61 Orchid - The Mouths of Madness 244 Points, 8 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/kHFXMxJ.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/0YApj7YuIN5oyydA642YKpspotify:album:0YApj7YuIN5oyydA642YKp
http://www.deezer.com/album/6539531
Genre: Doom Metal/Occult
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
Magic Circle - #17 Obelisk http://youtu.be/o-5RdDRZOoQ
In my top 15, love it.
Exhumed - #24 Decibel, #17 Pop Matters, #9 Metal Sucks, #26 Pitchforkhttp://exhumed.bandcamp.com/releases
Coffinshttp://youtu.be/6oMiU5QYUPkhttp://coffins.bandcamp.com/releases
True Widow - #19 Rock-A-RollaMutation - #31 Rock-A-Rolla
Cult Of Fire - #36 Stereogumhttps://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/cult-of-fire
Ken Mode - #44 Stereogum, #4 Metal Sucks musicians, #24 Pitchforkhttp://kenmode.bandcamp.com/album/entrench
Bölzer - #12 Stereogumhttp://youtu.be/mvkoqNrHFdw
Indricotherehttp://indricothere.bandcamp.com/album/xi-3
Tribulation - #10 Decibel, #16 Pitchfork, #27 Terrorizerhttp://youtu.be/xFxhzKUI-Go
Raspberry Bulbs - #50 Stereogum, #38 Pitchforkhttp://blackesteverblack.bandcamp.com/album/deformed-worship
Amon Amarthhttp://youtu.be/lgWtCD9T3lg
Ruins of Beverast - #20 Decibel, #29 Stereogum, #19 Pitchforkhttp://youtu.be/BXo-yy83s_Ahttp://www.20buckspinshop.com/products/the-ruins-of-beverast-blood-vaults-cd
Orchid - #16 Obelisk readers, #7 Captain Beyond Zen, #36 Metal Hammerhttp://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/orchid-exclusive-album-stream-the-mouths-of-madness/
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 13 January 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link
Direct Link to poll recap & full results
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 13 January 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
Another 15 on Tuesday then
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 January 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
Things I voted for:
100 Watain - The Wild Hunt, 150 Points, 5 votes76 Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones), 208 Points, 7 Votes67 Cloud Rat - Moksha, 225 Points, 6 Votes65 Tribulation – The Formulas Of Death, 230 Points, 7 Votes
Things I will check out hopefully:
101 Monster Magnet - Last Patrol, 146 Points, 6 Votes99 Woe - Withdrawal, 153 Points, 4 Votes97 Sahg - Delusions of Grandeur, 155 Points, 5 Votes96 Goatess - Goatess, 158 Points, 4 Votes, One #1 91 Cult Of Luna - Vertikal I & II, 166 Points, 6 Votes87 Batillus - Concrete Sustain, 173 Points, 6 Votes, One #186 Ulver - Messe ix-vix, 178 Points, 6 Votes83 Mammoth Grinder – Underworlds, 193 Points, 6 Votes, One #1 81 Purson - The Circle and the Blue Door, 202 Points, 5 Votes80 Russian Circles – Memorial, 204 Points, 6 Votes75 Magic Circle - Magic Circle, 214 Points, 5 Votes, One #172 Coffins - The Fleshland, 219 Points, 6 Votes72 True Widow – Circumambulation, 219 Points, 6 Votes63 Amon Amarth – Deceiver Of The Gods, 240 Points, 7 Votes62 Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer, 243 Points, 6 Votes, One #1
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 13 January 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
i don't think i've heard that purson album before the poll but it's fantastic
― Mordy , Tuesday, 14 January 2014 00:46 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure Hey Colossus is the only one I voted for so far. Had the pleasure to see Purson support uncle acid at their first official show and to be honest they blew the main act out the water I'm sad to say.
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
Wish I saw that. Not sure why Uncle Acid supported Sabbath in Europe but not the U.S. More of these bands need to cross the Atlantic dangit.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 05:19 (ten years ago) link
Remember to vote in ILM 2013 | End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll | VOTING THREAD (Voting closes MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 17th, 2014)
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 08:10 (ten years ago) link
I just voted in it.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 08:53 (ten years ago) link
What do you guys prefer finishing on Thursday or finishing on Friday?
It's nicely set up for either. It can be 15/15/15/15 or 20/20/10/10 or 20/20/20 to finish thurs.Im not bothered either way - whatever suits the majority of those who can be arsed to reply.
Hope everyone is enjoying the poll and making new discoveries.
All thoughts on already placed tracks/albums are welcome.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:01 (ten years ago) link
never heard of Purson until today. extremely curious to hear them based on how people have been describing their sound!
― charlie h, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:15 (ten years ago) link
btw, i vote finishing the poll by Thursday
― charlie h, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:16 (ten years ago) link
Thursday
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 09:51 (ten years ago) link
I thought ilxors preferred a slow rollout over 5 days
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:26 (ten years ago) link
If we decide to finish by thursday I will need to start earlier each day at around 2pm so we're not rushing it and finishing after people have gone home. That's not so bad when countdown just starts but we cant rush the top half.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:41 (ten years ago) link
Are those on the west coast of the USA ok with that?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:42 (ten years ago) link
Remember you can subscribe to albums playlisthttp://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/6fsnIonKsPLF5NzZ9hJg27
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:54 (ten years ago) link
Will resume in about an hour or so, hopefully most will be awake by then.
Still time to say whether you want a thurs or friday finish
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link
ok lets go....
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:08 (ten years ago) link
before I post the next one.... just out of interest is anyone using deezer? Should I keep posting the links?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
60 Coliseum - Sister Faith 247 Points, 8 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/GaYdhJw.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/5wBu50BQLZiAv7XmuVVBMDspotify:album:5wBu50BQLZiAv7XmuVVBMD
http://www.deezer.com/album/6424231http://www.stereogum.com/1337832/album-of-the-week-coliseum-sister-faith/top-stories/
This used to be what indie rock sounded like. During the 1990s, Elephant 6 and Belle And Sebastian were outliers, and the genre (which really was more genre and less loose lifestyle appellation) hadn’t erased all traces of the get-in-the-van ’80s hardcore that helped birth it. As late as a decade ago, when the Louisville trio Coliseum formed, the term “indie” evoked images of Pretty Girls Make Graves or Blood Brothers as much as, I don’t know, Beulah, and it was still vaguely novel to hear a flugelhorn on a Sub Pop record. These days, Coliseum are creatures of the loose metal underground that’s become our greatest resource for facepunch guitars, but they’re not really a metal band. The ingredients of their sound come from other places: Pummeling locked-in bass-thuds from Girls Against Boys, swampy-but-skronky guitar fuzz-bursts from Sonic Youth, beardedly beery vocal blurts from about a thousand different bands. And with their new Sister Faith, Coliseum have made an album that stews all those influences into something powerfully satisfying and maybe even nourishing. It’s not an innovative album by any means, but it might scratch an itch that you didn’t even know you had.Here’s the best way I can think to describe Coliseum’s sound. It starts with another Louisville band: Slint, who did math-rock throb with a distant but hot emotional fire and who are, low-key, one of the most influential metal bands of the past few decades despite not being remotely metal. But plenty of bands start with the Slint blueprint and take it nowhere; Coliseum do something interesting with it by speeding it up like Motörhead, turning it into no-bullshit rage-out adrenaline music. They’ve been doing it for a while now, growing into their sound and internalizing it, getting better at it to the point where it’s entirely theirs. Sister Faith is their fourth album, and it’s their second with producer J. Robbins, whose involvement is also an important key to this thing. Robbins used to lead Jawbox and Burning Airlines; he’s a principal architect of the post-hardcore clangor that finally mostly disappeared into emo. Those bands blew minds because they led with the rhythm section, keeping everything rigorous and disciplined on the low-end while guitar and voice freaked out, tied melodic knots, threw tantrums. They brought the sense that the rhythmic lockstep was the only thing holding those stretched-out and distended guitars together, the last line that kept them tethered to the earth. And even though Coliseum frontman Ryan Patterson riffs more than Robbins ever did, he brings those same dynamics — all tension, no release, but with a beat that keeps things pushing forever forward.It’s hard to pick out their individual contributions, but Coliseum called in a whole mess of friends to help out on Sister Faith, turning it into a community affair, and that list of names is a fascinating and illuminating thing. Robbins played on it, of course, and Sister Faith is the first album recorded at his new Baltimore studio. (A note to bands: Use this guy more. Baltimore is a cheap and lovely place to stay, Robbins could always use some extra money for very noble and important reasons, and he will make your drums sound like they’re ready to cave in chest cavities.) Boris frontman Wata, whose own band fits just as uncomfortably into the metal scene as Coliseum does, is here. So is Jason Loewenstein, from the comparatively wussy Sebadoh, whose most iconic song is about the exact moment when a hardcore kid decides that he’s an indie rock kid. Another guy, Jason Farrell, comes from Swiz and Bluetip, two of the bands that pushed DC hardcore into further-out sounds. And so is Elizabeth Elmore, whose bands Sarge and the Reputation came at the tail end of the riot-grrrl boomlet and put a vulnerable human face on the feelings behind that movement. These are all good people, and none of them dictate the direction of the album, but all of them find room for themselves in the racket.Listening to the album, you’re not necessarily thinking about the people involved in making it, or what their involvement might express. It’s too fun for all that. “Last/Lost” is all strained propulsion, like Hüsker Dü in full attack mode. “Under The Blood Of The Moon” has a big, meaty stomper of a riff working for it. “Everything In Glass” sounds like At The Drive-In if they were a half-step slower; it’s got that same righteous chaos to it. At its climax, “Bad Will” reverts back to straight-up old-school hardcore, its final chorus the sort of thing that demands a raised-fist gang-chant. This is the sound of guys playing hard, aggressive music because it’s what comes naturally to them; it’s the stuff their fingers feel themselves playing when they’re touching instruments. God knows, the world doesn’t need a million more bands like this, and we weren’t necessarily better off when bands like this were the exception rather than the rule. But it’s still an absolute pleasure to hear a band like this is still around, playing this music and playing it well.Sister Faith is out today on Temporary Residence.
Here’s the best way I can think to describe Coliseum’s sound. It starts with another Louisville band: Slint, who did math-rock throb with a distant but hot emotional fire and who are, low-key, one of the most influential metal bands of the past few decades despite not being remotely metal. But plenty of bands start with the Slint blueprint and take it nowhere; Coliseum do something interesting with it by speeding it up like Motörhead, turning it into no-bullshit rage-out adrenaline music. They’ve been doing it for a while now, growing into their sound and internalizing it, getting better at it to the point where it’s entirely theirs. Sister Faith is their fourth album, and it’s their second with producer J. Robbins, whose involvement is also an important key to this thing. Robbins used to lead Jawbox and Burning Airlines; he’s a principal architect of the post-hardcore clangor that finally mostly disappeared into emo. Those bands blew minds because they led with the rhythm section, keeping everything rigorous and disciplined on the low-end while guitar and voice freaked out, tied melodic knots, threw tantrums. They brought the sense that the rhythmic lockstep was the only thing holding those stretched-out and distended guitars together, the last line that kept them tethered to the earth. And even though Coliseum frontman Ryan Patterson riffs more than Robbins ever did, he brings those same dynamics — all tension, no release, but with a beat that keeps things pushing forever forward.
It’s hard to pick out their individual contributions, but Coliseum called in a whole mess of friends to help out on Sister Faith, turning it into a community affair, and that list of names is a fascinating and illuminating thing. Robbins played on it, of course, and Sister Faith is the first album recorded at his new Baltimore studio. (A note to bands: Use this guy more. Baltimore is a cheap and lovely place to stay, Robbins could always use some extra money for very noble and important reasons, and he will make your drums sound like they’re ready to cave in chest cavities.) Boris frontman Wata, whose own band fits just as uncomfortably into the metal scene as Coliseum does, is here. So is Jason Loewenstein, from the comparatively wussy Sebadoh, whose most iconic song is about the exact moment when a hardcore kid decides that he’s an indie rock kid. Another guy, Jason Farrell, comes from Swiz and Bluetip, two of the bands that pushed DC hardcore into further-out sounds. And so is Elizabeth Elmore, whose bands Sarge and the Reputation came at the tail end of the riot-grrrl boomlet and put a vulnerable human face on the feelings behind that movement. These are all good people, and none of them dictate the direction of the album, but all of them find room for themselves in the racket.
Listening to the album, you’re not necessarily thinking about the people involved in making it, or what their involvement might express. It’s too fun for all that. “Last/Lost” is all strained propulsion, like Hüsker Dü in full attack mode. “Under The Blood Of The Moon” has a big, meaty stomper of a riff working for it. “Everything In Glass” sounds like At The Drive-In if they were a half-step slower; it’s got that same righteous chaos to it. At its climax, “Bad Will” reverts back to straight-up old-school hardcore, its final chorus the sort of thing that demands a raised-fist gang-chant. This is the sound of guys playing hard, aggressive music because it’s what comes naturally to them; it’s the stuff their fingers feel themselves playing when they’re touching instruments. God knows, the world doesn’t need a million more bands like this, and we weren’t necessarily better off when bands like this were the exception rather than the rule. But it’s still an absolute pleasure to hear a band like this is still around, playing this music and playing it well.
Sister Faith is out today on Temporary Residence.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
excellent album btw
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
One I got for xmas actually.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
flowers growing vpon the skull of a man
― Vote in the ILM EOY Poll! (seandalai), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
the reason I posted that review btw is because i had a conversation on ilm somewhere (with edward iii, hellhouse and possibly contenderizer (where is he?) ) about how indie rock is so fucking boring now everyone has migrated to metal now to get the sonic kicks they used to get and how that might be bands are now adding tropes from 80s and 90s indie rock as more "indie" fans get into metal and start bands which leads to metallers hearing new to them non-metal from ye olden days. (yes not everyone approves I know)
dog latin you must have thoughts on that!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
uh...
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
wut?
you usually have lots of thoughts on things!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
i dunno...
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
maybe i should hear the album and read the review at the same time. i'm not sure about the assumption that indie is boring now.
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
59 Argus - Beyond The Martyrs 248 Points, 9 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/U5Rkzbf.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/5HNwj591St7iS8pZTh4znjspotify:album:5HNwj591St7iS8pZTh4znj
http://www.deezer.com/album/6976647
Genre: Heavy/Doom Metal
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
bbbbut indie IS boring now!
that coliseum review mentions a whole bunch of bands I like too so it helps explain why I like the band so much
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
Argus are awesome too btw
So far I've listened to Agrimona and Sungod albums while working, both seemed pretty good, will def listen again more attentively.
Listening now to Coliseum - it's great! Don't really hear PGMG/Blood Brothers comparisons in most songs as much as standard late 90s or early/mid 2000s hardcore? But it's not a bad thing obv, love that music.
i don't listen to much metal btw so looking forward to rest of the results.
― antoni, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
Argus disappointed me. It's a good record, but pales before their last one. It sounds too safe.
Coliseum not only made a great record, they toured the shit out of it and fucking rocked live. One of the best shows I saw all year, which is saying something.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
High Praise!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
antoni welcome! always nice to see people checking out the results and commenting.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
58 Aeternus - And The Seventh His Soul Detesteth 251 Points, 6 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/WQHHvRX.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/6ZUnEP5WNVNv5MqGXxHmhBspotify:album:6ZUnEP5WNVNv5MqGXxHmhB
http://www.deezer.com/album/6425136
Genre:Death Metal
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
57 Kadavar - Abra Kadavar 253 Points, 7 Votes, One #1 http://i.imgur.com/rHa2YjV.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/6pSduW2CtbBc87aPyhEKxcspotify:album:6pSduW2CtbBc87aPyhEKxc
http://www.deezer.com/album/6501910Genre:80s Synthpop Revivalists
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Abba Kadavar
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
56 Ulcerate - Vermis 258 Points, 8 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/fplRThK.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/0FR1Vn0vo2p8J8WT67eTYzspotify:album:0FR1Vn0vo2p8J8WT67eTYz
http://www.deezer.com/album/6794719
Genre: Technical Death Metal
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link
Can't remember if I voted for the Ulcerate, but this one didn't connect with me the way Destroyers of All did. Color Sands was this year's Destroyers of All for me.
― beard papa, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
#27 Decibel, #35 Rock-A-Rolla, #25 Metal Suckshttp://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/
Coliseum - #32 Decibel, #26 Rock-A-Rollahttp://coliseum.bandcamp.com/album/sister-faith
Argus - #43 Metal Hammerhttp://shadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/argushttp://youtu.be/KJHCwRYBFrY
Argus has been left out in the cold in most polls, so props to ILM!
Aeturnus - no other poll lovehttp://youtu.be/L_gRlS6iaOg
Kadavar - #27 Obelisk, #6 Obelisk readers, #13 Captain Beyond Zen, #5 Stoner HiVehttp://youtu.be/I7FBmbyDGaA
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
man, i think half my ballot has already shown up. out of the ilm metal mainstream :...(
― j., Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
80s Synthpop Revivalists
Ha. Seriously though, this was my #1. At first I preferred the debut, but the more I listen to this the more I like it. These guys can write a hook, the bass lines are awesome, and I like the singer's voice. It may seem like they're just doing a retro-revivalist shtick, but there's nothing cookie-cutter about it. This stuff holds up against the '70s hard rock dinosaurs they plainly admire (Zeppelin, Sabbath, Hawkwind, etc). There may be nothing especially innovative about them, but it's so pleasurable to just listen to a great band playing great songs that I don't really care.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
I like the quotes/review blurbs, also worked well on the disco poll: ...AND THE BEAT GOES ON! The GRAND ILM DISCO POLL results are revealed!
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Yeah Kadavar grew on me the past month. Love their video for "Come Back Life" - http://youtu.be/4xgi91s7zf8
xp With 415 total albums in the poll, you're doing alright to get most of your ballot in top 100.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
(old ILM quotes are always nice to kickstart/restart discussions)
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link