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

yeah the first few Oranssi Pazuzu albums are really good. this year's is phenomenal

152 Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper 1117.6 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/N7wiJVp.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0svSY4AxaBPQi2337yEd3W
spotify:album:0svSY4AxaBPQi2337yEd3W

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I had read someone saying it was what DSO should be, and that intrigued me -- not sure why I didn't investigate then. Maybe just because I don't think of Mayhem as that kind of band, but whatevs. On it!

I've heard Ordo Ad Chao a couple of times, it's really cool but I need to give it a really concentrated listen. time to crack out the whisky

Which album is what DSO should be? (I assume you mean Deathspell Omega because the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is great as is. At least they were when I lived nearby.)

151 Beastmilk - Climax 1119.5 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/L1ALRR1.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0e6FNGa8UuKhCYZVebTTnt
spotify:album:0e6FNGa8UuKhCYZVebTTnt

Ordo Ad Chao sund4r, but I can't vouch for that comparison because I haven't heard it yet!

such a great album
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this was good heavy-goth iirc, not quite Pinkish Black but worth a listen

Yay for Valonielu!

I had Beastmilk on my first draft but nixed it over the course of things. Really good though, obv.

Also: I probably shouldve voted for the Vaura album

Looks like a Look Around You spoof of a metal album. Still, I am intrigued

150 Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern 1122 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/iMvcXUi.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/27NA8hsAXzFSUspaIIB7YZ
spotify:album:27NA8hsAXzFSUspaIIB7YZ

Oh! Cool!

I remember when that made the metal poll the year it came out (didnt get in the main poll)

Oh yay! This album is amaaazing. Such shredding.

I never heard this one. I remember enjoying This Is It....

Surprised that I'm actually really enjoying Darkspace II so far.

For Ash and Cinco De Mayo are my favourites from this. Really pleased to see it even this high!

How does it compare to This Is It...?

The shred/tapping stuff was what I liked most about that one iirc.

149 Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness 1128.6 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/IXwWqmp.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2caJZ1rdL6eYz07kcBzolr
spotify:album:2caJZ1rdL6eYz07kcBzolr

Oh wow, I really thought this was a pre-2000 album.

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I like Marnie Stern of course, have all of her records. But I didn't vote for her in this poll because metal.

also, listening to Mayhem now, and yeah, this is cool. I like the production! It makes it sound a lot older than it is, and it's definitely not brick-walled or anything. Very proggy in places too, almost like they wanted to reincarnate King Crimson as darkly as KC always gave the impression they were (in the 70s).

wow sons of northern darkness is way too fuckin low

also sweet my no. 1 placed (blood inside)

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The tapping is still very much present and imo this is her best to date. I haven't actually listened to it in a while and just put on the opening track - so euphoric! It's a blisteringly quick album. I hope you like it!

Having no clue who Marnie Stern is, I watched the "Immortals" video and perhaps will investigate further.

And Sons of Northern Darkness is pretty much peak Immortal. Though depending on my mood I could probably argue that any Immortal album is peak Immortal.

oh huh, "Immortals," Immortal. Cosmic!

148 Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance 1135 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/iwn1K1b.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6LXzs2hsUrEryy3qOx0eTy
spotify:album:6LXzs2hsUrEryy3qOx0eTy

147 Fen - Epoch 1146 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/QheWRFC.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Co5WjR7No5oNchGCUmsos
spotify:album:2Co5WjR7No5oNchGCUmsos

it's still great

(esoteric)

lovely cover connection tho

146 Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars 1146.6 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/rMAFyR5.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4aqJgxxo4nKUyXStKQUWWS
spotify:album:4aqJgxxo4nKUyXStKQUWWS

Here is where the case is .ade that the Marnie Stern album is metal:

https://youtu.be/kH0-mhLd9FM

It's a bit down in my ballot but it's just a wonderful album

the last four album covers are pulling some 'out of darkness into light' shit

voting for darkness in 2016

(Obv my AlliterationCheck is on rn xxp)

xxxxxpost Ordo ad Chao made me go back and reevaluate everything about Rune Eriksen's guitar work. Not that I ever disliked it -- I think Wolf's Lair Abyss/Grand Declaration of War are brilliant -- but I think he might be whatever we're supposed to call "geniuses" now without sounding grandiose. I even bought up the stuff by his doomy gothy band Ave Inferi, and his sound is very much there, too. (And the vocalist, his wife or gf, I forget, has an incredible voice.)

145 Slough Feg - Hardworlder 1150.5 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/9gRLj91.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3gk427a3XyFoH76BzhNkta
spotify:album:3gk427a3XyFoH76BzhNkta

144 Enslaved - Below the Lights 1160.6 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/EGZOH0B.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/3uei5LFX4boIwVER1zdLD8
spotify:album:3uei5LFX4boIwVER1zdLD8

speaking of Rune Eriksen, I wonder which Aura Noir records aren't going to place at all /blackmetalbitterness

Never really 'got' below the lights, I like the earlier ones and the 2 after it but not it

Around the time of Mardraum and Below the Lights Enslaved was my favorite band in the world (well, when it wasn't Opeth). Everything after BtL was a disappointment. I don't even know why, really; it's like their music lost its bite or something. Axioma had its moments but just dragged on and on forever when it wasn't having its moments.

143 Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters 1181 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/FpRhRp7.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2AC5PyQwCrVYa6i3x4vexI
spotify:album:2AC5PyQwCrVYa6i3x4vexI

Whoa

too low? high?

we did it

142 Jesu - Conqueror 1183 Points, 7 Voters
http://i.imgur.com/psyyi1y.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2po76dzEfWHWzxNnp8zYPP
spotify:album:2po76dzEfWHWzxNnp8zYPP