~~~ ILM METAL POLL 2013 - ALBUMS & TRACKS VOTING & CAMPAIGN THREAD~~~ (VOTING ENDS FRIDAY JANUARY 10th 11.59pm UK time/6.59pm EST) )

It's that time of year again. This year we are trying a tracks poll. I hope everyone votes in both. You must have fave songs!

PLEASE READ BEFORE VOTING

Maximum of 50 album votes/Minimum of 5.
Maximum of 20 tracks votes/Minimum of 5

Please vote by filling in the
Voting Form, copying your selections directly from the nominations spreadsheets:

Album Nominations Spreadsheet
Tracks Nominations Spreadsheet

For those who wish to read the nominations here:

(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

VOTING ENDS FRIDAY JANUARY 10th 11.59pm UK time which I believe is 6.59 EST)

I think we're doing #1 gets 50 points #2 gets 39 #3 gets 38 and so on but that may change if seandalai thinks it should. I think that's how I used to do it though)

Thanks to fastnbulbous for volunteering to help me this year, cheers to seandalai for doing the important stuff!

As always lurkers votes are welcome. Get your friends to vote too. Please everyone vote

[b]Merry Xmas everyone!

PS.
Spotify Albums Playlist
Spotify Tracks Playlist

There is also
YOUTUBE thread for ILM End of Year Rock/Metal TRACKS POLL 2013 + tracks campaign thread.

Please post here when you vote so we can check it went through.

A yearly tradition continues and all is well with the world. Metal Reigns Supreme.

Anyone remotely interested in Funeral Doom, btw, needs to check out that Altaar album.

The album list on this thread is the exact same spelling, formatting, etc. as the spreadsheet, right? So I can copy and paste from that just as easy?

And we don't include numbers or anything else. Just the artist & title. Is it descending or ascending order? I can't remember from last year.

Put your #1 at the top and work your way down. No numbers.

Thanks. I need reminders each year.

yeah i copied it from the spreadsheet

voted.

up in this!

v o t e d

Again Stara Rzeka is doubled, with it misspelled the first timr

Also I'm having major pangs of regret for not nominating Spider Kitten

The Fall Of Every Season is in twice, once as "A Fall Of Every season"

A bumper year for Quebecois "post/atmospheric/folk" black metal by the way: fantastic albums by Gris, Csejthe, Sombres Forêts, Neige Éternelle, Monarque.

i'm really digging the ghost bc album

also feeling like trying to listen to every nom'd album is a fool's errand

I thought I got my last few nominations in in plenty of time *pouts*

Listening to the Tracks playlist is quite nice tho, or the album playlist on shuffle.

i think only about 3 people subscribed to the tracks playlist since i started it. If people dont vote tracks then siegbrans nsbm graveland track might win the poll lol

i didn't nominate it for the poll.

I personally wasn't interested in nominating individual tracks.. I don't know if others feel the same way...

the SubRosa album is just not grabbing me.. I've tried several times to give it a go and its just not doing anything for me. I saw em live and though thought they were great, but on record its ____ ? i don't know.

I'm a bit puzzled by all the praise too, it's not a bad record in any way and it's pleasant to listen to but there's nothing on it that really stands out.

The lyrics stand out. "Affliction" is the strongest anger I've heard all year.

anger/sadness/confusion, I should say

anyone hear the clandestine blaze from this year? meant to listen and nominate but didn't get to it. I like the cover.

http://s018.radikal.ru/i507/1305/fb/09ee67e1764b.jpg

i love the ghost bc album.

there.

i have broken my metal thread cherry.

however, i would never class ghost bc as metal.

interesting article
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2013/12/dont-listen-to-everything/

http://i.imgur.com/GN2Szjl.png

Anyone even remotely into death metal needs to listen to the Beyond record. It's streaming here: http://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-fatal-power-of-death

Iron Bonehead productions?!? that is terrible name.. This will be one of those things where the name of something kills it before I give a chance.. lol!

That's the label. Who cares what the label's called?

i voted

I question the judgement of a band that signs to a label with that name.. lol! I'm have kidding, of course

man no bands are gonna sign to my label "Fart Blast Wreck-hers"

LOL!!!!!!!
Hellbeard is ready to sign! lol

btw I'm adding more nommed albums to the album playlist so that it is more complete.

Lol yes, can I suggest the Spider Kitten album, Cougar Club? Decent a
doom with atmosphere and some alt rock leanings (and some rad Alice in Chains harmonies)

My Top 10 countdown

Looks like 10 ballots so far.

only ten? seems low. is that normal?

it's rather low for metal poll, yeah, but hopefully it will flood in once everyones back to work/college.

When you vote please post here to say so. So I can check it went through ok.

Thanks.

Voted!

thanks!

btw guys Campaigning really does work so please go for it. Remember jeff got some dodgy stuff in a few years back just by campaigning!
Siegbran has the right idea.

So discuss any of the albums nominated (or tracks) in here!

I did a good amount of campaigning on the nominations thread, and took a little holiday break. I'll reiterate a few that I feel have been underrated in other polls.

Goatess - Goatess
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/192IbdIGft39UMkx7cino4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sfu9nlwfS4

http://thesludgelord.blogspot.com/2013/10/goatess-st-album-review.html
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2013/06/27/goatess-the-birth-of-pan-review/
http://www.heavyplanet.net/2013/08/album-review-goatess-by-goatess.html
http://theparanoidmusicblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/goatess-st-album-review.html
http://fastnbulbous.com/goatess-goatess/

Brimstone Coven - II
http://brimstonecoven.bandcamp.com/album/ii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAblOjqg4Cg

http://theparanoidmusicblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/brimstone-coven-ii-album-review.html
http://thesludgelord.blogspot.com/2013/11/brimstone-coven-st-album-review.html

Anciients - Heart Of Oak
http://open.spotify.com/album/12xsvrBxKYiC7QrGA3B4Tq
http://anciientriffs.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VPkxD5yglg

http://www.cvltnation.com/anciients-heart-of-oak/
http://www.metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=11767

Avatarium - Avatarium
http://open.spotify.com/album/02aB2JYueuZlZEL8VjXScm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWuGTYiQs8U

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/things-might-missed-2013-avatarium-avatarium/
http://doommetalheaven.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/album-review-avatarium/
http://thesludgelord.blogspot.com/2013/11/avatarium-st-album-review.html

Jex Thoth - Blood Moon Rise
http://ihate.bandcamp.com/album/blood-moon-rise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrAvwd_UHUI

http://thesludgelord.blogspot.com/2013/06/jex-thoth-blood-moon-rise-album-review.html
http://www.metal-observer.com/articles.php?lid=1&id=20116
http://www.doommantia.com/2013/08/jex-thoth-blue-moon-rise.html
http://fastnbulbous.com/jex-thoth-blood-moon-rise/

second the avatarium album.

Yeah Avatarium is pretty great... I'm liking Brimstone Coven a lot too!

That Batillus record, Concrete Sustain was my number one. Sludgey, doomy goodness with an industrial edge. Just what the genre needs, I think. Its innovated and doesn't feel stiff like most industrial stuff can get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q6fvwo9mQEM

http://www.batillusdoom.com/
http://batillus.bandcamp.com/

Primitive Man-Scorn... the heaviest thing I heard this year

https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQBD1gTQThEa4VdF&w=130&h=130&url=http%3A%2F%2Fi1.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FAWUE-s6ALIU%2Fhqdefault.jpg&cfs=1&upscale

I fucked up that link.... But they are read. I'm horrible at campaining, apparently..

I only have one album I care about campaigning for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE7lR4JzLUE

Sahg - Delusions Of Grandeur (Indie)
http://open.spotify.com/album/68ZLnKLkkwPUH47DQ39nEc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7Fynwl1MM

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/59478/Sahg-Delusions-of-Grandeur/
http://www.metalkaoz.com/album-reviews/11473-sahg-delusions-of-grandeur.html

Twilight Of The Gods - Fire On The Mountain (Season Of Mist)
http://open.spotify.com/album/50ROI5L1dxnogR6Xj2Qbsi
http://twilightofthegods.bandcamp.com/album/fire-on-the-mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmtBeUA8cTA

http://thesludgelord.blogspot.com/2013/11/twilight-of-gods-fire-on-mountain-review.html
http://www.globaldomination.se/reviews/twilight-of-the-gods-fire-on-the-mountain
http://lastrit.es/reviews/7130/twilight-of-the-gods-fire-on-the-mountain

For what it's worth, I think the reason that the Sahg has been mostly overlooked is because it doesn't come out in the states until February.

Also, you guys need to listen to the Germ album – especially those of you who think that the Deafheaven is boring. Streaming here: http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/streaming-germs-grief/

Germ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Deafheaven

Tried to click the "favorite" button BUT THERE ISN'T ONE

you clicked the favorite button in my heart.

Cool, just what I'm looking for. I've been wanting to hear more blackened post-punk sounds since getting into the Vaura album. Is there much other stuff in this vein out there?

xp Don't see how it matters these days, as the Sahg is available digitally worldwide via Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, GooglePlay, etc. III never even had a U.S. release. What label is putting it out? Hope that means they'll actually tour the U.S.

and its not like the rolling promo crew dont get their promos months earlier anyway

i listened to germ with high expectations, it was wack

It matters if the people that make the lists (critics) don't get the album until well into the next year – most writers probably won't be getting it until February unless they're doing a review like I am. And if they don't get the album as a promo, they usually means that they don't realize that it exists. Just kind of how works. Writers often get the album only several weeks ahead of the release date, not months.

Also, J, have you considered that the wackness lies with you and not Germ?

hypothesis considered and REJECTED

Not feeling that Germ.. I'm thinking this is gonna be the new trend though. A former drum student of my sent me a link a few months ago doing something similar-he didn't get into the new wave up tempos, but the vibe was very close. One man bands, non performance more than likely, dark, none blast beat black metal, that has a dark wave feel.. I think this will be a little more appealing to a lot of folks as well. It don't do shit for me, but whatevs..

I'm stunned right now at how good the Bölzer EP is. Such a huge sound and so expressive.

Entranced by the Wolfshook, holy shit. That's one of the hugest opening riffs I've ever heard.

anybody with passing interest in space rock or stoner rock should probably spend sixty minutes of their lives checking out this album from the Cosmic Dead. It's p far out, but I dug it.

http://thecosmicdead.bandcamp.com/album/inner-sanctum

hold up hold up

who added this? LOL

Jeff Treppel & Ozzy Hamster Sings/Sqeaks - The Best of Nightwish

i apologize in advance for not voting in this but no lie, i have not listened to a single new album this year

The tracks spreadsheet seems to be missing a lot of nominations. A bunch were submitted Dec. 20-23.

oh. I left that to fnb, sorry.

Remember guys you only have until THIS FRIDAY to vote

We only have 11 ballots in so PLEASE VOTE BEFORE FRIDAY'S CLOSING DATE

Is this going to be the end of ILM metal polls? That would be too bad cuz I always felt the results were by far the best, most well-rounded of all the metal polls. One list to rule them all \m/

However, if Deafheaven win this year I take that back, cuz seriously, they can suckit ;)

as I posted on the thread drugs a money bumped
2010 had 80 ballots
2011 had 74 ballots
2012 under new management there was 51 ballots

BTW I had no access to the spreadsheet for tracks, and did not volunteer for that nonsense. I can barely keep track of the hundreds and hundreds of albums. I will vote for tracks from what's available though.

If we dont have enough votes for a rollout it will probably be just a list in one go of the top 10 or so. so please vote!

Another vote! thanks kkdominator!

we now have the Twelve Votes of Christmas :)

I could pretty easily come up with the minimum 5 albums from the fairly comprehensive album list, but scanning that track list, there are only 2 songs I recognize. Not sure if I'll have enough time to listen through the rest before Friday. Is the tracks ballot required?

no its voluntary. there is a playlist on spotify tho

Okay, thanks. I'll try to listen to it before Friday.

tracks http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/5h0uxOzYvaafpBbe6Sve2J

if someone gives me the list of tracks noms missed i will ask seandalai to add them to the document. as we dont have many ballots in it wont matter PLUS anyone can resubmit their vote

To switch gears to campaigning for a bit, I think more people should be talking about the Obliteration album, "Black Death Horizon". I'm not an expert on metal sub-genres. This seems vaguely death-metal though with a distinct sound of their own, especially the high-pitched yelped vocals which are great. Great raw and loose sound.

This should cover all of the missing tracks. The tracks already in the spreadsheet are in order of nomination, ending with Oranssi Pazuzu - Reika Miasammassa. This is every track nominated after that, in order of nomination.

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 – ‘Sblood
Black Sabbath - Dear Father
Kvelertak - Evig Vandrar
Power Trip - Crossbreaker
Revocation - Fracked
Motorhead - The End of Time
Shitfucker - Sex Dungeon
Ghost - Ghuleh/Zombie Queen
Vaura - Putting Flesh to Bone
SubRosa - The Usher
In Solitude - A Buried Sun
Darkthrone - Leave No Cross Unturned
Within Temptation ft. Tarja - Paradise (What About Us?)
Kvelertak - Spring Fra Livet
Magic Circle - Winter Light
Entrails – Bloodhammer
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
Orchid - Loving Hand of God
Sahg - Sleeper's Gate To The Galaxy
Altaar - Tidi Kjem Aldri Att
Avatarium – Boneflower
Satan - Incantations
Darkthrone - Leave No Cross Unturned
Summoning - Caradhras
Suffocation - Eminent Wrath
Paysage d'Hiver - Macht des Schicksals

did you just post your ballot on the thread?

thanks I'll try get seandalai's attention!
xp

and everyone can vote for them from now on obviously!

and if anyone wishes to resubmit a tracks ballot then they can. We will accept the last ballot from everyone so dont worry if you have voted before.
Also anyone who voted for albums and not tracks can still send in a tracks ballot.

maybe you should extend the deadline a few days? That might help to bring some more ballots in.

also, some awesome shoegazy/atmospheric black metal:

Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
http://youtu.be/QeWQrrCN8jU

They're also on spotify but the physical release of Das Tor was "Strictly limited to 300 hand numbered cassettes." So you know it's fvking trv cvlt.

even though I heard that apparently atmospheric black metal is "over."

cant extend it due to the big poll timeframe

Usnea is spelled wrong in the voting at top.

cheers. Seandalai might want the typos to be uniform then he will change it for the results as I think it works out easier for him that way.

spreadsheet updated with tracks. Thanks seandalai!

I re-voted.

You shouldn't make t so you have to vote for tracks or albums if you don't want. My tracks aren't tracks but a comment broken into lines so I could submit it.

I don't understand? You can vote for albums but not tracks if you want and vice versa.

Unless seandalai changed it?

I didn't vote for tracks.. too much for me.

It said I had to put something in the tracks field in order to submit.

I had tracks the first time but I changed my mind. When I resubmitted it says both fields are required.

Maybe you're not getting the ballots in cuz of the Google password needed to see the spread sheet.. Maybe its turned some folks off. idk. I could gives a fuck about a spreadsheet. I went analog and wrote my shit down with a pen and paper first.. lol! remember those?!?

I didn't need to put anything in the tracks box.. I voted really early though

Maybe you're not getting the ballots in cuz of the Google password needed to see the spread sheet..

You shouldn't need to sign in to see the nominations spreadsheet, if that's what you mean?

I've changed the form so you can leave the tracks bit blank - I had misunderstood the intention here, sorry.

I think more people should be talking about the Obliteration album, "Black Death Horizon".

I voted! For the first time evah!

Cheers Dl! we're up to 15 ballots now.. Thank you!

Chucked my virgin ballot into the volcano.

Death Angel is listed as Dark Angel, btw. Being much more a fan of the latter than the former, I went into a momentary google tizzy.

Also, it didn't make my top ten, but if anyone has been displeased with Satyricon since Volcano and wishes to find a suitable taker upper of that sound, Sonic Reign's Monument in Black is a stormer. So good are they that I excuse the borderline plagiarism of that other band's "Fuel for Hatred" and "Possessed" in this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD2sbkLmz4E

Wounded Giant - Lightning Medicine
http://woundedgiant.bandcamp.com/album/lightning-medicine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=860VsLMvzpw&feature=youtu.be

Magic Circle - S/T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-5RdDRZOoQ&feature=youtu.be

Mountain Witch - Cold River
http://mountainwitch.bandcamp.com/album/mountain-witch-cold-river-lp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr3vvJdAXSA&feature=youtu.be

Black Capricorn – Born Under The Capricorn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LpUvLAabbA&feature=youtu.be

Wolf People - Fain
Psych/prog and proto-metal influences rooted in obscure Finnish psych, Mighty Baby, Dark, Groundhogs and The Trees. Along similar lines are fellow UK band Hidden Masters, who I've been obsessed with the past couple weeks but I didn't nominate them because they're not as heavy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFXkVvvZtI&feature=youtu.be

please do not embed. Use the shortened urls please

I'm going to try to finish my ballot today...
BTW people who have yet to vote, don't sleep on Space Witch they're awesome:

http://spacewitch.bandcamp.com/album/the-alchemy-paradox-ep-2013

One of my xmas presents. Such a good album.

http://i.imgur.com/kx8w4db.jpg

Sorry, at first I embedded because I didn't realize there was supposed to be a separate thread for that. But now with so few days left until the end, and the relative inactivity of this thread, it didn't seem to matter anymore.

well just under 72 hours left to vote and we only have 19 album ballots and 12 tracks ballots so please vote and tell your friends to vote and lurkers remember you can vote. If you dont have an ilxname just put your email in so we can see if youre real.
VOTING ENDS THIS FRIDAY - JANUARY 10th 11.59pm UK time/6.59pm EST

I voted.

me too. (Also corrected bandname Selim Lemouchi & His Enemies: it's Lemouchi instead of Lamouchi)

thanks guys!

VOTING ENDS THIS FRIDAY - JANUARY 10th 11.59pm UK time/6.59pm EST

Huh? On the top of the voting thread it sez:

Voting ends at MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 17th, 2014.

that's for the ILM poll, not the metal poll

Dur.

OK, I think that's a sign that I need to call it a day and head home. Soz. :/

Argus - Beyond The Martyrs
http://cruzdelsurmusic.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-martyrs
http://youtu.be/KJHCwRYBFrY

Hailing from the fertile metallic landscapes of Pennsylvania, Argus is releasing their third and best album on the Italian metal label that was founded in 2003, and was once the home of Slough Feg and other like minded bands. Unlike Argus’ first two consistently strong albums, doom is less of a factor on Beyond The Martyrs, emphasizing their twin guitar interplay, and mixing in the epic with the darkness. The band were named from a vision Eric Johnson had of Argus Panoptes, the mythological primordial giant with a hundred eyes. Several bands have taken up that name, but this is the one most worthy of it.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61721-S6OZL.jpg

reason why the Cosmic Dead isn't in the nom list?

forgetfulness. Drugs if you cared you could have nominated it ya know.

God placement is so hard, I'm really struggling on my ballot.

OK I finally got my ballots in! a full 50 for the albums and a top 10 for tracks! weeeee!

I am voting but all this does is make me feel bad for all the albums I didn't hear this year.

or on the bright side all the albums you can still check out!

I assume just put it in order from top to bottom then?

Well, that's how I did it.

You did it right (except I'm surprised Attila was your #1)

I was worried our longtime lurker voter Cronos Smith was not going to vote this year but I was pleasantly surprised to see he has overnight.

I am a bit nervous... With the low turnout my lame-ass will have more of an impact.

we should get to thirty ballots. but if any votes have the possibility to change things then that is a good incentive to vote!

Remember everyone you can vote in the tracks poll too!
Check out Spotify Tracks playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/5h0uxOzYvaafpBbe6Sve2J

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

Here is my appeal:

People, if you don't vote, my lame ass who has to buy everything (and doesn't have a lot of money to do that either) will have a much larger impact on the results, possibly tarnishing this fine website forever.

Please consider the children.

Thank you.

Bölzer In Solitude 2013

A vote for Deafheaven is a vote for hipster pseuds!!

haha
http://www.ronanlyons.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/helen-lovejoy.jpg

Seandalai is helping us out here but he also helps run
ILM 2013 | End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll | VOTING THREAD (Voting closes MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 17th, 2014)

so please remember to vote there too. He is always saying he would love more metal voters (im sure johnny fever and j0rdan s would too)

reason why the Cosmic Dead isn't in the nom list?

― reductio balls absurdum (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, January 8, 2014 4:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

forgetfulness. Drugs if you cared you could have nominated it ya know.

― Viceroy, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 6:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...

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

(though to be fair, I def could've noticed its absence before now so)

too much drugs

I realize jmm's earlier comment may have been in jest, but I'm so tired of seeing "Deafheaven" and "hipster" in the same sentence. I'm an old-school metal head who's been listening to heavy music for 25 years (nothing hipster about me) -- and I LOVE Deafheaven. Is it just because the singer's handsome? Is it because they seem to have a sense of humor in their personal lives? Or do folks still perhaps equate popularity with lack of integrity/lack of chops? If you don't like them, whatever, but for God's sake let's all stop with the term "hipster."

Love Bolzer and In Solitude too btw!

I think its the fact they appeared on so many non-metal lists as well as metal lists, aren't on a metal label, dont look like metallers as much as they dont like the music after all theres plenty of music people dont like but never talk about.

You never hear anyone slagging off the death metal band Farting Dudes In Sweatpants and they're really bad.

Yeah don't worry, I was just kidding. I'd never use that term seriously.

Updated the metal poll tracks nominations playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/5h0uxOzYvaafpBbe6Sve2J

you have 25 hours left to vote in metal albums and/or tracks poll!

ah shite, got into the Yellow Eyes late and did not nominate :(

Yeah, the Yellow Eyes is great. Borderline hipster? ;-)

Detov I

Not heard of the yellow eyes

anyway only 23 hours and 18 mins left to vote!

xp

ah yes they are a Brooklyn band huh; well I do have Deafheaven on both ballots so...

i dont see your ballot unless you used a different name to anonanon

I think we have 36 ballots now and a few people who have promised to get them dony by tomorrow so we should reach 40, which is still down on last year but quite a relief after only having 12 2 days ago.

I do wonder if perhaps next year a metal poll should start by december and rundown last week before xmas. Less chance of poll fatigue maybe?

yeah, they're not in yet but on the way

ahh, ok! I like to check these things. I still feel guilty about a missing billy dods ballot years ago!

ok, voted!

I really think it was the tracks thing, and the google password thing to see the spread sheet that threw people off.. And I guess there were some that didn't want to do both (tracks and albums) and for a time there were no option to do only one.. Just an observation, I could be wrong

we got more votes after the brief time it required both in the ballot than before hahaha .
Nobody else has mentioned google password plus that was irrelevant as the noms are at the top of this thread.

Probably the fact most people were not back to work this week was why it was slow and plus clearly a lot of ilxors have quit over the years too.

Next year either the voting date gets pushed back a week to give 2 weeks of voting (not possible if big ilm poll keeps the same dates) while everyones at work or we start voting early in december and rollout the results the mon-fri before xmas hols.

voted!

what does the big poll have to do with the metal poll? I'm curious?

Nothing other than we should take that shit over with metal!

or we start voting early in december and rollout the results the mon-fri before xmas hols.

Hails! Voted!

thanks!

voted.

voted.

Voted! (albums, at least)

thanks guys!

Think we might reach last years total so thank you everybody its much appreciated!

We might clear 50? Awesome!

Voted

I think that above vote may have taken us to 50, yeah

voted http://www.varunaholzapfel.de/wbblite/images/smilies/headbang.gif

that would mean nearly 40 votes in 3/4 days which is quite remarkable. Thanks ilm!

I told you, dude – people are lazy and wait until the last minute. It's human nature.

usually i start album countdown as soon as i get the results after (vote) closing time. But with this year us trying a tracks poll I dunno whether to do that first or just start albums tonight and start tracks on monday when everyones back to work (it wont be a particularly long rollout.

Also I was going to do it on just the one results thread but seanwayne thinks it would be better on its own thread.

Another thought was leave tracks poll to the last few days of albums rollout and count it down simultaneously with the albums.

so anyone got any thoughts on it?

j3ff might be right. Maybe polls should just have one week of voting in future. People could cram listening in during extended nominations instead.

I guess it depends on how many tracks ballots come in and how long that rollout would be, but it seems like a minor feature of the metal poll and could probably kick off the thread that would house both polls' results.

It may be tomorrow before I can get you the results btw.

oh and there will be no 150 200 300 etc albums rollout

xp

ahh ok seandalai np!

i think tracks rollout would be around the top 25 mark

I might start with the tracks rollout as jf suggests then whenever i get the results.
Just hope noone minds the tracks results being done over the weekend but if noone objects I will do it.

thinking about doing this thing. no one nommed wrekmeister harmonies, what's up with that?

go for it. And thanks for the shorter total rollout of tracks.

do it!

tracks poll was always just a wee bit of fun. Hoped that it might attract non-partisans who might be more willing to check out standout tracks, that might then lead to albums being checked out.

Hopefully those who will follow tracks poll will be able to real time comments on the songs and will then hang around for albums.

plus I love it when in previous polls emil.y and others live-blogged thoughts on songs they didnt know.

Plus it can prove to doubters than metal has songs that do stand out. (also got no idea what the top 25 will be like.)

last 3 hours to vote..

just voted in the albums poll

Still trying to listen through the tracks spotify playlist. I may have to give up and just submit an albums-only ballot, though I have discovered lots of cool stuff on the playlist (Oranssi Pazuzu and Stara Rzeka come to mind).

2 HOURS LEFT TO VOTE

it is done

haha i forgot there is 2 nick b's. one has voted for years in metal poll but we used to only take email addys not ilx names. So seandalai its 2 different people not a revote.

i think both nicks need to fight it out on dragons holding swords or something.

i am not very metal, i will be the one riding into battle on a duck

http://i.imgur.com/0lKrtzz.jpg

important question, can somebody help?

what is my ILE username? is it "Beatrix Kiddo" or "Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings)"?

preparing to submit my ballot, don't wanna mess this up

Beatrix Kiddo

but it hardly matters as its just so we know a real person is voting ie no socks or lady gaga fanclub

its not just the NSA who knows who you are!

Anyway late voters can make a huge difference not only voting albums into the countdown, or into the top 10 or changing the order of the top 20buy ALSO decide #1. One year j3ffs last min vote changed the top 3.

so with ONE HOUR LEFT TO GO PLEASE VOTE

After asking some friends/ilx lurkers to vote and all of you regular ilxors joining in I think we have 55 album voters. But time for more!
Not had a ballot from doran/phil or chuck yet!

or jjjusten or m@tt

Considering this:

i apologize in advance for not voting in this but no lie, i have not listened to a single new album this year

― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, January 6, 2014 10:25 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wouldn't expect a ballot from him.

AG is nothing if not an optimist.

Hey, he got us to surpass the # of voters from last year!

Old management > New Management

Voting is closed, thanks for voting.

hurrah!

and thanks to seandalai for making this all possible! (and fnb for helping me)

and I'm going to post a few tracks results in a min or two..

~~~ 2014 ILM METAL POLL TRACKS & ALBUMS COUNTDOWN! ~~~ (Tracks top 30 first then Albums)