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

There's actually a lot of stuff placing high that I just don't give the time of day to ever.

― BlackIronPrison,

the death and black metal that tends to dominate?

Primordial - To The Nameless Dead has been a nice discovery. I bought it and listened to it at the gym this morning. Loved it so much.

This makes me happy.

I also really regret not voting for the Dodheimsgard record, 'cause it's pretty sick.

I feel you -- only about a fifth of my ballot has placed, and tho it's nice to see what others' are digging, at times it's felt like I was voting in a different poll than everyone else.

That said, I firmly expect Archgoat to dominate the top 20.

Your ballot will be challenging Siegbran's as the most obscure underground metal ballot though! That cant be a surprise!

I still don't think I'm totally aware of what is and isn't obscure in extreme metal. Like, I think Darkthrone and Gorguts are famous bands in this context. Tho I do expect Gorguts to still show up

My ballot was not that obscure, it had Limp Bizkit and Rammstein on it!

and my chemical romance and slipknot

No they're shit.

i am also happy @ people being happy about Primordial

These polls aren't really a good gauge of what is obscure or not. Most metal lists are very different from the ones that are usually produced here, which is why I'm glad we have these. Nice to see my taste reflected somewhere.

or do your tastes just reflect the influence of ILM? ;)

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Listening to Thy Catafalque now. This is a happy discovery.

good, new album out tomorrow!

Anyone else got some good new discoveries?

Goslings sound good and I look forward to giving GOH a proper listen

yes, have listened to Ordo Ad Chao like 5 times this week from the poll. It's going to cause me to listen to everything Mayhem did, because before now, I was really only into their early stuff

Favourites from memory: Goslings, lovely Alcest, Elder (from before the rollout), Esoteric, Absu, Immolation, Cynic

I'm loving the Corrupted I've checked out.

oh good, which ones jmm?

Check the price

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Tower Falls is still my favourite Baroness song

I'll start about lunchtime I suppose but anyone got any hopes for the top 20?

I hope To The Nameless Dead shows up again just for good measure

Fuck, I just had a nice post about listening to Darkspace III and my computer sent it to the frigid unthinkable expanse of the void. I like the album so far (a few minutes in) but I prefer Petrychor for black metal about the unbearable emptiness of space.

Was Petrychor not nominated at all? I would have totally voted for them.

I'll start about lunchtime I suppose but anyone got any hopes for the top 20?

I hope the top 20 is not just Yob's 8th album and Darkspace's 12th album and Jute Gyte's 25th album.

lunchtime where, Cosmic Slop? need to do some time zone math...

90% of my ballot has already placed, and only one more actually will. I have no idea what's going to be in this top 20! Looking forward to hearing ILM's favourite metal.

Top 20 predictions? what hasn't popped yet that definitely will?

popped *up*, I mean

Top 20:

the 2 best Agalloch albums
Gorguts
Weakling
50 more doom/stoner albums
no Thou yet so hopefully some (otherwise it's a travesty)
Ghost bleh
whichever Jute Gyte albums haven't showed up yet
some Dead Congregation hopefully
more Inquisition? seems unlikely
Isis
no Menace Ruine most likely
the best Peste Noire album has yet to show up so
more Krallice hopefully
I think we're done with Mastodon thank Satan
some big name like Slayer?
Svartidauði?

Dopesmoker, Dopethrone, other albums with "Dope" in the title

I'd like to think Keldian's Outbound would make it but a) ilx hates celestial equine supernova power metal, and b) more importantly, I fucking forgot to put it on my ballot

Colored Sands was my #2 because I'm not always riding the horse

yay for botanist!
love that record, think i was the number one voter

Aw, that's a good number one. I love that album too.

Listening to Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde again and the track 'Ciel Errant' is actually the Dashboard Confessional song 'Vindicated'.

Don't think there's much left from my ballot that could place apart from Agalloch, Isis and maaaaybe the s/t Jesu album. Boris' Feedbacker could make it I guess.

I imagine Celtic Frost - Monotheist and maybe the other Triptykon will show up, Tom G Warrior always does well in these things.

Oh, I forgot Monoliths and Dimensions! That's got to place, surely.

No idea what #1 will be, kind of hope it won't be Dopethrone, am not the biggest EW fan and it'd be nice if is was something less retro.

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imagine there's another uncle acid album to place too

Tom G Warrior always does well in these things.

As well he should.

I would think as far as Sunn goes that M&D is certain, and Kannon, Altar (with Boris) and White 2 might get a look in? Though my feeling is these latter three are all considered relatively minor?

He's someone I can appreciate but it's not really my kind of metal (xpost).

I had better see some Anata in the results. I just realized they haven't shown up. But tech death, even if it doesn't sound like the usual tech death, may not do well here.

I'm listening to the Voice Of Steel title track again. Holy shit, this is (ignoring JG a second here) a metal-song-of-decade contender

Quindecade!

I'm partial to "Valkyrie," mainly for that guitar solo.

If you like that triumphant eastern euro pagan black metal I'm sure Siegbran can help; I'm not too keyed into the scene. I've heard of bands like Kroda and Temnozor but never actually listened to them.

Horn from Germany is amazing, though, but the production is a little ... fizzy.