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

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

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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

also I don't recall coming up w/ wuss BM as a 'genre' name but it was probably not too serious if it was me - Altar of Plagues do have about as much uh post-metal in them from what I remember (and are good) so it's all gravy

*Whistles*

Keeping on the Altar of Plagues/wuss BM/kind of stuff djmartian c+p's press blurb for into this thread tip, I have 'Kold' by Solstafir on right now. This probly needs way more time to get involved with than I have to review it, which is a shame, but they do that Neurosis-with-blastbeats-and-then-some-quiet-tinkles thing pretty well it seems

― Peter Andre Test Tube Babies (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:57 (11 months ago)

#84 , 54 Points, 4 votes
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1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame

I'm at least tentatively in favor of the new 1349.

― glenn mcdonald,

Surprised to see how much Cosmo L33 didn't like that 1349 record, I have yet to hear it. But really, his negative descriptions made me want to hear it more than I did before!

― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0),

Well, that was pretty much the antithesis of a memorable quote from me about 1349, but I think RotBF is a pretty interesting album, and might come to be seen as 1349's Cold Lake for all the atmosphere instead of constant slamming. I think all bands should have at least one album that risk, at least a little bit, alienating all their existing fans.

Ha, I never did get around to checking out the full album. I heard a couple songs and decided that was probably enough for me.

lol that was the only talk about the album I could find, Glenn. The albums without quotes are because I can't find any. I need blurbs!

I didn't like the 1349 album much at all...the Floyd cover is terrible.

Someone asked earlier about albums that got a #1 vote but didn't make the top 100. There were only 3 of those, and all three got just the single vote. #s 50-100 have three more albums that got any #1s (1 each in all three cases). Vom, the lowest, is also the highest-ranking album with just 2 votes.

thinking i might have been the highest 1349 vote. I like it!

jj can you fix the album order cock up? vom should be 85 and altar of plagues 86

please?

i have to run out and eat steak and hang out w/dudes right now, but ill do it when i get home.

if i fail in this, feel free to harass me without guilt

akinator said you liked to hang out with dudes so i dont see how you can fail..

#83 , 58 Points, 4 votes

http://farbeyondmusic.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/obscura-1.jpg
Obscura - Cosmogenesis

This new Obscura album, Cosmogenesis, is ridiculously great. Total tech-death madness with two ex-members of Necrophagist and one ex-member of Pestilence. Ultra-complex riffing with jazz-fusion interludes (including some Cynic-style computer voice!) and really prominent fretless bass lines, including bass solos. It's like the best aspects of Necrophagist, Pestilence and Cynic all wadded up into one big ball of awesome.

― unperson,

"Cosmogenesis", the second full-length album from German death metallers OBSCURA, is available for streaming in its entirety at ObscuraCosmogenesis.com. The CD is being released in the U.S. today (February 17) via Relapse Records (March 2 internationally). The CD features guest appearances from Ron Jarzombek (WATCHTOWER, SPASTIC INK, BLOTTED SCIENCE) and Tymon Kruidenier (CYNIC, EXIVIOUS). "The new album sounds very intense and brutal", the band says in a statement.

Obscura - Cosmogenesis
http://www.obscuracosmogenesis.com/

― djmartian,

I think the Obscura is one of my surprise albums of the year so far. It has better songwriting than Necrophagist and some great fretless bass playing. I've had a few people compare it to Human-era Death so far, but I don't really think they're comparable. Two completely different beasts.

Picked it up on vinyl a few weeks ago when I was in Philadelphia. Cool packaging with a diecut sleeve inside and nice blue vinyl.

― S. Palmerston,

Really like that album, looking back now I'm wondering if I should have nudged it a few spaces higher.

#82 , 58 Points, 5 votes

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Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive

Which is why so many 70's hard rock fans look desperately for heavier "metal" bands to pick up the torch and run with it. And when they don't it's like they are lacking in character. which begs the question: has anyone heard the new Doomriders album? Dude from converge rocking with his cock out. i wanna hear it.

― scott seward (scott seward),

i dig it. dude from converge getting his doom on.

― scott seward (scott seward),

Good album by a good band btw.

I might post #81 tonight if no 82 gets some comments.

Not sure what to say, Scott hit it pretty well on the head - dude from Converge gets his dooooom on to great results. Not the best album of the year, but certainly a surprise for me - I really enjoyed it.

Yeah, it's impossible not to like that Doomriders record.

#81 , 58 Points , 6 votes

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Gnaw - This Face

GNAW was formed in 2006 by Alan Dubin (ex-Khanate, OLD) along with Jamie Sykes (ex-Burning Witch, Thorr's Hammer, Atavist), Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter), Jun Mizumachi (ex-Ike Yard: 80's NYC industrial legends) and Brian Beatrice (Emmy Award winning sound design/mix wizard). Dubin thought it would be fantastic to collaborate with some of his respected musician/friends, all who have diverse music backgrounds to see/hear what would develop. GNAW's debut album "This Face is the sonic culmination of over a year of sound experimentation. It's a genre destroying journey that almost defies description. Sykes is a percussive madman blasting out anything from tribal beats to ultra slow tom killings. Mizumachi is a renown sound designer for film & TV and is a master of electronics including synth, factory noise, metal bashing and other craziness. Beatrice is also a sound designer and mixer for film & TV and was the mixer for "This Face" as well as experimenting and adding additional sounds. Thornton is a crafty musician who actually makes his own instruments. He played guitar, bass, piano and some unnamed home-made "things". Additionally, Thornton supplied field recordings and arranged many of the songs. Dubin rounds out the group with his gut-wrenching vocals, noise and arrangements. Screaming, singing, whispers and chants can be heard throughout "This Face". Dubin's lyrics are vivid portrayals of all things bad.

Julian Cope's review:

Doom fans should also make a big effort to catch Alan Dubin’s hefty new release THIS FACE, from his current All Star ensemble Gnaw. Released on the excellent Conspiracy Records (conspiracyrecords.com), Gnaw celebrates missing out like nobody else in the whole damn Universe (sample lyric: ‘Everybody’s fucking but you.’ Nice.). My absolute fave is ‘Backyard Frontier’, the lyrics of which depict the mind of a serial killer whose outside world has become so restricted that even sharing the retaining wall with his neighbours has become the most major compromise of his life. Babies, I know the Dubin’s vocal delivery can seem a mite unyielding at times, but he has – across almost a decade now – established such a grinding level of direct action in his delivery that we just have to keep paying attention. Obligation? U-Betcha! Especially when the musicians themselves are such dab hands at cuntedness; seemingly effortlessly strewing, nay, daubing the very Cosmos with sonic shards of pure un-directed Jackson Pollock paint splatter. Although iTunes tells us to file this mung worship under ‘Children’s Music’, I’ve found it difficult to contain under-5s for long enough to complete the experiment; a coupla cages off eBay might do the job. You know what? Methinks this entire album should either be highly expensive and difficult to obtain, or issued (along with free 10K Matamp PA) by local councils to all of those within earshot of a local mosque. 5am with the Dubin? Now that’s what I’m talking about.

The countdown so far..
100-81

100. Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressor
99. Tyr - By the Light of the Northern Star
98. Burnt by the Sun - Heart of Darkness
97. Masters of Reality - Pine/Cross Dover
96. Saviours - Accelerated Living
92. Them Crooked Vultures - S/T
Saros - Acrid Plains
Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
91. Revocation - Existence Is Futile
90. Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
88. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign
87. Anvil - This Is Thirteen
86. Vom - Primitive Arts
85. Altar of Plauges - White Tomb
84. 1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame
83. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
82. Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
81. Gnaw - This Face

Obscura's another good newcomer, thought that was from 2008 though. I liked that 1349 album, but it took me quite a while to start appreciating it, it's somehow very... aloof, but for me it works. Didn't vote for it in the end, one of the last minute casualties.

That Gnaw album kills, played it on Sunday for the first time in a few months - it is at least as original as Khanate but a fraction of ppl seem to have picked up on it even compared to how popular Khanate were

wow, that Obscura album placed surprisingly low here. first one on this list that i've heard (and voted for) thus far.

Playing catch-up from work. No more spotify links to add :(

I'll need to check out the Doomriders record.

#80 , 59 Points, 4 votes
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Jodis - Secret House

Now playing: Jodis, Secret House. A new group featuring Aaron Turner of Isis on vocals and guitar, with bass and drums from James Plotkin and Tim Wyskida of Khanate. Very spacious, moody, somewhat psychedelic (super-reverbed vocals), not very metal at all. I like it a lot so far. Coming on Hydra Head in October.

― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson),

TIED
#79 , 60 Points, 4 Votes

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Behemoth - Evangelion
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Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Crows Eat the Eyes From the Leviathan's Carcass

Behemoth - Evangelion - spotify:album:7id91RB4imNmgVxUwXn5QE

Just giving Jodis a go, drone at last?

Secret House is the first one of my votes to turn up. I really grew to LOVE this record, having originally had the same sort of opinion as unperson.

Agreed it's not really a metal record, it makes me think most of the This Mortal Coil version of Come Here My Love. Which is no bad thing.

Kinda surprised to see Behemeoth that low, its a good album. Maybe because it really wasn't anything other than a very well executed Behemoth album and didn't really push for new things? I've never heard anything by Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, even though the name makes it sound like it would hit me perfectly.