~~~ ILM METAL POLL 2014 - ALBUMS - VOTING & CAMPAIGN THREAD~~~ (VOTING ENDS FRIDAY December 12th 11.59pm UK time/6.59pm EST) ALL ILXORS inc LURKERS WELCOME

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Maximum of up to 50 album votes.

Please vote by filling in the Voting form copying your selections directly from the nominations spreadsheet.

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

List of nominations

For those who wish to read the nominations instead of opening up a form just to see what is nominated/cant open documents at work/on tablet or phone here they are but please always check the spreadsheet before voting incase anything is added or edited. Use this as a guide only.

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11 Paranoias - Stealing Fire From Heaven
A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A Name
Abazagorath - The Satanic Verses
Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer
Abysmal Dawn - Obsolescence
Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius
Accept - Blind Rage
Acheron - Kult Des Hasses
Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell - Check 'Em Before You Wreck 'Em
Aenaon - Extance
AEvangelist - Writhes in the Murk
Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere
Al-Namrood - Heen Yadhar Al Ghasq
Albion - Campanula
Alcest - Shelter
Aldious - Dazed and Delight
Aleph Null - Nocturnal
Alraune - the Process of Self-Immolation
Alunah - Awakening The Forest
Amaranthe - Massive Addictive
Ambergris - Ambergris
Amberian Dawn - Magic Forest
Amulet - The First
Anaal Nakhrath - Desideratum
Anatomy of Habit - Ciphers + Axioms
Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion
Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds
Apostulum - Winds Of Disillusion
Aramaic - The Fallen
Aras - Pest
Arcana Coelestia - Nomas
Archspire - The Lucid Collective
Argentinum Astrum - Malleus Maleficarum
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
As Light Dies - The Love Album I
Ascending Dawn - Coalesce
At The Gates - At War With Reality
Atlas Moth - The Old Believer
Atriarch - An Unending Pathway
Aureole - Alunar
Auroch - Taman Shud
Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL
Baptists - Bloodmines
Barghest - The Virtuous Purge
Baring Teeth - Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins
Basarabian Hills - Groping In A Misty Spread
Bastard Feast - Osculum Infame
Bastard Sapling - Instinct Is Survival
Behemoth - The Satanist
Behemoth - Xiądz EP
Below - Across The Dark River
Belphegor - Conjuring The Dead
Benighted - Carnivore Sublime
Bergrizen - Scherbengericht
Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
Big Red Panda - Big Red Panda
Black Bombaim - Far Out
Black Crown Initiate - The Wreckage of Stars
Black Monolith - Passenger
Black Moth - Condemned to Hope
Black Trip - Goin' Under
Black Veil Brides – Black Veil Brides
Blaspherian - Upon the Throne... of Eternal Blasphemous Death
Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes
Blood Of Kingu - Dark Star On The Right
Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral
Bludded Head - Reign in Bludd
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Body Count - Manslaughter
Bölzer - Soma
Bong - Stoner Rock
Bongripper - Miserable
Boris - Noise
Botanist - Vi: Flora
Brimstone Coven - Brimstone Coven
Brownout - Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath
Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
Cardinals Folly - Our Cult Continues!
Castle - Under Siege
Cauldron Black Ram - Stalagmire
Cavalera Conspiracy - Pandemonium
Cemetery Lust - Orgies Of Abomination
Children of Technology - Future Decay
Code Orange - I Am King
Coffin Dust - This Cemetery, My Kingdom
Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII
Cold World - How The Gods Chill
Colour Haze - To The Highest Gods We Knew
Columns - Please Explode
Comet Control - s/t
Conan - Blood Eagle
Convent Guilt - Guns For Hire
Cormorant - Earth Diver
Couch Slut - My Life as a Woman
Countess - Ancient Lies And Battlecries
Cretin - Stranger
Crown the Empire - The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways
Crucifyre - Black Magic Fire
Cuscuta - The Wildness Within
Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us
Cyntia - Limit Break
Dark Fortress - Venereal Dawn
Darkest Era - Severance
Darkspace - Dark Space III I
Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer
Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
Dead in the Manger - Transience
Death Penalty - Death Penalty
Deathcult - Pleading for Death... Choking on Life
Decapitated - Blood Mantra
Decaying Purity - Malignant Resurrection of the Fallen Souls
Decembre Noir - A Discouraged Believer
Deep Mountains - Lake Of Solace
Deep Space Destructors - III
Delain - The Human Contradiction
Demon Eye - Leave The Light
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid: Dark Matters
Devin Townsend Project - Sky Blue
Diocletian - Gesundrian
Dir en Grey - Arche
Disentomb - Misery
Distorted Harmony - Chain Reaction
Domains - Sinister Ceremonies
Doom:VS - Earthless
Dopelord - Black Arts, Riff Worship & Weed Cult
Downfall of Gaia - Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
Dragonforce - Maximum Overload
Dread Sovereign - All Hell's Martyrs
Drudkh / Winterfylleth - Thousands Of Moons Ago / The Gates (split)
Drunk Dad - Ripper Killer
Dub Buk - Цвях
Dust Sculptures - Far Above the Pines
Dwellers - Pagan Fruit
Ea - A etilla
Earth - Primitive and Deadly
Electric Citizen - Sateen
Electric Funeral - Total Funeral
Electric Wizard - Time to Die
Eluveitie - Origins
Elvenking - The Pagan Manifesto
Emmure - Eternal Enemies
Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
Entombed A.D. - Back to the Front
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Epistasis - Light Through Dead Glass (EP)
Epitimia - (Un)reality
Equilibrium - Erdentempel
Ethereal Riffian - Aeonian
Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown
Execration - Morbid Dimensions
Exmortus - Slave to the Sword
Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out
Exordium Mors - The Apotheosis of Death
Eyehategod - Eyehategod
Falls of Rauros - Believe In No Coming Shore
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
Fellwoods - Gyromancer EP
Fen - Carrion Skies
Ferium - Reflections
Flaming Tusk - Inquisitor
Floor - Oblation
Fluisteraars - Dromers
Foreseen HKI - Helsinki Savagery
Forteresse/Chasse-Galerie/Monarque/Csejthe - Legendes (split)
Foscor - Those Horrors Wither
Freedom Call - Beyond
Frozen Dawn - Those of the Cursed Light
Fu Manchu - Gigantoid
Full of Hell - Full of Hell & Merzbow
Funeral Sutra - meditations
Furia - Nocel
Generation of Vipers - Coffin Wisdom
Ghast - Dread Doom Ruin
Ghost Bath - Funeral
Ghost Brigade - IV – One With the Storm
Giant Squid - Minoans
Gluttony - Beyond The Veil Of Flesh
Goat - Commune
Goatech - Exquisiteness
Goatpenis - Flesh Consumed In The Battlefield
Goatwhore - Constricting Rage of the Merciless
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
Grand Magus - Triumph and Power
Graveland - Ogień Przebudzenia
Greenleaf - Trails & Passes
Gridlink - Longhena
Gust - s/t
H.E.A.T - Tearing Down The Walls
Haikai No Ku - Ultra High Dimensionality
Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
Hands Of Orlac - Figli Del Crepuscolo
Harakiri For The Sky - Aokigahara
Hark - Crystalline
Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World
Heat - Labyrinth
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Enfant Terrible
Helevorn - Compassion Forlorn
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors
Henry Blacker - Hungry Dogs Will Eat Dirty Puddings
Hessian - Bachelor Of Black Arts
Hierophant - Peste
High Spirits - You Are Here
Holy Mountain - Ancient Astronauts
Hornss - No Blood, No Sympathy
Horrendous - Ecdysis
Horrified - Descent Into Putridity
Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha
House Of Lightning - Lightworker
Hypnos - Hypnos
Ice Dragon - Seeds From A Dying Garden
Idylls - Prayer for Terrene
Ifing - Against This Waeld
Illdisposed - With The Lost Souls On Our Side
Impetuous Ritual -Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence
Inanimate Existence - A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement
Incantation - Dirges of Elysium
Inconcessus Lux Lucis - Crux Lupus Corona EP
Inconcessus Lux Lucis - Disintegration: Psalms of Veneration for the Nefarious Elite
Indian - From All Purity
Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis
Infestus - The Reflecting Void
Innsmouth - Consumed by Elder Sign
Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying Sun
Inter Arma - The Cavern
Issues - Issues
Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus - Spirit Knife
Jess & The Ancient Ones - Castaneda EP
Job for a Cowboy - Sun Eater
John Gallow - Violet Dreams
John Garcia - John Garcia
Jucifer - District of Dystopia
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
Just Before Dawn - The Aftermath
Jute Gyte - Ressentiment
Jute Gyte - Vast Chains
Kampfar - Djevelmakt
Kanashimi/Happy Days - The Great Depression II (split)
Karma To Burn – Arch Stanton
Kauan - Muistumia
Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io
Khuda - Molasses Constricts the Clinostat
Krieg - Transient
Kriegsmaschine - Enemy Of Man
Krokofant - Krokofant
Kröwnn – Magnafröst
Lantlos - Melting Sun
Lé Betre - Melas
Lecherous Gaze - Zeta Reticuli Blues
Lethian Dreams - Red Silence Lodge
Lo-Pan - Colossus
Lord Mantis - Death Mask
Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron - Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery
Lotus Thief - Rervm
Loudblast - Burial Ground
Lvcifyre - Sun Eater
Lyriel - Skin and Bones
Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
Mansion - Uncreation
Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith
Mars Red Sky - Stranded In Arcadia
Martyrdöd - Elddop
Mary's Blood - Countdown to Evolution
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Mausoleum Gate - Mausoleum Gate
Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
Menace Ruine - Venus Armata
Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem
Moab - Billow
Moanaa - Descent
Monarch - Sabbracadaver
Mongol - Chosen by Tengri
Monolord - Empress Rising
Monster Magnet - Milking the Stars
Morbus Chron - Sweven
Morowe - S
Mors Principium Est - Dawn of the 5th Era
Mortalicum - Tears From The Grave
Mortuary Drape – Spiritual Independence
Motionless In White – Reincarnate
Mount Salem - Endless
Mournful Congregation - Concrescence Of The Sophia
Mourning Dawn - Les Sacrifiés
Murmur - S/T
My Useless Life - Negative Memories
Myrkur - Myrkur
Mysticum - Planet Satan
Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind
Nadja - Queller
Nasheim - Solens Vemod
Nausea - Condemned to the System
Nazaronai - the most painful time happens only once has it arrived already..?
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
Neoheresy - Noc Która Dniem Się Stała
Nero di Marte - Derivae
Nervosa - Victim Of Yourself
Neurotech - Infra Versus Ultra
Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
Nightfell – The Living Ever Mourn
Nocturnal Depression/Myrd/Vspolokh - Longing For Death (split)
Novembers Doom - Bled White
Nuclear Hammer - Serpentine Hermetic Lucifer
Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica
Obituary - Inked in Blood
Obliterations - Poison Everything
Occultation - Silence in the Ancestral House
Ogre - The Last Neanderthal
Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God I
Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God II
Old Soul / ██████ - Split
Old Wainds - Nordraum
Oozing Wound - Earth Suck
Opeth - Pale Communion
Opium Warlords - Taste My Sword Of Understanding
Opus of a Machine - Simulacra
Orange Goblin - Back from the Abyss
Order of Isaz - Seven Years of Famine
Origin - Omnipresent
Overkill - White Devil Armory
Ovvl - Screech
P.L.F. - Ultimate Whirlwind of Incineration
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Panopticon - Roads to the North
Peste Noire / Diapsiquir - Rats Des Villes vs Rats Des Champs (split)
Pestilential Shadows - Ephemeral
Petrychor - Makrokosmos
Pharmakon - Bestial Burden
Phobocosm - Deprived
Pig Heart Transplant - For Mass Consumption
Pilgrim - II: Void Worship
Planning for Burial - Desideratum
PoiL - Brossaklitt
Portrait - Crossroads
Prey for Nothing - The Reasoning
Primitive Man/Fister - Split 12"
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Purple Hill Witch - Purple Hill Witch
Purson - In The Meantime EP
Pyrrhon - The Mother of Virtues
Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy
Revocation - Deathless
Rigor Mortis - Slaves To The Grave
Ringworm - Hammer of the Witch
Rippikoulu - Ulvaja
Rude - Soul Recall
Sabaton - Heroes
Saille - Eldritch
Salem's Pot - Lurar ut dig på prárien
Saor - Aura
Satan's Satyrs - Die Screaming
Saturn - Ascending: Live In Space
Satyress - Dark Fortunes
Schammasch - Contradiction
Scientist - Scientist
Scott Walker & SunnO)))
Seal of Solomon - I the King
Season Of Arrows - Season Of Arrows
Season of Ghosts - The Human Paradox
Secret Cutter - "Self Titled"
Septicflesh - Titan
Serpent Venom - Of Things Seen And Unseen
Seven that Spells - The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: IO
Shadow Sun - Грім в ковальні Бога (Thunder In God’s Forge)
Shihad - FVEY
Shooting Guns - Street Rock
Shroud of The Heretic - Revelations In Alchemy
Sick/Tired - Dissolution
Sigiriya - Darkness Died Today
Singularity - Singularity
Sinmara – Aphotic Womb
Sister Sin - Black Lotus
Sivyj Yar - From the Dead Villages' Darkness
Skelethal - Deathmanicvs Revelation
Skelethal - Interstellar Knowledge of the Purple Entity
Skull Fist - Chasing the Dream
Skyharbor - Guiding Lights
Slomatics - Estron
Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
Solstafir - Otta
Spectral Lore - III
Spiders - Shake Electric
Spiral Shades - Hypnosis Sessions
Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless
Stryvigor - Forgotten By Ages
Subway to Sally - Mitgift
Suicide Silence – You Can’t Stop Me
Sungod - s/t
Sungod - Vision Space
Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials
Swans - To Be Kind
Taiga - Ashen Light
Taurus - No/Thing
Teitanblood - Death
Tengger Cavalry - Ancient Call
Teramaze - Esoteric Symbolism
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
The Austerity Program - Beyond Calculation
The Body - I Shall Die Here
The Budos Band - Burnt Offering
The Contortionist - Language
The Cosmic Dead - Easterfaust
The Deathtrip - Deep Drone Master
The Flight of Sleipnir - V.
The Grand Astoria - La Belle Epoque
The Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LI
The Haunted - Exit Wounds
The Mansion Congregation - Mansion Congregation Hymns Vol. 1
The Oath - The Oath
The Order Of Israfel - Wisdom
The Room Colored Charlatan - Primitives
The Shrine - Bless Off
The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep
The Socks - The Socks
The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage?
The Well - Samsara
The Wounded Kings - Consolamentum
Thou - Heathen
Threshold - For the Journey
Thy Darkened Shade - Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet
Today is the Day - Animal Mother
Torch Runner - Endless Nothing
Tortorum - Katabasis
Towers - II
Trap Them - Blissfucker
Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Truckfighters - Universe
Tweak Bird - Any Ol' Way
Ulaan Markhor - Spiral Horns, Black Onions, et al
Unconscious Collective - Pleistocene Moon
Vader - Tibi Et Igni
Vainaja - Kadotetut
Vallenfyre - Splinters
Valley Of The Sun - Electric Talons Of The Thunderhawk
Vampire - Vampire
Vanhelga - Längtan
Varathron – The Untrodden Corridors of Hades
Vardan - Enjoy Of Deep Sadness
various artists - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles
Verlies - Le Domaine Des Hommes
Vermin Womb - Permanence
Vestal Claret - The Cult Of Vestal Claret
Vintersorg - Naturbål
Voices - London
Vorde - Vorde
Voyager - V
Vulgar Trade - Gross Century
Vuyvr - Incinerated Gods
Wælwulf - Heresiarch
Waldgeflüster - Meine Fesseln
Whispered - Shogunate Macabre
Winterfylleth - The Divination of Antiquity
Witch Charmer - The Great Depression
Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
Wizard Rifle - Here In The Deadlights
Wo Fat - The Conjuring
Woccon - Solace in Decay
Wold - Postsocial
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestite
Wolvhammer - Clawing into Black Sun
Woman Is The Earth - Depths
Woods of Desolation - As the Stars
Words of Farewell - The Black Wild Yonder
Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate
Xothist - Simulacrum
Yautja - Songs of Descent
Yellow Eyes - The Desert Mourns
Yith - Yith
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Zgard - Contemplation

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.
cheers as always to seandalai for doing the important stuff!

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

There is a Spotify playlist for you all to subscribe to which needs someone to look after it so please could you all add anything that is missing.

There will not be any blurbs this year unless someone volunteers to write them. It's time consuming as it is for me so please volunteer to help if you can.

As always please campaign on this thread. Albums that are campaigned for always do better than ones that dont. So please posts your thoughts or any good reviews you know of. The best things about these polls is the discussion.

Also do not post embedded youtube links. Please start a thread for that.

Remember VOTING ENDS FRIDAY December 12th 11.59pm UK time/6.59pm EST The rollout will probably start soon after as usual and will finish by the following thursday or friday.
I think it's a better time of year for voting as last year a lot said they were too burnt out on polls to vote so hopefully more will be inclined to take part. Also there will be time for everyone to listen to and digest the results before the general ILM poll in January.
Thanks to everyone for nominating.

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

Lets see who can be firsties

Three ballots so far, there are six albums that appear on all of them.

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.

At the moment it's 50 points for #1, 49 points for #2, 48 points for #3 and so on down to 3 points for #48, 2 points for #49, 1 point for #50. I can add a 10-point bonus for first-place votes if people think that would be more fun.

three? awesome. Im off to bed but will start on mine tomorrow.
I think a 10 point bonus for 1st place would be good. makes the #1 really count

voted.

I knew you would be first as always! thanks!

I already had a top 40. Easy to plug in another 10.

Also, check out Comet Control. Gorgeous heavy psych:

https://cometcontrol.bandcamp.com/track/blast-magic

I voted. I didn't rank them, though, they're just in the same order from the nomination spreadsheet. In previous years we've had a ranked/unranked option...

glenn, I just added an unweighted option especially for you :)

People who have already voted don't need to go back - I've assumed that everyone except glenn submitted a ranked ballot.

Nice, thanks!

I got a list in, but I really felt like I didnt get to digging too deep like I had in previous years.. Like I didnt feel like I had a shit ton to pull from.. I've had other things going on I guess.

cheers guys. I need to work on mine. Dunno how some of you get them in so quick but much appreciated!

Man, I am loving the Comet Control.

I just voted

I've not heard the Old Man Gloom albums yet as i am getting them for xmas. How are they? I did hear the hoax leak. Apparently the 2nd one is a bit more experimental than the crushing first?

13 ballots so far- thanks!

now that dead congregation is sinking in, i'm wondering if i have enough time to really dig into the auroch album. funny that they were both released by profound lore. not sure the product line is fully differentiated!

turns out the cyntia album is really awesome. RIYL shredding, big choruses, virtua tennis ost (sega dreamcast ver.)

I usually wait until closer to the end in case someone campaigns for an album I may have overlooked. Plus I still gotta lay my hands on the Colour Haze! Comet Control grabbed me earlier in the year, but I need to give it a fresh listen

Nobody seems to want to campaign for anything just yet but they should because it does work. It influences some voters when they make their list.
I expect sund4r to campaign for some albums

Well, I'm way-way-waaay out of the loop, so no votes, I'm afraid. My most played records metal records from this year I think are Triptykon + Coffinworm + Dead Congregation. Co-worker's been repping hard for Decapitated, so I guess I should give it a try. Don't think I've heard them since _Nihility_ came out 12 years ago, but I never cared about those first two records.

No idea wtf you guys see in Comet Control, but I don't really like singy hard rock, and my aural cosmic being travels with Gong, not Hawkwind.

And I like singing and Hawkwind, so...

And Gong suck so fucking bad.

~~~follow yr bliss~~~

youre not voting but you named albums you liked? just vote for those!

wishing id bought the blut aus nord album earlier rather than 2 days ago, loving it so far. A strong year for USBM - i think the botanist and panopticon albums really stand out, for me 2 artists who have found a really personal twist on BM.

Are write-in votes acceptable? I just realized that I forgot to nominate

Alaskan - Despair, Erosion, Loss

I'll add it to spreadsheet but beware that people have voted and therefore it might not place high

in return you can tell us why you like Jute Gyte! ;)

yea the blut aus nord is great. prefer the production on MV II and prob the songs in general... but this one isn't too far off either.

How do you guys rate 2014 for metal?

I couldn't have done without it. It was at least half of what I listened to this year. 2013 probably had slightly better highlights - the Carcass and In Solitude records.

Oh man I just realized no one nominated the new Obake!

I feel much better about this now that I know its only okay

Wow this Botanist album is dope!

all the botanist stuff is worth checking out - there's a real progression across his stuff from I to VI, and the hammered dulcimer sounds so mighty. He brings such a fresh vision to what BM can do. I think it's been a really strong year for metal - some really big albums, like YOB, Pallbearer, Agalloch, and some excellent stuff on smaller labels - Botanist, anything on Fallen Empire (especially Alunar by Aureole), Naturmacht, a whole heap of interesting doom and black metal.

particularly campaigning for this great, fun old school dm record i heard through a blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzHJH_LPGZ0

Listening to it now (it's on Spotify) yeah, this works! Who needs originality when you can sound like this.
Drummer from Afflicted!

FIYAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR

: )

i am campaigning for coffin dust, here performing their catchy little number PIG ROAST

http://coffindust.bandcamp.com/track/pig-roast

which i think is about a pig roast

Ancient Rites of Getting Conjured - very good title.

think we have 19 ballots in. A lot more than we did after a week of voting last year and all the ballots came in on the last 4 days.

How is the new scheduling for you guys?

As I said earlier people said they didn't take part last year due to poll burnout in january. Do you think this schedule is better?

I think a week for voting is fine because everyone just left it to the last week anyway mostly.

http://seventhatspells.bandcamp.com/album/the-death-and-resurrection-of-krautrock-io

This is probably the album for which I most want to campaign. More heavy rock than metal, which is where my taste lies tbh, and more Viking-corny than I usually go for, but the immense power is difficult to deny. I hear some Amon Duul II in places (tho it never achieves their swirling chaos) but as a whole this album seems more in the spirit of Zeppelin than anything German

I want to go on the record as not liking the week for voting, but I understand how impossible it is to please everyone, so I don't want to make an issue of it. Mostly my fault for let new music slip off my radar almost totally this year...

*letting

Never been sure about the whole need to hear new albums to vote in an EOY poll when there's a whole year for it. Yeah you might miss out on a few but not loads.

A few weeks isnt enough time to know if an album is good enough to be in your albums of year lists is it?

I'm still trying to root out a few more things that I might find interesting. I'll try not to leave voting to the last minute, but I probably will out of sheer absent-mindedness.

Listened to the Morbus Chron and Stargazer albums for the first time this afternoon, and they're not a million miles away from each other musically. Morbus Chron is fucking fantastic. Great dynamics and atmosphere.

Stargazer though should be right up my street, but I find them kind of dry and flavourless. Technically good but I don't get anything out of them.

Not heard the Stargazer. Dunno if it would be my thing?

Worth a check, I think. I like but don't love Stargazer.

Also, Generation of Vipers is so damn good. Sludge with rhythm.

cheers
11 hours left to vote

we're over the 50 ballot mark. 51 now. We got 53 last year so lets beat that.

Anyone still planning to vote? Still on the 51 mark. Had hoped to reach 60 but will settle for beating last years 53.

Thanks to all who have voted so far.

ps there's 7 hours 17 mins left to vote

only got 2 albums on this list, so can't vote.

that said, it's 2 more albums than i have got on any of the EOY lists ..

(and i would love to have a lot more from this list if i knew more re the bands ! but this is a whole new groove for me, so still learning the ropes )

you can always follow the results and the playlist

i am genuinely looking forward to it ..

Oh, I see that Zvi - Zvi, which I had nominated, does not appear on the spreadsheet. I am writing it in.

Just voted (for 14 albums, I think). I didn't vote for the Kayo Dot, even though I liked it, because I couldn't see a way in which it could be seen as metal.

its almost that time of year when lj pops in saying he forgot to vote

I left off Kayo Dot, too. Great record, but way too far off the reservation even for non-metal me.

I voted for it because I'm a fanboy but I don't think it was placed very highly. tbh I feel Alcest's newest and Have a Nice Life are about as 'metal', that is to say not at all.

I don't consider the Alcest metal at all, either. (I don't care for the album in that case.)

polls never been about purity. Its about albums we liked

Yeah, there were albums on there that I liked but I didn't feel fit the criteria. (That said, my top choice isn't exactly metal, either)

there's a few people who normally vote but havent but i dont really want to ask them on fb incase it looks like im bugging them , they havent posted on this thread but i assume theyre just busy. maybe they will vote.

yeah, really busy but will vote

also just realized I forgot to nominate mournful congregation. ah well.

OK we just got an unexpected but very welcome vote! ps yer best pal hasnt voted yet give him a nudge

mournful congregation is there alan

ah, so it is! skimmed past it by mistake. neato.

polls never been about purity. Its about albums we liked

There's nothing pure about my list (and the Sunn O)))/Ulver album I voted for probably isn't metal either). I just couldn't see any metal elements in the Kayo Dot album, in order to be able to vote for it in a poll of metal albums.

I see it as a poll of metal culture, not just stuff that's formally metal, which means Alcest makes sense for inclusion. I'm not familiar enough with Kayo Dot to know whether they might qualify too.

just voted

voted

good attitude jmm

cheers guys!

we will have over last years total of 53 now

Can this be added to the bottom of my ballot?:

Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden

Origin probably deserved a vote but I just didn't get the time to listen to it more than once.

Done.

when is the roll-out gonna start?

prob will do 1 or 2 once seandalai gives me the results then continue tomorrow lunchtime.
we usually post results sat and sunday. maybe finish thursday

If something I voted for is #100 I am gonna be pretty upset!

What's the number of albums in the countdown this year? I need to know when to check back in.

I am totally voting for Kayo Dot! You guys all suck!

send and resent mine a few minutes later and marked it as such, seandalai

got it

Kayo Dot is great! When I saw them live they had violinist AND a fire breather.

Awesome! The album is just strange and retro for me to call it psych which will likely account for 90% of my ballot

voted

nominated Serpentine Path - Emanations but it seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle. bummer.

still voted for it, that's a good one.

1 hour to go

anyone planning still to vote?

Alright Ive voted

i think we reached the 60 mark

30 mins left to vote

dont let george decide who wins get your votes in!

there will be no blurbs as nobody volunteered to help this year

better not let me do the blurbs.

closed

Will start runout tonight once seandalai gives me the results

within an hour i think

Results are in. Just going to check them now then I'll start posting

ok wow. this has never happened before. something with 3 #1 votes missed out on the top 100

BOOOOO! No cred., etc. etc.

2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year