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

Astronoid is interesting and I wanted to like it. I feel like I'm resistant to its particular emotional wavelength.

^imago says you smell of Squirrel piss

40 Mesarthim - .- -... ... . -. -.-. . 228 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/zY0ohOx.jpg
https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/-

Second full length Mesarthim album
digipack CD / vinyl LP
details and release dates t.b.a.
credits
released October 15, 2016

Band's digital release August 28, 2016

.- vocals
.- other

Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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tags: black metal metal avantgarde metal dark metal doom metal Italy

braaaaad

yaaaay! I voted for the EP tho cause it had the best song ever on it.

also really digging this Ophidian Forest! very interesting that it's all long-distance collaboration.

Same. I'm yet to hear this one. Time to put that to rights. xp

mew is def the vocal approach here. astronoid yet to record anything as monstrously kickass as 'rows' on this evidence but i'm reasonably impressed tbh

Yeah, I mean, Mew might be my favourite currently going rock-qua-rock band. I think almost no one is recording anything as kickass as their best songs, including "Rows", but I'm liking Astronoid more than most heavy rock music from 2016.

I think Pillars was the Mesarthim I voted for, mostly because it's the only one I own. I enjoyed them well enough but don't find that I spin them very often.

Im feeling weirder and weirder about leaving Mesarthim off my ballot

Absence (which is what we should all refer to this album as, because screw Morse code sorrynotsorry) feels more straight-up BM, less sparkly twinkly space-pop than Pillars, so it didn't grab me as instantly, but we're listening to it now and it's sounding pretty intense, so fully prepared to allow it into the fold as well

it is testament to pillars' quality that i don't know what track frobisher's referring to - it really could be any of the four (i'd maybe put '11' top myself)

he clearly means 'orbiting'

ok lets take this down to 31

39 Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP 228 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/J8sUhdJ.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1WhPiaUqIlQIaXmcT8vYF6
spotify:album:1WhPiaUqIlQIaXmcT8vYF6

https://ulver.bandcamp.com/album/atgclvlsscap

Probably a bit too long and unwieldy and loose but BUT this is the first time it's made sense that Daniel O'Sullivan is in Ulver and I think this is the sound of he and Garm finally collaborating effectively so I'm in favour (and I voted for it of course - that early run of tracks is very cool)

Lots of wonderful mysticism in this. It scraped my ballot at #50 (probably for the reasons imago mentioned), but Desert/Dawn and Nowhere are great standalone tracks that I've listened to quite a bit.

also, what the hell, Absence (tags: mesarthim morse) is glorious! how was this not initially apparent?

xx^xp I'll never tell!

38 Wormed - Krighsu 231 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/BicFV9o.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2yXHHgK7ssb0sxuJi8GPbT
spotify:album:2yXHHgK7ssb0sxuJi8GPbT

https://wormedsom.bandcamp.com/album/krighsu

WORMED are without a doubt one of the most ferocious and technical of contemporary death metal bands, and their long-awaited new album 'Krighsu' exceeds all expectations. Each of it's tracks are wildly technical without sacrificing an ounce of brutality. Sharp, staccato riffing, savage vocals, and machine-gun drumming are delivered with maximum concussive force. WORMED are leading the genre into its future and 'Krighsu' is nothing short of death metal on hyper drive.
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released March 25, 2016
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tags: decapitated gorguts hate eternal meshuggah metal necrophagist nile origin wormed brutal death metal death metal scifi technical death metal Madrid

Beginning to think it was a fantastic year for metal after all... Feeling so happy that some of these are appearing. My #17

holy shit ANOTHER of my votes - insanely technical machinelike grindcore with surprisingly airy and spacious production and the swagger of oasis napalm death - it really impressed me during the nominations period. what an awesome riposte to megadeth this run has been lol

napalm death IN SPACE

This is next level shit

Uh I mean that in a positive way

lol i reckon wormed would take either

37 Comet Control - Center of the Maze 235 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/xnzzKl4.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6Kaa4KSOPHxkGnLczBYRn6
spotify:album:6Kaa4KSOPHxkGnLczBYRn6

https://cometcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/center-of-the-maze

Toronto space rock cosmonauts COMET CONTROL re-enter the atmosphere with their stargazed sophomore album, Center Of The Maze. Flooded with swirling synths, ghostly vocals and fuzz-bomb guitars that burst into flames in electrifyingly airborne ways, the record effortlessly merges the ethereal and the terrestrial; the end result a 43 minute collection of blinding explosions and brilliant fade-outs. Overdriven riffs reign supreme and songs build with mantra-like power before collapsing into majestic dreaminess. Like watching a rocket take off at close range, the sound of COMET CONTROL is both exhilarating and mesmerizing, propelled into orbit by unwavering melody and unhinged creativity.
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released June 24, 2016
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tags: center of the maze comet control rock psych rock psychedelic rock stoner rock Toronto

Oh cool

confirmed that wormed are kinda on the inaccessible side of tech death for me. fun in the moment but hard to hold onto

!!!!!!

george now takes the lead in tastemaker stakes

Lol this was not that high up on my ballot tbh. I'd lose my shit if Cosmic Dead showed up though

My #5. First half is all deliriously catchy psych-pop, second half sets sail for SPACE. Listen if you like: Spiritualized, Hawkwind, space

Also, it may be some maddeningly simple giant-corny-bliss-trip Spiritualized shit from 1976 but the closing track Artificial Light burrowed its way into my skull this year and stayed there. It's kind of everything Secret Machines tried to do but couldn't quite

the Mesarthim morse album called Absence is ending now. holy shit this was a ballot oversight and a half

boy this really is the year heavy music went to space, innit?

the Mesarthim morse album called Absence is ending now. holy shit this was a ballot oversight and a half

― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, December 19, 2016 2:45 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i TOLD you

;_; / :)

Yes, no one wants to be here. xp

Mesarthim's morse code album was truly wonderful. Felt much darker than the rest of their output.

This last Comet Control track has a very similar structure to Paramore's 'The Only Exception'...

Comet Control's debut was my #1 album of 2014. This one is good but not as good.

There was so much space rock this year, I totally didn't expect Comet Control to be singled out over all of these:

Dreamtime – Strange Pleasures
https://skylanternrecords.bandcamp.com/album/strange-pleasures

Eye – Vision & Ageless Light
https://lasersedge.bandcamp.com/album/vision-and-ageless-light

Moths & Locusts – Helios Rising
https://mothsandlocusts.bandcamp.com/album/helios-rising

Black Rainbows – Stellar Prophecy
https://blackrainbows.bandcamp.com/album/black-rainbows-stellar-prophecy

Nudity – Nudity Is God's Creation
https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/nudity-is-gods-creation

The Myrrors – Entranced Earth
https://themyrrorsbbib.bandcamp.com/album/entranced-earth-pre-order

The Spacelords – Liquid Sun
https://thespacelords1.bandcamp.com/album/liquid-sun

TIE
35 Krallice - Hyperion 246 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/rDtS5Ny.jpg
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/hyperion

35 Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason 246 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/D1LISMo.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/0puaywAAvNkhKl6KQhuTn6
spotify:album:0puaywAAvNkhKl6KQhuTn6

There was so much space rock this year, I totally didn't expect Comet Control to be singled out over all of these:

they made a previous metal poll iirc

The big spacey-BM entry on my ballot was this, which I dont think anyone on ILX talked about all year:

https://sunworship.bandcamp.com/album/pale-dawn

It'doesn't have the luminous guitar leads of Mesarthim but it sounds massive and def has some subtle kraut influence

34 Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder 259 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/i4nff5c.jpg

more like dorkthrone

i listened to this once and like most late darkthrone records vibed with it in the moment and then had a hard time reconnecting to it

good riffs iirc

I liked it, more so than previous two of theirs. Not a great record by any means, but there's good reasons why fans liked it

Liking Meshuggah! They're no Car Bomb but it's a pretty decent effort :P

tt is not liking them but it's staying (for now)