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

Favorite new discoveries from the countdown:

Moon Tooth - Crux
Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect
Zig Zags - They'll Never Take Us Alive
Amygdala - Our Voices Will Soar Forever
Jorge Elbrecht - Coral Cross - 002

Spotify results playlist up to date

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3JMsiMHffauPncEJCP4NC7?si=x2W_MK6uQKqchYGn32lfxQ

Thanks to all who voted and posted and nominated etc!

and pom did a great job!

My ballot

Sunn 0))) - Life Metal
Chelsea Wolfe - Birth Of Violence
Waste Of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
Botanist - Ecosystem
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Schammasch - Hearts Of No Light
Mdou Moctar - Llana (The Creator)
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Organon
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Have A Nice Life - Sea Of Worry
Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear
Astronoid - Astronoid
Atlantean Kodex - The Course Of Empire
Baroness - Gold & Grey
Fly Pan Am - C'est ça
Boris - Love & Evol
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure
Elder - The Gold & Silver Sessions
Major Stars - Roots Of Confusion Seeds Of Joy
Pup - Morbid Stuff
Moon Tooth - Crux
Alameda 5 - Eurodrome
Sunn 0))) - Pyroclasts
Dysrhythmia - Terminal Threshold
Jute Gyte - Birefringence
Cave In - Final Transmission
Cherubs - Immaculada High
Coffins - Beyond The Circular Demise
The Young Gods - Data Mirage Tangram
Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Calling
False - Portent
Candlemass - Door To Doom
Avatarium - The Fire I Long For
Bölzer - Lese Majesty
Botanist - Hammer of Botany + Oplopanax Horridus
Desert Sessions - Desert Sessions Volume 11 & 12
Krallice - Wolf
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
Morne - Rust
Pharaoh Overlord - 5
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
The Cosmic Dead - Scottish Space Race
Torche - Admission
The Wildhearts - Renaissance Men
Yawning Man - Macedonian Lines
Falls of Rauros - Patterns in Mythology
Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension
Bloody Hammers - The Summoning
Ataraxie - Résignés

It was a great year, and a great roll-out! Thank you to the poll-runners, you all did a wonderful job. Here's my ballot, bold DNP:

The Lord Weird Slough Feg - New Organon
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence
Baroness - Gold & Grey
Jorge Elbrecht - Coral Cross - 002
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Chevalier - Destiny Calls
Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension
Astronoid - Astronoid
Elder - Gold & Silver Sessions
The Cosmic Dead - Scottish Space Race
Rainbow Grave - No You
The Neptune Power Federation - Memoirs of a Rat Queen
Black Mountain - Destroyer
Pensées Nocturnes - Grand Guignol Orchestra
Schammasch - Hearts of No Light
Pelican - Nighttime Stories
Candlemass - The Door to Doom
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
The HU - The Gereg
Bloody Hammers - The Summoning
Pinkish Black - Concept Unification
Smoulder - Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring
Swallow the Sun - When a Shadow Is Forced Into the Light
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest
Lord Vicar - The Black Powder
Russian Circles - Blood Year
Sur Austru - Meteahna timpurilor
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Hope Drone - Void Lustre
Mesarthim - Ghost Condensate
Monolord - No Comfort
Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Spirit Adrift - Divided by Darkness
Lunar Shadow - The Smokeless Fires
Crypt Sermon - The Ruins of Fading Light
Toxic Holocaust - Primal Future: 2019
The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism

My Ballot (too busy now to do 'bold DNP'):

Inter Arma - Sulphur English
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Serpent Column - Mirror In Darkness
Schammasch - Hearts of No Light
Idle Hands - Mana
Cerebral Rot - Odious Descent Into Decay
Critical Defiance - Misconception
Imprecation - Damnatio Ad Bestias
Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations
Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites
Vastum - Orificial Purge
Wilderun - Veil of Imagination
Ossuarium - Living Tomb
Monkey3 - Sphere
Blut aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Krypts - Cadaver Circulation
Ceremony of Silence - Oútis
Moon Tooth - Crux
Witches of God - Into the Heart of Darkness
Mortiferum - Disgorged from Psychotic Depths
Disentomb - The Decaying Light
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
Magic Circle - Departed Souls
Mizmor - Cairn
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Epitaphe - I
Cloud Rat - Pollinator
Full of Hell - Weeping Choir
Allegaeon - Apoptosis
Sentient Horror - Morbid Realms
Troll - Legend Master
Hath - Of Rot and Ruin
Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Angel Witch - Angel of Light
Brutus - Nest
Arch/Matheos - Winter Ethereal
Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Departure Chandelier - Antichrist Rise to Power
Witch Vomit - Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave
Altar of Oblivion - The Seven Spirits
Infernal Conjuration - Infernale metallum mortis
Devourment - Obscene Majesty
Necropanther - The Doomed City
Warforged - I:Voice
Traveler - Traveler
Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
Lord Vicar - The Black Powder
Reveal - Scissorgod
Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong

Weighted:

Car Bomb - Mordial
Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Ceiling
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo
Greet Death - New Hell
Wormed - Metaportal
Andvaka - Andvana
Haunter - Sacramental Death Qualia
Kostnatění - Hrůza zvítězí
The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism
Celestial Grave - Secular Flesh
Andavald - Undir skyggðarhaldi
Gaahls WYRD - Gastir - Ghosts Invited
Știu Nu Știu - Sick Sad Love
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
Consummation - The Great Solar Hunter
Brutus - Nest
Inter Arma - Sulphur English
Moon Tooth - Crux
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
Takafumi Matsubara - Strange, Beautiful and Fast
Portrayal of Guilt - Suffering Is a Gift
Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations
Warforged - I:Voice
Misþyrming - Algleymi
Sinmara - Hvísl stjarnanna
Bölzer - Lese Majesty
Serpent Column - Mirror in Darkness
Cosmic Putrefaction - At the Threshold of the Greatest Chasm
Mystagogue - And the Darkness Was Cast Out
Spirit Adrift - Divided by Darkness
Disentomb - The Decaying Light

FULL RESULTS

Rank Name Score Votes #1 Votes
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
151 Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond the Dark 59.0 2 0
151 Devil Master - Satan Spits on Children of Light 59.0 2 0
153 The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism 58.0 4 0
154 Esoctrilihum - The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods 58.0 3 0
155 Casket Huffer - Filth Ouroboros 58.0 2 0
155 Valborg - Zentrum 58.0 2 0
157 Ifernach - V. Wastow 57.0 2 0
158 Idle Hands - Mana 56.0 3 0
159 Bloody Hammers - The Summoning 55.0 3 0
159 Toxic Holocaust - Primal Future: 2019 55.0 3 0
161 Eternal Storm - Come the Tide 55.0 2 0
161 Quercus - Verferum 55.0 2 0
161 Sur Austru - Meteahna timpurilor 55.0 2 0
164 Exhumed - Horror 54.0 3 0
165 Coffins - Beyond the Circular Demise 54.0 2 0
166 Alameda 5 - Eurodrome 53.0 2 0
166 Uniform & The Body - Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back 53.0 2 0
168 Sacred Reich - Awakening 52.0 2 0
169 Traveler - Traveler 51.0 3 0
170 Smoulder - Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring 51.0 2 0
171 Cave In - Final Transmission 50.0 2 0
171 Departure Chandelier - Antichrist Rise to Power 50.0 2 0
171 L'Acéphale - L'Acéphale 50.0 2 0
174 Akasha - Canticles of the Sepulchral Deity 49.0 2 0
174 Dhidalah - Threshold 発端 49.0 2 0
174 Infernal Conjuration - Infernale metallum mortis 49.0 2 0
177 Wigrid - Entfremdungsmoment 49.0 1 0
178 Abyssal - A Beacon in the Husk 47.0 2 0
178 Witchbones - The Seas of Draugen 47.0 2 0
180 Judiciary - Surface Noise 47.0 1 0
181 Yawning Man - Macedonian Lines 46.0 3 0
182 Novembers Doom - Nephilim Grove 46.0 2 0
183 Greet Death - New Hell 46.0 1 0
184 Drastus - La croix de sang 45.0 2 0
184 Misery Index - Rituals of Power 45.0 2 0
186 Myrath - Shehili 45.0 1 0
186 Undeath - Sentient Autolysis 45.0 1 0
188 Devourment - Obscene Majesty 44.0 2 0
188 Monolord - No Comfort 44.0 2 0
190 Aver - Orbis majora 44.0 1 0
190 Kampfar - Ofidians Manifest 44.0 1 0
190 Organectomy - Existential Disconnect 44.0 1 0
193 Chevalier - Destiny Calls 43.0 1 0
193 Critical Defiance - Misconception 43.0 1 0
193 Gatecreeper - Deserted 43.0 1 0
193 Mefitis - Ember Dawn 43.0 1 0
193 Microwave - Death Is a Warm Blanket 43.0 1 0
198 Shin Guard - 2020 42.0 2 0
199 Body Void - You Will Know the Fear You Forced Upon Us 42.0 1 0
199 Frozen Soul - Encased in Ice 42.0 1 0
199 JAMBINAI - ONDA 42.0 1 0
202 Abyssic - High the Memory 41.0 1 0
202 Cân Bardd - The Last Rain 41.0 1 0
202 Iron Kingdom - On the Hunt 41.0 1 0
205 Bethlehem - Lebe dich leer 39.0 2 0
206 Die Klute - Planet Fear 39.0 1 0
206 Kwade Droes - Onder de toren 39.0 1 0
208 Vomit Forth - Northeastern Deprivation 38.0 1 0
209 Belenos - Argoat 37.0 1 0
209 Big Business - The Beast You Are 37.0 1 0
209 Ossuarium - Living Tomb 37.0 1 0
209 Overkill - The Wings of War 37.0 1 0
209 Știu Nu Știu - Sick Sad Love 37.0 1 0
214 Hashshashin - Badakhshan 36.0 2 0
214 The Wildhearts - Renaissance Men 36.0 2 0
216 Gorgon - Veil of Darkness 36.0 1 0
216 Monkey3 - Sphere 36.0 1 0
216 Nebula - Holy Shit 36.0 1 0
216 Otoboke Beaver - Itekoma Hits 36.0 1 0
216 Rashōmon - Pathogen X 36.0 1 0
221 Redbait - Cages 35.0 2 0
222 Batushka - Panihida 35.0 1 0
222 Consummation - The Great Solar Hunter 35.0 1 0
222 Hot Lunch - Seconds 35.0 1 0
222 Martyrdöd - Hexhammaren 35.0 1 0
222 Mystik - Mystik 35.0 1 0
222 Queensrÿche - The Verdict 35.0 1 0
228 Hawkeyes - Last Light of Future Failure 34.0 1 0
229 Fuming Mouth - The Grand Descent 33.0 1 0
229 Maestus - Deliquesce 33.0 1 0
229 Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Massacre of the Celestials 33.0 1 0
229 Sadness - Circle of Veins 33.0 1 0
233 Torche - Admission 32.0 2 0
234 Altarage - The Approaching Roar 32.0 1 0
234 Encoffinized - Chambers of Deprivation 32.0 1 0
234 Eugenic Death - Under the Knife 32.0 1 0
234 Transgression - Lost All Light 32.0 1 0
238 Saor - Forgoten Paths 31.0 2 0
239 Asagraum - Dawn of Infinite Fire 31.0 1 0
239 Ashes - Ashes 31.0 1 0
239 Hibushibire - Turn On, Tune In, Freak Out! 31.0 1 0
239 Witches of God - Into the Heart of Darkness 31.0 1 0
243 Cosmic Putrefaction - At the Threshold of the Greatest Chasm 30.0 2 0
243 Saint Karloff - Interstellar Voodoo 30.0 2 0
245 10 000 Russos - Kompromat 30.0 1 0
245 Diocletian - Amongst the Flames of a Burning God 30.0 1 0
245 Potential Threat SF - Threat to Society 30.0 1 0
245 Rotting Christ - The Heretics 30.0 1 0
249 Kaleidobolt - Bitter 29.0 1 0
249 Xentrix - Bury the Pain 29.0 1 0
251 Ripper - Sensory Stagnation 28.0 2 0
251 Ultra Silvam - The Spearwound Salvation 28.0 2 0
253 Ausmuteants - Present the World in Handcuffs 28.0 1 0
253 Neckbeard Deathcamp - So Much for the Tolerant Left 28.0 1 0
253 Suicidal Angels - Years of Aggression 28.0 1 0
253 Undeath - Demo 19’ 28.0 1 0
257 Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains 27.0 2 0
258 La Dispute - Panorama 27.0 1 0
258 Ringarë - Under Pale Moon 27.0 1 0
258 Writhing Squares - Out of the Ether 27.0 1 0
261 Lord Vicar - The Black Powder 26.0 2 0
261 Sentient Horror - Morbid Realms 26.0 2 0
263 Dreamtime - Tidal Mind 26.0 1 0
263 Goatpenis/Defecrator - Bloodpact in Cataclysmic Warfare 26.0 1 0
263 Noisem - Cease to Exist 26.0 1 0
263 Vitriol - To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice 26.0 1 0
267 Aephanemer - Prokopton 25.0 1 0
267 Ancient Bards - Origine (The Black Crystal Sword Saga, Pt. 2) 25.0 1 0
267 Andromida - Soulseeker 25.0 1 0
267 Asphodelus - Stygian Dreams 25.0 1 0
267 BABYMETAL - METAL GALAXY 25.0 1 0
267 Battle Beast - No More Hollywood Endings 25.0 1 0
267 Batushka - Hospodi 25.0 1 0
267 Cellar Darling - The Spell 25.0 1 0
267 Deathchant - Deathchant 25.0 1 0
267 Deiquisitor - Towards Our Impending Doom 25.0 1 0
267 Delain - Hunter's Moon 25.0 1 0
267 Demon Head - Hellfire Ocean Void 25.0 1 0
267 Depressor - Hell Storms Over Earth 25.0 1 0
267 Dream State - Primrose Path 25.0 1 0
267 Edge of Paradise - Universe 25.0 1 0
267 Elvenking - Reader of the Runes - Divination 25.0 1 0
267 Evergrey - The Atlantic 25.0 1 0
267 Fallujah - Undying Light 25.0 1 0
267 Foscor - Els sepulcres blancs 25.0 1 0
267 Freedom Call - M.E.T.A.L. 25.0 1 0
267 Golgot - Estrangement I: Floodline 25.0 1 0
267 Gurthang - Ascension 25.0 1 0
267 HYDE - anti 25.0 1 0
267 Head Phones President - Respawn 25.0 1 0
267 Hellvetron - Trident of Tartarean Gateways 25.0 1 0
267 Herxheim - Cultivating Throne of Fur 25.0 1 0
267 Hollow Haze - Between Wild Landscapes and Deep Blue Seas 25.0 1 0
267 IKINÄ - Millenniaalin itsehoito-opas epävarmaan aikuisuuteen 25.0 1 0
267 Imperia - Flames of Eternity 25.0 1 0
267 Infected Rain - Endorphin 25.0 1 0
267 Ivy Crown - Echo 25.0 1 0
267 Jade - Smoking Mirror 25.0 1 0
267 King - Coldest of Cold 25.0 1 0
267 Kiyoshi - Kiyoshi4 25.0 1 0
267 Light Dweller - Incandescent Crucifix 25.0 1 0
267 Liv Sin - Burning Sermons 25.0 1 0
267 Lvcifyre - Sacrament 25.0 1 0
267 Metalite - Biomechanicals 25.0 1 0
267 Molasses - Mourning Haze / Drops of Sunlight 25.0 1 0
267 Månegarm - Fornaldarsagor 25.0 1 0
267 Nemesea - White Flag 25.0 1 0
267 Not Secured, Loose Ends - BrightDark 25.0 1 0
267 Numenorean - Adore 25.0 1 0
267 October Tide - In Splendor Below 25.0 1 0
267 PH - Osiris Hayden 25.0 1 0
267 PassCode - CLARITY 25.0 1 0
267 Pretty Maids - Undress Your Madness 25.0 1 0
267 REXORIA - Ice Breaker 25.0 1 0
267 Rage of Light - Imploder 25.0 1 0
267 Ruin - Death Tomb 25.0 1 0
267 Scarleth - Vortex 25.0 1 0
267 Signum Regis - The Seal of a New World 25.0 1 0
267 Sinmara - Hvísl stjarnanna 25.0 1 0
267 Skay Beilinson - En el corazón del laberinto 25.0 1 0
267 Spoil Engine - Renaissance Noire 25.0 1 0
267 Stitched Up Heart - This Skin 25.0 1 0
267 Swallow the Sun - When a Shadow Is Forced Into the Light 25.0 1 0
267 Tales of Evening - A New Dawn Awaits 25.0 1 0
267 The Dark Element - Songs the Night Sings 25.0 1 0
267 Tristengrav - II: Nychavge 25.0 1 0
267 Triumvir Foul - Urine of Abomination 25.0 1 0
267 Varaha - A Passage for Lost Years 25.0 1 0
267 Visionatica - Enigma Fire 25.0 1 0
267 Visions of Atlantis - Wanderers 25.0 1 0
267 Vorna - Sateet palata saavat 25.0 1 0
267 Zeal & Ardor - Live in London 25.0 1 0
333 An Isolated Mind - I've Lost Myself 24.0 1 0
333 Bergraven - Det framlidna minnet 24.0 1 0
333 Epitaphe - I 24.0 1 0
333 Sanhedrin - The Poisoner 24.0 1 0
337 Imperium Dekadenz - When We Are Forgotten 23.0 1 0
337 Polemicist - Zarathustrian Impressions 23.0 1 0
337 Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Teufelsbücher 23.0 1 0
340 Aara - So fallen alle Tempel 22.0 2 0
341 HWWAUOCH - Into the Labyrinth of Consciousness 22.0 1 0
341 Sadisme - Festering in Telepathic Communion 22.0 1 0
341 Soen - Lotus 22.0 1 0
341 Superstition - The Anatomy of Unholy Transformation 22.0 1 0
341 Wreck and Reference - Absolute Still Life 22.0 1 0
346 Akrotheism - The Law of Seven Deaths 21.0 1 0
346 Allegaeon - Apoptosis 21.0 1 0
346 Diamond Head - The Coffin Train 21.0 1 0
346 Mystagogue - And the Darkness Was Cast Out 21.0 1 0
346 Warsenal - Feast Your Eyes 21.0 1 0
351 Psychedelic Speed Freaks - Psychedelic Speed Freaks 20.0 1 0
351 Swans - Leaving Meaning 20.0 1 0
351 The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Wild Gods 20.0 1 0
354 BAEST - Venenum 19.0 1 0
354 Darkenhöld / Griffon - Atra Musica 19.0 1 0
354 Hope Drone - Void Lustre 19.0 1 0
354 Nucleus - Entity 19.0 1 0
354 Scissorfight - Doomus Abruptus Vol 1 19.0 1 0
354 Seer - Vol. 6 19.0 1 0
354 Sordide - Hier déjà mort 19.0 1 0
361 Falaise - A Place I Don't Belong To 18.0 1 0
361 Hath - Of Rot and Ruin 18.0 1 0
363 State Faults - Clairvoyant 16.0 1 0
363 Ænigmatum - Ænigmatum 16.0 1 0
365 Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I: War, Horrid War 15.0 2 0
366 Botanist - Hammer of Botany + Oplopanax Horridus 15.0 1 0
366 Sabaton - The Great War 15.0 1 0
368 Arch/Matheos - Winter Ethereal 14.0 1 0
368 Desert Sessions - Desert Sessions Volume 11 & 12 14.0 1 0
368 Imperial Cult - Spasm of Light 14.0 1 0
368 Lunar Shadow - The Smokeless Fires 14.0 1 0
368 Violet Cold - kOsmik 14.0 1 0
373 Hexvessel - All Tree 13.0 1 0
373 Kvelgeyst - Alkahest 13.0 1 0
373 Malignant Altar - Retribution of Jealous Gods 13.0 1 0
376 Desecresy - Towards Nebulae 12.0 1 0
376 Exhorder - Mourn the Southern Skies 12.0 1 0
376 Gloryhammer - Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex 12.0 1 0
379 Eggs of Gomorrh - Encomium of Depraved Instincts 11.0 1 0
379 Morne - Rust 11.0 1 0
379 Mylingar - Döda själar 11.0 1 0
382 Altar of Oblivion - The Seven Spirits 10.0 1 0
382 Amon Amarth - Berserker 10.0 1 0
382 Griefloss - Griefloss 10.0 1 0
382 Ultar - Pantheon MMXIX 10.0 1 0
386 Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean - Tell Me What You See Vanishing and I Will Tell You Who You Are 9.0 1 0
386 Ripped to Shreds - Demon Scriptures 9.0 1 0
386 Týr - Hel 9.0 1 0
389 Flamen - Furor lunae 8.0 1 0
389 USA/Mexico - Matamoros 8.0 1 0
391 Freighter - The Den 7.0 1 0
391 Monarque - Jusqu’à la mort 7.0 1 0
391 Necropanther - The Doomed City 7.0 1 0
391 Rattenfänger - Geisslerlieder 7.0 1 0
391 The Rods - Brotherhood of Metal 7.0 1 0
396 Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild 6.0 1 0
396 Profetus - The Sadness of Time Passing 6.0 1 0
398 Dream Theater - Distance Over Time 4.0 1 0
398 Wraith - Absolute Power 4.0 1 0
400 Algebra - Pulse? 2.0 1 0
400 Dunkelnacht - Empires of Mediocracy 2.0 1 0
400 Orodruin - Ruins of Eternity 2.0 1 0
400 Waldgeflüster - Mondscheinsonaten 2.0 1 0
404 Asthma Castle - Mount Crushmore 1.0 1 0
404 Ataraxie - Résignés 1.0 1 0
404 Jeromes Dream - untitled 1.0 1 0
404 Ossuaire - Premiers chants 1.0 1 0
404 Slow - VI - Dantalion 1.0 1 0

I swear to satan, next year I'm getting a power metal album into the countdown.

I didn't keep a copy of my ballot, but it's basically the tie for 267th in the full results where everything that appeared on a single unranked ballot ended up.

Paladin kind of made it, no?

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Thank you very much, pollrunners! I have been complety out of the loop last year so this will definitely be a helpful list of releases to check out. My first discovery of the rollout is Venom Prison's Samsara, this album is great and I wish I had voted for it.

Thanks a lot pollrunners - much appreciated - very fun to see the roll out/discussion every year!

rollout's nationality breakdown

USA(65), Finland(6), Canada(5), England(5), Norway(5), Sweden(5), Iceland(4), Australia(3), France(3), Germany(3), Switzerland(3), Belgium(2), Poland(2), Spain(2), Ukraine(2), Wales(2), Costa Rica(1), Ireland(1), Japan(1), Niger(1), Scotland(1)

Hah, that's more than 50%! Telling, isn't it…

label-wise, 20 buck spin the most represented, i'm taking a guess?

they sign flawlessly, and it's a fact they work their socks off. power to them

weighted, bdnp

Witch Trail - The Sun Has Left the Hill  
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
Reveal - Scissorgod
Vastum - Orificial Purge  
Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Ceiling
Cerebral Rot - Odious Descent Into Decay
Full of Hell - Weeping Choir
Cloud Rat - Pollinator 
Coffin Rot - A Monument to the Dead
Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Ceremony of Silence - Oútis
Sunn O))) - Life Metal 
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Big|Brave - A Gaze Among Them
Krypts - Cadaver Circulation
Martyrdöd - Hexhammaren
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Amygdala - Our Voices Will Soar Forever  
Coffins - Beyond the Circular Demise 
Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect
Drastus - La croix de sang
Bölzer - Lese Majesty
Krallice - Wolf
Darkthrone - Old Star
Botanist - Ecosystem
Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation
Disentomb - The Decaying Light
Witch Vomit - Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave
Witchbones - The Seas of Draugen
Inculter - Fatal Visions 

fave discoveries: veiled (unpretentious ~trves~ like this are welcome) and vesperith

Terminal Cheesecake - Le sacre du lièvre
Fly Pan Am - C'est ça
Multishiva - Savupäivä
Jute Gyte - Birefringence
The Cosmic Dead - Scottish Space Race
Major Stars - Roots of Confusion
Cherubs - Immaculada High
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Wyrmwoods - Spirit and Teeth
Jorge Elbrecht - Coral Cross - 002
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
Skáphe + Wormlust - Kosmískur hryllingur
Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Pharaoh Overlord - 5
Boris - Love & Evol
Hawkeyes - Last Light of Future Failure
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Massacre of the Celestials
Elder - Gold & Silver Sessions
Hibushibire - Turn On, Tune In, Freak Out!
10 000 Russos - Kompromat
Kaleidobolt - Bitter
Ausmuteants - Present the World in Handcuffs
Writhing Squares - Out of the Ether
Dreamtime - Tidal Mind
PH - Osiris Hayden
Dhidalah - Threshold 発端
Botanist - Ecosystem
Mdou Moctar - Ilana (The Creator)
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Psychedelic Speed Freaks - Psychedelic Speed Freaks
Sordide - Hier déjà mort
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure
Pinkish Black - Concet Unification
Yawning Man - Macedonian Lines
Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo
Misþyrming - Algleymi
Car Bomb - Mordial
The Young Gods - Data Mirage Tangram
Hashshashshin - Badakhshan

Here's mine. Thanks to poll runners for your work. This was fun. I look forward to sifting the results.

Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
Wilderun - Veil of Imagination
Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them
Blut aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Helms Alee - Noctiluca
Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect
Vastum - Orificial Purge
Vanum - Ageless Fire
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Vesperith - Vesperith
Wormed - Metaportal
Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Ceiling
Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
Wyrmwoods - Spirit and Teeth
Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond the Dark
Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Witch Trail - The Sun Has Left the Hill
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Krallice - Wolf
Jute Gyte - Birefringence
Full of Hell - Weeping Choir
Moon Tooth - Crux
Baroness - Gold & Grey
Bergraven - Det framlidna minnet
Pharaoh Overlord - 5
Ithaca - The Language of Injury
Pinkish Black - Concet Unification
Rorcal - Muladona
Teitanblood - The Baneful Choir
Imprecation - Damnatio Ad Bestias
Eternal Storm - Come the Tide
Misery Index - Rituals of Power
Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations
Krypts - Cadaver Circulation
Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
Cloud Rat - Pollinator
Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingenesia
Disentomb - The Decaying Light
Inculter - Fatal Visions
Mdou Moctar - Ilana (The Creator)
Cerebral Rot - Odious Descent Into Decay
Cherubs - Immaculada High
Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation
Brutus - Nest
Car Bomb - Mordial
Inter Arma - Sulphur English
Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo

Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Amygdala - Our Voices Will Soar Forever
Moon Tooth - Crux
Elder - Gold & Silver Sessions
Clouds Taste Satanic - Second Sight
Mizmor - Cairn
Funereal Presence - Achatius
Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect
Body Void - You Will Know the Fear You Forced Upon Us
Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong
Clouds Taste Satanic - Evil Eye
Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
Portrayal of Guilt - Suffering Is a Gift
Kostnatění - Hrůza zvítězí
False - Portent
Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them
Inter Arma - Sulphur English
Cloud Rat - Pollinator
Transgression - Lost All Light
Asagraum - Dawn of Infinite Fire
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
Motorpsycho - The Crucible
Neckbeard Deathcamp - So Much for the Tolerant Left
Monolord - No Comfort
Cave In - Final Transmission
Fallujah - Undying Light
An Isolated Mind - I'm Losing Myself
Imperium Dekadenz - When We Are Forgotten
Wreck and Reference - Absolute Still Life
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
Scissorfight - Doomus Abruptus Vol 1
Full of Hell - Weeping Choir
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Borknagar - True North
Falls of Rauros - Patterns in Mythology
Botanist - Ecosystem
Exhumed - Horror
Teitanblood - The Baneful Choir
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Redbait - Cages
Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean - Tell Me What You See Vanishing and I Will Tell You Who You Are
Abyssal - A Beacon In the Husk
Serpent Column - Mirror in Darkness
Misþyrming - Algleymi
Saint Karloff - Interstellar Voodoo
Dream Theater - Distance Over Time
The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism
Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
Jeromes Dream - untitled

the rest of the ranked shortlist:
Follakzoid - I
Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts
Blut aus Nord - Hallucinogen
PUP - Morbid Stuff
Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo
Jute Gyte - Birefringence
Fly Pan Am - C'est ça
Ausmuteants - Present the World in Handcuffs
Tengger Cavalry - Northern Memory, Vol. 1
Russian Circles - Blood Year
Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension
La Dispute - Panorama
John Garcia - John Garcia and the Band of Gold
Boris - Love & Evol
Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence
Nebula - Holy Shit
Ceremony of Silence - Oútis
Opeth - In cauda venenum
Troll - Legend Master
Darkthrone - Old Star
Lacuna Coil - Black Anima
Dysrhythmia - Terminal Threshold
Astronoid - Astronoid
Mayhem - Daemon
Vastum - Orificial Purge
Nekrasov - Lust of Consciousness
BABYMETAL - METAL GALAXY
Desert Sessions - Desert Sessions Volume 11 & 12
Botanist - Hammer of Botany + Oplopanax Horridus
Nordjevel - Necrogenesis
Krallice - Wolf
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry
Candlemass - The Door to Doom
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest
Wilderun - Veil of Imagination
DragonForce - Extreme Power Metal
Saor - Forgoten Paths
Baroness - Gold & Grey
Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites
Enthroned - Cold Black Suns
Noisem - Cease to Exist
Pelican - Nighttime Stories
Overkill - The Wings of War
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Yn Ol I Annwn
Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
Spirit Adrift - Divided by Darkness

Hi other Abyssal voter :)

hihi
I didn't put it real hi because I didn't like it quite as much as their last one, but it was still good.
I'd love to knwo who the other voter was for the two Clouds Taste Satanic albums. I love those guys, I've got like their last five as test pressings.

This was my ballot:

Imprecation - Damnatio Ad Bestias
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure
Coffin Rot - A Monument to the Dead
Judiciary - Surface Noise
Vircolac - Masque
Vastum - Orificial Purge
Aver - Orbis majora
Mefitis - Ember Dawn
Inculter - Fatal Visions
Fetid - Steeping Corporeal Mess
Infernal Conjuration - Infernale metallum mortis
Putrescine - The One Reborn
Deus Mortem - Kosmocide
Sempiternal Dusk - Cenotaph of Defectuous Creation
Veiled - In Blinding Presence
Multishiva - Savupäivä
Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect
Valborg - Zentrum
Altarage - The Approaching Roar
Celestial Grave - Secular Flesh
Schammasch - Hearts of No Light
Nightfell - A Sanity Deranged
Weeping Sores - False Confession
Elder - Gold & Silver Sessions

It’s interesting to hear the city being straightforwardly (as in, no dystopian or technocratic concept) evoked in White Ward. Also, it’s nighttime! Really nice

― tangenttangent, Friday, February 28, 2020 9:45 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

on a related "night-cityscape metal" note I recommend Basalte's Vertige.

Holy shit o. nate you were one of the Multishiva voters!

Lantlos - Neon is my favorite cityscape metal record still.

on a related "night-cityscape metal" note I recommend Basalte's Vertige.

Very much seconded.

^good album

Thanks Pom and Oor Neechy for a great poll! Misses yesterday's roll-out, will catch up on the banter later. Meanwhile, I was the sole voter for my number 1: a dark ambient ritualistic album that built up a huge house for me to live in.

1. Trepaneringsritualen - ᛉᛦ - Algir; eller Algir i Merkstave
2. Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
3. Lingua Ignota – Caligula
4. Wyrmwoods - Spirit and Teeth
5. Sunn O))) - Life Metal
6. Blut aus Nord - Hallucinogen
7. Jute Gyte – Birefringence
8. Ossuaire - Derniers chants
9. Andavald - Undir skyggðarhaldi
10. Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension
11. Krallice – Wolf
12. Darkthrone - Old Star
13. Fly Pan Am - C'est ça
14. Misþyrming – Algleymi
15. Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts
16. Mgła - Age of Excuse
17. Motorpsycho - The Crucible
18. Elder - Gold & Silver Sessions
19. Botanist - Ecosystem
20. Boris - Love & Evol
21. Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence

Holy shit o. nate you were one of the Multishiva voters!

Yeah, pretty sure it was your post that introduced me to it. It was a late discovery for me, but I'm a sucker for swirling, noisy psych.

on a related "night-cityscape metal" note I recommend Basalte's Vertige.

I remember really liking this! I should return

Meanwhile, Cattle Decapitation is like mindblowingly brilliant!! They’ve been around for ages...how didn’t I know? This would have been in my top 5 for sure.

I can't find my ballot but I'm pretty sure it was these seven albums, unweighted:
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Jute Gyte – Birefringence
Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension
Botanist - Ecosystem
Witch Trail - The Sun Has Left the Hill
Kostnatění - Hrůza zvítězí

I'm slowly catching up with Liturgy, Sunn O))), Big Brave, Fly Pan Am, Ossuaire, all of which I liked.

Tomb Mold seems to have terrified the cat.

Your cat is such a pussy...cat

Some really appealing moments on the Blood Incantation, reminding me a bit of Obliveon and Voivod.

favorite discoveries ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XykVtBm3vg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLwvW7uoi84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFeHsMDKW9s