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

agreed. today is the day rule

This one is definitely their most accessible. Total rock 'n roll groove going on.

27. Grayceon - All We Destroy (645 Points, 19 Votes, 1 #1)
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Spotify
http://www.last.fm/music/grayceon

Grayceon pulls together an extremely diverse range of musical influences and writing styles to create a fresh sound that defies the boundaries of the metal/rock/progressive genres. Compared to King Crimson and Ved Buens Ende, not in sound but in ‘feel’, Grayceon embraces the hard-to-describe-them definition and expects no hard comparisons to be made any time soon.

Alternate low tuning on both cello and guitar, finger picked metal riffs, dreamy double vocals, and unpredictably impeccable drumming all meet to give Grayceon their unique sensibility.

checking out Today Is The Day on youtube - this is good. No idea why I've never given them a second glance.

great album and pleased to see it place so high
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I liked the Grayceon on first listen - I think if you searched the Rolling Metal thread I probably gush over it. However, it was one of those records I liked less the more I heard it. Don't know why, but it kept slipping in my estimation.

I've seen TOTD three times and they've smashed it every time yet am still yet to own any of their records

the last time they played to 15 people max in a room that can hold about 700, it was the most ridiculous thing

*TITD

so who is ready for the last one of the evening?

Wow. For some reason I always had Today is the Day confused in my head with some shitty metalcore band and avoided them like the plague. Oops.

I'm ready! Need to leave work soon.

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26. Virus - The Agent That Shapes the Desert (653 Points, 19 Votes)
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Spotify
http://www.last.fm/music/Virus

Norwegian avant-garde / progressive rock/metal band formed in 2000 by ex- Ved Buens Ende members Czral (Carl-Michael Eide) (ex -Dodheimsgard, ex -Ved Buens Ende, ex - Cadaver Inc, Ex -Ulver, Ex- Satyricon, Aura Noir), Esso (Einar Sjurso) (ex -Ved Buens Ende, ex - Lamented Souls, Beyond Dawn), and Plenum (Petter Berntsen) (ex -Audio Pain, ex- Ved Buens Ende) and signed to the Jester Records label.

Despite a fall from a 4th story window which left him partially paralysed, Czral continues with the band and a new album was released in late 2008.

Both albums released to date have met with critical acclaim from rock and metal media alike, and been praised for their daring musical style.

Albums
2003 - Carheart (Jester Records)
2008 - The Black Flux (Season Of Mist)
2011 - The Agent That Shapes The Desert (Duplicate Records)
Info: www.myspace.com/czral

Another one that I never got around to last year, really liked The Black Flux.

Another good record.

This thread reminds me of a v v v uncomfortable dinner my wife and I had with a couple that was buying one of my father in law's paintings. It was pretty clear early on that they were ultra right wingers and no one we would ever associate with willingly, but it got 1000000x worse when the guy made a comment that ended with "yeah, that's what we call 'em here, 'reggins', so they don't catch on". As I nearly bit through my tongue my wife was squeezing my arm so hard under the table that she drew blood.

OMG wrong thread! Mods delete please.

serves you right for having dinner with varg and his wife

bahahaha

Hahahaha. No, I had two ilx tabs open, one for general browsing and one to follow this thread and I very obviously posted this in the wrong tab.

i want to be a helpful mod but i also find that misplaced post extrememly funny, what to do

could have been worse, you could have had the Anselmo's round.

I just didn't mean to derail this thread in any way.

v v v uncomfortable

your wife has a fierce grip!

I like to think it was the rage flowing through her at the time.

was it against the machine?

see this is what happens when people veto the new ulver album

Ulver fans vote in Virus instead?

Sonbitch, Grayceon should have been my #18 but I somehow missed putting it in my ballot.

Direct Link to poll recap & full results

Join us tomorrow for the top 25!

AND MAKE YOUR PREDICTIONS NOW!! Lets see who is closest.

I look forward to ASR getting really angry at me that Turisas landed in the top 25.

Or me getting really angry at ASR that they didn't place at all.

I did my part Jeff.

I'm looking forward to the results tomorrow. I really hope you all are. They're.... interesting.

and as always the posts of "too low" "why did such and such not place" "wtf voted that in!"

Do you all think this list is diverse?

thought primordial would be higher--that's a great record

i was checking out the today is the day on spotify earlier and it's good too--want to go back in their catalog at some point

My internet has been down for most of the day, so late to the party.
So from 60-26 have:
Liked - Tombs, KEN Mode, Shooting Guns, Barn Owl, Morne, Grayceon
Very Much Liked - Boris, Elder, Sungrazer

Looking frwd to the Top 25 tmrw.

Bummed about Hills not placing, though that record is not metal at all

you can't be too unhappy then. plus look what you did get in!

Did you remember to vote in THE 2011 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ Voting Thread (ends at MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 20th, 2012) ?

I'm not unhappy; this poll has ruled so far

Mordy is compiling a spotify playlist for your pleasure everyone.
http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/6FNGd20uP6dyX5W1jzFE6Z

things that should still place:

- SubRosa
- Uncle Acid
- Esoteric
- YOB

music aside, this thread has some of the best album covers i've seen in forever and some of the worst

Kerr really wants some predictions. He's worked hard on this, so here's mine.

The top ten I think is probably the easiest to guess. I think I could possibly get as many 8 of them right. In rough order:

YOB - Atma
Hammers Of Misfortune - 17th Street
Mastodon - The Hunter
Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats - Blood Lust
Corrupted - Garten der Unbewusstheit
Liturgy - Aesthetica
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
The Gates Of Slumber - The Wretch
40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance

11-20 is harder. There's probably some obvious black metal album I'm missing. I'll be lucky to get 50% right.

Opeth - Heritage
Pentagram - Last Rites
Subrosa - No Help For The Mighty One
Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination
Brutal Truth - End Time
The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre
Blood Ceremony - Living With the Ancients
USX (U.S. Christmas) - The Valley Path
Hull - Beyond the Lightless Sky
Dir en grey - Dum Spiro Spero

21-25 I really have no clue. There are so many worthy candidates. There will be omissions that will shock me, but hopefully it will be balanced by surprises that I haven't heard yet. A couple obvious non-metal albums will probably make it, like Graveyard, which I love dearly but did not vote for, maybe Black Cobra and Lo-Pan. If not those, maybe Gentleman's Pistols, Totimoshi, Freedom Hawk or Ancient VVisdom.

TesseracT - One
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues
Black Cobra - Invernal
White Wizzard - Flying Tigers
Lo-Pan - Salvador

I'm afraid none of these massively awesome albums will make it. If I'm wrong and at least one does, I'll be thrilled.

Green & Wood - Devil's Plan
Obrero - Mortui Vivos Docent
Wo Fat - Noche del Chupacabra
Glitter Wizard - Solar Hits
Leather Nun America - Kult Occult
Dopethrone - Dark Foil
Lazarus A.D. - Black Rivers Flow
Maligno - The Funeral Domine
Argus - Boldly Stride the Doomed

I know one of those massively awesome albums got a number 1 placement on one ballot and I'd be happy as hell to see it place.