~~~ End Of Year ILM Metal - Albums & Tracks Poll- Nominations 2013~~~

New Management seems to have been killed in a horseback swordfight by a loincloth wearing Manowar fan disappeared ..... so this year the poll...

...Anyway nominate as much as you like, in the format

ALBUMS
Artist - Album

or if its tracks please mark clearly when nominating

TRACKS
Artist - Track (Please do not nominate every track off an album, just standout album/ep tracks or standalone tracks aka singles please)

Please remember to state if its albums or tracks otherwise it may get missed/ignored.

The tracks poll will probably be vote for 10 tracks. A top 20 will be posted, probably not a separate rundown. Might post the tracks results top 20 same time as the top 20 albums on the final day.

Please check list before nominating.
Albums List
[Removed Illegal Link]
Will be updated daily hopefully.

To start us off I will include the Decibel list in the noms and a few others (always post in this format)

ALBUMS
[b]Aevangelist - Omen Ex Simulacra
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Anciients - Heart Of Oak
Antigama - Meteor
Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
Batillus- Concrete Stain
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Cathedral - The Last Spire
Coliseum - Sister Faith
Corrections House - Last City Zero
Craven Idol - Towards Eschaton
Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Dark Tranquility - Construct
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Exhumed -Necrocracy
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
Immolation - Kigdom of Conspiracy
In Solitude - Sister
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Inter Arma - Sky Burial
Iron Reagan - Worse Than Dead
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
Lycus- Tempest
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Nails - Abandon AllLife
Noctum - Final Sacrifice
Noisem - Agonies Defined
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
Portal - Vexovoid
Purson - The Circle and the Blue Door
Secrets of the Sky - To Sail Black Waters
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
The Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer
Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry Of Consciousness
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
Ulcerate - Vermis
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Watain - The Wild Hunt

TRACKS

Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
ASG - Avalanche
Kylesa - Unspoken
In Solitude - Sister
Hell - Darkhangel
Melt-Banana - Hive
Carcass - Thrasher's Abattoir
Windhand - Woodbine
Ghost - Monstrance Clock
Fen - Consequence
Obelyskkh - Hymn To Pan
Coliseum - Under the Blood of the Moon
Shining - I Won't Forget
Oranssi Pazuzu - Uraanisula
Deafheaven - Dreamhouse
Jess and the Ancient Ones - Astral Sabbat
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Poison Apple
Jesu - Homesick
Watain - The Wild Hunt
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control

Also here is a Spotify Tracks Playlist
and an
Albums Playlist Im hoping others will take care of that as I cant do it all.

So happy nominating...

Power Trip - Manifest Decimation

ALBUM
KEN Mode - Entrench

ASG - S/T
Audrey Horne - Youngblood
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
Black Sabbath - 13
Ghost - Infestissumam
(Victor Griffin's) In-Graved - S/T
Joel Grind - The Yellowgoat Sessions
Jucifer - "The Russian Album" (за волгой для нас земли нет)
Kvelertak - Meir
Lord Dying - Summon the Faithless
Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
Motörhead - Aftershock
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Quest of Aidance - Misanthropic Propaganda
Raspberry Bulbs - Deformed Worship
Revocation - S/T
Satan - Life Sentence
Spiritual Beggars - Earth Blues
Vastum - Patricidal Lust
Voivod - Target Earth
Windhand - Soma
Zemial - Nykta

Does Earthless count?

i'm nominating it if you aren't

I don't care so long as it is nominated

Earthless - From the Ages

Yes it does. Please guys check the list before posting and follow the suggested formatting. Makes it much easier once this thread grows

Orphaned Land - All Is One
Betzefer - The Devil Went Down to the Holy Land
Tengger Cavalry - The Expedition
Corsair - Corsair
Deveykus - Pillar Without Mercy
Barbez - Bella Ciao
Khalas - Arabic Rock Orchestra

ALBUMS?

Spotify links work ok?

Yes, all albums.

Are we or are we not counting 'heavy rock'?

Jute Gyte -Discontinuities
Pinkish Black - Razed to tge Ground

*the

(stupid phone)

Are we or are we not counting 'heavy rock'?

as always it counts

as long as its nominated in the proper format I ask you all to post in..

Ok

Sungod - Contakt

Everything I plan to post will be ALBUMS (unless noted otherwise)

Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO - In Search of the Lost Divine Arc
Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
Follakzoid - II
Shooting Guns - Spectral Laundromat

I will nominate Stara Rzeka once I get around to looking it up so as to figure out how to spell it again

That Deveykus album is one of the best, an exquisite blend of traditional Jewish music and doom, Blackberg's trombone is such a powerful weapon in a droney/metal setting.

The ASG isn't self-titled. It should be:

ASG - Blood Drive

Here's the stuff from my Decibel list that isn't on there. More nominations to come.

Blood Ceremony - the Eldritch Dark
Kadavar - Abra Kadavar
Beyond - Fatal Power of Death
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds
The Ocean - Pelegial
Germ - Grief
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
Amaranthe - the Nexus

ALBUMS

Baptists - Bushcraft
The Botanist - EP 1: The Hanging Gardens of Hell
Castevet - Obsian
Dead in the Dirt - The Blind Hole
Fall City Fall - Victus
Indricothere - II
Magic Circle - S/T
Meek is Murder - Everything is Awesome, Nothing Matters
Nice Hooves - S/T
Old Wounds - From Where We Came Is Where We'll Rest
Phantom Glue - A War of Light Cones
Ultra-Violence - Privilege to Overcome
Vaura - The Missing
VHOL - Vhol
Woe - Withdrawal

All of mine were ALBUMS. Sorry.

cheers jeff will correct the mistake

Spreadsheet updated.

Anyone interested in the tracks poll? Remember to subscribe to the spotify tracks playlist as well as the albums one. See opening post for links.

ALBUMS

Hell - Curse & Chapter
Obliteration - Black Death Horizon
Avatarium - Avatarium
Mother Susurrus - Maahaavaa
Sasquatch - IV
Satan's Wrath - Aeons of Satan's Reign
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods
Culted - Oblique to All Paths
Untimely Demise - Systematic Eradication
Beastmilk - Climax

Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
Aeternus - ...and the Seventh His Soul Detesteth
Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam

Endless Boogie - Long Island
Ensemble Pearl - s/t
Timmy's Organism - Raw Sewage Roq
Brainbombs - Disposal Of A Dead Body
Star Rzeka - Cien chmury nad ukrytym polem

Albums

YOUTUBE thread for ILM End of Year TRACKS POLL 2013 + tracks campaign thread.

The ASG isn't self-titled. It should be:

ASG - Blood Drive

― Rock You like a Hamstercane (J3ff T.)

o yeh sry

plus also all mine were ALBUMS

thanks to people for nominating mammoth grinder & dead in the dirt (awesome) which i forgot

Hello everyone I will be making nominations shortly, Thanks Pee-funk Algae once again for hosting this yearly tradition!!

segundid & inevitably...

ALBUMS
Shitfucker - Sucks Cocks in Hell
Impalers - S/T

we gonna bloc vote and get the shitfuckers in the big ilm eoy poll?

hmm it seems the tracks document was removed from op post as an illegal link.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AglsYL265OYTdGRoak52ckQtZG5kYkFSdnFCQjRCR0E&usp=sharing

xp :)

http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/3nNO4O2LqMLKExSnHDqvup albums playlist

Hello everyone I will be making nominations shortly, Thanks Pee-funk Algae once again for hosting this yearly tradition!!

Altaar - Altaar
Venomous Maximus - Beg Upon The Light

looks like most of my noms have been already made so I'll dig deep and post some more later probably.

^^^ ALBUMS

ALBUM:
Noothgrush/Coffins - Split

any while we discuss 2013 metal albums have a shufty at http://www.metalsucks.net/metal-fans-hopelessly-stuck-past.html aka Why are metal fans hopelessly stuck in the past???

Just cause Carcass and Black Sabbath release big new reunion albums doesn't mean it's all the same bands year after year...

I think it was more about people , especially those who ignored the albums when they came out, are only interested in going to see bands of 20 or more years ago. Even bands no one cared about then.

With the exception of maybe classical, I cannot think of a genre more fixated on the past than metal. I’ve been listening to metal for 25 years, and from what I can tell, the metal scene has remained frozen in 1995. In contrast to other genres, who are all about what’s fresh, new and interesting, metal just seems content to keep talking about the same fucking bands year after year after year, and I just don’t get it.

http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/crappy-old-bands-620x437.jpg http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/crappy-old-bands-620x437.jpg

For example, look at the lineups of these two recent fests. I am pretty sure that MISERY INDEX is the newest band on the main portion of the bill, and they are 15 years old!! The rest of them might as well torn straight from the reviews section of Metal Maniacs in 1996. I mean it’s 2013 and someone gave top billing to fucking MORGOTH?!?! Really???? They were the definition of “bands whose album I bought in 1993 on cassette for $2, listened to once or twice and forgot about because zzzzzz.” Or look at the last few guests on the MS podcast: Billy Milano (SOD/MOD), Death Angel, Slayer, Deicide and DRI. Those are all 80s bands!!

I don’t really even think it’s a case of the typical, idiotic ”older = better” mentality that you see so often in music. Yes, there is a certain amount of that, but I think it’s mostly that metal fans are just totally stuck in the past for whatever reason, like your uncle that corners you at family gatherings to lecture you about how they “don’t make cars like they used to” and the ’69 Mustang was the last good car they ever made and how you should quit driving that Honda Civic made out of plastic by some Orientals and get a REAL car. Replace “Honda Civic” with the contemporary band of your choice and “’69 Mustang” with Death or Metallica and it might as well be the comments section of this site.

I feel like there are two things going on here:

The metal scene is so creatively bankrupt that it hasn’t really produced anything interesting since the 90s. Other than I guess djent, I can’t really think of any significant new ideas or genres since then. Bands just keep reiterating the same ideas, and it’s usually not very interesting. So why listen to some 3rd-generation copycats when you can listen to the band who invented it? I mean let’s be real, are there any metal bands these days doing shit as groundbreaking, unique and compelling as what OBITUARY, CYNIC, or SUFFOCATION did 20-25 years ago? And I’m not a black metal fan, but I’ll be the first to admit that what all the Scando bands did was some groundbreaking shit– and 20 years later, the genre is still essentially just a bunch of bands copying what they did two decades before.
Metal fans are narrowminded and unsophisticated, and hate on anything new or groundbreaking that does come along. This is also nothing new. If you were around in the 90s, you will remember that people HAAAAAATED Focus and Effigy of the Forgotten when they came out. The same ponytailed dorks who jizz over that album today were the same ones who hated it at the time because it didn’t sound like fucking Ride the Lightning or whatever. The so-called “fans” discourage musical innovation and reward those who slavishly imitate the past.

I don’t know about you, but I think it’s pretty embarrassing. I mean fucking MOVE ON you losers — things have changed since the days when the Super Nintendo was the console of choice, Bill Clinton was president, and Miley Cyrus was just a lump in her daddy’s pants. If you’re in a band, do something new and different that we haven’t heard literally 10,000 times before. And if you’re a fan, up your fucking game and learn to appreciate innovation.

Venomous Maximus came out last year (and I believe placed in the poll).

I suppose the shoegaze metal/post-metal thing didnt exactly become mainstream metal like I'm guessing this guy is after but it was still a 00s thing.

xp

cheers jeff

oh no, metal fans support their favorite bands even after the coolness window has closed, whatever shall we do?

Album
Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light

^best album since Conqueror

Devil - The Devil Lp

That Nails album is something else, for sure!

xp Dumb article, seems like it's just an insincere attempt to provoke. His own favorites of the year is probably a bunch of boring shit. There's no shortage of adventurous metal -- Author & Punisher, SubRosa, Shining, Jute Gyte, Theologian, Pinkish Black, Corrections House. What I find refreshing about metal fans is that they are not embarrassed to be loyal to favorite bands, and the ones who also like more adventurous avant stuff are usually not pretentious twats about it.

xp to j3ff spotify had it listed as 2013, sorry!

Also American "DEATHMETALFEST 20XX" type festivals don't really represent the metal scene imo... Just because Floridian death metal fans are happy to listen to the same 10 bands for the rest of their lives doesn't mean we all do.

I mean, if all the metal there ever was or will be is the band list for OzzFest I'd put the gun to my head right now.

And of course we all have bands that are like 10-20 years old or more we love and buy every album from -- I think that's called being a music fan.

motorhead, black sabbath, satan, voivoid, monster magnet, victor griffin & carcass produced some of my favorite albums of the year, so...

Traffic=Ad Revenue and articles like that drive traffic. Notice the amount of comments on it VS other posts. Don't take it personally Kerr.

Also yes that NAILS album is awesome. It's cool to see a hardcore band show up on metal year end lists.

lol im not. Just posted it to see the reaction. Wondered what people thought about it. There's a wee bit of an element of truth in it tho.

but its not everyone who is like that.

I thought that article sounded like Sergeant D's work. His MO is antagonization, I mean doesn't he run a site called "Stuff You Will Hate"?

I assumed he was talking about death metal in particular or the thrash revival.

No big deal, Viceroy – it was reissued by Napalm a few months ago, so that's probably why it was listed as 2013. If it'd come out this year I would've nominated it myself, believe me!

like I said on facebook, Ancestor Worship is a feature of the genre... it's why so many bands are named after songs of other bands they like. I don't know of a genre where that happens nearly as much as in metal. And those old NWOBHM geezers are still recording awesome albums!!

Or old geezers making their awesome debut and sophomore albums like Hell.

I mean the only thing that could be more exciting than a new Carcass album to me would be a new Death album... ;__;

and last year Angel Witch made a very good album.

and the carcass album is most ppls fave album of the year!

xp yeah or Pentagram that spent 20 years just playing in bars never recording anything.

Album
Argus - Beyond the Martyrs

Albums:

The Body - Christs, Redeemers
Weekend Nachos - Still
Agrimonia - Rites of Separation
Blockheads - The World Is Dead
Årabrot – Årabrot
Centuries – Taedium Vitae

Album
MUTation - Error 500

Album
Queens Of The Stone Age - ... Like Clockwork

When do nominations close? I'll probably have a few to add to the list but I've got more listening to do and I won't get to that till the end of the coming week. In the meantime, two albums here;

Cloud Rat - Moksha
Pyres - Year of Sleep

So, like, do I have to go through the thread and then only C&P what I should nominate? Or fuck reading it and just write every nomination that I desire, even if they have been mentioned several times before?

Since I was forced into early rock crit retirement I have shied away from these things with the rationale that I didn't get exposed to even a small percentage of things and I felt stupid if I missed something. Now my attitude is, music is expensive and if I missed something this year, oh well, but my opinion still counts. (*shakes small impotent fist*)

We encourage doing a search but more importantly want you to participate, so post now and apologize later ;) Not sure the cutoff date yet.

Spirits Of The Dead - Rumours Of A Presence

There will be a separate thread for talking up favorites but this one is special for me. Norwegian psych-prog hard rockers with touch of stoner/doom/folk. Fans of QOTSA, Gozu, NAAM, etc. should be all over this, but despite their third album being released on respected U.S. label The End, the band insisted on no CDs or streaming (aside from iTunes/Amazon), aside from a plain CD accompanying a pricy vinyl package. I bought it even though I no longer even have a turntable, as this album has sat atop my list all year.

Album

nah you can talk up/campaign for albums in here. Tracks campaigning is in the youtube/campaign thread.
Dunno yet when noms end but after xmas possibly dec 31st.
Waiting on seandalai to get back to me when results will roll out (a week before big poll results but thats to be decided - I think last year was rushed due to him going away so big poll had to be up early.

yes please check thread or the spreadsheet before nominating as it really does make things much easier for him.
Albums https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AglsYL265OYTdHZfZXBQYk9YQWVROFJudFd3RHRFVnc#gid=0

Tracks https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AglsYL265OYTdGRoak52ckQtZG5kYkFSdnFCQjRCR0E#gid=0

Voting period will only be 2 weeks however as its a pain to keep it bumped and get people to vote and they all vote last few days anyway.

so get your listening done now.

Okay, here are some albums I liked this year in alphabetical order...

Black Sabbath - 13
Cloud Rat - Moksha
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Ghost - Infestissumam
Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'äme constellée...
Iceage - You're Nothing
In Solitude - Sister
Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
Mouth of the Architect - Dawning
Newsted - Heavy Metal Music
Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
Voivod - Target Earth
Watain - The Wild Hunt

There's a shit-ton more that I need to check out of course. I am always a year or more behind... :(

Also...

The Body - Master, We Perish (EP)

plenty of those nominated already damn you

I was told "post now and apologize later." I'll get back to you with the apology.

What we have so far
Albums:
(Victor Griffin's) In-Graved - S/T
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO - In Search of the Lost Divine Arc
Aeternus - ...and the Seventh His Soul Detesteth
Aevangelist - Omen Ex Simulacra
Agrimonia - Rites of Separation
Altaar - Altaar
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Amaranthe - the Nexus
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods
Anciients - Heart Of Oak
Antigama - Meteor
Årabrot – Årabrot
Argus - Beyond the Martyrs
ASG - Blood Drive
Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess
Audrey Horne - Youngblood
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
Avatarium - Avatarium
Baptists - Bushcraft
Barbez - Bella Ciao
Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
Batillus- Concrete Stain
Beastmilk - Climax
Betzefer - The Devil Went Down to the Holy Land
Beyond - Fatal Power of Death
Black Sabbath - 13
Blockheads - The World Is Dead
Blood Ceremony - the Eldritch Dark
Brainbombs - Disposal Of A Dead Body
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Castevet - Obsian
Cathedral - The Last Spire
Centuries – Taedium Vitae
Cloud Rat - Moksha
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Coliseum - Sister Faith
Corrections House - Last City Zero
Corsair - Corsair
Craven Idol - Towards Eschaton
Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Culted - Oblique to All Paths
Dark Tranquility - Construct
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
Dead in the Dirt - The Blind Hole
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Deveykus - Pillar Without Mercy
Devil - The Devil Lp
Earthless - From the Ages
Endless Boogie - Long Island
Ensemble Pearl - s/t
Exhumed -Necrocracy
Fall City Fall - Victus
Follakzoid - II
Germ - Grief
Ghost - Infestissumam
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'äme constellée...
Hell - Curse & Chapter
Iceage - You're Nothing
Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
Immolation - Kigdom of Conspiracy
Impalers - S/T
In Solitude - Sister
Indricothere - II
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Inter Arma - Sky Burial
Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
Iron Reagan - Worse Than Dead
Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light
Joel Grind - The Yellowgoat Sessions
Jucifer - "The Russian Album" (за волгой для нас земли нет)
Jute Gyte -Discontinuities
Kadavar - Abra Kadavar
KEN Mode - Entrench
Khalas - Arabic Rock Orchestra
Kvelertak - Meir
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
Lord Dying - Summon the Faithless
Lycus- Tempest
Magic Circle - S/T
Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds
Meek is Murder - Everything is Awesome, Nothing Matters
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
Mother Susurrus - Maahaavaa
Motörhead - Aftershock
Mouth of the Architect - Dawning
MUTation - Error 500
Nails - Abandon AllLife
Newsted - Heavy Metal Music
Nice Hooves - S/T
Noctum - Final Sacrifice
Noisem - Agonies Defined
Noothgrush/Coffins - Split
Obliteration - Black Death Horizon
Old Wounds - From Where We Came Is Where We'll Rest
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
Orphaned Land - All Is One
Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
Phantom Glue - A War of Light Cones
Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Portal - Vexovoid
Power Trip - Manifest Decimation
Purson - The Circle and the Blue Door
Pyres - Year of Sleep
Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Quest of Aidance - Misanthropic Propaganda
Raspberry Bulbs - Deformed Worship
Revocation - S/T
Sasquatch - IV
Satan - Life Sentence
Satan's Wrath - Aeons of Satan's Reign
Secrets of the Sky - To Sail Black Waters
Shitfucker - Sucks Cocks in Hell
Shooting Guns - Spectral Laundromat
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
Spiritual Beggars - Earth Blues
Star Rzeka - Cien chmury nad ukrytym polem
SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
Sungod - Contakt
Tengger Cavalry - The Expedition
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
The Body - Christs, Redeemers
The Botanist - EP 1: The Hanging Gardens of Hell
The Ocean - Pelegial
The Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer
Timmy's Organism - Raw Sewage Roq
Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry Of Consciousness
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
Ulcerate - Vermis
Ultra-Violence - Privilege to Overcome
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Untimely Demise - Systematic Eradication
Vastum - Patricidal Lust
Vaura - The Missing
VHOL - Vhol
Voivod - Target Earth
Watain - The Wild Hunt
Weekend Nachos - Still
Windhand - Soma
Woe - Withdrawal
Zemial - Nykta

+ The Body - Master, We Perish (EP)

Ha.

btw you can stream http://shop-hellsheadbangers.com/shitfucker-suck-cocks-in-hell.asp

we gonna bloc vote and get the shitfuckers in the big ilm eoy poll?

freak bloc trending towards Jute Gyte IMO.

Got any nominations mr house?

also come on guys nominate your fave rock/metal tracks of 2013

TRACKS

Anciients - Faith and Oath
Baptists - Think Tank Breed
Blockheads - Pro-Lifers
Bolzer - Entranced by the Wolfshook
The Botanist - Tillandsia
Dillinger Escape Plan - Prancer
Grayceon - Pearl
Inter Arma - The Survival Fires
Loss of Self - Paradise Overgrown
Nails - Suum Cuique
Whirr - Drain
Woe - Carried By Waves to Remorseless Shores of the Truth
VHOL - Grace

It's all the same to me when you roll out the results so long as everything is finished by mid-January. If you want to boost the chances of albums crossing over to the ILM poll I'd suggest you roll out early January so more people have a chance to hear the "best" metal albums before they vote in the big poll.

Addition:

Full of Hell - Rudiments of Mutilation

well if you can tell me seandalai when JF/j0rdan want to start the tracks rollout I can go the week earlier.

brian is that album or track?

I can start the rollout on say the 13th or the 20th. whatever suits those guys. (voting would finish the friday before)

remember to campaign for tracks poll here YOUTUBE thread for ILM End of Year TRACKS POLL 2013 + tracks campaign thread.

More:

Church Of Void - Dead Rising

All albums with me. Metal is best consumed in album form.

My "fuck you" nominations:

Attila - About That Life
Deicide - In The Minds Of Evil
Rhapsody Of Fire - Dark Wings Of Steel

who is it a "fuck you" to?

Metal critics. Metal thread denizens. People who hate metal that's fun.

it doesn't have a prayer, but I'm nominating White Wizzard's The Devil's Cut, because it slays

Smithy what did you think of the Jess & the Ancient Ones ep this year?

The Devil's Cut DOES slay, good call on that one. Totally forgot about it.

I couldnt remember what won last years poll but search function actually worked
Metal Poll 2012 - The Countdown

That Rhapsody of Fire album is pretty good, I won't deny that.

A band name like White Wizzard is guaranteed at least a cursory listen from me

It's such a shame White Wizzard imploded the way they did, but yeah, The Devil's Cut is such a terrific album.

Smithy what did you think of the Jess & the Ancient Ones ep this year?

it was good, but not as good as the album that preceded it.

ALBUMS
Bone Sickness - Alone in the Grave

ALBUMS
Sofy Major - Idolize

lol @ "smithy"

ALBUMS
Call of the Void - Dragged Down a Dead End Path

yeah, you're right' "Smiffy" would be much better

good on the Sofy Major, Bone Sickness and Call of the Void ad.. oh and Full of Hell up thread..

Albums

Moss-Horrible Nights
Reproacher-Nothing to Save
Transient- s/t
Hessian-Mánégarmr
Grimes-Deteriorate
All Pigs Must Die-Nothing Violates This Nature
Author & Punisher- Women & Children
The Body-Master, We Parish
Diesto-For Water or Blood

ALBUMS

Shooting Guns - Brotherhood of the Ram
True Widow - Circumambulation
The Cult of Dom Keller - The Cult of Dom Keller
Hawkeyes - Poison Slows You Down
Russian Circles - Memorial
Bombus - The Poet and the Parrot

Remember you can add albums you nominated to the Spotify Playlist

While the nominations thread is nice for discussions, and I'm happy to contribute my picks, but why not skip the nomination step and just accept votes for albums on tthis list?

That list is a nice start but doesn't include fringe records that RYM might classify as say, stoner rock or something. Their inclusion is a huge plus for our nomination and voting process.

RYM also casts the net pretty wide, but fair enough! I'll nominate:

Altars - Paramnesia
Amorphis - Circle
Anathema - Universal
Angizia - Des Winters Finsterer Gesell
Aosoth - IV: An Arrow In Heart
Arsaidh - Roots
Ataraxie - L'Etre Et La Nausée
Battle Dagorath - Cursed Storm Of Ages
Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
Centurian - Contra Rationem
Coffins - The Fleshland
Countess - Sermons Of The Infidel
Csejthe - Réminiscence
Dark Angel - The Dream Calls For Blood
Deus Mortem - Emanations Of The Black Light
Ellende - Ellende
Falkenbach - Asa
The Fall Of Every Season - Amends
Graveland - Thunderbolts Of The Gods
Hail Of Bullets - III: The Rommel Chronicles
Imperium Dekadenz - Meadows Of Nostalgia
Kultura Kureniya - Некрофилия
Lustre - Lost In Lustrous Nights
Lustre - Wonder
Manii - Kollaps
The Meads Of Asphodel - Sonderkommando
Nonexistence - Antarctica
Obliteration - Black Death Horizon
Officium Triste - Mors Viri
Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
Orphaned Land - All Is One
Pensées Nocturnes - Nom d'Une Pipe!
Peste Noire - Peste Noire
Pestilence - Obsideo
Powerwolf - Preachers Of The Night
Progenie Terrestre Pura - U.M.A.
Rorcal - Világvége
Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy
Seeds Of Iblis - Anti Quran Rituals
Shining - One One One
Sombres Forêts - La Mort Du Soleil
Stilla - Till Stilla Falla
Strzępy - Śmierć We Mnie, Nicość Poza Mną
Svartsyn - Black Testament
Thaw - Thaw
Thy Light - No Morrow Shall Dawn
Vagrond - Temporal
Vuyvr - Eiskalt
Wędrujący Wiatr - Tam, Gdzie Miesiąc Opłakuje Świt
Wolvserpent - Perigaea Antahkarana

all albums

Cultes Des Ghoules - Henbane
Concrete Cross - Concrete Cross
Wolf People - Fain
Profanatica - Thy Kingdom Cum
Gog - Ironworks
Demon Lung - The Hundredth Name
Pest - The Crowning Horror
Arckanum - Fenris Kindir
Gnaw - Horrible Chamber
Uzala - Tales Of Blood & Fire
Circle - Incarnation
Malthusian - MMXIII

feel free to chop the Wolf People if it's deemed to not go hard enuff, imo it's a really good folkist hard rock album which is entitled to some love

btw who knew Big Business had a whole new album up on their bandcamp? not me until just now http://bigbigbusiness.bandcamp.com/album/battlefields-forever

sounds like they've still got it halfway in

ALBUMS
Sandrider - Godhead

Two more:
Galdr - Ancient Lights From The Stars
Sivyj Yar - The Dawns Were Drifting As Before

(all are albums btw)

omg how come no

Beastwars - Blood Becomes Fire

TRACKS:
Progenie Terrestre Pura - Sovrarobotizzazione
Lustre - A Spark Of Times Of Old
Thy Light - Wanderer Of Solitude

Can anyone add tracks to the Spotify tracks playlist?

(like the Albums list?)

yes i'll fix that

I had disabled it because the mods havent changed the title of the youtube thread and didnt want ppl adding non metal to the list by mistake. fixed now

both spreadsheets updated btw

That White Wizzard has some catchy shit, too bad I missed seeing them live. Main dude will probably rebuild the band.

Album
Goatess - Goatess

Featuring Christian ‘Chritus’ Linderson of Count Raven, Saint Vitus, Terra Firma and Lord Vicar. He's been listening to a lot of Sleep, Kyuss, Hawkwind and Monster Magnet lately. Some of the best guitar tones since Elder & Wo Fat. More.

Not actually heard that. Wonder if it's on Spotify

Album:

Shooting Guns - Brotherhood of the Ram

Batillus - Concrete (Andy Stott remix)

^ oops, that is a TRACK

Batillus haven't grabbed me like they seemingly have a lot of ppl but I love comings together like this. reading up on it it sounds like they met when they both played Chaos In Tejas?

not sure... they both played on this bill though: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/10/show_no_mercy_u.html

apparently batillus were listening to andy stott on their tour bus prior to that

Album:

At Devil Dirt – Plan B: Sin Revolución No Hay Evolución
http://atdevildirt.bandcamp.com/album/plan-b-sin-revoluci-n-no-hay-evoluci-n-2

Third, possibly best album from Chilean desert/stoner rockers.

Albums:

Naam - Vow
Vista Chino - Peace
Brimstone Coven - II
Sahg - Delusions Of Grandeur
Gozu - The Fury Of A Patient Man
Jex Thoth - Blood Moon Rise
Wounded Giant Lightning Medicine

I need to hear that Naam album soon

TRACKS:

Noothgrush - Thoth
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Desert Ceremony
Oranssi Pazuzu - Reika Miasammassa

probably more coming later...

Noothgrush - Thoth...
NICE!!!

ECHOES FROM THE VOIDDD

Another album nom from me:

Rest - I Hold The Wolf

(Proggy instru-metal from Cork. Proper fists-in-the-air stuff, too.)

A friend who works at Relapse made this list... I know some are duplicates but I was told that I could apologize later for that.

A Storm of Light – Nations to Flames
All Pigs Must Die - Nothing Violates This Nature
ASG – Blood Drive
Author & Punisher - Women & Children
Beastmilk - Climax
Blindead - Absence
Call of the Void – Dragged Down a Dead End Path
Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Deafheaven - Sunbather
East of the Wall – Redaction Artifacts
Exhumed – Necrocracy
Hatebreed - The Divinity Of Purpose
Heaven Shall Burn - VETO
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Integrity - Suicide Black Snake
Inter Arma – Sky Burial
Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
Killswitch Engage - Disarm The Descent
Lesbian – Forestelevision
Living Sacrifice - Ghost Thief
Locrian – Return to Annihilation
Lycus - Tempest
Mouth of the Architect – Dawning
Nails - Abandon All Hope
Primitive Man - Scorn
Rorcal - Vilagvege
Rosetta - The Anaesthete
Russian Circles - Memorial
Sannhet - Known Flood
Shai Hulud - Reach Beyond The Sun
Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
Terra Tenebrosa - The Purging
True Widow – Circumambulation
Ulcerate – Vermis
Unkind – Pelon Juuret
Windhand – Soma
Zatokrev - The Bat The Wheel And The Long Road To Nowhere

These are albums.

and since fastnbulbous told you that HE can sort it and add to playlist then.

So please check first otherwise you risk nominations being ignored. Its hard enough a job as it is without having to remove duplicates.

right ive added then removed all the duplicates. Annoying. Not doing it again so be warned!

I'm happy to do it, but you gotta give me more than 6 minutes! It can wait until I'm off work, we've got 'til end of the year!

Album:
Twilight Of The Gods - Fire On The Mountain

I originally thought this would be a well-marketed, high profile supergroup event with Alan Averill of Primordial, Patrik Lindgren (thyrfing) Rune Eriksen (Aura Noir, ex-Ava Inferi & Mayhem), Frode Glesnes (Einherjer) Nick Barker (Lockup, ex-Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgin & Testament). But it's really stayed under the radar. Originally formed as a Bathory tribute, here they focus on Priest, Maiden, Manowar and Dio as influences, but with some great original songs that make me think of Slough Feg at times.

Albums:

Black Capricorn - Born Under The Capricorn
Mountain Witch - Cold River
Seremonia - Ihminen
Horiston - Time Warriors
Obelyskkh - Hymn to Pan

Dammit. Horisont

Album
Morne - Shadows

Album

Tentacle -Ingot Eye

Let's try again

Album

Tentacle - Ingot Eye

Not going to bother adding the Kerrang list this year. They went back to covering shit in their poll again

Lumbar - The First and Last Days of Unwelcome
http://lumbarsl.bandcamp.com/album/the-first-and-last-days-of-unwelcome

One-off supadoom group with Mike Scheidt (YOB), Tad Doyle & Aaron Edge. Edge's visceral rage aimed towards his struggles with multiple sclerosis.

xp more like covering their poll in shit.

I know YOB fans are an introverted bunch, but it's okay to get excited. I like Lumbar better than most YOB albums actually. And there's MF'n TAD!

It's an Aaron Edge record with Tad and Mike lending vocals. It's good, but it's not YOB good. The story behind it is heartbreaking and I can't separate it from the music now that I know.

we're not introverted, we're getting in touch with our inner selves

Album
Mansion - We Shall Live
http://weshalllive.bandcamp.com/album/we-shall-live

Finnish occult proto-metal/psych, very promising.

Is it too much of a stretch to nominate:

ALBUM
Sigur Ros - Kveikur

?

siegbran you big puddle of goo

If last year's Godspeed! You Black Emperor made any metal lists, then sure. If not, then no.

I can't recall.

There are enough metal-like moments on it that sure, it's just about as metal as Alcest these days. Plus, last year several entries of heavy rock that aren't remotely metal placed high, so I've been nominating that stuff too.

Albums:
Moonbow - The End Of Time
Zodiac - A Hiding Place
Doublestone - Wingmakers
Elevators To The Grateful Sky - Cloud Eye
Seidr - Ginnungagap
Funeral Circle - Funeral Circle
Wall - Wall
Weedpecker - Weedpecker

A step too far

I dont care who allowed what last year but I'm saying no sigur ros (and i do quite like them)

guess if these 'dungeon synth' releases belong on any poll, it's this one:

Erang - Another World Another Time
Abandoned Places - Giantlands

ALBUM
Radioactive Vomit/Column Of Heaven - split

I don't believe that that is a real thing.

It'd better be, or else I'm surprised what I'll find in the mail this week.

i got your column of heaven right here

ALBUMS

Usenea - Usenea
http://usneadoom.bandcamp.com/

Per Nate, blackened sludge/doom from Portland.

Iron Man - South Of The Earth

Maryland doom lifer Al Morris III signed to Rise Above/Metal Blade and recorded heaviest sounding album yet.

Witchburn - Bathed In Blood

Seattle doom with female lead, great band that's not so great at promoting themselves.

Byzantine - Byzantine
http://byzantine.bandcamp.com/

American progressive groove metal, 4th album.

Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte
https://nerodimarte.bandcamp.com/album/nero-di-marte

Italian death-prog, some Gojira influence.

ALBUMS

Mutoid Man - Helium Head
(proggy stoner-punk side project of converge's ben koller/cave in's stephen brodsky)

ALBUMS

Earthen Grave - Earthen Grave
http://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/earthen-grave

Chicago doom, formed in 2008 with Rachel Barton Pine on violin. Self-released the album last year, was released this year by Ripple Music.

ALBUMS

Enforcer - Death by Fire
Machetazo - Ruin
Retox - YPLL
Child Bite - Vision Crimes
Vandal X - God Knows
Hey Colossus - Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo
Psychofagist - Songs of Faint and Distortion
Katalepsy - Autopsychosis
Impending Doom - Death Will Reign
Abyssal - Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius
Ephel Duath - Hemmed By Light, Shaped By Darkness
Vaz - Visiting Hours

http://thequietus.com/articles/14102-the-quietus-end-of-year-metal-chart-2013

Really enjoying the Tracks playlist on Spotify btw AG

ALBUM
Fen - Dustwalker

ALBUMS
Bölzer - Aura
Convulse - Evil Prevails
Cosmic Church - Ylistys
Shining - 8 1/2 Feberdrommar I Vaket Tillstan
Sacriphyx - The Western Front
SONGS
Nonexistence - Shroud of Distress
Suffocation - Sullen Days

SONG
Csejthe - Réminiscence

Vaz - Visiting Hours

― cock chirea, Tuesday, December 17, 2013 6:33 PM (Yesterday)

damn, missed this. chartreuse bull was an unexpected (and very welcome) surprise.

ALBUM
Fun At The Morgue - Massoula

ALBUMS

Age Of Taurus - Desperate Souls Of Tortured Times
Selim Lamouchi & His Enemies - Earth Air Spirit Water Fire
Doomriders - Grand Blood
Holy Grail - Ride Into The Void
Sinister Realm - World Of Evil

did you add all the past few days to the spreadsheet?

somewhat disappointed by the last doomriders :(

No, but will be done with work for the weekend.

ALBUMS

Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
http://caladanbrood.bandcamp.com/

Mega epic black metal from Salt Lake City.

ok cool.

I dont know when to start voting but noms are tailing off a bit now

It's fair to say that everything that'll be included on my ballot for this has already been nominated!

i do plan to nominate some tracks, but keep dragging my feet

you better hurry up then

not a lot of people have been nominating tracks

i only plan to nom + vote in the album poll

too many like that, sadly

I just don't listen to metal in terms of singles or tracks. Will try to come up with some in a few days. There's still a few albums left to nominate...

ALBUMS

A Fall of Every Season - Amends
Ancestors Blood - A Moment of Clarity
Cnoc An Tursa - The Giants of Auld
Thränenkind - The Elk
Lake Of Blood - Omnipotens Tyrannus
Saor (Arsaidh) - Roots
Encircling Sea - A Forgotten Land
Obsidian Tongue - A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time
Monolith Cult - Run From The Light
Blackout - We Are Here
Cauchemar - Tenebrario
Nocturnal - Nocturnal
High Priest Of Saturn - High Priest Of Saturn
Rote Mare - The Kingdom
Black Pyramid - Adversarial
Pelican - Forever Becoming
Palms - Palms
In The Company Of Serpents - Of The Flock
Orchid - The Mouths Of Madness
Cardinals Folly - Strange Conflicts Of The Past
Magister Templi - Lucifer Leviathan Logos
Solstice - Death's Crown Is Victory EP
Hacride - Back To Where You've Never Been
Devil - Gather The Sinners
Domovoyd - Oh, Sensibility
Hollow Leg - Abysmal
oVo - Abisso
Nymf - From The Dark
Manilla Road - Mysterium
Havok - Unnatural Selection
Finntroll - Blodvsept
Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
Space Witch - The Alchemy Paradox EP
Rivers Of Nihil - The Conscious Seed Of Light
Ward - Ward
Black Skies - Circadian Meditations
Shivas Nat - Hard To Breathe
Celeste - Animale(s)
Circle - Incarnation
Deep - Vol. 1
Mount Salem - Endless EP
Summoner - Atlantian
Secrets - Fragile Figures
Space God Ritual - Eldritch Tales
Cult Of Fire - मृत्युकावीभत्सनृत्य 
Ulver - Messe I.X-VI.X
Norma Jean - Wrongdoers
Sacred Steel - The Bloodshed Summoning
Wolverspent - Perigaea Antahkarana
Rote Mare - The Invocation
Yidhra - Hexed
Dark Design - Prey For The Future
Adoran - Adoran
Northless - World Keeps Sinking
Church Of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum
Reptilian Death - The Dawn of Consummation and Emergence
Kröwnn - Kröwnn
Coven - Destiny Of The Gods
Vattnet Viskar - Sky Swallower
Onslaught - VI
Haken - The Mountain
Black Tusk - Tend No Wounds EP
Lycia - Quiet Moments
Cult Of Occult - Hic Est Domus Diaboli
Running Wild - Resilient
Theologian - Some Things Have To Be Endured
Stara Rzeka - Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem
Red Fang - Whales And Leeches
Ancient Myth - Akashic
Dream Death - Somnium Excessum
Coat - Swamp
Head Of The Demon - Head Of The Demon
Huntress - Starbound Beast
Chimaira - Crown Of Phantoms
Valient Thorr - Our Own Masters
Voodoo Dawn - Skeletal Spectre
Trouble - The Distortion Field
Fates Warning - Darkness In A Different Light
Vampire Squid - Vampire Squid

yes, those are metal albums. good call.

TRACKS:

Audrey Horne - Redemption Blues
Victor Griffin's In-Graved - Late for an Early Grave
Satan - Cenotaph Wall
Joel Grind - Hell's Master of Hell
Raspberry Bulbs - When a Lie Becomes the Truth
Inquisition - Force of the Floating Tomb
Skeletonwitch - Burned from Bone
Tribulation - Through the Velvet Black
Monster Magnet - End of Time
Vastum - 3 A.M. in Agony
Jucifer - Queen of Antlers
Voivod - Empathy for the Enemy
Blood Ceremony - Goodbye Gemini
Windhand - Boleskine
Purson - Well Spoiled Machine
In Solitude - Death Knows Where
Oranssi Pazuzu - Olen Aukaissut Uuden Silman
Carcass - The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills
Inter Arma - S'Blood
Black Sabbath - Dear Father
Kvelertak - Evig Vandrar
Power Trip - Crossbreaker
Revocation - Fracked
Motorhead - The End of Time

Monday night Power Trip introduced "Crossbreaker" as their "pop song"

TRACKS:

Shitfucker - Sex Dungeon

just dropping by, add these to the nominations

Albums

Agathodaimon - In Darkness
Caligula's Horse - The Tide, the Thief & River's End
Černá - Restoring Life
Code - Augur Nox
De Arma - Lost, Alien & Forlorn
Enshine - Origin
In Vain - Ænigma
Kayo Dot - Hubardo
The Moth Gatherer - A Bright Celestial Light
Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother
October Tide - Tunnel of No Light
Ovid's Withering - Scryers of the Ibis
Persefone - Spiritual Migration
The Prophecy - Salvation
Shade Empire - Omega Arcane
TesseracT - Altered State
Vallendusk - Black Clouds Gathering
Vaura - The Missing
Voices - From the Human Forest Create a Fugue of Imaginary Rain
Vulture Industries - The Tower
Witherscape - The Inheritance
XCIII - Like a Fiend in a Cloud

notes: of the above particularly check out these on youtube,

Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/obscure_sphinx/void_mother/
imagine Cult of Luna / Isis with a female vocalist there is even a Portishead influence, would appeal to Ides of Gemini fans

and two debut albums with outstanding atmospherics and production

Enshine - Origin
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/enshine/origin/
a stunning production / full on sound on this debut album, up there in the top tier with Novembre and Katatonia. In 2013 Enshine like Secrets of the Sky impressed me with their attention to detail and willingness to experiment with atmospherics. The production on this album reminds me of Novembre's brilliant The Blue album.

Ovid's Withering - Scryers of the Ibis
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ovids_withering/scryers_of_the_ibis/
a multitude molten melting pot of ideas chucked into the sonic blender, confidence reigns supreme on this debut release, a sonic juggernaut of twisted dynamics, complex yet flowing sound, so much rhythmic creativity.

I have had a look at the albums nominations list so far and from my viewpoint all the key 2013 releases are now present.

TRACKS

Ghost - Ghuleh/Zombie Queen
Vaura - Putting Flesh to Bone
SubRosa - The Usher
In Solitude - A Buried Sun

Track

Darkthrone - Leave No Cross Unturned

i was just thinking of putting that on my pazz & jop list.

Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus

Never thought I'd be participating in a metal poll.

what are you gonna do after you vote for that

Sleep.

Those are all albums I've listened to and enjoyed. Though I probably like the idea of Vampire Squid more than the reality. I'd expect Pelican, Orchid, Magister Templi, Wolverspent, Church Of Misery, Stara Rzeka, Cult Of Fire and others in that batch to get some votes.

Track

Darkthrone - Leave No Cross Unturned

fuck me forgetting

DJMARTIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALBUM
Entrails - Raging Death

Heard the Naam album, its good though not quite great. Need to give the Vaura album a listen

ALBUMS

Ampacity - Encounter One

^Attn: EZSnappin!! Attn!

Give me a couple days and I will try to add some tracks

TRACKS:

Inter Arma song I claim to love so much is actually titled "'Sblood"

This Ampacity is solid. Thanks sir!

413 Albums, yeah it's looking pretty good.

(Victor Griffin's) In-Graved - S/T
A Fall of Every Season - Amends
A Storm of Light – Nations to Flames
Abandoned Places - Giantlands
Abyssal - Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO - In Search of the Lost Divine Arc
Adoran - Adoran
Aeternus - ...and the Seventh His Soul Detesteth
Aevangelist - Omen Ex Simulacra
Agathodaimon - In Darkness
Age Of Taurus - Desperate Souls Of Tortured Times
Agrimonia - Rites of Separation
All Pigs Must Die-Nothing Violates This Nature
Altaar - Altaar
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Altars - Paramnesia
Amaranthe - the Nexus
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods
Amorphis - Circle
Ampacity - Encounter One
Anathema - Universal
Ancestors Blood - A Moment of Clarity
Ancient Myth - Akashic
Anciients - Heart Of Oak
Angizia - Des Winters Finsterer Gesell
Antigama - Meteor
Aosoth - IV: An Arrow In Heart
Årabrot – Årabrot
Arckanum - Fenris Kindir
Argus - Beyond the Martyrs
Arsaidh - Roots
ASG - Blood Drive
At Devil Dirt – Plan B: Sin Revolución No Hay Evolución
Ataraxie - L'Etre Et La Nausée
Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess
Attila - About That Life
Audrey Horne - Youngblood
Author & Punisher- Women & Children
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
Avatarium - Avatarium
Baptists - Bushcraft
Barbez - Bella Ciao
Bardo Pond - Peace on Venus
Batillus- Concrete Stain
Battle Dagorath - Cursed Storm Of Ages
Beastmilk - Climax
Beastwars - Blood Becomes Fire
Betzefer - The Devil Went Down to the Holy Land
Beyond - Fatal Power of Death
Black Capricorn - Born Under The Capricorn
Black Pyramid - Adversarial
Black Sabbath - 13
Black Skies - Circadian Meditations
Black Tusk - Tend No Wounds EP
Blackout - We Are Here
Blindead - Absence
Blockheads - The World Is Dead
Blood Ceremony - the Eldritch Dark
Bölzer - Aura
Bombus - The Poet and the Parrot
Bone Sickness - Alone in the Grave
Brainbombs - Disposal Of A Dead Body
Brimstone Coven - II
Byzantine - Byzantine
Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
Caligula's Horse - The Tide, the Thief & River's End
Call of the Void - Dragged Down a Dead End Path
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Cardinals Folly - Strange Conflicts Of The Past
Castevet - Obsian
Cathedral - The Last Spire
Cauchemar - Tenebrario
Celeste - Animale(s)
Centurian - Contra Rationem
Centuries – Taedium Vitae
Černá - Restoring Life
Child Bite - Vision Crimes
Chimaira - Crown Of Phantoms
Church Of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum
Church Of Void - Dead Rising
Circle - Incarnation
Cloud Rat - Moksha
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Cnoc An Tursa - The Giants of Auld
Coat - Swamp
Code - Augur Nox
Coffins - The Fleshland
Coliseum - Sister Faith
Concrete Cross - Concrete Cross
Convulse - Evil Prevails
Corrections House - Last City Zero
Corsair - Corsair
Cosmic Church - Ylistys
Countess - Sermons Of The Infidel
Coven - Destiny Of The Gods
Craven Idol - Towards Eschaton
Csejthe - Réminiscence
Cult Of Fire - मृत्युकावीभत्सनृत्य
Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Cult Of Occult - Hic Est Domus Diaboli
Culted - Oblique to All Paths
Cultes Des Ghoules - Henbane
Dark Angel - The Dream Calls For Blood
Dark Design - Prey For The Future
Dark Tranquility - Construct
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
De Arma - Lost, Alien & Forlorn
Dead in the Dirt - The Blind Hole
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Deep - Vol. 1
Deicide - In The Minds Of Evil
Demon Lung - The Hundredth Name
Deus Mortem - Emanations Of The Black Light
Deveykus - Pillar Without Mercy
Devil - Gather The Sinners
Devil - The Devil Lp
Diesto-For Water or Blood
Domovoyd - Oh, Sensibility
Doomriders - Grand Blood
Doublestone - Wingmakers
Dream Death - Somnium Excessum
Earthen Grave - Earthen Grave
Earthless - From the Ages
East of the Wall – Redaction Artifacts
Elevators To The Grateful Sky - Cloud Eye
Ellende - Ellende
Encircling Sea - A Forgotten Land
Endless Boogie - Long Island
Enforcer - Death by Fire
Ensemble Pearl - s/t
Enshine - Origin
Entrails - Raging Death
Ephel Duath - Hemmed By Light, Shaped By Darkness
Erang - Another World Another Time
Exhumed -Necrocracy
Falkenbach - Asa
Fall City Fall - Victus
Fates Warning - Darkness In A Different Light
Fen - Dustwalker
Finntroll - Blodvsept
Follakzoid - II
Full of Hell - Rudiments of Mutilation
Fun At The Morgue - Massoula
Funeral Circle - Funeral Circle
Galdr - Ancient Lights From The Stars
Germ - Grief
Ghost - Infestissumam
Gnaw - Horrible Chamber
Goatess - Goatess
Gog - Ironworks
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Gozu - The Fury Of A Patient Man
Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
Graveland - Thunderbolts Of The Gods
Grimes-Deteriorate
Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'äme constellée...
Hacride - Back To Where You've Never Been
Hail Of Bullets - III: The Rommel Chronicles
Haken - The Mountain
Hatebreed - The Divinity Of Purpose
Havok - Unnatural Selection
Hawkeyes - Poison Slows You Down
Head Of The Demon - Head Of The Demon
Heaven Shall Burn - VETO
Hell - Curse & Chapter
Hessian-Mánégarmr
Hey Colossus - Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo
High Priest Of Saturn - High Priest Of Saturn
Hollow Leg - Abysmal
Holy Grail - Ride Into The Void
Horisont- Time Warriors
Huntress - Starbound Beast
Iceage - You're Nothing
Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
Immolation - Kigdom of Conspiracy
Impalers - S/T
Impending Doom - Death Will Reign
Imperium Dekadenz - Meadows Of Nostalgia
In Solitude - Sister
In The Company Of Serpents - Of The Flock
In Vain - Ænigma
Indricothere - II
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Integrity - Suicide Black Snake
Inter Arma - Sky Burial
Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
Iron Man - South Of The Earth
Iron Reagan - Worse Than Dead
Jeff Treppel & Ozzy Hamster Sings/Sqeaks - The Best of Nightwish
Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer To The Light
Jex Thoth - Blood Moon Rise
Joel Grind - The Yellowgoat Sessions
Jucifer - "The Russian Album" (за волгой для нас земли нет)
Jute Gyte -Discontinuities
Kadavar - Abra Kadavar
Katalepsy - Autopsychosis
Kayo Dot - Hubardo
KEN Mode - Entrench
Khalas - Arabic Rock Orchestra
Killswitch Engage - Disarm The Descent
Kröwnn - Kröwnn
Kultura Kureniya - Некрофилия
Kvelertak - Meir
Kylesa - Ultraviolet
Lake Of Blood - Omnipotens Tyrannus
Lesbian – Forestelevision
Living Sacrifice - Ghost Thief
Locrian – Return to Annihilation
Lord Dying - Summon the Faithless
Lumbar - The First and Last Days of Unwelcome
Lustre - Lost In Lustrous Nights
Lustre - Wonder
Lycia - Quiet Moments
Lycus- Tempest
Machetazo - Ruin
Magic Circle - S/T
Magister Templi - Lucifer Leviathan Logos
Malthusian - MMXIII
Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds
Manii - Kollaps
Manilla Road - Mysterium
Mansion - We Shall Live
Meek is Murder - Everything is Awesome, Nothing Matters
Melt-Banana - Fetch
Monolith Cult - Run From The Light
Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
Moonbow - The End Of Time
Morne - Shadows
Moss-Horrible Nights
Mother Susurrus - Maahaavaa
Motörhead - Aftershock
Mount Salem - Endless EP
Mountain Witch - Cold River
Mouth of the Architect - Dawning
MUTation - Error 500
Mutoid Man - Helium Head
Naam - Vow
Nails - Abandon All Life
Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte
Newsted - Heavy Metal Music
Nice Hooves - S/T
Noctum - Final Sacrifice
Nocturnal - Nocturnal
Noisem - Agonies Defined
Nonexistence - Antarctica
Noothgrush/Coffins - Split
Norma Jean - Wrongdoers
Northless - World Keeps Sinking
Nymf - From The Dark
Obelyskkh - Hymn to Pan
Obliteration - Black Death Horizon
Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother
Obsidian Tongue - A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time
October Tide - Tunnel of No Light
Officium Triste - Mors Viri
Old Wounds - From Where We Came Is Where We'll Rest
Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
Onslaught - VI
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
Orchid - The Mouths Of Madness
Orphaned Land - All Is One
Ovid's Withering - Scryers of the Ibis
oVo - Abisso
Palms - Palms
Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
Pelican - Forever Becoming
Pensées Nocturnes - Nom d'Une Pipe!
Persefone - Spiritual Migration
Pest - The Crowning Horror
Peste Noire - Peste Noire
Pestilence - Obsideo
Phantom Glue - A War of Light Cones
Pinkish Black - Razed to the Ground
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Portal - Vexovoid
Power Trip - Manifest Decimation
Powerwolf - Preachers Of The Night
Primitive Man - Scorn
Profanatica - Thy Kingdom Cum
Progenie Terrestre Pura - U.M.A.
Psychofagist - Songs of Faint and Distortion
Purson - The Circle and the Blue Door
Pyres - Year of Sleep
Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Quest of Aidance - Misanthropic Propaganda
Radioactive Vomit/Column Of Heaven - split
Raspberry Bulbs - Deformed Worship
Red Fang - Whales And Leeches
Reproacher-Nothing to Save
Reptilian Death - The Dawn of Consummation and Emergence
Rest - I Hold The Wolf
Retox - YPLL
Revocation - S/T
Rhapsody Of Fire - Dark Wings Of Steel
Rivers Of Nihil - The Conscious Seed Of Light
Rorcal - Világvége
Rosetta - The Anaesthete
Rote Mare - The Invocation
Rote Mare - The Kingdom
Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy
Running Wild - Resilient
Russian Circles - Memorial
Sacred Steel - The Bloodshed Summoning
Sacriphyx - The Western Front
Sahg - Delusions Of Grandeur
Sandrider - Godhead
Sannhet - Known Flood
Saor (Arsaidh) - Roots
Sasquatch - IV
Satan - Life Sentence
Satan's Wrath - Aeons of Satan's Reign
Secrets - Fragile Figures
Secrets of the Sky - To Sail Black Waters
Seeds Of Iblis - Anti Quran Rituals
Seidr - Ginnungagap
Selim Lamouchi & His Enemies - Earth Air Spirit Water Fire
Seremonia - Ihminen
Shade Empire - Omega Arcane
Shai Hulud - Reach Beyond The Sun
Shining - 8 1/2 Feberdrommar I Vaket Tillstan
Shining - One One One
Shitfucker - Sucks Cocks in Hell
Shivas Nat - Hard To Breathe
Shooting Guns - Brotherhood of the Ram
Shooting Guns - Spectral Laundromat
Sinister Realm - World Of Evil
Sivyj Yar - The Dawns Were Drifting As Before
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
Sofy Major - Idolize
Solstice - Death's Crown Is Victory EP
Sombres Forêts - La Mort Du Soleil
Space God Ritual - Eldritch Tales
Space Witch - The Alchemy Paradox EP
Spiritual Beggars - Earth Blues
Star Rzeka - Cien chmury nad ukrytym polem
Stara Rzeka - Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem
Stilla - Till Stilla Falla
Strzępy - Śmierć We Mnie, Nicość Poza Mną
SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
Summoner - Atlantian
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
Sungod - Contakt
Svartsyn - Black Testament
Tengger Cavalry - The Expedition
Tentacle - Ingot Eye
Terra Tenebrosa - The Purging
TesseracT - Altered State
Thaw - Thaw
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
The Body - Christs, Redeemers
The Body - Master, We Perish (EP)
The Botanist - EP 1: The Hanging Gardens of Hell
The Cult of Dom Keller - The Cult of Dom Keller
The Fall Of Every Season - Amends
The Meads Of Asphodel - Sonderkommando
The Moth Gatherer - A Bright Celestial Light
The Ocean - Pelegial
The Prophecy - Salvation
The Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer
Theologian - Some Things Have To Be Endured
Thränenkind - The Elk
Thy Light - No Morrow Shall Dawn
Timmy's Organism - Raw Sewage Roq
Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry Of Consciousness
Transient- s/t
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
Trouble - The Distortion Field
True Widow - Circumambulation
Twilight Of The Gods - Fire On The Mountain
Ulcerate - Vermis
Ultra-Violence - Privilege to Overcome
Ulver - Messe I.X-VI.X
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Unkind – Pelon Juuret
Untimely Demise - Systematic Eradication
Usenea - Usenea
Uzala - Tales Of Blood & Fire
Vagrond - Temporal
Valient Thorr - Our Own Masters
Vallendusk - Black Clouds Gathering
Vampire Squid - Vampire Squid
Vandal X - God Knows
Vastum - Patricidal Lust
Vattnet Viskar - Sky Swallower
Vaura - The Missing
Vaz - Visiting Hours
VHOL - Vhol
Vista Chino - Peace
Voices - From the Human Forest Create a Fugue of Imaginary Rain
Voivod - Target Earth
Voodoo Dawn - Skeletal Spectre
Vulture Industries - The Tower
Vuyvr - Eiskalt
Wall - Wall
Ward - Ward
Watain - The Wild Hunt
Wędrujący Wiatr - Tam, Gdzie Miesiąc Opłakuje Świt
Weedpecker - Weedpecker
Weekend Nachos - Still
White Wizzard - The Devil's Cut
Windhand - Soma
Witchburn - Bathed In Blood
Witherscape - The Inheritance
Woe - Withdrawal
Wolf People - Fain
Wolvserpent - Perigaea Antahkarana
Wounded Giant - Lightning Medicine
XCIII - Like a Fiend in a Cloud
Yidhra - Hexed
Zatokrev - The Bat The Wheel And The Long Road To Nowhere
Zemial - Nykta
Zodiac - A Hiding Place

What? Don't close it yet! I just discovered that the Cosmic Dead released a jaw dropping album this year!

ALBUMS

The Cosmic Dead - Inner Sanctum

Also Stara Rzeka is duplicated with the first entry leaving the second 'a' off

Also, no Aqua Nebula Oscillator?

I dunno when it to close it.not heard from seandalai about him setting up voting forms and stuff. Im hoping it wont be any later than hogmanay with 2 weeks approx voting period but it all depends on him. It might be later and less it might be earlier and more.

TRACKS

Within Temptation ft. Tarja - Paradise (What About Us?)

TRACKS

Kvelertak - Spring Fra Livet
Magic Circle - Winter Light

TRACKS
Entrails - Bloodhammer

I can set up the voting whenever. Just say what the guidelines should be wrt ballot size/types.

Whatever suits you. How about close noms at 11.59pm on the 23rd? then we can open voting on xmas eve with it closing on 11th to roll out on the monday?

That way we dont have to do anything over holiday period except listen and vote?

ho ho hell awaits

TRACKS

Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO - Skilfiul Grinning Skull
Jute Gyte - Supreme Fictions and the Absolute Fake
Jute Gyte - Romanticism is Ultimately Fatal
Windhand - Amaranth
The Cosmic Dead - Djamba

11.59pm in what timezone?

uk

so if anyone wants to nominate do it now

so I have like what, 4 hours to get my late noms in?

yeah or til seandalai sets up the forms. he will let you know when its too late i guess?

TRACKS:
Orchid - Loving Hand of God
Sahg - Sleeper's Gate To The Galaxy
Altaar - Tidi Kjem Aldri Att
Avatarium - Boneflower

seandalai i pm'd you some details on fb

A few more albums noms:

Botanist - IV: Mandragora
Cara Neir - Portals to a Better, Dead World
Dethscalator - Racial Golf Course, No Bitches
Ruined Families - Blank Language

*NOMINATIONS CLOSE AT 11.59PM (APPROX 5 1/2 HOURS TIME)*

You can add these too, please:

Beehoover - The Devil And His Footmen
Gigan - Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery and Super Science
Mumakil - Flies Will Starve
Okus - Okus
Zolle - Zolle

And...

From the Bogs of Aughiska - Roots Of This Earth, Within My Blood

TRACKS:
Satan - Incantations
Darkthrone - Leave No Cross Unturned
Summoning - Caradhras
Suffocation - Eminent Wrath
Paysage d'Hiver - Macht des Schicksals

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-albums-of-2013

Deafheaven has the best-reviewed major album of 2013While Kanye West's Yeezus 84 has been dominating critics' year-end top 10 lists, a slightly more under the radar release has quietly maintained its lead as 2013's highest-scoring album, where it has stood since midyear. And with that stellar 92 score, Sunbather—the second LP from San Francisco's Deafheaven—is now officially our best-reviewed album of the year.

It's the first time a metal album has occupied the #1 slot in our year-end rankings. In fact, out of albums with 15 more more reviews (excluding EPs and reissues), Sunbather is now the 7th-highest scoring album in our database, which includes releases dating back to 1999.

Pretty cool.

just released.. a 7" by Ancient Shores-Step to the Edge. They're like a more pissed of KEN mode. They also they put out a full length in Jan called Cynarae

Ancient Shores-Cynarae
Ancient Shores-Step to the Edge (7")

SHIT!!! my bad.. the 7" by Ancient Shores is called The Overwhelming Wave