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

"But surely metal will be respectably represented on the overall albums lists! Let's see, 2014, #77..."

2010 is impressive. But that Melt-Banana album is probably my favourite of the whole lot (file under 'art rock').

jeff & emil.y were responsible for getting that in the 77

xp

that 2014 is sorely lacking Emptiness, Domains, Hail Spirit Noir, Behemoth, and Horrendous

speaking of Emptiness, they've released 3 tracks from the 2017 album and it's gonna be even weirder than Nothing But the Whole

2013 has the most of my favourites in the top 20, e.g. In Solitude, Carcass, Subrosa, Melt-Banana.

our falseness is our strength xxps

xps

you can see full results of each year (inc the 00-15 poll) here

Previous Metal Poll EOY Results Thread

Sorely Lacking Emptiness Domains

Frobisher the two youre missing are Schammasch and Deathspell Omega

― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, December 20, 2016 11:01 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's one more, as we're all out of Mesarthim (of that nominated - there's ALWAYS more Mesarthim irl)

also lol tt

the one more begins with an s btw

Ok I chose this fine night to read this whole thread in one go. Didn't vote, didn't get to indulge in the "genre" that much this year. Best takeaways for now are defo Mesarthim and Skáphe <3 The former v heavy on the cheese melody wise, but I dig, I dig. Not a lot of sluggish, doomy black metal out this year right? Love Deathspell Omega as per usual, thought Spectral Lore's last album was great (though technically from last year?)

Still miss stuff like Lurker of Chalice and Xasthur though. Anything in that vein out this year? Regardless, great thread, great work allround.

didn't vote this year and using this thread to catch up on things. all i have to say is my god (satan) this Forgotten Spell record, spectacular.

Nice to see the Hail Spirit Noir, Horse Lords and Kvelertak placing. Lots of interesting stuff as always. I'm digging this Bolzer so far.

I'm about a 1/4 through the list. Only band I know so far is the Melvins and I had heard some Wo Fat before.

DIG- Blood Ceremony, Lord Vicar & Wo Fat
INTERESTING- Dawnwalker, Madder Mortem (excellent vocals), Truckfighters, Grand Magus, Wrong, Bloodiest (first track was kinda like Neurosis doing a Shellac tune), Anciients.

Some of the others had some cool elements but I couldn't get with it.

looking at those past top 20s is fun. lots of tight races ... Hammers won 2011 by TWO points!

and then look at how much Carcass STOMPED the rest of the field in 2013.

anyway ... metal poll rollout is THEEEEEE best, seriously.

Yeah, these poll threads the one times this century I lay off the Nazareth, Molly Hatchet and The Minutemen and try something different. I listen to plenty of stuff I haven't heard, it's just often old stuff.

It's weird to still hear complaints about non-metal albums placing, looking at last year's top 20. Ghost, Chelsea Wolfe, Uncle Acid, Sunn O))), Pinkish Black and Jess And The Ancient Ones are all non-metal to varying degrees.

SubRosa
Vektor
Cobalt
Oranssi Pazuzu
Aluk Tolodo
Mesarthim again
Jute Gute
Furia

and I can't think of two more.

I'd be surprised if Cobalt makes it. Removing this one and adding Schammasch / Sumac / Deathspell Omega makes it 10.

there won't be another mesarthim (although their two december eps, combined into one release and put out two months ago, might well have). cobalt will surely make it!

Oh yeah I forgot Sumac

I should go for a slow rollout today and post an album every hour so everyone can listen to it and comment while listening.

That's cool. But if you post our #10 now, our American friends will have to listen and comment only in their dreams

So I'd wait until like 1pm

and finish in the wee small hours? fuck that

Lol, give it a couple of hours though! Even I'm usually still asleep at this time

So much metal from the last couple of days to digest as well! I'm listening to Hammers of Misfortune. It's quite fun!

Why am I enjoying this so much ffs, it's anachronistic twaddle!

(But with such great melodies, dynamism and songwriting!)

Great melodies, dynamism and songwriting would preclude it being twaddle though, wouldn't it? And just IMHO they do a pretty good job of not being terribly anachronistic within the bounds of a genre that would probably prefer them to be as anachronistic as possible.

40 Watt Sun's name, when said aloud, sounds like a Sublime-related band so I did this.

put an "ANYWAY," before 40 tia

Oh, 'anachronistic twaddle' was a self-knowing joke, I absolutely loved the album :)

Forgotten Spell are an excellent sleep aid

that sounds fairly backhanded lol

I'm as much a sucker for space metal as the next guy but Mesarthim crosses the line into pure Italo cheese a bit too often.

Forgotten Spell would've made my top 10 easily if I'd heard it earlier.

both a backhanded compliment and not, I value good sleep, hell I voted for the Midnight Odyssey album last year

Fair enough!

Siegbran, what were your favourite dungeon synth/space metal/sleep-aid albums this year?

10 Jute Gyte - Perdurance 539 Points, 14 Votes, TWO #1's
http://i.imgur.com/vtuUR7f.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4ewLfzMxythcXotxny48Md
spotify:album:4ewLfzMxythcXotxny48Md

https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/

threw this on the bottom of my ballot, don't rly care too much though

it's all been done before, y'know?

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That was Imago's #1 btw

Who else was it number one for?

This suffered a little on my ballot due to overexposure in our household, but still made the top 10, of course. It's horrible.

He is now going to tell us why he thinks it's his best album yet

sund4r i expect. theyve had him #1 3 years in a row now i think

nope, it was someone else

btw remember that #1 Megadeth got? it was by a user called 'make metal great again'

Oh Jute GYTE! I thought that read Jute Goat. Ah yes - well, it's the best and most exciting music being made right now, a truly fearsome and limitless synthesis of metal, modern classical and avant-electronica whose songwriting instincts are both cavernous and razor-sharp. Apologies for the misreading.

btw this Forgotten Spell album I downloaded are these drums meant to sound like the clanking of pots in the sink?

And sure it's his best album yet. Each one feels like a monstrous breakthrough at this point. The electronics, polytempi and layers of composition are being integrated in new and spectacular ways - even as the songs get catchier and more memorable. I don't know how he does it.

The Forgotten Spell drums probably ARE pots in the sink, but at least he's playing them, unlike Mr Autechre over here!

Gimmie Autechre