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

iirc 'the inexpressible loneliness of thinking' is the other standout

obviously anyone remotely interested should basically listen to all of it as a matter of urgency

124 Absu - Absu 1301.166667 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/JWN3ezH.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5T3rlqUOLStiXnZWupDyzx
spotify:album:5T3rlqUOLStiXnZWupDyzx

123 Harvey Milk - Life The Best Game In Town 1302.166667 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/zEWOck2.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6vM94PYeGkn35S8bB8vJmg
spotify:album:6vM94PYeGkn35S8bB8vJmg

122 Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness 1304.166667 Points, 10 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/em2KfIt.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2U8p8554m2MLrR2Edl0nLj
spotify:album:2U8p8554m2MLrR2Edl0nLj

121 Melt Banana - Fetch 1316.1 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/IUPOYeA.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4C8VqFE4h4KWIsbAViqIby
spotify:album:4C8VqFE4h4KWIsbAViqIby

Last one for the night coming up

120 Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise 1328 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/f5gVWlR.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5jxBi6eZrzosLglD1l23XG
spotify:album:5jxBi6eZrzosLglD1l23XG

Shit! This album is fucking incredible. SO excited for what they can achieve in future. Gasping In Darkness and Panic Becomes Despair are two of the most kickass metal tracks of the last few years

RECAP 300-120

300 Clutch - Blast Tyrant 558 3
299 Enslaved - Ruun 559 4 0
298 Comets on Fire - Comets on Fire 560 3 0
297 Pyramids - A Northern Meadow 560 4 0
296 Satan - Atom By Atom 562 3 0
295 Xasthur - To Violate The Oblivious 564 4 0
294 Nightwish - Wishmaster 567.1666667 5 0
293 Panopticon - Roads to the North 572 3 0
292 Melvins - A Senile Animal 572.6666667 5 0
291 Fantômas - The Director's Cut 577.6666667 5 0

289 Vektor - Outer Isolation 580 3 0
289 maudlin of the Well - Bath 580 3 0
288 Horseback - The Invisible Mountain 581.5 4 0
287 Slipknot - Iowa 582 4 0
286 High on Fire - Death Is This Communion 583.1666667 5 0
285 Devil - Time to Repent 584.1162791 4 0
284 Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre 586 4 0
283 Neurosis - Given To The Rising 586 5 0
282 Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness 590.5 4 0
281 Domains - Sinister Ceremonies 592 2 1
280 Melechesh - Sphynx 595.6666667 5 0

279 Cough - Ritual Abuse 596 3 0
278 Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess 599 3 0
277 Sunn 0))) - White 1 599.6666667 3 0
276 Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor 602 3 0
275 Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand 603.6666667 3 0
274 Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis 605.5 3 0
273 Obliteration - Black Death Horizon 608 4 0
272 Swans - To Be Kind 613.6666667 4 0
271 Toxic Holocaust - Hell on Earth 614 4 0
270 Devin Townsend - Addicted 615.6666667 3 0

269 Enslaved - Mardraum - Beyond the Within 629 4 0
267 Blut aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God 630 3 1
267 Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye 630 3 1
266 Sunn 0))) - Flight Of The Behemoth 632 3 0
265 Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - La Novia 633 4 0
264 Metallica - St. Anger 634 3 0
263 Cloud Rat - Qliphoth 635.6666667 4 0
261 Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil 638 3 0
261 Panopticon - Kentucky 638 3 0
260 Deafheaven - New Bermuda 649 4 0

259 Summoning - Oath Bound 650 3 0
258 Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction 652 4 0
257 Thumpermonkey - Sleep Furiously 656 3 0
256 Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part 2 656.1162791 4 0
255 Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers 659.6666667 5 0
254 Oneida - Rated O 664.1162791 4 0
253 Skepticism - Farmakon 665 4 0
252 Vastum - Patricidal Lust 667.6666667 4 0
251 Raventale - After 675 4 0
250 Gojira - The Way of All Flesh 680 5 0

249 Darkspace - Dark Space I 686.5 5 0
248 EyeHateGod - Confederacy of Ruined Lives 687.6666667 5 0
247 Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients 690 4 0
246 Satan - Life Sentence 692 5 0
245 Stargazer - A Great Work of Ages 693.6666667 5 0
243 Mournful Congregation - Book Of Kings 697 4 0
243 Sunn 0))) - ØØ Void 697 4 0
242 Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy 698 4 0
241 Sannhet - Revisionist 701 5 0

240 Mastodon - Blood Mountain 703.6666667 5 0
239 Yob - Elaborations of Carbon 707.1666667 4 0
238 The Darkness - Permission To Land 708 3 1
237 Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells 712 5 0
236 Krallice - Ygg Hurr 712.3333333 7 0
235 Enslaved - Isa 713 5 0
234 Nails - Abandon All Life 714 5 0
233 KEN Mode - Success 716 4 0
232 Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey 717.2829457 5 0
231 Babymetal - Babymetal 718 3 0
230 Gojira - From Mars to Sirius 723 5 0

229 Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel 736 3 1
228 Motörhead - Inferno 737.1666667 5 0
227 Opeth - Watershed 739.6666667 6 0
226 Menace Ruine - Venus Armata 742.6666667 6 0
225 Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather 743.7829457 5 0
224 Tribulation - The Children of the Night 748 4 0
223 Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue 751.6666667 4 0
222 Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard 753.6666667 4 0
221 Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm 759.6666667 6 0
220 Spectral Lore - III 763.6666667 4 0

219 Deathspell Omega - Paracletus 767.6666667 6 0
218 Baroness - Purple 771.1666667 7 0
217 Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape 773.6666667 7 0
216 Opeth - Ghost Reveries 779.6666667 6 0
215 Yob - The Illusion of Motion 787.1666667 4 0
214 Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss 790.8333333 6 0
213 Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux 796 3 0
212 Asva - Presences of Absences 805.6666667 4 0
211 My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge 805.6666667 5 0
210 Zu - Carboniferous 822.1666667 6 0

209 Yellow Swans - Going Places 822.4146341 4 0
208 Murmuüre - Murmuüre 828.6666667 6 0
207 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones 835.5 5 0
206 Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane 842 4 0
205 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée... 844 5 0
204 Oneida - Secret Wars 845.1162791 5 0
203 Om - Pilgrimage 849.7829457 7 0
202 Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer 851.6666667 5 0
201 Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame 853.6666667 5 0
200 Orphaned Land - Mabool 856 4 1

199 Liturgy - The Ark Work 857 5 0
198 Solstafir - Otta 858.6666667 5 0
197 Shape of Despair - Shades Of... 862 4 0
196 Krallice - Years Past Matter 864.6666667 5 0
195 Yob - Atma 871.1666667 6 0
194 Portal - Vexovoid 872 8 0
193 asg - blood drive 873.6666667 5 0
192 Electric Wizard - Time To Die 874.7829457 7 0
191 Mastodon - The Hunter 875.6666667 5 0
190 mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas 901.3333333 7 0

189 In Solitude - The World. The Flesh. The Devil 903.7829457 6 0
188 Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution Into the Continuum 905 4 1
187 Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide 914 5 0
186 Morbus Chron - Sweven 926.6666667 7 0
185 Alcest - Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Ame 938 4 0
184 Mgla - Exercises In Futility 943.3333333 6 0
183 Oceansize - Everyone Into Position 944 4 0
182 Disma - Towards The Megalith 971.6666667 5 0
181 Jute Gyte - Isolation 975.1666667 6 0
180 Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm 981.6666667 6 0

179 A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See 988 5 0
178 Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées 991.1162791 6 0
177 Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation 991.6666667 7 0
176 Liturgy - Aesthetica 999.6666667 7 0
175 Mastery - VALIS 1002 7 0
174 The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller 1002.5 7 0
173 Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg 1006 5 0
172 Zombi - Spirit Animal 1009.616279 7 0
171 Ulver - Blood Inside 1019.782946 5 1
170 Virus - The Black Flux 1027.666667 7 0

169 Cynic - Traced In Air 1027.666667 7 1
168 Baroness - Yellow & Green 1029.666667 5 0
167 Kylesa - Static Tensions 1033.616279 7 0
166 Shellac - 1000 Hurts 1033.666667 6 0
165 The Goslings - Between The Dead 1033.666667 5 0
164 Mayhem - Ordo ad chao 1035 6 1
163 Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields 1040.666667 6 0
162 Mournful Congregation - The June Frost 1063 6 0
161 Drudkh - Autumn Aurora 1077.414634 7 0
160 Tool - 10000 Days 1079.666667 6 0

159 Reverend Bizarre - II - Crush The Insects 1080.116279 6 0
158 Psychic Paramount - II 1088 7 0
157 Deftones - White Pony 1094 6 0
156 Darkspace - Dark Space II 1094.5 8 0
155 Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage 1096 6 0
154 Oranssi Pazuzu - Valionielu 1108.414634 9 0
153 Solstafir - Svartir Sandar 1111 6 0
152 Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper 1117.616279 7 0
151 Beastmilk - Climax 1119.5 6 0
150 Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern 1122 6 0

149 Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness 1128.666667 7 0
148 Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance 1135 7 0
147 Fen - Epoch 1146 7 0
146 Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars 1146.666667 9 0
145 Slough Feg - Hardworlder 1150.5 7 0
144 Enslaved - Below the Lights 1160.666667 8 0
143 Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters 1181 8 0
142 Jesu - Conqueror 1183 7 0
141 Agrypnie - 16[485] 1190 5 0
140 Christian Mistress - Agony and Opium 1195.5 6 0

139 Gridlink - Longhena 1197.666667 7 1
138 Horrendous - Anareta 1201.333333 8 0
137 The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute 1207.666667 6 0
136 Boris - Dronevil 1237.081301 7 0
135 Boris - Pink 1240 9 0
134 Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury 1241.081301 8 2
133 Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend 1256.666667 7 1
132 Oneida - Each One Teach One 1260.782946 8 0
131 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control 1269.282946 9 0
130 Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R 1273.449612 10 1

129 The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano, Island, Burn 1273.666667 7 0
128 Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left And Fear Expecting Ahead 1279.666667 8 0
127 The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand 1280.333333 8 1
126 Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ 1286 6 0
125 Jute Gyte - Vast Chains 1293.166667 7 1
124 Absu - Absu 1301.166667 7 0
123 Harvey Milk - Life The Best Game In Town 1302.166667 9 0
122 Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness 1304.166667 10 0
121 Melt Banana - Fetch 1316.116279 9 0
120 Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise 1328 7 0

Yeah Thantifaxath album's great. Arckanum is pretty decent if straightforward atmospheric bm. Need to get round to listening to Absu one day...

Imago, sund4r, Im p sure Teethed Glory and Injury is mentioned early in the Branca metal thread...

It is.

Vast Chains was my #1, Thantifaxath my #9.

Thantifaxath was in my top 10 -- very cool sound. I think they actually split for a short time last year? Hope not for good, because also looking fwd to what they do next. They're "black metal" in a superficial way to me -- a lot of these riffs could easily show up in death metal (of the Stargazer school), or even prog(metal). And like the Australian band, I love how Thantifaxath seems more concerned with perfecting their own style rather than adhering to an existing one.

Just reminding myself exactly how good this Thantifaxath is. It's amazing and sort of musically (if not thematically) uplifting. Definitely a unique sound.

Thantiaxath was my #30, really cool record. Quite a few things from this last stretch on my ballot. Have never really got on with Harvey Milk though.

Catching up now, I'd love to post more but my evenings are too busy atm.

Re: Esoteric
Siegbran did you vote for this?
― Cosmic Slop
I voted for The Maniacal Vale.

Just put on the closing track of the Nokturnal Mortum as I forgot to listen to it earlier. tt reckons it sounds like Last Christmas by Wham
― imago
It also sounds suspiciously like that Ewoks celebration song at the end of Star Wars 6.

Lots of really good stuff, happy to see Agrypnie, Fen, Angelic Process etc, all great but didn't make my top 100. The placement Sons Of Northern Darkness feels low indeed, for such a high-profile, universally acclaimed record. Arckanum was #4 on my list, it's a phenomenally fun and riff-tastic thrash/black metal album. That's another one of those one-off surprises where a band suddenly hits it straight out the park mid-career.

livid that that only-ok christian mistress demo places so high

like that's not even the best record they've released in the past fifteen years

Between the Dead is completely beautiful! It's like a noisier Jesu, but just as pupil-dilatingly ineffable. Maybe my favourite find of the roll-out so far.

Maybe Definitely my favourite find of the roll-out so far.

Listening now. It's loud.

Altar Of Plagues didn't QUITE get me how I'd hoped, based on the first two tracks, but I might well return to it.

'seed' is killer

yeah the Goslings album is great, was thrown off by the 9-minute opening track being kind of dull, but since then it's been pretty riveting

I'm glad you came around to it!

This Arckanum is nice and dynamic. The vocals are very cute.

I like the track where it just sounds like the dude muttering to himself in a cave

fyi Sund4r Vast Chains was my #11 and Sacred White Noise my #21, but both could have been higher

listening to Sacred White Noise again now so I can appreciate the tracks that aren't Gasping In Darkness and Panic Becomes Despair again. fuck it's so good

xp I look forward to it!

Oh I see that Þ means 'th'. Is the album called this because he has a lisp and actually it is his way of indicating a hissing? Maybe it's the sound that the guy on the front makes. I don't mean to be offensive - I have a slight lisp myself.

More probably it is the rune 'thurisaz'!

Key Concepts: Unconscious forces, sociological forces, Thor, Loki as giant, chaos, destruction by natural forces, complexities of aggression, conflicts, disputes, psychological problems, lightning, breakthrough, aggressive male sexuality, battering down barriers, thorn of awakening, trouble, enthusiasm

That sounds about right. Anyway, it's a great album.

It's probably because it's Þerrific and Þensational.

This Agrypnie is nice and blackgazey. Very excited for the continuation of the rollout!

i too am excited

Sorry guys but I've been sick all day and unable to even keep water down but im feeling a bit better so im gonna post the next one then jump in the shower then i'll have a glass of water and see if im able to continue

Ugh, hope you feel better soon.

119 Absu - Abzu 1331.1 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/ULZB7Kw.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1lpybm6csue4nBEaUFdgUe
spotify:album:1lpybm6csue4nBEaUFdgUe

Poll is back! Though of course, your health is most important. Hope you feel better soon.

Looking forward to this. That other Absu album you made me listen to was brilliant.

Dude, don't even stress yourself. We have almost 200 albums to entertain ourselves with in the meantime.

Also Absu rules. No one drums like Proscriptor, especially on Tara.

Here's his Slayer audition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHhvefoneo

ugh forgot to use the non embed link

What is the best music for walking through London for an hour in the baking heat to from the rollout so far?

Dude, don't even stress yourself. We have almost 200 albums to entertain ourselves with in the meantime.

xpost

Cultes des Ghoules Henbane if you want to watch decay in real time.

Mgla Exercises in Futility if you just want to feel above it all.

I'd go with Motörhead - Inferno.

I don't often say this with black metal -- who does -- but read Mgla's lyrics. They're Ligotti, Schopenhauer, Cioran, and your own viscera rolled into one.

118 Witchcraft - Witchcraft 1337.1 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/bmxEjnv.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/78bxf4S7ckC7ZIledDl1qO
spotify:album:78bxf4S7ckC7ZIledDl1qO

Much better placing than previously but still would've expected it to be top 40

117 Sunn 0))) - The GrimmRobe Demos 1342 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/vAzwEQK.jpg
https://youtu.be/VmiAq0jJymw?list=PLwPBM4hpb3mP2RgkDJQRZOy2E_85gU_AP

I'll definitely read Mgla's misanthropic lyrics later. Will revisit CDG too. Abzu is great.

116 Immolation - Close to A World Below 1343.6 Points, 7 Votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/nXthCib.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/12hFv6ZaHpXWYs5SXR4JKT
spotify:album:12hFv6ZaHpXWYs5SXR4JKT

Completely meat-and-potatoes Death Metal, but cooked to perfection.

115 The Goslings - Occasion 1345.6 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/mVBrRFC.jpg