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

also take us to 51

yes it is!!
xp

let the party continue

oh also a few years later i watched someone ruin a smiths dance party by taking over the music and playing i get wet. we made out after the party

i get wet is for some reason extremely central in my relationships

60 5ive - Hesperus 1976 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/p0MMxKt.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5s9fLbUPUB54v1f29ObUwX
spotify:album:5s9fLbUPUB54v1f29ObUwX

great spacey doom record george should love

OMG LJ is hearing I Get Wet for the first time! It's time to party! Let's party!

59 High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings 1989.8 Points, 10 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/8Ow6Cqd.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Fez8YmdKDD9732QTBeJzt
spotify:album:2Fez8YmdKDD9732QTBeJzt

Thought this would be a lot higher

Didn't make my top 100 but I've come around to HoF quite a bit.

I saw them on that tour

with joe preston on bass

*moans* party......party........

my favorite high on fire is snakes for the divine which im guessing didnt make it if these ones are here

58 Elder - Lore 2053 Points, 13 Votes
http://i65.tinypic.com/wikbcy.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6Gz8ojrUvElF3fiooWiily
spotify:album:6Gz8ojrUvElF3fiooWiily

Like this one a lot.

love that record, it's so vast

the final riff on the title track before it fades out is my favorite bit

i was skeptical about this, then tt played me the title track and i immediately added it to my ballot

57 Boris - Flood 2067.6 Points, 10 Votes
http://i68.tinypic.com/308zdbq.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvCLhq8okxc

I saw Boris a decade ago and they did this album as an encore. It was amazing!

The whole album?

yeah, its one track

Though it was edited to like a 40 minute version

One of the best things I've seen and towered over everything before it.

I remember my aoty for 01 was split between Andrew WK and Fred Frith.

You would have creamed yourself if they had released a split album

56 Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs 2089 Points, 9 Votes
http://i66.tinypic.com/aaip9h.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5rTraJLL8KfQGoy1PinqpA
spotify:album:5rTraJLL8KfQGoy1PinqpA

Pretty sure I voted for this

Soul sisters?

Oh, it's a Neige project. Is it more metal than the later Alcest stuff?

No

55 Boris - Akuma no Uta 2092.6 Points, 10 Votes
http://i67.tinypic.com/20rl838.jpg
https://youtu.be/5t_5MEME6UU

whoops, missed the rollout today but I did read up and apparently this was the "very ilm" portion of the results anyway -- all that I voted for was DSO, Darkspace, Devin, and Blut aus Nord. I think I ended up knocking Earth from my ballot but those two that placed were the two I had.

And Andrew WK is an odd one. He got famous making party music but also collaborates with Current 93 and name drops Thomas Ligotti in interviews.

54 Opeth - Blackwater Park 2103 Points, 12 Votes
http://i67.tinypic.com/30dl7qf.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3CCkWrqhWcKU7qXK3ooEEo
spotify:album:3CCkWrqhWcKU7qXK3ooEEo

Oh, splendid. Love BWP. My first "extreme" metal show was their tour for that album, and it was probably the most magical (sober) musical experience I'd had. They opened with "Advent." It was unreal.

Also:

"You can fully embrace Ligotti’s view of the world, which is that it’s just terrifying. The overwhelming amount of unknowable aspects of reality is crushing and debilitating and terrifying. Everything is falling apart and futile and even with the efforts we make we’re struggling to ignore the fact that there’s this huge windy void of nothingness and mystery that we can never fully comprehend. And if we could it would destroy us. I came away with it in the end even with this sense that we can’t understand and it’s crushing, it’s also very liberating. It gives you a freedom as well because if it is meaningless than I can have fun all day. It’s freeing and crushing at the same time."

I voted for two other Opeth albums but this is great too, has some really haunting acoustic bits

53 Om - Advaitic Songs 2112.1 Points, 10 Votes
http://i63.tinypic.com/6e2m95.jpg
https://youtu.be/ts3YWVFUnvU

If I'm feeling patient one day I guess I'll try those Boris albums again.

I'm surprised Amesoeurs is so high, honestly, it's not a bad record but it's a complete fookin' mess.

Black Water Park: classic classic classic. It's still a bit flabby in parts but it's probably their most cohesive album.

The Drapery Falls was a key breakthrough in my journey into metal

blackwater park is super classic, was my gateway album for extreme metal and "Harvest" is my favorite non-metal song by a metal band ever. was disappointing when they made a whole album of "Harvest"s and none of them were quite as good as the original

Thinking on it I reckon Opeth were influential for me getting into black/death metal since before then I only listened to post-metal and other "hipster" stuff like Mastodon metal-wise

then they dumped black/death metal?

52 SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods 2113.5 Points, 14 Votes
http://i66.tinypic.com/2ccq7op.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/62sOSIi6JDhUeOkXXzeNoq
spotify:album:62sOSIi6JDhUeOkXXzeNoq

xp Obvs not, but this was in the Hydrahead years before WitTR started getting Pitchfork traction and stuff. I was slightly ahead of the curve for once in my life.

Unless I'm remembering my timeline wrong.

Probably am.

SubRosa are a decent band with a good sound but they just don't do a deal for me for some reason.

mastodon circa blood mountain was the first time i remember a metal band getting a lot of indie mag press

name of this one reminding me that rose kemp's 'the golden shroud' wasn't nominated, and a shame too coz i'd have given it loads of points. anyway, back to it

that subrosa record is excellent but it's way too high. their new one's better anyway

51 Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay 2124 Points, 9 Votes
http://i66.tinypic.com/287j23c.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2SPmEMpxwOPv0NYgBFEovA
spotify:album:2SPmEMpxwOPv0NYgBFEovA

Despite everything to do with the guy behind it, that's really one of the best USBM albums of all time. Never really got into anything before or after it though.