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

fuck i wish i had heard the xoth earlier, it's ridiculous

told you so!!!!

I like the last track on the forgotten spell but its just a badly played Like A Hurricane cover innit?

I did an unweighted ballot with seven albums. I think they were: Jute Gyte, Gorguts, Dysrhythmia, Oranssi Pazuzu, Schammasch, Horse Lords, Mesarthim - Pillars

The last track and "Along the Ocean of Funeral Sun" are the ones that suffer the most from the drumming. The fast stuff is full-barrel and the drums sound chaotic in the best way, pushing the music over the top with a sort of seething abandon. The gorgeous interludes are percussion-free. Hell, even the fourth track, "Aesthetics of Necromantic Manifestation", where I first began to notice what Brad & co. were talking about, there's an element of high drama to the haplessness, where the song is just going to pieces, everything is out of phase, playing an endless amplified reprise of the track directly preceding it, and the song just WILL. NOT. END.--again, in the best way possible--nothing holding it together except for maniacal willpower. In a context as peculiar as this, I think it's probably inevitable that the midtempo stuff is what suffers the most upon re-listens...

Not sure if there's any Neil Young influence though

My ballot (thank you CS)

Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Wrekmeister Harmonies - Light Falls
Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Bloodiest - Bloodiest
Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity)
Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
Mars Red Sky - Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)
Aluk Todolo - Voix
Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers
Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night
Black Mountain - IV
Rangda - The Heretic's Bargain
Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP
Ghold - PYR
Sumac - What One Becomes
Russian Circles - Guidance
Völur - Disir
Eight Bells - Landless
40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky
Entropia - Ufonaut
Horseback - Dead Ringers
Hemelbestormer - Aether

Shame for Wrekmeister Harmonies, I think this one is their best yet.

Also forgot Mamiffer, but maybe it wasn't nominated.

Is it too late to vote for the new Krallice album? It's really good.

Long as we're talking regrets, this wasn't even nominated - if I had heard it in time, it would have been way up there for me. Melancholic doom with some of the most restrained vocals I've ever heard in metal.

https://treesofeternity.bandcamp.com/

RIYL Mandylion-era Gathering

I will check that out. Oceans of Slumber have a Gathering vibe too and only got a couple votes.

Mourning Sun, which made my top 3, sit right in between Mandylion-era The Gathering and The 3rd & The Mortal. Very much recommended.

oooh, duly noted! I want way more music that sounds like mid-90s-to-early-aughts Gathering.

I was the other Furia #1 voter. Very happy to see it do so well here. On the other hand, I was the only voter for my #2 pick so the hivemind doesn't always come through. Great job everyone. I'll be studying Devilock's ballot closely. It seems we are on the same wavelength.

oh cool there were two other LLNN voters!

One of them should've been me... they were my number 1, but unweighted.

My ballot:

LLNN - Loss
Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis
Mutterlein - Orphans of the Black Sun
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows
Krypts - Remnants of Expansion
Völur - Disir
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd Dwell
Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder
Okkultokrati - Raspberry Dawn

Abbath - Abbath
Inquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar (etc)
Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
Svlfvr - Shamanic Lvnar Cvlt
Nox Formulae - The Hidden Paths to Black Ecstacy
Goatess - Purgatory Under New Management
Ahpdegma - Seolfkwyllem
Ghoulgotha - To Starve the Cross
Void Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the Dead

Geryon - The Wound and The Bow
Hammers of Misfortune - Dead Revolutions
Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason
Eerie - Eerie
Wretch - Wretch
Ritual Chamber - Obscurations (To Feast on the Seraphim)
Cvinger - Embodied in Incense
Usurpress - The Regal Tribe
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Blood Incantation - Starspawn

Ur Draugr - With Hunger Undying
Amphisbaena - Amphisbaena
Begrime Exemious - The Enslavement Conquest
Dagger Moon - Citadel
Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation
Demontage - Fire of Iniquity
Coffin Lust - Manifestation of Inner Darkness
Phobocosm - Bringer of Drought
Trap Them - Crown Feral
Temisto - Temisto

Bekëth Nexëhmü ‎– De Dunklas Återkomst
Bölzer - Hero
Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crépuscule
Khanus - Rites of Fire EP
Lycus - Chasms
Arizmenda ‎– Beneath This Reality Of Flesh
Soulburn - Earthless Pagan Spirit
Winterfylleth - The Dark Hereafter
Spirit Adrift - Chained to Oblivion
Vile Creature - A Pessimistic Doomsayer

I forgot Hail Spirit Noir and feel dumb.

Here's mine, and thanks again for running this thing.

Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia)
Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EP
Head of the Demon - Sathanas Trismegistos
Khanus - Rites of Fire EP
Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love
Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder
Void Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the Dead
Ghoulgotha - To Starve the Cross
Wakedead Gathering - Fuscus: Strings of the Black Lyre
Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
Ripper - Experiment Of Existence
Zealotry - The Last Witness
Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure
Skáphe - Skáphe²
Qrixkuor - Three Devils Dance
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity)
Bestial Raids ‎– Master Satan's Witchery
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crépuscule

Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation
Asphyx - Incoming Death
Mourning Sun - Último Exhalario
Desaster - The Oath Of An Iron Ritual
Metallica - Hardwired...To Self Destruct
ColdWorld - Autumn
Batushka - Litourgiya
Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law
Destroyer 666 - Wildfire
Furia - Księżyc milczy luty
Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok
Nokturnal Mortum/Graveland - The Spirit Never Dies (split)
Eternal Champion - The Armor Of Ire
Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika
Abbath - Abbath
Fuath - I
Schammasch - Triangle
Witchery - In His Infernal Majesty's Service
Mesarthim - Isolate
Sabaton - The Last Stand
Gehennah - Too Loud To Live Too Drunk To Die
Megadeth - Dystopia
Bat - Wings of Chains
Forteresse - Thèmes Pour La Rébellion
Thy Catafalque - Meta
Alcest - Kodama
Goatpenis - Apocalypse War
Insomnium - Winter's Gate
Countess - Fires Of Destiny
Basarabian Hills - Attraction
Death Angel - The Evil Divide
Inquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith
Melankoli - Fallen
Is - Glimpses Of Sorrow
Soulburn - Earthless Pagan Spirit
Mesarthim - .- -... ... . -. -.-. .
Pensées Nocturnes - À Boire Et À Manger
Skáphe - Skáphe²
Ripper - Experiment Of Existence
Autumn, Leaves, Scars/Dreams Of Nature/Lumnos - A Desolate Landscape (split)
Lethargic Euphoria - Standstill
Brutus - Murwgebeukt
Trna - Lose Yourself To Find Peace
Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether
Saor - Guardians
Nonsun - Black Snow Desert

Bolded didn't make it:

Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity)
Wormrot - Voices
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd Dwell
Car Bomb - Meta
Sinistro - Semente
Mesarthim - Pillars
Comet Control - Center of the Maze
Jute Gyte - Perdurance
Ophidian Forest - Susurrus
Völur - Disir
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
Virus - Memento Collider
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Oathbreaker - Rheia
Mesarthim - Isolate
Dawnwalker - In Rooms
Wormed - Krighsu
Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of Ages.
Sumac - What One Becomes
Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EP
Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue
Moon Tooth - Chromaparagon
Basarabian Hills - Attraction
Alcest - Kodama
Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis
Schammasch - Triangle
Sorrow Plagues - Sorrow Plagues
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
Helen Money - Become Zero
Vektor - Terminal Redux
The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
Monolord - Lord of Suffering / Die in Haze
Dysrhythmia - The Veil Of Control
Blut aus Nord/Ævangelist - Codex Obscura Nomina
Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik - Skuggsjá
The Body, Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
Capra Informis - Womb of the Wild
Aluk Todolo - Voix
Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Helms Alee - Stillicide
Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok
Entropia - Ufonaut
Krallice - Hyperion
Jambinai - A Hermitage
Okkultokrati - Raspberry Dawn
The Re-Stoned - Reptiles Return
Xoth - Invasion of the Tentacube
Goat - Requiem
Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP

We could have got Basarabian Hills into this so easily lol, and then everyone would have heard the title track, and then the metal poll would have been cancelled forever

His logo is a cloud of trees

Glad everyone enjoyed it, big thanks to everyone who voted and commented and of course seandalai for doing the hard work running it.

Hope everyone discovered new albums and will post about it here!

Based on the first two tracks, this could be the first Alcest album I've really liked since Souvenirs. Sounds great so far.

Here's mine - I'm so enjoying the new Krallice and it probably would have been top ten had I heard it prior to noms. I've cooled on the 11Paranoias, and probably should have had the Mizmor higher based on how much I still listen to it and enjoy it. Same with Desaster. I really dug the Khanus EP and the Wormed rekkid and they were bubbling under for sure.

Vektor - Terminal Redux
Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Krypts - Remnants of Expansion
Testament - Brotherhood of the Snake
Entropia - Ufonaut
Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
Insomnium - Winter's Gate
Virvum - Illuminance
Inverloch - Distance|Collapsed
Suma - The Order Of Things
Furia - Księżyc milczy luty
Zhrine - Unortheta
In The Woods ... - Pure
Wormrot - Voices
Dysrhythmia - The Veil Of Control
Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy Of Molten Bones
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
Obscure Sphinx - Epitaphs
Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us
Deftones - Gore
Desaster - The Oath Of Iron Ritual
Sumac - What One Becomes
Panphage - Drengskapr
Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law
Darkthrone - Artic Thunder
Gojira - Magma
Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether
Schammasch - Triangle
Cobalt - Slow Forever
Crowbar - The Serpent Only Lies
Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason
Gorguts - Pleiades Dust
Voivod - Post-Society
Mizmor - Yodh
Sumerlands - S/T
Whores. - Gold
11Paranoias - Reliquary For A Dreamed World
Eternity’s End - The Fire Within
Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika
Saor - Guardians
Witchery - In His Infernal Majesty's Service
Uada - Devoid Of Light
Black Tomb - Black Tomb
Magrudergrind - II
Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
Mithras - On Strange Loops
Spirit Adrift - Chained To Oblivion
Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of The Ages

I'm sure this isn't a complete list, but it's interesting to see which non-metal albums metal voters like. One notable album that wasn't nominated that has had metalhead support in the past was Wovenhand.

19 Horse Lords - Interventions 384.0 11 0
20 Virus - Memento Collider 371.0 12 0
28 40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky 284.0 7 0
31 Opeth - Sorceress 265.0 7 0
37 Comet Control - Center of the Maze 235.0 6 0
44 Deftones - Gore 215.0 5 1
46 Astronoid - Air 201.0 6 0
47 Russian Circles - Guidance 200.0 6 0
49 Blues Pills - Lady In Gold 200.0 4 1
93 Truckfighters - V 116.0 4 0
94 Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers 112.0 3 0
95 Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok 110.0 4 0
98 Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule 109.0 3 0
114 Horseback - Dead Ringers 92.0 3 0
122 The Cosmic Dead - Rainbowhead 83.0 3 0

The new Wovenhand is very good - but yes - not metal - much like some of the nomination polluters above. Funny how I personally still consider the stoner rock/alt metal/former stars genre-changing (40 Watt Sun) still somewhat eligible as metal. Oh well. I guess the poll title did include "Hard N' Heavy Rock" so I should stop grousing.

Another one I thought would get more attention:

260 Crippled Black Phoenix - Bronze 30.0 1 0

I would argue that Astronoid totally counts as metal.

Astronoid are definitely metal...but by way of New Found Glory. I am besotted with it.

I always get Wovenhand mixed up with Windhand.

One's a hand made of yarn
One's when you fart in your hand and wave it in someone's face

X-(

That's the reaction it tends to get.

HOLY SHIT THIS FURIA ALBUM WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SAY ANYTHING?!

I bought the Astronoid album tonight. "Tin Foil Hats" is really jumping out at me right now.

yeah, Tin Foil Hats is the best. did you buy it on CD, Sund4r? or did you find vinyl?

I put the vinyl on my xmas wish list but no one claimed it :/

(first-world metal problems)

I bought Astronoid on ALAC. Does that make me false?

alas &

it makes you smug :P

HOLY SHIT THIS FURIA ALBUM WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SAY ANYTHING?!

3 Furia - Księżyc milczy luty 751 Points, 20 Votes, TWO #1's

Well somebody must have said something at some point.

I also forgot to nominate, campaign for, or vote for this year's Solium Fatalis album. They're local to where I went to high school and they're pretty darn good. I keep meaning to spend more time with the new album (their third).

Oh and the Abbath record is really good so far. Is this what late period Darkthrone sound like, heavy metal by black metal guys?

Not really. Stylistically, Abbath closer to something like Inquisition.

Not at all, Darkthrone is al garage-y retro-thrashy fun, Abbath is super tight and heavy.

If you like Abbath, you'll probably dig Desaster too.

(xxxxxxpost: i was making a dumb joke.)

Here's a metal poll that seems could have a lot to say to ILXors (& not just bcz FS is #5 lol)

http://antigravitybunny.com/?p=10923

Not poll, EOY list actually

Cool to see at least one other person heard Nevoa, heh

That is a fuckin list ty