ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll 2017: NOMINATIONS thread - open till Dec. 19th!

Yes, it's that time again. Nominate all you like. The spreadsheet will be updated regularly until December 19th after which point nominations will be closed.

Please nominate below in the usual format: Artist - Album. Please ctrl-f the thread to avoid listing duplicates!

The spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eK8B8ThEATrD09Nz16tWobqBvYrfKNaH5lHdYlrABKk/edit?usp=sharing

We also have an open Spotify playlist which anyone is free to populate:

https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/74IL7uL4YEy2tTiBYtRJ4G

The plan this time around is to leave the voting/campaigning period open till end of January, after the main trax/album polls close. This should give everyone plenty of time to campaign, bitch, pick up new faves, and VOTE at their own pace.

Aluk Todolo - Archives Vol​.​1
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Avatarium - Hurricanes And Halos
Boris - Dear
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun ( Sargent House) 2017
Circle - Terminal
Converge - The DuskIn Us
Ecstatic Vision - Raw Rock Fury
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
Fen - Winter
Godflesh - Post Self
Jute Gyte - Oviri
Les Discrets - Predateurs
Loss - Horizonless
Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand
Myrkur - Mareridt
Pallbearer - Heartless
Pillorian - Obsidian
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Sannhet - So Numb (Profound Lore)
Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants : Hermaphrodite
Solstafir - Berdreyminn
Unsane - Sterilize
White Ward - Futility Report
Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
Wreche - Wreche

Bradley Walsh - When You're Smiling

Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia

Anathema - The Optimist
Aosoth - The Inside Scriptures
Argus - From Fields of Fire
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
Black Sites - Monochrome
Caligula's Horse - In Contact
Code Orange - Forever
Couch Slut - Contempt
Disperse - Foreword
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
Galneryus - Ultimate Sacrifice
Leprous - Malina
Lich King - The Omniclasm
Lor - In Forgotten Sleep
Ne Obliviscaris - Urn
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
Paradise Lost - Medusa
Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Propagandhi - Victory Lap
Pyrrhon - What Passes For Survival
Soen - Lykaia
Uniform - Wake in Fright
Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie

The Obsessed - Sacred

Anomalie - Visions
Celeste - Infidèle(s)
Contrarian - To Perceive Is To Suffer
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
Draugsòl - Volaða Land
Immmolation - Atonement
Krallice - Loüm
Krallice - To Be Forgotten
Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum
Lorn - Arrayed Claws
Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II
Woe - Hope Attrition

Akatharta - Spiritus Immundus
ALTARAGE – Endinghent
Ascended Dead - Abhorrent Manifestation
Atriarch - Dead as Truth
Azarath - In Extremis
Bathsheba - Servus
Bonehunter - Sexual Panic Human Machine
Celestial Bodies - Spit Forth From Chaos
Cemetery Urn - Cemetery Urn
Chepang - Dadhelo
Coma Cluster Void - Thoughts From a Stone
Contaminated - Final Man
Contrarian - To Perceive Is to Suffer
Craven Idol - The Shackles of Mammon
Cryptic Fog - Staring Through the Veil
Crystal Fairy - Crystal Fairy
Demon Head - Thunder on the Fields
Dødsengel - Interequinox
Dreaming Dead - Funeral Twilight
Emptiness - Not for Music
Ensnared - Dysangelium
Evo - Warfare
Excommunion - Thronosis
Father Befouled - Desolate Gods
Fell Ruin - To the Concrete Drifts
Fleshpress - Hulluuden Muuri
Förgjord - Uhripuu
Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescense
Gorephilia - Severed Monolith
The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
Heresiarch - Death Ordinance
Hetroertzen - Uprising of the Fallen
John Hoyles - Night Flight
Incantation - Profane Nexus
Ingurgitating Oblivion - Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light
Jagged Vision - Death Is This World
Jesters of Destiny - The Sorrows That Refuse to Drown
John Frum - A Stirring in the Noos
Kadavar - Rough Times
Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Lantern – II: Morphosis
Livid - Beneath This Shroud, The Earth Erodes
Lo-Ruhamah - Anointing
Loss - Horizonless
Loviatar - Loviatar
Maim - Ornaments of Severity
Martyrdoom - Grievous Psychosis
Midnight Rider – Manifestation
Mind Mold – Mind Mold
Morast - Ancestral Void
Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained
Mordbrand - Wilt
Necrot - Blood Offerings
Occasvs - Nocturnal Majestic Mysteria
Oculus - The Apostate of Light
The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
Phrenelith - Desolate Endscape
Phylactery - Necromancy Enthroned
Poison Blood - Poison Blood
Rude - Remnants...
Ruin - Drown in Blood
Scourge Lair - Abominable Entities
ShadowThrone - Demiurge of Shadow
Slowly Building Weapons - Sunbirds
Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
Succumb - Succumb
Suffering Hour - In Passing Ascension
Tchornobog - Tchornobog
Tehom - The Merciless Light
Temple of Void - Lords of Death
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
Tome of the Unreplenished – Cosmoprism: The Theurgy
Undergang - Misantropologi
Usnea - Portals Into Futility
Valborg - Endstrand
Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him
Venenum - Trance of Death
Völur - Ancestors
Wildspeaker - Spreading Adder
Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos

Do we do splits?

Howls of Ebb / Khthoniik Cerviiks - With Gangrene Edges / Voiidwarp
Nucleus / Macabra - Fragmented Self

Splits are fine! Though historically they haven't tended to get a whole lot of love (that I can recall)

my ballot will be short this year, but will try to work through some of these.

adding:

Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
Urarv - Aurum
Funeral Chant - Funeral Chant
Impetuous Ritual - Blight Upon Martyred Sentience
Entrench - Through the Walls of Flesh

Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows

Akvan - Forgotten Glory
Enslaved - E
Sufferer - Sufferer
GWAR - The Blood of Gods
Ufomammut - 8
Kreator - Gods of Violence

Azonic - Prospect of the Deep Volume 1
White Suns - Psychic Drift
Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Cone
Forgotten Spell - The Necromancer
Sxuperion - Myriad
Black Cilice - Banished from Time
Grails - Chalice Hymnal

Antiversum - Cosmos Comedenti
Apostate Viaticum - Before the Gates of Gomorrah
Extremity - Extremely Fucking Dead
Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
Tombs - The Grand Annihilation

(Btw, there's a typo in Immmolation in the spreadsheet.)

Árstíðir lífsins - Heljarkviða

The plan this time around is to leave the voting/campaigning period open till end of January, after the main trax/album polls close.

Just for reference, noms for the standard poll will open next Thursday, go through January 5th, voting will go through the 19th, and then the rollouts for tracks & albums will wrap up on February 1st.

Some more!

Daemogog – Ancient Extradigestional Rites
Execration – Return to the Void
Morbid Evils – Deceases
Rebel Wizard – Triumph of Gloom
Serpent Column - Ornuthi Thalassa
Ululatum Tollunt - Quantum Noose of Usurpation

This came out in 2016 but I think we were going to have an exemption for December releases?

The Mass – Ghost Fleet

Merkabah - Million Miles
Motorpsycho - The Tower

Corpse Garden - IAO 261
Cleric - Retrocausal

aaaargh I somehow got that wrong

Corpse Garden - IAO 269

The plan this time around is to leave the voting/campaigning period open till end of January, after the main trax/album polls close.

Just for reference, noms for the standard poll will open next Thursday, go through January 5th, voting will go through the 19th, and then the rollouts for tracks & albums will wrap up on February 1st.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever),

cheers!
we might leave a week after that then to give anyone interested in voting a bit more time.

However I hope people will start listening to nominated albums now rather than wait for voting period OR after big poll results. (That means you especially Imago since you like to listen to everything before voting)

Hey AG!

hello

remember to add your nominations to the Spotify playlist
https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/74IL7uL4YEy2tTiBYtRJ4G

wow aero needs to hear that Tomb Mold album, holy shit

Oh yeah it's great. They also did a comp of their first two demos this year which is well worth hearing, one of my favorite Repulsion pastiches appears on it.

I'm looking forward to siegbran's recommendations

Imago how is the Cleric album? Would I dig it?

do you like the idea of mathcore played like avant-garde jazz, ON DRUGS, THROUGH A BLENDER etc

it's amazing, give it a go

ok. will give it a listen

wow aero needs to hear that Tomb Mold album, holy shit

― Simon H., Thursday, December 7, 2017 7:09 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

apparently so do i

my eyes lit up just reading their name tbh

Ostraca - Last
The Body & Full of Hell - Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light
Planning for Burial - Below the House
Stabscotch - Uncanny Valley

oh yeah the Stabscotch, whether metal or not, is certainly up there

I understand if you want Uncanny Valley off the list. No hard feelings if it doesn't make the spreadsheet. To me its about as heavy as any Cleric, Deafheaven or Mt. Erie albums that have made it in the past. Certainly weaves through a lot of genre's but it's pretty extreme. But yeah, I guess noise/experimental/avant would be the primary genres.

Let's keep it in I say

Me too

We've got QOTSA in there, which must make the first time MArk Ronson has had a production credit in one of these polls, so I'm not too concerned.

Last Rites' staff list is up. I don't know around half of these!

https://yourlastrites.com/2017/12/08/best-of-2017-last-rites-combined-staff/

Uh good work on the top two at least. And the Dodecahedron and Klabautamann albums are also pretty good.

yeah the Pyrrhon album is pretty serious and will be on my ballot. also, Doug Moore is one of the best writers *about* metal currently kicking around

Orthodox - Supreme

sund4r just played an Akvan track in Plug a while ago. Black metal played by an Iranian folk Jandek. Kickarse

i'd like to nominate Igorrr's Savage Sinusoid. Surprised it's not already here!

Everything mentioned on the thread should now be in the spreadsheet. We're at a hair under 200 noms; we had 474 last year. Keep 'em coming!

If no-one bites, I'll do it:
<b>Nokturnal Mortum - Істина</b>

and

<b>Colotyphus - Остання подорож зневіреної душі
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
Windswept - The Great Cold Steppe
Forteresse - Récits Patriotiques
Desolate Shrine - Deliverance From the Godless Void
None - None
Entrails - World Inferno
Veldes - The Bitterness Prophecy
Ghost Bath - Starmourner
Neige et Noirceur - Verglapolis
Widziadło - Void
Kartikeya - Samudra
Raventale - Planetarium
Dyscarnate - With All Their Might
Necrot - Blood Offerings
Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
Exhumed - Death Revenge
God Dethroned - The World Ablaze
Severoth - Forestpaths
Azarath - In Extremis
W - Winterwomb
Belphegor - Totenritual
Kalmankantaja - Demonwoods
Svart Crown - Abreaction
Grift - Arvet
Sinister - Syncretism
Lustre - Still Innocence
Suffocation - Of The Dark Light
</b>

ah fckn bbcode.

Will probably be voting for NM even if their frontman's disavowal of terrible beliefs was transparently disingenuous - it was a good album. I wish I knew nothing else about the band than their music

This will probably also ruin the chances of QOTSA winning.

So is Eastern European exoticism part of Nokturnal Mortum's appeal? To be fair, I've only heard their first two records but they reminded me of post-1989 village wedding bands hellbent on showcasing their portable Yamaha keyboard at every gig.

spirit adrift is really good!

hoooooly shit PSUDOKU

ultros and dleone get the fuck on this

OK that's fucking nuts.

YES

hahahahaaa

Vespero - Shum-Shir
The Spacelords - Water Planet
Void Generator - Prodromi
Moths & Locusts - Intro/Outro
Nik Turner - Life in Space
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom
Yagow - Yagow
Maat Lander - Season in Space Vol. 1
Lamagaia - Lamagaia
Snakes Don't Belong in Alaska - Mountain Rituals
Space Spectrum - Dark Side of the Red-Eyed Queen
10000 Russos - Distress Distress
Ancient River - O.D.D.S. 2
"the band whose name is a symbol" - Do Not Stack Flat

Multishiva - Time Messer
al-Namrood - Enkar

Missed there was a new Vespero. Off to check it out.

Fuck it

Pontiak - Dialectic of Ignorance

Nominations wrap tomorrow night!

Satan's Hallow - s/t
All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal
Belus - Apophenia
Cavernlight - As We Cup Our Hands And Drink From the Stream of Our Ache
Deinonychus - Ode to Acts of Murder, Dystopia and Suicide
DragonForce - Reaching Into Infinity
Hellripper - Coagulating Darkness
Break City Drowwners - Riphouse
Impure Wilhelmina - Radiation
Impureza - La Caida de Tonatiuh
Lunar Shadow - Far From Light
Oceanwake - Earthen
Part Chimp - IV
Saule - s/t
Witherfall - Nocturnes and Requiems

Haha EZ that Vespero might be one of the best things I've heard this year

I know I've nominated a ton of stuff but if there's one I'd recommend everyone to check out it's the Colotyphus album.

oh whoops i need to not miss the nominations period this time

There's still time!

now for something only I could ever vote for

Thumpermonkey - Electricity EP

There are rumours of an incoming consignment

Potence - L’Amour Au Temps De La Peste
Ugory - Padlina
Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
Gnaw Their Tongues - Hymns for the Broken, Swollen and Silent
He Whose Ox Is Gored - Paralyzer
Aether Realm - Tarot
At the Drive In - in.ter a.li.a
Yowie - Synchromysticism
Heaven In Her Arms - White Halo
Dopelord - Children of the Haze
Hour of Penance - Cast the First Stone
Utopianisti - Brutopianisti
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere

There are rumours of an incoming consignment

??

it's right there!

I had my doubts. Glad you could make it tt

We had a sneak peek at the Forgotten Spell last night btw - it was sounding like the most metal thing on earth obv

Not sure if it's metal enough but

Brutus - Burst

Dirge - Alma Baltica

(haven't heard it yet but since the nominations round ends today I want to be able to vote for it if it's good)

Some I, Voidhanger releases I haven't been able to listen to in depth but will hopefully get to soon:
Bloodway - A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues
Tongues - Hreilia
Clearing Path - Watershed Between Firmament And The Realm of Hyperborea
Inconcessus Lux Lucis - The Crowning Quietus

Brutus def counts

i only have one nomination but it's incidentally like the best metal album i've heard this year

Lunatii- Elimino

I had my doubts. Glad you could make it tt

Thank you! Glad to be here! Now we commence listening...

I had forgotten about the Lunatii album! It rules so much.

Iron Monkey - 9-13

some more nominations:

Aetherian - The Untamed Wilderness
Amenra - Mass VI
Anomalie - Visions
Antarktis - Illdlaante
Apotelesma - Timewrought Kings
Archspire - Relentless Mutation
Arallu - Six
Asira - Efference
Auðn - Farvegir Fyrndar
Claret Ash - The Great Adjudication: Fragment One
Duskmourn - Of Shadow and Flame
DVNE - Asheran
Enisum - Seasons of Desolation
Hallatar - No Stars Upon the Bridge
Kaunis Kuolematon - Vapus
Netra - Ingrats
Nightbringer - Terra Damnata
Nullingroots - Into the Grey
Persona - Metamorphosis
Protean Collective - Collapse
Ra's Dawn - From the Vile Catacombs
Red Moon Architect - Return of the Black Butterflies
Sorrow Plagues - Homecoming
Sun of the Sleepless - To the Elements
The Great Discord - The Rabbit Hole
W.E.B. - Tartarus

Bandcamp Links:

Aetherian - The Untamed Wilderness
https://aetherianlfr.bandcamp.com/album/the-untamed-wilderness
France

Amenra - Mass VI
https://amenra.bandcamp.com/album/mass-vi
Belgium

Anomalie - Visions
https://anomalie-official.bandcamp.com/album/visions
Austria

Antarktis - Illdlaante
https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/ildlaante
Sweden

Apotelesma - Timewrought Kings
https://apotelesma.bandcamp.com/album/timewrought-kings-2
Netherlands

Arallu - Six
https://arallu.bandcamp.com/album/six-folk-black-thrash-metal
Israel

Archspire - Relentless Mutation
https://archspire.bandcamp.com/album/relentless-mutation
Canada

Asira - Efference
https://asira.bandcamp.com/
England

Auðn - Farvegir Fyrndar
https://audnofficial.bandcamp.com/album/farvegir-fyrndar
Iceland

Claret Ash - The Great Adjudication: Fragment One
https://claretash.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-adjudication-fragment-one
Australia

Duskmourn - Of Shadow and Flame
https://duskmourn.bandcamp.com/album/of-shadow-and-flame
New Jersey, USA

DVNE - Asheran
https://songs-of-arrakis.bandcamp.com/album/asheran
Scotland

Enisum - Seasons of Desolation
https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/seasons-of-desolation
Italy

Hallatar - No Stars Upon the Bridge
https://hallatar.bandcamp.com/album/no-stars-upon-the-bridge
Finland

Kaunis Kuolematon - Vapus
https://kauniskuolematon.bandcamp.com/album/vapaus
Finland

Netra - Ingrats
https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ingrats
Greece

Nightbringer - Terra Damnata
https://nightbringer.bandcamp.com/album/terra-damnata
Colorado, USA

Nullingroots - Into the Grey
https://nullingroots.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-grey
Arizona, USA

Persona - Metamorphosis
https://personaband.bandcamp.com/album/metamorphosis
Tunisia

Protean Collective - Collapse
https://proteancollective.bandcamp.com/album/collapse
Massachusetts, USA

Ra's Dawn - From the Vile Catacombs
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ras-dawn/from-the-vile-catacombs/
Germany

Red Moon Architect - Return of the Black Butterflies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOH6KmPO0Ek
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/red-moon-architect/return-of-the-black-butterflies/

Sorrow Plagues - Homecoming
https://sorrowplagues.bandcamp.com/album/homecoming
UK

Sun of the Sleepless - To the Elements
https://sun-of-the-sleepless.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-elements
Germany

The Great Discord - The Rabbit Hole
https://thesignrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-discord-the-rabbit-hole
Sweden

W.E.B. - Tartarus
https://apathiarecords.bandcamp.com/album/tartarus
Greece

You need Biblical in there.

Added!

3.5 more hours for nominations!

10 more nominations:

All them Witches - Sleeping Through the War
Below the Sun - Alien World
Greta Van Fleet - From the Fires
Hanging Garden - I Am Become
In this Moment - Ritual
Rosk- Miasma
Ruby the Hatchet - Planetary Space Child
The Thirteenth Sun - Stardust
Voyager - Ghost Mile
Wormwood - Ghostlands Wounds From A bleeding Earth

Vattnet - Vattnet

https://vattnet.bandcamp.com/album/vattnet

Black Mare - Death Magick Mother

https://magicbulletrecords.bandcamp.com/album/black-mare-death-magick-mother

I guess if we have the Chelsea Wolfe album this one should be fair game:

Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die

I mean the Wolfe album *is* unquestionably metal for long stretches but yeah the Lingua Ignota is fine by me

Slaughtbbath - Contempt, War and Damnation

Anomalie was already nominated

Nominations are closed. 472 albums in all - 2 shy of last year.

voting prob wont start til tomorrow so I'm sure if there's anything been missed you can add before seandalai opens.

Plus we usually allow nominations to be added after votings started because there's always people who say they didn't know nominations were started

been busy lately as my mum broke her leg on the icy path across the road last friday as the council hadn't gritted the roads and paths. So its going to be even more hectic once she gets home (dunno when)

yeah gl with that. no rush with anything

Since I neglected a couple on the falser end, I'll add them to put us on par with last year:

Gold Key - Hello, Phantom
Grave Pleasures - Motherblood

Hey, this Elder album isn't half bad you know. This kind of "stoner" stuff isn't usually my kind of thing.

...And you will know us by the Crack the Skye

The Body - A Home on Earth

I just found a few more via those handy new Spotify genre lists

Throane - Plus une main a mordre
Vassafor - Malediction
JoDöden - Sittandes i sjön med vatten över huvudet
Saiva - Markerna bortom
Vukari - Divination

Is it common knowledge that Phil from Vassafor played bass for the Chills once? Just for a tour. So weird.

imago, you might get some mileage from the Multishiva album? It's basically blackened sludge with lots of Värähtelijä-style effects on top

https://multishiva.bandcamp.com/album/time-messer

Voting thread is up. Could a mod kindly lock this one?

The 2017 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 3rd!