THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

shout out to the other Caligula's Horse and Lich King voters!!

Simon, you should recommend more prog-metal. I'll start listening, eventually! I did really like what I heard of Caligula's Horse.

SPOTIFY RESULTS PLAYLIST TO FOLLOW

the Soen album (180, sigh) was great as well xp

Thank you so much for everyone who made this happen.

Weighted. Bold did not place.

Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Cleric - Retrocausal
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light
Uniform - Wake in Fright
Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience
The Body - A Home on Earth
Godflesh - Post Self
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Loss - Horizonless
Ostraca - Last
Krallice - Loüm
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Come
Couch Slut - Contempt
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Planning for Burial - Below the House
Propagandhi - Victory Lap
Orthodox - Supreme
Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard
Ingurgitating Oblivion - Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
Circle - Terminal
Ufomammut - 8
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Boris - Dear
Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained
Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
Monarch! – Never Forever
Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Paradise Lost - Medusa
The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
Tchornobog - Tchornobog
John Frum - A Stirring in the Noos
Celeste - Infidèle(s)
Code Orange - Forever
Mutoid Man - War Moans
At the Drive In - in.ter a.li.a

My prog list, not all metal - http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-17/#prog

Simon, I was the other voter for Lich King! I really liked that record and they're almost local to me so I have opportunities to see them frequently. They're nice dudes, but it seems like all cartoon thrash boys are nice dudes.

Amazing poll, thank you Odysseus, seandalai and Simon H! You have helped make a bleak February...even bleaker.

I enjoy the whole vibe of this poll so much and everyone posting here is just full of enthusiasm and great recommendations! I found a ton of stuff, but especially liked: Boris, Falls of Rauros (yay, glad you liked it Brad! And enjoy your break), Grails, Dreadnought, Wiegedood, Big Brave, and of course Lingua Ignota.

my ballot

Solstafir - Berdreyminn
Godflesh - Post Self
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun ( Sargent House) 2017
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard
Pillorian - Obsidian
Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand
Myrkur - Mareridt
Pallbearer - Heartless
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Sannhet - So Numb (Profound Lore)
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Avatarium - Hurricanes And Halos
Botanist - Shape Of He To Come
Unsane - Sterilize
Fen - Winter
With The Dead - With Love From With The Dead
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Loss - Horizonless
Les Discrets - Predateurs
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Bardo Pond - Under The Pines
White Ward - Futility Report
Boris - Dear
Aluk Todolo - Archives Vol​.​1
At The Drive-In - Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Wreche - Wreche
Black Magick SS - Kaleidoscope Dreams
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Circle - Terminal
Ecstatic Vision - Raw Rock Fury
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants : Hermaphrodite
ST 37 - Fuck You, You Rule: ST 37's Greatest "Hits"
All them Witches - Sleeping Through the War
Argus - From Fields of Fire
Bathsheba - Servus
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Gnaw Their Tongues - Hymns for the Broken, Swollen and Silent
Grave Pleasures - Motherblood
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Krallice - Loüm
Mesarthim - Presence
Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Ufomammut - 8
Unearthly Trance - Stalking the Ghost
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie

Oh oh and that Cloudrat track! Still my favourite thing of the whole rollout. To think, if I’d gone with my heart and voted ATDI, I may never have heard it.

My ballot, aka gman's ballot condensed, aka tt's ballot condensed (does that mean gman = tt lol)

Cleric - Retrocausal
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
Corpse Garden - IAO 269
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Yowie - Synchromysticism
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Couch Slut - Contempt
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer
Mesarthim - Presence
Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
Thumpermonkey - Electricity EP
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
Nokturnal Mortum - Істина
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
Colotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душі

Thumpermonkey should have probably been at the bottom of my ballot but I put them higher out of loyalty. Anyway their LP coming out this year is going to rule so hard so stay tuned for that, folks! We all like Cardiacsy doom-progge, yes? Yes!

You can consider Venenum, Dreadnought and the Cloud Rat thingy retroactively added to my list as well - and maybe Fiddlesticks and Elder depending on how subsequent listens pan out. My phone would like to apologise for its interesting Godflesh autocorrection there

Thanks to all the pollrunners, really enjoyed the rollout, lots of stuff to check out here. Would have liked to comment more but work has been busy, I will say though that the Elder album really blew me away, a deserving #1 for sure.

tt if you haven't heard Qliphoth you oughta get on that

My ballot (unweighted):

Almyrkvi - Umbra
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
Chaos Moon - Eschaton Mémoire
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Colotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душі
Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam
Desolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless Void
Dodecahdron - Kwintessens
Ehnahre - The Marrow
Entheos - Le Zahir
Funeral Chant - Funeral Chant
Ghost Bath - Starmourner
Goatpenis - Anesthetic Vapor
Grift - Arvet
Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience
Kalmankantaja - Demonwoods
Lorn - Arrayed Claws
Necrot - Blood Offerings
Neige et Noirceur - Verglapolis
None - None
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Severoth - Forestpaths
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Ungfell - Tôtbringære
Venenum - Trance of Death
W - Winterwomb
Widziadło - Void

Weighted, bold did not place.

Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Ostraca - Last
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Hell - Hell
Igorrr - Savage Sinusoid
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Rope Sect - Personae Ingratae
Cleric - Retrocausal
Flight Of Sleipnir – Skadi
Unsane - Sterilize
Yowie - Synchromysticism
Heaven In Her Arms - White Halo
Couch Slut - Contempt
Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense
Potence - L’Amour Au Temps De La Peste
Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Pallbearer - Heartless
Part Chimp - IV
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
al-Namrood - Enkar
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Bathsheba - Servus
Corpse Garden - IAO 269
Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
Imajinary Friends - The Imajinary Friends
The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light
With The Dead – Love From With The Dead
Sabbath Assembly - Rites of Passage
Exquirla - Para quienes aún viven
Krallice - Loüm
Slagmaur - Thill Smitts Terror
Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos
Monolord – Rust
Brutus - Burst
Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam
Myrkur - Mareridt
Mesarthim - Presence
Violet Cold - Anomie
Thumpermonkey - Electricity EP

Oh and Akvan were a good discovery too!

Ha, the other Goatpenis connoisseur!

xp I should really give Qliphoth another try! I wasn’t mad about it first time round, but it might have just been a bad day.

Thanks a lot to the poll runners. I, too, liked the Lich King a lot, kind of wish I made room for it on my ballot.

Here's by ballot (weighted) - the '[would have been here]' designation is for my personal year-end list, and they would have gotten a vote in this poll at those placements, had they been nominated:

Converge - The Dusk in Us
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Venenum - Trance of Death
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Tomb Mold - Cryptic Transmissions
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
Amenra - Mass VI
Pallbearer - Heartless
Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Blaze of Perdition - Conscious Darkness
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Dumal - The Lesser God
Immolation - Atonement
Godflesh - Post Self

[Evilfeast - Elegies of the Stellar Wind - would have been here]

Fen - Winter
Necrot - Blood Offerings
Acrimonious - Eleven Dragons
Cleric - Retrocausal
Corpse Garden- IAO 269
Ensnared - Dysangelium
Hellripper - Coagulating Darkness
Bonehunter - Sexual Panic Human Machine
Serpent Column - Ornuthi Thalassa

[Resurgency - No Worlds... Nor Gods Beyond - would have been here]

[Firebreather - Firebreather would have been here]

Spirit Adrift - Curse of Conception
Dying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck With

[Bufihimat - I - would have been here]

Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
Unsane - Sterilize

[Droid - Terrestrial Mutations - would have been here]

Havukruunu - Kelle surut soi

[Slow V - Oceans - would have been here]

Desolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless Void
Aether Realm - Tarot
Temple of Void - Lords of Death
Ufomammut - 8
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon

[Sutrah - Dunes - would have been here]

[Madrost - The Essence of Time Matches No Flesh - would have been here]

Monolord - Rust
Heavydeath - Sarcophagus in the Sky
Cardinals Folly - Deranged Pagan Sons
Der Weg einer Freiheit - Finisterre
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows
Au-Dessus - End of Chapter
Anomalie - Visions

[Toxic Shock - TWENTYLASTCENTURY - would have been here]

All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal
Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
Phrenelith - Desolate Endscape
Aosoth - The Inside Scriptures
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Pyrrhon - What Passes for Survival

My ballot, weighted, bold did not place:

Cleric – Retrocausal
Krallice - Loüm
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Vin de Mia Trix - Palimpsests
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Cormorant – Diaspora
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
Shardik - Shardik
Locust Leaves - A Subtler Kind of Light
Ungfell - Tôtbringære
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
Black Anvil - As Was
Execration – Return to the Void
Ehnahre - The Marrow
Corpse Garden - IAO 269
Njiqahdda - Clouds Upon the Sanctuary
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Urarv - Aurum
Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out
Dodecahdron – Kwintessens
Dreadnought - A Wake in Sacred Waves
The Clearing Path - Watershed Between Firmament and the Realm of Hyperborea
Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
Entheos - Le Zahir
Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer
GGUW – BEHAUPTUNGSANIMALITÄT
Rubedo Nocturno - O grande pai: Abismo incriado
Weeping Sores - Weeping Sores
Blattaria – Blattaria
Klabautamann - Smaragd
Árstíðir lífsins – Heljarkviða
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Bagarre générale – Tohu-Bohu
Qhwertt - Sympathetic Horror
Wintaar - Wintaar
Hathenter - Hathenter Ouija
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
Shaarimoth - Temple of the Adversarial Fire
Pryapisme - Diabolicus felinae pandemonium
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna

Ha am I the only one who picked the Atriarch record? It's so good, really.

That's a great ballot UUG - lots of great stuff that didn't make the cut

Thanks BIP! I can't help but think I should've been more vocal about Cormorant and Black Anvil, both quite progge but accessible too.

Your ballot is full of stuff I never quite got round to lol, onto the endless backlog they go

next time let's count down every album that got a vote. two-month rollout.

whoa just saw i should have bolded Blaze of Perdition above - that was a great black metal last year.

Weighted ballot, bold did not place:

Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Glassjaw - Material Control
Enslaved - E
Fen - Winter
Chaos Moon - Eschaton Mémoire
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Sannhet - So Numb
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Brutus - Burst
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Tchornobog - Tchornobog
The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos
Black Anvil - As Was
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Sun of the Sleepless - To the Elements
Myrkur - Mareridt
All them Witches - Sleeping Through the War

Glassjaw did an album?!

EMO GOON SQUAD should hear the Ostraca if they haven’t yet...

bold DNP

Propagandhi - Victory Lap
Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
Couch Slut - Contempt
Caligula's Horse - In Contact
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Anathema - The Optimist
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Lich King - The Omniclasm
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
Lör - In Forgotten Sleep
Cloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LP
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Big|Brave - Ardor
Lunatii - Elimino
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Code Orange - Forever
Unsane - Sterilize
Godflesh - Post Self
Havukruunu - Havulinnaan
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
Soen - Lykaia
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
Brutus - Burst
Paradise Lost - Medusa
Unleash The Archers – Apex
Galneryus - Ultimate Sacrifice
Emptiness - Not for Music
Black Sites - Monochrome
Ragana - You Take Nothing
Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
Sorcerer – The Crowning Of The Fire King
Saule - s/t
Planning for Burial - Below the House
Grails - Chalice Hymnal
Glassjaw - Material Control
Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

Glassjaw did indeed do an album, much weirder and more discordant than their old stuff

I can’t wait to hear it! Btw you should check out the Wobbler album too if you didn’t - really solid lovely prog.

it's on my list!

the Cloud Rat split ended up being my most pivotal vote since it kept their lovely cover art at the top of the thread :)

Has Louis' gif loaded for him yet?

Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Sufferer - Sufferer
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Clouds Taste Satanic – The Glitter Of Infinite Hell
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Lich King - The Omniclasm
GWAR - The Blood of Gods
Pallbearer - Heartless
Dopelord - Children of the Haze
Motorpsycho - The Tower
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Ufomammut - 8
Kreator - Gods of Violence
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Orthodox - Supreme

I'm listening to Sufferer right now. It's probably a hard sell for this group, but it's a few Equal Vision people (Shane Gann, Blake Dahlinger) doing a concept hardcore album about living with severe anxiety and it's really good.

I didn't get excited about a lot of metal this year, I'm only really big on my top nine or so.

TV, Sufferer sounds cool as hell, I'm gonna put that on next.

And I totally missed this year's Ne Obliviscaris album, I'll have to check that out after work.

It's very good. I should have put it higher. (I probably had Pyrrhon too high.)

Hmmmm Exuvia is sounding a lot better to me now than it did when it came out.

Ha!

Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
Nokturnal Mortum - Істина
Colotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душі
Emyn Muil - Elenion Ancalima
Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam
Goatpenis - Anesthetic Vapor
Ungfell - Tôtbringære
Abigor / Nightbringer / Thy Darkened Shade / Mortuus - Split
Myrkur - Mareridt
Lustre - Still Innocence
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Immolation - Atonement
Árstíðir lífsins - Heljarkviða
Sinister - Syncretism
Death Like Mass - Jak zabija Diabeł
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Drudkh / Paysage d'Hiver - Somewhere Sadness Wanders / Schnee (IV)
Azarath - In Extremis
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Paradise Lost - Medusa
Fen - Winter
Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II
Wearg - Hæðen War Metal
Entrails - World Inferno
Undergang - Misantropologi
Mesarthim - Presence
Kartikeya - Samudra
Exquirla - Para quienes aún viven
Grav - Tomb Of Agony
Tomb Mold - Cryptic Transmissions
Wederganger / Urfaust - Split
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
God Dethroned - The World Ablaze
Suffocation - Of The Dark Light
Grav - Fordærvet Djævelskab
Incantation - Profane Nexus
Sinmara - Within The Weaves Of Infinity
Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Contaminated - Final Man
Contrarian - To Perceive Is To Suffer
Fides Inversa - Rite of Inverse Incarnation
Widziadło - Void
Forteresse - Récits Patriotiques
Les Discrets - Predateurs
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Severoth - Forestpaths
Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
W - Winterwomb
Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum

Oh and Brad totally otm about worst album cover

I cribbed quite a few titles from your nominations, Siegbran, as I almost systematically enjoy your picks (with a few notable exceptions, such as Nokturnal Mortum), so I look forward to checking out the rest.

And Goatpenis deserved better.

xp

yep, meanwhile there are at least 20 contenders for best imo xp

also the Sufferer album is sounding *fantastic* to me so kudos TV

I need to give the long Cloud Rat track a second listen. I mainly listened to the Moloch split from their slew of releases last year. That one flowed really nicely.

Maybe the best part of the rollout for me was seeing people get into Dreadnought, their other two albums are also very good btw

Falls of Rauros probably the best discovery personally.