the Cloud Rat split ended up being my most pivotal vote since it kept their lovely cover art at the top of the thread :)
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
Has Louis' gif loaded for him yet?
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
Elder - Reflections of a Floating WorldSufferer - SuffererKrallice - Go Be ForgottenAkvan - Forgotten GloryBell Witch - Mirror ReaperClouds Taste Satanic – The Glitter Of Infinite HellBlack Cilice - Banished from TimeLich King - The OmniclasmGWAR - The Blood of GodsPallbearer - HeartlessDopelord - Children of the HazeMotorpsycho - The TowerChelsea Wolfe - Hiss SpunYellow Eyes - Immersion Trench ReverieUfomammut - 8Kreator - Gods of ViolenceAu champ des morts - Dans la joieBotanist - Collective: The Shape of He to ConeOrthodox - Supreme
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
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.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
TV, Sufferer sounds cool as hell, I'm gonna put that on next.
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
And I totally missed this year's Ne Obliviscaris album, I'll have to check that out after work.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
It's very good. I should have put it higher. (I probably had Pyrrhon too high.)
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
Hmmmm Exuvia is sounding a lot better to me now than it did when it came out.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
Ha!
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
Lingua Ignota - All Bitches DieNokturnal Mortum - ІстинаColotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душіEmyn Muil - Elenion AncalimaDélétère - Per Aspera Ad PestilentiamGoatpenis - Anesthetic VaporUngfell - TôtbringæreAbigor / Nightbringer / Thy Darkened Shade / Mortuus - SplitMyrkur - MareridtLustre - Still InnocenceThe Ruins of Beverast - ExuviaImmolation - AtonementÁrstíðir lífsins - HeljarkviðaSinister - SyncretismDeath Like Mass - Jak zabija DiabełProgenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLunaDrudkh / Paysage d'Hiver - Somewhere Sadness Wanders / Schnee (IV)Azarath - In ExtremisChelsea Wolfe - Hiss SpunParadise Lost - MedusaFen - WinterWiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed IIWearg - Hæðen War MetalEntrails - World InfernoUndergang - MisantropologiMesarthim - PresenceKartikeya - SamudraExquirla - Para quienes aún vivenGrav - Tomb Of AgonyTomb Mold - Cryptic TransmissionsWederganger / Urfaust - SplitTomb Mold - Primordial MalignityGod Dethroned - The World AblazeSuffocation - Of The Dark LightGrav - Fordærvet DjævelskabIncantation - Profane NexusSinmara - Within The Weaves Of InfinityBeheaded - Beast IncarnateAu champ des morts - Dans la joieContaminated - Final ManContrarian - To Perceive Is To SufferFides Inversa - Rite of Inverse IncarnationWidziadło - VoidForteresse - Récits PatriotiquesLes Discrets - PredateursAkvan - Forgotten GlorySeveroth - ForestpathsTodesstoß - Ebne GraunW - WinterwombLaster - Ons Vrije Fatum
― Siegbran, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
Oh and Brad totally otm about worst album cover
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
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
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
yep, meanwhile there are at least 20 contenders for best imo xp
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
also the Sufferer album is sounding *fantastic* to me so kudos TV
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
Maybe the best part of the rollout for me was seeing people get into Dreadnought, their other two albums are also very good btw
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
Falls of Rauros probably the best discovery personally.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
Looking forward to hearing more Dreadnought! Maybe I’ll lurk around rolling metal a bit more this year.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
Thanks to the pollrunners! I've got a lot of album to check out but I'm saving it for next week cuz I'll be all by myself for a few days and I plan to immerse myself in these picks. As far as ballot goes, here's mine (bold didn't place)
1. Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worlds2. Entheos - Le Zahir (:sad face:)3. Ex Eye - Ex Eye4. Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre5. Krallice - Go Be Forgotten6. Cavernlight - As We Cup Our Hands And Drink From the Stream of Our Ache7. Au champ des morts - Dans la joie8. Immolation - Atonement9. Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II10. Woe - Hope Attrition11. Elder - Reflections of a Floating World12. Pyrolatrous - Teneral13. Draugsol - Volaða Land 14. Grails - Chalice Hymnal15. Aosoth - The Inside Scriptures (really surprising absence)16. Ufomammut - 817. Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense 18. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun19. Multishiva - Time Messer20. Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial21. Boris - Dead22. The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension 23. Contrarian - To Perceive is to Suffer24. Pillorian - Obsidian Arc25. Spirit Adrift - Curse Of Conception 26. Undergang - Misantropologi27. Celeste - Infidèle(s)28. Oxbow - The Thin Black Duke29. Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die30. Farsot - Fail·Lure
― Dinsdale, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
I hadn't realized so many of my picks had placed.
― Dinsdale, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Forgot to bold Cavernlight, that one didn't make it.
xp Thanks pomenitul!
― Siegbran, Friday, 9 February 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
Unweighted:
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to ConeJute Gyte - OviriConverge - The Dusk In UsPallbearer - HeartlessAkvan - Forgotten GloryÁrstíðir lífsins - HeljarkviðaKrallice - LoümKrallice - Go Be ForgottenGodflesh - Post SelfThantifaxath - Void Masquerading as MatterOranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / VärimyrskySolstafir - BerdreyminnEx Eye - Ex EyeSchammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 9 February 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
I meant to say yesterday that the Lingua Ignota album is quite something. Would definitely have made my list if I had heard it, but I didn't get the chance to hear much new stuff, even in the longer voting period, for obvious reasons.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
Also What in the end do you prefer: results before Christmas or in February after the Big Poll?
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
either tbh. guess earlier is nicer BUT you get things like those mesarthim EPs missing cos they came out in the last week of december
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
Before Christmas. Im 95% wrong about longer voting periods
Xp ok 90%
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
Weighted
Jute Gyte - OviriImajinary Friends - The Imajinary FriendsStabscotch - Uncanny ValleyVespero - Shum-ShirSundays & Cybele - Chaos & SystemsBotanist - Collective: The Shape of He to ConeEx Eye - Ex EyeMultishiva - Time MesserGasp - Ghost in Scow OutLiquidarlo Celuloide - SuperfriccionCouch Slut - ContemptKing Woman - Created in the Image of SufferingForgotten Spell - The NecromancerRubedo Nocturno - O grande pai: Abismo incriadoBlack Cilice - Banished from TimeAzonic - Prospect of the Deep Volume 1Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Thunderbolt of Flaming WisdomST 37 - Fuck You, You Rule: ST 37's Greatest "Hits"10000 Russos - Distress DistressKorto - KortoElder - Reflections of a Floating WorldFeral Ohms - Feral OhmsUnsane - SterilizeDeep Space Destructors - PsychedologyYagow - YagowSxuperion - MyriadSlowly Building Weapons - SunbirdsThantifaxath - Void Masquerading as MatterNik Turner - Life in SpaceCircle - TerminalEcstatic Vision - Raw Rock FurySannhet - So NumbShardik - ShardikSuccumb - SuccumbMara Balls - Elävä kiviMoths & Locusts - Intro/OutroThe Spacelords - Water PlanetThe Cosmic Dead - Psych is DeadVoid Generator - ProdromiGrails - Chalice HymnalMaat Lander - Season in Space Vol. 1Falls of Rauros - Vigilance PerennialSchammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
Siegbran is the only person who had a ballot similar to mine, lol
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
aye, longer voting period kills momentum and everyone just leaves it to the last week before listening and voting anyway! the old way of 2 week nominations and 2 weeks voting was enough i think.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
Personally I want all of you to tell me about all these great albums before the vanilla ilx poll so that I can put White Ward on my ballot and seem cool...
― Frederik B, Friday, 9 February 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
most metal albums wouldnt make it even if they extended the rollout to 150.
Chelsea Wolfe only got 3 votes i think in big poll. Was #3 here.
only elder snd ex eye made the big poll 77 iirc
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
btw i forgot to say during the roll out but my fave song on the converge album is the title track.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
Thanks so much Simon and Kerr for doing this <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
Ballot, weighted:
Nortt - EndeligtKrallice - Go Be ForgottenDer Weg Einer Freiheit - FinisterreJute Gyte - OviriAu champ des morts - Dans la joieWolves in the Throne Room - Thrice WovenBlanck Mass - World EaterArchspire - Relentless MutationChelsea Wolfe - Hiss SpunAcid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Wandering The Outer SpaceGnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
I don't think the noms period should end before the end of the year; that's the only thing I'd be concerned about. Thanks so much to Simon and Odysseus for this!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
My weighted ballot. Bold did not place.
1. Oxbow - Thin White Duke2. Brutus - Burst3. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun4. Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven5. The Midnight Ghost Train - Cypress Ave.6. Rebel Wizard - Triumph Of Gloom7. Light of the Morning Star - Nocta8. Violet Cold – Anomie9. Slagmaur - Thill Smitts Terror10. The Obsessed – Sacred11. Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum12. Beastmaker - Inside The Skull13. The Wizards - Full Moon in Scorpio14. Godflesh - Post Self15. Paradise Lost - Medusa16. Ufomammut - 817. Tau Cross - Pillar of Fire18. Mammoth Mammoth - Mount the Mountain19. Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine20. Myrkur - Mareridt21. Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows22. Alestorm - No Grave But The Sea23. Sólstafir - Berdreyminn24. Pyriphlegethon - The Murky Black of Eternal Night25. Pallbearer - Heartless26. Ides of Gemini - Women27. Full Of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy28. Venenum - Trance Of Death29. Usnea - Portals into Futility30. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering31. Nortt – Endeligt32. Reverorum ib Malacht - Ter Agios Numini33. Obituary - Obituary34. Horn - Turm Am Hang35. Botanist - The Shape of He to Come36. Disharmony - Goddamn The Sun37. Jagged Vision - Death Is This World38. Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perrenial39. Ensiferum - Two Paths40. Integrity - Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume41. Selcouth - Heart Is the Star of Chaos42. Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival43. Eluveitie - Evocation II: Pantheon44. Antisect - The Rising of the Lights45. Anomalie - Visions46. Uniform - Wake In Fright47. Dread Sovereign - For Doom The Bell Tolls48. White Ward - Futility Report49. Lorn - Arrayed Claws50. Big|Brave - Ardor
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 10 February 2018 05:54 (six years ago) link
My unweighted ballot, I only picked things I'd heard and remembered (and it's obviously missing a few I've noted above in the thread):
Artificial Brain - Infrared HorizonAtriarch - Dead as TruthBig|Brave - ArdorChepang - DadheloCircle - TerminalCloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LPCouch Slut - ContemptFull of Hell - Trumpeting EcstasyGodflesh - Post SelfImpetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred SentienceOxbow - Thin Black DukePower Trip - Nightmare LogicPsudoku - Deep Space PsudokumentPyrrhon - What Passes For SurvivalThe Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy LightUniform - Wake in FrightWhite Suns - Psychic DriftWreche - Wreche
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link
I must say I'm a little disappointed by the #1. I'm not a fan of the singing and I can't really make out the songs as they just meander, without strong or hooking passages (track 3 a distinct exception). The last two songs feel like an addition of twenty minutes. I'm not sure if it's because I've never been a fan of stoner or because of the progressiveness.
― Nabozo, Saturday, 10 February 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
Maybe I spoke too fast though, I'm relistening to parts at home now and it sounds better than in the train.
― Nabozo, Saturday, 10 February 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
the last track is amazing
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Saturday, 10 February 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
They definitely meander, that's part of the fun. They open with a hook, riff on it a bit, jam for five minutes, come back to the hook at the end. I think the hooks on Lore might have been a bit more memorable, but the new one is a little more layered, which is why I liked it better.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Saturday, 10 February 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
My unweighted and monumentally unsuccessful ballot
Bloodway - A Fragile Riddle Crypting CluesCelestial Bodies - Spit Forth From ChaosCemetery Urn - Cemetery UrnCircle - TerminalContaminated - Final ManCryptic Fog - Staring Through the VeilCrystal Fairy - Crystal FairyDaemogog – Ancient Extradigestional RitesDemon Head - Thunder on the FieldsDreaming Dead - Funeral TwilightElder - Reflections of a Floating WorldExcommunion - ThronosisFather Befouled - Desolate GodsFell Ruin - To the Concrete DriftsFleshpress - Hulluuden MuuriGigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic IridescenseImmolation - AtonementIncantation - Profane NexusJohn Hoyles - Night FlightKairon; IRSE! - RuinationLivid - Beneath This Shroud, The Earth ErodesLo-Ruhamah - AnointingLorn - Arrayed ClawsLoss - HorizonlessMidnight Rider – ManifestationMind Mold – Mind MoldMorast - Ancestral VoidMorbid Angel - Kingdoms DisdainedMorbid Evils – DeceasesNightbringer - Terra DamnataOccasvs - Nocturnal Majestic MysteriaOculus - The Apostate of LightPoison Blood - Poison BloodPontiak - Dialectic of IgnorancePyrrhon - What Passes For SurvivalRude - Remnants...Ruin - Drown in BloodSlowly Building Weapons - SunbirdsSpectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of UnbeingSuccumb - SuccumbSuffering Hour - In Passing AscensionTchornobog - TchornobogThe Mass – Ghost FleetTomb Mold - Primordial MalignityTome of the Unreplenished – Cosmoprism: The TheurgyTongues - HreiliaUlulatum Tollunt - Quantum Noose of UsurpationUsnea – Portals Into FutilityVenenum - Trance of DeathWildspeaker - Spreading Adder
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
Most of my ballot is tied for 286th place lol
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
I thought Immolation and Incantation were both ILM faves? And I could swear people in this very thread were praising Tchornobog. I think my memory's going.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
Immolation made it, Incantation was at 105. Thought they were both very solid albums tbh. And I remember there being some excitement over Tchornobog in rolling metal but I guess it didn't carry over.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 10 February 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
I like Incantation a lot, but the new album was not as good as the one before.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 11 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
I didn't discover quite as much this year in the rollout as the last couple of years
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link