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

I cry (f)owl.

Heh. Will we also see Alexander Tucker, Caretaker, Phaedra, Vladislav Delay, Tim Hecker, Grouper and The Book Of Knots? Peaking Lights? EMA, Austra and Planningtorock? Adele?

Barn Owl sounds like something I need to check out.

(hope everyone's voting in the big poll btw)

i blame all the journos at Decibel who are all clearly hipsters

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i think 21 of my 50 votes have placed so far. how about everyone else?

btw Barn Owl don't really sound that different to Earth.

And no-one complained when they got in previous polls.

Kerr otm on all accounts; hooray for Barn Owl!!!

Love Barn Owl, but I file them in with faux Western soundtracks like Scenic and Dead Texan, rather than metal.

Didn't vote for them myself but it's a really really good album.

so holy shit this witch mountain album is fab

barn owl's last couple records have been about as consistent and purposeful as amon amarth's

maybe this has already been addressed but is there a spotify playlist for this poll? as per usual i'm catching up on my yearly metals via this poll (i'm barely through 2010 tbh.)

yeah mordy made one

http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/6FNGd20uP6dyX5W1jzFE6Z

theres a nominations one too http://open.spotify.com/user/v1c3r0y/playlist/3iDbLB1n1SB30gn5p5dTWz

there's a youtube thread too if you just want to hear the odd track
~ YOUTUBE COMPANION THREAD FOR ILM METAL POLL 2011

Love Barn Owl, but I didn't vote for it here. Didn't really consider it metal.

Sorry that I missed out on this. Just got back on board today. Nice list!

Yeah, I like Barn Owl well enough but not enough to vote for them (I don't think).

hey nate! congrats on your 22 votes!

hope youre all looking forward to todays results 49-26. Some really good stuff in here.

I will put my hand up and admit I voted for Barn Owl. If we're crying "not metal" then Shooting Guns are a prime candidate too IMO.

Anyone going to predict the top 10 to see if they're right tomorrow?

hey guys. what'd i miss?

Some cool albums

I am sticking with my Uncle Acid/Liturgy/YOB top 3 though I do admit that I forgot about Mastodon, but I maintain that'll place maybe 4th or 5th

Others in the top 10:

Corrupted
WITTR
Esoteric
Psychic Paramount
Subrosa
Indian

I love that Psychic Paramount record but didn't vote for it. Self-censored it as "not metal."

and Indian placed yesterday.

Corrupted will do well, maybe top 3.

Lol. I forgot Indian already placed. Alright, swap that out with 40 Watt Sun.

it was a short night's sleep, wasn't it?

49. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 (505 Points, 18 Votes)
http://www.southernlord.com/press/earthangels1/images/cover_large.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Earth

Earth is an american drone doom band formed in 1990 in Olympia, Washington, United States by Dylan Carlson, Slim Moon, and Greg Babior. They are pioneers in the minimalistic and repetitive form of doom metal known as drone doom.

wow, low! I think I would have predicted this as top ten. It's good, but definitely more of the same.

I loved The Bees Made Honey... but this record didn't grab me at all. Didn't put me off, just wasn't captivated like I had been before.

Love the cover though.

Their new one has a good cover too, in the same style.

I hope the new one gets me hooked on the band again.

10 subscribers to the spotify playlist btw, if anyone cares

speaking of 10, i only voted for 10 albums, so i guess if the collected works of bruce lamont haven't placed yet, they probably won't :(
campaign for presidetn cancelled

also, has anyone predicted primordial? if not, i predict.

48. Mitochondrion - Parasignosis (506 Points, 18 Votes)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VlhKsYxo4SE/TVLWB3BwWII/AAAAAAAAEWk/JnrsS2TLbGA/s1600/Mitochondrion_Parasignosis_Cover.gif
http://www.last.fm/music/Mitochondrion

“Making quite an impression and becoming a force within the death metal underground with their self-released, now out of print “Archaeaeon” debut, where the band introduced the death metal world with their brand of time-stretching vitriolic complex brutal ambient death metal. The band would inevitably gain the reputation as one of Canada’s most devastating and creative death metal bands today. And, since the state within the current landscape of Canadian death metal today hasn’t really shown its promise in what seems like ages, MITOCHONDRION (who initially hailed from the area that encases the infamous Ross Bay cemetery) would begin to help signal a paradigm shift and lead a movement destined to bring awareness to where the new elite sanctions within the Canadian extreme metal scene now lie.”

the resurgence of death metal continues on ilm even without the votes of some high profile fans.

or comments.

well i cant force them to do that. but it would be nice if someone who voted for the album told us why it was so good.

next one up I've never heard of

47. Dalriada - Igeret (507 Points, 20 Votes)
http://www.cdinzane.com/images/P/Dalriada-IGERET.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Dalriada

. The hungarian Dalriada www.dalriada.hu

Dalriada was formed in Sopron, Hungary in February 2003 with the intention of combining metal and Hungarian folk music, thus fostering the incredibly rich heritage of Hungarian folk art. Due to other influences some elements of death and gothic metal are also present.

The word „Dalriada” can be familiar to many people. It’s a historical name, the name of the first kingdom of the Scots, but based on some linguistic studies it may have an ancient Hungarian origin with the meaning of “battle-song”. From 2003 until the end 2006 the name of the band was “Echo Of Dalriada” in order emphasize the Hungarian meaning, but at the beginning of 2007 the name was simplified to “Dalriada” to have a shorter name without English words in it.

The genre of Dalriada’s music is folk metal, since Hungarian folk elements, folk song extracts and even some Hungarian folk-song covers are included in the repertoire of the band. Nonetheless, the music is fundamentally described as metal, with influences ranging from heavy to gothic or death.

The lyrics are mostly sung in Hungarian and almost entirely self-made, with the exception of those taken from folk songs and from the works of a famous Hungarian poet - Janos Arany.

http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss49/Yingana/dalriadaband1.jpg
Sleeperblokes still exist

ok it doesnt like those pics
lets try this one
http://www.pestiest.hu/kepek/164/galeria/164717_galeria_ze01_zeneaj_dalriada.jpg
Sleeperblokes still exist

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gmgADUb0Y-s/TVVx5tUddQI/AAAAAAAABO0/Gpaj7jqkOcI/s1600/dalriada01.jpg

nice of them to allow their grandad in the band

I didn't know Dalriada had a new record. Glenn tipped me to their last one a few years back and I liked it. Will have to give this a listen.

Enjoying Condenados -- how does one describe this type of singing? Power belting?

yelling like Wino about covers it.