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

30 Khanate - Khanate 2746.3 Points, 13 Votes
http://i63.tinypic.com/2ihnur7.jpg
https://youtu.be/agWDggjI0Pw

forever one of the most freakish things to ever bubble up through the magma veins

31?

31 Corrupted - Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos 2682.8 Points, 15 Votes One #1
http://i65.tinypic.com/2je34eb.jpg
https://youtu.be/tkAWgXb7ZOA?list=PL5d_44T5Oc1rOy9aYz53Xue-KvvPvXZHg (Full album - 3 tracks in a playlist)

hah I guess this somehow got xposted and i didnt notice

30 Khanate - Khanate 2746.3 Points, 13 Votes
http://i63.tinypic.com/2ihnur7.jpg
https://youtu.be/agWDggjI0Pw

taking it down to 21 today. Top 20 tomorrow.

not the best james plotkin project :P

O.L.D. was cool too

Well, their last album was p much the greatest. His Atomsmasher project was exceptional too

29 Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit 2813.5 Points, 14 Votes, TWO #1's
http://i63.tinypic.com/23ww41i.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/69dtvmEbd0xejAVrqOuzDO
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John Haughm trademarked the band name without telling anyone else in the band.
http://www.metalinjection.net/interviews/agalloch-is-the-closest-thing-i-have-to-religion-an-interview-with-don-anderson

It's rare that you get to spend an afternoon with one of your favorite musicians. Much less one who had such a foundational influence on how you view the world. Yet, that was exactly what I had the chance to do with the legendary Don Anderson of Agalloch, Sculptured, and now Khorada. Over the course of a five hour hangout, where we talked about everything from our favorite local beers to the European educational system I had a chance to see into what has always made this band such a vital part of the metal scene. Don Anderson is a metalheads intellectual, a young professor on his way to tenure who happens to tour the world between semesters. What more could you want?

lol he is such an ilxor

the author of the article?

28 Alcest - Le Secret 2873 Points, 13 Votes
http://i67.tinypic.com/2nqdy87.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0MdqkprQf1ogZ7HKn46LNQ
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This album (Agalloch) was decent enough iirc. Black Lake Nidstang has a nice electro breakdown. They're fundamentally a bit dull while being quite good. I'm at peace with them ruling the top 30 :P

Less at peace with this lot, ironically as they're so peaceful themselves!!!!

I meant Don Anderson himself btw

the Le Secret EP was full on black metal

A former winner of the EOY poll is up next

Oh this is those doctors

Def a fan of both of these.

27 Carcass - Surgical Steel 2921 Points, 16 Votes, One #1
http://i66.tinypic.com/15s7kf5.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7ncsoREb5KN50j3wfJ2peo
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Le Secret is what I always wanted 'blackgaze' to be and what it so rarely turned out to be.

I'm listening to that other Alcest album with the green cover and oh wow, why don't I know this? This is everything I like!

Enya?

Closing track's nice I guess :P

(Am listening to Le Secret - two tracks in - and it's decent yeah)

26 Botanist - VI: Flora 2936.5 Points, 16 Votes, One #1
http://i67.tinypic.com/2qvw239.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7vvxTw0EC1gctS1q8jNxUS
spotify:album:7vvxTw0EC1gctS1q8jNxUS

I figured Carcass for a #1 contender. Maybe it's in that awkward stage where the hype is too recent.

This ^^^^^^ is what I want for my blackgaze. Dulcimer delectation!

Oh hey this album rules!

Oh yeah, no denying this one.

surgical steel>>>>>>>>

guessing that's the last of my ballot to place before...

oh wait no, at least two left

Pleasantly surprised to see Botanist this high!

I went for Doom in Bloom but yeah, good to see him in there.

25 Ghost - Opus Eponymous 2980.6 Points, 18 Votes, One #1
http://i63.tinypic.com/34jcemh.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5aEgt9uHrVL3QGzKaUSy2J
spotify:album:5aEgt9uHrVL3QGzKaUSy2J

I've never got on with Alcest and the more, well, overtly emotional black metal stuff. I prefer the emotion to be buried, or anterior, almost incidental - not so proscriptive. I don't know.
Plus it reminds me of seeing Anathema and My Dying Bride back in the early 90s. Yes, I am old.

Anathema and My Dying Bride were terrible though

I still quite like Serenades, but yeah.

Anathema and My Dying Bride were terrible though

this is 100 percent untrue

I am one of those annoying people who disregarded Ghost for years then finally got into them bigtime in the last few months. None of their albums made my ballot but Meliora has some amazing songs on it. Sometimes they remind me of Club Ninja era BOC.

(and the YT clip of them performing 3 songs at Amoeba is one of my favorite things ever)

I think their new EP is gonna have a Eurythmics cover (assuming that's what "Missionary Man" is).

Re: Brad. Oh god, we still have a few albums from them, don't we?

Exhibit A in the argument of imago and Brad being the same.

I am not interested in non-Japanese Ghost in the slightest, but am amused that a band can build a huge following by copping late BOC

i doubt anathema or mdb will place at all? were they even nominated?

anyway serenades and silent enigma are incredible gothy doom albums, beyond me why y'all don't fuck with them

I am one of those annoying people who think Ghost are irredeemable fucking garbage

totally indifferent to ghost, wish i liked them

I'm not a fan either.