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

Glad everyone enjoyed it, big thanks to everyone who voted and commented and of course seandalai for doing the hard work running it.

Hope everyone discovered new albums and will post about it here!

Based on the first two tracks, this could be the first Alcest album I've really liked since Souvenirs. Sounds great so far.

Here's mine - I'm so enjoying the new Krallice and it probably would have been top ten had I heard it prior to noms. I've cooled on the 11Paranoias, and probably should have had the Mizmor higher based on how much I still listen to it and enjoy it. Same with Desaster. I really dug the Khanus EP and the Wormed rekkid and they were bubbling under for sure.

Vektor - Terminal Redux
Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Krypts - Remnants of Expansion
Testament - Brotherhood of the Snake
Entropia - Ufonaut
Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
Insomnium - Winter's Gate
Virvum - Illuminance
Inverloch - Distance|Collapsed
Suma - The Order Of Things
Furia - Księżyc milczy luty
Zhrine - Unortheta
In The Woods ... - Pure
Wormrot - Voices
Dysrhythmia - The Veil Of Control
Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy Of Molten Bones
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
Obscure Sphinx - Epitaphs
Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us
Deftones - Gore
Desaster - The Oath Of Iron Ritual
Sumac - What One Becomes
Panphage - Drengskapr
Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law
Darkthrone - Artic Thunder
Gojira - Magma
Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether
Schammasch - Triangle
Cobalt - Slow Forever
Crowbar - The Serpent Only Lies
Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason
Gorguts - Pleiades Dust
Voivod - Post-Society
Mizmor - Yodh
Sumerlands - S/T
Whores. - Gold
11Paranoias - Reliquary For A Dreamed World
Eternity’s End - The Fire Within
Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika
Saor - Guardians
Witchery - In His Infernal Majesty's Service
Uada - Devoid Of Light
Black Tomb - Black Tomb
Magrudergrind - II
Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
Mithras - On Strange Loops
Spirit Adrift - Chained To Oblivion
Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of The Ages

I'm sure this isn't a complete list, but it's interesting to see which non-metal albums metal voters like. One notable album that wasn't nominated that has had metalhead support in the past was Wovenhand.

19 Horse Lords - Interventions 384.0 11 0
20 Virus - Memento Collider 371.0 12 0
28 40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky 284.0 7 0
31 Opeth - Sorceress 265.0 7 0
37 Comet Control - Center of the Maze 235.0 6 0
44 Deftones - Gore 215.0 5 1
46 Astronoid - Air 201.0 6 0
47 Russian Circles - Guidance 200.0 6 0
49 Blues Pills - Lady In Gold 200.0 4 1
93 Truckfighters - V 116.0 4 0
94 Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers 112.0 3 0
95 Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok 110.0 4 0
98 Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule 109.0 3 0
114 Horseback - Dead Ringers 92.0 3 0
122 The Cosmic Dead - Rainbowhead 83.0 3 0

The new Wovenhand is very good - but yes - not metal - much like some of the nomination polluters above. Funny how I personally still consider the stoner rock/alt metal/former stars genre-changing (40 Watt Sun) still somewhat eligible as metal. Oh well. I guess the poll title did include "Hard N' Heavy Rock" so I should stop grousing.

Another one I thought would get more attention:

260 Crippled Black Phoenix - Bronze 30.0 1 0

I would argue that Astronoid totally counts as metal.

Astronoid are definitely metal...but by way of New Found Glory. I am besotted with it.

I always get Wovenhand mixed up with Windhand.

One's a hand made of yarn
One's when you fart in your hand and wave it in someone's face

X-(

That's the reaction it tends to get.

HOLY SHIT THIS FURIA ALBUM WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SAY ANYTHING?!

I bought the Astronoid album tonight. "Tin Foil Hats" is really jumping out at me right now.

yeah, Tin Foil Hats is the best. did you buy it on CD, Sund4r? or did you find vinyl?

I put the vinyl on my xmas wish list but no one claimed it :/

(first-world metal problems)

I bought Astronoid on ALAC. Does that make me false?

alas &

it makes you smug :P

HOLY SHIT THIS FURIA ALBUM WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SAY ANYTHING?!

3 Furia - Księżyc milczy luty 751 Points, 20 Votes, TWO #1's

Well somebody must have said something at some point.

I also forgot to nominate, campaign for, or vote for this year's Solium Fatalis album. They're local to where I went to high school and they're pretty darn good. I keep meaning to spend more time with the new album (their third).

Oh and the Abbath record is really good so far. Is this what late period Darkthrone sound like, heavy metal by black metal guys?

Not really. Stylistically, Abbath closer to something like Inquisition.

Not at all, Darkthrone is al garage-y retro-thrashy fun, Abbath is super tight and heavy.

If you like Abbath, you'll probably dig Desaster too.

(xxxxxxpost: i was making a dumb joke.)

Here's a metal poll that seems could have a lot to say to ILXors (& not just bcz FS is #5 lol)

http://antigravitybunny.com/?p=10923

Not poll, EOY list actually

Cool to see at least one other person heard Nevoa, heh

That is a fuckin list ty

I feel like the next Zeal & Ardor album is going to be massive

A friend who introduced me to Slough Feg in the late 90s put this in his top 10 this year:

RAVENSIRE "The Cycle Never Ends" - "Portugal's answer to the best metal band ever, Slough Feg"
https://ravensire.bandcamp.com/album/the-cycle-never-ends

He also likes black metal more than I do, here's those + Cough:

ASHBRINGER "Yugen" (crazy-melodic and dense black metal by teenagers from Minnesota)
MANTAR "Ode To The Flame" (thick and evil old-school black metal)
COUGH "Still They Pray" (the best Electric Wizard album in at least a decade)
DRAUGNIM "Vulturine" (heroic black metal from Finland)

Yep, I like the Furia. Vektor is also really clicking this time around.

GODDABMITT!

i have shit in my head so i missed this :'(

anyway, these are The Official Best Metal Albums of 2016:

1. Hammers of Misfortune – Dead Revolution
2. Vector – Terminal Redux
3. Astronoid – Air
4. Khemmis – Hunted
5. Oranssi Pazuzu – Värähtelijä
6. Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd Dwyll
7. Zeal & Ardor – Devil Is Fine
8. Gorguts – Pleiades Dust
9. Messa – Belfry
10. Sumac – What One Becomes
11. Chthe’ilist – Le Dernier Crepuscule
12. Hail Spirit Noir – Mayhem in Blue
13. Darkthrone – Arctic Thunder
14. Furia – Księżyc Milczy Luty
15. Blood Incantation – Starspawn
16. מזמור/Mizmor – Yodh
17. Alcest – Kodama
18. Ulcerate – Shrines of Paralysis
19. Cultes des Ghoules – Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love
20. Gygax – Critical Hits
21. Howls of Ebb – Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows
22. Blood Ceremony – Lord of Misrule
23. Sumerlands – Sumerlands
24. Jute Gyte – Perdurance
25. First Fragment – Dasein
26. Khthoniik Cerviiks – SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia)
27. Imperial Triumphant – Inceste (EP)
28. Spellcaster – Night Hides the World
29. Wormrot – Voices
30. Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik – Skuggsja: A Piece for Mind and Mirror
31. Destroyer 666 – Wildfire
32. Inter Arma – Paradise Gallows
33. Wormed – Krighsu
34. Inquisition ‎– Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith
35. Deathspell Omega – Synarchy of Molten Bones
36. Temisto – Temisto
37. Xoth – Invasion of the Tentacube
38. Thy Catafalque – Meta
39. Inverloch – Distance|Collapsed
40. High Spirits – Motivator …
41. … Dawnbringer – XX
42. Kvelertak – Nattesferd
43. Subrosa – For This We Preordered the Colored Vinyl

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I've only listened to the Hammers of Misfortune once but I was bowled over by the songwriting, so a return I feel is imminent

Hi metal and hard rock people! We haven't finished picking over the corpse of 2016 just yet, please join us in nominating and voting over in the all-ILM all-genre EOY poll:

ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

xp - Yeah, the songwriting is brilliant throughout, complex enough to remain interesting over time, yet catchy & immediate in the manner of all good pop. Plus sharp lyrics, a timely theme (the co-option of the Bay Area by its tech overlords), dazzling musicianship, and tons of energy. Perfect combo of old-school riff worship, pirate-punk swagger, and prog excess. I fucking love Hammers, though, so ymmv.

Retrospective haw @ "Vector"

Very nice top 2. Those were my top picks also, but the other way around.

If I were to redo my list, Moon Tooth would be up there too.

last day to nominate in the big ilm poll
ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

last 24 hours to vote in that poll btw. see if we can get some metal in the 77

my #1 in both tracks and albums is metal, but by different bands

ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD

101 Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia) 108 4 1
98 Abbath - Abbath 109 3 0
98 Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule 109 3 0
98 Lord Vicar - Gates of Flesh 109 3 0
97 Dawnwalker - In Rooms 109 4 0
95 Madder Mortem - Red In Tooth and Claw 110 4 0
95 Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok 110 4 0
94 Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers 112 3 0
93 Truckfighters - V 116 4 0
92 Atomikylä - Keräily 118 3 0
91 Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh 121 4 0
90 Grand Magus - Sword Songs 122 3 0
89 Rotting Christ - Rituals 123 4 0
88 Wrong - Wrong 124 3 0
87 Melvins - Basses Loaded 126 4 0
86 Batushka - Litourgiya 127 3 0
85 Bloodiest - Bloodiest 128 3 0
84 Wretch - Wretch 128 4 0
83 Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation 128 4 1
82 Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether 128 6 0
81 ColdWorld - Autumn 129 3 0
80 Void Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the Dead 131 4 0
79 Car Bomb - Meta 134 3 0
78 Anciients - Voice of the Void 137 4 0
77 Wormrot - Voices 138 4 0
76 Saor - Guardians 138 6 0
75 Asphyx - Incoming Death 139 3 0
74 The Body, Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache 139 5 0
73 High Spirits - Motivator 140 4 0
72 Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed 141 4 0
70 Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure 142 4 0
70 Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake 142 4 0
69 Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis 143 4 0
68 Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows 148 5 0
67 Sumerlands - s/t 154 6 0
66 Eight Bells - Landless 156 5 0
65 Anicon - Exegeses 160 4 0
63 Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EP 164 5 0
63 Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us 164 5 0
62 The Body - No One Deserves Happiness 165 6 0
61 Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night 166 4 1
60 Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law 166 5 0
59 Amon Amarth - Jomsviking 174 5 0
58 Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crépuscule 177 6 0
57 Mesarthim - Pillars [EP] 180 5 0
56 Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner 185 5 0
55 Lotus Thief - Gramarye 186 6 0
54 Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis 187 5 0
53 Sabaton - The Last Stand 190 5 0
52 Skáphe - Skáphe² 195 6 0
51 The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation 196 6 0
50 Inquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith 198 7 0
49 Blues Pills - Lady In Gold 200 4 1
48 Megadeth - Dystopia 200 5 1
47 Russian Circles - Guidance 200 6 0
46 Astronoid - Air 201 6 0
45 Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd Dwell 209 6 0
44 Deftones - Gore 215 5 1
43 Blood Incantation - Starspawn 216 7 0
42 Moon Tooth - Chromaparagon 219 5 1
41 Ophidian Forest - Susurrus 222 6 0
40 Mesarthim - .- -... ... . -. -.-. . 228 7 0
39 Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP 228 9 0
38 Wormed - Krighsu 231 6 0
37 Comet Control - Center of the Maze 235 6 0
35 Krallice - Hyperion 246 8 0
35 Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason 246 8 0
34 Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder 259 8 0
33 Oathbreaker - Rheia 262 7 1
32 Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love 263 7 0
31 Opeth - Sorceress 265 7 0
30 Mesarthim - Isolate 266 7 0
29 Metallica - Hardwired...To Self Destruct 270 9 0
28 40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky 284 7 0
27 Entropia - Ufonaut 298 9 0
26 Völur - Disir 302 8 0
25 Khemmis - Hunted 307 8 1
24 Kvelertak - Nattesferd 316 8 0
23 Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows 319 10 0
22 Gojira - Magma 337 9 1
21 Dysrhythmia - The Veil Of Control 341 10 0
20 Virus - Memento Collider 371 12 0
19 Horse Lords - Interventions 384 11 0
18 Hammers of Misfortune - Dead Revolutions 408 12 0
17 Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity) 413 9 3
16 Thy Catafalque - Meta 424 10 1
15 Neurosis - Fires Within Fires 444 11 0
14 Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust 464 13 0
13 Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue 473 12 1
12 Alcest - Kodama 482 14 0
11 Bölzer - Hero 511 13 0
10 Jute Gyte - Perdurance 539 14 2
9 Schammasch - Triangle 543 15 1
8 Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones 558 16 1
7 Sumac - What One Becomes 559 15 1
6 Cobalt - Slow Forever 563 14 1
5 Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of Ages 648 16 2
4 Vektor - Terminal Redux 657 17 3
3 Furia - Księżyc milczy luty 751 20 2
2 Aluk Todolo - Voix 806 20 2
1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä 1372 33 5

for Chap

lol Moon Tooth sounds like Red Hot Chili Peppers

How could we improve the poll and get more participation?
Does anyone feel the poll has gone stale? Lots of people who used to take part dont now.

Would you all be more likely to vote if it was a bit fresher with somebody new running it? I've no problem handing it over if it will help the poll. But will take on board suggestions if people still want me to run it.

What would everyone like to see from the poll?

I really like it the way it is. There’s a lot of good discussions, and I hope to be able to contribute a bit more this year. Is there a big correlation between the timing and participation?

I found that holding it after xmas we get less as people were burned out by EOY polls by then. But those who complained about that didnt always vote in the earlier poll. But basically we have to run it when it suits seandalai. We cant do it without him and he has to do the big poll too. Plus he doesnt want to be bothering with stuff.

I also find that if big poll nominations happen before voting is finished for metal poll that effects us quite badly.
I think holding it earlier makes it more likely to get general ilxors voting, but im not sure about metal thread regs as they like to give december releases a good listen.

bothering with poll stuff over xmas i meant