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

This was somewhere in my ballot too, meaning I rather enjoyed it

26 Völur - Disir 302 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/otM4jDo.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/5PzIEsmiwpwwxu8A8CW9Ns
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https://volur.bandcamp.com/album/disir

The Disir sit and look out upon the world, both forward and back in time. They fill the well of life with luck and hinder the enemies of their ancestors. The Disir are women, powerful spirits. Some wicked, some good, some benign. Mothers, daughters, lovers, murderers, widows and explorers.

These pieces seek to present four different aspects of femininity as seen through myth, folklore and folk songs. Heiemo sits on the rock and sings to a sailor, seducing him. Aud sits in her knorr and stalwartly moves through unknown sea. The white phantom appears as a vision through the forest and stills the hearts of men.

Available in a cassette with an extra bonus live track, limited to 100.

Buy in our shop here:

en.prophecy.de/artists/voelur
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released June 24, 2016

Lucas Gadke - Electric bass, double bass & vocals
Laura C. Bates - Violin & vocals
James Payment - Drums

Recorded and mixed on April 23rd by Ian Blurton at Progold Studios in Toronto
Layout and design by Bryan W Bray
Völur logo and cover art by Tina Faucher

Idisemorgen [Excerpt] - Tape only
Recorded by Bryan W Bray on March 20th at The Common in Toronto
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tags: ambient folk metal doom metal folk Toronto

turns out last-minute hyping really really works!

this is great. first two tracks are on some fiery post-doom violin madness trip and although I'm not entirely sold on the gybe-tastic postrock crescendo of the closer it's really all worth hearing

Dís Generation

In a post-Phife world, at least we have Völur

25 Khemmis - Hunted 307 Points, 8 One #1 #1 in Decibel Albums of the Year.

http://i.imgur.com/veYZXa7.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4y7VrJEX7lLOHOfEx6dOxE
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http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/hunted-2

NAMED THE #1 ALBUM OF THE YEAR FOR 2016 BY DECIBEL MAGAZINE.

Appearing live:

January 13th - Reggies Chicago IL
January 14th - St. Vitus, Brooklyn NY
Apr 22-23 - Fillmore, Philadelphia PA (Decibel Metal & Beer Fest)

The first album from Denver’s Khemmis, ‘Absolution’, was released by 20 Buck Spin in July 2015 and slowly but surely steamrolled all that came in contact with its unforgettable heaviness and classic melodicism. Virtually unknown outside Denver upon release, the band gathered acclaim over the ensuing months and by year end had landed in the #9 spot on Decibel Magazine’s annual top 40 albums of the year, not a small accomplishment for a band on its debut album.

The new album ‘Hunted’ reveals a Khemmis fortified in its purpose and vision, forging an unrivaled synthesis between immense Doom riffs and Maiden-esque harmony. Overall song length has increased yielding more expansively arranged and dramatic storms of elegance and melancholy.

And yet Khemmis are not content to plod through a sea of tears, they are always a rock band first, in service to the movement of the song, even approaching a High On Fire like pace to open the pummeling ’Three Gates'. The lauded singing of vocalist Phil Pendergast reaches ascendent new heights on tracks like ‘Candlelight’ and ‘Beyond The Door’, while the tasteful use of harsh vocals remains, providing a dark foreboding contrast. The 13-minute title track once again closes the album with an epic stunner.

Undoubtedly ‘Hunted’ is an album that will solidify Khemmis’s place at the vanguard of Doom’s most notable modern manifestations, in large part because they transcend the label itself. They’ve seamlessly blended their influences into an extraordinarily listenable album worthy of countless spins. With such a glut of music released nowadays, ‘Hunted’ stands apart, rewarding repeat listens with songs seared straight into the heart.
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released October 21, 2016

Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Dave Otero at Flatline Audio. Cover art by Sam Turner.

I love how thick the bass is on this Entropia record. The mix is perfect.

Can't say I can find much point in the Metallica record or that I'll return to it, but three, nearly four tracks in and I haven't turned it off in disgust yet

24 Kvelertak - Nattesferd 316 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/L3MI1Vb.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5EAGz1IagdeJoJ2Cgb4DES
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Dammit. Khemmis was my #1.

“It sates itself on the life-blood
of fated men,
paints red the powers’ homes
with crimson gore.
Black become the sun’s beams
in the summers that follow…”
— Snorri Sturluson, Völuspá, The Poetic Edda, ca. 1220

If someone were to give the Norse Ragnarök saga a Ralph Bakshi (Wizards, Fire And Ice) treatment, Khemmis would definitely need to be on the soundtrack... http://fastnbulbous.com/khemmis-hunted/

The Metallica album is five years long and nothing has happened yet

MAYBE there's something to be said for Halo On Fire

23 Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows 319 Points, 10 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/y8yN1DZ.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/5AE8f7HUdUogfL7ybRlwDu
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https://interarma.bandcamp.com/album/paradise-gallows-2

After already having taken forward-thinking extreme music to unprecedented heights over the course of their short but propulsive career, Richmond's INTER ARMA are back with another opus of epic proportions. Like the band's previous works, the new album 'Paradise Gallows' is direct and foreboding while maintaining a nuanced, artful perspective. INTER ARMA's signature palette of dissonant high-end and abyssal low-end has been augmented with swathes of thick, impressionistic melody that lend 'Paradise Gallows 'a truly biblical sense of scale, both lyrically and in terms of the album's sonic content. Harsh and acoustic passages (including the band's first-ever foray into clean vocals) spar with complex rhythmic structures across nine sweeping tracks over 71 minutes of expansive, progressive heaviness. Dense, funereal, and richly evocative, 'Paradise Gallows' is a vibrant blend of doom, post-metal, sludge, avant-garde, black and death metal, and is a singular and powerful new addition to the band's already monumental discography.
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released July 8, 2016

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

"Spit Out the Bone" is the only song from that Metallica I've played more than once -- and I've played it a lot. The video's kinda zany. I think I like the new Megadeth more overall.

Volür sound all right, yeah.

Also, wtf, do you people not like "Atlas, Rise!"?

That was OK

It made me listen on

xpost to myself: I plan to watch the Hetfield episode of the Joe Rogan podcast today or tonight and I suspect that will be more entertaining than Hardwired. I hear there's talk of beekeeping.

I liked parts of Atlas Rise and now that I think about it I probably did play that one more than once when it was in advance track status.

Lol I had Inter Arma pegged for top 5. I have no idea whats going on with this poll

One thing that can be said for smaller ballot numbers: consensus is much more idiosyncratic

Weird results come from a small sample size. I was most surprised at Abbath's low placement. I dunno.

yah

lol my predictor ballot is in shreds

Lmao

If my #1 isnt one of the next two, then Im gonna post my ballot

Lol I think an album me, you, tt and gott punch all have in our top 3 is coming soon

Id hope so, lol; it would be wild if it made top 20

and here it is

Gorguts, Deathspell Omega, Hail Spirit Noir, and, god willing, Furia should be coming up. I liked the new Borknagar more than anything from them since Empiricism but I doubt it'll show.

Agatus really should be heard more. It's like Hellenic black traditional metal, some kind of Maiden/Rotting Christ mashup. The first track on the album, however, starts things off ploddingly.

22 Gojira - Magma 337 Points, 9 Votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/fQRGquN.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7D7V6M05UIOTjLdqbwRX0w
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Haha this ISN'T the one! Oh my days

I was disappointed and annoyed at first that they sound like Killing Joke now. But it grew on me.

Bodes well

Gojirs's like Melechesh -- they sound phenomenal for about two or three songs, then everything blurs together. That first track from their last album is one of my favs of all time though, "Explosia." Whew.

Gojira's* rather

are you fucking kidding me that there's another new mesarthim ep

feel like a lot of ppl's top 20 predictions are getting ruined by 30-21

21 Dysrhythmia - The Veil Of Control 341 Points, 10 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/jKeAHm6.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1AdkyehBZjfm25SosPgGD4
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https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-veil-of-control

dys·rhyth·mi·a
disˈriT͟Hmēə/
noun
Medicine
noun: dysrhythmia; plural noun: dysrhythmias
1. abnormality in a physiological rhythm, especially in the activity of the brain or heart.

Having established themselves as one of the most notable progressive and unique instrumental metal bands since their inception over 15 years ago, NY-based (originally Philly-based) power-trio DYSRHYTHMIA reflect their musical expression in mirroring the definition of their moniker.

Through six full-length albums, DYSRHYTHMIA (Kevin Hufnagel/gutiars, Colin Marston/bass, and Jeff Eber/drums, Hufnagel and the ever prolific Marston also comprising one-half of GORGUTS and were specifically recruited by Gorguts mastermind Luc Lemay to join his band when he resurrected the legendary technical death metal wonder several years ago) have shown the ultimate in musical fortitude and expression through wondrous jaw-dropping musical compositions that go beyond the mere definition of jazz-infused avant-garde technical extreme metal.

With their new album “The Veil Of Control”, the band’s seventh full-length and their first since their Profound Lore Records debut in 2012 “Test Of Submission” (the band released their previous albums on Relapse Records), DYSRHYTHMIA have once again created a new expression within their jaw-dropping repertoire (Hufnagel solely using a 12-string guitar on this latest LP) that will go unparalleled within the niche genre of “instrumental progressive metal”, proving once again they are an untouchable entity within the scene.
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released September 23, 2016

Hey, my #5! This record is really cool!

i never heard this but i'm guessing i'll immediately love it

Taking this opportunity to listen to Dysrhythmia. This is straight instrummental prog, no? Like a post-Obscura avant-prog/RIO, and taking in lots of King Crimson (at this point, I'm starting to think the KC albums where I got off the train like ConstruKction of Light were ahead of their time).

I don't know whether to stop now and do 10 on weds and the final 10 thursday or to do another 10 tonight and finish tomorrow

Finish tonight

no

And now here's my ballot:

1. (It's impossible that this album didn't place, but improbable that it placed in top 20. What do u think, Sherlock Holmes?)
2. (No way)
3. (I hope it doesn't make it, tbh. I love the album, but if it shows up over a all these great metal albums, it'll be v hard the counter claims of BULLSHIT. Of course, that's some of yr patented ILX metall poll controversy for ya, eh?)
4. (This'll show up)
5. Dysrhythmia
6. Sunwatchers
7. Skaphe
8. (This'll show up)
9. (No way)
10. (This'll show up)
11. Ophidian Forest
12. (No way)
13. (No way)
14. (This'll show up)
15. Comet Control
16. (No way)
17. (This'll show up)
18. (No way)
19. Lotus Thief

do another 10 tonight

^^

agreed