It's good, not cheesy at all
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
I voted for Basses Loaded (many xposts) but I certainly wouldn't hold it in the same regard as Ozma or Houdini or whatever. The lower fifth of my ballot was stuff I was relatively cool on, but liked enough to point it out at least.
― Tom Violence, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
TOP 75
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
75 Asphyx - Incoming Death 139 Points, 3 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/nK7KiLg.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0sI8fNf0NkTsaLPJ5GpCySspotify:album:0sI8fNf0NkTsaLPJ5GpCyS
I was about to post how most of the albums that make metal poll are also on bandcamp and that isnt the case for the general EOY poll but of course this album just had to be not on bandcamp LOL
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
Awesome record, I now feel this is the best of the three post-comeback albums.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
I was just listening to Asphyx in the car! It's pretty good, I probably would have voted for it in the lower chunk of my ballot if I'd heard it in time.
― Tom Violence, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
New drummer (also in Desaster) may have replaced the only original dude left in the band, but he's clearly a better player and the record is better for it.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
current favourite song off the album
― Siegbran, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
you mean there's nobody left from the original line up??
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Bahasphyx
74 The Body, Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache 139 Points, 5 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/EO7CTXG.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/10e41w7nH2uvjbHCwq7mYZspotify:album:10e41w7nH2uvjbHCwq7mYZ
https://neurotrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/one-day-you-will-ache-like-i-ache
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
I saw both of those bands individually this year, but have yet to hear this album
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
73 High Spirits - Motivator 140 Points, 4 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/3EnWlb8.jpghttps://highspiritsmetal.bandcamp.com/album/motivator
tags: hard rock metal rock heavy metal Chicago
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
you mean there's nobody left from the original line up??Indeed, although you can count Martin van Drunen as 'near-original' since he joined after the demos years and the (shelved) first album, he did feature on the official debut. All the other dudes are post-2007 comeback.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
that's not quite as bad then
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
if youre on the official debut that's good enough Id say
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
personally I have never cared about that ish as long as the music rules, see also: Napalm Death
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
Next one up I thought would be in the top 30
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
alcest?
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
c'mooon Schammasch
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Well for the first 20 years of the bands existence, he was in it for a grand total of 2 years (and two albums).
But the current situation around Asphyx is very fluid/incestuous, with all kinds of current and former members happily rotating between Asphyx, Hail Of Bullets, Soulburn and Grand Supreme Blood Court.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
That High Spirits album is so fun. My first vote to get in.
― jmm, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
I can never get over what a fucking great name Grand Supreme Blood Court is.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
TOO LOW FOR HIGH SPIRITS!
― alpine static, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
debut full release by some members of a legendary band
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
72 Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed 141 Points, 4 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/08z9H0n.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/5FzIKMAZkGpQwiX7rTHedDspotify:album:5FzIKMAZkGpQwiX7rTHedDhttps://inverloch.bandcamp.com/album/distance-collapsed
Melbourne, Australia’s INVERLOCH, featuring 2/4 of the legendary diSEMBOWELMENT, return with one of the most anticipated full-length debuts the metal underground has seen in years. After releasing a highly lauded EP in 2012, INVERLOCH have created another masterpiece with Distance l Collapsed, a 5-song, 40-minute LP of absolutely crushing death/doom. Buzzsaw death metal riffs and bowel splitting vocals mix alongside earth shaking dirges and blasting percussion, all wrapped together in a haunting yet beautifully dreadful atmosphere. With Distance l Collapsed, INVERLOCH prove that they are one of the finest bands making extreme music today.creditsreleased March 4, 2016
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
I have to say, I completely missed the memo on this.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
TIE70 Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure 142 Points, 4 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/sqkj0th.jpghttps://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/hideous-obscure released April 18, 2016tagstags: black metal death metal metal thrash metal Ireland
70 Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake 142 Points, 4 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/IHNcd4Q.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/0xck9hcR4dsJbR5ic4nra8spotify:album:0xck9hcR4dsJbR5ic4nra8
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
That Testament record surprised me, I think I was expecting something like late 80s Megadeth.
― Tom Violence, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
I'm looking forward to imago listening to the testament,asphyx, metallica, megadeth, and all the other old timer bands that released albums this year
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
Inverloch was part of Whiney/Rolling Stone's list of Great Albums You Didn't Hear
― sushi and the banh mis (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
69 Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis 143 Points, 4 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/dN34XKF.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/2Lbh0Eu0q6zOuu4ecyR2KOspotify:album:2Lbh0Eu0q6zOuu4ecyR2KO
https://ritualproductions.bandcamp.com/album/primal-gnosis
Horse Latitudes are known for their slow, primordial and powerful music, combining suffocating doom, black metal and hypnotic psychedelic repetition to form their colossal vision. Primal Gnosis marks the first studio contribution with Antti (Moog & noise), bringing a new dimension of dark synth into Vellu (bass), Heidi (bass) and Harri’s (drums & vocals) song-writing process.
Over the vasts spans of their tracks, the doubled-up bass guitars assail and attack notions of sparsity with a complex sense of melancholia and aggresion that, combined with the smashing constant of percussion, attain a disturbing momentum. They display their avant-ferocity in a refracted manner, confronting monastic chanting with necro savagery, leading clinically detached post-punk queues of notes in to noise-rock crevasses, all the while finding more fuel for their greedy, churning engine. A highpoint in their outré discography, and an impacting occasion for denizens of unconventional and epic heavy music.
The album was recorded in two sessions during Autumn 2015, the first taking place at Studiogenes, Ikaalinen (engineered by Kalle Nurmi), and the second at Audiospot, Helsinki (engineered by Kimmo Tyni). The album was subsequently mixed by Kalle Nurmi and mastered by James Plotkin.
CD available at www.ritualproductions.net/rites/horse-latitudes-primal-gnosis-cd/
12" DLP available at www.ritualproductions.net/rites/horse-latitudes-primal-gnosis-dlp/creditsreleased April 16, 2016tagstags: rock doom doom metal drone stoner rock London
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:48 (seven years ago) link
I kept seeing that name, Inverloch, but I sure didn't see any mention of who was in the band. Weird how that wasn't talked up much. I'll need to dip into it.
― Devilock, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
68 Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows 148 Points, 5 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/yqkBeEP.jpghttps://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cursus-impasse-the-pendlomic-vows
Within a very short period of time, Howls Of Ebb have spawned a creative surge of ominous might. Under the sign of I, Voidhanger Records, came 2014's debut “Vigils of the 3rd Eye” LP, and the wide brave expanse of 2015's “The Marrow Veil” MLP. These transcendental relics have surely left no doubts: this, in true form, is an incorporeal fetid and morbid darkness; yet, left to burn a long and wicked light.
And now, with immense pride and fortune, we introduce “Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows” LP! We welcome you to inhale this horrifying drug while gazing upon the visionary painting by Italian master Agostino Arrivabene. Sully your minds by attempting to explain what the sounds of The Sour Bogs of Mars spilling upon vapid flesh is like; or perhaps, wondering if its possible to explain the sound of psychic cadence bombing your deep synapse?
For Howls Of Ebb's “Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows” is one more step beyond “Vigils of the 3rd Eye” and “The Marrow Veil”--it is a master pendulum of transgressive osmotic reign! All Hail!creditsreleased April 15, 2016
The limbonic hymnists of HoB are Zee-Luuuvft-Huund (vibrations, low auras, polysyllabic morbid mysticisms) and Roteen' Blisssss (cadence of limp and duress, bronze aura)
Music & lyrics - ZLHFinal arrangements - HoB
Recorded, mixed and produced at Bell Collars BizarreMastered at Mike Wells Mastering
Cover art: "Theoin II" by Agostino Arrivabene
Cassette version out now via Caligari Records:caligarirecords.storenvy.com/collections/277955-all-products/products/16413183-howls-of-ebb-cursus-impasse-the-pendlomic-vows-cal-045
Vinyl version out later via NWN! Prod.tagstags: blackened death metal metal usa black metal death metal limbonic death black Italy
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
I voted for Anciients, High Spirits and Testament. I'm wondering now if the Metallica didn't make the top 100.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
the death metal sections are always imago's least fave part of metal pollalong with the trad metal sections of course ;)
oh and older established band sections...
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
wheres dominique leone this year btw?
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
Cool art. Did the heads explode, or just dissolve into another dimension?
http://www.agostinoarrivabene.it/paintings.php?idP=185
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
I voted for Howls of Ebb but I keep reading it as "Circus Impasse." Not sure what that would sound like.
― Tom Violence, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
67 Sumerlands - s/t 154 Points, 6 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/DAqCVea.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/3ILk1oFpYr8mTnZIliNjDZspotify:album:3ILk1oFpYr8mTnZIliNjDZ
https://sumerlands.bandcamp.com/releases
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
Should I go on tonight? there's a tie at #63 which is due up soon and it features an album that I thought was a surefire top 10 and possible #1 contender
or would you prefer me to stop at 65 to preserve the suspense into tomorrow?
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
SUMERLANDS explode onto the scene with their incredible self-titled debut album of classic heavy metal. Inspired by the timeless guitar-driven sound of the 70's & 80's, SUMERLANDS feature former Hour of 13 / Atlantean Kodex vocalist Phil Swanson and renowned producer Arthur Rizk (Inquisition, Power Trip, Pissgrave) on guitars and behind the boards! Powerful guitar riffs and galloping rhythms meld flawlessly together with soaring vocals and pristine production to create strong, hook-filled, moody anthems. This is a new wave of American Heavy Metal at its finest!creditsreleased September 16, 2016
2016 Relapse Recordswww.relapse.comwww.relapserecords.bandcamp.com
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link
go down to 61 imo
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link
howls of ebb seem quite interesting?
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:12 (seven years ago) link
Howls of Ebb is very interesting, as is pretty much everything on I, Voidhanger Recs.
And I don't have a preference for the rollout timetable. This Inverloch has zoned me out in a pleasant way so, uh, yeah, do what thou wilt.
― Devilock, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:14 (seven years ago) link
down to 61 today and then 20 per day thereafter seems right
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:15 (seven years ago) link
interlock was in my top 5, thought it would be a little higher.
― auto focus, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
Inverloch