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

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Elder also topped the Stoner HiVe poll, #4 in Stoned Sun Vibrations, #5 at The Obelisk and #7 at Doomantia.

Elder was nice but wasn't a favorite. I do regret not voting for the Ufesas record though. It's owned my January so far.

that blut aus nord is decent but also seriously disappointing after the masterful memoria vetusta ii imo

after you've watched the synth pr0n?

*spotifies furiously*

oh man, never even heard of anima morte before but this is GREAT so far!

bear in mind I kind of love any horror prog

39. Blut Aus Nord - 777/The Desanctification (537 Points, 21 Votes)
http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2011/11/Blut-Aus-Nord-777-The-Desanctification-608x608.jpg
Spotify
http://www.last.fm/music/Blut+aus+Nord

ok that elder album is awesome, and yeah i had not heard it until just now

i read a review of the band Alcest and so i'm listening to their new album now

it's supposed to be black metal, the review said shoegazer too, which i kinda get

overall though it feels a lot more like 90s bands like Hum or Chavez to me than metal, it's cool though, i don't know if they are trv kvlt though :|

it doesn't really seem like black metal at least to me, but i'm no expert

38. Blood Stain Child - Epsilon (540 Points, 18 Votes, 1 #1)
http://getmetal.org/uploads/posts/2011-06/1308262697_blood-stain-child-e-psilon.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Blood+stain+child

Blood Stain Child is a trance metal band from the city of Osaka, Japan. They are influenced by techno, gothic, rock and also visual kei elements.
The band formed under the name “VisionQuest” in 1999, but reformed under the name Blood Stain Child in 2000.

BIOGRAPHY

Blood Stain Child was formed in 2000 by Ryo (vocals, bass), Ryu (guitar), Daiki (guitar), Aki (keyboards), and Violator (drums). In August 2000, Blood Stain Child recorded their first demo, which consisted of the songs “Silence of Northern Hell”, “Requiem”, and “Legend of Dark”. The band sent that demo to a radio station and the DJ enjoyed the music so much that he recommended the band to the record label, M&I Company, who eventually signed Blood Stain Child.
A notable feature of Blood Stain Child is their tendency to incorporate both dance and trance related themes and elements into their music. The band’s sound includes death vocals complemented at times by clean vocals.

Current members:

Sophia - vocals (2010)
Ryo – bass, vocals (2000–present)
Ryu Kuriyama – guitar (2000–present)
G.S.R – guitar (2007–present)
Aki – keyboards (2000–present)
GAMI - drums (2010)

i agree w/you about the alcest album m@tt - altho the thing is that black metal has kinda porous boundries these days. still if you played the album for me w/o identifying it, i wouldnt hear any trad BM influence at all really.

great album xp

yeah like i still crank hum and chavez on the regular, also reminds me a little of the later period unwound stuff too

Aw, I was hoping for top 10 for BSC. RAGE QUIT.

overall though it feels a lot more like 90s bands like Hum or Chavez to me than metal

this is somewaht true though imo alcest are wayyyyy too tepid rhythmically to merit comparison to those kinds of bands.

I guess I should have campaigned harder for Elder. I posted a YouTube link with the entire album on the Sandbox.

Regarding Alcest, Neige, Aegnor and Argoth had some demos that were black metal in 2001, but with the latter two left, it quickly became basically shoegaze, or metalgaze. I loved Souvenirs d'un autre monde (2007), but everything sort of sounds the same and I hadn't been inspired to hear the latest.

jeff, was bsc your #2? (assuming turisas was your #1)

i know im being captain negative today and all but oh man i do not get or even vaguely enjoy blood stain child sorry peeps

that's because you have taste mr justen

yeah, souvenirs is great but I haven't felt the need to explore much else either (x-post)

overall though it feels a lot more like 90s bands like Hum or Chavez to me than metal

this is somewaht true though imo alcest are wayyyyy too tepid rhythmically to merit comparison to those kinds of bands.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i don't prefer it, a lot of the black metal stuff i've heard has p boring drum parts, it's almost like a skiffle type beat to me, or a johnny cash beat with shitloads of cymbal shit

but i'm digging this, the prettier and less metal this record is the better imo

also curious who gave bsc a #1 vote (tho legit curious, not judgy)

Yeah, they were my number two selection. Love love love that record. Just total insanity.

Aw, I was hoping for top 10 for BSC. RAGE QUIT.

― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.),

you really have unrealistic expectations.

ok that elder album is awesome, and yeah i had not heard it until just now

― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:33 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i just listened to one song, but i would have voted it if i had bothered to listen to it before.
oh well, next time!

BSC record is p samey but really hits the spot if I'm in the mood for trancey melodic death jams w/excellent gigantic choruses (admittedly not a mood I'm often in...)

I think I can pretty much single-handedly take credit for BSC placing at all, much less this high.

that cover looks like final fantasy

j3ff is totally the ilx BSC patient zero

cosplay trance dance melodic death metal

jeffs ideal genre really
cosplay + republica + trivium

m@tt if you want some black metal with depth i think that Epheles album is the best of the year. if you want some black metal with the batshit crazy, give Peste Noire a try.

drumming on the epheles is also crazy crazy good and a lot more varied altho its still mostly 10000 mph

More In Flames than Trivium, really.

Otherwise that is an accurate statement.

i wanna know what smithy and phil think.
I know skot will love it.

just wait til jeff gets it to place in the big ilm poll

37. Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg (549 Points, 18 Votes)
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Spotify
http://www.last.fm/music/Thy+Catafalque

Thy Catafalque is an avantgarde post-black metal act from Makó, Hungary since 1998 but are now based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Thy Catafalque were born in 1998 in a small town of Hungary playing traditional, epic black metal in the beginning by tamás kátai (Gire) and János Juhász. Just after their first and only demo KaOtic Productions decided to release their first album in 1999 entitled Sublunary Tragedies, followed by the second record Microcosmos in 2001.

Throughout the passing years the music became more and more experimental with deep touches of electronic and folklorish influences feeding from their homeland in Central Europe. Meanwhile KaOtic Productions ceased to exist, so the third album Tűnő Idő Tárlat (An Exhibition of Vanishing Time) came to sunlight as a self-financed production in 2004. By this time lyrics turned into Hungarian and music turned out to be the most diverse and atmospheric experimentum coming out from the band. Cosmic music from micro to macro, from matter to spirit and then back into the ashes.

This world is about to be painted by more vivid colours in the latest release entitled Róka Hasa Rádió released by Epidemie Records on the 12th of May, 2009 and in November 2009 by Soyuz Music. The main concept behind the album is the relationship between the ever evolving, solid and massive physical matter and the fragileness of human and all living spirits throughout distant childhood memories and scientific explanations of nature. Revolving, rotating movements of past and future, colours, sounds, long lost scents by a strange transmission from a timeless radio.

Guest appearences by Zoltán Kónya and Balázs Hermann (Gire), Attila Bakos (Woodland Choir, Taranis), Ágnes Tóth (The Moon and the Nightspirit), Ádám Tóth (Mocun).

During the recordings Tamás Kátai left to Edinburgh, United Kingdom and finished the album there. Currently he is staying there.

After the very well appreciated Róka Hasa Rádió album, Epidemie Records decided to print a re-issue of the previous recording of Thy Catafalque entitled Tűnő Idő Tárlat. It had been released by the band itself in 2004 in a very small scale. Limited to 500 pieces of beautful digipak, the music is untouched while the artwork is renewed.

Thy Catafalque CDs are distributed by Lethal Conflict worldwide and Soyuz Music in Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

Originally released in 2004, Tűnő Idő Tárlat was re-released in limited digipak version by Epidemie Records in 2010.

In 2011 Thy Catafalque has signed to Season Of Mist. The fifth album entitled Rengeteg was released on 11 November 2011 in Europe and 10 January 2012 in North-America. All the instruments have been reccorded by Tamás Kátai alone this time, as János Juhász left the band in 2011. Guest musicians: Attila Bakos (Woodland Choir, Taranis) - all clean male vocals, Ágnes Tóth (The Moon And The Nightspirit) - female vocals, Mihály Simkó-Várnagy - cello.

English translation of all the lyrics of Rengeteg: http://metalstorm.net/bands/lyrics.php?album_id=55793&band_id=&bandname=Thy+Catafalque

http://www.thycatafalque.hu
http://www.reverbnation.com/thycatafalque
http://www.myspace.com/thycatafalque
http://www.season-of-mist.com

Excellent album this but had not heard until after I saw the results and checked it out.
Yes its more Glenn Metal.

ASR, how many voters would you say are ilx regulars and how many are lurkers/off-site voters?

listening to BSC again and now I kind of want a BSC album produced by yasutaka nakata. preferably emulating sugarless girl era capsule.

"stargazer" is GREAT man

i've had the exact same thought about BSC + nakata

ha! I can almost hear it and it would rule.

i dont know mordy as i only added nicknames from people who i recognised. The lurkers are pretty obv ilm regulars rather than from other sites as i googled looking to see if it came up anywhere plus most of them have voted in the previous polls.

still, without them it wouldn't be much of a poll as getting blood out of stone is easier than getting metal regulars voting I'm sad to say.
Lurkers also seem to be varied in taste so it at least makes for interesting results.

Campaigning over the year but ESPECIALLY in the poll threads really does make a difference though. Lots of examples but BSC really proves it if you weren't convinced earlier by the others.

so THANKS TO ALL WHO VOTED

another japanese band coming up next

is it heavy rock?

finally, Loudness!

36. Boris - Heavy Rocks (551 Points, 19 Votes)
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Spotify
http://www.last.fm/music/Boris/

Boris (ボリス Borisu) are a Japanese experimental rock band formed in Tokyo in 1992. The band’s original lineup consisted of Atsuo, Takeshi, Wata, and Nagata who was the band’s original drummer. After his departure, Atsuo took over drums and the lineup has remained consistent to this day. Boris draw influence from a huge variety of styles including, but not limited to, psychedelic rock, punk, sludge, doom metal, drone, pop, noise, shoegaze, and ambient. The band’s name is taken from a song on Melvins’ album, Bullhead.

They released their debut full-length album, Absolutego, on their own label, Fangs Anal Satan, in 1996. Since its formation, Boris have released 17 full-length albums, three live albums, six collaborations with Japanese noise legend Merzbow among various other collaborations, and one best album Variations which focused more on the rock side of the band.

Boris saw a huge increase in popularity when Southern Lord reissued their works in North America, garnering them critical acclaim and recognition in music press. Pink, originally released in 2005 in Japan via Diwphalanx, was reissued in 2006 by Southern Lord and met with a very positive reception in the US. Blender magazine and SPIN magazine both named it one of the year’s best albums. The album also made the top of the metal section in Canadian magazine Exclaim’s reader’s poll of that year, and was in the top 10 of Pitchfork Media’s top 50 records of the year.

In 2011, Boris announced plans to release three full-length albums in the same year. The first to be released was New Album, their fifteenth album, on March 16 in Japan. The album consists of mainly j-pop with some elements of psychedelic rock and electronic styles. The next two albums, Heavy Rocks (2011) and Attention Please, were released simultaneously on May 24 through Sargent House. Heavy Rocks shares its name and cover art style with Heavy Rocks, released in 2002 in Japan. Attention Please is mostly noted for featuring lead vocals by Wata on each song. Boris co-headlined a European tour with their new label-mates Russian Circles throughout the summer from June 17 to July 17 and continued touring Europe alone from July 19 to July 24. They will also be headlining a North American fall tour from October 7 to November 12 with various openers including Tera Melos, Asobi Seksu, True Widow, Liturgy, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Coliseum, and Joe Lally.

Boris maintains a Tumblr page at borisheavyrocks.tumblr.com and an official homepage at www.borisheavyrocks.com.