ok. will give it a listen
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 7 December 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 December 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
Ostraca - LastThe Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy LightPlanning for Burial - Below the HouseStabscotch - Uncanny Valley
― gman59, Thursday, 7 December 2017 20:55 (six years ago) link
oh yeah the Stabscotch, whether metal or not, is certainly up there
― imago, Thursday, 7 December 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
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.
― gman59, Thursday, 7 December 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
Let's keep it in I say
― imago, Thursday, 7 December 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
Me too
― the underground is pass-agg (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 7 December 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
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.
― Simon H., Friday, 8 December 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
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/
― Simon H., Friday, 8 December 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
Uh good work on the top two at least. And the Dodecahedron and Klabautamann albums are also pretty good.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 8 December 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
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
― Simon H., Friday, 8 December 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
Orthodox - Supreme
― gman59, Friday, 8 December 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
sund4r just played an Akvan track in Plug a while ago. Black metal played by an Iranian folk Jandek. Kickarse
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 8 December 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
i'd like to nominate Igorrr's Savage Sinusoid. Surprised it's not already here!
― beard papa, Saturday, 9 December 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
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!
― Simon H., Monday, 11 December 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
If no-one bites, I'll do it:<b>Nokturnal Mortum - Істина</b>
and
<b>Colotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душіProgenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLunaWindswept - The Great Cold SteppeForteresse - Récits PatriotiquesDesolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless VoidNone - NoneEntrails - World InfernoVeldes - The Bitterness ProphecyGhost Bath - StarmournerNeige et Noirceur - VerglapolisWidziadło - VoidKartikeya - SamudraRaventale - PlanetariumDyscarnate - With All Their MightNecrot - Blood OfferingsBeheaded - Beast IncarnateExhumed - Death RevengeGod Dethroned - The World AblazeSeveroth - ForestpathsAzarath - In ExtremisW - WinterwombBelphegor - TotenritualKalmankantaja - DemonwoodsSvart Crown - AbreactionGrift - ArvetSinister - SyncretismLustre - Still InnocenceSuffocation - Of The Dark Light</b>
― Siegbran, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
ah fckn bbcode.
― Siegbran, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 11 December 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
This will probably also ruin the chances of QOTSA winning.
― Siegbran, Monday, 11 December 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
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.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 December 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
xp
I've no doubts that Qotsa will suffer in ILX polls from now on much in the same way Swans did.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 11 December 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
tbf I wouldn't have imagined it placing above the mid-50s in any case
― Simon H., Monday, 11 December 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
Pretty sure I already know what will get #1 :x
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
Bagarre générale - Tohu-BohuBlack Anvil - As WasBlattaria - BlattariaThe Clearing Path - Watershed Between Firmament and the Realm of HyperboreaCormorant - DiasporaDodecahdron - KwintessensDreadnought - A Wake in Sacred WavesEhnahre - The MarrowEntheos - Le ZahirGasp - Ghost in Scow OutGGUW - BEHAUPTUNGSANIMALITÄTHathenter - Hathenter OuijaKlabautamann - SmaragdLocust Leaves - A Subtler Kind of LightMutoid Man - War MoansNjiqahdda - Clouds Upon the SanctuaryPryapisme - Diabolicus felinae pandemoniumQhwertt - Sympathetic HorrorRubedo Nocturno - O grande pai: Abismo incriadoShaarimoth - Temple of the Adversarial FireShardik - ShardikTodesstoß - Ebne GraunUngfell - TôtbringæreVin de Mia Trix - PalimpsestsWeeping Sores - Weeping SoresWintaar - Wintaar
btw the Krallice album is called Go Be Forgotten, not To... sorry to be a pedant.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
I keep making that mistake, sorry
― Dinsdale, Monday, 11 December 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
― 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
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
Bell Witch will probably be on my ballot, but fairly low. the length really does make it a prohibitive thing.
― Simon H., Monday, 11 December 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
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.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
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
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
why not get some early campaigning for albums done? It always helps album placings when people campaign for them
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
oh I just realised who you're thinking of
ugh ffs
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
Occvlta - Night Without EndAntichrist - Sinful BirthSlaegt - Domus MystriumSpectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of UnbeingHallas - Excerpts from a future pastPagan Altar - Room of ShadowMalokarpatan - NordkarpatenlandBlack Cilice - Banished from TimeThe Ruins Of Beverast - ExuviaPossession - ExorkizeinHorisont - About TimeGhold - StoicVoid Tendril - Ensnaring the DemiurgeRagana - You Take NothingInsurgency - Militant Death CultCurved Blade - Coiled TogetherJordablod - Upon My CremationTetragrammacide - Primal Incinerators of Moral MatrixMaggot Heart - City GirlsNatur - Smoking MirrorsDemon Head - Thunder on the Fields
― BlueCrystalFire, Monday, 11 December 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
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
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
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.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
oh shit cool
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
fuckit
Oranssi Pazuzu - FarmakologinenVirus - Investigator
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
fyi Farmakologinen is a rerelease of their first EP and I was thinking of Kevät/Värimyrsky
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
But yeah, if people could talk about their favourite metal albums that would be delightful cheers
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
xp oooops good catch
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
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.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
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
― your meat, my veg (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
Mostly EP's, splits etc:
Abigor / Nightbringer / Thy Darkened Shade / Mortuus - SplitDeath Like Mass - Jak zabija DiabełDrudkh / Paysage d'Hiver - Somewhere Sadness Wanders / Schnee (IV)Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading As MatterVanum - Burning ArrowSinmara - Within The Weaves Of InfinityWearg - Hæðen War MetalExtremety - Extremely Fucking DeadImindain - The Enemy Of Fetters And The Dweller In The WoodsÁrstíðir Lifsins - HeljarkviðaWarloghe - Lucifer AscendsWederganger / Urfaust - SplitColdWorld - Wolves And SheepFides Inversa - Rite of Inverse IncarnationSinmara / Misþyrming - SplitOranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / VärimyrskyOranssi Pazuzu - FarmakologinenMesarthim - PresenceTomb Mold - Cryptic Transmissions
And the year wouldn't be complete without
Goatpenis - Anesthetic Vapor
― Siegbran, Monday, 11 December 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
Trying to think of something I haven't mentioned throughout the year... well I know some people round here like quasi-prog OSDM (name subject to change) so I'll boost the Execration - Return to the Void, it's a lot leaner than their previous album and maybe a sharper attack, in any case it's got those space monster vibes and great big dirty riffs that everyone should love.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
That Mesarthim EP is really lovely as usual
― Cardi ACS (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
Yellow Eyes released my favourite "straight" black metal album this year, those riffs are USBM perfection.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 11 December 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
Corpse Garden have taken death metal to new Costa Rican levels with their weirdly-titled and utterly kickass IAO 269
― Cardi ACS (imago), Monday, 11 December 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
Grav - Tomb Of AgonyGrav - Fordærvet DjævelskabSadness - OtroDélétère - Per Aspera Ad PestilentiamExquirla - Para quienes aún vivenÁrstíðir Lifsins - Heljarkviða
― Siegbran, Monday, 11 December 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
Arkhon Infaustus - Passing The Nekromanteion
― Siegbran, Monday, 11 December 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
Oranssi Pazuzu - Farmakologinen
This was a rerelease, right?
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
Heavydeath - Sarcophagus in the Sky
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:53 (six years ago) link
You need Biblical in there.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 00:35 (six years ago) link
Added!
3.5 more hours for nominations!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 December 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link
10 more nominations:
All them Witches - Sleeping Through the WarBelow the Sun - Alien WorldGreta Van Fleet - From the FiresHanging Garden - I Am BecomeIn this Moment - RitualRosk- MiasmaRuby the Hatchet - Planetary Space ChildThe Thirteenth Sun - StardustVoyager - Ghost MileWormwood - Ghostlands Wounds From A bleeding Earth
― djmartian, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link
Vattnet - Vattnet
https://vattnet.bandcamp.com/album/vattnet
― djmartian, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 01:54 (six years ago) link
Black Mare - Death Magick Mother
https://magicbulletrecords.bandcamp.com/album/black-mare-death-magick-mother
― djmartian, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
I guess if we have the Chelsea Wolfe album this one should be fair game:
Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
― o. nate, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 02:15 (six years ago) link
I mean the Wolfe album *is* unquestionably metal for long stretches but yeah the Lingua Ignota is fine by me
― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 December 2017 02:19 (six years ago) link
Slaughtbbath - Contempt, War and Damnation
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 05:17 (six years ago) link
Anomalie was already nominated
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 07:16 (six years ago) link
Nominations are closed. 472 albums in all - 2 shy of last year.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 December 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link
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)
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
yeah gl with that. no rush with anything
― Cardi Acs (imago), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
Since I neglected a couple on the falser end, I'll add them to put us on par with last year:
Gold Key - Hello, PhantomGrave Pleasures - Motherblood
― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
Hey, this Elder album isn't half bad you know. This kind of "stoner" stuff isn't usually my kind of thing.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
...And you will know us by the Crack the Skye
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
The Body - A Home on Earth
― gman59, Thursday, 21 December 2017 08:12 (six years ago) link
I just found a few more via those handy new Spotify genre lists
Throane - Plus une main a mordreVassafor - MaledictionJoDöden - Sittandes i sjön med vatten över huvudetSaiva - Markerna bortomVukari - Divination
― Simon H., Thursday, 21 December 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
Is it common knowledge that Phil from Vassafor played bass for the Chills once? Just for a tour. So weird.
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 21 December 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
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
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 23 December 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
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!
― Simon H., Saturday, 23 December 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link