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

This one didn't connect for me at all.

Final recap before tomorrow's top 20 countdown:

21 Jute Gyte - Birefringence 301.0 8 0
22 Cloud Rat - Pollinator 300.0 10 0
23 Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them 300.0 8 0
24 Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear 295.0 7 1
25 Astronoid - Astronoid 294.0 8 2
26 Schammasch - Hearts of No Light 294.0 8 0
27 Full of Hell - Weeping Choir 275.0 9 0
28 Blut aus Nord - Hallucinogen 262.0 7 0
29 Opeth - In cauda venenum 249.0 7 0
30 Darkthrone - Old Star 246.0 8 0
31 The Lord Weird Slough Feg - New Organon 235.0 6 1
32 Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations 223.0 6 1
33 Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel 209.0 7 0
34 Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts 207.0 6 0
35 Witch Trail - The Sun Has Left the Hill 204.0 5 1
36 Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension 203.0 6 0
37 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest 201.0 6 0
38 Boris - Love & Evol 200.0 5 1
39 Cerebral Rot - Odious Descent Into Decay 189.0 6 0
40 Andavald - Undir skyggðarhaldi 187.0 4 1
41 Mdou Moctar - Ilana (The Creator) 186.0 6 0
42 Candlemass - The Door to Doom 185.0 6 0
43 Mayhem - Daemon 181.0 4 0
44 Tool - Fear Inoculum 179.0 6 0
45 Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Yn Ol I Annwn 178.0 4 0
46 Car Bomb - Mordial 176.0 6 1
47 Imprecation - Damnatio Ad Bestias 174.0 5 1
48 Brutus - Nest 170.0 6 0
48 Misþyrming - Algleymi 170.0 6 0
50 Wormed - Metaportal 169.0 5 0
51 Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Ceiling 168.0 5 0
52 Fly Pan Am - C'est ça 164.0 4 0
53 Crypt Sermon - The Ruins of Fading Light 162.0 5 0
54 Ossuaire - Derniers chants 161.0 4 0
55 Disentomb - The Decaying Light 160.0 6 0
56 Teitanblood - The Baneful Choir 157.0 6 0
57 Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind 157.0 5 0
58 Haunter - Sacramental Death Qualia 155.0 4 0
59 Ghost - Seven Inches of Satanic Panic 150.0 4 0
60 Jorge Elbrecht - Coral Cross - 002 148.0 4 0
61 Falls of Rauros - Patterns in Mythology 145.0 5 0
62 Witch Vomit - Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave 144.0 5 0
63 Dysrhythmia - Terminal Threshold 142.0 4 0
64 Bölzer - Lese Majesty 136.0 5 0
64 Krallice - Wolf 136.0 5 0
66 Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas 133.0 7 0
67 Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation 133.0 5 0
68 Mgła - Age of Excuse 133.0 3 1
69 Warforged - I:Voice 132.0 5 0
70 Black Mountain - Destroyer 132.0 4 0
71 Funereal Presence - Achatius 132.0 3 0
72 Andvaka - Andvana 131.0 3 0
73 Weeping Sores - False Confession 129.0 4 0
74 PUP - Morbid Stuff 127.0 3 0
75 Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus 126.0 5 0
76 Major Stars - Roots of Confusion 125.0 3 0
77 Oozing Wound - High Anxiety 124.0 3 0
78 Motorpsycho - The Crucible 119.0 4 0
79 Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingenesia 119.0 3 1
80 Amygdala - Our Voices Will Soar Forever 115.0 3 0
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

A lot of people seem to think this might be his best, though, which is nice and encouraging. It certainly might be his furthest-out. I personally love how it twists, turns and ultimately subsumes itself. He really knows how to construct an album, even if his dice are doing some of the work for him!

Skipping the opening track (the shortest on the album but possibly the most impenetrable!) might be a way in for some of you

Dissected Grace is the best Jute Gyte shoegaze track ever

admit you wanted to type 'best shoegaze track ever' and chickened out

Less thought went into it than that sadly. I'm teaching a lesson about SIMS FreePlay

But yes, sure, I would stand by it being the best shoegaze track ever too why not!

there you have it, folks

2018 Top 100 to contrast andcompare

33 Ballots

Rank Name Score Votes #1 Votes
1 Sleep - The Sciences 758.0 18 1
2 Yob - Our Raw Heart 724.0 18 2
3 Windhand - Eternal Return 443.0 14 1
4 Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma 415.0 10 1
5 Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Wasteland 413.0 11 1
6 Evoken - Hypnagogia 408.0 12 0
7 Ghost - Prequelle 408.0 11 0
8 Thy Catafalque - Geometria 377.0 10 1
9 Khorada - Salt 358.0 8 1
10 Entropia - Vacuum 355.0 9 1

11 Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 354.0 9 1
12 High On Fire - Electric Messiah 346.0 10 0
13 Summoning - With Doom We Come 345.0 10 0
14 The Armed - Only Love 334.0 8 2
15 Voivod - The Wake 324.0 10 0
16 Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - Dirt 323.0 8 0
17 Senyawa - Sujud 321.0 8 0
18 SUMAC - Love in Shadow 310.0 8 1
19 Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms 286.0 9 0
20 Ails - The Unraveling 284.0 7 0
21 Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit 270.0 8 1
22 Pharaoh Overlord - Zero 268.0 7 1
23 Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness I And II 266.0 8 1
24 Khemmis - Desolation 256.0 7 0
25 Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice 255.0 8 0
26 Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It 252.0 6 0
27 LLNN - Deads 237.0 6 1
28 Funeral Mist - Hekatomb 230.0 7 0
29 Pantheist - Seeking Infinity 222.0 5 0
30 mewithoutyou - Untitled 221.0 5 1
31 Kriegsmaschine - Apocalypticists 216.0 5 1
32 Judas Priest - Firepower 214.0 8 0
33 Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 214.0 6 0
34 A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes 212.0 6 1
35 Mesarthim - The Density Parameter 212.0 6 0
36 Cloud Rat - Clipped Beaks // Silk Panic 209.0 5 1
37 Horrendous - Idol 207.0 8 0
38 awakebutstillinbed - what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people see you 206.0 5 1
39 Earthless - Black Heaven 205.0 6 0
40 Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want 203.0 5 0
41 Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology 197.0 6 0
42 DMBQ - Keeenly 194.0 6 0
42 The Skull - The Endless Road Turns Dark 194.0 6 0
44 Ungfell - Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz 193.0 5 1
45 Dark Buddha Rising - II 191.0 5 0
46 Andrew W.K. - You’re Not Alone 189.0 5 1
47 Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury 188.0 5 0
48 Agrimonia - Awaken 180.0 5 1
49 Messa - Feast for Water 179.0 5 0
50 Wrong - Feel Great 177.0 5 0

51 Graveyard - Peace 176.0 5 1
52 Sorcier des glaces - Sorcier des glaces 173.0 6 0
53 Tribulation - Down Below 164.0 5 0
54 Obliteration - Cenotaph Obscure 163.0 4 0
55 ION - A Path Unknown 161.0 5 0
56 Sumac & Keiji Haino - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On 160.0 4 0
57 The Body - I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer. 159.0 7 0
58 Witch Mountain - Witch Mountain 156.0 5 0
59 Shylmagoghnar - Transience 155.0 5 0
60 Sylvaine - Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone 154.0 5 0
61 Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben het Goed III 154.0 4 0
62 Thou - Magus 152.0 4 0
63 Ancestors - Suspended in Reflections 151.0 4 0
63 The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic 151.0 4 0
65 Alameda 4 - Czarna Woda 150.0 4 0
66 Sepulcher - Panoptic Horror 148.0 4 0
67 Earthling Society - MO-The Demon 148.0 3 1
68 ST 37 - ST 37 146.0 4 0
69 Gnaw Their Tongues - Genocidal Majesty 144.0 5 0
70 Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light 142.0 5 0
71 Yawningman - The Revolt Against Tired Noises 142.0 4 1
72 Satan - Cruel Magic 137.0 4 0
73 KEN Mode - Loved 135.0 5 0
74 Un - Sentiment 135.0 3 0
75 Koenjihyakkei - Dhorimviskha 134.0 3 0
76 Portal - ION 131.0 4 0
77 Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace 130.0 4 0
78 Aura Noir - Aura Noire 128.0 4 0
79 Cultes des Ghoules - Sinister, or Treading the Darker Paths 127.0 3 0
80 Cosmic Church - Täyttymys 126.0 4 0
80 Paara - Riitti 126.0 4 0
82 Bongripper - Terminal 126.0 3 1
83 Chapel of Disease - And as We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye 125.0 3 0
84 Turnstile - Time & Space 124.0 3 0
85 Fluisteraars / Turia - De Oord 122.0 3 0
86 Uniform - The Long Walk 118.0 3 0
87 Lychgate - The Contagion in Nine Steps 117.0 4 0
88 Yhdarl - Loss 117.0 3 0
89 The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir 115.0 4 0
90 envy - Alnair In August 112.0 4 0
91 Cantique lépreux - Paysages polaires 112.0 3 0
92 Hamferð - Támsins likam 108.0 4 0
93 Azusa - Heavy Yoke 108.0 3 0
94 Rebel Wizard - Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response 107.0 3 0
95 Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed 104.0 4 0
96 Machine Girl - The Ugly Art 100.0 3 0
97 Pale Divine - Pale Divine 99.0 3 0
98 Basalte - Vertige 97.0 3 0
99 Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog 96.0 3 0
100 Black Salvation - Uncertainty Is Bliss 96.0 2 1

I feel way more in tune with the hivemind this year.

about the same for me but i think/hope the top 10 will be more me-friendly this time

last years top 10 was cracking

let me dig out all the previous top 10s

We can see how Metal Poll has changed over the years

top 20s since tomorrow is top 20 day

2008

Rank - Points - Votes - #1s - Artist - Album

1 - 479 - 25 - 2 - Torche - Meanderthal
2 - 357 - 19 - 3 - Harvey Milk - Life...the Best Game in Town
3 - 276 - 19 - 0 - Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
4 - 227 - 16 - 0 - Boris - Smile
5 - 212 - 13 - 1 - Opeth - Watershed
6 - 203 - 11 - 1 - Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
7 - 183 - 10 - 2 - Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
8 - 179 - 12 - 0 - 5ive - Hesperus
9 - 165 - 10 - 2 - Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
10 - 163 - 10 - 0 - Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
11 - 158 - 11 - 1 - The Goslings - Occasion
12 - 155 - 10 - 0 - Meshuggah - obZen
13 - 145 - 9 - 0 - Enslaved - Vertebrae
14 - 141 - 10 - 0 - Melvins - Nude With Boots
15 - 140 - 8 - 0 - Caina - Temporary Antennae
16 - 137 - 8 - 0 - Krallice - Krallice
17 - 128 - 8 - 0 - Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
18 - 126 - 8 - 1 - Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
18 - 126 - 8 - 0 - Cynic - Traced in Air
20 - 123 - 8 - 0 - Sunn 0))) - Domkirke

2009

"#","Album","Points","Votes","1s","Enthusiasm"
"1","Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions","757","31","4","24.419"
"2","Converge - Axe to Fall","722","30","2","24.067"
"3","Mastodon - Crack the Skye","709","31","6","22.871"
"4","Baroness - Blue Record","708","30","6","23.6"
"5","YOB - The Great Cessation","705","28","5","25.179"
"6","Cobalt - Gin","566","24","1","23.583"
"7","Kylesa - Static Tensions","490","22","","22.273"
"8","Zu - Carboniferous","454","21","1","21.619"
"9","Isis - Wavering Radiant","437","22","1","19.864"
"10","Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough","412","22","","18.727"
"11","Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade","405","22","","18.409"
"12","Zombi - Spirit Animal","401","17","3","23.588"
"13","Slough Feg - Ape Uprising","390","16","2","24.375"
"14","The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder","380","18","","21.111"
"15","Om - God Is Good","335","16","","20.938"
"16","Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder","334","17","1","19.647"
"17","Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul","315","17","1","18.529"
"18","Slayer - World Painted Blood","293","15","","19.533"
"19","Liturgy - Renihilation","260","16","","16.25"
"20","Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights","253","13","","19.462"

2010

1. Electric Wizard - Black Masses (1,583 Points, 49 Votes, 10 #1s)
2. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit (1,540 Points, 48 Votes, 8 #1s)
3. Ludicra - The Tenant (1,387 Points, 46 Votes, 4 #1s)
4. Alcest - Écailles de Lune (1,330 Points, 49 Votes, 4 #1s)
5. Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part II (1,226 Points, 38 Votes, 4 #1s)
6. High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine (1,199 Points, 40 Votes, 3 #1s)
7. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits (1,197 Points, 42 Votes, 2 #1s)
8. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones (1,076 Points, 40 Votes, 3 #1s)
9. Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness (1,015 Points, 35 Votes, 3 #1s)
10. Dawnbringer - Nucleus (1,009 Points, 34 Votes, 2 #1s)
11. Ghost - Opus Eponymous (868 Points, 32 Votes, 1 #1)
12. UFOmammut - Eve (790 Points, 30 Votes, 2 #1s)
13. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (733 Points, 27 Votes)
14. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (703 Points, 29 Votes, 1 #1)
15. Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium (700 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
16. Apostle of Solitude - Last Sunrise (693 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
17. Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom (666 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
18. Drudkh - Handful of Stars (665 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
19. Torche - Songs for Singles (663 Points, 23 Votes, 1 #1)
20. Envy - Recitation (660 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)

Atlantean Kodex at #22

2011 Metal Poll Results

1. Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street (1,601 Points, 39 Votes, 5 #1s)
2. Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit (1,599 Points, 40 Votes, 4 #1s)
3. YOB - Atma (1,527 Points, 41 Votes, 2 #1s)
4. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (1,371 Points, 34 Votes, 4 #1s)
5. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (1,351 Points, 36 Votes, 2 #1s)
6. Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance (1,344 Points, 35 Votes, 4 #1s)
7. Mastodon - The Hunter (1,253 Points, 33 Votes, 6 #1s)
8. Pantheïst - Pantheist (1,187 Points, 30 Votes, 2 #1s)
9. The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch (1,085 Points, 32 Votes, 1 #1)
10. Subrosa - No Help for the Mighty Ones (1,080 Points, 30 Votes, 3 #1s)
11. The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre (1,056 Points, 29 Votes, 3 #1s)
12. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room (1,049 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
13. Blood Ceremony - Living With the Ancients (1,014 Points, 31 Votes, 1 #1)
14. Absu - Abzu (901 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
15. Krallice - Diotima (899 Points, 28 Votes)
16. Falloch - Where Distant Spirits Remain (874 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
17. Liturgy - Aesthethica (873 Points, 26 Votes, 2 #1s)
18. Altar of Plagues - Mammal (855 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
19. Fen - Epoch (851 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
20. Asva - Presences of Absences (845 Points, 25 Votes, 2 #1s)

2012 Metal Poll Results

1 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind - 364 points, 17 votes, 6 first place votes
2 Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay - 358 points, 19 votes, 4 first place votes
3 SWANS - The Seer - 344 points, 16 votes, 7 first place votes
4 Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine - 235 points, 18 votes
5 Dawnbringer - Into The Lair Of The Sun God - 223 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote
6 Old Man Gloom - No - 214 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote
7 Krallice - Years Past Matter - 213 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote
8 Christian Mistress - Possession - 195 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes
9 Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock - 195 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote
10 Agalloch - Faustian Echoes EP - 194 points, 14 votes
11 Pallbearer-Sorrow and Extinction - 183 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote
12 OM - Advaitic Songs - 181 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote
13 Dordeduh - Dar de duh - 178 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote
14 Saint Vitus - LILLIE: F-65 - 170 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote
15 Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme - 164 points, 13 votes
16 Goat - World Music - 163 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote
17 Baroness - Yellow & Green - 162 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote
18 Les Discrets - Ariettes oubliées... - 162 points, 11 votes, 2 first place votes
19 High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis - 156 points, 14 votes
20 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones - 154 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote

2013 Metal Poll Results

1 carcass - surgical steel 1121.0 27 8
2 in solitude - sister 831.0 21 2
3 altar of plagues - teethed glory and injury 798.0 22 0
4 gorguts - colored sands 779.0 19 2
5 subrosa - more constant than the gods 741.0 19 2
6 windhand - soma 732.0 19 1 knaaq
7 uncle acid and the deadbeats - mind control 707.0 20 2
8 melt-banana - fetch 686.0 18 1 matt
9 asg - blood drive 668.0 17 0
10 deafheaven - sunbather 666.0 18 3
11 kylesa - ultraviolet 637.0 18 1
12 atlantean kodex - the white goddess 615.0 15 1
13 avatarium - avatarium 613.0 16 1 Paul R
14 darkthrone - the underground resistance 597.0 17 0
15 nails - abandon all life 561.0 16 1
16 hell - curse and chapter 560.0 14 1
17 queens of the stone age - like clockwork 557.0 15 1
18 beastmilk - climax 529.0 15 1
19 ghost - infestissumam 502.0 15 0
20 summoning - old mornings dawn 500.0 14 0

Wow, huge day! Lots of stuff I voted for placed, I was the number one vote for the Slough Feg album, it was a big highlight of the year to me. Glenn Branca was also especially high on my list, and Astronoid was great too -- maybe not as mind-blowing as their debut but it was very good, definitely not disappointing. Glad Candlemass got so much love as well.

2014 Metal Poll Results

20 Blues Pills - Blues Pills 557 Points, 13 votes
19 Jute Gyte - Vast Chains 599 Points, 15votes , THREE #1s
18 Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry 609 Points, 17 votes
17 Alcest - Shelter 612 Points, 18 votes, One #1
16 Botanist - Vi: Flora 619 Points, 18 votes, One #1
15 Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials 621 Points, 17 votes, One #1
14 Panopticon - Roads to the North 654 Points, 18 votes , One #1
13 Slough Feg - Digital Resistance 662 Points, 19 votes, One #1
12 Bölzer - Soma EP 666 Points, 18 votes , One #1
11 Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun 680 Points, 19 votes, One #1

10 Jute Gyte - Ressentiment 697 Points, 18 votes
9 Earth - Primitive and Deadly 738 Points, 21 votes , ONE #1
8 Scott Walker & SunnO))) - Soused 799 Points, 21 votes, TWO #1s
7 Darkspace - Dark Space III I 813 Points, 22 votes , ONE #1
6 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 876 Points, 23 votes, THREE #1s
5 Triptykon - Melana Chasmata 1078 Points, 27 votes FIVE #1's
4 Electric Wizard - Time to Die 1130 Points, 27 votes THREE #1's
3 Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere 1165 Points, 31 votes, Three #1s
2 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden 1233 Points, 33 votes, One #1

1 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend 1240 Points, 32 votes , THREE #1s

2015 Metal Poll Results

Rank Name Score Votes #1 Votes
1 Ghost - Meliora 1161.0 26 5
2 Myrkur - M 1156.0 32 1
3 Panopticon - Autumn Eternal 1016.0 26 1
4 Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields 817.0 21 1
5 Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr 816.0 19 3
6 Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss 809.0 21 2
7 Skepticism - Ordeal 806.0 19 1
8 Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper 747.0 21 1
9 Sunn O))) - Kannon 723.0 20 1
10 Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower 705.0 19 1
11 Mgla - Exercises In Futility 689.0 18 2
12 Krallice - Ygg huur 660.0 19 0
13 Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers 654.0 16 1
14 Liturgy - The Ark Work 623.0 17 0
15 Avatarium - The Girl With The Raven Mask 592.0 14 1
16 Pinkish Black - Bottom of the Morning 582.0 17 1
17 VHÖL - Deeper Than Sky 582.0 17 0
18 Jess And The Ancient Ones - Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes 576.0 15 1
19 Tribulation - The Children of the Night 569.0 16 1
20 High on Fire - Luminiferous 567.0 17 1

2016 Metal Poll results

1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä 1372.0 33 5
2 Aluk Todolo - Voix 806.0 20 2
3 Furia - Księżyc milczy luty 751.0 20 2
4 Vektor - Terminal Redux 657.0 17 3
5 Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of Ages 648.0 16 2
6 Cobalt - Slow Forever 563.0 14 1
7 Sumac - What One Becomes 559.0 15 1
8 Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones 558.0 16 1
9 Schammasch - Triangle 543.0 15 1
10 Jute Gyte - Perdurance 539.0 14 2
11 Bölzer - Hero 511.0 13 0
12 Alcest - Kodama 482.0 14 0
13 Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue 473.0 12 1
14 Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust 464.0 13 0
15 Neurosis - Fires Within Fires 444.0 11 0
16 Thy Catafalque - Meta 424.0 10 1
17 Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity) 413.0 9 3
18 Hammers of Misfortune - Dead Revolutions 408.0 12 0
19 Horse Lords - Interventions 384.0 11 0
20 Virus - Memento Collider 371.0 12 0

2017 FULL RESULTS

Rank Name Score Votes #1 Votes
1 Elder - Reflections of a Floating World 931.0 21 4
2 Godflesh - Post Self 713.0 19 2
3 Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun 666.0 15 3
4 Ex Eye - Ex Eye 656.0 16 1
5 Converge - The Dusk In Us 640.0 16 1
6 Myrkur - Mareridt 509.0 14 0
7 Krallice - Go Be Forgotten 500.0 13 1
8 Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Come 490.0 13 1
9 Couch Slut - Contempt 487.0 13 0
10 Pallbearer - Heartless 441.0 12 1

11 Jute Gyte - Oviri 438.0 12 1
12 Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven 436.0 12 0
13 King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering 419.0 13 0
14 The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia 405.0 11 1
15 Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing 401.0 11 1
16 Au champ des morts - Dans la joie 393.0 11 0
17 Pillorian - Obsidian Arc 386.0 10 1
18 Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper 338.0 10 1
19 Cleric - Retrocausal 336.0 8 2
20 Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter 326.0 11 0

Sunbather getting 666 points is the nadir of ILM

2018

Rank Name Score Votes #1 Votes
1 Sleep - The Sciences 758.0 18 1
2 Yob - Our Raw Heart 724.0 18 2
3 Windhand - Eternal Return 443.0 14 1
4 Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma 415.0 10 1
5 Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Wasteland 413.0 11 1
6 Evoken - Hypnagogia 408.0 12 0
7 Ghost - Prequelle 408.0 11 0
8 Thy Catafalque - Geometria 377.0 10 1
9 Khorada - Salt 358.0 8 1
10 Entropia - Vacuum 355.0 9 1

11 Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 354.0 9 1
12 High On Fire - Electric Messiah 346.0 10 0
13 Summoning - With Doom We Come 345.0 10 0
14 The Armed - Only Love 334.0 8 2
15 Voivod - The Wake 324.0 10 0
16 Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - Dirt 323.0 8 0
17 Senyawa - Sujud 321.0 8 0
18 SUMAC - Love in Shadow 310.0 8 1
19 Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms 286.0 9 0
20 Ails - The Unraveling 284.0 7 0

So, best top 20 year?

ILM really loves Converge, huh.

xp 2019 (maybe) ;)

Haha seeing the 2014 results 20-1, instead of 1-20, had me briefly thinking, "wait, Blues Pills won an ilm poll??!?".

Did anyone even vote for Swans this year?

Swans got cancelled on ilm (and plenty of other places)

2010 & 2011 are huge years! 2016 too.

Converge , Agalloch, Electric Wizard, Ghost & Yob are perennial faves on ilm

Krallice, too

2013 is the only year where I have physical copies of all the top 5.

Opeth have fallen from the heady days of the top 5 in the 1st poll

Boris too

Man, I really slept on the Boris record. So good, especially if you like their more contemplative side.

Swans is #13 for 2019 on RYM so clearly tons of people like them still. But it’s not a metal/rock album at all so I saw no point of nominating or voting for it in this poll, although that didn’t stop people from nominating Chelsea Wolfe for example.

2013 was a killer year.

Converge fucking rule.

Converge rule so much.

Also, never heard of Witch Trail before this but I'm halfway through and this is sounding so awesome. This is a solid band, thank you all who voted for em. Rad stuff.

I really need to revisit that Altar of Plagues record. it was a personal favorite.

I voted for the Schammasch - some lovely stuff on there. I'm still hoping one or two others from my ballot might place in the top 20. Realistically probably only one has a real shot.

I bet I voted for half of the top ten. Are we doing predictions yet? Lingua Ignota, Moon Tooth, Elder, Immortal Bird, Inter Arma, Liturgy, the other Sunn O))), Tomb Mold, Blood Incantation, Esoteric. And then Follakzoid, Chaz Wolfe, Alcest, Baroness, at least one Botanist.

Those all seem safe to me, except maybe Chelsea Wolfe.

Birefringence my #4. I still think Oviri is his masterpiece but this is only just under. It's prob his most accomplished album, and feels much like a 'rock' album...I love how Kalmbach's music only gets weirder and more singular as he begins to succumb to more rock/metal conventions

In other news, I also voted for Lightning Bolt. I'll prob always have time for frenetic bass-centric noise rock