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

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

xp I'll give it a whirl!

None of mine have placed so far. It will be more hivemind than kvlt, though I'm not sure my number 1 will make it!

Lets rephrase that: I expect that my top 5 will all place very high, 6 through 10 I'm less sure about

Any clue as to your 1, LBI?

Oof LJ, very difficult to come up with something that won't give it away.

1) I don't think there's a single riff on the album at all
2) The official website of the band is inaccessible for me because my antivirus thinks it's a phishing scam :D

3) Vi Vandrar Vidare

That Neptune Power Federation album was in my top 5 (although I don't think I ranked my ballot here), and "I'll Make a Man Out of You" was one of the very few songs last year that I actually did play on a loop for an extended period of time. So great.

5 placed so far, I’m considerably more in tune with the ILM hivemind this year than usual! I should’ve voted for Zigzags, totally forgot.

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

― imago, Monday, 24 February 2020 19:51 (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You only put in a small ballot though so wouldn't expect much to place!

I have no access to ballots glenn so i cant check for you

tt, far from a heart complaint, had a pulled intercostal ffs

\m/

saw ZigZags for their album release party in LA and it blew me away. amazing band that I discovered on Rolling Metal from I think Brian. glad it made the list.

Tbf pulled intercostals are metal af.

Sheesh tt, that sux, but is also trve metal, and a relief re: heart is fine!

xp :)

Way glad to hear tt is doing well

Also way glad to see Pharaoh Overlord (my #16) & Skaphe/Wormlust (my #13) make it

Skaphe/Wormlust is basically paranoid free-metal fever-dream. I'm a p huge fan of Skaphe & it fits right in with the other albums I've heard from the act

I'm a p huge fan of Skaphe & it fits right in with the other albums I've heard from the act

Good to hear. I'll have to check out their other stuff then.

Skaphe² is a wild and miasmic ride

Well maybe not 'ride'...more like a fetid pit. The propulsion is not so much forward as omnidirectional

Kostnatění was my #14, and False my #15. I suppose the False album does anything new and clever, but it provides just what I'm looking for out of 21st century Lewandowski black metal. (Mizmor was my #6, speaking of good solid Lewandowski metal)

Russian Circles was my #60 (my ranked shortlist was 97 entries), it started much higher but I kept bumping it down because I thought it was relatively boring. I should have revisited and reviewed the ranking; after hearing one of their other albums in the car last week, I was reminded that I do like them. I've worn off a bit from the RC/Isis/Red Sparrowes instrumental post metal thing honestly.

I never ended up listening to the Kostnatěni

I listened to it a couple times and really liked it, but now I can't remember it. Late additions to the ballot often suffer this fate. I have a bunch of "discoveries" from the '16 metal poll languishing in the lower reaches of my Bandcamp wishlist to this day.

Lots of stuff for me to listen to in order to follow along, but have enjoyed most I’ve heard so far.

Probably the coolest discoveries so far are the Ghaal (loved a Gorgoroth album years ago - he is an amazing vocalist), Reveal, and the Serpent Column.

*Gaahls

Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam was the one.

Three more placed today from the middle reaches of my ballot: Nightfell, Putrescine and Inculter. All excellent and worthy of attention. Of the stuff I haven't heard before, I'm most intrigued by the Neptune Power Federation, and not just because of the unusual name.

Wasn't sure about Kostnateni but then there was a clean guitar line that could have been one of Kalmbach's own, followed by a mad distorted choral bit. Think I'm on board

Kalmbach makes the genre explode, Kostnatění settles for a few implosions here and there.

In other news, expect today's 20 to begin in a couple of hours.

Kalmbach is one of the most vital and confounding musicians of the decade. Just listening to the astonishing growth he achieved from Perdurance three years ago now to Birefringence. Just constantly reinventing and expanding his art, making records no one else could

That said, I did listen a little to the Kostnateni on the way home, it sounds utterly fierce. Will def return to it

Unfortunately I am about to crash so sorry if any of my oddball faves show up while I'm out

vote for terminal cheesecake

The Kostnatění was very cool!

An album I expected to get little out of based on cover aesthetics and that write-up was The Neptune Power Federation, but its 70s influences are all working together maximally and wow it's actually great.

Well, some of it

If I wasnt a dumbass and got the deadline day wrong, I'd have voted for that Terminal Cheesecake album

We're back in business, folks…

80
Amygdala - Our Voices Will Soar Forever
115 points, 3 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3139375020_10.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Vk4x74PVhzsvBX1XbJJD7
https://amygdalatx.bandcamp.com/album/our-voices-will-soar-forever

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2019/05/06/amygdala-our-voices-will-soar-forever/

There aren’t a huge number of bands out there in hardcore who challenge all of the genre norms at one time. However, Amygdala do exactly that as they straddle a lot of different styles on their latest offering, Our Voices Will Soar Forever. From outright hardcore rage on opening track “Born Into Abuse” we are thrust into the band’s potent initial surge before we get introduced to the many other weapons in their arsenal. Before digging into that, though, it’s important to tackle some of the subject matter the band engages in here. This is a band who’s sonic variety is only the tip of the iceberg to the diversity they embody as people and their principles.

The band take on many of the ills of society that oppress so many people especially racism, sexism, homophobia, and the many variants of sick abuse that are thrust upon women and others. The album transcends being a simple vehicle for a screaming voice taking these things head on. Instead they utilize their sharp and varied attack on tracks such as “It Takes a Village”, “I Hate to Say It”, “BPD Versus Me”, and “I Wish Upon a Shooting Star”. All of these songs, among others, vary between punishing, often angular guitar riffs and some decidedly math-y takes on drumming to slower passages marked with droning notes or lightly picked arpeggios that allow the songs to breathe before being subsumed again by the all out assault of Bianca Quinones’ vocals.

I haven't heard this but it sounds fucking dope

Another one I don't know. I didn't do well at keeping up this year it seems

Some day I'll give core and core-ish bands a fair shake. Today is not that day, I'm afraid.

the 'core, the hard music

I love it