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Best Gloom and Doom albums of 2009?

    •  BeermanBeerman
    • [size=200][color=#FF4000]The Best Gloom and Doom of 2009 Poll is now Closed.[/color][/size]

      The rules are the same as previous years:

      1. Vote for as many bands as you feel deserve the accolade Best Gloom or Doom of 2009.
      2. Try to remember who you voted for so that you don't keep voting for the same album.
      3. If you think it is Doom (or Gloom) then it is.
      4. Keep the standard high, if you'd personally give them them 10/10 or 9/10 or even 8/10 then fine, but avoid anything lower than 8/10 even if you think that's the best 2009 has to offer.
      5. Try not to waste your energies arguing if something is Doom, Gloom or not. I couldn't give a one-armed retarded monkey of Troo Doom...

      The aim

      The aim is to compile a list of great albums for the year so that we've all got a list of quality music to track down and check out for ourselves.

      Notes:

      - I've started the poll later this year as many complained last year that they couldn't understand the concept of identifying 8/10+ albums as they were released.

      - The winner doesn't necessarily have the best album, just the most popular one amongst Doomsters, Gloomsters and Stoomsters, which isn't a bad crowd to receive an acolade from.

      - If I can muster the enthusiasm votes may be harvested from Terrorizer, Ninehertz, My Dying Bride, and Doom-Metal.com, Hellridemusic and any other board I consider to be up to the underground standards of Gloom and Doom, but fan-boy idol worship will be ignored. If anyone has any suggestions of new boards to look at post away.

      - If you don't feel this is a worthwhile exercise then fine, but don't feel you have to repeatedly share that with me as some have done in previous years.

      - If you go to the '2009 Albums to Check Out' thread sticky at the top of the G&D board, link here... www.borninblood.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=6844 you'll not only see the sub-genres of many of the recommended bands but also a short review as well.

      Let the voting begin (waits for the sound of silence)....

      [color=#FFFF00]Poll results as of 31 Dec 2009[/color]

      [color=#FF8000]The entry level to get onto the chart now stands at 3 votes[/color]

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      [color=#FF8000]Scoring Order[/color]
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      [color=#FF8000]A to Z[/color]
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      [size=150]Plus the following albums have received 2 votes[/size]

      Aarni - Omnimantia EP
      Aguirre - Calvaire (Prog Sludge Metal)
      Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs
      Austerity - Austerity
      Autumnblaze - Perdition Diaries
      Black Boned Angel - Verdun
      Buried Inside - Spoils of Failure
      Culted - Beyond the Thunders of the Upper Deep
      Den Saakaldte - All Hail Pessimism
      Echoes of Yul- Echoes of Yul
      Erg Noor's - Sea Journey
      Fenriz - Red Planet + Nattefrost Split
      Frailty - Frailty (EP)
      Gaza - He Is Never Coming Back
      Greg(o)rian
      Hanging Garden - TEOTWAWKI
      Javelina - Beasts Among Sheep
      Keelhaul - Triumphant Return to Obscurity.
      Kowloon Walled City
      Masters of Reality - Pine/Cross Dover
      Memory Driven - Relative Obscurity
      My Lament - Broken Leaf
      Nox Aurea - Via Gnosis
      Ocean Chief - Den Forste
      Olde Crone - Olde Crone
      Our Survival Depends On Us - Painful Stories Told With A Passion For Life
      Paradise Lost - Drown in Darkness - The Early Demos
      Poema Arcanus - "Timeline Symmetry"
      Pombagira - Black Axis Abraxas
      Pylon - Doom
      Pyramido - Sand
      Revelations Of Rain - Revelations Of Rain
      Rituals of the Oak - Demo 2009
      Slough Feg - Ape Arising
      The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
      The Lamp of Thoth - Sing as you Slay
      The Mars Volta - Octahedron

      [size=150]Plus the following albums have received 1 vote[/size]

      Abandon - The Dead End
      Abstract Spirit - Tragedy And Weeds
      Across Tundras - Herds of the fathomless valley
      Aderlating - The Nectar of Perversity Springs from the Well of Repression
      Aeternum Sacris - The Beginning of the End
      Against Nature - Action at a Distance
      Against Nature - The First Rain
      Aglaomorpha & Opaque Lucidity - Fragments
      Agrimonia - Agrimonia
      Ahkmed - Distance (Light Rock Space Rock Stoner Doom).
      Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
      Anthony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
      Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returned
      Astra - The Weirding
      Atra Filia Demo
      Ava Inferi - Blood Of Bacchus
      Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
      Beneath Oblivion - Beneath Oblivion EP
      Bird from the Abyss - II
      Blut - This Burden
      Bong - Bong
      Bunkur - Nullify
      Burden of Grief
      Bushman's Revenge - You Lost Me at Hello
      Chickenhawk - A. Or Not
      Children Of Doom Demo
      Churches Burn - Adversary
      Cuerno - Cuerno
      Dark Castle - Spirited Migration
      David Sylvian - Manafon
      De Magia Veterum - Migdal Bave
      Depressed Mode - ...For Death
      Desire - Crowcifix
      Dictator - Dysangelist
      Dimaension X - The Doom 2 Variations
      Doomraiser - Erasing the Remembrance
      Dronehouse + Sabazius (Split)
      Edge Of Lament - Haoma
      Eggnogg - III
      Electric Wizard - Live at White Trash, Berlin, 2009
      Eternal Elysium - Within the Triad
      Eyes Of The Owl - Eyes Of The Owl
      Falcon - Die Wontcha
      Fall Of Efrafa - Inle
      Faustcoven - The Priests Command
      Fever Ray - Fever Ray
      Firebird - Grand Union
      Flood – Native
      Forest Stream - The Crown Of Winter
      Fu Manchu - Signs of Infinite Power
      Fucho - Fucho
      Funeral Hag - Demo 2009
      Funeral Mist - Maranatha
      Gallery - 2009 Demo
      Gallows of Sedition - Demo
      Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
      Goat River (Demo)
      Goblin Cock - Come With Me If You Want To Live
      Green And Wood - s/t
      Grey November (Demo)
      GreyMachine - Disconnected
      Habsyll - MMVIII
      Heavy Goods Vehicle - Live in Dave's Kitchen
      IAI - Emptiness
      In Tormentata Quiete - Teatroelementale
      Ironweed - Indian Ladder
      John Zorn - Femina
      Kentucky Fried Doom - GorekrakenBongdirge
      Kodiak
      Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
      Lo Pan - Sasquanaut
      Lobo - Alma
      Lord Vicar - Fear No Pain
      Lordamor - Lordamor
      Mala Suerte-The Shadow Tradition
      Maserati - Passages
      Melvins - Live 16 May 2009 Boston
      Mike Stern - New Morning The Paris Concert 2009
      Mirthkon - Vehicle
      Mothertrucker - Dark Transmi55ions
      Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
      Mourner - Still (EP)
      Mustasch - Mustasch
      Nadja & Black Boned Angel,
      Nyctophobia - Arid
      Oak - Oak
      Obiat - Eyes Tree Pi
      Ocean of Ghosts - Loss and Numbness
      Old One - Old One
      Om - Live Conference
      Orion's void - Orion's void
      Penuria - Time Is Agony EP
      Pete Prodoehl - Navasio
      Porcupine Tree - The Incident
      Ramesses - Baptism Of The Walking Dead (EP)
      Raven's Creed - Albion Thunder
      Resonance Room - Unspoken
      Reverend Bizarre - Magick with Tears
      Rick Moore - Better Off With The Blues
      Rigor Sardonicous - Vivescere Exitium (Live Album)
      Rising of Yog-Sothoth - Tribute To Thergothon
      Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
      Robin Trower - What Lies Beneath
      Ry Cooder - I Flathead
      Sabazius - DCLXVI
      Sabazius - Devotional Songs
      Sabazius + Dronehouse - Split
      Sarke - Vorunah
      Sea of Bones - The Harvest
      Seasick Steve - Man from Another Time
      Semlah - Semlah
      Sesta Marconi - Where The Devil Dances
      Seventh Void - Heaven Is Gone
      Shining - Klagopsalmer
      Sihr - Beneath The Twelve Mile Zone
      Sixx - Sister Devil
      Skitliv - Misantropi Skandanivisk
      Snowblood - Snowblood
      Sólstafir - Köld
      Sons of Otis - Exiled
      Stardrive - Kings And Slaves
      Stinking Lizaveta -Sacrifice and Bliss
      Sun of the Blind - Skullreader
      Swamp Da Wamp - Rock This Country
      Temples - III
      The Aeonic Order Of Vacuity - Nether Demo
      The Last Supper - The Last Supper
      The Liquescent Horror - A Funeral For Things Undying
      The Mount Fuji DoomJazz Corporation - Succubus
      The Wizard of Doom - An Odyssey In The Dark (EP)
      The Wounded Kings - The Shadow Over Atlantis
      Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
      Thergothon tribute "Rising Of Yog-Sothoth"
      This Weary Hour - No Hand to Comfort You
      Tommy McCoy & Lucky Peterson - Lay My Demons Down
      Tortured Spirit - Arkham Sanitarium
      Uptempo Blues Machine - UBM
      Vaste Burai - Vaste Burai
      Velvet Cacoon - Atropine
      Voivod - Infini
      Vom - Primative arts
      Vomir - Proanomie
      Wardruna - Gap Var Ginnunga
      White Buzz - Book Of Whyte
      Wooden Shjips - Dos
      Woods of Ypres - The Green Album (Melodic Folky Death Doom)
      Wreck of the Hesperus & De Novissimis (Split)
      Yhdarl - Drone Nightmares II - Buried Burnt Earth


      [size=200][color=#FFFF00]Voting ended New Years Eve 2009 on the 12th bong of Big Ben[/color][/size]
      [Edited by Beerman at 20:50 on 05/01/10]
    •  odoomodoom
    • i might be wrong if any of these came out this year but i would certainly recommend:

      BLOODY PANDA - summon
      TEITENBLOOD - seven chalices
      EAGLE TWIN - the unkindness of crows
      PELICAN - what we all come to need
      SNOWBLOOD - s/t
      YOB - the great cessation

      sure they'll be more. i've been following more black metal, crust and grind this year...
    •  DonnyDonny
    • Woo! Good to see pombagira on there. Keep forgetting I actually play on that album!
    •  BeermanBeerman
    • Poll's done for another year. Sunn O))) won.

      Ta.

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