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

^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

I'm glad that the deadline extension means more people getting into Shylmagoghnar!

Here's some more campaigning because it's a stormy and atmospheric Saturday:

Spectral Wound - Infernal Decadence: Stunning, riff-driven 'nature is satan's church' black metal. Album cover also spectacular. https://spectralwound.bandcamp.com/album/infernal-decadence

Alameda 4 - Czarna Woda: Little folky, Polish noise rock. The closing track is a trip textured into infinity. https://instantclassic.bandcamp.com/album/czarna-woda

Deszcz - III: Exhilaratingly heavy crust with great melodies. https://deszcz.bandcamp.com/album/iii

Azusa - Heavy Yoke: Completely awesome and weird female-fronted desert prog with equally excellent clean and screamed vocals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Cq4MENAbM

Sectioned - Annihilated: Powerhouse mathcore! Terrifying. https://sectioned.bandcamp.com/album/annihilated

Ugh, sorry - didn't mean to embed video!

Voted!

thanks!

fancy campaigning for anything?

dont worry if its for well known stuff. Yob and Sleep and Ghost deserve the love they get too. They did make the general poll

Albums on the metal poll noms that made the general poll

Senyawa - Sujud
Ghost - Prequelle
Yob - Our Raw Heart
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Dirt
Andrew WK - You Are Not Alone
The Armed - Only Love
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Sleep - The Sciences
mewithoutyou - (untitled)
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace

I have friends who say this is their album of the year
https://svartidaudi.bandcamp.com/album/revelations-of-the-red-sword

I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death.
-Liber Al vel Legis 2.6

On the 3rd of December 2018, six years to the day after the apocalypse, Svartidauði will unleash long awaited sophomore full length Revelations of the Red Sword upon the ashes of civilization.
Once again recorded and produced at Studio Emissary by Stephen Lockhart and featuring artwork by David Glomba, the combined result is equally stunning sonically as it is visually. The 6 track, 47 minute album marks Svartidauði’s second release on legendary German imprint Ván Records.

The Red Sword refers to the rays of a rising- and a setting sun, encompassing its contents in the fire and the fury of our world’s most creative and destructive force, the glowing God up above, the Sun - Celebrating its howling solar winds, all the while waiting with anticipation for the inevitable heat death of the universe.
credits
released December 3, 2018

Everything I voted for will probably make the list, but I definitely want to see Pharaoh Overlord, Sulphur Aeon, Ails and High on Fire do well.

Actually, Sulphur Aeon might not make it! Murky but melodic German Cthlulu death metal! Highly recommended.

https://sulphuraeon-vanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-scythe-of-cosmic-chaos

Not heard of Ails, what do they sound like?

Ludicra without the olde metal influences, pretty much

The Ails album is really good, Kerr

Also TT I'm so glad you're into that Alameda 4 record. I was going to campaign for it myself! Every Alameda album is entirely different. Everybody I knew was into the more acoustic Alameda Duo record but actually the fluxwork surrealism of duch tornada was more my thing. As for Czarna Woda, it's a fantastic record. Superloud rough-hewn prog with some Sonic Youth influence on "Colfax". A big favourite

Alameda 5 out in March

seandalai says we have 17 ballots so far

I'll be voting for sure! Thanks for extending the deadline.

Cosign the Deszcz, a great contrast of melodic music and kind of one-note screaming.

I tell you what; this Usurpress album is not shabby at all. Good call, Simon!

Sunday, a good time to make/start a ballot?