THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

Thanks for running this, guys! A lot of new music to check out.

Here's my very hivemindy ballot. Bold did not place:

1. Sannhet - So Numb
2. Ex Eye - Ex Eye
3. Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
4. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
5. Violet Cold - Anomie
6. Big|Brave - Ardor
7. Bathsheba - Servus
8. Unsane - Sterilize
9. Godflesh - Post Self
10. Rope Sect - Personae Ingratae
11. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
12. Succumb - Succumb
13. Myrkur - Mareridt
14. Pallbearer - Heartless
15. Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
16. Couch Slut - Contempt
17. Paradise Lost - Medusa
18. Amenra - Mass VI
19. Nortt - Endeligt
20. Unearthly Trance - Stalking the Ghost

I missed the rollout of 40-21, which is where the majority of albums I liked landed. Overall, there were 17 albums here that I liked, which surprises me.

lmao

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

21 Spirit Adrift - Curse Of Conception 323.0 9 0
22 Power Trip - Nightmare Logic 321.0 10 0
23 Immolation - Atonement 302.0 8 0
24 Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die 284.0 7 2
25 Unsane - Sterilize 277.0 8 0
26 Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley 275.0 6 0
27 Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie 269.0 9 0
28 Fen - Winter 259.0 7 0
29 Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard 256.0 6 1
30 Ufomammut - 8 255.0 9 0

31 Solstafir - Berdreyminn 254.0 6 1
32 Boris - Dear 234.0 7 0
33 Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre 231.0 7 0
34 Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon 230.0 10 0
35 Les Discrets - Predateurs 222.0 6 1
36 The Obsessed - Sacred 220.0 5 0
37 Oxbow - Thin Black Duke 219.0 7 1
38 Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand 219.0 6 0
39 Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy 213.0 6 0
40 Krallice - Loum 212.0 7 0

41 Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience 212.0 6 0
42 Black Cilice - Banished from Time 209.0 5 0
43 Sannhet - So Numb 204.0 5 1
44 Enslaved - E 197.0 6 0
45 Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination 196.0 6 0
46 Paradise Lost - Medusa 195.0 7 0
47 Undergang - Misantropologi 190.0 5 1
48 Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial 184.0 7 0
49 Venenum - Trance of Death 183.0 6 0

50 Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument 177.0 4 1
51 Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense 174.0 7 0
52 Ehnahre - The Marrow 171.0 5 0
53 Planning for Burial - Below the House 168.0 5 0
54 Propagandhi - Victory Lap 168.0 4 1
55 Loss - Horizonless 167.0 5 0
56 Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival 162.0 7 0
57 With The Dead - Love From With The Dead 162.0 5 0
58 Corpse Garden - IAO 269 159.0 5 0
59 Circle - Terminal 157.0 6 0
60 Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out 153.0 4 0

61 Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity 151.0 5 0
62 Ingurgitating Oblivion - Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light 150.0 4 0
62 Ungfell - Tôtbringære 150.0 4 0
64 Mesarthim - Presence 147.0 6 0
65 Amenra - Mass VI 147.0 4 0
66 Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now 147.0 3 1
67 Flight Of Sleipnir - Skadi 144.0 5 0
68 Nortt - Endeligt 140.0 4 1
69 Akvan - Forgotten Glory 135.0 5 0
70 Brutus - Burst 133.0 5 0

71 Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains 131.0 3 0
72 Violet Cold - Anomie 127.0 4 0
73 Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky 126.0 5 0
74 Grails - Chalice Hymnal 121.0 5 0
75 Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos 121.0 4 0
76 Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna 120.0 5 0
76 Usnea - Portals Into Futility 120.0 5 0
78 Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine 120.0 4 0
79 Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms 119.0 3 0
80 Succumb - Succumb 118.0 4 0

81 Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer 117.0 4 0
82 Dreadnought - A Wake in Sacred Waves 116.0 4 0
82 Obituary - Obituary 116.0 4 0
84 Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II 114.0 3 0
85 Nokturnal Mortum - Істина 113.0 3 0
86 Dodecahdron - Kwintessens 108.0 4 0
87 Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worlds 107.0 2 1
88 The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light 106.0 4 0
89 Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine 105.0 3 0
90 Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis 104.0 4 0

91 Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black 104.0 3 0
92 Big|Brave - Ardor 102.0 4 0
93 Colotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душі 102.0 3 0
94 White Ward - Futility Report 101.0 4 0
95 Necrot - Blood Offerings 101.0 3 0
95 Tau Cross - Pillar of Fire 101.0 3 0
97 Code Orange - Forever 100.0 4 0
98 Bathsheba - Servus 99.0 4 0
98 Contrarian - To Perceive Is To Suffer 99.0 4 0
100 Cloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LP 99.0 3 0

101 Aosoth - The Inside Scriptures 98.0 4 0
101 Uniform - Wake in Fright 98.0 4 0
103 Lantern - II: Morphosis 98.0 3 0
104 At the Drive In - in.ter a.li.a 97.0 4 0
105 Incantation - Profane Nexus 96.0 4 0
105 Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained 96.0 4 0
107 Dopelord - Children of the Haze 96.0 3 0
108 Chaos Moon - Eschaton Mémoire 95.0 3 0
109 Vespero - Shum-Shir 95.0 2 0
110 Rebel Wizard - Triumph of Gloom 94.0 2 0
111 Orthodox - Supreme 93.0 3 0
111 Slagmaur - Thill Smitts Terror 93.0 3 0
111 The Spacelords - Water Planet 93.0 3 0
114 Lorn - Arrayed Claws 91.0 4 0
115 Entheos - Le Zahir 91.0 3 0
116 Purple Hill Witch - Celestial Cemetry 91.0 2 0
117 Monolord - Rust 88.0 4 0
118 Motorpsycho - The Tower 87.0 2 0
119 Cavernlight - As We Cup Our Hands And Drink From the Stream of Our Ache 86.0 2 0
120 Clouds Taste Satanic - The Glitter Of Infinite Hell 84.0 2 0
120 Lich King - The Omniclasm 84.0 2 0
122 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U​.​F​.​O. - Wandering The Outer Space 83.0 2 0
123 Liquidarlo Celuloide - Superfriccion 82.0 2 0
124 Igorrr - Savage Sinusoid 81.0 2 0
125 Todesstoß - Ebne Graun 80.0 4 0

126 Contaminated - Final Man 79.0 3 0
127 GWAR - The Blood of Gods 79.0 2 0
127 Lunatii - Elimino 79.0 2 0
129 Rope Sect - Personae Ingratae 78.0 2 0
130 Ostraca - Last 77.0 2 0
130 Woe - Hope Attrition 77.0 2 0
132 Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite 76.0 4 0
133 Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam 76.0 3 0
134 Horisont - About Time 75.0 2 0
134 Multishiva - Time Messer 75.0 2 0
134 Yowie - Synchromysticism 75.0 2 0
137 Kreator - Gods of Violence 74.0 2 0
137 Lör - In Forgotten Sleep 74.0 2 0
137 Wounded Giant - Vae Victis 74.0 2 0
140 Árstíðir lífsins - Heljarkviða 73.0 3 0
141 Urarv - Aurum 73.0 2 0
142 Unearthly Trance - Stalking the Ghost 72.0 3 0
143 Caligula's Horse - In Contact 72.0 2 0
143 Funeral Chant - Funeral Chant 72.0 2 0
143 Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom 72.0 2 0
146 Beastmaker - Inside The Skull 71.0 2 0
146 Raventale - Planetarium 71.0 2 0
148 Goatpenis - Anesthetic Vapor 70.0 2 0
149 Ghost Bath - Starmourner 69.0 2 0
149 The Body - A Home on Earth 69.0 2 0

151 Tchornobog - Tchornobog 66.0 3 0
152 Alestorm - No Grave But The Sea 66.0 2 0
153 Blanck Mass - World Eater 65.0 2 0
153 Father Befouled - Desolate Gods 65.0 2 0
153 Tomb Mold - Cryptic Transmissions 65.0 2 0
156 Antisect - The Rising of the Lights 64.0 3 0
157 Imajinary Friends - The Imajinary Friends 64.0 2 0
158 Beheaded - Beast Incarnate 63.0 3 0
158 The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension 63.0 3 0
160 Drudkh / Paysage d'Hiver - Somewhere Sadness Wanders / Schnee (IV) 63.0 2 0
160 Satan's Hallow - s/t 63.0 2 0
162 Cormorant - Diaspora 62.0 2 0
163 Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland 61.0 3 0
164 Fleshpress - Hulluuden Muuri 61.0 2 0
164 Locust Leaves - A Subtler Kind of Light 61.0 2 0
166 Black Anvil - As Was 60.0 2 0
166 Lo-Ruhamah - Anointing 60.0 2 0
168 Leprous - Malina 59.0 2 0
168 The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy 59.0 2 0
170 Emptiness - Not for Music 58.0 2 0
170 Temple of Void - Lords of Death 58.0 2 0
172 Crystal Fairy - Crystal Fairy 57.0 2 0
172 Eluveitie - Evocation II: Pantheon 57.0 2 0
172 Netra - Ingrats 57.0 2 0
172 Venomous Maximus - No Warning 57.0 2 0

176 Midnight - Sweet Death And Ecstasy 53.0 2 0
176 Ragana - You Take Nothing 53.0 2 0
176 Shardik - Shardik 53.0 2 0
176 Sun of the Sleepless - To the Elements 53.0 2 0
180 All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal 52.0 2 0
180 Soen - Lykaia 52.0 2 0
182 Rubedo Nocturno - O grande pai: Abismo incriado 51.0 2 0
183 Argus - From Fields of Fire 50.0 2 0
183 Glassjaw - Material Control 50.0 2 0
183 Nightbringer - Terra Damnata 50.0 2 0
186 Slowly Building Weapons - Sunbirds 49.0 2 0
186 Suffering Hour - In Passing Ascension 49.0 2 0
188 ColdWorld - Wolves And Sheep 49.0 1 0
188 Sufferer - Sufferer 49.0 1 0
190 ST 37 - Fuck You, You Rule: ST 37's Greatest Hits 48.0 2 0
190 Wreche - Wreche 48.0 2 0
192 Biblical - The City That Always Sleeps 48.0 1 0
193 Monarch! - Never Forever 47.0 2 0
194 Apostate Viaticum - Before the Gates of Gomorrah 47.0 1 0
194 Emyn Muil - Elenion Ancalima 47.0 1 0
196 Grave Pleasures - Motherblood 46.0 2 0
197 Sundays & Cybele - Chaos & Systems 46.0 1 0
197 The Midnight Ghost Train - Cypress Ave. 46.0 1 0
199 DVNE - Asheran 45.0 2 0

200 Telekinetic Yeti - Abominable 45.0 1 0
201 Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows 44.0 3 0
202 Desolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless Void 44.0 2 0
202 Havukruunu - Havulinnaan 44.0 2 0
204 Entrench - Through the Walls of Flesh 44.0 1 0
204 Extremity - Extremely Fucking Dead 44.0 1 0
204 Light of the Morning Star - Nocta 44.0 1 0
204 OHHMS - The Fool 44.0 1 0
204 Sanhedrin - A Funeral For the World 44.0 1 0
209 Abigor / Nightbringer / Thy Darkened Shade / Mortuus - Split 43.0 1 0
209 Anathema - The Optimist 43.0 1 0
209 Antiversum - Cosmos Comedenti 43.0 1 0
209 Archspire - Relentless Mutation 43.0 1 0
209 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana 43.0 1 0
209 Shooting Guns - Flavour Country 43.0 1 0
209 Vanum - Burning Arrow 43.0 1 0
216 Suffocation - Of The Dark Light 42.0 2 0
217 Hell - Hell 42.0 1 0
218 Gnaw Their Tongues - Hymns for the Broken, Swollen and Silent 41.0 2 0
218 Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum 41.0 2 0
220 Howls of Ebb / Khthoniik Cerviiks - With Gangrene Edges / Voiidwarp 41.0 1 0
220 Lustre - Still Innocence 41.0 1 0
220 Vin de Mia Trix - Palimpsests 41.0 1 0
220 Virus - Investigator 41.0 1 0
224 All them Witches - Sleeping Through the War 40.0 2 0

225 Devil - To The Gallows 40.0 1 0
225 Impure Wilhelmina - Radiation 40.0 1 0
225 The Doomsday Kingdom - The Doomsday Kingdom 40.0 1 0
228 Ecstatic Vision - Raw Rock Fury 39.0 2 0
229 Iron Monkey - 9-13 39.0 1 0
229 Kadavar - Rough Times 39.0 1 0
229 Pyrolatrous - Teneral 39.0 1 0
229 Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere 39.0 1 0
233 Anomalie - Visions 38.0 3 0
234 Blaze of Perdition - Conscious Darkness 38.0 1 0
234 Demon Eye - Prophecies And Lies 38.0 1 0
234 Draugsòl - Volaða Land 38.0 1 0
234 The Wizards - Full Moon in Scorpio 38.0 1 0
238 Avatarium - Hurricanes And Halos 37.0 1 0
238 Sinister - Syncretism 37.0 1 0
238 The Lurking Fear - Out Of The Voiceless Grave 37.0 1 0
241 Phrenelith - Desolate Endscape 36.0 2 0
241 Unleash The Archers - Apex 36.0 2 0
243 Death Like Mass - Jak zabija Diabeł 36.0 1 0
243 Dumal - The Lesser God 36.0 1 0
243 Venom Inc. - Avé 36.0 1 0
246 Arch Enemy - Will to Power 35.0 1 0
246 Azonic - Prospect of the Deep Volume 1 35.0 1 0
248 Exquirla - Para quienes aún viven 34.0 2 0
248 Sorcerer - The Crowning Of The Fire King 34.0 2 0
248 Thumpermonkey - Electricity EP 34.0 2 0

251 Walpyrgus - Walpyrgus Nights 34.0 1 0
252 Au Dessus - End of Chapter 33.0 2 0
252 Widziadło - Void 33.0 2 0
254 Azarath - In Extremis 33.0 1 0
254 Mammoth Mammoth - Mount the Mountain 33.0 1 0
254 Weaponizer - Lawless Age 33.0 1 0
257 10000 Russos - Distress Distress 32.0 1 0
257 Destroyer Of Light - Chamber Of Horrors 32.0 1 0
257 Heaven In Her Arms - White Halo 32.0 1 0
257 Night Demon - Darkness Remains 32.0 1 0
261 Accept - The Rise of Chaos 31.0 1 0
261 Acrimonious - Eleven Dragons 31.0 1 0
261 Korto - Korto 31.0 1 0
261 Night Viper - Exterminator 31.0 1 0
265 Cardinals Folly - Deranged Pagan Sons 30.0 2 0
266 Manilla Road - To Kill A King 30.0 1 0
267 Severoth - Forestpaths 29.0 2 0
268 Execration - Return to the Void 29.0 1 0
268 Feral Ohms - Feral Ohms 29.0 1 0
268 Ironflame - Lightning Strikes The Crown 29.0 1 0
268 Potence - L’Amour Au Temps De La Peste 29.0 1 0
272 Celeste - Infidèle(s) 28.0 2 0
272 Demon Head - Thunder on the Fields 28.0 2 0
274 Bardo Pond - Under The Pines 28.0 1 0
274 Ensnared - Dysangelium 28.0 1 0
274 Wearg - Hæðen War Metal 28.0 1 0

277 W - Winterwomb 27.0 2 0
278 Deep Space Destructors - Psychedology 27.0 1 0
278 Entrails - World Inferno 27.0 1 0
278 Hellripper - Coagulating Darkness 27.0 1 0
278 Pyriphlegethon - The Murky Black of Eternal Night 27.0 1 0
282 Ne Obliviscaris - Urn 26.0 2 0
283 Bonehunter - Sexual Panic Human Machine 26.0 1 0
283 Njiqahdda - Clouds Upon the Sanctuary 26.0 1 0
283 Yagow - Yagow 26.0 1 0
286 ALTARAGE - Endinghent 25.0 1 0
286 Aetherian - The Untamed Wilderness 25.0 1 0
286 Almyrkvi - Umbra 25.0 1 0
286 Aluk Todolo - Archives Vol​.​1 25.0 1 0
286 Antarktis - Illdlaante 25.0 1 0
286 Apotelesma - Timewrought Kings 25.0 1 0
286 Atriarch - Dead as Truth 25.0 1 0
286 Below the Sun - Alien World 25.0 1 0
286 Bloodway - A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues 25.0 1 0
286 Celestial Bodies - Spit Forth From Chaos 25.0 1 0
286 Cemetery Urn - Cemetery Urn 25.0 1 0
286 Chepang - Dadhelo 25.0 1 0
286 Claret Ash - The Great Adjudication: Fragment One 25.0 1 0
286 Cryptic Fog - Staring Through the Veil 25.0 1 0
286 Daemogog - Ancient Extradigestional Rites 25.0 1 0
286 Dreaming Dead - Funeral Twilight 25.0 1 0
286 Excommunion - Thronosis 25.0 1 0
286 Exhumed - Death Revenge 25.0 1 0
286 Fell Ruin - To the Concrete Drifts 25.0 1 0
286 Grift - Arvet 25.0 1 0
286 Hanging Garden - I Am Become 25.0 1 0
286 Heretoir - The Circle 25.0 1 0
286 Hour of Penance - Cast the First Stone 25.0 1 0
286 Ides of Gemini - Women 25.0 1 0
286 In this Moment - Ritual 25.0 1 0
286 John Hoyles - Night Flight 25.0 1 0
286 Kalmankantaja - Demonwoods 25.0 1 0
286 Livid - Beneath This Shroud, The Earth Erodes 25.0 1 0
286 Midnight Rider - Manifestation 25.0 1 0
286 Mind Mold - Mind Mold 25.0 1 0
286 Morast - Ancestral Void 25.0 1 0
286 Morbid Evils - Deceases 25.0 1 0
286 Neige et Noirceur - Verglapolis 25.0 1 0
286 None - None 25.0 1 0
286 Nullingroots - Into the Grey 25.0 1 0
286 Occasvs - Nocturnal Majestic Mysteria 25.0 1 0
286 Oculus - The Apostate of Light 25.0 1 0
286 Overkill - The Grinding Wheel 25.0 1 0
286 Persona - Metamorphosis 25.0 1 0
286 Poison Blood - Poison Blood 25.0 1 0
286 Pontiak - Dialectic of Ignorance 25.0 1 0
286 Ra's Dawn - From the Vile Catacombs 25.0 1 0
286 Red Moon Architect - Return of the Black Butterflies 25.0 1 0
286 Rosk - Miasma 25.0 1 0
286 Ruby the Hatchet - Planetary Space Child 25.0 1 0
286 Rude - Remnants... 25.0 1 0
286 Ruin - Drown in Blood 25.0 1 0
286 Serpent Column - Ornuthi Thalassa 25.0 1 0
286 Sorrow Plagues - Homecoming 25.0 1 0
286 Sxuperion - Myriad 25.0 1 0
286 The Contortionist - Clairvoyant 25.0 1 0
286 The Great Discord - The Rabbit Hole 25.0 1 0
286 The Mass - Ghost Fleet 25.0 1 0
286 The Thirteenth Sun - Stardust 25.0 1 0
286 Threshold - Legends Of The Shires 25.0 1 0
286 Tome of the Unreplenished - Cosmoprism: The Theurgy 25.0 1 0
286 Tongues - Hreilia 25.0 1 0
286 Ulsect - Ulsect 25.0 1 0
286 Ululatum Tollunt - Quantum Noose of Usurpation 25.0 1 0
286 Voyager - Ghost Mile 25.0 1 0
286 White Suns - Psychic Drift 25.0 1 0
286 Wildspeaker - Spreading Adder 25.0 1 0
286 Wormwood - Ghostlands Wounds From A bleeding Earth 25.0 1 0

349 Kartikeya - Samudra 24.0 1 0
350 Arcane Roots - Melancholia Hymns 23.0 1 0
350 Dying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck With 23.0 1 0
350 Part Chimp - IV 23.0 1 0
350 Saiva - Markerna bortom 23.0 1 0
354 Black Magick SS - Kaleidoscope Dreams 22.0 1 0
354 Grav - Tomb Of Agony 22.0 1 0
354 Lunar Shadow - Far From Light 22.0 1 0
354 Nik Turner - Life in Space 22.0 1 0
358 Farsot - Fail Lure 21.0 1 0
358 Legionairre - Dawn Of Genesis 21.0 1 0
360 Havukruunu - Kelle surut soi 20.0 1 0
360 The Clearing Path - Watershed Between Firmament and the Realm of Hyperborea 20.0 1 0
360 Wederganger / Urfaust - Split 20.0 1 0
360 al-Namrood - Enkar 20.0 1 0
364 Angus Black - Angus Black 19.0 1 0
364 Reverorum ib Malacht - Ter Agios Numini 19.0 1 0
366 Aether Realm - Tarot 18.0 1 0
366 God Dethroned - The World Ablaze 18.0 1 0
368 Dødsengel - Interequinox 17.0 1 0
368 Horn - Turm Am Hang 17.0 1 0
370 Endon - Through The Mirror 16.0 1 0
370 Grav - Fordærvet Djævelskab 16.0 1 0
370 Mara Balls - Elävä kivi 16.0 1 0
373 Astral Mass - Astral Mass 15.0 1 0
373 Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers 15.0 1 0
373 Disharmony - Goddamn The Sun 15.0 1 0
373 GGUW - BEHAUPTUNGSANIMALITÄT 15.0 1 0
373 Moths & Locusts - Intro/Outro 15.0 1 0

378 Jagged Vision - Death Is This World 14.0 1 0
378 Sinmara - Within The Weaves Of Infinity 14.0 1 0
380 Heavydeath - Sarcophagus in the Sky 13.0 1 0
380 Squalus - The Great Fish 13.0 1 0
380 The Cosmic Dead - Psych is Dead 13.0 1 0
380 Weeping Sores - Weeping Sores 13.0 1 0
384 Blattaria - Blattaria 12.0 1 0
384 Ensiferum - Two Paths 12.0 1 0
384 Sabbath Assembly - Rites of Passage 12.0 1 0
384 Void Generator - Prodromi 12.0 1 0
388 Galneryus - Ultimate Sacrifice 11.0 1 0
388 Integrity - Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume 11.0 1 0
388 Klabautamann - Smaragd 11.0 1 0
391 Maat Lander - Season in Space Vol. 1 10.0 1 0
391 Selcouth - Heart Is the Star of Chaos 10.0 1 0
393 Black Sites - Monochrome 9.0 1 0
393 Fides Inversa - Rite of Inverse Incarnation 9.0 1 0
395 Bagarre générale - Tohu-Bohu 8.0 1 0
395 Vokonis - The Sunken Djinn 8.0 1 0
397 Forteresse - Récits Patriotiques 7.0 1 0
397 Qhwertt - Sympathetic Horror 7.0 1 0
399 Wintaar - Wintaar 6.0 1 0
400 Hathenter - Hathenter Ouija 5.0 1 0
400 John Frum - A Stirring in the Noos 5.0 1 0
400 Portrait - Burn The World 5.0 1 0
400 Saule - s/t 5.0 1 0
404 Dread Sovereign - For Doom The Bell Tolls 4.0 1 0
405 Shaarimoth - Temple of the Adversarial Fire 3.0 1 0
406 Mutoid Man - War Moans 2.0 1 0
406 Pryapisme - Diabolicus felinae pandemonium 2.0 1 0

poor atdi cut away at the end

143 Caligula's Horse - In Contact 72.0 2 0

:(

Thank you poll runners!

shout out to the other Caligula's Horse and Lich King voters!!

Simon, you should recommend more prog-metal. I'll start listening, eventually! I did really like what I heard of Caligula's Horse.

SPOTIFY RESULTS PLAYLIST TO FOLLOW

the Soen album (180, sigh) was great as well xp

Thank you so much for everyone who made this happen.

Weighted. Bold did not place.

Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Cleric - Retrocausal
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light
Uniform - Wake in Fright
Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience
The Body - A Home on Earth
Godflesh - Post Self
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Loss - Horizonless
Ostraca - Last
Krallice - Loüm
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Come
Couch Slut - Contempt
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Planning for Burial - Below the House
Propagandhi - Victory Lap
Orthodox - Supreme
Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard
Ingurgitating Oblivion - Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
Circle - Terminal
Ufomammut - 8
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Boris - Dear
Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained
Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
Monarch! – Never Forever
Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Paradise Lost - Medusa
The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
Tchornobog - Tchornobog
John Frum - A Stirring in the Noos
Celeste - Infidèle(s)
Code Orange - Forever
Mutoid Man - War Moans
At the Drive In - in.ter a.li.a

My prog list, not all metal - http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-17/#prog

Simon, I was the other voter for Lich King! I really liked that record and they're almost local to me so I have opportunities to see them frequently. They're nice dudes, but it seems like all cartoon thrash boys are nice dudes.

Amazing poll, thank you Odysseus, seandalai and Simon H! You have helped make a bleak February...even bleaker.

I enjoy the whole vibe of this poll so much and everyone posting here is just full of enthusiasm and great recommendations! I found a ton of stuff, but especially liked: Boris, Falls of Rauros (yay, glad you liked it Brad! And enjoy your break), Grails, Dreadnought, Wiegedood, Big Brave, and of course Lingua Ignota.

my ballot

Solstafir - Berdreyminn
Godflesh - Post Self
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun ( Sargent House) 2017
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard
Pillorian - Obsidian
Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand
Myrkur - Mareridt
Pallbearer - Heartless
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Sannhet - So Numb (Profound Lore)
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Avatarium - Hurricanes And Halos
Botanist - Shape Of He To Come
Unsane - Sterilize
Fen - Winter
With The Dead - With Love From With The Dead
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Loss - Horizonless
Les Discrets - Predateurs
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Bardo Pond - Under The Pines
White Ward - Futility Report
Boris - Dear
Aluk Todolo - Archives Vol​.​1
At The Drive-In - Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Wreche - Wreche
Black Magick SS - Kaleidoscope Dreams
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Circle - Terminal
Ecstatic Vision - Raw Rock Fury
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants : Hermaphrodite
ST 37 - Fuck You, You Rule: ST 37's Greatest "Hits"
All them Witches - Sleeping Through the War
Argus - From Fields of Fire
Bathsheba - Servus
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Gnaw Their Tongues - Hymns for the Broken, Swollen and Silent
Grave Pleasures - Motherblood
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Krallice - Loüm
Mesarthim - Presence
Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Ufomammut - 8
Unearthly Trance - Stalking the Ghost
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie

Oh oh and that Cloudrat track! Still my favourite thing of the whole rollout. To think, if I’d gone with my heart and voted ATDI, I may never have heard it.

My ballot, aka gman's ballot condensed, aka tt's ballot condensed (does that mean gman = tt lol)

Cleric - Retrocausal
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
Corpse Garden - IAO 269
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Yowie - Synchromysticism
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Couch Slut - Contempt
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer
Mesarthim - Presence
Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
Thumpermonkey - Electricity EP
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
Nokturnal Mortum - Істина
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
Colotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душі

Thumpermonkey should have probably been at the bottom of my ballot but I put them higher out of loyalty. Anyway their LP coming out this year is going to rule so hard so stay tuned for that, folks! We all like Cardiacsy doom-progge, yes? Yes!

You can consider Venenum, Dreadnought and the Cloud Rat thingy retroactively added to my list as well - and maybe Fiddlesticks and Elder depending on how subsequent listens pan out. My phone would like to apologise for its interesting Godflesh autocorrection there

Thanks to all the pollrunners, really enjoyed the rollout, lots of stuff to check out here. Would have liked to comment more but work has been busy, I will say though that the Elder album really blew me away, a deserving #1 for sure.

tt if you haven't heard Qliphoth you oughta get on that

My ballot (unweighted):

Almyrkvi - Umbra
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
Chaos Moon - Eschaton Mémoire
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Colotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душі
Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam
Desolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless Void
Dodecahdron - Kwintessens
Ehnahre - The Marrow
Entheos - Le Zahir
Funeral Chant - Funeral Chant
Ghost Bath - Starmourner
Goatpenis - Anesthetic Vapor
Grift - Arvet
Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience
Kalmankantaja - Demonwoods
Lorn - Arrayed Claws
Necrot - Blood Offerings
Neige et Noirceur - Verglapolis
None - None
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Severoth - Forestpaths
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Ungfell - Tôtbringære
Venenum - Trance of Death
W - Winterwomb
Widziadło - Void

Weighted, bold did not place.

Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Ostraca - Last
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Hell - Hell
Igorrr - Savage Sinusoid
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Rope Sect - Personae Ingratae
Cleric - Retrocausal
Flight Of Sleipnir – Skadi
Unsane - Sterilize
Yowie - Synchromysticism
Heaven In Her Arms - White Halo
Couch Slut - Contempt
Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense
Potence - L’Amour Au Temps De La Peste
Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Pallbearer - Heartless
Part Chimp - IV
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
al-Namrood - Enkar
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Bathsheba - Servus
Corpse Garden - IAO 269
Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
Imajinary Friends - The Imajinary Friends
The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light
With The Dead – Love From With The Dead
Sabbath Assembly - Rites of Passage
Exquirla - Para quienes aún viven
Krallice - Loüm
Slagmaur - Thill Smitts Terror
Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos
Monolord – Rust
Brutus - Burst
Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam
Myrkur - Mareridt
Mesarthim - Presence
Violet Cold - Anomie
Thumpermonkey - Electricity EP

Oh and Akvan were a good discovery too!

Ha, the other Goatpenis connoisseur!

xp I should really give Qliphoth another try! I wasn’t mad about it first time round, but it might have just been a bad day.

Thanks a lot to the poll runners. I, too, liked the Lich King a lot, kind of wish I made room for it on my ballot.

Here's by ballot (weighted) - the '[would have been here]' designation is for my personal year-end list, and they would have gotten a vote in this poll at those placements, had they been nominated:

Converge - The Dusk in Us
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Venenum - Trance of Death
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Tomb Mold - Cryptic Transmissions
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
Amenra - Mass VI
Pallbearer - Heartless
Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Blaze of Perdition - Conscious Darkness
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Dumal - The Lesser God
Immolation - Atonement
Godflesh - Post Self

[Evilfeast - Elegies of the Stellar Wind - would have been here]

Fen - Winter
Necrot - Blood Offerings
Acrimonious - Eleven Dragons
Cleric - Retrocausal
Corpse Garden- IAO 269
Ensnared - Dysangelium
Hellripper - Coagulating Darkness
Bonehunter - Sexual Panic Human Machine
Serpent Column - Ornuthi Thalassa

[Resurgency - No Worlds... Nor Gods Beyond - would have been here]

[Firebreather - Firebreather would have been here]

Spirit Adrift - Curse of Conception
Dying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck With

[Bufihimat - I - would have been here]

Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
Unsane - Sterilize

[Droid - Terrestrial Mutations - would have been here]

Havukruunu - Kelle surut soi

[Slow V - Oceans - would have been here]

Desolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless Void
Aether Realm - Tarot
Temple of Void - Lords of Death
Ufomammut - 8
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon

[Sutrah - Dunes - would have been here]

[Madrost - The Essence of Time Matches No Flesh - would have been here]

Monolord - Rust
Heavydeath - Sarcophagus in the Sky
Cardinals Folly - Deranged Pagan Sons
Der Weg einer Freiheit - Finisterre
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows
Au-Dessus - End of Chapter
Anomalie - Visions

[Toxic Shock - TWENTYLASTCENTURY - would have been here]

All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal
Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
Phrenelith - Desolate Endscape
Aosoth - The Inside Scriptures
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Pyrrhon - What Passes for Survival

My ballot, weighted, bold did not place:

Cleric – Retrocausal
Krallice - Loüm
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Vin de Mia Trix - Palimpsests
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Cormorant – Diaspora
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
Shardik - Shardik
Locust Leaves - A Subtler Kind of Light
Ungfell - Tôtbringære
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
Black Anvil - As Was
Execration – Return to the Void
Ehnahre - The Marrow
Corpse Garden - IAO 269
Njiqahdda - Clouds Upon the Sanctuary
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Urarv - Aurum
Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out
Dodecahdron – Kwintessens
Dreadnought - A Wake in Sacred Waves
The Clearing Path - Watershed Between Firmament and the Realm of Hyperborea
Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
Entheos - Le Zahir
Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer
GGUW – BEHAUPTUNGSANIMALITÄT
Rubedo Nocturno - O grande pai: Abismo incriado
Weeping Sores - Weeping Sores
Blattaria – Blattaria
Klabautamann - Smaragd
Árstíðir lífsins – Heljarkviða
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Bagarre générale – Tohu-Bohu
Qhwertt - Sympathetic Horror
Wintaar - Wintaar
Hathenter - Hathenter Ouija
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
Shaarimoth - Temple of the Adversarial Fire
Pryapisme - Diabolicus felinae pandemonium
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna

Ha am I the only one who picked the Atriarch record? It's so good, really.

That's a great ballot UUG - lots of great stuff that didn't make the cut

Thanks BIP! I can't help but think I should've been more vocal about Cormorant and Black Anvil, both quite progge but accessible too.

Your ballot is full of stuff I never quite got round to lol, onto the endless backlog they go

next time let's count down every album that got a vote. two-month rollout.

whoa just saw i should have bolded Blaze of Perdition above - that was a great black metal last year.

Weighted ballot, bold did not place:

Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Glassjaw - Material Control
Enslaved - E
Fen - Winter
Chaos Moon - Eschaton Mémoire
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Sannhet - So Numb
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Brutus - Burst
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Tchornobog - Tchornobog
The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos
Black Anvil - As Was
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Sun of the Sleepless - To the Elements
Myrkur - Mareridt
All them Witches - Sleeping Through the War

Glassjaw did an album?!

EMO GOON SQUAD should hear the Ostraca if they haven’t yet...

bold DNP

Propagandhi - Victory Lap
Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
Couch Slut - Contempt
Caligula's Horse - In Contact
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Anathema - The Optimist
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Lich King - The Omniclasm
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
Lör - In Forgotten Sleep
Cloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LP
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Big|Brave - Ardor
Lunatii - Elimino
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Code Orange - Forever
Unsane - Sterilize
Godflesh - Post Self
Havukruunu - Havulinnaan
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
Soen - Lykaia
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
Brutus - Burst
Paradise Lost - Medusa
Unleash The Archers – Apex
Galneryus - Ultimate Sacrifice
Emptiness - Not for Music
Black Sites - Monochrome
Ragana - You Take Nothing
Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
Sorcerer – The Crowning Of The Fire King
Saule - s/t
Planning for Burial - Below the House
Grails - Chalice Hymnal
Glassjaw - Material Control
Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

Glassjaw did indeed do an album, much weirder and more discordant than their old stuff

I can’t wait to hear it! Btw you should check out the Wobbler album too if you didn’t - really solid lovely prog.

it's on my list!

the Cloud Rat split ended up being my most pivotal vote since it kept their lovely cover art at the top of the thread :)

Has Louis' gif loaded for him yet?

Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Sufferer - Sufferer
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Clouds Taste Satanic – The Glitter Of Infinite Hell
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Lich King - The Omniclasm
GWAR - The Blood of Gods
Pallbearer - Heartless
Dopelord - Children of the Haze
Motorpsycho - The Tower
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Ufomammut - 8
Kreator - Gods of Violence
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Orthodox - Supreme

I'm listening to Sufferer right now. It's probably a hard sell for this group, but it's a few Equal Vision people (Shane Gann, Blake Dahlinger) doing a concept hardcore album about living with severe anxiety and it's really good.

I didn't get excited about a lot of metal this year, I'm only really big on my top nine or so.

TV, Sufferer sounds cool as hell, I'm gonna put that on next.

And I totally missed this year's Ne Obliviscaris album, I'll have to check that out after work.

It's very good. I should have put it higher. (I probably had Pyrrhon too high.)

Hmmmm Exuvia is sounding a lot better to me now than it did when it came out.

Ha!

Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
Nokturnal Mortum - Істина
Colotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душі
Emyn Muil - Elenion Ancalima
Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam
Goatpenis - Anesthetic Vapor
Ungfell - Tôtbringære
Abigor / Nightbringer / Thy Darkened Shade / Mortuus - Split
Myrkur - Mareridt
Lustre - Still Innocence
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Immolation - Atonement
Árstíðir lífsins - Heljarkviða
Sinister - Syncretism
Death Like Mass - Jak zabija Diabeł
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Drudkh / Paysage d'Hiver - Somewhere Sadness Wanders / Schnee (IV)
Azarath - In Extremis
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Paradise Lost - Medusa
Fen - Winter
Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II
Wearg - Hæðen War Metal
Entrails - World Inferno
Undergang - Misantropologi
Mesarthim - Presence
Kartikeya - Samudra
Exquirla - Para quienes aún viven
Grav - Tomb Of Agony
Tomb Mold - Cryptic Transmissions
Wederganger / Urfaust - Split
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
God Dethroned - The World Ablaze
Suffocation - Of The Dark Light
Grav - Fordærvet Djævelskab
Incantation - Profane Nexus
Sinmara - Within The Weaves Of Infinity
Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Contaminated - Final Man
Contrarian - To Perceive Is To Suffer
Fides Inversa - Rite of Inverse Incarnation
Widziadło - Void
Forteresse - Récits Patriotiques
Les Discrets - Predateurs
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Severoth - Forestpaths
Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
W - Winterwomb
Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum