My pleasure. Man, Carcass. Who knew when it first came out that they'd dominate like this? When I first listened to Reek of Putrefaction back in '88, I was delighted, but assumed they would stay very, very underground. But they were truly innovators, and despite the widespread hatred of Swansong (1996), the metal community really gave these guys a warm welcome back.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 17 January 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
feel free to post your ballots in here
Atlantean Kodex - The White GoddessASG - Blood DriveSubRosa - More Constant Than the GodsMelt-Banana - FetchKylesa - UltravioletFen - DustwalkerShining - One One OneMorne - ShadowsAltar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and InjuryBeastmilk - ClimaxWindhand - SomaCarcass - Surgical SteelIn Solitude - SisterJesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The LightHell - Curse & ChapterQueens Of The Stone Age - Like ClockworkVaura - The MissingChurch Of Misery - Thy Kingdom ScumColiseum - Sister FaithMoss-Horrible NightsDeafheaven - SunbatherGhost - InfestissumamThe Ocean - PelegialTrouble - The Distortion FieldTrue Widow - CircumambulationUlver - Messe I.X-VI.XFollakzoid - IIEllende - EllendeSummoning - Old Mornings DawnEarthless - From the AgesArckanum - Fenris KindirJute Gyte -DiscontinuitiesObelyskkh - Hymn to PanThe Body - Christs, RedeemersSungod - ContaktMUTation - Error 500Manilla Road - MysteriumMonster Magnet - Last PatrolLumbar - The First and Last Days of UnwelcomeIndricothere - IIGnaw - Horrible ChamberCastevet - ObsianAge Of Taurus - Desperate Souls Of Tortured TimesArgus - Beyond the MartyrsBardo Pond - Peace on VenusOranssi Pazuzu - ValonieluOrchid - The Mouths Of MadnessRaspberry Bulbs - Deformed WorshipVHOL - VholVista Chino - Peace
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
Thanks again to AG for doing most of the work. This whole enterprise was nearly dead and he busted out the defibrillator and shocked it back to life.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 17 January 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
How bout 102+ list?
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 17 January 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
I can post it but wasn't sure if I should include usernames of those who voted certain albums #1 on their list.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 17 January 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
Full List of Results
1 carcass - surgical steel 1121.0 27 8 2 in solitude - sister 831.0 21 2 3 altar of plagues - teethed glory and injury 798.0 22 0 4 gorguts - colored sands 779.0 19 2 5 subrosa - more constant than the gods 741.0 19 2 6 windhand - soma 732.0 19 1 knaaq7 uncle acid and the deadbeats - mind control 707.0 20 2 8 melt-banana - fetch 686.0 18 1 matt9 asg - blood drive 668.0 17 0 10 deafheaven - sunbather 666.0 18 3 11 kylesa - ultraviolet 637.0 18 1 12 atlantean kodex - the white goddess 615.0 15 1 13 avatarium - avatarium 613.0 16 1 Paul R14 darkthrone - the underground resistance 597.0 17 0 15 nails - abandon all life 561.0 16 1 16 hell - curse and chapter 560.0 14 1 17 queens of the stone age - like clockwork 557.0 15 1 18 beastmilk - climax 529.0 15 1 19 ghost - infestissumam 502.0 15 0 20 summoning - old mornings dawn 500.0 14 0 21 oranssi pazuzu - valonielu 477.0 14 0 22 gris - a lame enflammee lame constellee 466.0 13 0 23 vhol - vhol 453.0 12 1 24 jesu - everyday i get closer to the light 436.0 14 0 25 vaura - the missing 419.0 14 0 26 shining - one one one 418.0 13 0 27 blood ceremony - the eldritch dark 416.0 12 0 28 inter arma - sky burial 408.0 12 0 29 moss - horrible night 401.0 11 0 30 jute gyte - discontinuities 393.0 10 0 31 satan - life sentence 386.0 11 0 32 follakzoid - ii 383.0 10 0 33 bardo pond - peace on venus 377.0 12 0 34 kvelertak - meir 375.0 12 0 35 anciients - heart of oak 370.0 11 0 36 earthless - from the ages 368.0 11 1 37 inquisition - obscure verses for the multiverse 362.0 10 0 38 pinkish black - razed to the ground 358.0 9 0 39 church of misery - thy kingdom scum 335.0 11 0 40 manilla road - mysterium 326.0 10 0 41 castevet - obsian 325.0 11 0 42 paysage dhiver - das tor 316.0 9 1 43 body - christs redeemers 307.0 8 0 44 power trip - manifest decimation 303.0 9 1 45 black sabbath - 13 294.0 10 1 46 stara rzeka - cien chmury nad ukrytym polem 287.0 7 3 47 portal - vexovoid 282.0 8 0 48 vista chino - peace 276.0 9 0 49 progenie terrestre pura - uma 275.0 7 1 50 voivod - target earth 266.0 7 0 51 cathedral - the last spire 263.0 8 0 52 fen - dustwalker 261.0 9 0 53 ocean - pelegial 261.0 8 0 54 morne - shadows 259.0 8 0 55 autopsy - the headless ritual 258.0 9 0 56 ulcerate - vermis 258.0 8 0 57 kadavar - abra kadavar 253.0 7 1 58 aeternus - and the seventh his soul detesteth 251.0 6 0 59 argus - beyond the martyrs 248.0 9 0 60 coliseum - sister faith 247.0 8 0 61 orchid - the mouths of madness 244.0 8 0 62 ruins of beverast - blood vaults: the blazing gospel of heinrich kramer 243.0 6 1 63 amon amarth - deceiver of the gods 240.0 7 0 64 raspberry bulbs - deformed worship 238.0 7 0 65 tribulation - the formulas of death 230.0 7 0 66 indricothere - ii 228.0 8 0 67 bolzer - aura 225.0 6 0 67 cloud rat - moksha 225.0 6 0 69 ken mode - entrench 223.0 8 0 70 cult of fire - ??????????????????? 223.0 7 0 71 mutation - error 500 221.0 6 1 L72 coffins - the fleshland 219.0 6 0 72 true widow - circumambulation 219.0 6 0 74 exhumed - necrocracy 216.0 6 0 75 magic circle - magic circle 214.0 5 1 76 intronaut - habitual levitations (instilling words with tones) 208.0 7 0 77 agrimonia - rites of separation 208.0 6 1 78 hey colossus - cuckoo live life like cuckoo 205.0 6 0 79 clutch - earth rocker 205.0 5 0 80 russian circles - memorial 204.0 6 0 81 purson - the circle and the blue door 202.0 5 0 82 suffocation - pinnacle of bedlam 196.0 7 0 83 mammoth grinder - underworlds 193.0 6 1 84 obelyskkh - hymn to pan 184.0 6 0 85 sungod - contakt 178.0 6 0 85 ulver - messe ix-vix 178.0 6 0 87 batillus - concrete sustain 173.0 6 1 88 palms - palms 169.0 6 0 89 deveykus - pillar without mercy 168.0 7 1 90 baptists - bushcraft 167.0 5 0 91 cult of luna - vertikal 166.0 6 0 92 ataraxie - letre et la nausee 166.0 5 0 93 lumbar - the first and last days of unwelcome 164.0 7 0 94 ovo - abisso 163.0 6 0 95 obliteration - black death horizon 162.0 4 0 96 goatess - goatess 158.0 4 1 97 sahg - delusions of grandeur 155.0 5 0 98 corrections house - last city zero 154.0 5 0 99 woe - withdrawal 153.0 4 0 100 watain - the wild hunt 150.0 5 0 101 monster magnet - last patrol 146.0 6 0 102 noisem - agony defined 146.0 5 0 103 gnaw - horrible chamber 143.0 5 0 104 orphaned land - all is one 143.0 4 0 105 naam - vow 142.0 4 0 106 age of taurus - desperate souls of tortured times 141.0 7 0 107 shooting guns - brotherhood of the ram 139.0 4 0 108 peste noire - peste noire 138.0 5 0 109 brimstone coven - ii 138.0 4 0 110 full of hell - rudiments of mutilation 136.0 4 0 111 pissed jeans - honeys 136.0 3 1 112 trouble - the distortion field 135.0 5 0 113 beyond - fatal power of death 133.0 3 0 114 blockheads - the world is dead 128.0 4 0 115 ensemble pearl - ensemble pearl 128.0 3 0 116 cultes des ghoules - henbane 126.0 4 0 117 kayo dot - hubardo 124.0 4 0 118 arabrot - arabrot 123.0 4 0 119 aevangelist - omen ex simulacra 123.0 3 1 120 rotting christ - kata ton daimona eaytoy 121.0 6 0 121 motorhead - aftershock 119.0 5 0 122 immolation - kingdom of conspiracy 117.0 4 0 123 body - master we perish (ep) 113.0 3 0 124 celeste - animale(s) 110.0 4 0 125 ellende - ellende 109.0 5 0 126 toxic holocaust - chemistry of consciousness 107.0 4 0 127 ihsahn - das seelenbrechen 106.0 4 0 128 red fang - whales and leeches 105.0 3 0 129 secrets of the sky - to sail black waters 101.0 3 0 130 corsair - corsair 99.0 3 0 131 primitive man - scorn 98.0 3 0 132 skeletonwitch - serpents unleashed 95.0 4 0 133 aosoth - iv: an arrow in heart 93.0 3 0 134 shitfucker - sucks cocks in hell 92.0 4 1 135 pelican - forever becoming 92.0 3 0 136 wolf people - fain 91.0 2 0 137 bombus - the poet and the parrot 88.0 3 0 138 seremonia - ihminen 87.0 3 0 139 acid mothers temple and the melting paraiso ufo - in search of the lost divine arc 87.0 2 0 140 lustre - wonder 86.0 2 0 141 cult of dom keller - the cult of dom keller 85.0 2 0 142 omnium gatherum - beyond 83.0 3 0 143 iceage - youre nothing 83.0 2 1 144 abyssal - novit enim dominus qui sunt eius 83.0 2 0 144 nonexistence - antarctica 83.0 2 0 146 grave miasma - odori sepulcrorum 82.0 3 0 147 barbez - bella ciao 82.0 2 0 148 horisont - time warriors 81.0 4 0 148 vattnet viskar - sky swallower 81.0 4 0 150 lycus - tempest 81.0 3 0 151 fates warning - darkness in a different light 81.0 2 0 152 enshine - origin 80.0 2 0 153 amaranthe - the nexus 79.0 3 0 154 amorphis - circle 78.0 2 0 155 arckanum - fenris kindir 76.0 3 0 156 bone sickness - alone in the grave 76.0 2 0 157 jex thoth - blood moon rise 75.0 3 0 158 hawkeyes - poison slows you down 75.0 2 0 159 pest - the crowning horror 74.0 2 0 159 usnea - usnea 74.0 2 0 161 arsaidh - roots 73.0 3 0 162 satans wrath - aeons of satans reign 73.0 2 1 163 shining - 8 1/2 feberdrommar i vaket tillstan 72.0 4 0 164 beastwars - blood becomes fire 71.0 4 0 165 yellow eyes - hammer of night 71.0 2 0 166 black capricorn - born under the capricorn 70.0 2 0 166 hessian - manegarmr 70.0 2 0 168 falkenbach - asa 69.0 2 0 169 doomriders - grand blood 68.0 3 0 170 devil - gather the sinners 68.0 2 0 171 a storm of light - nations to flames 66.0 2 0 171 twilight of the gods - fire on the mountain 66.0 2 0 171 vastum - patricidal lust 66.0 2 0 174 weekend nachos - still 64.0 3 0 175 noctum - final sacrifice 64.0 2 0 176 all pigs must die - nothing violates this nature 62.0 2 0 177 cauchemar - tenebrario 61.0 2 0 178 byzantine - byzantine 60.0 2 0 179 locrian - return to annihilation 59.0 2 0 180 csejthe - reminiscence 58.0 2 0 181 wolvserpent - perigaea antahkarana 57.0 2 0 182 altaar - altaar 56.0 2 0 182 fall of every season - amends 56.0 2 0 184 nice hooves - nice hooves 55.0 2 0 184 meads of asphodel - sonderkommando 55.0 2 0 186 mouth of the architect - dawning 54.0 3 0 187 nero di marte - nero di marte 53.0 2 0 188 ampacity - encounter one 51.0 2 0 189 (victor griffins) in-graved - (victor griffins) in-graved 50.0 2 0 189 caladan brood - echoes of battle 50.0 2 0 191 ovids withering - scryers of the ibis 50.0 1 1 191 pentagram chile - the malefice 50.0 1 1 193 cosmic church - ylistys 49.0 2 0 194 endless boogie - long island 49.0 1 0 195 germ - grief 48.0 2 0 195 iron man - south of the earth 48.0 2 0 195 magister templi - lucifer leviathan logos 48.0 2 0 195 rosetta - the anaesthete 48.0 2 0 199 concrete cross - concrete cross 48.0 1 0 200 pestilence - obsideo 46.0 2 0 201 devil - the devil lp 46.0 1 0 201 sacriphyx - the western front 46.0 1 0 203 dark tranquility - construct 45.0 2 0 203 sofy major - idolize 45.0 2 0 205 ancient shores - the overwhelming wave 45.0 1 0 205 erang - another world another time 45.0 1 0 205 obscure sphinx - void mother 45.0 1 0 205 wormlust - the feral wisdom 45.0 1 0 209 ancient shores - cynarae 44.0 1 0 209 phantom glue - a war of light cones 44.0 1 0 209 strzepy - smierc we mnie nicosc poza mna 44.0 1 0 212 lesbian - forestelevision 43.0 2 0 212 sinister realm - world of evil 43.0 2 0 214 hacride - back to where youve never been 42.0 2 0 214 mutoid man - helium head 42.0 2 0 214 white wizzard - the devils cut 42.0 2 0 217 a fall of every season - amends 42.0 1 0 217 kultura kureniya - ?????????? 42.0 1 0 217 transient - transient 42.0 1 0 220 entrails - raging death 41.0 1 0 220 grime - deteriorate 41.0 1 0 220 profanatica - thy kingdom cum 41.0 1 0 223 gog - ironworks 40.0 1 0 224 holy grail - ride into the void 39.0 2 0 225 blindead - absence 39.0 1 0 225 call of the void - dragged down a dead end path 39.0 1 0 225 selim lemouchi and his enemies - earth air spirit water fire 39.0 1 0 228 botanist - ep 1: the hanging gardens of hell 38.0 2 0 229 impalers - impalers 38.0 1 0 229 wounded giant - lightning medicine 38.0 1 0 229 zodiac - a hiding place 38.0 1 0 232 reproacher - nothing to save 37.0 1 0 233 mountain witch - cold river 35.0 2 0 233 sivyj yar - the dawns were drifting as before 35.0 2 0 235 tentacle - ingot eye 35.0 1 0 236 church of void - dead rising 34.0 1 0 236 demon lung - the hundredth name 34.0 1 0 236 imperium dekadenz - meadows of nostalgia 34.0 1 0 236 jucifer - the russian album 34.0 1 0 236 lycia - quiet moments 34.0 1 0 236 wedrujacy wiatr - tam gdzie miesiac op?akuje swit 34.0 1 0 242 newsted - heavy metal music 33.0 2 0 243 havok - unnatural selection 33.0 1 0 243 tengger cavalry - the expedition 33.0 1 0 245 earthen grave - earthen grave 32.0 2 0 246 old wounds - from where we came is where well rest 32.0 1 0 247 finntroll - blodvsept 31.0 2 0 248 abandoned places - giantlands 31.0 1 0 248 ephemeros - all hail corrosion 31.0 1 0 248 officium triste - mors viri 31.0 1 0 248 shooting guns - spectral laundromat 31.0 1 0 252 convulse - evil prevails 30.0 1 0 252 dead in the dirt - the blind hole 30.0 1 0 252 honduran - street eagles 30.0 1 0 255 at devil dirt - plan b: sin revolucion no hay evolucion 29.0 1 0 256 angizia - des winters finsterer gesell 28.0 1 0 256 noothgrush/coffins - split 28.0 1 0 258 death angel - the dream calls for blood 27.0 1 0 258 haken - the mountain 27.0 1 0 260 meek is murder - everything is awesome nothing matters 26.0 1 0 260 prophecy - salvation 26.0 1 0 262 zatokrev - the bat the wheel and the long road to nowhere 25.0 2 0 263 de arma - lost alien and forlorn 25.0 1 0 263 mansion - we shall live 25.0 1 0 263 secrets - fragile figures 25.0 1 0 263 thy light - no morrow shall dawn 25.0 1 0 267 joel grind - the yellowgoat sessions 24.0 1 0 267 reptilian death - the dawn of consummation and emergence 24.0 1 0 267 seidr - ginnungagap 24.0 1 0 270 fall city fall - victus 23.0 1 0 270 persefone - spiritual migration 23.0 1 0 270 sombres forets - la mort du soleil 23.0 1 0 273 killswitch engage - disarm the descent 22.0 2 0 274 author and punisher - women and children 22.0 1 0 274 terra tenebrosa - the purging 22.0 1 0 274 uzala - tales of blood and fire 22.0 1 0 277 elevators to the grateful sky - cloud eye 21.0 1 0 277 vallendusk - black clouds gathering 21.0 1 0 279 funeral circle - funeral circle 20.0 1 0 279 sacred steel - the bloodshed summoning 20.0 1 0 279 spiritual beggars - earth blues 20.0 1 0 282 audrey horne - youngblood 19.0 1 0 283 dream death - somnium excessum 18.0 1 0 283 witchburn - bathed in blood 18.0 1 0 285 diesto - for water or blood 17.0 1 0 285 cerna - restoring life 17.0 1 0 287 black pyramid - adversarial 16.0 2 0 288 pyres - year of sleep 16.0 1 0 288 wall - wall 16.0 1 0 290 anathema - universal 15.0 1 0 290 moth gatherer - a bright celestial light 15.0 1 0 292 cara neir - portals to a better dead world 14.0 1 0 292 voices - from the human forest create a fugue of imaginary rain 14.0 1 0 294 code - augur nox 12.0 1 0 294 high priest of saturn - high priest of saturn 12.0 1 0 294 revocation - revocation 12.0 1 0 294 space witch - the alchemy paradox ep 12.0 1 0 298 black tusk - tend no wounds ep 11.0 1 0 298 yidhra - hexed 11.0 1 0 300 lustre - lost in lustrous nights 10.0 1 0 300 shade empire - omega arcane 10.0 1 0 302 obsidian tongue - a nest of ravens in the throat of time 9.0 1 0 302 vulture industries - the tower 9.0 1 0 304 svartsyn - black testament 8.0 1 0 304 tesseract - altered state 8.0 1 0 306 norma jean - wrongdoers 7.0 1 0 306 ultra-violence - privilege to overcome 7.0 1 0 308 caligulas horse - the tide the thief and rivers end 6.0 1 0 308 doublestone - wingmakers 6.0 1 0 310 pensees nocturnes - nom dune pipe 5.0 1 0 310 rhapsody of fire - dark wings of steel 5.0 1 0 310 xciii - like a fiend in a cloud 5.0 1 0 313 october tide - tunnel of no light 4.0 1 0 313 sandrider - godhead 4.0 1 0 315 graveland - thunderbolts of the gods 3.0 1 0 315 hatebreed - the divinity of purpose 3.0 1 0 317 attila - about that life 2.0 2 0 318 powerwolf - preachers of the night 2.0 1 0 319 brainbombs - disposal of a dead body 1.0 1 0 319 jeff treppel and ozzy hamster sings/sqeaks - the best of nightwish 1.0 1 0
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
cant believe 2 people voted for attila and only one for jeff & ozzy
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
I dont know if seandalai has any stats
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
My ballot, bold didn't place:
Earthless - From the AgesIn Solitude - SisterPinkish Black - Razed to the GroundShooting Guns - Brotherhood of the RamSubRosa - More Constant Than the GodsTrue Widow - CircumambulationVHÖL - VHÖLClutch - Earth RockerBlood Ceremony - the Eldritch DarkGorguts - Colored SandsColiseum - Sister FaithOranssi Pazuzu - ValonieluThe Cult of Dom Keller - The Cult of Dom KellerHawkeyes - Poison Slows You DownPower Trip - Manifest DecimationRussian Circles - MemorialLycia - Quiet MomentsVaura - The Missing Cathedral - The Last SpireBombus - The Poet and the ParrotAvatarium - AvatariumArgus - Beyond the MartyrsChurch Of Misery - Thy Kingdom ScumSatan - Life SentenceInter Arma - Sky BurialMammoth Grinder - UnderworldsMutoid Man - Helium Head Nails - Abandon All LifeMagister Templi - Lucifer Leviathan LogosVattnet Viskar - Sky SwallowerHorisont- Time WarriorsAudrey Horne - YoungbloodCarcass - Surgical SteelFull of Hell - Rudiments of MutilationPyres - Year of SleepMelt-Banana - FetchMotörhead - AftershockNoisem - Agonies DefinedAmpacity - Encounter OneBatillus- Concrete StainAltar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and InjurySofy Major - IdolizeSungod - ContaktBeastwars - Blood Becomes FireDarkthrone - The Underground ResistanceGerm - GriefKEN Mode - EntrenchLumbar - The First and Last Days of UnwelcomeUncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind ControloVo - Abisso
I was hoping more folks would vote for Shooting Guns, but alas, twas not to be.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 17 January 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Amaranthe placed way higher than I was expecting it to!
― J3ff T., Friday, 17 January 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
Motorhead not placing at all in the ILX Metal poll - this makes me sad
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 17 January 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
Average album by a great band and overrated as such. I think it's fine – we all love Motorhead, and it's not like they didn't see enough love this year anyway.
― J3ff T., Friday, 17 January 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
The Motorhead album isnt bad but they can do much better.
It is funny how this collective hive mind of the metal community works - it's clear that Gorguts connects with a lot of people and it's undoubtedly an excellent record. But Pestilence, also an established big name band playing technical/dissonant/jazzy DM and (IMO) quality-wise not any worse, seems to have had no buzz at all. Did people not like Obsideo, or just never hear it?
― Siegbran, Friday, 17 January 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
I'm not much of a death metal guy, but thematically and musically Colored Sands really grabbed me. I found the Pestilence album much more of what I don't like about death metal and thus less my thing.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 17 January 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
I still haven't heard the new pestilence. but, in general, I think gorguts have a head-nodding quality that makes all the death and dissonance a little more palatable. pestilence have this too, sure, but it's deployed in more of a "here's a riff to bang your head to, now here's another!" way (for the classic era stuff, anyway. that's all I've heard). but the constant groove is a defining quality for the gorguts sound (imo)
― original bgm, Friday, 17 January 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
What grabbed me about Colored Sands, and why I can't compare it to anything else, is that Gorguts wrote and played like a death metal chamber orchestra, rather than, like just about every band to ever try something "symphonic," imitate things they'd heard orchestras do (or worse, plop an actual orchestra atop their metal). People have always said, "x or y band sounds like if Wagner/Beethoven/Stravinksy had access to distorted guitars" and maybe with the exception of some of Ihsahn's work in Emperor, this feels like the first time I've heard metal live up to that.
Pestilence is cool, and Obsideo was a step up from their last two, but I'm pretty sure Colored Sands did something that, like Obscura, other bands might only be able to start weakly emulating several years down the road. I'm sticking it in the same category as Mayhem's Ordo ad Chao, which is "stuff I can't even categorize yet." Totally transcends metal.
― Devilock, Friday, 17 January 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
also dig all the lyrics about tibet, buddhism, meditation, etc. across the gorguts discog. has lemay ever expanded on this in interviews? don't meditate but I often find dense, noisy music like his own often puts me in a calm state. can feel the anxiety dissipating. curious if there's a relationship there for him as well.
― original bgm, Friday, 17 January 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I agree – similar on the outside, maybe, but a big difference in ambition and execution.
― J3ff T., Friday, 17 January 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
I voted for these
1 carcass - surgical steel 1121.0 27 8 2 in solitude - sister 831.0 21 2
Need to get the rest of the Top 10 for sure! But especially:
5 subrosa - more constant than the gods 741.0 19 2 7 uncle acid and the deadbeats - mind control 707.0 20 2 8 melt-banana - fetch 686.0 18 1 matt10 deafheaven - sunbather 666.0 18 3
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 17 January 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
Uncle Acid is a grower; on first listen it may seem underwhelming, especially compared to the immediacy of Blood Lust, but subsequent spins prove otherwise.
― J3ff T., Friday, 17 January 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
Too low: Vattnet Viskar
― alpine static, Friday, 17 January 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
"It's a whole concept album, so I've been reading books for a year a year and a half for the lyrics to know what I'm going to talk about."The lyrics process is very hard for me. First, I'm French, and then I need to educate myself on the topic I'm going to talk about. I'm not going to educate myself on the Chinese invasion of Tibet with a Wikipedia thing."I bought piles of books. I feel the same way I did at the conservatory when I was writing classical pieces. It takes months and months, the pieces you just can't get it out of your system. You need to become a sponge, you need to get soaked with the topic. So far so good I'm very very happy with what we've done."In the first place I wanted to write the whole album about the rituals of mandalas made with sand. One day my girlfriend's little daughter colored in a coloring book a mandala for me and I wondered what a mandala was, I liked the word. I searched on the Internet and found out this is a Tibetan thing and then it clicked, this is gonna be it, but I didn't have any clue, I wasn't very educated on the Tibetan culture. This mandala thing gets so complex, you could study it for 25-30 years before you know exactly what you're talking about, so I said, 'Okay, I'll take it from a different angle.' It's not a National Geographic documentary either. It's very poetic and very epic. This is my vision. I have no pretension about telling 'truth'; it's how I feel about these people."Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/gorguts-new-video-message-from-luc-lemay/#FMHofTvaQviw8UoH.99
"The lyrics process is very hard for me. First, I'm French, and then I need to educate myself on the topic I'm going to talk about. I'm not going to educate myself on the Chinese invasion of Tibet with a Wikipedia thing.
"I bought piles of books. I feel the same way I did at the conservatory when I was writing classical pieces. It takes months and months, the pieces you just can't get it out of your system. You need to become a sponge, you need to get soaked with the topic. So far so good I'm very very happy with what we've done.
"In the first place I wanted to write the whole album about the rituals of mandalas made with sand. One day my girlfriend's little daughter colored in a coloring book a mandala for me and I wondered what a mandala was, I liked the word. I searched on the Internet and found out this is a Tibetan thing and then it clicked, this is gonna be it, but I didn't have any clue, I wasn't very educated on the Tibetan culture. This mandala thing gets so complex, you could study it for 25-30 years before you know exactly what you're talking about, so I said, 'Okay, I'll take it from a different angle.' It's not a National Geographic documentary either. It's very poetic and very epic. This is my vision. I have no pretension about telling 'truth'; it's how I feel about these people."
Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/gorguts-new-video-message-from-luc-lemay/#FMHofTvaQviw8UoH.99
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 17 January 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link
This countdown drew me to finally check out Melt Banana and while my brain is still trying to process it I think I like. It sounds like the kind of music that sci-fi films of the past imagined our future music to sound like.
Also I think Hurdle got Lemay into all the Buddhist stuff, though I'm sure he's developed his own relationship with it over the years.
― Devilock, Friday, 17 January 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
I too can relate to the weird tranquility that is derived from noisy but steady music drowning out my mental chatter. I think the first time I noticed this was Transilvanian Hunger. A lot of minimal black metal does it, actually, as long as it doesn't have that "sizzling" guitar tone, e.g.: Under a Funeral Moon.
― Devilock, Friday, 17 January 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
my list with stuff that didn't place in bold:
Paysage d'Hiver - Das TorSummoning - Old Mornings DawnOranssi Pazuzu - ValonieluSuffocation - Pinnacle of BedlamCarcass - Surgical SteelErang - Another World Another TimeGorguts - Colored SandsPower Trip - Manifest DecimationGris - À l'âme enflammée, l'äme constellée...Satan - Life SentenceLustre - WonderBölzer - AuraNonexistence - AntarcticaProgenie Terrestre Pura - U.M.A.Ulcerate - VermisInquisition - Obscure Verses for the MultiverseAeternus - ...And The Seventh His Soul DetestethAutopsy - The Headless RitualCathedral - The Last SpireAbandoned Places - Giantlands
erang and abandonded places are both 'dungeon synth' records. more like entire albums of black metal intros that actual metal records. if you have a weakness for keyboard presets, vangelis, the golden axe ost, or wish summoning were even less of a trad guitar band, these come highly recommended. the erang in particular really captures a depressive atmosphere and the guy has songwriting chops for sure. whole thing is on bandcamp: http://erang.bandcamp.com/album/another-world-another-time
― original bgm, Friday, 17 January 2014 22:30 (ten years ago) link
thanks, fnb! will read! (x-posts)
suffocation was way too low. it 100% shreds.
― original bgm, Friday, 17 January 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link
Colored sands' organic flow, complex structure and unorthodox riffing always made me think of it as like the bass-ier death metal counterpart to deathspell omega's paracletus
― a chance to cross is a chance to score (anonanon), Friday, 17 January 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
yes, definitely
― original bgm, Friday, 17 January 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
Oh, the listy thing. Only did a top 10.
1) Gorguts - Colored Sands2) Progenie Terrestre Pura - U.M.A.3) Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance4) Cathedral - The Last Spire5) Voivod - Target Earth6) Bölzer - Aura7) Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum8) Beyond - Fatal Power of Death9) Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy10) Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds
My disappointment of the year was Haeresiarchs of Dis' Thirty-Eighth Sermon of the Unborn, a one man black metal deal that in 2010 put out Denuntiatus Cinis, which sounded like In the Nightside Eclipse if it had been envisioned and executed by Wrest of Leviathan. I'm still waiting for a worthy successor to that total hallucination of an album.
― Devilock, Friday, 17 January 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I was disappointed that I couldn't get people into the Beyond record. I love that thing.
― J3ff T., Friday, 17 January 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
Here's my ballot. Bold stuff didn't make the Hot Hundred And One:
1 Iceage - You're Nothing2 Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor3 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'äme constellée...4 Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance5 Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed6 The Body - Master, We Perish (EP)7 Watain - The Wild Hunt8 Voivod - Target Earth9 Ghost - Infestissumam10 Shining - One One One11 In Solitude - Sister12 Full of Hell - Rudiments of Mutilation13 Zodiac - A Hiding Place14 Holy Grail - Ride Into The Void15 White Wizzard - The Devil's Cut16 Cloud Rat - Moksha17 Church Of Void - Dead Rising18 Black Sabbath - 1319 Carcass - Surgical Steel20 Tribulation - The Formulas of Death21 Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork22 Newsted - Heavy Metal Music23 Kvelertak - Meir24 Blood Ceremony - the Eldritch Dark25 Anciients - Heart Of Oak26 Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)27 Joel Grind - The Yellowgoat Sessions
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 17 January 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
I would post my ballot but I did it directly into the Google form so I don't have a record.
― J3ff T., Friday, 17 January 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
01 Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds02 Beyond - Fatal Power of Death03 Obliteration - Black Death Horizon04 Cultes Des Ghoules - Henbane05 oVo - Abisso06 Vista Chino - Peace07 Baptists - Bushcraft08 Immolation - Kigdom of Conspiracy09 Ulcerate - Vermis10 The Body - Christs, Redeemers11 Windhand - Soma12 Autopsy - The Headless Ritual13 Goatess - Goatess14 Nails - Abandon All Life15 Portal - Vexovoid16 Earthless - From the Ages17 Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground18 Vastum - Patricidal Lust19 Primitive Man - Scorn20 Cathedral - The Last Spire21 Convulse - Evil Prevails22 Carcass - Surgical Steel23 Gnaw - Horrible Chamber24 Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light25 Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry Of Consciousness26 Noisem - Agony Defined27 Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury28 Monster Magnet - Last Patrol29 Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam30 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
― ostras y cataplana (gaudio), Saturday, 18 January 2014 00:58 (ten years ago) link
ooh Devilock, yr top 2 are my 2 favourite discoveries from this list (so far) - I must check out the rest
― lovely cuddly fluffy dope (imago), Saturday, 18 January 2014 01:24 (ten years ago) link
The string quartet thing on Colored Sands. That is all.
― Skrot Montague, Saturday, 18 January 2014 02:00 (ten years ago) link
xxxp BTW, "heavy metal-leaden shit rock" was not a Xgau-ism, but rather from Metal Mike Saunders' November 1970 review of Humble Pie's As Safe As Yesterday Is. I was trying to get the actual article, but RS deleted it from their archives, possibly a deal with Rocksbackpages. It's historically significant as the VERY FIRST mention of "heavy metal" in print in the context of describing our music, and also Saunders' very first review for RS at the ripe age of 16. He next used the term in his review of Sir Lord Baltimore's Kingdom Come in CREEM where he described them as having possessing all the “heavy metal tricks in the book.”
I complained to them repeatedly about their ridiculously high prices and they said they make their money from academic subscriptions, so fuck off. Fair enough, they should milk it the last couple years as long as they're able to I guess. If anyone happens to have a subscription, we'd be much obliged to see the actual context for the quote!
http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/humble-pie-town-and-country-as-safe-as-yesterday-is-humble-pie
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 18 January 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
Good job Kerr, and everyone who helped out..
I was the other vote for the Sofy Major EZ... I've always dug the post hardcore shit..
Stoked the Nails record placed so high
I had a good number of stuff that only I voted for.. interesting
― SeanWayne, Saturday, 18 January 2014 05:04 (ten years ago) link
Cheers everyone. I'm glad everyone enjoyed it
Jeff this is yours"Carcass - Surgical SteelWindhand - SomaBlood Ceremony - the Eldritch DarkPinkish Black - Razed to the GroundKadavar - Abra KadavarIn Solitude - SisterSatan - Life SentenceGerm - GriefColiseum - Sister FaithBeyond - Fatal Power of DeathPower Trip - Manifest DecimationEarthless - From the AgesGorguts - Colored SandsClutch - Earth RockerMammoth Grinder - UnderworldsTribulation - The Formulas of DeathJucifer - The Russian AlbumPurson - The Circle and the Blue Door SubRosa - More Constant Than the GodsKylesa - UltravioletDarkthrone - The Underground ResistanceThe Ocean - Pelegial Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind ControlCathedral - the Last SpireSummoning - Old Mornings DawnVoivod - Target EarthKvelertak - MeirSatan's Wrath - Aeons of Satan's ReignInquisition - Obscure Verses for the MultiverseToxic Holocaust - Chemistry of ConsciousnessSeremonia - IhminenCult Of Fire - मृत्युकावीभत्सनृत्य Obliteration - Black Death HorizonGhost - InfestissumamSkeletonwitch - Serpents UnleashedAmon Amarth - Deceiver of the GodsHell - Curse & ChapterASG - Blood DriveMonster Magnet - Last PatrolYidhra - HexedPortal - VexovoidVaura - The MissingRotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona EaytoyAvatarium - AvatariumWhite Wizzard - The Devil's CutAnciients - Heart Of OakDark Tranquility - ConstructChurch Of Misery - Thy Kingdom ScumAmaranthe - the NexusJeff Treppel & Ozzy Hamster Sings/Sqeaks - The Best of Nightwish"
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 18 January 2014 08:14 (ten years ago) link
Who is this Amaranthe Jeff always speaks of?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 18 January 2014 10:20 (ten years ago) link
fastnbulbous provided these
Other metal albums on Pazz & Jop:
64 Black Sabbath - 1369 Ka - The Night's Gambit81 Kvelertak - Meir98 Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)167 Russian Circles - Memorial173 Inter Arma - Sky Burial187 Fuzz - Fuzz247 Agrimonia - Rites of Separation247 Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse247 Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu271 Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
I have no idea if seandalai has any stats to post (he usually does though)
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 18 January 2014 10:24 (ten years ago) link
approximation of my small ballot
stara rzeka - cien chmury nad ukrytym polemacid mothers temple and the melting paraiso ufo - in search of the lost divine arcpinkish black - razed to the groundjute gyte - discontinuitiesvaura - the missingbardo pond - peace on venusfollakzoid - iisungod - contaktmelt-banana - fetchqueens of the stone age - like clockworkshooting guns - brotherhood of the ramampacity - encounter onehawkeyes - poison slows you downred fang - whales and leechesblood ceremony - the eldritch darktentacle - ingot eyenaam - vowearthless - from the agesuncle acid and the deadbeats - mind controlshooting guns - spectral laundromatwindhand - soma
― the legend of rapper chance (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 18 January 2014 11:48 (ten years ago) link
good ballot imo
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 18 January 2014 12:08 (ten years ago) link
I shdve probably given ASG more of a chance tbh
― stop ingesting (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 18 January 2014 12:28 (ten years ago) link
nice one guys, lots of interesting-sounding records to check out here!
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:35 (ten years ago) link
69 Ka - The Night's Gambit
ha, not a metal record, though I can see how someone would make that mistake.
― Simon H., Saturday, 18 January 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
Dunno it. fnb did the blurbs n stuff
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 18 January 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
I wish I had campaigned on a thread for the Beastmilk album cuz it would have got some ilxors into it who may have got it into the big poll. Made a thread on it - but votings closed hahaFor fans of post-punk or goth or that 80s thang.... Beastmilk - Climax
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 18 January 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
That's a good list, AG.
― J3ff T., Saturday, 18 January 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
I don't know if "mark e" will be checking into this thread again, but I meant to recommend, based on his interest in more occult rock types of metal, Zemial's Nykta. Lots of Mercyful Fate in its sound, and the vox sound more like Killing Joke than Cookie Monster. The spacey guitar parts are a nice bonus.http://hellsheadbangers.bandcamp.com/album/nykta
― Devilock, Saturday, 18 January 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link