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

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
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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

103 The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen 1433.5 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/E5T59ZT.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6WELwbunK5vYuwofgJ8Y7c
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Great album terrible album cover

Xp to imago: yeah I'm about to go on a massive arty black metal kick. I'm sure thats prob a great context to give Blood Inside a listen (Brad: yeah, thats def a thing that happens *links to Whiney's Latepassopedia thread)

Im also a little shocked about The Seer placing so low bcz it is such an album-of-the-decade mainstay. I think as far as albums that were in the metal polls thst also placed in the big EOY poll as well, only Uncle Acid and Goat did better than The Seer (and My Father will Guide etc) and both those were top 10.

This is a weird poll to be sure.

Lol dont read my last post, s'il vous plait

102 Jute Gyte - Ressentiment 1440.8 Points, 10 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/wDBEG2O.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4FNzgspcU2PitpSR7b4oOV
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What's the best Slough Feg album? I've never really listened to them, despite trad heavy metal being generally my favourite subgenre.

Outside the top 100, for shame! My #6 but it could have been higher. I thought I'd let some other artists have a chance. It's an absolute monster. Best tracks are 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6. 4 isn't bad either.

101 Cave In - Jupiter 1443.6 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/2PHwn4D.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6gsbyHO9VVGEVVQMsjw5aI
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I'll start the top 100 tomorrow afternoon

What's the best Slough Feg album?

I've always been partial to Hardworlder. A lot of that, though, is because it has the killer track 'Tiger! Tiger!'

xp

Thank you for getting through today's lot. I hope you're feeling improved since earlier. There's a lot to be getting acquainted with, especially everything by The Goslings.

Jupiter was my #2, but I'm still surprised to see it place so high. It's more memorable (for me) than their earlier hardcore stuff, and Antenna was too refined. Jupiter is right in the middle, ferocious but melodic.

Some musings...

That Pagan Altar album is just wonderful.
Re: Jute Gyte, I'm surprised that Ressentiment placed higher than Vast Chains. Perhaps Discontinuities is yet to place.
Blue is pretty good, but my favorite Baroness album is Purple, which placed at 218. I think every album they make is better than their last!

Thanks for carrying on with the rollout whilst doing poorly, CS! I haven't been around for all of it but I really appreciate it.

yeah purple is the best baroness album

Cave In is kind of great :D

Jupiter was my #2, but I'm still surprised to see it place so high. It's more memorable (for me) than their earlier hardcore stuff, and Antenna was too refined. Jupiter is right in the middle, ferocious but melodic.

― Tom Violence, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 21:13 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree, mostly. I like a lot of stuff they did after Jupiter (including most of Antenna) but this is definitely where they hit the sweet spot.

i'm one of those people who doesn't really care for cave in at all after until your heart stops but i do like some of jupiter

RECAP 300-101
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
119 Absu - Abzu 1331.166667 7 0
118 Witchcraft - Witchcraft 1337.116279 8 0
117 Sunn 0))) - The GrimmRobe Demos 1342 6 0
116 Immolation - Close to A World Below 1343.666667 7 1
115 The Goslings - Occasion 1345.666667 6 0
114 Torche - Torche 1345.782946 8 0
113 Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal 1364 7 0
112 Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today 1365.282946 9 0
111 Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun 1371.782946 8 0
110 Swans - The Seer 1372 6 0
109 Blues Pills - Blues Pills 1373.666667 7 0
108 Electric Wizard - Black Masses 1374.782946 10 0
107 Panopticon - Autumn Eternal 1378.666667 8 0
106 Baroness - Blue Record 1403.166667 9 0
105 Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical 1411 7 0
104 Om - Variations On A Theme 1423.449612 8 0
103 The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen 1433.5 7 0
102 Jute Gyte - Ressentiment 1440.833333 10 0
101 Cave In - Jupiter 1443.666667 7 0

https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/3Yf5vyzlteGaKqoJc1tZ8o
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Re: Goslings. I hope Grandeur of Hair places. Thats the one I voted for

That's a great album too.

Fuck yeah it is!

Ah Cave In! These huge, naive melodies!

Naive?

They're just very pop, very 'epic'. There's not much dissonant or thorny here. But I love it!

Hope you're feeling restored btw

Not had much sleep as I went to bed at 12 but didn't get to sleep til after 6 but feeling a lot better, thanks.