~~~~VOTE IN THE 2010 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR (METAL EDITION) POLL~~~ Voting Ends Sunday Jan 9th

And due to popular demand on the metal thread we're back again.

We have a nominations list BUT, if you were too lazy to click on the thread to nominate you can ask ON THIS THREAD if it's ok to vote for something, and if it meets the criteria, you will then be allowed to vote for it and the nomination(s) will be added to the Google spreadsheet.
If you vote for something not on the list and didn't ask here, your ballot will be rejected and you will be asked to resubmit it. So please follow the rules.
Also, if there's any bullshit like happened on the all time metal poll we will just halt the thing completely.

When you vote you should receive an automated reply. If you don't get one, then it means in all likelihood your ballot has not been received. So if you don't get a reply, please post on this thread and tell us.

Please send your ballots ranked (minimum of 15 maximum of 40) but DON'T put numbers beside your albums. Please use this format ARTIST - ALBUM
Your #1 album will be first and you will rank in descending order

Subject line in the email is to be ILM Metal Poll 2010 and the address is ilxmetalpoll2010 at gmail dot com

Here are the 276 Nominations we received

1349 - Demonoir
36 Crazyfists - Collisions and Castaways
Accept - Blood Of The Nations
Acid Witch - Stoned
Across Tundras - Old World Wanderer
Adrift For Days - The Lunar Maria
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Agrypnie - 16[485]
Alcest - Écailles De Lune
An Autumn for Crippled Children - Lost
Angel Eyes - Midwestern
Anima - Spasenge
Apostle Of Solitude - Last Sunrise
Arabrot - Revenge
Arckanum - Sviga Lae
Armored Saint – La Raza
Arsis - Starve for the Devil
Atheist - Jupiter
Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
Autopsy - The Tomb Within
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
Barn Owl - Ancestral Star
Bison B.C. - Dark Ages
Black Bombaim - Saturdays and Space Travels
Black Breath - Heavy Breathing
Black Sun - Twilight Of The Gods
Black Tusk - Taste The Sin
Blind Guardian - at the Edge of Time
Blood Of The Black Owl - A Banishing Ritual (Into White)
Blus Aus Nord - What Once Was... Liber I
Bongripper - Satan Worshiping Doom
Boris - Variations
Boris & Ian Astbury - BXI
Bullet for My Valentine - Fever
Burzum - Belus
Castevet - Mounds of Ash
Cathedral - The Guessing Game
Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s)
Celestiial - Where Life Springs Eternal
Centurions Ghost - Blessed & Cursed in Equal Measure
Cephalic Carnage - Misled By Certainty
Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium
Coffinworm - When All Became None
Coliseum - House With a Curse
Conan - Horseback Battle Hammer
Cough - Ritual Abuse
Countess - Burning Scripture
Cradle of Filth - Darkly, Darkly Venus Aversa
Crystal Viper - Legends
Cuzo - Otros Mundos
Danzig - Deth Red Sabaoth
Dark Fortress - Ylem
Dark Tranquillity - We Are the Void
Darkblack - Midnight Wraith
Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons
Daughters - S/T
Dawn of Ashes - Genocide Chapters
Dawnbringer - Nucleus
Dead Meadow - Three Kings
Death Angel - Relentless Retribution
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Decrepit Birth - Polarity
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Demon Hunter - The World Is a Thorn
Demonic Death Judge - Kneel
Diabulus In Musica - Secrets
Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra
Dio - At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987
Disturbed - Asylum
Doomshine - The Piper At The Gates Of Doom
Double Negative - Daydreamnation
Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred For Mankind
Dråpsnatt - Hymner till undergången
Draugnim - Horizons Low
Drowning Pool - s/t
Drudkh - Handful of Stars
Ea - Au Ellai
Early Graves - Goner
Earthride - Something Wicked
Eibon - Entering Darkness
Eldjudnir - Ragnarok
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Elixir - All Hallows Eve
Eluveitie - Everything Remains as It Never Was
Embryonic Devourment - Vivid Interpretations of the Void
Encoffination - Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Envy - Recitation
Equilibrium - Rekreatur
Exodus – Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Father Befouled - Morbid Destitution of Covenant
Fatso Jetson - Archaic Volumes
Fear Factory - Mechanize
Finntroll - Nifelvind
Flesh Consumed - Ecliptic Dimensions of Suffering
Fleshpress - No Return
Fleshpress - Rebuild/Crumble
Furze - Reaper Subconscious Guide
Gamma Ray - To the Metal
Garden of Worm - Garden of Worm
Ghost - Opus Eponymous
Gnaw Their Tongues - L'Arrivée De La Terne Mort Triomphante
Godsmack - The Oracle
Gozu - Locust Season
Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North
Hail of Bullets - On Divine Winds
Halford - Made of Metal
Hansel - Never Say Die
Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness
Hellbeard - Scarecrow
Helloween - 7 Sinners
Helmet - Seeing Eye Dog
Hey Colossus & The Van Halen Time Capsule - Eurogrumble vol 1
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
HIM - Screamworks
Hooded Menace - Never Cross The Dead
Horseback - The Invisible Mountain
Hour Of 13 - The Ritualist
Howl - Full Of Hell
Humanfly - Darker Later
Ihsahn - After
Immolation- Majesty and Decay
Imperium Dekadenz - Procella Vadens
In Mourning - Monolith
In This Moment - A Star-Crossed Wasteland
Integrity- The Blackest Curse
Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Jesu - Heart Ache & Dethroned
Jucifer - Throned in Blood
Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned
Karma to Burn - Appalachian Incantation
Katatonia - The Longest Year EP
Kathaarsys - Intuition
Kayo Dot - Coyote
Kellermensch - Kellermensch
Kill the Client - Set for Extinction
Knut - Wonder
Kongh - Shadows Of The Shapeless
Korn - Korn III: Remember Who You Are
Krieg - The Isolationist
Kvelertak - Kvelertak
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
Lacrimas Profundere - The Grandiose Nowhere
Lair of the Minotaur - Evil Power
Lantlôs - .neon
Le Kraken - Exalt
Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernieres Pensees
Lesbian - Stratospheria Cubensis
Limbonic Art - Phantasmagoria
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
Liveride - Туманами
Locrian - The Crystal World
Lordi - Babez for Breakfast
Ludicra - The Tenant
Lustre - A Glimpse Of Glory
Mael Mordha - Manannan
Magnus Pelander - Magnus Pelander EP
Mandrake - Innocence Weakness
Mar De Grises - Stream Inwards
Mares Of Thrace - The Moulting
Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Totem Two
Master's Hammer - Mantras
Melechesh - Epigenesis
Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder
Menace Ruine - Union of Irreconcilables
Metsatöll - Äio
Mob Rules - The Donor
Monarch - Sabbat Noir
Monster Magnet - Mastermind
Monument Of Urns - Absence
Mortemia - Misere Mortem
Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit
Mourner - Still
Murderdolls - Women and Children Last
Murmuure - Murmuure
My Sleeping Karma - Tri
My Uncle The Wolf - Flush
Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part II
Nadja - Under the Jaguar Sun
Nails - Unsilent Death
Nechochwen - Azimuths to the Otherworld
Negura Bunget - Vîrstele Pamîntului
Neurosis - Live at Roadburn 2007
Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
Nightfall - Astron Black and the Thirty Tyrants
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel
October Tide - A Thin Shell
Opeth - Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall
Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR
Ov Hell - The Underworld Regime
Overkill - Ironbound
Ozzy Osbourne - Scream
Pathfinder - Beyond the Space, Beyond the Time
Petrychor - Dryad
PIVIXKI - Gravissima
Poisonblack - Of Rust and Bones
Quest For Fire - Lights From Paradise
Ramesses - Take The Curse
Ratt - Infestation
Retro Grave - Again
Rosetta - A Determinism of Morality
Rotting Christ – AEALO
Sahara Surfers - Spacetrip on a Paper Plane
Sahg - III
Sailors With Wax Wings - Sailors With Wax Wings
Salome - Terminal
Samsara Blues Experiment - Long Distance Trip
Serj Tankian - Imperfect Harmonies
Serpentina Satelite - Mecanica Celeste
Sevendust - Cold Day Memory
Sheavy - Disfigurine
Shining - Blackjazz
Sigh - Scenes from Hell
Sister Sin - True Sound of the Underground
Sloath - S/T
Slough Feg - Animal Spirits
Solace - A.D.
Solefald - Norrøn Livskunst
Sorgeldom - Inner Receivings
Soulfly - Omen
Spitit Descent - Doominion
Stargazer - A Great Work Of Ages
Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy
Suma - Ashes
Sungrazer - Sungrazer
Sweet Cobra - Mercy
Tarja Turunen - What Lies Beneath
The Austerity Program - Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn
The Body - All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
The Flight Of Sleipnir - Lore
The Howling Void - Shadows Over the Cosmos
The Howling Wind - Into The Cryosphere
The Ocean - Anthropocentric
The Ocean - Heliocentric
The Red Sparowes - The Fear Is Excruciating
The Sword - Warp Riders
The Wounded Kings - The Shadow Over Atlantis
Thou - Summit
Titan - Sweet Dreams
Torche - Songs for Singles
Trees - Freed Of This Flesh
Triosphere - The Road Less Travelled
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Triptykon - Shatter
Tweak Bird - Tweak Bird
Twilight - Monument To Time End
U.S. Christmas - Run Thick In The Night
U.S. Christmas/Minsk/Harvestman - Hawkwind Triad
Ufomammut - Eve
Ultralyd - Inertiadrome
Unearthly Trance - V
Unsun - Clinic for Dolls
Valborg - Crown of Sorrow
Voltax - Fugitive State of Mind
Watain - Lawless Darkness
Weapon - From the Devil's Tomb
Westering - Help A Body
White Hills - White Hills
White Hills & GNOD 'White Hills Drop Out With Gnod'
White Hills 'Stolen Stars Are Left For No One'
Wildildlife - Give It To Live
Wino - Adrift
Winterhorde - Underwatermoon
Witchsorrow - Witchsorrow
Withered - Dualitas
Wolf People - Steeple
Wolvserpent - Wolvserpent
Wormrot - Abuse
Xasthur - Portal Of Sorrow
Yakuza - Of Seismic Consequence
Year Of No Light - Ausserwelt
Yngwie Malmsteen - Relentless
Yrsel - Requiem for the Three Kharites
Zoroaster - Matador

Here is the Google Spreadsheet link which may be updated if other late nominations are given the OK.

So happy voting!

As usual everyone is allowed to vote, including lurkers.

Also please post here if you voted/got your automated reply, thanks.

So if I only vote for 5 albums, is it still 1 vote for 1 album? I seem to recall on the poll two years ago you could spend a certain amount of points on albums you liked more. Sorry if this is a dumb question

No, you must vote for at least 15 albums. A maximum of 40. (the more the better as it means less chances of ties). If your ballot has less than 15 albums on it, it wont be counted and you will be emailed asking you to resubmit. So if you can manage 40 then please do so!
Your #1 album will receive 40 points #2 will get 39 & so on. This is the way we always ran it I think.

oh okay cool. just wanted to make sure I wasn't spreading myself thin by voting for too many.

Nope, the more albums you vote for the better!

Voted, got an automated reply.

Awesome! Gonna take me a couple days to complete my ballot and order it. Usually I have it all ready to go but there's more stuff I want to listen to and gestate on first.

Quick work Mr Snappin! Thanks!

I had fifteen already in order from my end of year top 20. Wasn't hard to put on the other stuff I liked to pad it out.

voted, got reply. Thanks for organizing this

got them, thanks!

Just checking, but I thought we added the Hypnos 69 album in the nom thread.

We did, it's probably just not saved properly on the spreadsheet. Maybe JJ will add it to the 1st post WHEN HE SEES THIS

Spreadsheet updated.

still think we should allow minimum of 10 ballots for people who like 10 or more albums, but haven't had time to hit 15

anyway... i've chosen my albums, just gonna play w/ the ordering a bit before i submit

White Hills - White Hills


^^ honestly this is NOT a metal album, should be veto'd (but if not, i may vote for it anyway)

you had several weeks to veto stuff, that was nominated way back and you just noticed?

There's lots of borderline stuff thats heavy psych or whatever. If it places I'd be surprised, though I nominated it and like it.

i like it, i'm just surprised herman would let in white hills but not, like, acid mothers temple ;_;

Were amt vetoed? I don't remember.
Who wants to start a "campaign thread" for albums with youtubes?

AMT weren't actually vetoed, i nominated them, but you conveniently left 'em off the noms list ^_____^

I didn't see them, honestly. But you nominated so much stuff haphazardly to be a pain in the arse so it's your own fault.
Now off you go and start the youtube thread! I'm going to go back to bed for a few more hours.

so.... you were sleeping, then woke up to check the ilx metal poll thread, and now are going back to bed?

I didn't wake up to check it. I woke up, couldn't get right back to sleep, so I got a drink and checked my emails then had a quick look here. Now I really am going back to bed.

what kind of drink did you have?

orange juice

and bacardi 151

Sent in my ballot! And here's the spotify playlist link again in case there's people who didn't check the nominations thread:

http://open.spotify.com/user/cyclades/playlist/68hBEkhGa8bbsJWkPe0iNZ

ilxor, you forgot im teetotal?

obv. i was j/k

uh-huh

8 ballots in already

we have reached 10 ballots already! Keep em coming! Thanks to all who voted.
I assume everyone received the autoreply?

No-one want to start a youtube thread to boost albums?
If you want to do non-youtube boosting do it here! Stan for your faves and obscure curios here!

Another vote in, thanks!

11 all together so far. A good first day showing. I'm sure making lists is more fun than whatever you do during the day so hopefully more on tuesday?

Most ballots have been the full 40 btw. Which is very pleasing!

I've started *staring tracks* I like a lot on the spotify list. All subscribed spotify listeners are free to star tracks too... in case we end up wanting to do a tracks poll after-all that would help make a quick but sturdy base for a nominations list...

I picked up the Wolf People today based on the good comments so far, but I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet. Kind of weird to see a Jagjaguwar release on this nomination list, but the dude behind the counter was a big fan of Steeple and he usually digs cool metal stuff so I'm guessing it should hit my sweet spot.

Viceroy there didn't appear to be any demand for a tracks poll.

Looks like some more arrived, thanks!

glad to see everyone is posting right after they submit their ballots

yeah, lazy bastards!

The auto reply even asks them to do just that!

I trust ilxor will let us know?

Bill Magill will you be voting this year?

a bill magill ballot is a ballot against slough feg! maybe they'll rank lower as a result?

lol 67 votes -- can't believe we had that thread about "will ilx ppl be interested in a metal poll in 2010"

70 votes now actually.

Voted.

Voted.

wish mr. seward would vote in this!

otm

wish seward step back from that ledge my friend...

sorry.

I'm not gonna ask him, if he wants to vote he can (as can anyone). Happy to receive any ballots as long as they meet the criteria!

Thanks to all who have voted so far!

What are we up to?

73!

we got a 90+ in the alltime poll so we're not gonna top that, votes peaked yesterday as it was last working day,not had too many today, but last years poll got 50, i think the first one got 30? So it's a great turnout. A lot of alltime voters stuck around which is nice.

Anyone got requests for stats?

Something that I can show to my colleagues at Metal Hammer proving I'm not a hipster. </jk>

Show them our disgust at trying to remove the "metal" from their mags name and to shove their defending the faith bullshit up their arse in return then ;)

Ah, yeah, that's something I'd probably better not get involved in!

Some of us have long memories! Did they ever give an explanation about that?

was it the editorial team who wanted to change or the publishing company?

hmmm... turns out I have a couple of things that I forgot to nominate. just list em all now?

6 albums from my list of 30.

all pretty firmly in the metal/hardcore camp.

XXXP: Erm, I'm pretty sure I don't know a single person who was there back then (when?) so I can't comment. My guess is, it's an entirely different team... publishers included. (It's certainly not since I've been working there... since 2003 but I'm guessing you mean during Nu Metal.)

I mainly write for the Subteranea, extreme metal section about noise and avant garde shit but I'll rep all day and night for Alex Mil@s the editor who is a true gentleman and a pleasure to work for and Jon $elzer, my commissioning editor, who obviously cut his teeth on Melody Maker and Terrorizer and is a good friend but more importantly, really, really knows his shit. Also with writers like Dom Lawson and Joel McIver on board it's pretty much rock solid. It's genuinely my favourite UK metal magazine but obv. Terrorizer comes a close second. Hammer are good people and they've always treated me very well, which is sadly quite a rarity in journalism over here.

There's stuff in it I'm not interested in of course but then I'm a 39-year-old not a teenager/20-something!

I've never even heard of this dropping the "Metal" from the title thing but it sounds like the sort of thing that perhaps got floated by marketing people if it's true.

Even if I was supposing stuff about a magazine that I loathed, I wouldn't credit an editorial team with that much dim-wittedness. I mean, the mag that's always trying to purge the metal is K!...

... meant to say but even in the case of me disliking K! I know there are some awesome writers on their team but they're hamstrung by a highly corporate atmosphere instigated by Bauer's marketing division.

oh, just read the rules up top. (duh.) here's the list of stuff that wasn't on the noms google doc:

Abscess - Dawn Of Inhumanity
Ares Kingdom - Incendiary
Bastard Noise - A Culture Of Monsters
Bastard Noise / The Endless Blockade - The Red List (Split)
Starlit - Ataraxis (I think I already mentioned this one?)
Witchery - Witchkrieg

just gonna go ahead and send off my list to ya, kerr. let me know if there are any issues.

I think those all look ok. Just beware you will be the only voter for them!

yeah, no biggie.

just voted!

gaaaahh dont split votes into blocks. Makes it murder for C&Ping.

whoopso. sorry!

76 people have voted now

into the last 24 hours we go

voting will finish midnight UK time.

think we'll reach 80?

Stats I'd like to see, but I don't know how possible they may be:

- how 'obscure' a voters ballot is (this could be based subjectively by the poll-runners or by # of records sold)
- who voted most/highest for what subgenres
- stats on the highest-to-lowest number of votes for bands by country (ie which country is making the best metal, which is making the worst)

I know I was told the country thing would be a big pain in the ass but I still like it as an idea. Just floating it out there... I can't believe we've got this many ballots. Very impressive!

Getting reliable/any sales figures from Japan, Ukraine or Czech is not easy though.

so go by facebook hits maybe?

thank god I dont have facebook..

OK, I've got obscurity and various genre breakdowns. Algerian has volunteered to add countries, but he said he's going to do it while watching FA Cup, so don't be surprised if Wales and Scotland show up.

Not worth it , I think only scots band is Black Sun and welsh is Bullet For My Valentine. So United Kingdom it is .

Cant do mordy metal this year, he hasn't voted!

I wanted to, but I only listened to mordy metal this year and there wasn't enough of it to compose a ballot.

Iron Maiden - Mordy In The Rue Morgue

Black Sabbath - Sabbath, Mordy Sabbath

Mayhem - Mordy Ad Chao

Google Trends score!

6 hours that took to input countries.

thanks goalkeeper!!

no Mordy metal vote; no etc.

1 hour left for voting

VOTING IS CLOSED

Thank you to all who voted. Rollout will start very soon once Glenn has double checked everything.

I'll probably be on my best behavior because I have no idea what's coming (thus, I won't be disappointed)!

Everyone go to The Jizz & Poop 2010 Albums Poll (Metal Edition) Countdown To Extinction Begins..

Could a mod lock this thread please?