2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 21st of February)

part of my issue is anything released early in te year I barely remembered so I had to relisten

Wait, this Lingua Ignota album is awesome.

Yes it is.

Caligula snuck up on me too. At first I thought it was too slow and boring, then I found myself craving to hear it in the middle of the workday, after a fever dream at 3:00am, etc

isn't that always the way. tbf you do that with Mahler too

Have compiled a (quite short) ballot (god I really hate metal lol) but might try to add to it if I find anything deserving

Nero Di Marte album is 2020 you cheeky so and so :P it can wait

Ha! Good catch.

I've deleted it. It can and must indeed wait.

Anyone else here fucking with Jorge Elbrecht's Coral Cross project? I know tangenttangent at least (& LJ too?)(happy birthday btw) got some mileage from the also-great Gloss Coma album he released this year, but Coral Cross is special: another strand of that experimental BM syncretism I was talking about a while ago, but Elbrecht pairs his black metal with spectral keyboards, chanting vox, eerie sound efx, & even some influence from John Carpenter's soundtracks. The resultant hybrid sounds goth af:

https://jorgeelbrecht.bandcamp.com/track/fossils-unlocked-by-a-boiling-sea

https://jorgeelbrecht.bandcamp.com/track/all-flesh-must-be-removed

Yeah HB LJ! (couldn't find one thread among the dozens of ban lj threads, sheesh)

I'm def down for some BM w/ keys and chanting vox, will get on it!

Ohh LBI I have a feeling you'll dig this a lot!

Happy birthday LJ indeed! Also, that record sounds interesting.

Man, this Jorge Elbrecht rules. Had to check if it was the same guy who did some stuff with Ariel Pink (stuff I didn't care for), and it is. He's going all out here isn't he? Sounds... proggy as hell too?! This is my shit though, thanks for that DAM!

Roll-call

Who has all voted so far apart from Pom & I?

BlackIronPrison, gaudio, Tom Violence, LBI. Anyone else?

Not yet, will do.

I know Glenn voted

I have SOO much sorting and ranking and eliminating to do. But I WILL vote, of course.

Anyone else plan to vote?

I'll send a short unweighted ballot before the deadline.

I voted so long ago that I wondered for a second if this was a new one.

maybe you voted in the lifetime tracks poll and havent voted in this?

My ballot will be small but I will be voting

I'll vote. Still need to relisten and rank five-six albums.

Absolutely will submit a ballot, vote for cherubs

Voted!

I have a ballot with about 15 albums on it, and a ballot with about 5 albums on it, and I'm deciding between them. Obviously tt's ballot will be like 50 or whatever, she is much more metal than me

vote for multishiva

or don't, if you don't want

imago I recommend the 15-entry ballot, and lll am always ready to give suggestions if you want to fill it put a little more

Submitted a short ballot (15 entires)

Thanks to all those who have voted and to those who plan to vote.

Can anyone recommend any 2019 metal that's good to accompany an insane board game about birds? (imago says: 'not hatebeak')

Not 2019 maybe but Satyricon “Black Crow On A Tombstone” is an anthem.

of course 'bird-grind' is a thing

https://ornithologist.bandcamp.com/releases

lol this is kind of wonderful

I voted and highly recommend checking out the Car Bomb record.

We only have 16 ballots.

we need lots of 50 album ballots please!

I'm still listening until tomorrow afternoon then I start placements. I'm at 31 albums now, I imagine I can manage to get a 35 album ballot.

I have my ballot together. Hope to submit it today.

Nice. We need as many people as we can get. KEEP THE METAL POLL ALIVE YOU POXY FULES.

I can do a ballot if you don't mind my lurkery butt stinking up the results w/ knuckledragger DM.

Music to my ears!

Damn, Organectomy didn't get nommed?

It's alright, I just added it.

I wish the old regulars who drifted away from metal would not only come back and vote but post on the threads too.
The early days of the poll were really lively.

I'm here to watch. My metal listening has slowed to a total, er, dribble and I have nothing to contribute.

The deed is done. pic.twitter.com/qPwAu78tj0

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) February 19, 2020

Haha, that's awesome. Thanks!

A late recommendation but I just discovered it in bouncing around listening to things, Chevelier - Destiny Calls is really good, or at least really interesting. It's I guess ostensibly some kind of nwobhm-revival sort of stuff, but it's very sparse and weird, and has female-fronted vocals that really do sound like some high priestess shouting incantations. I'm having trouble pinning it down, but it's not run of the mill its very strange and wonderful to me. Worth checking out!