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

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

Mostly EP's, splits etc:

Abigor / Nightbringer / Thy Darkened Shade / Mortuus - Split
Death Like Mass - Jak zabija Diabeł
Drudkh / Paysage d'Hiver - Somewhere Sadness Wanders / Schnee (IV)
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading As Matter
Vanum - Burning Arrow
Sinmara - Within The Weaves Of Infinity
Wearg - Hæðen War Metal
Extremety - Extremely Fucking Dead
Imindain - The Enemy Of Fetters And The Dweller In The Woods
Árstíðir Lifsins - Heljarkviða
Warloghe - Lucifer Ascends
Wederganger / Urfaust - Split
ColdWorld - Wolves And Sheep
Fides Inversa - Rite of Inverse Incarnation
Sinmara / Misþyrming - Split
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
Oranssi Pazuzu - Farmakologinen
Mesarthim - Presence
Tomb Mold - Cryptic Transmissions

And the year wouldn't be complete without

Goatpenis - Anesthetic Vapor

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.

That Mesarthim EP is really lovely as usual

Yellow Eyes released my favourite "straight" black metal album this year, those riffs are USBM perfection.

Corpse Garden have taken death metal to new Costa Rican levels with their weirdly-titled and utterly kickass IAO 269

Grav - Tomb Of Agony
Grav - Fordærvet Djævelskab
Sadness - Otro
Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam
Exquirla - Para quienes aún viven
Árstíðir Lifsins - Heljarkviða

Arkhon Infaustus - Passing The Nekromanteion

Oranssi Pazuzu - Farmakologinen

This was a rerelease, right?

Heavydeath - Sarcophagus in the Sky

Folks, we're at almost 300 nominees, so please check the spreadsheet or ctrl-f the thread to avoid adding duplicates. One week left to nominate!

Nupraptor - The Heresiarch

oops that should've been bold

Nupraptor - The Heresiarch

hey guys check this
https://www.instagram.com/p/BcKqJHFAdQj/

surely any baby conveyance labelled with Pantera should be one of those massive obnoxious fucking battle-carriages people insist on bringing onto buses

Why did I wait so long to listen to the Oxbow album?

thanks for nominating the Tomb Mold EP Siegbran, didn't want to split votes there, but I'll happily vote for both

lots of good and new-to-me stuff in the stereogum list

stereogum.com/1975088/the-best-metal-albums-of-2017/franchises/2017-in-review%3famp=1

now that is more fuckin like it

Telekinetic Yeti - Abominable
Mara Balls - Elävä kivi
Imajinary Friends - The Imajinary Friends
The Cosmic Dead - Psych is Dead
Sundays & Cybele - Chaos & Systems
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U​.​F​.​O. - Wandering The Outer Space
Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura - The Grand Celestial Purge
Liquidarlo Celuloide - Superfriccion
Deep Space Destructors - Psychedology
Feral Ohms - Feral Ohms
Korto - Korto

^now that's less like it!

Before I forget:

Cloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LP

Spirit Adrift – Curse Of Conception
Purple Hill Witch – Celestial Cemetry
The Doomsday Kingdom – The Doomsday Kingdom
Demon Eye – Prophecies And Lies
With The Dead – Love From With The Dead
Monolord – Rust
Beastmaker – Inside The Skull
Night Viper – Exterminator
Ironflame – Lightning Strikes The Crown
Sorcerer – The Crowning Of The Fire King
Venomous Maximus – No Warning
Angus Black – Angus Black
Clouds Taste Satanic – The Glitter Of Infinite Hell
Cardinals Folly – Deranged Pagan Sons
Endon – Through The Mirror
Astral Mass – Astral Mass
Squalus – The Great Fish
Flight Of Sleipnir – Skadi
Usnea – Portals Into Futility
Unleash The Archers – Apex
Vokonis – The Sunken Djinn
Midnight – Sweet Death And Ecstasy
Akercocke – Renaissance In Extremis
Portrait – Burn The World
Kal-El – Astrodoomeda
The Lurking Fear – Out Of The Voiceless Grave
Legionairre – Dawn Of Genesis
Caronte – YONI
Devil – To The Gallows
Olde – Temple
Hela – Death May Die
Wormwitch – Strike Mortal Soul
Cities Of Mars – Temporal Rifts
Sunrot – Sunnata
Manilla Road – To Kill A King
Walpyrgus – Walpyrgus Nights
Alunah – Solennial
Dread Sovereign – For Doom The Bell Tolls
Obituary – Obituary
Ayreon – The Source
Destroyer Of Light – Chamber Of Horrors
The Contortionist – Clairvoyant
Possessor – The Ripper
Cloak – To Venomous Depths
Pain Of Salvation – In The Passing Light Of Day
Kreator – Gods Of Violence
Perhihelion Ship – To Paint A Bird Of Fire
Procession – Doom Decimation
Olde – Temple
Monarch! – Never Forever
Shroud Eater – Strike The Sun
Integrity – Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume
Dirty Grave – Evil Desire
Green Druid – Ashen Blood
Kobra And The Lotus – Prevail I
Below – Upon A Pale Horse
OHHMS – The Fool
Night Demon – Darkness Remains
Threshold – Legends Of The Shires
Night – Raft Of The World
Mausoleum Gate – Into A Dark Divinity (Cruz Del Sur)
Wounded Giant – Vae Victis
I Klatus – Nagual Sun
Horrific – Your Worst Nightmare

Kerrang EOY list

1. Employed to Serve: The Warmth of a Dying Sun
2. Enter Shikari: The Spark
3. Code Orange: Forever
4. Mastodon: Emperor of Sand
5. Converge: The Dusk in Us
6. Foo Fighters: Concrete and Gold
7. Neck Deep: The Peace and the Panic
8. Rise Against: Wolves
9. The Menzingers: After the Party
10. PVRIS: All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
11. Creeper: Eternity, in Your Arms
12. Can't Swim: Fail You Again
13. AFI: AFI (The Blood Album)
14. Pallbearer: Heartless
15. Higher Power: Soul Structure
16. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes: Modern Ruin
17. Marilyn Manson: Heaven Upside Down
18. Chelsea Wolfe: Hiss Spun
19. The Bronx: The Bronx
20. Royal Blood: How Did We Get So Dark?
21. Queens of the Stone Age: Villains
22. Nothing But Thieves: Broken Machine
23. The Darkness: Pinewood Smile
24. Prophets of Rage: Prophets of Rage
25. Deaf Havana: All These Countless Nights
26. The Used: The Canyon
27. Glassjaw: Material Control
28. Power Trip: Nightmare Logic
29. Electric Wizard: Wizard Bloody Wizard
30. Lower Than Atlantis: Safe in Sound
31. Arcane Roots: Melancholia Hymns
32. Asking Alexandria: Asking Alexandria
33. While She Sleeps: You Are We
34. Knuckle Punk: Shapeshifter
35. Myrkur: Mareridt
36. Ohhms: The Fool
37. Papa Roach: Crooked Teeth
38. Stone Sour: Hydrograd
39. At the Drive-in: Interalia
40. HO99O9: United States of Horror
41. Linkin Park: One More Light
42. Manchester Orchestra: A Black Mile to the Surface
43. Thy Fart is Murder: Dear Desolation
44. Paramore: After Laughter
45. ONE OK ROCK: Ambitions
46. You Me At Six: Night People
47. Grave Pleasures: Motherblood
48. All Time Low: Last Young Renegade
49. Stray from the Path: Only Death is Real
50. Royal Thunder: Wick

I own 8 of them! must be a 21st century record for me

the #1's not bad, sort of streamlined balloucore?

the #1's not bad, sort of streamlined balloucore?

― Simon H., Wednesday, December 13, 2017 2:25 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

basically. weird undistinguished record to pick as no. 1 but not horrible

should i be delighted or appalled that enter shikari are still going

might go with 'both'

the new album is their first good one. i like it a lot

does the extremely synthy/proggy arcane roots record count, there's at least four minutes of heavy riffage on the record

I've just blurted out "fucking hell they're still going?" about 15 times in 30 seconds gj kerrang

I'd like to nominate pretty much every album from the Stereogum list that hasn't been nominated yet, because every album I've sampled so far from that list has been great:

Rope Sect - Personae Ingratae
Violet Cold - Anomie
No Faith - Forced Subservience
Sabbath Assembly - Rites of Passage
Hell - Hell
Verge - The Process of Self-Becoming
Jassa - Incarnation of the Higher Gnosis
Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
Chaos Moon - Eschaton Mémoire
Unearthly Trance - Stalking the Ghost
Turia - Dede Kondre
Condor - Unstoppable Power
Heretoir - The Circle
Demonic Death Judge - Seaweed
Arkhtinn - V
Au Dessus - End of Chapter
Sarcasm - Within the Sphere of Ethereal Minds

Also, the Pillorian album is called Obsidian Arc

Going through the Stereogum list myself. It's....well aside from the albums I already know and love there's some decent stuff, but nothing to really blow me away. Dodecahedron was threatening to be quite good but didn't hang on. Anyway I'm only a quarter of the way through so who knows