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

wheres dominique leone this year btw?

Cool art. Did the heads explode, or just dissolve into another dimension?

http://www.agostinoarrivabene.it/paintings.php?idP=185

I voted for Howls of Ebb but I keep reading it as "Circus Impasse." Not sure what that would sound like.

67 Sumerlands - s/t 154 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/DAqCVea.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3ILk1oFpYr8mTnZIliNjDZ
spotify:album:3ILk1oFpYr8mTnZIliNjDZ

https://sumerlands.bandcamp.com/releases

Should I go on tonight? there's a tie at #63 which is due up soon and it features an album that I thought was a surefire top 10 and possible #1 contender

or would you prefer me to stop at 65 to preserve the suspense into tomorrow?

SUMERLANDS explode onto the scene with their incredible self-titled debut album of classic heavy metal. Inspired by the timeless guitar-driven sound of the 70's & 80's, SUMERLANDS feature former Hour of 13 / Atlantean Kodex vocalist Phil Swanson and renowned producer Arthur Rizk (Inquisition, Power Trip, Pissgrave) on guitars and behind the boards! Powerful guitar riffs and galloping rhythms meld flawlessly together with soaring vocals and pristine production to create strong, hook-filled, moody anthems. This is a new wave of American Heavy Metal at its finest!
credits
released September 16, 2016

2016 Relapse Records
www.relapse.com
www.relapserecords.bandcamp.com

go down to 61 imo

howls of ebb seem quite interesting?

Howls of Ebb is very interesting, as is pretty much everything on I, Voidhanger Recs.

And I don't have a preference for the rollout timetable. This Inverloch has zoned me out in a pleasant way so, uh, yeah, do what thou wilt.

down to 61 today and then 20 per day thereafter seems right

interlock was in my top 5, thought it would be a little higher.

Inverloch

ok howls of ebb is by a distance the best discovery so far (although i was also digging urfaust and saor)

(and rotting christ)

dang i also forgot to vote for inverloch

66 Eight Bells - Landless 156 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/xAYUtS7.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5dfi3L9UmI9vaHBjNyfTb2
spotify:album:5dfi3L9UmI9vaHBjNyfTb2

https://eightbells.bandcamp.com/album/landless

I still need to buy this

65 Anicon - Exegeses 160 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/Ekf7USR.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2wspUSjeld7jT7WRFi30my
spotify:album:2wspUSjeld7jT7WRFi30my

https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/exegeses

"Exegeses" is Anicon (New York City) debut album after an handful of eps and demos!
The band comprises members from the raging outfits of Krallice, Trenchgrinder, Geryon.. to name a few of their past and present CVs.

Digital and cd (digipack) preorder will start in mid June, for a release set on 07/07 (cd)

Vinyl will be released in late August 2016 by Gilead Media
credits
released July 7, 2016

Nolan Voss - Guitar & Vocals
Owen Rundquist - Guitar & Vocals
Alex DeMaria - Bass
Lev Weinstein - Drums

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Colin Marston
At Menegroth, Queens, NY, November 2015

All Photography by Kari Greer
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tags: black metal colin marston metal avantgarde metal dark metal doom metal krallice sund4rmetal Italy

I think I listened to a couple Anicon tracks last year but the full length totally eluded me.

I liked it a lot more than I thought I would; thought it was gonna be some kind of Cascadian or even avant-garde USBM, but it's just really well done melodic black metal. Nothing original but good enough to make my top 20.

yeah this album rocks

weirdly I only learned about it via the Steve Hoffman forums -- or at least via the meager metal thread that slithers around between the discussions of Steely Dan reissues

i can't even remember why i heard it

the end of the howls of ebb album gave me a vision of the winning manager of a football match taking the ball and destroying it so it can't be used again

so that tie at #63...

TIE
63 Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EP 164 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/U48LjqP.jpg
https://cadavericfumes.bandcamp.com/album/dimensions-obscure

tags: cadaveric fumes death metal dimensions metal obscure Rennes

you sure you want to know the other part of the tie tonight?

oh i would've voted for that but i only voted for one ep. it's great

this was cute! didn't vote for it but did enjoy it :)

bring on the other part of the tie, yes

Metallica?

It's one of the best reviewed albums of the year high in the rym list too

ulcerate

is my guess

63 Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us 164 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/ZEVuCxf.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1Wk98w43t7axsezT1GAgR6
spotify:album:1Wk98w43t7axsezT1GAgR6

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21982-you-will-never-be-one-of-us/

7.8

Nails make music for when you look at life and see little of value, for when you're feeling bitter and alone. On their latest, they make a little room for others to stare at the void with them.

Over the course of their seven years in action, Nails have dedicated themselves to exploring the isolating nature of existential malaise. They’ve called their two full length LPs Unsilent Death and Abandon All Life, and on those two records, the Oxnard, California trio have perfected their defiant approach to the yawning void. They preach fatalist atheism or enact brutal masochism while diving headfirst into hardcore's darkest corners (grindcore, powerviolence, and d-beat just to name a few), and that’s all in the course of just a minute or two. It's music for when you look at life and see little of value, for when you're feeling bitter and alone in the face of chaos. Vocalist Todd Jones made his intentions clear at the peak of the 2012’s “No Surrender”: “My goal/Cause you pain.”

To that end, You Will Never Be One of Us will live up to the expectations of anyone who’s experienced a Nails album before. Eight of the record’s ten tracks are under two minutes long, and each is built around monochromatic blasts of distortion, double kick drums, Jones’ paper-shredder growls, and depressing track titles to match (see: “Life Is a Death Sentence,” “Violence Is Forever”) . The high-speed anxiety of tracks like “Made to Make You Fail” are as volatile and propulsive as jetfuel. It’s as hard as ever to make out Jones’ lyrics, but producer Kurt Ballou (of Converge, who also produced the band’s other two efforts) has gotten better at shaping his guttural abstractions. Even if it’s unclear exactly what he’s saying, the effect is crystal: he hurts and so will you.

Even in the record’s title, however, Nails have made it clear that their darkness is now just a little more complicated than the music they’ve made in the past. The video for the record’s title track opens with a host of friends (including Baroness’ John Baizley) uttering the ominous phrase, but it sounds natural regardless of who says it, as if anyone is capable of owning the sentiment as long as they’re willing to get in the right mindset. Though it’s a negative statement, defined in opposition, Jones has said in an interview that he intends it as “inclusive.” Each track on the record can be read as an invitation to join him in his unsettled meditations.

Knowing that you’re welcomed in, some of the differences between this record and those that preceded it become apparent. You Will Never Be One of Us feels less like a brick wall. This is most evident in the eight-minute closer “They Come Crawling Back,” which experiments with al sorts of unfamiliar sounds for Nails: There's frosty tremolo picking, bleak doom riffs, and siren-like leads before building into the sort of off-to-the-races hardcore they’re known for. It’s all of metal’s most downcast corners shoved together into a single eight minutes that fades slowly to nothingness. It’s a little something for anyone included in the “us” in the title, for everyone who’s ever found meaning in a flurry of fists in a mosh pit.

sorta glad it placed this low. this record sounds great but there's not v much to it

glad you said it tbh

from the rolling metal thread reaction i assumed it would be top 10

did everyone just forget about it in the end?

#10 in Terrorizer

think it made the Kerrang top 20 too

#20 in Kerrang

#2 in Decibel

The other night I watched the yearly embarrassment that is the Revolver Metal Awards and Nails was up for best new band. They didn't win. (I'd never even heard of the one that did: Avatar). But then no one watches the Revolver Metal Awards for the metal; we watch for the utter lack of direction, the nonfunctioning teleprompters, the soundchecks simultaneous to the reading of nominations, and the production staff constantly scrambling around and whispering into the ears of presenters and performers because SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG.

On the plus side, they let bands play 3 or 4 songs, which is pretty cool for an awards show.

did they have a swimsuit section for their chicks in metal 'winners'?

xpost re: Nails: My reaction to seeing that it existed was basically "oh look, more Nails, ok"
I actually listened to it the other day, it was pretty good but that Absolute Power record was probably better.

There was a "Most Metal Athlete" award. Some WWE dude won. Honestly it should have been the UFC fighter who comes out to Bolt Thrower.

62 The Body - No One Deserves Happiness 165 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/zHvYGGg.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/2AZyaHEO6VDLb9NLOkNoz3
spotify:album:2AZyaHEO6VDLb9NLOkNoz3

https://thebody.bandcamp.com/album/no-one-deserves-happiness

RIP Zsa Zsa Gabor

61 Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night 166 Points, 4 Votes , ONE #1
http://i.imgur.com/1c8jYiL.jpg
https://womanistheearth.bandcamp.com/

released April 15, 2016
tags
tags: metal ambient black metal progressive metal Rapid City

I wear my No One Deserves Happiness shirt to work w pride

yet it brings you happiness?

a true paradox