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

Def a fan of both of these.

27 Carcass - Surgical Steel 2921 Points, 16 Votes, One #1
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https://open.spotify.com/album/7ncsoREb5KN50j3wfJ2peo
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Le Secret is what I always wanted 'blackgaze' to be and what it so rarely turned out to be.

I'm listening to that other Alcest album with the green cover and oh wow, why don't I know this? This is everything I like!

Enya?

Closing track's nice I guess :P

(Am listening to Le Secret - two tracks in - and it's decent yeah)

26 Botanist - VI: Flora 2936.5 Points, 16 Votes, One #1
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https://open.spotify.com/album/7vvxTw0EC1gctS1q8jNxUS
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I figured Carcass for a #1 contender. Maybe it's in that awkward stage where the hype is too recent.

This ^^^^^^ is what I want for my blackgaze. Dulcimer delectation!

Oh hey this album rules!

Oh yeah, no denying this one.

surgical steel>>>>>>>>

guessing that's the last of my ballot to place before...

oh wait no, at least two left

Pleasantly surprised to see Botanist this high!

I went for Doom in Bloom but yeah, good to see him in there.

25 Ghost - Opus Eponymous 2980.6 Points, 18 Votes, One #1
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https://open.spotify.com/album/5aEgt9uHrVL3QGzKaUSy2J
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I've never got on with Alcest and the more, well, overtly emotional black metal stuff. I prefer the emotion to be buried, or anterior, almost incidental - not so proscriptive. I don't know.
Plus it reminds me of seeing Anathema and My Dying Bride back in the early 90s. Yes, I am old.

Anathema and My Dying Bride were terrible though

I still quite like Serenades, but yeah.

Anathema and My Dying Bride were terrible though

this is 100 percent untrue

I am one of those annoying people who disregarded Ghost for years then finally got into them bigtime in the last few months. None of their albums made my ballot but Meliora has some amazing songs on it. Sometimes they remind me of Club Ninja era BOC.

(and the YT clip of them performing 3 songs at Amoeba is one of my favorite things ever)

I think their new EP is gonna have a Eurythmics cover (assuming that's what "Missionary Man" is).

Re: Brad. Oh god, we still have a few albums from them, don't we?

Exhibit A in the argument of imago and Brad being the same.

I am not interested in non-Japanese Ghost in the slightest, but am amused that a band can build a huge following by copping late BOC

i doubt anathema or mdb will place at all? were they even nominated?

anyway serenades and silent enigma are incredible gothy doom albums, beyond me why y'all don't fuck with them

I am one of those annoying people who think Ghost are irredeemable fucking garbage

totally indifferent to ghost, wish i liked them

I'm not a fan either.

Exhibit A in the argument of imago and Brad being the same.

does lj even like goth metal? idk what to make of this

I like all of these bands tbh

Didn't vote in this tho, too overwhelming

24 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf 2981.4 Points, 16 Votes, One #1

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https://open.spotify.com/album/4w3NeXtywU398NYW4903rY
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voted for rated r. this record is less good but still good

Its the 2nd best Qotsa after the first one

I found a good piece of writing relating to Ghost the other day, by a Canadian indigenous activist/metalhead. I think this is quality metal writing.

https://moontimewarrior.com/2016/04/30/my-optimism-wears-moccasins-and-is-loud/

23 Mastodon - Remission 2989.666667 Points, 17 Votes, TWO #1's
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https://open.spotify.com/album/3pVCnqg7COWlaodlNiJIZL
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the only good mastodon album

jk

22 Mastodon - Leviathan 3094.666667 Points, 16 Votes, One #1
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https://open.spotify.com/album/6khFoLWnJZDQvZ7Pijym3b
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oh wow i was worried this would be no. 1, but also i voted for it so lol. the album that got me back into metal

hah me too actually! This and Blessed Black Wings...

Remission and Oceanic for me

Mastodon's run of first four albums is so great. Can't get into anything after sadly

the only good mastodon album

Because they're not very good singers?

Yes, that's what I meant.

21 High On Fire - The Art Of Self Defense 3102.2 Points, 14 Votes, TWO #1's
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https://open.spotify.com/album/4ENa1krCxl7IQ0DbtMOMLy
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..and there is me loving the clean singing version of mastodon.
different strokes for different folks.

and high on fire?

RECAP 300-21
300 Clutch - Blast Tyrant 558 3
299 Enslaved - Ruun 559 4 0
298 Comets on Fire - Comets on Fire 560 3 0
297 Pyramids - A Northern Meadow 560 4 0
296 Satan - Atom By Atom 562 3 0
295 Xasthur - To Violate The Oblivious 564 4 0
294 Nightwish - Wishmaster 567.1666667 5 0
293 Panopticon - Roads to the North 572 3 0
292 Melvins - A Senile Animal 572.6666667 5 0
291 Fantômas - The Director's Cut 577.6666667 5 0

289 Vektor - Outer Isolation 580 3 0
289 maudlin of the Well - Bath 580 3 0
288 Horseback - The Invisible Mountain 581.5 4 0
287 Slipknot - Iowa 582 4 0
286 High on Fire - Death Is This Communion 583.1666667 5 0
285 Devil - Time to Repent 584.1162791 4 0
284 Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre 586 4 0
283 Neurosis - Given To The Rising 586 5 0
282 Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness 590.5 4 0
281 Domains - Sinister Ceremonies 592 2 1
280 Melechesh - Sphynx 595.6666667 5 0

279 Cough - Ritual Abuse 596 3 0
278 Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess 599 3 0
277 Sunn 0))) - White 1 599.6666667 3 0
276 Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor 602 3 0
275 Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand 603.6666667 3 0
274 Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis 605.5 3 0
273 Obliteration - Black Death Horizon 608 4 0
272 Swans - To Be Kind 613.6666667 4 0
271 Toxic Holocaust - Hell on Earth 614 4 0
270 Devin Townsend - Addicted 615.6666667 3 0

269 Enslaved - Mardraum - Beyond the Within 629 4 0
267 Blut aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God 630 3 1
267 Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye 630 3 1
266 Sunn 0))) - Flight Of The Behemoth 632 3 0
265 Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - La Novia 633 4 0
264 Metallica - St. Anger 634 3 0
263 Cloud Rat - Qliphoth 635.6666667 4 0
261 Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil 638 3 0
261 Panopticon - Kentucky 638 3 0
260 Deafheaven - New Bermuda 649 4 0

259 Summoning - Oath Bound 650 3 0
258 Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction 652 4 0
257 Thumpermonkey - Sleep Furiously 656 3 0
256 Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part 2 656.1162791 4 0
255 Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers 659.6666667 5 0
254 Oneida - Rated O 664.1162791 4 0
253 Skepticism - Farmakon 665 4 0
252 Vastum - Patricidal Lust 667.6666667 4 0
251 Raventale - After 675 4 0
250 Gojira - The Way of All Flesh 680 5 0

249 Darkspace - Dark Space I 686.5 5 0
248 EyeHateGod - Confederacy of Ruined Lives 687.6666667 5 0
247 Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients 690 4 0
246 Satan - Life Sentence 692 5 0
245 Stargazer - A Great Work of Ages 693.6666667 5 0
243 Mournful Congregation - Book Of Kings 697 4 0
243 Sunn 0))) - ØØ Void 697 4 0
242 Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy 698 4 0
241 Sannhet - Revisionist 701 5 0
240 Mastodon - Blood Mountain 703.6666667 5 0

239 Yob - Elaborations of Carbon 707.1666667 4 0
238 The Darkness - Permission To Land 708 3 1
237 Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells 712 5 0
236 Krallice - Ygg Hurr 712.3333333 7 0
235 Enslaved - Isa 713 5 0
234 Nails - Abandon All Life 714 5 0
233 KEN Mode - Success 716 4 0
232 Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey 717.2829457 5 0
231 Babymetal - Babymetal 718 3 0
230 Gojira - From Mars to Sirius 723 5 0

229 Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel 736 3 1
228 Motörhead - Inferno 737.1666667 5 0
227 Opeth - Watershed 739.6666667 6 0
226 Menace Ruine - Venus Armata 742.6666667 6 0
225 Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather 743.7829457 5 0
224 Tribulation - The Children of the Night 748 4 0
223 Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue 751.6666667 4 0
222 Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard 753.6666667 4 0
221 Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm 759.6666667 6 0
220 Spectral Lore - III 763.6666667 4 0

219 Deathspell Omega - Paracletus 767.6666667 6 0
218 Baroness - Purple 771.1666667 7 0
217 Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape 773.6666667 7 0
216 Opeth - Ghost Reveries 779.6666667 6 0
215 Yob - The Illusion of Motion 787.1666667 4 0
214 Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss 790.8333333 6 0
213 Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux 796 3 0
212 Asva - Presences of Absences 805.6666667 4 0
211 My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge 805.6666667 5 0
210 Zu - Carboniferous 822.1666667 6 0

209 Yellow Swans - Going Places 822.4146341 4 0
208 Murmuüre - Murmuüre 828.6666667 6 0
207 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones 835.5 5 0
206 Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane 842 4 0
205 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée... 844 5 0
204 Oneida - Secret Wars 845.1162791 5 0
203 Om - Pilgrimage 849.7829457 7 0
202 Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer 851.6666667 5 0
201 Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame 853.6666667 5 0
200 Orphaned Land - Mabool 856 4 1

199 Liturgy - The Ark Work 857 5 0
198 Solstafir - Otta 858.6666667 5 0
197 Shape of Despair - Shades Of... 862 4 0
196 Krallice - Years Past Matter 864.6666667 5 0
195 Yob - Atma 871.1666667 6 0
194 Portal - Vexovoid 872 8 0
193 asg - blood drive 873.6666667 5 0
192 Electric Wizard - Time To Die 874.7829457 7 0
191 Mastodon - The Hunter 875.6666667 5 0
190 mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas 901.3333333 7 0

189 In Solitude - The World. The Flesh. The Devil 903.7829457 6 0
188 Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution Into the Continuum 905 4 1
187 Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide 914 5 0
186 Morbus Chron - Sweven 926.6666667 7 0
185 Alcest - Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Ame 938 4 0
184 Mgla - Exercises In Futility 943.3333333 6 0
183 Oceansize - Everyone Into Position 944 4 0
182 Disma - Towards The Megalith 971.6666667 5 0
181 Jute Gyte - Isolation 975.1666667 6 0
180 Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm 981.6666667 6 0

179 A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See 988 5 0
178 Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées 991.1162791 6 0
177 Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation 991.6666667 7 0
176 Liturgy - Aesthetica 999.6666667 7 0
175 Mastery - VALIS 1002 7 0
174 The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller 1002.5 7 0
173 Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg 1006 5 0
172 Zombi - Spirit Animal 1009.616279 7 0
171 Ulver - Blood Inside 1019.782946 5 1
170 Virus - The Black Flux 1027.666667 7 0

169 Cynic - Traced In Air 1027.666667 7 1
168 Baroness - Yellow & Green 1029.666667 5 0
167 Kylesa - Static Tensions 1033.616279 7 0
166 Shellac - 1000 Hurts 1033.666667 6 0
165 The Goslings - Between The Dead 1033.666667 5 0
164 Mayhem - Ordo ad chao 1035 6 1
163 Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields 1040.666667 6 0
162 Mournful Congregation - The June Frost 1063 6 0
161 Drudkh - Autumn Aurora 1077.414634 7 0
160 Tool - 10000 Days 1079.666667 6 0

159 Reverend Bizarre - II - Crush The Insects 1080.116279 6 0
158 Psychic Paramount - II 1088 7 0
157 Deftones - White Pony 1094 6 0
156 Darkspace - Dark Space II 1094.5 8 0
155 Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage 1096 6 0
154 Oranssi Pazuzu - Valionielu 1108.414634 9 0
153 Solstafir - Svartir Sandar 1111 6 0
152 Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper 1117.616279 7 0
151 Beastmilk - Climax 1119.5 6 0

150 Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern 1122 6 0
149 Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness 1128.666667 7 0
148 Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance 1135 7 0
147 Fen - Epoch 1146 7 0
146 Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars 1146.666667 9 0
145 Slough Feg - Hardworlder 1150.5 7 0
144 Enslaved - Below the Lights 1160.666667 8 0
143 Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters 1181 8 0
142 Jesu - Conqueror 1183 7 0
141 Agrypnie - 16[485] 1190 5 0
140 Christian Mistress - Agony and Opium 1195.5 6 0

139 Gridlink - Longhena 1197.666667 7 1
138 Horrendous - Anareta 1201.333333 8 0
137 The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute 1207.666667 6 0
136 Boris - Dronevil 1237.081301 7 0
135 Boris - Pink 1240 9 0
134 Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury 1241.081301 8 2
133 Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend 1256.666667 7 1
132 Oneida - Each One Teach One 1260.782946 8 0
131 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control 1269.282946 9 0
130 Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R 1273.449612 10 1

129 The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano, Island, Burn 1273.666667 7 0
128 Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left And Fear Expecting Ahead 1279.666667 8 0
127 The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand 1280.333333 8 1
126 Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ 1286 6 0
125 Jute Gyte - Vast Chains 1293.166667 7 1
124 Absu - Absu 1301.166667 7 0
123 Harvey Milk - Life The Best Game In Town 1302.166667 9 0
122 Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness 1304.166667 10 0
121 Melt Banana - Fetch 1316.116279 9 0

120 Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise 1328 7 0
119 Absu - Abzu 1331.166667 7 0
118 Witchcraft - Witchcraft 1337.116279 8 0
117 Sunn 0))) - The GrimmRobe Demos 1342 6 0
116 Immolation - Close to A World Below 1343.666667 7 1
115 The Goslings - Occasion 1345.666667 6 0
114 Torche - Torche 1345.782946 8 0
113 Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal 1364 7 0
112 Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today 1365.282946 9 0
111 Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun 1371.782946 8 0
110 Swans - The Seer 1372 6 0

109 Blues Pills - Blues Pills 1373.666667 7 0
108 Electric Wizard - Black Masses 1374.782946 10 0
107 Panopticon - Autumn Eternal 1378.666667 8 0
106 Baroness - Blue Record 1403.166667 9 0
105 Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical 1411 7 0
104 Om - Variations On A Theme 1423.449612 8 0
103 The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen 1433.5 7 0
102 Jute Gyte - Ressentiment 1440.833333 10 0
101 Cave In - Jupiter 1443.666667 7 0
100 Bölzer - Aura 1453 8 0

99 Darkspace - Dark Space IIII 1456.166667 8 1
98 The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium 1489.333333 8 1
97 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room 1501.666667 7 0
96 High on Fire - Surrounded by Thieves 1508.166667 8 0
95 Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones 1510.666667 9 0
94 Converge - Axe To Fall 1511.833333 10 0
93 Baroness - Red Album 1531.5 8 0
92 Jute Gyte - Discontinuities 1535.166667 10 0
91 Deathspell Omega - FAS - Ite, Maledicti, in ignem Aeternum 1549 10 0
90 Yob - The Unreal Never Lived 1585.166667 7 0

89 Saint Vitus - LILLIE: F-65 1599.782946 7 0
88 Yob - Clearing The Path To Ascend 1639.166667 10 0
87 Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street 1645.782946 11 1
86 Baroness - First & Second 1659.5 7 1
85 Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega 1667.666667 8 0
84 Torche - Meanderthal 1668.782946 12 0
83 Devin Townsend - Terria 1675.333333 9 0
82 Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower 1688 8 0
81 Negură Bunget - Om 1689.666667 11 0
80 Pantheïst - Pantheist 1698 7 0

79 Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit 1717.5 11 1
78 Ludicra - The Tenant 1722.666667 9 0
77 Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr 1727 9 0
76 Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull 1728 10 0
75 The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch 1751.666667 7 0
74 Om - Conference of the Birds 1771.116279 10 0
73 Agalloch - The Serpent Of The Sphere 1772.5 9 0
72 Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets 1776 11 0
71 Harvey Milk - Special Wishes 1791.782946 9 0
70 Myrkur - M 1799.616279 11 0

69 Primordial - To the Nameless Dead 1811.666667 9 0
68 At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command 1853.666667 10 0
67 Darkspace - Dark Space III 1894.5 13 0
66 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind 1903.833333 12 0
65 Earth - Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method 1916.116279 9 0
64 Scott Walker & Sunn 0))) - Soused 1917.666667 9 0
63 Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars 1927 10 0
62 Andrew WK - I Get Wet 1954.081301 10 0
61 Yob - The Great Cessation 1969.166667 12 0
60 5ive - Hesperus 1976 8 0

59 High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings 1989.833333 10 0
58 Elder - Lore 2053.666667 13 0
57 Boris - Flood 2067.666667 10 0
56 Ameseours - Ameseours 2089 9 0
55 Boris - Akuma no Uta 2092.666667 10 0
54 Opeth - Blackwater Park 2103 12 0
53 Om - Advaitic Songs 2112.116279 10 0
52 SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods 2113.530913 14 0
51 Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay 2124 9 0

50 System Of A Down - Toxicity 2127.666667 10 0
49 Goat - World Music 2211.616279 12 0
48 Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus 2212.166667 10 1
47 Warning - Watching From a Distance 2215.333333 10 1
46 Nachtmystium - Asassins: Black Meddle Part 1 2270.116279 10 0
45 The Goslings - Grandeur Of Hair 2271.333333 10 0
44 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 2273.282946 11 1
43 Monarch - 666 2285.666667 9 0
42 Mastodon - Crack the Skye 2289.782946 12 0
41 Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale 2332.833333 14 1
40 Corrupted - El Mundo Frio 2363.833333 14 0

39 SubRosa - No Help For the Mighty Ones 2372.616279 13 0
38 Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock 2387.166667 14 0
37 Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow 2411.5 13 1
36 Deafheaven - Sunbather 2449 13 0
35 Absu - Tara 2449.166667 14 1
34 Yob - Catharsis 2494.833333 12 1
33 Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde 2545.666667 14 0
32 Sunn 0))) - Black One 2557 12 0
31 Corrupted - Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos 2682.833333 15 1
30 Khanate - Khanate 2746.333333 13 0

29 Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit 2813.5 14 2
28 Alcest - Le Secret 2873 13 0
27 Carcass - Surgical Steel 2921 16 1
26 Botanist - VI: Flora 2936.5 16 1
25 Ghost - Opus Eponymous 2980.69758 18 1
24 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf 2981.449612 16 1
23 Mastodon - Remission 2989.666667 17 2
22 Mastodon - Leviathan 3094.666667 16 1
21 High On Fire - The Art Of Self Defense 3102.282946 14

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