2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock/Heavy Music Poll: RESULTS – Top 100 Countdown

FULL RESULTS

Rank Name Score Votes #1 Votes
1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi 945 24 2
2 Hum - Inlet 663 17 1
3 Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn 537 13 1
4 Sweven - The Eternal Resonance 534 10 6
5 Neptunian Maximalism - Éons 515 12 4
6 Elder - Omens 493 13 1
7 Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald 491 14 1
8 Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville 477 12 0
9 Liturgy - Origin of the Alimonies 421 12 0
10 Pharaoh Overlord - 6 394 9 0
11 Slift - Ummon 391 10 0
12 Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still 381 12 0
13 Black Curse - Endless Wound 326 10 0
14 Thy Catafalque - Naiv 326 8 0
15 Fluisteraars - Bloem 317 9 0
16 Botanist - Photosynthesis 314 9 0
17 Stabscotch - Twilight Dawn 309 8 0
18 Lowrider - Refractions 307 9 0
19 Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism 300 9 1
20 Sumac - May You Be Held 299 10 0
21 Krallice - Mass Cathexis 299 9 0
22 Hail Spirit Noir - Eden in Reverse 298 8 1
23 Duma - Duma 275 8 0
24 Necrot - Mortal 274 8 0
25 Sólstafir - Endless Twilight of Codependent Love 254 7 0
26 Faceless Burial - Speciation 245 7 0
27 Behold… the Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove 242 7 0
28 Old Man Gloom - Darkness of Being/Light of Meaning 235 9 0
29 Victory Over the Sun - A Tessitura of Transfiguration 228 6 1
30 Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore - Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine 221 8 0
31 Colour Haze - We Are 220 6 0
32 Couch Slut - Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll 218 6 0
32 Dark Buddha Rising - Mathreyata 218 6 0
34 Mystras - Castles Conquered and Reclaimed 215 6 0
35 Deftones - Ohms 214 6 0
36 Aktor - Placebo 211 5 1
37 Undeath - Lesions of a Different Kind 210 5 0
38 Boris - No 203 6 1
39 Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron 202 6 0
40 Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh 202 5 1
41 Cryptic Shift - Visitations from Enceladus 198 6 0
42 AC/DC - Power Up 193 6 1
43 Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full 191 6 0
43 Mamaleek - Come & See 191 6 0
45 Kaatayra - Toda história pela frente 188 7 0
46 Of Feather and Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration 187 5 0
47 Void Rot - Descending Pillars 184 6 1
48 Esoctrilihum - Eternity of Shaog 183 6 1
49 Machine Girl - U-Void Synthesizer 182 5 0
50 Sightless Pit - Grave of a Dog 177 5 1
51 Azarath - Saint Desecration 166 4 0
52 Triptykon - Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) 165 6 0
53 Pallbearer - Forgotten Days 163 6 0
54 Molassess - Through the Hollow 161 4 0
54 Zombi - 2020 161 4 0
56 Feminazgûl - No Dawn for Men 160 5 0
57 Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo 157 4 0
58 Touché Amoré - Lament 154 4 0
59 Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress 151 3 1
60 Gezan - Klue 148 4 1
61 Drown - Subaqueous 147 4 0
62 Kaatayra -  Só quem viu o relâmpago à sua direita sabe 144 4 0
63 Blues Pills - Holy Moly 139 4 0
64 Fuck the Facts - Plene noirceur 137 5 0
65 Azusa - Loop of Yesterdays 135 3 0
66 Raspberry Bulbs - Before the Age of Mirrors 134 4 0
67 Pyrrhon - Abscess Time 133 5 0
68 Boris & Merzbow - 2R0I2P0 133 4 0
69 Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better? 131 5 0
70 Envy - The Fallen Crimson 129 4 0
71 Melted Bodies - Enjoy Yourself 127 3 1
72 Geld - Beyond the Floor 124 3 0
73 Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus 123 5 0
74 Malokarpatan - Krupinské ohne 121 4 0
75 Blue Öyster Cult - The Symbol Remains 119 3 0
76 Dola - Dola 117 3 0
76 Ocrilim - Plvence Abrost R Msitloun 117 3 0
78 Eternal Rot - Putridarium 114 3 0
79 Vladislav Delay - Rakka 113 3 0
80 Khthoniik Cerviiks - Æequiizoiikum 112 3 0
81 Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals 110 4 0
82 Angel Morgue - In the Morgue of Angels 109 3 0
82 Regarde les hommes tomber - Ascension 109 3 0
84 Turia - Degen van licht 108 3 1
85 Cirith Ungol - Forever Black 106 3 0
86 Ripped to Shreds - Luan 105 4 0
87 Biesy - Transsatanizm 105 3 0
87 Spirit Adrift - Enlightened in Eternity 105 3 0
89 Skeletal Remains - The Entombment of Chaos 102 4 0
90 Horisont - Sudden Death 101 4 0
91 Okkultokrati - La ilden lyse 101 3 0
92 Lamp of Murmuur - Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism 100 5 0
93 Bell Witch / Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough Vol. I 97 3 0
93 Voidceremony - Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel 97 3 0
95 Vile Creature - Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! 96 3 0
95 Ulthar - Providence 96 3 0
95 Worm - Gloomlord 96 3 0
98 Dan Weiss / Starebaby - Natural Selection 95 3 0
99 Undergang - Aldrig i livet 94 4 0
100 Atramentus - Stygian 93 3 0
101 Primitive Man - Immersion 92 4 0

102 Deep Purple -  Whoosh! 92 3 0
102 Pig Destroyer - The Octagonal Stairway 92 3 0
104 Armagedda - Svindeldjup Ättestup 91 3 0
105 Wyrmwoods - Gamma 89 3 0
105 Wytch Hazel - III: Pentecost 89 3 0
105 Zeal and Ardor - Wake of a Nation 89 3 0
108 Psalm Zero - Sparta 86 2 0
109 Skáphe - Skáphe³ 84 4 0
110 Akhlys - Melinoë 84 3 0
111 Mesarthim - The Degenerate Era 82 3 0
112 Thaetas - Shrines to Absurdity 82 2 0
113 Wake - Devouring Ruin 80 3 0
114 Macabre - Carnival of Killers 79 3 0
114 Plague Organ - Orphan 79 3 0
116 Xibalba - Años en infierno 79 2 0
117 Poppy - I Disagree 77 3 0
118 Secrets of the Moon - Don’t Look Now 76 2 0
119 Serpent Column - Kathodos 75 3 0
120 Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst 75 2 0
121 Herxheim - Incised Arrival 74 3 0
122 Edenic Past - Red Amarcord 74 2 0
123 Wayfarer - A Romance with Violence 72 4 0
124 Caustic Wound - Death Posture 72 3 0
125 All Them Witches - Nothing as the Ideal 72 2 0
125 Rebel Wizard - Magickal Mystical Indifference 72 2 0
127 Cosmic Putrefaction - The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers 71 3 0
128 Black Foxxes - Black Foxxes 71 2 0
129 Svartsyn - Requiem 69 2 0
130 Fu Manchu -  Fu30, Pt. 1 68 2 0
130 Ahab - Live Prey 68 2 0
130 Senyawa & Stephen O'Malley - Bima Sakti 68 2 0
133 My Dying Bride - The Ghost of Orion 67 3 0
134 Maggot Heart - Mercy Machine 67 2 0
135 Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions 66 3 0
136 Enslaved - Utgard 66 2 0
137 Mourning Beloveth / The Ruins of Beverast - Don’t Walk on the Mass Graves 65 3 0
137 Serpent Column - Endless Detainment 65 3 0
139 Jordablod - The Cabinet of Numinous Song 64 2 0
140 Carcass - Despicable 63 2 0
140 Human Impact - Human Impact 63 2 0
142 200 Stab Wounds - Piles of Festering Decomposition 62 2 0
143 Chaotian - Festering Excarnation 61 2 0
143 Fire-Toolz - Rainbow Bridge 61 2 0
143 Motorpsycho -  The All Is One 61 2 0
146 Nothing - The Great Dismal 60 3 0
147 Dawnwalker -  Ages 60 2 0
147 Ensiferum - Thalassic 60 2 0
147 Lychgate - Also sprach Futura 60 2 0
150 Nechochwen / Panopticon - Nechochwen / Panopticon 60 1 1
151 Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant 59 2 0
152 Afsky - Ofte jeg drømmer mig død 58 2 0
152 Lucifer - III 58 2 0
152 Moldé Volhal - Into the Cave of Ordeals… 58 2 0
152 Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep 58 2 0
156 Putrid Pile - Revel in Lunacy 55 2 0
156 Revenge - Strike.Smother.Dehumanize 55 2 0
158 Horn - Mohngang 54 2 0
159 Rat King - Vicious Inhumanity 53 3 0
160 Expander - Neuropunk Boostergang 53 2 0
160 Mesarthim - Planet Nine 53 2 0
162 Internal Rot - Grieving Birth 52 3 0
163 Smoulder - Dream Quest Ends 51 2 0
164 Havukruunu - Uinuos syömein sota 49 2 0
164 Incantation - Sect of Vile Divinities 49 2 0
164 Völur - Death Cult 49 2 0
167 Thy Catafalque - Zápor 49 1 0
168 Lotus Thief - Oresteia 48 2 0
168 Venom Prison - Primeval 48 2 0
170 Bastard Priest - Vengeance… of the Damned 48 1 0
170 Bog Body / Primitive Warfare - The Gate of Grief / Undulating Torment 48 1 0
170 Prometheus - Resonant Echoes from Cosmos of Old 48 1 0
170 Sunken (DEN) - Livslede 48 1 0
170 Taras Bulba - Soul Weaver 48 1 0
175 Testament - Titans of Creation 47 3 0
176 Green Druid - At the Maw of Ruin 47 2 0
177 Drain - California Cursed 47 1 0
177 Oksennus - Työn orjat sorron yöstä nouskaa 47 1 0
177 Sentient Divide - Haunted by Cruelty 47 1 0
177 Utzalu - The Grobian Fall 47 1 0
181 Fuzz - III 46 2 0
182 Body Void / Keeper - Body Void / Keeper 46 1 0
182 Dropdead -  Dropdead 2020 46 1 0
184 Uniform - Shame 45 3 0
185 Griiim - Bête immonde 45 2 0
185 Omegavortex -  Black Abomination Spawn 45 2 0
187 Bernelius - Grave Dancer 45 1 0
187 Vile Command - Obscene Conjurations 45 1 0
187 Ygg - The Last Scald 45 1 0
190 Warbringer - Weapons of Tomorrow 44 3 0
191 Escuela Grind - Ppoowweerrvviioolleennccee 44 2 0
192 Bedsore - Hypnagogic Hallucinations 44 1 0
192 Bindrune Recordings - OVERGROW TO OVERTHROW 44 1 0
192 Förfallet - Förfallet 44 1 0
192 Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion 44 1 0
192 Shezmu - À travers les lambeaux 44 1 0
192 Yoth Iria - Under His Sway 44 1 0
192 Yuri Gagarin (SWE) - The Outskirts of Reality 44 1 0
199 The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic 43 2 0

200 Benediction - Scriptures 43 1 0
200 Deliquesce - Engineered Frailty 43 1 0
200 Septage - Septic Decadence 43 1 0
203 Cadaver - Edder & Bile 42 2 0
203 Greg Puciato - Child Soldier: Creator of God 42 2 0
205 Limalla -  ¿Ké futuro? Directo 42 1 0
205 Moor Jewelry - True Opera 42 1 0
207 Lustre - The Ashes of Light 41 2 0
207 Stephen O'Malley -  Auflösung der Zeit 41 2 0
209 CCR Headcleaner - Street Riffs 41 1 0
209 Infant Island - Beneath 41 1 0
209 King Buffalo - Dead Star 41 1 0
209 Oil Spill - Ashlands 41 1 0
209 Xythlia - Immortality Through Quantum Suicide 41 1 0
214 Died - Less Life 40 2 0
215 Empyrean Grace - Bestowment of the Seraphic Key 40 1 0
215 Kryptamok - Verisaarna 40 1 0
215 The Spirit Cabinet - Bloodlines 40 1 0
218 Gareth Davis and Merzbow - Broken Landscapes 39 1 0
218 OvO - Miasma 39 1 0
218 Seeds in Barren Fields - Sånger som rämnar 39 1 0
221 Kvelertak - Splid 38 3 0
222 Beast of Revelation -  The Ancient Ritual of Death 38 1 0
222 Cosmovore - Into the Necrosphere 38 1 0
222 Draghkar - At the Crossroads of Infinity 38 1 0
222 Exhumed / Gruesome - Rot Your Brain / A Mind Decayed 38 1 0
222 Kadavar - The Isolation Tapes 38 1 0
222 Saigan Terror -  Anatomy of Saigan 38 1 0
228 Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot 37 2 0
228 Deeds of Flesh  -  Nucleus 37 2 0
228 Paradise Lost - Obsidian 37 2 0
231 Azath - Through a Warren of Shadow 37 1 0
231 Orm - Mit blod 37 1 0
231 Torture Tomb - Killing to See How It Feels 37 1 0
234 Serment - Chante, ô flamme de la liberté 36 2 0
234 Glorious Depravity - Ageless Violence 36 2 0
234 Insect Ark - The Vanishing 36 2 0
237 Anhedonist / Spectral Voice - Abject Darkness​ / ​Ineffable Winds 36 1 0
237 Cryptae - Nightmare Traversal 36 1 0
237 Denunciation - California Commando 36 1 0
237 Ivan - Silver Screens 36 1 0
237 Necrophobic - Dawn of the Damned 36 1 0
237 Omination -  The Pale Horseman 36 1 0
243 Konvent - Puritan Masochism 35 2 0
243 Midnight - Rebirth by Blasphemy 35 2 0
245 Ceremonial Bloodbath - The Tides of Blood 35 1 0
245 Hex A.D. - Astro Tongue in the Electric Garden 35 1 0
247 Cytotoxin - Nuklearth 34 1 0
247 Deafkids & Petbrick - Deafbrick 34 1 0
247 Grayceon - Mothers Weavers Vultures 34 1 0
247 Loathe - I Let It In and It Took Everything 34 1 0
247 Mindforce - Swingin Swords Choppin Lords 34 1 0
247 Salqiu - Orfeu 34 1 0
247 Sons of Otis - Isolation 34 1 0
247 Thee Arcadians -  Current Events 34 1 0
247 White Stones - Kuarahy 34 1 0
256 Vader - Solitude in Madness 33 2 0
257 Autonoesis - Autonoesis 33 1 0
257 Barishi - Old Smoke 33 1 0
257 Cianide - Unhumanized 33 1 0
257 Crushing the Scepter - Echoing Screams of Madness and Delusion 33 1 0
257 Kaunis Kuolematon - Syttyköön toinen aurinko 33 1 0
257 Lonker See - Hamza 33 1 0
257 Mrs. Piss - Self-Surgery 33 1 0
264 Cro-Mags - In the Beginning 32 1 0
264 Deafheaven -  10 Years Gone 32 1 0
264 Etoile Filante - Magnum opus caelestis 32 1 0
264 HWWAUOCH - Protest Against Sanity 32 1 0
264 High Spirits - Hard to Stop 32 1 0
264 Serration - Shrine of Consciousness 32 1 0
264 Slutet - Love & Beauty 32 1 0
264 Terminal Nation - Holocene Extinction 32 1 0
264 Witches Hammer - Damnation Is My Salvation 32 1 0
273 Coagulate - The Art of Cryptosis 31 1 0
273 Early Moods - Spellbound 31 1 0
273 Kommand - Terrorscape 31 1 0
276 Spell - Opulent Decay 30 2 0
277 Draug - Irreelle sindelag 30 1 0
277 Lanterns - Dimensions 30 1 0
277 Socialstyrelsen - Med rädsla för livet 30 1 0
277 SouphL - Commérages 30 1 0
277 Starbenders - Love Potion 30 1 0
277 Striges - Verum veterum 30 1 0
277 Valkyrie - Fear 30 1 0
284 Aara - En Ergô Einai 29 1 0
284 Ayyur - Balkarnin 29 1 0
284 Meth Leppard - Woke 29 1 0
287 Kraken Duumvirate -  The Stars Below, the Seas Above 28 2 0
288 Ahna - Crimson Dawn 28 1 0
288 Lingua Ignota -  The Caligula Demos 28 1 0
288 Skelethal - Unveiling the Threshold 28 1 0
288 Witching - Vernal 28 1 0
292 Ingested - Where Only Gods May Tread 27 2 0
292 Onslaught - Generation Antichrist 27 2 0
294 Mongrel's Cross - Arcana, Scrying and Revelation 27 1 0
294 Borgne - Y 27 1 0
294 Gravesend - Preparations for Human Disposal 27 1 0
294 Midnight Dice - Hypnotized 27 1 0
294 Perdition Temple - Sacraments of Descension 27 1 0
294 Siege Column - Darkside Legions 27 1 0
300 Hellripper - The Affair of the Poisons 26 2 0

301 Black Flux - Black Stream 26 1 0
301 Bleeding Out - Lifelong Death Fantasy 26 1 0
301 Dkharmakhaoz - Proclamation ov the Black Suns 26 1 0
301 Gnaw - Barking Orders 26 1 0
301 Nimbifer - Demo II 26 1 0
301 Omerta - Hyperviolence 26 1 0
307 Bong Wizard - Left Hand Pass 25 1 0
307 Crisis Sigil - Small Towns 25 1 0
307 Head of the Demon - Deadly Black Doom 25 1 0
307 Lethian Dreams - A Shadow of Memories 25 1 0
307 Solicitor - Spectral Devastation 25 1 0
307 Terrestrial Hospice - Indian Summer Brought Mushroom Clouds 25 1 0
313 Code Orange - Underneath 24 1 0
313 Cultum Interitum - Poison of Being 24 1 0
313 Dødskvad - Krønike I 24 1 0
313 Isengard - Vårjevndøgn 24 1 0
313 Lugubrum - Plage chômage 24 1 0
313 Old Nick - Haunted Loom!!! 24 1 0
319 Myrkur - Folkesange 23 2 0
320 Faron - Interloper 23 1 0
320 Horna -  Kuoleman kirjo 23 1 0
320 Kind - Mental Nudge 23 1 0
320 Serpent Omega - II 23 1 0
320 Ænigmatum - Adorned in Wrath 23 1 0
320 殞煞 Vengeful Spectre - 殞煞 Vengeful Spectre 23 1 0
326 -(16)- - Dream Squasher 22 2 0
327 Bríi - Entre tudo que é visto e oculto 22 1 0
327 Fortress of the Olden Days - Verlassenheit 22 1 0
327 Haunt - Flashback 22 1 0
327 Question - Reflections of the Void 22 1 0
327 Vassafor - To the Death 22 1 0
332 Izthmi - To Traipse Alone 21 1 0
332 Judicator - Let There Be Nothing 21 1 0
332 Modarin - In the Distance… 21 1 0
335 Aethyrick - Gnosis 20 1 0
335 Fuzzriders - Fuzzriders 20 1 0
335 Katalepsy - Terra mortuus est 20 1 0
335 Lie in Ruins - Floating in Timeless Streams 20 1 0
335 Nishaiar -  Awaxhun 20 1 0
335 Stillbirth - Revive the Throne 20 1 0
335 Wolftooth - Valhalla 20 1 0
342 Old Nick -  The Night of the Ambush and the Pillage by the Queen Ann Styl'd Furniture, Animated by One of the Dozen or So Spells That Thee Eastern Vampyre Has Studied (T​.​N​.​O​.​T​.​A​.​A​.​T​.​P​.​B​.​T​.​Q​.​A​.​S​.​F​.​A​.​B​.​O​.​O​.​T​.​D​.​O​.​S​.​S​.​T​.​T​.​E​.​V​.​H​.​S) 19 1 0
342 Bring Me the Axe - Bring Me the Axe 19 1 0
342 Dwaal - Gospel of the Vile 19 1 0
342 Eye of Nix - Ligeia 19 1 0
342 Uboa - The Flesh of the World 19 1 0
347 Dirt Woman - Lady of the Dunes 18 1 0
347 Forlesen - Hierophant Violent 18 1 0
347 Three Knee Deep - Three Knee Deep 18 1 0
347 Voidsphere - To Sense | To Perceive 18 1 0
351 Black Magnet - Hallucination Scene 17 1 0
351 Exhumation - Eleventh Formulae 17 1 0
351 Frayle - 1692 17 1 0
351 Haken -  Virus 17 1 0
351 Urfaust - Teufelsgeist 17 1 0
356 Chrome Waves - Where We Live 16 1 0
356 GreVlaR - Cloud of Death 16 1 0
356 Ihsahn - Telemark 16 1 0
356 Infant Island - Sepulcher 16 1 0
356 Nudie Mag - Our Milk 16 1 0
356 Temple Nightside - Pillars of Damnation 16 1 0
356 Vihameditaatio - Kuoleman silmän kontinuumi 16 1 0
363 Adzes - No One Wants to Speak About It 15 1 0
363 Evangelist - Ad mortem festinamus 15 1 0
363 Ifernach - The Green Enchanted Forest of the Druid Wizard 15 1 0
363 Pharmacist - Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition 15 1 0
363 Sallow Moth - The Larval Hope 15 1 0
363 Tombstone Eyes - Land in the Sky 15 1 0
363 Valravn - Prey 15 1 0
370 Núll - Entity 14 1 0
370 Onirik - The Fire Cult Beyond Eternity 14 1 0
370 Protokult - Transcending the Ruins 14 1 0
370 Skeleton - Skeleton 14 1 0
374 Left Cross - Prophecy of Conquest 13 1 0
374 Sutrah - Aletheia 13 1 0
376 Atavisma / Void Rot - Atavisma / Void Rot 12 1 0
376 Chasmdweller - Bacterial Lotus 12 1 0
376 Garganjua - Toward the Sun 12 1 0
376 Geryon - Minoan Owl Goddess 12 1 0
376 The Atomic Bitchwax - Scorpio 12 1 0
381 Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment 11 2 0
382 Desolate Entity - Deconstruction 11 1 0
382 Fleshvessel - Bile of Man Reborn 11 1 0
382 Nero di Marte - Immoto 11 1 0
382 Putrescent Seepage -  Dead and Demented 11 1 0
386 Darren Korb - Hades: Original Game Soundtrack 10 1 0
386 Drottinn - Í helgum dýrðar ljóma 10 1 0
386 Junior Bruce - Pray for Death 10 1 0
386 Mahr - Maelstrom 10 1 0
386 Montuln -  Arquetipo 10 1 0
386 Shaam Larein - Sculpture 10 1 0
386 Zopp - Zopp 10 1 0
393 Occlith - Gates, Doorways, and Endings 8 1 0
393 Aborted - La grande mascarade 8 1 0
393 Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape 8 1 0
393 Exocrine - Maelstrom 8 1 0
393 Omnivortex -  Diagrams of Consciousness 8 1 0
398 Green Carnation - Leaves of Yesteryear 7 1 0
398 Ventr - Numinous Negativity 7 1 0

400 Bloodsoaked Necrovoid - Expelled Into the Unknown Depths of the Unfathomable 6 1 0
400 Bring Me the Horizon - Post Human: Survival Horror 6 1 0
400 Cosmic Burial - Impakt 6 1 0
400 Faustian Pact - Outojen tornien varjoissa 6 1 0
400 Nawaharjan - Lokabrenna 6 1 0
400 Turnstile & Mall Grab - Share a View 6 1 0
406 Circle of Ouroborus - Viimeinen juoksu 5 1 0
406 Finntroll - Vredesvävd 5 1 0
406 Plague - Portraits of Mind 5 1 0
409 Coffin Curse - Ceased to Be 4 1 0
409 Mourners - Act I: Tragedies 4 1 0
411 Blasphamagoatachrist - Bastardizing the Purity 3 1 0
411 Fates Warning - Long Day Good Night 3 1 0
411 Hexer - Realm of the Feathered Serpent 3 1 0
411 Tombs - Under Sullen Skies 3 1 0
415 Bognor - Brain Paralysis 2 1 0
415 Lili Refrain - ULU 2 1 0
415 Xenobiotic - Mordrake 2 1 0
418 Ad Infinitum - Chapter I: Monarchy 1 1 0
418 Sadness - Alluring the Distant Eye 1 1 0

thank you so much pomenitul and Neechy!

Metal looked like heavy psych when it was born!

Indeed. I've liked that stuff for longer than I've liked trve metal, so you won't hear me complaining (except performatively and/or for fun, of course).

Who was the "literal nazi" people expected to place so high?

I can't believe I'm the only person who voted for Mrs Piss! I can believe that I'm the only person who voted for Igorr. Oh well.. ya'll's loss.

You can post your ballots here btw.

xp I think imago was just trolling with the literal nazi (unless I missed something).

If anybody actually saved their ballots feel free to post them.

Pom & I do not have access to them yet, so best say a loud prayer to the metal god that is Seandalai, make your sacrifice, and perhaps he will post them for you.

Hate Forest had an album last year but he meant #110

My Ballot

Neptunian Maximalism - Eons
Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Slift - Ummon
Lowrider – Refractions
Pharaoh Overlord - 6
Elder - Omens
Boris - No
Botanist - Photosynthesis
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension
SUMAC - May You Be Held
Sólstafir - Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
Thy Catafalque - Naiv
Old Man Gloom - Darkness of Being/Light of Meaning
Envy - The Fallen Crimson
Grayceon – Mothers Weavers Vultures
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full
Hum - Inlet
Behold...The Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove
Boris with Merzbow - 2R0I2P0
Blues Pills - Holy Moly
Zombi - 2020
Borgne – Y
Cirith Ungol – Forever Black
Colour Haze – We Are
Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata
Pallbearer – Forgotten Days
Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse
Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Kaatayra – Só quem viu o relâmpago à sua direita sabe
Kaatayra – Toda história pela frente
Krallice – Mass Cathexis
Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Mesarthim – Planet Nine
Mesarthim – The Degenerate Era
Triptykon – Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
Turia – Degen van licht
Victory Over the Sun – A Tessitura of Transfiguration
Senyawa & Stephen O'Malley - Bima Sakti
Ahab - Live Prey
Nechochwen / Panopticon - Nechochwen / Panopticon
Thy Catafalque - Zápor
Yuri Gagarin (SWE) - The Outskirts of Reality
The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
Stephen O'Malley -  Auflösung der Zeit
Sons of Otis - Isolation
Drown - Subaqueous
Dola - Dola
Tombs - Under Sullen Skies

hailz to the pollrunners and everyone else for making the rollout inteersting and fun as ever. With a wirthy winner, too.

Weighted (bold dnp):

Victory Over the Sun – A Tessitura of Transfiguration
Dan Weiss / Starebaby – Natural Selection
Kaatayra – Toda história pela frente
Deep Purple – Whoosh!
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Blue Öyster Cult – The Symbol Remains
Krallice – Mass Cathexis
Sumac – May You Be Held
Wytch Hazel – III: Pentecost
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Botanist – Photosynthesis
Hum - Inlet
AC/DC – Power Up

actually forgot to vote for oranssi pazuzu. glad it beat out hum and seems like they did just fine without me.

thanks for running this poll! it's been a fun distraction from work and other terrible things.

xxp WORTHY

Oops Deep Purple didn't place either, unjustly.xxp

Thank you, Oor Neechy and pomenitul! twas a great rollout.

Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Elder – Omens
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Couch Slut – Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll
Azusa – Loop of Yesterdays
Afterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh
Igorrr – Spirituality and Distortion
Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions
Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville
Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Hum – Imlet
Human Impact – Human Impact
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Turia – Degen van licht
Machine Girl – U–Void Synthesizer
Mrs. Piss – Self–Surgery
Enslaved – Utgard
Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata
Krallice – Mass Cathexis
Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Paradise Lost – Obsidian
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Pig Destroyer – The Octagonal Stairway
Poppy – I Disagree
Skeletal Remains – The Entombment of Chaos
Testament – Titans of Creation
Wake – Devouring Ruin
Void Rot – Descending Pillars
Uniform – Shame
Feminazgûl – No Dawn for Men
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Haken – Virus
Ihsahn – Telemark
Lowrider – Refractions
Pyrrhon – Abscess Time
Voidceremony – Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel
The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
Cryptic Shift – Visitations from Enceladus
Darren Korb – Hades: Original Game Soundtrack
Kvelertak – Splid
Omnivortex – Diagrams of Consciousness
Died – Less Life
Neptunian Maximalism – Éons
Old Man Gloom – Darkness of Being/Light of Meaning
Botanist – Photosynthesis
Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Ripped to Shreds – Luan
Sumac – May You Be Held

here's mine -

Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Azarath – Saint Desecration
Bog Body / Primitive Warfare – The Gate of Grief / Undulating Torment
Oksennus – Työn orjat sorron yöstä nouskaa
Afterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh
200 Stab Wounds – Piles of Festering Decomposition
Yoth Iria – Under His Sway
Deliquesce – Engineered Frailty
Faceless Burial – Speciation
Mystras – Castles Conquered and Reclaimed
Kryptamok – Verisaarna
Undeath – Lesions of a Different Kind
Thaetas – Shrines to Absurdity
Torture Tomb – Killing to See How It Feels
Denunciation – California Commando
Necrot – Mortal
Skeletal Remains – The Entombment of Chaos
Crushing the Scepter – Echoing Screams of Madness and Delusion
Serration – Shrine of Consciousness
Kommand – Terrorscape
Striges – Verum veterum
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Gravesend – Preparations for Human Disposal
Dkharmakhaoz – Proclamation ov the Black Suns
Terrestrial Hospice – Indian Summer Brought Mushroom Clouds
Isengard – Vårjevndøgn
Internal Rot – Grieving Birth
Vassafor – To the Death
Moldé Volhal – Into the Cave of Ordeals…
Aethyrick – Gnosis
Lustre – The Ashes of Light
Triptykon – Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
Exhumation – Eleventh Formulae
GreVlaR – Cloud of Death
Ifernach – The Green Enchanted Forest of the Druid Wizard
Onirik – The Fire Cult Beyond Eternity
Left Cross – Prophecy of Conquest
Chasmdweller – Bacterial Lotus
Herxheim – Incised Arrival
Rat King – Vicious Inhumanity
Vader – Solitude in Madness
Aborted – La grande mascarade
Ventr – Numinous Negativity
Faustian Pact – Outojen tornien varjoissa

I'm not going through the whole list, but here are the albums from the top 100 that I would have at least considered voting for. (Spirit Adrift would have been my #1.)

5 Neptunian Maximalism - Éons
8 Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
12 Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still
19 Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
24 Necrot - Mortal
26 Faceless Burial - Speciation
27 Behold… the Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove
35 Deftones - Ohms
40 Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
52 Triptykon - Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
73 Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus
87 Spirit Adrift - Enlightened in Eternity
93 Voidceremony - Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel

Weighted, bdnp:

Turia – Degen van licht
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Sunken – Livslede
Svartsyn – Requiem
Lowrider – Refractions
Paysage d’Hiver – Im Wald
Förfallet – Förfallet
Neptunian Maximalism – Éons
Undeath – Lesions of a Different Kind
Atramentus – Stygian
Empyrean Grace – Bestowment of the Seraphic Key
Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata
Undergang – Aldrig i livet
Mamaleek – Come & See
Omination – The Pale Horseman
Armagedda – Svindeldjup Ättestup
Wytch Hazel – III: Pentecost
Kaunis Kuolematon – Syttyköön toinen aurinko
Slutet – Love & Beauty
Deftones – Ohms
Draug – Irreelle sindelag
Ayyur – Balkarnin
Angel Morgue – In the Morgue of Angels
Faceless Burial – Speciation
Black Flux – Black Stream
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Cultum Interitum – Poison of Being
Ænigmatum – Adorned in Wrath
Fortress of the Olden Days – Verlassenheit
Mourning Beloveth / The Ruins of Beverast – Don’t Walk on the Mass Graves
Ahab – Live Prey
Skáphe – Skáphe³
Voidsphere – To Sense | To Perceive
Chaotian – Festering Excarnation
Mystras – Castles Conquered and Reclaimed
Valravn – Prey
Kraken Duumvirate – The Stars Below, the Seas Above
Kaatayra – Toda história pela frente
Atavisma / Void Rot – Atavisma / Void Rot
Nero di Marte – Immoto
Montuln – Arquetipo
Wayfarer – A Romance with Violence
Serment – Chante, ô flamme de la liberté
Void Rot – Descending Pillars
Spectral Lore & Mare Cognitum – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Plague – Portraits of Mind
Mourners – Act I: Tragedies
Blasphamagoatachrist – Bastardizing the Purity
Bognor – Brain Paralysis
Ad Infinitum – Chapter I – Monarchy

I am far more of a hiveminder in this poll than the general one.

I thought people had enjoyed the Sunken? It's also very pretty and shoegazey, albeit actual BM.

unperson, you should definitely vote next year. As you can see, there's a fair amount of overlap with your own hypothetical ballot.

weighted, bold dnp

Afterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh
Of Feather and Bone – Sulfuric Disintegration
Defeated Sanity – The Sanguinary Impetus
Neptunian Maximalism – Éons
Undeath – Lesions of a Different Kind
Spirit Adrift – Enlightened in Eternity
Thaetas – Shrines to Absurdity
Faceless Burial – Speciation
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Xythlia – Immortality Through Quantum Suicide
Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron
Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Wake – Devouring Ruin
Ripped to Shreds – Luan
Cosmic Putrefaction – The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers
Drown – Subaqueous
Cytotoxin – Nuklearth
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Cryptic Shift – Visitations from Enceladus
Putrid Pile – Revel in Lunacy
Glorious Depravity – Ageless Violence
Pyrrhon – Abscess Time
Midnight Dice – Hypnotized
Void Rot – Descending Pillars
Solicitor – Spectral Devastation
Old Nick – Haunted Loom!!!
Feminazgûl – No Dawn for Men
Question – Reflections of the Void
Judicator – Let There Be Nothing
Stillbirth – Revive the Throne
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Duma – Duma
200 Stab Wounds – Piles of Festering Decomposition
Ingested – Where Only Gods May Tread
Pharmacist – Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition
Havukruunu – Uinuos syömein sota
Bütcher – 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Putrescent Seepage – Dead and Demented
Plague Organ – Orphan
Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment
Exocrine – Maelstrom
Internal Rot – Grieving Birth
Undergang – Aldrig i livet
Deeds of Flesh – Nucleus
Coffin Curse – Ceased to Be
Cadaver – Edder & Bile
Xenobiotic – Mordrake
Behold… the Arctopus – Hapeleptic Overtrove

My ballot:

1 Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald (Kunsthall Produktionen)
2 Dola - Dola (Independent)
3 Duma - Duma (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
4 Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst (Season of Mist)
5 Thy Catafalque - Naiv (Season of Mist)
6 Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville (Century Media)
7 Cirith Ungol - Forever Black (Metal Blade Records)
8 Sólstafir - Endless Twilight of Co-Dependent Love (Season of Mist)
9 Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full (Sacred Bones Records)
10 Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi (Nuclear Blast America)
11 Krallice - Mass Cathexis (Hathenter)
12 Lucifer - III (Century Media)
13 Maggot Heart - Mercy Machine (Rapid Eye Records)
14 Rebel Wizard - Magickal Mystical Indifference (Prosthetic Records)
15 Melted Bodies - Enjoy Yourself (Sweatband Records)
16 Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism (Century Media)
17 Early Moods - Spellbound (Dying Victim Productions)
18 Liturgy - Origin Of The Alimonies (YLYLCYN)
19 Feminazgûl - No Dawn For Men (Independent)
20 Mesarthim - Degenerate Era (Avantgarde Music)
21 Fluisteraars - Bloem (Eisenwald)
22 Lotus Thief - Oresteia (Prophecy)
23 Witching - Vernal (Independent)
24 Zeal & Ardor - Wake of a Nation [EP] (Zeal & Ardor)
25 Horn - Mohngang (Iron Bonehead)
26 Ensiferum - Thalassic (Metal Blade Records)
27 Smoulder - Dream Quest Ends [EP] (Cruz Del Sur Music)
28 Serpent Omega - II (Icons Creating Evil Art)
29 Myrkur - Folkesange (Relapse Records)
30 Triptykon - Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019) (Century Media)
31 Wolftooth - Valhalla (Ripple Music)
32 Eye of Nix - Ligeia (Prophecy)
33 Of Feather And Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration (Profound Lore)
34 Frayle - 1692 (Aqualamb Records)
35 Chrome Waves - Where We Live (Disorder Recordings)
36 Evangelist - Ad Mortem Festinamus (Nine Records)
37 Protokult - Transcending The Ruins (Self-Released)
38 Warbringer - Weapons Of Tomorrow (Napalm Records)
39 Griiim - Bête Immonde (Purity Through Fire)
40 Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron (No Remorse Records)
41 Drottinn - Í helgum dýrðar ljóma (Terratur Possessions)
42 Onslaught - Generation Antichrist (AFM Records)
43 Venom Prison - Primeval (Prosthetic Records)
44 Insect Ark - The Vanishing (Profound Lore)
45 Cosmic Burial - Impakt (Purity Through Fire)
46 Finntroll - Vredesvävd (Century Media)
47 Macabre - Carnival Of Killers (Nuclear Blast)
48 Tombs - Under Sullen Skies (Season of Mist)
49 Lili Refrain - ULU (Subsound Records)
50 AC/DC - Power Up (Columbia Records)

I am hivemindy.

Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Hum – Inlet
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Kaatayra – Só quem viu o relâmpago à sua direita sabe
Triptykon – Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
Drown – Subaqueous
Wobbler – Dwellers of the Deep
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Aktor – Placebo
Sightless Pit – Grave of a Dog
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Poppy – I Disagree
Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies
Necrot – Mortal
Lamp of Murmuur – Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism

My ballot:

Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Armagedda – Svindeldjup Ättestup
Prometheus – Resonant Echoes from Cosmos of Old
Sentient Divide – Haunted by Cruelty
Gulch – Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
Angel Morgue – In the Morgue of Angels
Bedsore – Hypnagogic Hallucinations
Worm – Gloomlord
Malokarpatan – Krupinské ohne
Aktor – Placebo
The Spirit Cabinet – Bloodlines
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals
Beast of Revelation – The Ancient Ritual of Death
Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse
Raspberry Bulbs – Before the Age of Mirrors
Lychgate – Also sprach Futura
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Caustic Wound – Death Posture
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Eternal Rot – Putridarium
Biesy – Transsatanizm
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Horn – Mohngang
Mamaleek – Come & See
Sólstafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
Head of the Demon – Deadly Black Doom
Bütcher – 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
Undergang – Aldrig i livet
Svartsyn – Requiem
Hellripper – The Affair of the Poisons
Lie in Ruins – Floating in Timeless Streams
Spell – Opulent Decay
Herxheim – Incised Arrival
Black Magnet – Hallucination Scene
Expander – Neuropunk Boostergang
Ulthar – Providence
Skeleton – Skeleton
Akhlys – Melinoë

Poppy getting 77 points is significant in some way.

Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Pharaoh Overlord – 6
Psalm Zero – Sparta (everyone's favourite plainchant progster goes industrial metal, with frankly ecstatic results)
Slift – Ummon
Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata
Machine Girl – U–Void Synthesizer
Mystras – Castles Conquered and Reclaimed
Azusa – Loop of Yesterdays
Victory Over the Sun – A Tessitura of Transfiguration
Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville
Stabscotch – Twilight Dawn
Biesy – Transsatanizm
Kairon; IRSE! – Polysomn
Moldé Volhal – Into the Cave of Ordeals… (unbelievably tight and well-written trad BM with the album cover OTY)
Couch Slut – Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll
Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse
Salqiu – Orfeu (absolute fucking weirdness)
Black Foxxes – Black Foxxes (anthemic heavy alt-rock/emo)
Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies
Melted Bodies – Enjoy Yourself
Elder – Omens
Neptunian Maximalism – Éons
Akhlys – Melinoë (An Actual Nazi, alas, but with a good album, always tricky when that happens)
Dawnwalker – Ages (an IRL pal of mine, and boy hasn't he made a lovely post-metal record)
Mamaleek – Come & See
Crisis Sigil – Small Towns (Ada Rook of Black Dresses does grindcore, it's actually sick)
Wyrmwoods – Gamma (more absolute fucking weirdness)
Gezan – Klue
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Hum – Inlet

Ah yes, Akhlys.

I listened to so few metal this year, but Sunken was the album I listened to most.

Oh my, that was some points jump to the number one! Has there ever been one like that in metal poll history? My number #1 also, which reflects how truly hivemindy I was with this poll as well.

The metal poll is always an absolute joy and wealth of amazing music. Thanks so much to pom and Neechy for making this another cracker!

My thanks to Seandalai as always because without him we would have no poll!

My ballot (can't be bothered to bold etc, but I'm v happy overall with what showed up):

Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Kairon; IRSE! – Polysomn
Pharaoh Overlord – 6
Couch Slut – Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll
Azusa – Loop of Yesterdays
Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville
Victory Over the Sun – A Tessitura of Transfiguration
Akhlys – Melinoë
Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies
Botanist – Photosynthesis
Machine Girl – U–Void Synthesizer
Stabscotch – Twilight Dawn
Psalm Zero – Sparta
Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata
Biesy – Transsatanizm
Elder – Omens
Dola – Dola
Died – Less Life
Duma – Duma
Völur – Death Cult
Envy – The Fallen Crimson
Slift – Ummon
Vile Creature – Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse
Wyrmwoods – Gamma
Lychgate – Also sprach Futura
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Mamaleek – Come & See
Sumac – May You Be Held
Izthmi – To Traipse Alone
Touché Amoré – Lament
Uboa – The Flesh of the World
Mourning Beloveth / The Ruins of Beverast – Don’t Walk on the Mass Graves
Greg Puciato – Child Soldier: Creator of God
Boris – No
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Poppy – I Disagree
Malokarpatan – Krupinské ohne
Skáphe – Skáphe³
Serpent Column – Endless Detainment
Shaam Larein – Sculpture
Paradise Lost – Obsidian
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Defeated Sanity – The Sanguinary Impetus
Bring Me the Horizon – Post Human: Survival Horror
Circle of Ouroborus – Viimeinen juoksu
Lamp of Murmuur – Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism
My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion
Sightless Pit – Grave of a Dog
Sadness – Alluring the Distant Eye

ty pom and neechy

weighted, bdnp

Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Behold… the Arctopus – Hapeleptic Overtrove
Bastard Priest – Vengeance… of the Damned
Utzalu – The Grobian Fall
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Vile Command – Obscene Conjurations
Void Rot – Descending Pillars
Necrot – Mortal
Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Plague Organ – Orphan
Seeds in Barren Fields – Sånger som rämnar
Duma - Duma
Fuck the Facts – Plene noirceur
Cryptae – Nightmare Traversal
Geld – Beyond the Floor
Deafkids & Petbrick – Deafbrick
Jordablod – The Cabinet of Numinous Song
Old Man Gloom – Darkness of Being/Light of Meaning
Okkultokrati – La ilden lyse
Socialstyrelsen – Med rädsla för livet
Caustic Wound – Death Posture
Ahna – Crimson Dawn
Raspberry Bulbs – Before the Age of Mirrors
Bleeding Out – Lifelong Death Fantasy

mine and tt's #1s could have been removed and it'd still have won by over 150 points lol

this year my favourite gaudio discovery has ended up being Black Curse I think

Lots of great discoveries for me in this poll. Well done, everyone.

Albums on my list that didn't place:

4 Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst (Season of Mist)
12 Lucifer - III (Century Media)
13 Maggot Heart - Mercy Machine (Rapid Eye Records)
14 Rebel Wizard - Magickal Mystical Indifference (Prosthetic Records)
17 Early Moods - Spellbound (Dying Victim Productions)
20 Mesarthim - Degenerate Era (Avantgarde Music)
22 Lotus Thief - Oresteia (Prophecy)
23 Witching - Vernal (Independent)
24 Zeal & Ardor - Wake of a Nation [EP] (Zeal & Ardor)
25 Horn - Mohngang (Iron Bonehead)
26 Ensiferum - Thalassic (Metal Blade Records)
27 Smoulder - Dream Quest Ends [EP] (Cruz Del Sur Music)
28 Serpent Omega - II (Icons Creating Evil Art)
29 Myrkur - Folkesange (Relapse Records)
31 Wolftooth - Valhalla (Ripple Music)
32 Eye of Nix - Ligeia (Prophecy)
34 Frayle - 1692 (Aqualamb Records)
35 Chrome Waves - Where We Live (Disorder Recordings)
36 Evangelist - Ad Mortem Festinamus (Nine Records)
37 Protokult - Transcending The Ruins (Self-Released)
38 Warbringer - Weapons Of Tomorrow (Napalm Records)
39 Griiim - Bête Immonde (Purity Through Fire)
41 Drottinn - Í helgum dýrðar ljóma (Terratur Possessions)
42 Onslaught - Generation Antichrist (AFM Records)
43 Venom Prison - Primeval (Prosthetic Records)
44 Insect Ark - The Vanishing (Profound Lore)
45 Cosmic Burial - Impakt (Purity Through Fire)
46 Finntroll - Vredesvävd (Century Media)
47 Macabre - Carnival Of Killers (Nuclear Blast)
48 Tombs - Under Sullen Skies (Season of Mist)
49 Lili Refrain - ULU (Subsound Records)

Bolded are albums that I, and I alone, voted for.

Has the main poll become a surefire predictor of our metal top 10?

#36: Hum - Inlet - 324 points - 11 votes - 2 Nº1 votes
#38: Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi - 317 points - 9 votes - 1 Nº1 vote
#74: Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn - 188 points - 5 votes

Not quite, I suppose.

I honestly was surprised Poppy didn't make it after making the general ILM poll, but we had fewer voters this year and I assume several of the high profile Poppy fans didn't vote this year.

Hey, I am confused about something...

Tombs - Under Sullen Skies only got one vote in the poll according to the final roundup but I voted for it and so did Oor Neechy according to his/her post above.

What happened? Did the Tombs EP get confused with one of our votes? Or did one of us have a ballot that didn't count (that would be terrible).

Thanks for a great rollout and all the effort! Much appreciated.

Here's my weighted ballot. Too busy with some things to do the 'bdnp':

Hum – Inlet
Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Dropdead – Dropdead 2020
Lowrider – Refractions
Deftones – Ohms
Necrot – Mortal
Cryptic Shift – Visitations from Enceladus
Undeath – Lesions of a Different Kind
AC/DC – Power Up
Blue Öyster Cult – The Symbol Remains
Draghkar – At the Crossroads of Infinity
Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville
Fluisteraars – Bloem
Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron
White Stones – Kuarahy
Autonoesis – Autonoesis
Khthoniik Cerviiks – Æequiizoiikum
Spirit Adrift – Enlightened in Eternity
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Serpent Column – Kathodos
Skeletal Remains – The Entombment of Chaos
Mongrel's Cross – Arcana, Scrying and Revelation
Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Faceless Burial – Speciation
Of Feather and Bone – Sulfuric Disintegration
Afterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh
Mare Cognitum & Spectral Lore – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
Slift – Ummon
Elder – Omens
Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better?
Ripped to Shreds – Luan
Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions
Wayfarer – A Romance with Violence
Kaatayra – Toda história pela frente
Worm – Gloomlord
-(16)- – Dream Squasher
Motorpsycho – The All Is One
Lamp of Murmuur – Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism
Defeated Sanity – The Sanguinary Impetus
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Black Crown Initiate – Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape
Glorious Depravity – Ageless Violence
Bloodsoaked Necrovoid – Expelled Into the Unknown Depths of the Unfathomable
Hellripper – The Affair of the Poisons
Omegavortex – Black Abomination Spawn
Hexer – Realm of the Feathered Serpent
Black Curse – Endless Wound
Sumac – May You Be Held

Hmm… gotta ask seandalai.

xp

It was last in my ballot so would only have got 1 point from me.

because I only heard it the week before i voted

Tombs got 3 points, indicating that your ballot was the one where it counted, NYC Native, as you had it in 48th position

Does this mean that ON's ballot DIDN'T count? lol if so

Really fun poll. Thanks to everyone! I'm blaming you for my lack of productivity this week.

imago somehow I completely missed the Wyrmwoods album from last year, listening to it now and it's great, thanks

great results overall! thanks to the poll runners! here's my ballot:

Hail Spirit Noir – Eden in Reverse
Elder – Omens
Liturgy – Origin of the Alimonies
Bell Witch / Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough Vol. I
Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Hum – Inlet
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Horisont – Sudden Death
Thy Catafalque – Naiv
Zombi – 2020
Macabre – Carnival of Killers
Worm – Gloomlord
Kadavar – The Isolation Tapes
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – May Our Chambers Be Full
Pharaoh Overlord – 6
Malokarpatan – Krupinské ohne
Atramentus – Stygian
Griiim – Bête immonde
Kaatayra – Toda história pela frente
Early Moods – Spellbound
Paysage d'Hiver – Im Wald
Carcass – Despicable
Pallbearer – Forgotten Days
Smoulder – Dream Quest Ends
Mourning Beloveth / The Ruins of Beverast – Don’t Walk on the Mass Graves
Lethian Dreams – A Shadow of Memories
Colour Haze – We Are
Sólstafir – Endless Twilight of Codependent Love
Lustre – The Ashes of Light
Dan Weiss / Starebaby – Natural Selection
Wake – Devouring Ruin
Dwaal – Gospel of the Vile
Dirt Woman – Lady of the Dunes
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Temple Nightside – Pillars of Damnation
Tombstone Eyes – Land in the Sky
Núll – Entity
Wytch Hazel – III: Pentecost
Garganjua – Toward the Sun
Spell – Opulent Decay
Zopp – Zopp
Wayfarer – A Romance with Violence
Occlith – Gates, Doorways, and Endings
Armagedda – Svindeldjup Ättestup
Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions

Zopp?

What's wrong with Zopp? They have teapots and teapots are metal. (It's a lovely album)