznPPlk7ObVj
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Such a change in sound from Pantheist from Funeral Doom to a proggy/avant garde sound but a great album it was.
I wonder if there will ever be a follow up.
This did quite well in the EOY poll iirc

btw drugs a money, a couple of regular eoy voters who like the same stuff as you usually did not vote this time :(

If only, eh?

, but Tesarul De Lumini towers above everything (and most other BM, tbf)

― imago,

It is definitely one of my fave tracks of all time. But there was no point in having a tracks poll as no one bothers voting in those

A Umbra Omega was my #100, I've never been able to work out how much I like it.

Meanderthal is classic.

I'm going to give Pantheist a go, I know nothing about it and feeling mildly adventurous

79 Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit 1717.5 Points, 11 Votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/WJhE9ho.jpg
https://youtu.be/Nyo8DPT15cc?list=PL5d_44T5Oc1p7hQfK4Y5uoRzNJ5LfaoRE

2011 top 8 . funny how some of these are in the same batch of results

2011 Metal Poll Results
https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visualizer/V2Visualizer.do?domain=ILM-Metal-2010-2&query=Winners

1. Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street (1,601 Points, 39 Votes, 5 #1s)
2. Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit (1,599 Points, 40 Votes, 4 #1s)
3. YOB - Atma (1,527 Points, 41 Votes, 2 #1s)
4. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (1,371 Points, 34 Votes, 4 #1s)
5. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (1,351 Points, 36 Votes, 2 #1s)
6. Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance (1,344 Points, 35 Votes, 4 #1s)
7. Mastodon - The Hunter (1,253 Points, 33 Votes, 6 #1s)
8. Pantheïst - Pantheist (1,187 Points, 30 Votes, 2 #1s)

It is kinda funny actually

If an album isn't on Spotify/Apple Music does that mean no one will bother check it out?

78 Ludicra - The Tenant 1722.6 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/Q6Gvzil.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/156jl5DzVWjnBL4Ka3lAGC
spotify:album:156jl5DzVWjnBL4Ka3lAGC

oh terria placed! legit masterpiece imo

I have a limited to 50 copies version of this on LP with screenprinted covers.

No, it's not worth anything.

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I am also listening to Pantheist. A very promising start!

Yes, The Tenant is a great album, I wasn't expecting it to place since it didn't appear in the extreme metal poll

77 Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr 1727 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/PmJSyEZ.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5DSq4nUklqVcy5GlW03kZm
spotify:album:5DSq4nUklqVcy5GlW03kZm

new album is out on friday

76 Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull 1728 Points, 10 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/611bvF4.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/50lybClNAQNfmuaRhrlGBa
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Im ok with this album but ended up throwing my vote to Primitive and Deadly, which has From the Zodiacal Light

was this the one after hex?

Its the 2008 one is all I know

That was my #2 or 3 I think. Not metal but a gorgeous record

75 The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch 1751.6 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/mhNviNM.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0IKnSTQkwGtfkEmU7NlaIZ
spotify:album:0IKnSTQkwGtfkEmU7NlaIZ

I assume its dinnertime in the imago household hence he silence?

Such a good Gates of Slumber album - the new band 'Wretch' is really quite good in same vein as well.

Wow, Pantheist was wonderful! Heavy on cheese and melodrama, but really very imaginative and as CS mentioned, very changeable of genre. Broken Statue was my favourite track.

Haha dinnertime here is usually about midnight, if at all. I've just been running amongst deer and goats and imago is promulgating wisdom throughout the land.

writing some kid's arthur miller homework for him

How is francis?

74 Om - Conference of the Birds 1771.1 Points, 10 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/mvQ0A9b.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/39uMVfHAEVA703aEcEQln5
spotify:album:39uMVfHAEVA703aEcEQln5

Francis is his usual lugubrious baked-out self!

That Earth album is quite good, but it isn't the one that made my top ten