THE 10TH ANNUAL ILM METAL POLL:2017 RESULTS THREAD

the Cloud Rat split ended up being my most pivotal vote since it kept their lovely cover art at the top of the thread :)

Has Louis' gif loaded for him yet?

Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Sufferer - Sufferer
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
Clouds Taste Satanic – The Glitter Of Infinite Hell
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Lich King - The Omniclasm
GWAR - The Blood of Gods
Pallbearer - Heartless
Dopelord - Children of the Haze
Motorpsycho - The Tower
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
Ufomammut - 8
Kreator - Gods of Violence
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Orthodox - Supreme

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.

TV, Sufferer sounds cool as hell, I'm gonna put that on next.

And I totally missed this year's Ne Obliviscaris album, I'll have to check that out after work.

It's very good. I should have put it higher. (I probably had Pyrrhon too high.)

Hmmmm Exuvia is sounding a lot better to me now than it did when it came out.

Ha!

Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
Nokturnal Mortum - Істина
Colotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душі
Emyn Muil - Elenion Ancalima
Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam
Goatpenis - Anesthetic Vapor
Ungfell - Tôtbringære
Abigor / Nightbringer / Thy Darkened Shade / Mortuus - Split
Myrkur - Mareridt
Lustre - Still Innocence
The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
Immolation - Atonement
Árstíðir lífsins - Heljarkviða
Sinister - Syncretism
Death Like Mass - Jak zabija Diabeł
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Drudkh / Paysage d'Hiver - Somewhere Sadness Wanders / Schnee (IV)
Azarath - In Extremis
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Paradise Lost - Medusa
Fen - Winter
Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II
Wearg - Hæðen War Metal
Entrails - World Inferno
Undergang - Misantropologi
Mesarthim - Presence
Kartikeya - Samudra
Exquirla - Para quienes aún viven
Grav - Tomb Of Agony
Tomb Mold - Cryptic Transmissions
Wederganger / Urfaust - Split
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
God Dethroned - The World Ablaze
Suffocation - Of The Dark Light
Grav - Fordærvet Djævelskab
Incantation - Profane Nexus
Sinmara - Within The Weaves Of Infinity
Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Contaminated - Final Man
Contrarian - To Perceive Is To Suffer
Fides Inversa - Rite of Inverse Incarnation
Widziadło - Void
Forteresse - Récits Patriotiques
Les Discrets - Predateurs
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Severoth - Forestpaths
Todesstoß - Ebne Graun
W - Winterwomb
Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum

Oh and Brad totally otm about worst album cover

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

yep, meanwhile there are at least 20 contenders for best imo xp

also the Sufferer album is sounding *fantastic* to me so kudos TV

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.

Maybe the best part of the rollout for me was seeing people get into Dreadnought, their other two albums are also very good btw

Falls of Rauros probably the best discovery personally.

Looking forward to hearing more Dreadnought! Maybe I’ll lurk around rolling metal a bit more this year.

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 Worlds
2. Entheos - Le Zahir (:sad face:)
3. Ex Eye - Ex Eye
4. Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
5. Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
6. Cavernlight - As We Cup Our Hands And Drink From the Stream of Our Ache
7. Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
8. Immolation - Atonement
9. Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II
10. Woe - Hope Attrition
11. Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
12. Pyrolatrous - Teneral
13. Draugsol - Volaða Land
14. Grails - Chalice Hymnal
15. Aosoth - The Inside Scriptures (really surprising absence)
16. Ufomammut - 8
17. Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense
18. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
19. Multishiva - Time Messer
20. Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
21. Boris - Dead
22. The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
23. Contrarian - To Perceive is to Suffer
24. Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
25. Spirit Adrift - Curse Of Conception
26. Undergang - Misantropologi
27. Celeste - Infidèle(s)
28. Oxbow - The Thin Black Duke
29. Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
30. Farsot - Fail·Lure

I hadn't realized so many of my picks had placed.

Forgot to bold Cavernlight, that one didn't make it.

xp Thanks pomenitul!

Unweighted:

Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Pallbearer - Heartless
Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Árstíðir lífsins - Heljarkviða
Krallice - Loüm
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Godflesh - Post Self
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky
Solstafir - Berdreyminn
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite

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.

Also What in the end do you prefer: results before Christmas or in February after the Big Poll?

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

Before Christmas. Im 95% wrong about longer voting periods

Xp ok 90%

Weighted

Jute Gyte - Oviri
Imajinary Friends - The Imajinary Friends
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley
Vespero - Shum-Shir
Sundays & Cybele - Chaos & Systems
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Multishiva - Time Messer
Gasp - Ghost in Scow Out
Liquidarlo Celuloide - Superfriccion
Couch Slut - Contempt
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer
Rubedo Nocturno - O grande pai: Abismo incriado
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Azonic - Prospect of the Deep Volume 1
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom
ST 37 - Fuck You, You Rule: ST 37's Greatest "Hits"
10000 Russos - Distress Distress
Korto - Korto
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Feral Ohms - Feral Ohms
Unsane - Sterilize
Deep Space Destructors - Psychedology
Yagow - Yagow
Sxuperion - Myriad
Slowly Building Weapons - Sunbirds
Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Nik Turner - Life in Space
Circle - Terminal
Ecstatic Vision - Raw Rock Fury
Sannhet - So Numb
Shardik - Shardik
Succumb - Succumb
Mara Balls - Elävä kivi
Moths & Locusts - Intro/Outro
The Spacelords - Water Planet
The Cosmic Dead - Psych is Dead
Void Generator - Prodromi
Grails - Chalice Hymnal
Maat Lander - Season in Space Vol. 1
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite

Siegbran is the only person who had a ballot similar to mine, lol

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.

Personally I want all of you to tell me about all these great albums before the vanilla ilx poll so that I can put White Ward on my ballot and seem cool...

most metal albums wouldnt make it even if they extended the rollout to 150.

Chelsea Wolfe only got 3 votes i think in big poll. Was #3 here.

only elder snd ex eye made the big poll 77 iirc

btw i forgot to say during the roll out but my fave song on the converge album is the title track.

Thanks so much Simon and Kerr for doing this <3

Ballot, weighted:

Nortt - Endeligt
Krallice - Go Be Forgotten
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Archspire - Relentless Mutation
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Wandering The Outer Space
Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine

I don't think the noms period should end before the end of the year; that's the only thing I'd be concerned about. Thanks so much to Simon and Odysseus for this!

My weighted ballot. Bold did not place.

1. Oxbow - Thin White Duke
2. Brutus - Burst
3. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
4. Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
5. The Midnight Ghost Train - Cypress Ave.
6. Rebel Wizard - Triumph Of Gloom
7. Light of the Morning Star - Nocta
8. Violet Cold – Anomie
9. Slagmaur - Thill Smitts Terror
10. The Obsessed – Sacred
11. Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum
12. Beastmaker - Inside The Skull
13. The Wizards - Full Moon in Scorpio
14. Godflesh - Post Self
15. Paradise Lost - Medusa
16. Ufomammut - 8
17. Tau Cross - Pillar of Fire
18. Mammoth Mammoth - Mount the Mountain
19. Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine
20. Myrkur - Mareridt
21. Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows
22. Alestorm - No Grave But The Sea
23. Sólstafir - Berdreyminn
24. Pyriphlegethon - The Murky Black of Eternal Night
25. Pallbearer - Heartless
26. Ides of Gemini - Women
27. Full Of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
28. Venenum - Trance Of Death
29. Usnea - Portals into Futility
30. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
31. Nortt – Endeligt
32. Reverorum ib Malacht - Ter Agios Numini
33. Obituary - Obituary
34. Horn - Turm Am Hang
35. Botanist - The Shape of He to Come
36. Disharmony - Goddamn The Sun
37. Jagged Vision - Death Is This World
38. Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perrenial
39. Ensiferum - Two Paths
40. Integrity - Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume
41. Selcouth - Heart Is the Star of Chaos
42. Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
43. Eluveitie - Evocation II: Pantheon
44. Antisect - The Rising of the Lights
45. Anomalie - Visions
46. Uniform - Wake In Fright
47. Dread Sovereign - For Doom The Bell Tolls
48. White Ward - Futility Report
49. Lorn - Arrayed Claws
50. Big|Brave - Ardor

My unweighted ballot, I only picked things I'd heard and remembered (and it's obviously missing a few I've noted above in the thread):

Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Atriarch - Dead as Truth
Big|Brave - Ardor
Chepang - Dadhelo
Circle - Terminal
Cloud Rat / Disrotted - Split LP
Couch Slut - Contempt
Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
Godflesh - Post Self
Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light
Uniform - Wake in Fright
White Suns - Psychic Drift
Wreche - Wreche

I must say I'm a little disappointed by the #1. I'm not a fan of the singing and I can't really make out the songs as they just meander, without strong or hooking passages (track 3 a distinct exception). The last two songs feel like an addition of twenty minutes. I'm not sure if it's because I've never been a fan of stoner or because of the progressiveness.

Maybe I spoke too fast though, I'm relistening to parts at home now and it sounds better than in the train.

the last track is amazing

They definitely meander, that's part of the fun. They open with a hook, riff on it a bit, jam for five minutes, come back to the hook at the end. I think the hooks on Lore might have been a bit more memorable, but the new one is a little more layered, which is why I liked it better.

My unweighted and monumentally unsuccessful ballot

Bloodway - A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues
Celestial Bodies - Spit Forth From Chaos
Cemetery Urn - Cemetery Urn
Circle - Terminal
Contaminated - Final Man
Cryptic Fog - Staring Through the Veil
Crystal Fairy - Crystal Fairy
Daemogog – Ancient Extradigestional Rites
Demon Head - Thunder on the Fields
Dreaming Dead - Funeral Twilight
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Excommunion - Thronosis
Father Befouled - Desolate Gods
Fell Ruin - To the Concrete Drifts
Fleshpress - Hulluuden Muuri
Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense
Immolation - Atonement
Incantation - Profane Nexus
John Hoyles - Night Flight
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
Livid - Beneath This Shroud, The Earth Erodes
Lo-Ruhamah - Anointing
Lorn - Arrayed Claws
Loss - Horizonless
Midnight Rider – Manifestation
Mind Mold – Mind Mold
Morast - Ancestral Void
Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained
Morbid Evils – Deceases
Nightbringer - Terra Damnata
Occasvs - Nocturnal Majestic Mysteria
Oculus - The Apostate of Light
Poison Blood - Poison Blood
Pontiak - Dialectic of Ignorance
Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
Rude - Remnants...
Ruin - Drown in Blood
Slowly Building Weapons - Sunbirds
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
Succumb - Succumb
Suffering Hour - In Passing Ascension
Tchornobog - Tchornobog
The Mass – Ghost Fleet
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
Tome of the Unreplenished – Cosmoprism: The Theurgy
Tongues - Hreilia
Ululatum Tollunt - Quantum Noose of Usurpation
Usnea – Portals Into Futility
Venenum - Trance of Death
Wildspeaker - Spreading Adder

Most of my ballot is tied for 286th place lol

I thought Immolation and Incantation were both ILM faves? And I could swear people in this very thread were praising Tchornobog. I think my memory's going.

Immolation made it, Incantation was at 105. Thought they were both very solid albums tbh. And I remember there being some excitement over Tchornobog in rolling metal but I guess it didn't carry over.

I like Incantation a lot, but the new album was not as good as the one before.

I didn't discover quite as much this year in the rollout as the last couple of years