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

27
Full of Hell - Weeping Choir
275 points, 9 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1502568514_16.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/7ckjkkVbGQXYuEdfErmRfC
https://fullofhell.bandcamp.com/album/weeping-choir

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/full-of-hell-weeping-choir/

Full of Hell can be hard to parse, even for those well-versed in grindcore or for connoisseurs of harsh noise. The East Coast outfit—with its members split between Maryland and Pennsylvania—have made their name by cracking apart genre conventions like oracle bones. Grindcore, hardcore, and death metal meet within their music to produce something feral and unknowable, doubly so when they team up with other like-minded oddballs like The Body or Merzbow. There’s just something about them, a reason that they’ve been met with such acclaim and fervent fandom. The nihilistic vibe helps—when Samuel DiGristine gurgles, “All goes onward and outward/All collapses” on “Silmaril,” it’s hard not to shudder.

Recorded by the legendary Kurt Ballou at God City, the band’s third album (and Relapse Records debut) is intended as a companion piece to the band’s innovative 2017 LP, Trumpeting Ecstasy, but even a passing listen shows that the band’s interests have shifted a bit. The band’s affinity for the most bestial side of grind is on full display, and on Weeping Choir, only death is real.

“Burning Myrrh” blasts the record wide open with two minutes of pummeling grind, dual vocalists Dylan Walker and Samuel DiGristine frantically trading off registers like they’re pulling a double shift in hell’s biggest department store. “Haunted Arches” abruptly ends with a few seconds of warped, ghostly audio reminiscent of The Caretaker’s bastardized 1930s parlor recordings, before “Thundering Hammers”—an apt title if there ever was one—comes crashing down, its destructive grooves redolent of classic Morbid Angel.

26
Schammasch - Hearts of No Light
294 points, 8 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2267679372_16.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1PmHVrFZdWmaaOni45bqD7
https://schammasch.bandcamp.com/album/hearts-of-no-light

There are two kinds of metal albums that tickle my fancy. The first kind takes a band’s trademark sound, alters it just enough to keep things fresh, but also retains everything that makes that artist or band unique, enjoyable, and otherwise impossible to do without. The other has mere glimpses of what made that band who they are, but throws so many curveballs, surprise left hooks, and a kitchen sink or twelve your way, and demands that you catch it all. Swiss avant garde spiritualists Schammasch most certainly fit into the latter with relative ease. Even after releasing a three-disc, exactly-100-minute monstrosity in the form of Triangle back in 2016, it still didn’t fully prepare me for what Hearts of No Light had in store for me, even with Roquentin‘s glowing, informative review giving me an incredible insight and synopsis.

I’m not complaining, mind you. Hearts of No Light features some of the same intense moments showcased on Triangle, and in some ways exceeds them. Opener “Winds That Pierce the Silence” starts off with guest pianist Lillian Liu setting up a dramatic first half while the band builds up the second with a pulsing rhythm while a lone guitar plays a lick that wouldn’t be out-of-place on a latter-day Death album. As soon as “Ego Sum Omega” launches, you can tell the prog influences that were hinted at on Triangle begin to shine, but not at the expense of the spiritual intensity that Schammasch has made their bread and butter. Guitars that sound like a blackened Fates Warning punctuate above B.A.W’s tricky drum fills and patterns. The song slows down considerably before ramping up the tremolo, ending with synthesized horns building up before an amazing climax.

Full of Hell album is stunning

Clever of you to joke-list both Korn, who didn't place, and BABYMETAL, who will actually show up for real later.

PS: BABYMETAL and Schammasch and Astronoid are all great.

:)

Both great records that I regretted not voting for after sending in my ballot.

Schammasch record was a late cut from my ballot but could have just as easily made it.

It could have made the cut if I had spent more time with it before the deadline.

The Schammasch is fantastic and my #7

I did my best by campaigning for it

Babymetal have indeed made metal poll previously btw

23
Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them
300 points, 8 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0693568513_16.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1i10no8p3y1igTW46jquub
https://bigbravesl.bandcamp.com/album/a-gaze-among-them

https://www.echoesanddust.com/2019/05/big-brave-a-gaze-among-them/

BIG | BRAVE are a trio from Montreal dealing in heavy minimalism and a full exploration of quiet/loud dynamics. The band is made up of Robin Wattie (vocals, electric guitar, guitar amp, bass amp), Mathieu Ball (electric guitar, guitar amps) and Loel Campbell (drums). Volume is a key tool, where there is sound it is a physical force, played at levels that resonate and hum, connecting almost beyond rational understanding. Like the blues it’s as much as about what and when they don’t play – the chasms of silence pregnant with meaning, sometimes foreboding, often desolate, but sometimes desperate for fulfillment.

The vocals of Robin Wattie are a raw, impassioned yelp and they add to the feeling you are listening to a much slower, more cautious Brutus. Lyrics are personal, impassioned but oblique “you don’t get to do this” is repeated on opener ‘Muted Shifting of Space’, it’s gets ever angrier as the music roils, but I’m not sure what ‘this‘ is. Often the words are so drawn out that they seem to lose meaning, becoming otherworldly and strange like the Cocteau Twins.
 
The last album, 2017’s ARDOR was a progression from earlier recordings – fuller, with lengthy soundscapes. On A Gaze Among Them the band return to a core sound and ethos – “How do we take very little and make something bigger than what we actually have?” was the question they asked themselves, according to Wattie. It feels like the band are more pensive, despite the juddering violence of a lot of the music and tighter running times of songs. There’s a tension in uncertainty, like a fist in a pocket. ‘Holding Pattern’ is ritualistic, threatening, the ever-present bass rumble presaging a storm.

Montreal reprezzzzent x3 (my #3).

ayyyyy!

do they like fiddle with the volume knobs during their gigs or something

Maybe? I don't go to gigs.

i don't even own a gig

I'm the only knob at most gigs I attend

Two more for tonight.

22
Cloud Rat - Pollinator
300 points, 10 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1107819575_16.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/620a5hNUjGyYWWUtpNHUka
https://cloudrat.bandcamp.com/album/pollinator

https://toiletovhell.com/review-cloud-rat-pollinator/

With a groan that seems to last forever, a giant crashes through the canopy and lies still on the forest floor. Communities disappear in the upheaval, and the survivors scatter through mazes of fallen branches. Before long, hulking machines arrive, gouging the landscape, clamping onto the fallen tree like jaws on the throat of prey. While conflict has always been present in nature, the scale of human violence—toward ourselves and the world around us—has created an imbalance that only continues to grow, manifesting as barrens tracts in the heart of our planet’s ecosystems.

If you can read the symbols making up this review, congratulations (or condolences), you’re a human. That is to say, a nervous ape who was born into this perplexing stretch of time when so many things seem to be spinning out of control. Cloud Rat captures our cacophonous moment, plunging listeners into the absurdity of modern life with their new album, Pollinator.

The opening salvo of “Losing Weight” and “Delayed Grief//Farmhouse Red” checks most of grindcore’s rickety boxes: punk riffs flicker quicker than dying street lamps, d-beats and blasts make the kit ask what it did to deserve this, and maniacal vocals mirror the commotion of a fast-paced society. However, even when playing within the confines of a single genre, the band’s attention to detail sets them apart from the pack; the crisp production ensures that Brandon’s rapid drumming never loses clarity (note the cymbal choke embellishments at the end of “Losing Weight”) despite the thick tone of the guitars, and every song, no matter how minute, quickly establishes its own personality.

What a great fuckin band. I found their split comp last year even more thrilling but this is pretty great.

brilliant record

Hopefully imago won't be too heartbroken when he finds out it didn't make it into the top 20…

21
Jute Gyte - Birefringence
301 points, 8 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0522655153_16.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/6q98xuIQSOyI9bkQIq1nAs
https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/birefringence

Up to this point, Jute Gyte has made an almost annual tradition of releasing the boldest black metal album of the year. With this project, multi-instrumentalist Adam Kalmbach has channeled the black metal blueprint through classical composition techniques—microtonality and serialism, primarily—and paired the results with elements of dark ambient, industrial, and noise. His recent output has been particularly exceptional, with our staff bestowing high praise on albums like Perdurance (2016), The Sparrow (2017), and Oviri (2017). Each release is challenging and rewarding in its own way, as Kalmbach continuously reconstructs his music around different ideas.

It’s a rare, rewarding feat when an already ambitious artist manages to enhance their music further, which is exactly what Jute Gyte has accomplished on Birefringence. While Kalmbach still employs advanced compositional concepts with these tracks, he revealed via Bandcamp that “this album was written more freely than the last few.” As a result of that, Birefringence is far and away Jute Gyte’s strongest release in recent memory. The album just as experimental as Kalmbach’s back catalog while also boasting a fresh, varied approach that makes its density all the more worthwhile to parse out.

First, let’s address the elephant in the room regarding the ability of listeners to “get” Jute Gyte’s music. I’ll openly admit to my limited background with music theory, which is why I was happy to link to articles explaining microtonality and serialism rather than attempting to explain them myself. Yet, despite Jute Gyte’s incredible complexity, Kalmbach’s approach to songcraft produces music that’s universally enjoyable to those with an affinity for avant-garde music. Regardless of your own musical background, his compositions should strike you as intriguing and stimulating, making for an inherently worthwhile listening experience.

A mere point ahead of the Cloud Rat!

Probably only like his 5th best album. My #4 and a work of intense and savage brilliance

This one didn't connect for me at all.

Final recap before tomorrow's top 20 countdown:

21 Jute Gyte - Birefringence 301.0 8 0
22 Cloud Rat - Pollinator 300.0 10 0
23 Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them 300.0 8 0
24 Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear 295.0 7 1
25 Astronoid - Astronoid 294.0 8 2
26 Schammasch - Hearts of No Light 294.0 8 0
27 Full of Hell - Weeping Choir 275.0 9 0
28 Blut aus Nord - Hallucinogen 262.0 7 0
29 Opeth - In cauda venenum 249.0 7 0
30 Darkthrone - Old Star 246.0 8 0
31 The Lord Weird Slough Feg - New Organon 235.0 6 1
32 Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations 223.0 6 1
33 Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel 209.0 7 0
34 Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts 207.0 6 0
35 Witch Trail - The Sun Has Left the Hill 204.0 5 1
36 Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension 203.0 6 0
37 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest 201.0 6 0
38 Boris - Love & Evol 200.0 5 1
39 Cerebral Rot - Odious Descent Into Decay 189.0 6 0
40 Andavald - Undir skyggðarhaldi 187.0 4 1
41 Mdou Moctar - Ilana (The Creator) 186.0 6 0
42 Candlemass - The Door to Doom 185.0 6 0
43 Mayhem - Daemon 181.0 4 0
44 Tool - Fear Inoculum 179.0 6 0
45 Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Yn Ol I Annwn 178.0 4 0
46 Car Bomb - Mordial 176.0 6 1
47 Imprecation - Damnatio Ad Bestias 174.0 5 1
48 Brutus - Nest 170.0 6 0
48 Misþyrming - Algleymi 170.0 6 0
50 Wormed - Metaportal 169.0 5 0
51 Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Ceiling 168.0 5 0
52 Fly Pan Am - C'est ça 164.0 4 0
53 Crypt Sermon - The Ruins of Fading Light 162.0 5 0
54 Ossuaire - Derniers chants 161.0 4 0
55 Disentomb - The Decaying Light 160.0 6 0
56 Teitanblood - The Baneful Choir 157.0 6 0
57 Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind 157.0 5 0
58 Haunter - Sacramental Death Qualia 155.0 4 0
59 Ghost - Seven Inches of Satanic Panic 150.0 4 0
60 Jorge Elbrecht - Coral Cross - 002 148.0 4 0
61 Falls of Rauros - Patterns in Mythology 145.0 5 0
62 Witch Vomit - Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave 144.0 5 0
63 Dysrhythmia - Terminal Threshold 142.0 4 0
64 Bölzer - Lese Majesty 136.0 5 0
64 Krallice - Wolf 136.0 5 0
66 Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas 133.0 7 0
67 Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation 133.0 5 0
68 Mgła - Age of Excuse 133.0 3 1
69 Warforged - I:Voice 132.0 5 0
70 Black Mountain - Destroyer 132.0 4 0
71 Funereal Presence - Achatius 132.0 3 0
72 Andvaka - Andvana 131.0 3 0
73 Weeping Sores - False Confession 129.0 4 0
74 PUP - Morbid Stuff 127.0 3 0
75 Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus 126.0 5 0
76 Major Stars - Roots of Confusion 125.0 3 0
77 Oozing Wound - High Anxiety 124.0 3 0
78 Motorpsycho - The Crucible 119.0 4 0
79 Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingenesia 119.0 3 1
80 Amygdala - Our Voices Will Soar Forever 115.0 3 0
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

A lot of people seem to think this might be his best, though, which is nice and encouraging. It certainly might be his furthest-out. I personally love how it twists, turns and ultimately subsumes itself. He really knows how to construct an album, even if his dice are doing some of the work for him!

Skipping the opening track (the shortest on the album but possibly the most impenetrable!) might be a way in for some of you

Dissected Grace is the best Jute Gyte shoegaze track ever

admit you wanted to type 'best shoegaze track ever' and chickened out

Less thought went into it than that sadly. I'm teaching a lesson about SIMS FreePlay

But yes, sure, I would stand by it being the best shoegaze track ever too why not!

there you have it, folks

2018 Top 100 to contrast andcompare

33 Ballots

Rank Name Score Votes #1 Votes
1 Sleep - The Sciences 758.0 18 1
2 Yob - Our Raw Heart 724.0 18 2
3 Windhand - Eternal Return 443.0 14 1
4 Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma 415.0 10 1
5 Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Wasteland 413.0 11 1
6 Evoken - Hypnagogia 408.0 12 0
7 Ghost - Prequelle 408.0 11 0
8 Thy Catafalque - Geometria 377.0 10 1
9 Khorada - Salt 358.0 8 1
10 Entropia - Vacuum 355.0 9 1

11 Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 354.0 9 1
12 High On Fire - Electric Messiah 346.0 10 0
13 Summoning - With Doom We Come 345.0 10 0
14 The Armed - Only Love 334.0 8 2
15 Voivod - The Wake 324.0 10 0
16 Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - Dirt 323.0 8 0
17 Senyawa - Sujud 321.0 8 0
18 SUMAC - Love in Shadow 310.0 8 1
19 Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms 286.0 9 0
20 Ails - The Unraveling 284.0 7 0
21 Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit 270.0 8 1
22 Pharaoh Overlord - Zero 268.0 7 1
23 Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness I And II 266.0 8 1
24 Khemmis - Desolation 256.0 7 0
25 Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice 255.0 8 0
26 Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It 252.0 6 0
27 LLNN - Deads 237.0 6 1
28 Funeral Mist - Hekatomb 230.0 7 0
29 Pantheist - Seeking Infinity 222.0 5 0
30 mewithoutyou - Untitled 221.0 5 1
31 Kriegsmaschine - Apocalypticists 216.0 5 1
32 Judas Priest - Firepower 214.0 8 0
33 Jóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 214.0 6 0
34 A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes 212.0 6 1
35 Mesarthim - The Density Parameter 212.0 6 0
36 Cloud Rat - Clipped Beaks // Silk Panic 209.0 5 1
37 Horrendous - Idol 207.0 8 0
38 awakebutstillinbed - what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people see you 206.0 5 1
39 Earthless - Black Heaven 205.0 6 0
40 Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want 203.0 5 0
41 Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology 197.0 6 0
42 DMBQ - Keeenly 194.0 6 0
42 The Skull - The Endless Road Turns Dark 194.0 6 0
44 Ungfell - Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz 193.0 5 1
45 Dark Buddha Rising - II 191.0 5 0
46 Andrew W.K. - You’re Not Alone 189.0 5 1
47 Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury 188.0 5 0
48 Agrimonia - Awaken 180.0 5 1
49 Messa - Feast for Water 179.0 5 0
50 Wrong - Feel Great 177.0 5 0

51 Graveyard - Peace 176.0 5 1
52 Sorcier des glaces - Sorcier des glaces 173.0 6 0
53 Tribulation - Down Below 164.0 5 0
54 Obliteration - Cenotaph Obscure 163.0 4 0
55 ION - A Path Unknown 161.0 5 0
56 Sumac & Keiji Haino - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On 160.0 4 0
57 The Body - I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer. 159.0 7 0
58 Witch Mountain - Witch Mountain 156.0 5 0
59 Shylmagoghnar - Transience 155.0 5 0
60 Sylvaine - Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone 154.0 5 0
61 Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben het Goed III 154.0 4 0
62 Thou - Magus 152.0 4 0
63 Ancestors - Suspended in Reflections 151.0 4 0
63 The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic 151.0 4 0
65 Alameda 4 - Czarna Woda 150.0 4 0
66 Sepulcher - Panoptic Horror 148.0 4 0
67 Earthling Society - MO-The Demon 148.0 3 1
68 ST 37 - ST 37 146.0 4 0
69 Gnaw Their Tongues - Genocidal Majesty 144.0 5 0
70 Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light 142.0 5 0
71 Yawningman - The Revolt Against Tired Noises 142.0 4 1
72 Satan - Cruel Magic 137.0 4 0
73 KEN Mode - Loved 135.0 5 0
74 Un - Sentiment 135.0 3 0
75 Koenjihyakkei - Dhorimviskha 134.0 3 0
76 Portal - ION 131.0 4 0
77 Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace 130.0 4 0
78 Aura Noir - Aura Noire 128.0 4 0
79 Cultes des Ghoules - Sinister, or Treading the Darker Paths 127.0 3 0
80 Cosmic Church - Täyttymys 126.0 4 0
80 Paara - Riitti 126.0 4 0
82 Bongripper - Terminal 126.0 3 1
83 Chapel of Disease - And as We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye 125.0 3 0
84 Turnstile - Time & Space 124.0 3 0
85 Fluisteraars / Turia - De Oord 122.0 3 0
86 Uniform - The Long Walk 118.0 3 0
87 Lychgate - The Contagion in Nine Steps 117.0 4 0
88 Yhdarl - Loss 117.0 3 0
89 The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir 115.0 4 0
90 envy - Alnair In August 112.0 4 0
91 Cantique lépreux - Paysages polaires 112.0 3 0
92 Hamferð - Támsins likam 108.0 4 0
93 Azusa - Heavy Yoke 108.0 3 0
94 Rebel Wizard - Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response 107.0 3 0
95 Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed 104.0 4 0
96 Machine Girl - The Ugly Art 100.0 3 0
97 Pale Divine - Pale Divine 99.0 3 0
98 Basalte - Vertige 97.0 3 0
99 Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog 96.0 3 0
100 Black Salvation - Uncertainty Is Bliss 96.0 2 1

I feel way more in tune with the hivemind this year.

about the same for me but i think/hope the top 10 will be more me-friendly this time

last years top 10 was cracking

let me dig out all the previous top 10s

We can see how Metal Poll has changed over the years

top 20s since tomorrow is top 20 day

2008

Rank - Points - Votes - #1s - Artist - Album

1 - 479 - 25 - 2 - Torche - Meanderthal
2 - 357 - 19 - 3 - Harvey Milk - Life...the Best Game in Town
3 - 276 - 19 - 0 - Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
4 - 227 - 16 - 0 - Boris - Smile
5 - 212 - 13 - 1 - Opeth - Watershed
6 - 203 - 11 - 1 - Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
7 - 183 - 10 - 2 - Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
8 - 179 - 12 - 0 - 5ive - Hesperus
9 - 165 - 10 - 2 - Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
10 - 163 - 10 - 0 - Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
11 - 158 - 11 - 1 - The Goslings - Occasion
12 - 155 - 10 - 0 - Meshuggah - obZen
13 - 145 - 9 - 0 - Enslaved - Vertebrae
14 - 141 - 10 - 0 - Melvins - Nude With Boots
15 - 140 - 8 - 0 - Caina - Temporary Antennae
16 - 137 - 8 - 0 - Krallice - Krallice
17 - 128 - 8 - 0 - Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
18 - 126 - 8 - 1 - Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
18 - 126 - 8 - 0 - Cynic - Traced in Air
20 - 123 - 8 - 0 - Sunn 0))) - Domkirke

2009

"#","Album","Points","Votes","1s","Enthusiasm"
"1","Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions","757","31","4","24.419"
"2","Converge - Axe to Fall","722","30","2","24.067"
"3","Mastodon - Crack the Skye","709","31","6","22.871"
"4","Baroness - Blue Record","708","30","6","23.6"
"5","YOB - The Great Cessation","705","28","5","25.179"
"6","Cobalt - Gin","566","24","1","23.583"
"7","Kylesa - Static Tensions","490","22","","22.273"
"8","Zu - Carboniferous","454","21","1","21.619"
"9","Isis - Wavering Radiant","437","22","1","19.864"
"10","Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough","412","22","","18.727"
"11","Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade","405","22","","18.409"
"12","Zombi - Spirit Animal","401","17","3","23.588"
"13","Slough Feg - Ape Uprising","390","16","2","24.375"
"14","The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder","380","18","","21.111"
"15","Om - God Is Good","335","16","","20.938"
"16","Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder","334","17","1","19.647"
"17","Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul","315","17","1","18.529"
"18","Slayer - World Painted Blood","293","15","","19.533"
"19","Liturgy - Renihilation","260","16","","16.25"
"20","Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights","253","13","","19.462"

2010

1. Electric Wizard - Black Masses (1,583 Points, 49 Votes, 10 #1s)
2. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit (1,540 Points, 48 Votes, 8 #1s)
3. Ludicra - The Tenant (1,387 Points, 46 Votes, 4 #1s)
4. Alcest - Écailles de Lune (1,330 Points, 49 Votes, 4 #1s)
5. Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part II (1,226 Points, 38 Votes, 4 #1s)
6. High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine (1,199 Points, 40 Votes, 3 #1s)
7. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits (1,197 Points, 42 Votes, 2 #1s)
8. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones (1,076 Points, 40 Votes, 3 #1s)
9. Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness (1,015 Points, 35 Votes, 3 #1s)
10. Dawnbringer - Nucleus (1,009 Points, 34 Votes, 2 #1s)
11. Ghost - Opus Eponymous (868 Points, 32 Votes, 1 #1)
12. UFOmammut - Eve (790 Points, 30 Votes, 2 #1s)
13. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (733 Points, 27 Votes)
14. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (703 Points, 29 Votes, 1 #1)
15. Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium (700 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
16. Apostle of Solitude - Last Sunrise (693 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
17. Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom (666 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
18. Drudkh - Handful of Stars (665 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
19. Torche - Songs for Singles (663 Points, 23 Votes, 1 #1)
20. Envy - Recitation (660 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)

Atlantean Kodex at #22

2011 Metal Poll Results

1. Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street (1,601 Points, 39 Votes, 5 #1s)
2. Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit (1,599 Points, 40 Votes, 4 #1s)
3. YOB - Atma (1,527 Points, 41 Votes, 2 #1s)
4. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (1,371 Points, 34 Votes, 4 #1s)
5. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (1,351 Points, 36 Votes, 2 #1s)
6. Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance (1,344 Points, 35 Votes, 4 #1s)
7. Mastodon - The Hunter (1,253 Points, 33 Votes, 6 #1s)
8. Pantheïst - Pantheist (1,187 Points, 30 Votes, 2 #1s)
9. The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch (1,085 Points, 32 Votes, 1 #1)
10. Subrosa - No Help for the Mighty Ones (1,080 Points, 30 Votes, 3 #1s)
11. The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre (1,056 Points, 29 Votes, 3 #1s)
12. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room (1,049 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
13. Blood Ceremony - Living With the Ancients (1,014 Points, 31 Votes, 1 #1)
14. Absu - Abzu (901 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
15. Krallice - Diotima (899 Points, 28 Votes)
16. Falloch - Where Distant Spirits Remain (874 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
17. Liturgy - Aesthethica (873 Points, 26 Votes, 2 #1s)
18. Altar of Plagues - Mammal (855 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
19. Fen - Epoch (851 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
20. Asva - Presences of Absences (845 Points, 25 Votes, 2 #1s)

2012 Metal Poll Results

1 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind - 364 points, 17 votes, 6 first place votes
2 Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay - 358 points, 19 votes, 4 first place votes
3 SWANS - The Seer - 344 points, 16 votes, 7 first place votes
4 Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine - 235 points, 18 votes
5 Dawnbringer - Into The Lair Of The Sun God - 223 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote
6 Old Man Gloom - No - 214 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote
7 Krallice - Years Past Matter - 213 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote
8 Christian Mistress - Possession - 195 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes
9 Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock - 195 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote
10 Agalloch - Faustian Echoes EP - 194 points, 14 votes
11 Pallbearer-Sorrow and Extinction - 183 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote
12 OM - Advaitic Songs - 181 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote
13 Dordeduh - Dar de duh - 178 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote
14 Saint Vitus - LILLIE: F-65 - 170 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote
15 Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme - 164 points, 13 votes
16 Goat - World Music - 163 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote
17 Baroness - Yellow & Green - 162 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote
18 Les Discrets - Ariettes oubliées... - 162 points, 11 votes, 2 first place votes
19 High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis - 156 points, 14 votes
20 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones - 154 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote

2013 Metal Poll Results

1 carcass - surgical steel 1121.0 27 8
2 in solitude - sister 831.0 21 2
3 altar of plagues - teethed glory and injury 798.0 22 0
4 gorguts - colored sands 779.0 19 2
5 subrosa - more constant than the gods 741.0 19 2
6 windhand - soma 732.0 19 1 knaaq
7 uncle acid and the deadbeats - mind control 707.0 20 2
8 melt-banana - fetch 686.0 18 1 matt
9 asg - blood drive 668.0 17 0
10 deafheaven - sunbather 666.0 18 3
11 kylesa - ultraviolet 637.0 18 1
12 atlantean kodex - the white goddess 615.0 15 1
13 avatarium - avatarium 613.0 16 1 Paul R
14 darkthrone - the underground resistance 597.0 17 0
15 nails - abandon all life 561.0 16 1
16 hell - curse and chapter 560.0 14 1
17 queens of the stone age - like clockwork 557.0 15 1
18 beastmilk - climax 529.0 15 1
19 ghost - infestissumam 502.0 15 0
20 summoning - old mornings dawn 500.0 14 0

Wow, huge day! Lots of stuff I voted for placed, I was the number one vote for the Slough Feg album, it was a big highlight of the year to me. Glenn Branca was also especially high on my list, and Astronoid was great too -- maybe not as mind-blowing as their debut but it was very good, definitely not disappointing. Glad Candlemass got so much love as well.

2014 Metal Poll Results

20 Blues Pills - Blues Pills 557 Points, 13 votes
19 Jute Gyte - Vast Chains 599 Points, 15votes , THREE #1s
18 Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry 609 Points, 17 votes
17 Alcest - Shelter 612 Points, 18 votes, One #1
16 Botanist - Vi: Flora 619 Points, 18 votes, One #1
15 Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials 621 Points, 17 votes, One #1
14 Panopticon - Roads to the North 654 Points, 18 votes , One #1
13 Slough Feg - Digital Resistance 662 Points, 19 votes, One #1
12 Bölzer - Soma EP 666 Points, 18 votes , One #1
11 Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun 680 Points, 19 votes, One #1

10 Jute Gyte - Ressentiment 697 Points, 18 votes
9 Earth - Primitive and Deadly 738 Points, 21 votes , ONE #1
8 Scott Walker & SunnO))) - Soused 799 Points, 21 votes, TWO #1s
7 Darkspace - Dark Space III I 813 Points, 22 votes , ONE #1
6 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 876 Points, 23 votes, THREE #1s
5 Triptykon - Melana Chasmata 1078 Points, 27 votes FIVE #1's
4 Electric Wizard - Time to Die 1130 Points, 27 votes THREE #1's
3 Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere 1165 Points, 31 votes, Three #1s
2 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden 1233 Points, 33 votes, One #1

1 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend 1240 Points, 32 votes , THREE #1s

2015 Metal Poll Results

Rank Name Score Votes #1 Votes
1 Ghost - Meliora 1161.0 26 5
2 Myrkur - M 1156.0 32 1
3 Panopticon - Autumn Eternal 1016.0 26 1
4 Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields 817.0 21 1
5 Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr 816.0 19 3
6 Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss 809.0 21 2
7 Skepticism - Ordeal 806.0 19 1
8 Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper 747.0 21 1
9 Sunn O))) - Kannon 723.0 20 1
10 Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower 705.0 19 1
11 Mgla - Exercises In Futility 689.0 18 2
12 Krallice - Ygg huur 660.0 19 0
13 Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers 654.0 16 1
14 Liturgy - The Ark Work 623.0 17 0
15 Avatarium - The Girl With The Raven Mask 592.0 14 1
16 Pinkish Black - Bottom of the Morning 582.0 17 1
17 VHÖL - Deeper Than Sky 582.0 17 0
18 Jess And The Ancient Ones - Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes 576.0 15 1
19 Tribulation - The Children of the Night 569.0 16 1
20 High on Fire - Luminiferous 567.0 17 1

2016 Metal Poll results

1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä 1372.0 33 5
2 Aluk Todolo - Voix 806.0 20 2
3 Furia - Księżyc milczy luty 751.0 20 2
4 Vektor - Terminal Redux 657.0 17 3
5 Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of Ages 648.0 16 2
6 Cobalt - Slow Forever 563.0 14 1
7 Sumac - What One Becomes 559.0 15 1
8 Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones 558.0 16 1
9 Schammasch - Triangle 543.0 15 1
10 Jute Gyte - Perdurance 539.0 14 2
11 Bölzer - Hero 511.0 13 0
12 Alcest - Kodama 482.0 14 0
13 Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue 473.0 12 1
14 Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust 464.0 13 0
15 Neurosis - Fires Within Fires 444.0 11 0
16 Thy Catafalque - Meta 424.0 10 1
17 Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity) 413.0 9 3
18 Hammers of Misfortune - Dead Revolutions 408.0 12 0
19 Horse Lords - Interventions 384.0 11 0
20 Virus - Memento Collider 371.0 12 0

2017 FULL RESULTS

Rank Name Score Votes #1 Votes
1 Elder - Reflections of a Floating World 931.0 21 4
2 Godflesh - Post Self 713.0 19 2
3 Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun 666.0 15 3
4 Ex Eye - Ex Eye 656.0 16 1
5 Converge - The Dusk In Us 640.0 16 1
6 Myrkur - Mareridt 509.0 14 0
7 Krallice - Go Be Forgotten 500.0 13 1
8 Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Come 490.0 13 1
9 Couch Slut - Contempt 487.0 13 0
10 Pallbearer - Heartless 441.0 12 1

11 Jute Gyte - Oviri 438.0 12 1
12 Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven 436.0 12 0
13 King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering 419.0 13 0
14 The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia 405.0 11 1
15 Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing 401.0 11 1
16 Au champ des morts - Dans la joie 393.0 11 0
17 Pillorian - Obsidian Arc 386.0 10 1
18 Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper 338.0 10 1
19 Cleric - Retrocausal 336.0 8 2
20 Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter 326.0 11 0