ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll 2018: NOMINATIONS thread - open till Jan. 19th, 2019!

Abigor - Höllenzwang (Chronicles of Perdition)
Abstracter - Cinereous Incarnate
Aeternus - Heathen
Assumption - Absconditus
Autarcie - Seqvania
Bloodbark - Bonebranches
Cân Bardd - Nature Stays Silent
Carpathian Forest - Likeim
Carved Cross - The Yawning Abyss of Perdition
ColdWorld - Nostalgia
Délétère - De Horae Leprae
Elderwind - The Colder The Night
Funeral Winds - Sinister Creed
Hellevaerder - Aan De Aarde Teruggegeven
Kalmankantaja - Tuulikannel
Krisiun - Scourge Of The Enthroned
Kwade Droes - De Duivel En Zijn Gore Oude Kankermoer
Make A Change...Kill Yourself - IV
Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram
Nécropole - Solarité

Panphage - Jord
Progenie Terrestre Pura - StarCross
Raani - Henkikutsu
Sear Bliss - Letters From The Edge
Shining - X (Varg Utan Flock)
Sojourner - The Shadowed Road
Stortregn - Emptiness Fills The Void
Svrm - Лихиї вітри стогнуть без упину
Totalselfhatred - Solitude
Trna - Earthcult
Ulvegr - Vargcult
Witchfyre - Grimorium Verum
Yith - Immemorial

And these two from December 2017:

Eldamar - A Dark Forgotten Past
Evilfeast - Elegies Of The Stellar Wind

Pantheist - Seeking Infinity

Don't forget to add your nominations to the Spotify playlist! Don't be afraid to give it a listen as well! You never know what you might discover!

https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/0mWZOMQIfPnXb7wuSFQsr9?si=owPgNIFHS7-3Uelj2UlZ-w

Ohhms - Exist

All my nominations are on Bandcamp, except one:

https://gorycz.bandcamp.com/album/piach
https://khanus.bandcamp.com/album/flammarion
https://kenmodesom.bandcamp.com/album/loved
https://auranoir.bandcamp.com/album/aura-noire
https://demonomancy.bandcamp.com/album/poisoned-atonement
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/demise
https://deszcz.bandcamp.com/album/iii
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/come-ethereal-somberness
https://golgothanremains.bandcamp.com/album/perverse-offerings-to-the-void
https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/the-contagion-in-nine-steps
https://blacksalvation.bandcamp.com/album/uncertainty-is-bliss
https://uncreationgods.bandcamp.com/releases

which would you recommend to listen to first?

I’d say start at the top.

The Pantheist album is a return to funeral doom. Old fans will be pleased but I loved their last album.

is that you pfunkboy? Good to see you back round these parts if so!

About a week ago, imago asked me privately who I thought the "Comet Control of 2018" was. After taking probably way too much time to ponder this question I realized the answer was obviously Yawning Man:

https://yawningman.bandcamp.com/album/the-revolt-against-tired-noises

I think there were a couple things that threw me off the trail, first being that this album is almost completely instrumental. The second was that I wasn't entirely sure whether this was all new material or an archived release:. "Catamaran" was covered by Kyuss and put on their last (& I'm best) album in 1995! But lately I've learned that the rest of these songs are all new, and they just finally got around to putting Catamaran--a song that's been with them since the beginning--on a studio album.

Notwithstanding, this album is wonderful, as Yawning Man conjure up ethereal arabesques from their distortion pedals. Total Aurora Borealis-grade sludge.

they're no fatso jetson

oh didn't see this! will check out now

Fuck it

The Oscillation - Wasted Space

Hi Neil, only back temporarily to help out George. Missed you since you quit fb.

Just found out two guys from Flourishing (discordant death metal) formed a new band called Aeviterne along the same lines so

Aeviterne - Sireless

http://aeviterne.bandcamp.com/album/sireless

Earthling Society - MO-The Demon
Alameda 4 - Czarna Woda

Eosphoros - Eosphoros
Inexorum - Lore of the Lakes
Scaphe - Factory Gleam
Wild Hunt - Afrterdream of the Reveller
Zealotry - At the Nexus of Stillborn Worlds

sorry that last one should be
Zealotry - At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds

every single one

Can't leave any out now you'll hurt their feelings

Siege of Power - Warning Blast
Deicide - Overtures of Blasphemy
Aborted - TerrorVision
Necronomidol - Voidhymn
Cognitive - Matricide
Terrorizer - Caustic Attack
The End - Svårmod Och Vemod Är Värdesinnen
Revenge - Deceiver​.​Diseased​.​Miasmic
Lovebites - Clockwork Immortality

Anaal Nathrakh - A New Kind of Horror
Cosmic Autumn - Cosmic Autumn
Finnr's Cane - Elegy
RÛR - RÛR
Sárr - Ávitun

Bongripper - Terminal

Really enjoying the Eosphoros.

How many votes will we get btw? I'm aiming for a ballot of 50.

min 1 max 50 or anything inbetween is the usual

I agree

Sounds good.

is that everything nommed then?

Give it until the morning! I've assumed you've all nominated everything but there's usually something that slipped the net

Divide and Dissolve - Abomination

I'll throw in some last minute adds.

I love Triple B. They've been putting out the best dumb hardcore I've heard in years.
https://bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/

The Mindforce album might have been my favorite Triple B record from 2018. Their guitarist sadly had a bad accident a couple weeks ago. The band are on indefinite hiatus and they started a gofundme for his hospital bills. :(

Mindforce - Excalibur
Three Knee Deep - Wrong World
Candy - Good To Feel
Criminal Instinct - Sweet Dreams

tt has just awoken from her drunken stupor and is quickly informing me of her last-second additions (if there are any), give me ten minutes haha

Weedpecker - III
Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets And Dead Messiahs
Descubriendo a Mr Mime - F
Djinn and Miskatonic - Even Gods Must Die
Storm {O} - Ere
Agrimonia - Awaken
Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard / Slomatics - Totems
Windhand / Satan's Satyrs - Split
Erdve - Vaitojimas
Gost - Possessor
Sectioned - Annihilated
Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik - Hugsjá
Thou - The House Primordial
Drawn And Quartered - The One Who Lurks
The Night Flight Orchestra - Sometimes The World Ain't Enough (I think she's still drunk tbh)
The Final Age - The Final Age
Anthroprophh - Omegaville
Thou - Rhea Sylvia
Underoath - Erase Me
Ostraca - Enemy
Green Lung - Free The Witch
Shylmagoghnar - Transience
Thumpermonkey - Make Me Young, Etc
Runemagick - Evoked From Abysmal Sleep
envy - Alnair In August
Azusa - Heavy Yoke
Remote Viewing - Blood Loss

More to come!

I always say to her "they'll have nominated everything" and she says "no way have they done so" and she is always right

Q'uq'umatz - Kukulkan
Ling Tosite Sigure - #5
złota jesień - W tobie nie jestem soba
The Ex - 27 Passports
Star Period Star - Daylight Spending Time
Protoplasma - -
Magim - Ignis
Koenjihyakkei - Dhorimviskha
Blosse - Era Noire
Machine Girl - The Ugly Art
Cadaveric Fumes - Heirs Of Hideous Secrecies
Svartidauði - Revelations Of The Red Sword

Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik - Hugsjá

Excellent album but obligatory NØT TRVE METÅL.

It is a homeopathic metal dilution

I do wonder what the most not-metal thing we nominated is. possibly Thumpermonkey except the opening track is nigh-on the heaviest thing I've heard all year

We!

Glad somebody else heard Magim, love that shit.

Musically speaking, I very much enjoyed that Nécropole album but I won't be listening to it again. Describing Jews as malicious 'vipers' and 'cosmic enemies' then outright stating that 'the Jewish "race"' (I'm quoting the quotation marks, which totally sanitize the sentiment, amirite?) 'must die' is a kind of pubescent edginess that induces more eye rolling than is anatomically bearable on my part.

Yikes, uh I think that goes beyond edginess

Well it's mixed with pseudo-profound terms scavenged in online thesauruses such as 'eschatology' and 'oblation', so I assume it's all part of a neo-Maurrassian fantasy according to which they, the unsung, unacknowledged protagonists of recent French History, must transgress contemporary ethics in order to live up to their solitary, aristocratic ideals. The more loathed and despised you are by the plebs, the closer you come to achieving Sadian transcendence or some such. Sounds pretty pubescent to me.

Can we un-nominate them please?

We'd probably have to un-nominate a great deal if we were to carefully comb through every lyric. I'm afraid this kind of hateful bullshit is statistically inevitable in a genre that prides itself on exploring the darkest recesses of the human psyche. That said, these lyrics cross the red line for me and I certainly won't be voting for Nécropole.

I'm removing Nécropole. and lj quit nominating thumpermonkey, they are not metal!

Is there a tribunal

Apparently so.

And as an addendum to my post upthread, I'd like to point out that the Divine Marquis was no antisemite.