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

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I like some stuff by all those ppl but yeah

bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 11 February 2019 02:02 (five years ago) link

Haas I was just coming here to post this

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtuOHkGFn9e/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=2x7z1h6zt3rx

aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 11 February 2019 04:10 (five years ago) link

is there no album category for metal?

bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 11 February 2019 04:37 (five years ago) link

dont think so

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Monday, 11 February 2019 10:59 (five years ago) link

The Brit Awards have never recognised Metal at all.

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Monday, 11 February 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link

I remembered metal albums getting awards. Reviewing Wikipedia, apparently, only albums were nominated in 89 (when it was hard rock/metal). Then, weirdly, both albums and songs were nominated and competed against each other for a few years, until it was just albums for a year, and then became just songs.

silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Monday, 11 February 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link

I haven't heard the High on Fire track but "Honeycomb" was #1 on my tracks ballot in the big poll.

silent as a seashell Julia (Sund4r), Monday, 11 February 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link

Which High On Fire song won it?

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Monday, 11 February 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link

"Electric Messiah"

bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 11 February 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link

Remember the year we tried a tracks poll? less than half of the album voters voted for tracks.

What would we all say the best tracks were in 2018?

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Monday, 11 February 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link

This little ditty is a cracker.

Imago this must appeal to your esoteric loving self
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXFfAPAjI08

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Monday, 11 February 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link

catchy title too

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Monday, 11 February 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link

This would've got my #1 vote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWEF-rSQAh8

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Monday, 11 February 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link

Tropical Fuck Storm - You Let My Tyres Down was a belter too

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Monday, 11 February 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link

This Ails album is really good. Surprised I missed it.

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Monday, 11 February 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link

You guys are sleeping on this Earthling Society album. My favourite thing I heard all year. I came across it from JR Moores' Columnfortably Numb feature on the Quietus. I guess it's supposed to be their final album...? Hell of a standing, endlessly delirial space rock, indebted to the usual suspects but also draws on electric Miles and Berlin-era Bowie. It might not quite be proggy enough to sustain the comparison, but fuck if, I'll go there anyways: ====> this year's Kairon; IRSE

Earthling Society - MO-The Demon

https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mo-the-demon

aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 11 February 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link

Errr, "standing" should be "swan song"

aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 11 February 2019 21:11 (five years ago) link

How'd you hear about that Usurpress album, Simon? That was really cool. Did they post about it in Rolling Metal?

aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 11 February 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link

If anyone hasnt made a shortlist it might be a good idea to start

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link

@DAM I think I learned of it on Angry Metal Guy.

bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 14:00 (five years ago) link

I wanna put in a quick word for JORD by MØL, which does the glittery post-black thing a la Deafheaven, but crammed into tight, hooky songs with actual choruses that hover around the 4-5 minute range. Very glad I found time to return to it.

https://moeldk.bandcamp.com/album/jord-2

bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link

I think I played that one from the spotify list.. It was quite good.

Only 9 people have followed the Spotify playlist so its not really worth doing it in the future

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link

I alternated between Apple Music and Bandcamp. Good enough for me.

pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link

How is apple music for underground metal?

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link

I don't have Spotify either, else I would have

aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link

I haven't noticed much of a difference between Spotify and Apple Music tbh. The stuff that I only managed to find on Bandcamp is available on neither Spotify nor Apple Music as far as I can tell.

pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link

couple of days left to vote folks

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 13:11 (five years ago) link

.

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link

How many ballots we have so far, Oor???

aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link

dunno, i pm'd seandalai earlier. Last time I asked it was 17

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link

Who else plans to vote?

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link

it will be at least 18 ballots tonight!

Siegbran, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link

I should be voting, won't be much of a ballot but I can put something together either tonight or tomorrow!

they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:47 (five years ago) link

i look forward to siegbran's 17 socks voting

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link

or indeed anyone voting

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:30 (five years ago) link

:(

ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:54 (five years ago) link

There's at least six others who have committed to voting; it'd just they're not posting about metal at all, so their ballots will be a mystery👻👻👻👻

aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 14 February 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link

My ballot otoh has been telegraphed proper

aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 14 February 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link

on that note, sbanhof* just posted the story behind my favourite album:

About Earthling Society's album MO - The Demon, they set themselves a formidable challenge:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1554525519_7.jpg

Mo - The Demon was recorded at Leeds college of music between November 2017 – February 2018. The basis of the album was to record an imaginary soundtrack to the Shaw Brothers batshit psychedicrazy Kung Fu horror ‘The Boxer’s Omen’ aka MO or demon.
The story is an everyday one.
After a Hong Kong kickboxer is paralysed by a cheating Thai competitor, his mobster brother vows revenge and journeys to Thailand for a duel. Along the way, our hero is met by bizarre visions, entered into a Buddhist monastery, and begins a quest to save the soul of a deceased Monk (his twin brother in a past life) who died at the hands of a powerful black magician.
We’ve all been there. However the movie descends into a kind of spiritual Jodorowsky mushroom fest that is completely deranged and is therefore one of those perfect midnight movies.
So we got free studio time at LCM in November and just went ‘fuck it’ lets make an imaginary soundtrack in homage to such a great movie.

aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 14 February 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link

I will def be voting at the last minute as per usual

bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 14 February 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link

(here's the trailer for _The Boxer's Omen_)

https://youtu.be/q3AnjfBA3iw

aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 14 February 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link

i sent in a thing just now

billstevejim, Thursday, 14 February 2019 03:44 (five years ago) link

ST 37 - ST 37

Haha you probably knew this was coming. Not exactly my favourite band in the world but awfully fucking close, the Texas psychonauts released an even better album than 2014's I'm Not Good, which I'm was their strongest since the '90s. This one though, finished in a burst of inspiration after their triumphant US tour with Acid Mothers Temple, surrounds you on all sides with swirling, spiralling noise, from towering weirdpunk rave-ups like "Hollywood Cemetery" and the batshit Jacobin-friendly "Boss", to sinister singalongs like "Shadesty", to musique-concrete lava lamp like "Inward, Please" and "KBDP".

Check it out. http://www.brooklynvegan.com/stream-austin-psych-vets-st-37s-new-self-titled-double-lp/

aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 14 February 2019 04:24 (five years ago) link

This is my personal Best of 2018 Spotify Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/nyc_native/playlist/3XSIesRX2Q8OXmjRJ6CtEd?si=j3m-JgGtTjKVm5S-KTpvfA

It's not all metal but that's a majority of it.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 14 February 2019 04:49 (five years ago) link

2nd last day to vote!

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link

My innumerable socks are ready to vote. Who needs ethics in metal anyway?

pomenitul, Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link

seandalai informs me as of last night we have 17 ballots

Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link

I submitted mine this morning.

Siegbran, Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link

I’ll be voting today!

beard papa, Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link

voted jsut now fwiw. only a dozen or so records i listened to & enjoyed & didn't get deep into the noms like i hoped! sorry for ruining everything

they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link


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