Pick your favorite of these Kurt Ballou produced albums

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Okay I had to excise some stuff to get it down to fifty, but I think this does a pretty good job of covering the dude's pretty impressive resume. I purposely left off the Converge remasters, as well as the 7" stuff to keep it primarily album oriented. There are some really great albums on this list. Also hoping this sparks some discussion so I can learn about some of these that I haven't heard.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Torche - Meanderthal	4
Cave-In - Until Your Heart Stops	2
Disfear - Live the Storm	2
Kvelertak - Kvelertak	2
Converge - Axe To Fall	1
Modern Life is War - Witness	1
Converge - You Fail Me	1
Orchid - Chaos Is Me	1
pg. 99 - Document #8	1
Nails - Unsilent Death	0
Young Widows - Old Wounds	0
Misery Index - Traitors	0
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft	0
Genghis Khan - Board Up the House	0
Elysia - Lion of Judas	0
Blacklisted - Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God	0
Have Heart - Songs to Scream at the Sun	0
KEN Mode - Venerable	0
the_network - Bishop Kent Manning	0
Buried Inside - Spoils of Failure	0
108 - 18.61	0
Rise and Fall - Our Circle is Vicious	0
Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind	0
Doomriders - Darkness Comes Alive	0
Trap Them - Seizures in Barren Praise	0
Black Breath - Heavy Breathing	0
The Casual Lean - Swears	0
Kruger - Redemption Through Looseness	0
I Hate Sally - Don't Worry Lady	0
Breather Resist - Charmer	0
Scars of Tomorrow - Rope Tied to the Trigger	0
Since By Man - We Sing the Body Electric	0
Embrace Today - Soldiers	0
Beecher - Breaking the Fourth Wall	0
Cursed - One	0
Suicide Note - Your Not Looking So Good	0
Carry On - A Life Less Plagued	0
Jeromes Dream - Presents	0
Champion - Promises Kept	0
Swarm of the Lotus - The Sirens of Silence	0
Animosity - Animal	0
The Ghost of a Thousand - This is Where the Fight Begins	0
Coliseum - No Salvation	0
Trap Them - Sleepwell Deconstructor	0
The Freezing Fog - March Forth to Victory	0
Betrayed - Substance	0
Converge - No Heroes	0
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth	0
Doomriders - Black Thunder	0
Orchid - Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!	0

― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago)

*bookmarks*

― markers, Thursday, 9 June 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago)

I mean, even a quick scan reveals at least 12 albums I would wholeheartedly recommend as absolutely killer albums.

― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2011 21:35 (thirteen years ago)

was between Kvelertak and KEN Mode. Picked the former. Actually not a huge fan of this guy's production style (ear fatigue lol) but he has produced some great shit.

― rockapads, Thursday, 9 June 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago)

That's kind of funny because listening to those exact two albums back-to-back today is what led me to create this poll!

― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah - this is tough - ended up going with 'Axe to Fall' but those Trap Them records are pretty good - I really need to hear that Kvelertak rekkid ...

― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 10 June 2011 02:01 (thirteen years ago)

meanderthal. my love for meanderthal knows no bounds.

― call all destroyer, Friday, 10 June 2011 02:18 (thirteen years ago)

oh shit, this dude did that? dopeeee

― markers, Friday, 10 June 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago)

i will say i really like his style in terms of giving really aggro, somewhat difficult bands a pop-like clarity and punch. i get that it's not for everyone but from my perspective it works fantastically.

― call all destroyer, Friday, 10 June 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago)

dance tonight! classic ian high school jammer. also that cave-in record.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 10 June 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago)

Oh man, too many good albums...what's that 108 one like?

― Simon H. Shit (Simon H.), Friday, 10 June 2011 02:51 (thirteen years ago)

gotta vote for that cave-in record. years of lesser hardcore/metal hybrids haven't diluted its power. (ok, maybe a little.)

― original bgm, Friday, 10 June 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago)

I remember liking chaos is me more than dance tonight! but it's been a while.

pretty into you fail me too. underrated.

― original bgm, Friday, 10 June 2011 03:21 (thirteen years ago)

So many great albums, but I voted for Disfear. One of my favourite sounding albums of the last ten years or so, the tone on that one is incredible.

― A. Begrand, Friday, 10 June 2011 03:33 (thirteen years ago)

'you fail me'. totally brutal record with a really organic sound. likely the most challenging thing converge has released.

― charlie h, Friday, 10 June 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago)

So many great albums, but I voted for Disfear. One of my favourite sounding albums of the last ten years or so, the tone on that one is incredible.

― A. Begrand, Thursday, June 9, 2011 11:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

YES

― call all destroyer, Friday, 10 June 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, that Disfear album sounds so fucking great. Really threw me for a loop when I first heard it. I'm having such a tough time deciding on this one.

― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 June 2011 04:40 (thirteen years ago)

everybody's heard that magrudergrind record right? it is awesome

― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 10 June 2011 05:31 (thirteen years ago)

Voted Modern Life is War - Witness, it's the album that got me back to hardcore in 2005. Also, the Cave-In, Have Heart and 108 records totally rule.

― Marty Innerlogic, Friday, 10 June 2011 12:00 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

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

― System, Thursday, 30 June 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

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