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1. • Beerman
   • The Best Gloom and Doom of 2008 Poll is now Closed, and the Winner is....
     
     Just a reminder, the rules were:
     
     1. Vote for as many bands as you feel deserve the accolade Best Gloom or Doom of 2008
     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 the 7/10s and below even if you think that's the best 2008 has to offer.
     5. Try not to waste your energies arguing if something is Doom, Gloom or not. I for one couldn't give a monkey's...
     
     [size=150][color=#FF8000]and the aim was to compile a list of great albums as the year went on rather than post favourite albums at the end of the year[/color][/size]
     
     Votes have been harvested from Gloom and Doom (obviously), Terrorizer, Ninehertz, My Dying Bride, and Doom-Metal.com
     
     Sooooo.....
     
     In Joint First Place with 22 votes apiece...
     
     Earth 'The Bees made honey in the Lion's skull' (Blues Doom)
     Esoteric 'The Maniacal Vale' (Death Doom)
     
     In 2nd place with 18 votes...
     
     Torche 'Meanderthal' (Stoner Sludge)
     
     and in 3rd place with 15 votes...
     
     Skepticism - Alloy (Funeral Doom)
     
     Here the final final chart showing albums with 4 or more votes...
     
     
     
     And here it is if you prefer a text list to carry around with you..
     
     
     ]22 Vote albums
     
     Earth 'The Bees made honey in the Lion's skull' (Blues Doom)
     Esoteric 'The Maniacal Vale' (Death Doom)
     
     
     18 Vote albums
     
     Torche 'Meanderthal' (Stoner Sludge)
     
     
     15 Vote albums
     
     Skepticism - Alloy Funeral Doom)
     
     
     11 Vote albums
     
     Moss Sub Templum
     Opeth - Watershed
     Virgin Black - Requiem - Fortissimo
     
     
     10 Vote albums
     
     Isole 'Bliss of Solitude'
     
     [size=150]9 Vote albums[/size]
     
     Harvey Milk 'Life… The best game in town' (Prog Gloom)
     
     
     8 Vote albums
     
     5ive 'Hesperus'
     Boris - Smile
     Chickenhawk - Chickenhawk
     DOOM:VS ' Dead Words Speak (Epic Gothic Doom)
     Genghis Tron - Board Up The House (Electro Downer Rock)
     
     
     
     7 Vote albums
     
     Ataraxie - Anhédonie
     Coffins 'Buried Death' (Black Stoner Doom)
     Jex Thoth 'Jex Thoth'
     Mar de Grises - Draining the Waterheart
     Ocean - Pantheon of the Lesser
     Sun Kil Moon 'April' (Atmospheric Downer Rock)
     The Gates Of Slumber 'Conqueror'
     Unearthly Trance 'Electrocution'
     
     6 Vote albums
     
     ASVA 'What you don't know is Frontier'
     Black Mountain 'In the Future'
     Cult Of Luna 'Eternal Kingdom'
     Danava 'Unonou'
     Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
     Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
     Nachtmystium 'Assassins - Black Meddle Part I' (BlackDoom)
     Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
     The Mars Volta 'bedlam in goliath'
     
     
     5 Vote albums
     
     Anathema - Hindsight
     Ascend 'Ample Fire Within' (Drone Rock)
     Beehover 'Heavy Zooo' (Prog Stoner)
     Blood Ceremony 'Blood Ceremony' (Occult Stoner)
     Cough 'Sigillum Luciferi' (Sludge)
     Howlin' Rain 'Magnificent Fiend'
     Melvins - Nude With Boots
     Mourning Beloveth 'A Disease For The Ages'
     Serpentcult - Weight of Light
     The Wounded Kings 'Embrace Of The Narrow House' (Prog)
     
     
     4 Vote albums
     
     Akimbo - Jersey Shores
     Daylight Dies 'Lost to the Living'
     Grand Magus' Iron Will
     John Zorn - The Dreamers
     Sahg - II
     Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vol. 3 & 4: Air and Earth
     Ufomammut 'Idolum' (Folk Ambient Doom).
     Velnias 'Sovereign Nocturnal' (Atmospheric Black Doom)
     
     
     3 Vote albums
     
     Brant Bjork 'Punk Rock Guilt'
     Byzantine - Oblivion Beckons
     Dead Meadow - Old Growth
     Draconian's "turning Seasons Within"
     Funeral - As The Light Does The Shadow
     Hour of 13 - Hour of 13 (late 2007)
     Kayo Dot 'Blue Lamency Downward' (Prog Rock Gloom).
     Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (Black Doom)
     Mogwai 'The Hawk is Howling'
     Pantheist 'Journey Through Lands Unknown' (prog Doom)
     Pilgrim Fathers 'Short Circular Walks' (Psyche Light Rock)
     Remembrance 'Silencing The Moments'
     Russian Circles 'Station' (Prog Gloom Post Rock)
     SubRosa - Strega (Pagan Folk Desert Stoner Doom)
     The Lamp Of Thoth 'Portents, Omens & Dooms' (Trad StonerDoom)
     These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower & Dove
     Witch: Paralyzed
     
     
     2 Vote albums
     
     A Forest Of Stars 'The Corpse Of Rebirth'
     Abstract Spirit 'Liquid Dmensions Change'
     Agalloch 'The White EP'
     Arditi 'Omne Ensis Impera' (Dark Industrial Ambient)
     Black Mayonnaise 'Unseen Collaborator'
     Blood Of The Black Owl - Feral Spirit
     Bohren und Der Club of Gore ‘ Dolores’ (Blues Doom)
     Bongripper 'Hate Ashbury'
     Cancer Bats 'Hail Destroyer'
     Colour Haze 'All' (Prog Jazz Blues Stoner Chill Out Gloom)
     Cursed - III: architects of troubled sleep (SludgeGrindWhatever)
     Deadbird 'Twilight Ritual'
     Death in June 'The Rule Of Thirds'
     Diagonal - Diagonal
     Fistula 'Burdened by your own Existence' (Sludge)
     Fistula 'Lessons in Lamentation'
     Gonga 'II: Transmigration'
     Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow (Ambient Rock)
     Hermano 'Into the Exam Room' (Stoner Downer Rock)
     Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
     Lord Vicar 'The Demon of Freedom' EP (Doom Stoner RnR).
     M83 - Saturdays=Youth
     Memory Garden – Carnage Carnival
     Motorhead 'Motorizer'
     My Shameful 'Descend'
     Nadja 'The Bungled and the Botched' (Ambient Prog)
     Nightly Gale - Imprint
     Nortt 'Galgenfrist'
     Opaque Lucidity 'Opaque Lucidity'
     Overmars 'Born Again' (Swans Doom)
     P.H.O.B.O.S. 'Anoeipal' (Industrial Dark Ambient Doom)
     Saattue - Jäähyvästi
     Salome 'Salome' (Extreme Death Doom Sludge)
     Samothrace - Demo 2008 (Stoner Doom Downer Rock)
     Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
     Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons
     Sunn O))) - Dømkirke
     Tapetum Lucidum - Machteloos Bestaan
     The Austrasian Goat - Pieces of Oblivion (Atmospheric Black Doom)
     The Bottle Doom Lazy Band 'Blood for the Bloodking' (Occult Doom)
     The Howling Void - Megaliths of the abyss
     The Puritan 'The Black Law' EP (Ambient Industrial Neo-Folk)
     Thou - Peasant
     Trebuchet - Trebuchet
     U.S. Christmas - Eat the Low dogs (Downer Indie Post Gloom)
     
     
     
     ]1 Vote albums
     
     A Storm Of Light - And We Wept The Black Ocean Within (Dark Rock)
     A Thousand Knives Of Fire 'The Last Train to Scornsville' (Stoner Rock)
     Aarni 'Tohcoth' (Experimental Doom)
     Against Nature 'Accumulus' (Blues Doom Downer Rock)
     Against Nature 'Descend' (Blues Doom Downer Rock)
     Against Nature 'Much in Little' (Blues Doom Downer Rock)
     Against Nature 'Natural Blue' (Blues Doom Downer Rock)
     Alva Noto - Unitxt
     Ancestors 'Neptune With Fire' (Stoner Doom)
     And So I Watch You From Afar 'This is our Machine...' (Aggro Post Rock)
     Anglo Jackson - Anglo Jackson (Classic Rock Stoner)
     Antimatter 'Leaving Eden' (Downer Light Rock)
     Apostle of Solitude 'Sincerest Misery' (Trad Doom)
     Arcana 'Raspail' (Darkwave)
     Asbestoscape 'Asbestoscape' (Soft Prog Rock Gloom).
     Ascension Of The Watchers 'Numinosum' (Folk Downer Rock)
     Atavist / Nadja II: Points At Infinity (Ambient Drone Doom)
     Autumnia - O´Funeralia
     Ben Nash 'The Seventh Goodbye' (Prog Layered Drone)
     Beyond Sensory Experience 'No Lights In Our Eyes' (Ambient)
     Black Shape of Nexus 'Black Shape of Nexus' (Ambient Rock Doom Metal)
     Black Sheep Wall - I Am God Songs
     Blacksand - Barn
     Bloodhorse 'EP' (Stoner Rock 'n' Roll)
     Blowback (Stoner Psychedelic Rock n Roll)
     Bonggripper & Winters in Osaka 'Meat Ditch' (DarkAmbientGloomRock)
     Brightblack Morning Light 'Motion To Rejoin' (Blues Jazz)
     Brown Jenkins 'Angel Eyes' (BlackSludgeStonerDoom).
     Buried at Sea - Ghosts, (Atmospheric Doom)
     Caldera 'Mist Through Your Consciousness' (Doom stoner)
     Candlemass - Lucifer Rising EP (Stonre Doom)
     Chingalera - In The Shadow Of The Black Palm Tree (Sludge)
     Conifer 'Conifer' (Layered Atmospheric Prog Metal)
     Consecration - Live (Prog Light Rock)
     Current 93 'Birth Canal Blues' EP (Folk Blues Gloom)
     Dahlia's Tear 'Under Seven Skies' (Dark Ambient)
     Darkflight 'Perfectly Calm' (Black Doom)
     Darkspace - III (Atmospheric Black Doom)
     Dead Congregation 'Graves of the Archangels' (BlackDeathDoom)
     Dead Mask - Under Luciferian Wings (Epic Stoner Doom)
     Death Aura 'Winds of Mortal Hope' (SoundscapeBlackDoom).
     Depthen 'Sunken Shades' (Black Ambient Funeral Doom)
     Diamanda Gala - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty (SingerSongwriterGloom)
     Dornenreich - In Luft Geritzt (Neo Folk Gloom)
     Dragontears - Tambourine Freak Machine (Hippie Stoner Folk Rock)
     Dwell Within 'Monkshood' (Trad Stoner Doom)
     Dystopia - Dystopia
     E.V.P. 'Postmortem Canticles of Necromancy' (Ambient)
     Earth 'Radio Earth' (Blues Doom)
     Earthless - Live At Roadburn (Stoner)
     Effor - Son of the Shades (Pagan Gloom)
     El Paramo - El Paramo (Stoner Biker Doom)
     Elder - Elder (Stoner Doom)
     Elder – Elder (Stoner Doom)
     Electric Mud Generator - To The Disdain Of Polyhymnia
     Electric Wizard - 'Live 12 Sep 2008 (Stoner Doom)
     Electric Wizard - The Processean (Stoner Doom) 8.5/10
     Elephant9 'Dodovoodoo' (Downer Prog Rock)
     Eluveitie - Slania (Pagan Celtic Folk Downer Metal)
     Endless Boogie- Focus Level
     Ereb Altor 'Honour' (Viking Folk Epic Doom).
     Fall Of The Idols 'Séance'
     Farflung 'A Wound in Eternity' (Psychedelic Stoner)
     Fatso Jetson 'live' (Jazzed up Prog Stoner)
     Fight Amp 'Hungry For Nothing' (Metalcore Punk Sludge)
     Final 'Fade Away' (Dark Ambient Drone)
     Floodstain - Dreams Made Monsters
     Forhognis 'Satan' (Death Drone Doom)
     Frogskin 'II' (Sludge Stoner Doom)
     Funeral Moth 'Funeral Moth' (Extreme Death Doom)
     Funerarium - Nocthule (Black Doom)
     Gallactus - Nine Mile Woods (Stoner Doom)
     Gallileous 'Passio Et Mors' (Extreme Death Doom)
     Gorilla Monsoon 'Extermination Hammer' (Stoner Rock n Roll)
     Gorse - Slumber of artemis (Downer Rock)
     Grails 'Doomsdayer's Holiday' (Stoner Prog Rock)
     Grails 'Take Refuge in Clean Living' (Stoner Prog Rock)
     Grayceon 'This Grand Show' (Prog Rock Gloomy Folk)
     Grey Daturas 'Return to Disruption (Doom Prog Post Rock)
     Grey 'Sisters of the Wyrd' (Pagan Folk Doom Metal)
     Grivf 'Yggdrasil' (Dark Folk Black Ambient)
     Growing - Lateral (Ambient Gloom)
     Hebosagil 'Colossal' (Sludge)
     Heibarger 'Heibarger' (Prog Stoner Doom)
     Helllight - Funeral Doom (Death Doom)
     Hjarnidaudi - Psyko-Stare-Void (Slow Death Metal Stoner Death Doom)
     Hooded Menace - Fulfill The Curse (SlowDeathMetal StonerDeathDoom)
     iLiKETRAINS 'The Christmas Tree Ship' (Atmospheric Light Rock)
     Indian 'Slights and Abuse/The Sycophant' (Metalcore Sludge)
     IOTA 'Tales' (Psychedelic Stoner Rock n Roll)
     Jaboe and Justin Broardwick 'J2' (Extreme Industrial Folk Gloom)
     Jarboe 'Mahakali' (Female Extreme Singer-Songwriter Folk Gloom)
     Javelina - (StonerSludgeRocknRoll)
     Jesu 'Why Are We Not Perfect' EP (Shoegaze Prog)
     John Zorn - Filmworks 19: The Rain Horse (Soundtrack)
     Jucifer - L'Autrichienne
     Jumbo's Killcrane 'The Slow Decay' (Stoner Sludge)
     Karysun 'Interceptor' (Stoner Rock 'n' Roll, Stoner Doom)
     Kauan - Tietaejaen Laulu (Folk Doom)
     Kings of Frog Island '2' (Stoner Downer Metal)
     KTL 'IV - Paris Demos' (Dark Ambient Noise)
     Land of Doom 'Land of Doom'
     Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim (Folk Gloom)
     Leather Nun 'Absence Of Light' (Biker Stoner)
     Leif Edling 'Songs Of Torment, Songs Of Joy' (Horror Gothic Doom)
     Light - A Million Dead Beneath The Ice (Dark Ambient Black)
     Litany - Aphesis The Sapience Of Dying ( Epic Folk Death Doom)
     Lords of the North - Lords of the North (Doom Metal)
     Machinefabriek - Dauw (Atmospheric Rock)
     Machinefabriek - Live at DeSingel, Antwerp, Apr 08 (Atmospheric Rock)
     Madking Ludwig 'Seven Stairways' (Stoner, Folk, 70s Prog)
     Maligno - Universevil (Stoner Doom)
     Medusa Stone - Shaking Hands (Downer Rock Stoner Blues)
     Mills of God 'Mills of God' (Stoner Doom)
     Mirimar Disaster - Volumes (Hardcore Sludge)
     Moloch 'Moloch' (Sludge)
     Mose - Halfway To Nowhere (Stoner Sludge)
     Murkrat (Trad Doom Stoner Doom)
     Mustasch 'Lowlife Highlights' (Stoner Doom)
     Nachtmystium 'Worldfall' (Black Doom)
     Nadja / Netherworld - Magma to Ice (Dark Ambient)
     Nadja 'Desire in Uneasiness' (Dark Ambient)
     Nadja 'Thaumoradiance' (Dark Ambient)
     Nadja/Atavist/Satori - Infernal Procession... And Then (Light Rock)
     Nerveless 'Continuance of the Moment' (Sludge Drone)
     Njiqahdda 'Ints Nji Verfatu' (PsychedelicAtmosphericStoner)
     Ogre 'Plague Of The Planet' (Prog hard rock Gloom)
     Om - Live At Jerusalem
     Oneida - Pre Teen Weaponry
     Ordog 'Life is too short for Learning to Live' (Black Doom)
     Paganus - Paganus
     Peter Wright - Pretty Mushroom Clouds
     Philip Jeck - Sand
     Phoebe killdeer & the short straws 'Weather's Coming' (BluesJazz)
     Planet Gemini 'Cauldron of Fuzz V'
     Planet Gemini 'Wicked' (Stoner Doom Heavy Metal)
     Pocahaunted 'Island Diamonds'
     Porn 'Wine Women and Song'
     Poseidotica 'La Distancia' (Downer Prog Rock).
     Potop - Channels
     Pyramids 'Pyramids' (Black Ambient Shoegaze Doom)
     Queen Elephantine 'Surya' (Trance Stoner Drone)
     Rachmanite - demo 2008
     Raeven - Pernicious Rising (AmbientExtreme Death Doom)
     Raventale - Long Passed Days (Black Doom)
     Revelation 'Release', 2008 (Blues Doom)
     Rigor Sardonicous - Vallis Ex UmbraDe Mortuus
     Rising Dust 'Taste Of Fire' (Trad Stoner Doom Metal)
     Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics (Noisecore Gloom)
     Rorcal 'Myrra, Mordvynn, Marayaa' (Metalcore Noisecore Sludge)
     Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty
     Rote Mare - Corruption (Stoner Doom Downer Rock)
     Rote Mare - In Ruin (Stoner Doom Downer Rock)
     Rush - Snakes & Arrows Live
     Rye Wolves - Oceans Of Delicate Rain (Stoner Math Rock Sludge)
     Sanctus Infernum 'Sanctus Infernum' (Black Doom).
     Sardonis 'Sardonis' (Trad Stoner Doom)
     Saturation Point 'Mechanisms' (Psychedelic Hippie Trance Stoner)
     Saturnalia Temple - UR (Extreme Stoner Doom)
     Sigh 'Scenes From Hell/Tempore Belli/Vanitas' (Metal n Roll)
     Skitliv 'Amfetamin' (BlackAmbientDoom)
     Sludge - Lava
     Somnolent - Monochromes Philosophy (Semi-Extreme Death Doom)
     Steve Von Till - A Grave Is A Grim Horse (Singer-Song writer)
     Steven R Smith - The Anchorite (Atmospheric Neo-classical Folk Rock Gloom)
     Stonerider 'Three Legs Of Trouble' (Stoner Rock n Roll)
     Taiga - Taiga 2 (Drone Doom)
     Tank 86 - Behold (Instrumental Stoner Doom)
     The Bakerton Group 'The Bakerton Group' (Funky Stoner Hard Rock)
     The Cancer Conspiracy - Omega (Jazzy Downer Bluesy Gloom)
     The Evpatoria Report - Maar (Blues Doom Stoner Post Rock)
     The Hounds of Hasselvander 's/t' (Trad Stoner Doom)
     The Wandering Midget 'I am the Gate' (Stoner Doom)
     The Wandering Midget 'The Serpent Coven' (Stoner Doom)
     Thou 'The Retaliation of the Immutable Force of Nature' (Dark Sludge)
     Titan - Pilzmarmelade (Stoner Doom)
     Toner Low - II (Stoner Doom)
     Trancelike Void - Destroying Something Beautiful
     Trebuchet - LIVE! @ zappafest (Hard Rock)
     Trees 'Lights Bane' (Doom Drone)
     Triclops - Out Of Africa (Indie pop punk post rock)
     Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight - Lowering The Tone (Stoner Doom)
     Umbra Nihil - The Borderland Rituals (Experimental Doom Prog Rock)
     Unearthly Trance @ WNYU, 5 Dec 2008. (Sludge Death Doom)
     Unorthodox 'Awaken' (Prog Hard Rock Downer Blues)
     Valkyrie 'Man of Two Visions' (Hard Prog Downer Rock)
     Vinterriket 'Gebirgshöhenstille' (Dark Ambient Rock)
     Volition 'Volition' (Sludge Death Doom)
     Waverly Hills 'The Nurse' (AmbientAtmosphericExtremeDeathDoom)
     We Made God - As We Sleep (Atmospheric Light Rock)
     Wooden Shjips 'Wooden Shjips' (Stoner)
     Wrath Of The Weak 'Alogon' (Black Ambient)
     Zodiak - Sermons (Layered Light Rock)
     
     You can view the Gloom and Doon thread here -> www.borninblood.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=5942&...
     
     Results for 2005, 2006 and 2007 can be seen here -> www.borninblood.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=1784
     
     You can read short reviews of the albums here -> www.borninblood.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=5855&...
     
     You can see my top 100 ranked albums here -> www.borninblood.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=6534
     
     A big thanks to all that voted... keep it real mt00
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     [Edited by Beerman at 02:14 on 18/02/09]
   • [23:46 on 22/08/08]
2. • RobHawk
   • woah, how did we get so many votes!
   • [13:38 on 27/10/08]
3. • 90dayman
   • That's quite a varied list really. Including Sun Kil Moon and Elbow.
     A good list for reminding me of some albums I'd forgot to check out. And I didn't realise the Diagonal album was out yet. I'll have to pick that up soon.
   • [17:43 on 27/10/08]
4. • RobHawk
   • i like the elbow album
   • [18:05 on 27/10/08]
5. • Gareth
   • 90dayman says:

     Sun Kil Moon
     
     
     My album of the year by a country mile. Fairly gloomy in that's its about his old girlfriend dying of cancer but it's more a tribute than a mope album.
   • [22:22 on 28/10/08]
6. • Beerman
   • The 2008 Gloom and Doom Poll is now closed. The opening post shows the results. Hope it was of some use.
     
     
     
   • [02:17 on 18/02/09]
7. • borninblood
   • Woah woah woah, who the hell let you out of your cave???
   • [22:23 on 25/02/09]

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