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

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