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

tt with a bit of the old pain and morbidity. with enough hails i think the dark lords will let her live

<3 to tt

Solely one entry remains for tonight, so I pray to the Old Gods that she'll be hale come morning that she may fully partake in tomorrow's leg of the rollout.

rather than listening to music she's reading The Magic Mountain, which she assures me is the most metal book ever written (Brad pls confirm)

Someone is playing a midi file of Debussy from a phone? An old Gameboy? It is metal in its own way. Or, it’ll certainly feel that way after the promised four hour wait. I’m almost definitely okay.

Skaphe and Wormlust album builds to some magnificent horror!

Well if Jute Gyte is in some sense the trvest metal act ever devised then surely it follows that of Mann's novels Doktor Faustus is the metallest of all.

Yeah, Magic Mountain invented black metal

Thank you, pomenitul! I’ll return to ceremonial listening tomorrow, for sure.

my magic mountain remains sitting on top of the other unread books but mordy started his i think

as is his other books i bought

rather than listening to music she's reading The Magic Mountain, which she assures me is the most metal book ever written (Brad pls confirm)

― imago, Monday, February 24, 2020 12:18 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you know, honestly, yes

along with all the classic russian books

I must away now, but I leave you with a fitting night or afternoon or morning cap depending on where you happen to be at the moment.

81
Nightfell - A Sanity Deranged
112 points, 4 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3708953741_16.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/7rJ2wiYSJ74CKAYcBpy8Wn
https://nightfell.bandcamp.com

https://www.angrymetalguy.com/nightfell-a-sanity-deranged-review/

In my mind, Nightfell sounds like Amon Amarth or Bolt Thrower suddenly became depressed and introspective and morphed into an atmospheric blackened death/doom band. A Sanity Deranged presents itself as a cyclical exercise in building tension through the atmospheric and doom elements and the cathartic release that occurs when Burdette drops his gigantic tremolo riffs that would fit snuggly on any classic album from the aforementioned battle-obsessed death metal bands. Coupled with Burdette’s cavernous death vocals, this undulating musical formula places the listener into a relentless trance that makes the record’s 35 minute runtime seem even shorter. Take embedded track “The Swallowing of Flies” as the perfect example of Nightfell‘s strengths coming together in synergistic glory. Beginning with a sorrowful guitar motif played over Call’s constant cymbal work, the track works to create a sense of melancholy before the driving Bolt Thrower groove arrives with one of my favorite metal moments of 2019. From there, the track moves through some blackened minor chords, the hugely distorted bass gets a chance to carry the groove on its own, and some eerie clean arpeggios and background chanting make an appearance. The total package is reminiscent of the slower, doomier moments of Batushka‘s debut.

I assure you that this record is fucking awesome, and 'To the Flame' is a Viking jam.

the magic mountain is maybe more concerned with the briefest intimacies shared with a single person over the course of many years than most metal albums i've heard but other than that: being stuck in a sanatorium for seven years staring out at the alps and reconstructing the universe with your mind is pretty metal. the pre-world war i arguments about humanism vs radicalism are also, in their own way, metal

I had The Neptune Power Federation really high on my list.
My #TwitterLPReview of the album got one like.

The Neptune Power Federation
Memoirs of a Rat Queen
(@CruzDelSurMusic)

Royalty abounds! The Aussie crew namechecks Queen in the title, vocalist Loz Sutch is a Priestess, and they have the audacity to mimic Brian May's crew at their glammiest. They will rock you. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/LH0DUNcaFU

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) September 27, 2019

I tried to hey xhuxk to like it on Facebook, not sure if it ever worked.
Here are some videos off the album that I enjoy very much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdObGeAvwl4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj8SzZoHiSA

nightfell! my no. 2!!!

a blackened and doomy bolt thrower would be the most perfect band

xps

Nightfell record excellent, another ballot entry of mine!

did you vote for 200 albums?

666 iirc

TT & LJ: take care <3

Quick recap of the rollout so far:

81 Nightfell - A Sanity Deranged 112.0 4 0
82 Skáphe + Wormlust - Kosmískur hryllingur 111.0 4 0
83 Kostnatění - Hrůza zvítězí 110.0 4 0
84 The Neptune Power Federation - Memoirs of a Rat Queen 110.0 3 0
85 Krypts - Cadaver Circulation 109.0 4 0
86 No One Knows What the Dead Think - No One Knows What the Dead Think 108.0 4 0
87 Dead to a Dying World - Elegy 107.0 4 0
87 Pharaoh Overlord - 5 107.0 4 0
89 Serpent Column - Mirror in Darkness 105.0 5 0
90 Angel Witch - Angel of Light 105.0 3 0
91 Pinkish Black - Concet Unification 101.0 5 0
92 Putrescine - The One Reborn 100.0 3 0
93 Terminal Cheesecake - Le sacre du lièvre 96.0 2 1
94 Inculter - Fatal Visions 95.0 5 0
95 Drudkh - A Few Lines in Archaic Ukrainian 95.0 3 0
96 Zig Zags - They'll Never Take Us Alive 95.0 2 0
97 False - Portent 92.0 4 0
97 Russian Circles - Blood Year 92.0 4 0
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

I'm intrigued by Skáphe + Wormlust! Is it akin to Misþyrming?

Considerably less conservative, I'd say.

I *think* 12 of mine have placed so far, dang!

inculter's fatal visons and krypts cadaver circulation were my ballot entrys for today

didn't vote for, but totally cool with the one reborn and a sanity deranged placing

visions*

7 of mine have placed if we the count bonus weekend 20. Otherwise, 4.

I've had only 2, but this is mollified by the strong possibility that the majority of the top 10 will correspond to my own

xp I'll give it a whirl!

None of mine have placed so far. It will be more hivemind than kvlt, though I'm not sure my number 1 will make it!

Lets rephrase that: I expect that my top 5 will all place very high, 6 through 10 I'm less sure about

Any clue as to your 1, LBI?

Oof LJ, very difficult to come up with something that won't give it away.

1) I don't think there's a single riff on the album at all
2) The official website of the band is inaccessible for me because my antivirus thinks it's a phishing scam :D

3) Vi Vandrar Vidare

That Neptune Power Federation album was in my top 5 (although I don't think I ranked my ballot here), and "I'll Make a Man Out of You" was one of the very few songs last year that I actually did play on a loop for an extended period of time. So great.

5 placed so far, I’m considerably more in tune with the ILM hivemind this year than usual! I should’ve voted for Zigzags, totally forgot.

I've had only 2, but this is mollified by the strong possibility that the majority of the top 10 will correspond to my own

― imago, Monday, 24 February 2020 19:51 (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You only put in a small ballot though so wouldn't expect much to place!

I have no access to ballots glenn so i cant check for you

tt, far from a heart complaint, had a pulled intercostal ffs

\m/

saw ZigZags for their album release party in LA and it blew me away. amazing band that I discovered on Rolling Metal from I think Brian. glad it made the list.

Tbf pulled intercostals are metal af.

Sheesh tt, that sux, but is also trve metal, and a relief re: heart is fine!

xp :)

Way glad to hear tt is doing well

Also way glad to see Pharaoh Overlord (my #16) & Skaphe/Wormlust (my #13) make it

Skaphe/Wormlust is basically paranoid free-metal fever-dream. I'm a p huge fan of Skaphe & it fits right in with the other albums I've heard from the act

I'm a p huge fan of Skaphe & it fits right in with the other albums I've heard from the act

Good to hear. I'll have to check out their other stuff then.

Skaphe² is a wild and miasmic ride

Well maybe not 'ride'...more like a fetid pit. The propulsion is not so much forward as omnidirectional

Kostnatění was my #14, and False my #15. I suppose the False album does anything new and clever, but it provides just what I'm looking for out of 21st century Lewandowski black metal. (Mizmor was my #6, speaking of good solid Lewandowski metal)