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

I haven't listened to this Agalloch album for ages... I'm not alone in thinking it was a lot weaker than the previous.

Not that they were consistently brilliant anyway

but they were

I don't know. They're decent. But they don't have that bit of devil in them, that ingenuity or savagery I need. They're a bit...soft. Not Unlike The Waves is a jam, as I'm sure we'll all discover when its parent album finishes top 5

xp I guess we disagree on that. They had their moments certainly but to me it wasn't all gold.

Pantheist is kind of lovely though!

Yeah it's a bit overwrought in places but likeable.

72 Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets 1776 Points, 11 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/zTvrQo3.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2cdr9bgZKUMUptKSMuC8mP
spotify:album:2cdr9bgZKUMUptKSMuC8mP

Oh now this is a good album

I don't actually have this one

It's second best Neurosis IMO - try From The Hill

But they don't have that bit of devil in them, that ingenuity or savagery I need.

Nicely put. I like moments of Agalloch but this is my overall feeling these days too.

71 Harvey Milk - Special Wishes 1791.7 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/g1UZit3.jpg

far too low.

Sadly not on Spotify or youtube or bandcamp etc

do you want 10 more tonight?

sure

Not sure if enough people are around posting but I'll post #70 and see how it goes

70 Myrkur - M 1799.6 Points, 11 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/VK7gvwJ.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6rJfbMmi86eK8MSXNBUW9s
spotify:album:6rJfbMmi86eK8MSXNBUW9s

Cut this from my ballot late on. It has a couple of lovely tracks but the whole thing doesn't really work for me. Far too many saccharine interludes as well

*rants*

This should be at #300 or something.

I didn't like the production on M as much as the EP, but it's still beautiful. I equally enjoy its engagements with full MBV shoegaze (Dybt I Skoven) to lovely dark folk (Skøgen Skulle Dø). It might not be the most accomplished release from today's rollout, but I think it's a sweet debut and it successfully captures the forest mood.

I wanted Myrkur to be Darkthrone and it wasn't so that's my bad. I'll revisit it soon.

69 Primordial - To the Nameless Dead 1811.6 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/p8BgnXU.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5u0yFJtLyGyqh3NO68qr8n
spotify:album:5u0yFJtLyGyqh3NO68qr8n

nice

That's a beltingly good record.

xpost DHG was my number 8. I haven't figured out yet why I love it so much. It was a slow burner for me-- I listened to it and found it so weird that I had to hear it again, and then realized I'd listened to it four or five times in a week. I love the vocals, but I can 100% understand why someone might not.

I found this garbage-y troll thru the malfunctioning algorithms of Youtube (h*pst*r bl*ck m*t*l) and his account is mostly worthless--surprise!--but I got a kick out of his "worst black metal albums of 2016" video because there was a bunch of stuff on there (Ygg Huur, A Northern Meadow, to some extent VALIS) that had intrigued me somewhat but that I could nit really get into before. After watching his vid, though, I actually got really eager to give those albums another listen. Like, that dude's scorn actually created a context for me to start appreciating those albums more fully.

Anyways, I bring this up now, bcz M made #2 on his list. Dude has some real hatred for Myrkur. It's really crazy how unhappy black-metal elitists seem to be about the direction in which their chosen genre is going.

Also, I only kinda like M. I feel like maybe she more substantial records ahead of her...?

xpost I like the fact that Primordial are from Skerries in the Gaeltacht (irish speaking part of the west of ireland). Would be cool if they sang (or growled) in Gaelic.

Something must be wrong with the numbers again, this should be #1

68 At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command 1853 Points, 10 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/EQyzTuT.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0BrySJeJIdjsGkJDn2nXbc
spotify:album:0BrySJeJIdjsGkJDn2nXbc

Only the band the mars volta shoulda been

Another album I only kind of like

The album before it is probably their best but this is great too, dont think I voted for it though

15 year old me made me put this fairly high up the ballot

TS: the last AtDI vs the first TMV

Oh and I can only echo what other people here are saying about Myrkur, she shows promise but M is good in parts but underdeveloped.

67 Darkspace - Dark Space III 1894.5 Points, 13
Votes
http://i.imgur.com/8sX0vVN.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4nZs0UWo6MZKSbaY40kP0d
spotify:album:4nZs0UWo6MZKSbaY40kP0d

My #10. It's the Abyss, folks

And for heaven's sake, listen to Dark 3.12

I haven't listened to Darkspace much but I remember wondering if it was great or if there was actually almost nothing going on. I'll give Dark 3.12 a chance though.

Next one is also a former ILM AOY metal poll winner

All these Darkspace albums up here, with Years Past Matter languishing in the lower reaches. For shaaaaaame, ILM.

66 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind 1903.8 Points, 12 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/6qLOT0z.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/28DI3wfImTqTrHkPiOa0PI
spotify:album:28DI3wfImTqTrHkPiOa0PI

All these Darkspace albums up here, with Years Past Matter languishing in the lower reaches. For shaaaaaame, ILM.

ILM seems to prefer Jute Gyte to Krallice and Darkspace

Im not sure there's anymore previous EOY poll winners to come which would be weird.

Wonder why they have all only just made the top 100?

People be fickle?

The more Mick Barr I hear, the more I think Krallice is his least interesting project.

hahaha there's a lot of mick barr out there

Not really a fan of Converge (or metalcore in general) but I liked this (didn't quite make my ballot though).

Dark Space III did though.