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

Thanks again for putting this together. Always discover a ton of cool music through these. This time was no different. My ballot:

Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Harvey Milk - Special Wishes
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Cobalt - Gin
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
Scott Walker & Sunn 0))) - Soused
Corrupted - El Mundo Frio
Converge - Jane Doe
System Of A Down - Toxicity
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano, Island, Burn
Portal - Swarth
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Swans - The Seer
Daughters - Daughters
Sunn 0))) - Black One
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit
The Body - Christs, Redeemers
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Melt Banana - Fetch
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood
Khanate - Khanate
Tool - Lateralus
Queens of the Stone Age- Songs for the Deaf
Boris - Flood
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
maudlin of the Well - Bath
maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Converge - Axe To Fall
Baroness – Blue Record
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Asva - Presences of Absences
Krallice - Diotima
Jute Gyte - Discontinuities
Mastery - VALIS
Fantômas - The Director's Cut
Harvey Milk - Life The Best Game In Town
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Deftones - White Pony
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Yob - The Great Cessation
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street
Kayo Dot - Coffins on Io
Indricothere - II
Mastodon - Remission
Boris at Last -Feedbacker
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Jesu - Jesu
Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
The Icarus Line - Penance Soirée
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Yob - Catharsis
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Swans - To Be Kind
Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness
Jute Gyte - Ressentiment
Ludicra - The Tenant
Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs
Portal – Vexovoid
Sunn 0))) - Kannon
Agalloch - The Serpent Of The Sphere
Yob - Clearing The Path To Ascend
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Oneida - Rated O
Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay
Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells
Zombi - Spirit Animal
Krallice - Krallice
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Teitanblood - Death
The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
Warhorse - As Heavens Turn to Ash
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Blood Lust
Horrendous - Anareta
Sigh - In Somniphobia
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II
Queens of the Stone Age- Rated R
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Horrendous - Ecdysis
Cathedral - The Guessing Game
Torche - Meanderthal
Boris - Pink
Om - Pilgrimage

There's also a lot of vote splitting there, there's a pretty clear consensus of what the best trad doom/stoner, screamo and drone metal albums are, much less so with DM.

― Siegbran, Saturday, 17 September 2016 13:56 (three minutes ago)

That is probably true because there seems to be so much more death metal around than most of the other subgenres. It's much more established than BM or Doom really in the more mainstream market of metal.
I've seen so many people posting on the internet asking what doom metal is , so it's popularity on ilm is peculiar i think. But even then , it only takes 20 people to place something at #2.

If death metal fans such as phil etc aren't voting because they dont like me I'd happily let someone else takeover the EOY poll so they will participate.

Siegbran did you discover anything new via the poll?

Yeah, 40 Watt Sun - I know Warning but this is really a big step up.

You think it's even better?

The Nokturnal Mortum album is pretty interesting. I dig the eclecticism, and it's got a nice flow.

Now go vote in Dedication to Polls and Voters: Notated Music Since 1890 - Voting and Discussion Thread

Ordo Ad Chao is pretty great yeah

Nokturnal Mortum made some good music, it's a shame they turned out to be a bunch of Nazis. This song always got me pumped up for the battles of life.

I preferred it when the far right made shit music. (musical) life was far easier.

Always found it lols that they latched onto Ska of all things.

Anyone else want to share their ballots? Dont think there's any stats this year

This was mine. Might have fiddled with the order a bit if I'd thought about some more:

Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
Immolation - Close to A World Below
Kvelertak - Kvelertak
Tribulation - The Children of the Night
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
Ghost - Opus Eponymous
Ghost - Meliora
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Satan - Atom By Atom
Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Elder - Lore
Enslaved - Below the Lights
Kadavar- Kadavar
KEN Mode - Success
Obliteration - Black Death Horizon
Kadavar- Abra Kadavar
Horrendous - Ecdysis
Imperial Triumphant - Abyssal Gods
Opeth - Deliverance
Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy

Once the shock of the new wore off I realised I might have wanted to like him [Jute Gyte] more than I actually did...

Despite owning loads of the CD's I cant help but feel the same way

Jute Gyte I appreciate for the out-there-ness, I guess I just wished he rocked more?

It's not really about the novelty for me. Although some of the initial draw was intellectual (the microtones, the asymmetric metres, the convoluted forms), the visceral impact is what keeps me listening. It can just feel diseased, eerie, and psychedelic in a unique and intense way. Even the weirdly airless production is part of this. I'll agree that it doesn't rock like Nachtmystium rock; more like the chained-in-the-attic bastard offspring of early Sonic Youth.

Having a listen to some of the albums that I missed, which includes the winner. It sounds quite a lot like the Sisters of Mercy, doesn't it. More challenging opinions as I have them.

My Ballot (weighted):

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Converge - Jane Doe
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Blood Lust
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Shellac - 1000 Hurts
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Vektor - Outer Isolation
Yob - The Great Cessation
Swans - The Seer
40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch
Mastodon - Leviathan
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Gris – À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée...
Isis - Oceanic
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Motörhead - Inferno
Immolation - Close to A World Below
Isis - Panopticon
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness
Queens of the Stone Age- Songs for the Deaf
Tool - Lateralus
Yob - Clearing The Path To Ascend
Clutch- Blast Tyrant
Ufomammut - Eve
The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
Morbus Chron - Sweven
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Melvins- A Senile Animal
High on Fire - Death Is This Communion
Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm
Pelican - Australasia
mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance
Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells
Dawnbringer - Nucleus
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Nails - Abandon All Life
Torche - Meanderthal
Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem
Om - Pilgrimage
Elder - Lore
Horrendous - Anareta
Reverend Bizarre - II - Crush The Insects
Satan - Life Sentence
Mastodon - Remission
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Warning - Watching From a Distance
Cough - Ritual Abuse
Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Solstafir - Svartir Sandar
Cobalt - Gin
Baroness – Blue Record
Magic Circle - Journey Blind
Absu - Tara
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Witchcraft - The Alchemist
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress
Queens of the Stone Age- Rated R
Blood Ceremony – The Eldritch Dark
Darkspace - Dark Space III
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
Thou - Heathen
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Paysage d'Hiver - Winterkälte
Nachtmystium - Asassins: Black Meddle Part 1
Skepticism - Ordeal
Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr
Pyramids - A Northern Meadow
Regarde les hommes tomber - Exile
Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Killing Joke - Pylon
Neurosis - Given To The Rising
Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers
Sumac - The Deal
Grand Magus - The Hunt
Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere

Man, this chorus is good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh9OJOx48GE

Yeah, the devil really does have the best tunes. Anyway I'm happy to see some people discover the record through this poll, even though it ended up at a lowly #229.

Fascist or not, that's some hilariously weak and cheesy Eurometal piss. Also, I don't think a "reformed" band would do a split with Graveland this very year fwiw.

Anyway I may as well post my questionable ballot.

Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
maudlin of the Well – Bath
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Virus - The Black Flux
Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
Deathspell Omega – Paracletus
Isis – Oceanic
Krallice - Years Past Matter
System Of A Down – Toxicity
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
Paintbox - Trip, Trance & Travelling
Tool – Lateralus
Spectral Lore – III
A Forest of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves of Spring
Ulver - Blood Inside
Torche – Meanderthal
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Code - Resplendent Grotesque
!T.O.O.H.! - Rad A Trest (Order and Punishment)
Gris – À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée...
Cleric – Regressions
Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Ame
The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Kayo Dot – Hubardo
Krallice – Diotima
Oceansize – Effloresce
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Pelican - Australasia
Opeth - Damnation
Old Man Gloom - Christmas
Morbus Chron – Sweven
Envy – All the Footprints You've Ever Left And Fear Expecting Ahead
Boris - New Album
Cave In – Jupiter
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
Isis - Panopticon
A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue
Deathspell Omega - FAS - Ite, Maledicti, in ignem Aeternum
Mastodon – Leviathan
Yellow Eyes - Hammer of Night
Lapsus Linguae - You Got Me Fraiche
Pyramids - A Northern Meadow
Torrential Downpour - Truth Knowledge Vision
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Liturgy - The Ark Work
Virus - Carheart
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
Tool- 10,000 Days
Swallowed - Lunarterial
Spectral Lore - Sentinel
Lantlos - Melting Sun
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valionielu
Krallice – Krallice
Oceansize - Frames
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano, Island, Burn
Murmuüre – Murmuüre
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Melt Banana - Fetch
At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
Portal - Swarth
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Sigh – Imaginary Sonicscape
Liturgy - Aesthetica
Opeth - Watershed
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Khanate - Things Viral
Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre
Cave In – Antenna
Mastodon - Remission
Krallice - Ygg Hurr
Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
Ambergris - Ambergris
Alcest - Écailles De Lune
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
The Blood Brothers - Crimes
Scott Walker & Sunn 0))) - Soused
Agalloch - The Mantle
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
Pyrrhon - The Mother of Virtues
Boris – Pink
Orthrelm - OV
Corrupted - El Mundo Frio
Opeth – Deliverance
Portal – Vexovoid
Motorpsycho - Death Defying Unicorn
Stargazer - A Great Work of Ages
Ludicra - The Tenant
Botanist – VI: Flora
Abyssal – Antikatastaseis
Isis – Celestial
Mastery - VALIS
Sumac - The Deal
James Plotkin's Atomsmasher – Phantomsmasher
Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega

great stuff, will check out the ones I haven't heard. jmm has unfortunately chosen the most Eurovision song on the Nokturnal Mortum album (and my least favourite) - try the title track and Valkyrie instead

Eurocheese and nationalism go well together.

Eh, I'm going to listen to it from the beginning, I mean I can't exactly pretend my record collection's completely free of cheese nor 100% ideologically pure (hi, Deathspell Omega).

I'm not sure this is my ballot because I had a few versions floating around but it should be pretty close. The top 10 were weighted, after that I couldn't be bothered ranking. Bold didn't place.

Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Agalloch - The Mantle
Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Yellow Swans - Going Places
Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil
Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
Across Tundras - Western Sky Ride
Boris at Last -Feedbacker

Krallice - Diotima
Krallice - Years Past Matter
Thou - Heathen
Thou - Summit
Antediluvian - Logos
Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
Rorcal - Világvége
Abyssal - Denouement
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Immolation - Majesty And Decay
Disma - Towards The Megalith
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
Inquisition - Magnificent Glorification of Lucifer
Peste Noire - La Sanie des Siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence
Year Of No Light - Ausserwelt
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
Ufomammut - Idolum
Aosoth - IV: An Arrow in Heart
Krallice - Krallice
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
Menace Ruine - Alight in Ashes
Blut aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
Desolate Shrine - The Sanctum of Human Darkness
Dirge - Wings of Lead Over Dormant Seas
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit ‎
Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu
Peste Noire - Folkfuck Folie
Ramesses - Possessed by the Rise of Magik
Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers
The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
US Christmas - Eat the Low Dogs
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Witchcraft - The Alchemist
Hate Forest - Purity
Samothrace - Reverence To Stone
40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
Across Tundras - Old World Wanderer
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Absu - Abzu
Krallice - Ygg Hurr
Absu - Absu
Immolation - Close to A World Below
Absu - Tara
Menace Ruine - Venus Armata
Locrian - Infinite Dissolution
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Tombs - Path of Totality
Burzum - Belus
Om - Conference of the Birds
Om - Pilgrimage
Om - Variations On A Theme
Swans - To Be Kind
Coffins - Buried Death
Warning - Watching From a Distance
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Zu - Carboniferous
Wrekmeister Harmonies - You’ve Always Meant So Much to Me
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
Aosoth - III
Bosse-De-Nage - III
Daughters - Daughters
Watain - Lawless Darkness
Vastum - Patricidal Lust
Envy – All the Footprints You've Ever Left And Fear Expecting Ahead
Spectral Lore - III
Sacriphyx - The Western Front
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
Murmuüre - Murmuüre
Nadja – Queller
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue
Liturgy - Aesthetica
Liturgy - Renihilation
Mgla - Exercises In Futility
High on Fire - Death Is This Communion
False - Untitled
Ash Borer - Cold of Ages

cool ballot, haven't heard of 'shipping is discreet and fast', wonder if it's mathcore

nah must be something commercial like death metal

indistinguiagable

I saw Shipping Is Discreet and Fast opening for Dimmu Borgir in '99. They were kind of bland, but their shipping was both discreet and fast.

It sounds quite a lot like the Sisters of Mercy, doesn't it.

I was trying to identify which goth rock band it reminded me of. It does sound better than I initially gave credit for tbf.

Buy high grade false Metal

Like $layer?

What albums are the best so far this year?

vektor's new one is the best metal album ever!!!!!! yours, all the metal publications on earth

it really is great though

my best of 2016 metal:

Head of the Demon - Sathanas Trismegistos [doom/black]
Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EP [death]
Wakedead Gathering - Fuscus: Strings of the Black Lyre [death/black]
Ghoulgotha - To Starve the Cross [death]
Khanus - Rites of Fire EP [death]
Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust EP [death/avant]
Ripper - Experiment of Existence [thrash/death]

hon mention to Darkthrone because I've listened to hell out of thing already even tho it's really only a 3-star record

Gorguts is amazing yeah and I liked what I heard of Cadaveric Fumes

Mesarthim's Pillars is great pop-black, although their subsequent album I'm less keen on

i think the new Oranssi Pazuzu mostly lives up to the hype as well

Obviously that is one of the two elephants in the room I'm avoiding for now, but it really is outstanding

imago you might like that Khanus EP, as it is a pretty unique death metal [odd chords, female backing choir, Finnish folk-like rhythms]

cheers, will give it a spin

I got the new Thy Catafalque and its another stunning album.

Advance talk is that the Neurosis album released tomorrow is a good one

Vektor, Oranssi, and Aluk Todolo are probably top of my list.

I made this list a while ago, albums I really liked and ones I liked on 1st or 2nd listen but need to revisit.

Aluk Todolo - Voix
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Cobalt - Slow Forever
Mesarthim - Isolate/Pillars EP/Suffocate EP/Spire.
Entropia - Ufonaut
Schammasch - Triangle
Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of Ages.
Thy Catafalque - Meta
Church of Misery - And Then There Were None
Book of Sand - Occult Anarchist Propaganda
WEIRD LIGHT - Doomicvs Vobiscvm
Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed

To re-visit

Fuath - I
Lycus - Chasms
The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
Brimstone Coven - Black Magic
Violet Cold - Magic Night
Sorrow Plagues - Sorrow Plagues
Imperceptum - Collapse Of Existence
Faunalord - The Awakening
Lascar - Absence
Ulgard - From The Northmen's Cry
Morphinist - Nihil
Eight Bells - Landless

Not heard Neurosis, Alcest, Caina yet

Some new entries here http://tinyurl.com/RYM-Metal-Albums-2016

Hammers of Misfortune - Dead Revolution is pretty good too

Woman Is The Earth, Vektor, Khemmis, Holy Grail, Anicon, Kvelertak, High Spirits for me. Probably forgetting a couple...The Body, I guess?

Anciients has a new one out soon that I'm excited to hear. The first three songs they've "leaked" have been good.

Started a thread for it so we can maybe get some others checking out some metal
Recommend the best Rock, Indie, 'Dance' & Metal albums of 2016 please

Weird not having stats this time but I dont know if anyones missing them cuz noones even asked!