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

Heyyyy Blessed Black Wings! My #4! As of right now, it's still my favorite album from a very good year!

Also, I haven't connected with a ton of Boris, but Flood is eternally THE SHIT

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Glad to see this place. Like a lot of people I guess this was a gateway album for me. I think it was my first album with cookie monster vocals.

enjoying the rollout. Didn't have a ton to comment on today, but keeping fingers inverted-crossed for a crusty black/thrash surge tomorrow. 100-51 on my ballot were Bolzer, Darkspace, Dodheimsgard, Yob

Bummed that we're probably not gonna see any Fushitsusha but it's to be expected I guess

Digging this list so far. Lots of stuff I love and a few I'm excited to check out. Never listened to Amesoeurs, 5ive, The Goslings or Cynic before this but damn glad am now.

Still holding out for Toxicity. Not sure how much ILM cares about it but nominating/voting in this had me revisiting it and would love to see it place top 50.

this is fucking garbage

enchanté

Instinct:Decay is some kind of crazy psychedelic hybrid of black metal and post-punk, with some occasional 80s rock/metal/prog rumblings (I wonder if that was Chris Black's involvement), plus it has ebow all over it for extra spaciness. It's at that perfect point in Nachtmystium's discography between the uglier earlier stuff and the wandering Floydian melo-psych of the Black Meddle albums (whose novelty wore off quick, for me anyway). There's so much cool shit happening in that perfect poison fog of a production job.

I admit to losing track of American black metal in the latter half of the 2000s; between the Cascadian stuff and the Americana stuff like Cobalt or Panopticon, it just felt less and less supernatural, and the creepy, ghostly vibe is what drew me to the genre in the first place.

The Scott O))) album was a bit of a let down for me. It felt as if both acts were holding their breath a little, and consequently neither really gave of themselves in any full, meaningful way. Maybe I need to listen again.

Note to self: listen to those Boris records again (they've never stuck with me); go back to Harvey Milk.

enjoying tyhis list, thanks for the run-down, it has reminded me how many great metal records I have discovered via ILM. It's skewing a bit art/prog/weird, I'm expecting some of the big doom records to place in the top 50. "In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend" would have got some points from me!

It's skewing a bit art/prog/weird
Yeah I'm not really expecting crowdpleasing stuff like Biffy Clyro, Bring Me The Horizon, Trivium, Paramore, Disturbed, Sabaton, Moonsorrow or Amon Amarth anywhere near the top.

I just did a search for 'Opeth' in my media library and look what I found:

Electric Warrior - Dopethrone

Argh, WIZARD of course!

The remaining letters are Drone! WHAT COULD THIS MEAN

The technical dexterity and songwriting of Opeth, hidden in a massive, doomish wall of drone

So are you ready for the top 50?

will toxicity be no. 1?

I don't think that would go down well

50 System Of A Down - Toxicity 2127.6 Points, 10 Votes
http://i65.tinypic.com/2qss5ti.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4DR0GWo7w2GJyQnFVa4jAB
spotify:album:4DR0GWo7w2GJyQnFVa4jAB

:D

lol

but it hasn't

http://www.youtube.com/kR0gOEyK6Tg

https://youtu.be/kR0gOEyK6Tg even

power of this album is undiminished from ages 11 to now. every time I listen to it it's still like drinking 10 cups of coffee

actually nm I was 14 when that record came out lol

49 Goat - World Music 2211.6 Points, 12 Votes
http://i66.tinypic.com/2dhd8w2.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6E80uDKNQDGjggp5isU2Mb
spotify:album:6E80uDKNQDGjggp5isU2Mb

yehhh

and in a series of 4655858 albums...

48 Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus 2212.166667 Points, 10 Votes, One #1
http://i67.tinypic.com/2dh5ira.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2TRnqQVu9IqMBrWuyergMc
spotify:album:2TRnqQVu9IqMBrWuyergMc

I never got into SOAD but I remember having, for some reason, a live show of theirs recorded on a VHS tape; the a/v quality was atrocious, people were sort of amorhpus technicolor blobs, and somehow that necro version of a SOAD show made for an appealing watch.

*amorphous blobs, even

jute gyted again

The most amazing thing about Jute Gyte is that this, my #1, came out last year, but is no longer Jute Gyte's best album.

every day in every way getting juter and gyter

exactly. he is the (grey) king of music

that post on last year's eoy poll thread where someone called a track on this album "the Spagett of music" really stuck with me

He should've called the album Trigger's Broom imho.

lol imago wont like that

black metal on recumbent bikes

The only JG album I voted for, and not that high up either. Once the shock of the new wore off I realised I might have wanted to like him more than I actually did...

On the other end of the scale I was exactly the right age for SOAD and Toxicity is possibly one of the most influential records of all time for me; as such nostalgia placed it into my top ten.

The thorny depths of Ship of Theseus are vast indeed. I must have listened to this dozens of times through (my #4) and there are new intricacies and theories to be unearthed every time. Music to go mad with.

World Music is also pretty great

Once the shock of the new wore off I realised I might have wanted to like him more than I actually did...

Despite owning loads of the CD's I cant help but feel the same way

47 Warning - Watching From a Distance 2215.3 Points, 10 Votes, One #1
http://i68.tinypic.com/116rfjq.jpg
https://youtu.be/RGqUo7a7J_I

some day I'll give JG another try; a couple years ago I checked a couple albums -- one metal and one ... not -- and got that feeling that I get when I listen to something like Pink Floyd or King Crimson: this is very interesting but I think it's for other people

Now *this* is a brilliant album, its all about Pat Walkers voice.

This song in particularly brilliant. The way it picks up halfway through it is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=774GvRN2yKk

I think I like 40 Watt Sun more but either way his voice is out of this world

This bit especially

Here I am wide open, surrendering to your side;
I have laid down my armour,
I have no sword at my side.
I leave behind me the ruins of the fortress I swore to defend;
I leave behind me foundations;
I'll leave you a man I'll need you to mend.
And through all the battles around me
I never believed I would fight.
Yet here I stand, a broken soldier,
Shivering, naked, in your winter light.