Metal Poll 2012 - The Countdown

51 Asphyx - Deathhammer    60 Points,   2 Votes,   2  #1 votes
http://www.metal-norge.com/images/AsphyxDeathhammer.jpg

Greetings ɷ

that album cover fucking rules!!!

50    Angel Witch - As Above, So Below    63 Points,   7 votes
http://hangout.altsounds.com/geek/gars/images/2/1/3/3/0/angel_jk_convert_20120306103534.jpg

Sean OTM. Love that Asphyx cover.

so far, two things on my list, yay!. (I'm one of the #1s for Asphyx). dug the Angel Witch too but it was lower on my list, it's no s/t album but there's some quality stuff on there.

Haha, two votes, two #1 votes. I'm the other one.

http://open.spotify.com/album/0CyBrwxv0udr8MCpI3CKTZ
Angel Witch spotify

49 Pinkish Black - Pinkish Black 64 Points, 4 Votes, One #1
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/39/98/3998738522-1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0Trzfu3LfcYalkMZIywkkd

apt cover

Thanks for posting the spotify links, I fear this is going to add even more new albums into my listening queue now

YESSSSSSS

Unsurprisingly my #1. Much love for Pinkish Black.

48    Atriarch- Ritual of Passing    71  Points,  6  Votes
http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/albums/18468/homepage_large.b8f2f60b.jpg

TIE

46    Wizard Rifle - Speak Loud, Say Nothing    72 Points,   5   Votes
http://i27.fastpic.ru/big/2012/0304/d4/a25ce1aba67f39e9055f188866bcbad4.jpeg
http://open.spotify.com/album/38SzN4VslJSb7iov7Jfatv

46    The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre    72 Points,   5 Votes
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/thedevilsbloodcover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2RTRGV2at6og16x0TLcvw8

Solid records, though in the end I didn't end up voting for either; Wizard Rifle was a very late cut, and I think of The Devil's Blood album as 2011.

btw: there were 51 ballots and 208 albums got at least one vote.

down from 80 last year. but good results nonetheless

45    Meshuggah - Koloss    72 Points,   7 Votes
http://www.pattonmad.com/Vinyl%20&%20CD/Images/Vinyl/12/MeshuggahKolossLPGermanyGoldF.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7hS4Yx78GjZlylkpnHsmr4

Wizard Rifle is a trippy band.. the drummer is a beast. I saw em live awhile back and was impressed by their energy.

sad that Koloss isn't a wee bit higher. I think I liked this one more than Obzen (which I liked a lot). I have tix to see them in Feb. I've seen them twice as an opener (once for Slayer in 1999, when they outright destroyed, and once in 2008 for Ministry, and they looked downright bored)...never as a headliner.

Animals as Leaders are opening, I'm kinda 'meh' about them as an opener for Meshuggah.

44    DEFTONES - KOI NO YOKAN    72 Points,   8   Votes
http://fanquarterly.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4PIVdqvL1Rc7T7Vfsr8n8Q

43    Pagan Altar - The Time Lord    74 Points,   6 Votes
http://metal-exposure.com/wp-content/gallery/cd-hoesjes-2012/pagan-altar-the-time-lord.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2HIETDxWAc7DhsERwlpjGU

love the cover

wizard rifle just missed my ballot, and pagan altar either missed it or made it (and then i cut it from a later non-submitted list). both great tho!

I might think that the effort to be kookie and/obscure kept that Deftones record from being higher.. Its really their best record since White Pony, and the production is fucking amazing.

Fwiw, Pagan Altar (and Coven too, if they make this countdown) would be higher if I had remembered to vote for them. (I had them listed under "reissues" in my word file of favorite 2012 albums, and that list slipped my mind until after I'd filed my ballot. Oh well.)

I'll just continue the countdown today if that is ok

42    Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II    77 Points,   6 Votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b1aVGWUrKRE/T28ltQ6pY3I/AAAAAAAAAL0/JDphl2vR7Kk/s1600/earth2.jpg

hearing a lot about that disc

got last year's HOoded Menace yesterday and now I'm sad I can't vote for this, cuz this is totally my wheelhouse.

41    Graveyard - Lights Out    77 Points,   9 Votes
http://www.nuclearblast.de/static/articles/205/205037.jpg/1000x1000.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/48i0IlTk89zjBCsbbqXjE6

The record that made me a Graveyard fan. Didn't care for the first two, but they found their own voice on this album and it only gets better the more I listen to it. Probably ranked it too low.

40    Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships    80 Points,   7 Votes
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/16/72/1672853970-1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0EOjjXZ4y45WH4vuEczBjG

Another of my favorites. With such a late release I know it got overlooked in some places, so to see it place here is cool. Probably the best sounding recording I heard all year.

Loving a lot of the non-stereotypical album art itt.

39    Menace Ruine - Alight In Ashes    82 Points,   7 Votes
http://thatshowkidsdie.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/aia_cover_highres1.jpg

Seandalai is going to mark covers out of 10

This one could be an out-take from the title sequence for the Lizard TV version of Knightmare. 5/10

Another one I liked. Talked about the track "Salamandra" on the latest podcast, actually.

the Kowloon was my #2!! I love that band, and they are really really cool guys..

good results thus far. I voted for Earth, Pinkish Black and Kowloon Walled City thus far. I want to hear that Pagan Altar record and will give the others a go as well...

thus far thus far

38    Enslaved- Riitiir    82 Points,   7   Votes
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Enslaved-RIITIIR-Artwork.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/60HnsRer7dv8poS7977qqv

I forgot to vote for Menace Ruine but "Salamandra" really is A+

37    Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage   86 Points,   6 Votes, One # 1  
http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/tracks/13534/homepage_large.3cd9c48c.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5dxqD5Kc6cRRi3rErmDfXG

That was my number one vote. Probably me being lazy, but damn, they really took it to the next level on this one.

36    BLACK BREATH - SENTENCED TO LIFE    96 Points,   7  Votes
http://www.revolvermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/PromoImage-1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4xOhXPxrcjesTwl6dhLZUb

Yay! Loved this joint

yeah so awesome

35    Inverloch - Dark/Subside    97 Points,   8 Votes
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/23/83/2383355520-1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2WdMIk3VGfuKJ60nYl2Jye

34    Horseback - Half Blood    98 Points,   9 Votes
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/63/24/632407223-1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5i6kSIT45b9TcAVG6UOtRM

Good list so far... Surprised Wizard Rifle and Enslaved aren't in the top 20 but I guess that means I'm in for more surprises!

I should've voted -- sorry guys!
Still, results otm so far, lotsa these albums are great and will be on my 2012 EOY list.

I don't know what Inverloch is but I like the name and the cover art.

http://www.last.fm/music/Inverloch?ac=inverloch

33    Conan - Monnos    98 Points,   9 Votes,  One# 1 
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/conancover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0ly7mlvwkUex1np1EIEtav

great album. was my #9 iirc.

i also voted for the graveyard but i'm never quite sure exactly how 'metal' it is.

32    Witchcraft- Legend    103 Points,   9  Votes
http://www.metalblast.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Witchcraft-Legend-Artwork-1024x1024.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2yXS74baxPxKDprwLQrNCb

yay another one i voted for

Nice cover, reminds me a bit of 1970s Hornsea pottery 8/10

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nMhYKmX5E-Y/UD4pJ88km9I/AAAAAAAAAkE/hxmd9DxS9rc/s1600/Owls.jpg

The Conan number one vote was from me!

Witchcraft ranking higher than Graveyard is a mistake that keeps cropping up in list after list.

31    Cauldron - Tomorrow's Lost      104 Points,   10 Votes
http://www.hitthefloor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Tomorrows-Lost-album-cover.jpeg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1oDZtKLf6PMDwSuoRs9cEW

Another of my favorites. With such a late release I know it got overlooked in some places, so to see it place here is cool. Probably the best sounding recording I heard all year.

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, January 13, 2013 11:44 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I loved the sound and sense of space on Container Ships. So this part of a recent lukewarm review was especially baffling:

In general, Container Ships is heavy, but often doesn't feel heavy enough. As these two longer songs highlight, they don't always make the most effective use of space, which for any band-- no matter how sprawling or how compact-- is crucial.

The band seemed to have a good laugh at that P4k review on Facebook.

Witchcraft ranking higher than Graveyard is a mistake that keeps cropping up in list after list.

― A. Begrand, Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:20 PM (1 hour ago)

^^Truth.

Our guitarist just got a Gojira DVD, was watching it at the last practice. Not the kind of thing I'd think was in his wheelhouse. Gonna def have to start paying attention to them.

Yeah, that review was a head scratcher for sure.. KWC had a good laugh about it on their Facebook page...

oh shit, EZ said the same thing I did.. lol!! I promise, I'm not plagiarizing you!

Fuuuuuuuck I forgot to get my ballot in, I would have gotten wizard rifle up to #31

Whoops I mean 33

I burned a vote on Rise and Fall's Faith. Forgot to nominate it, but liked it too much to resist. And after a bit of searching, I think this is the Belgian band's first mention on ILM... ever. Really underrated album from the first half of the year that slipped under the radar. Wondering if anyone else heard/liked it.

Pinkish Black and Wizard Rifle both have a Mike Patton thing going on, don't they!

I don't think I've even heard of Rise And Fall. Sampling some of Faith on Spotify and I have to say this is right up the alley for a lot of people around here, though I'm not one of them.

30    Jodis - Black Curtain    106 Points,   8 Votes
http://www.roadburn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/JODIS-Black-Curtain.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2AeFRthLC8TgUpMr4qruI0

Interesting. I don't think Jodis was even mentioned on the Rolling Metal 2012 thread. I've never been a fan of Turner's work and this didn't change that opinion.

I thought the first Jodis album was OK, but it wasn't metal in any sense. Never heard the second one.

I liked the Witchcraft album much more than the Graveyard one (though not as much as previous albums I've heard by them -- didn't like Graveyard's as much as their debut, either), and not enough to vote for either.

Very likely would have voted for Cauldron's album, had I heard it -- their previous one was my #1 of 2011, overall. Am waiting for the new one to come out in the States, sometime early this year allegedly.

29    UFOMAMMUT - Oro: Opus Primum/Opus Alter   107 Points,   10 Votes
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ufomammut-oro-opus-primum-cover.jpg
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ufomammut-oro-opus-alter-cover.jpg

seandalai combined these I think

I thought that would place much higher.

28    Grand Magus - The Hunt    111 Points   8   Votes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RtjaMKIefoU/UJj5tOPpX7I/AAAAAAAALFQ/NfHxmISmoM8/s1600/Grand+Magus+The+Hunt.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3v8RKMw8ngkQJoOvdMCdbI

27    Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild    121 Points,   10 Votes
http://www.cvltnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Cauldron_Cover_FINAL_1500.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/20F7On8Oo4MagOZvvcwb2E

such a lot of fantastic artwork ITT!

my #4 - so good

It was only the drummers #3

I had Witch Mountain at #3 , Ufomammut at #5 & #6, and Grand Magus at #8.

It seems that most have my top 10 has been covered too. Should be a pretty unique top 25.

26    Torche- Harmonicraft    130 Points,   10  Votes
http://thehammockreview.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/harmonicraft2.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4m2nF2XI6ZF6qhUXoYwmJu

these covers just keep getting better and better 9/10

I wish the Torche record was as heavy as they are live. I've seen them twice now and thoroughly enjoy their sets but the records don't click with me anymore.

25    Unsane - Wreck    132 Points,   9 Votes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IeJzIhCcOXk/UNbmP0i8FNI/AAAAAAAACck/CWOUrcgFBpw/s1600/Unsane+-+Wreck+(Holy+Grail+From+Hell).jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3N3vFZltoPW3O7ZLCuleoy

I wish the Torche record was as heavy as they are live. I've seen them twice now and thoroughly enjoy their sets but the records don't click with me anymore.

There's nothing wrong with Torche records. How about you set up a professional PA system and play it at the same volume as their shows then get back to us ;)

24    Evoken- Altra Mors    136 Points,   10 Votes,   One #1 
http://www.theinconsistent.com/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-satellite/Evoken-Altra-Mors1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0AA3RKm5914SUYSGxt0ckg

I didn't say anything was wrong with Torche records. I said it wasn't as heavy as the live show. It's not about volume, it's about mix and tone.

xpost

As a fan of everything Torche did through Meanderthal, I agree with EZ. Post-that album they seemed to have abandoned a lot of their lovely sludgy rumble. That said, judging by the new single they released last month, they may have realized this and begun to correct.

I still disagree. Play it loud enough on the right gear with some distortion and you've got your sludgy rumble. However, I suppose they could simulate the sludgy rumble of live shows that could come through on recordings at lower volume on computer speakers, but I think it would be unnecessary.

the cover art is almost as good as the horror poll image thread -- good voting, folks! (i don't really like torche though, too many rainbows)

also UFOmammut rules, would have voted for

So if I remix it through crap equipment I'd hear what I want? No thanks. Agree with anonanon that the new single is promising. And, as I said, I like these guys; they still can write good songs, but the live versions kick the studio versions in the balls and laugh.

xpost

Voted Witch Mountain and Torche--both killer records. Was hoping WM would br higher, kinda had a neat Sibrisa meets 70s Heart feel to it. As far as Harmonicraft, this feels about right. This I liked mor Ed than Meanderthal but there was a LOT of melodically effective stoner albums this year...

mor Ed = more

23    Raventale - Transcendence    143 Points,    9 Votes   One# 1  
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LxQJjzAZpyU/UGzH-MjDMSI/AAAAAAAADjA/f2HZJICl9JM/s1600/cover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4xGcvhPlJ9Q1FFMPOA6sIH

hate to repeat what others have said, but with just a handful of exceptions, the cover art on display in this thread totally rules

22    Drudkh- Eternal Turn of the Wheel    144 Points,   9 Votes,   2 #1s  
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VjuUAJzCLj8/T8z0LTVG6NI/AAAAAAAADfc/O-72gR0Buck/s1600/cover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2kEuAzIoj2rC7MKLxHgE1c

I don't think I've heard Raventale.

21    Pig Destroyer- Book Burner    152 Points,   9 Votes   Three #1s
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/pig-destroyer-book-burner-1000.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/604JFtgeDXfwIRVqZtaCZg

three #1 votes that got

i can't get over the name 'pig destroyer' long enough to give them a fair hearing

another band i'm seeing at DeathFest!

Will we do another 5 tonight and finish tomorrow? or do 10 tomorrow 10 on weds?

xxpost

Not a fan of Dog Shredder than either, I presume.

Swine Smacker

Pooch Punisher

20    Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones    154 Points,   11 Votes,   One# 1  
http://psychorizon.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/jess-and-the-ancient-ones.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6nx2xkTTUuxlTgzr8K0XCQ

i don't think i heard jess + ancient ones until after i submitted my ballot otherwise i would've voted for it. amazing album tho.

19    High On Fire- De Vermis Mysteriis    156 Points,   14   Votes
http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/news/45593/0af63b8c.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4hRQfVSbQmvOCdhL1vIeFf

glad this is so low (i thought it was a shoe in for top 10). i get what they're doing but i never enjoy it.

I agree, the artwork here is a bit of a letdown 3/10

They make up for it with this video: http://youtu.be/fq1gb50iobU

xp Partly what I'm getting at is, do any of these albums measure up to the heavy experience of the bands' live shows?

18    Les Discrets - Ariettes oubliées...    162 Points,   11 Votes   2 #1s
http://threnodies.com/Wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LESDISCRETS_Ariettes-oubliees.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0ywn68Lip7S08rvTGzVAwh

I voted for this! I think…

17    Baroness - Yellow & Green    162 Points,   12 Votes   1 #1
http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Baroness-yellowgreen-artwork.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4mSoz87AFyUIcZlCmwbI8s

wow i'm shocked. was sure this was top 5 for sure. maybe even #1.

16    Goat- World Music    163 Points,   10 Votes   One #1
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LiEp4jzfGj4/UAghE36Cp_I/AAAAAAAACaI/w4DkPYA1Sqs/s1600/P1010794LR.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2r4u8FPhj16cwpNJCNOjvh

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mchj8lAu3E1rpvo7fo1_500.jpg

I like it more as a Cosby sweater than as an album.

i still don't get how goat is metal but it's a great album and if i bought that it was metal it would def have been on my ballot

would wear 9/10

is that perhaps due to the algorithm that any band with Goat in the name is metal?

Whoah I'm very surprised that neither Goat nor Baroness made it into the top 10.

stupid question, maybe, but is that a real, available sweater?

Goat would have finished higher if I had decided there was anything metal about them. (And yes, I generally tend to be open-minded about such things. I like that album, just don't think of it as a metal album.)

I checked it out... Didn't like, its not metal. Those things are not mutually exclusive.

curious now to see if my ballot was a niche ballot or an overwhelming amount of my ballot gets represented in the top 15.

Yeah, I nixed Goat off my metal list at the last minute. On my all-genre list (Pazz & Jop ballot too) it was my #6.

oh dear I voted for Goat. v sorry 4 false metal.

I don't think it's a real sweater but ilx is full of knitters. A business opportunity for metal knitters if I ever saw one. Reign In Blood or Filosofem Cosby Sweaters \m/

That Slayer Christmas sweater was genuine merchandise.

15    Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme    164 Points,   13  Votes
http://meatmeadmetal.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/alcest_-_les_voyages.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4NbmvbO9OuEjLYat5BkFAL

Any objections to wrapping this up today?

no, i'm very curious what is going to be top 10. lots of surprises so far. i can't believe alcest only went #15 overall!

Will dedicate this next one to AG

14    Saint Vitus - LILLIE: F-65    170 Points,   14 Votes   One #1 
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/saint-vitus-lillie-f-65-cover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/47YTDmJXicmG4WuV2CIZLN

Order now and receive a free pack of SAINT VITUS rolling paper! (as long as stock lasts)

st vitus spliffs taste more metal

http://i50.tinypic.com/fupchd.png

13    Dordeduh- Dar de duh     178 Points,   11 Votes,   One #1  
http://stenchofishtar.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/dar-de-duh.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2Ee8GiSNncB4HI1A6EoPGL

incase you're wondering

Dordeduh is a Romanian folk / black metal band from Timișoara. The band was formed after internal tensions developed in Negură Bunget which resulted in Hupogrammos and Sol Faur leaving to form Dordeduh in 2009, while drummer Negru continued Negură Bunget with a few new musicians.

To start understanding the essence of the band is to first delineate the two Romanian words that its name is composed of: “dor” and “duh”. Having a deep, unique meaning in Romanian, “dor” is thought to be untranslatable in any other language using only one word, its sense being of “longing/yearning for something”, “missing something”. It can be something palpable, well-known and familiar (a place, a person, a taste) but it can also be a nostalgic feeling brought up by something vaguely known, dwelling in an old chamber of one’s soul. It is this vague and everlasting longing of the human being that this word is most associated with. It can be a personal life experience or a vague remembrance of the primordial and archetypal state of the human psyche, the origin of the human soul, as “dor” reminds of the human ability to sense the ethereal sphere.

The word “duh” could be translated as “spirit” and it defines the immaterial part or state of every living being. It also represents an attribute for all types of supernatural beings, forces, events and often can describe a ghost’s or a phantom’s immaterial form. The word’s etymological roots are related with the air as an element and it suggests an aerie vibration; it characterizes lightness and insubstantiality, an impalpable or intangible state. It also suggests the subtle and spiritual part of every living consciousness and it can be taken as a synonym of the esoteric word of “consciousness”. It is the living glint of the universe, dwelling deep inside of every being.

Being comprised of these two words, DorDeDuh means “yearning for the spirit”; it is the humanity endless search for the spirit, for the sacred, for the values of the soul. We aim to link these two words to the significant values that make us humans, melting together the soul and the spirit. The way one aligns one’s experiences with one’s own soul, the way one relates with the Universe, the way one perceives and integrates, through Intention, the perpetually flowing Transcendence, that is what defines different levels of humanity in a person, that is what makes one Human.

Musically, Dordeduh will follow the path opened by Negura Bunget, but the musical act will be accorded to a new perspective as we will experiment a new way of approaching black metal as well as using traditional instruments. It is normal for musicians to evolve and develop with every album released, but our goal is to push forward this natural development and to make Dordeduh distinguishable from our musical past.

Line-up:

Official members:
Hupogrammos - vocals/guitars/keyboards/traditional instruments;
Sol Faur - guitars/keyboards/traditional instruments;
Flavius Misarăș - bass;
Ovidiu Mihăiță - percussion & drums;

Guest members:
Sergio Ponti - drums & percussion;
Arioch - keyboards;
Thelemnar - drums & percussion;
Gallallin - traditional instruments;

Official Website: http://www.dordeduh.com/

Getting closer to the top 10 now.

12    OM - Advaitic Songs    181 Points,   13 Votes   One #1 
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bJPdj_Uf4zo/UJJ2vXRTQRI/AAAAAAAAAH4/eZBn7JduKC4/s1600/pic.jpg

top 10 Predictions anybody?

christian mistress, pallbearer, lamb of god, sigh, royal thunder <- some of these are def going to place

converge, obv.

Good call

11    Pallbearer-Sorrow and Extinction    183 Points,    15 Votes   One #1 
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/22/64/2264590224-1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4vcqtRCeKGALWvOg910jJi

Bonus point to Mordy for his prediction. Lets see who makes the best predictions

Cannibal Corpse? Swans maybe?

Gaza? Hooded Menace? Eagle Twin?

Whilst chatting to Neil about this it dawned on me that all previous winners have had at least 1 album out before. No bands debut has ever won this poll, so Pallbearer did well finishing so high above established metal poll faves like Torche/Alcest/OM

I thought Gaza would place, but not in the top 10 - that would surprise me.

I'm late to the party. Has Deiphago showed up?

Are we all sitting comfortably for the start of the Top Ten?

The OM album is well good.

Oh would you like a recap dog latin?

xp not heard that, need to though...

xp please yeah! - i'm at work and not meant to have big images on my screen

Predictions: Converge, Krallice, Royal Thunder and... Anaal Nathrakh? Mutilation Rites? Panopticon?

Oh and Blut Aus Nord.

and Conan! Apologies for prediction spam.

Conan already placed

My guesses:

01 Converge
02 Neurosis
03 Dragged Into Sunlight
04 Windhand
05 Dawnbringer
06 Christian Mistress
07 Krallice
08 Royal Thunder
09 Aluk Todolo
10 Nachtmystium

Others that I'd have thought might have made the top 50:

Amenra
The Sword
Hooded Menace
Author & Punisher
Witchsorrow
Bison B.C.
Meshuggah
Bell Witch
Serpentine Path
The Secret
Satan's Wrath
Orange Goblin
Pale Divine
Mares Of Thrace
Hour Of 13
God Seed
Car Bomb

Meshuggah placed too

Recap

51 Asphyx - Deathhammer 60 Points, 2 Votes, 2 #1 votes
50 Angel Witch - As Above, So Below 63 Points, 7 votes
49 Pinkish Black - Pinkish Black 64 Points, 4 Votes, One #1
48 Atriarch- Ritual of Passing 71 Points, 6 Votes
TIE
46 Wizard Rifle - Speak Loud, Say Nothing 72 Points, 5 Votes
46 The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre 72 Points, 5 Votes
45 Meshuggah - Koloss 72 Points, 7 Votes
44 DEFTONES - KOI NO YOKAN 72 Points, 8 Votes
43 Pagan Altar - The Time Lord 74 Points, 6 Votes
42 Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II 77 Points, 6 Votes
41 Graveyard - Lights Out 77 Points, 9 Votes
40 Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships 80 Points, 7 Votes
39 Menace Ruine - Alight In Ashes 82 Points, 7 Votes
38 Enslaved- Riitiir 82 Points, 7 Votes
37 Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage 86 Points, 6 Votes, One # 1
36 BLACK BREATH - SENTENCED TO LIFE 96 Points, 7 Votes
35 Inverloch - Dark/Subside 97 Points, 8 Votes
34 Horseback - Half Blood 98 Points, 9 Votes
33 Conan - Monnos 98 Points, 9 Votes, One# 1
32 Witchcraft- Legend 103 Points, 9 Votes
31 Cauldron - Tomorrow's Lost 104 Points, 10 Votes
30 Jodis - Black Curtain 106 Points, 8 Votes
29 UFOMAMMUT - Oro: Opus Primum/Opus Alter 107 Points, 10 Votes
28 Grand Magus - The Hunt 111 Points 8 Votes
27 Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild 121 Points, 10 Votes
26 Torche- Harmonicraft 130 Points, 10 Votes
25 Unsane - Wreck 132 Points, 9 Votes
24 Evoken- Altra Mors 136 Points, 10 Votes, One #1
23 Raventale - Transcendence 143 Points, 9 Votes One# 1
22 Drudkh- Eternal Turn of the Wheel 144 Points, 9 Votes, 2 #1s
21 Pig Destroyer- Book Burner 152 Points, 9 Votes Three #1s
20 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones 154 Points, 11 Votes, One# 1
19 High On Fire- De Vermis Mysteriis 156 Points, 14 Votes
18 Les Discrets - Ariettes oubliées... 162 Points, 11 Votes 2 #1s
17 Baroness - Yellow & Green 162 Points, 12 Votes 1 #1
16 Goat- World Music 163 Points, 10 Votes One #1
15 Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme 164 Points, 13 Votes
14 Saint Vitus - LILLIE: F-65 170 Points, 14 Votes One #1
13 Dordeduh- Dar de duh 178 Points, 11 Votes, One #1
12 OM - Advaitic Songs 181 Points, 13 Votes One #1
11 Pallbearer-Sorrow and Extinction 183 Points, 15 Votes One #1

It might be close, Neurosis could take it. I don't see any other band being a candidate for #1, though I never would have guessed Gojira wouldn't make top 10. Since Enslaved was so low, maybe Nachtmystium won't make it, as it's been kind of ignored.

xp

there we go dog latin

i keep thinking christian mistress is gonna be #1

Feel like this is a very doom/stoner laden list (which is cool, that's mostly what I was listening to this past summer), but being that I've been largely into death metal lately, I can kinda see why I haven't heard a lot of these.

Pallbearer was on mine I believe tho, I did get that one earlier in the year. I didn't vote Hooded Menace, as I got the album after the poll but I love that album after 3 listens.

I kinda hope CC doesn't place in the top ten as someone suggested. It was a good, dutiful Cannibal Corpse album, but nothing special.

Wishing Ram to place in top ten but doubting it. Such a good album.

Krallice would be nice -- I'm not an expert on them but a girl I saw temporarily recommended them and I loved what I heard.

I loved the Christian Mistress disc as I was totally into the heavy metal revivalism of 2011 but #1 would be way high.

err 2012

cheers

I have to think Napalm Death is going to be in the top ten, but then again, this has gone completely a diff way than I expected.

OK ready for the top 10? Does john justen still read the thread? Would be good if a mod was to change the thread title to alert everyone to the countdown finishing today.

Hey metal people, thanks for this poll. Given me a load of stuff to check out. V much enjoying the Alcest album.

I'm always interested in a breadth versus depth of support analysis of these sorts of polls. Asphyx looks to have won the latter. As for thinner, broader support, looks like High on Fire and Graveyard so far.

this thread makes me understand why Amazon currently says "25 orders placed in last 30 days"

Previous Metal Poll EOY Results

2008

Rank - Points - Votes - #1s - Artist - Album

1 - 479 - 25 - 2 - Torche - Meanderthal
2 - 357 - 19 - 3 - Harvey Milk - Life...the Best Game in Town
3 - 276 - 19 - 0 - Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
4 - 227 - 16 - 0 - Boris - Smile
5 - 212 - 13 - 1 - Opeth - Watershed
6 - 203 - 11 - 1 - Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
7 - 183 - 10 - 2 - Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
8 - 179 - 12 - 0 - 5ive - Hesperus
9 - 165 - 10 - 2 - Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
10 - 163 - 10 - 0 - Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
11 - 158 - 11 - 1 - The Goslings - Occasion
12 - 155 - 10 - 0 - Meshuggah - obZen
13 - 145 - 9 - 0 - Enslaved - Vertebrae
14 - 141 - 10 - 0 - Melvins - Nude With Boots
15 - 140 - 8 - 0 - Caina - Temporary Antennae
16 - 137 - 8 - 0 - Krallice - Krallice
17 - 128 - 8 - 0 - Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
18 - 126 - 8 - 1 - Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
18 - 126 - 8 - 0 - Cynic - Traced in Air
20 - 123 - 8 - 0 - Sunn 0))) - Domkirke
21 - 118 - 7 - 2 - Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
22 - 111 - 8 - 0 - Coffins - Buried Death
23 - 109 - 8 - 0 - Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
24 - 100 - 6 - 0 - Ocean - Pantheon of the Lesser
25 - 98 - 5 - 1 - The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
26 - 89 - 6 - 0 - Moss - Sub Templum
26 - 89 - 5 - 0 - Wetnurse - Invisible City
28 - 88 - 7 - 0 - Earthless - Live at Roadburn
28 - 88 - 8 - 0 - UFOmammut - Idolum
30 - 83 - 6 - 0 - The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
31 - 81 - 6 - 0 - Moonspell - Night Eternal
32 - 78 - 6 - 0 - Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect
33 - 72 - 6 - 0 - Ascend - Ample Fire Within
34 - 71 - 3 - 1 - Hammers of Misfortune - Fields/Church of Broken Glass
35 - 70 - 5 - 0 - Witch - Paralyzed
36 - 68 - 6 - 0 - Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
37 - 66 - 5 - 0 - Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth
38 - 63 - 6 - 0 - Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
39 - 62 - 5 - 0 - Darkspace - III
40 - 61 - 4 - 0 - Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
41 - 60 - 4 - 1 - Disfear - Live the Storm
42 - 59 - 4 - 1 - Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony
43 - 55 - 4 - 0 - Metallica - Death Magnetic
43 - 55 - 6 - 0 - Unearthly Trance - Electrocution
45 - 54 - 4 - 0 - Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness
45 - 54 - 4 - 0 - Withered - Folie Circulaire
47 - 52 - 5 - 0 - Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
48 - 50 - 4 - 0 - Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled
48 - 50 - 3 - 0 - Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood
50 - 48 - 3 - 1 - Zebulon Pike - Intranscience
50 - 48 - 3 - 0 - Racebannon - Acid or Blood
52 - 47 - 5 - 0 - Eluveitie - Slania
53 - 46 - 4 - 0 - The Sword - Gods of the Earth
54 - 44 - 4 - 0 - Amen Ra - Mass IIII
54 - 44 - 3 - 0 - Cough - Sigillum Luciferi
56 - 42 - 3 - 0 - Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
56 - 42 - 3 - 0 - Trinacria - Travel Now Journey Infinitely
58 - 41 - 2 - 0 - Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie
58 - 41 - 2 - 0 - Conifer - Crown Fire
58 - 41 - 3 - 0 - Jarboe - Mahakali
61 - 40 - 2 - 0 - Brave - Monuments
61 - 40 - 3 - 0 - Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum
63 - 39 - 3 - 1 - Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
64 - 38 - 3 - 0 - Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
64 - 38 - 3 - 0 - Helms Alee - Night Terror
64 - 38 - 4 - 0 - US Christmas - Eat the Low Dogs
67 - 37 - 2 - 0 - Sex/Vid - Communal Living
68 - 36 - 2 - 0 - Girlschool - Legacy
69 - 35 - 4 - 0 - Motorhead - Motorizer
70 - 34 - 2 - 0 - Black Boned Angel - The Endless Coming Into Life
70 - 34 - 3 - 0 - Death Angel - Killing Season
70 - 34 - 3 - 0 - Ocrilim - Annwn
70 - 34 - 2 - 0 - Septicflesh - Communion
74 - 33 - 2 - 1 - Samothrace - Lifes Trade
74 - 33 - 3 - 0 - Journey To Ixtlan - S/t
76 - 32 - 2 - 1 - Equilibrium - Sagas
76 - 32 - 4 - 0 - Tyr - Land
78 - 31 - 2 - 1 - Pyramids - Pyramids
78 - 31 - 2 - 0 - Helrunar - Baldr Okk Iss
80 - 30 - 2 - 0 - Ayreon - 01011001
80 - 30 - 2 - 0 - Candlemass - Lucifer Rising
82 - 29 - 3 - 0 - Dir En Grey - Uroboros
82 - 29 - 2 - 0 - Dornenreich - In Luft Geritzt
84 - 28 - 2 - 0 - Aldebaran - dwellers in twilight
84 - 28 - 2 - 0 - Aura Noir - Hades Rise
84 - 28 - 2 - 0 - In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
84 - 28 - 3 - 0 - Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward
84 - 28 - 3 - 0 - Morkobot - Morto
89 - 27 - 2 - 1 - In This Moment - The Dream
89 - 27 - 3 - 0 - Graveyard - Graveyard
91 - 25 - 1 - 1 - Gevolt - Sidur
91 - 25 - 1 - 1 - Mar De Grises - draining the waterheart
91 - 25 - 1 - 1 - Rose Tattoo - Blood Brothers
94 - 24 - 1 - 0 - Burst - Lazarus Bird
94 - 24 - 1 - 0 - Fuck the Facts - Disgorge Mexico
94 - 24 - 1 - 0 - The Lizards - archeology
97 - 23 - 1 - 0 - A Storm of Light - And We Wept the Black Ocean Within
97 - 23 - 2 - 0 - Black Elk - Always a Six, Never a Nine
97 - 23 - 1 - 0 - Everon - North
97 - 23 - 1 - 0 - Legless - Finding Mr. Perfect
97 - 23 - 1 - 0 - RTX - JJ Got Live RATX
97 - 23 - 3 - 0 - Trees - Lights Bane
103 - 22 - 2 - 0 - Capricorns - River, Bear Your Bones
103 - 22 - 1 - 0 - Helix - The Power of Rock and Roll
103 - 22 - 2 - 0 - Moho - Chotocabra
103 - 22 - 1 - 0 - Orakle - Tourments & perdition
107 - 21 - 1 - 0 - Ayat - Six Years of Dormant Hatred
107 - 21 - 2 - 0 - The Devil's Blood - Come, Reap
107 - 21 - 2 - 0 - Ihsahn - angL
107 - 21 - 2 - 0 - Taint - Secrets and Lies
107 - 21 - 1 - 0 - Ted Nugent - Sweden Rocks
112 - 20 - 1 - 0 - Colour Haze - All
113 - 19 - 2 - 0 - Atavist/Nadja - II: Points at Infinity
113 - 19 - 2 - 0 - DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown
113 - 19 - 1 - 0 - The Human Abstract - Midheaven
113 - 19 - 1 - 0 - Into Eternity - The Incurable Tragedy
113 - 19 - 1 - 0 - Oceans of Sadness - The Arrogance of Ignorance
118 - 18 - 2 - 0 - Cave - Hunt Like Devil
118 - 18 - 1 - 0 - Celestia - Frigidiis Apotheosia: Abstinencia Genesiis
118 - 18 - 2 - 0 - Grand Magus - Iron Will
118 - 18 - 1 - 0 - Mouth of the Architect - Quietly
118 - 18 - 1 - 0 - Night Ranger - Hole In the Sun
118 - 18 - 1 - 0 - Salome - Salome
124 - 17 - 2 - 0 - Black Boned Angel & Nadja - Christ Send Light
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Disturbed - Indestructible
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Gyongyver - Vilagok Viraga
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Janvs - Vega
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Klabautamann - Our Journey Through the Woods
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Ondo - Mahavishnu
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
124 - 17 - 1 - 0 - Wrath of the Weak - Alogon
132 - 16 - 1 - 0 - The Death of Her Money - Spirit of the Stairwell
132 - 16 - 1 - 0 - Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus
132 - 16 - 2 - 0 - Martriden - The Unsettling Dark
132 - 16 - 1 - 0 - Other Fools - 12 More Lies
132 - 16 - 2 - 0 - Zozobra - Bird of Prey
137 - 15 - 1 - 0 - Arkona - Ot Serdca K Nebu
137 - 15 - 1 - 0 - Desalvo - Mood Poisoner
137 - 15 - 2 - 0 - Origin - Antithesis
140 - 14 - 2 - 0 - The Austrasian Goat - pieces to oblivian
140 - 14 - 2 - 0 - Early Man - Beware the Circling Fin
140 - 14 - 2 - 0 - Hate Eternal - Fury and Flames
140 - 14 - 1 - 0 - Hey Colossus - Happy Birthday
140 - 14 - 1 - 0 - Noekk - The Minstrel's Curse
145 - 13 - 1 - 0 - Monolith Deathcult - Trivmvirate
145 - 13 - 1 - 0 - Mount Logan - Mount Logan
147 - 12 - 1 - 0 - Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
147 - 12 - 1 - 0 - Don Caballero - Punkgasm
147 - 12 - 1 - 0 - Tecumseh - Avalanche and Inundation
150 - 11 - 1 - 0 - Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living
150 - 11 - 1 - 0 - Elder - Elder
150 - 11 - 1 - 0 - Hail of Bullets - Of Frost and War
150 - 11 - 1 - 0 - The Haunted - Versus
150 - 11 - 1 - 0 - Mourning Beloveth - A Disease for the Ages
150 - 11 - 2 - 0 - Pentemple - 0))) Presents
156 - 10 - 1 - 0 - Arckanum - Antikosmos
156 - 10 - 1 - 0 - Black Shape of Nexus (B.son) - Microbarome Meetings
156 - 10 - 1 - 0 - Catley, Bob - Immortal
156 - 10 - 2 - 0 - Guapo - Elixirs
160 - 9 - 1 - 0 - Akimbo - Jersey Shores
160 - 9 - 1 - 0 - Amassfer - Slaves For Life
160 - 9 - 1 - 0 - Draconian - Turning Season Within
160 - 9 - 1 - 0 - Fiftywatthead - Fogcutter
160 - 9 - 1 - 0 - Nadja - The Bungled And the Botched
160 - 9 - 1 - 0 - Textures - Silhouettes
166 - 8 - 1 - 0 - Lantlos - Lantlos
167 - 7 - 1 - 0 - Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy
167 - 7 - 1 - 0 - Isole - Bliss of Solitude
169 - 6 - 1 - 0 - Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
169 - 6 - 1 - 0 - In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
169 - 6 - 1 - 0 - The Lamp of Thoth - Portents, Omens and Doom
169 - 6 - 1 - 0 - Viking Skull - Doom Gloom Heartache & Whiskey
173 - 5 - 1 - 0 - Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
173 - 5 - 1 - 0 - Cursed - III
173 - 5 - 1 - 0 - Dalriada - Szelek
173 - 5 - 1 - 0 - Hyatari - They will surface
173 - 5 - 1 - 0 - Khold - Hundre a Gammal
173 - 5 - 1 - 0 - Neuraxis - The Thin Line Between
179 - 4 - 1 - 0 - Gods And Queens - S/T
179 - 4 - 1 - 0 - Heavy Winged - Alive in My Mouth
179 - 4 - 1 - 0 - My Silent Wake - A Garland of Tears
182 - 3 - 2 - 0 - Poisonblack - A Dead Heavy Day
182 - 3 - 1 - 0 - White Lion - Return of the Pride
184 - 2 - 1 - 0 - The Amenta - nOn
184 - 2 - 1 - 0 - Arsis - We Are the Nightmare
184 - 2 - 1 - 0 - Farmakon - Robin
187 - 1 - 1 - 0 - Cor Scorpii - Monument
187 - 1 - 1 - 0 - Indian - Slights and Abuse / the Sycophant
187 - 1 - 1 - 0 - Metsatoll - Iivakivi
187 - 1 - 1 - 0 - Suspyre - When Time Fades...

2009

"#","Album","Points","Votes","1s","Enthusiasm"
"1","Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions","757","31","4","24.419"
"2","Converge - Axe to Fall","722","30","2","24.067"
"3","Mastodon - Crack the Skye","709","31","6","22.871"
"4","Baroness - Blue Record","708","30","6","23.6"
"5","YOB - The Great Cessation","705","28","5","25.179"
"6","Cobalt - Gin","566","24","1","23.583"
"7","Kylesa - Static Tensions","490","22","","22.273"
"8","Zu - Carboniferous","454","21","1","21.619"
"9","Isis - Wavering Radiant","437","22","1","19.864"
"10","Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough","412","22","","18.727"
"11","Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade","405","22","","18.409"
"12","Zombi - Spirit Animal","401","17","3","23.588"
"13","Slough Feg - Ape Uprising","390","16","2","24.375"
"14","The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder","380","18","","21.111"
"15","Om - God Is Good","335","16","","20.938"
"16","Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder","334","17","1","19.647"
"17","Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul","315","17","1","18.529"
"18","Slayer - World Painted Blood","293","15","","19.533"
"19","Liturgy - Renihilation","260","16","","16.25"
"20","Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights","253","13","","19.462"
"21","Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars","239","11","1","21.727"
"22","Oneida - Rated O","205","10","2","20.5"
"23","Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans","193","8","2","24.125"
"24","Funeral Mist - Maranatha","175","9","1","19.444"
"25","Absu - Absu","168","10","","16.8"
"26","Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs","163","11","","14.818"
"27","Tombs - Winter Hours","147","11","","13.364"
"28","Katatonia - Night Is the New Day","147","7","","21"
"29","Jesu - Opiate Sun","143","9","","15.889"
"30","Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick","141","7","1","20.143"
"31","Goatwhore - Carving Out the Eyes of God","137","7","","19.571"
"32","Drudkh - Microcosmos","131","7","","18.714"
"33","Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse","131","6","","21.833"
"34","Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest","129","9","","14.333"
"35","Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know","126","7","","18"
"36","Orthodox - Sentencia","124","7","","17.714"
"37","Pelican - What We All Come to Need","123","8","","15.375"
"38","Marduk - Wormwood","122","8","","15.25"
"39","Immortal - All Shall Fall","121","8","","15.125"
"40","Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem","119","5","1","23.8"
"41","Coalesce - Ox","116","10","","11.6"
"42","Portal - Swarth","112","8","","14"
"43","Big Business - Mind the Drift","110","7","1","15.714"
"44","Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity","108","5","","21.6"
"45","Madder Mortem - Eight Ways","107","6","1","17.833"
"46","Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave","106","8","1","13.25"
"47","Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows","105","7","","15"
"48","Nadja - When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV","103","7","","14.714"
"49","Pyramids With Nadja - S/T","98","6","","16.333"
"50","Part Chimp - Thriller","98","5","","19.6"
"51","Dysrhythmia - Psychic Maps","96","7","","13.714"
"52","Jesu - Infinity","96","6","","16"
"53","Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy","94","8","","11.75"
"54","Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga","93","4","",""
"55","Jamie Saft - Black Shabbis","91","4","1",""
"56","Greymachine - Disconnected","88","8","","11"
"57","Ancestors - Of Sound Mind","88","4","",""
"58","Bloody Panda - Summon","83","5","","16.6"
"59","Xasthur - All Reflections Drained","82","6","","13.667"
"60","Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans","82","5","","16.4"
"61","Lifelover - Dekadens","81","4","",""
"62","Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow","79","4","",""
"63","Keelhaul - Triumphant Return to Obscurity","78","5","1","15.6"
"64","Nadja and Black Boned Angel - S/T","78","5","","15.6"
"65","Hacride - Lazarus","75","4","",""
"66","Melvins - Chicken Switch","73","4","",""
"67","Candlemass - Death Magic Doom","70","8","","8.75"
"68","Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire","70","6","","11.667"
"69","Voivod - Infini","70","3","",""
"70","Eluveitie - Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion","69","4","",""
"71","Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone","66","4","",""
"72","Magrudergrind - S/T","66","3","",""
"73","SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells","63","6","","10.5"
"74","Megadeth - Endgame","62","6","","10.333"
"75","Black Boned Angel - Verdun","62","4","",""
"76","Dethklok - Dethalbum II","61","3","",""
"76","Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine - The Audacity of Hype","61","3","",""
"78","Behemoth - Evangelion","60","4","",""
"78","Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Crows Eat the Eyes From the Leviathan's Carcass","60","4","",""
"80","Jodis - Secret House","59","4","",""
"81","Gnaw - This Face","58","6","","9.667"
"82","Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive","58","5","","11.6"
"83","Obscura - Cosmogenesis","58","4","",""
"84","1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame","54","4","",""
"85","Altar of Plauges - White Tomb","54","3","",""
"86","Vom - Primitive Arts","54","2","1",""
"87","Anvil - This Is Thirteen","53","4","",""
"88","Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague","53","3","",""
"88","Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign","53","3","",""
"90","Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution","53","2","",""
"91","Revocation - Existence Is Futile","51","4","",""
"92","Augury - Fragmentary Evidence","51","3","",""
"92","Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor","51","3","",""
"92","Saros - Acrid Plains","51","3","",""
"92","Them Crooked Vultures - S/T","51","3","",""
"96","Saviours - Accelerated Living","50","4","",""
"97","Masters of Reality - Pine/Cross Dover","49","4","",""
"98","Burnt by the Sun - Heart of Darkness","47","4","",""
"99","Tyr - By the Light of the Northern Star","47","3","",""
"100","Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressor","46","6","","7.667"
"101","Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor","46","3","",""
"101","Cauldron - Chained to the Nite","46","3","",""
"101","Goblin Cock - Come With Me If You Want to Live","46","3","",""
"101","Lamb of God - Wrath","46","3","",""
"105","Suffocation - Blood Oath","43","3","",""
"106","Dyse - Lieder Sind Bruder de Revolution","43","2","",""
"106","Nargaroth - Jahreszeiten","43","2","",""
"108","Nachtmystium - Doomsday Derelicts","42","3","",""
"108","Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal","42","3","",""
"110","The Devil's Blood - The Time of No Time Evermore","42","2","",""
"111","Kreator - Hordes of Chaos","41","4","",""
"112","Loan - Hontzira","41","2","",""
"113","3 Inches of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom","40","4","",""
"114","Cave - Psychic Summer","40","2","",""
"114","Iron Age - The Sleeping Eye","40","2","",""
"116","Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt","39","2","",""
"117","Celan - Halo","36","2","",""
"118","Maserati - Passages","35","3","",""
"119","Diagonal - Diagonal","34","2","",""
"120","Sólstafir - Köld","33","2","",""
"121","Wolf - Ravenous","32","3","",""
"122","Clutch - Strange Cousins From the West","31","4","",""
"123","Black Sun - Twilight of the Gods","31","2","",""
"124","Firebird - Grand Union","30","3","",""
"125","Infernal Stronghold - Godless Noise","30","2","",""
"125","Manatees - Icarus, the Sunclimber","30","2","",""
"127","Circle of Ouroborus - Tree of Knowledge","30","1","1",""
"127","Dirty Little Rabbits - Simon","30","1","1",""
"127","Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic","30","1","1",""
"130","Disappearer - The Clearing","29","3","",""
"131","Born of Osiris - A Higher Place","29","2","",""
"132","Autumn - Altitude","29","1","",""
"132","Mantic Ritual - Executioner","29","1","",""
"132","Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm","29","1","",""
"132","Woburn House - Monstrous Manoeuvres in the Mushroom Maze","29","1","",""
"136","Solitude Aeturnus - Hour of Despair","28","3","",""
"137","Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way","28","1","",""
"137","The Devin Townsend Project - Addicted!","28","1","",""
"137","Pulling Teeth - Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions","28","1","",""
"137","Raise the Red Lantern - Raise the Red Lantern","28","1","",""
"137","Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió","28","1","",""
"137","Vreid - Milorg","28","1","",""
"143","Gwynbleidd - Nostalgia","27","2","",""
"144","Admiral Angry - Buster","27","1","",""
"144","Alestorm/Heidevolk/Tyr - Black Sails Over Europe","27","1","",""
"144","Angus Khan - Black Leather Soul","27","1","",""
"144","Antigua & Barbuda - Try Future","27","1","",""
"144","Kong - Snake Magnet","27","1","",""
"144","Zoroaster - Voice of Saturn","27","1","",""
"150","God Forbid - Earthsblood","26","3","",""
"151","Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life","26","1","",""
"152","A Storm of Light - Forgive Us Our Trespasses","25","3","",""
"153","Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect","25","2","",""
"153","L'acephale - Malefeasance","25","2","",""
"155","Diamatregon - Crossroad","25","1","",""
"155","The Few Against Many - SOT","25","1","",""
"155","Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse","25","1","",""
"155","Heirs - Alchera","25","1","",""
"155","Rufus Huff - Rufus Huff","25","1","",""
"160","Bergraven - Till Makabert Vasen","24","3","",""
"161","Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck","24","2","",""
"161","Worm Ouroboros - Worm Ouroboros","24","2","",""
"163","Argus - Argus","24","1","",""
"163","Ea - Ea II","24","1","",""
"163","White Wizzard - High Speed GTO","24","1","",""
"166","Arckanum - ___________","23","1","",""
"166","Sinner - Crash and Burn","23","1","",""
"168","Amorphis - Skyforger","22","1","",""
"168","Doomraiser - Erasing the Remembrance","22","1","",""
"168","Endstille - Verführer","22","1","",""
"168","Job for a Cowboy - Ruination","22","1","",""
"168","Meercaz - Meercaz","22","1","",""
"173","Shadow of the Torturer - Shadow of the Torturer","21","2","",""
"174","Blackberry Smoke - Little Piece of Dixie","21","1","",""
"174","Cantata Sangui - On Rituals and Correspondence in Constructed Realities","21","1","",""
"174","God Dethroned - Passiondale","21","1","",""
"174","Haud Mundus/Wormlust - Oblivio Appositus","21","1","",""
"174","Horseback - The Invisible Mountain","21","1","",""
"174","Ross the Boss - New Metal Leader","21","1","",""
"180","The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite","20","2","",""
"180","Wodensthrone - Loss","20","2","",""
"182","Flyleaf - Memento Mori","19","2","",""
"183","The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm","19","1","",""
"183","My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire","19","1","",""
"183","Steadlür - Everything Is Nothing","19","1","",""
"183","Urna - Iter Ad Lucem","19","1","",""
"187","Wreck of the Hesperus - The Sunken Threshold","18","2","",""
"188","Isole - Silent Ruins","18","1","",""
"188","Trippy Wicked & the Cosmic Children of the Knight - Movin' On","18","1","",""
"190","Arabrot - I Rove","17","2","",""
"190","Woods of Ypres - Wood IV: The Green Album","17","2","",""
"192","Elitist - Elitist","17","1","",""
"192","The Last Vegas - Whatever Gets You Off","17","1","",""
"192","Lord Mantis - Spawning the Nephilim","17","1","",""
"195","Monkey3 - Undercover","16","2","",""
"195","Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire","16","2","",""
"197","Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus","16","1","",""
"198","Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence","15","2","",""
"198","Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us,Death Unites Us","15","2","",""
"200","Alestorm - Black Sails at Midnight","15","1","",""
"200","The Answer - Everyday Demons","15","1","",""
"202","Hull - Sole Lord","14","1","",""
"202","Nihil - Grond","14","1","",""
"202","The Reds - Early Nothing","14","1","",""
"205","Rammstein - Liebe Ist Fur Alle De","13","2","",""
"206","Hey Colossus/Dethscalator - Split LP","13","1","",""
"206","Majeure - Timespan","13","1","",""
"206","The Mars Volta - Octahedron","13","1","",""
"206","Status Quo - In Search of the Fourth Chord","13","1","",""
"206","Wine From Tears - Through the Eyes of a Mad","13","1","",""
"211","Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second","12","2","",""
"212","Saxon - Into the Labyrinth","12","1","",""
"212","Swallow the Sun - New Moon","12","1","",""
"214","Code - Resplendent Grotesque","11","1","",""
"214","Crimfall - As the Path Unfolds...","11","1","",""
"214","Satyricon - Age of Nero","11","1","",""
"214","Switchblade - Switchblade","11","1","",""
"214","Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares","11","1","",""
"219","Callisto - Providence","9","1","",""
"219","Necrophobic - Death to All","9","1","",""
"219","The Pinx - Look What You Made Me Do","9","1","",""
"222","Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders","8","1","",""
"222","The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate","8","1","",""
"222","Culted - Below the Thunders of the Upper Deep","8","1","",""
"222","Dead Man - Euphoria","8","1","",""
"222","Javelina - Beasts Among Sheep","8","1","",""
"222","Monarque - Ad Nauseam","8","1","",""
"222","Samael - Above","8","1","",""
"229","Borgia - Ecclesia","7","1","",""
"229","Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - III","7","1","",""
"229","Raven's Creed - Albion's Thunder","7","1","",""
"232","Fires of Rome - You Kingdom You","6","1","",""
"232","Sirenia - 13th Floor","6","1","",""
"234","H.C. Minds - The Beginning of the End","5","2","",""
"235","Nahemah - A New Constellation","5","1","",""
"235","Obituary - Darkest Day","5","1","",""
"235","Old Man's Child - Slaves of the World","5","1","",""
"238","Birds of Prey - The Hellpreacher","4","1","",""
"238","Entwine - Painstained","4","1","",""
"238","Millions - Gather Scatter","4","1","",""
"241","Bosnia - Nazarene Hallucinations","3","1","",""
"241","Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg","3","1","",""
"243","Black Cobra - Chronomega","2","2","",""
"244","Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays","1","1","",""

2010

1. Electric Wizard - Black Masses (1,583 Points, 49 Votes, 10 #1s)
2. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit (1,540 Points, 48 Votes, 8 #1s)
3. Ludicra - The Tenant (1,387 Points, 46 Votes, 4 #1s)
4. Alcest - Écailles de Lune (1,330 Points, 49 Votes, 4 #1s)
5. Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part II (1,226 Points, 38 Votes, 4 #1s)
6. High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine (1,199 Points, 40 Votes, 3 #1s)
7. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits (1,197 Points, 42 Votes, 2 #1s)
8. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones (1,076 Points, 40 Votes, 3 #1s)
9. Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness (1,015 Points, 35 Votes, 3 #1s)
10. Dawnbringer - Nucleus (1,009 Points, 34 Votes, 2 #1s)
11. Ghost - Opus Eponymous (868 Points, 32 Votes, 1 #1)
12. UFOmammut - Eve (790 Points, 30 Votes, 2 #1s)
13. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (733 Points, 27 Votes)
14. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (703 Points, 29 Votes, 1 #1)
15. Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium (700 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
16. Apostle of Solitude - Last Sunrise (693 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
17. Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom (666 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
18. Drudkh - Handful of Stars (665 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
19. Torche - Songs for Singles (663 Points, 23 Votes, 1 #1)
20. Envy - Recitation (660 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
21. Castevet - Mounds of Ash (658 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
22. Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough (656 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
23. Coffinworm - When All Became None (654 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
24. Agrypnie - 16[485] (650 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
25. The Howling Wind - Into the Cryosphere (635 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
26. Ihsahn - After (621 Points, 30 Votes, 1 #1)
27. Murmuure - Murmuure (593 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
28. Cathedral - The Guessing Game (592 Points, 40 Votes, 2 #1s)
29. Hooded Menace - Never Cross the Dead (588 Points, 22 Votes, 1 #1)
30. The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood (581 Points, 23 Votes, 1 #1)
31. Salome - Terminal (580 Points, 21 Votes, 1 #1)
32. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini (551 Points, 24 Votes, 1 #1)
33. The Sword - Warp Riders (510 Points, 21 Votes, 1 #1)
34. Black Breath - Heavy Breathing (500 Points, 19 Votes, 1 #1)
35. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus (490 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
36. Negura Bunget - Vîrstele Pamîntului (476 Points, 24 Votes)
37. Rotting Christ - AEALO (465 Points, 25 Votes)
38. Watain - Lawless Darkness (425 Points, 18 Votes)
39. Yakuza - Of Seismic Consequence (425 Points, 16 Votes)
40. Jesu - Heart Ache & Dethroned (421 Points, 20 Votes)
41. Celestiial - Where Life Springs Eternal (420 Points, 24 Votes)
42. Xasthur - Portal of Sorrow (419 Points, 26 Votes)
43. Solefald - Norrøn Livskunst (416 Points, 28 Votes)
44. Ea - Au Ellai (416 Points, 26 Votes)
45. 1349 - Demonoir (413 Points, 24 Votes)
46. Sahg - III (412 Points, 29 Votes)
47. Blood of the Black Owl - A Banishing Ritual (Into White) (412 Points, 23 Votes)
48. The Wounded Kings - The Shadow Over Atlantis (409 Points, 17 Votes)
49. Melechesh - Epigenesis (407 Points, 22 Votes)
50. Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was (403 Points, 28 Votes)
51. Black Bombaim - Saturdays and Space Travels (390 Points, 19 Votes)
52. Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR (385 Points, 18 Votes)
53. Hour of 13 - The Ritualist (382 Points, 14 Votes, 1 #1)
54. Shining - Blackjazz (375 Points, 16 Votes)
55. Bison B.C. - Dark Ages (370 Points, 19 Votes)
56. Trees - Freed of This Flesh (369 Points, 17 Votes)
57. Unearthly Trance - V (367 Points, 16 Votes, 1 #1)
58. Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder (355 Points, 17 Votes)
59. Lesbian - Stratospheria Cubensis (355 Points, 15 Votes)
60. Karma to Burn - Appalachian Incantation (352 Points, 19 Votes)
61. Quest for Fire - Lights From Paradise (345 Points, 15 Votes)
62. Kvelertak - Kvelertak (342 Points, 20 Votes)
63. Across Tundras - Old World Wanderer (328 Points, 14 Votes)
64. Burzum - Belus (315 Points, 16 Votes)
65. Titan - Sweet Dreams (298 Points, 12 Votes)
66. Thou - Summit (290 Points, 11 Votes)
67. Zoroaster - Matador (286 Points, 12 Votes)
68. Gnaw Their Tongues - L'Arrivée de la Terne Mort Triomphante (276 Points, 12 Votes)
69. Grand Magus - Hammer of the North (270 Points, 13 Votes)
70. Intronaut - Valley of Smoke (266 Points, 12 Votes)
71. Cough - Ritual Abuse (256 Points, 13 Votes, 1 #1)
72. Fatso Jetson - Archaic Volumes (255 Points, 11 Votes)
73. Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons (254 Points, 12 Votes)
74. Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s) (253 Points, 13 Votes)
75. Tweak Bird - Tweak Bird (253 Points, 10 Votes)
76. Ramesses - Take the Curse (252 Points, 11 Votes)
77. Le Kraken - Exalt (243 Points, 13 Votes)
78. The Ocean - Heliocentric (240 Points, 8 Votes)
79. Lantlôs - .neon (237 Points, 11 Votes)
80. The Ocean - Anthropocentric (237 Points, 10 Votes)
81. Twilight - Monument to Time End (236 Points, 11 Votes, 1 #1)
82. Horseback - The Invisible Mountain (234 Points, 12 Votes)
83. Hellbeard - Scarecrow (234 Points, 10 Votes)
84. Boris - Variations (232 Points, 11 Votes)
84. Menace Ruine - Union of Irreconcilables (232 Points, 11 Votes)
86. Sigh - Scenes From Hell (231 Points, 13 Votes)
87. Howl - Full of Hell (230 Points, 9 Votes)
88. Black Tusk - Taste the Sin (229 Points, 14 Votes)
89. U.S. Christmas - Run Thick in the Night (229 Points, 12 Votes)
90. Angel Eyes - Midwestern (227 Points, 12 Votes)
91. Les Discrets - Septembre et Ses Dernieres Pensees (226 Points, 11 Votes)
92. Rosetta - A Determinism of Morality (226 Points, 10 Votes)
93. Humanfly - Darker Later (225 Points, 12 Votes)
94. Cuzo - Otros Mundos (223 Points, 10 Votes)
95. Year of No Light - Ausserwelt (222 Points, 12 Votes)
96. Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was... Liber I (221 Points, 11 Votes)
97. The Howling Void - Shadows Over the Cosmos (218 Points, 11 Votes)
98. Westering - Help a Body (218 Points, 9 Votes)
99. Triptykon - Shatter (217 Points, 11 Votes)
100. Jucifer - Throned in Blood (216 Points, 10 Votes, 1 #1)
101. Yrsel - Requiem for the Three Kharites (215 Points, 11 Votes)
102. Barn Owl - Ancestral Star (213 Points, 13 Votes)
103. Solace - A.D. (212 Points, 11 Votes)
104. Immolation - Majesty and Decay (210 Points, 10 Votes)
105. Deftones - Diamond Eyes (206 Points, 8 Votes)
106. Monarch - Sabbat Noir (203 Points, 9 Votes)
107. Arabrot - Revenge (201 Points, 9 Votes)
108. Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit (197 Points, 8 Votes)
109. Nadja - Under the Jaguar Sun (183 Points, 9 Votes)
110. Dio - At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987 (181 Points, 9 Votes)
111. Sweet Cobra - Mercy (179 Points, 9 Votes)
112. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis (178 Points, 8 Votes, 1 #1)
113. Ratt - Infestation (177 Points, 12 Votes)
114. Nails - Unsilent Death (172 Points, 9 Votes)
115. Hey Colossus & the Van Halen Time Capsule - Eurogrumble Vol 1 (165 Points, 7 Votes)
116. Atheist - Jupiter (159 Points, 7 Votes)
117. Acid Witch - Stoned (150 Points, 8 Votes)
118. Knut - Wonder (149 Points, 7 Votes)
118. Monster Magnet - Mastermind (149 Points, 7 Votes)
120. Sheavy - Disfigurine (133 Points, 7 Votes)
121. Elixir - All Hallows Eve (133 Points, 6 Votes)
122. Danzig - Deth Red Sabaoth (132 Points, 8 Votes)
123. Neurosis - Live at Roadburn 2007 (131 Points, 6 Votes)
124. Arckanum - Sviga Lae (128 Points, 5 Votes)
125. Triosphere - The Road Less Travelled (127 Points, 9 Votes)
126. Lustre - A Glimpse of Glory (126 Points, 7 Votes)
127. Sailors With Wax Wings - Sailors With Wax Wings (125 Points, 6 Votes)
128. Stargazer - A Great Work of Ages (125 Points, 5 Votes)
129. Arsis - Starve for the Devil (124 Points, 5 Votes)
130. Wormrot - Abuse (123 Points, 5 Votes)
131. Locrian - The Crystal World (117 Points, 6 Votes)
132. Wino - Adrift (116 Points, 5 Votes)
133. Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time (112 Points, 7 Votes)
134. Helmet - Seeing Eye Dog (109 Points, 5 Votes)
135. Wolf People - Steeple (103 Points, 5 Votes, 1 #1)
136. Ultralyd - Inertiadrome (102 Points, 5 Votes)
137. Overkill - Ironbound (101 Points, 6 Votes)
138. Samsara Blues Experiment - Long Distance Trip (101 Points, 5 Votes)
139. Mar de Grises - Stream Inwards (96 Points, 6 Votes)
140. Kayo Dot - Coyote (95 Points, 6 Votes)
141. White Hills - White Hills (95 Points, 4 Votes)
142. Dead Meadow - Three Kings (94 Points, 4 Votes)
143. Accept - Blood of the Nations (93 Points, 4 Votes)
144. Double Negative - Daydreamnation (92 Points, 3 Votes)
145. Conan - Horseback Battle Hammer (88 Points, 7 Votes)
146. Krieg - The Isolationist (88 Points, 4 Votes)
147. Nechochwen - Azimuths to the Otherworld (87 Points, 7 Votes)
148. Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned (84 Points, 7 Votes)
149. Sloath - Sloath (84 Points, 5 Votes)
150. Sungrazer - Sungrazer (83 Points, 5 Votes)
151. Decrepit Birth - Polarity (83 Points, 4 Votes)
152. Diabulus in Musica - Secrets (82 Points, 6 Votes)
153. Hypnos 69 - Legacy (81 Points, 5 Votes)
154. Kill the Client - Set for Extinction (81 Points, 3 Votes)
154. Wolvserpent - Wolvserpent (81 Points, 3 Votes)
156. Mortemia - Misere Mortem (79 Points, 7 Votes)
157. Doomshine - The Piper at the Gates of Doom (79 Points, 5 Votes)
158. Monument of Urns - Absence (79 Points, 4 Votes)
159. Mandrake - Innocence Weakness (78 Points, 8 Votes)
160. Dark Fortress - Ylem (77 Points, 8 Votes)
161. Black Sun - Twilight of the Gods (77 Points, 5 Votes)
162. Flesh Consumed - Ecliptic Dimensions of Suffering (76 Points, 3 Votes)
163. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns (75 Points, 5 Votes)
164. The Flight of Sleipnir - Lore (71 Points, 4 Votes)
165. Draugnim - Horizons Low (70 Points, 5 Votes)
166. Unsun - Clinic for Dolls (69 Points, 7 Votes)
167. Boris & Ian Astbury - BXI (68 Points, 5 Votes)
168. Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition (68 Points, 4 Votes)
169. Daughters - Daughters (68 Points, 3 Votes, 1 #1)
170. Fear Factory - Mechanize (67 Points, 4 Votes)
170. My Sleeping Karma - Tri (67 Points, 4 Votes)
172. Armored Saint - La Raza (66 Points, 5 Votes)
173. An Autumn for Crippled Children - Lost (65 Points, 4 Votes)
174. Fleshpress - No Return (64 Points, 3 Votes)
175. Sister Sin - True Sound of the Underground (63 Points, 5 Votes)
176. Winterhorde - Underwatermoon (63 Points, 3 Votes)
177. Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy (62 Points, 4 Votes)
178. Suma - Ashes (62 Points, 3 Votes)
179. Death Angel - Relentless Retribution (62 Points, 2 Votes)
180. Wildildlife - Give It to Live (61 Points, 3 Votes)
181. HIM - Screamworks (60 Points, 5 Votes, 1 #1)
182. Sorgeldom - Inner Receivings (59 Points, 4 Votes)
183. Kongh - Shadows of the Shapeless (58 Points, 4 Votes)
184. Limbonic Art - Phantasmagoria (58 Points, 3 Votes)
185. Serpentina Satelite - Mecanica Celeste (58 Points, 2 Votes)
186. Encoffination - Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh (57 Points, 3 Votes)
187. The Red Sparowes - The Fear Is Excruciating (56 Points, 3 Votes)
188. Earthride - Something Wicked (56 Points, 2 Votes)
189. Gozu - Locust Season (54 Points, 2 Votes)
190. Withered - Dualitas (52 Points, 4 Votes)
191. Spirit Descent - Doominion (51 Points, 3 Votes)
192. Crystal Viper - Legends (50 Points, 4 Votes)
193. Fleshpress - Rebuild/Crumble (50 Points, 3 Votes)
194. Autopsy - The Tomb Within (50 Points, 2 Votes)
195. Poisonblack - Of Rust and Bones (49 Points, 5 Votes)
196. Countess - Burning Scripture (49 Points, 3 Votes)
196. Mares of Thrace - The Moulting (49 Points, 3 Votes)
198. Nightfall - Astron Black and the Thirty Tyrants (48 Points, 3 Votes)
199. Coliseum - House With a Curse (46 Points, 6 Votes)
200. Dråpsnatt - Hymner Till Undergången (46 Points, 3 Votes)
200. Embryonic Devourment - Vivid Interpretations of the Void (46 Points, 3 Votes)
200. Helloween - 7 Sinners (46 Points, 3 Votes)
203. Lair of the Minotaur - Evil Power (44 Points, 5 Votes)
204. The Austerity Program - Backsliders & Apostates Will Burn (44 Points, 3 Votes)
205. Imperium Dekadenz - Procella Vadens (43 Points, 5 Votes)
206. Finntroll - Nifelvind (42 Points, 3 Votes)
207. Adrift for Days - The Lunar Maria (41 Points, 3 Votes)
207. Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem Two (41 Points, 3 Votes)
207. Sahara Surfers - Spacetrip on a Paper Plane (41 Points, 3 Votes)
210. Cradle of Filth - Darkly, Darkly Venus Aversa (40 Points, 6 Votes)
211. Eibon - Entering Darkness (40 Points, 2 Votes)
212. Abscess - Dawn of Inhumanity (40 Points, 1 Votes, 1 #1)
212. Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel (40 Points, 1 Votes, 1 #1)
214. Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart (39 Points, 1 Votes)
215. Weapon - From the Devil's Tomb (38 Points, 2 Votes)
216. Mob Rules - The Donor (38 Points, 1 Votes)
217. Starlit - Ataraxis (37 Points, 1 Votes)
218. Cephalic Carnage - Misled by Certainty (36 Points, 2 Votes)
219. Skullflower - Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament (35 Points, 1 Votes)
220. Metsatöll - Äio (34 Points, 4 Votes)
220. Ov Hell - The Underworld Regime (34 Points, 4 Votes)
222. Darkblack - Midnight Wraith (34 Points, 3 Votes)
223. Julie Christmas - The Bad Wife (34 Points, 1 Votes)
224. Ozzy Osbourne - Scream (33 Points, 3 Votes)
225. Eldjudnir - Ragnarok (33 Points, 1 Votes)
225. Inherit Disease - Visceral Transcendence (33 Points, 1 Votes)
227. Tarja Turunen - What Lies Beneath (31 Points, 3 Votes)
228. Master's Hammer - Mantras (31 Points, 1 Votes)
229. Voltax - Fugitive State of Mind (30 Points, 4 Votes)
230. Magnus Pelander - Magnus Pelander EP (30 Points, 2 Votes)
231. Bastard Noise/The Endless Blockade - The Red List (Split) (30 Points, 1 Votes)
231. U.S. Christmas/Minsk/Harvestman - Hawkwind Triad (30 Points, 1 Votes)
231. Valborg - Crown of Sorrow (30 Points, 1 Votes)
234. The Crown - Doomsday King (29 Points, 2 Votes)
234. October Tide - A Thin Shell (29 Points, 2 Votes)
236. Aderlating - Devotional Hymns (29 Points, 1 Votes)
236. Child Abuse - Cut and Run (29 Points, 1 Votes)
238. Wold - Working Together for Our Privacy (28 Points, 1 Votes)
239. Mael Mordha - Manannan (27 Points, 2 Votes)
239. Soulfly - Omen (27 Points, 2 Votes)
241. Demonic Death Judge - Kneel (27 Points, 1 Votes)
241. Katatonia - The Longest Year EP (27 Points, 1 Votes)
243. Dispirit - Rehearsal at Oboroten (26 Points, 1 Votes)
244. Kellermensch - Kellermensch (25 Points, 2 Votes)
245. PIVIXKI - Gravissima (25 Points, 1 Votes)
246. Furze - Reaper Subconscious Guide (24 Points, 1 Votes)
247. Dark Tranquillity - We Are the Void (23 Points, 3 Votes)
248. My Uncle The Wolf - Flush (23 Points, 1 Votes)
249. Witchery - Witchkrieg (22 Points, 1 Votes)
250. In This Moment - A Star-Crossed Wasteland (21 Points, 2 Votes)
250. Integrity - The Blackest Curse (21 Points, 2 Votes)
252. Hail of Bullets - On Divine Winds (21 Points, 1 Votes)
253. Dawn of Ashes - Genocide Chapters (20 Points, 2 Votes)
254. Early Graves - Goner (20 Points, 1 Votes)
254. The Secret - Solve et Coagula (20 Points, 1 Votes)
256. Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred for Mankind (19 Points, 1 Votes)
257. Father Befouled - Morbid Destitution of Covenant (18 Points, 1 Votes)
258. Bastard Noise - A Culture of Monsters (17 Points, 1 Votes)
259. Liveride - Туманами (15 Points, 2 Votes)
260. Equilibrium - Rekreatur (14 Points, 2 Votes)
260. Hansel - Never Say Die (14 Points, 2 Votes)
260. Misery Index - Heirs to Thievery (14 Points, 2 Votes)
263. Kathaarsys - Intuition (14 Points, 1 Votes)
263. Mourner - Still (14 Points, 1 Votes)
265. Halford - Made of Metal (13 Points, 1 Votes)
265. Lacrimas Profundere - The Grandiose Nowhere (13 Points, 1 Votes)
265. Landmine Marathon - Sovereign Descent (13 Points, 1 Votes)
268. Vasaeleth - Crypt Born and Tethered to Ruin (12 Points, 2 Votes)
269. Serj Tankian - Imperfect Harmonies (12 Points, 1 Votes)
270. Ares Kingdom - Incendiary (11 Points, 1 Votes)
271. Anima - Spasenge (10 Points, 2 Votes)
272. Demon Hunter - The World Is a Thorn (10 Points, 1 Votes)
272. Gamma Ray - To the Metal (10 Points, 1 Votes)
272. White Wizzard - Over the Top (10 Points, 1 Votes)
275. Retro Grave - Again (9 Points, 2 Votes)
276. Petrychor - Dryad (9 Points, 1 Votes)
277. Garden of Worm - Garden of Worm (8 Points, 1 Votes)
277. In Mourning - Monolith (8 Points, 1 Votes)
279. Centurions Ghost - Blessed & Cursed in Equal Measure (7 Points, 2 Votes)
280. Yngwie Malmsteen - Relentless (6 Points, 2 Votes)
281. Opeth - Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall (6 Points, 1 Votes)
282. Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra (5 Points, 2 Votes)
283. Korn - Korn III: Remember Who You Are (5 Points, 1 Votes)
284. Sevendust - Cold Day Memory (3 Points, 1 Votes)
284. Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy (3 Points, 1 Votes)
286. 36 Crazyfists - Collisions and Castaways (2 Points, 1 Votes)
286. Bullet for My Valentine - Fever (2 Points, 1 Votes)
286. Disturbed - Asylum (2 Points, 1 Votes)
286. Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast (2 Points, 1 Votes)
290. Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare (1 Points, 1 Votes)
290. Drowning Pool - Drowning Pool (1 Points, 1 Votes)
290. Godsmack - The Oracle (1 Points, 1 Votes)
290. Lordi - Babez for Breakfast (1 Points, 1 Votes)
290. Murderdolls - Women and Children Last (1 Points, 1 Votes)

2011 Metal Poll Results

1. Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street (1,601 Points, 39 Votes, 5 #1s)
2. Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit (1,599 Points, 40 Votes, 4 #1s)
3. YOB - Atma (1,527 Points, 41 Votes, 2 #1s)
4. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (1,371 Points, 34 Votes, 4 #1s)
5. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (1,351 Points, 36 Votes, 2 #1s)
6. Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance (1,344 Points, 35 Votes, 4 #1s)
7. Mastodon - The Hunter (1,253 Points, 33 Votes, 6 #1s)
8. Pantheïst - Pantheist (1,187 Points, 30 Votes, 2 #1s)
9. The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch (1,085 Points, 32 Votes, 1 #1)
10. Subrosa - No Help for the Mighty Ones (1,080 Points, 30 Votes, 3 #1s)
11. The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre (1,056 Points, 29 Votes, 3 #1s)
12. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room (1,049 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
13. Blood Ceremony - Living With the Ancients (1,014 Points, 31 Votes, 1 #1)
14. Absu - Abzu (901 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
15. Krallice - Diotima (899 Points, 28 Votes)
16. Falloch - Where Distant Spirits Remain (874 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
17. Liturgy - Aesthethica (873 Points, 26 Votes, 2 #1s)
18. Altar of Plagues - Mammal (855 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
19. Fen - Epoch (851 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
20. Asva - Presences of Absences (845 Points, 25 Votes, 2 #1s)
21. Argus - Boldly Stride the Doomed (800 Points, 24 Votes, 2 #1s)
22. Turisas - Stand Up and Fight (796 Points, 22 Votes, 3 #1s)
23. Opeth - Heritage (786 Points, 22 Votes)
24. Burzum - Fallen (699 Points, 22 Votes, 1 #1)
25. Loss - Despond (670 Points, 24 Votes)
26. Virus - The Agent That Shapes the Desert (653 Points, 19 Votes)
27. Grayceon - All We Destroy (645 Points, 19 Votes, 1 #1)
28. Today Is the Day - Pain Is a Warning (614 Points, 19 Votes, 1 #1)
29. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal (602 Points, 23 Votes)
30. Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand (594 Points, 24 Votes)
31. In Solitude - The World. The Flesh. The Devil (594 Points, 18 Votes)
32. Cauldron - Burning Fortune (580 Points, 20 Votes)
33. Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore (564 Points, 19 Votes)
34. Sólstafir - Svartir Sandar (558 Points, 16 Votes, 1 #1)
35. Morne - Asylum (557 Points, 19 Votes)
36. Boris - Heavy Rocks (551 Points, 19 Votes)
37. Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg (549 Points, 18 Votes)
38. Blood Stain Child - Epsilon (540 Points, 18 Votes, 1 #1)
39. Blut Aus Nord - 777/The Desanctification (537 Points, 21 Votes)
40. Old Silver Key - Tales of Wanderings (528 Points, 20 Votes, 1 #1)
41. Elder - Dead Roots Stirring (528 Points, 16 Votes, 1 #1)
42. Anima Morte - The Nightmare Becomes Reality (527 Points, 19 Votes)
43. Burzum - From the Depths of Darkness (524 Points, 15 Votes, 1 #1)
44. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sect(S) (514 Points, 17 Votes)
45. Hell - Human Remains (509 Points, 21 Votes)
46. Korpiklaani - Ukon Wacka (509 Points, 17 Votes)
47. Dalriada - Igeret (507 Points, 20 Votes)
48. Mitochondrion - Parasignosis (506 Points, 18 Votes)
49. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 (505 Points, 18 Votes)
50. Barn Owl - Lost in the Glare (504 Points, 16 Votes)
51. Lord Vicar - Signs of Osiris (502 Points, 17 Votes)
52. Tombs - Path of Totality (461 Points, 17 Votes)
53. Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising (444 Points, 15 Votes)
54. The Atlas Moth - An Ache for the Distance (442 Points, 17 Votes)
55. KEN Mode - Venerable (439 Points, 16 Votes)
56. RAVENTALE - Bringer of Heartsore (438 Points, 14 Votes, 1 #1)
57. Shooting Guns - Born to Deal in Magic: 1952-1976 (432 Points, 13 Votes)
58. Sungrazer - Mirador (426 Points, 15 Votes)
59. Anaal Nathrakh - Passion (425 Points, 11 Votes)
60. Cathis Ord - The Far Shore (419 Points, 14 Votes)
61. Indian - Guiltless (415 Points, 14 Votes)
62. Krux - III - He Who Sleeps Amongst the Stars (415 Points, 13 Votes)
63. Loon - S/T (413 Points, 12 Votes)
64. Caïna - Hands That Pluck (410 Points, 16 Votes)
65. Orthodox - Baal (410 Points, 15 Votes)
66. Nightwish - Imaginaerum (409 Points, 16 Votes)
67. Devil - Time to Repent (409 Points, 15 Votes)
68. Condenados - A Painful Journey Into Nihil (406 Points, 14 Votes)
69. Witch Mountain - South of Salem (398 Points, 22 Votes)
70. EPHELES - Je Suis Autrefois (397 Points, 13 Votes, 1 #1)
71. Slough Feg - Made in Poland (395 Points, 13 Votes, 1 #1)
72. LANTLOS - Agape (392 Points, 14 Votes)
72. Orchid - Capricorn (392 Points, 14 Votes)
74. Raspberry Bulbs - Nature Tries Again (392 Points, 11 Votes, 1 #1)
75. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah (390 Points, 16 Votes)
76. Lento - Icon (390 Points, 12 Votes)
77. Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa (389 Points, 15 Votes)
78. CIRCLE of OUROBORUS - Eleven Fingers (389 Points, 14 Votes, 1 #1)
78. Obake - Obake (389 Points, 14 Votes, 1 #1)
80. Dornenreich - Flammentriebe (386 Points, 13 Votes)
81. Pitom - Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes (384 Points, 12 Votes, 1 #1)
82. The Flight of Sleipnir - Essence of Nine (382 Points, 16 Votes)
83. Boris - Attention Please (382 Points, 14 Votes)
84. THE WOUNDED KINGS - In the Chapel of the Black Hand (377 Points, 18 Votes)
85. Ordog - Remorse (371 Points, 15 Votes)
86. GNAW THEIR TONGUES - Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus (370 Points, 11 Votes)
87. Kampfar - Mare (364 Points, 15 Votes)
88. Hands of Orlac - S/T (359 Points, 14 Votes)
89. Lifelover - Sjukdom (355 Points, 9 Votes, 1 #1)
90. Anatomy of Habit - S/T (352 Points, 15 Votes, 1 #1)
91. Premonition 13 - Premonition 13 (351 Points, 12 Votes)
92. Rwake - Rest (350 Points, 14 Votes)
93. WOODEN STAKE - Black Caped Carnivore (349 Points, 11 Votes)
94. ICS Vortex - Storm Seeker (347 Points, 14 Votes)
95. Wreck of the Hesperus - Light Rotting Out (347 Points, 11 Votes)
96. Arckanum - Helvetismyrkr (346 Points, 14 Votes)
97. Jesu - Ascension (346 Points, 11 Votes)
98. Ash Borer - Ash Borer (345 Points, 12 Votes)
98. Disma - Towards the Megalith (345 Points, 12 Votes)
100. Agrypnie - Asche (343 Points, 12 Votes)
101. Karma to Burn - V (341 Points, 14 Votes)
102. Animals As Leaders - Weightless (336 Points, 12 Votes)
103. Black Tusk - Set the Dial (317 Points, 12 Votes)
104. Vektor - Outer Isolation (313 Points, 11 Votes)
105. Falkenbach - Tiurida (308 Points, 10 Votes)
106. Trap Them - Darker Handcraft (303 Points, 10 Votes, 1 #1)
107. Acid Witch - Stoned (295 Points, 9 Votes)
108. Windhand - Windhand (289 Points, 9 Votes, 1 #1)
109. Red Fang - Murder the Mountains (278 Points, 11 Votes)
110. Septic Flesh - The Great Mass (268 Points, 10 Votes)
111. Pharaoh Overlord - Out of Darkness (267 Points, 12 Votes)
112. Weedeater - Jason...The Dragon (265 Points, 11 Votes)
113. MORKOBOT - Morbo (260 Points, 8 Votes)
114. Obscura - Omnivium (255 Points, 9 Votes)
115. Cruachan - Blood on the Black Robe (254 Points, 8 Votes)
115. KODIAK - Rn-Xe (254 Points, 8 Votes)
117. Machine Head - Unto the Locust (248 Points, 7 Votes)
117. Woods of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason (248 Points, 7 Votes)
119. ISOLE - Born From Shadows (245 Points, 10 Votes)
120. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving (244 Points, 11 Votes)
121. Zebulon Pike - Space Is the Corpse of Time (243 Points, 10 Votes)
122. Grails - Deep Politics (242 Points, 7 Votes)
123. Peste Noire - l'Ordure a l'Etat Pur (237 Points, 9 Votes, 1 #1)
124. Azarath - Blasphemers' Malediction (236 Points, 9 Votes)
125. Weekend Nachos - Worthless (236 Points, 6 Votes, 1 #1)
126. Graveyard - Hilsingen Blues (232 Points, 7 Votes)
127. Across Tundras - Sage (231 Points, 7 Votes)
128. Black Cobra - Invernal (229 Points, 10 Votes)
129. Vintersorg - Jordpuls (220 Points, 9 Votes)
130. Pentagram - Last Rites (216 Points, 8 Votes)
131. Taake - Noregs Vapen (215 Points, 7 Votes)
132. Sonne Adam - Transformation (215 Points, 6 Votes)
133. Aosoth - III (210 Points, 8 Votes)
134. Black Pyramid - II (207 Points, 7 Votes)
135. Batillus - Furnace (183 Points, 7 Votes)
136. The Psychic Paramount - II (175 Points, 5 Votes)
137. Bullet - Highway Pirates (167 Points, 6 Votes)
138. Vastum - Carnal Law (164 Points, 6 Votes)
139. Gridlink - Orphan (156 Points, 7 Votes)
140. Ravencult - Morbid Blood (148 Points, 4 Votes)
141. Bastard Noise - Skulldozer (137 Points, 6 Votes)
142. Bruce Lamont - Feral Songs for the Epic Decline (135 Points, 5 Votes)
143. American Heritage - Sedentary (134 Points, 4 Votes)
144. Wormrot - Dirge (133 Points, 5 Votes)
145. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life (133 Points, 4 Votes)
146. Hey Colossus - RRR (130 Points, 5 Votes)
147. Goatmoon - Varjot (129 Points, 5 Votes)
148. Subway to Sally - Schwarz in Schwarz (128 Points, 5 Votes)
149. Ensorcelor - Crucifuge (126 Points, 5 Votes)
150. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction (126 Points, 3 Votes)
151. Dir en Grey - Dum Spiro Spero (123 Points, 7 Votes)
152. Craft - Void (123 Points, 3 Votes)
153. Freedom Hawk - Holding On (122 Points, 4 Votes)
153. Helms Alee - Weatherhead (122 Points, 4 Votes)
153. Kartikeya - Mahayuga (122 Points, 4 Votes)
153. Necrophagia - Deathtrip 69 (122 Points, 4 Votes)
157. Mars Red Sky - Mars Red Sky (121 Points, 5 Votes)
158. Amebix - Sonic Mass (121 Points, 4 Votes)
159. Arabrot - Solar Anus (121 Points, 3 Votes)
160. Dark Castle - Surrender to Life Beyond All Form (120 Points, 5 Votes, 1 #1)
161. Midnight - Satanic Royalty (120 Points, 5 Votes)
162. Goatpenis - Depleted Ammunition (118 Points, 6 Votes)
163. Benighted - Asylum Cave (118 Points, 5 Votes)
164. Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination (117 Points, 4 Votes)
165. Wo Fat - Noche Del Chupacabra (117 Points, 3 Votes)
166. Aldious - Determination (116 Points, 4 Votes)
167. Revocation - Chaos of Forms (115 Points, 5 Votes)
168. Amorphis - The Beginning of Times (112 Points, 4 Votes)
168. Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus (112 Points, 4 Votes)
170. Manilla Road - Playground of the Damned (110 Points, 4 Votes)
171. Arch Enemy - Khaos Legions (109 Points, 5 Votes)
172. Elizium - Relief by the Sun (109 Points, 4 Votes)
173. Toxic Holocaust - Conjurer and Command (107 Points, 5 Votes)
174. Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations (107 Points, 3 Votes)
175. Seidr - For Winter Fire (106 Points, 5 Votes)
176. Rotten Sound - Cursed (105 Points, 3 Votes)
177. Woods of Ypres - Woods 4: The Green Album (104 Points, 4 Votes)
178. Wolf - Legions of Bastards (104 Points, 3 Votes)
179. Alastor - Demon Attack (102 Points, 4 Votes)
180. Spearhead - Theomachia (102 Points, 3 Votes)
181. Wolvhammer - The Obsidian Plains (101 Points, 4 Votes)
182. Destruction - Day of Reckoning (100 Points, 4 Votes)
183. Petrychor - Effigies and Epitaphs/Dryad (98 Points, 5 Votes)
184. Wizard Smoke - The Speed of Smoke (98 Points, 4 Votes)
185. Moab - Ab Ovo (97 Points, 4 Votes)
186. Encoffination - O'Hell, Shine in Thy Withed Sepulchres (96 Points, 4 Votes)
187. Rhapsody of Fire - From Chaos to Eternity (95 Points, 3 Votes)
188. Goreaphobia - Apocalyptic Necromancy (93 Points, 4 Votes)
188. Russian Circles - Empros (93 Points, 4 Votes)
190. Wolfchant - Call of the Black Winds (92 Points, 3 Votes)
191. Green & Wood - Devil's Plan (90 Points, 3 Votes)
192. Gevolt - AlefBase (89 Points, 4 Votes)
193. Midnight Odyssey - Funerals From the Astral Sphere (88 Points, 3 Votes)
193. Omega Massif - Karpatia (88 Points, 3 Votes)
195. Heretoir - Heretoir (87 Points, 3 Votes)
196. Book of Black Earth - The Cold Testament (86 Points, 6 Votes)
197. Motorhead - The World Is Yours (86 Points, 4 Votes)
198. Brutal Truth - End Time (86 Points, 3 Votes)
199. TesseracT - One (84 Points, 5 Votes)
200. All Pigs Must Die - God Is War (84 Points, 4 Votes)
201. Azazel/Goatmoon - Split CD (83 Points, 5 Votes)
202. Bong - Beyond Ancient Space (83 Points, 4 Votes)
203. Ava Inferi - Onyx (82 Points, 4 Votes)
204. Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult (82 Points, 3 Votes)
205. Hills - Master Sleeps (82 Points, 2 Votes)
206. Terra Tenebrosa - The Tunnels (81 Points, 2 Votes)
207. Hull - Beyond the Lightless Sky (80 Points, 4 Votes)
208. Gentlemen's Pistols - At Her Majesty's Pleasure (80 Points, 3 Votes)
209. Dopethrone - Dark Foil (79 Points, 4 Votes)
210. Hades Archer - For the Diabolical Ages (78 Points, 2 Votes)
210. Oranssi Pazuzi - Kosmonument (78 Points, 2 Votes)
212. Acephalix - Interminable Night (76 Points, 3 Votes)
212. Ancestors - Invisible White (76 Points, 3 Votes)
212. Arenna - Beats of Olarizu (76 Points, 3 Votes)
215. Kroda - Schwarzpfad (75 Points, 4 Votes)
216. Alestorm - Back Through Time (75 Points, 2 Votes)
216. Ulcerate - Destroyers of All (75 Points, 2 Votes)
218. Crowbar - Sever the Wicked Hand (74 Points, 3 Votes)
219. Powerwolf - Blood of the Saints (73 Points, 5 Votes)
220. Demonic Death Judge - The Descent (73 Points, 3 Votes)
220. In Flames - Sounds of a Playground Fading (73 Points, 3 Votes)
224. Tyr - The Lay of Thrym (72 Points, 6 Votes)
222. The Meads of Asphodel - The Murder of Jesus the Jew (72 Points, 4 Votes)
223. Megadeth - Thirteen (71 Points, 7 Votes)
225. Giant Squid - Cenotes (71 Points, 3 Votes)
225. Tiluland - Axes of the Universe (71 Points, 3 Votes)
225. Wight - Wight Weedy Wight (71 Points, 3 Votes)
228. Frijgard - Nebelwacht (70 Points, 3 Votes)
229. Asriel - Angelrhythm (69 Points, 4 Votes)
230. Dark Buddha Rising - Abyssolute Transfinite (69 Points, 2 Votes)
231. Electro Quarterstaff - Aykroyd (68 Points, 5 Votes)
232. Loutallica - LULU (68 Points, 4 Votes)
233. Scale the Summit - The Collective (67 Points, 3 Votes)
234. Belzebong - Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves (66 Points, 4 Votes)
235. Arven - Music of Light (66 Points, 2 Votes)
236. SerpentCult - Raised by Wolves (65 Points, 4 Votes)
237. Arkona - Slovo (63 Points, 3 Votes)
238. Ex - Abuse (62 Points, 2 Votes)
239. Anthrax - Worship Music (61 Points, 6 Votes)
240. Bloodiest - Descent (61 Points, 3 Votes)
241. Speedwolf - Speedwolf (60 Points, 3 Votes)
242. Cianide - Gods of Death (60 Points, 2 Votes)
243. Leather Nun America - Kult Occult (59 Points, 3 Votes)
244. Origin - Entity (58 Points, 3 Votes)
244. Saviours - Death's Procession (58 Points, 3 Votes)
246. Dibbukim - Az a Foygl Un a Goylem Tantsm (57 Points, 2 Votes)
247. Obrero - Mortui Vivos Docent (56 Points, 2 Votes)
248. A Forest of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves of Spring (55 Points, 2 Votes)
249. Cathedral - Anniversary (54 Points, 3 Votes)
250. Assaulter - Boundless! (54 Points, 2 Votes)
250. THOU - To the Chaos Wizard Youth (54 Points, 2 Votes)
252. Black Capricorn - Black Capricorn (53 Points, 3 Votes)
253. Serpent Venom - Carnal Altar (52 Points, 5 Votes)
254. Avven - Kastalija (52 Points, 2 Votes)
255. Deceased - Surreal Overdose (50 Points, 1 Votes, 1 #1)
256. Decrepitaph - Profane Doctrines Unburied (49 Points, 4 Votes)
257. Samael - Lux Mundi (49 Points, 2 Votes)
258. Nader Sadek - In the Flesh (48 Points, 5 Votes)
259. Unleash the Archers - Demons of the Astrowaste (48 Points, 1 Votes)
260. Danava - Hemisphere of Shadows (47 Points, 3 Votes)
261. Heavenwood - Abyss Masterpiece (46 Points, 3 Votes)
262. Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us (45 Points, 3 Votes)
263. Eggnogg - Moments in Vacuum (44 Points, 2 Votes)
264. Kriegshetzer - Panzer Vorwarts (43 Points, 5 Votes)
265. Iskald - The Sun I Carried Alone (43 Points, 4 Votes)
265. Maligno - The Funeral Domine (43 Points, 4 Votes)
265. Metsatoll - Ulg (43 Points, 4 Votes)
268. Beastwars - S/T (41 Points, 2 Votes)
268. Execration - Odes of the Occult (41 Points, 2 Votes)
268. Ice Dragon - The Sorrowful Sun (41 Points, 2 Votes)
271. Maruta - Forward Into Regression (40 Points, 1 Votes)
272. Twisted Tower Dire - Make It Dark (39 Points, 2 Votes)
273. Entrails - The Tomb Awaits (38 Points, 2 Votes)
274. Despise You/Agoraphobic Nosebleed - And on and On... (37 Points, 2 Votes)
275. Immortal Soul - IV: The Requiem for the Art of Death (36 Points, 2 Votes)
276. CHILDREN of DOOM - Doom, Be Doomed, Ör Fuck Off (36 Points, 1 Votes)
276. Diet Pills - Diet Pills (36 Points, 1 Votes)
276. Soft Kill - An Open Door (36 Points, 1 Votes)
279. Fuck the Facts - Die Miserable (35 Points, 2 Votes)
280. Glitter Wizard - Solar Hits (35 Points, 1 Votes)
281. Oak Pantheon - The Void (33 Points, 1 Votes)
281. Siena Root - Root Jam (33 Points, 1 Votes)
283. While Heaven Wept - Fear of Infinity (32 Points, 3 Votes)
284. Boris - New Album (32 Points, 1 Votes)
284. A Storm of Light - As the Valley of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade (32 Points, 1 Votes)
284. Vreid - V (32 Points, 1 Votes)
287. Anubis Gate - Anubis Gate (31 Points, 3 Votes)
288. Ancient VVisdom - A Godlike Inferno (31 Points, 2 Votes)
289. Cynic - Carbon Based Anatomy EP (31 Points, 1 Votes)
290. Totalselfhatred - Apocalypse in Your Heart (30 Points, 2 Votes)
291. USX (U.S. Christmas) - The Valley Path (30 Points, 1 Votes)
292. Andraste - The Secret Valley (29 Points, 2 Votes)
293. El Dorado - Ruthless Fear (29 Points, 1 Votes)
294. Nemesea - The Quiet Resistance (28 Points, 3 Votes)
295. Junius - Reports From the Threshold of Death (26 Points, 1 Votes)
295. Vallenfyre - A Fragile King (26 Points, 1 Votes)
297. Brain Oil - The Death of This Dry Season (25 Points, 1 Votes)
297. Evile - Five Serpent's Teeth (25 Points, 1 Votes)
297. Sorcier de Glaces - The Puressence of Primitive Forests (25 Points, 1 Votes)
300. Graf Orlock - Doombox (23 Points, 1 Votes)
301. Prosektor - Clinical Death Way to Hell (21 Points, 2 Votes)
302. Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Shoot! (21 Points, 1 Votes)
303. Black Spiders - Sons of the North (20 Points, 4 Votes)
304. Exhumed - All Guts, No Glory (20 Points, 2 Votes)
305. Vyrion - Vyrion (19 Points, 2 Votes)
305. Wolverine - Communication Lost (19 Points, 2 Votes)
307. Crumbling Ghost - S/T (18 Points, 1 Votes)
308. East of the Wall - The Apologist (16 Points, 2 Votes)
309. Ghoul - Transmission Zero (15 Points, 2 Votes)
309. Saxon - Call to Arms (15 Points, 2 Votes)
311. Iced Earth - Dystopia (15 Points, 1 Votes)
312. Leaves' Eyes - Meredead (14 Points, 1 Votes)
312. Year of the Goat - Lucem Ferre (14 Points, 1 Votes)
314. Patria - Liturgia Haeresis (13 Points, 1 Votes)
315. Slabdragger - Regress (12 Points, 1 Votes)
316. Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst the Ashes (11 Points, 1 Votes)
317. Djevel - Dodssanger (10 Points, 1 Votes)
318. Ildra - Eðelland (7 Points, 2 Votes)
319. Born of Osiris - The Discovery (7 Points, 1 Votes)
319. White Wizzard - Flying Tigers (7 Points, 1 Votes)
321. Drugs of Faith - Corroded (5 Points, 1 Votes)
322. Portrait - Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae (3 Points, 1 Votes)
323. Iwrestledabearonce - Ruining It for Everybody (2 Points, 2 Votes)
324. Landmine Marathon - Gallows (2 Points, 1 Votes)
324. Locrian - The Clearing (2 Points, 1 Votes)
326. Children of Bodom - Relentless, Reckless Forever (1 Points, 1 Votes)
326. Riot - Immortal Soul (1 Points, 1 Votes)

All I know is it'll piss me off if Swans make it. There's too much great actual metal to choose from.

10 Agalloch - Faustian Echoes EP 194 Points, 14 Votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EOIiWAPlAgI/T-tA8xcrZCI/AAAAAAAADvw/L8URwRGZEK8/s1600/Agalloch+-+Faustian+Echoes+EP+(2012).jpg

seandalai is also part of the collective running this poll 2012 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ VOTING THREAD (voting ends MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 18th, 2012)
Please remember to vote in it after this one finishes. Get some metal in it.

Hmmm... the number ones in previous years aren't all that inspiring. I like Electric Wizard as much as the next stonerdoomhead but Black Masses isn't exactly anything new is it?

That Hammers of Misfortune album from last year is great, I still go back to it. Black Masses is a perfectly good Electric Wizard, therefore better than a lot of other bands, and a consensus pick I would think.

"Electric Wizard record"

It was top quality.

2009/10 were real quality years imo

i don't think anybody predicted this next album

9    Aluk Todolo- Occult Rock    195 Points,   16 Votes,  One #1  
http://www.hardmusic.cz/pr-img/125/1/max/3009d9e2-b0ee-4b2c-9e74-e91e8ef71478.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4SyoYWUSnMVy3sHIx7tUis
http://www.last.fm/music/Aluk+Todolo?
http://www.amortout.com/aluktodolo/img/thewire2012.jpg

With the goal to create a timeless, organic mix of krautrock’s strangeness and black metal’s coldness, combining Striborg with Faust, Burzum with This Heat, S.V.E.S.T. with Paul Chain, or Ildjarn with Can, Aluk Todolo conjures rabid obsessive rhythms and abyssal disharmonic guitars, subliminal spiritualist vibrations and bizarre, magick summonings. By reducing psychedelic improvisation to a bare, telluric instrumentation, and basking in the archaic rawness of lo-fi production, the trio elaborates on an audio ritual meant to be monolithic and stabbing, hypnotic but unpredictable, minimalist yet teeming. Aluk Todolo features members from the legendary, underground black metal acts, Diamatregon (tUMULt) & Vediog Svaor (Paragon International).

I hadn't even heard of it!

Are you trolling fastnbulbous? He not only guessed it, he even got the number right!

hah great record, I voted for it!

8    Christian Mistress - Possession    195 Points,   17 Votes   Two #1s 
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/39/75/3975553904-1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7u6IrBZDcie0baVSnO55QP
http://www.last.fm/music/Christian+Mistress

Man I was hoping Aluk Todolo was gonna place higher, I kinda want to see it make the main poll

too low! my #1. xp

Should have included in the voting form room for voters to have a few words on why they picked an album as #1. Mordy got anything to say on the album?

Obviously I voted for Aluk Todolo as well.

yeah, just totally classic sounding metal album chock-full of fat grooves and christine davis badass vocal performances.

LAKES OF BLACK WATER. Drink and be well.

I'd like to say I have special powers but I just spent too damn much time reading Rolling Metal in 2012.

7    Krallice- Years Past Matter    213 Points,   16 Votes  One #1 
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/16/96/1696978733-1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5pnUhJJEGMRlqxVZ0TiGMH

Krallice is a New York-based black metal project featuring the guitar work of notorious progressive/experimental metal musicians Colin Marston (Gorguts, Behold… the Arctopus, Byla, Indricothere and others) and Mick Barr (Crom-Tech, Orthrelm, Octis and others), along with Nick McMaster and Lev Weinstein of death metal band Astomatous.

The musical style of Krallice could be described as fairly clean by black metal standards, with long, dynamic songs containing some distinctive progressive metal influences. They’ve been compared to Weakling in some ways, although their music focuses much more on progressive song structures and less on the dissonant droning of Weakling’s Dead as Dreams. They released a self-titled album in 2008 on Profound Lore Records and a follow-up, Dimensional Bleedthrough, on the same label the next year. Double vinyl releases of the two albums were put out by Gilead Media in 2009 and 2010, respectively. A third album, Diotima, followed in 2011, once again on Profound Lore; a vinyl edition, once again by Gilead Media, shipped around September 20, 2011. An EP entitled Orphan of Sickness was also released in 2011 (for free), as was a flexi-disc single entitled Traditional, which shipped with the September 2011 issue of Decibel Magazine. The band’s fourth album, Years Past Matter, was self-released in August 2012. A vinyl edition will be released by Gilead Media sometime around October 2012.

I'm lucky to still have a job. Abstract black metal is like crack candy to ILX metalheads! So anyone knows if Christian Mistress plan to tour this year? They did a brief Europe tour last spring and then nothing.

Frank Ocean is going to be number one.

So anyone knows if Christian Mistress plan to tour this year? They did a brief Europe tour last spring and then nothing.

I thought I heard they were breaking up...

Aw hell no!

Hey, there's my #1 vote all by its lonesome.

6    Old Man Gloom - No    214 Points,   14 votes   One #1   
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7mNaAom4Vo0/T5_voIf8TLI/AAAAAAAABa0/AF51x0yPets/s1600/HYH-235-1_Cover_4c.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6jg3GOJ0vkwsAFvL5JJv5k

Old Man Gloom (In Full: The Old Man Gloom Alien Simian Defence League) is a sludge band, with many ambient and soundscape elements. They originally formed in 1999 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, but are now based in Massachusetts. The group was formed by Aaron Turner and Santos Montano. By the release of their first album (Meditations in B), Old Man Gloom expanded to include two new members, creating the following and current lineup:

Aaron Turner (Isis, House of Low Culture): guitar, vocals
Nate Newton (Converge, Doomriders): guitar, vocals
Caleb Scofield (Cave In, Zozobra): bass, vocals
Santos Montano (Zozobra): drums

In 2001, a year after the release of Meditations in B, the band released two albums simultaneously: Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism and Seminar III: Zozobra. For these records, Luke Scarola joined to use electronics. On Seminar II, Steven Brodsky of Cave In wrote the lyrics for one song, and Agnostic Blunt (aka Jay Randall of Agoraphobic Nosebleed) also contributed on electronics. On August 24, 2004, Christmas was released.

After an eight year silence, Old Man Gloom returned with their most recent album, No.

Nice. Wonder if that means Gaza sneaks all the way into the top 5. Couldn't be...

Funny cognitive distortion while reading this as I've been taking a break from metal (at least giving my long suffering wife a break) and am listening to a bunch of glossy/gothy post-punk, and new albums by old popsters Pet Shop Boys, The Fixx, Men Without Hats, Ultravox and neo-proggers Saga, ha ha.

5    Dawnbringer - Into The Lair Of The Sun God    223  Points,  15 Votes   One #1
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/13/86/138631610-1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5oCFyvV0mPt7wd0LhrahL9
http://www.last.fm/music/Dawnbringer

Members of the band consist of Chris Black and guitarist, Matt Johnsen from esteemed acts such as Nachtmystium, Pharaoh and Superchrist.
They play a fusion of NWOBHM, black metal and classic heavy-thrash.

ooh that cover looks like 80s wallpaper 7/10

I'll take that wallpaper. I nailed #s 9, 7 and 5 so far. I screwed up with Old Man Gloom, I had it on my notepad when I was pasting my predictions and I somehow deleted it.

sure...

How did Dawnbringer and Christian Mistress NOT make the Decibel list this year?

Their writers suck?

4    Nachtmystium- Silencing Machine     235 Points,  18    Votes
http://blog.skullsnbones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NACHTMYSTIUM-SILENCING-MACHINE.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7h9jYcsJl6OmfC1nyfeGQb
http://www.last.fm/music/Nachtmystium

I guess that means either Royal Thunder, Windhand or Dragged Into Sunlight didn't make it. Which one?

Coincidentally, my friend Collin Jordan at Boiler Room mastered both #s 4 and 5. And the Royal Thunder.

This thread has had the least chat of any of the metal poll threads. Are metallers deserting ilm?

3    SWANS - The Seer    344 Points,   16 Votes,    SEVEN #1S
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3SjPLAtS10I/UDr3V89G0_I/AAAAAAAAA3U/F-wXeNI0FMs/s1600/folder.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1ijaW4mgV7Xz7DK5cXyjoo
http://www.last.fm/music/Swans

i think AG pushed posters hard in previous years to post

I like the Swans, but that's ridiculous. I didn't expect to see them in the top 3 any more than Rush, who at least have traditionally had a metalhead following.

Um, Swans aren't metal.

Wow 7 #1s!

thats one mean looking Yorkie...

Certainly heavy at any rate.

Swans almost won - after 43 ballots there was 1 point between the top 3!

It looks like a bunch of folks really need to hear Windhand and Dragged Into Sunlight! I really thought they'd go 3-4.

Forgot to vote for Royal Thunder – my bad. I don't think Dragged into Sunlight are going to place. A little too abrasive for most people, I'd guess. Number one will probably be Converge.

Anyway, I've been posting less because I feel like there's too much nonmetal on here, but I don't want to be That Guy (although I guess I just became him).

too much nonmetal? There's like two records out of 40 - Swans and Goat.

I've just been quiet because I have nothing to say about most of the list; I either didn't hear it or wasn't much into it. Though I should say, listening to the Agalloch after hearing it live opened it up for me. Probably should have had it on my ballot.

Sorry, 2 out of 50 or so.

That's a 1/25 ratio. Too high. DEATH TO FALSE METAL.

Okay, fine, I've just been really busy this week.

Just because none of your Japanese video game covering power metal showed up is no reason to have a fit.

That stuff is too metal for ILM.

2 Rush - Clockwork Angels 350 Points, 15 votes, one #1
http://media.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Rush_ClockworkAngels_DC.jpg

1 Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Hoax 351 Points, 16 Votes One #1
http://www.rollingstone.com/assets/images/album_review/1af92ea16b14248e21bfeb16f64eff3d363aa014.jpg

Lol I remember saying to AG once that I thought The Seer was gonna be the first rock albu #1 in the main poll but that seems v unlikely now

Xp haha

I was pretty surprised when those ended up as #2 and #1, I have to say.

1 Sugar Ray - Floored 5000 Points, 26156 votes, ten #1
http://images.starpulse.com/pictures/2009/03/19/previews/Mark%20McGrath-PRN-035522.jpg

i guess i'm only interested in seeing what #2 is now. i can't really stand the converge album. too emo'y + anxiety producing.

What a kooky top 50. Fun stuff.

Converge #1?

ok the real #2 coming up

If #2 is Neurosis do I get a prize? My favorite thing right now about Neurosis is that they signed Ufomammut to Neurot.

2 Neurosis- Honor Found In Decay    358 Points,   19 Votes    Four #1s 
http://www.cvltnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/honorfoundindecay.jpeg
 

They find honor in decaying amongst the golden poo left by the wooly mammoth that is Ufomammut's Oro.

1    Converge- All We Love We Leave Behind    364 Points   17  Votes, Six #1s
http://www.theaquarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/11-07-Discs-Converge-All-We-Love-We-Leave-Behind.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2P8qH1KVE5QTmsLnka9jgp

But good on them. I do like Neurosis, saw their live show recently, good stuff.

I dont have full results but if theres interest then seandalai might post them if anyone wants to see them.

that neurosis stuff is too scary for me

can we post our ballots in this thread?

So Converge are loud, fast, intense, hardcore, but I wouldn't say metal.

agreed. and he whines an awful lot.

it all sounds to me like "WA WA WA WA WA WA WA WA"

Converge is genre defying..

They are shit ton heavier than fucking Goat..

These should be the full results, sorry for dumping:

1 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind - 364 points, 17 votes, 6 first place votes
2 Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay - 358 points, 19 votes, 4 first place votes
3 SWANS - The Seer - 344 points, 16 votes, 7 first place votes
4 Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine - 235 points, 18 votes
5 Dawnbringer - Into The Lair Of The Sun God - 223 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote
6 Old Man Gloom - No - 214 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote
7 Krallice - Years Past Matter - 213 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote
8 Christian Mistress - Possession - 195 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes
9 Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock - 195 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote
10 Agalloch - Faustian Echoes EP - 194 points, 14 votes
11 Pallbearer-Sorrow and Extinction - 183 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote
12 OM - Advaitic Songs - 181 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote
13 Dordeduh - Dar de duh - 178 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote
14 Saint Vitus - LILLIE: F-65 - 170 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote
15 Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme - 164 points, 13 votes
16 Goat - World Music - 163 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote
17 Baroness - Yellow & Green - 162 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote
18 Les Discrets - Ariettes oubliées... - 162 points, 11 votes, 2 first place votes
19 High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis - 156 points, 14 votes
20 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones - 154 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote
21 Pig Destroyer - Book Burner - 152 points, 9 votes, 3 first place votes
22 Drudkh - Eternal Turn of the Wheel - 144 points, 9 votes, 2 first place votes
23 Raventale - Transcendence - 143 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote
24 Evoken - Altra Mors - 136 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote
25 Unsane - Wreck - 132 points, 9 votes
26 Torche - Harmonicraft - 130 points, 10 votes
27 Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild - 121 points, 10 votes
28 Grand Magus - The Hunt - 111 points, 8 votes
29 UFOMAMMUT - Oro - 107 points, 10 votes
30 Jodis - Black Curtain - 106 points, 8 votes
31 Cauldron - Tomorrow's Lost - 104 points, 10 votes
32 Witchcraft - Legend - 103 points, 9 votes
33 Conan - Monnos - 98 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote
34 Horseback - Half Blood - 98 points, 9 votes
35 Inverloch - Dark/Subside - 97 points, 8 votes
36 BLACK BREATH - SENTENCED TO LIFE - 96 points, 7 votes
37 Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage - 86 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote
38 Enslaved - Riitiir - 82 points, 7 votes
39 Menace Ruine - Alight In Ashes - 82 points, 7 votes
40 Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships - 80 points, 7 votes
41 Graveyard - Lights Out - 77 points, 9 votes
42 Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II - 77 points, 6 votes
43 Pagan Altar - The Time Lord - 74 points, 6 votes
44 DEFTONES - KOI NO YOKAN - 72 points, 8 votes
45 Meshuggah - Koloss - 72 points, 7 votes
46 The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre - 72 points, 5 votes
46 Wizard Rifle - Speak Loud, Say Nothing - 72 points, 5 votes
48 Atriarch - Ritual of Passing - 71 points, 6 votes
49 Pinkish Black - Pinkish Black - 64 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote
50 Angel Witch - As Above, So Below - 63 points, 7 votes
51 Asphyx - Deathhammer - 60 points, 2 votes, 2 first place votes
52 Eagle Twin -The Feather Tipped the Serpent's Scale - 59 points, 6 votes
53 Secrets of the Moon - Seven Bells - 59 points, 5 votes
54 Killing Joke - MMXII - 59 points, 4 votes
55 WOODS OF YPRES - WOODS 5: GREY SKIES & ELECTRIC LIGHT - 57 points, 7 votes
56 Ash Borer - Cold of Ages - 57 points, 6 votes
57 RUSH - CLOCKWORK ANGELS - 57 points, 3 votes, 1 first place vote
58 Ea - Ea - 53 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote
59 Royal Thunder - CVI - 51 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote
60 The Sword - Apocryphon - 50 points, 5 votes
61 Windhand - Windhand - 48 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote
62 Sigh - In Somniphobia - 46 points, 5 votes
63 Deathspell Omega - Drought - 46 points, 4 votes
64 Black Shape of Nexus - Negative Black - 44 points, 4 votes
65 Golden Void - Golden Void - 44 points, 3 votes
66 Orchid - Heretic - 42 points, 5 votes
67 Monarch-Omens - 42 points, 4 votes
68 Bosse-de-Nage - III - 42 points, 3 votes
69 Astra -The Black Chord - 40 points, 4 votes
70 A Forest of Stars - A Shadowplay for Yesterdays - 40 points, 4 votes
71 Kadavar - Kadavar - 39 points, 4 votes
72 Mutilation Rites - Empyrean - 39 points, 3 votes
73 Sula Bassana - Dark Days - 39 points, 3 votes
74 Cannibal Corpse - Torture - 37 points, 3 votes
74 Tweak Bird - Under Cover Crops - 37 points, 3 votes
76 Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering - 36 points, 3 votes
77 Napalm Death - Utilitarian - 36 points, 2 votes
78 Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Third - 35 points, 4 votes
79 Bison BC-Lovelessness - 35 points, 3 votes
80 Mgla - With Hearts Toward None - 35 points, 3 votes
80 RAM - Death - 35 points, 3 votes
82 Ahab-The Giant - 34 points, 3 votes
83 Spiders - Flash Point - 32 points, 4 votes
84 Samothrace - Reverence To Stone - 32 points, 3 votes
85 Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud - 32 points, 2 votes
86 Melvins Lite - Freak Puke - 31 points, 3 votes
87 Horisont - Second Assault - 30 points, 2 votes
88 Colour Haze - She Said - 30 points, 1 vote, 1 first place vote
88 Treponem Pal - Survival Sounds - 30 points, 1 vote, 1 first place vote
88 Van Halen-A Different Kind of Truth - 30 points, 1 vote, 1 first place vote
91 Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees - 27 points, 4 votes
92 Accept - Stalingrad - 27 points, 3 votes
92 Author & Punisher - Ursus Americanus - 27 points, 3 votes
94 Sungod - Cuts from the Ether - 27 points, 2 votes
95 Dragged Into Sunlight - Widowmaker - 25 points, 3 votes
95 Venomous Maximus - Beg Upon the Light - 25 points, 3 votes
97 Jeff Loomis - Plains of Oblivion - 25 points, 2 votes
97 Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I - 25 points, 2 votes
99 Behold... the Arctopus - Horrorscension - 24 points, 3 votes
100 Dethklok - Dethalbum 3 - 23 points, 2 votes
101 Grave - Endless Procession Of Souls - 22 points, 3 votes
102 Nadja - Dagdrøm - 22 points, 3 votes
103 Nile - At the Gate of Sethu - 21 points, 3 votes
104 Svartidaudi - Flesh Cathedral - 21 points, 2 votes
105 Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth - 20 points, 4 votes
106 Blut As Nord - 777: Cosmosophy - 20 points, 2 votes
106 Winterfylleth - The Threnody of Triumph - 20 points, 2 votes
108 Castle - Blacklands - 20 points, 2 votes
108 Deiphago - Satan Alpha Omega - 20 points, 2 votes
108 JK Flesh - Posthuman - 20 points, 2 votes
111 Lento - Anxiety Despair Languish - 19 points, 3 votes
112 Hexvessel - No Holier Temple - 19 points, 2 votes
112 METZ - METZ - 19 points, 2 votes
114 Thunderkraft - Totentanz - 19 points, 1 vote
115 Lyriel - Leverage - 19 points, 1 vote
116 Hooded Menace - Effigies of Evil - 18 points, 2 votes
116 Huntress - Spell Eater - 18 points, 2 votes
116 Orange Goblin - A Eulogy for the Damned - 18 points, 2 votes
116 PILGRIM - MISERY WIZARD - 18 points, 2 votes
116 Serpentine Path - Serpentine Path - 18 points, 2 votes
116 SOUNDGARDEN - KING ANIMAL - 18 points, 2 votes
122 Ice Dragon - Dream Dragon - 18 points, 1 vote
122 Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht - 18 points, 1 vote
122 Wölfbait - Wölfbait - 18 points, 1 vote
125 Dysrhythmia - Test Of Submission - 17 points, 3 votes
126 Furze - Psych Minus Space Control - 17 points, 2 votes
127 Mekong Delta - Intersections - 17 points, 1 vote
128 Kreator - Phantom Antichrist - 17 points, 1 vote
128 Nachtvorst - Silence - 17 points, 1 vote
130 Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas - 16 points, 3 votes
131 Marduk - Serpent Sermon - 16 points, 2 votes
132 Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn - 16 points, 2 votes
133 Satan's Wrath - Galloping Blasphemy - 16 points, 1 vote
134 Dead Neanderthals - Jazzhammer/Stormannsgalskap - 16 points, 1 vote
134 Rise and Fall - Faith - 16 points, 1 vote
136 Bereft - Leichenhaus - 15 points, 1 vote
137 Burzum - Umskiptar - 15 points, 1 vote
137 Nihill - Verdonkermaan - 15 points, 1 vote
139 Ulver - Childhood’s End - 14 points, 3 votes
140 Snail - Terminus - 14 points, 2 votes
141 Bell Witch - Longing... - 14 points, 1 vote
141 Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol - 14 points, 1 vote
143 El Doom & The Born Electric - El Doom & The Born Electric - 14 points, 1 vote
144 45 Grave - Pick Your Poison - 13 points, 1 vote
144 Destruction - Spiritual Genocide - 13 points, 1 vote
144 OFF! - OFF! - 13 points, 1 vote
144 On Pain Of Death - Year Naught Doom - 13 points, 1 vote
144 Worm Ouroboros - Come The Thaw - 13 points, 1 vote
149 Coffinworm-Great Bringer of Night - 12 points, 2 votes
150 Corrosion of Conformity - s/t - 12 points, 2 votes
150 Mares of Thrace - The Pilgrimage - 12 points, 2 votes
150 Yakuza - Beyul - 12 points, 2 votes
153 Heidevolk - Batavi - 12 points, 1 vote
153 My Sleeping Karma - Soma - 12 points, 1 vote
155 Ihsahn - Eremita - 11 points, 2 votes
156 Primitive Weapons - The Shadow Gallery - 11 points, 1 vote
157 ANATHEMA - WEATHER SYSTEMS - 11 points, 1 vote
157 Bible Of The Devil - For The Love Of Thugs & Fools - 11 points, 1 vote
157 Mono - For My Parents - 11 points, 1 vote
157 Tigon - Infinite Teeth - 11 points, 1 vote
161 Ancestors - In Dreams and Time - 10 points, 2 votes
162 Early Graves - Red Horse - 10 points, 1 vote
162 Martyrdöd - Paranoia - 10 points, 1 vote
164 Dog Shredder - Brass Tactics EP - 10 points, 1 vote
164 Goddess - Discovery - 10 points, 1 vote
164 Murder Construct - Results - 10 points, 1 vote
164 Owl - First Album - 10 points, 1 vote
164 The Shrine - Primitive Blast - 10 points, 1 vote
169 3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal - 9 points, 1 vote
169 Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity - 9 points, 1 vote
171 Arkhamin Kirjasto - Torches Ablaze - 9 points, 1 vote
171 Glowsun - Eternal Season - 9 points, 1 vote
173 Bong - Mana-Yood-Sushai - 8 points, 2 votes
174 Eagle Claw - Timing Of The Void - 8 points, 1 vote
174 Lord Fowl - Moon Queen - 8 points, 1 vote
176 Enabler - All Hail the Void - 7 points, 1 vote
176 Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast - 7 points, 1 vote
178 Elder - Spires Burn - 7 points, 1 vote
178 Striker - Armed to the Teeth - 7 points, 1 vote
178 Wo Fat - Black Code - 7 points, 1 vote
181 Panopticon - Kentucky - 6 points, 1 vote
182 Abrahma - Through the Dusty Paths of Our Lives - 6 points, 1 vote
182 Alunah - White Hoarhound - 6 points, 1 vote
182 Xibalba - Hasta La Muerte - 6 points, 1 vote
185 Abigail Williams - Becoming - 5 points, 1 vote
185 Greenleaf - Nest of Vipers - 5 points, 1 vote
185 Larman Clamor - Frogs - 5 points, 1 vote
185 Pop. 1280 - The Horror - 5 points, 1 vote
185 WHITECHAPEL - WHITECHAPEL - 5 points, 1 vote
185 Wodensthrone - Curse - 5 points, 1 vote
191 MARK LANEGAN BAND - BLUES FUNERAL - 4 points, 1 vote
192 Amenra - Mass V - 4 points, 1 vote
192 BLACK MOTH - THE KILLING JAR - 4 points, 1 vote
192 Shever - Ritual - 4 points, 1 vote
192 Year of the Goat - Angels' Necropolis - 4 points, 1 vote
196 Anhedonist - Netherwards - 3 points, 1 vote
197 Ehnahre - Old Earth - 3 points, 1 vote
197 Okkultokrati - Snakereigns - 3 points, 1 vote
197 SMASHING PUMPKINS - OCEANIA - 3 points, 1 vote
200 LAMB OF GOD - RESOLUTION - 2 points, 1 vote
201 Hour of 13 - 333 - 2 points, 1 vote
201 Weapon - Embers And Revelations - 2 points, 1 vote
201 Worship - Terranean Wake - 2 points, 1 vote
204 Al Namrood - Kitab Al Awthan - 1 points, 1 vote
204 Altar Of Oblivion - Grand Gesture Of Defiance - 1 points, 1 vote
204 Ice Dragon - greyblackfalconhawk - 1 points, 1 vote
204 THE MARS VOLTA - NOCTOURNIQUET - 1 points, 1 vote
204 Spawn of Possession - Incurso - 1 points, 1 vote

here's my ballot. i think my original ballot had one or two changes from this one but it's mostly the same (i lost the original):

Best Metal 2012

1. Christian Mistress - Possession
2. Lyriel - Leverage
3. Baroness - Yellow & Green
4. Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
5. Pagan Altar - The Time Lord
6. Royal Thunder - CVI
7. Eagle Twin - The Feather Tipped the Serpent's Scale
8. Orange Goblin - A Eulogy for the Damned
9. Conan - Monnos
10. Dethklok - Dethalbum III
11. Alcest - Les Voyages de L'Ame
12. Witchcraft - Legend
13. Accept - Stalingrad
14. Sigh - In Somniphobia
15. Graveyard - Lights Out
16. Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones
17. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
18. Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
19. Lamb of God - Resolution
20. Eluveitie - Helvetios

Maybe people forgot the Van Halen came out this year..

I was the only one that voted for it, and it was my #1. Long live Wolfie!!! lol

Yeah I'm mystified how so many people thought Goat fit in here. They're psychedelic afro-cuban pop. I do love that album, but didn't vote for it here.

I successfully predicted 7 of the top 10, and the exact placings of 5 of them. The ones that didn't make it:

59 Royal Thunder (under Rush at 57, ha ha ha ha)
61 Windhand
95 Dragged Into Sunlight

The last two weren't necessarily high in my ballot, I just thought they were really up many ILXers' alleys. Overall a good poll, thanks.

Hey sean could you send me my ballot via ILXmail when you get the chance?

If folks were gonna vote for an obscure doom reissue, why didn't they vote for Pagan Altar's Judgement of the Dead instead? It's their first actual album rather than crappy sounding demos. Is it because it came out a bit later in October and for some reason got less hype?

there is A LOT of non metal on here.. Mars Volta? Smashing Pumpkins? METZ?!?! Swans pass maybe, but Goat and these others? But maybe the same can be said for Van Halen or Rush? idk..

Me bring the sole vote for Dream Dragon does not bode well for my main albums ballot

Anyways thanks Sean and 'New Mgmt': this was great

over all, though, good job, glad to see the poll happened.. AG might've slumped into a deep dark depression otherwise.

my ballot:

Pinkish Black - s/t
Tweak Bird - Under Cover Crops
Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships
Ufomammut - Opus Alter
Ufomammut - Opus Primum
Pallbearer-Sorrow and Extinction
Grand Magus - The Hunt
Sula Bassana - Dark Days
Tigon - Infinite Teeth
Goddess - Discovery
Menace Ruine - Alight In Ashes
Eagle Claw - Timing Of The Void
Striker - Armed to the Teeth
RAM - Death
Swans - The Seer
Ancestors - In Dreams and Time
Graveyard - Lights Out
Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5:Grey Skies & Electric Light
Astra -The Black Chord

Thanks for running this.

New management was pretty explicit about being open to non/false metal. Set the tone I guess.

By not having a top 100 this year meant Rush didnt place in the countdown :) the complainers were right!!

there is A LOT of non metal on here.. Mars Volta? Smashing Pumpkins? METZ?!?!

These got 1-2 votes, it's not like they were threatening the top 50...

well if thats my only complaint, then I say good on ya, New Mgnt!!! it was done well!

my ballot

Goat- World Music
Neurosis- Honor Found In Decay
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Aluk Todolo- Occult Rock
SWANS - The Seer
Menace Ruine - Alight In Ashes
Raventale - Transcendence
Dordeduh- Dar de duh
Old Man Gloom - No
Drudkh- Eternal Turn of the Wheel
Agalloch - Faustian Echoes EP
Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme
A Forest of Stars - A Shadowplay for Yesterdays
Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Third
Nachtmystium- Silencing Machine
Horseback - Half Blood
Evoken- Altra Mors
Dysrhythmia - Test Of Submission
Ea - Ea
Cauldron - Tomorrow's Lost

1) Van Halen- A Different Kind of Truth
2) Kowloon Walled City-Container Ships
3) Neurosis- Honor Found in Decay
4) Converge-All We Love We Leave Behind
5) Black Breath-Sentenced to Life
6) Deftones-Koi No Yokan
7) Pig Destroyer-Book Burner
8) Conan-Monnos
9) Monarch- Omens
10) High on Fire-De Vermis Mysteriis
11) Early Graves- Red Horse
12) Coffinworm-Great Bringer of Night
13) Rush-Clockwork Angels

Windhand - Windhand
Sungod - Cuts from the Ether
Ice Dragon - Dream Dragon
Golden Void - Golden Void
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
Pinkish Black - s/t
Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Third
Sula Bassana - Dark Days
Astra - The Black Chord
Saint Vitus - Lillie: F-65
High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
Baroness - Yellow & Green
Ulver - Childhood's End
Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
Corrosion of Conformity - s/t
Greenleaf - Nest of Vipers
Black Moth - The Killing Jar
Bong - Mana-Yood-Sushai
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Ice Dragon - greyblackfalconhawk

(thx seandalai)

sean can you email me mine so everyone can know how crappy my list is

So Converge are loud, fast, intense, hardcore, but I wouldn't say metal.

listening to this kowloon walled city record for the first time and i'm pretty sure it's just post-hardcore

yeah of all of the 'not metal' things in the list, Converge hardly even the fourth biggest offender

converge are one of the unwilling architects of metalcore. they're totally metal.

swans lol

Converge are awesome and were on my ballot, yeah, domino motherfucka

My Ballot - in hindsight, I wish I put Converge lower - they're hardcore (but they don't sully Metal's name - make sense?) ...

1. Christian Mistress - Possession
2. Dawnbringer - Into The Lair Of The Sun God
3. Pallbearer-Sorrow and Extinction
4. Killing Joke - MMXII (I know - probably not tru-metal - but dang it rocked hard - SWANS rocked hard too, but yet I didn't put them down - I'm as puzzled ... )
5. Satan's Wrath- Galloping Blasphemy (seriously, I was only vote?)
6. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
7. Grand Magus - The Hunt
8. High On Fire- De Vermis Mysteriis
9. Golden Void - Golden Void
10. Pig Destroyer- Book Burner
11. Nachtmystium- Silencing Machine
12. Enslaved- Riitiir
13. Converge- All We Love We Leave Behind
14. Baroness- Yellow&Green
15. Agalloch - Faustian Echoes EP
16. Graveyard - Lights Out
17. Witchcraft- Legend
18. Kadavar - Kadavar
19. Testament- Dark Roots Of Earth
20. Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn

Bubbling under were Venomous Maximus, UFOMAMMUT, Meshuggah, Royal Thunder, Rush, Yakuza, Van Halen - The Devil's Blood may have legitimately made my list, but man that's 2011 ...

sort of making my way through the whole list: the prospect of a new hour-long enslaved record seemed exhausting at first because i can't even remember a note of of axioma ethica odini, but so far riitiir is... really awesome? heavy, jazzy, katatonia-y in all the right places

2012 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ VOTING THREAD (voting ends MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 18th, 2012)

Here is the top 50 (or so) all in one list, all that are on spotify anyway.

http://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/6bvNdNXVQgr9uBwPVnumaF

Yeah, please vote in the main ILM poll! It would be great to see a good metal turnout.

Note that there were none of trhe family Cygnus, but there was a vote for family Capra...

Conan - Monnos
Goat- World Music
UFOMAMMUT - Opus Primum
Pallbearer-Sorrow and Extinction
Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II
UFOMAMMUT - Opus Alter
BLACK BREATH - SENTENCED TO LIFE
Eagle Twin- The Feather Tipped the Serpent’s Scale
Tweak Bird - Under Cover Crops
Aluk Todolo- Occult Rock
Baroness- Yellow&Green
Cauldron - Tomorrow's Lost
Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships
Gaza- No Absolutes in Human Suffering
Pinkish Black - s/t
Hooded Menace - Effigies of Evil

and many thanks nu MGMT and seandlai!

If my ballot gets emailed back to me, I'll post it.

1. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
2. Christian Mistress - Possession
3. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
4. Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
5. Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
6. Krallice - Years Past Matter
7. Mutilation Rites - Empyrean
8. Wizard Rifle - Speak Loud Say Nothing
9. Bosse-de-Nage - III
10. Graveyard - Lights Out
11. Grave - Endless Procession of Souls
12. Mares of Thrace - The Pilgrimage
13. Ufomammut - Oro (Opus Primum / Opus Alter)
15. Xibalba - Hasta La Muerte
16. High on Fire - De Vermiis Mysteriis
17. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
18. Anhedonist - Netherwards
19. Weapon - Embers and Revelations
20. Nadja - Dagdrøm

I don't think I voted for it here but I've been enjoying Bong - Mana-Yood-Sushai a lot. Those who voted for OM definitely should check it out. Converge voters be sure to listen to The Secret. Christian Mistress/Witch Mountain supports give Castle a listen. Swans voters might like Liars, X-TG, Fontanelle and a ton of other non-metal shit.

*supporters

誤訳侮辱, I sent your ballot via ILXmail.

Here's my ballot:

1. Baroness - Yellow & Green
2. Cannibal Corpse - Torture
3. Napalm Death - Utilitarian
4. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
5. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
6. Grand Magus - The Hunt
7. Dawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun God
8. Destruction - Spiritual Genocide
9. Graveyard - Lights Out
10. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
11. Christian Mistress - Possession
12. Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones
13. Huntress - Spell Eater
14. Grave - Endless Procession of Souls
15. Marduk - Serpent Sermon
16. Whitechapel - Whitechapel
17. Monarch - Omens
18. Ehnahre - Old Earth
19. Saint Vitus - Lillie: F-65
20. Krallice - Years Past Matter

I'm a bit mad at myself for overlooking that Kreator record. It's a good album.

My Ballot:

Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Witchcraft - Legend
Agalloch - Faustian Echoes EP
Evoken - Altra Mors
Kadavar - Kadavar
Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
Enslaved - Riitiir
Christian Mistress - Possession
Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones
Nachtmystium- Silencing Machine
Goat - World Music
Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees
Snail – Terminus
Pagan Altar - The Time Lord
Ancestors - In Dreams and Time
Graveyard - Lights Out
Conan - Monnos
Orchid – Heretic
Worship - Terranean Wake
Ea - Ea

Yet another year where I'm not very much in touch with the ILM metal hivemind, but I'm working my way through some of the higher placed entries. Thanks for organising btw!

Siegbran lets see your ballot. Did you vote raventale?

ordered the aluk todolo cd and Pre-ordered Neurosis vinyl. Thats my purchases for this year

I usually latch on to one or two metal albums in a given year. This year it's Christian Mistress. Love the poll, though I didn't vote.

purchased the Nachtmystium and the Witch Mountain after reading this thread/poll. and the Hooded Menace (which I now love) after seeign the nominations poll.

the former is awesome, latter hasn't arrived. also irrationally sad that "Fuck I'm Dead" seems to not have physical copies of their cds, just mp3s (unless I'm missing something).

Lotsa moaning about what is and isn't metal. I thought I saw even xhuxk complaining about it somewhere (maybe not above) which is ironic. All of it amuses me... I used to joke that whatever I liked had to be metal but I am going to just start believing it.

ordered the aluk todolo cd and Pre-ordered Neurosis vinyl. Thats my purchases for this year― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:37 (1 hour ago)

And people wonder why HMV went under.

I didn't save my final ballot as i made some final adjustments as I copy/pasted it into the submission form, but my EOY list looks somewhat like this (non-nominated records in brackets):
Asphyx - Deathhammer
Mgla - With Hearts Toward None
Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht
(Grand Supreme Blood Court - Bow Down Before The Blood Court)
Nachtvorst - Silence
Les Discrets - Ariettes oubliées...
(Lustre - They Awoke To The Scent Of Spring)
Burzum - Umskiptar
Raventale - Transcendence
Dordeduh - Dar de duh
(Melankoli - Wind)
Heidevolk - Batavi
Anathema - Weather Systems
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
Author & Punisher - Ursus Americanus
Deiphago - Satan Alpha Omega
Accept - Stalingrad
Ash Borer - Cold of Ages
Wodensthrone - Curse
(Eïs - Wetterkreuz)
Shever - Rituals
Svartidaudi - Flesh Cathedral
Marduk - Serpent Sermon
(Borgne - Royaume Des Ombres)
(Master's Hammer - Vracejte konce na misto)
Al Namrood - Kitab Al Awthan

Really enjoying Jess And The Ancient Ones right now btw.

Ash Borer was on my shortlist but was eventually cut. I'm kind of surprised it didn't place.

Song of the year btw is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgfNY5TujCY

aldo i have no money

nycnative it was on my fb xhuxx said it!

Yeah, but it's the third week on January dude. If it's the end of the year for you then lots of people including Gregg Anderson should call it a day.

Lotsa moaning about what is and isn't metal. I thought I saw even xhuxk complaining about it somewhere (maybe not above) which is ironic. All of it amuses me... I used to joke that whatever I liked had to be metal but I am going to just start believing it.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh there's a diff between the marginal 'are they metal?' acts and the obviously-not-metal acts that got nominated.

jeff and chuck complained about goat

AG were you saying "that's my purchases for this year (as far as stuff discovered via the metal poll)" or "that's my purchases for this year ... period, until 2014"?

i don't really care, just wondering if aldo misunderstood

I dont have any money. so i wont be buying much if anything.

thats why ive not been around ilm lately for months. All this chat of music i cant afford. I only came back as im recovering from flu which floored me and i wanted to see metal poll results (its a bastard not knowing them like i did when i ran it). I missed that part of it. Wouldnt have had the strength to run it this year. Good news is blood tests came back and im ok now. So i might finish that 70s poll that got revived the other day. I had been put off polls.
Firstly i need to do my big poll ballot.

good to have you back AG!

lots of stuff lower down in poll i need to check out on Spotify

wow I love the Witch Mountain. grats to Nate and company.

Pazz & Jop Metal(lic) stuff

7 Swans, The Seer
24 Baroness, Yellow & Green
42 Converge, All We Love We Leave Behind
53 Goat, World Music
56 Metz, Metz
58 Pallbearer, Sorrow and Extinction
60 Sleigh Bells, Reign of Terror
69 Redd Kross, Researching the Blues
79 Rush, Clockwork Angels
119 Torche, Harmonicraft
146 Van Halen, A Different Kind of Truth
150 Pig Destroyer, Book Burner
152 Witchcraft, Legend
157 Ufomammut, Oro: Opus Primum & Alter
162 Gojira, L'Enfant Sauvage
167 Royal Thunder, Cvi

I may have missed some and I stopped at the top 200.

So if we wanna split hairs about what is and isn't metal... I guess that Pallbearer is the undisputed metal record for mainstream music critics.

nice that redd kross did well.
what actually won pazz n jop?

Frank Ocean.

no surprise there.

no, its not is it?

chuck said swans never made the poll in their original incarnation.

Goat just announced a Philly date. I haven't heard the disc yet but it's so fucking polarizing I wanna go just to see what all the fuss is about.

make sure to scream "ARE YOU GUYS METAL?"

finished basically listening to the records i was interesting in and:

- hey, goat's world music is pretty great, isn't it? think i can fold weird groovy hard rock into my metal this year

- i've been meaning to listen to the black breath record all year and holy shit i've been missing out

- i also sorted through a few individual list and i got to say it is totally exhilarating to experience grave doing their thing for album no. 10293840

- leave it to the blackened death bands to totally surprise me: weapon's embers and revelations is really good and i don't feel like i'm done listening to it at all

- my opinion of death/doom is mostly "gtfo doom"; this especially applies to the asphyx record, which is pretty good but the doom sections are a slog imo. weird that i'm not experiencing that crushing boredom with the ahedonist record right now but maybe that's because it's a bunch of excellent death metal riffs stacked hypnotically

i was interested in* jesus do i need more coffee?

I dont really care if Goat are metal or not. Its such a good album.

Grunge wasnt metal they said

i don't think of that Goat album as metal at all, and i'm definitely not a metal expert. it is awesome, tho. just wish that band would come west of Texas this spring. :(

- i also sorted through a few individual lists and i got to say it is totally exhilarating to experience grave doing their thing for album no. 10293840

this statement also applies to cannibal corpse forever

wow I love the Witch Mountain. grats to Nate and company.

― NINO CARTER, Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:17

Thanks Nino! There's also an even newer track that you can download for free over at Scionav.com \wm/

oh yeah forgot to mention that the witch mountain record kicks

approximate amount of times i have smiled while listening to last year's cannibal corpse album: 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Rush was #1 on all of my ballots. And while they might not have placed here, they still won by selling more records and concert tickets than all of our top 50 combined, I imagine.

Thanks for all the thanks

word Nate!!!!!

I thought there were more writers here who'd have voted in Pazz & Jop. With fewer people voting overall, it could have been a great opportunity to bring more attention to some metal. Maybe next year. Hope you all voted in the big ILX poll.

This poll was the first one that I saw Les Discrets, let alone seeing it nearly overtake Alcest. I'm enjoying it, even slipped it in on my ballot in the poll that ends today.

This was my P&J ballot and where they placed.

01 - #585 Colour Haze
02 - #157 Ufomammut
03 - #500 Graveyard
04 - #152 Witchcraft
05 - #697 Troubled Horse
06 - #163 Gojira
07 - #1280 Golden Void
08 - #166 Royal Thunder
09 - #694 Spiders
10 - #251 Christian Mistress

Whoever told me last year's Incantation was awesome...was totally right. So good to hear raw death metal like this still, and their craft is still as tight as ever.

I'll never forget the time I saw them open for Nile in 2000. So dope, and people were throwing chairs during their cover of Death's "Scream Bloody Gore".

also I've now acquired the Dawnbringer...I love how this is a 'neo-heavy metal' album that doesn't do what some of the others did and wear its influences strictly on its sleeve, but rather made something of their own. I love teh vocal harmonies too, has a real 70's rock vibe to it.

this was maybe the year I listened to the least metal ever (and just about none of it from 2012), so that's why I didn't vote. but I'm catching up a bit and am loving the pallbearer record so far. it's almost like a new asunder lp!

thanks for your work on this poll, guys!

that was 2011 for me (the not listening to a lot of metal). every time I go 4-5 months without listening to metal, it winds up creating more of a glut when I return to the fold, so NEVER AGAIN.

yeah but you do that with hip hop too, right?

yeah

i can spot a man in overdrive a mile off!

I missed the Pazz & Jop deadline. Also don't feel like my vote over there means much...

Well, just 5 more people giving Christian Mistress another 40 points would have moved it from #251 to 119, a very respectable position tied with Torche. If just one other person put, say, Witch Mountain at the top of their ballot it would have gone from 527 to 291. So yeah, it makes some sort of diff!

What the Quietus said about Aluk Todolo

An hour and a half of technically adept instrumental near-black metal with the metonymically beating heart of krautrock; Occult Rock has the potential to upset a lot of people – not in the way that Liturgy put people's corpse paint so continually and hilariously out of joint ("Wah! They're just soulless hipsters, they're not black metal at all, they're just play acting at it. Waaaah!!" like it's a fucking secret) but they too do seem primarily concerned with the transcendental nature of the black metal beast. The difference is that not only have this French trio served significant time in traditional black metal circles (playing in the likes of Diamatregon and Vediog Svaor) and spent years honing their craft, Occult Rock still carries that intangible undercurrent of nihilism and despair; 'I' might be ten minutes of blast-beat black metal channelled through Hawkwind's third eye, yet 'VII' sounds like early Can haunting a deserted, plague struck village, and it totally fucking works.

According to EM review-scores (fed through my secret math), the album of the year was actually Cattle Decapitation's Monolith of Inhumanity.

http://furia.com/em/releases-year.html

I keep forgetting to check out that CAttle Decap...

It isn't my thing, necessarily, but I recognize that it's really good – a couple decibel writers I was chatting with at the show on Saturday were saying that it was their pick.

Best Album Winner of Previous ILM Metal EOY Polls

162 Early Graves - Red Horse - 10 points, 1 vote

man, i'm sorry to have missed out on this. everything about it is sick.

yes!!.. and that one vote was mine I believe. i wish the production was a bit better, things get a little too washed together, but the songs are ripping! They crush live too. they're about to go out with Nails here pretty soon