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

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

enjoying the The Body; yet to see whether it'll stick. it's enjoyably twisted but i do wish there was a bit more to the songs. just a bit.

Recap

101 Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia) 108 4 1
98 Abbath - Abbath 109 3 0
98 Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule 109 3 0
98 Lord Vicar - Gates of Flesh 109 3 0
97 Dawnwalker - In Rooms 109 4 0
95 Madder Mortem - Red In Tooth and Claw 110 4 0
95 Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok 110 4 0
94 Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers 112 3 0
93 Truckfighters - V 116 4 0
92 Atomikylä - Keräily 118 3 0
91 Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh 121 4 0

90 Grand Magus - Sword Songs 122 3 0
89 Rotting Christ - Rituals 123 4 0
88 Wrong - Wrong 124 3 0
87 Melvins - Basses Loaded 126 4 0
86 Batushka - Litourgiya 127 3 0
85 Bloodiest - Bloodiest 128 3 0
84 Wretch - Wretch 128 4 0
83 Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation 128 4 1
82 Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether 128 6 0
81 ColdWorld - Autumn 129 3 0

80 Void Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the Dead 131 4 0
79 Car Bomb - Meta 134 3 0
78 Anciients - Voice of the Void 137 4 0
77 Wormrot - Voices 138 4 0
76 Saor - Guardians 138 6 0
75 Asphyx - Incoming Death 139 3 0
74 The Body, Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache 139 5 0
73 High Spirits - Motivator 140 4 0
72 Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed 141 4 0

70 Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure 142 4 0
70 Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake 142 4 0
69 Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis 143 4 0
68 Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows 148 5 0
67 Sumerlands - s/t 154 6 0
66 Eight Bells - Landless 156 5 0
65 Anicon - Exegeses 160 4 0
63 Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EP 164 5 0
63 Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us 164 5 0
62 The Body - No One Deserves Happiness 165 6 0
61 Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night 166 4 1

p fucking good so far says I

No one had said that so i was wondering if people didnt think that this year. Usually people say the just inside the top 100 is their fave part or theyve discovered loads

and seriously missing dominique leone saying his entire ballot already placed :D

I'm not really bowled over by much of this, but I do know there's loads of truly killer stuff yet to place, so *shrug*

and there are ALWAYS cool things to discover like howls of ebb. it's always worthwhile going through all these albums

Imago killing zsa zsa clearly the big news of the day though

the Anicon record is great, glad others voted for it

I voted for The Body, but listening now and it's way better than I even remembered. And I want that t-shirt!

I've had a lot of things place already so I'm inclined to think it's a great roll-out. Favourite find is probably Eight Bells, but I'll need to dedicate time to get into it.

Their shirts were stupid cheap too, I think 10 bucks CAD each? I also bought one of the Futility and Despair skull/heart shirts xp

Nails was #14 in my prediction, doh! Like I said, unpredictable. I'd think there would be some gnarly crust punk/post-hard/grindcore option up there. Maybe Trap Them or Zao?

Nails and/or Wormrot screwed most of us lol

its that time of the poll where everyone gives up on obscure things placing too as big names start to appear

or is it?

Find out in the next episode of S.O.A.P.

RIP Sun Worship & Oneida/Chatham

RIP Comet Control, you're not even metal any more but I love you more than ever

Anicon is pleasant. (A state to which every metal aspires, obv.)

*metal band