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

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

wooooo

here it comes, the non metal joy

Oh no! I didn't think it was eligible! I would have definitely voted for it. Yay for Wizards

TIE
190 Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg 123 Points, 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/onYFjQQ.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5RGt5RZlIIOzQGQTHAYsNC
spotify:album:5RGt5RZlIIOzQGQTHAYsNC

that wasn't sarcastic btw, i will listen to folie a deux and like it

Thy Catafalque are awesome and especially on this record.

they are indeed and the new one is superb too (as is the one inbetween. Would you recommend the previous albums?

xpost I voted for Xasthur! I think it might have been a Thurston Moore mention that persuaded me to check them out

They're good too, but with Rengeteg they finally got that huge exciting sound.

TIE
188 Liturgy - Aesthetica 123 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/sqqLW4G.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1cpS5zdyOqr6hXLGiEr0Bj
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188 Mastodon - Blood Mountain 123 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/bbiNyx1.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1n8QZFcwx5aQ2LIIlj0iYe
spotify:album:1n8QZFcwx5aQ2LIIlj0iYe

everything written about thy catafalque makes them seem amazing. will have to dive in

187 Solstafir - Otta 124.625 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/7KVUq9E.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/48YUS7Bb70nhn7bLMY7CSC
spotify:album:48YUS7Bb70nhn7bLMY7CSC

Yes to Blood Mountain.

the Solstafir was in the unweighted part of my ballot

I'd not heard Thy Catafalque til last night in the plug.dj thing, wrongfully assumed they were some kind of funeral doom. Really cool stuff. Another ILM poll success story!

Also, obligatory "Blus Aus Nord's Work Which Transforms God should be way higher" post. It was one of the best booster shots for black metal in the early 2000s.

good to see someone had it #1 at any rate

186 Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation 124.625 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/UNUJ3Se.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3CI68TgPHJRZKibRQqXMIO
spotify:album:3CI68TgPHJRZKibRQqXMIO

I somehow managed to NOT vote for Mastery, which is clearly an oversight on my part. Great great record. Apparently all improvised?

185 My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge 125.625 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/KFnttjU.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3DuiGV3J09SUhvp8gqNx8h
spotify:album:3DuiGV3J09SUhvp8gqNx8h

Hated this in high school and can't imagine it's aged well.

Sorry.

I voted for both of these!

tt can't summon the strength to post but is very excited and sad she didn't vote for mcr

blood mountain is great but I kinda feel bad about how far ahead leviathan will place when I think they're about equally great

184 Shape of Despair - Shades Of... 126 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/UoOZrV2.jpg

such a great album, think I cut it from my 100 tho so pleased to see it place

SHADES OF WHAT???!!!

Im gonna keep posting as long as you are all around posting too

183 Jute Gyte - Isolation 126.6 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/zpVc797.jpg
https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/isolation
https://open.spotify.com/album/3XARREM5x1MR4wm9oCbkne
spotify:album:3XARREM5x1MR4wm9oCbkne

I've never heard this one but, whoa, am I reading right that one piece is based on a 12-note series??

Xasthur is sounding good so far.

I didn't realize Jute Gyte had any 'metal' albums this old, I thought Discontinuities was his first in that regard.

I think that's just the first with a 24tet guitar?

Notes:
The first track takes its title from György Ligeti's description of a childhood dream. As with Young Eagle I had difficulties with this middle album, which is stylistically all over the map: the opening track is one of the most diatonic, accessible things I've ever released; “Age, Seperation, and Cold” has probably the longest uninterrupted stretches of blasting I've ever written; the title track is a long ambient synth piece; “The Cry Essaying the Waters” has a big power chord riff that I may as well admit is a knockoff of Type O Negative's “Blood and Fire”; “The Irreality of the Past” is dodecaphonic.

"This is precisely the direction underground black metal in the States needs to take: textured, creative and intelligent without shunning the conventions that were originally conceived overseas by the genre forebears....It's time to start talking about this project with the same reverence once given to US underground mavens like Xasthur and Leviathan." - From the Dust Returned
credits
released May 1, 2012

Created July 2010 - September 2010
VI is based on the series 0,1,9,4,5,T,2,3,8,6,7,E