Fuck Brumpxit its the 2016 Metal and Hard N' Heavy Rock Poll Results Thread (With spotify and bandcamp links)

Hardly surprising Kerrang loves the Metallica and its no surprise if the casual ilxor voting who doesnt hang out in rolling metal thread loves it that metallica are back in form.

keep the top 20 guesses coming folks, the more guesses the metalllller

btw here's my guess - I reserve the right to beat you all and treat myself to something nice instead

1. Oranssi Pazuzu
2. Vektor
3. Khemmis
4. Hammers of Misfortune
5. Cobalt
6. Sumac
7. Metallica
8. Deftones
9. Subrosa
10. Blood Incantation
11. Inter Arma
12. Kvelertak
13. Moon Tooth
14. Jute Gyte
15. Neurosis
16. Destroyer 666
17. Nails
18. Darkthrone
19. Asphyx
20. Ulcerate

Metal lists do seem the least predictable. In the last installment of the Metal Sucks podcast, they featured many odd choices, and both agreed on #1 and said it wasn't even close, was Astronoid - Air. Which hasn't been on any other list that I'm aware of.

http://www.metalsucks.net/2016/12/05/the-best-of-2016-on-the-metalsucks-podcast-173/

WAIT NEVERMIND I FORGOT ALUK TODOLO xp

1. Oranssi Pazuzu
2. Vektor
3. Khemmis
4. Hammers of Misfortune
5. Aluk Todolo
6. Cobalt
7. Sumac
8. Metallica
9. Deftones
10 Subrosa
11. Blood Incantation
12. Inter Arma
13. Kvelertak
14. Moon Tooth
15. Jute Gyte
16. Neurosis
17. Destroyer 666
18. Nails
19. Darkthrone
20. Ulcerate

Astronoid RULES

I hope we got enough votes for a top 100. The 100-51 tends to be where I discover new to me things. Will be a pity if good albums are outside of the top 100 though.

would be happy with a top 50 and a slow-paced rollout tbh, give us all time to listen

top 100 is fine too though

The Astronoid is Name yr price: https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/air

was there a bandcamp metal list this year?

lol I'm sure there's more than enough fodder for a top 100

Is it too late to change my ballot? I want to write in Lustmord - Dark Matter.

voting closed hours ago

Is that a yes or a no?

I assume when seandalai closed the voting he was starting the tabulation

1 Vektor
2 Oranssi Pazuzu
3 Sumac
4 Jute Gyte
5 Khemmis
6 Sub Rosa
7 Metallica
8 Inter Arma
9 Schammasch
10 Aluk Todolo
11 Darkthrone
12 Furia
13 Hammers of Misfortune
14 Nails
15 Gojira
16 Ulcerate
17 Thy Catafalque
18 Virus
19 Neurosis
20 Hail Spirit Noir

Tough to figure out the last few, as Zao, Cult of Luna/Julie Xmas, The Body, Cobalt, Deftones, Goat, Kvelertak, Gorguts, Asphyx, Moon Tooth and more are possibilities.

Out of curiosity, how is accuracy being judged here? Does order matter?

I would have thought that was the point

guess the order of the top 20 and the closest guess gets the prize

astronoid are basically deafheaven x devin townsend. not sure about the songwriting but the sound is pretty intense

lol I haven't thought of the criteria too hard, probably whoever gets the most slots correct, then accuracy in case of a tiebreaker

1. Vektor
2. Oranssi Pazuzu
3. Khemmis
4. Aluk Todolo
5. Metallica
6. Sumac
7. Jute Gyte
8. Sub Rosa
9. Mesarthim
10. Thy Catafalque
11. Virus
12. Destroyer 666
13. Hail Spirit Noir
14. Schammasch
15. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas
16. Wormed
17. Hammers of Misfortune
18. Moon Tooth
19. Gorguts
20. Wormrot

surely its gotta be in order as you said guess the top 20

yeah I might have to get fancy cause these lists are mostly pretty damn similar lol

^ xxp That was my guess, if it wasn't obvious.

Astronoid are just some amazing emo afaict

Moon Tooth sound exactly like I'd expect a Tom pick to sound

I remember how excited he was that time I told him to check out Chiodos

moon tooth is some nifty prog-thrash-pop-sludge hyperactivity

That was Dan who loved Chiodos. Still does.

I'm excited to see people getting behind Moon Tooth, it's really fun. My #1 (spoilers)

no spoilers! (tho im sure everyone guessed anyway)

there's no difference between you and dan (I think dan may have posted once or twice here like a dozen years ago)

I stick by my description of Astronoid as Mew gone death metal

You've just won sund4r over by saying mew

it was inside my top 10 (more spoilers) xxp

now wondering why i didn't put it in my prediction. oh well

mew is def the vocal approach here. astronoid yet to record anything as monstrously kickass as 'rows' on this evidence but i'm reasonably impressed tbh

oi

sorry ;_;

I guess its proof that campaigning/boosting really works. Maybe you could get it into the 77 if you campaign on that thread?

Which reminds me seandalai does the tabulation on that poll too so please go nominate lots of metal from this poll and campaign for it. We got uncle acid in the top 10 one year
ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

this is going to sound v false & vnkvlt but only my top 5 metal albums are scheduled to be in my 25 ballot positions for the main show this year, sorry everyone. it's just been such a good year all-around

fuuuuck I forgot Hail Spirit Noir on my list. i weep.

this is why RYM exists, folks

i'd love to say "no way do deftones not place in the top 20" but i've never successfully predicted a metal poll. psyched to see deafheaven at no. 1

I feel like maybe I should have campaigned for Skuggsjá, it came out early in the year so now I'm worried it'll be forgotten.

the closest points of comparison i can think of for moon tooth are faith no more and shudder to think. but harder and faster

"what if shudder to think were a metal band" is a question i didn't know i needed answered

I didn't forget Skuggsjá! (At least I don't think so...) I've had the song Skuggeslåtten on repeat all year.

"what if shudder to think were a metal band" is a question i didn't know i needed answered

Haven't got around to listening to the Moon Tooth yet but I am very much interested in the answer to this!

Oathbreaker sound nothing like deafheaven (listening on Spotify) . Presumably people say this because they are on the same record label?

Just been given the results, not even looked at them yet. Anyone still around? I can post a few to get us started/give you something to listen to

DON'T TALK ABOUT

ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS

DO IT

DO IT

Just post up through Moon Tooth (which is #1)

Top 101 like previous years

How could we improve the poll and get more participation?
Does anyone feel the poll has gone stale? Lots of people who used to take part dont now.

Would you all be more likely to vote if it was a bit fresher with somebody new running it? I've no problem handing it over if it will help the poll. But will take on board suggestions if people still want me to run it.

What would everyone like to see from the poll?

I really like it the way it is. There’s a lot of good discussions, and I hope to be able to contribute a bit more this year. Is there a big correlation between the timing and participation?

I found that holding it after xmas we get less as people were burned out by EOY polls by then. But those who complained about that didnt always vote in the earlier poll. But basically we have to run it when it suits seandalai. We cant do it without him and he has to do the big poll too. Plus he doesnt want to be bothering with stuff.

I also find that if big poll nominations happen before voting is finished for metal poll that effects us quite badly.
I think holding it earlier makes it more likely to get general ilxors voting, but im not sure about metal thread regs as they like to give december releases a good listen.

bothering with poll stuff over xmas i meant