The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE! Ballots due by Friday, February 15th 11.59pm PST

2018 was an excellent year for metal because, for the first time in eons, I kept up with new releases. Also because overt metalcoreisms and proggery (I get my avant kicks elsewhere) are only tangentially my thing so maybe it was a bad year for those two subterrains, I wouldn't know.

noone here cares for core though

Converge won the poll a few years ago?

Converge are their own thing though

Ghost and Yob just placed in the ILM’s Top 77 Albums of 2018

and Senyawa which gives me high hopes for em in this poll. that album has blown my mind. going through their back back catalog and im digging all of it so far

I just voted

excellent

I'm listening to a lot of these campaigned albums, and even the stuff that's not usually in my wheelhouse--such as 1914 & Funeral Winds--is sounding pretty good to me...

the armed album turned up in metal poll

i mean big poll, lol

Sleep just placed. Lots of albums nommed in this poll has made big poll

Nice of you to forget to mention D********n

I dont get the hate for Deafheaven from you. It's usually the purist snobs who hate them.

They're the most corny fuxxor band to really gain traction in the metal sphere

and as we all know, imago has an antifuxxor ratio of infinity

I love some """hipster""" metal but DH just come off as trite and cynical, and their song construction is really clumsy in an extremely uninteresting way

^this

also they utilise the most pandering and corny of post-rock melodies

let's fight this in the actual poll tho

It's a losing battle :C

I reckon thats all the metal out the way in big poll and none will crack the top 30 which is where the big votes will be , will be interesting to see where those albums place here.

also they utilise the most pandering and corny of post-rock melodies

tritones only!!!!

Diabolus in musica is metal af.

This song is pretty crackers:

https://youtu.be/1ND8EpzVSVo

Voted

thanks!

Spoke to seandalai and he says its fine to extend the voting until friday 15th 11.59 which is basically saturday morning when seandalai gets up and tabulates.

everything of course depends on LJ keeping up his side of the bargain!

anyone who wants to resubmit still can, just let us know here

Spotify Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mWZOMQIfPnXb7wuSFQsr9

I also forgot to nominate Kevin Hufnagel - Messages to the Past.:( Can I write it in as well?

Absolutely

Kevin Huffingglue added to pastebin noms list

Good call tt & pomenitul: the Fluisteraars / Turia album is the first thing I've heard that makes me actively want to re-do my ballot

Be sure to check out their back catalogue too, esp the Fluisteraars debut is excellent.

I will try to do a vote, figured I'd be almost done by now but I just spent the past 3 days trying to breathe normal so the extra week will for sure help

It was inevitable as we have hardly any ballots in. We had 6 the last time I asked seandalai a day or 2 ago and 3 have since said they voted.

I guess it wouldn't hurt to use the extra time for a little last-minute campaigning.

Uncreation - Overwhelming Chaos - if you like your death metal without too many hyphens, this is the stuff
https://youtu.be/xlZ6hyoUctU

Taphos - Come Ethereal Somberness - on the blackened-death tip with zip, from the fetid Copenhagen scene
https://youtu.be/IYIycFKkPtU

Demonomancy - Poisoned Atonement - deathened-black anyone? relentless and foul
https://youtu.be/-Ztl0nB2p9Q

Thanks for adding my late-ass write-ins to the noms list, Oor Neechy.

no probs. Lets hope we get some extra votes as I think we only have 9 so far

No matter how long they have most people always leave voting to the last minute, try not to panic Neechy

yeah, I know. Extend a week and instead of listening for a week they just postpone oting for a week. Makes extensions pointless usually but I think people did need it what with the big poll

glad I had time to appreciate this Shylmagoghnar album before voting.

well there's an extra week to vote now as ballots aren't due until next friday night. Hoping some big poll voters will check it out and vote.

Don't forget to subscribe to the spotify playlist

Also with hardly any votes in it means your campaigning and boosting could help

I will vote, i just like hugging the deadline.

I assumed that everyone had heard the Evoken album but just incase you haven't please check it out

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/hypnagogia

How was the Daughters album received round here in my absence?

the pastebin is the one that gets the added nominations but I just updated the googledocs too BUT I recommend using the pastebin as it's much easier to copy & paste.

xp thread to dis hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about

was p much it i think

Hmmm hard to say if that's all metal poll voters saying it.

The Daughters is a really good noise rock album anyway and I hope people check it out anyway