2019 Metal 'n' Heavy Rock Poll: NOMINATIONS thread (open until the 3rd of January 2020)

Greetings. It hath been decreed that I'll be helping Oor Neechy and seandalai run this year's metal poll so, without further ado, let us begin with the traditional nominations.

As usual, the format is Artist - Album (ctrl + f is your shield vs the duplicate scourge). And don't forget to bold!

Here's the spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bVjW_gga7VJMjN4K8qHwIyA5LppEIY8_aEH4_nT6WRU/edit?usp=sharing

I'll leave the Spotify duties to others as I don't have an account.

There is no limit to the amount of albums you may nominate, by the way, so go all out if you wish.

So yeah, we're totally doing this. Metal's not dead on ILX.

LINGUA IGNOTA - CALIGULA
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts
Witch Vomit - Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave
Jute Gyte - Birefringence
Baroness - Gold & Grey
Cerebral Rot - Odious Descent Into Decay
Cloud Rat - Pollinator
Crypt Sermon - The Ruins of Fading Light
Zig Zags - They'll Never Take Us Alive
Opeth - In Cauda Venenum
Dysrhythmia - Terminal Threshold
Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension
Teitanblood - The Baneful Choir
Botanist - Ecosystem
Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
No One Knows What the Dead Think - No One Knows What the Dead Think
Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Full of Hell - Weeping Choir

some of the big ones for me from this year^

err...

LINGUA IGNOTA - CALIGULA
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts
Witch Vomit - Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave
Jute Gyte - Birefringence
Baroness - Gold & Grey
Cerebral Rot - Odious Descent Into Decay
Cloud Rat - Pollinator
Crypt Sermon - The Ruins of Fading Light
Zig Zags - They'll Never Take Us Alive
Opeth - In Cauda Venenum
Dysrhythmia - Terminal Threshold
Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension
Teitanblood - The Baneful Choir
Botanist - Ecosystem
Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
No One Knows What the Dead Think - No One Knows What the Dead Think
Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Full of Hell - Weeping Choir

Makes it easier by the way if everyone uses this format Artist - Album

xp yeah that's it!

sorry i frigged it up. here are some more

Brutus - Nest
Krallice - Wolf
Deus Mortem - Kosmocide
Skáphe + Wormlust - Kosmískur hryllingur

welp that about covers it

you appear to have dumped tracks in there

That's a cornucopia of noms, glenn. Do you think you could repost them without the tracks and in bold?

He will need a year to work through that, lol

And here's the Spotify playlist, to be expanded on at your leisure:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uKGEOJlIeCmzYH7kf5d9A?si=OuMeeoBiRC-XkM8mZWLVrQ

Schammasch - Hearts Of No Light
Chelsea Wolfe - Birth Of Violence
Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear
Slough Feg - New Organon
Elder - Gold & Silver Sessions
Waste Of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Moon Tooth - Crux
Astronoid - Astronoid
The Young Gods - Data Mirage Tangram
The Wildhearts - Renaissance Men
Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Ceiling
Spirit Adrift - Divided By Darkness
Alameda 5 - Eurodrome
Saor - Forgoten Paths
Candlemass - The Door To Doom
Cave In - Final Transmission
Bloody Hammers - The Summoning
Pup - Morbid Stuff
Russian Circles - Blood Year
False - Portent
Major Stars - Roots Of Confusion
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure
Atlantean Kodex - The Course Of Empire
Coffins - Beyond The Circular Demise
The Howling Void - Bleak and Everlasting
Panopticon - Scars II (The Basics)
Boris - Love & Evol
Morne - Rust
Have A Nice Life - Sea Of Worry
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

the Spotify is collaborative btw so please add your nominations to it

Somehow, glenn's list of every album released in 2019 didn't include:

Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Waste Of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Paladin - Ascension

Glenn included tracks in his list so he's going to have to repost the albums he wants to add

oh, ok. trying again:

1349 - The Infernal Pathway
The 69 Eyes - West End
9mm Parabellum Bullet - DEEP BLUE
A Secret Revealed - Sacrifices
Abbath - Outstrider
Aephanemer - Prokopton
Afraid of Destiny - S.i.g.h.s
Against Myself - Unity
The Agonist - Orphans
Aiolin - Fate-Hope-Side
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
The Alchemy - Chemical Daydream
Alfahanne - Atomvinter
Alia Tempora - Dragonfly Effect
Alkonost - Octagram
Allegaeon - Apoptosis
Altarage - The Approaching Roar
Amanita Virosa - Original Plague
Amon Amarth - Berserker
Ancient Bards - Origine (The Black Crystal Sword Saga, Pt. 2)
Andromida - Soulseeker
Ankor - White Dragon
ANTHEM - NUCLEUS
Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica by Four Cellos - A Live Performance
Arch Echo - You Won't Believe What Happens Next!
Arch/Matheos - Winter Ethereal
Ardours - Last Place on Earth
Ars Amandi - En Tierra de Castillos
As I May - My Own Creations
Aseethe - Throes
Aske - Sinergico
Aspherium - The Embers of Eternity
Astral Doors - Worship or Die
Astronoid - Astronoid
Asylum Pyre - N°4
Atlas Pain - Tales of a Pathfinder
Autumn - Stacking Smoke
Avalanch - El Secreto
Avantasia - Moonglow
Avatarium - The Fire I Long For
Axioma - Crown
BABYMETAL - METAL GALAXY
BAND-MAID - Just Bring It
BAND-MAIKO - BAND-MAIKO
Barst - Re: Cycles
Battle Beast - No More Hollywood Endings
Batushka - Hospodi
Bauda - Brvjo
Beast In Black - From Hell with Love
Beastwars - IV
Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods
Bethlehem - Lebe Dich Leer
Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them
Black Mountain - Destroyer
Blackhelm - Dark Clouds of the Inferno
Bloodbound - Rise of the Dragon Empire
Bloodred Hourglass - Godsend
Bloody Hammers - The Summoning
Blutengel - Damokles
Bon Vivant - Cuentos y Retratos
BONES UK - Bones UK
Borknagar - True North
Botanist - Ecosystem
Brocelian - Guardians of Brocéliande
BUCK-TICK - TOUR No.0
Candlemass - The Door to Doom
Cathubodua - Continuum
Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
CELESTIVL - TenTimesTwo
Cellar Darling - The Spell
Chaos Magic - Furyborn
Chasing Embers - Beckoning Call
Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence
Children Of Bodom - Hexed
City of the Weak - Pulling Teeth
Cloak - The Burning Dawn
Cloud Rat - Pollinator
Cold - The Things We Can't Stop
Cold Kingdom - Into the Black Sky
Crystal Ball - 2020
Cult Of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
Cyhra - No Halos in Hell
D - Vampire Chronicle
DAOKO - DAOKO × ドラガリアロスト
The Dark Element - Songs the Night Sings
Darkthrone - Old Star
Dawn of Destiny - The Beast Inside
Debler - Adictium
Degrees of Truth - Time Travel Artifact
Dekadent - The Nemean Ordeal
Delain - Hunter's Moon
Der Rote Milan - Moritat
Devin Townsend - Empath
Devourment - Obscene Majesty
DEZERT - black hole
Diaura - DEFINITION Atype
Diocletian - Amongst the Flames of a Burning God
The Dirty Youth - Utopia
Doll Skin - Love Is Dead And We Killed Her
Downfall Of Gaia - Ethic of Radical Finitude
Dragonfly - Zeitgeist
DragonForce - Extreme Power Metal
Dream State - Primrose Path
Dream Theater - Distance Over Time
Drudkh - A Few Lines in Archaic Ukrainian
E-L-R - Mænad
Earth Moves - Human Intricacy
Echoes Of Eternity - Ageless
Edenbridge - Dynamind
Edge Of Paradise - Universe
Eggs of Gomorrh - Encomium of Depraved Instincts
Eluveitie - Ategnatos
Elvenking - Reader of the Runes - Divination
Enchantya - On Light and Wrath
Enforcer - Zenith
Enthroned - Cold Black Suns
Equilibrium - Renegades
Ereb Altor - Järtecken
Eskapism - Ancient Songs of the Wind
Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
Estuarine - Sic Erat Scriptum
Eternal Melody - Eternal Black
Ethereal Kingdoms - Hollow Mirror
Everfrost - Winterider
Evergrey - The Atlantic
Evyltyde - Singularity
Ewigkeit - Starscape 2.019
Ex Libris - Ann
Falls of Rauros - Patterns in Mythology
Fallujah - Undying Light
Finsterforst - Zerfall
Flying Colors - Third Degree
Foray Between Ocean - As Serenity Drowned
Forever Still - Breathe in Colours
Foscor - Els Sepulcres Blancs
Frantic Amber - Bellatrix
Freedom Call - M.E.T.A.L.
Freternia - The Gathering
Frijgard - Chapter Zero
Frozen Crown - Crowned in Frost
Full Of Hell - Weeping Choir
Fólkvangr - Fólkvangr Awaits
Gaahls WYRD - Gastir – Ghosts Invited
Gallia - Everflame
GALNERYUS - INTO THE PURGATORY
Gatecreeper - Deserted
Ghosts of Glaciers - The Greatest Burden
Gladenfold - When Gods Descend
Glare Of The Sun - Theia
Gloryhammer - Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex
GOLD - Why Aren't You Laughing?
Grand Magus - Wolf God
The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism
Grimgotts - Dragons of the Ages
Gyze - Asian Chaos
H.E.A.T - Live at Sweden Rock Festival
Hammerfall - Dominion
Hatriot - From Days Unto Darkness
HAVAMAL - Tales from Yggdrasil
Head Phones President - Respawn
The Heanacat - お楽しみ箱
Heilung - Futha
Helheim - Rignir
Helleborus - Saprophytic Divinations
Helms Alee - Noctiluca
Hollow Haze - Between Wild Landscapes and Deep Blue Seas
Hope Drone - Void Lustre
The HU - The Gereg
Humanity's Last Breath - Abyssal
Hunters Grace - Perceived in Light
HYDE - anti
IKINÄ - Millenniaalin itsehoito-opas epävarmaan aikuisuuteen
Illyria - The Carpathian Summit
Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect
Imperia - Flames of Eternity
Imperium Dekadenz - When We Are Forgotten
In Flames - I, the Mask
In Mourning - Garden of Storms
In Mute - Chaos Breeder
Infant Annihilator - The Battle of Yaldabaoth
Infected Rain - Endorphin
Infinitas - Civitas Interitus (Remastered)
Insomnium - Heart Like a Grave
Inter Arma - Sulphur English
Into The Great Divide - A Life in Six Acts
Iron Heade - Tales from Another War
Ivy Crown - Echo
JAMBINAI - ONDA
Jasmine Cain - Seven
Jinjer - Macro
Jorn - 50 Years on Earth (the Anniversary Box Set)
Kampfar - Ofidians Manifest
King - Coldest of Cold
King Satan - I Want You to Worship Satan
Kings Destroy - Fantasma Nera
Kiyoshi - Kiyoshi4
Kobra And The Lotus - Evolution
Kolossus - Veritas
Lacrimas Profundere - Bleeding the Stars
Lacuna Coil - Black Anima
Lamori - Neo Noir
Latitudes - Part Island
Leah - Ancient Winter
Leander Kills - Luxusnyomor
Legado de una Tragedia - El Secreto de los Templarios
Leprous - Pitfalls
Leverage - Determinus
Lingua Ignota - CALIGULA
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
Liv Sin - Burning Sermons
Lolita KompleX - Escapism
LUNA SEA - CROSS
The Lust - Lustration
Madder Mortem - Mercury (20th Anniversary Edition)
Majesty - Legends
Majesty Of Revival - Timeless
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Yn Ol I Annwn
Manntra - Oyka!
Marianas Rest - Ruins
Martyrdöd - Hexhammaren
Mary's Blood - CONFESSiONS
Massemord - Rare & Evil
Metalite - Biomechanicals
Miracle Of Sound - Level 9
Mister Misery - Unalive
Misþyrming - Algleymi
MIYAVI - NO SLEEP TILL TOKYO
Mizmor - Cairn
Moon Tooth - Crux
Moongates Guardian - The Last Ship
Moonlight Haze - De Rerum Natura
Mork - Det Svarte Juv
The Moth Gatherer - Esoteric Oppression
MUCC - 壊れたピアノとリビングデッド
Munarheim - Willens & frei
The Murder of My Sweet - Brave Tin World
Murdryck - Födelsen
Mustan Kuun Lapset - Valo
Myrath - Shehili
Månegarm - Fornaldarsagor
Nailed to Obscurity - Black Frost
Narnia - From Darkness to Light
Nebula Orionis - Plague
Necronomicon - Unus
Nekrasov - Lust of Consciousness
Nemesea - White Flag
The Neptune Power Federation - Memoirs of a Rat Queen
Nero Di Marte - Immoto
Netherbird - Into The Vast Uncharted
Neverlight - Nova Red (Expanded Edition)
New Years Day - Unbreakable
Nifrost - Blykrone
Nightfell - A Sanity Deranged
Nightrage - Wolf to Man
Noctem - The Black Consecration
NoGoD - 神劇
Nomad Stones - Unriddled
Northlane - Alien
Not Secured, Loose Ends - BrightDark
Numenorean - Adore
Nyss - Depayser
NYT LIV - Ensomhedens Kolde Kald
Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Oceans - The Sun and the Cold
October Tide - In Splendor Below
The Offering - HOME
Origin - Abiogenesis: A Coming Into Existence
Osi And The Jupiter - Nordlige Rúnaskog
Ossian - A Reményhozó
PassCode - CLARITY
Pelican - Nighttime Stories
Penumbra - Silencio
Periphery - Periphery IV: HAIL STAN
Phyllomedusa - Shovelhead
Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation
PitchBlack - All Black
Pretty Maids - Undress Your Madness
Pythia - The Solace of Ancient Earth
Q'ulle - 我夢者羅
Queensrÿche - The Verdict
Rage Of Light - Imploder
raymay - RUN
Reality Suite - Awaken (Deluxe Edition)
Reason Define - In Memory...
Release Hallucination - Imperfection of Imaginary Number
REXORIA - Ice Breaker
Rhapsody Of Fire - The Eighth Mountain
Rotting Christ - The Heretics
Russian Circles - Blood Year
Sabaton - The Great War
Sabbath Assembly - A Letter of Red
Salduie - Viros Veramos
Sanguine - Cold Blood
Scarleth - Vortex
Schammasch - Hearts of No Light
Second to Sun - Legacy
Secret Rule - The 7 Endless
Seth - Les Blessures De L'âme: XX Ans De Blasphème
Seven Spires - Emerald Seas
Signum Regis - The Seal of a New World
Silverheart - Destination
SinHeresY - Out of Connection
Skay Beilinson - En el Corazón del Laberinto
Skraeckoedlan - Eorþe
Sleep Token - Sundowning
Slow - VI - Dantalion
Soen - Lotus
Soilwork - Verkligheten
Sonata Arctica - Talviyö
Sorxe - The Ark Burner
Spoil Engine - Renaissance Noire
Starbynary - Divina Commedia. Purgatorio
Starkill - Gravity
Steel Prophet - The God Machine
Stellar Master Elite - Hologram Temple
Stitched Up Heart - This Skin
Stormlord - Far
Sunn 0))) - Pyroclasts
Swallow The Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light
Sâver - They Came with Sunlight
Sühnopfer - Hic Regnant Borbonii Manes
Tales Of Evening - A New Dawn Awaits
Tandra - Time and Eternity
Tanzwut - Seemannsgarn
Tarja - In the Raw
Temperance - Viridian
Tengger Cavalry - Northern Memory, Vol. 1
Teramaze - Are We Soldiers
Thanateros - Insomnia
Thornbridge - Theatrical Masterpiece
Thy Catafalque - Naiv
Tigersclaw - Force Of Destiny
TOOL - Fear Inoculum
Torche - Admission
Trepaneringsritualen - Algir; Eller Algir I Merkstave
Twilight Force - Dawn of the Dragonstar
Týr - Hel
UMC - CHAPTER 1
Uniform - Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
Unreqvited - Mosaic II (la déteste et la détresse)
Vacivus - Annihilism
Valborg - Zentrum
Valis Ablaze - Render
Vanden Plas - The Ghost Xperiment - Awakening
Vanha - Within the Mist of Sorrow
Vanir - Allfather
Vanum - Ageless Fire
Varaha - A Passage for Lost Years
Varg - Wolfszeit II
Vestigial - Crown of Serpents
Vision Divine - When All the Heroes Are Dead
Visionatica - Enigma Fire
Visions of Atlantis - Wanderers
Vorna - Sateet palata saavat
Voyager - Colours in the Sun
Waldgeflüster - Mondscheinsonaten
We Are the Catalyst - Ephemeral
Wear Your Wounds - Rust on the Gates of Heaven
Wilderun - Veil of Imagination
Wind Rose - Wintersaga
Windswept - The Onlooker
Within Temptation - Resist
Wolfhorde - Hounds of Perdition
Wormwood - Nattarvet
Wreck and Reference - Absolute Still Life
Wömit Angel - Under Sadistic Pressure
Yanakoto Sotto Mute - ユモレスキ
YUZUKINGDOM - DADAISM
Öxxö Xööx - Ÿ
Ştiu Nu Ştiu - Sick Sad Love

thy catalfalque album isnt out til 2020

pomenitul you or Simon can look after the google docs list!

Amygdala - Our Voices Will Soar Forever
Immortal Bird - Thrive On Neglect
Body Void - You Will Know the Fear You Forced Upon Us
Clouds Taste Satanic - Second Sight
Transgression - Lost All Light
Portrayal of Guilt - Suffering Is a Gift
Clouds Taste Satanic - Evil Eye
Asagraum - Dawn of Infinite Fire
Neckbeard Deathcamp - So Much For the Tolerant Left
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Redbait - Cages
Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Saint Karloff - Interstellar Voodoo
Jeromes Dream - untitled
Scissorfight - Doomus Abruptus Vol 1
Monolord - No Comfort
Botanist - Hammer of Botany + Oplopanax Horridus
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean - Tell Me What You See Vanishing and I Will Tell You Who You Are
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel

Almost positive some of those are in Glenn's list of literally every 2019 release coded as metal that was added to Spotify but feel free to filter out whatever doesn't belong.

(some hardcore in, hopefully the metal purists don't mind)

There is a collaborative spotify playlist for everyone to subscribe to/follow and add their nominations to.

Glenn can add his nominations to that, lol

Glenn's 3300 nominations added to google docs but I'm fucked if I'm going to sort through that taking out the duplicates.

That's what co-runners are for! ;)

So, ballots can be top 3,000 this year then?

Just put all the nominations in the order you prefer.

What's the rule for albums that came out late in 2018 (well, November) and we didn't hear it in time for last year's poll, though someone did, because it was totally nominated and got exactly one vote? Can it be nominated again this year?

nah the poll was ran after xmas iirc so it was out in time.

though tbh i dont really care so lets leave it up to pomenitul

Given the sheer influx of noms so far, I say we stick to the rules. Dura lex, sed lex. Sorry, nate.

Also some of these aren't from 2019, it seems, e.g. Almetal's Legado de acero.

I'm really sorry, glenn, but way too many of your noms aren't from 2019. It would take days to properly sort them out, and none of us have that kind of time, I'm afraid, so I'm going to have to reset the clock by removing your last set (the stuff that isn't filtered by your own taste, as you put it).

I heard 2 seconds of something through someone's car window last Friday - can I nominate that? It was great!

Facetious Saturday morning post there but, christ, how on EARTH does one have time to a) listen to that much music and ii) form a reliable opinion on said music?

This is partly envy I guess; I do (sort of) miss my office job where I would amass vast EOY lists.

Since we have no choice but to discount glenn's overwhelming last set (apologies, once again), please check the spreadsheet before nominating your picks. Ctrl + f'ing in this thread is bound to be misleading.

I've incidentally removed all pre-2019 albums (including those that came out in December 2018), all reissues and anything to be released in 2020. As for genre, taxonomy and the like, the field is open (for the most part).

Abyssic - High the Memory
Ænigmatum - Ænigmatum
Akrotheism - The Law of Seven Deaths
Andavald - Undir skyggðarhaldi
Asphodelus - Stygian Dreams
Belenos - Argoat
Darkenhöld / Griffon - Atra Musica
Desecresy - Towards Nebulae
Esoctrilihum - The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods
Herxheim - Cultivating Throne of Fur
HWWAUOCH - Into the Labyrinth of Consciousness
Ignivomous - Hieroglossia
Imperial Cult - Spasm of Light
Inculter - Fatal Visions
Maestus - Deliquesce
Mgła - Age of Excuse
Mylingar - Döda själar
Orodruin - Ruins of Eternity
Ossuaire - Derniers chants
Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I: War, Horrid War
Ringarë - Under Pale Moon
Sinners Bleed - Absolution
Superstition - The Anatomy of Unholy Transformation
Sur Austru - Meteahna timpurilor
Troll - Legend Master
Ultra Silvam - The Spearwound Salvation
Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Teufelsbücher
Veiled - In Blinding Presence
Weeping Sores - False Confession

Can we just nuke this thread and begin again with a 50-album nomination limit ffs

What’s done is done. Let this thread stand as a cautionary tale against those who would advocate absolute freedom (Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor ftw).

My big list was filtered on release date >= 2018-12-01. But whatever. I was trying to be helpful.

The shorter list, just for the curious or skeptical, was generated from my Spotify listening history. It was filtered on totalplays >=5, and my listening is overwhelmingly playlist-based, not album-based, so it has many albums that contain songs I liked, but where I may never have played the whole thing. It was a nomination list, not a ballot...

No worries, glenn, it's just a little too much to process on our end. And the release date as it appears on Spotify isn't always accurate, hence the need to google each title, which takes ages as you can imagine.

I also like to think of nominations as a curated pre-selection that helps us navigate the sheer glut of yearly releases. So while a limit of 50 may not always be enough, I do think we should try to favour those albums we genuinely enjoyed the most.

Glenn was my original co-runner on metal poll btw

OK now that Glenn's big list has been removed (and apparently memory-holed from the thread as well!), I guess I have some stuff I can nominate after all. I think it makes the nomination process more interactive and informative to see what each person liked enough to nominate, so agree with the decision.

Vastum - Orificial Purge
Imprecation - Damnatio Ad Bestias
Judiciary - Surface Noise
Vircolac - Masque

Vastum - Orificial Purge
Imprecation - Damnatio Ad Bestias
Judiciary - Surface Noise
Vircolac - Masque

(same list but bolded)

I'd almost forgotten about the Vircolac. Time to listen to it again.

Any good doom or atmospheric black metal albums this year I may have missed out on? Looking for recommendations as I've not kept up this year.

Angel Witch - Angel of Light
Venom Prison - Samsara
Putrescine - The One Reborn
Nocturnus A.D. - Paradox
Noisem - Cease to Exist
Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond the Dark
Casket Huffer - Filth Ouroboros
Devil Master - Satan Spits on Children of Light
Mayhem - Daemon
Exhumed - Horror
Sacred Reich - Awakening

Apologies for duplicates but I have all of my things on two lists (albums I have and albums I want) so here they are.

Abbath - Outstrider
Abominism - Abominism
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Amon Amarth - Berserker
Amygdala - Our Voices Will Soar Forever
Aseethe - Throes
Asthma Castle - Mount Crushmore
Astronoid - Astronoid
Athame - The Burning Times
Baroness - Gold & Gray
BAT - Axestasy [EP]
Bellrope - You Must Relax
Big Business - The Beast You Are
Big|Brave - A Gaze Among Them
Bloody Hammers - The Summoning
Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Botanist - Ecosystem
Brutus - Nest
Call of the Void - Buried in Light
Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence
Cherubs - Immaculada High
Cloud Rat - Pollinator
Coffins - Beyond the Circular Demise
CRS - The Collector of Truths
Crypt Sermon - The Ruins Of Fading Light
Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
Darkthrone - Old Star
Dead Neanderthals - Ghosts [LP]
Dead to a Dying World - Elegy
Detherous - Hacked to Death
Diamond Head - The Coffin Train
Die Klute - Planet Fear
Dunkelnacht - Empires Of Mediocracy
Endon - Boy Meets Girl
Ered - Evil Sorceries
Eugenic Death - Under The Knife
Exhorder - Mourn The Southern Skies
Exumer - Hostile Defiance
Eye Flys - Context (EP)
Falaise - A Place I Don't Belong To
Falls of Rauros - Patterns in Mythology
False - Portent
Full of Hell - Weeping Choir
Gatecreeper - Deserted
Gates to the Morning - Return to Earth
Gorgon - Veil of Darkness
Gygax - High Fantasy
Halshug - Drøm
Havens - On the Verge of Collapse
Hot Lunch - Seconds
Insanity Alert - 666-Pack
Inter Arma - Sulphur English
Iron Kingdom - On the Hunt
L' Acéphale - L' Acéphale
L7 - Scatter the Rats
Laceration - Remnants
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Low Dose - Low Dose
Magic Circle - Departed Souls
Mayhem - Daemon
Meads of Asphodel - Running Out of Time Doing Nothing
Nebula - Holy Shit
Neptune Power Federation - Memoirs Of A Rat Queen
Noisem - Cease to Exist
Novembers Doom - Nephilim Grove
Ogre - Thrice As Strong
Orodruin - Ruins of Eternity
Overkill - The Wings of War
Pelican - Nighttime Stories
Petbrick - I
Pinkish Black - Concet Unification
Polemicist - Zarathustrian Impressions
Potential Threat SF - Threat to Society
Profanatica - Rotting Incarnation of God
Profetus - The Sadness Of Time Passing
Psychomancer - Shards of the Hourglass
Pythia - The Solace of Ancient Earth
Queen Elephantine - Gorgon
Rammstein - Rammstein
Rottendawn - Occult
Russian Circles - Blood Year
Sacred Reich - Awakening
Sanhedrin - The Poisoner
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
Starcrawler - Devour You
Suicidal Angels - Years Of Aggression
Swans - Leaving Meaning
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - New Organon
The Rods - Brotherhood of Metal
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Torche - Admission
Toxic Holocaust - Primal Future: 2019
Twin Temple - Bring you their Signature Sound… Satanic Doo-Wop
Týr - Hel
Ultar - Pantheon MMXIX [LP]
Ultra Silvam - The Spearwound Salvation
Uniform & The Body - Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
Venom Prison - Samsara
Violet Cold - kOsmik
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure
Widower - Cataclysmic Sorcery
Yatra - Death Ritual
Zeal & Ardor - Live in London
Zig Zags - They'll Never Take Us Alive

there's a band called petbrick? Is the lead singer Father Jack Hackett?

I'm rubbish at keeping up with this but at Oor Neechy's request here are 20 punk and hardcore nominations:

Ausmuteants - Present The World In Handcuffs
Axe Rash - S/T
Bad Breeding - Exiled
Briefs - Platinum Rats
Cyberplasm - The Psychic Hologram
Diat - Positive Disintegration
Freeze - Calling All Creatures
Game - No One Wins
Headsplitters - S/T
Kaleidoscope - After The Futures
Kohti Tuhoa - Ihmisen Kasvot
L.O.T.I.O.N. - World Wide W.E.B.
La Rabbia - Shock Tactics
Nosferatu - Solution A
Obsessio - S/T
Physique - The Evolution Of Combat
Scab Eater - Ultra Vires
Scrap Brain - A Journey Into Madness
Slaughter Boys - S/T
Whipping Post - Spurn Point

ah shit I forgot to bold them

An Isolated Mind - I've Lost Myself

get nominating!

We're already over 200 up on last year, dunno how many more there are to nom!

I would like to note that this year's Lacuna Coil is surprisingly good, having not cared for/paid them much mind before.

At this point part of me wants to turn in a one-line ballot for Caligula, that record snuck up on me but it kills me every time now.

Ossuaire - Premiers chants

Just to check - I don't have to renominate anything glenn did upthread do I?

When in doubt, check the spreadsheet.

But yeah, those ended up being his definitive noms (in bold) as far as I can tell.

I'll do it anyway

Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Yn Ol I Annwn

Surprisingly enough, everything else I really like has been accounted for. Haven't checked my 3.5s yet though

Ghost - Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic

Just seven inches? Colour me disappointed.

U should see MY 7 inch release

Just so I don't forget

Hawkeyes - Last Light of Future Failure

Coral Cross - 002

^I'm not really sure how to notate that, but this seemed the least confusing way to fit it into the existing template here

Dai-ichi - Dai-ichi

Final bump.

When voting starts somebody will still say they didn't see the nominations thread, lol

Sad that Sund4r and Brad (among others) have yet to nominate anything.

THERE IS STILL TIME!

oooh I spotted something missing!

Eternal Storm - Come the Tide

Good call, that's an odd omission.

Stuck at work and won’t be making any noms :(

:(

I hope you'll submit a ballot regardless.

Yawning Man - Macedonian Lines
Writhing Squares - Out of the Ether
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Massacre of the Celestials
10 000 Russos - Kompromat
Kaleidobolt - Bitter
Dreamtime - Tidal Mind

I think that shd prob do it for me

Oh also I guess this is the proper notation

Jorge Elbrecht - Coral Cross - 002

10 000 Russos - Kompromat

Heh. Didn't expect these guys to be from Porto.

Sorry, I didn't listen to that many new metal releases this year and all the ones I did have been nominated, I think.

Fair enough. Just making sure…

Shin Guard - 2020

tt is getting me to do some nominations as she says you always miss loads of things she likes. and it turns out you do

Rashōmon - Pathogen X
John Garcia - John Garcia and the Band of Gold
Hermóðr - Forest Sky
Ithaca - The Language of Injury
Nuvolascura - Nuvolascura
SYU - VORVADOS
Devin Townsend - Empath
Hexvessel - All Tree
Gum Takes Tooth - Borrowed Lies
Equipoise - Demiurgus
Shinguard - 2020
Gathering of Kings - First Mission
Show Me The Body - Dogwhistle
Mdou Moctar - Ilana the Creator
Woe - A Violent Dread
Otoboke Beaver - Itekoma Hits

...and that's just from the first half of the year! More to follow...

lol one of these just got xposted. try and anticipate some of July-December's haul for bonus points

I really like that Mdou Moctar album but it's a bit of a stretch tbh (then again, so are plenty of other noms).

I did add it to the spreadsheet, in case you were wondering.

Bergraven - Det Framlidna Minnet
Chevalier - Destiny Calls
Sadness - Circle of Veins
The Callous Daoboys - Die On Mars
Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild
Mefitis - Ember Dawn
The Fërtility Cült - Kosmodysseia
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Wild Gods

There might be some more if we're allowed beyond midnight

We are magnanimous.

Blanck Mass tho? Pffff.

Deveneror - Kenoma
Quercus - Verferum
Veldes - Flameless
Griefloss - Griefloss
Csejthe - L'Horreur de Čachtice
Bleach Birth - Caesarian Tapestries
Freighter - The Den
USA/Mexico - Matamoros
Sadisme - Festering in Telepathic Communion
Petrichor - II
Gruzja - I Iść Dalej
Ifernach - V. Wastow
Departure Chandelier - Antichrist Rise to Power
Yhdarl - Morbus
Internal Rot - Hack Session

there are enough things that are really quite good in these last-minute posts that i think the 'pffff' can be returned with interest tbh

but yeah all of this courtesy of tt's insane listening and logging schedule throughout the year

if I may, the Freighter and all the Quebecois BM were sounding lovely

All shall be allowed through.

Ohhh I forgot Sordide had an album out this year:

Sordide - Hier Déjà Mort

Wolf Whistle - Private Hell
Fury - Failed Entertainment
Riot City - Burn The Night
Holy Serpent - Endless
Never Ending Game - Just Another Day
Dead Heat - Certain Death
Desert Sessions - Desert Sessions Volume 11 & 12

Jocko - Expression
Cement Shoes - Too
Three Knee Deep - Promo 2019

Still open until seandalai's cleaver strikes.

yeah metal noms are open til seandalai sets up the voting form

last calls

Julie's Haircut - In the Silence Electric

Here it is: 2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 7th of February)

Mods, could you please lock this thread?