ILX METAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2008 RESULTS (NOW COUNTING DOWN THE TOP TEN, BTW)

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Witch - Paralyzed (Tee Pee) 70 points

In order to continue not spoiling anything, I will neither confirm nor deny Pfunk's insinuation that I have revealed anything.

should never have allowed axl and his hired hands to vote. I suspected they weren't ilxors

How does the Deathspell Omega album compare to Fas -- Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum?

I don't think it got the acclaim the previous two got, but I could be wrong. I haven't heard it so I'm not really in a position to answer you though :)

Maybe Scott or j0hn can answer.

Just to build suspense a little for #34, I'll mention that it has the highest average point-rating of any album with 3 or more voters!

And it got a number one vote. I feel guilty for not voting for it. I thought it would have been top ten for sure.

2 albums i thought were definite top 10s (one of which I thought was a potential no1) didn't make the 10(the last one possibly because it's fans on the rolling metal thread didn't vote).

oh and for the "where's the tr00 kvlt metal on this list?" Where were your votes? ;)

Speaking of #1 votes, there was only one album that got 3 #1 votes (and it didn't win) and only 4 that got 2 #1 votes (one of which didn't even make the top 20).

Here's a snippet of something I wrote about the Witch album (#35) when it came out:

While trying to find a concise description of what they now sound like, I stumbled onto the following idea: Gene Ween and Mark Arm locked in a shipping container and given a day to record a bunch of songs based on an eight year-olds’ written description of The Stooges’ Fun House. It isn’t really accurate, but there is something so fuzzed-out, sloppy, naively charming and innocently joyous about Paralyzed; something that both Ween and Mudhoney have managed on occasion in their long careers.

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Hammers of Misfortune - Fields/Church of Broken Glass (Profoundlore) 71 points(1 no1 vote)

New Deathspell kind of splits the difference between Kenose and Fas et c. Not as ambient/blurry as the former, but not as fiercely jagged as the former. Kenose is my favorite DO so far, and this is right up there with it. Maybe they just do better with the short albums/long songs thing.

Anyone got comments on the Hammers Of Misfortune?

I sheepishly have not heard HoM. At all. On the list...

I like it. I know Jeff liked it a lot. The ilxor who had it at no1, I don't know who he/she is. But they were the 1st person to vote.

Remember to vote in the ILX poll !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I VOTED IN THE 2008 ILX ALBUMS & TRAX POLL AND I LIKED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ballots due Thurs, Jan 22)

"How does the Deathspell Omega album compare to Fas -- Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum?"

it's not an album. just one 22 minute track. which is kind of an album if you grew up with albums that were 20+ minutes long. it was half of a split LP put out in 2008. and it is being released this year (this month) as a single EP. i've only heard the track online. sounded like what you would expect from them.

i guess people were voting for the 2009 EP promo and not the split with S.V.E.S.T. that came out last year.

um, that was me...

hi, maria

Scott you didn't vote :(

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Ascend - Ample Fire Within (Southern Lord) 72 points

The best album Greg Anderson has been involved with in years - pfunkboy

YES! Where's UFOmammut already?

You will just have to wait and see if it made it or not!

Which is why 191-101 hasn't been revealed nor have the albums with zero votes. So no-one can guess what's in the rest of the poll. I'm sure there will be more surprises for some of you.

Glenn may have stats on the zero vote albums, I don't know.

Hey, did I miss anything?

Yes, we inaugurated the first black metal president.

rofl

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Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect (Hydra Head) 78 points

rofl

Why Are You Not Perfect?

Glenn I dont have my notes on this comp, did jesu get in a lot of top 10s? Or did it just pick up votes from most voters? I don't recall it being that high in many lists.
I love Jesu but it's one of many releases last year by JK and I don't remember being that struck by it. I wonder if he's taken Jesu as far as he can, as the recent ep's arent anywhere as good as the 1st ep and the 2 albums.

Maybe he just needs some quality control.

New Final out next month and Godflesh reissues.

I think he may have been concentrating on Final lately

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disagree abt broadyrick quality control he's totally acing that clutching kitten while passively masturbating vibe plus KILLS alcest at making MBV sound like Venom

The Jesu got 6 votes. One #6, one #23 (from me), the other four squarely mid-ballot.

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Moonspell - Night Eternal (SPV/Steamhammer) 81 points

I have nothing interesting to say about the above. I'll leave the stats stuff to glenn

I liked the Jesu, but most of it was on the split with Eluvium which made my 2007 list. Most shoegazer stuff he's done is on there (“Blind and Faithless"). Thought the remixes were crap.

Hope he releases some heavier stuff next time. I think he's taken the shoegaze as far as he can.

I'll post the next one once Glenn has done his stats stuff. (thanks again glenn for doing this)

I liked the Moonspell album a lot. I think since Sentenced disbanded, Moonspell have been the kings of that kind of gothic/death metal. As with Jesu, 6 votes: one high, one low, four in the middle.

To recap the stats for #s 50-31 (Rank - Points - Votes - Artist - Album):

48 - 50 - 4 - Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled
48 - 50 - 3 - Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood
47 - 52 - 5 - Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
45 - 54 - 4 - Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness
45 - 54 - 4 - Withered - Folie Circulaire
43 - 55 - 4 - Metallica - Death Magnetic
43 - 55 - 6 - Unearthly Trance - Electrocution
42 - 59 - 4 - Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony
41 - 60 - 4 - Disfear - Live the Storm
40 - 61 - 4 - Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
39 - 62 - 5 - Darkspace - III
38 - 63 - 6 - Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
37 - 66 - 5 - Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth
36 - 68 - 6 - Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
35 - 70 - 5 - Witch - Paralyzed
34 - 71 - 3 - Hammers of Misfortune - Fields/Church of Broken Glass
33 - 72 - 6 - Ascend - Ample Fire Within
32 - 78 - 6 - Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect
31 - 81 - 6 - Moonspell - Night Eternal

Thanks Glenn!

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The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror (Profoundlore) 83 points

I forgot to mention when posting the Blood Ceremony album that it got 1 number 1 vote.
Glenn what other albums got a no1 vote that were outside the top 50?

^^^that was by me I believe

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Earthless - Live at Roadburn (Tee Pee) 88 Points

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UFOmammut - Idolum (Supernatural Cat) 88 points

Here are the albums outside the top 49 that got a #1 vote (Rank - Points - Votes - Artist - Album):

50 - 48 - 3 - Zebulon Pike - Intransience
63 - 39 - 3 - Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
74 - 33 - 2 - Samothrace - Lifes Trade
76 - 32 - 2 - Equilibrium - Sagas
78 - 31 - 2 - Pyramids - Pyramids
89 - 27 - 2 - In This Moment - The Dream
91 - 25 - 1 - Gevolt - Sidur
91 - 25 - 1 - Mar De Grises - draining the waterheart

In This Moment was mine.
91 - 25 - 1 - Rose Tattoo - Blood Brothers