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*Headbanging in my cube to "What Is and What Should Never Be"*

55
Boris · Heavy Rocks (2002) (550 Points, 15 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/6/4/4/26447.jpg

One of their best. Good entry point to the Boris catalog.

Pink obviously still to come.

I wonder if Absolutego will place, though?

Oh, for fucks sake.

Bill, did you vote for Absolutego?

Another one? Wow - every Boris fan in the world is apparently on ILM. I learned something from this poll after all.

God, it's so great to see some non-American metal bands on this poll.

and bands with females in it too!!

Seriously, it was looking like an American sausage fest in here for a while.

^ new board description?

Crazy American bands like Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden.

Not enough dogs on the thread.

Good question, actually. A casual count comes up with something like a third non-American? Maybe more? Then again, I didn't want to assume every black metal band comes from Europe, so for all I know all that hard stuff will up the foreign (non-American) quotient.

54 Motörhead · No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith () (551 Points, 13 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d705/d705961b535.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6OOullC4UXy9DlXzje5dhR

AMERICA NUMBER 1 YEAH GO YANKEES!

Most of the bands previously unknown to me have turned out to be from The States when I investigate them.

xpost

chap is a happy chap with these poll results though ! so yay for chap!

Hooray!

Something I've been wondering all along in these polls, where are the Motorhead fans Did primal scream covering them put ilxors off?

This is one of the all time great American metal albums.

stop stealing Henry's schtick!

great American metal

Oxymoron?

This and Overkill and Ace Of Spades, seems well enough represented, though I prefer Bomber over the live one.

53 Agalloch · Ashes Against the Grain (2006) (553 Points, 15 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/1/3/1/113100.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6S3IZ2TxLgK92Rxo7XzayI

Good one from my shelf. I need to play this album more, though.

Great album by a great band.

jj check email

slayingest song from that album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuPz7cMD3qs

^^^really, really slays

OK, digging that.

chay you gonna be a happier chap kinda soon, so hang around

Awesome song upthread, thanks LJ.

lj go here view youtubes Sleepytime Gorilla Museum?

ok yes let's do that

52 Led Zeppelin · Physical Graffiti (1975) (570 Points, 13 votes)
http://uploads.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/PhysGraf.jpg

More cutting edge modern metal spoiling our awesome countdown

Dear "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste,"

Please show up soon.

Thanks!

Dear Josh,

Please check album 253.

Thanks!

Also Heartwork please.

yeah you know what? polls dont take requests.

51 Carcass · Heartwork (1994) (580 Points, 15 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre900/e959/e959983y174.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7D1UMHzEIHNhwa0gyqmya9

:)

Haha, fuck yeah!

My no 2.

I wonder if LJ has heard/likes Carcass.

Ned loves them, It was him who got me to check out this album.

Carcass are putatively on a to-listen list! ANATOMY METAL 4EVA

So you like Heart?

Still can't bring myself to listen to a band called Carcass.

Shallow, I know.

Heartwork kind of marks their break from anatomy metal. It has incredibly solid, almost traditional songwriting wrapped up in the most perfectly calibrated overdriven soundscapes.

ha if that name is a no go, there are going to be a lot of unpassable hallways in the metal world imo xpost

I really like that Agalloch song until the singer breaks into the "scary" voice around 7 minutes. It's really hard to take that shit seriously.