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

114 Torche - Torche 1345.7 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/JZ4w7hv.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5kzGbJLPEVeSWmDxpbnhef
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Still my fave Torche

I think I missed immolation in the nominations spreadsheet bc that should've been in my top five and I totally didn't vote for it :(

It's terrifying!

Woo, Torche! Hoping Meanderthal will crack the top 100.

113 Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal 1364 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/ji6zUaN.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6tD82S3aEWoeBLUnJ95ezK
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Surprised this is so low though I think I ended up leaving it off my ballot

i also missed bolt thrower somehow???? ugh

anyway that immolation album should be top ten on this poll, along with immortal. i have no idea what's going to show up in the top 100 lol

There's got to be more Electric Wizard and Mastodon coming. Trying to think of some ILM favourites who haven't had anything place yet. Isis?

Woo, Torche! Hoping Meanderthal will crack the top 100.

― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:52 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same. If Harmonicraft was nommed I probably voted for that too (I can't check rn)

Isis and Mastodon are dead certs, or so I would hope.

112 Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today 1365.2 Points, 9 Voters
http://i.imgur.com/VSjfGMS.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/58sqqnhsiCuuDwHTjLFB6z
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Wow, glad you reworked the listings, now a bunch of my picks placed in respectable positions.
Do people really like Witchcult Today? I think of it alongside with Let Us Prey -- middling EW bested by their 2010's releases, but I guess it's really its pretty popular.

The second track is great, not sure about the rest

111 Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun 1371.7 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/LrakD6B.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/44zxsD8WYyaxxPhdswZZAa
spotify:album:44zxsD8WYyaxxPhdswZZAa

Good album that I didn't vote for. Not sure why, really. The best bits are the theremin solos

Oh and since Rated R already placed I have to assume we are gonna have Songs for the Deaf still in the future.

Or at least, they were done live with a theremin. (Outros of Like Music and Funebre)

MY favorite Ulver came out way before 2000, there was one I liked that came out just a few years ago but I couldn't remember which one.

This is mellower and synthy, right? Another album that is in my iTunes library that I don't remember much about.

xps Huh, there are theremin solos?

you liked this one iirc

XXXP but didn't know it had theremin solos! I need to give it a listen.

This is my favourite post-90s Ulver album and it featured in my top ten. So warm and enveloping.

Lol, thanks for the reminder, CS.

The two songs I mentioned are the standouts imo, Like Music especially

i was talking to frobisher! lol

Xxxp

Listening to Immolation. I've not listened to anything like this in a good while. It is kinda terrifying,

I have Dawn of Possession on cassette. The most metal of all the formats.

There's not really much between this and Blood Inside imo, may be slightly better infact but Blood Inside gets more props for coming first

And for having better songs ;)

I think Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today is the best of their post dopethrone releases but theyve never released a less than good album. We Live is probably their weakest but they crushed on the tour for that album.

Completely agree about EW. I would love to see them live.

110 Swans - The Seer 1372 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/Kl0kJow.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6cl6u3OMuyObk20qBb1jbx
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shadows of the sun is amazing and i didn't vote for it either, lol. i just prefer blood inside that much, the compositions are staggering, like fifteen different kinds of music all being compressed into each other. shadows is in turn a gorgeous ambient-ish album with a really specific atmosphere i've never found in similar music

it took me a long time to realize that i have zero use for reunion swans. a lot of super intense build but with what feels like no purpose

I don't get Swans. Any of it. I don't think I ever will.

Robert Vigna of Immolation is one of those death metal guitarists that don't get their due -- he has some kind of hammering bending attack that doesn't sound like anyone else (I recommend watching any of their live vids to see what he does to his guitar).

Swans have moments of sound that are singularly wonderful, but they are never something that appeals for long. Whenever I hear them on the radio I'm pleased, but I would rarely seek them out.

Brilliant band and one of the few to comeback as great as they were when they left off.

Not very many bands do that.

I do however get the feeling the latest Swans album will be ignored on ILM EOY poll and other magazines/sites lists due to non-musical reasons

Let's not get into that here...

109 Blues Pills - Blues Pills 1373.6 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/6H54Bk6.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/46S8YoOhkWQhHKRCcvflfD
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Such a good debut album and the new one is a real cracker of an album

108 Electric Wizard - Black Masses 1374.7 Points, 10 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/owX2LfZ.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7w7fmy8gRYMrXICyG2c8ai
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This was an EOY poll winner. For some reason

I revisited The Seer after sending my ballot, would've had it pretty high-up if I was voting now. Tried with To Be Kind again too but am still lukewarm on that one.

Shadows of the Sun is decent but I only really like the first Ulver album (many xposts).

Because it's really good, but all EW albums get overshadowed by a dope album

What kind of radio plays some Swans?

KEXP! Also Bagel and another I can't remember the name of right now.

TOOOO LOWWWW!!!

107 Panopticon - Autumn Eternal 1378.6 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/YQ1tOYd.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/32lW13bcC2gaiS7Zke8rVw
spotify:album:32lW13bcC2gaiS7Zke8rVw