My ballot (unweighted):
Almyrkvi - UmbraAu champ des morts - Dans la joieBeheaded - Beast IncarnateChaos Moon - Eschaton MémoireChelsea Wolfe - Hiss SpunColotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душіDélétère - Per Aspera Ad PestilentiamDesolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless VoidDodecahdron - KwintessensEhnahre - The MarrowEntheos - Le ZahirFuneral Chant - Funeral ChantGhost Bath - StarmournerGoatpenis - Anesthetic VaporGrift - ArvetImpetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred SentienceKalmankantaja - DemonwoodsLorn - Arrayed ClawsNecrot - Blood OfferingsNeige et Noirceur - VerglapolisNone - NoneProgenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLunaSeveroth - ForestpathsSpectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of UnbeingThantifaxath - Void Masquerading as MatterThe Ruins of Beverast - ExuviaUngfell - TôtbringæreVenenum - Trance of DeathW - WinterwombWidziadło - Void
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
Weighted, bold did not place.
Psudoku - Deep Space PsudokumentKairon; IRSE! - RuinationEx Eye - Ex EyeStabscotch - Uncanny ValleyBlack Cilice - Banished from TimeBotanist - Collective: The Shape of He to ConeOstraca - LastJute Gyte - OviriHell - HellIgorrr - Savage SinusoidThe Ruins of Beverast - ExuviaWobbler - From Silence to SomewhereElder - Reflections of a Floating WorldRope Sect - Personae IngrataeCleric - RetrocausalFlight Of Sleipnir – SkadiUnsane - SterilizeYowie - Synchromysticism Heaven In Her Arms - White HaloCouch Slut - ContemptGigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense Potence - L’Amour Au Temps De La Peste Full of Hell - Trumpeting EcstasyKing Woman - Created in the Image of SufferingForgotten Spell - The NecromancerConverge - The Dusk In UsPallbearer - HeartlessPart Chimp - IVOranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / VärimyrskyOxbow - Thin Black Duke al-Namrood - EnkarThantifaxath - Void Masquerading as MatterBathsheba - ServusCorpse Garden - IAO 269Lingua Ignota - All Bitches DieImajinary Friends - The Imajinary FriendsThe Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy LightWith The Dead – Love From With The DeadSabbath Assembly - Rites of PassageExquirla - Para quienes aún vivenKrallice - LoümSlagmaur - Thill Smitts TerrorWode - Servants of the CountercosmosMonolord – RustBrutus - BurstDélétère - Per Aspera Ad PestilentiamMyrkur - MareridtMesarthim - PresenceViolet Cold - AnomieThumpermonkey - Electricity EP
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
Oh and Akvan were a good discovery too!
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
Ha, the other Goatpenis connoisseur!
― Siegbran, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
xp I should really give Qliphoth another try! I wasn’t mad about it first time round, but it might have just been a bad day.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
Thanks a lot to the poll runners. I, too, liked the Lich King a lot, kind of wish I made room for it on my ballot.
Here's by ballot (weighted) - the '[would have been here]' designation is for my personal year-end list, and they would have gotten a vote in this poll at those placements, had they been nominated:
Converge - The Dusk in Us Elder - Reflections of a Floating World Venenum - Trance of Death The Ruins of Beverast - ExuviaSpectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of UnbeingPower Trip - Nightmare Logic Tomb Mold - Cryptic TransmissionsTomb Mold - Primordial Malignity Amenra - Mass VI Pallbearer - Heartless Wode - Servants of the CountercosmosKrallice - Go Be Forgotten Blaze of Perdition - Conscious Darkness Ex Eye - Ex Eye Dumal - The Lesser GodImmolation - AtonementGodflesh - Post Self
[Evilfeast - Elegies of the Stellar Wind - would have been here]
Fen - WinterNecrot - Blood OfferingsAcrimonious - Eleven DragonsCleric - RetrocausalCorpse Garden- IAO 269Ensnared - DysangeliumHellripper - Coagulating DarknessBonehunter - Sexual Panic Human MachineSerpent Column - Ornuthi Thalassa
[Resurgency - No Worlds... Nor Gods Beyond - would have been here]
[Firebreather - Firebreather would have been here]
Spirit Adrift - Curse of ConceptionDying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck With
[Bufihimat - I - would have been here]
Pillorian - Obsidian ArcUnsane - Sterilize
[Droid - Terrestrial Mutations - would have been here]
Havukruunu - Kelle surut soi
[Slow V - Oceans - would have been here]
Desolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless VoidAether Realm - TarotTemple of Void - Lords of DeathUfomammut - 8Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
[Sutrah - Dunes - would have been here]
[Madrost - The Essence of Time Matches No Flesh - would have been here]
Monolord - RustHeavydeath - Sarcophagus in the SkyCardinals Folly - Deranged Pagan Sons Der Weg einer Freiheit - FinisterreBell Witch - Mirror ReaperPagan Altar - The Room of ShadowsAu-Dessus - End of ChapterAnomalie - Visions
[Toxic Shock - TWENTYLASTCENTURY - would have been here]
All Pigs Must Die - Hostage AnimalMalokarpatan - NordkarpatenlandPhrenelith - Desolate Endscape Aosoth - The Inside ScripturesYellow Eyes - Immersion Trench ReveriePyrrhon - What Passes for Survival
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
My ballot, weighted, bold did not place:
Cleric – RetrocausalKrallice - LoümBotanist - Collective: The Shape of He to ConeKrallice - Go Be ForgottenStabscotch - Uncanny ValleyYellow Eyes - Immersion Trench ReveriePsudoku - Deep Space PsudokumentJute Gyte - OviriElder - Reflections of a Floating WorldVin de Mia Trix - PalimpsestsThantifaxath - Void Masquerading as MatterPyrrhon - What Passes For SurvivalArtificial Brain - Infrared HorizonCormorant – DiasporaOxbow - Thin Black DukeShardik - ShardikLocust Leaves - A Subtler Kind of LightUngfell - TôtbringæreEx Eye - Ex EyeTodesstoß - Ebne GraunBlack Anvil - As WasExecration – Return to the VoidEhnahre - The MarrowCorpse Garden - IAO 269Njiqahdda - Clouds Upon the SanctuaryWolves in the Throne Room - Thrice WovenUrarv - AurumGasp - Ghost in Scow OutDodecahdron – KwintessensDreadnought - A Wake in Sacred WavesThe Clearing Path - Watershed Between Firmament and the Realm of HyperboreaPillorian - Obsidian ArcKairon; IRSE! - RuinationEntheos - Le ZahirForgotten Spell - The NecromancerGGUW – BEHAUPTUNGSANIMALITÄTRubedo Nocturno - O grande pai: Abismo incriadoWeeping Sores - Weeping SoresBlattaria – BlattariaKlabautamann - SmaragdÁrstíðir lífsins – HeljarkviðaAkvan - Forgotten GloryBagarre générale – Tohu-BohuQhwertt - Sympathetic HorrorWintaar - WintaarHathenter - Hathenter OuijaOranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / VärimyrskyShaarimoth - Temple of the Adversarial FirePryapisme - Diabolicus felinae pandemoniumProgenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
Ha am I the only one who picked the Atriarch record? It's so good, really.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
That's a great ballot UUG - lots of great stuff that didn't make the cut
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
Thanks BIP! I can't help but think I should've been more vocal about Cormorant and Black Anvil, both quite progge but accessible too.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
Your ballot is full of stuff I never quite got round to lol, onto the endless backlog they go
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
next time let's count down every album that got a vote. two-month rollout.
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
whoa just saw i should have bolded Blaze of Perdition above - that was a great black metal last year.
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
Weighted ballot, bold did not place:
Elder - Reflections of a Floating WorldConverge - The Dusk In UsGlassjaw - Material ControlEnslaved - EFen - WinterChaos Moon - Eschaton MémoireYellow Eyes - Immersion Trench ReverieSannhet - So NumbWolves in the Throne Room - Thrice WovenOranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / VärimyrskyThe Ruins of Beverast - ExuviaBrutus - BurstThantifaxath - Void Masquerading as MatterDer Weg Einer Freiheit - FinisterreBlack Cilice - Banished from TimeTchornobog - TchornobogThe Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark LegacyAu champ des morts - Dans la joieSpectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of UnbeingWode - Servants of the CountercosmosBlack Anvil - As WasKing Woman - Created in the Image of SufferingSun of the Sleepless - To the ElementsMyrkur - MareridtAll them Witches - Sleeping Through the War
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
Glassjaw did an album?!
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
EMO GOON SQUAD should hear the Ostraca if they haven’t yet...
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
bold DNP
Propagandhi - Victory LapPyrrhon - What Passes For SurvivalCouch Slut - ContemptCaligula's Horse - In ContactElder - Reflections of a Floating WorldPissed Jeans - Why Love NowEx Eye - Ex EyeAnathema - The OptimistChelsea Wolfe - Hiss SpunLich King - The OmniclasmCreeper - Eternity, In Your ArmsLör - In Forgotten SleepCloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LPFalls of Rauros - Vigilance PerennialBotanist - Collective: The Shape of He to ConeKrallice - Go Be ForgottenConverge - The Dusk In UsKairon; IRSE! - RuinationYellow Eyes - Immersion Trench ReverieBig|Brave - ArdorLunatii - EliminoThe Ruins of Beverast - ExuviaThantifaxath - Void Masquerading as MatterKing Woman - Created in the Image of SufferingCode Orange - ForeverUnsane - SterilizeGodflesh - Post SelfHavukruunu - HavulinnaanOxbow - Thin Black DukeProgenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLunaPower Trip - Nightmare LogicArtificial Brain - Infrared HorizonTomb Mold - Primordial MalignitySoen - LykaiaBell Witch - Mirror ReaperBlack Dahlia Murder - NightbringersBrutus - BurstParadise Lost - MedusaUnleash The Archers – ApexGalneryus - Ultimate SacrificeEmptiness - Not for MusicBlack Sites - MonochromeRagana - You Take NothingMalokarpatan - NordkarpatenlandSorcerer – The Crowning Of The Fire KingSaule - s/tPlanning for Burial - Below the HouseGrails - Chalice HymnalGlassjaw - Material ControlNe Obliviscaris - Urn
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
Glassjaw did indeed do an album, much weirder and more discordant than their old stuff
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
I can’t wait to hear it! Btw you should check out the Wobbler album too if you didn’t - really solid lovely prog.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
it's on my list!
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
the Cloud Rat split ended up being my most pivotal vote since it kept their lovely cover art at the top of the thread :)
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
Has Louis' gif loaded for him yet?
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
Elder - Reflections of a Floating WorldSufferer - SuffererKrallice - Go Be ForgottenAkvan - Forgotten GloryBell Witch - Mirror ReaperClouds Taste Satanic – The Glitter Of Infinite HellBlack Cilice - Banished from TimeLich King - The OmniclasmGWAR - The Blood of GodsPallbearer - HeartlessDopelord - Children of the HazeMotorpsycho - The TowerChelsea Wolfe - Hiss SpunYellow Eyes - Immersion Trench ReverieUfomammut - 8Kreator - Gods of ViolenceAu champ des morts - Dans la joieBotanist - Collective: The Shape of He to ConeOrthodox - Supreme
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
I'm listening to Sufferer right now. It's probably a hard sell for this group, but it's a few Equal Vision people (Shane Gann, Blake Dahlinger) doing a concept hardcore album about living with severe anxiety and it's really good.
I didn't get excited about a lot of metal this year, I'm only really big on my top nine or so.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
TV, Sufferer sounds cool as hell, I'm gonna put that on next.
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
And I totally missed this year's Ne Obliviscaris album, I'll have to check that out after work.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
It's very good. I should have put it higher. (I probably had Pyrrhon too high.)
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
Hmmmm Exuvia is sounding a lot better to me now than it did when it came out.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
Ha!
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
Lingua Ignota - All Bitches DieNokturnal Mortum - ІстинаColotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душіEmyn Muil - Elenion AncalimaDélétère - Per Aspera Ad PestilentiamGoatpenis - Anesthetic VaporUngfell - TôtbringæreAbigor / Nightbringer / Thy Darkened Shade / Mortuus - SplitMyrkur - MareridtLustre - Still InnocenceThe Ruins of Beverast - ExuviaImmolation - AtonementÁrstíðir lífsins - HeljarkviðaSinister - SyncretismDeath Like Mass - Jak zabija DiabełProgenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLunaDrudkh / Paysage d'Hiver - Somewhere Sadness Wanders / Schnee (IV)Azarath - In ExtremisChelsea Wolfe - Hiss SpunParadise Lost - MedusaFen - WinterWiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed IIWearg - Hæðen War MetalEntrails - World InfernoUndergang - MisantropologiMesarthim - PresenceKartikeya - SamudraExquirla - Para quienes aún vivenGrav - Tomb Of AgonyTomb Mold - Cryptic TransmissionsWederganger / Urfaust - SplitTomb Mold - Primordial MalignityGod Dethroned - The World AblazeSuffocation - Of The Dark LightGrav - Fordærvet DjævelskabIncantation - Profane NexusSinmara - Within The Weaves Of InfinityBeheaded - Beast IncarnateAu champ des morts - Dans la joieContaminated - Final ManContrarian - To Perceive Is To SufferFides Inversa - Rite of Inverse IncarnationWidziadło - VoidForteresse - Récits PatriotiquesLes Discrets - PredateursAkvan - Forgotten GlorySeveroth - ForestpathsTodesstoß - Ebne GraunW - WinterwombLaster - Ons Vrije Fatum
― Siegbran, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
Oh and Brad totally otm about worst album cover
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
I cribbed quite a few titles from your nominations, Siegbran, as I almost systematically enjoy your picks (with a few notable exceptions, such as Nokturnal Mortum), so I look forward to checking out the rest.
And Goatpenis deserved better.
xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
yep, meanwhile there are at least 20 contenders for best imo xp
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
also the Sufferer album is sounding *fantastic* to me so kudos TV
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
I need to give the long Cloud Rat track a second listen. I mainly listened to the Moloch split from their slew of releases last year. That one flowed really nicely.
― jmm, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
Maybe the best part of the rollout for me was seeing people get into Dreadnought, their other two albums are also very good btw
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
Falls of Rauros probably the best discovery personally.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
Looking forward to hearing more Dreadnought! Maybe I’ll lurk around rolling metal a bit more this year.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
Thanks to the pollrunners! I've got a lot of album to check out but I'm saving it for next week cuz I'll be all by myself for a few days and I plan to immerse myself in these picks. As far as ballot goes, here's mine (bold didn't place)
1. Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worlds2. Entheos - Le Zahir (:sad face:)3. Ex Eye - Ex Eye4. Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre5. Krallice - Go Be Forgotten6. Cavernlight - As We Cup Our Hands And Drink From the Stream of Our Ache7. Au champ des morts - Dans la joie8. Immolation - Atonement9. Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II10. Woe - Hope Attrition11. Elder - Reflections of a Floating World12. Pyrolatrous - Teneral13. Draugsol - Volaða Land 14. Grails - Chalice Hymnal15. Aosoth - The Inside Scriptures (really surprising absence)16. Ufomammut - 817. Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense 18. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun19. Multishiva - Time Messer20. Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial21. Boris - Dead22. The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension 23. Contrarian - To Perceive is to Suffer24. Pillorian - Obsidian Arc25. Spirit Adrift - Curse Of Conception 26. Undergang - Misantropologi27. Celeste - Infidèle(s)28. Oxbow - The Thin Black Duke29. Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die30. Farsot - Fail·Lure
― Dinsdale, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
I hadn't realized so many of my picks had placed.
― Dinsdale, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Forgot to bold Cavernlight, that one didn't make it.
xp Thanks pomenitul!
― Siegbran, Friday, 9 February 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
Unweighted:
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to ConeJute Gyte - OviriConverge - The Dusk In UsPallbearer - HeartlessAkvan - Forgotten GloryÁrstíðir lífsins - HeljarkviðaKrallice - LoümKrallice - Go Be ForgottenGodflesh - Post SelfThantifaxath - Void Masquerading as MatterOranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / VärimyrskySolstafir - BerdreyminnEx Eye - Ex EyeSchammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 9 February 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
I meant to say yesterday that the Lingua Ignota album is quite something. Would definitely have made my list if I had heard it, but I didn't get the chance to hear much new stuff, even in the longer voting period, for obvious reasons.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
Also What in the end do you prefer: results before Christmas or in February after the Big Poll?
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
either tbh. guess earlier is nicer BUT you get things like those mesarthim EPs missing cos they came out in the last week of december
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
Before Christmas. Im 95% wrong about longer voting periods
Xp ok 90%
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
Weighted
Jute Gyte - OviriImajinary Friends - The Imajinary FriendsStabscotch - Uncanny ValleyVespero - Shum-ShirSundays & Cybele - Chaos & SystemsBotanist - Collective: The Shape of He to ConeEx Eye - Ex EyeMultishiva - Time MesserGasp - Ghost in Scow OutLiquidarlo Celuloide - SuperfriccionCouch Slut - ContemptKing Woman - Created in the Image of SufferingForgotten Spell - The NecromancerRubedo Nocturno - O grande pai: Abismo incriadoBlack Cilice - Banished from TimeAzonic - Prospect of the Deep Volume 1Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Thunderbolt of Flaming WisdomST 37 - Fuck You, You Rule: ST 37's Greatest "Hits"10000 Russos - Distress DistressKorto - KortoElder - Reflections of a Floating WorldFeral Ohms - Feral OhmsUnsane - SterilizeDeep Space Destructors - PsychedologyYagow - YagowSxuperion - MyriadSlowly Building Weapons - SunbirdsThantifaxath - Void Masquerading as MatterNik Turner - Life in SpaceCircle - TerminalEcstatic Vision - Raw Rock FurySannhet - So NumbShardik - ShardikSuccumb - SuccumbMara Balls - Elävä kiviMoths & Locusts - Intro/OutroThe Spacelords - Water PlanetThe Cosmic Dead - Psych is DeadVoid Generator - ProdromiGrails - Chalice HymnalMaat Lander - Season in Space Vol. 1Falls of Rauros - Vigilance PerennialSchammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
Siegbran is the only person who had a ballot similar to mine, lol
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
aye, longer voting period kills momentum and everyone just leaves it to the last week before listening and voting anyway! the old way of 2 week nominations and 2 weeks voting was enough i think.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link