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

lol tt

Is it cause for concern?

all hail Gloryhammer!!!!!!

very deserving winners

You misspelled Steel Panther.

I actually don’t know the number 1! Sunn is toooo loooong

well i didn't expect borknagar's true north to make it this far but i'm proud of you ilm

borknagar is my guess for 121

Without further ado…

I give you…

The flabbergastingly unexpected…

Unforeseeable and completely fortuitous…

did gecs win

Unanticipated…

I mean…

This was not in the cards at all…

lol Brad

1
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
806 points, 18 votes, 4 #1 votes

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3985780561_16.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/2GBJg7nTQs3go1w24ECKvy
https://linguaignota.bandcamp.com/album/caligula

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lingua-ignota-caligula/

Eight minutes into her torrential second album as Lingua Ignota, Kristin Hayter lets out a thundering, apocalyptic scream: “I don’t eat, I don’t sleep [...] I let it consume me,” she cries. Her voice is so ugly and shredded and maniacal and alive that it creates a witness of anyone who hears it. It is the sound of trauma, that which is by definition intolerable, and Hayter traverses its most upsetting depths on behalf of survivors, including herself. With Caligula, she has created a murderous amalgam of opera, metal, and noise that uses her classical training like a Trojan Horse, burning misogyny to ash from its Judeo-Christian roots.

From renaissance paintings to murder ballads and beyond, feminist revenge has charged art to cathartic ends—envisioning a world in which women do not only demand justice but see it through, in their work, by any means necessary. Caligula embodies that insurrectionary fury. Working with members of The Body, Uniform, Full of Hell, and others, Hayter crafts a 66-minute world ablaze with contempt for man, which, though divided into 11 all-caps tracks—with such imposing titles as “I AM THE BEAST,” “IF THE POISON WON’T TAKE YOU MY DOGS WILL,” and “SPITE ALONE HOLDS ME ALOFT”—plays out like one continuous, epic composition. More than songs, they feel like a succession of enraged suites, each one a threat, an intervention, an act of solidarity.

Lingua Ignota sparks fantasies of demonic avant-opera icon Diamanda Galás joining with industrial-metal titans Godflesh to create a horror soundtrack, or Maria Callas in hell. Her goal seems to be to deconstruct and destabilize, to discomfit. She situates death growls and strangulated vocalizations amidst orchestral strings, choral singing, and chimes—like a hex on the whole social order. “Everything burns down around me,” she sings with incantatory grandeur on “MAY FAILURE BE YOUR NOOSE,” atop the incendiary counterpoint of Uniform’s Michael Berdan.

ALL HAIL QUEEN LINGUA

Didn't vote for it because lol purism but this is of course very much deserved.

pretty sweet that this won even though i still haven't listened to it

Bonus reviews of our top 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMsEzAg_E7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaEQeb1pOuE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOwE58DvVQ8

Hssssss. I had forgotten all about this. I prefer it to Sunn)))))

pom WHY would you DO that

Bwahahahaaha

Lady Gaga really made great strides this year

My #3, but even more gratifyingly, a record that tt will have to listen to in full, without (undue) protestation

pom nooooooo

Just to show that we're on the same wavelength as the finest living music critic.

hell yeah my #1. everyone check out the Sightless Pit album too. plays a bit like a continuation of this.

Impressive margin of victory. My #1. Everyone I've put onto it has gotten obsessed with it too. My gf listens to it all the time. Still need to catch her live cause she cancelled last minute when she was on a bill two blocks from my apartment.

Yeah, the Sightless Pit is quite good even though she's a natural solo artist.

THANK YOU POLLRUNNERS!

*bows*

Is this where I plug that she's on the new Psalm Zero (Charlie Looker) album?

yes thank you everyone. this was great as always.

Here's the top 150, in full:

1 Lingua Ignota - Caligula 806.0 18 4
2 Sunn O))) - Life Metal 657.0 16 1
3 Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q. 615.0 15 1
4 Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance 571.0 15 2
5 Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race 529.0 13 2
6 Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis 494.0 15 1
7 Inter Arma - Sulphur English 457.0 13 1
8 Baroness - Gold & Grey 401.0 11 0
9 Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence 383.0 10 1
10 Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings 381.0 12 0
11 Botanist - Ecosystem 379.0 13 0
12 Vastum - Orificial Purge 369.0 10 0
13 Alcest - Spiritual Instinct 357.0 11 0
14 Wilderun - Veil of Imagination 351.0 9 1
15 Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence 345.0 10 1
16 Moon Tooth - Crux 329.0 9 0
17 Wyrmwoods - Spirit and Teeth 328.0 8 0
18 Elder - Gold & Silver Sessions 320.0 10 0
19 Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect 318.0 8 1
20 White Ward - Love Exchange Failure 314.0 9 0
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
123 Nocturnus A.D. - Paradox 74.0 2 0
124 Cherubs - Immaculada High 73.0 3 0
124 Mortiferum - Disgorged from Psychotic Depths 73.0 3 0
126 Ceremony of Silence - Oútis 73.0 2 0
126 Takafumi Matsubara - Strange, Beautiful and Fast 73.0 2 0
128 Mesarthim - Ghost Condensate 72.0 3 0
129 Helms Alee - Noctiluca 72.0 2 0
129 The HU - The Gereg 72.0 2 0
131 Within Temptation - Resist 71.0 3 0
132 Celestial Grave - Secular Flesh 71.0 2 0
132 Clouds Taste Satanic - Second Sight 71.0 2 0
134 Magic Circle - Departed Souls 69.0 2 0
135 Borknagar - True North 68.0 3 0
136 Portrayal of Guilt - Suffering Is a Gift 67.0 2 0
137 The Young Gods - Data Mirage Tangram 65.0 3 0
138 Clouds Taste Satanic - Evil Eye 65.0 2 0
138 Rammstein - Rammstein 65.0 2 0
140 Suffering Hour - Dwell 64.0 2 0
140 Troll - Legend Master 64.0 2 0
142 Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo 63.0 3 0
143 Pensées Nocturnes - Grand Guignol Orchestra 62.0 3 0
144 Rainbow Grave - No You 62.0 2 0
144 Rorcal - Muladona 62.0 2 0
144 Sempiternal Dusk - Cenotaph of Defectuous Creation 62.0 2 0
147 Abbath - Outstrider 61.0 2 0
147 Avatarium - The Fire I Long For 61.0 2 0
149 Pelican - Nighttime Stories 60.0 3 0
150 Trepaneringsritualen - ᛉᛦ - Algir; eller Algir i Merkstave 60.0 1 1

Oh yeah, top stuff poll ppl!

Is this where I plug that she's on the new Psalm Zero (Charlie Looker) album?

No idea who that is but sure.

Ya thanks and hails to the pollrunners! Was my first as a participant after creeping on these since the start.

Glad to have you among us, methanietanner!

Sightless Pit >>> Lingua Ignota

hell yeah, thank you pomenitul and oor for running this poll! loved following it

FANTASTIC NUMBER ONE!!

Sightless Pit >>> Lingua Ignota

Now there's a challop!

This poll has been delightful and there's still so much to check out! Massive thanks to pom and Neechy and seandalai for putting it all together

Wow, there was actually one album I listened to and loved that wasn't in the top 150! Abyssal - A Beacon in the Husk. Did I miss some nazi connections or something?

Anyways, thanks for running this poll! It was a lot of fun. The metal thread has been a lot of fun following along with throughout the year. I look forward to delving into most of this list, a lot of which I've still never heard about.

I stand by it xp Also, yeah check out the Charlie Looker album! He's the guy from Extra Life and other stuff

We postin' ballots in here?

Thank you, all!

Thanks also to Neech for easing me into pollrunning duties and to seandalai for being the brain that makes all of these rollouts possible in the first place!