do you want 10 more tonight?
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
sure
― cookware regression (Dinsdale), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
Not sure if enough people are around posting but I'll post #70 and see how it goes
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
70 Myrkur - M 1799.6 Points, 11 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/VK7gvwJ.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/6rJfbMmi86eK8MSXNBUW9sspotify: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
― imago, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
*rants*
― Drugs A. Money, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
This should be at #300 or something.
― cookware regression (Dinsdale), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
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.
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
I wanted Myrkur to be Darkthrone and it wasn't so that's my bad. I'll revisit it soon.
― Tom Violence, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
69 Primordial - To the Nameless Dead 1811.6 Points, 9 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/p8BgnXU.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/5u0yFJtLyGyqh3NO68qr8nspotify:album:5u0yFJtLyGyqh3NO68qr8n
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
nice
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
That's a beltingly good record.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Tom Violence, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Drugs A. Money, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
Also, I only kinda like M. I feel like maybe she more substantial records ahead of her...?
― Drugs A. Money, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
Something must be wrong with the numbers again, this should be #1
― cookware regression (Dinsdale), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
68 At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command 1853 Points, 10 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/EQyzTuT.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/0BrySJeJIdjsGkJDn2nXbcspotify:album:0BrySJeJIdjsGkJDn2nXbc
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
Only the band the mars volta shoulda been
Another album I only kind of like
― Drugs A. Money, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
The album before it is probably their best but this is great too, dont think I voted for it though
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
15 year old me made me put this fairly high up the ballot
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
TS: the last AtDI vs the first TMV
― Tom Violence, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
67 Darkspace - Dark Space III 1894.5 Points, 13 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/8sX0vVN.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/4nZs0UWo6MZKSbaY40kP0dspotify:album:4nZs0UWo6MZKSbaY40kP0d
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
My #10. It's the Abyss, folks
― imago, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
And for heaven's sake, listen to Dark 3.12
― imago, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Tom Violence, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
Next one is also a former ILM AOY metal poll winner
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
All these Darkspace albums up here, with Years Past Matter languishing in the lower reaches. For shaaaaaame, ILM.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
66 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind 1903.8 Points, 12 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/6qLOT0z.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/28DI3wfImTqTrHkPiOa0PIspotify:album:28DI3wfImTqTrHkPiOa0PI
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
ILM seems to prefer Jute Gyte to Krallice and Darkspace
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Tom Violence, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
hahaha there's a lot of mick barr out there
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Not really a fan of Converge (or metalcore in general) but I liked this (didn't quite make my ballot though).
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
Dark Space III did though.
65 Earth - Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method 1916.1 Points, 9 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/hsjyEQO.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/7krCJWni5q4Iu5CjfaCCXPspotify:album:7krCJWni5q4Iu5CjfaCCXP
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
xps: Krallice isn't just about Barr though, they're kind of like (bear with me here Fugazi in the way that all four of them lock together to form a unit. That said, I just realised Orthrelm seem to have missed out on a placing.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
and hot on the heels of my #10, my #9!
this album is the cosmos, it is the wind
― imago, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link
it's the most convincing intersection of americana and metal i've ever heard
in a way it isn't metal so much as ambient guitar soundscapes, but it's also metal as fuck
― imago, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
64 Scott Walker & Sunn 0))) - Soused 1917.6 Points, 9 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/pJ7vPjN.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/35QvDKN3TUg5CbKeHKjKhospotify:album:35QvDKN3TUg5CbKeHKjKho
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
this record hasn't held up very well imo
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
it's certainly not as good as sons of northern darkness
pretend i posted this after every album that placed above it
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
Surely Carcass!
― jmm, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
idk I still really like the ScottO))) record
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:17 (seven years ago) link
63 Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars 1927 Points, 10 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/otYeUee.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/4S8dFvrX2ibd304E9rrXSKspotify:album:4S8dFvrX2ibd304E9rrXSK
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:24 (seven years ago) link
ok, i might like this record more than sons of northern darkness
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
62 Andrew WK - I Get Wet 1954 Points, 10 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/HdquMf0.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/2CIrcCUymw9t2AfqQPdUjnspotify:album:2CIrcCUymw9t2AfqQPdUjn
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
I wonder what people will think of that beating Immortal
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link