VOTE In ILX's BEST METAL ALBUMS Of 2008 POLL (Voting CLOSED)

Thanks to all who participated in Nominations. I am very grateful for your efforts. I look forward to receiving all your votes.

VOTING TIME.
The Voting period will end January 15th 2009. I hope to be able to post the results the following week.
Please remember this is the 1st time I've ever undertaken such a task and forgive me if it does not go to plan. But by following the rules It should make it very easy.. and...

A big thanks to MUSICALLY for providing me with how she runs the great ILX poll every year. I will be following her standard rules that she kindly passed on and explained in full to me.
So again, Thanks Musically!

Now PLEASE read these instructions properly

Please choose 25 albums ranked in order from 1-25 BUT DO NOT put a number beside them.(This is very important.) Just copy and paste each nomination from the list provided below and email them to the address I shall post.

If you have any questions please post on this thread and not to the email which will be provided.

The email that you will post your ranked in order albums to is
ilxmetalalbums2✧✧✧@googlem✧✧✧.c✧✧

Please choose your ranked in order top 25 albums from the nominations list below.

Again a reminder
When you go to put your 25 albums in the email PLEASE copy and paste exactly from the nominations list posted below. Do not change anything.
If you would like to provide any blurbs with any album{s} please let me know.
When voting it would be nice if you provided your ilx username. However lurkers may participate too.
Please don't post links on other message boards as this is for readers of ilxor.com and I dont want fanbases voting their albums to no1. (I reserve the right to remove any lists I am suspicious of in those circumstances)
But occasional readers/posters are welcome of course.

5ive - Hesperus
A Forest of Stars - The Corpse of Rebirth
A Storm of Light - And We Wept the Black Ocean Within
Abigail Williams - In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns
Akimbo - Jersey Shores
Aldebaran - dwellers in twilight
Amassfer – Slaves For Life
Amen Ra – Mass IIII
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Ancestors - Neptune With Fire
Ansur - Warring Factions
Architect - Ghost of the Saltwater Machines
Archons - The Consequences of Silence
Arckanum - Antikosmos
Argentinum Astrum - Argentinum Astrum
Arkona – Ot Serdca K Nebu
Arsis - We Are the Nightmare
Ascend - The Fire Within
Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
Atavist/Nadja - II: Points at Infinity
Aura Noir - Hades Rise
Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
Ayat - Six Years of Dormant Hatred
Ayreon – 01011001
Battlelore - The Last Alliance
Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy
Before the Dawn - Soundscape of Silence
Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie
Benea Reach - Alleviat
Beneath the Massacre - Dystopia
Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
Black Boned Angel - The Endless Coming Into Life
Black Boned Angel & Nadja – Christ Send Light
Black Elk - Always a Six, Never a Nine
Black Shape of Nexus (B.son) - Microbarome Meetings
Bleeding Through - Declaration
Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled
Boris - Smile
Brave - Monuments
Burst - Lazarus Bird
Byzantine - Oblivion Beckons
Caïna - Temporary Antennae
Candlemass - Lucifer Rising
Capricorns – River, Bear Your Bones
Catalytic Crisis - Stones and Blood
Catley, Bob - Immortal
Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
Cave - Hunt Like Devil
Celestia - Frigidiis Apotheosia: Abstinencia Genesiis
Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
Coffins - Buried Death
Coldworld - Melancholie²
Colour Haze - All
Common Grave - Il male di vivere
Conifer - Crown Fire
Cor Scorpii - Monument
Cough - Sigillum Luciferi
Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Cursed - III
Cynic - Traced In Air
Dalriada - Szelek
Darkspace - III
Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living
Death Angel - Killing Season
Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum
Decayed - The Black Metal Flame
Demiurg - The Hate Chamber
Desalvo – Mood Poisoner
Destinity - The Inside
Diablo - Icaros
Dir En Grey - Uroboros
Disfear - Live The Storm
Distorted - Voices From Within
Disturbed - Indestructible
Don Caballero - Punkgasm
Doom:VS - Dead Words Speak
Dornenreich – In Luft Geritzt
Draconian - Turning Season Within
DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown
Draugnim - Northwind's Ire
Early Man – Beware The Circling Fin
Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
Earthless - Live At Roadburn
Elder – Elder
Eldrig - Mysterion
Eluveitie - Slania
Emancer - Twilight and Randomness
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Equilibrium - Sagas
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Eternal Deformity - Frozen Circus
Everon - North
Farmakon – Robin
Fiftywatthead - Fogcutter
Forteresse - Les hivers de notre époque
From a Second Story Window - Conversations
Fuck the Facts - Disgorge Mexico
Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
Gevolt - Sidur
Gigan - The Order of the False Eye
Girlschool – Legacy
Gnaw Their Tongues – An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood
Gods And Queens - S/T
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Grand Magus - Iron Will
Graveyard - Graveyard
Guapo - Elixirs
Gyongyver - Vilagok Viraga
Hail Of Bullets - Of Frost and War
Hammers Of Misfortune - Fields/Church Of Broken Glass
Harvey Milk - Life . . . the Best Game in Town
Hate Eternal - Fury and Flames
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Heavy Winged - Alive in My Mouth
Helix – The Power Of Rock and Roll
Helms Alee - Night Terror
Helrunar - Baldr Okk Iss
Hey Colossus - Happy Birthday
Hyatari - They will surface
HYBRID - The 8th Plague
Hypocrisy - Catch 22 V2.0.08
Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man
Ihsahn - angL
In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
In This Moment - The Dream
Indian - Slights and Abuse / The Sycophant
Into Eternity - The Incurable Tragedy
Intronaut Prehistoricisms
Iskald - Revelations of Reckoning Day
Isole - Bliss of Solitude
Janvs - Vega
Jarboe - Mahakali
Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect
Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth
Journey To Ixtlan - S/t
Kampfar - Heimgang
Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward
Keep of Kalessin - Kolossus
Khold – Hundre a Gammal
Klabautamann – Our Journey Through The Woods
Krallice – Krallice
Lair Of The Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
Lantlôs - Lantlôs
Legless – Finding Mr. Perfect
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Lifelover - Konkurs
Lugubrum - Albino de Congo
Lutomysl - De Profundis
Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
Mar De Grises - draining the waterheart
Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
Martriden - The Unsettling Dark
Melencolia Estatica - Letum
Melvins - Nude With Boots
Memory Garden - Carnage Carnival
Mercenary - Architect of Lies
Meshuggah - obZen
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Metsatoll - Iivakivi
Mirrorthrone - Gangrene
Misery Signals - Controller
Moho - Chotocabra
Monolith Deathcult - Trivmvirate
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Mörker - Höstmakter
Morkobot - Morto
Moss - Sub Templum
Mötley Crüe - Saints of Los Angeles
Motörhead - Motörizer
Mount Logan - Mount Logan
Mourning Beloveth - A Disease for the Ages
Mouth Of The Architect - Quietly
My Silent Wake - A Garland of Tears
Nachmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness
Nadja - The Bungled And The Botched
Neath - The Small Untruths
Neuraxis - The Thin Line Between
Night Ranger – Hole In The Sun
Njiqahdda - Nji. Njiijn. Njiiijn
Noekk – The Minstrel’s Curse
Ocean - Pantheon Of The Lesser
Oceans of Sadness - The Arrogance of Ignorance
Ocrilim - Annwn
October Falls - The Womb of Primordial Nature
Ondo - Mahavishnu
Opeth - Watershed
Orakle - Tourments & perdition
Order of Ennead - Order of Ennead
Origin - Antithesis
Other Fools – 12 More Lies
Pantheïst - Journey Through Lands Unknown
Pentemple – 0))) Presents
Poisonblack - A Dead Heavy Day
Pyramids - Pyramids
Quttinirpaaq - Quttinirpaaq
Racebannon - Acid or Blood
Remembrance - Silencing the Moments
Rose Tattoo – Blood Brothers
RTX – JJ Got Live RATX
Rye Wolves - Oceans Of Delicate Rain
Sahg - II
Salome - Salome
Samothrace - Lifes Trade
Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
Sculptured - Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God
Septicflesh - Communion
Sex/Vid – Communal Living
Shade Empire - Zero Nexus
Skepticism - Alloy
Spite Extreme Wing - Vltra
Sunn 0))) - Domkirke
Suspyre - When Time Fades...
Taint - Secrets and Lies
Tecumseh - Avalanche and Inundation
Ted Nugent – Sweden Rocks
Textures - Silhouettes
Thanatoschizo - Zoom Code
The Amenta - nOn
The Arcane Order - In the Wake of Collisions
The Austrasian Goat - pieces to oblivian
The Death Of Her Money – Spirit Of The Stairwell
The Devil's Blood - Come, Reap
The Drowning - The Bleak Descent
The Faceless - Planetary Duality
The Gates Of Slumber - Conqueror
The Goslings - Occasion
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
The Haunted - Versus
The Human Abstract - Midheaven
The Lamp of Thoth-Portents, Omens and Doom
The Lizards – är-chē-ol’-ō-gy
The Mirimar Disaster - Volumes
The Sword - Gods Of The Earth
The Wounded Kings-Embrace of the Narrow house
To-Mera - Delusions
Torche - Meanderthal
Trees - Lights Bane
Trinacria - Travel Now Journey Infinitely
Tyr - Land
UFOmammut - Idolum
Unearthly Trance - Electrocution
US Christmas - Eat the Low Dogs
Viking Skull - Doom Gloom Heartache & Whiskey
Virgin Black - Requiem - Fortissimo
Wetnurse - Invisible City
White Lion – Return Of The Pride
Witch - Paralyzed
Withered - Folie Circulaire
Within Y - The Cult
Wrath of the Weak - Alogon
Zebulon Pike - Intransience
Zozobra - Bird of Prey

I hope the rules don't come across as obnoxious , they are there to make things easier for me. I hope I can make all your efforts worthwile.
Thank you for reading this thread and I look forward to receiving all your votes.

VOTE AWAY!

That address is of course
ilxmetalalbums2008 at googlemail dot com

wooo A vote in already!!

Voted.

Thanks again for doing this!

ilxor thank you. It's a pleasure.

I shall publish my votes here too

Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Torche - Meanderthal
Harvey Milk - Life . . . the Best Game in Town
5ive - Hesperus
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
Ascend - The Fire Within
Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
Ocean - Pantheon Of The Lesser
Moss - Sub Templum
Sunn 0))) - Domkirke
The Goslings - Occasion
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Caïna - Temporary Antennae
Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness
Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth
Journey To Ixtlan - S/t
Melvins - Nude With Boots
UFOmammut - Idolum
Unearthly Trance - Electrocution
Morkobot - Morto
Trees - Lights Bane
The Austrasian Goat - pieces to oblivian
Cave - Hunt Like Devil
Coffins - Buried Death

Feel free to post yours here too if you want to discuss stuff, but remember only votes sent to the email address will be counted.
Plus those posting here will be no guide to what actually wins since the majority of voters wont be posting here.

What happened to Opeth?

My votes:

The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Boris - Smile
Melvins - Nude With Boots
Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
Ocean - Pantheon Of The Lesser
Conifer - Crown Fire
Sunn 0))) - Domkirke
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Torche - Meanderthal
Nachmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
Jarboe - Mahakali
Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect
Tecumseh - Avalanche and Inundation
The Sword - Gods Of The Earth
Witch - Paralyzed

I'll freely admit the Gutter Twins album isn't anywhere near metal, but I wanted to give it a great vote regardless. I'm a huge fan of most everything Dulli puts out and think Lanegan's a terrific vocalist, so it was a predictably great album for me this year.

I'm also not really a "metal guy," so I tend to go for the psych/doom/drone offerings and the Melvins-y stuff.

Now that's strange. Opeth should be in there. I shall ask a mod to add it asap. Thanks for pointing that out as that is an album i saw as one of the front runners.

u left out catalytic crisis too

dj martian said they were fake as he found no evidence of them existing.

Opeth is added btw

This is what I ended up with - only 20, not 25; nothing really rose out of the mass of stuff in the 20-40 range to merit inclusion over the others:

Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
Harvey Milk - Life . . . the Best Game in Town
Wetnurse - Invisible City
Conifer - Crown Fire
Torche - Meanderthal
The Goslings - Occasion
UFOmammut - Idolum
Caïna - Temporary Antennae
Ocean - Pantheon Of The Lesser
Witch - Paralyzed
5ive - Hesperus
Cough - Sigillum Luciferi
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Opeth - Watershed
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
Tyr - Land
Viking Skull - Doom Gloom Heartache & Whiskey

This is not a fucking poll. Where are the goddamn options. I cry foul. Kerr, hit me up for BSBC.

you send your list in to the email provided as i told you in AIM CHATZ 2 mins ago you drunken goth!

send your votes to ilxmetalalbums2008 at googlemail dot com
follow the instructions on the 1st post, bimble ( do it sober it will be easier!)

Pfunk, look. This is ridiculous. You're driving me bananas. You are a BAD INFLUENCE.

Well bimble got his votes in.

As have others, thanks.

.

Argh the gremlins have struck again. the Graveyard album isnt on there and jeff did nominate it.

emailed a mod.

thank god

It's a metal poll, are you sure you meant God?

bump.

Brian Eno, ladies & gentlemen:

"In these metal days/in these metal ways"

- "No One Receiving" from Before & After Science

dope song^^

in case any of you are on the edge of your seat, graveyard problem has been fixed with mod science.

You mentioned the word "Graveyard"...

ACR

I am still more goth than anyone on this board. Sorry.

thanks JJ

I wait, hungrily, to see if anybody but me will vote for either of my Hungarian bands.

You only have less than 2 weeks to wait!

hahah I am not more goth-metal than anyone fuck you! LOL LOLOLOLOL

Glenn - I checked out Dalriada based on your recommendation and thought it was good. Didn't crack my top twenty though. Also, I liked their last one, Kikelet, more than their latest, and it probably would have made my best of 2007 had I heard it that year.

Cool! I think I liked Kikelet a little more than Szelek, too, for that matter. Gyongyver, on the other hand, bounced Moonspell out of my top 10! Speaking of goth-metal...

portuguese goth-metal?

It still won't tempt Bimble

Vote!

bump

(polls close in ten days guys.)

I totally stand by the top 15 or so. Tons of probably very good stuff I never heard.

Disfear - Live The Storm
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Coffins - Buried Death
Nachmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
5ive - Hesperus
Wetnurse - Invisible City
Withered - Folie Circulaire
Torche - Meanderthal
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
Harvey Milk - Life . . . the Best Game in Town
Boris - Smile
Opeth - Watershed
Cynic - Traced In Air
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Lair Of The Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
Motörhead - Motörizer
Meshuggah - obZen
Hate Eternal - Fury and Flames
Neuraxis - The Thin Line Between
Ocrilim - Annwn
Krallice – Krallice
Arsis - We Are the Nightmare
Earth - The Bees Made Honey...

My votes:

Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Torche - Meanderthal
US Christmas - Eat the Low Dogs
Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
The Devil's Blood - Come, Reap
Boris - Smile
Morkobot - Morto
5ive - Hesperus
Death Angel - Killing Season
Metallica - Death Magnetic
UFOmammut - Idolum
Amen Ra – Mass IIII
Earthless - Live At Roadburn
Melvins - Nude With Boots
Harvey Milk - Life . . . the Best Game in Town

Nobody nominated Black Mountain - In the Future? how silly of us/me!
Earth was really 2008? I had it in my endlist of 2007, but since it's nominated...

vote early and vote often

Ronald> the earth came out january 2008.

damn, my life feels screwed up now

bump -- make sure to vote!

can i just vote for 2 things

I highly recommend you all hear the Gevolt album. It was really awesome.

id rather you voted for more than 2

for those who voted 10 albums or whatever as you couldnt list 25 , if you hear more albums you like and want to add/change your list thats fine. just send in a new one with subject line REPLACEMENT LIST.

Thanks

My list:

Torche - Meanderthal
Nachmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
Harvey Milk - Life . . . the Best Game in Town
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Opeth - Watershed
Krallice – Krallice
Coffins - Buried Death
Metallica - Death Magnetic
The Gates Of Slumber - Conqueror
Black Elk - Always a Six, Never a Nine
The Goslings - Occasion
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Racebannon - Acid or Blood
Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
Lair Of The Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
Fiftywatthead - Fogcutter
Disfear - Live The Storm
Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
Melvins - Nude With Boots
Meshuggah - obZen
Gods And Queens - S/T
Death Angel - Killing Season
Dir En Grey - Uroboros
Eluveitie - Slania

Really disappointed that Toxic Holocaust and Testament weren't on the list. I would have nominated them, but I could have sworn they were there!

I did a ctrl and f through the nominations page and saw no sign of toxic holocaust or testament, sorry.

I think every vote so far has been a guy. Way to re-emphasize stereotypes ILM!

Um, Sorry I'm not a woman?

Oh I just realized who you are. Sorry Mordy!
Hurrah btw.

You are the most recent to have voted btw.

pfunk i just sent mine plz confirm

Nothing arrived at ilxmetalalbums2008 at googlemail.com

its not gmail.com (though im not sure it should make a difference)

I sent an email to ilxmetalalbums2008 at gmail.com and it works. So fire away

ok trying again

nothing as yet. Are you really sending your list?

nah just fukkin w/ u ^___^

I thought as much :)

glad you didnt email that ;)

yeh. eesh.

Things I DID Voted for:

Nachmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Harvey Milk - Life . . . the Best Game in Town
Lair Of The Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Krallice – Krallice
Caïna - Temporary Antennae
Sex/Vid – Communal Living
Torche - Meanderthal
Cave - Hunt Like Devil
Helms Alee - Night Terror
Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum
The Goslings - Occasion
Darkspace - III
Boris - Smile
Witch - Paralyzed
Nadja - The Bungled And The Botched
Dir En Grey - Uroboros
Black Elk - Always a Six, Never a Nine
Melvins - Nude With Boots
US Christmas - Eat the Low Dogs
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Unearthly Trance – Electrocution
Coffins - Buried Death

when did you send it? (so i can work out who you are)

Just this very second! Put "contenderizer" in teh subject line. Posted here first, cuz keepin it confusing in 2009.

Ahh it just arrived. Thanks!

Enough of you aren't voting for the Gevolt album, which is really the only reason I sat down and submitted a ballot.

dj martian nominated 30897867 albums but hasn't voted!

i will later today ! was very busy on Wednesday

hehe I know you will I just thought it was funny!

I haven't heard the Gevolt album fwiw

last day get them in

bump

Please remember to vote in the big ilx poll
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I VOTED IN THE 2008 ILX ALBUMS & TRAX POLL AND I LIKED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ballots due Thurs, Jan 22)

If youre going to write some blurbs please send them to the same address as the voting. Subject line Blurbs. 1 person is a definite and 2 if Aldo keeps his word.

Okay I sent in more votes. I've voted for ten now. I don't like this poll, though. I don't like any poll that involves email, really. Even if I'm sober.

Thank you, your Royal Gothness.

just sent my voting email !

Got it, thanks!
Voting will end about lunchtime tomorrow(UK time) to give the east coast Americans a fair time. So if you're going to vote please vote now!

last few hours

I assume there's no more votes coming so thanks to all who voted.
I'll give another 30 mins then this poll is closed (2pm uk time)

time on the west coast
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Los Angeles Fri 5:39 AM

give them more time?

Kerr, I have been working stupid crazy and have made no progress. If you want anything for me on specific records let me know what they are on the email I voted on and I will try and get something to you.

If you think it's worth it, sure. I doubt we will get anymore votes but I wasn't going to start on this til tonight anyway.

You can see if you can get others to vote, DJ.

x-post
Will do aldo.

didnt get anymore votes.
VOTING IS NOW CLOSED

OK, I have your list and will endeavour to do something with it over the weekend.

Ok how about this for a rundown?

I will post no's 100-51 on monday, then over the course of monday , I will do a proper rundown of the next 10 (with images and blurbs if I get any)
10 each day posted and the top ten will be posted friday.

That ok?

Thanks to musically and glenn for massive help. Really, they did the most important stuff so direct all thanks to them.

And Glenn will also provide some extra stats that he is compiling.

Free at last. Free at last. FREE AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!

re: images

rateyourmusic have BBCode album cover images for albums.

ilxor uses BBcode

i thought RYM didnt allow hotlinking. Oh well I shall use that, Thanks dj!

lol kjb

kjb today
http://medias.ados.fr/people/1/4/1457/Freddie-Mercury/photos/11991-i-want-to-break-free---.jpg

uh

what

it's a screencap from "I want to break free"

sounds good to me.

another tip:

if you use Firefox there are search bar plug ins for metal-archives / Encyclopaedia Metallum:
http://www.metal-archives.com/

plug ins
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=Encyclopaedia+Metallum+&skipcache=yes

i use this one:
Encyclopaedia Metallum (google) en-WW (google.com) by pilgrimEx

useful for checking for information relating to artists: record labels, release dates, band websites, artist myspace links