2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock/Heavy Music Poll: RESULTS - Top 100 Countdown

Who voted for the Neptune Power Federation? Doesn't ring a bell at all.

is this some sort of Ghost spinoff

what a fucking awful album cover

Makes you pine for more Lewandowski, eh?

I've got three more for you tonight/today, and I am excited about every single one of them.

As a child I rapidly ran out of interesting books to devour in the library

If you say so.

83
Kostnatění - Hrůza zvítězí
110 points, 4 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2953025415_10.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1Vib5sZB9MxEYCWLztMabe
https://kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/hr-za-zv-t-z

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2019/09/06/full-album-premiere-kostnateni-hruza-zvitezi/

Pressed to explain the physical process of bringing Hrůza zvítězí to life, the artist writes: “The album was written and recorded from early 2018 to summer 2019 in various parts of the country where I was living. No studios were involved in its creation. Whereas Konec je všude was written in a quick frenzy during one of the best periods of my life in recent times, Hrůza zvítězí was created slowly and subjected to rigorous criticism from myself and close contacts, due to both the mental burden its writing inflicted upon me and the desire to create a truly inimitable work. I know that every band has caught onto Deathspell Omega’s influence on extreme metal and that almost everyone right now is pushing to coax more chaos, more dissonance out of the genre. If I am moving in that direction as well, and I want to be remembered in ten years’ time, there has to be something truly remarkable about my methods. To that end, I believe I have mostly succeeded.”

A bold statement, and yet who can disagree after hearing Hrůza zvítězí?

i'm super late but this venom prison album is amazing

This guy talks a big game and mostly delivers. Do check it out if, like imago, you're burnt out on Serpent Column and their ilk.

xp

I'm a sucker for all-red bandcamp pages

Anyway, don't sleep on this one, it's definitely one of the least run-of-the-mill metal albums I heard last year!

82
Skáphe + Wormlust - Kosmískur hryllingur
111 points, 4 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2349143091_10.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5xxY2v6SpcP9gqSgbpsWF5
https://skphwrmlst.bandcamp.com/album/kosm-skur-hryllingur

https://grizzlybutts.com/2019/06/23/wormlust-skaphe-kosmiskur-hryllingur-2019-review/

Without scholia in the margins to extrapolate any meaning the entirety of this two sided abyssic, and ultimately psychedelic, experience might hold is lost in the moment. The name of the album makes its atmospheric intentions clear but it wasn’t entirely necessary as the full listen is clarity enough; A twisted stretch of impossibly layered horror psychedelia is appreciably dark in the hands of these oft-experimental black metal musicians. The mark of Skáphe picks up where they’d left off in 2017 with ‘Untitled’ and their song “VII”, an extended vision that’d been their most ruinous and layered at that junction. Between A. Poole‘s guitar presence in Guðveiki. and very recent examination of D.G.‘s Misþyrming in hand, I see both personalities alight within ‘Kosmískur Hryllingur’, particularly on the sixteen minute opening half, “Þeógónía”. Their work is dense, collapsing, inconceivably performed as if pulled from a lifetime of motions and improvised atop brisk and damning session drumming from current Véhémence drummer Thomas Leitner. The harrowing bent that concludes this track feels as if a glitch in the mind, a monstrous epileptic harangue of noise rock and deep-space black metal. It takes another ten listens to begin to understand the structure of this but only one to feel its effects.

This is also stellar, and for very similar reasons.

Really, really need to hear this one. I have been reliably informed it is a treat

still in the george part of the rollout

do we all have a part now lol

i fear for your sakes that mine might be a little higher than usual

not sure why i never heard this album during the year

It's not a split btw, despite appearances.

yo this krypts record fuckin rips!!!!

xp I think that's what put me off hearing it initially!

Alas it would be quite hard to hear it now as we're in a hospital waiting room :/

:(

I hope both of you are alright.

tt with a bit of the old pain and morbidity. with enough hails i think the dark lords will let her live

<3 to tt

Solely one entry remains for tonight, so I pray to the Old Gods that she'll be hale come morning that she may fully partake in tomorrow's leg of the rollout.

rather than listening to music she's reading The Magic Mountain, which she assures me is the most metal book ever written (Brad pls confirm)

Someone is playing a midi file of Debussy from a phone? An old Gameboy? It is metal in its own way. Or, it’ll certainly feel that way after the promised four hour wait. I’m almost definitely okay.

Skaphe and Wormlust album builds to some magnificent horror!

Well if Jute Gyte is in some sense the trvest metal act ever devised then surely it follows that of Mann's novels Doktor Faustus is the metallest of all.

Yeah, Magic Mountain invented black metal

Thank you, pomenitul! I’ll return to ceremonial listening tomorrow, for sure.

my magic mountain remains sitting on top of the other unread books but mordy started his i think

as is his other books i bought

rather than listening to music she's reading The Magic Mountain, which she assures me is the most metal book ever written (Brad pls confirm)

― imago, Monday, February 24, 2020 12:18 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you know, honestly, yes

along with all the classic russian books

I must away now, but I leave you with a fitting night or afternoon or morning cap depending on where you happen to be at the moment.

81
Nightfell - A Sanity Deranged
112 points, 4 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3708953741_16.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/7rJ2wiYSJ74CKAYcBpy8Wn
https://nightfell.bandcamp.com

https://www.angrymetalguy.com/nightfell-a-sanity-deranged-review/

In my mind, Nightfell sounds like Amon Amarth or Bolt Thrower suddenly became depressed and introspective and morphed into an atmospheric blackened death/doom band. A Sanity Deranged presents itself as a cyclical exercise in building tension through the atmospheric and doom elements and the cathartic release that occurs when Burdette drops his gigantic tremolo riffs that would fit snuggly on any classic album from the aforementioned battle-obsessed death metal bands. Coupled with Burdette’s cavernous death vocals, this undulating musical formula places the listener into a relentless trance that makes the record’s 35 minute runtime seem even shorter. Take embedded track “The Swallowing of Flies” as the perfect example of Nightfell‘s strengths coming together in synergistic glory. Beginning with a sorrowful guitar motif played over Call’s constant cymbal work, the track works to create a sense of melancholy before the driving Bolt Thrower groove arrives with one of my favorite metal moments of 2019. From there, the track moves through some blackened minor chords, the hugely distorted bass gets a chance to carry the groove on its own, and some eerie clean arpeggios and background chanting make an appearance. The total package is reminiscent of the slower, doomier moments of Batushka‘s debut.

I assure you that this record is fucking awesome, and 'To the Flame' is a Viking jam.

the magic mountain is maybe more concerned with the briefest intimacies shared with a single person over the course of many years than most metal albums i've heard but other than that: being stuck in a sanatorium for seven years staring out at the alps and reconstructing the universe with your mind is pretty metal. the pre-world war i arguments about humanism vs radicalism are also, in their own way, metal

I had The Neptune Power Federation really high on my list.
My #TwitterLPReview of the album got one like.

The Neptune Power Federation
Memoirs of a Rat Queen
(@CruzDelSurMusic)

Royalty abounds! The Aussie crew namechecks Queen in the title, vocalist Loz Sutch is a Priestess, and they have the audacity to mimic Brian May's crew at their glammiest. They will rock you. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/LH0DUNcaFU

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) September 27, 2019

I tried to hey xhuxk to like it on Facebook, not sure if it ever worked.
Here are some videos off the album that I enjoy very much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdObGeAvwl4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj8SzZoHiSA

nightfell! my no. 2!!!

a blackened and doomy bolt thrower would be the most perfect band

xps

Nightfell record excellent, another ballot entry of mine!

did you vote for 200 albums?

666 iirc

TT & LJ: take care <3

Quick recap of the rollout so far:

81 Nightfell - A Sanity Deranged 112.0 4 0
82 Skáphe + Wormlust - Kosmískur hryllingur 111.0 4 0
83 Kostnatění - Hrůza zvítězí 110.0 4 0
84 The Neptune Power Federation - Memoirs of a Rat Queen 110.0 3 0
85 Krypts - Cadaver Circulation 109.0 4 0
86 No One Knows What the Dead Think - No One Knows What the Dead Think 108.0 4 0
87 Dead to a Dying World - Elegy 107.0 4 0
87 Pharaoh Overlord - 5 107.0 4 0
89 Serpent Column - Mirror in Darkness 105.0 5 0
90 Angel Witch - Angel of Light 105.0 3 0
91 Pinkish Black - Concet Unification 101.0 5 0
92 Putrescine - The One Reborn 100.0 3 0
93 Terminal Cheesecake - Le sacre du lièvre 96.0 2 1
94 Inculter - Fatal Visions 95.0 5 0
95 Drudkh - A Few Lines in Archaic Ukrainian 95.0 3 0
96 Zig Zags - They'll Never Take Us Alive 95.0 2 0
97 False - Portent 92.0 4 0
97 Russian Circles - Blood Year 92.0 4 0
99 Fvneral Fvkk - Carnal Confessions 92.0 3 0
99 The Cosmic Dead - Scottish Space Race 92.0 3 0
99 Vesperith - Vesperith 92.0 3 0
99 Vircolac - Masque 92.0 3 0
103 Coffin Rot - A Monument to the Dead 90.0 2 0
103 Sanguisugabogg - Pornographic Seizures 90.0 2 0
105 Deus Mortem - Kosmocide 89.0 3 0
106 Spirit Adrift - Divided by Darkness 88.0 4 0
107 Venom Prison - Samsara 86.0 2 0
108 Devin Townsend - Empath 85.0 3 0
108 Gaahls WYRD - Gastir - Ghosts Invited 85.0 3 0
108 Multishiva - Savupäivä 85.0 3 0
111 Mizmor - Cairn 82.0 4 0
112 Vanum - Ageless Fire 82.0 3 0
113 Ithaca - The Language of Injury 80.0 3 0
114 Veiled - In Blinding Presence 78.0 3 0
115 Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong 77.0 4 0
116 Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites 77.0 3 0
117 Paladin - Ascension 76.0 2 0
118 Eluveitie - Ategnatos 75.0 3 0
118 Reveal - Scissorgod 75.0 3 0
120 Atlantean Kodex - The Course of Empire 75.0 2 0
120 Fetid - Steeping Corporeal Mess 75.0 2 0
120 Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry 75.0 2 0

I'm intrigued by Skáphe + Wormlust! Is it akin to Misþyrming?

Considerably less conservative, I'd say.

I *think* 12 of mine have placed so far, dang!

inculter's fatal visons and krypts cadaver circulation were my ballot entrys for today

didn't vote for, but totally cool with the one reborn and a sanity deranged placing

visions*

7 of mine have placed if we the count bonus weekend 20. Otherwise, 4.

I've had only 2, but this is mollified by the strong possibility that the majority of the top 10 will correspond to my own