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

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Please vote!

I feel like a Wyoming voter in this thing. Vote if for no other reason than to stop me from having so much influence!

This is a total false pick but the Sundays & Cybele album Chaos & Systems is totally tremendous J-psych. The last track here, "Paradise Come" brings to mind a more paisley Acid Mothers Temple:

https://youtu.be/6Ou9i5GHhks

I thought Imago & TT would have been campaigning/liveblogging albums by now

Soon...

Saints alive, "Yarinareth, Yarinareth, Yarinareth" is such a motherfucker.

There's always one song on every new JG album that's just reaches and grabs me and convinces me that it's best thing guy has ever done, and this time YYY is absolutely the winner

I VOTED

YYY isn't my favourite track on the album (it's...third?) but the way it dissolves at the end is some insane audio magic

Not voting but just wanted to pop in and thank Siegbran for bringing Lingua Ignota to my attention a little while ago. Loved that record so much I wrote it in for the main poll.

you are allowed to vote for just one album

talking about the big poll, I wonder what/if any metal will make the 77?
I seem to remember a previous metal poll winner not making the 77 yet lower down albums did.

Will a lack of metal poll being up first hurt chances of enough consensus to make main poll?

I've always thought when it comes to main poll that everyone's already voted for metal so leave it out in main poll.

i voted for 8 (arguably 9) metal albums in the main poll. the one i voted lowest is the only one of those i half-expect to show up though

the electric wizard album wasn't nommed in main poll and they usually showed up in the 77 i think? Converge maybe has the best chance

would be weird if the electric wizard did badly in polls after how the older fans felt it was a return to form after the last few*

*the last few were awesome and those fans wrong

oh Chelsea Wolfe will make the 77. Will be very disappointed if it doesn't go top 10 tbh

I haven't campaigned for it here as I just assumed everyone will vote for it but if you haven't heard the Chelsea Wolfe album then please do. It's terrific. I always play it back to back with the Myrkur.

voted for 7 metal albums in the main poll but I don't expect any of them to make the list

At least half my big poll is *metal*

I usually leave out the metal.

aye, in your metal poll :P

dungeon synth is metal too, k3rr, did you not get the memo?

listened to the Colotyphus opening track earlier - it was pretty good! will listen to some more later.

Six metal albums on my 77 albums ballot.

hey, haven't been around in awhile but I will definitely put a ballot in for this poll!

i wondered where you were

I put three metal albums on my 77 ballot.

Voted!

i asked seandalai if voting was in double figures yet.

no reply still

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUM6nFmX0AAobtA.jpg:large

ayyyy

did anyone add to or subscribe to the playlist?
https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/74IL7uL4YEy2tTiBYtRJ4G

There seems to be much less campaigning going on than past years was everyone just unenthusiastic about metal in 2017?

Can't speak for others but I was enthusiastic! I just suck at campaigning. Still, my favorite metal albums this year that no one else seemed to care about, and actually my favorite metal albums period, were Entheos - Le Zahir which is free/name-your-price on bandcamp, and Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worlds which I didn't nominate because I heard it after the deadline. The former are from Quebec and make atmospheric, *cough* post *cough* black metal which manages to not be boring, the latter are a technical death metal band from UK and the album is just fucking great.

Ex Eye's selft-titled was great too but I don't think it needs campaigning.

Another one I loved this year is Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre.

tbh I think everything needs campaigning. I think we are wrong to assume everyones heard what you think are the major releases.

I don't even know if everyone who liked Agalloch have even heard Pillorian.

I'll say one thing though - the rolling metal thread last year was really quiet and it felt like the core group of posters on it was small.

oh and dinsdale simon could add that album for you. With (i hope) 90% of ballots still to be cast, there is a very real chance voters will give it a listen and vote for it.

I've also just purchased it to give it a listen. Campaigning works!

oh wait i purchased the Entheos. I think you nommed that?

yeah I nominated that one

I forgot to mention Cavernlight - As We Cup Our Hands And Drink From The Stream of Our Ache... I don't know if that one was talked about in the rolling thread but it was my favorite doom release this year.

I'm sure Simon will add them to the noms

Cavernlight was nominated, I meant I had forgotten about it in my lame attempt at campaigning :)

well since hardly anyone's voted its still a good time to campaign!

Not sure how much good it will do, but I'd be happy to campaign for these wonderful albums (strangely, many of my favorites, or at least the low-profile ones, came out on Invictus this year):

Apostate Viaticum - Before the Gates of Gomorrah - Raw and weird death metal, maybe for Howls of Ebb fans.
http://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-gates-of-gomorrah

Antiversum - Cosmos Comedenti - Cavernous, atmospheric doomy death.
http://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/cosmos-comedenti

Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland - A Slovakian black metal/hard rock concept album, maybe for Hail Spirit Noir fans.
http://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/nordkarpatenland

Undergang - Misantropologi - Awesome dank and guttural old-school death, maybe for Convulse fans.
http://undergang.bandcamp.com/album/misantropologi

I would also mention Power Trip and Immolation, but I'm assuming everyone knows them already.

dinsdale, I added the Anakim album!

nate, Malokarpapatan have my vote :)

Nice. My campaign is working already.

https://rlv.zcache.com/i_voted_by_mail_but_had_to_make_my_own_sticker-raa4957d67e6941b393f4ef2fdee82048_v9wz7_8byvr_324.jpg

Bummed I didn't nominate some stuff - loved - Resurgency - No Worlds... Nor Gods Beyond , Bufihimat - I , Droid - Terrestrial Mutations, Slow - V - Oceans , Sutrah - Dunes , Madrost - The Essence of Time Matches No Flesh , Toxic Shock - TWENTYLASTCENTURY - but, alas, they weren't listed.

If you'd brought it up sooner I could have added them!

We're gonna go back to doing this before the main poll next year right? Good good

I guess metal is never truly an anticlimax though