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

I can post it but wasn't sure if I should include usernames of those who voted certain albums #1 on their list.

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        knaaq
7    uncle acid and the deadbeats - mind control    707.0    20    2       
8    melt-banana - fetch    686.0    18    1        matt
9    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 R
14    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        L
72    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

cant believe 2 people voted for attila and only one for jeff & ozzy

I dont know if seandalai has any stats

My ballot, bold didn't place:

Earthless - From the Ages
In Solitude - Sister
Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground
Shooting Guns - Brotherhood of the Ram
SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
True Widow - Circumambulation
VHÖL - VHÖL
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Blood Ceremony - the Eldritch Dark
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Coliseum - Sister Faith
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
The Cult of Dom Keller - The Cult of Dom Keller
Hawkeyes - Poison Slows You Down
Power Trip - Manifest Decimation
Russian Circles - Memorial
Lycia - Quiet Moments
Vaura - The Missing
Cathedral - The Last Spire
Bombus - The Poet and the Parrot
Avatarium - Avatarium
Argus - Beyond the Martyrs
Church Of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum
Satan - Life Sentence
Inter Arma - Sky Burial
Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds
Mutoid Man - Helium Head
Nails - Abandon All Life
Magister Templi - Lucifer Leviathan Logos
Vattnet Viskar - Sky Swallower
Horisont- Time Warriors
Audrey Horne - Youngblood
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Full of Hell - Rudiments of Mutilation
Pyres - Year of Sleep
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Motörhead - Aftershock
Noisem - Agonies Defined
Ampacity - Encounter One
Batillus- Concrete Stain
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Sofy Major - Idolize
Sungod - Contakt
Beastwars - Blood Becomes Fire
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Germ - Grief
KEN Mode - Entrench
Lumbar - The First and Last Days of Unwelcome
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
oVo - Abisso

I was hoping more folks would vote for Shooting Guns, but alas, twas not to be.

Amaranthe placed way higher than I was expecting it to!

Motorhead not placing at all in the ILX Metal poll - this makes me sad

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.

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?

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.

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)

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.

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.

Yeah, I agree – similar on the outside, maybe, but a big difference in ambition and execution.

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 matt
10 deafheaven - sunbather 666.0 18 3

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.

Too low: Vattnet Viskar

"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

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.

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.

my list with stuff that didn't place in bold:

Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Erang - Another World Another Time
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Power Trip - Manifest Decimation
Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'äme constellée...
Satan - Life Sentence
Lustre - Wonder
Bölzer - Aura
Nonexistence - Antarctica
Progenie Terrestre Pura - U.M.A.
Ulcerate - Vermis
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Aeternus - ...And The Seventh His Soul Detesteth
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
Cathedral - The Last Spire
Abandoned 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

thanks, fnb! will read! (x-posts)

suffocation was way too low. it 100% shreds.

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

yes, definitely

Oh, the listy thing. Only did a top 10.

1) Gorguts - Colored Sands
2) Progenie Terrestre Pura - U.M.A.
3) Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
4) Cathedral - The Last Spire
5) Voivod - Target Earth
6) Bölzer - Aura
7) Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
8) Beyond - Fatal Power of Death
9) Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy
10) 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.

Yeah, I was disappointed that I couldn't get people into the Beyond record. I love that thing.

Here's my ballot. Bold stuff didn't make the Hot Hundred And One:

1 Iceage - You're Nothing
2 Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
3 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'äme constellée...
4 Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
5 Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
6 The Body - Master, We Perish (EP)
7 Watain - The Wild Hunt
8 Voivod - Target Earth
9 Ghost - Infestissumam
10 Shining - One One One
11 In Solitude - Sister
12 Full of Hell - Rudiments of Mutilation
13 Zodiac - A Hiding Place
14 Holy Grail - Ride Into The Void
15 White Wizzard - The Devil's Cut
16 Cloud Rat - Moksha
17 Church Of Void - Dead Rising
18 Black Sabbath - 13
19 Carcass - Surgical Steel
20 Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
21 Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork
22 Newsted - Heavy Metal Music
23 Kvelertak - Meir
24 Blood Ceremony - the Eldritch Dark
25 Anciients - Heart Of Oak
26 Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
27 Joel Grind - The Yellowgoat Sessions

I would post my ballot but I did it directly into the Google form so I don't have a record.

01 Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds
02 Beyond - Fatal Power of Death
03 Obliteration - Black Death Horizon
04 Cultes Des Ghoules - Henbane
05 oVo - Abisso
06 Vista Chino - Peace
07 Baptists - Bushcraft
08 Immolation - Kigdom of Conspiracy
09 Ulcerate - Vermis
10 The Body - Christs, Redeemers
11 Windhand - Soma
12 Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
13 Goatess - Goatess
14 Nails - Abandon All Life
15 Portal - Vexovoid
16 Earthless - From the Ages
17 Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground
18 Vastum - Patricidal Lust
19 Primitive Man - Scorn
20 Cathedral - The Last Spire
21 Convulse - Evil Prevails
22 Carcass - Surgical Steel
23 Gnaw - Horrible Chamber
24 Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light
25 Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry Of Consciousness
26 Noisem - Agony Defined
27 Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
28 Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
29 Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
30 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control

ooh Devilock, yr top 2 are my 2 favourite discoveries from this list (so far) - I must check out the rest

The string quartet thing on Colored Sands. That is all.

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

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

Cheers everyone. I'm glad everyone enjoyed it

Jeff this is yours
"Carcass - Surgical Steel
Windhand - Soma
Blood Ceremony - the Eldritch Dark
Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground
Kadavar - Abra Kadavar
In Solitude - Sister
Satan - Life Sentence
Germ - Grief
Coliseum - Sister Faith
Beyond - Fatal Power of Death
Power Trip - Manifest Decimation
Earthless - From the Ages
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
Jucifer - The Russian Album
Purson - The Circle and the Blue Door
SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
The Ocean - Pelegial
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Cathedral - the Last Spire
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
Voivod - Target Earth
Kvelertak - Meir
Satan's Wrath - Aeons of Satan's Reign
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry of Consciousness
Seremonia - Ihminen
Cult Of Fire - मृत्युकावीभत्सनृत्य
Obliteration - Black Death Horizon
Ghost - Infestissumam
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods
Hell - Curse & Chapter
ASG - Blood Drive
Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
Yidhra - Hexed
Portal - Vexovoid
Vaura - The Missing
Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy
Avatarium - Avatarium
White Wizzard - The Devil's Cut
Anciients - Heart Of Oak
Dark Tranquility - Construct
Church Of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum
Amaranthe - the Nexus
Jeff Treppel & Ozzy Hamster Sings/Sqeaks - The Best of Nightwish"

Who is this Amaranthe Jeff always speaks of?

fastnbulbous provided these

Other metal albums on Pazz & Jop:

64 Black Sabbath - 13
69 Ka - The Night's Gambit
81 Kvelertak - Meir
98 Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)
167 Russian Circles - Memorial
173 Inter Arma - Sky Burial
187 Fuzz - Fuzz
247 Agrimonia - Rites of Separation
247 Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
247 Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
271 Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed

I have no idea if seandalai has any stats to post (he usually does though)

approximation of my small ballot

stara rzeka - cien chmury nad ukrytym polem
acid mothers temple and the melting paraiso ufo - in search of the lost divine arc
pinkish black - razed to the ground
jute gyte - discontinuities
vaura - the missing
bardo pond - peace on venus
follakzoid - ii
sungod - contakt
melt-banana - fetch
queens of the stone age - like clockwork
shooting guns - brotherhood of the ram
ampacity - encounter one
hawkeyes - poison slows you down
red fang - whales and leeches
blood ceremony - the eldritch dark
tentacle - ingot eye
naam - vow
earthless - from the ages
uncle acid and the deadbeats - mind control
shooting guns - spectral laundromat
windhand - soma

good ballot imo

I shdve probably given ASG more of a chance tbh

nice one guys, lots of interesting-sounding records to check out here!

69 Ka - The Night's Gambit

ha, not a metal record, though I can see how someone would make that mistake.

Dunno it. fnb did the blurbs n stuff

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 haha
For fans of post-punk or goth or that 80s thang.... Beastmilk - Climax

That's a good list, AG.

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

will definitely give that a listen ..
ta for the pointer.

think i've checked this out before following a nudge somewhere ..

not too bad, but dont think i could handle a whole album !!

I probably should've mentioned the, uh, rather heavy Celtic Frost influence as well. Kind of a tense album.

you just sold me on it