2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: NOMINATIONS Thread (open until the 8th of January 2021)

for Deftones lovers

Loathe - I Let It In And It Took Everything

(2/100)

Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
Enslaved - Utgard
Human Impact - Human Impact
Huntsman - Mandala of Fear
Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion
Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions
Darren Korb - Hades: Original Game Soundtrack
Leeched - To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse
The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
Voidceremony - Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel

People should give the Enslaved another chance. It left me cold the first couple of listens, but eventually hit me the right way. I know they're pretty much nothing like they used to be, but I don't see how someone who loves music could not at least appreciate the craft of it even if it didn't resonate emotionally. I don't even know why I gave a new Enslaved release more listens or why I'm suddenly OK with pop-oriented Enslaved, but I'm glad I did. I might even go back and check out the last ten years of releases I skipped.

Igorrr doesn't get much any love around here, but Spirituality & Distortion kicks ass. If tracks Nervous Waltz or Himalaya Massive Ritual don't do it for you, you can probably confidently say you're not a fan and move on, but if you like and haven't heard 2017's Savage Sinusoid (which I also nommed that year, and I think it received one vote in the poll) which is slightly more chaotic and unfocused but probably slightly better for it.

Darren Korb's "Hades" soundtrack is worth checking out. It's on Spotify and Bandcamp. My young daughter who is ambivalent to most hard rock/metal I play absolutely loves it. The game is outstanding as well.

If anyone needs any help due to a bad memory then sites like RYM et al are worth posting links for

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2020/g:metal/

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2020/11/12/spoiler-here-are-decibels-top-40-albums-of-2020/

Evangelist - Ad Mortem Festinamus

(72/100)

via the above poster

http://www.revolvermag.com/music/25-best-albums-2020

A few more:

Arvalastra – The Key to the Shrine of Putrefaction
Azarath – Saint Desecration
Blasphamagoatachrist – Bastardizing the Purity
Cénotaphe – Monte Verità
Golden Light – Sacred Colour of the Source of Light
Herxheim – Incised Arrival
HWWAUOCH – Protest Against Sanity
Kaunis Kuolematon – Syttyköön toinen aurinko
Live Burial – Unending Futility
Mahr – Maelstrom
My Death Belongs to You – The World Seems to Be Fading
Norrhem – Koitos
Odoacer – There the Vultures Will Gather

(43/100)

200 Stab Wounds – Piles Of Festering Decomposition
Ars Magna Umbrae - Apotheosis
Azath – Through a Warren of Shadow
Azoth – Magnitude of Extinction
Battle Dagorath – Abyss Horizons
Cardiac Arrest – The Day That Death Prevailed
Carnation – Where Death Lies
Cemetery Filth - Dominion
Chepang - Chatta
Coffin Curse – Ceased to Be
Cytotoxin - Nuklearth
Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus
Draghkar – At the Crossroads of Infinity
Esoctrilihum – F’htansg
Exocrine - Maelstrom
Expander – Neuropunk Boostergang
Glorious Depravity – Ageless Violence
Judicator – Let There Be Nothing
MAUL – Deity Demise
Medium - Medium
Mesarthim – The Degenerate Era
Mesarthim – Planet Nine
Oil Spill - Ashlands
Solicitor – Spectral Devastation
Spirit Adrift – Enlightened in Eternity
Stormkeep - Galdrum
Thaetas – Shrines to Absurdity
Traveler – Termination Shock
TZOMPANTLI - TLAMNALLI
Ulthar - Providence
Undergang - Aldrig i livet
Visceral Mass – Visceral Mass
Wake - Confluence
Warp Chamber – Implements of Excruciation
Xazraug – Unsympathetic Empyrean
Xenobiotic – Mordrake

(36/100)

Didn't know there was new Mesarthim, I'll have to check those out.

Not to campaign on the noms thread, but if you prefer the first few Elder records to the direction they took after Lore, then the Slift album is for you.

Also:
Bring Me the Axe - Bring Me the Axe

(27/100)

new Mesarthim a clear step down

still worth hearing idk

You guys have most of my noms already covered, but here's a few in consideration for my list that I don't see:

All Them Witches - Nothing as the Ideal
The Atomic Bitchwax - Scorpio
Colour Haze - We Are
Incantation - Sect of Vile Divinities
Kind - Mental Nudge
Konvent - Puritan Masochism
Molassess - Through the Hollow
Nothing - The Great Dismal
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals
Valkyrie - Fear
-(16)- Dream Squasher

(11/100)

Good list so far, folks.

Keep 'em coming.

That Colour Haze is very technically a 2019 release, but I believe it only came out digitally during the week after(?) Christmas and didn't get any sort of physical distribution until March of this year - but feel free to nix it if that doesn't count.

Bandcamp says October 9, 2020. Good enough for me.

Yeah, that's when the US label (Ripple) finally released it here. Just thought I'd preempt any pedants about the date, ha.

Isengard - Vårjevndøgn
Onirik - The Fire Cult Beyond Eternity
Chasmdweller - Bacterial Lotus
Bog Body / Primitive Warfare - The Gate of Grief / Undulating Torment
Serration - Shrine of Consciousness
Deiquisitor - Promo 2020
Dkharmakhaoz - Proclamation ov the Black Suns
Crushing the Scepter - Echoing Screams of Madness and Delusion
Kommand - Terrorscape
Left Cross - Prophecy of Conquest
Exhumation - Eleventh Formulae
Internal Rot - Grieving Birth
Ifernach - Waqan
Rat King - Vicious Inhumanity
Burning Palace - Hollow
-S- - Zabijanie czasu I
Corpse Pile - Corpse Pile Demo
Encirclement - Oscuridad Perdicion
Evulse - Pustulant Spawn
Pharmacist - Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition
Seep - Souvenirs of a Necrosadist
Visceral Mass - Visceral Mass
Gutless / Mortal Wound - Gutless / Mortal Wound
Tsap - Flickering Lyghte in Campsite
Deiquisitor - Religiously Endorsed Masochism
Deadlight Sanctuary - Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned
Messial - Ellipses I: Anthroplanetary Expansion
Xythlia - Immortality Through Quantum Suicide
Ifernach - The Green Enchanted Forest of the Druid Wizard
Cosmic Putrefaction - The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers
Exhumed / Gruesome - Rot Your Brain / A Mind Decayed
Fluids - Ignorance Exalted
Gramarye - Necroprophecy
Kombat - New Dimensions of Pain
Graf Orlock - Violent Ultimatum at the Local Dojo / Bleak News Report in the Office Breakroom
Formless Oedon - Deathless Luminosity
Disembowel - Echoes of Terror
Coagulate - The Art of Cryptosis

(38/100)

Obscurae - To Walk the Path of Sorrows

(11/100)

Boris with Merzbow - 2R0I2P0

(12/100)

Haven't heard that yet, But Boris - No is easily the best thing they have done since pink.

I think these count under "heavy rock"?

Deep Purple - Whoosh!
Blue Öyster Cult - The Symbol Remains

2/100

I listened to proper extreme metal too but I think all my faves have been nominated.

Dan Weiss - Natural Selection

3/100

All fine by me.

yeah we've never been purists or troo kvltists in the poll. Its not an extreme metal poll only and never has been.

70s metal bands might not seem heavy now, but they are still metal bands by definition.

so nominate away please!

381 albums nominated so far

That's pretty good, and we've still got a month to go. I'm gonna wait a bit longer before posting my next batch.

Cianide - Unhumanized
Cryptae - Nightmare Traversal
Dead Neanderthals - Blood Rite
Entry - Detriment
Exsul - s/t
Eye Flys - Tub Of Lard
Fasad - The End
Fistula - The Process of Opting Out
Geld - Beyond the Floor
Gnaw - Barking Orders
Grief Eater - s/t
Leprophiliac - Necrosis
Liktal - Morgondagens Öde
Living Gate - Death Lust
Marthe - Sisters of Darkness
Misantropic - Catharsis
Obscene - The Inhabitable Dark
Ormskirk - s/t
OvO - Miasma
偏執症者 (Paranoid) - Out Raising Hell
Parasit - Samhällets Paria
Perdition Temple - Sacraments Of Descension
Temple Of Void - The World That Was
Venomous Concept - Politics Versus the Erection
Vile Command - Obscene Conjurations
Yovel - Forthcoming Humanity

(62/100)

I had no idea Cianide had done another one. spinning now

cianide kills!! yeah it's good. a well worth addition to their canon

Clairvoyance - Demo
Ingested – Where Only Gods May Tread
Lik – Misanthropic Breed
Maul – Monarchy of Mold
Oxalate – Infatuating Sickness
Resin Tomb – EP 2020
Sadness – Alluring the Distant Eye
Septage – Septic Decadence
Shards of Humanity – Cold Logic
Siege Column – Darkside Legions
Skeletal Remains – The Entombment of Chaos
Skelethal – Unveiling the Threshold
Stillbirth – Revive the Throne
Temple Nightside – Pillars of Damnation
Umbra Vitae – Shadow of a Life
Unleash the Archers - Abyss
Witches Hammer – Damnation is My Salvation
Wormhole – The Weakest Among Us

(54/100)

Good call on the Siege Column in particular.

Cosmovore - Into the Necrosphere
Edenic Past - Red Amarcord
Encenathrakh - Thraakethraaeate Thraithraake
Engulfed - Vengeance of the Fallen
Fleshrot - Demo 2020
Houkago Grind Time - Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore)
Molested Divinity - Unearting the Void

(61/100)

Does the new Pharaoh Overlord qualify? It's great but it'd be a stretch

If you need to ask…

More seriously, their other releases would qualify so perhaps this one does by association because we're just that naïvely magnanimous.

Deep down, though, you know it's true (that it's not a metal and/or heavy rock record).

We give a free pass to Ulver every year!

I don't personally approve of that either but I am here to serve the fine people of ILM.

At least the PO has rough vocals, Ulver are just Depeche Mode Unit II now

PO have always been allowed

Nominate away, let God sort them out.

Pharaoh Overlord - 6

this is now a metal, heavy rock and death-disco poll

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lol

if it's Aaron Turner and yer granny on bongos, it's metal

LJ is the last person who should be purist about a metal poll considering what he has nominated and voted for in the past

I wasn't being a purist; I was considering the purity of a nomination and then nominating it anyway!

Just you wait; I'll nominate Backxwash if I have to lol

(tbf I think Backxwash is planning on releasing an actual metal project at some point, so watch this space)

Tbf she does sample Sabbath.

I don't think I heard any noteworthy melodic doom or stoner LPs in 2020.

Fab album

Noms will close in 55 mins

xp Yeah this is what I need thx