~~~ 2014 ILM METAL POLL TRACKS & ALBUMS COUNTDOWN! ~~~ (Tracks top 30 first then Albums)

windhand sound like the latter day Electric Wizard stuff you like

19    Suffocation - eminent wrath    63 Points,    4  Votes
http://youtu.be/IgOMuiRSJpA
http://open.spotify.com/track/3ZzF989swBny8VeqpQqeZB
spotify:track:3ZzF989swBny8VeqpQqeZB

saw that reference to EW in the youtube thread.

my local source of rock music, i.e. hmv !, has a few of the EW albums on cd ..

not hit the pay option yet, but could happen next week ..

xpost, agreed re: Mark's opinion on Darkthrone, that track is pretty much an album by itself. It's a lot to digest, they cover a lot of ground all in fifteen minutes (esp. for such a kvlt black metal band). Works great as an album side, though.

18    Noothgrush - Thoth    66 Points,   4 Votes  One #1
http://youtu.be/8yzZr68JfOc
http://open.spotify.com/track/2nN4RVg11hPat1dKdifstR
spotify:track:2nN4RVg11hPat1dKdifstR

17    Vhol - Grace    66.0 Points,   5 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/3Ap3V7FvHcrfkQOemkUX7M
spotify:track:3Ap3V7FvHcrfkQOemkUX7M

16    Ghost - Ghuleh/Zombie Queen    67 Points,    4 Votes,  One #1  
http://youtu.be/dQDaWoWwqdM
http://open.spotify.com/track/4yrxgaL6zAsxkeMCwCtORS
spotify:track:4yrxgaL6zAsxkeMCwCtORS

album highlight ..

such an immense track ..

genuine question : what makes ghost part of the 'metal' genre

to me the ghost album is more psych ..

with a ton of pop rock thrown in ..

Well, metal wasnt always "extreme" Blue Oyster Cult were still 'metal'
plus
this is guys from other metal bands (though identities are supposed to be 'secret')
subject matter and image is very old skool metal.

Some welcome a return to old skool metal with real singing (and some dont)

it matters not, as i love love love this album ..

i love the whole sonic excess, the image, the secrecy.

bands with a plan, an identity, a look etc always push my buttons.

(had no idea this was folks from other bands, as i have never felt the need to do the digging ..)

I didn't love the album, but I love this song. This is where they stuffed all of their good ideas.

15    Fen - Consequence    73 Points,    5 Votes
http://youtu.be/F0Zj3gtosAU
http://open.spotify.com/track/2fhcVncNegVhyZdbfQP3ck
spotify:track:2fhcVncNegVhyZdbfQP3ck

14    Deafheaven - Dreamhouse    75 Points,   5 Votes,   2 #1s
http://youtu.be/RWyVhIBmdGw
http://open.spotify.com/track/6l3A2EWZSOA8LTMmzRCyD3
spotify:track:6l3A2EWZSOA8LTMmzRCyD3
  

remember there's a spotify playlist for the tracks results
http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/3JEQkwsSD5C7VsXMg4k1HX
spotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:3JEQkwsSD5C7VsXMg4k1HX

13    Ghost - Monstrance Clock    81 Points,    6  Votes
http://youtu.be/KCkoIEbjbsM
http://open.spotify.com/track/27n116KPPtEaryhXyMiTrN
spotify:track:27n116KPPtEaryhXyMiTrN

i have said all i need to say re this band.

clearly i am not alone in my love for their excess.

Best track on the album and best song they've ever done imo.

More occult rock up next..

12 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Astral Sabbat 82 Points, 6 Votes, One #1
http://youtu.be/5hgWxb1bXkE
http://open.spotify.com/track/72bB7G3kyg28jAA8lH65n0
spotify:track:72bB7G3kyg28jAA8lH65n0

mark e i think you would dig this band (its from an ep, check out their only album too)

Nice song. Weird that stuff like Jess is still subsumed under metal. The occult-psych trend could be this decade's freak-folk.

well its still heavy rock innit?

Last one for tonight coming up

11 Grayceon - Pearl 85 Points, 6 Votes
http://youtu.be/Ygk6iEmajJw
http://open.spotify.com/track/1gfVjGhMDDrk40JfZec9ml
spotify:track:1gfVjGhMDDrk40JfZec9ml

I totally slept on that Grayceon album.

Like Ghost and Purson, it dips a bit into 70s proto-metal. I felt the first Ghost album was definitely more metal than the newer one though.

It was an ep rather than album though

I'm just catching up now but I must first say -- WAY TOO LOW for Carcass - Granulating Dark Satanic Mills!
Also too low for Astral Sabbat! (the #1 vote was mine)

well its still heavy rock innit?

Yeah true. Actually I'm not sure why I called it weird, this stuff is definitely heavy metal, especially in the 70s sense where "heavy metal" just meant badass heavy rock band.

Occult rock revival is definitely heavy rock at least -- if Deep Purple and Bloodrock can be considered metal so can all the stuff like Ghost and Jess and stuff.

I've heard it referred to as "Lava Lamp Bullshit" hahaha

The funny thing is that in an old metal band I was in we had a nearly identical organ vamp to the one in Astral Sabbat. They stole my song!!! lol.

I love me some lova lamp bullshit!

did not like the purson thing at all.

saw them mentioned on another blog rundown (fastnbulbous ?) .. dreary and boring.

guess i like lava lamp bullshit more.

some people 40 and under think sabbath and priest/maiden are metal but nothing inbetween.
Some people of that age think Metal began with slayer/metallica thrash.
No doubt some kids think only extreme death or black is metal.

i am 45.
to me metal meant metallica, slayer, iron maiden, sabbath, megadeath, judas priest, dio, and a plethora of crap hair metal crap ..
in fact i think it was the hair metal thing that put me off for a long time.

yeah but you admit you were never into metal. Im talking about people who are but basically have no idea how heavy metal started bar sabbath.

the kind who think anything that isnt extreme isnt metal.

hair metal sure put me off at the time though too until i heard better stuff in the early 90s

nu-metal had the same effect on metal that hair metal did to us older types too

love a bunch of these: ghost bc, jess + ancient ones, windhand -- i didn't vote in tracks but great list so far

some big hitters still to come too so make sure everyone is around late sunday afternoon UK time for the top 10 then the start of the albums countdown in the evening.

idk why metal just is not a tracks genre for me. it is very rare that i can name a single track title on even a favorite metal album.

"Proto-Metal" has been subsumed into Heavy Metal for a while now AFAIK, and bands that are going back to that retro sound thus count as Metal. Everything old is new again.

Because they all sound the same? ;)
xp

Tracks results playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/3JEQkwsSD5C7VsXMg4k1HX

recap
30 Purson - well spoiled machine 44 Points, 3 votes
29 Watain - The Wild Hunt 45 Points, 4 votes
28 Darkthrone - leave no cross unturned 46 Points, 4 Votes, One #1
27 Dillinger Escape Plan - prancer 48 Points, 4 Votes
26 SubRosa - The Usher 50 Points, 3 Votes
25 Inter Arma - the survival fires 51 Points, 3 Votes
24 Anciients - faith and oath 52 Points, 3 Votes, One #1
23 Bölzer - Entranced By The Wolfshook 54 Points, 3 Votes , TWO #1s
22 Carcass - the granulating dark satanic mills 56 Points, 3 Votes, One #1
21 Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Mind Crawler 57 Points 5 Votes

20 Windhand - Woodbine 62 Points, 4 Votes
19 Suffocation - eminent wrath 63 Points, 4 Votes
18 Noothgrush - Thoth 66 Points, 4 Votes One #1
17 Vhol - Grace 66.0 Points, 5 Votes
16 Ghost - Ghuleh/Zombie Queen 67 Points, 4 Votes, One #1
15 Fen - Consequence 73 Points, 5 Votes
14 Deafheaven - Dreamhouse 75 Points, 5 Votes, 2 #1s
13 Ghost - Monstrance Clock 81 Points, 6 Votes
12 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Astral Sabbat 82 Points, 6 Votes, One #1
11 Grayceon - Pearl 85 Points, 6 Votes

I love Purson, that was a top album of the year for me, I def. voted for that track. I can understand not "getting" Purson but to me I think they are producing some pretty awesome weird proggy folk-revival heavy rock tinged stuff that I can dig pretty hard.

Mordy & AG - Nail on the head, there's usually not "stand out" tracks on most metal albums I like... there's ones I prefer but really it's mostly the sound of the whole album that metal goes for. Metal bands don't typically focus on singles, but album cohesion -- just a fact of the culture surrounding the genre.

BTW I am really really into the recent trend of the increasing inclusion of females into the world of metal... finally some gender parity going on!!

I did a quick version of voter stats for the metal poll, mostly useful for checking out hivemindness/loneliness/top neighbours: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AumbddEHET5xdERvTkNnTUlIdjRSdmtaSVl1di05NEE&usp=sharing

I meant to say for the albums poll.

awesome, thanks!

heh, johnny fever and mordy both got whiney as top neighbour.

proof that metal cures loneliness

djmartian appears to be most lonely

well, darkwave actually has the opposite effect

poor djmartian

Now I want to see BlackIronPrison's ballot.

Two albums I've discoveres that I totally wouldve voted for--Oranssi Pazuzu and Wolf People

Posted up thread...

I think this poll needs to be held in december next time. Gives everyone something to do before xmas and also a few weeks between big poll so everyone can check out the results.

Naw I liked the timeline. P&J + metal poll, first week, then tracks, then albums