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

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

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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.

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

― i swear on my life i feel so powerfull (musically) (DJ Mencap),

Possibly because it's on a euro label. Americans don't like to pay the higher cost of importing. We euros are used to it as we import most of our albums from the states, but if you look at msg boards , americans hate to import anything especially vinyl due to shipping charges.

re Jodis

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.

OTM, much of this would be right at home on mid-80s 4AD. First in the list so far that I'm guaranteed to play again.

Doomriders coming up next...

old goths never die

oh, that Jodis record sounds like my kind of thing. never heard of it before, tho.

Here's what I said about Behemoth at the time, and I still stand behind my review:

New Behemoth is the aural equivalent of having your eyeballs pried out and then getting skullfucked in the empty, bleeding sockets by the two-pronged phallus of Evil. Not that I would know.

― Drum machines have no sole (J3ff T.)

low placing for the behermoth album really is surprising.

still have to hear it, tho...

I really liked the Behemoth album when it first came out, but then didn't really pay much attention to it until I had to dig deep into their stuff prior to interviewing Nergal the other week. It is really good, but I probably like Demigod and The Apostasy more.

Demigod is still my favorite too. Evangelion didn't do anything for me, it's just *too* Behemoth, in a way.

low placing for the behermoth album really is surprising.

several "too low" placing comments already, but it's hardly surprising when several rolling metal regulars didn't vote, the more extreme or real metal bands will suffer in this case. A couple of high votes each from a few of those would boost albums way up. But at the end of the day, this is how people voted.

TIED]
#76 , 61 Points , 3 votes.
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Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine - The Audacity of Hype

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Dethklok - Dethalbum II

Man, I wish the Mastodon/Converge/High On Fire tour didn't include fuckin' Dethklok. I might as well just come out and confess: I don't find Metalocalypse funny. I've watched about half of each season on DVD and never laughed once. What a waste of an hour of my life their set is gonna be.

― unperson,

Yeah, Converge opening for Dethklok just doesn't feel right.

(I like the show, though)

― A. Begrand,

I saw Dethklok live and it was better than Dragonforce...

― Nate Carson,

I was struck by how little the second Dethklok album sounds like a "novelty" thing. The vocals aren't mixed as "up front" as they were with the last one, and if you weren't paying close attention it certainly wouldn't be as obvious where this band came from. I mean, during my first background listen, they mostly sounded like your average-to-decent band.

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Yeeeah the first album is definitely a novelty but the second one they're making a bid for Serious Mid-Level metal band

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver,

That Dethklok CD is shockingly good, Small did away with the joke songs and focused more on celebrating the whole metal lyric shtick on a more sincere level. Plus the songs are all stronger. And Hoglan's drumming doesn't hurt.

Evangelion is definitely Behemoth's best since Demigod, but Demigod is still Behemoth's best record. Wish I could see their current tour.

As for Jodis, it's alright, but I wound up getting that one at the same time as Greymachine, and Greymachine just blew me away. I ended up forgetting about the Jodis album.

I'm glad that Jodis album placed in the top 100. It was one of my top 10, and a great successor to Khanate - much more inviting to me than the Gnaw one, which I just couldn't get into at all. Ditto Greymachine. Diff'rent strokes, I guess.

hey my edit worked and i didnt break the thread!

its gonna be a good day

Til Dan appears?

#75 , 62 Points, 4 votes

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Black Boned Angel - Verdun

The eagerly awaited and much delayed (our fault!) new studio album from Black Boned Angel. Described by Rock-A-Rolla magazine as the bands "most sombre and realised work to date", and who are we to argue ?

Sharing a similarly bleak ground to Corrupted, Sunn 0))) and Earth, New Zealand's Black Boned Angel return with their fourth full length album 'Verdun', and perhaps their most sombre and fully-realised work to date.

The Battle of Verdun was fought between the German and French armies, and was one of the critical battles during World War 1 on the Western Front. It resulted in more than a quarter of a million battlefield deaths and at least half a million wounded. Verdun was the longest battle and one of the most devastating in World War 1 and indeed in history. Over the course of 50 minutes, BBA soundtrack that brutal conflict with their trademark dark ambient drones and doom-laden riffs.

The first album I voted for to appear.

And... it's a good one.

I get the feeling it is sombre and realised, maybe even fully.

I was very 'out of touch' with metal last year, this one flew by my radar as well, but the quote makes it go on my things to listen list immediately!

ps. K and Glenn thanks for putting in all the work!

A shock low entry btw coming up @ 74

Ulver?

Baroness?