2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock/Heavy Music Poll: RESULTS - Top 100 Countdown

Here's the recap so far:

99 Fvneral Fvkk - Carnal Confessions 92.0 3 0
99 The Cosmic Dead - Scottish Space Race 92.0 3 0
99 Vesperith - Vesperith 92.0 3 0
99 Vircolac - Masque 92.0 3 0
103 Coffin Rot - A Monument to the Dead 90.0 2 0
103 Sanguisugabogg - Pornographic Seizures 90.0 2 0
105 Deus Mortem - Kosmocide 89.0 3 0
106 Spirit Adrift - Divided by Darkness 88.0 4 0
107 Venom Prison - Samsara 86.0 2 0
108 Devin Townsend - Empath 85.0 3 0
108 Gaahls WYRD - Gastir - Ghosts Invited 85.0 3 0
108 Multishiva - Savupäivä 85.0 3 0
111 Mizmor - Cairn 82.0 4 0
112 Vanum - Ageless Fire 82.0 3 0
113 Ithaca - The Language of Injury 80.0 3 0
114 Veiled - In Blinding Presence 78.0 3 0
115 Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong 77.0 4 0
116 Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites 77.0 3 0
117 Paladin - Ascension 76.0 2 0
118 Eluveitie - Ategnatos 75.0 3 0
118 Reveal - Scissorgod 75.0 3 0
120 Atlantean Kodex - The Course of Empire 75.0 2 0
120 Fetid - Steeping Corporeal Mess 75.0 2 0
120 Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry 75.0 2 0

Not to sound like a broken record but you might get a lot from the Multishiva...? it's super short and leaps and bounds beyond Time Messer

xp to imago

Of the stuff I hadn't heard yet, Multishiva and Coffin Rot have piqued my interest the most. I still need to sample The Cosmic Dead.

xp and yeah I think you'd enjoy Multishiva, lj.

Devin Townsend album is winning me over, at least at the level of guilty pleasure. Total food for grins

I accidentally listened to all of Sanguisugabogg

lol

The best of the albums so far is Atlantean Kodex but I already know and own that LP and voted for it.

Intrigued by the Mizmor

many xps
i paused a lot of music today. the cosmic dead and most of all the vesperith record sounded fine

Looks like another 2 of my votes got in today. Had Sanguisugabogg in my top 5 as it was my most listened to metal album this year (definitely aided by its 11 min runtime). It's the kind of dumb, ugly, chonky DM I am a huge sucker for. The Fvuneral Fvkk album was just outside my top 20 and is probably my fave doom record from last year even though I avoided it for months cause of the terrible and inappropriate band name.

I gotta check out the Cosmic Dead as I can't resist any psych space metal shit.

Shit the DT off at Why?--veering dangerously close to Disney movie musical number there

I might try the Mizmor after I take a quick nap

I'll just leave the typo there lol

Still back on the Nile record, the first few songs were fine but when "Seven Horns of War" started I decided I'd heard enough for the time being.

This Ithaca record is fun! Or at least it was until the breakdown in the first song.

The Cosmic Dead sounding great so far.

I do not have the patience for The Cosmic Dead. Multishiva definitely my favourite find. Fvneral Fvkk (it's an amazing band name) is sounding really awesome so far though.

Freudian metal.

:D

Except it's more justly lapsed Catholic than Jewish but you get my drift.

Never heard of Cosmic Dead but that cover is all-time.

Enjoying the roll-out (despite not being able to actively participate)!

It would be remiss of me not to mention that the cover of the Cosmic Dead album is not conceptually too far from the cover of imago's novel.

I wasn't even going to mention that...

Respect for the Sanguicinnabon record for including a 30 second belch as vocals, but no actual discernable language, on the first track

This Multishiva isn't immediately accessible (which is only a problem when you've got 120 albums coming at you in a week, tbh) but I'm starting to get into it, even the long slow part at the end of the first track.

Gaahl album is sounding pretty sick

I kind of regret not voting for it and Scissorgod.

I also hope we'll get another Trelldom album some day.

I just realized I've listened to nearly half that Vircolac album without thinking "it's about time I listen to the next album." That's a good sign.

It's a good album! Ireland represent

The wretched tree song might be the highlight but it's all pretty persuasive, well-written and very brutal stuff

Voted for Spirit Adrift and Cosmic Dead, lots of other clearly amazing stuff here I'll have to check out. Versperith seems like I'll like it.

I like that they went for the communist-era spelling of vircolac (well, minus the î). These days it's vârcolac, except if you were to drop the hat it would likely sound mangled in English with a mere 'a'. When uttered it kind of sounds like 'vurr-koh-LAHK' and denotes a demon who devours the sun and the moon, precipitating lunar phases and eclipses in the process.

Nice, thank you!

We're back to Reveal. What an amazing discovery

It would be remiss of me not to mention that the cover of the Cosmic Dead album is not conceptually too far from the cover of imago's novel.

A goodly chunk of my ballot placed in today's batch, including my #3 Coffin Rot (straight up fun OSDM) and my #5 Vircolac (a bit more blackened and raw). I should spend more time with that Gaahl's Wyrd, since I enjoyed his work with Trelldom.

Voted for Fvneral Fvkk. Frankly incredible that they pvlled that concept off.

Mizmor album is aite but for these ears the noise bits >>> the metal bits

Paladin album is legit m

(m = imo)

Multishiva was sounding groovy and shamanic last night. Managed about four songs of Atlantean Kodex before that.

Mizmor makes me think of "smizmar" from Futurama and thus I shall never listen to them

It's considerably more poetic than that:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Psalms

http://www.bardomethodology.com/articles/2020/02/20/reveal-interview/

This is quite something

Unsurprisingly, this approach has led to some complications along the way. For instance, Crakk has previously battled major opioid addiction – mostly tramadol, which is a heavy-duty painkiller, but also heroin.

– I also love speed, acid, and mushrooms; preferably all together. I’ve always been into Lyrica and booze too. I haven’t really been sober one single day for the last two or three years now, I just take less opiates. I got a bit sick of them after about the tenth time I woke up at the hospital after having an epileptic seizure in the street. Also, one time, I died for several minutes. But that shit is just tiresome, boring, and – let’s be honest – a bit pathetic. I remember the “Flystrips” tour in 2017, when I ran out of opioids around half-way through; genius! When everything hurts and you hate every little inch of yourself but there’s nowhere to hide and you can’t ever be even the slightest bit comfortable… and then you have to get up on stage and perform in front of eyes that sear like lasers. Withdrawal fucks with your self-hatred and self-image so, besides everything feeling horrid all the time, it makes someone who’s already demented even more demented. The soul is of course intact but the bridge between spirit and body, the mind or mentality, becomes distorted. Especially the ego becomes out of balance. Anyway, addiction in itself isn’t that interesting, it’s mostly just intimately connected with the physical sensation of pain and the soulless empty shell of a piss-world theatre. So, moral of the story, either be on drugs and have a shitload of them or stay off entirely and, perhaps, don’t get hooked on the worst thing you can possibly get addicted to.

Wow, no kidding LJ :D

OT but this is the first time I've ever heard of the mix of Lyrica and alcohol to get yr kicks! I take Lyrica for trigeminal neuralgia (a good band name imo; they also call it the "suicide disease", he might have been triggered by that?), but cannot see it as a tripping thing.

Either way: thread delivers!

Bardo Methodology really has a knack for eliciting peak edginess from their interviewees.

Didn't they do a good Ruins Of Beverast one a while back

All the anguished, intelligent alcoholics

honestly stopped reading Bardo Methodology because even when they weren't revealing the edgy politics of bands I regretted liking their interviews are just excruciatingly pretentious

Coming up in 2-ish hours: even more Large Sad Men. Eat your heart out, Simon.

Alright this Reveal album rules