THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

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is it creeper

79 Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms 119.0 Points, 3 Votes
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https://open.spotify.com/album/4Q3AGdThgRrZmYaFtDbWmP?si=uV3-FwstS6Cgzd2QZLG4jg

The much-anticipated full-length debut from the English goth-punk collective, Eternity, in Your Arms arrives after a three-year build-up that saw Creeper honing their Alkaline Trio-meets-the Damned blend of glam rock and post-hardcore-kissed horror-punk in sweaty halls and drink ticket-strewn green rooms. While all of the Misfits, A-Trio, and AFI comparisons are apt, what Creeper has that those giants of bar-chord brooding lack is a keen sense for the pageantry of rock & roll, and it's that propensity for almost Meat Loaf-worthy grandeur that makes Eternity, in Your Arms so consistently compelling. It's a world where pit-worthy, minor-chord verses almost always yield fist-pumping, arms-around-your-mates choruses, and that the proceedings are shepherded by a pair of charismatic vocalists (frontman Will Gould and keyboardist/backing vocalist Hannah Greenwood), makes things all the more spellbinding. With Eternity, in Your Arms, Creeper have truly proven themselves masters of the dark arts, as they've managed to create something as genuinely inspired as it is stylistically derivative.

wow i'm good

Aawww

great record

whenever they announce their next album I'm gonna track its development obsessively

also if any fans of this have not listened to the EPs yet, they're worth your time

That's a description that sounds worth a listen.

I've actually only heard the EPs...completely slept on this release past a couple of the singles. I will enjoy playing it to imago in full

am I emo or goon enough for this? guess we'll find out

A brief intermission.

First song from the Big Brave album is right up my alley, wow. Happiest discovery so far.

78 Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine 120 Points, 4 Votes
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https://open.spotify.com/album/5EXqFb0ch5dqP2ncl63XVY?si=Xi51xQ33TsaDOBZt1Sq9JQ
https://gnod.bandcamp.com/album/just-say-no-to-the-psycho-right-wing-capitalist-fascist-industrial-death-machine

http://drownedinsound.com/releases/19874/reviews/4150918

GNOD

JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE

As we embark on a new year more characterised by fear and uncertainty than hope and optimism, a chronic shortage of dissent can be detected in the artistic community amidst a harrowing socio-political climate. Yet the Salford-based collective Gnod have wasted little time in kicking against the doom and disquiet with everything at their disposal.

“It seems like we are heading towards even more unsettling times in the near future than we are in at present.” reckons Chris Haslam of Gnod. “2016 is just the beginning of what I see as the establishment’s systematic destruction of liberalism and equality as a reaction to the general public’s loss of faith in their system”

Charged by this outlook, Gnod's new album, ' Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine’ represents a hitherto uncharted level of antagonism and adversarial force for the band - an artistic statement as righteous, fervent and direct as its title. which far from being an echo of an anarcho spirit of yore, denotes a record firmly entrenched in the psychic... more
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released March 31, 2017

I saw a lot of hype for this but haven't really been up for new GNOD since Infinity Machines

I think I nominated this, but it didn't quite make it onto my ballot, because it didn't get many repeat listens. It's still decent though

My first one to show up.

I def think they lifted the cover from this book btw:

https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9781784786229

Lol wow

Ha!

OK, Big Brave is on the to-buy list.

Battle of the 5-track, 55-minute epics

TIE
76 Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna 120.0, 5 Votes
http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/images/covers/progenie-terrestre-pura-oltreluna-20170425081507.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5PXXQiqStTTfM3goTYoihp?si=1Eb9yy9yRTi_SxBQC9hCzQ

U.M.A. was often unrelenting in its pacing, as if the entire album was a psychedelic trip through a wormhole from sci-fi cinema (there were ambient passages, sure, but they felt more like changes in volume than a shift in environment). OltreLuna, on the other hand, gives the listener ample time to stop and observe the surrounding cosmic objects, locations, and inhabitants. This is done both with the band’s heightened compositional prowess — that great combination of everything feeling natural while still offering surprises — and an even wider range of “extra” sounds (female vocals, synth squeals, heavy dubstep pulses, trip-hop drums, and some other less expected sounds we’ll get to later). Add in a meticulous, ludicrously detailed production, and far more noticeable vocals from newcomer Emanuele Prandoni, and you get an album that is simultaneously more accessible and deeper than the debut. Our hypothetical starship crewmen are more battle-hardened by their experiences, yet they have lost none of their awe for the universe.

76 Usnea - Portals Into Futility 120.0 Points, 5 Votes
https://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/6/0/6/660680.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2qC0LCLQYikfbz08odBMvN?si=4A_Gm4JCTxOheyir0OPnVg

Usnea were a band out of time. They had always felt to me like an outfit rooted in the halcyon days of the early 2000s, when a slew of bands were creating tidal wave riffs and tidal wave imagery – Isis’ Oceanic, Graves at Sea’s Migration and Ocean’s Hear Where Nothing Grows. Of course, Usnea don’t quite fit in when it comes to the imagery (replacing it with sci-fi infused darkness), but they are of that ilk: a band willfully slowing staggeringly heavy riffs down even further, screaming woeful tirades as if from mountaintops, and heating the whole cocktail of bile up in the studio to a point that it boils down to a primordial sludge.

Their early self-titled release particularly reminded me of Ocean’s gargantuan debut, and the follow-up, 2014’s Random Cosmic Violence (and their first for Relapse) cemented Usnea as ‘ones to watch’ to a worldwide audience. Both albums offered a collection of four songs with only one of those less than twelve minutes long, with most averaging at quarter of an hour, and therefore – of course – the albums clocked in at around an hour. Portals into Futility features a similar running length, but with the middle three tracks all under ten minutes duration, the pacing and overall structure of their third full-length is radically different than that which has gone before. Portals into Futility paradoxically constricts and lets its music breathe, while also wearing their influences a little closer to the surface than on previous efforts.

Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna

already onboard with this album cover

great album, pretty sure I voted for it

whoa the dreadnought record is super endearing

^^ I am finding this to be the case as well

I liked the Usnea album prior, I'm sure I'd love this one

the dreadnought record also features sax so it's possible i'm being catered to

The Dreadnought record really impressed me as well, was expecting a floaty soft nautical prog thing but then it bares its jaws

I think smithy is a fan of it
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only listening to sax metal in 2018

Lots of good stuff already! I wasnt very impressed with CC and Obituary this year, even though I love OSDM...anyway, glad at least two people like Colotyphus too, it’s nothing revolutionary but the songs are awesome & I always dig death metal vocals over black metal songs, way more bands should do it.

Progenie Terrestre Pura was a bit of a letdown after the debt, I gotta say.

(debut not debt)

Yeah this didn't hit me like the debut did

fave title+cover combo of the poll so far

75 Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos 121.0 Points, 4 Votes
http://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Wode-Servants-of-the-Countercosmos--e1497889150334.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3H2DBHz90QNuEezDMACfj2?si=2XUGKFxpT_CnsGsFOgDgIQ

ooh what is this

dreadnought still kicking my ass btw, i usually don't go for songs this long but they're packed with ideas

The Wode record rules hard - probably my fave black metal release last year.

also there's some good flutin' on the second track of the dreadnought

Also - why do we have Pop Punk records and 2016 records shutting out, probably better 2017 metal records in the poll - it blows.

Ooh yeah Wode, I forgot to vote for that one, it’s really good!

BIP I count 1 (one) of each of those things you're complaining out of 25 records so far (and I haven't seen the full results but I don't anticipate any more of either out of the 100 slots) so maybe relax

Also - why do we have Pop Punk records and 2016 records shutting out, probably better 2017 metal records in the poll - it blows.

― BlackIronPrison, Monday, February 5, 2018 12:23 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk, the nominations thread included the phrase "heavy rock" which adds p huge margins to the poll

Yeah! This made it onto my ballot. It brings a heavy wizardry and some twisty tunefulness and is never boring.

I still can't process how much more metal you listened to than me

also the creeper record seems appropriate here to me, tbh? in ambition and mood it feels, at the very least, metal adjacent, even though what happens within that mood is gothy pop-punk. which is essentially why i voted for it and didn't vote for other similar records on the list

Man you’re going to be bummed out when Paramore turns out to have won.

lol

lol

Just imagine a Napalm Death version of Hard Times if things get too much, BIP. It's easier than you'd think