2019 Metal 'n' Heavy Rock Poll: NOMINATIONS thread (open until the 3rd of January 2020)

I love it when my 2 co-runners fight over technicalities and I have to make a decision. Oh the power.

I'm happy to dis-include it

Sorry for the big add - but I didn't see these on the google spreadsheet:

Ceremony of Silence - Oútis
Serpent Column - Mirror in Darkness
Critical Defiance - Misconception
Epitaphe - I
Ossuarium - Living Tomb
Monkey3 - Sphere
Krypts - Cadaver Circulation
Witches of God - Into the Heart of Darkness
Sentient Horror - Morbid Realms
Mortiferum - Disgorged From Psychotic Depths
Traveler - Traveler
Altar of Oblivion - The Seven Spirits
Lord Vicar - The Black Powder
Infernal Conjuration - Infernale Metallum Mortis
Hath - Of Rot and Ruin
Runemagick - Into Desolate Realms
Warforged - I:Voice
Batushka - Panihida
Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Planinsong
Ataraxie - Resignes
Undeath - Sentient Autolysis
Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites
Ares Kingdom - By the Light of Their Destruction
Nordjevel - Necrogenesis
Impure - Satan's Eclipse
Gorge - Land Bridge
Funereal Presence - Achatius
Sacri Monti - Waiting Room for the Magic Hour
Creeping Death - Wretched Illusions
Vehemence - Par le sang versé
Defacement - Deviant
Hideous Divinity - Simulacrum
Lunar Shadow - The Smokeless Fires
Concrete Winds - Primitive Force
Moral Scepter - Where Light Suffocates
Lurid Panacea - The Insidious Poisons
State Faults - Clairvoyant
Town Portal - Of Violence
Pig's Blood - A Flock Slaughtered
Fulci - Tropical Sun
Reveal - Scissorgod
Fetid - Steeping Corporeal Mess
Necropanther - The Doomed City
Vitriol - To Bathe From the Throat of Cowardice
Akasha - Canticles of the Sepulchral Deity
Feral Light - Fear Rides A Shadow
Werian - Animist
Djevel - Ormer til armer, maane til hode
Wheel - Moving Backwards
Shabti - Trembling and Shorn
Seer - Vol. 6
Opprobrium - The Fallen Entities
Malignant Altar - Retribution of Jealous Gods
God Disease - Drifting Towards Inevitable Death
Witch Trail - The Sun Has Left The Hill
Fvneral Fvkk - Carnal Confessions
Archivist - Triumvirate
Arnaut Pavle - Arnaut Pavle
Mystifier - Protogoni mavri magiki dynasteia
Purification - Destruction of the Wicked
Enforced - At The Walls
Age of the Wolf - Ouroboric Trances
Sxuperion - Endless Spiritual Embodiment
Laster - Het wassen oog
Protector - Summon The Hordes

You may want to bold those next time but I'll add them anyway.

Some excellent stuff in there btw.

Deathchant - Deathchant
Deiquisitor - Towards Our Impending Doom
Golgot - Estrangement I: Floodline
Hellvetron - Trident of Tartarean Gateways
Jade - Smoking Mirror
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest
Light Dweller - Incandescent Crucifix
Rainbow Grave - No You
Ripper - Sensory Stagnation
Ruin - Death Tomb
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
Smoulder - Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring
Suffering Hour - Dwell
Tristengrav - II: Nychavge
Triumvir Foul - Urine of Abomination

Anyone have any qualms about me adding the Molasses EP? Farida Lemouchi's new band, psych-y occult-y rock stuff.

Not at all, I'll add it to the master list. And thanks for the noms! I've only heard the Deiquisitor out of that lot.

A few more

Witchbones - The Seas of Draugen
Demon Head - Hellfire Ocean Void
Sempiternal Dusk - Cenotaph of Defectuous Creation
Lvcifyre - Sacrament
Father Befouled - Holy Rotten Blood
Bolzer - Lese Majesty

Are we campaigning in this thread or is that going to be separate?

I think we're supposed to wait for the next thread (correct me if I'm wrong, ON), but I'm not averse to getting started immediately, if only because of the batty volume of music we'll theoretically have to process.

Any objections?

Vesperith - Vesperith

i dont think it matters when you campaign but i dont think many people notice since a lot of people prefer to listen and vote in the final few days

but usually campaigning starts in voting thread

Celestial Grave - Secular Flesh
Consummation - The Great Solar Hunter
Disentomb - The Decaying Light
Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo
Mystagogue - And the Darkness Was Cast Out
Sinmara - Hvisl Stjarnanna
Takafumi Matsubara - Strange, Beautiful and Fast
Wormed - Metaportal

Bump.

Xantam - Altered State

Abyssal – A Beacon in the Husk
Algebra – Pulse?
BAEST – Venenum
Birdflesh – Extreme Graveyard Tornado
Bloodsoaked Necrovoid - The Apocryphal Paths Of The Ancient 8th Vitriolic Transcendence
Blue Hummingbird on the Left – Atl Tlachinolli
Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze – Offerings of Flesh and Gold
Burial Remains – Trinity of Deception
Carcinoid – Metastatic Delination
Cosmic Putrefaction – At the Threshold of the Greatest Chasm
Die Choking - IV
The Drowning – The Radiant Dark
Encoffinized – Chambers of Deprivation
Frozen Soul – Encased in Ice
Fuming Mouth – The Grand Descent
Mesarthim – Ghost Condensate
Midnight Odyssey – Biolume Part 1 – In Tartarean Chains
Misery Index – Rituals of Power
Mystik - Mystik
Nucleus - Entity
Ossuary – Supreme Degradation
Ripped to Shreds – Demon Scriptures
Sadistic Ritual – Visionaire of Death
Sanguisugabogg – Pornographic Seizures
Tanith – In Another Time
Teeth – The Curse of Entropy
Totaled - Lament
Undeath – Demo 19’
Unurnment – Spiritual Penury
Vomit Forth – Northeastern Deprivation
Warsenal – Feast Your Eyes
Yeruselem – The Sublime

Rattenfänger - Geisslerlieder

I gotta check that out, the first Rattenfanger was quintessential nothing new but still great DM.

anyway, this is an anthology so I hope that's ok

Depressor - Hell Storms Over Earth

decided this counts

Greet Death - New Hell

Band name & album title are metal enough to count regardless of musical content.

Good call. I adore the Greet Death album. One of my favorite things released this year.

What genre is it?

the smart money is on either noise or lo-fi indie

It’s fuzzy, shoegazy goodness. Not really metal, but definitely heavy at times.

Speaking of lo-fi indie, this 2nd wave Norwegian BM worship ritual, wrought by a lonesome Ukrainian, comes with a corny indie fuxxor ballad towards the end:

Këkht Aräkh - Night & Love

Dude calls himself Crying Orc and provides the following lyrical teaser on his Bandcamp:

Night is spreading her veil all over
Spirit is arisen permeating every breath
Love comes through...
We are all bonded here...
Just about to see how beautiful we are

Andvaka - Andvana

Premise: Sigur Rós was a funeral doom band all along.

Re: Andvaka - I couldn't be more intrigued by that description. Will check out pronto.

Same here tbh!

It's mild clickbait as the vocalist sounds nothing like Jónsi but the horizonless sense of space, the hymnic flange and the post-doom (rather than rock) elements all kind of point towards their countrymen Sigur Rós. It'll definitely make my ballot.

Bandcamp says it came out in ‘16.

Really? The band itself didn't exist before this year: 'ANDVAKA is founded in 2019 in Reykjavík Iceland.'

https://andvaka.bandcamp.com/releases

Only the trvest funeral doomers were dead when they recorded their music.

lol

Whoops. Spelling error. Thanks for the good link. lol’d @ LBI’s comment.

anyone with spotify premium and wants to listen to metal and chat might like this

https://app.jqbx.fm/room/sea-of-metal

I didn't find anything independently that hasn't been nominated already but wow, it was a very good year. Lots of excellent stuff to dig into!

bump

Motorpsycho - The Crucible
Hashshashin - Badakhshan

Cthonica - Typhomanteia: Sacred Triarchy of Spiritual Putrefaction

Kostnatění - Hrůza zvítězí

now you're just making up words!

Czechist.

well I see both are black metal to a degree so I guess I will seek both out

Former is raw ritual black with guttural vocals, latter plays with microtones. Both are atonal-adjacent. Oh, and Cthonica are from Venezuela, which may or may not be relevant to you (it was my first time hearing a metal band from there).

Snuff - There's a Lot of It About
Byzanthian Neckbeard - Minaton
Coffin Rot - A Monument to the Dead

Ashes - Ashes
Andavald - Undir Skyggdarhaldi
Cân Bardd - The Last Rain
Drastus - La Croix De Sang
Goatpenis/Defecrator - Bloodpact In Cataclysmic Warfare
Kwade Droes - Onder De Toren
Monarque - Jusqu’à La Mort
Pensées Nocturnes - Grand Guignol Orchestra
Rorcal - Muladona
Svartelder - Pits
Une Misère - Sermon
Wraith - Absolute Power
Xentrix - Bury The Pain

Gurthang - Ascension

Flamen - Furor lunae
Gardsghastr - Slit Throat Requiem

An Isolated Mind - I've Lost Myself

get nominating!

We're already over 200 up on last year, dunno how many more there are to nom!

I would like to note that this year's Lacuna Coil is surprisingly good, having not cared for/paid them much mind before.