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

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

ah, crud. I forgot to add that by zemial album to my list. there's a bit of absu in there too, which I dig. very enjoyable album.

forgot about deeds of flesh - portals to canaan as well, whoopso

ALBUMS BALLOT:

Carcass - Surgical Steel
ASG - Blood Drive
In Solitude - Sister
SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
Hell - Curse & Chapter
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Avatarium - Avatarium
Windhand - Soma
Ghost - Infestissumam
Black Sabbath - 13
Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'äme constellée...
Orchid - The Mouths Of Madness
Blood Ceremony - the Eldritch Dark
Purson - The Circle and the Blue Door
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Batillus- Concrete Stain
Falkenbach - Asa
Kvelertak - Meir
Kadavar - Abra Kadavar
Sahg - Delusions Of Grandeur
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Coliseum - Sister Faith
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
Magister Templi - Lucifer Leviathan Logos
Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light
Altaar - Altaar
Csejthe - Réminiscence
Coffins - The Fleshland
Devil - Gather The Sinners
Earthen Grave - Earthen Grave
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
Dream Death - Somnium Excessum
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Shining - 8 1/2 Feberdrommar I Vaket Tillstan
Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy
Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry Of Consciousness
Exhumed -Necrocracy
Space Witch - The Alchemy Paradox EP
Cathedral - The Last Spire
Age Of Taurus - Desperate Souls Of Tortured Times
Weekend Nachos - Still
Earthless - From the Ages
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
Trouble - The Distortion Field
Jex Thoth - Blood Moon Rise
Anciients - Heart Of Oak
Fen - Dustwalker
Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
Brainbombs - Disposal Of A Dead Body

TRACKS BALLOT:

Jess and the Ancient Ones - Astral Sabbat
ASG - Avalanche
Black Sabbath - God Is Dead?
Carcass - The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills
Noothgrush - Thoth
In Solitude - Sister
Ghost - Monstrance Clock
Purson - Well Spoiled Machine
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control
Darkthrone - Leave No Cross Unturned

i forgot about the tracks ballots

I dont get how they sound like a pisstake? the musics genuine its triple H's bullshit that annoys everyone!

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, January 17, 2014 11:50 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

second this, but with the caveat that i like hendrix's "bullshit" and think he says interesting stuff from a theory standpoint. also, the fact that he has this very wide eyed, affirmative attitude to the bleakest and grimmest of genres is if nothing else touching. deafheaven also rule. they are probably a more enjoyable listen than liturgy.

well, i dont mind his bullshit. I bought his manifesto after roxy recommended it. One day i might read it haha.

sweet. i've read the manifesto but don't own it and it's sort of overwrought but interesting, especially (iirc) in its discussion of the ideological differences between the punk and metal traditions. liturgy's haters are for the most part repellant to me because they are coming from a place of small-mindedness and cultishness.

My Ballot - think I meant to switch Gorguts and Carcass, but my bad. Thanks for posting the blabbermouth link - very cool to learn a bit more about how the record came about.

Magic Circle - S/T
Voivod - Target Earth
Earthless - From the Ages
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Satan - Life Sentence
Motörhead - Aftershock
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Avatarium - Avatarium
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Black Sabbath - 13
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
In Solitude - Sister
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
Havok - Unnatural Selection
Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'äme constellée...
ASG - Blood Drive
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Jex Thoth - Blood Moon Rise
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Trouble - The Distortion Field
Red Fang - Whales And Leeches
Vista Chino - Peace
Blood Ceremony - the Eldritch Dark
Batillus- Concrete Sustain
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
Spiritual Beggars - Earth Blues

new Liturgy album this year btw

i thought they dissolved?

me too but someone from Thrill Jockey said one was on the way

didn't the drummer quit? Wonder if he's involved

this In Solitude record is rather good, don't know why I hadn't given it a listen before

especially as you must have heard tracks from it in soundrop

That's a surprising ranking for Altar of Plagues. I saw a bit of positive chatter about it but not a lot of adoration.

It won the Last Rites reader poll and was #7 for the writers top 25.

#7 PopMatters, #20 Stereogum, #11 Rock-A-Rolla, #7 MetalSucks, #17 MetalSucks musicians, #36 Pitchfork, #2 Terrorizer, #633 Pazz & Jop

I'd say that's a fair bit of adoration

just saw the metal poll results & wanted to ask what else you guys would recommend. i didn't have a chance to vote, but here's what i liked this year. Algerian Goalkeeper (or anyone else) if you can recommend 2013 metal albums in a similar vein, that'd be AWESOME. thanks!

CARCASS—love this album, i usually don't go for grindcore or death metal or thrashy stuff, but this is a great mix of all of the above, enough variety to keep things interesting, plus the bits of British sounding heavy metal & Maiden influence are great.

SUBROSA—fantastic doom album. love this band, same with their first album on Profound Lore. the female vox & cello, etc. do lots to set it apart from the usual doom pack. plus great songs.

UNCLE ACID—not as good as the first one, but it's very solid.

MELT-BANANA—better live than on record. that said, i've played this several times & liked it a good deal.

DEAFHEAVEN—more shoegaze than metal. still pretty good.

KYLESA—i played the shit out of Spiral Shadow and didn't get into this as much. but i like these guys. wish they'd go weirder & less alt rock.

NAILS—good album, i can see the appeal BUT it's really too extreme for me (sorry)

QOTSA—not even close to their best album. dig this band though & try to keep up with their stuff.

GHOST—love the first album. didn't get into this one but i haven't really played it more than... twice? dunno.

JESU—good album, hardly metal, not their best. love jesu to bits though.

SHINING—not as good as Blackjazz. still alright.

BARDO POND—fantastic album (made my overall top 10 for the year). not metal. fantastic psych rock.

THE BODY—haven't heard the new EP & album. it's on my short list to check out.

BLACK SABBATH—good album, a lot better than i'd expect for a Sabbath reunion at this stage in their career.

PORTAL—not my thing.

CATHEDRAL—awesome straight doom Cathedral record, i think it's one of their best.

KEN MODE—pretty good rock/metal.

RUSSIAN CIRCLES—i bought this but haven't played it yet.

ULVER—much more soundtrack-y than Shadows or Blood Inside... didn't really love it, but it's interesting.

ENSEMBLE PEARL—love love love. more of a drone record than metal to me. but it's awesome.

PELICAN—wasn't blown away (i never really have been with Pelican) but it's alright.

LOCRIAN—surprised this didn't place higher, i love it.

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anyway... what else would you folks recommend based on the above?

you seem to like doom, have you heard the Windhand, Lycus or Inter Arma albums yet

no i haven't. and yes, doom is pretty much my "thing"-- so i'll check those out! thanks.

you sound like you need advice of the wise sage markers

Avatarium should be right up yr street then. Also: The Fall Of Every Season, Lesbian, The Ruins Of Beverast, Officium Triste and Ataraxie.

yeah the Avatarium is awesome.

Seandalai you got any stats for us?

seandalai says he will knock something up so stay tuned (and give him thanks)

i like to find out metal neighbours n stuff

this Coliseum record has a definite DC hardcore thing going on, Fugazi or even Nation of Ulysses...

By Country breakdown of the top 100 albums -

44 - USA
12 - UK
9 - Sweden
7 - Norway
6 - Canada
5 - Germany
3 - Japan
2 - France, Finland, Italy
1 - Australia, Austria, Chile, Columbia, Czech Republic, Ireland, New Zealand, Poland.