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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2019 3:36 pm Tue Jan 01, 2019 3:36 pm 135 ballots with votes for 563 unique albums. The results are presented with the final number of votes for each position on their respective ballots. Point totals can be found in the other thread if you'd like a refresher. Anyway, I know what you're all here for, so HERE ARE THE RESULTS:



ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2018

Visigoth – Conqueror's Oath: 8-1-1-0-1-4-0-3-2-2 = 293pts Amorphis – Queen of Time: 6-3-3-1-2-1-0-0-1-1 = 292pts Solstice – White Horse Hill: 6-1-1-2-2-0-2-1-1-0 = 245pts Satan – Cruel Magic: 0-6-1-3-3-3-2-1-0-0 = 244pts Voivod – The Wake: 4-1-1-4-3-2-0-2-4-0 = 243pts Varathron – Patriarchs of Evil: 2-4-1-1-3-1-3-2-0-1 = 214pts Primordial – Exile Amongst the Ruins: 2-1-3-2-2-3-0-2-1-0 = 191pts Judas Priest – Firepower: 0-2-3-3-2-2-2-3-0-2 = 179pts Horrendous – Idol: 2-2-2-1-1-2-0-3-1-0 = 168pts Chapel of Disease - …and as We Have Seen the Storm...: 2-4-1-0-0-2-1-0-2-0 = 163pts Deceased – Ghostly White: 0-3-0-2-5-2-2-1-1-1 = 163pts Sulphur Aeon – The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos: 3-1-2-1-2-0-1-0-0-0 = 161pts Slugdge – Esoteric Malacology: 3-0-1-2-2-1-0-0-0-0 = 142pts 1914 – The Blind Leading the Blind: 1-1-3-0-2-2-1-0-0-1 = 131pts Funeral Mist – Hekatomb: 1-5-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-2 = 123pts Archgoat – The Luciferion Crown: 2-0-1-3-1-0-1-0-2-0 = 121pts Tribulation – Down Below: 1-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-0 = 118pts Tomb Mold – Manor of Infinite Forms: 0-2-3-0-2-1-2-1-2-2 = 116pts Obscura – Diluvium: 2-2-0-2-0-0-0-0-1-1 = 113pts Svartidauði - Revelations of the Red Sword 1-3-1-0-0-1-0-1-1-0 = 108pts Ghost – Prequelle: 2-0-1-2-0-0-3-0-0-0 = 107pts Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love: 2-0-1-1-2-1-0-0-0-0 = 105pts Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods: 1-0-3-1-0-0-1-3-1-3 = 105pts Summoning – With Doom We Come: 2-2-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-2 = 104pts Panopticon – The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness: 2-0-2-0-1-0-2-0-0-2 = 104pts Beyond Creation – Algorythm: 2-1-0-2-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 92pts Thou – Magus: 2-0-2-0-1-0-0-0-1-0 = 92pts Necrophobic – Mark of the Necrogram: 0-0-2-2-1-1-1-2-1-0 = 88pts Akitsa – Credo: 1-0-2-1-1-1-0-0-0-0 = 85pts Hooded Menace – Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed: 1-0-1-1-0-2-0-3-0-1 = 81pts Mare – Ebony Tower: 2-0-0-2-0-0-1-0-0-0 = 80pts Aborted – Terrorvision: 2-0-1-0-0-0-1-1-1-1 = 78pts Spite – Antimoshiach: 1-2-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 76pts Hyperdontia – Nexus of Teeth: 1-0-1-1-2-0-0-1-0-0 = 76pts Gotsu Totsu Kotsu – The Final Stand: 2-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 72pts Wytch Hazel – II: Sojourn: 1-0-0-1-0-2-1-1-3-2 = 71pts Uada – Cult of a Dying Sun: 0-1-3-0-0-0-1-0-1-0 = 71pts Sigh – Heir to Despair: 0-2-0-1-2-0-0-0-1-0 = 70pts Khemmis – Desolation: 0-1-0-1-2-1-0-1-3-1 = 69pts Mournful Congregation – The Incubus of Karma: 2-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 68pts Kalmah – Palo: 0-1-1-0-1-1-2-1-0-0 = 67pts Skeletal Remains – Devouring Mortality: 1-0-0-1-0-2-2-0-0-1 = 66pts Skeletonwitch – Devouring Radiant Light: 1-0-0-0-2-2-0-0-1-1 = 64pts Thy Catafalque – Geometria: 1-0-1-1-0-1-0-1-0-0 = 64pts Rivers of Nihil – Where Owls Know My Name: 0-0-2-1-1-1-0-1-0-0 = 64pts Aura Noir – Aura Noire: 0-1-0-2-0-2-0-1-0-0 = 62pts Cultes des Ghoules – Sinister, or Treading the Darker Paths: 1-0-0-0-1-1-2-1-1-0 = 61pts Deicide – Overtures of Blasphemy: 0-1-0-0-2-2-0-1-1-1 = 61pts Spectral Wound – Infernal Decadence: 0-1-0-1-1-2-0-1-0-0 = 60pts Shylmagoghnar – Transience: 1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 58pts Vomitor – Pestilent Death: 1-1-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-0 = 57pts Sleep – The Sciences: 1-1-0-0-0-0-1-1-1-2 = 57pts Behemoth – I Loved You at Your Darkest: 1-1-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-1 = 56pts Ihsahn – Amr: 0-2-0-0-1-0-1-1-0-0 = 56pts Untamed Lands – Between the Winds: 1-0-0-1-1-1-0-0-0-0 = 55pts Panphage – Jord: 0-0-2-1-1-0-0-0-1-0 = 54pts RÛR - RÛR: 0-0-1-1-1-0-2-1-0-0 = 53pts Entropia – Vacuum: 2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0 = 52pts Portal – ION: 1-0-0-1-0-1-1-0-0-1 = 52pts Eneferens – The Bleakness of Our Constant: 0-2-0-0-0-0-2-1-0-0 = 52pts Orphaned Land – Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs: 0-1-2-0-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 52pts Mary's Blood – Revenant: 1-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0 = 51pts Black Viper – Hellions of Fire: 1-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1 = 51pts Inferi – Revenant: 1-0-0-2-0-0-0-0-1-0 = 51pts Sacral Rage – Beyond Celestial Echoes: 1-0-0-0-0-1-1-3-0-0 = 51pts Outer Heaven – Realms of Eternal Decay: 0-1-1-1-0-0-0-1-1-0 = 51pts Psycroptic – As the Kingdom Drowns: 2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 50pts Drudkh – They Often See Dreams About the Spring: 0-1-1-1-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 49pts Aorlhac – L'espirit des Vents: 0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1-2-3 = 49pts Druid Lord – Grotesque Offerings: 1-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 48pts Burial Invocation – Abiogenesis: 1-0-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-0 = 47pts Gaerea – Unsettling Whispers: 0-1-0-1-0-2-0-0-0-0 = 46pts Slaegt – The Wheel: 1-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-0-0 = 45pts The Night Flight Orchestra – Sometimes the World Ain't Enough: 0-0-3-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 45pts Harakiri for the Sky – Arson: 0-0-2-0-0-0-0-3-1-1 = 45pts Obliteration – Cenotaph Obscure: 0-0-0-2-0-1-1-1-1-1 = 45pts Kriegsmachine – Apocalypticists: 0-1-0-0-2-0-1-0-0-0 = 44pts Necros Christos – Domedon Doxomedon: 1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 43pts Lik – Carnage: 0-1-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0 = 43pts Alkaloid – Liquid Anatomy: 0-0-1-1-1-0-1-0-0-0 = 43pts Imperial Triumphant – Vile Luxury: 1-0-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-1 = 42pts Rapture – Paroxysm of Hatred: 0-0-2-1-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 42pts Dream Troll – The Witch's Curse: 0-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-1 = 41pts Runemagick – Evoked from Abysmal Sleep: 0-0-1-1-0-1-1-0-0-0 = 41pts Wayfarer – World's Blood: 0-0-1-1-0-0-2-0-0-2 = 41pts The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Paleozoic: 1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 40pts Seasons of the Wolf – Last Act of Defiance: 1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 40pts Altars of Grief – Iris: 1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-1 = 40pts Wolfheart – Constellation of the Black Light: 0-2-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 40pts Saxon – Thunderbolt: 0-1-0-0-1-0-2-0-0-0 = 40pts Scorched – Ecliptic Butchery: 0-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1 = 39pts Convulsing – Grievous: 0-1-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0 = 39pts The Crown – Cobra Speed Venom: 0-0-0-1-2-0-1-0-0-1 = 39pts Craft – White Noise and Black Metal: 1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1 = 38pts Deathhammer – Chained to Hell: 1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-1 = 38pts Sacred Leather – Ultimate Force: 0-1-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 38pts Powerwolf – The Sacrament of Sin: 1-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0 = 37pts Madder Mortem – Marrow: 1-0-0-0-0-0-2-0-0-0 = 37pts Outre-Tombe – Necrovortex: 0-1-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 37pts Gatekeeper – East of Sun: 0-0-1-0-1-0-2-0-0-0 = 37pts Manticora – To Kill To Live To Kill: 1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1 = 36pts Hate Eternal – Upon Desolate Sands: 0-0-1-1-0-0-1-0-1-1 = 36pts Autokrator – Hammer of the Heretics: 0-0-1-1-0-0-1-0-1-1 = 36pts Whipstriker – Merciless Artillery: 1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0 = 35pts Hitten – Twist of Fate: 0-0-1-0-1-0-1-1-0-0 = 35pts Alice in Chains – Rainier Fog: 0-1-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 34pts Cypecore – The Alliance: 1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 33pts Wolftooth – Wolftooth: 0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 33pts Bloody Tyrant – Hagakure: 1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0 = 31pts Judicator – The Last Emperor: 1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0 = 31pts Bosse-de-Nage – Further Still: 0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1 = 31pts Morne – To the Night Unknown: 0-0-1-1-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 31pts Monstrosity – The Passage of Existence: 0-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-1-0 = 31pts Knelt Rote – Alterity: 0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 30pts Exlimitir – It Weighed Itself in Silver: 0-0-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 30pts White Wizzard – Infernal Overdrive: 1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 29pts Urfaust – The Constellatory Practice: 0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 28pts Atlas Moth – Coma Noir: 0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0 = 28pts Ascension – Under Ether: 0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0 = 28pts Wolvhammer – The Monuments of Ash and Bone: 0-1-0-0-0-0-1-1-0-0 = 28pts Thaurorod – Coast of Gold: 0-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-3-0 = 28pts Primal Fear – Apocalypse: 1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0 = 27pts Haunt – Burst Into Flames: 0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1 = 27pts Sargeist – Unbound: 0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-4-1 = 27pts Sear Bliss – Letters from the Edge: 0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 27pts Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind of Horror: 0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-1-0 = 27pts Outre – Hollow Earth: 0-0-0-1-1-0-0-1-0-1 = 27pts Yob – Our Raw Heart: 0-0-0-1-1-0-0-1-0-1 = 27pts Messa – Feast for Water: 1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1 = 26pts Jungle Rot – Jungle Rot: 0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 26pts Blood Red Fog – Thanatotic Supremacy: 0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 26pts Riot V – Armor of Light: 0-0-0-1-0-0-2-0-1-0 = 26pts Ironflame – Tales of Splendor and Sorrow: 0-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-1-1-0 = 26pts Light this City – Terminal Bloom: 0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0 = 25pts Whoredom Rife – Hymner av hat: 0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0 = 25pts Chevalier – Chapitre II: 0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0 = 25pts Omnium Gatherum – The Burning Cold: 0-0-0-0-2-0-0-1-0-1 = 25pts Gorod – Æthra: 0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0 = 24pts Mol – Jord: 0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0 = 24pts Barren Earth – A Complex of Cages: 0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-1-1 = 24pts Infernal Coil – Within a World Forgotten: 0-0-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-0 = 24pts Shining – X – Varg utan flock: 0-0-0-0-1-0-2-0-1-0 = 24pts Alterbeast – Feast: 0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 23pts Avslut – Deceptis: 0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 23pts A Sound of Thunder – It Was Metal: 0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 23pts Mirror of Deception – The Estuary: 0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-1-0 = 23pts Skyborne Reveries – Winter Lights: 0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 22pts Clouds – Dor: 0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 22pts Sergeant Thunderhoof – Terra Souls: 0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 22pts Torture Rack – Malefic Humiliation: 0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 22pts Human Serpent – For I, The Misanthropist: 0-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0 = 22pt Memoriam – The Silent Vigil: 0-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0: 22pts Stryvigor – Lifelong Journey: 0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0 = 21pts Fifth Angel – The Third Secret: 0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0 = 20pts Angra – Omni: 0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-1 = 20pts Leviathan – Can't be Seen by Looking: 0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 20pts Euphoreon – Ends of the Earth: 0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 20pts Lovebites – Clockwork Immortality: 0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 20pts Cross Vein – Gates of Fantasia: 0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 20pts Witherfall – A Prelude to Sorrow: 0-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-0-0 = 20pts Ash of Ashes – Dawn of the White Waters: 0-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-1-0 = 20pts Bloodbath – The Arrow of Satan is Drawn: 0-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-2 = 20pts The Skull – The Endless Road Turns Dark: 0-0-0-0-1-0-0-2-1-0 = 20pts House of Atreus – From the Madness of Ixion: 0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1 = 19pts Acolytes of Moros – The Wellspring: 0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1 = 19pts Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed III: 0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1 = 19pts Drawn and Quartered – The One Who Lurks: 0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 19pts Revocation – The Outer Ones: 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-1-1 = 19pts Hinayana – Order Divine: 0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0 = 18pts Kroda – Selbstwelt: 0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0 = 18pts Binah – Phobiate: 0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0 = 18pts Victorius – Dinosaur Warfare – Legend of the Power Saurus: 0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0 = 18pts Bongripper – Terminal: 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-1-0 = 18pts Stygian Oath – Stygian Oath: 0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0 = 17pts Lethean – The Waters of Death: 0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0 = 17pts Pagan Hellfire – At the Resting Depths Eternal: 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-1 = 17pts Evoken – Hypnagogia: 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 16pts Arrayan Path – Archegonoi: 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0 = 16pts Soreption – Monument of the End: 0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0 = 16pts Voices – Frightened: 0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0 = 16pts Esoctrilihum – Inhuma: 0-0-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-0 = 16pts Cosmic Atrophy – The Void Engineers: 0-0-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-0 = 16pts Krisiun – Scourge of the Enthroned: 0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0-1-0 = 16pts Angantyr – Ulykke: 0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0-1-0 = 16pts Metal Church – Damned if You Do: 0-0-0-0-0-0-2-1-0 = 16pts Pale Divine - Pale Divine: 0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-1 = 15pts Gama Bomb – Speed Between the Lines: 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-2 = 14pts Dodsrit – Spirit Crusher: 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-2 = 14pts Basalte – Vertige: 0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0 = 14pts Cantique Lépreux - Paysages Polaires: 0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0 = 14pts Unlucky Morpheus – Change of Generation: 0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0 = 14pts Hoth – Astral Necromancy: 0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-2-0 = 14pts Sign of the Jackal – Breaking the Spell: 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1 = 13pts Un – Sentiment: 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1 = 13pts Altar of Perversion – Intra Naos: 0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-1 = 13pts Rites of Thy Degringolade – The Philosophical Blade: 0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0 = 12pts Pestilence – Hadeon: 0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0 = 12pts Of Feather and Bone – Bestial Hymns of Perversion: 0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-2-0 = 12pts Imber Luminis – Contrasts: 0-0-0-0-0-0-2-0-0-0 = 12pts Elderwind – The Colder the Night: 0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-1-0 = 12pts High on Fire – Electric Messiah: 0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0-2 = 12pts Acherontas – Faustian Echoes: 0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1 = 11pts Iron Void – Excalibur: 0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1 = 11pts Clandestine Blaze – Tranquility of Death: 0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0-1 = 11pts None – Life Has Gone On Long Enough: 0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0 = 10pts Angelus Apatrida – Cabaret de la Guillotine: 0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1 = 10pts Dautha – Brethren of the Black Soil: 0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0-0 = 10pts Khorada – Salt: 0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1 = 9pts Derdian – DNA: 0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1 = 9pts Exmortus – The Sound of Steel: 0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1 = 9pts Therion – Beloved Antichrist: 0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0- = 8pts Esoctrilihum – Pandaemorthium: 0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0 = 8pts Pig Destroyer – Head Cage: 0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0 = 8pts Ungfell - Mythen, Maren, Pestilenz 0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0 = 8pts Cauldron – New Gods: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-0-0 = 8pts Marduk – Viktoria: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-2 = 8pts Black Majesty – Children of the Abyss: 0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1 = 7pts Alkonost – Oktagramma: 0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1 = 7pts At the Gates – To Drink from the Night Itself: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0 = 6pts The Antichrist Imperium - Volume II: Every Tongue Shall Praise Satan: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0 = 6pts Sumac – Love in Shadow: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0 = 6pts Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-2 = 6pts Moenen of Xezbeth – Ancient Spells of Darkness: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1 = 5pts Dynazty – Firesign: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1 = 5pts Devouring Star – The Arteries of Heresy: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1 = 5pts Irreversible Mechanism – Immersion: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1 = 5pts Shelton Chastain - The Edge of Sanity: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-0 = 4pts Into Eternity - The Sirens: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-2 = 4pts

You guys may not realize it, but this was a thrilling race to the finish this year. Amorphis, Metal Archives darlings, the first band ever added to the site and perennial favorites of many longtime users, started the polls respectably, slowly climbed up the ranks all month until they held the top spot by nearly a hundred point margin and held it for nearly two weeks, before Visigoth had a late boom and wound up passing them by one point with the last ballot on the last day. We mathematically can not ever have a tighter margin of victory than we got this year outside of a co-winner. So congratulations to Visigoth on an extraordinarily hard fought victory.



And now for something completely the same, all those lonely souls who wound up with only one vote throughout the month. Great albums nonetheless, but still shuttled off to the side to make the list readable. I give you:



RANDO CORNER

Spoiler: show 1st Place: 1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 25pts

Thousand Eyes – Day of Salvation

Kamelot – The Shadow Theory

Ultha – The Inextricable Wandering

Allfather – And All Will Be Desolation

Hamferd – Tamsins likam

Void of Silence – The Sky Over

Nocturnal Triumph – The Fangs of Memories Past

XCIII – Transience

Anachronism – Orogeny

Dawn of Winter – Pray for Doom

Red Apollo – The Laurels of Serenity

Our Place of Worship is Silence – With Inexorable Suffering

Knokkelklang – Jeg begraver

Ovate – Ovate

Sinistro – Sangue Cassia

Demonomancy – Poisoned Atonement

Substratum – Permission to Rock

Blurr Thrower - Les Avatars du Vide

Primal Cult – Perennial Fire

Stilla – Synviljor

Twitching Tongues – Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred

Inexorum – Lore of the Lakes

Earthshaker – The Story Goes On

Ursa – Abyss Between the Stars

The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer



2nd Place: 0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 18pts

Lordi – Sexorcism

Délétère - De horae leprae

Storm Upon the Masses – The Ones Who Came Back

Forest of Shadows – Among the Dormant Watchers

Toledo Steel – No Quarter

Horn – Retrograd

Hidden Intent – Fear, Prey, Demise

Deathbell – With the Beyond

Manes – Slow Motion Death Sequence

Mansion – First Death of the Lutheran

Spirit of Rebellion – The Reign of Denial

Into Oblivion – Paragon

Cor Scorpii – Ruin

Violence – Motordemon

Verheerer – Maltrer

Cult of Salem – Unhallowed Rites

Teurtonic Slaughter – Puppeteer of Death

Laudanum – III

Odious Devotion – Odious Devotion

Akula – Akula

Pure Wrath – Sempiternal Wisdom

King Goat – Debt of Aeons

Saber Tiger – Obscure Diversity

Rocka Rollas – Celtic Kings

Flight – A Leap Through Time

Sojourner – The Shadowed Road

Arkona – Khram



3rd Place: 0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 15pts

Vargrav – Netherstorm

Thirst Planet – The Essence

Ultha – Dismal Ruins pt. II

Blackslash – Lightning Strikes Again

Ride for Revenge – Sinking the Song

Raum Kingdom – Everything & Nothing

Kataklysm – Meditations

Garganjua – Through the Void

Bonehunter – Children of the Atom

Destroyer 666 – The Call of the Wild

Master's Hammer – Fascinator

Azaghal - Valo pohjoisesta

Eternal Lies – Burning the Nest

Carthage – Punic Wars

Boss Keloid – Melted on the Inch

Korpiklaani – Kulkija

Primitai – The Calling

Take Offense – Tensions are High

Antiverse – Under the Regolith

Traveler – Demo 2018

Eadem – Luguber

Vilkacis – Beyond the Mortal Gate

Idle Hands – Don't Waste Your Time

Fortress – Fortress

Witch Mountain – Witch Mountain

Galvanizer – Sanguine Vigil

Can Bardd – Nature Stays Silent

Striker – Play to Win

W.A.I.L. - Wisdom Through Agony into Illumination and Lunacy Vol. II

Filii Nigrantium Infernalium – Hostia

Evil Warriors – Fall from Reality

Elysian Blaze – The Virtue of Suffering

Eunoe - Nican Pecua Yaocuicatl

Loudness - Rise to Glory -8118-



4th Place 0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 12pts

Unearth – Extinction(s)

Skywings – The Advent Melody

Beyond the Black – Heart of the Hurricane

Lamentaciones – Memorias

Usurpress – Interregnum

Towards Atlantis Lights – Dust of Aeons

Seven Sisters – The Cauldron and the Cross

Witchkiss – Austere Curtains of Our Eyes

Purity Renaissance – Purity Renaissance

Akhenaten – Golden Serpent God

Ritual Necromancy – Disinterred Horror

Axegrinder – Satori

Violet Cold – Sommermorgan pt. III (Nostalgia)

Dead Void – The Looming Spectre

In Vain – Currents

Evangelist – Deus Vult

Ahtme – Sewerborn

Teleport – The Expansion

Vermilia – Katkyt

Dyingbreed – Under a Black Sun

Finnr's Cane – Elegy

Kill Athena – Ravaging All Within

Vilkacis/Turia – Split

Lucifericon – Al-Khem-Me

Pantheist – Seeking Infinity

Doomed – 6 Anti-Odes to Life

Whoresnation – Mephitism

Onmyo-za – Hado Myoo

My Minds Mine – Passengers of the Void

Serpent's Kiss – Dragon Lord

Rituals of the Dead Hand – Blood Oath





5th Place 0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0 = 10pts

Iron Void – Excalibur

Conjurer – Mire

Michael Romeo – War of the Worlds // Pt. 1

Abysmal Chaos – Eugene

Veiled – Black Celestial Orbs

Black Royal – Lightbringer

Dreadful Relic – Hyborean Society

Borgne – [uwu]

Mortuous – Through Wilderness

Valafar – Wolfenkind

Talsur – Tormented

Grajo – Slowgod II

Dodekathlon – Bleeding Gods

Wallachia – Monumental Heresy

Second to Sun – The Walk

The Order of Apollyon – Moriah

Lutomysl – Ecce Homo

Filthy Young Impalers – Pattern Blue

Darkest Horizon – Aenigmata

Thou – Rhea Sylvia

Atka – Untitled Album 1

Enblood – Cast to Exile

Solar Temple – Fertile Descent

Krahnholm – Granting Death

Zealotry – At the Nexus of Stillborn Worlds

Gygax - 2nd Edition

Kruberablinka – The Deepest Place

Hatchet – Dying to Exist

Cenotaphe – Horizons

Ophicvs – Steel Horned Gasmasked Metalhead

Abigor – Hollenzwang



6th Place: 0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 = 8pts

Grayceon – IV

Gutter Instinct – Heirs of Sisyphus

My Purest Heart for You – Both Paralyzed

Bonjour Tristesse – Your Ultimate Urban Nightmare

Ripped to Shreds – Mai-Zang

Corrosion of Conformity – No Cross No Crown

Orion's Reign – Scores of War

P.H.O.B.O.S. - Phlogiston Catharsis

Ancient Empire – Eternal Soldier

Oksennus – Kolme Toista

Wombripper – From the Depths of Flesh

Soul Dissolution – Nowhere

Dimmu Borgir – Eonian

Scumpulse – Rotten

Black Moth – Anatomical Venus

Outlaw – Marauders

Severoth – When the Night Falls...

Voidhanger – Dark Days of the Soul

Slavehouse – Taste in Pain

Helion Prime – Terror of the Cybernetic Space Monster

One Tail, One Head – Worlds Open, Worlds Collide

Haken – Vector

Deathstorm – The Unfathomable

Antlers – Beneath.Below.Behold

Chaos Echoes – Mouvement

Kult – The Eternal Darkness I Adore

Forged in Blood – Forged in Blood

Cosmic Church – Tayttymys

Taphos – Come Ethereal Somberness

Augury – Illusive Golden Age

Weedpecker – III

Paragon Impure – Sade

Profanatica – Altar of the Virgin Whore

Blaze Bayley – The Redemption of William Black – Infinite Entanglement III

Secret Cutter – Quantum Eraser

Reverorum ib Malacht - Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas Innoble

Uniform/The Body – Mental Wounds Not Healing

Pagan Reign – Once Again

Vojd – The Outer Ocean



7th Place: 0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0 = 6pts

Omit – Medusa Truth pt. 2

Lucifer – Lucifer II

Grave Upheaval – Untitled

Carpe Noctem – Vitrun

Mongrel's Cross – Psalter of the Royal Dragon Court

Ellorsith – Orbhais

On Thorns I Lay – Aegean Sorrow

Burkhartsvinter – Hohenkrahen

Soulfly – Ritual

Misotheist – Misotheist

Orbit Culture – Redfog

Professor Black – I Am the Rock

Eis – Stillsand und Heimkehr

Ydharl – Loss

Ulthar – Cosmovore

Empyrean Eclipse – Perdition

Unanimated – Annihilation

Ineffable Demise – Beyond the Marrow Gates

Sainte Marie des Loups – Sainte Marie des Loups

Wald Krypta – Nature Enigma

Asunojokei – Awakening

No Point in Living – I'm Alive

Shrines of Dying Light – Insomnia

Dol Ammad – Cosmic Gods: Episode II – Astroatlas

Alrakis - Echoes from η Carinae

Eliminator – Last Horizon

Lathspell/Malum – Luciferian Nightfall

Bong – Thought and Existence

Blindman – Reach for the Sky

Skull Fist – Way of the Road

Pungent Stench – Smut Kingdom

Angel of Damnation – Heathen Witchcraft

Rebellion – A Tragedy in Steel Part II: Shakespeare's King Lear

Vanik – Dark Season

Replicant – Negative Life

Full of Hell/Intensive Care – Split



8th Place: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 4pts

Master Boot Record – Virus.DOS

And Now the Owls are Smiling – Desolation

Mahr – Antelux

Nachash – Phantasmal Triunity

Manacle – No Fear to Persevere

Horizon of the Mute – Chilead Rite

Gruesome – Twisted Prayers

Bleed from Within – Era

Seventh Dimension – The Corrupted Lullaby

Silence Lies Fear – Shadows of the Wasteland

Grafjammer – Shalm and Schabauw

Hegemone – We Disappear

Reversed – Widow Recluse

Centaurus-A – Means of Escape

Gnaw Their Tongues – Genocidal Majesty

Gorycz – Piach

Dysmorphic – An Illusive Progress

Flammarion – Khanus

The Order of Chaos – Night Terror

Crescent – The Order of Amenti

Ypokosmos – Secrets of the Pulse

Hellish – The Spectre of Lonely Souls

Aeolian – Silent Witness

Deathrite – Nightmares Reign

Grave Digger – The Living Dead

Spirit Division – Forgotten Planet

Perpetual Night – Anatman



9th Place: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0 = 2pts

Unleashed – The Hunt for White Christ

Unlucky Morpheus – Sairco Jealousy

Burning Witches – Hexenhammer

Traitor – Knee Deep in the Dead

Imperceptum – Heart of Darkness

Arkhtinn - 最初の災害

Bastardizer – Dawn of Domination

Scaphism – Unutterable Horrors

Perpetrator – Altered Beast

Thrashist Regime – Carnival of Monsters

My Silent Wake – There Was Death

Antisoph – Antisoph

Seventh Wonder – Tiara

Genocide Pact – Order of Torment

Thy Antichrist – Wrath of the Beast

Homewrecker – Hell Is Here Now

Hiidenhauta – 1695

Drottnar – Monolith II

Asphagor – The Cleansing

Trollheim's Grott – Aligned with the True Death

Carved Cross - The Yawning Abyss of Perdition

Sepulcher – Panoptic Horror

Symphony of Symbols – Historiocriticism

Venom – Storm the Gates

Arsis – Visitant

Windhand – Eternal Return

Majestic Downfall – Waters of Fate

Blood Curse – Sorceress

Adaestuo – Krew Za Krew

Skyrider – Vol.1

Sorcier des Glaces – Sorcier des Glaces

Vreid – Lifehunger

Mob Rules – Beast Reborn

Traitor's Gate – Fallen

Aethereus – Absentia

Choria – Black Secret Beyond of Nature

Roman so Words – Roman's

Cruachan – Nine Years of Blood

Chthe'ilist – Passage into the Xexanotth

Nigredo – Flesh Torn – Spirit Pierced

Body Void – I Live Inside a Burning House

Organ: - Everything Is Pared Down. Minimal Expectations.



10th Place: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1 = 1pt

Ex Libris – Ann – Chapter 1 – Anne Boleyn

Wilt – Ruin

Horns – Czern

Gyre of Incandescents – Gyre of Incandescents

Voidsphere – To Await | To Expect

Faithxtractor – Proverbial Lambs to the Ultimate Slaughter

Substratum – Stratosphere

Sweeping Death – In Lucid

Carnation – Chapel of Abhorrence

Wilds Forlorn – Sapiens

Dragonlord – Dominion

Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa – Tales from Hydhradh

Black Fast – Spectre of Ruin

Artillery – The Face of Fear

Kly – Szczerzenie

Ploughshare – In Offal, Salvation

Lucifer's Child – The Order

Necropanther – Eyes of Blue Light

Mammoth Grinder – Cosmic Crypt

Slidhr – Futile Fires of Man

Parius – The Eldritch Realm

Theudho - De Roep van het Woud

Riverside – Wasteland

Apophys – Devoratis

Runespell – Order of Vengeance

Eternity's End – Unyielding

In the Woods... - Cease the Day

Mutilation Rites – Chasm

Atrocity – Okkult II

Arkhtinn – VI

Wild Hunt – Afterdream of the Reveller

Depravity – Evil Upheaval

Monotheist – Scourge

Stonewitch – The Midnight Tales

Afsky – Sorg

Solitvdo – Militia

Fate Gear – 7 Years Ago

Touch Taste Destroy – The White Swan

Iron Angel – Hellbound

Tantara – Sum of Forces

Iron Reagan/Gatecreeper – Split

Tyranny – The Demise of a Hymn Part Two



And lastly, the DEBUT OF THE YEAR tally. We're a bit down on this category this year, with 65 total entries out of 135 ballots, giving us around 48% this year. The big thing is that it was wildly spread out this year, with only one album collecting more than 2 votes!



DEBUT OF THE YEAR

Spoiler: show Gaerea – Unsettling Whispers = 3 Idle Hands – Don't Waste Your Time = 2 Mare – Ebony Tower = 2 Outer Heaven – Realms of Eternal Decay = 2 Ripped to Shreds – Mai-Zang = 2 Sacred Leather – Ultimate Force = 2 Vargrav – Netherstorm = 2 Wolftooth – Wolftooth = 2 Æpoch – Awakening Inception = 1 Ails – The Unraveling = 1 Akula – Akula = 1 Atka – Untitled Album 1 = 1 Bloodbark – Bonebranches = 1 Blurr Thrower – Les Avatars du Vide = 1 Burial Invocation – Abiogenesis = 1 Cenotaphe – Horizons = 1 Conjurer – Mire = 1 Cult of Salem – Unhallowed Rites = 1 Depravity – Evil Upheaval = 1 Eunoe - Nican Pecua Yaocuicatl = 1 Exlimitir – It Weighed Itself in Silver = 1 Eyze – Lost in Emptiness = 1 Fortress – Fortress = 1 Galvanizer – Sanguine Vigil = 1 Gjaldur – Unterm Totenbanner = 1 Goat Explosion – Rumors of Man = 1 Golgothan Remains – Perverse Offerings to the Void = 1 Grajo – Slowgod II = 1 Imperialist – Cipher = 1 Inexistence – Infinite Forms = 1 Inexorum – Lore of the Lakes = 1 Kly – Szczerzenie = 1 Knokkelklang – Jeg begraver = 1 Lamentaciones – Memoria = 1 Lethean – The Waters of Death = 1 Lifeless Dark – Who Will Be the Victims? = 1 Metalwings – For All Beyond = 1 Moenen of Xezbeth – Ancient Spells of Darkness = 1 Mol – Jord = 1 Nigredo – Split Flesh – Spirit Torn = 1 Oxygen Destroyer – Bestial Manifestations of Malevolence and Death = 1 Panegyrist – Hierurgy = 1 Replicant – Negative Life = 1 Reversed – Widow Recluse = 1 RUR – RUR = 1 Shelton Chastain – Edge of Sanity = 1 Smoulder – The Sword Woman = 1 Storm Upon the Masses – The Ones Who Came Back = 1 Suicide Forest – Suicide Forest = 1 Towards Atlantis Lights – Dust of Aeons = 1 Traveler – Demo 2018 = 1 Unravel – Eras of Forfeit = 1 Untamed Lands – Between the Winds = 1 Vermilia – Katkyt = 1 Violence – Motordemon = 1 Vouna – Vouna = 1



So congratulations to Gaerea for taking Debut of the Year 2018! It was quite a spread out vote, but you nudged the rest out and took home the prize. I gave this album a listen and it's definitely some good stuff. Nice to hear black metal with some really thick doomy/sludgey overtones.



BH's FINAL THOUGHTS

Usually I take this time to mention the distribution of genres that I noticed, pointing out as always that fans of thrash, power, and trad metal tend to gather around standout releases while black metal fans are constantly scattered all across the board, and that's true this year as much as any year (check out how saturated Rando Corner is with BM), but this year I noticed a different theme. Instead of there being a standout thrash record that the whole forum rallies around, what seemed to draw the most votes this year were classic bands who have been around for decades. This was absolutely the Year of the Veteran. The top ten consists of only three bands who are at least relatively fresh faces on the scene. Visigoth is the youngest, forming in 2010, followed by Horrendous in 2009 and Chapel of Disease in 2008. That's still roughly a decade for all of them, and everybody else in that top bracket started in the 80s or early 90s (barring Priest of course, who has existed longer than time itself). Some of them were seen as another notch in the belt continuing decades of stellar releases (Amorphis, Voivod, Primordial), some were roaring comebacks after decades of mediocre records with split fan opinion (Judas Priest), and some were the result of a band surging back after a long dormancy to prove why they weren't forgotten all along (Solstice). Hell, even one of the votes for Debut of the Year, ostensibly the category meant to highlight new talent, was for a demo that was recorded in 1988 but not released until this year! Tying into that, the only reason Deceased missed the top ten, despite technically tying for the 10th slot based on points alone, was because this was one hell of a tight year, and they unfortunately fell victim to the whole reason I distribute points in a grand prix system the way I do. Chapel of Disease simply had more votes at the top of ballots. This is why ordering your votes in such a way you're satisfied with is so important! I think this whole poll should just be a fun thing to do that you shouldn't stress yourself out too much with, but it can be a matter of missing the hall of fame or not simply for being placed lower on the list despite a high point total. The one point margin of victory, especially coming on the last ballot, was absolutely fucking bonkers and something I don't think we'll see again in these polls. It's also astonishing that the 3rd, 4th, and 5th place finalists were all within one point of each other. There truly was no clear, obvious winner that could be predicted ahead of time like with Vektor and Power Trip in the last two years, and as a result, even if I don't really care for most of the albums in the top ten personally, this is my favorite year of the poll so far.



Also it's worth noting that the bands in spots 2-4 spell out ASS.



And to round everything out, the Rando Calrissian Award for highest placement with no first place votes goes to Satan - Cruel Magic, making it all the way to 4th place without a single first place vote. These old NWOBHM classics came back with a vengeance a few years ago with Life Sentence, and now with their first release since I started running the poll, they've proven once again that they're not going anywhere.



Well that's all for 2018 everybody! I hope it was as good for you as it was for me. Now let's use this thread for discussion and list sharing! How do you feel about the results? Do you love it? Hate it? Want to slap everybody who voted for Panopticon despite half the album being dumbass country songs? Let us know! Thank you all for participating. We'll see you this time next year!





HALL OF FAME

Spoiler: show 2017

Power Trip - Nightmare Logic = 368pts Immolation - Atonement = 258pts The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia = 249pts Satan's Hallow - Satan's Hallow = 222pts Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors of Unbeing = 196pts Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper = 165pts Elder - Reflections of a Falling World = 164pts Nokturnal Mortum - Verity = 160pts Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland = 159pts Dying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck With = 158pts



2016

Vektor - Terminal Redux = 411pts Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones = 231pts Blood Incantation - Starspawn = 230pts Avantasia - Ghostlights = 201pts Sumerlands - Sumerlands = 197pts Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire = 157pts Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis = 137pts Mithras - On Strange Loops = 137pts Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika = 132pts Inquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith = 130pts Hello everybody! I just wanted to start off by saying THANK YOU to everybody who voted. This was a wild year for the poll, breaking both previous records by generatingballots with votes forunique albums. The results are presented with the final number of votes for each position on their respective ballots. Point totals can be found in the other thread if you'd like a refresher. Anyway, I know what you're all here for, so HERE ARE THE RESULTS:You guys may not realize it, but this was a thrilling race to the finish this year. Amorphis, Metal Archives darlings, the first band ever added to the site and perennial favorites of many longtime users, started the polls respectably, slowly climbed up the ranks all month until they held the top spot by nearly a hundred point margin and held it for nearly two weeks, before Visigoth had a late boom and wound up passing them by one point with the last ballot on the last day. We mathematically can not ever have a tighter margin of victory than we got this year outside of a co-winner. So congratulations toon an extraordinarily hard fought victory.And now for something completely the same, all those lonely souls who wound up with only one vote throughout the month. Great albums nonetheless, but still shuttled off to the side to make the list readable. I give you:And lastly, the DEBUT OF THE YEAR tally. We're a bit down on this category this year, with 65 total entries out of 135 ballots, giving us around 48% this year. The big thing is that it was wildly spread out this year, with only one album collecting more than 2 votes!So congratulations tofor taking Debut of the Year 2018! It was quite a spread out vote, but you nudged the rest out and took home the prize. I gave this album a listen and it's definitely some good stuff. Nice to hear black metal with some really thick doomy/sludgey overtones.Usually I take this time to mention the distribution of genres that I noticed, pointing out as always that fans of thrash, power, and trad metal tend to gather around standout releases while black metal fans are constantly scattered all across the board, and that's true this year as much as any year (check out how saturated Rando Corner is with BM), but this year I noticed a different theme. Instead of there being a standout thrash record that the whole forum rallies around, what seemed to draw the most votes this year were classic bands who have been around for decades. This was absolutely the Year of the Veteran. The top ten consists of only three bands who are at least relatively fresh faces on the scene. Visigoth is the youngest, forming in 2010, followed by Horrendous in 2009 and Chapel of Disease in 2008. That's still roughly a decade for all of them, and everybody else in that top bracket started in the 80s or early 90s (barring Priest of course, who has existed longer than time itself). Some of them were seen as another notch in the belt continuing decades of stellar releases (Amorphis, Voivod, Primordial), some were roaring comebacks after decades of mediocre records with split fan opinion (Judas Priest), and some were the result of a band surging back after a long dormancy to prove why they weren't forgotten all along (Solstice). Hell, even one of the votes for Debut of the Year, ostensibly the category meant to highlight new talent, was for a demo that was recorded in 1988 but not released until this year! Tying into that, the only reason Deceased missed the top ten, despite technically tying for the 10th slot based on points alone, was because this was one hell of a tight year, and they unfortunately fell victim to the whole reason I distribute points in a grand prix system the way I do. Chapel of Disease simply had more votes at the top of ballots. This is why ordering your votes in such a way you're satisfied with is so important! I think this whole poll should just be a fun thing to do that you shouldn't stress yourself out too much with, but it can be a matter of missing the hall of fame or not simply for being placed lower on the list despite a high point total. The one point margin of victory, especially coming on the last ballot, was absolutely fucking bonkers and something I don't think we'll see again in these polls. It's also astonishing that the 3rd, 4th, and 5th place finalists were all within one point of each other. There truly was no clear, obvious winner that could be predicted ahead of time like with Vektor and Power Trip in the last two years, and as a result, even if I don't really care for most of the albums in the top ten personally, this is my favorite year of the poll so far.Also it's worth noting that the bands in spots 2-4 spell out ASS.And to round everything out, the Rando Calrissian Award for highest placement with no first place votes goes to, making it all the way to 4th place without a single first place vote. These old NWOBHM classics came back with a vengeance a few years ago with Life Sentence, and now with their first release since I started running the poll, they've proven once again that they're not going anywhere.Well that's all for 2018 everybody! I hope it was as good for you as it was for me. Now let's use this thread for discussion and list sharing! How do you feel about the results? Do you love it? Hate it? Want to slap everybody who voted for Panopticon despite half the album being dumbass country songs? Let us know! Thank you all for participating. We'll see you this time next year!

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