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

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

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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
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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
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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
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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

This isn't even 24tet! It predates 24tet. Also, that opening track is fucking incredible, it's his summer jam!

Bodes well for all his other albums in this poll. Sorry, everyone.

I've somehow managed to never listen to Xasthur, they are now on my to do list (I'm too tired to listen to anything new right now)

182 Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel 128 Points, 3 Votes One #1
http://i.imgur.com/I4x1zJ0.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1BTpXpvzQeVXmsERKLL9Bb
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NSBM alert

Xasthur are fun (or not fun, I'm sure he'd hate to be considered 'fun') but you don't need more than two or three albums. Subliminal Genocide and Nocturnal Poisoning are enough for all but the most dedicated fan. Try those two, though.

181 Orphaned Land - Mabool 128 Points, 4 Votes One #1
http://i.imgur.com/2UHmPJc.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2U4CIMD0Mm2uBHayGebNuv
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Mordy's #1 I think

MENA metal :)

180 Yellow Swans - Going Places 128.4 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/9dNsXYf.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4Rti9CCEIh5I2ftLnojajm
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mabool is great

Checking out Yellow Swans now, I detect a little tonality behind all the noise. What scene were these guys out of?

179 Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées 129.5 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/TrmesUG.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4mif1rLyMHyVYqanzFoJQN
spotify:album:4mif1rLyMHyVYqanzFoJQN

Never heard of Les Discrets but the first five minutes of this is promising. Kind of shoegazey metal, right?

yup

178 Reverend Bizarre - II - Crush The Insects 131 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/4pa2PUG.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1GSkaQq77L31vHXVxGngVZ
spotify:album:1GSkaQq77L31vHXVxGngVZ

featuring DOOM OVER THE WORLD

https://youtu.be/HUMAXMMoBvQ

re: nokturnal mortum, apparently they dropped the NSBM shtick completely before that album

like hitler dropped his shtick before he shot himself?

anyway their music is pretty good shame about the rest of it

177 Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer 131.62 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/fsXMVcq.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6x95DGZhx18gJuxRlbwZso
spotify:album:6x95DGZhx18gJuxRlbwZso

I just realised that I forgot to check what made the top 50 bar the #1