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

;_; / :)

Yes, no one wants to be here. xp

Mesarthim's morse code album was truly wonderful. Felt much darker than the rest of their output.

This last Comet Control track has a very similar structure to Paramore's 'The Only Exception'...

Comet Control's debut was my #1 album of 2014. This one is good but not as good.

There was so much space rock this year, I totally didn't expect Comet Control to be singled out over all of these:

Dreamtime – Strange Pleasures
https://skylanternrecords.bandcamp.com/album/strange-pleasures

Eye – Vision & Ageless Light
https://lasersedge.bandcamp.com/album/vision-and-ageless-light

Moths & Locusts – Helios Rising
https://mothsandlocusts.bandcamp.com/album/helios-rising

Black Rainbows – Stellar Prophecy
https://blackrainbows.bandcamp.com/album/black-rainbows-stellar-prophecy

Nudity – Nudity Is God's Creation
https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/nudity-is-gods-creation

The Myrrors – Entranced Earth
https://themyrrorsbbib.bandcamp.com/album/entranced-earth-pre-order

The Spacelords – Liquid Sun
https://thespacelords1.bandcamp.com/album/liquid-sun

TIE
35 Krallice - Hyperion 246 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/rDtS5Ny.jpg
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/hyperion

35 Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason 246 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/D1LISMo.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/0puaywAAvNkhKl6KQhuTn6
spotify:album:0puaywAAvNkhKl6KQhuTn6

There was so much space rock this year, I totally didn't expect Comet Control to be singled out over all of these:

they made a previous metal poll iirc

The big spacey-BM entry on my ballot was this, which I dont think anyone on ILX talked about all year:

https://sunworship.bandcamp.com/album/pale-dawn

It'doesn't have the luminous guitar leads of Mesarthim but it sounds massive and def has some subtle kraut influence

34 Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder 259 Points, 8 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/i4nff5c.jpg

more like dorkthrone

i listened to this once and like most late darkthrone records vibed with it in the moment and then had a hard time reconnecting to it

good riffs iirc

I liked it, more so than previous two of theirs. Not a great record by any means, but there's good reasons why fans liked it

Liking Meshuggah! They're no Car Bomb but it's a pretty decent effort :P

tt is not liking them but it's staying (for now)

33 Oathbreaker - Rheia 262 Points, 7 Votes One #1
http://i.imgur.com/Y3oxJqw.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2eo8OwibPK06ZoHmIAfClG
spotify:album:2eo8OwibPK06ZoHmIAfClG

https://oathbreakerband.bandcamp.com/album/rheia

With Meshuggah you know what you're getting so I didn't bother with the new one because I've had my fill of them I think.

Krallice, however could release a new album a week w/minimal differences and I'd lap it up

they didn't listen to Mercyful Faith! false metal

The Krallice didn't make much of an impression on me, although Years Past Matter is one of my favourite rock albums of the millennium. I really liked some individual songs from the Meshuggah but found the album a bit wearying as a whole when I listened. I nommed "Born in Dissonance" in the ILM eoy tracks poll

Mercyful Faith? who is the falser here!

Nothing false about Mercyful Faith.

Really liked Oathbreaker. Found it powerful and surprisingly varied.

32 Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love 263 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/P3CHJ8v.jpg
https://cultesdesghoules.bandcamp.com/album/coven-or-evil-ways-instead-of-love

The metal underground is awash with more bands than ever, but none quite sound like Poland's CULTES DES GHOULES. And now, with the release of the band's highly anticipated third album, Coven, HELLS HEADBANGERS is proud to present CULTES DES GHOULES' magnum opus and forever prove that no one ever will quite sound like THIS.

A mysterious collective with a full lineup but no facts fully revealed about it, CULTES DES GHOULES have always let their music speak for itself. Their early demos and Odd Spirituality EP, all highly sought after upon their initial release, eventually culminated in CULTES DES GHOULES' classic debut album, Häxan. Released in 2008 but eventually reissued by HELLS HEADBANGERS in 2011 after its first two versions quickly sold out, Häxan was a mesmerizing monolith beyond compare - ghoulish, gibbering, and ghastly in equal measures - although its sinful stench fondly recalled the likes of earliest, evilest Necromantia, Beherit, Mayhem, and Mortuary Drape. Also in 2011 came the Spectres Over Transylvania EP, which was an epic 25-minute track that suggested the ambitious direction to come. And come it did with 2013's Henbane, a five-song/58-minute monster of mesmerizing power. Dread and disease wafting up from the abyss like fumes of the most potent sulfur, coiling and releasing in a tense coitus of godless abandon, the unremittingly repulsive sounds of death worship: Henbane soon became a modern classic for a new generation of black metallers hungry for foul sounds with fathomless depth(s).

Alas, even all that cannot prepare the willing for CULTES DES GHOULES' Coven. On the surface, the epically winding ritualism the band had worked toward is present and accounted for...until you realize that that's simply the first track. For Coven is indeed a literally MASSIVE album, totalling nearly 100 minutes across five near-equally massive songs; not for nothing will it be presented individually on two CDs and three vinyl LPs. But there is purpose to such staggering lengths: the album is, in fact, a sort of "play" whose full title is Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love. Inspired by Master's Hammer's The Jilemnice Occultist, which is a black metal operetta with a story about romance and witchcraft, CULTES DES GHOULES wanted to write something similar but with more serious intent and without any "romance" themes. And with time, it evolved into the form that's finally revealed to the public.

Essentially, Coven sonically and especially (lyrically) illustrates a spiritual quest and the wish of death - death to a mundane world of moral laws and social conventions and shallow existences. It comprises a whole cast of characters - an actual dramatis personae, in the manner of a traditional play - whose innermost thoughts and outermost deeds are given life by the devilish throat of CULTES DES GHOULES. Each of the five songs is a whole "act" in itself, travelling across tension and cresting to high drama. Suitably, the music follows in kind, encompassing the band's trademark teeth-gnashing gnarliness to more dynamic - and, yes, dramatic - iterations of what were mere sonic suggestions in past, particularly in swaggering Sabbathian groove. That the band moves so freely across such a relatively wide swath of (super-)sonic terrain isn't so surprising as how effortlessly they do so, mirroring the myriad characters who bind the Coven. Olde tyme rock 'n' roll? Not exactly, but it's as patently diabolical as the medieval devil-worship CULTES DES GHOULES have been slavishly devoted to lo these many years.

The Devil's always had the best tunes, and sometimes even had the best plays. Now he's got both in CULTES DES GHOULES Coven, and a new dark age has begun.
credits
Vinyl releases February 17, 2017

death to a mundane world of moral laws and social conventions and shallow existences

a new dark age has begun

:/

i know, i know, it's all about the music, i know

also, i know, metal, yes, it's metal, hails, i know, i know

hmm, there's some ambiguity there i guess. plus yknow fuck christian morality right? pluuuus it seems proper literary. idk. someone else say something for hell's sake

Idk, I tried with CDG a few years back and found it unlistenable shit, apologies to voters

31 Opeth - Sorceress 265 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/1NnhTOj.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3TmHGVTgRAlYKa9qHOgJhG
spotify:album:3TmHGVTgRAlYKa9qHOgJhG

speaking of nazi metal!

just kidding mikael. you're a dear

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fastnbulbous currently winning the predictorstakes, only three of yr 20 picks have appeared so far

four of mine appeared just today :/

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
60 Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law 166 5 0
59 Amon Amarth - Jomsviking 174 5 0
58 Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crépuscule 177 6 0
57 Mesarthim - Pillars [EP] 180 5 0
56 Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner 185 5 0
55 Lotus Thief - Gramarye 186 6 0
54 Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis 187 5 0
53 Sabaton - The Last Stand 190 5 0
52 Skáphe - Skáphe² 195 6 0
51 The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation 196 6 0
50 Inquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith 198 7 0
49 Blues Pills - Lady In Gold 200 4 1
48 Megadeth - Dystopia 200 5 1
47 Russian Circles - Guidance 200 6 0
46 Astronoid - Air 201 6 0
45 Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd Dwell 209 6 0
44 Deftones - Gore 215 5 1
43 Blood Incantation - Starspawn 216 7 0
42 Moon Tooth - Chromaparagon 219 5 1
41 Ophidian Forest - Susurrus 222 6 0
40 Mesarthim - .- -... ... . -. -.-. . 228 7 0
39 Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP 228 9 0
38 Wormed - Krighsu 231 6 0
37 Comet Control - Center of the Maze 235 6 0
35 Krallice - Hyperion 246 8 0
35 Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason 246 8 0
34 Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder 259 8 0
33 Oathbreaker - Rheia 262 7 1
32 Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love 263 7 0
31 Opeth - Sorceress 265 7 0

Any discoveries folks?

realising just how great mesarthim are. looooads i'm excited to hear though

mesarthim are the new gods

everyone in the world seriously needs to hear this https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-filter-e-p

it's only 21 minutes of your time. holy shit.

Really dig Comet Control! It should be in the general EOY poll!
Ignored Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard until a few hours ago due to a general inclination to ignore bands with ridiculous names, but I really liked it.

xp fully agree!

I doubt anything from this poll will make the general poll as either nobody here votes or they dont vote for the same metal albums

i think mammoth weed wizard bastard are from the 'we couldn't think of a good name so here's the shittest and most ridiculously doom-cliche-filled thing we could think of inside thirty seconds' school of band naming

i quite like the name though lol

ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

aaaaalready on it!

Astronoid = favourite discovery so far. It's just magical

I dont think many people put metal albums in their top 5 and with needing 10-12 votes to get in the 77 you need those people to vote high

and seandalai says most people who vote in this poll dont vote in the big poll (esp the lurkers iirc)

Metallica will likely make the big poll

I've tried too hard to keep on top of new releases over the last couple of years so in the rollout it's usually either stuff I've heard (and liked to some extent more often than not) or just not interested in. That said, I will give Moon Tooth and Mesarthim a proper go.

And I just... don't get Cultes des Ghoules at all.

v happy I stanned for Astronoid as much as I did

"What's this? It sounds great". It was Deftones again.

I am also unmoved by CdG. I want them to sound more like the atmosphere their album art generates and they never do.

Me too! xp

Astronoid = favourite discovery so far. It's just magical

― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, December 19, 2016 4:31 PM

Same here.