Favorite (current) Southern Lord band/artiste

would listen to Oren the most, so him.

Love a ton of these, but Sunn is the best

I'm going to vote Orthodox, as I find them the most interesting.

So we can vote for bands that are defunct? Because there are a lot of them on this list...

Anyway, choosing from the above list, I'd have to go with Goatsnake. We did two gigs together and they were just monumental live. Plus both records sound great.

If Burning Witch was on this list (and why aren't they?), I'd go with them. Because that's the best release on this label to date.

For some reason I read the thread title as "Favorite (current) Southern London band/artiste", and thought that South London must have pretty niche tastes.

Don't know half of these, so can't really vote. But Om are a big favourite of mine.

If Burning Witch was on this list (and why aren't they?)

Because they broke up in 1998 and aren't on Southern Lord's current roster, which is what this list is.

A bunch of those bands above have been defunct for years tho... I'm not sure what their criteria for 'current' is tbh

Striborg. There is only one Sin Nanna, and he's not breaking up and time soon.

Who knows, maybe Internal Void are back together ;)

i dont listen to metal and only opened it cuz roxy started it, so i voted for my favorite name ("Lair of the Minotaur")

lotta C- grade talent on that list. i guess i've got to pick between om (who i'm shaky on at this point) or striborg, given that the rest of the bands i like are defunct.

I wanted it to be all SL bands past and present, but it was too many poll options :/

I have never heard of, let alone heard Final Warning, Twilight or Urgehal </info4u>

i haven't heard of Ascend, Black Cobra, Eagle Twin or Final Warning...

Ascend is a Greg Anderson thing from last year - was sort of jazzy - kind of got lost amongst his shit ton of releases but I really got into it. It was a collab with the main dude from Eagle Twin whose new album I also like a lot (bigged it up on rolling metal thread the other day)

Ascend was the best thing Greg had done for years.

All the Wino bands on here are great, but sure aren't current. Wonder how Spirit Caravan managed not to have something on Southern Lord.

went for Earth. Love The Bees Made Honey... more than is healthy.

Went for Earth, too, but I really wanted to cast an underdog vote for Orthodox. Om's on Drag City now, a tecnicality that made voting a little easier on me.

went w/ om b/c 'pilgrimage' is prob my favorite SL release

Boris -- love so many of these bands, so voted on the utter magnitude and strength of the Boris live show.

Earth's hit to miss ratio + length of career = #1.

runners up would be a tie between Khanate and Wolves for me.

Are we counting just Attila's SL stuff? Or everything? Cuz if everything it's got to be him.

Too hard, couldn't vote - I guess I've heard about 3/5's of the list and there is so much great stuff there. I did see Thorr's Hammer a couple of weeks ago and the sound was so unbearably dense and heavy you could pretty much reach out and touch it. Simply amazing stuff and the band seemed so weirdly chatty and grateful to be there, which is kind of surprising if you've seen Sunn0))) live. Corrupted played as well and were even better. Great show.

I quite like Lair of the Minotaur

Had I not seen Thorr's Hammer the other weekend I would have said The Obsessed, but eaw nails it above. Thorr's Hammer were fucking immense, so it's them.

I bought a Lair of the Minotaur album today and thought of J0rdan S.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"Had I not seen Thorr's Hammer the other weekend I would have said The Obsessed, but eaw nails it above. Thorr's Hammer were fucking immense, so it's them."

Thorr's Hammer are playing again?? I'm tempted to vote for them.

"I have never heard of, let alone heard Final Warning"

Not surprising. This is a reissue of classic recordings from one of the original crossover bands from Portland, OR. Right after Poison Idea started, Final Warning got together and started mixing d-beat with early thrash. They even opened for Mercyful Fate here in like 1985.

Here's a link to an interview I did with them last year for their reunion show at Satyricon: http://wweek.com/editorial/3445/11524/

"Wonder how Spirit Caravan managed not to have something on Southern Lord."

Southern Lord hadn't made that big a name for themselves yet, and Wino's star hadn't risen quite so high as it did with Hidden Hand. Meteor City had contracts and $$ to throw around... so I don't think Greg had the funds or inclination to get with Wino until Mother Teacher Destroyer. This is "informed speculation".

And I know someone will read the above and say, "Obsessed and Vitus were a big deal." True--but not in the early 2000s and we of Witch Mountain did a number of shows with Spirit Caravan that 5-15 people attended. It was always a trip to basically play for Wino and a couple of dudes shooting pool...

it was impossible to find their albums bar the odd comp

I bought the SL Obsessed comp for £1.99 in Selectadisc, this was in maybe 2003?

Not surprising. This is a reissue of classic recordings from one of the original crossover bands from Portland, OR. Right after Poison Idea started, Final Warning got together and started mixing d-beat with early thrash. They even opened for Mercyful Fate here in like 1985.

Ah OK cheers - beyond Poison Idea and the Wipers I don't really know anything about 80s Portland stuff

i got it when it came out.
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Other big 80s Portland punk/metal bands of note would be Napalm Beach, Wehrmacht, and the Deprived.

Who can say no to a Weed Eater?

you?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

who is oren ambarchi?

"Oren Ambarchi is an electronic guitarist and percussionist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches."

Oren Ambarchi is an electronic guitarist and drummer with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. He was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969 to a Sephardi Jewish family originally from Iraq. He has been performing music live since 1986. He was a member of noise band Phlegm with Robbie Avenaim, with whom he now co-organises the What Is Music Festival. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, though he also plays percussion in some of his live performances. He has toured with drone doom band Sunn O))) as well as releasing an EP with Attila Csihar and Sunn O)))'s Greg Anderson under the name Burial Chamber Trio.

huh, thanks guys.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/01/18/ambarchi18_narrowweb__300x350,0.jpg

oren ambarchi, yesterday

he looks nice!

i thought so too

I saw him once. He was pretty good!

his records are cool. they could be on any experimental music label, really.

wow, thrilling poll results. no offense to anyone who starts them - I LOVE YOU ALL - but i am way sick of the poll threads. especially the metal ones. they go on forever. and they make metal seem boring somehow. and that ain't right. it's probably just me though. again, no offense to anyone. i mean, i'm bored enough to read them. so, it's really my own fault.

great my first metal poll and now this

xp well on like any poll thread the results are usually kind of a formality (except for food polls it seems like!)

all the discussion happens earlier on.

sorry roxy!!! i just need more beer. long day...

Really shocked at only two Sunn O))) votes -- especially considering they've released what is for many (including myself?) the best album of '09.

Yeah a little shocked at that myself. I think it was the type of thing where people thought everyone else would vote for them.

exactly

I'm actually kind of surprised so many acts got votes. I would have thought that it would have been more concentrated.

I often don't see these polls until the results have rolled in. Probably would have voted Sunn O))) myself. Oh well.

Perversely proud of being the sole Striborg voter.

http://striborg4paag.blogspot.com/

more like Bore-us amirite folks