~~~ 15 YEARS OF ILM POLL!!! ~~~ (Metal & Heavy Rock [+ related sub-genres] Edition) RESULTS & DISCUSSION THREAD

199 Darkspace - Dark Space II 116 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/XCSDJB0.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5qyvoRKkS8jofyklUgRsZZ
spotify:album:5qyvoRKkS8jofyklUgRsZZ

tbf we still have 199, sorry 198 albums to discuss, and they're not ALL going to be stoner doom and nu-thrash thank god

this album is ok iirc, i kind of ignored it after III came out

Ok ok Im sorry. I didnt know you were sick. I figured you got really anxious bcz imago was the only one posting and he was making fun of the long rollout. Its just now theres a bunch of my albums that might as well not have made it

Though I think posting them all at once us a surefire of inhibiting most discussion

:( they did make it though! But with me not feeling well and starting so late the longer rollout wouldnt have finished on friday. I thought it was for the best

I promise longer rollouts in future!

Great last track on that Yob album.

Holy shit, Years Past Matter only made #210? That was my #2! I played the shit out of it while temping that year.

XP: Well Im not trying to bust your chops about being sick. But Im not honna try to force conversation about Valonielu or Tad Times Xpress either.

Glad you dig the Comets on Fire album too, tt

sund4r: I am definitely sooner or later gonna push towards getting into Krallice

Major push, I mean. Totally Krallic-ing out.

i chucked Years Past Matter a load of points. and Valonielu! (altho their new album is better)

yeah Krallice's placement is nuts

one thing that concerns me is that there was a maximum ballot of 100, but there are albums with less than 100 points with a first place vote. so how many points does first place get?

Unweighted ballot?

seandalai would need to answer that

but most likely an unweighted ballot

xp

Which one, Kayo Dot?

Unweighted shouldnt have a #1

The whole shit is rigged

you can have an unweighted ballot AND a first place? lol

oh yeah what DAM said

198 Liturgy - The Ark Work 116.75 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/tV1XZBn.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7vtPszc1ShG0p7wwBzUjjt
spotify:album:7vtPszc1ShG0p7wwBzUjjt

my #13

it's a gestamkunstwerk, y'know

Totally misread the band name on the Yob album cover

Which one, Kayo Dot?

Happened with Blut Aus Nord: 95 points but a #1 vote. Are #1 votes on mixed ballots (or ballots with <100 albums) counted for less than #1 votes on unmixed ballots?

I dont know

I'm pretty sure Liturgy was my number #13 too! I still can't get on board with Darkspace though.

197 Zombi - Spirit Animal 117.3333333 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/Ef72bTR.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0AuQ7TOpUJ7XnENse36Ryi
spotify:album:0AuQ7TOpUJ7XnENse36Ryi

I'm sorry I came down so hard, Kerr. It will in fact be that much cooler if any of my fringe-psych or noise nominations crack the Top 200.

196 Mastery - VALIS 118 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/WESYUGS.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5OlSKO3xPxWSLBhrFxLN7W
spotify:album:5OlSKO3xPxWSLBhrFxLN7W

...and there's my #14. it's savage

riding an elephant through space metal

riding an elephant through a pyroclastic flow in space

What do you want me to take it down to, tonight?

195 Slough Feg - Hardworlder 120 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/43XWuMj.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3gk427a3XyFoH76BzhNkta
spotify:album:3gk427a3XyFoH76BzhNkta

I wish Bill Magill was still around

I voted for VALIS, but I still feel like I haven't wrapped my head around it fully (which may be the fun of it)

194 Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey 120.4 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/KvEDlAM.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5zUD0skxZ0SdX2GnJmRpp4
spotify:album:5zUD0skxZ0SdX2GnJmRpp4

^ a very underrated album

Is this Ghost album as infectiously nice as last year's poll-winner?

I'm not as fond of Infestissumam as the other two albums, but it's grown on me some now that it's been followed up by something stronger and it's not under the pressure of being the most recent album. Ghuleh/Zombie Queen and Monstrance Clock are highlights.

Monstrance Clock is easily the best song Ghost ever made but the album isn't as good as the other 2 but its still a good album, just not great like the other 2.

It does lack the meatier sound of Meliora, but the songs are great.

yeah the more pop production disappointed a lot of people

193 Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide 122 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/Jyaji6I.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7hri9oTVqAvHdY7AhaFReQ
spotify:album:7hri9oTVqAvHdY7AhaFReQ

Monstrance Clock starts out like House Of Fun, which the closing track on Meliora does as well :D

oh I voted for this. it's a sad little horror album

You guys OK for me taking this down to 181 tonight?

293 Cleric - Regressions 75 2 0
270 maudlin of the Well - Bath 80 3 0
293 Cleric - Regressions 75 2 0
253 Deathspell Omega - Paracletus 88.625 3 0
237 Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye 95 3 1
226 Virus - The Black Flux 99 5 0
223 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée... 100 4 0
221 Spectral Lore - III 103 3 0
214 Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters 107 4 0
213 Oranssi Pazuzu - Valionielu 108.40625 4 0
210 Krallice - Years Past Matter 110.625 3 0
209 Morbus Chron - Sweven 110.625 6 0

These are my favourites of the albums that have placed so far, a bit disappointed about some of them but there we are. But I got into that Morbus Chron album mostly cos of ILM hype at the time so that is a little bit surprising I suppose. I though Paracletus was more well-loved too.

oh shit, didn't see Cleric! That was my #4

192 Electric Wizard - Time To Die 122.48 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/JqUexFt.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/27GYOIfwiOWT7LJ8dt5Swl
spotify:album:27GYOIfwiOWT7LJ8dt5Swl

the next couple are ties

Ugh, sorry late to the party and struggling to keep up, The Ark Work and Valis are good to see as they are both pretty niche.

TIE
190 Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux 123 Points , 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/K2YkNev.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/48jgCCT2dQpdJXhO3QRUI8