The 2017 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 3rd!

I'll try to submit a ballot by week's end

Did anyone give these a listen?

I hope you all give the Solstafir, Sannhet and Au Champ des Morts albums a listen

― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus),

Also what did you all think of the Electric Wizard album? It seems that those who didn't like the last few loved this one.

oh and I hope Agalloch fans checked out the excellent Pillorian album. I wonder when the other ex members of Agalloch will get an album out

the Solstafir record is pretty solid

Au champ des morts is excellent indeed!

Sannhet is great, although I'm not sure if I would call it metal.

they will always be Gannnet to me

Sannhet is great, although I'm not sure if I would call it metal.

I liked the Sannhet a lot

seandalai how many ballots do we have so far?

On a less false note, I need to also stump for Lich King's insanely fun the Omniclasm, the rare metal album that a) has a non-corny sense of humor and b) still manages to rock the fuck out. Even the sequencing is witty, pairing "Cut the Shit", a rant against scene police and self-serious political bands, with "Our Time to Riot"...a sincere political song about destroying the American government. Also: a song about how awful parenting is ("Preschool Cesspool"), and (along with Kreator) one of the year's two explicitly pro-LGBT thrash songs ("Offense").

I know this hasn't actually been discussed among the pollrunners yet but I'm wondering if it might be wise to extend the voting period for one more week, since the main trax/albums rollout won't actually wrap up until (I believe) February 2nd, and I'm a little concerned there may not leave be lot of spare air for \metal/ while that's going on

To be honest? I'd prob move it back to Sunday, to give people the weekend to focus on their metal ballots, but I doubt much more would be needed. That way you benefit from the momentum coming off the albums poll

I think this is the first time that metal poll happens after the big poll...? Usually metal poll acts an okay hype vehicle for like the top 2 or 3 to make it onto the albums poll, but I don't really kniw what the effect will be now that we're reversing the order. Shoukd be interesting...

Yeah this is a first try at doing it in this order AFAIK

the longer we open the poll the more people put things off and wait til the last hour to vote

and then ask for another 24 hours..

we only have 6 ballots so far btw, hoping to see more campaigning for albums to encourage others.

I will definitely be voting. Be patient.

I likely won't wait until the last minute either since I am very happy with my Top 60 and placing. I had to get some lists together for earlier deadlines and don't anticipate changing much when I vote here.

For those who are interested, I created a Spotify list of my favorite tracks from my favorite albums of 2017. The metal-to-non-metal ratio is about 4-to-1 so if you put it on random and let 'er rip, it won't all be the devil's music. But most of it is.

http://open.spotify.com/user/nyc_native/playlist/6AgLUwOX0KciLqQFAGfWob

I totally forgot to nominate Emyn Muil - Elenion Ancalima but it is total Summoning worship that will be high on my ballot, easily better than the actual new Summoning record.

Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam : excellent Canadian BM, excellent mix of the usual fast/furious and catchy rockin' stuff.

Goatpenis is absolutely kickass. Ungfell - Tôtbringære if you like Peste Noire. Slagmaur if you like Ceremony-era Samael. Colotyphus if you like Drudkh. Contaminated if you'd have liked Entombed to be doomier. Lingua Ignota if you like Diamanda Galas.

Goatpenis

Let's make a Goatpenis victory happen, we can do it.

Siegbran, I added Emyn Muil to the list.

Merci!

billy woods' album Known Unknowns is fantastic and well worth a listen.

Also the Buddy track Find Me was great: https://youtu.be/NWTNbDkalAQ

Other tracks I am campaigning for:
Blanck Mass - Please
Four Tet - Two Thousand and Seventeen

^ ^ ^ Goddamnit wrong thread. NO metal in any of that.

I don't know how much appeal it will have, since I'm still kind of puzzled by it still after all these months, but I think Locust Leaves - A Subtler Kind of Light is worthy of consideration. Manages to incorporate tech-death, black metal, progressive metal and ambient within 35 minutes, featuring Ayloss from Spectral Lore on lead guitar. If that helps.

And if you anyone ever liked the idea of Peste Noire but found them too problematic, then Ungfell - Tôtbringære is for you.

Oh also while I was tinkering with my ballot earlier I noticed The Clearing Path album appears twice, once under the name 'Clearing Path.'

Duplicate removed, thanks!

Please vote!

I feel like a Wyoming voter in this thing. Vote if for no other reason than to stop me from having so much influence!

This is a total false pick but the Sundays & Cybele album Chaos & Systems is totally tremendous J-psych. The last track here, "Paradise Come" brings to mind a more paisley Acid Mothers Temple:

https://youtu.be/6Ou9i5GHhks

I thought Imago & TT would have been campaigning/liveblogging albums by now

Soon...

Saints alive, "Yarinareth, Yarinareth, Yarinareth" is such a motherfucker.

There's always one song on every new JG album that's just reaches and grabs me and convinces me that it's best thing guy has ever done, and this time YYY is absolutely the winner

I VOTED

YYY isn't my favourite track on the album (it's...third?) but the way it dissolves at the end is some insane audio magic

Not voting but just wanted to pop in and thank Siegbran for bringing Lingua Ignota to my attention a little while ago. Loved that record so much I wrote it in for the main poll.

you are allowed to vote for just one album

talking about the big poll, I wonder what/if any metal will make the 77?
I seem to remember a previous metal poll winner not making the 77 yet lower down albums did.

Will a lack of metal poll being up first hurt chances of enough consensus to make main poll?

I've always thought when it comes to main poll that everyone's already voted for metal so leave it out in main poll.

i voted for 8 (arguably 9) metal albums in the main poll. the one i voted lowest is the only one of those i half-expect to show up though

the electric wizard album wasn't nommed in main poll and they usually showed up in the 77 i think? Converge maybe has the best chance

would be weird if the electric wizard did badly in polls after how the older fans felt it was a return to form after the last few*

*the last few were awesome and those fans wrong

oh Chelsea Wolfe will make the 77. Will be very disappointed if it doesn't go top 10 tbh

I haven't campaigned for it here as I just assumed everyone will vote for it but if you haven't heard the Chelsea Wolfe album then please do. It's terrific. I always play it back to back with the Myrkur.

voted for 7 metal albums in the main poll but I don't expect any of them to make the list

At least half my big poll is *metal*

I usually leave out the metal.