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

air!!!!! my no. 3 (iirc i forgot to save my ballot)

Psych-doom didn't know it needed vocal harmonies this heavenly, but it sure got them. Kickass band and lovely people too. My #7 but a total triumph. Wales has entered the building

lol Brad, Astronoid feels like it was devised with you in mind

Dominique otm re: Astronoid.

Would have been on the highest plane of my ballot had I found out about it in time.

MWWB was my #3. Space forever. A fresh sound and the songs really go somewhere (to space).

lol Brad, Astronoid feels like it was devised with you in mind

― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, December 19, 2016 12:40 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was absolutely made just for me

Ok the MWWB sounds like a lot of fun

44 Deftones - Gore 215 Points, 5 Votes One #1
http://i.imgur.com/3yp17qi.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3tsXyEbUQehXPaRFCS8K1n
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I thought (for some hazy, unfounded reason of associative memory) that Deftones was a band I definitely didn't like, but I gave half of this a listen and it sounded kind of great. I still didn't vote for it because the experience confused me but I'll be more inclined to listen in future.

Home Nations representin'

Can anyone compare the vocals in Astronoid and MWWB? I didn't care for either record, not that the singing was bad, I just thought it didn't stand up to the music. Are they similar vocally, or do I just not remember MWWB very well?

ha, i was wrong. anyway that deftones record was my no. 1

I thought (for some hazy, unfounded reason of associative memory) that Deftones was a band I definitely didn't like, but I gave half of this a listen and it sounded kind of great. I still didn't vote for it because the experience confused me but I'll be more inclined to listen in future.

last three deftones records are the best of their career but also i don't think they've ever put out a bad record

ok mammoth weed wizard bastard sure surprised me

I'll definitely give Deftones the time I'm sure they deserve in the new year.

Astronoid = soaring pop harmonies, inspired by Mew

MWWB = floaty ethereal shoegazey vocals, more psych than pop

Both have excellent harmonies but I can understand how the softness might be offputting (insofar as it is soft - both feel quite overwhelming in their way)

Deftones also known for their harmonies I think? We'll listen at home (or in the new year lol)

Well yeah, both

Great album cover too

Kind of reminds me of those gifs Karl Malone made a little while ago!

i don't think deftones even have harmonies but they def have a shoegaze dimension

Wait, wait, Mew? Going to listen to this.

Love that MWWB record and I've sold at least two copies for them just by playing it in the store.

Sorry, Brad, I never checked out the Deftones album :(

it's good imo

Cool 🖒

I've really dug the last few Deftones records too - they kinda have a tragic story, and they're nice guys from what I hear from a couple of buds in the industry.

43 Blood Incantation - Starspawn 216 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/dAvWub5.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/75nL1UjHpFVOaaJfhXl3ZX
spotify:album:75nL1UjHpFVOaaJfhXl3ZX
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/starspawn

After signing with the label prior to the August 2015 release of the Interdimensional Extinction EP, BLOOD INCANTATION returns with a 30-minute cerebral whirlwind of powerful atmospheric death metal. The intense and otherworldly technical/ambient/funeral death metal of Starspawn leaves the listener feeling transcendentally disembodied at the end of an unknown dimension.

Produced entirely in analog, the energy and magnetism of live BLOOD INCANTATION is tangibly melting through the speakers, and the songwriting, production and performance constellations have all fully aligned.

With appearances at California Death Fest and Covenant Festival (Canada) already on the horizon, and an even more extensive US tour this September, the worldwide spread of the BLOOD INCANTATION tentacles into all orbits is as inevitable as your own death and this galaxy's violent collapse.

Dark Descent Records will release the album on CD, vinyl, cassette and digital formats.

The Stargate opens 8.19.16 (August 19, 2016)
credits
released August 19, 2016

All analog recording at World Famous Studio - Denver, CO
Mixed/Mastered - World Famous Studio

great record

blood incantation and ghoulgotha were the center of my favorite conversation in the rolling metal thread this year about the proggier trend in death metal lately

Some bands do have crazy right wing members

― Cosmic Slop, Monday, December 19, 2016 6:50 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

48 Megadeth - Dystopia 200 Points, 5 Votes, One #1

perfect

Haha

Love Blood Incantation, you can never pay tribute to Timeghoul enough for my taste. HAIL TIMEGHOUL.

42 Moon Tooth - Chromaparagon 219 Points, 5 Votes, One #1

http://i.imgur.com/5XbWed0.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3UKIKGu1qUJPrT3X7ayF3E
spotify:album:3UKIKGu1qUJPrT3X7ayF3E

https://moontoothny.bandcamp.com/album/chromaparagon

"An undeniably strange, totally kick-ass beast."
–MetalSucks

February 5th, 2016 marks the release of Chromaparagon, the debut full-length album by Long Island, New York band Moon Tooth.

A fireworks display of melody and rhythm, Chromaparagon is more than that too – its progressive, aggressive sound is brimming with soul, riddled with hairpin turns, and delivered with the grace and swing of real virtuosos. Over the course of twelve songs, Moon Tooth mashes together rock, metal, and blues, into a fusion that bursts with color. There are few limits here. Moon Tooth possesses the imagination and skill to swerve into whatever musical direction it wants. But this band wanders without getting lost; it channels its wild dreaming and black-belt chops into an album that drives forward with purpose.

Frontman John Carbone carries forth the tradition of singers with the range and the courage to go for it. Like Jeff Buckley, Into Another's Richie Birkenhead or Shudder to Think's Craig Wedren, Carbone belts it out with a soaring voice that can command quiet subtlety as well as arena-rocking operatics. In poetic, modern-mythic phrases, his lyrics address themes of, in his own words, "trials, perseverance, victory... answering the call of adventure, following what you know to be your true purpose even in the face of danger, uncertainty and fear."

"I made love to my ordeals / By light of holy fire / A lion rearing under ash / All the beasts of un-days loomed / And I saw Mars stand," Carbone sings on the song "Igneous."

Guitarist Nick Lee (also the newest member of veteran heavy metal act Riot, now known as Riot V) extracts entire worlds out of his instrument. His dexterity is matched only by his soulfulness. Backing him are bassist Vincent Romanelli and drummer Ray Marte who glide swiftly from tasty grooves and rhythmic illusions to full-on metal muscularity.

Loosely speaking, some modern-day reference points include The Mars Volta, Mastodon, and Between The Buried And Me. But Moon Tooth is its own, unique, "undeniably strange, totally kick-ass beast" as one MetalSucks editor put it.

Chromaparagon was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Moon Tooth drummer Ray Marte. The vivid cover art was created by Jon Contino. It is preceded by the band's 2013 debut EP, Freaks.
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released February 5, 2016

John Carbone – Vocals
Nick Lee – Guitar & Vocals
Ray Marte – Drums & Vocals
Vincent Romanelli – Bass

Produced, engineered, mixed, & mastered by Ray Marte at Westfall Recording Company in Farmingdale, NY.

This album was not recorded to a metronome, quantized, or pitch-corrected in any way.

Additional vocals on ‘Vesuvius’ by Roz Raskin
Violin on ‘Snake Ryder’ by Derek Smith
Additional vocals on ‘Snake Ryder’ by Anthony Lopardo
Additional samples on ‘Snake Ryder’ provided by Michael McManus
Additional gang vocals on ‘Belt Squeezer’ by Steve Gomez
Didgeridoo on ‘Belt Squeezer’ provided by Garrett Kuppelmeyer
Organ on "Igneous" & "Little Witch" by Jess DeBellis

Artwork & design by Jon Contino

Moon Tooth uses Reverend Guitars, Railhammer Pickups, Fuzzrocious Pedals, Hiwatt Amplification, Electroharmonix, Precision Drums, Zildjian, Promark, Evans, Specter Basses, Aguilar, Ernie Ball, & D'Addario.

Thank you to our families, friends, and fans who helped us make this happen.

All songs written, performed, & published by Moon Tooth. Copyright 2016.

MoonTooth.org
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tags: metal progressive rock doom hard rock stoner rock thrash

TOO LOW

Only 5 people in the world have heard Moon Tooth but they all voted for it

...although way higher than I anticipated

rawk

5 votes? I thought this was popular 'round here.

:D

A triumph for last-ditch campaigning! Smashed into my ballot at #8. A total joyride

lol most of my ballot represented in the last three picks

So I should probably listen to this eh

And um Starspawn is pretty good but it tails off at the end, kind of feels like it ends before it should tbh

I only heard this for the first time during voting but instantly fell for it. This is true prog.

Smithy is the tastemaker this year

My #8 also, in fact.

Additional vocals on ‘Vesuvius’ by Roz Raskin

Oh yeah, I'm loving Astronoid so far.

Reckon Virus are coming soon to complete the Bradathon

I was the fifth vote for Moon Tooth - the set is complete

the thrashprog coven is joined

you guys hanging around posting to take it down to 31 tonight or do i stop at 41?

<ruins moon tooth for everyone> i like how their lead singer reminds me of the dude from incubus </ruins>

take it on down