Don't sleep on Lowrider - Refractionshttps://open.spotify.com/album/6Q62mWN0z5axAKyGXQK75O?si=-L_T8DyiQZCGg-KxOQuTPw
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 8 February 2021 09:28 (three years ago) link
For those wanting something weirder how aboutNeptunian Maximalism - Eonshttps://open.spotify.com/album/0P25kH1ABGMaF9PzwZzFyc?si=aSbGM7z6QyGf8hFUKjcWEg
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 8 February 2021 10:38 (three years ago) link
Some of you may have seen this in the general EOY poll
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
https://open.spotify.com/album/0gsk1RGjMrtEDE05s0TZMf?si=ibug-LzhTaSXlN_3uEaWlA
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 8 February 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
There's an error in the spreadsheet:What it should be: (band name) Ainsoph - (record title) Ω - V
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 8 February 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
Fixed.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 February 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
also, Hum – Imlet should be Inlet
― gman59, Monday, 8 February 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link
Echoes of Hamlet, surely.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 February 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
thank you for fixing. submitted
― gman59, Monday, 8 February 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
Already did a bit of campaigning for faves in the previous thread but will repost here and add more.
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
How about some Hungarian/Scottish kitchen sink metal?
Thy Catafalque - Naivhttps://open.spotify.com/album/2eH5WM6pIPFsFylP5sbOi9?si=NJ0Dp2MdSL-MIW5gtG75YQ
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 8 February 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
loved Naiv. found out from the album nom doc that there was another release this year. excited to check it out as well
― gman59, Monday, 8 February 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
I have a Best of 2020 Spotify Playlist that I curated throughout the year:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7B12GYpOu4sCycx1nMlanu?si=Ao1rOXjVTBSynqV469hO_Q
It is not all metal but I would guess about 75% of it is relevant and everything metallic on it has been nominated.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
Hey, wasn't Myrkur Folkesange nominated?!?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/147829286_10165084884805597_7628526913499187756_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=2&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=sywqj__8Fn8AX9wy1Ax&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=a33bdf04b2763284f234b8eed6220445&oe=6047A6AC
I wrote in the Myrkyr assuming it's a correctable oversight!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
You totally did nominate it. No idea what happened there, sorry.
I added it to the spreadsheet btw.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 February 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
No worries, thanks for doing the heavy lifting!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
Those wanting something less heavy, more hard rocking with clean vox should try
Blues Pills - Holy Moly!
https://open.spotify.com/album/5q42nCZVvcbvSLIX2zxvkQ?si=CLMJk0fJT_CAwMCV1hujTA
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
How about some heavy space rock?
Slift - Ummon
https://open.spotify.com/album/0fq6gHjQJmkGatVu0SVZwW?si=yUgIgLuYQCCt701Tzcxitw
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 07:18 (three years ago) link
or you can listen to the Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3a0enQtah5VT4hADz1wdnf?si=DJq13jK2QY6qHWBgaUsgCA
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 23:00 (three years ago) link
I've already stanned for several of these, but…
Turia's Degen van licht is mandatory listening for the atmoblack-inclined. And if you love it as much as I do, don't sleep on Empyrean Grace's Bestowment of the Seraphic Key, also from the Haeresis Noviomagi crew.
Folk-plagued medieval BM with demented vocals is a subgenre I'm very fond of and Armagedda's Svindeldjup Ättestup did justice to it best last year.
If you want straight up beautiful oceanic BM for wallowing in existential misery, Sunken's Livslede is where it's at. Nothing matters and I love it oh so much.
Along somewhat similar lines in that it also exhibits a marked post-metal influence, Förfallet's s/t is an extremely effective instance of anti-trve kvlt BM with nary an ounce of blackgaze cheese in earshot.
Satanic ritual incantations are a dime a dozen in BM but Svartsyn's got the predicatory intensity down pat and Requiem is no exception.
My favourite funeral doom album of 2020 by far, Atramentus's Stygian, will suffocate you, if you let it.
Then, of course, there's also all the stuff that probably doesn't need my help placing: Lowrider, Ulcerate, Paysage d'Hiver, Neptunian Maximalism, Undeath, Dark Buddha Rising, Undergang, Deftones, Oranssi Pazuzu, etc., but do make sure you hear it all before voting!
― pomenitul, Thursday, 11 February 2021 02:07 (three years ago) link
Time’s slowly but surely running out, folks! Don’t forget that campaigning really does work!
― pomenitul, Thursday, 11 February 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
Voted - I'm gonna campaign for one that just missed my ballot, but I'd love for folks to hear it and give it some love - Polish trio's Dola self-titled debut is a great mix of post-metal/sludge with some exciting vocals. I hope they are recording a follow-up.
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 11 February 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
Love the Dola and (spoiler) it made my ballot.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 11 February 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
Didn’t make mine, alas, but it’s a good ‘un.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 11 February 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link
Anyone else care to recommend or campaign for albums?
Anything I or others need to hear before voting?
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 February 2021 10:16 (three years ago) link
I would urge those perhaps not so striclty metal oriented voters to check out the very lovely Colour Haze album We Are from the list. Somehow a more kosmische (thinking AR & Machines / Amon Duul rather than Neu!) vibe to this one than some previous releases. Warmest sounds around.
https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/we-are
Also the Motorpsycho album was a huge thing, a groovy prog suite sandwiched between a set of more ostensibly straightforward rock songs and a handful of quieter, mostly acoustic numbers. It doesn't really lend itself to excerpts but let's have the title track. I think some found the lyrics too on the nose but sometimes you just got to say it straight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckrg-GQInRg
― Noel Emits, Friday, 12 February 2021 11:33 (three years ago) link
I don't really like campaigning tbh but let's see if it works at all. Rock stuff seems to fall in the gap between the main poll and the perception of this one as being mostly metal.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 12 February 2021 11:39 (three years ago) link
Colour Haze are indeed awesome
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 February 2021 12:29 (three years ago) link
I do think campaigning works and lots of heavy rock and adjacent shouldn't miss out if it's good. If it's nominated anyone should vote for it regardless of whether they consider themselves a metalhead or not.
The poll is open to all - including lurkers. Always has been.
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 February 2021 13:19 (three years ago) link
Discogs and Spotify both say "We Are" was released in 2019.
― beard papa, Friday, 12 February 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
The nomination passed inpection.
2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: NOMINATIONS Thread (open until the 8th of January 2021)
― Noel Emits, Friday, 12 February 2021 21:29 (three years ago) link
‘Inspection’ is giving us too much credit. That said, a 2020 Bandcamp release is fine in my book.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 February 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
You like death metal with a slight tech bent? Then you've heard Faceless Burial's Speciation, right? Riiiight? Because it fucking rips, and somewhat stupendously achieves that effect without being dumb as rocks.
On the bluesier, Beefheart-esque end of metal, featuring less genre-hopping than on their previous albums and all the more compelling for it, Mamaleek's Come & See is a highlight.
It's since been repackaged as the closer to Omination's latest LP, which came out this year, but as a standalone EP, The Pale Horseman is peak Eastern Orthodox apocalypticism made in… Tunisia, of all places.
I don't get much out of Thin Lizzy and 70s heavy metal revival gets little beyond a polite nod from me on the best of days, but Wytch Hazel's III: Pentecost is just incredibly solid and catchy from beginning to end.
Folk-suffused, melodic death doom with gorgeous clean vocals courtesy of a closet cookie monster doesn't get much better than Syttyköön toinen aurinko by Kaunis Kuolematon.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 February 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
I'm getting my ballot together... I have 40 now, hope to send in a full 50-album ballot this time, thanks for all the campaigning everyone it's helped me find a bunch of good stuff.
― Frobisher, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 00:30 (three years ago) link
― Noel Emits
With that in mind I'll recommend Horisont - Sudden Death as it didn't get anywhere in the main poll. It's a sort of 70's AOR/Prog/Heavy Metal pastiche kind of thing I liked a lot. Feels like Thin Lizzy, ELO, Procol Harum, and Alan Parsons Project were big influences.
― Frobisher, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
Five more…
Slutet's Love & Beauty is a wild, improvisational black metal ride into Sumerian mythology by an obscure Swedish collective that tries really hard to sound like an actual cult (perhaps it is one?).
Also from Sweden, Draug's Irreelle sindelag is violin-haunted blackened doom that keeps leaping through the looking glass and back.
On the death metal end of things, why is no one talking about Angel Morgue's In the Morgue of Angels? I can't imagine being into riffs and not liking this.
From Russia, last year gave us Black Flux's Black Stream (guess which subgenre these guys play) and it includes my most played metal track of 2020, 'Ashen Goblets', which distantly reminds me of the'Opening' from Glassworks, of all things.
From Poland, Cultum Interitum's Poison of Being is truly ugly and filthy methodical black metal with multiple vocalists to ensure optimal laceration.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
Mr Pom and Mr Lai could you check your emails please?
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
There is now a weeks' extension for voting!
Voting now ends Friday, February 26!
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
ahhhhhh
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
Horisont album sounds good.
Deep Purple and BÖC albums were v good for anyone who didn't hear them. Purp has a lot of psych and prog elements, including quoting most of the prelude to BWV1006 in "Nothing At All".
Dan Weiss album = virtuoso jazz players doing legit heavy hyper-intricate progressive compositions. I think it's actually better than the previous album; Monder shreds more on this one.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 01:39 (three years ago) link
I enjoyed the Horisont as well, very buoyant. Thanks for that.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link
The Dan Weiss is great but not trve enovgh for my ballot, that’s just how it is. Still, anyone who likes heavy jazz ought to hear it.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link
I had listened to the Wytch Hazel some time ago and enjoyed it p well.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
I had stopped keeping up with Krallice, probably just because I didn't think they could top Years Past Matter, but I'm really impressed by Mass Cathexis. They've managed to preserve everything that was good about them without simply rehashing what they were doing; they seem to have gone further in a progressive direction. "Feed on the Blood of Rats" is really fantastic: what a great riff. Wonderful breakdown in "Aspherance".
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Thursday, 18 February 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link
I had to turn it off bc I couldn't hear it over the construction but the first five tracks from the Colour Haze were really good - is it an ineligible 2019 release, though?
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link
I'm glad for the extension. It will give me more time to check out these suggestions. So far I'm digging the Mamaleek and Angel Morgue.
― o. nate, Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link
We could extend it again if anyone thinks it would help to hear more albums before voting.
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 18 February 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
It was worth it to finish the Colour Haze album.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Thursday, 18 February 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
The Wobbler album is super fun retro-prog pastiche, like a lost classic from 1972. Catchy, whimsical, full of worshipful nods to Yes and Gentle Giant. It's not heavy or metal, but sufficiently geeky for the poll I'd say.
― jmm, Thursday, 18 February 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
Using the Alphaville computer voice in a metal song is such a neat and in retrospect very obvious move. Has it been done before? Anyway I really dig this record. It's odd seeing it described as "chaotic", the songs make a great deal of sense to me. Probably cos it's basically Zeuhl.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 18 February 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
As is tradition.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 March 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
Just checked and the voting form is still open. Seandalai messaged me saying he will have results tonight, so if anyone cares to vote then best post here now alerting seandalai before he closes it.
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 6 March 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link
You got my ballot, pom, right?
― more haim than good (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 6 March 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link
seandalai only knows!
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 March 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
the lesser known beach boys demo
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 6 March 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
I haven't got a clue what is going to win this. What won Decibels album of the year?
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 6 March 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
ok found the list. Could Napalm Death win this poll?
40. Dark Fortress, Spectres from the Old World, Century Media39. Fawn Limbs, Sleeper Vessels, Roman Numeral38. Exgenesis, Solve et Coagula, Rain Without End37. Megaton Sword, Blood Hails Steel – Steel Hails Fire, Dying Victims36. Oranssi Pazuzu, Mestarin Kynsi, Nuclear Blast35. Svalbard, When I Die, Will I Get Better, Translation Loss34. Enslaved, Utgard, Nuclear Blast33. In the Company of Serpents, Lux, Self-released32. Xibalba, Años En Infierno, Southern Lord31. Wake, Devouring Ruin, Translation Loss30. Cirith Ungol, Forever Black, Metal Blade29. Proscription, Conduit, Dark Descent28. Celestial Season, The Secret Teachings, Burning World27. Midnight, Rebirth by Blasphemy, Metal Blade26. Krallice, Mass Cathexis, Self-released25. ACxDC, Satan is King, Prosthetic24. Temple of Void, The World That Was, Shadow Kingdom23. Atramentus, Stygian, 20 Buck Spin22. Tombs, Under Sullen Skies, Season of Mist21. Haunt, Flashback, Church20. Kirk Windstein, Dream in Motion, eOne19. Pallbearer, Forgotten Days, Nuclear Blast18. Lamp of Murmuur, Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism, Self-released17. Godthrymm, Reflections, Profound Lore16. Dropdead, Dropdead, Armageddon15. Ripped to Shreds 亂 (Luan), Pulverized14. Vile Creature, Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!, Prosthetic13. Of Feather & Bone, Sulfuric Disintegration, Profound Lore12. Armored Saint, Punching the Sky, Metal Blade11. Incantation, Sect of Vile Divinities, Relapse10. Goden, Beyond Darkness, Svart9. Paradise Lost, Obsidian, Nuclear Blast8. Uada, Djinn, Eisenwald7. Sweven, The Eternal Resonance, Van6. Necrot, Mortal, Tankcrimes5. Spirit Adrift, Enlightened in Eternity, 20 Buck Spin4. Paysage d’Hiver, Im Wald, Kunsthall Produktionen3. Imperial Triumphant, Alphaville, Century Media2. Eternal Champion, Ravening Iron, No Remorse1. Napalm Death, Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism, Century Media
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 6 March 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
If last year's pop general ILM poll is anything to go by, it'll be a duel between Hum and Oranssi Pazuzu.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 March 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
previous winners of this poll have not got near the big pop poll however
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 6 March 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
deafheaven do better in that poll than this one, lol
plus voters are weirdly purist and say they wont vote for things like Hum as its not metal, despite the fact this isn't an exclusively metal poll.
Plus Zombi tend to make it every album hehe
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 6 March 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link
I liked the Hum but not enough to vote for it because I'm not 100% sold on those noncommittal vox. But I'm getting ahead of myself here.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 March 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link
i dont even know if it will just be diehard metallers voting this year or those who dabble (potential Hum voters) and are into all kinds of music.
Personally I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't that high but who knows.
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 6 March 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
I did however vote for it.
Voting is closed, results are in.
― Bignefs Proportionable (seandalai), Sunday, 7 March 2021 01:15 (three years ago) link
Thank you seandalai!
And I do believe we have enough for a 101.
How many ballots did we get?
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 7 March 2021 09:51 (three years ago) link
Why would anyone vote for Hum in a metal poll unless they are trolling? Even the people who are into all kinds of music know they're not metal. Nobody would look for their records in the metal section of their local record shop.
― braised cod, Sunday, 7 March 2021 13:38 (three years ago) link
I think it's fair to say they are a heavy rock band.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Sunday, 7 March 2021 13:46 (three years ago) link
I briefly removed Hum from my ballot for tactical reasons, then restored them because the album bangs
― imago, Sunday, 7 March 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
I'd say so too.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:12 (three years ago) link
You wouldn't find them on the heavy rock shelf either. Those are reserved for AC/DCs and Motley Crues.
― braised cod, Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
Sure, but it's heavy and it's rock.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
Obviously yes. I love Hum and I know it's louder and heavier than many actual metal records that will place, but calling it metal or heavy rock just seems wrong.
― braised cod, Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
Perhaps it is your record store's shelves that are wrong.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link
Usually we wait for the results before we start screaming NOT METAL
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
For what it's worth, I just typed "what genre is the band hum" into Google and the first thing that came up was "alternative metal".
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
I don't think it's weird at all to include them. It's not like someone nominated the Spin Doctors
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
Yeah I guess I'm the one having the blinders on. I just thought nobody would seriously think of Hum as a metal band.
― braised cod, Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
This has never been a metal-exclusive poll.
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
it's in the title, even. heavy rock is a term that is pretty broad and inclusive.
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
It's going to be fun if Hum win
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 7 March 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
now she's out back counting VOTES
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 March 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link
Hum probably sound more rooted in Black Sabbath to me than a lot of the bands on that Decibel list do, though.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Sunday, 7 March 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link
They were at the bottom of my list tbc.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Sunday, 7 March 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
mine too
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 7 March 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
Last on mine I think as well LOL.
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 7 March 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
In a break from previous traditions we wont be starting the rollout today as pom is busy and doesn't want to miss out on any of the rollout.
So I think we will be starting tomorrow about 8/9am his time, which will be UK lunchtime I think?
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 7 March 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
ahaha that makes at least 4 of us xp
― imago, Sunday, 7 March 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
I hope you are all excited
― Oor Neechy, Monday, 8 March 2021 11:49 (three years ago) link
Won't be able to listen along because I'm at work, but at least I can follow the rollout since I'm working from home.
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Monday, 8 March 2021 13:17 (three years ago) link
Starting in 30 mins or so. Stay tuned.
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
Very excited! Working until half 6, but I'll be checking in sporadically.
― tangent x (tangenttangent), Monday, 8 March 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
And so it begins:
2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock/Heavy Music Poll: RESULTS – Top 100 Countdown
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 March 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link
Thanks all, re: above <3
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
Hope you're ok, LBI.
Feel free to join us in the rollout, of course (if you feel like it!).
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
Onward and upward for me, thank you Pom.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link