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

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)
http://www.handmadebirds.com/store/img/store_images/HB-016.jpg
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

i predict Turisas in the top 10

I sawa lot of top album list this year thast had Litutgy at the top of their list... Lets hope you guys did something different.

Liturgy.. Damn I'm the wosrt typist ever.

Go check out the metal entries in http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/

and laugh

well come on, its the Village Voice, arguably the leading voice in whats hot and not.. heavy music isn''t even a consideration.. Carson Daly has been crowing about Kylesa on his late night show the past few months(has had em on twice), but thats as close as its gonna get for heavy music being excepted by the masses...

(pretty much all of the critics on ilm vote in that poll sean)

okay, well they don't like heavy music then.. lol!
And you're making my point for me... look at ALL the post on ilm and how little heavy music is on here.. two, maybe three threads at a time maybe, while there is a shit ton of other stuff on here with a lot more traffic.. Just an observation, not a slag by any stretch, and not a very investigative conclusion, just at quick glance, thats what I've seen

yeah but the reason there's a limited # of metal threads is because people want it all on one rolling thread.

Cuz of the frequency in which it gets talked about. I posted in the rolling thread last night, and this afternoon my post was still the last one.. It doesn't get the traffic, and its roughly about the same 10 people that post regularly. Again not a slag, just an observation to the scope of heavy music and where it lies in the mainstream of whats trendy and hip.. But, all the reason I love it that much more.

and that thread gets a lot of posts

lol xp

Metal still hasn't seen the big stages here in the states like it does in Europe, literally not since the hair metal shit in the 80s, but its always done well over there, so maybe its a bit more in the public eye than here, but only a bit more... Perfect example, the big 4 shows.. what did Europe get 7 shows, we got two.. And where are they all from, oh thats right they're fucking Yanks! lol..

well sean, the reason i do this poll (and the large rollout) is to introduce a lot of heavy music to ilx. It's not just metal thread posters reading this. There's ilxors who dont read that thread as they may only have a passing interest in metal, then theres fuck knows how many lurkers reading it but loads of them vote and even more will be reading this thread.

i don't think this is necessarily a bad thing but i kinda feel like we have this conversation every year? (the one about the metal thread, and the amount that metal is or isn't visible on mainstream ilm?)

but ilm might cover a lot of mainstream music right down to the downright obscure, but metal thread ignores the mainstream really. But i know we cover the better music!

oh im not dissing the metal thread. I was just saying to sean why there's not a lot of metal threads, as its all contained on the 1 thread really.

Kerr brought it up.. LOL! wanting us to laugh at the Village Voice poll.

Bottom line, this site in gerneral is cool for just seeing what else is out there no matter what type of noise it is..

anything in music gets discussed on ilm. Which is great.

even your album got discussed, sean!

(pretty much all of the critics on ilm vote in that poll sean)

I wish. I was only one of two people who voted for Graveyard and Elder, and of three for Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats.

man everything about Acid Witch is so awesome, from the stoner riffs to the graphics to song titles, the band photos, I'm loving those guys.