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

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Second-Baroness/dp/B001JH4UPE

Tower Falls is still my favourite Baroness song

I'll start about lunchtime I suppose but anyone got any hopes for the top 20?

I hope To The Nameless Dead shows up again just for good measure

Fuck, I just had a nice post about listening to Darkspace III and my computer sent it to the frigid unthinkable expanse of the void. I like the album so far (a few minutes in) but I prefer Petrychor for black metal about the unbearable emptiness of space.

Was Petrychor not nominated at all? I would have totally voted for them.

I'll start about lunchtime I suppose but anyone got any hopes for the top 20?

I hope the top 20 is not just Yob's 8th album and Darkspace's 12th album and Jute Gyte's 25th album.

lunchtime where, Cosmic Slop? need to do some time zone math...

90% of my ballot has already placed, and only one more actually will. I have no idea what's going to be in this top 20! Looking forward to hearing ILM's favourite metal.

Top 20 predictions? what hasn't popped yet that definitely will?

popped *up*, I mean

Top 20:

the 2 best Agalloch albums
Gorguts
Weakling
50 more doom/stoner albums
no Thou yet so hopefully some (otherwise it's a travesty)
Ghost bleh
whichever Jute Gyte albums haven't showed up yet
some Dead Congregation hopefully
more Inquisition? seems unlikely
Isis
no Menace Ruine most likely
the best Peste Noire album has yet to show up so
more Krallice hopefully
I think we're done with Mastodon thank Satan
some big name like Slayer?
Svartidauði?

Dopesmoker, Dopethrone, other albums with "Dope" in the title

I'd like to think Keldian's Outbound would make it but a) ilx hates celestial equine supernova power metal, and b) more importantly, I fucking forgot to put it on my ballot

Colored Sands was my #2 because I'm not always riding the horse

yay for botanist!
love that record, think i was the number one voter

Aw, that's a good number one. I love that album too.

Listening to Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde again and the track 'Ciel Errant' is actually the Dashboard Confessional song 'Vindicated'.

Don't think there's much left from my ballot that could place apart from Agalloch, Isis and maaaaybe the s/t Jesu album. Boris' Feedbacker could make it I guess.

I imagine Celtic Frost - Monotheist and maybe the other Triptykon will show up, Tom G Warrior always does well in these things.

Oh, I forgot Monoliths and Dimensions! That's got to place, surely.

No idea what #1 will be, kind of hope it won't be Dopethrone, am not the biggest EW fan and it'd be nice if is was something less retro.

*it

imagine there's another uncle acid album to place too

Tom G Warrior always does well in these things.

As well he should.

I would think as far as Sunn goes that M&D is certain, and Kannon, Altar (with Boris) and White 2 might get a look in? Though my feeling is these latter three are all considered relatively minor?

He's someone I can appreciate but it's not really my kind of metal (xpost).

I had better see some Anata in the results. I just realized they haven't shown up. But tech death, even if it doesn't sound like the usual tech death, may not do well here.

I'm listening to the Voice Of Steel title track again. Holy shit, this is (ignoring JG a second here) a metal-song-of-decade contender

Quindecade!

I'm partial to "Valkyrie," mainly for that guitar solo.

If you like that triumphant eastern euro pagan black metal I'm sure Siegbran can help; I'm not too keyed into the scene. I've heard of bands like Kroda and Temnozor but never actually listened to them.

Horn from Germany is amazing, though, but the production is a little ... fizzy.

oh for god's sake, I forgot to put Myrkgrav on my ballot too. One of the best albums of the 15 years for sure.
https://youtu.be/k4n5dR2KM68

Was just about to say that Valkyrie is just as good

I can't remember who it was, but in the other thread someone said they really liked Vintersorg's Visions from the Spiral Generator, and I would highly recommend checking out that Myrkgrav -- or to anyone who likes high quality choral vocals and synths in jiggy pagan folk black metal.

Cool! Will do when I'm at home and can listen to Youtube again

20 Gorguts - Colored Sands 3172.333333 Points, 17 Votes
http://i64.tinypic.com/6o0djc.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0MbEcbEOCXgCSoJELQO5NS
spotify:album:0MbEcbEOCXgCSoJELQO5NS

Great band, great album

well there's the one that knocked Monotheist off its perch for best comeback albums, it's like Luc Lemay just invented a new musical language

I kinda apply that to Mayhem's Ordo ad Chao too, which is why those two albums are far ahead of anything else in my top 10

oh Myrkgrav have a bandcamp too, and I think he's coming out with a new and final release either this year or next
https://myrkgrav.bandcamp.com/album/trollskau-skr-mt-og-k-labrenning

Frobisher will be pleased with the next entry

19 Skepticism - Alloy 3268 Points, 13 Votes, TWO #1's
http://i67.tinypic.com/97lg5u.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6XnXwHt0rIvun3QunwNetl
spotify:album:6XnXwHt0rIvun3QunwNetl

a fine album by a fine band in a subgenre that makes me feel like I have the flu

18 Tool - Lateralus 3298 Points, 15 Votes
http://i68.tinypic.com/rcrnr5.jpg
https://youtu.be/JCDjP4JnpGU

Wow.

Brent DiCrescenzo's review to thread!

I haven't listened to this one in years. Would probably keep "Reflection" and "Schism". Coloured Sands is really good, though.

Yeah the final suite is ok to good iirc

hahahaha holy shit

Rush fans had to vote for something

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8104-lateralus/

The review that got me into music reviewing ;)

17 Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions 3367.666667 Points, 18 Votes, TWO #1's
http://i67.tinypic.com/axemfs.jpg
https://youtu.be/T5P7bo5hKgQ?list=PLwPBM4hpb3mOo0eD4N-dMMtjYnMQ-6M0z
https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/monoliths-dimensions