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

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
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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
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https://open.spotify.com/album/7vvxTw0EC1gctS1q8jNxUS
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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
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https://open.spotify.com/album/5aEgt9uHrVL3QGzKaUSy2J
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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.

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

does lj even like goth metal? idk what to make of this

I like all of these bands tbh

Didn't vote in this tho, too overwhelming

24 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf 2981.4 Points, 16 Votes, One #1

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https://open.spotify.com/album/4w3NeXtywU398NYW4903rY
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voted for rated r. this record is less good but still good

Its the 2nd best Qotsa after the first one

I found a good piece of writing relating to Ghost the other day, by a Canadian indigenous activist/metalhead. I think this is quality metal writing.

https://moontimewarrior.com/2016/04/30/my-optimism-wears-moccasins-and-is-loud/

23 Mastodon - Remission 2989.666667 Points, 17 Votes, TWO #1's
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https://open.spotify.com/album/3pVCnqg7COWlaodlNiJIZL
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the only good mastodon album

jk

22 Mastodon - Leviathan 3094.666667 Points, 16 Votes, One #1
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https://open.spotify.com/album/6khFoLWnJZDQvZ7Pijym3b
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oh wow i was worried this would be no. 1, but also i voted for it so lol. the album that got me back into metal

hah me too actually! This and Blessed Black Wings...

Remission and Oceanic for me

Mastodon's run of first four albums is so great. Can't get into anything after sadly

the only good mastodon album