Fuck Brumpxit its the 2016 Metal and Hard N' Heavy Rock Poll Results Thread (With spotify and bandcamp links)

TIE

70 Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure 142 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/sqkj0th.jpg
https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/hideous-obscure
released April 18, 2016
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tags: black metal death metal metal thrash metal Ireland

70 Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake 142 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/IHNcd4Q.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0xck9hcR4dsJbR5ic4nra8
spotify:album:0xck9hcR4dsJbR5ic4nra8

That Testament record surprised me, I think I was expecting something like late 80s Megadeth.

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

Inverloch was part of Whiney/Rolling Stone's list of Great Albums You Didn't Hear

69 Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis 143 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/dN34XKF.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Lbh0Eu0q6zOuu4ecyR2KO
spotify: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/
credits
released April 16, 2016
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tags: rock doom doom metal drone stoner rock London

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.

68 Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows 148 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/yqkBeEP.jpg
https://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!
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released 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 - ZLH
Final arrangements - HoB

Recorded, mixed and produced at Bell Collars Bizarre
Mastered 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.
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tags: blackened death metal metal usa black metal death metal limbonic death black Italy

I voted for Anciients, High Spirits and Testament. I'm wondering now if the Metallica didn't make the top 100.

the death metal sections are always imago's least fave part of metal poll
along with the trad metal sections of course ;)

oh and older established band sections...

wheres dominique leone this year btw?

Cool art. Did the heads explode, or just dissolve into another dimension?

http://www.agostinoarrivabene.it/paintings.php?idP=185

I voted for Howls of Ebb but I keep reading it as "Circus Impasse." Not sure what that would sound like.

67 Sumerlands - s/t 154 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/DAqCVea.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3ILk1oFpYr8mTnZIliNjDZ
spotify:album:3ILk1oFpYr8mTnZIliNjDZ

https://sumerlands.bandcamp.com/releases

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?

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!
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released September 16, 2016

2016 Relapse Records
www.relapse.com
www.relapserecords.bandcamp.com

go down to 61 imo

howls of ebb seem quite interesting?

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.

down to 61 today and then 20 per day thereafter seems right

interlock was in my top 5, thought it would be a little higher.

Inverloch

ok howls of ebb is by a distance the best discovery so far (although i was also digging urfaust and saor)

(and rotting christ)

dang i also forgot to vote for inverloch

66 Eight Bells - Landless 156 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/xAYUtS7.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5dfi3L9UmI9vaHBjNyfTb2
spotify:album:5dfi3L9UmI9vaHBjNyfTb2

https://eightbells.bandcamp.com/album/landless

I still need to buy this

65 Anicon - Exegeses 160 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/Ekf7USR.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2wspUSjeld7jT7WRFi30my
spotify:album:2wspUSjeld7jT7WRFi30my

https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/exegeses

"Exegeses" is Anicon (New York City) debut album after an handful of eps and demos!
The band comprises members from the raging outfits of Krallice, Trenchgrinder, Geryon.. to name a few of their past and present CVs.

Digital and cd (digipack) preorder will start in mid June, for a release set on 07/07 (cd)

Vinyl will be released in late August 2016 by Gilead Media
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released July 7, 2016

Nolan Voss - Guitar & Vocals
Owen Rundquist - Guitar & Vocals
Alex DeMaria - Bass
Lev Weinstein - Drums

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Colin Marston
At Menegroth, Queens, NY, November 2015

All Photography by Kari Greer
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tags: black metal colin marston metal avantgarde metal dark metal doom metal krallice sund4rmetal Italy

I think I listened to a couple Anicon tracks last year but the full length totally eluded me.

I liked it a lot more than I thought I would; thought it was gonna be some kind of Cascadian or even avant-garde USBM, but it's just really well done melodic black metal. Nothing original but good enough to make my top 20.

yeah this album rocks

weirdly I only learned about it via the Steve Hoffman forums -- or at least via the meager metal thread that slithers around between the discussions of Steely Dan reissues

i can't even remember why i heard it

the end of the howls of ebb album gave me a vision of the winning manager of a football match taking the ball and destroying it so it can't be used again

so that tie at #63...

TIE
63 Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EP 164 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/U48LjqP.jpg
https://cadavericfumes.bandcamp.com/album/dimensions-obscure

tags: cadaveric fumes death metal dimensions metal obscure Rennes

you sure you want to know the other part of the tie tonight?

oh i would've voted for that but i only voted for one ep. it's great

this was cute! didn't vote for it but did enjoy it :)

bring on the other part of the tie, yes

Metallica?

It's one of the best reviewed albums of the year high in the rym list too

ulcerate

is my guess

63 Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us 164 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/ZEVuCxf.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1Wk98w43t7axsezT1GAgR6
spotify:album:1Wk98w43t7axsezT1GAgR6

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21982-you-will-never-be-one-of-us/

7.8

Nails make music for when you look at life and see little of value, for when you're feeling bitter and alone. On their latest, they make a little room for others to stare at the void with them.

Over the course of their seven years in action, Nails have dedicated themselves to exploring the isolating nature of existential malaise. They’ve called their two full length LPs Unsilent Death and Abandon All Life, and on those two records, the Oxnard, California trio have perfected their defiant approach to the yawning void. They preach fatalist atheism or enact brutal masochism while diving headfirst into hardcore's darkest corners (grindcore, powerviolence, and d-beat just to name a few), and that’s all in the course of just a minute or two. It's music for when you look at life and see little of value, for when you're feeling bitter and alone in the face of chaos. Vocalist Todd Jones made his intentions clear at the peak of the 2012’s “No Surrender”: “My goal/Cause you pain.”

To that end, You Will Never Be One of Us will live up to the expectations of anyone who’s experienced a Nails album before. Eight of the record’s ten tracks are under two minutes long, and each is built around monochromatic blasts of distortion, double kick drums, Jones’ paper-shredder growls, and depressing track titles to match (see: “Life Is a Death Sentence,” “Violence Is Forever”) . The high-speed anxiety of tracks like “Made to Make You Fail” are as volatile and propulsive as jetfuel. It’s as hard as ever to make out Jones’ lyrics, but producer Kurt Ballou (of Converge, who also produced the band’s other two efforts) has gotten better at shaping his guttural abstractions. Even if it’s unclear exactly what he’s saying, the effect is crystal: he hurts and so will you.

Even in the record’s title, however, Nails have made it clear that their darkness is now just a little more complicated than the music they’ve made in the past. The video for the record’s title track opens with a host of friends (including Baroness’ John Baizley) uttering the ominous phrase, but it sounds natural regardless of who says it, as if anyone is capable of owning the sentiment as long as they’re willing to get in the right mindset. Though it’s a negative statement, defined in opposition, Jones has said in an interview that he intends it as “inclusive.” Each track on the record can be read as an invitation to join him in his unsettled meditations.

Knowing that you’re welcomed in, some of the differences between this record and those that preceded it become apparent. You Will Never Be One of Us feels less like a brick wall. This is most evident in the eight-minute closer “They Come Crawling Back,” which experiments with al sorts of unfamiliar sounds for Nails: There's frosty tremolo picking, bleak doom riffs, and siren-like leads before building into the sort of off-to-the-races hardcore they’re known for. It’s all of metal’s most downcast corners shoved together into a single eight minutes that fades slowly to nothingness. It’s a little something for anyone included in the “us” in the title, for everyone who’s ever found meaning in a flurry of fists in a mosh pit.

sorta glad it placed this low. this record sounds great but there's not v much to it

glad you said it tbh

from the rolling metal thread reaction i assumed it would be top 10

did everyone just forget about it in the end?

#10 in Terrorizer

think it made the Kerrang top 20 too

#20 in Kerrang

#2 in Decibel

The other night I watched the yearly embarrassment that is the Revolver Metal Awards and Nails was up for best new band. They didn't win. (I'd never even heard of the one that did: Avatar). But then no one watches the Revolver Metal Awards for the metal; we watch for the utter lack of direction, the nonfunctioning teleprompters, the soundchecks simultaneous to the reading of nominations, and the production staff constantly scrambling around and whispering into the ears of presenters and performers because SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG.

On the plus side, they let bands play 3 or 4 songs, which is pretty cool for an awards show.