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.
― Tom Violence, Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
18 Noothgrush - Thoth 66 Points, 4 Votes One #1http://youtu.be/8yzZr68JfOchttp://open.spotify.com/track/2nN4RVg11hPat1dKdifstRspotify:track:2nN4RVg11hPat1dKdifstR
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
17 Vhol - Grace 66.0 Points, 5 Voteshttp://open.spotify.com/track/3Ap3V7FvHcrfkQOemkUX7Mspotify:track:3Ap3V7FvHcrfkQOemkUX7M
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
16 Ghost - Ghuleh/Zombie Queen 67 Points, 4 Votes, One #1 http://youtu.be/dQDaWoWwqdMhttp://open.spotify.com/track/4yrxgaL6zAsxkeMCwCtORSspotify:track:4yrxgaL6zAsxkeMCwCtORS
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
album highlight ..
such an immense track ..
― mark e, Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
genuine question : what makes ghost part of the 'metal' genre
to me the ghost album is more psych ..
― mark e, Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
with a ton of pop rock thrown in ..
― mark e, Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link
Well, metal wasnt always "extreme" Blue Oyster Cult were still 'metal'plusthis 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)
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
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 ..)
― mark e, Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
I didn't love the album, but I love this song. This is where they stuffed all of their good ideas.
― jmm, Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link
15 Fen - Consequence 73 Points, 5 Voteshttp://youtu.be/F0Zj3gtosAUhttp://open.spotify.com/track/2fhcVncNegVhyZdbfQP3ckspotify:track:2fhcVncNegVhyZdbfQP3ck
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
14 Deafheaven - Dreamhouse 75 Points, 5 Votes, 2 #1shttp://youtu.be/RWyVhIBmdGwhttp://open.spotify.com/track/6l3A2EWZSOA8LTMmzRCyD3spotify:track:6l3A2EWZSOA8LTMmzRCyD3
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:55 (ten years ago) link
remember there's a spotify playlist for the tracks resultshttp://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/3JEQkwsSD5C7VsXMg4k1HXspotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:3JEQkwsSD5C7VsXMg4k1HX
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
13 Ghost - Monstrance Clock 81 Points, 6 Voteshttp://youtu.be/KCkoIEbjbsMhttp://open.spotify.com/track/27n116KPPtEaryhXyMiTrNspotify:track:27n116KPPtEaryhXyMiTrN
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
i have said all i need to say re this band.
clearly i am not alone in my love for their excess.
― mark e, Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
Best track on the album and best song they've ever done imo.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
More occult rock up next..
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
12 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Astral Sabbat 82 Points, 6 Votes, One #1 http://youtu.be/5hgWxb1bXkEhttp://open.spotify.com/track/72bB7G3kyg28jAA8lH65n0spotify:track:72bB7G3kyg28jAA8lH65n0
mark e i think you would dig this band (its from an ep, check out their only album too)
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
Nice song. Weird that stuff like Jess is still subsumed under metal. The occult-psych trend could be this decade's freak-folk.
― jmm, Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
well its still heavy rock innit?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link
Last one for tonight coming up
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link
11 Grayceon - Pearl 85 Points, 6 Voteshttp://youtu.be/Ygk6iEmajJwhttp://open.spotify.com/track/1gfVjGhMDDrk40JfZec9mlspotify:track:1gfVjGhMDDrk40JfZec9ml
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
It was an ep rather than album though
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Viceroy, Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Viceroy, Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
I've heard it referred to as "Lava Lamp Bullshit" hahaha
― Viceroy, Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Viceroy, Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
I love me some lova lamp bullshit!
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
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.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
the kind who think anything that isnt extreme isnt metal.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
hair metal sure put me off at the time though too until i heard better stuff in the early 90s
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
nu-metal had the same effect on metal that hair metal did to us older types too
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
love a bunch of these: ghost bc, jess + ancient ones, windhand -- i didn't vote in tracks but great list so far
― Mordy , Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
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.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Mordy , Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― Viceroy, Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
Because they all sound the same? ;)xp
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link
Tracks results playlisthttp://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/3JEQkwsSD5C7VsXMg4k1HX
recap30 Purson - well spoiled machine 44 Points, 3 votes29 Watain - The Wild Hunt 45 Points, 4 votes28 Darkthrone - leave no cross unturned 46 Points, 4 Votes, One #1 27 Dillinger Escape Plan - prancer 48 Points, 4 Votes26 SubRosa - The Usher 50 Points, 3 Votes25 Inter Arma - the survival fires 51 Points, 3 Votes24 Anciients - faith and oath 52 Points, 3 Votes, One #123 Bölzer - Entranced By The Wolfshook 54 Points, 3 Votes , TWO #1s 22 Carcass - the granulating dark satanic mills 56 Points, 3 Votes, One #121 Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Mind Crawler 57 Points 5 Votes
20 Windhand - Woodbine 62 Points, 4 Votes19 Suffocation - eminent wrath 63 Points, 4 Votes18 Noothgrush - Thoth 66 Points, 4 Votes One #117 Vhol - Grace 66.0 Points, 5 Votes16 Ghost - Ghuleh/Zombie Queen 67 Points, 4 Votes, One #1 15 Fen - Consequence 73 Points, 5 Votes14 Deafheaven - Dreamhouse 75 Points, 5 Votes, 2 #1s13 Ghost - Monstrance Clock 81 Points, 6 Votes12 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.
― Viceroy, Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Viceroy, Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
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!!
― Viceroy, Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
I dunno, a lot of albums still have standout songs on them. People have favourites they want to hear at gigs for instance.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
yeah that's true for sure... I didn't get around to nominating a lot of tracks I liked this year, and I don't think I was alone in that, but yeah -- fan favorites are "a thing."
gotta go do some chores for a bit so I'll be gone from the countdown for a few hours.
― Viceroy, Sunday, 12 January 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
this is almost certainly bc i am a metal dilettante and metal listening only makes up to at most 15% of my music listening over a given year. that said i do have orphaned land track faves so there are exceptions to everything. these 2 ghost tracks btw i didn't recognize by name, but listening now they were definitely 2 of the best on the album. i feel like their album kinda got a critical panning or overlooking? too corny for mainstreamers??
― Mordy , Sunday, 12 January 2014 00:35 (ten years ago) link
heh, johnny fever and mordy both got whiney as top neighbour.
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 00:49 (ten years ago) link
proof that metal cures loneliness
― j., Monday, 27 January 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
djmartian appears to be most lonely
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
well, darkwave actually has the opposite effect
― j., Monday, 27 January 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link
poor djmartian
― ۩, Monday, 27 January 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
Now I want to see BlackIronPrison's ballot.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 27 January 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Two albums I've discoveres that I totally wouldve voted for--Oranssi Pazuzu and Wolf People
― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 1 February 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
Posted up thread...
― BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 1 February 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
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.
― ۩, Sunday, 2 February 2014 03:29 (ten years ago) link
Naw I liked the timeline. P&J + metal poll, first week, then tracks, then albums
― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:23 (ten years ago) link