!!!!!!!! ILX METAL ALBUMS of 2009 POLL RESULTS!!!!!! (FINAL RESULTS NOW IN! LISTENING TO THESE ALBUMS WILL MAKE YOU STRONGER FRAIL INTERNET PERSON!)

Nice touch onimo. I'll let you provide spotify links as we go on since I dont have spotify on my laptop. Thanks!

Damn it, why can't we get spotify here? So frustrating. Guess I'll settle for the 30 second iTunes clips for samples.

Liking Tyr more than I thought I would from reading about them.

Metal polls are awes for brilliant and/or stupid artwork.

Yeah, I liked that Tyr from the samples I've heard, never really gave them the time of day before but I like the sounds of this album.

Oh, once again before I forget to mention it, thanks for putting all this together again. These are always a fun read!

Guess I'll settle for the 30 second iTunes clips for samples.

http://listen.grooveshark.com/ might have a few of these. I rarely use it but it's occasionally handy for something you can't find elsewhere.

e.g. http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/album/Massive+Aggressive/3811731

Cool, thanks! I'll give it a try.

Damn it, why can't we get spotify here? So frustrating.

There are ways around it!

Are there really? I wasn't aware of that, do you have a link to more info or something?

I'll email you. Once you're set up it's easy, you just have to remember to reset the proxy every week.

Thanks, I really appreciate it!

Back to the tunes, Revocation deserves to be the next big thing in mainstream metal. It's all there, accessible Lamb of God riffing, cool technical death stuff, and very strong songwriting.

Just hope then they dont do what Lamb Of God did and start aping fucking pantera. Had such high hopes for that band too so ending up pantera clones was a crushing disappointment.

Yeah, exactly. I still dig Lamb of God on a fun, trite level, but they've already started plagiarizing themselves in addition to Pantera, which obviously isn't a good thing.

I actually just finally streamed the Revocation album from the Relapse site and was really sorry I didn't get to it sooner, it surely would have made it on to my list. Great to hear a young American metal band with such promise.

Im not a fan of death metal much but you guys at least make me want to check it out.

It's not death metal per se, lots of thrash, black, NWOAHM, even fusion and twang stuff on there. I only wish they would do away with the overblown modern drum sound, that's a bit too much for my liking really.

that drum triggering type of stuff?

Yup, especially the clockwork double kick is way too prominent in the mix. Not so prominent that it ruins the album tho, so yeah, do check it out.

Ok shall do since it's on spotify.

The next album goes out to all you canadians. A canadian metal institution, anyone want to guess who?

Sacrifice?

Actually I forgot to vote for Sacrifice.

no...

Voivod?

i dont think you actually voted for this album adrien.

#87, 53 Points, 4 votes

http:/✧✧✧.tbay✧✧✧.net/~tga✧✧✧@tbay✧✧✧.n✧✧/anvil/thirteen_big.jpg
Anvil - This Is Thirteen

Listening to the new Anvil album right now. It's...good! Much heavier than I thought it would be, almost reminds me of the Heaven and Hell disc in a way, and the vocals are almost Ian Gillan-esque. Note: this is my first experience with Anvil - haven't heard the back catalog, haven't seen the movie. So if anyone can tell me if this is a major change for them (if age has slowed them down) or if they were always sorta doomy classic/power metal?

― unperson,

I'm so glad those guys are finally getting paid.

― Nate Carson,

I take back what I said about Anvil upthread, I'll never trust a listen through shitty Borders headphones again.. the record is indeed pretty good. Not great, the lyrics are sometimes painful, but some of the tunes really hit me. "Thumb Hang" was on repeat for a bit last night.

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0),

Anvil this low?

(xpost - ha!)

http://purerockradio.org/requests/pictures/Anvil-This-Is-Thirteen.jpg
Perhaps a mod can replace the url that didn't work and add this one then remove this post?

Sheesh, hadn't seen the cover art for that one yet. Ouch.

thrash > Roberta from Spotify > thrash doesn't work. I'm still not paying for it though.

Listened to all of Týr and Municipal Waste so far and have thoroughly enjoyed it, despite having to play it at don't wake the kids volume. Anything droney on the list so far that I can check out?

That Anvil album is actually good. And they'd been putting out a lot of mediocre music as of late.

No drone yet but the Masters Of Reality is a good late night non heavy album.

thanks everyone for posting here and making this thread more fun than the vampire weekend thread!

Oh great. Lex baiting. Do you really wanna hear him explain how the lyrics on the Revocation album are terrible? :P

(Btw, great album. I'm sorry I didn't hear it in time to vote for it.)

None of my votes turned up yet, and from memory I'm not sure I've heard much, if any, of it. Some listening ahead, then.

I'm sure LJ will be along in a minute to say how it's not innovative or prog enough ;)

6 songs in and I'm not feeling Masters of Reality.

Suppose I should give Them Crooked Vultures a go. Their existence sort of passed me by until recently.

I like the masters of reality album, but its not as good as their 1st 5 granted, but then again i love the albums others dont so i guess I'm a fan.

Check out their first album Onimo.

The first two Masters of Reality albums are straight-through awesome. There is definitely some decline over time, but there are good tracks on the next couple at least. Haven't heard their latest, nor the Revocation album; will be rectifying that shortly.

#86,54 Points, 2 Voters ,1 #1
http://www.unrestprod.com/FRONTS/VOM%20Primitive%20Arts.jpg
Vom - Primitive Arts

Is that supposed to be #86?

I wonder if I decided to wait for vinyl. God i really need to catalog my records n cds so i know what i have. The days of having colour vinyl doubles are long gone for me.

Ahh bollocks ive managed to miss out 86

#85 , 54 Points, 3 votes

http://samorast.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/white-tomb2.jpg
Altar of Plauges - White Tomb

New Altar of Plagues on Profound Lore - metalgaze music from Ireland

Altar of Plagues
http://www.myspace.com/altarofplagues

nice epic production sound on the track: Earth as a Womb - starts Isis like but as the track unwinds it reminds me of the last Withered album with the hyper-speed backwards reverb meets Isis / Cult of Luna atmsospherics

ALTAR OF PLAGUES Completes Work On New Album
http://bit.ly/14mNw
Ireland's most promising extreme metal band since PRIMORDIAL, namely ALTAR OF PLAGUES, has completed work on its debut full-length album, "White Tomb".

...

The album's warm-edged sound and uncompromising production portray's the band's visceral wall-of-sound effect without falling into a typical synthetically triggered digital-sounding paradigm nor falling into a post-whatever sounding mess. Other elements such as KHANATE/BURNING WITCH-esque painful slow trudging doom also find their way into the mix, as "White Tomb" also features guest vocals from Nathan Misterek of the now-defunct doom gods GRAVES AT SEA, minimalistic electronica and haunting Cold Meat Industry industrial ambient, along with the towering apocalyptic vibes of OLD MAN GLOOM and old-school ISIS ("Mosquito Control"/"Celestial" era) layered with the instrumental textures that bands like MOGWAI and RED SPAROWES portray, "White Tomb" (mastered by Colin Marston of KRALLICE/BEHOLD… THE ARCTOPUS/DYSRHYTHMIA etc.) is a vicious and atmospheric pillage that orchestrates the collapse of Earth; a depiction of civilization (or what's left of it) in despair attempting to re-build a world destroyed and shattered by their own hands.

"White Tomb" will be released April 17 via Profound Lore Records.

― djmartian,

Funny, I just happen to be listening to this album. It does not disappoint...the aforementioned "Earth as a Womb" really blew me away. Actually, if anything it's more stylistically varied than I was expecting, and far more interesting than Cult of Luna, that's for sure. Love the production as well, epic like you said, but also quite warm.

― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:32 (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I need to get on Profound Lore's promo list. HINT HINT

― jon /via/ chi 2.0,

Sorry, but I just edit a full on stereotypical djmartian post. I JUST CAN'T YOU PLANKS!

I meant to buy this album but haven't yet I don't think, Im pretty sure I liked it a lot and intended to buy it. Oh well im skint and hardly bought anything for months. Not that ive been out lately due to being ill.

DJ Mencap calls this kinda stuff Wuss BM btw. Great term.

vom! whoa!

Another one I dont know and not something searchable on ilx!

I bought ^that from the label guy last week when he was having a Jan sale - it is pretty good on initial plays. Killing Joke basslines and 80s noize bleakness sort of thing. Not a metal album but hey. Clockcleaner are still the best modern example of gothpunknoize I know of but I'm down w/ this lot

Sorry guys, I forgot to vote in the main ILX poll, so I didn't help represent the metal contingent.

may your goat fail to milk and piss in your face instead

ksh you should check this thread out

Just to make it easier to find the results here is yet another recap

"#","Album","Points","Votes","1s","Enthusiasm"
"1","Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions","757","31","4","24.419"
"2","Converge - Axe to Fall","722","30","2","24.067"
"3","Mastodon - Crack the Skye","709","31","6","22.871"
"4","Baroness - Blue Record","708","30","6","23.6"
"5","YOB - The Great Cessation","705","28","5","25.179"
"6","Cobalt - Gin","566","24","1","23.583"
"7","Kylesa - Static Tensions","490","22","","22.273"
"8","Zu - Carboniferous","454","21","1","21.619"
"9","Isis - Wavering Radiant","437","22","1","19.864"
"10","Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough","412","22","","18.727"
"11","Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade","405","22","","18.409"
"12","Zombi - Spirit Animal","401","17","3","23.588"
"13","Slough Feg - Ape Uprising","390","16","2","24.375"
"14","The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder","380","18","","21.111"
"15","Om - God Is Good","335","16","","20.938"
"16","Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder","334","17","1","19.647"
"17","Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul","315","17","1","18.529"
"18","Slayer - World Painted Blood","293","15","","19.533"
"19","Liturgy - Renihilation","260","16","","16.25"
"20","Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights","253","13","","19.462"
"21","Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars","239","11","1","21.727"
"22","Oneida - Rated O","205","10","2","20.5"
"23","Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans","193","8","2","24.125"
"24","Funeral Mist - Maranatha","175","9","1","19.444"
"25","Absu - Absu","168","10","","16.8"
"26","Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs","163","11","","14.818"
"27","Tombs - Winter Hours","147","11","","13.364"
"28","Katatonia - Night Is the New Day","147","7","","21"
"29","Jesu - Opiate Sun","143","9","","15.889"
"30","Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick","141","7","1","20.143"
"31","Goatwhore - Carving Out the Eyes of God","137","7","","19.571"
"32","Drudkh - Microcosmos","131","7","","18.714"
"33","Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse","131","6","","21.833"
"34","Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest","129","9","","14.333"
"35","Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know","126","7","","18"
"36","Orthodox - Sentencia","124","7","","17.714"
"37","Pelican - What We All Come to Need","123","8","","15.375"
"38","Marduk - Wormwood","122","8","","15.25"
"39","Immortal - All Shall Fall","121","8","","15.125"
"40","Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem","119","5","1","23.8"
"41","Coalesce - Ox","116","10","","11.6"
"42","Portal - Swarth","112","8","","14"
"43","Big Business - Mind the Drift","110","7","1","15.714"
"44","Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity","108","5","","21.6"
"45","Madder Mortem - Eight Ways","107","6","1","17.833"
"46","Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave","106","8","1","13.25"
"47","Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows","105","7","","15"
"48","Nadja - When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV","103","7","","14.714"
"49","Pyramids With Nadja - S/T","98","6","","16.333"
"50","Part Chimp - Thriller","98","5","","19.6"
"51","Dysrhythmia - Psychic Maps","96","7","","13.714"
"52","Jesu - Infinity","96","6","","16"
"53","Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy","94","8","","11.75"
"54","Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga","93","4","",""
"55","Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis","91","4","1",""
"56","Greymachine - Disconnected","88","8","","11"
"57","Ancestors - Of Sound Mind","88","4","",""
"58","Bloody Panda - Summon","83","5","","16.6"
"59","Xasthur - All Reflections Drained","82","6","","13.667"
"60","Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans","82","5","","16.4"
"61","Lifelover - Dekadens","81","4","",""
"62","Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow","79","4","",""
"63","Keelhaul - Triumphant Return to Obscurity","78","5","1","15.6"
"64","Nadja and Black Boned Angel - S/T","78","5","","15.6"
"65","Hacride - Lazarus","75","4","",""
"66","Melvins - Chicken Switch","73","4","",""
"67","Candlemass - Death Magic Doom","70","8","","8.75"
"68","Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire","70","6","","11.667"
"69","Voivod - Infini","70","3","",""
"70","Eluveitie - Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion","69","4","",""
"71","Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone","66","4","",""
"72","Magrudergrind - S/T","66","3","",""
"73","SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells","63","6","","10.5"
"74","Megadeth - Endgame","62","6","","10.333"
"75","Black Boned Angel - Verdun","62","4","",""
"76","Dethklok - Dethalbum II","61","3","",""
"76","Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine - The Audacity of Hype","61","3","",""
"78","Behemoth - Evangelion","60","4","",""
"78","Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Crows Eat the Eyes From the Leviathan's Carcass","60","4","",""
"80","Jodis - Secret House","59","4","",""
"81","Gnaw - This Face","58","6","","9.667"
"82","Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive","58","5","","11.6"
"83","Obscura - Cosmogenesis","58","4","",""
"84","1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame","54","4","",""
"85","Altar of Plauges - White Tomb","54","3","",""
"86","Vom - Primitive Arts","54","2","1",""
"87","Anvil - This Is Thirteen","53","4","",""
"88","Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague","53","3","",""
"88","Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign","53","3","",""
"90","Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution","53","2","",""
"91","Revocation - Existence Is Futile","51","4","",""
"92","Augury - Fragmentary Evidence","51","3","",""
"92","Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor","51","3","",""
"92","Saros - Acrid Plains","51","3","",""
"92","Them Crooked Vultures - S/T","51","3","",""
"96","Saviours - Accelerated Living","50","4","",""
"97","Masters of Reality - Pine/Cross Dover","49","4","",""
"98","Burnt by the Sun - Heart of Darkness","47","4","",""
"99","Tyr - By the Light of the Northern Star","47","3","",""
"100","Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressor","46","6","","7.667"
"101","Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor","46","3","",""
"101","Cauldron - Chained to the Nite","46","3","",""
"101","Goblin Cock - Come With Me If You Want to Live","46","3","",""
"101","Lamb of God - Wrath","46","3","",""
"105","Suffocation - Blood Oath","43","3","",""
"106","Dyse - Lieder Sind Bruder de Revolution","43","2","",""
"106","Nargaroth - Jahreszeiten","43","2","",""
"108","Nachtmystium - Doomsday Derelicts","42","3","",""
"108","Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal","42","3","",""
"110","The Devil's Blood - The Time of No Time Evermore","42","2","",""
"111","Kreator - Hordes of Chaos","41","4","",""
"112","Loan - Hontzira","41","2","",""
"113","3 Inches of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom","40","4","",""
"114","Cave - Psychic Summer","40","2","",""
"114","Iron Age - The Sleeping Eye","40","2","",""
"116","Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt","39","2","",""
"117","Celan - Halo","36","2","",""
"118","Maserati - Passages","35","3","",""
"119","Diagonal - Diagonal","34","2","",""
"120","Sólstafir - Köld","33","2","",""
"121","Wolf - Ravenous","32","3","",""
"122","Clutch - Strange Cousins From the West","31","4","",""
"123","Black Sun - Twilight of the Gods","31","2","",""
"124","Firebird - Grand Union","30","3","",""
"125","Infernal Stronghold - Godless Noise","30","2","",""
"125","Manatees - Icarus, the Sunclimber","30","2","",""
"127","Circle of Ouroborus - Tree of Knowledge","30","1","1",""
"127","Dirty Little Rabbits - Simon","30","1","1",""
"127","Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic","30","1","1",""
"130","Disappearer - The Clearing","29","3","",""
"131","Born of Osiris - A Higher Place","29","2","",""
"132","Autumn - Altitude","29","1","",""
"132","Mantic Ritual - Executioner","29","1","",""
"132","Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm","29","1","",""
"132","Woburn House - Monstrous Manoeuvres in the Mushroom Maze","29","1","",""
"136","Solitude Aeturnus - Hour of Despair","28","3","",""
"137","Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way","28","1","",""
"137","The Devin Townsend Project - Addicted!","28","1","",""
"137","Pulling Teeth - Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions","28","1","",""
"137","Raise the Red Lantern - Raise the Red Lantern","28","1","",""
"137","Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió","28","1","",""
"137","Vreid - Milorg","28","1","",""
"143","Gwynbleidd - Nostalgia","27","2","",""
"144","Admiral Angry - Buster","27","1","",""
"144","Alestorm/Heidevolk/Tyr - Black Sails Over Europe","27","1","",""
"144","Angus Khan - Black Leather Soul","27","1","",""
"144","Antigua & Barbuda - Try Future","27","1","",""
"144","Kong - Snake Magnet","27","1","",""
"144","Zoroaster - Voice of Saturn","27","1","",""
"150","God Forbid - Earthsblood","26","3","",""
"151","Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life","26","1","",""
"152","A Storm of Light - Forgive Us Our Trespasses","25","3","",""
"153","Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect","25","2","",""
"153","L'acephale - Malefeasance","25","2","",""
"155","Diamatregon - Crossroad","25","1","",""
"155","The Few Against Many - SOT","25","1","",""
"155","Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse","25","1","",""
"155","Heirs - Alchera","25","1","",""
"155","Rufus Huff - Rufus Huff","25","1","",""
"160","Bergraven - Till Makabert Vasen","24","3","",""
"161","Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck","24","2","",""
"161","Worm Ouroboros - Worm Ouroboros","24","2","",""
"163","Argus - Argus","24","1","",""
"163","Ea - Ea II","24","1","",""
"163","White Wizzard - High Speed GTO","24","1","",""
"166","Arckanum - ___________","23","1","",""
"166","Sinner - Crash and Burn","23","1","",""
"168","Amorphis - Skyforger","22","1","",""
"168","Doomraiser - Erasing the Remembrance","22","1","",""
"168","Endstille - Verführer","22","1","",""
"168","Job for a Cowboy - Ruination","22","1","",""
"168","Meercaz - Meercaz","22","1","",""
"173","Shadow of the Torturer - Shadow of the Torturer","21","2","",""
"174","Blackberry Smoke - Little Piece of Dixie","21","1","",""
"174","Cantata Sangui - On Rituals and Correspondence in Constructed Realities","21","1","",""
"174","God Dethroned - Passiondale","21","1","",""
"174","Haud Mundus/Wormlust - Oblivio Appositus","21","1","",""
"174","Horseback - The Invisible Mountain","21","1","",""
"174","Ross the Boss - New Metal Leader","21","1","",""
"180","The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite","20","2","",""
"180","Wodensthrone - Loss","20","2","",""
"182","Flyleaf - Memento Mori","19","2","",""
"183","The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm","19","1","",""
"183","My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire","19","1","",""
"183","Steadlür - Everything Is Nothing","19","1","",""
"183","Urna - Iter Ad Lucem","19","1","",""
"187","Wreck of the Hesperus - The Sunken Threshold","18","2","",""
"188","Isole - Silent Ruins","18","1","",""
"188","Trippy Wicked & the Cosmic Children of the Knight - Movin' On","18","1","",""
"190","Arabrot - I Rove","17","2","",""
"190","Woods of Ypres - Wood IV: The Green Album","17","2","",""
"192","Elitist - Elitist","17","1","",""
"192","The Last Vegas - Whatever Gets You Off","17","1","",""
"192","Lord Mantis - Spawning the Nephilim","17","1","",""
"195","Monkey3 - Undercover","16","2","",""
"195","Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire","16","2","",""
"197","Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus","16","1","",""
"198","Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence","15","2","",""
"198","Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us,Death Unites Us","15","2","",""
"200","Alestorm - Black Sails at Midnight","15","1","",""
"200","The Answer - Everyday Demons","15","1","",""
"202","Hull - Sole Lord","14","1","",""
"202","Nihil - Grond","14","1","",""
"202","The Reds - Early Nothing","14","1","",""
"205","Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle De","13","2","",""
"206","Hey Colossus/Dethscalator - Split LP","13","1","",""
"206","Majeure - Timespan","13","1","",""
"206","The Mars Volta - Octahedron","13","1","",""
"206","Status Quo - In Search of the Fourth Chord","13","1","",""
"206","Wine From Tears - Through the Eyes of a Mad","13","1","",""
"211","Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second","12","2","",""
"212","Saxon - Into the Labyrinth","12","1","",""
"212","Swallow the Sun - New Moon","12","1","",""
"214","Code - Resplendent Grotesque","11","1","",""
"214","Crimfall - As the Path Unfolds...","11","1","",""
"214","Satyricon - Age of Nero","11","1","",""
"214","Switchblade - Switchblade","11","1","",""
"214","Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares","11","1","",""
"219","Callisto - Providence","9","1","",""
"219","Necrophobic - Death to All","9","1","",""
"219","The Pinx - Look What You Made Me Do","9","1","",""
"222","Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders","8","1","",""
"222","The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate","8","1","",""
"222","Culted - Below the Thunders of the Upper Deep","8","1","",""
"222","Dead Man - Euphoria","8","1","",""
"222","Javelina - Beasts Among Sheep","8","1","",""
"222","Monarque - Ad Nauseam","8","1","",""
"222","Samael - Above","8","1","",""
"229","Borgia - Ecclesia","7","1","",""
"229","Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - III","7","1","",""
"229","Raven's Creed - Albion's Thunder","7","1","",""
"232","Fires of Rome - You Kingdom You","6","1","",""
"232","Sirenia - 13th Floor","6","1","",""
"234","H.C. Minds - The Beginning of the End","5","2","",""
"235","Nahemah - A New Constellation","5","1","",""
"235","Obituary - Darkest Day","5","1","",""
"235","Old Man's Child - Slaves of the World","5","1","",""
"238","Birds of Prey - The Hellpreacher","4","1","",""
"238","Entwine - Painstained","4","1","",""
"238","Millions - Gather Scatter","4","1","",""
"241","Bosnia - Nazarene Hallucinations","3","1","",""
"241","Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg","3","1","",""
"243","Black Cobra - Chronomega","2","2","",""
"244","Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays","1","1","",""

ksh: please ignore Herman's vote for this album, it's awful.

"241","Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg","3","1","",""

hah, i think it was Jeff who voted for that?

It was

Possible dodgy politics aside, this Peste Noire album is totally bonkers in a good way.

I had this at #1 on my ballot I think.