ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll 2017: NOMINATIONS thread - open till Dec. 19th!

The plan this time around is to leave the voting/campaigning period open till end of January, after the main trax/album polls close.

Just for reference, noms for the standard poll will open next Thursday, go through January 5th, voting will go through the 19th, and then the rollouts for tracks & albums will wrap up on February 1st.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever),

cheers!
we might leave a week after that then to give anyone interested in voting a bit more time.

However I hope people will start listening to nominated albums now rather than wait for voting period OR after big poll results. (That means you especially Imago since you like to listen to everything before voting)

Hey AG!

hello

remember to add your nominations to the Spotify playlist
https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/74IL7uL4YEy2tTiBYtRJ4G

wow aero needs to hear that Tomb Mold album, holy shit

Oh yeah it's great. They also did a comp of their first two demos this year which is well worth hearing, one of my favorite Repulsion pastiches appears on it.

I'm looking forward to siegbran's recommendations

Imago how is the Cleric album? Would I dig it?

do you like the idea of mathcore played like avant-garde jazz, ON DRUGS, THROUGH A BLENDER etc

it's amazing, give it a go

ok. will give it a listen

wow aero needs to hear that Tomb Mold album, holy shit

― Simon H., Thursday, December 7, 2017 7:09 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

apparently so do i

my eyes lit up just reading their name tbh

Ostraca - Last
The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light
Planning for Burial - Below the House
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley

oh yeah the Stabscotch, whether metal or not, is certainly up there

I understand if you want Uncanny Valley off the list. No hard feelings if it doesn't make the spreadsheet. To me its about as heavy as any Cleric, Deafheaven or Mt. Erie albums that have made it in the past. Certainly weaves through a lot of genre's but it's pretty extreme. But yeah, I guess noise/experimental/avant would be the primary genres.

Let's keep it in I say

Me too

We've got QOTSA in there, which must make the first time MArk Ronson has had a production credit in one of these polls, so I'm not too concerned.

Last Rites' staff list is up. I don't know around half of these!

https://yourlastrites.com/2017/12/08/best-of-2017-last-rites-combined-staff/

Uh good work on the top two at least. And the Dodecahedron and Klabautamann albums are also pretty good.

yeah the Pyrrhon album is pretty serious and will be on my ballot. also, Doug Moore is one of the best writers *about* metal currently kicking around

Orthodox - Supreme

sund4r just played an Akvan track in Plug a while ago. Black metal played by an Iranian folk Jandek. Kickarse

i'd like to nominate Igorrr's Savage Sinusoid. Surprised it's not already here!

Everything mentioned on the thread should now be in the spreadsheet. We're at a hair under 200 noms; we had 474 last year. Keep 'em coming!

If no-one bites, I'll do it:
<b>Nokturnal Mortum - Істина</b>

and

<b>Colotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душі
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Windswept - The Great Cold Steppe
Forteresse - Récits Patriotiques
Desolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless Void
None - None
Entrails - World Inferno
Veldes - The Bitterness Prophecy
Ghost Bath - Starmourner
Neige et Noirceur - Verglapolis
Widziadło - Void
Kartikeya - Samudra
Raventale - Planetarium
Dyscarnate - With All Their Might
Necrot - Blood Offerings
Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
Exhumed - Death Revenge
God Dethroned - The World Ablaze
Severoth - Forestpaths
Azarath - In Extremis
W - Winterwomb
Belphegor - Totenritual
Kalmankantaja - Demonwoods
Svart Crown - Abreaction
Grift - Arvet
Sinister - Syncretism
Lustre - Still Innocence
Suffocation - Of The Dark Light
</b>

ah fckn bbcode.

Will probably be voting for NM even if their frontman's disavowal of terrible beliefs was transparently disingenuous - it was a good album. I wish I knew nothing else about the band than their music

This will probably also ruin the chances of QOTSA winning.

So is Eastern European exoticism part of Nokturnal Mortum's appeal? To be fair, I've only heard their first two records but they reminded me of post-1989 village wedding bands hellbent on showcasing their portable Yamaha keyboard at every gig.

xp

I've no doubts that Qotsa will suffer in ILX polls from now on much in the same way Swans did.

This will probably also ruin the chances of QOTSA winning.

tbf I wouldn't have imagined it placing above the mid-50s in any case

Pretty sure I already know what will get #1 :x

Bagarre générale - Tohu-Bohu
Black Anvil - As Was
Blattaria - Blattaria
The Clearing Path - Watershed Between Firmament and the Realm of Hyperborea
Cormorant - Diaspora
Dodecahdron - Kwintessens
Dreadnought - A Wake in Sacred Waves
Ehnahre - The Marrow
Entheos - Le Zahir
Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out
GGUW - BEHAUPTUNGSANIMALITÄT
Hathenter - Hathenter Ouija
Klabautamann - Smaragd
Locust Leaves - A Subtler Kind of Light
Mutoid Man - War Moans
Njiqahdda - Clouds Upon the Sanctuary
Pryapisme - Diabolicus felinae pandemonium
Qhwertt - Sympathetic Horror
Rubedo Nocturno - O grande pai: Abismo incriado
Shaarimoth - Temple of the Adversarial Fire
Shardik - Shardik
Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
Ungfell - Tôtbringære
Vin de Mia Trix - Palimpsests
Weeping Sores - Weeping Sores
Wintaar - Wintaar

btw the Krallice album is called Go Be Forgotten, not To... sorry to be a pedant.

I keep making that mistake, sorry

Pretty sure I already know what will get #1 :x

― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, December 11, 2017 6:21 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can think of something that'll get at least 2 #1 votes :D

ILX surely not boring enough to vote Bell Witch #1

Bell Witch will probably be on my ballot, but fairly low. the length really does make it a prohibitive thing.

I didn't like the Bell Witch album that much but I don't resent their popularity. But I seem to remember speculation about placings etc is frowned upon so I'll just say they weren't who I was thinking of and leave it at that.

Oh I didn't mind it. Perfectly pleasant, gave it 6/10. I will now work out what you were thinking of and not spill it all over ILM

why not get some early campaigning for albums done? It always helps album placings when people campaign for them

oh I just realised who you're thinking of

ugh ffs

Occvlta - Night Without End
Antichrist - Sinful Birth
Slaegt - Domus Mystrium
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
Hallas - Excerpts from a future past
Pagan Altar - Room of Shadow
Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
The Ruins Of Beverast - Exuvia
Possession - Exorkizein
Horisont - About Time
Ghold - Stoic
Void Tendril - Ensnaring the Demiurge
Ragana - You Take Nothing
Insurgency - Militant Death Cult
Curved Blade - Coiled Together
Jordablod - Upon My Cremation
Tetragrammacide - Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix
Maggot Heart - City Girls
Natur - Smoking Mirrors
Demon Head - Thunder on the Fields

I'd like to offer a shout-out to last year's deserved runaway winners Oranssi Pazuzu, who released a 2-track EP that's definitely too short to nominate here, but which contains one of the best metal SONGS of the year, Värimyrsky. Keep it up you crazy spacemen

I totally overlooked that, I often ignore EPs for some reason. Virus had one out too this year as well that I haven't heard.

oh shit cool

fuckit

Oranssi Pazuzu - Farmakologinen
Virus - Investigator

fyi Farmakologinen is a rerelease of their first EP and I was thinking of Kevät/Värimyrsky

But yeah, if people could talk about their favourite metal albums that would be delightful cheers

xp oooops good catch

aye i hate waiting for voting thread to hear about what to listen to, sell me on good albums now so they have time to sink in, i cant do that lj thing of hearing the album of the year on first listen, lol. Not criticising him btw, its just not something i do usually.

Have listened to my own #1 metal choice maaaaaybe twenty times over the last five days fyi. and already recommended it to you :P

let others have the floor

Not sure if it's metal enough but

Brutus - Burst

Dirge - Alma Baltica

(haven't heard it yet but since the nominations round ends today I want to be able to vote for it if it's good)

Some I, Voidhanger releases I haven't been able to listen to in depth but will hopefully get to soon:
Bloodway - A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues
Tongues - Hreilia
Clearing Path - Watershed Between Firmament And The Realm of Hyperborea
Inconcessus Lux Lucis - The Crowning Quietus

Brutus def counts

i only have one nomination but it's incidentally like the best metal album i've heard this year

Lunatii- Elimino

I had my doubts. Glad you could make it tt

Thank you! Glad to be here! Now we commence listening...

I had forgotten about the Lunatii album! It rules so much.

Iron Monkey - 9-13

some more nominations:

Aetherian - The Untamed Wilderness
Amenra - Mass VI
Anomalie - Visions
Antarktis - Illdlaante
Apotelesma - Timewrought Kings
Archspire - Relentless Mutation
Arallu - Six
Asira - Efference
Auðn - Farvegir Fyrndar
Claret Ash - The Great Adjudication: Fragment One
Duskmourn - Of Shadow and Flame
DVNE - Asheran
Enisum - Seasons of Desolation
Hallatar - No Stars Upon the Bridge
Kaunis Kuolematon - Vapus
Netra - Ingrats
Nightbringer - Terra Damnata
Nullingroots - Into the Grey
Persona - Metamorphosis
Protean Collective - Collapse
Ra's Dawn - From the Vile Catacombs
Red Moon Architect - Return of the Black Butterflies
Sorrow Plagues - Homecoming
Sun of the Sleepless - To the Elements
The Great Discord - The Rabbit Hole
W.E.B. - Tartarus

Bandcamp Links:

Aetherian - The Untamed Wilderness
https://aetherianlfr.bandcamp.com/album/the-untamed-wilderness
France

Amenra - Mass VI
https://amenra.bandcamp.com/album/mass-vi
Belgium

Anomalie - Visions
https://anomalie-official.bandcamp.com/album/visions
Austria

Antarktis - Illdlaante
https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/ildlaante
Sweden

Apotelesma - Timewrought Kings
https://apotelesma.bandcamp.com/album/timewrought-kings-2
Netherlands

Arallu - Six
https://arallu.bandcamp.com/album/six-folk-black-thrash-metal
Israel

Archspire - Relentless Mutation
https://archspire.bandcamp.com/album/relentless-mutation
Canada

Asira - Efference
https://asira.bandcamp.com/
England

Auðn - Farvegir Fyrndar
https://audnofficial.bandcamp.com/album/farvegir-fyrndar
Iceland

Claret Ash - The Great Adjudication: Fragment One
https://claretash.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-adjudication-fragment-one
Australia

Duskmourn - Of Shadow and Flame
https://duskmourn.bandcamp.com/album/of-shadow-and-flame
New Jersey, USA

DVNE - Asheran
https://songs-of-arrakis.bandcamp.com/album/asheran
Scotland

Enisum - Seasons of Desolation
https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/seasons-of-desolation
Italy

Hallatar - No Stars Upon the Bridge
https://hallatar.bandcamp.com/album/no-stars-upon-the-bridge
Finland

Kaunis Kuolematon - Vapus
https://kauniskuolematon.bandcamp.com/album/vapaus
Finland

Netra - Ingrats
https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ingrats
Greece

Nightbringer - Terra Damnata
https://nightbringer.bandcamp.com/album/terra-damnata
Colorado, USA

Nullingroots - Into the Grey
https://nullingroots.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-grey
Arizona, USA

Persona - Metamorphosis
https://personaband.bandcamp.com/album/metamorphosis
Tunisia

Protean Collective - Collapse
https://proteancollective.bandcamp.com/album/collapse
Massachusetts, USA

Ra's Dawn - From the Vile Catacombs
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ras-dawn/from-the-vile-catacombs/
Germany

Red Moon Architect - Return of the Black Butterflies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOH6KmPO0Ek
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/red-moon-architect/return-of-the-black-butterflies/

Sorrow Plagues - Homecoming
https://sorrowplagues.bandcamp.com/album/homecoming
UK

Sun of the Sleepless - To the Elements
https://sun-of-the-sleepless.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-elements
Germany

The Great Discord - The Rabbit Hole
https://thesignrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-discord-the-rabbit-hole
Sweden

W.E.B. - Tartarus
https://apathiarecords.bandcamp.com/album/tartarus
Greece

You need Biblical in there.

Added!

3.5 more hours for nominations!

10 more nominations:

All them Witches - Sleeping Through the War
Below the Sun - Alien World
Greta Van Fleet - From the Fires
Hanging Garden - I Am Become
In this Moment - Ritual
Rosk- Miasma
Ruby the Hatchet - Planetary Space Child
The Thirteenth Sun - Stardust
Voyager - Ghost Mile
Wormwood - Ghostlands Wounds From A bleeding Earth

Vattnet - Vattnet

https://vattnet.bandcamp.com/album/vattnet

Black Mare - Death Magick Mother

https://magicbulletrecords.bandcamp.com/album/black-mare-death-magick-mother

I guess if we have the Chelsea Wolfe album this one should be fair game:

Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die

I mean the Wolfe album *is* unquestionably metal for long stretches but yeah the Lingua Ignota is fine by me

Slaughtbbath - Contempt, War and Damnation

Anomalie was already nominated

Nominations are closed. 472 albums in all - 2 shy of last year.

voting prob wont start til tomorrow so I'm sure if there's anything been missed you can add before seandalai opens.

Plus we usually allow nominations to be added after votings started because there's always people who say they didn't know nominations were started

been busy lately as my mum broke her leg on the icy path across the road last friday as the council hadn't gritted the roads and paths. So its going to be even more hectic once she gets home (dunno when)

yeah gl with that. no rush with anything

Since I neglected a couple on the falser end, I'll add them to put us on par with last year:

Gold Key - Hello, Phantom
Grave Pleasures - Motherblood

Hey, this Elder album isn't half bad you know. This kind of "stoner" stuff isn't usually my kind of thing.

...And you will know us by the Crack the Skye

The Body - A Home on Earth

I just found a few more via those handy new Spotify genre lists

Throane - Plus une main a mordre
Vassafor - Malediction
JoDöden - Sittandes i sjön med vatten över huvudet
Saiva - Markerna bortom
Vukari - Divination

Is it common knowledge that Phil from Vassafor played bass for the Chills once? Just for a tour. So weird.

imago, you might get some mileage from the Multishiva album? It's basically blackened sludge with lots of Värähtelijä-style effects on top

https://multishiva.bandcamp.com/album/time-messer

Voting thread is up. Could a mod kindly lock this one?

The 2017 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 3rd!