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

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.

At this point part of me wants to turn in a one-line ballot for Caligula, that record snuck up on me but it kills me every time now.

Ossuaire - Premiers chants

Just to check - I don't have to renominate anything glenn did upthread do I?

When in doubt, check the spreadsheet.

But yeah, those ended up being his definitive noms (in bold) as far as I can tell.

I'll do it anyway

Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Yn Ol I Annwn

Surprisingly enough, everything else I really like has been accounted for. Haven't checked my 3.5s yet though

Ghost - Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic

Just seven inches? Colour me disappointed.

U should see MY 7 inch release

Just so I don't forget

Hawkeyes - Last Light of Future Failure

Coral Cross - 002

^I'm not really sure how to notate that, but this seemed the least confusing way to fit it into the existing template here

Dai-ichi - Dai-ichi

Final bump.