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

111 Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun 1371.7 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/LrakD6B.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/44zxsD8WYyaxxPhdswZZAa
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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
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The first two tracks on Black Masses are amazing.

Wasn't this an EOY winner too?

No.

Previous EOY Metal Poll Winners

2008 Torche - Meanderthal
2009 Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
2010 Electric Wizard - Black Masses
2011 Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street
2012 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
2013 carcass - surgical steel
2014 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
2015 Ghost - Meliora

106 Baroness - Blue Record 1403.1 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/wBKWvQT.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7540tn9HKPt2PbPPyR5dRP
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jaaaaaaaaake legggg

Great record! Think I had Red Album higher on my ballot but it's close.

105 Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical 1411 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/N7n6ncr.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4eFJEjlYWtjedRF9W9nisw
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RIP Terry Jones

104 Om - Variations On A Theme 1423.4 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/X5iwv9Y.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4EKVGx0MQQxHzJnDgRaPL8
spotify:album:4EKVGx0MQQxHzJnDgRaPL8

xxp This is a lovely album, but I seem to remember Spotify has the tracklisting wrong

Hey I voted for Black Masses. It's like Uncle Acid + barbarism x 1000

My main regret as far as studying or whatever--which despite what Kerr reiterated constantly, was not my plan for this poll--was not having listened to Blood Inside before voting. I like Shadows of the Sun quite a lot, and I probably couldve voted for it; Lord knows its spiritual successor, Coffins on Io, was in my top 15. But after the huge amounts of hype on ILX for BI--from being imago's favorite metal album before he met Adam Kalmbach, to being Brad's #1 vote--it is a little disheartening, in an abstract way, to see Shadows place so much higher above it...

For some reason, BI feels like the sort of album people only come around to when they're ready. not even tt had listened to it, and we're not entirely sure how that is given she's heard pretty much all other Ulver, and it's my favourite one (well, it and Bergtatt)

feel like shadows maybe got a lot of latent acclaim that blood inside deserved, not that that's a bad thing, they're both wonderful