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

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!

tt: "That's one of mine, remind me how it sounds?" <<<irl pvmic

I could reeeeally do with a mixed ballot btw. Next year...

I have submitted my ballot! Been following the results of these since like 2008, but never voted in one before.

Imprecation - Damnatio Ad Bestias has definitely moved up for me these last few weeks - would probably be in top 20/30 now.

Currently going back through all the albums I wishlisted on Bandcamp this year. Yikes, lots to listen to.

Please vote so we can have a good rollout.

the bigger the ballots the better

I feel attacked that these calls for extensive ballots began in earnest immediately after I submitted my um, rigorously curated effort.

I think I should be able to get up to 25.

Voted!

😎

voted!

yay!

Last day of voting! Please vote!

Anyone lurking, please vote!

Everybody who is reading this please look at the nominations and if there are albums there you like, please vote! https://pastebin.com/3nTvzgnF

Everyone welcome!

Voting form

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfj_cLkJTyGfm3DqDvxo6RTep8oMptIkJgKF3LiIK4q6yEwWg/viewform

Spotify playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uKGEOJlIeCmzYH7kf5d9A?si=VVPrvp9aRT2guNgD_xzL4w

Last year we only got 33 ballots so lets see if we can smash that. We got over 70 one year I think way back.

I'll be sending mine in a few hours!

OK I voted, got myself to 40 on the ballot!

Listening to Caligula rn...it's something else, though I def see why ILX loves it so much. Speaking for myself, personally, I think this is basically this year's Haino/Sumac: a ferocious forbidding avant album whose raw fury is undeniable but is also a little too *Serious Art* for me to know exactly what to do with

I plan to vote from work tomorrow. I have a mixed ballot so just need to confirm the order.

or just ranked with no care given to the last 20 entries..

That's totally fine, you don't need to overthink it. Much of my bottom 20 is more or less interchangeable.

To whom it may concern:

Don't forget to vote, yo.

yeah yeah

It's-a-comin'

please keep em coming

got from 81 down to 58. almost there...

doing some last-minute relistening but planning to submit a ballot today

Sweet!

ayyyy

ballot ordered! sending momentarily. a culling most brutal.

when does the rollout begins? looking forward. are you doin' top 100 as usual?

Top 100, yeah. Was thinking 20 per day, from Monday to Friday.

TOO LOW!!!! -> i'm ready!

I should add that we will need to have enough votes to make a top 100. If we don't then it will have to be a shorter rollout.

Sent a short unweighted ballot

so fingers crossed and get those 50 vote ballots in to make sure!

xp

i think i failed you Oor. yeah, i could have put a 50 vote ballot together. didn't feel right, sorry. 30 vote ballot, but love'em all

thanks for voting!

I'm annoyed with myself for not doing better campaigning! Putting my ballot in order now and hoping that enough people loved the Jambinai album - Korean psych intensity with dynamic and always interesting post-metal progressions.

Me too! Hope everyone voted for Black Mountain and Neptune Power Federation and Rainbow Grave.

Submitted my ballot of 50. I hadn't heard of 10,000 Russos before this morning and it almost made my ballot. I might regret that. I left off a few favorites that might qualify as heavy rock, but I just couldn't and I might regret that, too. Toward the bottom was a bunch of indistinct death and black metal that I enjoyed throughout the year, but wouldn't be able to identify if heard in a bar.

Looking forward to seeing the results.

i prob should've campaigned too. this immortal bird record is even better than i fucking remembered

That one made the upper part of my list. Another one I really loved that I didn't see get a lot of mention here was the Vanum album. It slipped by my notice for a while I think due to being too close to Vastum and Venom Prison.