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

Metallica will likely make the big poll

I've tried too hard to keep on top of new releases over the last couple of years so in the rollout it's usually either stuff I've heard (and liked to some extent more often than not) or just not interested in. That said, I will give Moon Tooth and Mesarthim a proper go.

And I just... don't get Cultes des Ghoules at all.

v happy I stanned for Astronoid as much as I did

"What's this? It sounds great". It was Deftones again.

I am also unmoved by CdG. I want them to sound more like the atmosphere their album art generates and they never do.

Me too! xp

Astronoid = favourite discovery so far. It's just magical

― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, December 19, 2016 4:31 PM

Same here.

omg 'doomed user'

hoping my Xoth pimping worked too but it's looking highly doubtful

is Xoth gonna save my life like Astronoid has?

Totally different beast, Cthulu-referencing, scrappy, fun as fuck... melodic tech-thrash? Maybe? I'm bad w/ subgenres

https://xoth.bandcamp.com/album/invasion-of-the-tentacube

I'll bet Xoth makes it. It only took three or four votes to get in the top 100. If three other ppl said they really liked the album then it's prob in, and if it hasnt shown up yet, that means it got more votes than expected...

Xoth was top 10 for me

Enjoying the Anicon. Picked up the Xoth CD/download on bandcamp just now - really enjoying that even if it hasn't placed.

Skip to the end of this long podcast and you can hear an interview with Astronoid, who was their #1 for the year: http://www.metalsucks.net/2016/12/05/the-best-of-2016-on-the-metalsucks-podcast-173/

I wanted to like the Ulcerate more. It's impressive, but I guess too oppressive. OTOH, Nails, The Body, Zao, Wormrot and Trap Them have been handy for channeling rage since November, so perhaps I'll warm up to other extreme stuff too. Bossk, Slabdragger, Boss Keloid, Discharge, Revocation and Ihsahn are other new ones I've been listening to this week.

If it weren't for the vocals, I just might have included that Xoth album too. Riffs!

I didn't really like the Ihsahn album, I think some of the electronic elements seemed either heavy-handed or just plain goofy.

Glad to see Wrong, Occult Burial and Cadaveric Fumes placing. So far I've wishlisted Skaphe (reminds me of the churning murkiness of Aevangelist), Wormrot, Howls of Ebb (don't know why I didn't get around to this when I loved "Vigils of the 3rd Eye"), Eight Bells, Chthe'ilist, and Inquisition.

fuck me Mesarthim have released another one TODAY

― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 11:20 (one second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who's gonna run the Mesarthim poll

30 Mesarthim - Isolate 266 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/LAUnsSd.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1Ufx2MnbehYOpzFDzff6X1
spotify:album:1Ufx2MnbehYOpzFDzff6X1

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/isolate

"Like Summoning IN SPACE "

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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ok looooooooooool

Hahaha

The Great Filter > Absence > Type III* > Pillars > Isolate > Spire

*based on my one listen just earlier

It's the best one too. the best synths, the best guitar solos and the best tunes

As always, ignore imago

The opening track is incredible but the rest, while good, feels like a dry run for future glories

All of it is essential listening though

I have an old iAudio player I use exclusively for metal 'cause it has way better audio quality than my phone, can't wait to add all the Mesarthims to it and bliss out

new song out today even has Christmas bells

lol, true

it also has about five different climactic crescendos

29 Metallica - Hardwired...To Self Destruct 270 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/tltE25X.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/6BAWrCZig4yVNuJrHSwK4p
spotify:album:6BAWrCZig4yVNuJrHSwK4p

Those Mesarthim keyboard melodies are super cheesy. Filter out the screeching, blend the guitars in with the other synths, and you have bad elevator new age music. Clown college wallpaper. Fighting off some stupid cold virus everyone is getting and didn't want to wake up, so I'm unfiltered ;)

xp Token old farts floggin' a dead horse album

I thought for SURE that would crack the top 20 xxp

There's a killer 50-minute album in there

xp
to me, it sounds like the music when Transformers die. ymmv depending on how much that sounds like shade I guess

I thought it would be higher but the biggest boosters on the rolling promo thread and the metallica thread didnt bother voting.

Maybe it wasn't that good after all?

Obviously the Mesarthim melodies are cheesy. It is kind of the point.

So was the Metallica any good? Or just another album that was better than st anger and lulu?

What did you think of the whole Metallica album imago?

Filter out the screeching, blend the guitars in with the other guitars, and you have bad elevator new age music. Frat house wallpaper.

That sure is ugly, but not as bad as Aphex Twin I guess. 29th is plenty good. There's only two songs on it that I'd take off. Fun fact, it's 1:15 shorter than Load. I like it better than the black album FWIW. In fact, there's fewer boring parts than Justice For All, though I wouldn't go so far as rate it over that. They would have had to have gotten more progtastic again.

Actually I haven't heard it. But I will! Just for you guys.

we expect you to liveblog it

Xp cheesy melodies in triumphant power metal makes sense. In black metal, does not compute. Black metal is not exactly compatible with irony or self-effacing humor. Sorry, I see clowns, not frat boys when I listen.

clowns...IN SPACE

we have Metallica...IN SPACE to look forward to later, winning this poll, just in case you were doubting the space thing

In space, no one can eat ice cream:
https://rochpikey.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/killer_klowns_from_outer_space_movie_poster_horror_comedy_review.jpg

Metallica fans were delighted with the album

Does imago even like the 1st 4 Metallica?