~~~ End Of Year ILM Metal - Albums & Tracks Poll- Nominations 2014 (Ends friday11.59pm UK time Dec 5th) ~~~

Nominations will be open until next Friday December 5th
Voting will start right away and will be open until the 12th
results roll out 15th (maybe the 13th as tradition of starting right away it all depends)

Just doing an albums poll this year.

Please use bold formatting as usual for nominating

i.e.
Artist - Album

Please check this google spreadsheet before posting your nominations. Makes it easier for us.

Last year was a struggle and a few complained that they were burnt out on polls by January ,plus 95% of the votes came in the last 2 days a weeks voting period is enough and since *This* is the only dates I can run the poll here it is.
I did ask around looking for someone to take over the poll but nobody wanted to.
I do hope everyone on rolling metal thread, ilx posters and lurkers will take part. Anyone reading is welcome. Invite your friends etc

I will start us off with
Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
Jute Gyte - Ressentiment
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

Please use that format when nominating thanks. No limits for nominating since it's a short nominations period.
Happy nominating!

A collaborative Spotify playlist has been set up for everyone to add their nominations to. I don't have time to update it myself but hopefully someone will volunteer to look after it.
Here is the non url link spotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:57D8hoVdmqW88MQPHTKtZc

Seandalai will be doing the forms and tabulating as usual. Mucho thanks to him.

EPs as well?

unless there's lots of objections then why not.

oh and a reminder to everyone - please campaign. It really works (but start a new thread for youtubes)

I shall add an ep then
Bölzer - Soma

Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Gridlink - Longhena
Behemoth - The Satanist

Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
Botanist - Vi: Flora
Al-Namrood - Heen Yadhar Al Ghasq
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Alcest - Shelter
Earth - Primitive and Deadly
Goat - Commune
Panopticon - Roads to the North
Satyress - Dark Fortunes
Electric Wizard - Time to Die
Menace Ruine - Venus Armata
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Truckfighters - Universe
Eluveitie - Origins
Myrkur - Myrkur
Lyriel - Skin and Bones
Distorted Harmony - Chain Reaction
Orange Goblin - Back from the Abyss
Prey for Nothing - The Reasoning
Brimstone Coven - Brimstone Coven
Conan - Blood Eagle
Fu Manchu - Gigantoid
Bong - Stoner Rock
BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL
Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate
Dopelord - Black Arts, Riff Worship & Weed Cult
Witch Charmer - The Great Depression
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
SUN O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials
Brimstone Coven - Brimstone Coven
Black Moth - Condemned to Hope
Equilibrium - Erdentempel
Elvenking - The Pagan Manifesto
Subway to Sally - Mitgift

Ambergris - Ambergris
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise

Jute Gyte - Vast Chains

The Amergris is an EP.

Spectral Lore - III

Murmur - S/T
Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
Scott Walker & SunnO))) (If Sunn/Ulver count then this must surely)

High Spirits - You Are Here
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
The Wounded Kings - Consolamentum
Monarch - Sabbracadaver
The Budos Band - Burnt Offering

Behemoth - XIĄDZ EP

Sorry, that shouldn't be capitalized.
Behemoth - Xiądz EP

Dead in the Manger - Transience
Deathcult - Pleading for Death... Choking on Life
Diocletian - Gesundrian
Full of Hell - Full of Hell & Merzbow
Impetuous Ritual -Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence
Lvcifyre - Sun Eater
Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
Martyrdöd - Elddop
Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem
Nuclear Hammer - Serpentine Hermetic Lucifer

The Mansion Congregation - Mansion Congregation Hymns Vol. 1
Mansion - Uncreation (anticipatory nomination)

Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII
Fluisteraars - Dromers
Khuda - Molasses Constricts the Clinostat
Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
Nadja - Queller
Woods of Desolation - As the Stars

Blue Pills are awesome. I need to get this album.

yes! i love it.

Abazagorath - The Satanic Verses
Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer
Abysmal Dawn - Obsolescence
Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius
Accept - Blind Rage
Anaal Nakhrath - Desideratum
Apostulum - Winds Of Disillusion
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
As Light Dies - The Love Album I
At The Gates - At War With Reality
Basarabian Hills - Groping In A Misty Spread
Belphegor - Conjuring The Dead
Benighted - Carnivore Sublime
Bergrizen - Scherbengericht
Blood Of Kingu - Dark Star On The Right
Body Count - Manslaughter
Cemetery Lust - Orgies Of Abomination
Countess - Ancient Lies And Battlecries
Darkspace - Dark Space III I
Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
The Deathtrip - Deep Drone Master
Decembre Noir - A Discouraged Believer
Deep Mountains - Lake Of Solace
Domains - Sinister Ceremonies
Doom:VS - Earthless
Drudkh / Winterfylleth - Thousands Of Moons Ago / The Gates (split)
Dub Buk - Цвях
Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
Ethereal Riffian - Aeonian
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
Forteresse/Chasse-Galerie/Monarque/Csejthe - Legendes (split)
Freedom Call - Beyond
Furia - Nocel
Ghost Bath - Funeral
Gluttony - Beyond The Veil Of Flesh
Goatpenis - Flesh Consumed In The Battlefield
Graveland - Ogień Przebudzenia
H.E.A.T - Tearing Down The Walls (or is this too AOR?)
The Haunted - Exit Wounds
Wælwulf - Heresiarch
Horrendous - Ecdysis
Horrified - Descent Into Putridity
Ifing - Against This Waeld
Illdisposed - With The Lost Souls On Our Side
Incantation - Dirges Of Elysium
Kampfar - Djevelmakt
Kanashimi/Happy Days - The Great Depression II (split)
Kauan - Muistumia
Kriegsmaschine - Enemy Of Man
Lethian Dreams - Red Silence Lodge
Mourning Dawn - Les Sacrifiés
My Useless Life - Negative Memories
Mysticum - Planet Satan
Nasheim - Solens Vemod
Neoheresy - Noc Która Dniem Się Stała
Nervosa - Victim Of Yourself
Nocturnal Depression/Myrd/Vspolokh - Longing For Death (split)
Old Soul / ██████ - Split
Old Wainds - Nordraum
Peste Noire / Diapsiquir - Rats Des Villes vs Rats Des Champs (split)
Pestilential Shadows - Ephemeral
Rigor Mortis - Slaves To The Grave
Rippikoulu - Ulvaja
Sabaton - Heroes
Saille - Eldritch
Saor - Aura
Schammasch - Contradiction
Shadow Sun - Грім в ковальні Бога (Thunder In God’s Forge)
Stryvigor - Forgotten By Ages
Taiga - Ashen Light
Tengger Cavalry - Ancient Call
Vader - Tibi Et Igni
Vainaja - Kadotetut
Vallenfyre - Splinters
Vanhelga - Längtan
Vardan - Enjoy Of Deep Sadness
Verlies - Le Domaine Des Hommes
Vintersorg - Naturbål
Vuyvr - Incinerated Gods
Waldgeflüster - Meine Fesseln
Whispered - Shogunate Macabre
Woman Is The Earth - Depths
Zgard - Contemplation

Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate
Is this metal?

I thought Swans would be the first to get that after the controversies the time it wasn't allowed then the time it was.

idk obv i defer to the community but when i heard this i thought metal

IDK, do we need a Swans clause? They're on most of the metal magazine polls this year.

we have around 157 albums/eps nominated.

well i believe they got included last time. if someone nominates it then it will be included.

I listened to a few Wovenhand tracks on youtube... hard to pin them down - They seem like metal, but then they also kinda seem like Dead Can Dance stuff. I'd let them in, they're spooky and heavy.

No I was genuinely surprised, I have a couple Wovenhand records and they're mostly acoustic country singer/songwriter-type stuff. If they've gone full-on metal, good on them.

I dont think they have gone full on metal but most of the people i know who love them are into metal, esp doom. The doomy vibe christian lyrics fits.
I'm all for allowing it , no one need vote for it if they dont want to.

Id certainly say it's something a metal fan might like.

purists dont vote anyway so who cares!

lol it's true...

I honestly would be surprised if Wovenhand got enough votes to get in.
Mordy why not start a youtube campaigning thread and post a vid or 2?

Remember to add your nominations folks to the Spotify playlist! spotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:57D8hoVdmqW88MQPHTKtZc

A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A Name
Cuscuta - The Wildness Within
Funeral Sutra - meditations
Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith

Petrychor - Makrokosmos

Solstafir - Otta

Floor - Oblation
Eyehategod - Eyehategod

Wasn't gonna nominate, only vote, but what the hell...

AEvangelist - Writhes in the Murk
Baring Teeth - Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins
Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
Cavalera Conspiracy - Pandemonium
Cretin - Stranger
Crown the Empire - The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways
Decapitated - Blood Mantra
Emmure - Eternal Enemies
Exmortus - Slave to the Sword
Incantation - Dirges of Elysium
Job for a Cowboy - Sun Eater
Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Enfant Terrible
Obituary - Inked in Blood
Opeth - Pale Communion
Ringworm - Hammer of the Witch
Torch Runner - Endless Nothing

Hedvig Mollestad Trio seem really good. Another that I will have to check out further.

Old Man Gloom - Ape Of God I
Old Man Gloom - Ape Of God II

Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
Cauldron Black Ram - Stalagmire
Crucifyre - Black Magic Fire
Dark Fortress - Venereal Dawn
Delain - The Human Contradiction
Devin Townsend Project - Sky Blue
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid: Dark Matters
Dir en Grey - Arche
Disentomb - Misery
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Flaming Tusk - Inquisitor
Hierophant - Peste
Inanimate Existence - A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement
Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis
Mongol - Chosen by Tengri
Morbus Chron - Sweven
Scientist - Scientist
Skull Fist - Chasing the Dream

ok I'll do it
Swans - To Be Kind

Columns - Please Explode
Electric Funeral - Total Funeral
Indian - From All Purity
Innsmouth - Consumed by Elder Sign
Lord Mantis - Death Mask
Nausea - Condemned to the System
P.L.F. - Ultimate Whirlwind of Incineration
Skelethal - Interstellar Knowledge of the Purple Entity
Teitanblood - Death
Thou - Heathen

Seven that Spells - The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: IO
Sungod - s/t
Sungod - Vision Space
The Cosmic Dead - Easterfaust
Comet Control - s/t

The only thing I'd add (so far) is

Overkill - White Devil Armory

I say "so far" because there's still I've not heard which I know I need to hear. Time is running out!

there's still stuff*

argh

Generation of Vipers - Coffin Wisdom
Black Bombaim - Far Out
Giant Squid - Minoans
Tweak Bird - Any Ol' Way
Brownout - Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath
Unconscious Collective - Pleistocene Moon
Wo Fat - The Conjuring
Vulgar Trade - Gross Century
Death Penalty - Death Penalty
The Body - I Shall Die Here
Taurus - No/Thing
Shooting Guns - Street Rock
Towers - II
Wizard Rifle - Here in the Deadlights
Bludded Head - Reign in Bludd

The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep

also, this is a comp of stuff released in very small numbers in the 70s but I think considered for 2014:

various artists - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles

Oh, that Abyssal was a 2013 release. (And it was awesome.)

Dragonforce - Maximum Overload

Not saying I'm gonna vote for it; just making sure it's represented.

Drunk Dad - Ripper Killer
Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica
Obliterations - Poison Everything
Occultation - Silence in the Ancestral House

i can think of a few who would vote for it

Grand Magus - Triumph and Power

Harakiri For The Sky - Aokigahara
Origin - Omnipresent

If those Sunn O))) collaborations count, then I think this counts:

Zvi - Zvi

Re Wovenhand, on one hand I feel it's crazytalk to include in a metal poll. There's folk and post-punk, but zero metal content. On the other hand, there is a darkness that appeals to metal fans. It is my #2 overall so far so I definitely recommend it, even if I won't vote for it. I also noticed several metalheads in the crowd when I saw Shellac this summer. I could see the latest by both groups doing well in Rock-A-Rolla's poll possibly.

Acheron - Kult Des Hasses
Decaying Purity - Malignant Resurrection of the Fallen Souls
Loudblast - Burial Ground
Sick/Tired - Dissolution

I dunno bout wovenhand. I love them but..

Boris - Noise
Epistasis - Light Through Dead Glass (EP)
Lantlos - Melting Sun
Opium Warlords - Taste My Sword Of Understanding

I did not listen to a ton of metal this year but here's the stuff I happened to like & took the time to seek out

Black Monolith - Passenger
Woods of Desolation - As the Stars
Swans - To be Kind (someone said swans counted!)
Boris - Noise

I also liked the latest mastodon album but I don't think they fit the criteria round here anymore

I can think of no reason to disallow Mastodon

boris, swans, woods of desolation already nominated. There's a spreadsheet to check nominations
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d8-3k-kVVhO2-0yA7OCWhN2c1jFTG4xxOlW0UH2GIXA/edit#gid=0

of course Mastodon count

whoops my bad

seems strange to nominate swans then say mastodon shouldnt count :)

I guess I wasn't sure if the past two mastodon albums were metal or more like hard rock, like queens of the Stone Age-ish (especially the hunter). then again as you said, swans latest albums aren't exactly traditional metal either and they def get love from metalheads.

tbf its still a hard rock/metal poll. Metal is a very broad church. Rolling Metal thread is hardly full of purists.

I'm somewhat surprised the Mastodon album hasn't featured in non-metal EOY lists like the last one. It's good enough and got good reviews inmost places.
Maybe metal isn't as in fashion as it was the past 5 years? Noticed a lack of metal and hip-hop this year in lists.

Has critical coverage started getting narrower?

I'm guessing it might be the token pick on a few forthcoming lists, although woods of desolation could take that honor as well, given its post-rock vibes, which ended up giving deafheaven the annual "metal album loved by non metal critics" designation last year

I expect Pallbearer to be the crossover hit, but I've been wrong more often than not.

mastodon's two late-aughts albums both ended up on multiple general albums lists with high rankings in several instances. skye was #3 in bloody time magazine!! and those are definitely full-stop metal albums.

flash forward to 2012 - the latest converge album was #1 on most metal/hard rock only lists and got me, before that point not a huge metal/hardcore guy aside from occasional mastodon dalliances - deep in love with that band and exploring a lot of really hard shit I wouldn't have previously explored. but it got little to no love from many general albums lists. and then the next year deafheaven is adored by tons of people who aren't traditionally into metal. it's impossible to predict

Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer
Lotus Thief - Rervm

Maybe we should change the title to Hard Rock & Metal Poll then?

I'll go ahead and include all my hard rock/stoner/occult/psych then, as they certainly won't get any attention in the main ILM poll other than Goat. That is, unless we take over... Also, there's more than enough active writers here who could make a big difference in the Pazz & Jop poll. It only took 6 votes to get some albums in the top 100! Ask to be included at pazzandjop at villagevoice.com, it might not be too late!

Glad someone acknowledges Dawnbringer. Can't believe no one's mentioned Slough Feg yet.

I second Mansion - Uncreation EP. At 36:32 it's as long as some full lengths, and they are progressing nicely. Full length due early next year. Also, everyone listen to Spiders, please.

Spiders - Shake Electric
Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
Castle - Under Siege
The Oath - The Oath
Serpent Venom - Of Things Seen And Unseen
Purson - In The Meantime EP
Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds
Ogre - The Last Neanderthal
Demon Eye - Leave The Light
Alunah - Awakening The Forest
The Well - Samsara
Hands Of Orlac - Figli Del Crepuscolo
Ovvl - Screech
Heat - Labyrinth
Satan's Satyrs - Die Screaming
Monolord - Empress Rising
Moab - Billow
Electric Citizen - Sateen
The Socks - The Socks
Greenleaf - Trails & Passes
Dwellers - Pagan Fruit
Lo-Pan - Colossus
Hessian - Bachelor Of Black Arts
Lé Betre - Melas
Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus - Spirit Knife
Spiral Shades - Hypnosis Sessions
Hornss - No Blood, No Sympathy
Black Trip - Goin' Under
Ice Dragon - Seeds From A Dying Garden
Cardinals Folly - Our Cult Continues!
Purple Hill Witch - Purple Hill Witch
Sigiriya - Darkness Died Today
Mars Red Sky - Stranded In Arcadia
John Garcia - John Garcia
Saturn - Ascending: Live In Space
Big Red Panda - Big Red Panda
John Gallow - Violet Dreams
Jess & The Ancient Ones - Castaneda EP
Holy Mountain - Ancient Astronauts
Lecherous Gaze - Zeta Reticuli Blues
Deep Space Destructors - III
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors
Hypnos - Hypnos
Kröwnn – Magnafröst
Fellwoods - Gyromancer EP
The Shrine - Bless Off
Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes
Valley Of The Sun - Electric Talons Of The Thunderhawk
House Of Lightning - Lightworker
Salem's Pot - Lurar ut dig på prárien
Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell - Check 'Em Before You Wreck 'Em
The Grand Astoria - La Belle Epoque
Aleph Null - Nocturnal
Season Of Arrows - Season Of Arrows
Below - Across The Dark River
Convent Guilt - Guns For Hire
Mortalicum - Tears From The Grave
The Order Of Israfel - Wisdom
Darkest Era - Severance
Pilgrim - II: Void Worship
Vestal Claret - The Cult Of Vestal Claret
Mount Salem - Endless
Slomatics - Estron
Mausoleum Gate - Mausoleum Gate
11 Paranoias - Stealing Fire From Heaven
Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha

An important nomination has been forgot.

The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage?

Woccon - Solace in Decay
Falls of Rauros - Believe In No Coming Shore
Aureole - Alunar
Sivyj Yar - From the Dead Villages' Darkness

<b>Auroch - Taman Shud </b>
<b>Atlas Moth - The Old Believer </b>
<b>Barghest - The Virtuous Purge </b>
<b>Wolvhammer - Clawing into Black Sun </b>

just realising how many profound lore releases i've loved this year.

Auroch - Taman Shud
Atlas Moth - The Old Believer
Barghest - The Virtuous Purge
Wolvhammer - Clawing into Black Sun

and here they are in bold.

the more the merrier. If people dont think theyre metal enough then they needn't vote. afaic these polls are to highlight stuff we like

I'm surprised i didn't nominate the slough feg. I would have remembered eventually.

Inter Arma - The Cavern
Revocation - Deathless
Wold - Postsocial

my nominations:

Aenaon - Extance
Anatomy of Habit - Ciphers + Axioms
Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
The Contortionist - Language
Downfall of Gaia - Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
Fen - Carrion Skies
Foscor - Those Horrors Wither
Ghost Brigade - IV – One With the Storm
Goatech - Exquisiteness
The Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LI
Helevorn - Compassion Forlorn
Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying Sun
Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron - Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery
Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
Nero di Marte - Derivae
Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
Novembers Doom - Bled White
Shihad - FVEY
Skyharbor - Guiding Lights
Voices - London
Winterfylleth - The Divination of Antiquity
Words of Farewell - The Black Wild Yonder

most of the above are on spotify apart from:

Downfall of Gaia - Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=107747
full album, but on spotify two tracks missing

Foscor - Those Horrors Wither
https://soundcloud.com/alone-records/sets/foscor-those-horrors-wither

Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron - Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery
http://lostubikystinapeiron.bandcamp.com/

Shihad - FVEY
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/40239/Listen-to-Shihads-brutal-new-album-FVEY-in-full
album only released by Warner New Zealand. no international / UK release yet.
Jaz Coleman produced

Wizard Rifle - Here In The Deadlights

Vorde - Vorde

I just saw a list that called itself "best heavy music of 2014".
I think that is what our poll is like

http://www.steelforbrains.com/post/103989943657/rb-best-of-2014

Yeah that's a good site.

If the hope for a 1991 or 1984 music history repeat is what keeps you pushing play, though, then disappoint will likely top your EOTY list every damn time.

There were some important albums those years, but I think 2014 is more fun and diverse. I have no complaints about the amount of good music this year.

I thought it was a year with a ton of decent records but few great ones. Certainly less than the last several years.

Is the Steel for Brains podcast still happening? I was enjoying them.

Yeah. We just had life force us both to take a break. Plan is to record a new one this week.

And thanks! I'm glad you enjoy it.

missed this thread yesterday ... two things:

1. lol at arguing Wovenhand and Mastodon's metal status within the same space. no shade at anyone, just, y'know ... that's pretty funny.

2. no way Woods of Desolation is the token metal pick this year. just not enough momentum behind it, plus it came out in January. and not with Pallbearer, Mastodon and, to a lesser extent, Triptykon and At The Gates albums available for those slots. i wish i thought we'd see a mini-Deafheaven-style surge for WoD but it ain't gonna happen.

I'd have pegged Agalloch for the Deafheaven slot, but I'm not sure anyone's still listening to that album.

As The Stars just isn't good enough, and their choice for a much rougher sound also doesn't help their crossover appeal. Torn Beyond Reason would've been huge if it were released this year.

I love As The Stars and think it's as good or better than Sunbather (yes, I like Sunbather), but I haven't heard Torn Beyond Reason. I should remedy that...

OMG this Spectral Lore.

Also, the Blut Aus Nord is surprisingly different from the last one but is really nice.

Wait, Spectral Lore turned into U2 for a minute.

2014 is probably one of the best years for metal I've ever known, though I've got a preference for experimental/proggy/shoegazey stuff rather than 'metal' metal though. Y'know what I mean.

At the start of the year I thought I was pretty much done with metal and then I kept hearing crazy shit and well, here we are. It's weird that the older I get the more metal black metal I listen to. idgi.

I never got U2 vibes from Spectral Lore I must admit

It was just that break in "Cold March". Album is mostly awesome so far.

Also, I may have been listening from the next room at that point.

Bastard Feast - Osculum Infame
Baptists - Bloodmines
Code Orange - I Am King
Couch Slut - My Life as a Woman
Idylls - Prayer for Terrene
Foreseen HKI - Helsinki Savagery
Krokofant - Krokofant
Oozing Wound - Earth Suck
Secret Cutter - "Self Titled"
Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence
Vampire - Vampire
Yautja - Songs of Descent

I'm sure we allowed Wind's Poem by Mount Eerie a couple of years ago. If that fits a BM definition then Wovenhand is surely ok.

It's weird that the older I get the more metal black metal I listen to. idgi.

― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 1 December 2014 02:49 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkp

same

I got big into it once i passed 30 and once I passed 40 it hasnt changed

Yeah, 30 was when it started clicking for me too. Seems to be the norm here!

Looking back, I guess it was more 28/29.

tbh it was the nazi association stuff that put me off investigating. It was much easier to find who was and wasnt than it was at the time

Just the one nom from me, it came out very recently and is great

Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy

Serpentine Path - Emanations

i'm 27 & enjoy some black/extreme/etc. metal as well as classic thrash like slayer but am OCCASIONALLY put off by the real dirge-y stuff or make snap judgments to not easily pursue bands/albums with names & titles that sound like third-rate lovecraft.

so what y'all are saying is in 3 years i'll be like "this shit is absolutely the move"?

*not readily pursue

many xposts to whoever mentioned this agalloch record: i quite like it thus far.

The Agalloch is excellent but maybe not quite as good as the previous 2. Not far off it mind you. Agalloch never do anything less than excellent imo. Ashes Against The Grain is quite bloody marvellous and , for me, up there with any metal album of the last 20 year,

xpost to talk of this years crossover hit - -Yob make the rolling stone top 50 albums of the year. I was a bit disappointed with this years Agalloch album after Marrow of the Spirit.

i think the band were bemused with that. It certainly was a pure wtf moment

2 days left to nominate

erm 3 days left

Interesting, I got into black metal at around 30 too. That was 2000. However by the end of the decade I got sick of it and mostly stopped, except for an occasional Enslaved and Darkthrone album. Yr 30s perhaps you encounter some truths that are far more horrifying than your 20s angst, but by 40 you're ready to leave it behind ;)

I'm 30 now, and I'm definitely much less interested in black metal than I was three years ago. A big part of that is that I'm bored with harsh vocals. I want to hear powerful and expressive sung vocals.

Yes but there's only so many Sabaton records you can listen to before you crave some good oldfashioned throat-tearing roars.

it works both ways as people get fed up with screaming/singing and seek out the opposite

i don't mind screaming, really - the death growl shit can be kinda fuckin corny though, when poorly executed.

speaking of the sabaton record from this year fuckin rips

catching up on some stuff i missed now after seeing it on year end lists - so far most impressed by YOB

It does, it's not quite Carolus Rex but it's not far off.

Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral
Coffin Dust - This Cemetery, My Kingdom
Children of Technology - Future Decay
Exordium Mors - The Apotheosis of Death
Pyrrhon - The Mother of Virtues

sure to vote for coffin dust, but i figure i oughta put the others in too

Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io
Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us
Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World

One part-time metal band, one former metal band and one outfit on a metal label with crossover appeal.

pretty sure the last have a nice life made the poll . Kayo Dot are now Ulver clones.

Kayo Dot made a late 70s yacht prog record.

Sadly true. They're my favourite band, Coffins etc is my least favourite of their releases so I'm not going to defend it too hard. The next album will be completely different probably. They are like Ulver in that sense but Kayo Dot have a far better amazing-to-dull ratio imo.

I really like the new record. Took a few listens to get a handle on it, but it's a keeper.

Kayo Dot made a late 70s yacht prog record.

hellooooo

It's amazing Brad. Takes a few spins before it opens up.

the Have A Nice Life album is so great. I stopped short of nominating them here because of the slow shoegazeyness, but it makes sense.

same story with Planning for Burial. oh heck:

Planning for Burial - Desideratum

slap 'em both on here.

added

I really like the Kayo Dot but I don't think it's metal at all, even by a broad definition. Closer to a cross between "yacht-prog" and 80s goth or something.

Haikai No Ku - Ultra High Dimensionality
Shroud of The Heretic - Revelations In Alchemy
Cold World - How The Gods Chill
Bastard Sapling - Instinct Is Survival
Ghast - Dread Doom Ruin
Nazaronai - the most painful time happens only once has it arrived already..?
Amulet - The First
Henry Blacker - Hungry Dogs Will Eat Dirty Puddings
Pig Heart Transplant - For Mass Consumption

how the gods chill - is this some kind of epicurean concept album

if by that you mean "a 90s NYC metalcore throwback" then heck yes

check it out on bandcamp to confirm that no-one else will vote for it

I really liked Focus when I listened to it. I gather that the new Cynic is more of a straight-up prog/fusion thing, without the extreme metal elements? Will try it. Listening to Blut aus Nord atm.

Ha, not sure what "straight-up prog/fusion" even really means tbh.

New Cynic's like slightly proggy AOR with some fusion licks, really. I kind of enjoyed it but haven't listened to it much.

I just thought I'd throw in some relative curveballs yesterday and see if anything sticks.

*to see if anything stuck. English is my first language, I swear.

Am totally up for hearing Cynic play an Alan Parsons Project album. Loading now.

Ha, this is reminding me a bit of King's X.

Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem

digging this more and more, feeling like a sleazy nihilist, thinking of going knife shopping

new cynic album unfortunately lacks the hooks to function as aor i think

wonder what the tabloids had to stoke fear with before heavy metal?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2857506/Schoolboy-15-hanged-wood-favourite-heavy-metal-band-Slipknot-playing-iPod.html

Yeah, I got bored 15m in or so. I had trouble seeing how the compositions came together. The singer was OK but I wanted the vocals to be stronger and more expressive.
xpost

Primordial are rapidly shooting up to the top of the year for me. It's one of the only albums (Against Me! is another) I find lyrically affecting, like a thousand-yard-stare down bloody centuries.

seemed ponderous to me, i gave it a pass

would be nice to be able to get with a 1000-yd-century-stare tho, who doesn't love that

the problem with the primordial record is that it's not as good as to the nameless dead

it's great though

the primordial has taken a while to grab me, but totally get the thousand yard stare thing!

I haven't listened to Horse Lords or Naomi Punk albums yet but I kinda want to nominate them if they're eligible just in case I end up liking them

enough to vote for them?

don't recall Naomi Punk having any metal qualities, touchstones or reference points whatsoever

2 More to add in:

Ascending Dawn - Coalesce
Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless

both on Bandcamp

Ascending Dawn - Coalesce
http://ascendingdawn.bandcamp.com/album/coalesce
Female Fronted Ambient Progressive metal band from London

riyl: To-Mera, The Gathering

experimental / atmospheric with a melodic crunch, strong vocals, excellent production for a debut album.

released November 2014

Australian Technical Death Metal band Stargazer had scheduled a December 31st release date for their new album, but have brought it forward to December 2nd on Bandcamp - apparently they wanted to be included in the ILM Top 100

Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless
http://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/a-merging-to-the-boundless

found via: spectral lore's fav albums of 2014:
http://www.nocleansinging.com/2014/12/03/listmania-2014-a-year-end-list-from-ayloss-spectral-lore/

i will have a sweep through my rym 2014 list, 20014 rym metal custom chart and my network custom chart - to see if there any missing albums that deserve a nomination before the voting closes.

I'm so pleased to see DJ Martian back

just over a day left to nominate so don't miss out

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add your noms there too

Here is what we have so far
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d8-3k-kVVhO2-0yA7OCWhN2c1jFTG4xxOlW0UH2GIXA/edit?usp=sharing

We're over the 400 Mark but I know some of you will have personal faves you might like to vote for so get nominating, Glenn and Chuck spring to mind.

voting will start straight after nominations close tomorrow. So if you want to start working on your lists then please do! You will only have 1 week to vote.

Also do you want to keep metal poll as a title or change it to include "heavy music" or "metal/heavy rock " or even "metal/heavy music" poll.

All suggestions welcome and we can choose.

keep it metal, kill all posers

"heavy sounds"

I personally favour Metal and all it's subgenres. Though if someone more eloquent can provide a nice phrase meaning the same then fire away

absolutely NO PUNS however

stay trv

Atriarch - An Unending Pathway

KEEP IT M3T4L, KILL ALL POLLSERS

Witch Mountain is nice. I think Wounded Kings have a slight edge in this category, a more thoroughly sinister atmosphere.

What we have so far. Nominations close tonight 11.59pm UK Time.
Voting form will go live at 12am. You can prepare your voting lists now if you care to.
If you wish to add more nominations to the below then please do.

11 Paranoias - Stealing Fire From Heaven
A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A Name
Abazagorath - The Satanic Verses
Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer
Abysmal Dawn - Obsolescence
Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius
Accept - Blind Rage
Acheron - Kult Des Hasses
Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell - Check 'Em Before You Wreck 'Em
Aenaon - Extance
AEvangelist - Writhes in the Murk
Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere
Al-Namrood - Heen Yadhar Al Ghasq
Alcest - Shelter
Aleph Null - Nocturnal
Alunah - Awakening The Forest
Ambergris - Ambergris
Amulet - The First
Anaal Nakhrath - Desideratum
Anatomy of Habit - Ciphers + Axioms
Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds
Apostulum - Winds Of Disillusion
Argentinum Astrum - Malleus Maleficarum
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
As Light Dies - The Love Album I
Ascending Dawn - Coalesce
At The Gates - At War With Reality
Atlas Moth - The Old Believer
Atriarch - An Unending Pathway
Aureole - Alunar
Auroch - Taman Shud
Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL
Baptists - Bloodmines
Barghest - The Virtuous Purge
Baring Teeth - Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins
Basarabian Hills - Groping In A Misty Spread
Bastard Feast - Osculum Infame
Bastard Sapling - Instinct Is Survival
Behemoth - The Satanist
Behemoth - Xiądz EP
Below - Across The Dark River
Belphegor - Conjuring The Dead
Benighted - Carnivore Sublime
Bergrizen - Scherbengericht
Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
Big Red Panda - Big Red Panda
Black Bombaim - Far Out
Black Monolith - Passenger
Black Moth - Condemned to Hope
Black Trip - Goin' Under
Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes
Blood Of Kingu - Dark Star On The Right
Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral
Bludded Head - Reign in Bludd
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Body Count - Manslaughter
Bölzer - Soma
Bong - Stoner Rock
Bongripper - Miserable
Boris - Noise
Botanist - Vi: Flora
Brimstone Coven - Brimstone Coven
Brownout - Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath
Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
Cardinals Folly - Our Cult Continues!
Castle - Under Siege
Cauldron Black Ram - Stalagmire
Cavalera Conspiracy - Pandemonium
Cemetery Lust - Orgies Of Abomination
Children of Technology - Future Decay
Code Orange - I Am King
Coffin Dust - This Cemetery, My Kingdom
Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII
Cold World - How The Gods Chill
Columns - Please Explode
Comet Control - s/t
Conan - Blood Eagle
Convent Guilt - Guns For Hire
Couch Slut - My Life as a Woman
Countess - Ancient Lies And Battlecries
Cretin - Stranger
Crown the Empire - The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways
Crucifyre - Black Magic Fire
Cuscuta - The Wildness Within
Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us
Dark Fortress - Venereal Dawn
Darkest Era - Severance
Darkspace - Dark Space III I
Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer
Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
Dead in the Manger - Transience
Death Penalty - Death Penalty
Deathcult - Pleading for Death... Choking on Life
Decapitated - Blood Mantra
Decaying Purity - Malignant Resurrection of the Fallen Souls
Decembre Noir - A Discouraged Believer
Deep Mountains - Lake Of Solace
Deep Space Destructors - III
Delain - The Human Contradiction
Demon Eye - Leave The Light
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid: Dark Matters
Devin Townsend Project - Sky Blue
Diocletian - Gesundrian
Dir en Grey - Arche
Disentomb - Misery
Distorted Harmony - Chain Reaction
Domains - Sinister Ceremonies
Doom:VS - Earthless
Dopelord - Black Arts, Riff Worship & Weed Cult
Downfall of Gaia - Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
Dragonforce - Maximum Overload
Dread Sovereign - All Hell's Martyrs
Drudkh / Winterfylleth - Thousands Of Moons Ago / The Gates (split)
Drunk Dad - Ripper Killer
Dub Buk - Цвях
Dwellers - Pagan Fruit
Ea - A etilla
Earth - Primitive and Deadly
Electric Citizen - Sateen
Electric Funeral - Total Funeral
Electric Wizard - Time to Die
Eluveitie - Origins
Elvenking - The Pagan Manifesto
Emmure - Eternal Enemies
Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Epistasis - Light Through Dead Glass (EP)
Equilibrium - Erdentempel
Ethereal Riffian - Aeonian
Exmortus - Slave to the Sword
Exordium Mors - The Apotheosis of Death
Eyehategod - Eyehategod
Falls of Rauros - Believe In No Coming Shore
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
Fellwoods - Gyromancer EP
Fen - Carrion Skies
Flaming Tusk - Inquisitor
Floor - Oblation
Fluisteraars - Dromers
Foreseen HKI - Helsinki Savagery
Forteresse/Chasse-Galerie/Monarque/Csejthe - Legendes (split)
Foscor - Those Horrors Wither
Freedom Call - Beyond
Fu Manchu - Gigantoid
Full of Hell - Full of Hell & Merzbow
Funeral Sutra - meditations
Furia - Nocel
Generation of Vipers - Coffin Wisdom
Ghast - Dread Doom Ruin
Ghost Bath - Funeral
Ghost Brigade - IV – One With the Storm
Giant Squid - Minoans
Gluttony - Beyond The Veil Of Flesh
Goat - Commune
Goatech - Exquisiteness
Goatpenis - Flesh Consumed In The Battlefield
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
Grand Magus - Triumph and Power
Graveland - Ogień Przebudzenia
Greenleaf - Trails & Passes
Gridlink - Longhena
H.E.A.T - Tearing Down The Walls
Haikai No Ku - Ultra High Dimensionality
Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
Hands Of Orlac - Figli Del Crepuscolo
Harakiri For The Sky - Aokigahara
Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World
Heat - Labyrinth
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Enfant Terrible
Helevorn - Compassion Forlorn
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors
Henry Blacker - Hungry Dogs Will Eat Dirty Puddings
Hessian - Bachelor Of Black Arts
Hierophant - Peste
High Spirits - You Are Here
Holy Mountain - Ancient Astronauts
Hornss - No Blood, No Sympathy
Horrendous - Ecdysis
Horrified - Descent Into Putridity
Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha
House Of Lightning - Lightworker
Hypnos - Hypnos
Ice Dragon - Seeds From A Dying Garden
Idylls - Prayer for Terrene
Ifing - Against This Waeld
Illdisposed - With The Lost Souls On Our Side
Impetuous Ritual -Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence
Inanimate Existence - A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement
Incantation - Dirges of Elysium
Indian - From All Purity
Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis
Innsmouth - Consumed by Elder Sign
Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying Sun
Inter Arma - The Cavern
Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus - Spirit Knife
Jess & The Ancient Ones - Castaneda EP
Job for a Cowboy - Sun Eater
John Gallow - Violet Dreams
John Garcia - John Garcia
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
Jute Gyte - Ressentiment
Jute Gyte - Vast Chains
Kampfar - Djevelmakt
Kanashimi/Happy Days - The Great Depression II (split)
Kauan - Muistumia
Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io
Khuda - Molasses Constricts the Clinostat
Kriegsmaschine - Enemy Of Man
Krokofant - Krokofant
Kröwnn – Magnafröst
Lantlos - Melting Sun
Lé Betre - Melas
Lecherous Gaze - Zeta Reticuli Blues
Lethian Dreams - Red Silence Lodge
Lo-Pan - Colossus
Lord Mantis - Death Mask
Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron - Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery
Lotus Thief - Rervm
Loudblast - Burial Ground
Lvcifyre - Sun Eater
Lyriel - Skin and Bones
Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
Mansion - Uncreation
Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith
Mars Red Sky - Stranded In Arcadia
Martyrdöd - Elddop
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Mausoleum Gate - Mausoleum Gate
Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
Menace Ruine - Venus Armata
Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem
Moab - Billow
Monarch - Sabbracadaver
Mongol - Chosen by Tengri
Monolord - Empress Rising
Morbus Chron - Sweven
Mortalicum - Tears From The Grave
Mortuary Drape – Spiritual Independence
Mount Salem - Endless
Mourning Dawn - Les Sacrifiés
Murmur - S/T
My Useless Life - Negative Memories
Myrkur - Myrkur
Mysticum - Planet Satan
Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind
Nadja - Queller
Nasheim - Solens Vemod
Nausea - Condemned to the System
Nazaronai - the most painful time happens only once has it arrived already..?
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
Neoheresy - Noc Która Dniem Się Stała
Nero di Marte - Derivae
Nervosa - Victim Of Yourself
Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
Nightfell – The Living Ever Mourn
Nocturnal Depression/Myrd/Vspolokh - Longing For Death (split)
Novembers Doom - Bled White
Nuclear Hammer - Serpentine Hermetic Lucifer
Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica
Obituary - Inked in Blood
Obliterations - Poison Everything
Occultation - Silence in the Ancestral House
Ogre - The Last Neanderthal
Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God I
Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God II
Old Soul / ██████ - Split
Old Wainds - Nordraum
Oozing Wound - Earth Suck
Opeth - Pale Communion
Opium Warlords - Taste My Sword Of Understanding
Orange Goblin - Back from the Abyss
Origin - Omnipresent
Overkill - White Devil Armory
Ovvl - Screech
P.L.F. - Ultimate Whirlwind of Incineration
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Panopticon - Roads to the North
Peste Noire / Diapsiquir - Rats Des Villes vs Rats Des Champs (split)
Pestilential Shadows - Ephemeral
Petrychor - Makrokosmos
Pig Heart Transplant - For Mass Consumption
Pilgrim - II: Void Worship
Planning for Burial - Desideratum
Prey for Nothing - The Reasoning
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Purple Hill Witch - Purple Hill Witch
Purson - In The Meantime EP
Pyrrhon - The Mother of Virtues
Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy
Revocation - Deathless
Rigor Mortis - Slaves To The Grave
Ringworm - Hammer of the Witch
Rippikoulu - Ulvaja
Sabaton - Heroes
Saille - Eldritch
Salem's Pot - Lurar ut dig på prárien
Saor - Aura
Satan's Satyrs - Die Screaming
Saturn - Ascending: Live In Space
Satyress - Dark Fortunes
Schammasch - Contradiction
Scientist - Scientist
Scott Walker & SunnO)))
Season Of Arrows - Season Of Arrows
Secret Cutter - "Self Titled"
Serpent Venom - Of Things Seen And Unseen
Seven that Spells - The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: IO
Shadow Sun - Грім в ковальні Бога (Thunder In God’s Forge)
Shihad - FVEY
Shooting Guns - Street Rock
Shroud of The Heretic - Revelations In Alchemy
Sick/Tired - Dissolution
Sigiriya - Darkness Died Today
Sinmara – Aphotic Womb
Sivyj Yar - From the Dead Villages' Darkness
Skelethal - Interstellar Knowledge of the Purple Entity
Skull Fist - Chasing the Dream
Skyharbor - Guiding Lights
Slomatics - Estron
Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
Solstafir - Otta
Spectral Lore - III
Spiders - Shake Electric
Spiral Shades - Hypnosis Sessions
Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless
Stryvigor - Forgotten By Ages
Subway to Sally - Mitgift
Sungod - s/t
Sungod - Vision Space
Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials
Swans - To Be Kind
Taiga - Ashen Light
Taurus - No/Thing
Teitanblood - Death
Tengger Cavalry - Ancient Call
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
The Body - I Shall Die Here
The Budos Band - Burnt Offering
The Contortionist - Language
The Cosmic Dead - Easterfaust
The Deathtrip - Deep Drone Master
The Flight of Sleipnir - V.
The Grand Astoria - La Belle Epoque
The Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LI
The Haunted - Exit Wounds
The Mansion Congregation - Mansion Congregation Hymns Vol. 1
The Oath - The Oath
The Order Of Israfel - Wisdom
The Shrine - Bless Off
The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep
The Socks - The Socks
The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage?
The Well - Samsara
The Wounded Kings - Consolamentum
Thou - Heathen
Threshold - For the Journey
Torch Runner - Endless Nothing
Towers - II
Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Truckfighters - Universe
Tweak Bird - Any Ol' Way
Unconscious Collective - Pleistocene Moon
Vader - Tibi Et Igni
Vainaja - Kadotetut
Vallenfyre - Splinters
Valley Of The Sun - Electric Talons Of The Thunderhawk
Vampire - Vampire
Vanhelga - Längtan
Varathron – The Untrodden Corridors of Hades
Vardan - Enjoy Of Deep Sadness
various artists - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles
Verlies - Le Domaine Des Hommes
Vestal Claret - The Cult Of Vestal Claret
Vintersorg - Naturbål
Voices - London
Vorde - Vorde
Voyager - V
Vulgar Trade - Gross Century
Vuyvr - Incinerated Gods
Wælwulf - Heresiarch
Waldgeflüster - Meine Fesseln
Whispered - Shogunate Macabre
Winterfylleth - The Divination of Antiquity
Witch Charmer - The Great Depression
Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
Wizard Rifle - Here In The Deadlights
Wo Fat - The Conjuring
Woccon - Solace in Decay
Wold - Postsocial
Wolvhammer - Clawing into Black Sun
Woman Is The Earth - Depths
Woods of Desolation - As the Stars
Words of Farewell - The Black Wild Yonder
Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate
Yautja - Songs of Descent
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Zgard - Contemplation

I haven't heard this yet, but I will!

Colour Haze - To The Highest Gods We Knew

can anyone remember the max amount of albums allowed to vote for from last year?

I think it was 50. Nobody wants more than that do they?

50 sounds more than enough.

A few late additions

Alraune - the Process of Self-Immolation
Yith - Yith
Xothist - Simulacrum
Vermin Womb - Permanence
Primitive Man/Fister - Split 12"

Interested no one has nominated Celestite by WiTTR. I can't bring myself to either.

consider it nominated cuz im doing it

honest q: how heavy does it have to be to be nommed?
like is this acceptable? https://worstward.bandcamp.com/album/spiral-horns-black-onions-et-al
is there where we put weird drone stuff too?
i mean not like it matters in the long run wrt polls and voting, but there's no other home for stuff like that and i feel it's worth recognizing on an EOY basis.

you can nominate and vote for what you feel is appropriate but do bear in mind you might be the only one. However the point is to vote for your fave albums. I see no reason why heavier/weird drone shouldn't count.

if we can include noise i would like to include this one just before ze deadline:

Pharmakon - Bestial Burden

there's just under 6 hours left to nominate

i think the more the merrier - the nomination list is a good way to check out new stuff.

Ok then
Ulaan Markhor - Spiral Horns, Black Onions, et al

yeah! glad to see you nominate that, La Lechera.

It's great if you like loud guitars, plodding rhythms, dynamic heavy songs without words. I figure it fits in here better than anywhere else.
I'll see if there's anything else I can think of in the next 6 hrs or w/e.

right some more to add in:

Arcana Coelestia - Nomas
Archspire - The Lucid Collective
Black Crown Initiate - The Wreckage of Stars
Cormorant - Earth Diver
Dust Sculptures - Far Above the Pines
Epitimia - (Un)reality
Execration - Morbid Dimensions
Frozen Dawn - Those of the Cursed Light
Infestus - The Reflecting Void
Moanaa - Descent
Morowe - S
Mors Principium Est - Dawn of the 5th Era
Neurotech - Infra Versus Ultra
Opus of a Machine - Simulacra
Order of Isaz - Seven Years of Famine
PoiL - Brossaklitt
The Room Colored Charlatan - Primitives
Septicflesh - Titan
Singularity - Singularity
Teramaze - Esoteric Symbolism
The Austerity Program - Beyond Calculation
Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet

all the above are available on spotify, apart from these:

Dust Sculptures - Far Above the Pines
http://dustsculptures.bandcamp.com/album/far-above-the-pines
atmospheric black metal / blackgaze / post-rock from USA - Nashville, Tennessee

Moanaa - Descent
http://moanaa.bandcamp.com/album/descent
post-metal / atmospheric sludge metal from Poland

Opus of a Machine - Simulacra
https://opusofamachine.bandcamp.com/album/simulacra
modern progressive metal from Australia

others notes:

Epitimia - (Un)reality
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/epitimia/_un_reality/
From Russia
Genres Atmospheric Black Metal
Melodic Black Metal, Blackgaze, Avant-Garde Metal, Electronic
an album 1hr 52 long - one for the experimental-metal fans
ethereal female vocals
this is their 5th and best rated so far on rym, this is the first i have listened to.

Mors Principium Est - Dawn of the 5th Era
released today on spotify, from one of the contemporary leading bands within melodic death metal

PoiL - Brossaklitt
Brutal avant-prog
one of the very best experimental / avant rock releases of 2014, dynamic, intense, chaotic, expansive, heavy
also on bandcamp
http://poil.bandcamp.com/album/brossaklitt

Teramaze - Esoteric Symbolism
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/teramaze/esoteric_symbolism/
From Australia, their 4th - new band to me, their first album was released in 1995
not the normal sort of metal i listen to, progressive metal with some symphonic / power metal
excellent production, flowing yet technical sound, although the vocal style can be a bit trad for my liking

Yellow Eyes - The Desert Mourns

and another one

<b>Mournful Congregation - Concrescence Of The Sophia</b>

Phobocosm - Deprived: "weird," massive Canadian death metal. http://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deprived or https://play.spotify.com/album/7eqtKPcf4pceb0SSwMAzST

Rude - Soul Recall: phenomenal recreation of that Consuming Impulse/Leprosy sound. https://play.spotify.com/album/5UZNmxariiySiX9g5aOIFh

Tortorum - Katabasis: a less rockin', more engrossing kind of Watain thing. http://www.terrorizer.com/news/stream-tortorums-new-album-katabasis-full-terrorizer/ or https://play.spotify.com/album/4jk8m0NnGDJ6RI1MjI3rES

I have no idea what's going on with the text formatting there. Possibly all the links made everything screwy.

Black Veil Brides – Black Veil Brides
††† – †††
Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown
Issues - Issues
Motionless In White – Reincarnate
Suicide Silence – You Can’t Stop Me

first time listening to this Serpentine Path - Emanations and it's kinda dope. good find

Blaspherian - Upon the Throne... of Eternal Blasphemous Death
Gust - s/t
Just Before Dawn - The Aftermath
Krieg - Transient
Skelethal - Deathmanicvs Revelation
Today is the Day - Animal Mother

and maybe someone could actually vote for this, right?
Entombed A.D. - Back to the Front

oh good call on the TITD. thats in my list for sure.

seem to be lacking hamster friendly girlie power metal from japan

1 hour to go. form will go live at midnight so if any early birds want to start compiling their list go for it

i've got just a few more

Aramaic - The Fallen
Aras - Pest
Ferium - Reflections
Seal of Solomon - I the King

seem to be lacking hamster friendly girlie power metal from japan

yer not talking about me but I'll bite (and maybe actually listen to these too)

Cyntia - Limit Break
Albion - Campanula
Aldious - Dazed and Delight
Mary's Blood - Countdown to Evolution

is babymetal not hamster friendly girlie power metal from japan?

hamster friendly girlie power metal from japan for noobs

i actually hope it wins just to see the reaction

i dig mary's blood

maybe we can get babymetal in the big eoy poll top 10 if we form a voting bloc

You guys got most of mine. Here are a few people might've missed.

Amberian Dawn - Magic Forest
Monster Magnet - Milking the Stars
Amaranthe - Massive Addictive
Goatwhore - Constricting Rage of the Merciless
Trap Them - Blissfucker
Hark - Crystalline
Portrait - Crossroads
Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion
Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out
Sister Sin - Black Lotus

Oh yeah, and for fans of Blood Stain Child, here's the solo album from their former singer:

Season of Ghosts - The Human Paradox

Inconcessus Lux Lucis - Crux Lupus Corona EP
Inconcessus Lux Lucis - Disintegration: Psalms of Veneration for the Nefarious Elite

Forgot to bold because I'm a terrible person.

voting will start in 2 mins

nominations closed

Jucifer - District of Dystopia

tho i will add them to the spreadsheet for silly latecomers but be aware it wont be on the ilm thread and ppl may have already voted

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No one nominated the Hellbeard EP this year... damn.. LOL!

I just voted... think there's still a couple hours?

add Necrophagia - WhiteWorm Cathedral i guess?

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ps thats on the list afaik

oh yeah jesus, i was so confused