ILM 2020 METAL & HEAVY + Adjacent Albums Poll CAMPAIGNING THREAD IS NOW OPEN

Thanks, Tom. Keep 'em coming, all, lest this poll go the way of [see above].

The VOTS LP is amazing yeah. Jute Gyte is an acknowledged inspiration of hers

Thirded re: Victory Over the Sun! That album is a lot of mad fun.

I'm also really enjoying Simon's Melted Bodies rec.

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Is it too late for a nom? If not, can we add Dropped 'Dropdead 2020'?

Dropdead rather

nominations open til voting starts

Added.

Can we add Autonoesis 'Autonoesis' too, please?

and Mongrel's Cross 'Arcana, Scrying and Revelation' too, please ?

Done.

Can we add White Stones 'Kuarahy' - please?

How about Ainsoph 'Ω - V' added too, please? Along with White Stones 'Kuarahy' - pretty please?

Sorry - a couple more please: Hexer - 'Realm of the Feathered Serpent' and Omegavortex 'Black Abomination Spawn' - Thanks!

can you put all noms here please?

2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: NOMINATIONS Thread (open until the 8th of January 2021)

noms will be open til saturday or sunday i think

oh snap you're providing food?

only for thought

Added those noms.

I assume most of my top picks will do pretty well on their own so I'll add a few recs:

Aara - En Ergo Enai
https://aara.bandcamp.com/album/en-ergo-einai

and
Etoile Filante - Magnum Opus Caelestis
https://etoilefilante-northernsilence.bandcamp.com/

Couple of fiddeent flavours of atmoblack, both quite epic without being too over the top, Aara have some nifty neoclassical-inspired riffing, Etoile Filante wuth some rather nice proggy keys.

Herxheim - Incised Arrival
https://herxheim.bandcamp.com/album/incised-arrival-lp

Nastier black metal from ex-Howls of Ebb frontman, unrefined and crude but has an edge of weirdness that makes it notable.

SouphL - CommérageS
https://souphl.bandcamp.com/album/comm-rages

Chaotic multi-bass mathcore collective from Canada. On the more experimental end of mathcore, doesn't always hang tghether too well but it's engagingly bizarre.

Ivan - Silver Screens
https://solitudeproductions.bandcamp.com/album/silver-screens

Dreamlike and exploratory death-doom.

One more for now

Edenic Past - Red Amacord
https://edenicpast.bandcamp.com/album/red-amarcord

Three quarters of Krallice and an enraged pig go Br0000tally technical

Thx, uug!

I liked Aara's first album even more but their second is quite good as well. They've got another one coming up btw – should be out in March.

The SouphL, while indeed disjointed, is definitely among the more unique metal LPs I heard last year.

Herxheim very good as well, although I preferred Cultivating Throne of Fur.

Regarding the last point, so did I tbh.

Also I made a mistake with Edenic Past, Lev Weinstein isn't involved, I assumed he was despite noting the programmed drums last year!

I assume most of my top picks will do pretty well on their own so I'll add a few recs:

lol, never assume anything with metal poll

Gonna campaign a bit for a release I re-listened to today - Draghkar's 'At the Crossroads of Infinity' - really dug a lot of the solos - exploding trad melodic metal flair, and there's a nice marriage of European riffy black metal with an American Death Metal atmosphere/song construction. On re-listens from 2020 releases, this is one I know I'll come back to a lot. The band's 'Eternal Abyss' comp from 2019 is pretty good too.

Onwards!

2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & FURTHER CAMPAIGNING thread (open until February 19)