~~~ VOTING THREAD FOR ILX METAL POLL 2011 - All ilxors or lurkers ballots welcomed (Closes Sunday JAN 15th @ 11.59pm UK Time)

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 10 maximum of 50) but DON'T put numbers beside your albums. Please use this format ARTIST - ALBUM , also copy & paste from the nominations list so to avoid different spellings.
Your #1 album will be first and you will rank in descending order

Subject line in the email is to be ILM Metal Poll 2011 and the address is ilxmetalpoll2011 at gmail dot com

Since we started nominations in the sandbox some of you may have missed nominations, in that case if there is something you wanted to vote for but isn't in the list PLEASE ask here in the thread first if you can have it added. But also remember that there is a strong likelihood that no-one else will vote for it if lots of ballots have been received.

Here are the 267 nominated albums, which is around the same mark as last year.

40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
a Forest of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves of Spring
A Storm of Light - As the Valley of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade
Absu - Abzu
Acephalix - Interminable Night
Acid Witch - Stoned
Across Tundras - Sage
Alastor - Demon Attack
Aldious - Determination
Alestorm- Back through Time
All Pigs Must Die - God Is War
Altar of Plagues - Mammal
Amebix - Sonic Mass
American Heritage - Sedentary
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
Amorphis - The Beginning of Times
Anaal Nathrakh - Passion
Ancestors - Invisible White
Ancient VVisdom - a Godlike Inferno
Anima Morte - The Nightmare Becomes Reality
Animals As Leaders - Weightless
Aosoth - III
Arabrot - Solar Anus
Arch Enemy - Khaos Legions
Arckanum - Helvetismyrkr
Arenna - Beats of Olarizu
Argus - Boldly Stride the Doomed
Ash Borer - Ash Borer
Asriel - Angelrhythm
Asva - Presences of Absences
Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
Ava Inferi - Onyx
Azarath - Blasphemers' Malediction
Azazel/Goatmoon - split CD
Barn Owl - Lost in the Glare
Bastard Noise - Skulldozer
Batillus - Furnace
Benighted - Asylum Cave
Black Cobra - Invernal
Black Spiders - Sons Of The North
Black Tusk - Set the Dial
Blood Ceremony - Living With the Ancients
Blood Stain Child - Epsilon
Bloodiest - Descent
Blut aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s)
Blut Aus Nord - 777 – The Desanctification
Bong - Beyond Ancient Space
Book of Black Earth - the Cold Testament
Boris - Attention Please
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Born of Osiris - the Discovery
Brain Oil - The Death Of This Dry Season
Bruce Lamont - Feral Songs for the Epic Decline
Brutal Truth - End Time
Bullet - Highway Pirates
Burzum - Fallen
Burzum - From The Depths Of Darkness
Caïna - Hands That Pluck
Cathedral - Anniversary
Cathis Ord - The Far Shore
Cauldron - Burning Fortune
Children of Bodom - Relentless, Reckless Forever
CHILDREN OF DOOM - Doom, Be Doomed, Ör Fuck Off
Cianide - Gods of Death
CIRCLE OF OUROBORUS - Eleven Fingers
Condenados - A Painful Journey Into Nihil
Corrupted - Garten der Unbewusstheit
Craft - Void
Crowbar - Sever the Wicked Hand
Cruachan - Blood on the Black Robe
Dalriada - Igeret
Danava - Hemisphere of Shadows
Dark Castle - Surrender To Life Beyond All Form
Deafheaven - Roads To Judah
Decrepitaph - Profane Doctrines Unburied
Departure Chandelier-The Black Crest of Death, The Gold Crown of War
Despise You / Agoraphobic Nosebleed - And On and On...
Destruction - Day Of Reckoning
DEVIL - Time To Repent
Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
Dibbukim - Az a Foygl un a Goylem Tantsm
Diet Pills - Diet Pills
Dir en grey - Dum Spiro Spero
Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields
Disma - Towards the Megalith
Djevel - Dodssanger
Drugs of Faith - Corroded
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1
El Dorado - Ruthless Fear
Elder - Dead Roots Stirring
Electro Quarterstaff - Aykroyd
Encoffination - O'Hell, Shine In Thy Withed Sepulchres
Ensorcelor - Crucifuge
Entrails - the Tomb Awaits
EPHELES - Je Suis Autrefois
Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance
Execration - Odes of the Occult
Exhumed- All Guts, No Glory
Falkenbach - Tiurida
Falloch - Where Distant Spirits Remain
Fell Voices - Untitled
Fen - Epoch
Freedom Hawk - Holding On
Fuck The Facts - Die Miserable
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
Gates of Slumber - the Wretch
Gentlemen's Pistols- at Her Majesty's Pleasure
Gevolt - AlefBase
Ghost Brigade - until Fear No Longer Defines Us
Ghoul - Transmission Zero
Giant Squid - Cenotes
Gigan - Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes
GNAW THEIR TONGUES - Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus
Goatmoon - Varjot
Goatpenis - Depleted Ammunition
Goreaphobia - Apocalyptic Necromancy
Grails - Deep Politics
Graveyard - Hilsingen Blues
Grayceon - All We Destroy
Gridlink - Orphan
Hammers Of Misfortune - 17th Street
Hate Eternal - Phoenix amongst the Ashes
Hell - Human Remains
Helms Alee - Weatherhead
Hey Colossus - rrr
Hills – Master Sleeps
Iced Earth - Dystopia
ICS Vortex - Storm Seeker
Ildra - Eðelland
Immortal Soul - IV: the Requiem for the Art of Death
In Solitude - The World. The Flesh. The Devil
Indian - Guiltless
Iskald - The Sun I Carried Alone
ISOLE - Born From Shadows
Iwrestledabearonce - Ruining It for Everybody
Kampfar - Mare
Karma to Burn - V
Kartikeya - Mahayuga
KEN mode - Venerable
KODIAK - Rn-Xe
Korpiklaani - Ukon Wacka
Krallice - Diotima
Kriegshetzer - Panzer Vorwarts
Kroda - Schwarzpfad
Landmine Marathon - Gallows
LANTLOS - Agape
Leaves' Eyes - Meredead
Lento - Icon
Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore
Lifelover - Sjukdom
Liturgy - Aesthethica
Loon - s/t
Loss - Despond
Loutallica - LULU
Machine Head - Unto The Locust
Manilla Road - Playground of the Damned
Mars Red Sky - Mars Red Sky
Mastodon - The Hunter
Megadeth - Thirteen
Midnight - Satanic Royalty
Midnight Odyssey - Funerals from the Astral Sphere
Mitochondrion - Parasignosis
Moab - Ab Ovo
Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa
Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus
MORKOBOT - Morbo
MORNE - Asylum
Nader Sadek - In The Flesh
Necrophagia - Deathtrip 69
Necros Christos - Doom Of The Occult
Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations
Nightwish - Imaginaerum
Obake - Obake
Obscura - Omnivium
Old Silver Key - Tales Of Wanderings
Omega Massif - Karpatia
Opeth - Heritage
Orchid - Capricorn
ORDOG - Remorse
Origin - Entity
Orthodox - Baal
Pantheïst - Pantheist
Patria - Liturgia Haeresis
Pentagram - Last Rites
Peste Noire - l'Ordure A l'Etat Pur
Petrychor - Effigies And Epitaphs / Dryad
Pharaoh Overlord - Out Of Darkness
Pitom - Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes
Portrait - Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae
Powerwolf - Blood of the Saints
Premonition 13 - Premonition 13
Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
Raspberry Bulbs-Nature Tries Again
Ravencult - Morbid Blood
RAVENTALE - Bringer Of Heartsore
Red Fang - Murder the Mountains
Revocation - Chaos of Forms
Rhapsody of Fire - from Chaos to Eternity
Riot - Immortal Soul
Rotten Sound - Cursed
Russian Circles - Empros
Rwake - Rest
Samael - Lux Mundi
Saviours -Death's Procession
Scale the Summit - the Collective
Seidr - For Winter Fire
Septic Flesh - The Great Mass
Serpent Venom - Carnal Altar
Shooting Guns - Born To Deal In Magic: 1952-1976
Siena Root - Root Jam
Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination
Slough Feg - Made In Poland
Soft Kill - An Open Door
SÓLSTAFIR - Svartir Sandar
Sonne Adam - Transformation
Sorcier De Glaces - The Puressence Of Primitive Forests
Speedwolf - Speedwolf
Subrosa - No Help For The Mighty One
Sungrazer - Mirador
Svolk - Svolk 'Em All
Symphony X - Iconoclast
Taake - Noregs Vapen
TesseracT - One
The Atlas Moth - An Ache for the Distance
The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre
The Flight Of Sleipnir - Essence of Nine
The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch
The Georgian Skull - Mother Armageddon, Healing Apocalypse
The Meads of Asphodel - the Murder of Jesus the Jew
the Psychic Paramount - II
THE WOUNDED KINGS - In The Chapel Of The Black Hand
Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg
Tiluland - Axes Of The Universe
Today Is the Day - Pain Is a Warning
Tombs - Path Of Totality
Toxic Holocaust - Conjurer and Command
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
Turisas - Stand Up And Fight
Twisted Tower Dire - Make It Dark
Tyr - The Lay Of Thrym
ulcerate - destroyers of all
Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats - Blood Lust
Vader - Welcome to the Morbid Reich
Vallenfyre - A Fragile King
Vastum - Carnal Law
Vektor - Outer Isolation
Vintersorg - Jordpuls
Virus - The Agent That Shapes The Desert
Vreid - V
Weedeater - Jason...the Dragon
Weekend Nachos - Worthless
While Heaven Wept - Fear of Infinity
White Willow - Terminal Twilight
Wight - Wight Weedy Wight
Windhand - Windhand
Witch Mountain - South Of Salem
Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
Wolf - Legions Of Bastards
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
Wolvhammer - The Obsidian Plains
WOODEN STAKE - Black Caped Carnivore
Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason
Woods of Ypres - Woods 4: the Green Album
wormrot - dirge
Wreck Of The Hesperus - Light Rotting Out
YOB - Atma
Zebulon Pike -Space Is the Corpse of Time

Google Spreadsheet Any updates will be added there.

HAPPY VOTING!

Please post here when you voted confirming you got your automated reply. (helps keep thread bumped too)

If you can only manage 10 on your ballot that is fine, but if you can do more then all the better as it will help with ties.
Your #1 album will receive 50 points, #2 will receive 49 points etc

here's as many noms as I could find on spotify, in one convenient playlist!

http://open.spotify.com/user/v1c3r0y/playlist/3iDbLB1n1SB30gn5p5dTWz

― Frobisher, Sunday, January 1, 2012 6:42 PM

Will this also be the campaigning thread with youtubes?

I think I've heard all of one record from this list. Didn't even hear the Anima Morte this year.

Lol the 'heaviest' records I listened to this year were Iceage and The Men. I guess they're not metal then, or just not considered any good?

Fucked Up and The Psychic paramount were both nominated, so I think they were both "not metal". I like all four of those records, but don't think I would vote for any of them in a metal poll. Having said that, I nominated Barn Owl so what do I know?

I know it was a joke nomination but I was actually interested in this year's Yes album; if I liked it I probably would've thrown it some points...

FYI: The Gates of Slumber is on here twice, under both G and T.

ok cheers.
you can campaign in this thread but please start a separate thread for youtubes

fyi, the provisional schedule for the ILM EOY poll is to close voting on the 20th and roll out results from the 23rd. This would mirror the schedule from last year, and is as late as we can do without having most of the countdown happening in February (feel like Feb is rather late for 2011 retrospectives).

I get that the Sandbox situation has messed with scheduling this year, but if you want to get the metal results out before the big poll maybe you could bring your dates forward a bit? Sorry about all this.

I guess we have no choice but to bring it forward a week but I'm not sure that leaves enough time for voting from previous experience.
Plus the mods (well, wmc) hate it when i ask them to change thread titles so you can ask for me!

and ez snappin is 1st again (shockingly a 2nd person got his in abnormally early this year)

Already did 90% of the work last month. It's only 20, but after that the small differences would have made everything arbitrary, and maybe only 10 or so of those will still be in my collection a year from now.

Where's all my nominations???

you must have made them on the sandbox and i didnt see them. i can add them to the spreadsheet if you want. But its unlikely a mod would add them to the 1st post

just making a shortlist now for my ballot and fuck me, it was a pretty good year for (underground) metal at least. Dont see any of these albums selling millions but at least good albums are still being made.

Ugh, I made most of them well over a week ago. Here they are again. I'm not being completist, most of these would make my ballot.

Anatomy Of Habit
Arkona - Slovo
Beastwars
Belzebong - Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves
Black Capricorn
Black Pyramid - II
Crumbling Ghost
Dopethrone - Dark Foil
East Of The Wall - The Apologist
Cynic - Carbon Based Anatomy EP
Dark Buddha Rising - Abyssolute Transfinite
Demonic Death Judge - The Descent
Eggnogg - Moments in Vacuum
Glitter Wizard - Solar Hits
Green & Wood - Devil's Plan
Hands Of Orlac
Hull - Beyond the Lightless Sky
Ice Dragon - The Sorrowful Sun
Krux - III - He Who Sleeps Amongst The Stars
Leather Nun America - Kult Occult
Lord Vicar - Signs Of Osiris
Maligno - The Funeral Domine
Obrero - Mortui Vivos Docent
Roadkillsoda - A Fucked Up Trip Gone Bad
SerpentCult - Raised By Wolves
Slabdragger - Regress
USX (U.S. Christmas) - The Valley Path
Weedsnake
White Wizzard - Flying Tigers
Wizard Smoke - The Speed Of Smoke
Wo Fat - Noche del Chupacabra

some of them i want to vote for too so its ok. The sandbox went offline and i hadnt updated the spreadsheet as it was christmas and i didnt expect it to disappear

anyway my shortlist is about 75 now.

john if youre reading this could you add them to the first post please?

NOMINATIONS SPREADSHEET UPDATED

And I've voted. 4 ballots so far.

Thanks! I sent some links in your ilxors-love-metal thread for those who want to do some last-minute listening.

Remember john did a Spotify list too for everyone to subscribe to

I have a feeling a lot of these aren't on Spotify. Wizard Smoke is available for free (legally) at http://www.wizardsmoke.net/

Others are on Bandcamp that you can stream, or buy relatively cheap:

http://anatomyofhabit.bandcamp.com/album/anatomy-of-habit
http://beastwars.bandcamp.com/
http://belzebong.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-scapes-weedy-grooves
http://demonicdeathjudge.bandcamp.com/
http://dopethrone.bandcamp.com/
http://glitterwizard.bandcamp.com/
http://cyclopeanrecords.bandcamp.com/
http://icedragon.bandcamp.com/album/the-sorrowful-sun
http://weedsnake.bandcamp.com/album/weedsnake
http://wofat.bandcamp.com/album/noche-del-chupacabra

http://orchid.bandcamp.com/track/capricorn

as requested ~ YOUTUBE COMPANION THREAD FOR ILM METAL POLL 2011

I put up some songs from albums I really liked and think people would enjoy. Hope you all do the same.

Spreadsheet updated Please look at it before voting.

remember everyone due to a clash with the big ILM poll the last date to vote has been brought forward to the 15th.

Voted.

I posted the thread title request in MRF. Godspeed, metal pollsters.

Thanks Høstrød

thanks mr doily

Forgot to nominate the new Anthrax record. Does anyone care?

I'll add it to spreadsheet. What is it called?

9 ballots so far

Anthrax - Worship Music

Spreadsheet updated

Just wanted to add the Bandcamp link for streaming the nominated Petrychor - Effigies and Epitaphs album:

http://petrychor.bandcamp.com/ "> http://petrychor.bandcamp.com/

Voted

Everyone getting an automated reply?

Anyone?

yes

ahh cheers. I like to know this after billy dods didnt get his ballot counted after his email didn't reach us for some reason in a previous poll.

16 ballots now. I hope people dont leave it too late then realise the closing date was brought forward as if you bookmark the thread it still says jan 22nd on it!

alright i voted
got the confirmation too

was pleased to know that i actually had 10 things to vote for

yay

remember to campaign on ~ YOUTUBE COMPANION THREAD FOR ILM METAL POLL 2011

if last year is anything to go buy it really can make a huge difference. Glenn campaigned for Agrypnie and it did really really well.

bruce lamont for presidnet of 2011

why because hes intersting

no more ballots since this afternoon :(

everyone get in on THE 2011 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ Voting Thread (ends at MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 20th, 2011)

no ballots for 24 hours :(

(hint)

steampig67 can you check your email please. You have a duplicate in your ballot.

the others i emailed all replied so just waiting on yours :)

last few hours of an american work day to vote. You guys dont want to leave it to the weekend do you? When you should be out partying.

I'll finish mine up in the morning.

cool. Can I remind everyone to double check their ballots before emailing as a lot of people have been sending in duplicate entries.

needle is awesome as it catches them though!

I found some pretty good stuff through the spotify link and YouTube vids but over all I haven't been really blown away like I have in the past. I haven't really listed to as much new music this year though. Time and money have both been in short supply.

i was going to try to rally some support for anatomy of habit but i'm sure it's probably too late

BUT

IF YOU LIKE the gloomiest side of SWANS, you will like Anatomy of Habit. They have a gong!

it isnt. im sure a lot of people still have to send in ballots. So they will maybe have spaces for albums on their ballots (that goes for any albums on the list)

Also I would be glad to see you all posting on this poll thread I just started
A question about what you like best about ILM EOY/or other big email type polls

uh dudes did we really forget to nom ulver - war of the roses

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

i think someone (ez snappin?) said on sandbox that it wasn't metal so it shouldn't count and noone disagreed with him.

yeah but ulver hasnt put out a "metal" album for like 10 years

ULTIMATE SADFACE

ilx metalheads want turisas not ulver

I sad it was crap. Not sure if I said it wasn't metal (though it's not).

ilx metalheads want turisas not ulver

I don't want either, tbh. Maybe the Ulver of old.

i like current Ulver as much as old Ulver

well less than 48 hours to get ballots in. All ilxors and lurkers are welcome to vote

thanks J3ff!

Sent. And now the nagging suspicion that I've got it totally wrong.

just voted.

spent little time pondering on the tree of woe so I hope that I don't regret it later!

if you guys forget something i will take a resent ballot

That would mean thinking about it again, to remember I'd forgotten something. It's better this way.

22 and a bit hours to get your ballots in

71 ballots so far please add some more!

results will be ready as soon as voting closes. Do you all want a few albums posted as we usually do then or do you want to wait for monday morning?

If you can get to the top 50 by Monday it'd be appreciated.

haha. I'll email you when we get to the top 3

i do hope Henry pops out of his kennel to participate this year.
You all want Henry, right?

I have sent my ballot and received my automated reply.

Everytime I try and make a list of what albums I have and what albums I need, I get about 25 entries into it and just close the file. Too much music to digest, even if it's just trying to figure out what I already digested...

no excuses!

4 1/2 hours left to vote. Thanks to all who have voted and if anyone is reading this please send more ballots!

Will post a few results after midnight to get the thread rolling.
Results look interesting atm. its damn close too

Weeeeee!

2 hours to go

looking forward to this, sadly I will be in bed before the results start to be rolled out...

Is this a hint we should vote often, Chicago style?

These lists here reminded me of a couple albums I'd heard but forgot to consider, like Skeletonwitch and TesseracT. And new ones like Ringworm, Arkham Witch, Cormorant, Leprous and Unkind. Probably none of them would have made my top 50 though anyway.

http://angrierchairs.blogspot.com/2011/12/tims-top-11-of-2011.html
http://angrierchairs.blogspot.com/2011/12/dormitions-top-10-of-2011.html

Ooh, so results will start rolling tonight? I look forward to it! I'm off tomorrow so I may be going out for a drink with a friend after my run and dinner, but I'll certainly check in later.

Totally forgot to vote for Skeletonwitch. My bad.

normally we start if off just after midnight but the 2 ballots we received this evening havn't been added to needle yet as there's a problem with needle. And glenn says noone may be able to do anything til tuesday as monday is a US holiday.

so basically everything is conspiring against us.
I should imagine glenn is way too busy to calculations manually and I would never trust myself to get it right.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

we already had to bring it forward a week as the big poll was being run on those dates so we might have to wait 3 weeks. Noones gonna read this poll while the big ilm poll is on

so get praying or something.

glenn might have a solution so cross those fingers

i dont even know the results myself!

still going to close voting at midnight though.

VOTING HAS NOW CLOSED

Glenn's trying something. No promises on starting tonight as i dont know how hard it will be and he's a busy man. Results will rollout as soon as we can though.Whether thats tonight or the morning i dont know. But if all goes ok we owe glenn a lot!

we have results guys...

starting countdown in a few mins

can a mod lock this thread please? as we now have THE ILM METAL POLL 2011 RESULTS (All lurkers/non metalheads welcome to join in!)