YOU TOTALLY MISSED THE ILX HEAVY ROCK/METAL ALBUM POLL COUNTDOWN, SUCKA (CLICK FOR A RECAP)

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lol no, I am willing to back the singles off of that album

don't care about anything else

also willing to back the song "Master of Puppets" but other than that don't really care about that Metallica album either

master of puppets is great

Sad that St. Anger didn't show up. :(

yr actually trolling there so its ok

Interesting, 6 #1 votes and not even in the top 20 for Funhouse. A piss poor showing for the greatest rock album of any sort, light, heavy, soft, hard or metal. Makes me wonder if there are people who voted in the poll who never heard it.

Also surprised to see Master Of Puppets fail to make the top 5. Maybe it was overplayed and votes split with Ride The Lightning.

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath was indeed voted the first modern metal album - What's the first modern metal album?

I disagree, but I do think it is an awesome album, not just because it was first. It certainly measures up close to Sabbath's three other best albums which will apparently be ruling the top 20.

Appetite was my #2. Johnny's right btw.

17 Darkthrone · A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992) (855 Points, 20 points - ONE #1 vote)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/1/2/612.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4ywDt046dDB2OtWLqKwvMF

OK FUCK YOU PEOPLE

awesome

can someone do me a favor and list out which of the death/black metal guys are horrible racists and which ones aren't so I at least have some goalposts to go by as I investigate this stuff

never rly HEARD any Darkthrone, but awesome

Johnny, if Kix showed up, I don't think people would be saying "OK FUCK YOU PEOPLE"

because for real, I don't care how talented you are, if you are saying shit about me and mine you need to never see any of my money ever and hopefully one day you will be killed

xp: yeah don't be so sure about that

Dan, just avoid Burzum, Drudkh and Enslaved and you should be ok

never rly HEARD any Darkthrone, but awesome

How does that work?

dan this is about Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

Some pressings have the phrase 'Norsk Arisk Black Metal' (Norwegian Aryan Black Metal), but due to the negative response of many distributors around the world,
that phrase was replaced by "True Norwegian Black Metal" in later pressings.

the reason I've never checked them out.

Yeah, my main complaint here was that we're in the top 20 now and earbreaking bullshit like this is being listed. I don't know their politics. Just that they sound like trash.

Drudkh arent racists apparently

didnt know enslaved were. "smithy" is a big fan of them (and darkthrone too i think)

I love that this poll is so fucked that we have to determine which bands are racists and which aren't.

so just avoid listening to LJ and ask someone who knows what they're talking about.

Avoid Graveland obviously, they are genuine NSBM.

Fuck Ian MacKaye.

johnny fever, is axl rose racist or homophobic? or racist and homophobic?

Metallica's music is so bad that they may as well be lumped in w/ the racists imho.

not sure why anyone should be surprised that the most highly regarded black metal and death metal albums are showing up near the top of a hardrock/metal poll

He's probably a little of both, or was at one point, but that was never a proud selling point of GNR. xps

BTW, Master Of Puppets was released March 3, 1986. The last day of recording was December 27, so no chance it was released in 1985.

btw Axl is why I'll never own a Guns 'N Roses album

also even though I love the albums I have by them, I've never bought a Jane's Addiction album after learning about the existence of "Whores" (never bought the first one, lol) so my inconsistency has a little bit of consistency

ok I read somewhere that Drudkh and Enslaved might be dodgy but this is looking RONG upon inspection

but yeah Burzum and Darkthrone you'll be wanting to avoid, Dan

i had to google the lyrics for that JA song, been a while since i heard that album. Some good stuff on it but yeah, that song.

I think darkthrone have denied being racists/nazis too fwiw

I love that this poll is so fucked that we have to determine which bands are racists and which aren't.

fwiw this is why I don't really pay attention to metal, even though apparently half of my musical predilections fall into that category

I did not pay a cent for my copy of Transylvanian Hunger and I have no idea what they're saying.

really not that many 'good' metal bands are racist - the ones that are receive lots of attention

I have one friend who has a pretty good black metal collection of a few hundred albums, and he doesn't like any by Darkthrone as far as I know. I've heard some bits, nothing compelling enough to convince me to check them out more thoroughly. He also doesn't like Ulver, but I do like their recent one enough to be curious about their earlier ones.

I've read plenty of Enslaved interviews. They're intelligent, enlightened guys who are not remotely racist.

no other genre screams "white music for white people" as much as metal, particularly when talking about the extreme subgenres (I still maintain that all of the original metal albums are hard rock as I don't really see any direct link between the Black Sabbath I know and the Iron Maiden I know)

any genre of music has racist or sexist or homophobic or plain old bigots. metal is no worse than others.

really not that many 'good' metal bands are racist - the ones that are receive lots of attention

Implication that more bad ones are?

Polka's pretty white-for-whites.

16 Sleep · Dopesmoker (released 2003) (860 Points, 25 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/3/0/9/23096.jpg

any genre of music has racist or sexist or homophobic or plain old bigots. metal is no worse than others.

Betting it's worse than disco

Sleep = properly named band.

lol, googling "racist dance music" just brings up Das Racist and Mia Michaels

Am feeling pretty bad now - got my wires completely crossed about Enslaved to the extent to which they seem like the sort of band I'd really dig - really, really hating on whomever suggested they might be racist.

googling "racist hip-hop" is simultaneously totally expected and really, really confusing

http://hiphopwired.com/2010/04/07/man-slashes-dog-for-being-racist/