2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 21st of February)

Let the ceremony begin again.

You know the rules: up to 50 votes, weighted/ranked or unweighted/unranked. Here is the voting form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfj_cLkJTyGfm3DqDvxo6RTep8oMptIkJgKF3LiIK4q6yEwWg/viewform

And the full list of nominations:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bVjW_gga7VJMjN4K8qHwIyA5LppEIY8_aEH4_nT6WRU/edit?usp=sharing

For the love of all that is unholy, please copy and paste titles directly from the spreadsheet to the voting form. To wit:

10 000 Russos - Kompromat
1349 - The Infernal Pathway
9mm Parabellum Bullet - DEEP BLUE
A Secret Revealed - Sacrifices
Abbath - Outstrider

Please post here upon voting that we may double-check whether your ballot made it through.

You have until midnight (PST) on Friday, the 7th of February (i.e. Saturday morning in the UK).

Until then, campaign away!

(I’m leaving Spotify duties up to the others, as I still don’t have an account.)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uKGEOJlIeCmzYH7kf5d9A?si=VVPrvp9aRT2guNgD_xzL4w

Thanks.

Lingua Ignota - Caligula
https://youtu.be/M1ZweG__q-w
I keep comparing this record to later Scott Walker material, maybe just because of the production. Everything sounds uncomfortably close, like she's two inches in front of your face, hissing and spraying blood between her teeth.

Elder - The Gold and Silver Sessions
https://youtu.be/Ra-zDXe8bNc
Elder went motorik. Also the band has moved to Germany full stop now, and they just hired a new drummer.

Moon Tooth - Crux
https://youtu.be/f5n78mg22VM
A little more pop-based structurally than Chromaparagon, but they still shred. No 12 minute closer on this one.

Amygdala - Our Voices Will Soar Forever
https://youtu.be/KI-aBqhzgKc
Queer anti-fascist hardcore is the future of hardcore.

Clouds Taste Satanic - Second Sight
https://youtu.be/awAzbomDsIM
This was the second of two single LPs CTS put out this year, and this one is a giant leap forward melodically, rather than just stoner riffs everywhere. It's exciting to hear them evolve.

Funereal Presence - Achatius
https://youtu.be/XKL3U9AXX8c
This'll teach me to not take Bandcamp's recommendations seriously. Video chosen for the ambiance (skulls!).

Sorry I didn't remember how to embed, I thought about experimenting with it but went with consistently doing it wrong rather than maybe getting it right once and breaking the other four links.

I may not vote for Caligula in this poll because only the trvest of the trve must be honoured but it sure as hell will make the top 10 of my other ballot.

no, tom, you did it absolutely the right way. No embedding on this thread.

Who wants to vote first?

My ballot is more or less ready but I want to sample other people's favourites first.

Speaking of which, that Elder EP is sounding great, even better than their last LP.

Epic doom fans, take heed, Troll's Legend Master is well worth your time:

https://trollpdx.bandcamp.com/album/legend-master

For a sample, start with track 3.

New Multishiva EP is basically Motorhead on bad acid, howling ramalama, total fucking dunkelheit!

https://multishiva.bandcamp.com/album/savup-iv

Maybe odd for someone who championed All Bitches Die so heavily but I'm not feeling Caligula at all, even if on the surface it's just more of the same.

Submitted. Saw there was a Shin Guard repeat. FYI I went with the one spelled with 2 words if that sways which if any you remove.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll delete the other one then.

Maybe odd for someone who championed All Bitches Die so heavily but I'm not feeling Caligula at all, even if on the surface it's just more of the same.

I felt that way at first, partly because of Caligula's length and its more sparing recourse to white noise, but I've come around.

Caligula is the album that has most sharply divided opinion in my household for a while. (I love it; tt...certainly doesn't)

That Multishiva ep that DAM posted above is badass. Big dirty whirlwind of sound, reminds me of Hugh Rise a bit

whatever happened to shug rise

Bah

High Rise obv

Are you going to vote, Mr B?

bump

vote for Fly Pan Am

I haven't heard it yet but I'll check it out.

Three more from based Iceland.

I already mentioned Andvaka: funeral doom with a forceful hymnic bent that recalls Sigur Rós ca. ( ), led by a voice far graver than Jónsi's (start with track 2).

https://andvaka.bandcamp.com/album/andvana

Similarly named (say my mainlander's ears), depressive black metal purveyors Andavald, a musical rendering of Beckett's 'I can't go on, I'll go on'.

https://andavald.bandcamp.com/album/undir-skygg-arhaldi

And of course, Misþyrming, which stands firmly atop last year's pile of meloblack with their infinity riffs and unyielding songwriting.

https://misthyrming.bandcamp.com/album/algleymi

Xp Haha pomenitul I'll be honest, I suspect FPA not trvth enough to make your ballot but it's a pretty wild listen nonetheless

I still haven't checked out the last Misþyrming record tbh, but I'm pretty I'd need to be made of sterner stuff in order to pass up the tantalizing proposition of ☆infinity riffs☆

FPA are fellow Montrealers that have been around for a long time and that I've somehow managed never to hear for no particular reason, so I'd say now's as good a time as any to make up for that.

Always loved them but the new album is defo blackgaze but also very good as they put their own spin on it. I do recommend it to those reading who aren't tr00 kvlt bores

Good to see FPA 'allowed' here, will def vote for them in this.

Thanks for the recs Pom, it's a dreadfully dark and pissy rainy day to dig into them later!

Just listening to that Misþyrming album and wow they really, really really like Mgla.

Listened to it a second time, man that’s shameless. Whoever was representing the Marvin Gaye estate can probably expect a phone call from Poland.

Algleymi features more 'progressive' touches than the classic & to my ears more minimalistic Mgła sound.

I can see they try to embellish things a bit with different melodies and some fancy synth interludes but their main groove is *so* similar, the vocals both in sound and cadence, the drums, the song structures...I mean these guys are good at what they do, it's undoubtedly a good record and right up my alley in principle but I'm not sure I can get fully on board here.

Algleymi features more 'progressive' touches than the classic & to my ears more minimalistic Mgła sound.

Certainly, no one could accuse Mgla of being progressive.

this one should be on the list too:
https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/cul

I can hear where you're coming from, Siegbran, but I do think there's enough variation in terms of structure and atmosphere to impel a distinct effect. Incidentally, as much as I enjoy Age of Excuse, Algleymi tops it in my book, in no small part due to its epic aspirations and more open-ended songwriting.

Having finally heard the FPA album: C'est ça >>> Love Exchange Failure.

well, LEF was basically this year's Deafheaven album so

At times C'est ça comes across as a friendly send-up of blackgaze as a whole, which mirrors my own feelings towards it.

Kinda bummed this Calacorn demo didn't get nominated, it's pretty rad. At least Herxheim made it!

My mistake, I guess it's *Calacorm* & holy moley it rules!

https://calacorm.bandcamp.com/album/calacormic-visions-demo

I just wanted to remind everybody about the great Vastum album, "Orificial Purge", which I listened to way more than the Tomb Mold album (not that it has to be either/or). The intro to the title track is just beastly. I cannot listen to it without at least slightly head banging.

An album discovered fairly recently - maybe through this thread - is Immortal Bird's Thrive on Neglect. Stand out track for me is Avolition. Another nice discovery is that Jute Gyte finally released something that clicked with me this year, though I don't know if it will make my ballot. That nominations list is intimidating. I feel like with a few exceptions my ballot is going to be almost identical to my nominations.

I meant to extend the "slightly head banging" thought, which as written reads like some extremely faint praise, to make it clear that it causes me to do so in inappropriate public places, such as my place of work, the gym, public transportation, etc.

There could be a good 'which tracks make you spontaneously head bang' thread! For me, the two that spring straight to mind are Sinners Bleed and Raining Blood.

Cosign on the Vastum, one of my favorite death metal albums of 2019, along with Imprecation and Coffin Rot.

From the province that turned the word 'tabernacle' into a slur, I give you… Ossuaire, who put out an impressive diptych of albums last year. The first, Premiers chants is very much worth your time, but the second, aptly-named Derniers chants is where it's at:

https://ossuaire.bandcamp.com/album/derniers-chants

This is anti-Catholic melodic atmoblack haunted by the troubadours of yore and which does very little to expand the (primarily francophone) subgenre. Not that it matters: Ossuaire achieves exactly what it sets out to do, thanks in no small part to its superlative songwriting.

Speaking of medieval-esque BM gestures, Obsequiae's The Palms of Sorrowed Kings is absolutely glorious, although I doubt it'll need my help to place.

A few more that don't need my laurels to place but that will undoubtedly be on my ballot:

Big Brave – A Gaze Among Them
Cult of Luna – A Dawn to Fear
Mgła – Age of Excuse
Sunn O))) – Life Metal
Tomb Mold – Planetary Clairvoyance

I like this Elizabeth Colour Wheel song a lot, like I mean a lot a lot (& it's not entirely dissimilar to Big Brave, now that I think about it)

https://youtu.be/VL6fyoQZh2g

I quite enjoyed that album, but Big Brave's dronier tempos and Robin Wattie's voice give them a clear edge imho.

Anybody voted yet? I must admit I haven't even started to compile a longlist yet but I will start on Sunday afternoon.

That Tomb Mold is so great. Sci-fi death needs more participants.

The riffs might feel non-descript at first but on closer listens it's dragging you into a interplanetary dystopia.

I met one of the guitarists after his set at PSV. He blushed when i complimented his performance and i watched Carcass with him later. Super non-pretentious kids that just love metal. The frontman had a Star Trek shirt on.

Ashes - Ashes (if you like Burzum, but not made by Burzum)
Bölzer - Lese Majesty (after the super disappointing Hero this is really good again)
Kampfar - Ofidians Manifest (excellent melodic BM with great varied vocals)
Kwade Droes - Onder De Toren (somewhere between Lugubrum and Urfaust)
Mayhem - Daemon (so much better than a 2019 Mayhem album should be)
Pensées Nocturnes - Grand Guignol Orchestra (jazz/dark cabaret/circus music/metal, I'm still undecided if this is actually good or if I'm just trying too hard, but it's definitely something)
Xentrix - Bury The Pain (so these guys were Metallica copycats back in the day, they reform, and basically engage in some fan fiction "what if Metallica was still in the Puppets era and Hetfield didn't develop that -ah vocal tick")
Goatpenis/Defectrator - Bloodpact In Cataclysmic Warfare (you know you want it)

*tic not tick.

I'm still undecided if this is actually good or if I'm just trying too hard, but it's definitely something

Heh, my feelings exactly. Regardless, it's one of the more memorable albums I heard last year.

anybody voted yet?

My ballot's ready but I'm still hoping some brave CAMPAIGNER will STAN for an obscure favourite IN THIS VERY THREAD.

anybody who votes for Dead Neanderthals has to answer to me

but in all seriousness, I need some downtime tonight to compile my votes.

I'll vote this week.

Bump.

I've got some more stuff I'd like to stan for but I'll save it for later.

Once I’m done with the main poll, I’ll vet my choices and vote in this. Wilderun climbs the ranks each time I listen to it.

we only have one ballot so far afaik

did I hear someone say Wilderun

Voted - It's truly a year where, for me anyways, a lot of good metal records missed the top 50 cut - the ones bubbling under that number, for me, are awesome, too.

So what the heck - campaigning for my missed cuts:

Vircolac - Masque
The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism
Nightfell - A Sanity Deranged
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
Imprecation - Damnatio Ad Bestias
Weeping Sores - False Confession
Helium Horse Fly - Hollowed
Pulchra Morte - Divina Autem et Aniles
Lunar Shadow - The Smokeless Fires
Ataraxie - Résignés
Maestus - Deliquesce
Ares Kingdom - By the Light of Their Destruction
Unfathomable Ruination - Enraged & Unbound

My record that climbed highest for me each time I listened to it, this year, and what I played while voting was 'Ceremony of Silence - Oútis' - really great riffs and atmosphere - if ya haven't heard it - try it!

I got the previous Amygdala album in the mail yesterday, and it also shreds. They still have copies of the second pressing available, and they threw in a free split 7" with Saligia for my troubles. Highly recommended.

I also finally got to listening to All Bitches Die, and honestly Caligula blows it away. Nuance, feeling, musicality, I'm not sure what it is, but Caligula makes ABD sound like a b&w photocopy.

I also finally got to listening to All Bitches Die, and honestly Caligula blows it away.

Ceremony of Silence - Oútis

I really enjoyed this one as well, even though it didn't quite make my preliminary ballot. Incidentally, your own list of missed cuts is remarkably similar to my own (I couldn't not vote for Maestus and Weeping Sores, though).

I'm listening to the Fly Pan Am album now, I'm not sure if it's supposed to be funny but I've found myself laughing a couple times. It's an intentional send up, right?

I just added about 80 albums to listen to and add to my ballot of 45 albums :/

The Kostnatění was great! Disorienting and jagged. Exciting like a bad trip.*

*author has never tripped. -ed

The Liturgy album is good too. Black metal, glitch, blues harmonica, ondes martenot, it's all here, man.

Okay, apparently no ondes martenot or harmonica (unless they call it 'harp' consistently in the album credits), but there's a lot of sound here and it's hard to keep it all straight.

Caligula is so good, it got me to submit my first ballot here. Goddamn.

I'm up to the Big|Brave album now, and I can't believe I skipped seeing them coming through Boston at least four times since 2015. Also the black/black cover of Ardor looks familiar, I could swear I saw someone selling it at a merch booth in Manchester NH but they've never played here, so it must just be a design similarity.

Digging this Ossuaire album

Does the Astronoid singer sound like Jim Adkins from Jimmy Eat World to anybody else? Wouldn't this be a fun direction for that band to go in.

I think I actively dislike Astronoid.

Big Brave fucking rules and I'll impale anyone who says otherwise

Kostnatění are my pick for 2019 BM dissonance, over and above the latest Deathspell Omega.

As for Caligula, it's one of my AOTY, but I couldn't in good conscience vote for it in this poll, for am I the anti-paladin of Tr0o m3t4L.

Liturgy was too much of a good thing imo. I liked it, but it didn't quite make it onto my ballot.

there's a lot of sound here is such a good description of HAQQ. I made a longlist, and turns out it's exactly 25 albums - yeah, not the biggest metal listener... - so I guess I'll order it and vote! But Deathspell Omega wasn't even nominated here?

Hah, you're right. I ctrl + f'd the noms thread just in case – not a peep.

My original noms list was 43 albums, I picked out like 80 albums that looked at least interesting, and of those I've now listened to 30 and added 8 to my ballot.

I mean, I didn't listen to 30 full albums in 36 hours, I'm not that hardcore.

The Weird Lord Slough Feg album is listed under just plain Slough Feg as well, btw

They go by both monikers, but since the album is listed twice, I'll delete 'Slough Feg'.

pomenitul, in your opinion as an indefatigable metal purist, is Motorpsycho metal? I just listened to and loved The Crucible but it seemed a little too pure prog-rock to count. I may end up voting for it anyway because it was really enjoyable and deserves attention.

I wouldn't call myself a purist, I just distinguish between successful and unsuccessful or merely intriguing experiments. I get most of my avant kicks from contemporary classical music so that may have something to do with it. Besides, quite a few of my all-time favourite metal albums (Negură Bunget's OM, Gorguts's Obscura, Agalloch's Ashes Against the Grain) can easily be construed as untrve. I'm also not big on thrash, so I definitely lack the credentials to be a gatekeeper!

Anyway, Motorpsycho is heavy enough to qualify imo, especially when they're riffing on Sabbath.

As for Caligula, it's one of my AOTY, but I couldn't in good conscience vote for it in this poll, for am I the anti-paladin of Tr0o m3t4L.

Ha I can see that. Shame it wasn't nom'd in the main poll! I had (and a few other albums) to give it some love. Hope it places high.

Oh wait ... it was. Goddamnit.

I prob won't listen to caligula before the poll bcz I'm saving myself for Scott Walker

Kostnatění otoh...

I guess I can see how Caligula isn't "metal" or "heavy rock", but it seems a shame that it isn't included here. Maybe in the future we can just call it a "heavy music" poll or something. I weighed it pretty high on the main poll so maybe I'll skip it here, too, though i doubt it will place there.

I'm sad to see two albums that I just recently discovered weren't nominated: TORPOR's "Rhetoric of the Image", and Vanum's Ageless Fire.

Oh, it's been nominated and you can totally vote for it. I personally won't, but that's my cross to bear.

It is a heavy music poll though, always has been always will be and its nominated and I'll be voting for it

Caligula's my #1, eff the haters

I voted it for it in the main poll, so you won't hear me grousing.

Thinking of extending the voting period by 2 or 3 weeks to allow 2 or 3 weeks listening/campaigning time after big album poll results are done.
Pom is on board but it all depends on it being convenient for seandalai.

Let winter commence

Winter, eh? *thick Canadian accent*

Good point. Winter here is having to wait for a bus in the sleet. But it makes us ANGRY

So yeah, it's official: everyone's got an extra TWO WEEKS, i.e. until the 21st of February, to send their ballots.

I REPEAT: THIS THREAD WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL THE 21ST OF FEBRUARY, SO VOTE & CAMPAIGN ACCORDINGLY!

That gives me two extra weeks to convince you that Caligula is a metal album :)

lol I’ll give it another spin with that angle in mind. I may be more easily persuaded to vote for it here if it doesn’t place in the main poll (‘twould be a true disgrace).

It totally should be voted for in metal poll if you like it.

If something is nominated that you like then please vote for it.
UNLESS you cant cut your shortlist down to the limit and its near the bottom of your list.

but please no its not metal enough BS. It wasn't vetoed during noms.

It's more entertaining exercise (to me) if I leave it out. Others are free to do as they wish, it goes without saying.

*It's a

Spotify Nominations playlist for you all to listen to

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uKGEOJlIeCmzYH7kf5d9A?si=FjP5wLBLRkSN00DzuxNeHw

Thanks.

vote for major stars

Anyways, I'm going to confess unlimited wrongness and throw myself upon the mercy of the pollrunners and humbly request that these two albums which I didn't in fact hear in time but am asking now that they be added to the nominations list this late in the game:

Wyrmwoods - Spirit and Teeth
Pharaoh Overlord - 5

What say you, Neechy?

Btw Witch Trail stans should post about their love for that album itt. I'll listen to it later today.

I only ask because I do objectively think these are two of the finest metal albums to be released in the past year. The Wyrmwoods especially is a fine slab of that experimental BM syncretism that we all know & love around here, this time fusing it with Berlin School type synth kosmiche and ambient. The first track is downright batshit. imago & it, take note:

https://youtu.be/OCBoamIzK88

The extreme, nonsensical compression is the point: the next track clicks in at precisely four minutes--exactly twice the farmer's length-- and the track after that, 16 mins, w/ the last one at 32

(xp)

(imago & tt*)(grrr)

Um, ok, that Wyrmwood video is a pretty incredible few minutes of music. Is the whole album as good?

yeah add em

Um, ok, that Wyrmwood video is a pretty incredible few minutes of music.

Agreed!

14 views lol. This can be the metal Balloon.

Added.

Thanks, honorable poll people!

Re: Wyrmwoods, this is the next track. I wouldn't say the rest of the album sounds like this but it kind of gives you an idea of where it's going, maybe enough of one to let you know whether or not you want to continue on to the final two, very long tracks

https://youtu.be/pXljYadyaqQ

The extreme, nonsensical compression is the point: the next track clicks in at precisely four minutes--exactly twice the former's length-- and the track after that, 16 mins, w/ the last one at 32

― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money)

Wait, there's no 8 minute track on this album.

Wait what?!?!?! I'm not listening to it anyway!

From the Glenn Branca metal thread:

since we don't have a thraed for metal that sounds like SY and/or PiL:

https://witchtrail.bandcamp.com/album/the-sun-has-left-the-hill

― gaudio, Sunday, February 2, 2020 12:40 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Yep, just bought that on first listen. Really nice guitar sound and riffs. My partner called it "surf metal", actually.

― With considerable charm, you still have made a choice (Sund4r)

Listening to it now – Sund4r's partner is otm.

Will check out that Wyrmwood shortly.

If the WOSO album doesn't place on the main poll I'm holding all of you responsible fwiw

Well, yeah.

(It's on my ballot.)

Ok, halfway through the third song, the whole Wyrmwood album is incredible

So far

Echoing the recent hype for Witch Trail! It is some blissful doomish punk.

A minute into Wyrmwoods and it is making an impression!!

It takes a lot for a >20 mins track to hold my attention like this Wyrmwoods closer has, omg. I don’t mind ambient when it is brickwalled maximalist galactic splendour. Thanks for flagging this up, DAM!

I guess this calls for a 64-minute followup album?

Wasn't on board until this closing track. This and the two minute opener should have been the whole album

it bugs me that the closer is not 128 minutes long

Well there's a MISSING TRACK you see, but only if you reject the cosmic logic that lies beyond mathematical ken.

Closer should be 256m long - every length the square of the preceding

Yeah pomenitul otm: I'm sure there's some covert reason why this album has a MISSING CENTER...I still love it anyhow

Anyways, serious props to whomever it was who nominated this awesome-as-fuck Cherubs album because it's been doing my head in lately

https://youtu.be/_sUo7ZdPaFM

"Sooey Pig" is a decent approximation of how "Tommy Gun Angel" would've ended up like if Bardo Pond had been on Amphetamine Reptile

https://youtu.be/k5C1ueLTg8Y

@pomenitul, @seandalai
voted a few weeks ago, realizing now that i want to give points to 5 more records. prolly not making a difference in the rollout, but is it ok if i resend and replace my ballot?

I'll wait for seandalai to confirm but I'm fairly sure that's fine.

right! thanks pom

yeah i'll let him know

Could everyone start thinking about their ballots now? EOY season poll is not over yet!

Spotify playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uKGEOJlIeCmzYH7kf5d9A?si=VVPrvp9aRT2guNgD_xzL4w

Pastebin if its easier
https://pastebin.com/3nTvzgnF

Thanks!

I hope y'all don't forget about the Chelsea Wolfe album. Again she failed to make the general poll so I hope she gets in this one even if it isnt as riff heavy as the past few

Anyone want to campaign for other albums?

Where's the pup and moon tooth and mdou moctar fans who bemoaned them not making the eoy poll?

Where's brad?!

May I recommend the albums by

Esoteric https://open.spotify.com/album/7GrKomosr29udfIEPtk3o0?si=F890jcGFTo6Ia-Y59-AFyg
Schammasch https://open.spotify.com/album/1PmHVrFZdWmaaOni45bqD7?si=ITxNAmK5QQ2AOTwYmnfRKA

Voted. Never did get to listen to the Yellow Eyes record, someone convince me that was a major oversight.

It was.

I voted too btw.

If everyone could post when they have voted it means seandalai can check incase something went wrong.

Almost done with the preliminary ballot. Will post when I vote for sure and probably to campaign for things...

The Obsequiae album is pretty great! And Lord Weird Slough Feg! And give the Candlemass album a chance, I think it's their best in over a decade tbh.

I liked the Esoteric, surprisingly since I usually think the doom metal albums with the organs are goofy. As usual, I don't see the appeal of Obsequiae or Schammasch, despite many others really enjoying them.

It didn't make my ballot, but I'll point out the Ausmuteants "album," a 20 minute group of punk songs sung from the point of view of a cop, but written by crusty anarchists. Absolutely hilarious.

Three more suggestions:

Veiled – In Blinding Presence (pitch-black manic dissonance heightened through hypnosis)
Belenos – Argoat (Celtic BM heroism from Brittany)
Sur Austru – Meteahna timpurilor (ex-Negură Bunget, in keeping with that band's final albums)

Jesus Wayne Rogers rules so hard, check the solo @ 03:10...unreal...

https://youtu.be/1XftyHePPNQ

major stars album fucking rules

Lol, I'm kinda getting into this. I have the most fake metal taste ever, but I did hear enough good stuff that it's kinda fun to finesse it into a top 25.

good good

Would be nice to get lots of ballots from ilxors who have never voted before.

Look at the nominations list and if there are albums you like, then please vote for them. Don't worry if you think you are not metal enough. If its on the noms list its metal enough.

Exactly, I predict Weyes Blood will win this poll too. I'm holding off sending the ballot until the last day but I will vote as usual.

Agreed.

There's a staggering range of sounds on that list, so everyone (well, except for Tuomas) can find something worth voting for.

xp

There are a couple albums I like but aren't voting for, because I don't consider them metal enough, though. Fly Pan Am and Blanck Mass. I don't begrudge anyone voting for them, they are good albums, but I'm having more fun creating a list without them.

Blanck Mass might not be 'metal' as such but I have no problems classing it as 'industrial' and valid for this poll. Not sure if I actually like it enough to place it high tho.

I did hesitate when finishing my ballot, as my picks are unlikely to surprise. The hesitation didn't last long though: this poll and the nomination process made for some excellent catching-up listening during xmas and after, and I can truthfully say I like to love all 25 albums I listed. I'll send it in this week.

I have no problem thinking of them as valid. They were on my first version of the list. But half the fun for me is digging into what it is I really value in metal records, and Blanck Mass belongs to a genre I listen to for other things. Cattle Decapitation, great use of climate change monologues, trve metal.

You have a ballot of up to 50 albums and we encourage as many as possible to do so as possible so we get interesting results.

I have my initial short list of.....81 albums. Hoo boy.

That's the spirit!

I've not-so-secretly added Aara's So fallen alle Tempel to the noms list.

Mildly lo-fi atmoblack from Switzerland with a gaze-esque melodic streak, the occasional Gregorian chant and non-clean female vocals. Superb stuff – I very much look to their next album, which will be out in April.

Please don't add more good records. My shortlist is exactly 25, and I'll get confused if I have to add + remove some...

Or probably just ignore me and I'll ignore the late additions. Except Wyrmwood

*look forward to (xps)

Seriously, though, we've got 50 spots on our respective ballots unlike in the main poll, so we might as well use them all.

Yeah, but... There is only 52 weeks in a year, 25 albums for the main poll, 50 albums for the metal poll. Who has time for that?

I could of course just make a top 26, but that feels extremely wrong, somehow.

I can afford to half-listen to music while silently plying my so-called trade, so… I do, I guess.

considering your dn that's impressive!

Loooool

Tbf it's just an euphemism for trepanation.

I have my initial short list of.....81 albums. Hoo boy.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.)

Easy, just let your sock send in a ballot

3 socks = 3 top 25s, at the very least.

I will never sock.

Can't sock
Won't sock

I've not-so-secretly added Aara's So fallen alle Tempel to the noms list.

Mildly lo-fi atmoblack from Switzerland

Ha! I've just worked my way through twenty-odd Swiss metal albums from last year (most of them good - Cân Bardd, Rorcal, Schammasch, Bölzer, Kvelgeyst, Ateiggär) but I missed that one.

the Schammasch record is really good

There are a couple albums I like but aren't voting for, because I don't consider them metal enough, though. Fly Pan Am and Blanck Mass. I don't begrudge anyone voting for them, they are good albums, but I'm having more fun creating a list without them.

― Frederik B, Monday, 10 February 2020 12:28 (yesterday) link

Aww don't be like that, vote for Fly Pan Am

Ha! I've just worked my way through twenty-odd Swiss metal albums from last year (most of them good - Cân Bardd, Rorcal, Schammasch, Bölzer, Kvelgeyst, Ateiggär) but I missed that one.

I enjoyed Kvelgeyst the most out of those, although I've yet to hear the Rorcal.

OK why didn't anyone tell me after 15 years of silence, Wigrid came out with a new album last year? Write-in vote incoming.

No idea who that is, but I added it to the list.

It probably won't appeal to many but Wigrid sits halfway between Amesoeurs and Burzum, the old hypnotic "ten minutes, two riffs, one tempo, no frills" formula. Catnip for me.

As an aside, is it just me or is there a tacit America vs Europe taste divide on ILM? I tend to gravitate towards European acts more readily, whereas others are seemingly more intent on American ones.

Based on my provisional ballot, 15 out of 50 bands are from the US. I'm curious to see which way this skews for everyone else.

I think Americans seem to prefer death metal and Europeans prefer black metal but as always there's exceptions.

That's my impression as well. If memory serves, unperson doesn't listen to BM at all (partly because of the politics). Are there any ILM BM-heads who avoid DM altogether?

I think metal's center of gravity always has been European except for a fairly brief period in the mid/late 80s (thrash/early death)?

I wouldn't consider myself a BM-head, but I got into the genre via blackgaze, and there's never been anything similar with DM? I've liked a lot of albums categorised as DM this year though, Blood Incantation, Tomb Mold, Wormed.

It took me a while to warm up to DM as well, but I'm now at a point where I'd rate my preferences as 55 BM/45 DM or something like that.

Are there any ILM BM-heads who avoid DM altogether?

― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Tuesday, February 11, 2020 3:33 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

That would be me. DM's hardly ever done anything for me. There's a certain melodic element to it that I really dislike; or rather, I regard it as something that doesn't befit what I want from my metal (pitch-black, drony and/or hazy, nihil nihil nihil). Occasionally I do try it again, like with Blood Inc, but it's just not for me. Black metal is more or less the only metal for me.

I came to metal via BM and for a long time I had zero interest for DM. Then I discovered a handful of exceptions (bands like Immolation, Gorguts etc.) but BM is still my favorite. Doom is fine too. Like LBV, I'm here for the bleakness.

And speaking of BM, Deathspell Omega wasn't nominated but I still intend to vote for it as it's my favorite metal album this year.

Not a DM fan either though I do like some of the earlier classics. Cant stand most of the vox though.

That's one of my main issues, too, the vocals.

Aye, the cookie monster vocals spoil the music which is quite often fine.

I can also understand why DM fans hate BM vocals. Its just a preference innit

I like funeral doom which isnt quite cookie vox some doom-death is and some are tolerable.

Doom-death ok death-doom not ok, lol

I definitely relate to your reservations about DM. Fwiw Gorguts's Obscura is what made it click for me. Cavernous vox are what draws me in the most, as well as, say, Tomas Lindberg on At the Gates's first two LPs – a thespian of pure despair.

I've just added the DsO album to the noms list btw.

merci !

The opening track on the Wyrmwoods "Spirit & Teeth" sounds like I've got 3 tabs playing youtube videos simultaneously.
Definitely making my ballot.

De rien. :)

xp

Getting into DM (incl vocals) was relativey easy if you came from thrash/speed metal, the step from Sodom/Celtic Frost to Obituary/Death wasn’t huge.

Something about the cadence of most thrash vocalists really turns me off – maybe because of the punk influence? It never feels loose and intense enough (Tom Warrior excepted, among others).

Never cared much for thrash. Celtic Frost covered so much ground and excelled at it so much that you couldn't help but love them.

My entry into death metal was via Slayer and Sepultura. I remember it scaring me a bit (particularly the first Paradise Lost album, for some reason) but I kept coming back. BM came much later for me - probably not until the late-90s.

I'm much more of a DM than BM fan. I listened to a bit of metal in my formative listening years, I owned Master of Puppets on CD for instance, but when grunge became popular that pretty much scratched the itch for me without the embarrassing associations, imagery, bad hairstyles, etc. So during most of the '90s I didn't listen to much metal, though I did listen to a fair amount of heavy indie rock, Japanoise, etc. I think the first metal album I bought in the 2000s was Opeth. That turned out to be a good gateway drug to the DM style of vocals.

My primary criteria for liking music is, does it sound like it was recorded in a cave?

vote for plastic crimewave syndicate

https://youtu.be/4wtGBr4zr5E

vote for drugs

PCS is like a cross between Chrome/Helios Creed & a Rallizes that wed its feedback overload to Stooges-style brat-beat rather than the mesmeric churn of the Velvets

vote for jim jones & the righteous mind

ok they're nominated at all...don't vote for them

vote for lightning bolt

they're *not* nominated at all🙄🙄🙄

vote for things that are there!

yes agreed the Jim Jones album doesn't belong (the eyeroll emoji directed at my mis-typing)--it's only a joke

vote for lightning bolt, no joke

My top 50 is pretty much set in stone at this point so I'm going to submit my ballot in the next couple of days.

I found your list on rym. There's at least a few of those that are on my homework shortlist for next week. I def know your no. 1 will be making my ballot

I like this Sordide album but it's a bit awkward and patchy. It doesn't quite measure up to Fuir la lumière. Nonetheless, they very well might be the best RABM band

That was my feeling as well, except I haven't heard Fuir la lumière.

rage against black metal?

rural american black metal

red and black metal. For all the leftists out there...

Or the Stendhal fans.

seandalai how many ballots do we have? Only a couple of people have said in here they have voted.

I want to vote but I’ve had no time. Will probably get in right at the deadline.

Hoping to spend a bit more time perusing the list of nominations before I vote, since my ballot is likely to be one of the shorter ones.

another week to go so plenty of time but a good idea to start planning now if you havent

Has anyone seen seandalai?

A little last minute campaigning for Imprecation, which doesn't seem to get as much love as it should. If you have a taste for the slower end of old-school death metal, this is one worth checking out. This is a difficult style to pull off, you can't hide behind a blitzkrieg of riffs or pure speed. The songs have got to be there. Recommended for fans of Autopsy, Convulse, Asphyx, Disma, Serpentine Path.

Never got a chance to chime in on the DM vs BM thing because I was too busy, but I'm firmly in the DM camp. Came to it by way of thrash in the late 80s. Like many things I love, it did sort of unsettle or disturb me at first in kind of a: "Jesus... what kind of person makes music like this?" None of my friends were into it and it was kind of a personal shame that I listened to on headphones in private. I lived in TX at the time and they had this awesome radio show on Tuesday mornings on the public radio station - from like 1am - 5am. The knuckleheads who DJ'd that show framed the music well. This fondness for the relentless brutality, but also an appreciation for the comedy of it. I used to listen as much as I could, armed with blank tapes (of which I made many). I loved the Florida bands (First few Morbid Angel albums were huge favorites for years), was big into the European stuff on Earache, as well as the low budget local stuff that sounded the most demented: Muddy tape recordings of unhinged guys in a dank basement screaming/growling over indecipherable down-tuned guitars and drums that sounded like someone was banging on cardboard boxes at breakneck speeds with spatulas. Always an appreciation for the absurdity of it. But, it was the 80s, too, so the blatant satanism was still a bit shocking for a time when the PMRC was still going after guys like Alice Cooper and Ozzy.

I got bored of it in the 90s with so many new styles of music to explore. Every couple of years I'd go through a metal phase, but I think I'm a bigger metal fan now than I have been. I like a fair share of sludge, doom, and black metal, but a good DM album blows everything away. Probably my favorite albums of the last decade are Immolation's "Atonement", Gorguts' "Colored Sands", and Ulcerate's "Destroyers of All". I also love that strain of black metal with a hardcore influence; Castevet's "Obsian" one of my favorites of the decade.

As a BM guy, I love these three albums you mentioned. I was thinking about this DM/BM thing again yesterday while listening to the new Tomb Mold and came to two conclusions: I like the kind of DM that is best listened via headphones, and most of my favorite DM albums would probably be even better if the cookie monster vocals were replaced by maniacal high-pitched screaming.

As far as DM goes, I prefer the more human-sounding enraged roar over the more theatrical lower-pitched "demon" style. I really like the guy from Ulcerate (Paul Kallend). Though I prefer that style to pretty much any metal vocal style, I do think that BM vocals are more interesting as a whole; there's a lot more variety of styles in BM, and that BM leaves more opportunity for female vocalists as well. One of my all time favorite BM vocalists is Laurie Sue Shanaman. I also love Leviathan/Lurker of Chalice's vocals, and Mick Barr is pretty great - almost that death metal-esque roar at times. Would be fun to do a S&D thread or poll just on BM vocals.

A little last minute campaigning for Imprecation, which doesn't seem to get as much love as it should. If you have a taste for the slower end of old-school death metal, this is one worth checking out.

for real tho. best DM album of 2019 by far in my opinion.

This is going to sound completely idiotic but for me the coolest thing about Tomb Mold imo is the vox; singer manages to conform his voice to the exact timbre of a heavy cement lid scraping across a coffin. imo they're one of the latest in a long tradition throughout r'n'r history of great bands that are just perfectly named (like, say, Talking Heads , for instance)

Being Canadian they should know better than to omit the 'u', but I forgive them because two four-letter words in a row are inarguably more badass.

You weren't kidding about the Imprecation. I might have to tweak my ballot after all.

Shit, I have to get on the stick and do this.
It may be the last time I can.

Please do.

Speaking of which: I just voted.

Voted!

😎

ima do this now, enough pussyfooting around

Godspeed or this Cro-Magnon will club your ass.

it is complete.

part of my issue is anything released early in te year I barely remembered so I had to relisten

Wait, this Lingua Ignota album is awesome.

Yes it is.

Caligula snuck up on me too. At first I thought it was too slow and boring, then I found myself craving to hear it in the middle of the workday, after a fever dream at 3:00am, etc

isn't that always the way. tbf you do that with Mahler too

Have compiled a (quite short) ballot (god I really hate metal lol) but might try to add to it if I find anything deserving

Nero Di Marte album is 2020 you cheeky so and so :P it can wait

Ha! Good catch.

I've deleted it. It can and must indeed wait.

Anyone else here fucking with Jorge Elbrecht's Coral Cross project? I know tangenttangent at least (& LJ too?)(happy birthday btw) got some mileage from the also-great Gloss Coma album he released this year, but Coral Cross is special: another strand of that experimental BM syncretism I was talking about a while ago, but Elbrecht pairs his black metal with spectral keyboards, chanting vox, eerie sound efx, & even some influence from John Carpenter's soundtracks. The resultant hybrid sounds goth af:

https://jorgeelbrecht.bandcamp.com/track/fossils-unlocked-by-a-boiling-sea

https://jorgeelbrecht.bandcamp.com/track/all-flesh-must-be-removed

Yeah HB LJ! (couldn't find one thread among the dozens of ban lj threads, sheesh)

I'm def down for some BM w/ keys and chanting vox, will get on it!

Ohh LBI I have a feeling you'll dig this a lot!

Happy birthday LJ indeed! Also, that record sounds interesting.

Man, this Jorge Elbrecht rules. Had to check if it was the same guy who did some stuff with Ariel Pink (stuff I didn't care for), and it is. He's going all out here isn't he? Sounds... proggy as hell too?! This is my shit though, thanks for that DAM!

Roll-call

Who has all voted so far apart from Pom & I?

BlackIronPrison, gaudio, Tom Violence, LBI. Anyone else?

Not yet, will do.

I know Glenn voted

I have SOO much sorting and ranking and eliminating to do. But I WILL vote, of course.

Anyone else plan to vote?

I'll send a short unweighted ballot before the deadline.

I voted so long ago that I wondered for a second if this was a new one.

maybe you voted in the lifetime tracks poll and havent voted in this?

My ballot will be small but I will be voting

I'll vote. Still need to relisten and rank five-six albums.

Absolutely will submit a ballot, vote for cherubs

Voted!

I have a ballot with about 15 albums on it, and a ballot with about 5 albums on it, and I'm deciding between them. Obviously tt's ballot will be like 50 or whatever, she is much more metal than me

vote for multishiva

or don't, if you don't want

imago I recommend the 15-entry ballot, and lll am always ready to give suggestions if you want to fill it put a little more

Submitted a short ballot (15 entires)

Thanks to all those who have voted and to those who plan to vote.

Can anyone recommend any 2019 metal that's good to accompany an insane board game about birds? (imago says: 'not hatebeak')

Not 2019 maybe but Satyricon “Black Crow On A Tombstone” is an anthem.

of course 'bird-grind' is a thing

https://ornithologist.bandcamp.com/releases

lol this is kind of wonderful

I voted and highly recommend checking out the Car Bomb record.

We only have 16 ballots.

we need lots of 50 album ballots please!

I'm still listening until tomorrow afternoon then I start placements. I'm at 31 albums now, I imagine I can manage to get a 35 album ballot.

I have my ballot together. Hope to submit it today.

Nice. We need as many people as we can get. KEEP THE METAL POLL ALIVE YOU POXY FULES.

I can do a ballot if you don't mind my lurkery butt stinking up the results w/ knuckledragger DM.

Music to my ears!

Damn, Organectomy didn't get nommed?

It's alright, I just added it.

I wish the old regulars who drifted away from metal would not only come back and vote but post on the threads too.
The early days of the poll were really lively.

I'm here to watch. My metal listening has slowed to a total, er, dribble and I have nothing to contribute.

The deed is done. pic.twitter.com/qPwAu78tj0

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) February 19, 2020

Haha, that's awesome. Thanks!

A late recommendation but I just discovered it in bouncing around listening to things, Chevelier - Destiny Calls is really good, or at least really interesting. It's I guess ostensibly some kind of nwobhm-revival sort of stuff, but it's very sparse and weird, and has female-fronted vocals that really do sound like some high priestess shouting incantations. I'm having trouble pinning it down, but it's not run of the mill its very strange and wonderful to me. Worth checking out!

tt: "That's one of mine, remind me how it sounds?" <<<irl pvmic

I could reeeeally do with a mixed ballot btw. Next year...

I have submitted my ballot! Been following the results of these since like 2008, but never voted in one before.

Imprecation - Damnatio Ad Bestias has definitely moved up for me these last few weeks - would probably be in top 20/30 now.

Currently going back through all the albums I wishlisted on Bandcamp this year. Yikes, lots to listen to.

Please vote so we can have a good rollout.

the bigger the ballots the better

I feel attacked that these calls for extensive ballots began in earnest immediately after I submitted my um, rigorously curated effort.

I think I should be able to get up to 25.

Voted!

😎

voted!

yay!

Last day of voting! Please vote!

Anyone lurking, please vote!

Everybody who is reading this please look at the nominations and if there are albums there you like, please vote! https://pastebin.com/3nTvzgnF

Everyone welcome!

Voting form

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfj_cLkJTyGfm3DqDvxo6RTep8oMptIkJgKF3LiIK4q6yEwWg/viewform

Spotify playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uKGEOJlIeCmzYH7kf5d9A?si=VVPrvp9aRT2guNgD_xzL4w

Last year we only got 33 ballots so lets see if we can smash that. We got over 70 one year I think way back.

I'll be sending mine in a few hours!

OK I voted, got myself to 40 on the ballot!

Listening to Caligula rn...it's something else, though I def see why ILX loves it so much. Speaking for myself, personally, I think this is basically this year's Haino/Sumac: a ferocious forbidding avant album whose raw fury is undeniable but is also a little too *Serious Art* for me to know exactly what to do with

I plan to vote from work tomorrow. I have a mixed ballot so just need to confirm the order.

or just ranked with no care given to the last 20 entries..

That's totally fine, you don't need to overthink it. Much of my bottom 20 is more or less interchangeable.

To whom it may concern:

Don't forget to vote, yo.

yeah yeah

It's-a-comin'

please keep em coming

got from 81 down to 58. almost there...

doing some last-minute relistening but planning to submit a ballot today

Sweet!

ayyyy

ballot ordered! sending momentarily. a culling most brutal.

when does the rollout begins? looking forward. are you doin' top 100 as usual?

Top 100, yeah. Was thinking 20 per day, from Monday to Friday.

TOO LOW!!!! -> i'm ready!

I should add that we will need to have enough votes to make a top 100. If we don't then it will have to be a shorter rollout.

Sent a short unweighted ballot

so fingers crossed and get those 50 vote ballots in to make sure!

xp

i think i failed you Oor. yeah, i could have put a 50 vote ballot together. didn't feel right, sorry. 30 vote ballot, but love'em all

thanks for voting!

I'm annoyed with myself for not doing better campaigning! Putting my ballot in order now and hoping that enough people loved the Jambinai album - Korean psych intensity with dynamic and always interesting post-metal progressions.

Me too! Hope everyone voted for Black Mountain and Neptune Power Federation and Rainbow Grave.

Submitted my ballot of 50. I hadn't heard of 10,000 Russos before this morning and it almost made my ballot. I might regret that. I left off a few favorites that might qualify as heavy rock, but I just couldn't and I might regret that, too. Toward the bottom was a bunch of indistinct death and black metal that I enjoyed throughout the year, but wouldn't be able to identify if heard in a bar.

Looking forward to seeing the results.

i prob should've campaigned too. this immortal bird record is even better than i fucking remembered

That one made the upper part of my list. Another one I really loved that I didn't see get a lot of mention here was the Vanum album. It slipped by my notice for a while I think due to being too close to Vastum and Venom Prison.

if people are still to vote then there's still time to campaign as people may give it a listen before voting.

Polling will be open til seandalai closes the voting form which I assume will be in the morning.

And anyone can resubmit a ballot (just make sure you post here saying you have)

Another one I really loved that I didn't see get a lot of mention here was the Vanum album. It slipped by my notice for a while I think due to being too close to Vastum and Venom Prison.

One of these made my ballot....

Where were Immortal Bird during our bird game marathon the other day? Haha. This is sounding lovely excellent mad.

I love them so.

vote 4 a sanity deranged by nightfell

thanks

I hope everyone who votes will post on the rollout thread but also those who didn't vote who might hear some cool new music or just want to chat on the thread. That's where the fun should be.

Only one mention of Warforged on ILX, which was BlackIronPrison's nomination? Oh wow, you've all got to hear it. Absolutely off the walls blackened death, but prog.

I'll try to post on the rollout thread, but what usually happens is by the time I catch up to it others have said what I was doing to say better than I would've.

a few reminders for anyone still making a ballot:

XOTH: insanely fun sci-fi death metal with a perfect balance of goofiness and serious chops
HAUNTER: kitchen sink black-death-whatever with a ton of incredible ornamental flourishes
WEEPING SORES: Stunning violin-aided techy death-doom ft Doug Moore of Pyrrhon
WORMED: the best grindcore(?) band on the planet
NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE DEAD THINK: the best grindcore band on the planet
FALLS OF RAUROS: Of all the bands doing the "wintry sweeping melodic BM you would listen to on a trek through the woods" thing, FOR do it best

^ Seconding those Xoth and NOKWtDT takes. I did not know Falls of Rauros had released a new album in 2019!

If you only have space in your ballot for one more tragically beautiful sun-drenched blackgaze album, make it 'Circle of Veins' by Sadness. At the very least, skip ahead to 'Cerrien' and weep.

FoR are seriously under-known/promoted considering how great they are.

I like that Cloud Rat and Monolord both had a song called 'Last Leaf' last year

speaking of, this cloud rat record is a... masterpiece?

i liked it before but it's really hitting me today

it is obviously a huge step up from qliphoth which i thought was incredible

I preferred qliphoth for its greater ratio of dreamy moments, but still think Pollinator is brilliant.

Much as I adore the PUP and Microwave albums, I cannot vote for them in good conscience in this poll.

Oor Neechy / pomenitul - very sorry - I re-submitted - Imprecation and Xoth had just been getting so many spins lately, I couldn't NOT re-submit! Hope that's cool.

reminder that oozing wound good

resubmitting is fine!

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Lol Brad I fuckin love oozing wound and almost listed them upthread

Sadly there's a lot less interest in the poll now.

xp

Not that surprising considering how heavy and/or dark music did in the main polls. I expect Lingua Ignota and Liturgy to do well. I'm fine with the smaller number, though in a way I think the sheer amount of nominations dilutes the end result a little bit.

Submitted my weighted ballot of 50! It's not the most perfect order, but it will do. This poll always makes me wonder why I'm not listening to metal constantly.

tt has gotten 90 down to 50. I have gotten 16 up to 21 with some last-minute scrambling. A couple of things have been given a lot of points based on a very brief impression. Let's hope the whole Ifernach and Akasha records are as kickass as my brief impressions make them out to be...

Lingua might just top this sucker.

yes, and i reckon my top 5 will all make the top 10

Anyone else planning to vote?

As long at the voting form is open you can still vote. I think seandalai will post here when he's closing it so post in here if you intend to vote.

You will have another 8 or 9 hours to vote for sure.

Still working out my ballot, thanks!

Just finished Ausmuteants--instantly a total classic--and now listening to Car Bomb, which is a bit more traditional than I'd hoped but there seems to be a lot of interesting passages for one to trip over :D

I think it will be a shame if nobody else has voted for the best Boris album in a decade.

Voted but my ballot was slim. Metal just wasn't my focus last year.

Seems to be a common theme this/these past year(s) :(

I will def vote for that Boris album

Finding seven albums I thoroughly enjoy in one genre in one year doesn't seem that bad to me, honestly.

fell asleep, looks like i’m gonna miss the deadline oh well

Deadline still not quite here! Hope you managed to scrape together a ballot of your favourites

It's not over 'till seandalai says it's over.

Hey seandalai give me a 5 minute warning plz🙏, my ballot is about half-dozen in another window

Godspeed!

Ok voted

It's still open, folks. Vote while you can!

forgive me, metal albums were very long this year, but i am submitting a ballot within the next hour

🤘

thats fine. no sign of seandalai and as long as the vote form is open its fine!

submitted

all that research just to submit a 20 album weighted ballot but i feel really strongly about those 20 albums

Thanks for voting!

Until seandalai says so the voting is open

the disentomb record is all i ever want out of metal

i've said that before but it was worth saying again

Voting still open if anyone wants to avoid the "oh I didn't know this poll was happening" dog latin type post

VOTING IS CLOSED.

I have results.

We might start shortly with the traditional weekend bonus.

77-50 then ten a day?

we dont do 77

66?

77

i can type numbers too

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

the disentomb record is all i ever want out of metal

BRUH! holy shyt! this album is insane!!!!
thank u!!