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

yikes, listening to Warning for first time now and it sounds like REM. REM??????

the main thing I remember about Assassins is that I bought it at Best Buy, when you could still do that sort of thing

Best Buy don't do CD's anymore?

I remember a High On Fire album had a best buy exclusive with 2 extra songs so luckily j3ff t got me one and sent it over the ocean

the last time I went there, which was at least 3 years ago, their CD section had dwindled to like one or two aisles and nothing was out of the top 40 hits range

I have this nachtmystium album on clear vinyl I think. It was a really good album, judd's subsequent behaviour shouldn't take that away

before that they at least had Relapse/Nuclear Blast stuff

I think Suffocation's Blood Oath was the last CD I bought from there

What kind of store exactly is Best Buy?

consumer electronics/computers/appliances/TVs/video games/DVDs/candy

Ahh like Currys/Dixons over here

sans the sweets

and CD's obviously

45 The Goslings - Grandeur Of Hair 2271.3 Points, 10 Votes
http://i66.tinypic.com/29e0jmo.jpg
https://youtu.be/4vz-2nVlD1E

Supermarkets have been selling top 40 CD's for about 20 years now and that helped the decline of record shops before the internet which has been quite conveniently forgotten

Best Buy is probably an evil corporation, but they definitely had the cheapest new CDs when I was in college, so it was our first stop for new stuff, pre-Amazon.

xpost

electronics, appliances, music, movies

back in the 90s, when they first opened around here, their metal selection was pretty amazing, not quite like a Tower Records but still stocked. The CD's were all 11.99.

the best was Media Play, which also was a music/movies/magazines kind of place, and the size of a department store; I'd walk around with the latest Metal Maniacs issue digging gold out of the shelves. Most of my death and black metal came from there. They too went out of business in the mid 2000s.

Hooray! Have been waiting to listen to this. Hope it lives up to the hype I've applied to it.

The Nachtmystium album seems like high energy, easy-listening fun. I thought the first track of Watching from a Distance sounded at times like My Heart Will Go On.

I bought Beherit's Drawing Down the Moon at a Media Play. For a dollar in a bargain bin. Ridiculous.

44 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 2273.2 Points, 11 Votes, One #1
http://i64.tinypic.com/mkj01u.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5yV2HG5etYWkVTp2P8rN9h
spotify:album:5yV2HG5etYWkVTp2P8rN9h

....huh

I seem to have forgotten Godflesh existed after Us and Them. Streetcleaner and Slavestate will always be winners, though. I should probably catch up.

Godflesh autocorrects to Fiddlesticks on my phone

make a metal band more reasonable

lol

A World Lit Only By Glowsticks

well this definitely sounds like Godflesh

43 Monarch! - 666 2285.6 Points, 9 Votes
http://i66.tinypic.com/20a76mu.jpg
https://monarchuberalles.bandcamp.com/album/666

Godflesh piss over jute gyte from a great height

it's a pretty good album but for some reason doesn't grab me at all like godflesh mk 1

Monarch's a pretty good band but didn't expect them to be so high. I don't think I've seen anyone even mention them on here.

Jute Gyte dude is a big industrial fan, I'm sure he'd tip hat to Godflesh. This album is going for some demonic trudge through cybergrimness thing but I'm not sure Send-era Wire didn't do this better. Still listening though

I have. so have a few others

Fair enough

Monarch keep it short and sweet then

42 Mastodon - Crack the Skye 2289.7 Points, 12 Votes
http://i64.tinypic.com/2pzilqt.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2W2nqEKXWBorbq5yvm3jZg
spotify:album:2W2nqEKXWBorbq5yvm3jZg

Instrumental version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns876sYFQZg&list=PL6D3FC8620B3677F7

album owns

^^^^^

I think the instrumental version was an itunes exclusive and its one of the few things ive ever bought from there

41 Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale 2332.8 Points, 14 Votes, One #1
http://i64.tinypic.com/2eprla9.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6F6jHKymlbCwOimojzobP4
spotify:album:6F6jHKymlbCwOimojzobP4

Assassins is one of the most flat-out enjoyable metal albums I know of. Really eclectic, flows really well, something really memorable on every track, just rocks. I play it while driving a lot.

It's a fun album to listen to on an ipod (RIP my Ipod Classic that died 2 weeks ago)

Kinda curious if Emptiness' Nothing but the Whole will somehow squeak into the results. That thing knocked me over and seemed to get a lot of attention.

Looking just at the rest of my top 10, I'm pretty sure I know won't will or won't make it.

(and the outro of the title track on Assassins is awesome, I'll say that at least)

Are you ready for the top 40?

Play the hits!

40 Corrupted - El Mundo Frio 2363.8 Points, 14 Votes
http://i65.tinypic.com/25gb9c0.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_mundo_frio
*cough* http://ritualroom.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/album-corrupted-el-mundo-frio.html

Gave The Maniacal Vale loads of points, coz it's incredible. Listen ye to Circle!

I only learned about Corrupted through one of the other polls we did here, and liked what I heard, but never got around to listening to a full album. Oops.

Then it's time everyone did who hasn't heard them

just follow the *cough*

39 SubRosa - No Help For the Mighty Ones 2372.6 Points, 13 Votes
http://i65.tinypic.com/308ljxi.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3mYNFe9G85URf09SmoX2sB
spotify:album:3mYNFe9G85URf09SmoX2sB