THE ILM METAL POLL 2011 RESULTS (All lurkers/non metalheads welcome to join in!)

taking it all the way down to 76 tonight. Would have finished earlier but for my internet problems

Its hard to gauge, there wasn't a lot of chatter about the new album, at least not as much as I expected there to be. But I do know a couple of metal thread people absolutely loved it.

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81. Pitom - Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes (384 Points, 12 Votes, 1 #1)
http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2011-04/1301736176_3cc0b4c1f07d6ec205b7d3b861de9172.jpeg
http://www.last.fm/music/Pitom

Pitom is a very exciting young band from Israel that remains true to the “fusion” aesthetic without succumbing to any of the pretentions sometimes associated with that word. Taking progressive jazz and melding it with elements of rock, punk, prog and traditional Jewish melodies makes for a unique and exciting sound. The band consists of Yoshie Fruchter on guitar, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz on bass, Kevin Zubek on drums and Jeremy Brown on violin and viola.

!!!

Such a good album. To celebrate I'll play some tracks in Outloud tnite

now you need to sell it to everyone reading the thread now

Can anyone tell me - do these "doom metal with female vocals" albums actually sound like they have female vocals or do they vocally sound like every other doom metal band it just so happens that it's a female making those noises and not a guy?

This was my review when it came out: http://www.forward.com/articles/135976/

On “Blasphemy,” Fruchter has done no less than undermine the very concept of teshuvah, or repentance, so pivotal in Jewish expression and experience. He posits a universe of uncertainty and fear where we are always begging for forgiveness and — sometimes — left unforgiven. Staked out in the midst of metal, a genre more commonly associated with anti-religious sentiment, Fruchter’s album is ultimately a stunningly and unexpected religious artifact. We are distant from God, and we are troubled, and we are lost, and redemption is very hard to find. It is a vision of life and religion far more terrifying than any devil horns, and darker than the blackest Scandinavian metal.
“Playing music, and playing specifically this music, is like prayer when you’re not in the synagogue,” Fruchter said. Like the most moving prayer experiences, it is unpredictable, inchoate and primordial. It can be terrifying.

they're generally clean vox and arent like Salome

Wounded Kings nearly made my top 30.

http://boris.bandcamp.com/

Having released three albums, there's a chance another Boris album might appear. Kind of overkill -- I thought New Album was a good balance between the other two, but not really metal. There was so much damn actual metal to choose from, I didn't see the point of voting for shoegaze.

When has ILM ever passed up the chance to vote for Shoegaze? You saw Jesu up there.

WTL for Ash Borer. I thought that was aces.

As this is ILM I'm just going to assume that Fen, Alcest, and Meads of Asphodel place pretty near the top.

I appear not to have voted for any metalgaze this year.

hey asr - when you compile the stats and stuff, can you also tag albums by vox (male/female)?

The US release eventually was the one Boris album I went with. The inclusion of "Luna" clinched it.

Sorry, the US release of New Album, I mean.

not really as i havent heard all the albums and its a bit much too work on top of everything else. but there's been plenty of female singers so far in the countdown

also -- wooden stake might have female vox but i can't hear any difference from any other doom vox

80. Dornenreich - Flammentriebe (386 Points, 13 Votes)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5FKglh38b_c/ToCm1dLDyII/AAAAAAAAC3E/9CoObcPnJ-Y/s1600/folder.jpg
Spotify
http://www.last.fm/music/Dornenreich

Dornenreich is a Melodic Black Metal band from Tyrol, Austria. The name means realm of thorns (noun) or full of thorns (adjective) in German. Founded in 1996, the band has progressed in style from black metal on their first album, Nicht um zu sterben, to what the band describes as “a vision beyond (black) metal, neofolk and ambient” on their latest works.

xp hey Mordy did you check out Windhand? They have a female vocalist.

I was wondering about the female vocalist thing too -- I mean, female vocalists have lots of different styles, breathy, growly, operatic, other. Didn't want to press my luck asking for more adjectives though ;)

despite my great interest in, and sometimes even admiration for, i admit i am not quite enough of a connoisseur of the cookie monster vocal to appreciate the subtle differences between male + female practitioners

I think the female vocalist that have been pointed out so far are, for the most part, clean singers. At least in the stuff that I've heard. Within Temptation certainly. As for the cover art on that one – it's a tie in with a comic book that they cocreated or something. And I like that record all right, but it's really not metal.

its some dude music ie bland mallrock for 10 year olds

and it sounds like 'ass'

78. CIRCLE of OUROBORUS - Eleven Fingers (389 Points, 14 Votes, 1 #1)
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http://www.last.fm/music/Circle+of+Ouroborus

Circle of Ouroborus is an experimental black metal and sometime krautrock influenced band from Finland, formed by Antti Klemi and Rauta in 2004. The band’s sound is characterized by lo-fi production, unusual use of clean vocals and sometimes entirely acoustic releases that have very little in common with black metal. Sadness and nature themes seem to be prevalent in their music. While particular influences on their work seem unclear there seems to be an obvious influence of Joy Division, as they covered this band’s classic “She’s Lost Control” on their debut album.

The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol that depicts a serpent swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. It has been used to represent many things, but it most generally

TIE
78. Obake - Obake (389 Points, 14 Votes, 1 #1)
http://www.rarenoiserecords.com/jukebox/_images/covers/Obake-Obake.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Obake

Obake is a sludge/doom rock band with noise rock, psychedelic rock and jazz elements formed by Balázs Pándi (The Blood of Heroes), Eraldo Bernocchi (Somma), Massimo Pupillo (Zu) and Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari (Owls). Their first album (お化け) was released in 2011.

The Obake album is actually on spotify but its marked down as additional tracks to an album by a totally different band but only shows on band page not album page.

If you like Zu check it out

the C.o.U. album is one of the 'weird' albums btw

so emil.y if you're still reading this is one you should try

77. Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa (389 Points, 15 Votes)
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/reviewpics/moonsorrow2011cd.jpg
Spotify
http://www.last.fm/music/Moonsorrow

Moonsorrow is a self-described ’epic heathen metal’ band formed in Helsinki, Finland in 1995. The group’s earliest formation consisted of cousins Ville Sorvali (vocals and bass) and Henri Sorvali (guitar and keyboards) who released various demos that were much more characteristic as being symphonic black metal, musically, than future folk/viking metal releases. However, their albums contain occasional flashbacks to their black metal roots.

Their newest album, Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa, was released on 21st of February 2011. Moonsorrow had initially stated they would be returning to shorter songs but all the tracks on Varjoina except the interludes are over 10 minutes.

oh hey i voted for that

you only get the sirens once

Hey there! Obake was my #1!

Moonsorrow was my #3 album. It's probably the biggest sounding metal album ever recorded.

last for tonight coming up then a recap

76. Lento - Icon (390 Points, 12 Votes)
http://www.rockfreaks.net/files/a/1310668609.jpg
Spotify
http://www.last.fm/music/Lento

Lento is an instrumental doom/space/sludge/psychedelic/post metal collective based in Rome, Italy.
The former members joined in 2004 as a quartet and started working out a sort of introspective and implosive approach, taking their cue from a wide range of influences including seminal bands such as Neurosis, Earth and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. After a short time break, in late 2005, Lento expanded into a five piece act, and began structuring the basement of a more elaborate mood. Incorporating elements of ambient, doom and hardcore, lento has created a perfect opposition between sludge heavy riffs and ambient psychedelic suites. Lento’s tone is a blend of heavily down tuned guitars, apocalyptic slow tempos, systematic drones and resonant
feedbacks, their live sets alternate from hardcore assaults to intimate collapses of the signals.

See, now we are getting into the stuff that I expect to do well on an ILM poll. Hipsters.

J3ffsTers

wait, "post-metal" is a thing?

Been a thing for a while now.

yup

btw guys if you all go and vote in THE 2011 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ Voting Thread (ends at MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 20th, 2012) johnny fever will not troll metal poll!
seandalai says a couple of metal albums were 1 ballot away from placing in the 77, so go vote!

Any atmospheric doom/sludge/black metal band gets the post-metal tag now. For quite a few years now tbh. But i think saturation point was reached and bands have moved on to other things but there's still a lot of it about. It's the one thing guaranteed to still piss off the metal purists!

Death metal is the next one to get the indie kid treatment though. Deathcore and melodic deathcore are huuuuge so Post Death Metal will happen as those bands go 'serious'

I will def be voting for Obake, Windhand, and Weedeater in the big poll here pretty soon! xp

But everyone else vote for albums that have a chance of making it!

Direct Link to poll recap & full results

Thoughts?
Predictions?
Hopes?

I predict I will once more have voted for the album in dead last.

you try to do that every year though