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

Is it too late for write-ins?

Yeah I have no idea why that Europe album wasnt nominated either, go ahead.

Simon can add to the noms for you if you nominate them here

last 24 hours to vote!

Did anybody give the Solstafir album a listen? Their third masterpiece in a row. Siegbran loved it iirc

lj and tt i hope you give it a try

tbh I think Solstafir is something that could crossover on ilx

acck i can't get my shit together with this. still gonna vote!

ok I voted!

Voted submitted, unweighted for once.

I'm enjoying the organs in Solstafir, but I wish there was more of them!

Favourite finds of the morning:

Big Brave - Surprised I didn't hear about this sooner, so thanks to whoever brought it up itt! Love the vocals and their delicacy as set against this slow grind
Slagmaur - Victorian ghost story covered in moss
Pillorian - Heavy and melodic enough. I like how it changes it up every 30 seconds or so and still manages to sound evenly paced
Sundays & Cybele - You had me at 'paisley'. A smoke-filled fabrics den on a sunny Sunday afternoon

Shit I think I forgot to vote for Slagmaur.

A few more quick albums on the last day of voting

Korto, this year's Comet Control though it's definitely harder candy. See also: power-pop Astronoid
https://korto-yo.bandcamp.com/album/korto-s-t

Plastic Crimewave, spacy Stooges-style garage rock with the chaos element quite prominent
https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-crimewave-syndicate-thunderbolt-of-flaming-wisdom

10000 Russos, kind of like a more postpunk/kraut-y Moon Duo but with plenty of oppressive sludginess
https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/distress-distress

Moths & Locusts: this album has a lot more ideas than your average stoner release
https://mothsandlocusts.bandcamp.com/album/intro-outro

I voted for Big|Brave.

1000 Russos sounds awesome, I'm going to check them out.

10000, even

we have 30 ballots, still ten down on last year (30 down on 2016)

thanks to all who have voted and if anyone wants to vote , please do! dont be afraid, chuck in a ballot

It's is a 3-wheeled race car that combines the past to future, advocates free public transportation and doesn't order dessert at a restaurant.

Haha this Korto is lovely! How do you find this stuff DAM?

Just voted for 12 albums, unweighted

Posting mine now, unweighted. There's a bunch of these I haven't heard yet but I'm sure I have in a folder full of promos. My bad.

(Also some of my picks I'd barely count as metal, like Oxbow and White Suns, but they were in the nominations so on my list they went.)

Sorry, I'm ridiculously late… If at all possible, I'd like to add the following nominations:

Almyrkvi - Umbra
Bestia Arcana - Holókauston
Lluvia - Enigma
Rebirth of Nefast - Tabernaculum
SLOW - V – Oceans
Väki -Kirous

and voted.

Voted!

voted

again?

no lol

I resubmitted since I forgot two albums. Please discard the first ballot (with 12 albums) and accept the second (with 14). Sorry for the confusion.

grrr - late additions and I'm too busy to re-submit - oh well it stands

Oh! The Lingua Ignota is amazing!

Good, more people should hear it. Strictly speaking not metal of course, but unhinged apoplectic rage rarely sounded this good.

I’m really surprised this wasn’t even nominated in the regular poll.

because you forgot and nobody else heard it?

please remember if you vote to post here that you did so we can confirm it

I didnt nominate anything for the main poll, totally forgot. But more surprised that no-one else did.

I didn't nominate anything for it either due to my mum being in hospital and being too knackered to do it. So Electric Wizard even went un-nominated.

Only 2 metal albums made the 77 so I think metal poll not running first may have contributed to that?

Chelsea Wolfe only got 3 or 4 votes too so I'm thinking she may not do that well here? I forget if the last one placed.

Abyss was #6 in the metal poll and #26 in the general one

new album too metal for regular poll this year?

Voted.

got it, thanks! 36 ballots in now

re: Simon can add to the noms for you if you nominate them here

I'm just about to vote, I have 49 albums lined up .. plus 1 that wasn't previously nominated

Please add the following album:

Ulsect - Ulsect
https://ulsect.bandcamp.com/

voted !

I ended up voting for only one of the albums I belatedly nominated today to simplify matters.

you can still vote for them, but just dont expect them to get more than 1 vote at this late stage. You can be the new gareth saer

Is voting a little after the deadline ok?

If it's because you haven't heard Der Weg Einer Freiheit's 'Finisterre' or Nortt's 'Endeligt' yet, to name but a few, then yes ofcourse it is.

Just sampled those two. Makes me wish I'd had more time…

well the deadline is US time. so you have what 8 hours or something

Oh! OK!

so im sure you dont need to vote *after* the deadline.

technically you have until seandalai closes the voting form