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

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?

Pearl Jam?

I've created a collaborative Spotify playlist for the list, where available, using Onimo's list above. Please feel free to add stuff if I don't have time etc. Here's the URL:
http://open.spotify.com/user/nstewart/playlist/0bPofQLVRFL7VoiAHYaRim

Gay Witch Abortion?

not pearl jam

or anything mentioned

metals fave born again christian

#74 , 62 Points , 6 votes
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Megadeth - Endgame

The new Megadeth album is really quite shockingly good.

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

!!!! they had a split 7" with Less Than Jake circa '99 I think (lol memory) and their half was CRUSHING, great stuff, and I was bummed that there wasn't any followup on it...wonder if the new one's gonna be at that level of arty prog-thrashy feel

― Man Is Nairf! (J0hn D.),

Megadeth last night, the positive reviews are nailing it - great album. Never really expected another album from Dave that maintained that consistency.
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0),

I couldn't believe how good the Megadeth turned out to be.

― A. Begrand,

Yipes, this Megadeth album really is good. I half thought some people had agreed to pretend to like it as some sort of elaborate group prank. But no. It's good.

Alestorm, on the other hand, suck piss.

― glenn mcdonald,

I predict that Megadeth will wipe the floor with the competition at that festival btw

― a full circle lol (J0hn D.),

And, yep, didn't end up ranking on my list. I think it basically would have been '31'. I kinda soured on it over the year as m focus shifted to other stuff, but this still remains a really great latter-day Megadeth album and it deserves to be heard.

I had no idea Dave Mustaine was born again. Information plz?

Was in kerrang and terrorizer a good few years back.

#73 , 63 Points , 6 votes
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SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells

Not strictly a metal release, but certainly of interest to many here. Promos for the new SubArachnoid Space on Crucial Blast should be going out soon. Highly recommended. Production is by Steve Lobdell (ex-Faust).

― Nate Carson,

I kinda lost interest in SubArachnoid Space after their studio debut on Relapse, Endless Renovation. Too many guest players and nonessential extra instruments. The two live and/or live-in-studio discs they did before and after it, Almost Invisible and These Things Take Time, were enjoyable, though.

― unperson,

I'm not into early SubArachnoid, personally. To me it's all about the latest few. The band is darker and more focused than it was in the early days.

― Nate Carson,

I really like the new subarachnoid space!

― scott seward,

Decibel hates SubArachnoid Space, apparently :(

― Nate Carson, Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:47 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That's a shame...I think they're cool. I love spacey Krautrock metal.

― A. Begrand,

Never heard them before, but "spacey Krautrock metal" just ensured that I will be looking them up tonight!

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 October 2009 22:55 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

SubArachnoid Space rule. Fuck which ever journo slagged it off

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname),

Listening to samples on iTunes right now, loving the shit out of these 30-second clips. That descriptor is actually pretty good because I do hear a bit of Circle (probably my favorite band right now) in these. Any recommendations on the album to start with?

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

Here's a link to that absurdly lazy SubArachnoid review in Decibel: http://decibelmagazine.com/Content.aspx?ncid=333999

― Nate Carson,

^ Cool record, that one. Like the full art design, too.

Mustaine's so devout he won't even perform "The Conjuring" ever again. Which is a disappointment, considering it's my favourite Megadeth tune.

New album's great, though. He's got his best backing band since 90-94.

SubArachnoid Space was in my list.

I really liked (and voted) for this one. Spacey and creepy, without too much Kraut to turn me off.

What does SubArachnoid Space sound like? For some reason when I hear the name I keep thinking of the video game Dead Space.

http://www.myspace.com/subarachnoidspace

#72 , 66 Points, 3 votes
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Magrudergrind - S/T

That Magrudergrind album is cool.

― A. Begrand,

someone wanna add to adriens insight before i post the next one? i dont like posting straight after i put a result up with another one.

Haven't heard it, sorry ;)

Ballou's production on that album is probably the best thing about it.

#71 , 66 Points, 4 votes
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Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone

Not sure what the rolling metal denizens think of Minsk, but I'm enjoying the new album. The bit about halfway through "Almitra's Premonition" when the Hawkwind keyboards come in just kills me.

― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 03:05 (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Great band. New album? awesome! cant wait to hear it.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 03:07 (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, it comes out May 26th. Lots of stuff going on here, very heavy and full sound. Quite a few of the songs incorporate keyboards, but never in a way that detracts from everything else. I'm really impressed after first listen.

― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 03:16 (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I've enjoyed the last two Minsk albums a lot. I don't listen to those Relapse streams, though; I'm waiting for a real copy to show up in the mail, or at least downloadable files from that Play MPE system.

― unperson,

he-ey. what's up?

I recommend the Minsk, I like them a lot. I think I still need to pick them up.

ok next album may be a shock low entry or a shock high entry, but i know 2 ilxors who will be disappointed

The Minsk is great. I liked their last but this is a big step forward.

#70 , 69 Points, 4 votes

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Eluveitie - Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion

Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion is kinda the perfect folk metal album. I've gotta be in a specific mood to listen to metal (ie: a mood that does not involve a headache), but since Eluveitie does away with the hardness/aggression while keeping the lyrical metal tropes, the metal chord progressions, etc, I can listen to it anytime. It's simultaneously pretty and creepy, evocative (like the title says!) of some exotic locale and immediately accessible. One of my favorite metal albums of the year, even if I'm skeptical that it's TRU METAL. Oh well. It's folk metal. Pretty cool anyway.

Mordy

For an acoustic album, the new Eluveitie packs quite a punch at times. Pretty cool.

― A. Begrand,

I'm loving the new "acoustic" Eluveitie album. I was kind of worried it was going to be noodly and gutless, just to prove some sort of cultural point, but it's not. It's basically a metal album performed on acoustic instruments (including drums). And a really good one.

― glenn mcdonald,

Yeah, the Eluveitie was a really pleasant surprise. Pretty darn heavy for an acoustic record, too.

― A. Begrand,

Yeah, I liked that Eluveitie disc too.

― unperson,

So obviously we're cheating here by knowing, for reasons external to this particular album, that Eluveitie "is" a metal band. But if we didn't, I think you still have as prominent clues the more-rock-than-folk drumming style on a bunch of songs (most particularly "Memento"), the growly male vocals on "Brictom" and "The Cauldron Of Renascence", and the thunking cadence of "Omnos" (even the regular version). But probably the more accurate thing I mean to say is that this feels to me like an album from the same band that did Slania, rather than, as the premise might have just as easily lead to, an album of some wholly other music that happens to share personnel with the earlier one.

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 22 June 2009 20:07 (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I agree with Glenn. Metal is like porn: you know when you hear it.

― don't cry, emo hamster (J3ff T.),

Somehow that album completely slipped past me, I didn't even realize they put a new one out this year. Probably because I've yet to be completely sold on the band.

Seeing Eluveitie live is what convinced me they were for real.

And another institution up next..

Another canadian one at that..

#69 , 70 Points, 3 votes

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Voivod - Infini

Speaking of which, new Voivod!

― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0),

Voivod isn't touring Canada. More money in the festivals, but still, boooo.

Cannot wait to hear the new record.

― A. Begrand,

The new Voivod is killer. Much heavier than Katorz, more lurching cadences, loads of great riffs from the immortal Piggy, and some really cool vocal work from Snake, a little more aggression and malevolence from the guy. "Destroy After Reading" is my early fave so far.

― A. Begrand,

Listening to a stream of the new Voivod. ( http://www.voivodinfini.info/ )
I'm really digging it. What do the rest of you think?
Tried a search but can't find any threads on it.

― steampig67,

I have tried and tried but have finally resigned myself to the fact that Voivod does nothing for me.

― unperson,

I thought Katorz was Voivod's best album since Nothingface, but Infini goes even further. Plus the production is a little better this time. "Destroy After Reading" and "Volcano", those are the two knockouts in my opinion.

I'm devastated their tour is skipping my province.

― A. Begrand,

I wasn't expecting much but it floored me on first listen.
Seems like the spotlight continues to escape them.

― steampig67,

I can't see how Katorz is better than the self-titled on any level. But I'm a pretty obsessive Voivod fan. This discussion probably deserves its own thread.

Phil--really? Not even Nothingface, Dimension Hatross, or Killing Technology?

Phobos is their other great work that is sadly overlooked by most.

― Nate Carson,

No outraged canadians?

#68 , 70 Points , 6 votes

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Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire

#67 , 70 Points , 8 votes

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Candlemass - Death Magic Doom

Another excellent album with the new singer. Anyone still missing Messiah?

- pfunkboy

now the Piss & Mop results are out I think noone is gonna read this thread so I might just leave this til later unless there's actually people reading here.

I'm reading, not a whole lot to add right now. Love the Skeletonwitch album and missed out on the Candlemass record, I need to give it a go.

Yeah, Skeletonwitch made it into my Top Fourteen (tied with Revocation).

the Candlemass is on Spotify.
Shall I continue with more albums tonight before I go to bed or keep them for tomorrow?

you should go to #60 at least, surely!

That Candlemass CD is a good one. It's rare that a band can replace its lead singer so late into its career and sound better than they have in years. They're on a huge roll with the Aeturnus guy.

and Solitude Aeturnus still exist which is just as great!

#66 , 73 Points , 4 votes

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Melvins - Chicken Switch

Love the Melvins but remix albums? No ta.
-pfunkboy

Um no, Need more Melvins in my life thanks.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0),

Haha, funny pull form me since I heard one track and decided quickly that, after all, I did NOT need this in my life.

"from"

I just dont care for remix albums generally. You can get great remixes on singles but very few great albums IMO. Especially in rock.

I liked the last two "real" Melvins albums a lot but that remix thing was awful.