Fuck Brumpxit its the 2016 Metal and Hard N' Heavy Rock Poll Results Thread (With spotify and bandcamp links)

djent I guess?

My #4. The album that I've always wanted Meshuggah to sound like. The best album called Meta released this year. A feast for the senses. Check out track 4 (Gratitude) especially if you like crazy melodies in your mathcore.

78 Anciients - Voice of the Void 137 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/0fuSCZX.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/3m6aQUzU5OtUCebQt1kExQ
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https://anciientriffs.bandcamp.com/

Hey, I voted for this I believe! A big step up from the debut imo

ANCIIENTS return with their long-awaited sophomore album 'Voice of the Void'. A heavier and harder-hitting album than their debut, 'Voice of the Void' raises their game with mind-melting, frenetic guitar work and a more explosive percussive attack. Tracks such "Serpents", "Pentacle", "Incantations", and more are prismatic; bursting with heavy riffs in every shade and color without sacrificing the quartets heavy rock roots. ANCIIENTS are the archetype of a modern, progressive heavy band and 'Voice of the Void' is a dynamic listen carrying the spirit of metal's forerunnners.
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released October 14, 2016
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tags: metal progressive rock pschedelic Vancouver

Re: Carbomb, I remember thinking to myself a few years ago about how I wished that there was a band like Meshuggah but with actual melodies; then the whole djent thing happened and I realised that was a terrible idea.

It was, and it's certainly NOT the best album called Meta this year

77 Wormrot - Voices 138 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/SSkkoFW.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1uvVgNgiiHhAz5pYODbCkl
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https://wormrot.bandcamp.com/album/voices

Think this ended up at 2 in my ballot. I liked this far more than I ever could have imagined. It's much weirder and more discordant than any other grindcore I've ever heard. It's such a short album but has great reach. It is perfect for running to.

Lower in my ballot, but yeah it brought the noise

Car Bomb also high in my ballot. It sounds like Oceansize to me, which everything has a tendency to do, but this was no exception.

the Wormrot album rules

76 Saor - Guardians 138 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/jGcQOmX.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5dymAjByvfPsuDfCzLT7nQ
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https://saor.bandcamp.com/album/guardians

judging by the cover, this has to be black metal

tags: metal atmospheric atmospheric black metal black metal celtic celtic metal folk folk metal folk rock post-black metal post-metal scottish scottish metal ukbm United Kingdom

released November 11, 2016

All music composed and performed by Andy Marshall unless stated below.

Session musicians:
Bryan Hamilton - Drums
John Becker (www.johnbeckermusic.com) - Strings
Meri Tadić (www.irijmusic.com) - Fiddle on "Guardians" and "Hearth"
Reni McDonald Hill - Bodhrán on "The Declaration"
Kevin Murphy - Highland bagpipes

It's good, not cheesy at all

I voted for Basses Loaded (many xposts) but I certainly wouldn't hold it in the same regard as Ozma or Houdini or whatever. The lower fifth of my ballot was stuff I was relatively cool on, but liked enough to point it out at least.

TOP 75

75 Asphyx - Incoming Death 139 Points, 3 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/nK7KiLg.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/0sI8fNf0NkTsaLPJ5GpCyS
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I was about to post how most of the albums that make metal poll are also on bandcamp and that isnt the case for the general EOY poll but of course this album just had to be not on bandcamp LOL

Awesome record, I now feel this is the best of the three post-comeback albums.

I was just listening to Asphyx in the car! It's pretty good, I probably would have voted for it in the lower chunk of my ballot if I'd heard it in time.

New drummer (also in Desaster) may have replaced the only original dude left in the band, but he's clearly a better player and the record is better for it.

current favourite song off the album

you mean there's nobody left from the original line up??

Bahasphyx

74 The Body, Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache 139 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/EO7CTXG.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/10e41w7nH2uvjbHCwq7mYZ
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https://neurotrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/one-day-you-will-ache-like-i-ache

I saw both of those bands individually this year, but have yet to hear this album

73 High Spirits - Motivator 140 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/3EnWlb8.jpg
https://highspiritsmetal.bandcamp.com/album/motivator

tags: hard rock metal rock heavy metal Chicago

you mean there's nobody left from the original line up??
Indeed, although you can count Martin van Drunen as 'near-original' since he joined after the demos years and the (shelved) first album, he did feature on the official debut. All the other dudes are post-2007 comeback.

that's not quite as bad then

if youre on the official debut that's good enough Id say

personally I have never cared about that ish as long as the music rules, see also: Napalm Death

Next one up I thought would be in the top 30

alcest?

c'mooon Schammasch

Well for the first 20 years of the bands existence, he was in it for a grand total of 2 years (and two albums).

But the current situation around Asphyx is very fluid/incestuous, with all kinds of current and former members happily rotating between Asphyx, Hail Of Bullets, Soulburn and Grand Supreme Blood Court.

That High Spirits album is so fun. My first vote to get in.

I can never get over what a fucking great name Grand Supreme Blood Court is.

TOO LOW FOR HIGH SPIRITS!

debut full release by some members of a legendary band

72 Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed 141 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/08z9H0n.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5FzIKMAZkGpQwiX7rTHedD
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https://inverloch.bandcamp.com/album/distance-collapsed

Melbourne, Australia’s INVERLOCH, featuring 2/4 of the legendary diSEMBOWELMENT, return with one of the most anticipated full-length debuts the metal underground has seen in years. After releasing a highly lauded EP in 2012, INVERLOCH have created another masterpiece with Distance l Collapsed, a 5-song, 40-minute LP of absolutely crushing death/doom. Buzzsaw death metal riffs and bowel splitting vocals mix alongside earth shaking dirges and blasting percussion, all wrapped together in a haunting yet beautifully dreadful atmosphere. With Distance l Collapsed, INVERLOCH prove that they are one of the finest bands making extreme music today.
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released March 4, 2016

I have to say, I completely missed the memo on this.

TIE

70 Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure 142 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/sqkj0th.jpg
https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/hideous-obscure
released April 18, 2016
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tags: black metal death metal metal thrash metal Ireland

70 Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake 142 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/IHNcd4Q.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0xck9hcR4dsJbR5ic4nra8
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That Testament record surprised me, I think I was expecting something like late 80s Megadeth.

I'm looking forward to imago listening to the testament,asphyx, metallica, megadeth, and all the other old timer bands that released albums this year

Inverloch was part of Whiney/Rolling Stone's list of Great Albums You Didn't Hear

69 Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis 143 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/dN34XKF.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Lbh0Eu0q6zOuu4ecyR2KO
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https://ritualproductions.bandcamp.com/album/primal-gnosis

Horse Latitudes are known for their slow, primordial and powerful music, combining suffocating doom, black metal and hypnotic psychedelic repetition to form their colossal vision. Primal Gnosis marks the first studio contribution with Antti (Moog & noise), bringing a new dimension of dark synth into Vellu (bass), Heidi (bass) and Harri’s (drums & vocals) song-writing process.

Over the vasts spans of their tracks, the doubled-up bass guitars assail and attack notions of sparsity with a complex sense of melancholia and aggresion that, combined with the smashing constant of percussion, attain a disturbing momentum. They display their avant-ferocity in a refracted manner, confronting monastic chanting with necro savagery, leading clinically detached post-punk queues of notes in to noise-rock crevasses, all the while finding more fuel for their greedy, churning engine. A highpoint in their outré discography, and an impacting occasion for denizens of unconventional and epic heavy music.

The album was recorded in two sessions during Autumn 2015, the first taking place at Studiogenes, Ikaalinen (engineered by Kalle Nurmi), and the second at Audiospot, Helsinki (engineered by Kimmo Tyni). The album was subsequently mixed by Kalle Nurmi and mastered by James Plotkin.

CD available at www.ritualproductions.net/rites/horse-latitudes-primal-gnosis-cd/

12" DLP available at www.ritualproductions.net/rites/horse-latitudes-primal-gnosis-dlp/
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released April 16, 2016
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tags: rock doom doom metal drone stoner rock London