~~~ 15 YEARS OF ILM POLL!!! ~~~ (Metal & Heavy Rock [+ related sub-genres] Edition) RESULTS & DISCUSSION THREAD

Big thanks to seandalai for tabulating, it will be a few more hours until he hands me the results as he is busy but he assures me they will be ready tonight.

I think we have almost 80 ballots so thanks to all who voted!

The reason I'm starting the thread just now is to make an offer.

If anyone can successfully predict the correct outcome of the top 10 before I post the first results tonight I will paypal the winner $10 at the end of the poll! (Or I will purchase you a digital album from bandcamp up to that value)

Just correctly predict the order of the top 10 and win $10!

Seandalai of course cant participate :)

1. smash mouth astrolounge

yawn

The top ten albums from the all-time metal poll from the eligible time period:

6. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
12. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
16. Sleep - Dopesmoker
28. Corrupted - El Mundo Frio
30. Converge - Jane Doe
32. Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
35. Yob - Catharsis
40. Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
46. Mastodon - Remission
49. Yob - The Great Cessation

I hadn't thought of that so that may be a very good guess!

(I didnt vote for any of these but #11 in this sequence was a top 10 pick #falsekvlt) xp

I wonder how previous EOY Pollwinners will do

2008 Torche - Meanderthal
2009 Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
2010 Electric Wizard - Black Masses
2011 Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street
2012 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
2013 carcass - surgical steel
2014 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
2015 Ghost - Meliora

― LAST DAY to vote in ILM Lifetime heavy Rock & Metal Poll! (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 9 September 2016 22:04 (two days ago)

I wonder how Meanderthal will fare. That used to be such a huge album

I think that Sunn O))) album prob has a decent shot. That still feels like a career-high from a still-notable band

With a lot of those winners I think that they have other albums people think are better. And many of those were nominated. Sunn o))) I think that is their most highly rated on ILM but amongst fans Black One seems more popular but yknow fans

Dopethrone will win by 500 points

I HAZ RESULTZ! Are you ready to rumble? (not downloaded them yet and need to get album cover links/spotify etc so gimme a few mins but I want to check that people are here and ready to go!

i hope you've chosen a good cut-off

Top 666

Spotify playlist for results to subscribe to
https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/3Yf5vyzlteGaKqoJc1tZ8o
spotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:3Yf5vyzlteGaKqoJc1tZ8o

i heard the new number of the beast was 166 to save on space

Jajajaja

#300 300 Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness 72 Points, 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/QhV6W3E.png

https://open.spotify.com/album/5f1Oo7fNEXK8NOPc733pow
spotify:album:5f1Oo7fNEXK8NOPc733pow

I figured out the top 10 but I won't say it for less than 1000$

Have A Nice Next Three Weeks

Have A Nice Argument About Whether This Is Metal

you wont be complaining when the stuff you like sneaks in

Ooh I voted for this! It sounds like what would happen if you held a optimistic young emo band hostage in a warehouse without sustenance and forced them to make a dark ambient album in the space of a fortnight. It's disgusting. I like it a lot.

299 Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God 72.3 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/fPe820y.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3j0GCUTDz53x9Mzl8L1Fwz
spotify:album:3j0GCUTDz53x9Mzl8L1Fwz

can we do like 40 tonight dear leader and potentate of all things heavy

I'll be doing as many as i can

298 Slipknot - Iowa, 73 Points, 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/2TEBxbT.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5Zs0mNCTs73CqPKbZPWFX9
spotify:album:5Zs0mNCTs73CqPKbZPWFX9

who is amon amarth anyway, he seems pretty badass if he can ride a serpent through an asteroid storm while trying to kill it with a meat tenderiser

real metal according to the person who nominated it

Good to see us starting out with The Flenser.

Also, I dont hate that Slipknot album.

297 Devil - Time to Repent 73.5 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/jwGrlhc.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0XYaTG6xel8iFyXqwiqZBW
spotify:album:0XYaTG6xel8iFyXqwiqZBW

is there a metal band just called 'metal'

'heavy'

'riff'

Also, I'm liking the three-vote cutoff. Quite promising for a bunch of my dopey non-metal nominations

296 Melechesh - Sphynx , 73.6 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/ownj07g.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5w16ZWIyl47fLKIMdjyU9C
spotify:album:5w16ZWIyl47fLKIMdjyU9C

I wonder if any 'Satan' albums were nominated...

Top how many?! Looking forward to watching this unfold...

295 Ghost - Infestissumam 74 Points, 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/tjH4yv6.gif
https://open.spotify.com/album/4ofg5qqqL8ltO78qusROLq
spotify:album:4ofg5qqqL8ltO78qusROLq

I voted for a ton of dopey non-metal things. I can't wait to obfuscate my working week with metal.

Is this Ghost album as infectiously nice as last year's poll-winner?

294 Sannhet - Revisionist 74.75 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/mZN7V4W.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/53v9lXqm5JdDPo1K9rauuu
spotify:album:53v9lXqm5JdDPo1K9rauuu

jesus they love mangling their latin don't they (see also: the chorus to 'he is')

If people dont want such a long rollout I can just dump the 293-201 results just now no big deal

ghost i mean. gannnet album was p nice iirc

dump them one by one with a spotify link and a jpg and see if we can catch up

Gannnet

300 Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness 72.33333333 3 0
299 Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God 72.33333333 4 0
298 Slipknot - Iowa 73 3 0
297 Devil - Time to Repent 73.52777778 4 0
296 Melechesh - Sphynx 73.625 4 0
295 Ghost - Infestissumam 74.33333333 3 0
294 Sannhet - Revisionist 74.75 4 0
293 Cleric - Regressions 75 2 0
292 Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells 75 3 0
291 Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre 75.47826087 3 0
290 Cloud Rat - Qliphoth 75.625 3 0
286 Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV 76 2 0
286 Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients 76 2 0
286 Panopticon - Roads to the North 76 2 0
286 Pissed Jeans - Shallow 76 2 0
285 Darkspace - Dark Space I 76.75 3 0
283 Murmuüre - Murmuüre 77 2 0
283 Oneida - Rated O 77 2 0
282 Opeth - Deliverance 77 3 0
279 Catacombs - In the Depths of R'lyeh 78 2 0
279 Kvelertak - Kvelertak 78 2 0
279 Sunn 0))) - ØØ Void 78 2 0
278 Mournful Congregation - Book Of Kings 78 3 0
277 Nightwish - Wishmaster 78.625 3 0
276 Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond 79 3 0
275 Zu - Carboniferous 79.33333333 4 0
273 Cough - Ritual Abuse 80 2 0
273 Raventale - After 80 2 0
270 Neurosis - Given To The Rising 80 3 0
270 Vektor - Outer Isolation 80 3 0
270 maudlin of the Well - Bath 80 3 0
268 Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis 81 2 0
268 Panopticon - Kentucky 81 2 0
267 Skepticism - Ordeal 82 2 0
266 Opeth - Watershed 82 3 0
265 Sunn 0))) - White 2 82.625 3 0
263 EyeHateGod - Confederacy of Ruined Lives 82.625 4 0
263 Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm 82.625 4 0
261 Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - La Novia 83 3 0
261 Nails - Abandon All Life 83 3 0
259 Sunn 0))) - Flight Of The Behemoth 86 3 0
259 The Devil's Blood ‎ - The Thousandfold Epicentre 86 3 0
258 Gojira - From Mars to Sirius 86.75 4 0
256 Dawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun God 87 3 0
256 Skepticism - Farmakon 87 3 0
255 Stargazer - A Great Work of Ages 87.625 3 0
254 Deafheaven - New Bermuda 87.75 4 0
253 Deathspell Omega - Paracletus 88.625 3 0
251 Iron Maiden - Brave New World 89 3 0
251 Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil 89 3 0
250 Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part 2 89.52777778 4 0
249 Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape 89.625 5 0
248 The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller 90 3 0
247 Portal - Vexovoid 90 4 0
246 Sunn 0))) - White 1 90.625 3 0
244 Comets on Fire - Comets on Fire 92 3 0
244 Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue 92 3 0
243 Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand 92.625 3 0
242 Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess 92.75 3 0
241 Satan - Atom By Atom 93 3 0
240 Opeth - Damnation 94 4 0
239 Summoning - Oath Bound 95 3 0
237 Blut aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God 95 3 1
237 Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye 95 3 1
236 Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers 95.625 3 0
235 Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor 96 3 0
233 Enslaved - Isa 97 3 0
233 Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction 97 3 0
229 Enslaved - Mardraum - Beyond the Within 98 3 0
229 Thumpermonkey - Sleep Furiously 98 3 0
229 Toxic Holocaust - Hell on Earth 98 3 0
229 Tribulation - The Children of the Night 98 3 0
228 Devin Townsend - Addicted 98.625 3 0
227 Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy 99 3 0
226 Virus - The Black Flux 99 5 0
225 KEN Mode - Success 100 3 0
223 Gojira - The Way of All Flesh 100 4 0
223 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée... 100 4 0
221 Spectral Lore - III 103 3 0
221 Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame 103 3 0
220 Metallica - St. Anger 104 3 0
219 Motörhead - Inferno 105 4 0
218 Domains - Sinister Ceremonies 106 2 1
217 Oneida - Secret Wars 106 3 0
216 mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas 106.625 6 0
215 Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss 106.9583333 4 0
214 Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters 107 4 0
213 Oranssi Pazuzu - Valionielu 108.40625 4 0
212 Babymetal - Babymetal 109 3 0
211 Satan - Life Sentence 110 4 0
210 Krallice - Years Past Matter 110.625 3 0
209 Morbus Chron - Sweven 110.625 6 0
208 Yob - Elaborations of Carbon 111.9583333 4 0
207 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones 112 3 0
206 Yob - The Illusion of Motion 112.625 3 0
205 Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard 112.625 4 0
204 Asva - Presences of Absences 113.625 4 0
203 The Darkness - Permission To Land 114 3 1
202 Opeth - Ghost Reveries 114 5 0
201 Baroness - Purple 114.9583333 5 0

Will resume the 200 tomorrow folks

Dowsing Anemone was my #7, 777 - Cosmosophy my #12. Go well, brave warriors

No chance of going down to 191?

Comets on Fire in my top 10 somewhere. Had hoped to see it creeping into the top 200

maybe later but I dont feel too good just now. Maybe in 30 mins after i have something to eat? I didnt have any lunch today as i got up late after being in plug.dj/ilxors til 6am

i expect you will be pleased at #229?

wtf just happened

I was looking forward to a long rollout

fair enough, à ta santé

I'll have a shower then eat supper then post some more cuz you asked so nicely imago.
That should give some time for everyone to discuss 300-201!

might give that domains album a bash seeing as devilock and dominique think it is great

Was expecting WITTR to poll higher. Or is that just me projecting?

Whatever: I'm amazed Lynx didn't bring out a 'Vastness and Sorrow' range.

the deodorant people? lol

A few from my ballot in this batch:

291 Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre 75.47826087 3 0
275 Zu - Carboniferous 79.33333333 4 0
263 Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm 82.625 4 0
253 Deathspell Omega - Paracletus 88.625 3 0
251 Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil 89 3 0
243 Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand 92.625 3 0
236 Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers 95.625 3 0
210 Krallice - Years Past Matter 110.625 3 0

All of them being much too low obviously.

I've never been able to figure out the point when the poll changes from being too low to too high

New Bermuda at 254! :D

i voted for 14 of these btw, it doesn't matter

who knew there was 4 people in the world who likes Thumpermonkey

ok lets start the top 200, I had some soup and I've a freshly made pot of Yorkshire Gold.

200 Yob - Atma 115.9 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/Hjk2gj4.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6WxvbvVMBUNkotw63pYcr3
spotify:album:6WxvbvVMBUNkotw63pYcr3

feel like most of my ballot was covered in 201-300

lots say that, part of the reason I do a long rollout so voters dont feel they are wasting their time.

I've tried my best to encourage more death metal, trad metal etc voters to participate but what else can I do?

I feel that the vast majority of Addicted's 98.625 points were a BradNelson/imago joint effort

what else can I do?
Not dumb shit like this

Kerr I can appreciate your insecurities but this was quite the depressing development. You might as well just dump the whole fucking thing...

I wasnt feeling well! I thought it best to post 300-201 to give ppl something to discuss

199 Darkspace - Dark Space II 116 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/XCSDJB0.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5qyvoRKkS8jofyklUgRsZZ
spotify:album:5qyvoRKkS8jofyklUgRsZZ

tbf we still have 199, sorry 198 albums to discuss, and they're not ALL going to be stoner doom and nu-thrash thank god

this album is ok iirc, i kind of ignored it after III came out

Ok ok Im sorry. I didnt know you were sick. I figured you got really anxious bcz imago was the only one posting and he was making fun of the long rollout. Its just now theres a bunch of my albums that might as well not have made it

Though I think posting them all at once us a surefire of inhibiting most discussion

:( they did make it though! But with me not feeling well and starting so late the longer rollout wouldnt have finished on friday. I thought it was for the best

I promise longer rollouts in future!

Great last track on that Yob album.

Holy shit, Years Past Matter only made #210? That was my #2! I played the shit out of it while temping that year.

XP: Well Im not trying to bust your chops about being sick. But Im not honna try to force conversation about Valonielu or Tad Times Xpress either.

Glad you dig the Comets on Fire album too, tt

sund4r: I am definitely sooner or later gonna push towards getting into Krallice

Major push, I mean. Totally Krallic-ing out.

i chucked Years Past Matter a load of points. and Valonielu! (altho their new album is better)

yeah Krallice's placement is nuts

one thing that concerns me is that there was a maximum ballot of 100, but there are albums with less than 100 points with a first place vote. so how many points does first place get?

Unweighted ballot?

seandalai would need to answer that

but most likely an unweighted ballot

xp

Which one, Kayo Dot?

Unweighted shouldnt have a #1

The whole shit is rigged

you can have an unweighted ballot AND a first place? lol

oh yeah what DAM said

198 Liturgy - The Ark Work 116.75 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/tV1XZBn.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7vtPszc1ShG0p7wwBzUjjt
spotify:album:7vtPszc1ShG0p7wwBzUjjt

my #13

it's a gestamkunstwerk, y'know

Totally misread the band name on the Yob album cover

Which one, Kayo Dot?

Happened with Blut Aus Nord: 95 points but a #1 vote. Are #1 votes on mixed ballots (or ballots with <100 albums) counted for less than #1 votes on unmixed ballots?

I dont know

I'm pretty sure Liturgy was my number #13 too! I still can't get on board with Darkspace though.

197 Zombi - Spirit Animal 117.3333333 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/Ef72bTR.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0AuQ7TOpUJ7XnENse36Ryi
spotify:album:0AuQ7TOpUJ7XnENse36Ryi

I'm sorry I came down so hard, Kerr. It will in fact be that much cooler if any of my fringe-psych or noise nominations crack the Top 200.

196 Mastery - VALIS 118 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/WESYUGS.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5OlSKO3xPxWSLBhrFxLN7W
spotify:album:5OlSKO3xPxWSLBhrFxLN7W

...and there's my #14. it's savage

riding an elephant through space metal

riding an elephant through a pyroclastic flow in space

What do you want me to take it down to, tonight?

195 Slough Feg - Hardworlder 120 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/43XWuMj.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3gk427a3XyFoH76BzhNkta
spotify:album:3gk427a3XyFoH76BzhNkta

I wish Bill Magill was still around

I voted for VALIS, but I still feel like I haven't wrapped my head around it fully (which may be the fun of it)

194 Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey 120.4 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/KvEDlAM.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5zUD0skxZ0SdX2GnJmRpp4
spotify:album:5zUD0skxZ0SdX2GnJmRpp4

^ a very underrated album

Is this Ghost album as infectiously nice as last year's poll-winner?

I'm not as fond of Infestissumam as the other two albums, but it's grown on me some now that it's been followed up by something stronger and it's not under the pressure of being the most recent album. Ghuleh/Zombie Queen and Monstrance Clock are highlights.

Monstrance Clock is easily the best song Ghost ever made but the album isn't as good as the other 2 but its still a good album, just not great like the other 2.

It does lack the meatier sound of Meliora, but the songs are great.

yeah the more pop production disappointed a lot of people

193 Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide 122 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/Jyaji6I.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7hri9oTVqAvHdY7AhaFReQ
spotify:album:7hri9oTVqAvHdY7AhaFReQ

Monstrance Clock starts out like House Of Fun, which the closing track on Meliora does as well :D

oh I voted for this. it's a sad little horror album

You guys OK for me taking this down to 181 tonight?

293 Cleric - Regressions 75 2 0
270 maudlin of the Well - Bath 80 3 0
293 Cleric - Regressions 75 2 0
253 Deathspell Omega - Paracletus 88.625 3 0
237 Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye 95 3 1
226 Virus - The Black Flux 99 5 0
223 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée... 100 4 0
221 Spectral Lore - III 103 3 0
214 Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters 107 4 0
213 Oranssi Pazuzu - Valionielu 108.40625 4 0
210 Krallice - Years Past Matter 110.625 3 0
209 Morbus Chron - Sweven 110.625 6 0

These are my favourites of the albums that have placed so far, a bit disappointed about some of them but there we are. But I got into that Morbus Chron album mostly cos of ILM hype at the time so that is a little bit surprising I suppose. I though Paracletus was more well-loved too.

oh shit, didn't see Cleric! That was my #4

192 Electric Wizard - Time To Die 122.48 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/JqUexFt.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/27GYOIfwiOWT7LJ8dt5Swl
spotify:album:27GYOIfwiOWT7LJ8dt5Swl

the next couple are ties

Ugh, sorry late to the party and struggling to keep up, The Ark Work and Valis are good to see as they are both pretty niche.

TIE
190 Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux 123 Points , 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/K2YkNev.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/48jgCCT2dQpdJXhO3QRUI8

wooooo

here it comes, the non metal joy

Oh no! I didn't think it was eligible! I would have definitely voted for it. Yay for Wizards

TIE
190 Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg 123 Points, 3 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/onYFjQQ.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5RGt5RZlIIOzQGQTHAYsNC
spotify:album:5RGt5RZlIIOzQGQTHAYsNC

that wasn't sarcastic btw, i will listen to folie a deux and like it

Thy Catafalque are awesome and especially on this record.

they are indeed and the new one is superb too (as is the one inbetween. Would you recommend the previous albums?

xpost I voted for Xasthur! I think it might have been a Thurston Moore mention that persuaded me to check them out

They're good too, but with Rengeteg they finally got that huge exciting sound.

TIE
188 Liturgy - Aesthetica 123 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/sqqLW4G.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1cpS5zdyOqr6hXLGiEr0Bj
spotify:album:1cpS5zdyOqr6hXLGiEr0Bj

188 Mastodon - Blood Mountain 123 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/bbiNyx1.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1n8QZFcwx5aQ2LIIlj0iYe
spotify:album:1n8QZFcwx5aQ2LIIlj0iYe

everything written about thy catafalque makes them seem amazing. will have to dive in

187 Solstafir - Otta 124.625 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/7KVUq9E.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/48YUS7Bb70nhn7bLMY7CSC
spotify:album:48YUS7Bb70nhn7bLMY7CSC

Yes to Blood Mountain.

the Solstafir was in the unweighted part of my ballot

I'd not heard Thy Catafalque til last night in the plug.dj thing, wrongfully assumed they were some kind of funeral doom. Really cool stuff. Another ILM poll success story!

Also, obligatory "Blus Aus Nord's Work Which Transforms God should be way higher" post. It was one of the best booster shots for black metal in the early 2000s.

good to see someone had it #1 at any rate

186 Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation 124.625 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/UNUJ3Se.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3CI68TgPHJRZKibRQqXMIO
spotify:album:3CI68TgPHJRZKibRQqXMIO

I somehow managed to NOT vote for Mastery, which is clearly an oversight on my part. Great great record. Apparently all improvised?

185 My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge 125.625 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/KFnttjU.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3DuiGV3J09SUhvp8gqNx8h
spotify:album:3DuiGV3J09SUhvp8gqNx8h

Hated this in high school and can't imagine it's aged well.

Sorry.

I voted for both of these!

tt can't summon the strength to post but is very excited and sad she didn't vote for mcr

blood mountain is great but I kinda feel bad about how far ahead leviathan will place when I think they're about equally great

184 Shape of Despair - Shades Of... 126 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/UoOZrV2.jpg

such a great album, think I cut it from my 100 tho so pleased to see it place

SHADES OF WHAT???!!!

Im gonna keep posting as long as you are all around posting too

183 Jute Gyte - Isolation 126.6 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/zpVc797.jpg
https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/isolation
https://open.spotify.com/album/3XARREM5x1MR4wm9oCbkne
spotify:album:3XARREM5x1MR4wm9oCbkne

I've never heard this one but, whoa, am I reading right that one piece is based on a 12-note series??

Xasthur is sounding good so far.

I didn't realize Jute Gyte had any 'metal' albums this old, I thought Discontinuities was his first in that regard.

I think that's just the first with a 24tet guitar?

Notes:
The first track takes its title from György Ligeti's description of a childhood dream. As with Young Eagle I had difficulties with this middle album, which is stylistically all over the map: the opening track is one of the most diatonic, accessible things I've ever released; “Age, Seperation, and Cold” has probably the longest uninterrupted stretches of blasting I've ever written; the title track is a long ambient synth piece; “The Cry Essaying the Waters” has a big power chord riff that I may as well admit is a knockoff of Type O Negative's “Blood and Fire”; “The Irreality of the Past” is dodecaphonic.

"This is precisely the direction underground black metal in the States needs to take: textured, creative and intelligent without shunning the conventions that were originally conceived overseas by the genre forebears....It's time to start talking about this project with the same reverence once given to US underground mavens like Xasthur and Leviathan." - From the Dust Returned
credits
released May 1, 2012

Created July 2010 - September 2010
VI is based on the series 0,1,9,4,5,T,2,3,8,6,7,E

This isn't even 24tet! It predates 24tet. Also, that opening track is fucking incredible, it's his summer jam!

Bodes well for all his other albums in this poll. Sorry, everyone.

I've somehow managed to never listen to Xasthur, they are now on my to do list (I'm too tired to listen to anything new right now)

182 Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel 128 Points, 3 Votes One #1
http://i.imgur.com/I4x1zJ0.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1BTpXpvzQeVXmsERKLL9Bb
spotify:album:1BTpXpvzQeVXmsERKLL9Bb

NSBM alert

Xasthur are fun (or not fun, I'm sure he'd hate to be considered 'fun') but you don't need more than two or three albums. Subliminal Genocide and Nocturnal Poisoning are enough for all but the most dedicated fan. Try those two, though.

181 Orphaned Land - Mabool 128 Points, 4 Votes One #1
http://i.imgur.com/2UHmPJc.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2U4CIMD0Mm2uBHayGebNuv
spotify:album:2U4CIMD0Mm2uBHayGebNuv

Mordy's #1 I think

MENA metal :)

180 Yellow Swans - Going Places 128.4 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/9dNsXYf.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4Rti9CCEIh5I2ftLnojajm
spotify:album:4Rti9CCEIh5I2ftLnojajm

mabool is great

Checking out Yellow Swans now, I detect a little tonality behind all the noise. What scene were these guys out of?

179 Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées 129.5 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/TrmesUG.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4mif1rLyMHyVYqanzFoJQN
spotify:album:4mif1rLyMHyVYqanzFoJQN

Never heard of Les Discrets but the first five minutes of this is promising. Kind of shoegazey metal, right?

yup

178 Reverend Bizarre - II - Crush The Insects 131 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/4pa2PUG.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1GSkaQq77L31vHXVxGngVZ
spotify:album:1GSkaQq77L31vHXVxGngVZ

featuring DOOM OVER THE WORLD

https://youtu.be/HUMAXMMoBvQ

re: nokturnal mortum, apparently they dropped the NSBM shtick completely before that album

like hitler dropped his shtick before he shot himself?

anyway their music is pretty good shame about the rest of it

177 Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer 131.62 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/fsXMVcq.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6x95DGZhx18gJuxRlbwZso
spotify:album:6x95DGZhx18gJuxRlbwZso

I just realised that I forgot to check what made the top 50 bar the #1

well almost all of my ballot has already placed. ok then. :/

176 Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane 133 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/4t2ygaM.png
https://open.spotify.com/album/4IgFA6XfZ20l6oqVkM79Dk
spotify:album:4IgFA6XfZ20l6oqVkM79Dk

Taking it down to 171 tonight

looking forward to listening to these

the CDG cover is lovely

175 Mayhem - Ordo ad chao 134 Points, 3 Votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/kpjEe4h.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/79UgnwbipkpzXDOGlFbZQo
spotify:album:79UgnwbipkpzXDOGlFbZQo

have never listened to that. I don't trust recent Mayhem to be any good.

174 Mgla - Exercises In Futility 135.6 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/EcY0AoQ.jpg
https://no-solace.bandcamp.com/album/exercises-in-futility-lp-2015

I disliked their most recent one, Esoteric Warfare. The one before Ordo ad Chao, Chimera, was kind of "safe." Ordo, however, is endlessly fascinating. I remember reading someone who said listening to it feels like driving through Chernobyl and that seems accurate. (Ironically it is anything but driving music; it's "put on headphones and astrally project" music.)

It's very lo fi, but not in a noisy way. It has a weird smoothness to it, and probably works similar to something like Darkspace in that more attention pays more rewards.

edit: awesome string of albums there, three of my favs of the era

173 Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance 137 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/zH4fNL3.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6LXzs2hsUrEryy3qOx0eTy
spotify:album:6LXzs2hsUrEryy3qOx0eTy

i discovered this album over the last 3 days and have listened to it obsessively, putting it high up my ballot. absolutely incredible music. slowly encircling, then spectacularly crushing. a showstopper.

yay I voted for that Esoteric. It's really good. So is that Mgla album but I gues it didn't make it onto my ballot.

172 Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage 138 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/zH4fNL3.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6bvhgwuygNJJ60VHqz5DEi
spotify:album:6bvhgwuygNJJ60VHqz5DEi

oops

172 Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage 138 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/AnAg0gF.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6bvhgwuygNJJ60VHqz5DEi
spotify:album:6bvhgwuygNJJ60VHqz5DEi

Imago I do wish you would check out all the other Esoteric albums. Some of the very best Funeral Doom has to offer

I never really got into WITTR. they just don't do it for me I guess.

Next one up is the last for the evening

171 Tool - 10000 Days 139 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/sLUZLI5.jpg

ugh

Slipknot shoulda placed higher than this!

I like Tool but did not vote for this

Whoa, Isolation sounds great so far (based on the last two tracks). I wonder if he played better when he only had 12 frets/octave to deal with. The solo on the last track is awesome.

I only like Wings for Marie/10000 Days from this. It's got some real deplorables, especially in the second half.

RECAP 300-171

300 Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness 72.33333333 3 0
299 Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God 72.33333333 4 0
298 Slipknot - Iowa 73 3 0
297 Devil - Time to Repent 73.52777778 4 0
296 Melechesh - Sphynx 73.625 4 0
295 Ghost - Infestissumam 74.33333333 3 0
294 Sannhet - Revisionist 74.75 4 0
293 Cleric - Regressions 75 2 0
292 Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells 75 3 0

291 Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre 75.47826087 3 0
290 Cloud Rat - Qliphoth 75.625 3 0
286 Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV 76 2 0
286 Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients 76 2 0
286 Panopticon - Roads to the North 76 2 0
286 Pissed Jeans - Shallow 76 2 0
285 Darkspace - Dark Space I 76.75 3 0
283 Murmuüre - Murmuüre 77 2 0
283 Oneida - Rated O 77 2 0
282 Opeth - Deliverance 77 3 0

279 Catacombs - In the Depths of R'lyeh 78 2 0
279 Kvelertak - Kvelertak 78 2 0
279 Sunn 0))) - ØØ Void 78 2 0
278 Mournful Congregation - Book Of Kings 78 3 0
277 Nightwish - Wishmaster 78.625 3 0
276 Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond 79 3 0
275 Zu - Carboniferous 79.33333333 4 0
273 Cough - Ritual Abuse 80 2 0
273 Raventale - After 80 2 0
270 Neurosis - Given To The Rising 80 3 0
270 Vektor - Outer Isolation 80 3 0
270 maudlin of the Well - Bath 80 3 0

268 Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis 81 2 0
268 Panopticon - Kentucky 81 2 0
267 Skepticism - Ordeal 82 2 0
266 Opeth - Watershed 82 3 0
265 Sunn 0))) - White 2 82.625 3 0
263 EyeHateGod - Confederacy of Ruined Lives 82.625 4 0
263 Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm 82.625 4 0
261 Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - La Novia 83 3 0
261 Nails - Abandon All Life 83 3 0

259 Sunn 0))) - Flight Of The Behemoth 86 3 0
259 The Devil's Blood ‎ - The Thousandfold Epicentre 86 3 0
258 Gojira - From Mars to Sirius 86.75 4 0
256 Dawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun God 87 3 0
256 Skepticism - Farmakon 87 3 0
255 Stargazer - A Great Work of Ages 87.625 3 0
254 Deafheaven - New Bermuda 87.75 4 0
253 Deathspell Omega - Paracletus 88.625 3 0
251 Iron Maiden - Brave New World 89 3 0
251 Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil 89 3 0
250 Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part 2 89.52777778 4 0

249 Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape 89.625 5 0
248 The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller 90 3 0
247 Portal - Vexovoid 90 4 0
246 Sunn 0))) - White 1 90.625 3 0
244 Comets on Fire - Comets on Fire 92 3 0
244 Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue 92 3 0
243 Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand 92.625 3 0
242 Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess 92.75 3 0
241 Satan - Atom By Atom 93 3 0
240 Opeth - Damnation 94 4 0

239 Summoning - Oath Bound 95 3 0
236 Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers 95.625 3 0
235 Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor 96 3 0
233 Enslaved - Isa 97 3 0
233 Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction 97 3 0

229 Enslaved - Mardraum - Beyond the Within 98 3 0
229 Thumpermonkey - Sleep Furiously 98 3 0
229 Toxic Holocaust - Hell on Earth 98 3 0
229 Tribulation - The Children of the Night 98 3 0
228 Devin Townsend - Addicted 98.625 3 0
227 Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy 99 3 0
226 Virus - The Black Flux 99 5 0
225 KEN Mode - Success 100 3 0
223 Gojira - The Way of All Flesh 100 4 0
223 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée... 100 4 0
221 Spectral Lore - III 103 3 0
221 Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame 103 3 0

220 Metallica - St. Anger 104 3 0
219 Motörhead - Inferno 105 4 0
217 Oneida - Secret Wars 106 3 0
216 mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas 106.625 6 0
215 Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss 106.9583333 4 0
214 Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters 107 4 0
213 Oranssi Pazuzu - Valionielu 108.40625 4 0
212 Babymetal - Babymetal 109 3 0
211 Satan - Life Sentence 110 4 0

210 Krallice - Years Past Matter 110.625 3 0
209 Morbus Chron - Sweven 110.625 6 0
208 Yob - Elaborations of Carbon 111.9583333 4 0
207 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones 112 3 0
206 Yob - The Illusion of Motion 112.625 3 0
205 Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard 112.625 4 0
204 Asva - Presences of Absences 113.625 4 0
202 Opeth - Ghost Reveries 114 5 0
201 Baroness - Purple 114.9583333 5 0

200 Yob - Atma 115.9583333 4 0
199 Darkspace - Dark Space II 116 4 0
198 Liturgy - The Ark Work 116.75 4 0
197 Zombi - Spirit Animal 117.3333333 4 0
196 Mastery - VALIS 118 4 0
195 Slough Feg - Hardworlder 120 4 0
194 Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey 120.4861111 5 0
193 Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide 122 5 0
192 Electric Wizard - Time To Die 122.4861111 6 0

190 Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux 123 3 0
190 Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg 123 3 0
188 Liturgy - Aesthetica 123 4 0
188 Mastodon - Blood Mountain 123 4 0
187 Solstafir - Otta 124.625 4 0
186 Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation 124.625 5 0
185 My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge 125.625 5 0
184 Shape of Despair - Shades Of... 126 4 0
183 Jute Gyte - Isolation 126.625 5 0

180 Yellow Swans - Going Places 128.40625 4 0
179 Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées 129.5277778 4 0
178 Reverend Bizarre - II - Crush The Insects 131 4 0
177 Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer 131.625 5 0
176 Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane 133 4 0
174 Mgla - Exercises In Futility 135.625 5 0
173 Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance 137 5 0
172 Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage 138 4 0
171 Tool - 10000 Days 139 4 0

Cant believe St Anger placed

Ha, I didn't notice that 777: Cosmosophy had placed already, and so low. That was my #3. Rated O and lol FOB were in my top 20 too. Secret Wars was top 25. Portal was in the unranked portion of my ballot.

I voted for these:

Kvelertak - Kvelertak
Satan - Atom By Atom
Tribulation - The Children of the Night
KEN Mode - Success
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Opeth - Ghost Reveries

I'm surprised especially to see the Kvelertak place so low, since I thought their album this year was crossing over to a wider audience, and their first album is pretty similar, except maybe a bit more metal.

I am very pleased that Domains beat St Anger

wait where did it go

I count ten from my ballot so far, I think. Surprised both those Gojira albums are so low.

Nine from mine, I think. Relistening to Mastery now - a violent way to start the week.

Ok looking my ballot over: Rated O was my #5 & Secret Wars my #12. Rad Times Xpress IV was my #11. Carboniferous - #17. Valonielu - #19. Comets on Fire - #21.

Bardo Pond and La Novia were further down, so can't complain there...

I liked Cotar Todo, but this Zu album is something else! Inexhaustibly intricate.

Celestial Lineage being that far above Two Hunters is a bit of an eyebrow raiser to me, especially since I prefer the latter by far.

holy fuck, the opening track of Rengeteg is AMAZING

Crush the Insects is not unenjoyable.

The rest of Rengeteg is less good, but what an opening track!

Too bad both Summoning records placed low, although I guess they'll always be a bit of a niche thing.

Nokturnal Mortum was my #1 btw, could say a lot more but I don't think many people really want to hear about them.

that's actually the thing i'm going to listen to next, so please do say more

Too bad both Summoning records placed low, although I guess they'll always be a bit of a niche thing.

i rated let moral heroes super high and was hoping for a better placement, oh well

oh my word this is wonderful

OK well Nokturnal Mortum's an intriguing band. They're like the Ukrainian version of Emperor, started out around the same time too. Had a couple of good records in the style of In The Nightside Eclipse with slavic folk bits, but kind ran into the ground around the end of the 90s through a combination of blatant nazi themes and increasingly shitty incoherent music. Band is left for dead for about five years, main dude fires all the other members and restarts the whole thing with much more of a Bathory/Moonsorrow vibe, pushes out one decent album and disappears again. Then out of nowhere The Voice Of Steel pops up at christmas 2009, which is fucking amazing by turning everything about prog/viking/folk metal up to eleven, and includes some oddball stuff like psychedelic blues rock solos. The aryan/nazi stuff is traded in for a mainstream Ukrainian nationalist agenda and all looks rosy again, but their part of Ukraine gets invaded/liberated by Russian militias. The band can't record much, but they play benefit gigs for the Ukrainian army & manage to travel out sporadically to play metal festivals around Europe.

yeah this is full-technicolour metal glory. with blues solos

the rollout! Many surprises so far -- biggest one for me is the low placing of Cultes des Ghoules' Henbane. One of my favorite old-school black metal releases of the 21st C for sure.

Also surprised those Satan albums placed so low.

thanks for the context siegbran, i actually want to listen to that album now

I voted for both Satan albums. That's one of the best bands in the world right now, imo.

same!

170 A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See 139 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/ZXhXEe8.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/10M9bimNf1sm0paabLv8Av
spotify:album:10M9bimNf1sm0paabLv8Av

this is another brilliant album, northern england's answer to ukrainian black metal ;)

This fell just out of my top 100, love the album cover tho.

Although what's that skeletal C3PO doing there?

Awww this album is fantastic! In my top 20 somewhere. Super melodic without being saccharine. Very fuzzy and magical, though that might be in part because his spoken vocals remind me of David Tibet.

xp He looks like he made a wrong turn at the ouroboros.

They're kind of metal's answer to steampunk, but they carry it well

And their songs are awesome

169 ASG - Blood Drive 139.6 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/gJfObIv.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7AdrkC8Ul8z9dBtxsHbwra
spotify:album:7AdrkC8Ul8z9dBtxsHbwra

Beware The Sword... is great, yeah. Wasn't my highest-rated AFOS album but I don't think that will appear.

168 The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute 140 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/KDbhJwP.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/47gm8wkdx7eA2yGzLXCRN5
spotify:album:47gm8wkdx7eA2yGzLXCRN5

im sure i listened to this like 10 years ago but i have no memory of it

OK who didn't vote for this

Oh like all of you, because it 'isn't metal'. Such closed minds! ;)

My #8

it is Heavy Rock

its not that great though lets be honest. the mcr albums in the poll are prob better haha

It is ferociously good. And such great FUN!

167 Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields 140.6 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/8tzAn8K.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1Aw60nUgrLPrs8yRMynCc8
spotify:album:1Aw60nUgrLPrs8yRMynCc8

Oh hey I voted for this too! The track In Longing is especially beautiful

166 Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars 140.6 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/JViE5Oy.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4aqJgxxo4nKUyXStKQUWWS
spotify:album:4aqJgxxo4nKUyXStKQUWWS

i voted for Two Hunters but this one is very good too

Oh and the opening track of Monotony Fields is also a stunner

I didnt vote for The Mars Volta cos theyre shite

165 In Solitude - The World. The Flesh. The Devil 141.1 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/legDmDc.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/25SYB9zU1aK8G4jjjVmy7s
spotify:album:25SYB9zU1aK8G4jjjVmy7s

164 Kylesa - Static Tensions 141.5 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/en96AFo.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0Aj7YOQ3gK97MouZ487emF
spotify:album:0Aj7YOQ3gK97MouZ487emF

163 Oceansize - Everyone Into Position 142 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/aBh4kdE.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2pTp9Bf8wLbTg3P8FaSbdJ
spotify:album:2pTp9Bf8wLbTg3P8FaSbdJ

Classic.

162 Fen - Epoch 142 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/GYgIIQQ.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Co5WjR7No5oNchGCUmsos
spotify:album:2Co5WjR7No5oNchGCUmsos

have a wild guess which of the last four albums I voted for

In Solitude were so great. That isn't my favourite album of theirs, but still good.

good band, yeah

The Fen album is excellent but I think I dropped it from my ballot

Recommended Oceansize track: You Can't Keep A Bad Man Down. Or The Charm Offensive.

The next one up I thought would go top 20 but there you go, ILM as unpredictable as ever

161 Witchcraft - Witchcraft 143 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/eT6yAfn.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/78bxf4S7ckC7ZIledDl1qO
spotify:album:78bxf4S7ckC7ZIledDl1qO

such a great album, was OOP for so long on vinyl it was nice to get it a few years back as the pic disk just wasnt enough

We are about to enter The George Section Part II (tho Witchcraft are the kind of psych hard rock he should dig)

160 Melt Banana - Fetch 143.5 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/dtJhf7C.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4C8VqFE4h4KWIsbAViqIby
spotify:album:4C8VqFE4h4KWIsbAViqIby

This is such a great album.

Best live band. This album captures their spirit nicely - maybe better than any of their other albums

amazing record

I've always wanted to see them live, but I havent done it yet. I made plans the last time, when they were touring with Melvins and Napalm Death, but they kinda fell through.

Trying to keep up with all the new stuff. Enjoying the Shape of Despair record.
If someone (imago!) could keep recommending a single track from each album that appears, that would be great. I'll pitch in where I can.

Love that Fen album.

TIE
158 Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Ame 144 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/phMv5kY.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1y9zL8o1XLnLsiDzoC7v0O
spotify:album:1y9zL8o1XLnLsiDzoC7v0O

158 Shellac - 1000 Hurts 144 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/CKnBMXu.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0UHOnddWyAQlP4s8Q1YeKR
spotify:album:0UHOnddWyAQlP4s8Q1YeKR

Also there is nothing fun about The Mars Volta!

Agreed!

I voted for Witchcraft! I'm extremely surprised to see it outside the top 100. Recommended track: Schyssta Logner

Meanwhile, this ASG album is perfectly pleasant, clean doom.

fuckin kill him

the only record i voted for in this part of the list was in solitude, which freaking rocks man!!!

xposts

Wasn't expecting to have to defend The Mars Volta so much! FTM was my #2. I love them unreservedly. Such energy and ingenuity! Space and prog and fragmented identity...and way too much of all of it. For me it is the perfect recipe.

Flower-sniffin' fakey bm vs. crank-rock

Another TMV lifer here too (still haven't heard their last album though)

Prog is my favourite thing but I don't get the Mars Volta.

Another TMV lifer here too (still haven't heard their last album though)

Haha yeah, me neither

i mention this every time it comes up but the last track on their last album is one of the best tmv songs ever. rest of it not so much

i didn't vote for frances the mute bc i am in the mood for it only once every like three years but i definitely love its brand of nonsense

Recommended FTM track is the opener. Nicely put tt

TIE
156 Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left And Fear Expecting Ahead 145 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/jcH7lWH.jpg
https://youtu.be/ezpuogyNf9w

156 Psychic Paramount - II 145 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/TvBoKQ6.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5o83c2xtEDEcXFrGNbd6CS
spotify:album:5o83c2xtEDEcXFrGNbd6CS

The Envy album is so great. My fave of theirs

Love the Psychic Paramount album but it told me to turn it down, citing repetitiveness :(

I forgot to vote for 1000 Hurts!

Totally voted for Psychic Paramount though. An awesome racket!

What about the Envy album? Such an awesome racket too

One of the best bands ever from Japan

I loved one Envy album from another poll, but it wasn't this one!

I can't remember if I voted for that Envy album or not...if not, that was a stupid omission.

I have no recollection of any conversations about Psychic Paramount ever...that doesn't sound like something I would say

If any non-voters are lurking following the results feel free to tell us what you think of albums you have discovered or given a listen to because of the poll.

Anyone can talk about ANY of the albums that have placed in the top 300 anytime

Yeah I really like that Envy album too. And the Melt-Banana.

I think you were in the next room tbf, and heavy psych is probably really annoying through a wall

I will reappraise it through headphones. Oh, I also voted for Melt Banana and echo sentiments already expressed. Recommended track: either the opener or closer are sensational, but the whole thing is a migraine of wonder

Oh I like that phrase. Must remember to steal it

Is Imago annoying through a wall? Or only when riding a horse into space?

'A migraine of wonder'. I'm in.

Going back a bit, I'm an early-Tool obsessive but never got anywhere with 10,000 Days. I've got the CD edition with the daft goggles, too.

Intrigued by Psychic Paramount, sounds like it might be up my street.

imago is Lord Annoying all day every day! :D (a compliment)

I voted for that Tool album out of sheer nostalgia for my first year at uni.

that is actually my metal sobriquet fyi

TIE
154 Mournful Congregation - The June Frost 146 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/eCP4OGI.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/38wNvyZy52onN2WOnNoGR3
spotify:album:38wNvyZy52onN2WOnNoGR3

154 Solstafir - Svartir Sandar 146 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/wI9nd5j.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4Yh2OXnwETq6ZDWbFFIuLe
spotify:album:4Yh2OXnwETq6ZDWbFFIuLe

haha all you envy fans luv emo

I think both of them may have been on my ballot

Probably the biggest reason I can listen to Envy and hardly any other screamo is the fact I can't understand what he's whining about xp

I wish there were a little more to Alcest. I respond to them on some level, but it feels superficial.

There's No 'I' in Envy...

Envy are the reason I have a Thursday record (its a split vinyl release)

It's funny to think that hydrahead bands were once known as screamo bands until post metal came along

I still think Brad should run an all-time emo album poll

omg yes

then old skool emo hardcore can fight with the ilm chart friendly mall stuff

153 Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm 146 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/9DuAvVe.jpg

Lol I wonder if Pinkerton wd place in an all time emo poll...

The last great thing Neurosis have done (the last two weren't bad, but...)

Pinkerton would prob win a lot of emo polls but maybe not on ILM

They were clearly waning on this one imo

152 Disma - Towards The Megalith 146.6 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/yisaoVF.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0yOqMTXhGpFcEHTPwLsryf
spotify:album:0yOqMTXhGpFcEHTPwLsryf

http://www.metalinjection.net/politics/disma-kicked-off-deathfest-due-to-nazi-ties-after-10-bands-threaten-to-drop-off

lol, I was just about to check them out cos I like OSDM these days band I dig the cover but fuck it

dont read the comments on that article

I wish there were a little more to Alcest. I respond to them on some level, but it feels superficial.

― jmm, Monday, 12 September 2016 18:21 (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This exactly - although I do love listening to them, the aesthetic goes a long way in selling the music convincingly.

people really raved about that album btw and maybe its better to just remember that than read BTL with lots of white nationalists, anti-semites and people moaning about SJW's

151 Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution Into the Continuum 147 Points, 3 Votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/mQKpcnw.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5swHqaEHehmg2SGQEiQNMw
spotify:album:5swHqaEHehmg2SGQEiQNMw

Siegbran did you vote for this?

Is this like the last two Esoteric albums?

Listen to it and find out

150 Cynic - Traced In Air 147.625 Points, 6 Votes. One #1
http://i.imgur.com/Rw3s1w6.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7cjLJUMUyoS6pFut8fkSOo
spotify:album:7cjLJUMUyoS6pFut8fkSOo

This just missed out on my top 100

yesssss

I put this on my ballot at the last minute, then edited my ballot twice, each time putting it higher. It's awesome

TIE
148 Baroness - Yellow & Green 148 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/8BNGZ74.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4mSoz87AFyUIcZlCmwbI8s
spotify:album:4mSoz87AFyUIcZlCmwbI8s

148 Oneida - Each One Teach One 148 Points, 4 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/ycjAYIF.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1y2huEv3i1homXLHV9W4hf
spotify:album:1y2huEv3i1homXLHV9W4hf

that's my #1 on Cynic

my favorite prog metal tends to be the stuff that avoids the trappings of power metal / symphonic metal. not that i don't like the latter but it feels too obvious a lot of the time

147 Harvey Milk - Life The Best Game In Town 148.6 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/qnrlPp4.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6vM94PYeGkn35S8bB8vJmg
spotify:album:6vM94PYeGkn35S8bB8vJmg

Wouldve been a bit higher if jjj had voted

146 Deftones - White Pony 149 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/sMLFzUe.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5LEXck3kfixFaA3CqVE7bC
spotify:album:5LEXck3kfixFaA3CqVE7bC

white pony was not nearly as cool upon revisit as i remember it being as a teen - big disappointment

pfft it is still super cool

and also my no. 2 or 3 i don't remember

Noone saves their ballot?

Oh, I do

i did i'm just being lazy

145 Jesu - Conqueror 149.1 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/z5XXWyZ.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2po76dzEfWHWzxNnp8zYPP
spotify:album:2po76dzEfWHWzxNnp8zYPP

Prefer Jesu 1 tbh

Cynic track recommendation: just plunge into The Space For This, if you dig the palm-muted riff into distorted whammy intro then you're aboard

144 Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness 150.6 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/ECDzCSM.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2U8p8554m2MLrR2Edl0nLj
spotify:album:2U8p8554m2MLrR2Edl0nLj

oh good glad this placed ahead of life which is fun but also the most inconsequential harvey milk record

why do you think that?

I voted for this. Ballot not to hand so I have no idea where. It's amazing. I don't actually know the other HM that just placed at all for some reason.

Each One Teach One! My #8! "Sheets of Easter!"

I voted for White Pony too. The moodiness and the macabre.

143 The Goslings - Between The Dead 152.6 Points, 5 Votes

http://i.imgur.com/oJbw0RI.jpg
https://youtu.be/Vksnkgpo7Nk

^brilliant sadly missed band

Lovely artwork! Suggests I might like this

all their stuff was magnificent

Shall I take this down to 121 tonight?

Yes please

that would leave 30 a day over 4 days. Only worth going on tonight if everyones still around posting though

142 Drudkh - Autumn Aurora 152.8 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/GiSLFER.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0TNtWRdp0hTpf37gp7n7sT
spotify:album:0TNtWRdp0hTpf37gp7n7sT

Another good band with a sketchy past. Was much easier when those types just made shitey music.

Drudkh of course deny that the band is racist or nazi etc but that doesnt mean the members arent personally of course.

Good record anyway.

If a band says they arent racist or nazi etc then I guess you just have to take their word for it

but i dont think there is anything explicit in the lyrics.

like that record a lot

The 140-131 run is especially going to be FUN tonight folks so do hang around

Oh no! I had no idea that a band so reverent of nature could have any shady undertones! This album is completely beautiful. Every leaf in fullest relief! It is the forest as origin.

Drudkh are cool. Nokturnal Mortum bring more to the party but they do a great job evoking the woodland and the racial purity of Ukraine

You haven't listened to Drudkh!

I have! A bit. Siegbran, please resolve this argument

I believe the nazi accusations come from Roman's previous band Hate Forest.

Drudkh do not have any nazi themed lyrics as far as im aware. If they say they arent racist etc then you need to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I think Drudkh are better than Nokturnal Mortum personally.

and if Imago says he has heard them you need to give him the benefit of the doubt too!

141 The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano, Island, Burn 155 Points, 5 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/UvdwrbD.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2W2cfsT8a83t9tHgeGrLXU
spotify:album:2W2cfsT8a83t9tHgeGrLXU

Not heard this but I imagine it's something I may have enjoyed twenty years ago

Haha I tooootally voted for this

Everything imago says needs to be fully interrogated. This Blood Brothers is something I should like, but haven't been able to get into yet. Will try again soon

seandalai has just given me some SHOCKING NEWS btw

we might need to start over, lol

*gasp*

Wrong points totals for high placements?

If so, I'm going to be insufferably smug

I screwed up - set the ballot size wrong :(

Sorry everybody

More so than usual, I mean

he says he forgot to set the larger ballot size tho the winner is still the same. but I imagine it changes the order of a lot of things so I cant do anything until he sends me the full results which hes working on

dont be harsh though as he was movng house and you know how stressful that is and he still kindly got results to us to do the poll shich he didnt need to so i told him its no big deal and easy enough to start over.

I know you would all prefer the right results

I may only post the result and album covers tho to save time so could someone maybe volunteer to add the spotify links? that would be a great help

also lol louis I was gonna say...

I could post a Spotify link shortly after each one if you like

that would be a terrific help thank you

I reckon that when Sean has worked everything out, just post 300-141 as a list and then do the top 140 as before, even if things already seen crop up again

it does mean we wont finish on friday, I promised george id still do a large rollout so with us not likely to finish til next friday now we can go at a slower pace and start at 300 again.

I hope you all understand but its better to start over with the proper results

xp

well you and george can fight that over!

Top 200 then :p

250?

222

666

666 DIVIDED by the holy trinity - thrice the Satanic

Statistics are paramount. Metal is metal (i.e. No problem)

I hope everyone's listening to Cecelia and the Silhouette Saloon btw

Whatevers fine by me

I cant do anything until I see the results and then choose a cutoff myself. Poll runners perks equals starting somewhere a bunch of albums I like place lol.

But i think it might be better to take it into next week.

btw new thread or just start here?

If the orders not too different then I may be able to just post the rejigged list and continue from 140 or so. If its dramatically different we need to start from scratch, either here or on a new thread

You could start from scratch but not leave as much time for discussion of albums that have already appeared in this thread.

post both rollouts at once, 141 or the corrected list followed by 141 of the original list. That would really fuck us all up.

The true metal list and the false metal list.

yeah I cant do anything until I see the new results

but we can decide on a new thread or just restarting here (I know vast texts can interfere with search results) with this thread being deleted

Don't do that to my glorious post count

Well don't delete the thread, we just had all that discussion. Siegbran's post about Nokturnal Mortum was defo a keeper.

well we may as well just restart here then

imo if the rearrangement isn't drastic just post a summary list of the placements up until now?

But new stuff might come up that people want to discuss. Could you start over and just skip the stuff that placed in 200-141 of the old results, or is that too much hassle?

I dont know. but yeah new stuff deserves discussion. But I cant decide until i get the results

start from scratch but remove crap like MCR

do what feels right

except for that

the mcr albums might be even higher this time, lol

Kerr, nobody can answer these questions except for ~you~

not even me atm! I dont have the results!

the only way we can truly fix this is to delete ILX

OK I think there's new albums in the top 300

I think it might be best if I post the 300-151 range then roll out from there as a lot of the albums have already placed. a few things have dropped out and been replaced so if anyone wishes to highlight them with album cover/spotify like then feel free

re-jigged results

300 Clutch - Blast Tyrant 558 3 0
299 Enslaved - Ruun 559 4 0
298 Comets on Fire - Comets on Fire 560 3 0
297 Pyramids - A Northern Meadow 560 4 0
296 Satan - Atom By Atom 562 3 0
295 Xasthur - To Violate The Oblivious 564 4 0
294 Nightwish - Wishmaster 567.1666667 5 0
293 Panopticon - Roads to the North 572 3 0
292 Melvins - A Senile Animal 572.6666667 5 0
291 Fantômas - The Director's Cut 577.6666667 5 0

289 Vektor - Outer Isolation 580 3 0
289 maudlin of the Well - Bath 580 3 0
288 Horseback - The Invisible Mountain 581.5 4 0
287 Slipknot - Iowa 582 4 0
286 High on Fire - Death Is This Communion 583.1666667 5 0
285 Devil - Time to Repent 584.1162791 4 0
284 Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre 586 4 0
283 Neurosis - Given To The Rising 586 5 0
282 Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness 590.5 4 0
281 Domains - Sinister Ceremonies 592 2 1
280 Melechesh - Sphynx 595.6666667 5 0

279 Cough - Ritual Abuse 596 3 0
278 Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess 599 3 0
277 Sunn 0))) - White 1 599.6666667 3 0
276 Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor 602 3 0
275 Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand 603.6666667 3 0
274 Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis 605.5 3 0
273 Obliteration - Black Death Horizon 608 4 0
272 Swans - To Be Kind 613.6666667 4 0
271 Toxic Holocaust - Hell on Earth 614 4 0
270 Devin Townsend - Addicted 615.6666667 3 0

269 Enslaved - Mardraum - Beyond the Within 629 4 0
267 Blut aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God 630 3 1
267 Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye 630 3 1
266 Sunn 0))) - Flight Of The Behemoth 632 3 0
265 Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - La Novia 633 4 0
264 Metallica - St. Anger 634 3 0
263 Cloud Rat - Qliphoth 635.6666667 4 0
261 Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil 638 3 0
261 Panopticon - Kentucky 638 3 0
260 Deafheaven - New Bermuda 649 4 0

259 Summoning - Oath Bound 650 3 0
258 Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction 652 4 0
257 Thumpermonkey - Sleep Furiously 656 3 0
256 Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part 2 656.1162791 4 0
255 Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers 659.6666667 5 0
254 Oneida - Rated O 664.1162791 4 0
253 Skepticism - Farmakon 665 4 0
252 Vastum - Patricidal Lust 667.6666667 4 0
251 Raventale - After 675 4 0

250 Gojira - The Way of All Flesh 680 5 0
249 Darkspace - Dark Space I 686.5 5 0
248 EyeHateGod - Confederacy of Ruined Lives 687.6666667 5 0
247 Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients 690 4 0
246 Satan - Life Sentence 692 5 0
245 Stargazer - A Great Work of Ages 693.6666667 5 0
243 Mournful Congregation - Book Of Kings 697 4 0
243 Sunn 0))) - ØØ Void 697 4 0
242 Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy 698 4 0
241 Sannhet - Revisionist 701 5 0

240 Mastodon - Blood Mountain 703.6666667 5 0
239 Yob - Elaborations of Carbon 707.1666667 4 0
238 The Darkness - Permission To Land 708 3 1
237 Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells 712 5 0
236 Krallice - Ygg Hurr 712.3333333 7 0
235 Enslaved - Isa 713 5 0
234 Nails - Abandon All Life 714 5 0
233 KEN Mode - Success 716 4 0
232 Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey 717.2829457 5 0
231 Babymetal - Babymetal 718 3 0

230 Gojira - From Mars to Sirius 723 5 0
229 Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel 736 3 1
228 Motörhead - Inferno 737.1666667 5 0
227 Opeth - Watershed 739.6666667 6 0
226 Menace Ruine - Venus Armata 742.6666667 6 0
225 Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather 743.7829457 5 0
224 Tribulation - The Children of the Night 748 4 0
223 Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue 751.6666667 4 0
222 Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard 753.6666667 4 0
221 Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm 759.6666667 6 0

220 Spectral Lore - III 763.6666667 4 0
219 Deathspell Omega - Paracletus 767.6666667 6 0
218 Baroness - Purple 771.1666667 7 0
217 Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape 773.6666667 7 0
216 Opeth - Ghost Reveries 779.6666667 6 0
215 Yob - The Illusion of Motion 787.1666667 4 0
214 Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss 790.8333333 6 0
213 Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux 796 3 0
212 Asva - Presences of Absences 805.6666667 4 0
211 My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge 805.6666667 5 0
210 Zu - Carboniferous 822.1666667 6 0

209 Yellow Swans - Going Places 822.4146341 4 0
208 Murmuüre - Murmuüre 828.6666667 6 0
207 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones 835.5 5 0
206 Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane 842 4 0
205 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée... 844 5 0
204 Oneida - Secret Wars 845.1162791 5 0
203 Om - Pilgrimage 849.7829457 7 0
202 Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer 851.6666667 5 0
201 Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame 853.6666667 5 0
200 Orphaned Land - Mabool 856 4 1

199 Liturgy - The Ark Work 857 5 0
198 Solstafir - Otta 858.6666667 5 0
197 Shape of Despair - Shades Of... 862 4 0
196 Krallice - Years Past Matter 864.6666667 5 0
195 Yob - Atma 871.1666667 6 0
194 Portal - Vexovoid 872 8 0
193 asg - blood drive 873.6666667 5 0
192 Electric Wizard - Time To Die 874.7829457 7 0
191 Mastodon - The Hunter 875.6666667 5 0
190 mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas 901.3333333 7 0

189 In Solitude - The World. The Flesh. The Devil 903.7829457 6 0
188 Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution Into the Continuum 905 4 1
187 Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide 914 5 0
186 Morbus Chron - Sweven 926.6666667 7 0
185 Alcest - Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Ame 938 4 0
184 Mgla - Exercises In Futility 943.3333333 6 0
183 Oceansize - Everyone Into Position 944 4 0
182 Disma - Towards The Megalith 971.6666667 5 0
181 Jute Gyte - Isolation 975.1666667 6 0
180 Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm 981.6666667 6 0

179 A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See 988 5 0
178 Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées 991.1162791 6 0
177 Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation 991.6666667 7 0
176 Liturgy - Aesthetica 999.6666667 7 0
175 Mastery - VALIS 1002 7 0
174 The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller 1002.5 7 0
173 Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg 1006 5 0
172 Zombi - Spirit Animal 1009.616279 7 0
171 Ulver - Blood Inside 1019.782946 5 1
170 Virus - The Black Flux 1027.666667 7 0

169 Cynic - Traced In Air 1027.666667 7 1
168 Baroness - Yellow & Green 1029.666667 5 0
167 Kylesa - Static Tensions 1033.616279 7 0
166 Shellac - 1000 Hurts 1033.666667 6 0
165 The Goslings - Between The Dead 1033.666667 5 0
164 Mayhem - Ordo ad chao 1035 6 1
163 Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields 1040.666667 6 0
162 Mournful Congregation - The June Frost 1063 6 0
161 Drudkh - Autumn Aurora 1077.414634 7 0
160 Tool - 10000 Days 1079.666667 6 0

159 Reverend Bizarre - II - Crush The Insects 1080.116279 6 0
158 Psychic Paramount - II 1088 7 0
157 Deftones - White Pony 1094 6 0
156 Darkspace - Dark Space II 1094.5 8 0
155 Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage 1096 6 0

Ulver seem to have come off worst (dropping 30 places) , lol so that will wipe the smugness off LJ haha

I'll give you all 10 or 15 mins to discuss everything before resuming the roll out. I'll try get down to 121 tonight

this is now Blood Inside hour

coz it's my #5 and it's the best and why is it so low why why why

Somebody will be happy Domains sneaked in this time, Amon Amarth lose out (the person who nominated them didn't vote fwiw)

i voted for Amon Amarth though not the one that showed up before

xxp I voted for it too, fairly high. You're probably not surprised about that.

Piano Island also a great record, though I don't listen to it much any more, I prefer Young Machetes for my occasional Blood Brothers fix.

Domains made it into the original poll results but disappeared during a re-post for some reason. They've dropped from 218 to 281, ha.

My number one, Ordo ad Chao, gained 11 spots, and Henbane dropped by 30.

Obliteration's Black Death Horizon has magically materialized, however, so that's good. Recommended for anyone who likes creeping black/death metal that moves at a sort of Autopsy pace and has an atmosphere that combines Soulside Journey and Blaze in the Northern Sky. It's a very aptly named album.

Just put on the closing track of the Nokturnal Mortum as I forgot to listen to it earlier. tt reckons it sounds like Last Christmas by Wham

last christmas i gave you my iron cross

Is it the reissue because they covered Nights in White Satin

mclusky do dallas has turned up in the top 200! it's an indie rock album. i voted for it

Aw fuck, Zombi were nominated and I didn't see that album was there when I voted! Fuck!

anyway, nokturnal mortum, my discovery of the poll so far, wouldn't have been in the top 200 if we'd run it properly, so i have sean's wonky maths to thank

I must need to listen to Ordo ad Chao, because the rest of Devilock's post was very much regarding my interests.

Still, kinda bummed. If Domains and CDG are so low -- what kind of heavy rock/metal is high? Who am I supposed to drink whiskey with??

154 Oranssi Pazuzu - Valionielu 1108.414634 Points, 9 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/Rjuaan1.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6lA7q02cKCIWImvzHbhmrs
spotify:album:6lA7q02cKCIWImvzHbhmrs

Yes, great album. This year's is even better.

Hey, TMV haven't showed up again yet!

That is a beautiful album art. There is much Oranssi Pazuzu still to be explored

xxpost

The production of Ordo ad Chao is gonna make a first listen very odd. Like I said earlier, it's very lo-fi but not in a jagged, crackling "necro" way. It just sounds distant and foggy. All the performances are stellar.

153 Solstafir - Svartir Sandar 1111 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/clto9MQ.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4Yh2OXnwETq6ZDWbFFIuLe
spotify:album:4Yh2OXnwETq6ZDWbFFIuLe

yeah the first few Oranssi Pazuzu albums are really good. this year's is phenomenal

152 Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper 1117.6 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/N7wiJVp.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0svSY4AxaBPQi2337yEd3W
spotify:album:0svSY4AxaBPQi2337yEd3W

xp

I had read someone saying it was what DSO should be, and that intrigued me -- not sure why I didn't investigate then. Maybe just because I don't think of Mayhem as that kind of band, but whatevs. On it!

I've heard Ordo Ad Chao a couple of times, it's really cool but I need to give it a really concentrated listen. time to crack out the whisky

Which album is what DSO should be? (I assume you mean Deathspell Omega because the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is great as is. At least they were when I lived nearby.)

151 Beastmilk - Climax 1119.5 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/L1ALRR1.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0e6FNGa8UuKhCYZVebTTnt
spotify:album:0e6FNGa8UuKhCYZVebTTnt

Ordo Ad Chao sund4r, but I can't vouch for that comparison because I haven't heard it yet!

such a great album
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this was good heavy-goth iirc, not quite Pinkish Black but worth a listen

Yay for Valonielu!

I had Beastmilk on my first draft but nixed it over the course of things. Really good though, obv.

Also: I probably shouldve voted for the Vaura album

Looks like a Look Around You spoof of a metal album. Still, I am intrigued

150 Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern 1122 Points, 6 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/iMvcXUi.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/27NA8hsAXzFSUspaIIB7YZ
spotify:album:27NA8hsAXzFSUspaIIB7YZ

Oh! Cool!

I remember when that made the metal poll the year it came out (didnt get in the main poll)

Oh yay! This album is amaaazing. Such shredding.

I never heard this one. I remember enjoying This Is It....

Surprised that I'm actually really enjoying Darkspace II so far.

For Ash and Cinco De Mayo are my favourites from this. Really pleased to see it even this high!

How does it compare to This Is It...?

The shred/tapping stuff was what I liked most about that one iirc.

149 Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness 1128.6 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/IXwWqmp.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2caJZ1rdL6eYz07kcBzolr
spotify:album:2caJZ1rdL6eYz07kcBzolr

Oh wow, I really thought this was a pre-2000 album.

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I like Marnie Stern of course, have all of her records. But I didn't vote for her in this poll because metal.

also, listening to Mayhem now, and yeah, this is cool. I like the production! It makes it sound a lot older than it is, and it's definitely not brick-walled or anything. Very proggy in places too, almost like they wanted to reincarnate King Crimson as darkly as KC always gave the impression they were (in the 70s).

wow sons of northern darkness is way too fuckin low

also sweet my no. 1 placed (blood inside)

xposts

The tapping is still very much present and imo this is her best to date. I haven't actually listened to it in a while and just put on the opening track - so euphoric! It's a blisteringly quick album. I hope you like it!

Having no clue who Marnie Stern is, I watched the "Immortals" video and perhaps will investigate further.

And Sons of Northern Darkness is pretty much peak Immortal. Though depending on my mood I could probably argue that any Immortal album is peak Immortal.

oh huh, "Immortals," Immortal. Cosmic!

148 Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance 1135 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/iwn1K1b.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/6LXzs2hsUrEryy3qOx0eTy
spotify:album:6LXzs2hsUrEryy3qOx0eTy

147 Fen - Epoch 1146 Points, 7 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/QheWRFC.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Co5WjR7No5oNchGCUmsos
spotify:album:2Co5WjR7No5oNchGCUmsos