YOU TOTALLY MISSED THE ILX HEAVY ROCK/METAL ALBUM POLL COUNTDOWN, SUCKA (CLICK FOR A RECAP)

Will you check out any of the remaining 128?

good results. weird results. hard to believe that more people genuinely like some unlistenable fucking khanate record more than ace of spades or jailbreak, but poll results are always mystifying, ime. were jesus lizard excluded on princple?

I was kind of expecting Cynic (Focus at least) and Ved Buens Ende to show up. Most of these bands just aren't really my thing but the only selections I actually balked at were MSP. I did, however, spend last night re-acquainting myself with the first three Ulverses because of this.

oh and xxxpost by 'parochial metalhead' I mean anyone who has an absurdly narrow view of what good and/or true metal is. That for me includes anyone who dismisses anything outside their personal preferences, or anything past 1989, or even purist black metal dullards etc.

i dismiss khanate, but am right to do so

silly contenderizer

Also I doubt jesus lizard think of themselves as heavy rock or metal.

just re-reading bits of the thread and I'm surprised so many ilxors were stuck in the 70s or 80s

if jesus lizard can listen to "the art of self defense" and not think of themselves as heavy rock, then, well ... they can't, so it doesn't matter

nice to see that bullhead did so well for itself

Will you check out any of the remaining 128?

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of course. I always add to my collection.

I can't believe I never listened to Sarcofago's "Laws of Scourge" before today. three songs in and I'm going gaga over the riff salad.

always liked I.N.R.I. a lot but man this is top quality stuff.

also up to 184 heard on this list now

I really miss glenns website hosting the results

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-w486923

pomenitul hope you enjoy the results

Thanks. Results are more metal than I expected.

if it ran again i think the top 2 would be reversed

oh yeah vol iv over master of reality is kinda wack even though they're both great

Paranoid is still best imo.

In the UK = Vol IV
North America = Master Of Reality

we had a by country breakdown on the old needlebase site glenn ran that hosted the results

vol iv pretty easily the worst of the first four imo

i guess it's possible for an entire country to be wrong

Very much agree.

Paranoid > Master of Reality > Black Sabbath > Vol. IV is how I'd rank them.

Well if anyone wants to join us on the lifetime of ilm tracks poll please do
Lifetime of ILM 2000-19 Heavy Rock,Noise, Heavy Psych, punk, emo, nu-metal & Metal (or related) Poll Nominations (All welcome to participate) Noms close 23:59 November 8th

pomenitul were you around when we did the lifetime of ILM metal albums poll?

Said albums poll results
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=6366797&boardid=41&threadid=104546

Nah, I briefly haunted ILX in the early 00s then wandered off for more than a decade. Besides, I wasn't really into metal at the time.

the lifetime poll i linked above was only in 2016

dunno why it didnt give the thread title

I only came back in early 2017 iirc.

oh ok, well have a look at the thread then. let me know there what you think of the results

Fairly different from my ballot if I'd have to come up with one now (in part because I don't really get stoner metal) but, as with the all-time poll, and at the risk of sounding like a purist, at least it's mostly metal metal and not just variegated shades of heavy.

I do wonder whether people care as much about Isis these days. They definitely acted as a stepping stone for me.