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

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

well people requested longer voting times and wanted the year to end so all albums that came out in december got in. And seandalai can only do it before xmas or after big poll.

as it turned out with my mum being in hospital for 2 weeks in december there wouldve been no way i couldve run it and simon wouldve been left on his own

all fair, all fair. hoping Mother Odysseus is faring better ofc!

No big deal! Good year for metal - there were a lot of records I really liked a re-visited many times that all made my top 50. I'll rep those missing ones though - esp. the Resurgency.

Perhaps we might naughtily speculate about which metal albums will appear in the 77 next week

I dont expect any except maybe Chelsea Wolfe. Anything else would be a surprise. Qotsa might not make it because of Josh kicking that photographer, I dont think ILM is prepared to put music on its own after some horrible behaviour like that. I did vote for it but I did want to put in brackets Josh was a knob after it.

Electric Wizard wasn't even nominated for the big poll.

I suppose Jute Gyte might get in since less votes might be needed and his usual 5 voters amongst us might sneak him in

One year the metal poll winner didn't even get in the top 100 in the big poll. Was it Hammers Of Misfortune?

Don't think Jute Gyte will make it this time. There hasn't been so much clamour.

I think Ex Eye has a chance

I have no idea what will even win *this* poll. Seandalai hasn't sent me access to the ballots or anything yet as he's so busy with big poll

This was my Top Ten at The Agit Reader, one of two websites I write for these days. Consider that my campaigning!

http://agitreader.com/wp2/something-wicked-top-10-of-2017

Has there been any debut albums by bands that have made an impact this year?
Most of the big impact albums I can think of this year are by established acts or related to big bands (Pillorian, avatarium,Au champ des morts)

The Tchornobog debut has gotten a lot of love critically.

Anyone who likes the 90s Norwegian school of avant-garde/post-black metal should hear Urarv's debut. Aldrahn on vox and guitar!

And I also endorse the Entheos album, I included it in my ballot

YES

we may as well discuss the big (on ilm) albums then, what did you guys think of the albums by
Mastodon
Electric Wizard
Converge
Cleric
Elder
Bell Witch
Pallbearer
Godflesh
Wolves in the Throne Room

and jute gyte?

enh, enh, pretty good, not my thing, awesome, pretty good (tho excessive), not bad, v good, enh, and pretty good, in that order.

I couldn't even tell you what the big metal albums out in the real world are tbh. Was there any platinum metal albums?