2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

man-flu could be a name of a core band

I got Howl of Ebb after I cast my ballot, totally would've voted for it. Great trippy blackened deathness.

HOWLS

there's something about howls of ebb that just invites misspelling, isn't there!

unable to find image suitable to planned "howls of ebsen" joke :/

howls of esben the witch?

Did they get way heavier recently? I haven't listened to the new one. Surprised to see them in this poll.

howls of ebsen the buddy

http://images2.static-bluray.com/products/22/18228_1_large.jpg

unhowling

Was gonna look for a meme to post from Airplane with the capt. and kid in the cockpit but then realized that's Peter Graves.

youve lost me now

This won't help:

http://i.imgur.com/mk1Rcjq.jpg

lol

I liked the bit where the little girl liked her coffee like her metal, black.

My bad. Forgot to go for the trifecta.

https://i.imgflip.com/flv0s.jpgvia Imgflip Meme Maker

Anyway so yeah, I'm already looking forward to 2015, Melechesh and Lost Soul especially. I would love to be totally surprised by this Marduk album that's coming but I fear they're never gonna recapture whatever they were on during Romans 5:12. But please prove me wrong, Marduk!

Supposedly Leviathan has a new one on the way, too. Despite all the baggage, I'm hoping for something interesting.

I never heard the last Leviathan - lots of lukewarm to negative reviews of it.

going to give the YOB another go.

my head has retuned unto this kind of groove in recent times ..

i may make more sense this time around.

i may = it mat

then again ..

i may = it may

i am sober, honest.

jammin this vader record right now and it's really giving poking around google analytics a sense of grandeur

That Vader record is great and probably the best album they've done in almost 15 years.

that vader record was on my ballot, it is fuckin awesome

yup it's sick

DAmn... I wish I would've given that Piss Vortex a better listen...it would've been very high on my list.

Yeah, that one's kind of interesting. I just gave it a first listen a couple nights ago. Like a grindy Gorguts.

http://pissvortex.bandcamp.com/

I like a 14 song record in less than 15 mins.. lol

xps

Yeah, Tibi et Igni is excellent. Lots of fun, not "experimental" or "progressive" to any discernible degree, just kick-ass thrashy death metal delivered w/ utter conviction (and a bit of unintentional humor). Probably not gonna displace De Profundis or Litany or w/e as anyone's very favorite Vader album, but damn near peerless in its niche. Problem w/ having been on a roll for 20-some years is that you never get to have the glorious comeback that makes everyone take notice.

Lol, missed Siegbran's comment. Best since Litany? Maybe so, but I don't know that it's such a massive improvement over, like, Impressions in Blood and Welcome to the Morbid Reich.

Haven't heard (or heard of) Piss Vortex. Not typically a grind fan, but curious...

...and shit yeah, Gorguts loom large, right there in the opening track's guitar tone. Good but mostly affirms my not-grindness. HC vocal bug.

Of the few grind records I've heard this year, I like the Brutal Blues album a lot more. The 'psychedelic' tag is weirdly fitting.

http://nervealtar.bandcamp.com/album/brutal-blues

Mansion's Uncreation EP is up on Bandcamp now too! I nominated this one unheard.

https://weshalllive.bandcamp.com/

fuck, this brutal blues ep is killer! half the "psychedelic" seems to consist of vocal echo, but i love the manic repetitions, lazer streak guitars, natural-sounding kit, everything. never liked noxagt half this much.

also, was superstupid to cut alraune's the process of self-immolation from my list at the last minute. devastating album.

I got the Menace Ruine cd in the mail today an early xmas present to myself

yeah, that alraune album is really good

haha, just been listening to the longest track on the YOB record - this is basically a straight-up post-rock reboot of Wicked Game, lol @ all you hardcore metalheads

so cheesy! aw it's a YOB xmas, said no Satan ever

I didn't vote because I am woefully uninformed. Of the top albums, I own or heard these:

76 Myrkur - Myrkur 173 Points, 6 votes
67 AEvangelist - Writhes in the Murk 205 Points, 6 votes
66 Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls 209 Points, 8 votes
59 Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless 255 Points, 7 votes
56 Teitanblood - Death 270 Points, 9 votes
51 Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem 290 Points, 8 votes
50 Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind 297 Points, 9 votes
42 Eyehategod - Eyehategod 339 Points, 11 votes
26 Swans - To Be Kind 441 Point, 13 votes
8 Scott Walker & SunnO))) - Soused 799 Points, 21 votes, TWO #1s
5 Triptykon - Melana Chasmata 1078 Points, 27 votes FIVE #1's

There is a long list of things I will be purchasing shortly, however...

imago, you were the first person ever to bring Kayo Dot to my attention; what do you think of Coffins on Io

it's really great, a sort of elaboration on (or intensification of) the underrated Coyote; has great tunes and ideas; erases the masturbatory fug of Hubardo somewhat

still cannot actually credit YOB getting all these plaudits on the basis of that final track but hey-ho, post-rock is a respected genre

track two tho

"marrow" isn't "wicked game", exactly. it's more like fat bedhead. and i'm okay with that, as post rock is and has long been a respected genre.

DZZZZZZCH you cut your head DZZZZZZCH on the bedside table DZZZZZZCH...

plus you are underestimating the extent of geddy lee.

"marrow" breakdown:

00:00 fat bedhead
04:45 geddy lee
10:45 herb-encrusted loin of isaac
13:50 marinate slowly and see

Might ring in the bells with our #1 album this year. Here's to a good 2015 to everyone!

Hi metal people of ilx,

Voting is currently in progress for the big sitewide EOY poll, and I hope that many of you will submit a ballot! If everyone who voted for the #1 album here also voted for it in the ILM poll, it would come in the top 10 for sure. If for some reason you're not stoked at the idea of sharing your favourite music with the rest of the board, maybe you can consider it a favour in return for my helping out with the metal poll every year.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41

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Oops ILM's 2014 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD