Follower of Jesus wrote: What has happened?! When this place does a Top 10 and I don't even recognize the majority of the bands on the list, we've strayed far from where we started. Wow.

Since I have the hard copies of every single vote, and how they voted, I can answer this:You have 4 groups of people that voted in this:1. People that voted for Promised Land because it was shared on Facebook. They voted for that album, and maybe a few of their votes (25% maybe) were for other bands - and that was evenly split between "Classic" metal bands and modern stuff like Demon Hunter.2. People that voted for metal core / modern heavy metal. These were respondents from reddit.com/r/Christcore - I had a pretty high number of respondents there, probably more than CMR. Additionally, there were a lot less albums listed that they voted for.3. People that voted for classic heavy metal / CMR-type albums like Saint, Tourniquet, and so on. This was probably about 75% of CMR respondents. Additionally, this was the most wide, and far-reaching number of albums, since there were something like 20 classic heavy metal albums, along with other CMR-type bands that were hard rock, or prog metal (like Promised Land, Harmony, ect).4. People that voted for death/doom metal. These were likely CMR respondents too. They only voted for doom/black/death metal.. So their lists were esentially a mixture of maybe.. 5 albums, kind of like the Metalcore respondents.So the sum of the answer is that there were more classic heavy metal albums fighting over fewer votes. The metalcore voters rallied behind 5 or 6 albums, whereas the CMR-type favorites like Saint had to fight against 15-17 other albums, which prevented them from listing higher. There were a LOT of albums that got 5-15 votes that were CMR-type albums, and those were mostly votes for "Honorable mentions" which were more likely to be given out, since any user could vote for 1 album worth 3 points, but 3 albums worth 1 point each.I can gladly provide the source data for votes, but its a bit messy. I somewhat expected the votes to go the way they did in regards to the fact that metalcore bands are more popular, and there are more people that likely have heard albums from that group as opposed to the CMR group.The reason behind posting the listings to the other forum was for Christian metal evangelism. The comments I got from the metalcore respondents usually involved "I had no idea Tourniquet/Saint/ect had a new album out!" because they knew of the bands, but did not know them well enough to listen to their music prior to voting. So there are now more people aware of CMR-type bands than there were... Which was part of why I did this.. To give Christian metal listeners an idea of how much metal is really out there to listen to.In summary, here are the number of albums for each genre - and users typically voted only for albums within each genre:Heavy Metal / Thrash (CMR-type albums): 19Metalcore (Reddit/modern albums): 15Black/Death Albums: 12Hard Rock Albums: 9 (mix of CMR/Modern)Progressive Metal (CMR-type albums): 4So CMR voters had approximately 27-29 albums to choose from, where metalcore voters had, at most, 20. Then you had blackmetal fans that had even less at 12.