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

Think this is the 4th Yob album to place

Currently on tour in Europe

89 Saint Vitus - LILLIE: F-65 1599.7 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/MzuMNSW.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5gnmcUP0jsObsKQSrLf1GN
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A pleasing comeback album.

I can't get along with vocals like that at all. This Yob album on the other hand is pretty great.

88 Yob - Clearing The Path To Ascend 1639.1 Points, 10 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/xN5zHOc.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6i97CIfeHYCaTFcTBn6gYK
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A former EOY winner

I can't get along with vocals like that at all.

Saint Vitus are one of the main reasons Doom Metal exists

I really need to catch up with the later Yob albums. I like The Great Cessation. Had a good experience driving a U-Haul from Montreal with that one on. For some reason, I never bought anything later than that, but I remember liking what I heard.

It's going to mostly be about classical music for at least a few days, though.

and why would that be? (go on , have a free plug!)

love that cover

Always the same innit, one comes along then another..

... previous EOY poll winner

87 Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street 1645.7 Points, 11 Votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/80t0N3F.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1EgVHwc07uFRklD5p53wYT
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Lol, thx: Dedication to Polls and Voters: Notated Music Since 1890 - Voting and Discussion Thread
xps

Cant call this poll predictable, can you?

I feel like there's actually a decent overlap between the voting bases for this poll and the OTHER UPCOMING one.

When does voting end? I can definitely look at the nominations and vote for what I know/like in a totally uninformed way!

86 Baroness - First & Second 1659.5 Points, 7 Votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/OfOIDPq.jpg
https://youtu.be/NlE69_1TQw0

I dont think of the EP's as one release but it was officially released as this on CD so here we go.
I suppose its better than having both EP's taking up 2 places in the 100.

The bands best ever songs are on these 2 EP's so very nice to see this place so high as they tend to not be known by people.

I have my originals on vinyl :)

I think at this point everyone's fed up talking about Baroness (and how they prefer Purple)

85 Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega 1667.6 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/EPXuRLv.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6iSzONFcmOmrih1a9E9yad
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An Imago vote one assumes

Oh yay! I am wearing my DHG t-shirt even now. A Umbra Omega is a grand and astonishing work.

My #2! VERY nearly my #1. There's no track pick. You just have to hear it all, and to trust me. One of maybe the five best prog albums of all time

Vicotnik is like the Garm that nobody's heard of, and he might be an even more complex and interesting songwriter

And this is one of those gargantuan albums whose length is a bonus, not a chore. I never want it to end. It's like peak VDGG

A dark adventure through the very limits of metal composition

(post the next one or I'll keep going)

A traipse through lucid madness! A theatrical dirge to the psychedelic power of true sadness!

Can you handle the hunger?

And another former EOY poll winner coming up next..

84 Torche - Meanderthal 1668.7 Points, 12 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/ansnLd3.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/06wsfNFbTnic3IgNmKQArq
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Amnesian is a jam

83 Devin Townsend - Terria 1675.3 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/OTW5J2W.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/52QGCpnnpPzD6qD9Y6eU0L
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Most of this is a jam. Try 'Canada' or 'The Fluke'

Love that Torche album so much. Thick slabs of melody.

I tried with DHG but couldn't stand the guy's voice.

Ashamed to say I've still not heard those early Baroness EPs.

82 Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower 1688 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/m3clQVu.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5vH0eEpO8S3Nr6bGpE3cL1
spotify:album:5vH0eEpO8S3Nr6bGpE3cL1

is this ^ gonna be higher than SOMA?? because that would be a mistake. (apologies if I missed SOMA earlier in the rollout.)

Voted for Surrounded by Thieves AZ nd Discontinuities. Thieves is my #22!

Xp and Grief's Infernal Flower too! Some great records that were probably TOO LOW on my ballot

81 Negură Bunget - Om 1689.6 Points, 11 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/8unMOCf.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1EbBtf7i8sopqERrvrBAC1
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Good album, but Tesarul De Lumini towers above everything (and most other BM, tbf)

xp

I voted for this too. So beautiful! Listening now and I also wish I'd put it higher. Kingfisher is something else

And this! Majority of my votes already featured by this point.

Another good one.

80 Pantheist - Pantheist 1698 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/lG3742M.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/71TZFUstJFDznPPlk7ObVj
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Such a change in sound from Pantheist from Funeral Doom to a proggy/avant garde sound but a great album it was.
I wonder if there will ever be a follow up.
This did quite well in the EOY poll iirc

btw drugs a money, a couple of regular eoy voters who like the same stuff as you usually did not vote this time :(

If only, eh?

, but Tesarul De Lumini towers above everything (and most other BM, tbf)

― imago,

It is definitely one of my fave tracks of all time. But there was no point in having a tracks poll as no one bothers voting in those

A Umbra Omega was my #100, I've never been able to work out how much I like it.

Meanderthal is classic.

I'm going to give Pantheist a go, I know nothing about it and feeling mildly adventurous

79 Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit 1717.5 Points, 11 Votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/WJhE9ho.jpg
https://youtu.be/Nyo8DPT15cc?list=PL5d_44T5Oc1p7hQfK4Y5uoRzNJ5LfaoRE

2011 top 8 . funny how some of these are in the same batch of results

2011 Metal Poll Results
https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visualizer/V2Visualizer.do?domain=ILM-Metal-2010-2&query=Winners

1. Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street (1,601 Points, 39 Votes, 5 #1s)
2. Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit (1,599 Points, 40 Votes, 4 #1s)
3. YOB - Atma (1,527 Points, 41 Votes, 2 #1s)
4. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (1,371 Points, 34 Votes, 4 #1s)
5. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (1,351 Points, 36 Votes, 2 #1s)
6. Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance (1,344 Points, 35 Votes, 4 #1s)
7. Mastodon - The Hunter (1,253 Points, 33 Votes, 6 #1s)
8. Pantheïst - Pantheist (1,187 Points, 30 Votes, 2 #1s)