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

speaking of nazi metal!

just kidding mikael. you're a dear

Remember to subscribe to the Spotify playlist
spotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:4zMb8zr6MP7xO6DAowXVG4

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.

omg 'doomed user'

hoping my Xoth pimping worked too but it's looking highly doubtful

is Xoth gonna save my life like Astronoid has?

Totally different beast, Cthulu-referencing, scrappy, fun as fuck... melodic tech-thrash? Maybe? I'm bad w/ subgenres

https://xoth.bandcamp.com/album/invasion-of-the-tentacube

I'll bet Xoth makes it. It only took three or four votes to get in the top 100. If three other ppl said they really liked the album then it's prob in, and if it hasnt shown up yet, that means it got more votes than expected...

Xoth was top 10 for me

Enjoying the Anicon. Picked up the Xoth CD/download on bandcamp just now - really enjoying that even if it hasn't placed.

Skip to the end of this long podcast and you can hear an interview with Astronoid, who was their #1 for the year: http://www.metalsucks.net/2016/12/05/the-best-of-2016-on-the-metalsucks-podcast-173/

I wanted to like the Ulcerate more. It's impressive, but I guess too oppressive. OTOH, Nails, The Body, Zao, Wormrot and Trap Them have been handy for channeling rage since November, so perhaps I'll warm up to other extreme stuff too. Bossk, Slabdragger, Boss Keloid, Discharge, Revocation and Ihsahn are other new ones I've been listening to this week.

If it weren't for the vocals, I just might have included that Xoth album too. Riffs!

I didn't really like the Ihsahn album, I think some of the electronic elements seemed either heavy-handed or just plain goofy.

Glad to see Wrong, Occult Burial and Cadaveric Fumes placing. So far I've wishlisted Skaphe (reminds me of the churning murkiness of Aevangelist), Wormrot, Howls of Ebb (don't know why I didn't get around to this when I loved "Vigils of the 3rd Eye"), Eight Bells, Chthe'ilist, and Inquisition.

fuck me Mesarthim have released another one TODAY

― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 11:20 (one second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who's gonna run the Mesarthim poll

30 Mesarthim - Isolate 266 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/LAUnsSd.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1Ufx2MnbehYOpzFDzff6X1
spotify:album:1Ufx2MnbehYOpzFDzff6X1

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/isolate

"Like Summoning IN SPACE "

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
$1 USD or more

ok looooooooooool

Hahaha

The Great Filter > Absence > Type III* > Pillars > Isolate > Spire

*based on my one listen just earlier

It's the best one too. the best synths, the best guitar solos and the best tunes

As always, ignore imago

The opening track is incredible but the rest, while good, feels like a dry run for future glories

All of it is essential listening though

I have an old iAudio player I use exclusively for metal 'cause it has way better audio quality than my phone, can't wait to add all the Mesarthims to it and bliss out

new song out today even has Christmas bells

lol, true

it also has about five different climactic crescendos

29 Metallica - Hardwired...To Self Destruct 270 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/tltE25X.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/6BAWrCZig4yVNuJrHSwK4p
spotify:album:6BAWrCZig4yVNuJrHSwK4p

Those Mesarthim keyboard melodies are super cheesy. Filter out the screeching, blend the guitars in with the other synths, and you have bad elevator new age music. Clown college wallpaper. Fighting off some stupid cold virus everyone is getting and didn't want to wake up, so I'm unfiltered ;)