Sunnyvale
07.05.24 | Here we go again - get your votes in! |
ArsMoriendi
07.05.24 | Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code |
jrlikestodance
07.05.24 | Skee Mask - Resort |
JohnnyoftheWell
07.05.24 | Sumac - The Healer |
efp123
07.05.24 | mono - oath |
nomistim9000
07.05.24 | Uboa - Impossible Light |
Zac124
07.05.24 | Domestic Terminal - Sanctuary |
bighubbabuddha
07.05.24 | Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God
M// |
Space Jester
07.05.24 | Sumac - The Healer |
Hawks
07.05.24 | Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God |
Demon of the Fall
07.05.24 | Sumac - The Healer |
DoofDoof
07.05.24 | Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free
Honourable Mention: Perry Blake - Death of a Society Girl
Rare I award two 5 ratings for new releases in a single month |
markjamie
07.05.24 | Skee Mask - Resort |
AlexKzillion
07.05.24 | Charli XCX - Brat
really good month tho |
Sniff
07.05.24 | Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
duh |
mkmusic1995
07.05.24 | Alcest - Les Chantes de l'aurore |
bellovddd
07.05.24 | Charli XCX - Brat |
Dedes
07.05.24 | Alcest ez pz
Albums so warm and loving and is probably the most wholesome thing I've ever jammed |
FowlKrietzsche
07.05.24 | Brat |
neekafat
07.06.24 | Charli XCX - Brat |
Dewinged
07.06.24 | Alcest, didn't even listen to anything else ;/ |
Get Low
07.06.24 | Immortal Disfigurement - King |
onionbubs
07.06.24 | charli xcx - brat |
YoYoMancuso
07.06.24 | Lupe Fiasco - Samurai |
Ladron93
07.06.24 | Skee Mask - Resort |
evilford
07.06.24 | Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God |
Hawks
07.06.24 | If Alcest wins I fucking give up. |
evilford
07.06.24 | Looks like Charlie gonna run away with it |
rage11111ro
07.06.24 | Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God |
alamo
07.06.24 | charli xcx - brat
charli xcx - brat
charli xcx - bratcharli xcx - brat
charli xcx - brat
charli xcx - brat
charli xcx - bratcharli xcx - bratcharli xcx - bratcharli xcx - brat |
NexCeleris
07.06.24 | Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God |
someone
07.06.24 | Julie Christmas fo sho |
bananatossing
07.06.24 | SUMAC - The Healer |
zakalwe
07.06.24 | Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue, for me please |
theBoneyKing
07.06.24 | Good Looks - Lived Here For a While |
Vercetti
07.06.24 | The Warning - Keep Me Fed |
tectactoe
07.06.24 | sumac - the healer |
JoyfulPlatypus
07.07.24 | Eh, not feeling confident in any of these really.
Put me down as a vote for Charli XCX - Brat |
jrlikestodance
07.07.24 | Brat winning this would be so unsurprising but I need my fellow Skee Maskers to rise up!!! |
Sowing
07.07.24 | Ha Vay - Baby I'm the Wolf |
bighubbabuddha
07.07.24 | June was the best month this year for me.
May and February were also good |
Demon of the Fall
07.07.24 | Charli vs Ulcerate expected
Skee Mask respected but underperforming
Alcest is here for some reason
Sumac the dark horse gaining traction |
JohnnyoftheWell
07.07.24 | Will end up voting Charli if it comes down to a head to head, but smdh get that deja vu vote out of here. Tuxes for Sumac, taxis for Alcest voters |
DadKungFu
07.07.24 | Uboa protest vote |
Demon of the Fall
07.07.24 | I would vote Charli over Ulcerate and I didn’t even like Brat |
tectactoe
07.07.24 | charli just seems like an insufferable person |
SlothcoreSam
07.07.24 | Domestic terminal - Sanctuary |
Pikazilla
07.07.24 | all i know is that aotm is def not alcest |
JohnnyoftheWell
07.07.24 | the only victory that matters
join sumac gang erect that 3-way tie |
Tundra
07.07.24 | Thrailkill - Unperson |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
07.07.24 | Sumac |
Demon of the Fall
07.07.24 | “charli just seems like an insufferable person“
really? can’t say I’ve noticed but the discourse surrounding that album has descended into things I think absolutely shouldn’t matter, but that’s to be expected I guess because I’m old or something |
Demon of the Fall
07.07.24 | based Pots appearance |
botb
07.07.24 | 8 or Boldy James/conductor Williams |
DadKungFu
07.07.24 | Switchin to sumac for interesting music's sake |
Sniff
07.07.24 | Sad |
evilford
07.08.24 | Gotta love the anti-ulcerate conspiracy goin on in here |
Taxt
07.08.24 | Sumac - The Healer |
Trifolium
07.09.24 | Moby - Always Centered At Night |
SteakByrnes
07.09.24 | Foreign Hands - What's Left Unsaid |
hesperus
07.09.24 | put me down for Ulcerate |
ShapeOfJizzToCum
07.09.24 | Put me down for one Susan's Healing Mac n Cheese please. |
ShapeOfJizzToCum
07.09.24 | In case it's not clear from on account of how I'm dumb as hell I do rly mean to put in a vote for Sumac |
Futures
07.09.24 | umbra vitae for me m/ |
JesperL
07.10.24 | brat goddammit |
ToSmokMuzyki
07.10.24 | alcest |
Demon of the Fall
07.10.24 | close this |
Slex
07.10.24 | It should be Domestic Terminal but I will be diplomatic and say my vote is for Brat |
evilford
07.10.24 | This place is a cesspool |
tectactoe
07.10.24 | if brat wins we riot |
Slex
07.10.24 | Ford I love u but new Ulcerate is so fucking boring |
Winesburgohio
07.10.24 | throw my hat in the ring for Brat not every day one experiences a cultural Moment |
JesperL
07.10.24 | "It should be Domestic Terminal but I will be diplomatic and say my vote is for Brat" yes this precisely. brat must win |
JohnnyoftheWell
07.10.24 | the temptation to be the kind of charli fan who gets their paper bag out over cultural moments is exactly why I'm doing the right thing and voting sumac |
AlexKzillion
07.10.24 | brat summer bitch are you bumpin that? |
JohnnyoftheWell
07.10.24 | that said, following France's example, any vote in which a force as obnoxious as Ulcerate looks set to take the whole affair by storm but doesn't even end up cracking the top 2 is a good moment for democracy |
evilford
07.10.24 | This brat push is weak af |
evilford
07.10.24 | Johnny has never listened to ulcerate confirmed |
Pikazilla
07.10.24 | charli winning is far from the worst outcome |
evilford
07.10.24 | This is why I never participate in these things
Or most metalheads tbh
It's a sham from the start |
jrlikestodance
07.10.24 | Brat rules tho ): |
evilford
07.10.24 | I'm sure brat is fine
A metal band will never get a fair shake tho, cuz users set out to sabotage it immediately
Which is fine, not like this matters at all
It's just funny that people are gonna parade around an album that wins this as if there wasn't a conspiracy to vote another album down |
Pikazilla
07.10.24 | didn't a metal album win aotm last month |
evilford
07.10.24 | No idea |
jrlikestodance
07.10.24 | I feel where you're coming from Ford. I knew my pick didn't have a shot but at the very least hope it could get people to check it out |
JohnnyoftheWell
07.10.24 | "A metal band will never get a fair shake tho"
vote sumac coward |
evilford
07.10.24 | Yeah it's fine jr lol, this contest is of zero actual consequence
I just wonder sometimes if people realize that when they see metal Fandom as being an outsider or pariah (from the outside looking in) is due in part to how the genre is treated publicly by non metal fans
You don't see me/other metalheads generally campaigning to have another album lose this contest lmao
I can't believe I've wasted this much time talking about this |
Demon of the Fall
07.10.24 | Knocked Loose won last month (core but still metal I’m afraid), so I think you need to differentiate by saying “good metal”… and that’s where Sumac come in!
I was also campaigning for KL NOT to win, we all have our agendas |
evilford
07.10.24 | I never considered knocked loose metal i guess. |
NexCeleris
07.10.24 | "due to how the genre is treated publicly by non metal fans"
Society's acceptance for metal has never been as high as it is right now, at least here in the Western world. Just minutes ago, I overheard some 50-something-year-old blue collar dudes talking about a grind gig they had attended on the weekend.
Then you have movie celebs and pop stars sporting Maiden shirts etc. In all likelihood, they haven't heard a single non-radio metal song even once in their lives, but they still deem repping that merch edgy/cool enough to have themselves photographed wearing it.
Metal albums cop Sput's aotm and aoty top spots pretty often, I feel. |
Demon of the Fall
07.10.24 | and the fact not one but two metal albums even have a chance here is a reflection on how Sput isn’t like the outside (more pop centric / leaning) world… is that not enough to appease you? |
evilford
07.10.24 | Yes, thank you for your generous offering demon 🙄🙄🙄 |
evilford
07.10.24 | Guess I dont follow album of the month closely enough then
Forget I said anything |
Demon of the Fall
07.10.24 | There’s a ton of support for metal. Sput certainly doesn’t need MORE imo |
LilLioness
07.10.24 | Really, it is album of the decade that truly matters. |
Pikazilla
07.10.24 | you know sput is truly dead once djent starts seeping into sput's end of year lists |
YoYoMancuso
07.10.24 | here's how Lupe Fiasco can still win: |
evilford
07.10.24 | I didn't realize sumac had so many votes lol |
AlexKzillion
07.10.24 | sumac would've certainly had my vote in a non-brat world idk gang
i think its more so ulcerate and sumac are just cannibalizing each other rather than people conspiring to not vote metal in this instance |
Spec
07.10.24 | Ulcerate |
evilford
07.10.24 | I guess metal is pretty popular here, idk what I was smoking
Carry on |
Pikazilla
07.10.24 | have a nice day, bud |
evilford
07.10.24 | U 2 brother |
LilLioness
07.10.24 | @pika I will never apologize for having different tastes than you. If there is a djent record that drops that gets me going, you best believe it till top my year end list. |
Hawks
07.10.24 | There are no good djent albums though. |
tectactoe
07.10.24 | There is one. Only one, though. |
JohnnyoftheWell
07.10.24 | last time i checked, sikth have multiple albums |
TheManMachine
07.10.24 | charli |
bighubbabuddha
07.10.24 | The best illustration of "just because you can doesn't mean you should" is the genre djent |
Slex
07.10.24 | Djent is genuinely the worst thing to ever happen to music |
Zakusz
07.10.24 | Sumac - The Healer |
jrlikestodance
07.10.24 | Djent is genuinely the worst thing to ever happen to music [2]
We need to stop associating it and Octanecore w metalcore |
Winesburgohio
07.11.24 | i think it's exciting when the release of an album is an Event, especially in these perilous internet times and when tastes are so splintered (not a bad thing! but...). it happens so rarely it's worth acknowledgment and celebration. (also more evilly the schadenfreude when an album rigged to be an "event" sputters out) |
Pikazilla
07.11.24 | please kindly shut the fuck up |
evilford
07.11.24 | Wow rude |
onionbubs
07.11.24 | see i just voted for brat because it is better than everything else anyway culture moment or not
sumac does go hard as hell tho and would be a supremely based winner either way |
evilford
07.11.24 | I vote lynyrd skynyrd |
JohnnyoftheWell
07.11.24 | you either die a metalhead or live long enough to become someone who listens to pop music For The Culture smdh |
Demon of the Fall
07.11.24 | is there an alternative third option? Wines comment gave me a headache |
Pikazilla
07.11.24 | Wines' existence gives most people a headache |
Demon of the Fall
07.11.24 | a rather bizarre 'I just wanted to feel like I was part of something' moment |
AsleepInTheBack
07.11.24 | I vote 10 (Charli)
Because it is a good album and because I like what wines said |
bighubbabuddha
07.11.24 | Pika stop being mean to wineburger |
NexCeleris
07.11.24 | Switching to Sumac - The Healer
(obv not to trigger Ford, but to reduce the chance of that TikTok autotune hellscape of an album winning) |
JohnnyoftheWell
07.11.24 | on a slightly more serious note, i think wines' comment catches quite nicely why a brat victory would be so underwhelming for me - that album has earned and occupied its spotlight, and voting it up here for such procedural reasons is moot and unimaginative in a way i don't usually associate with this feature (however much of a mess it is, its one great strength is that it can be whatever the hell the site makes it, and i think its past record has reflected the sputnik brand in all its absurdity and mainstream-underground blindness, as unbeholden to the wider market and d-d-Discourse as anything realistically can be).
do we *really* need another victory lap for a zeitgeist pang we all experienced just a few weeks ago, or can we pull our heads out of our topical arse and vote for whatever's raising still exclamation marks here and now hmmm?
fwiw brat is obviously a strong enough album that i usually wouldn't care, but it's not as though this month has been at all short of alternative contenders - think a high-nosed approach is dishonest to the rest of the field |
Demon of the Fall
07.11.24 | yeah, either Charli or Ulcerate winning would be wholly underwhelming or "unimaginative" but for entirely different reasons - at least Ulcerate would be a very 'only on Sput' moment |
evilford
07.11.24 | TRIGGEREDDDDDDDDDDDDD |
Winesburgohio
07.11.24 | i think you make a good and fair point! but if we shift the polarities surely there's something disingenuous about discounting it for the same reasons? i.e. if the motivation to vote for something else is based on the perceived demands of a more niche market to construct a counter-culture and disavow the popularity of what is just an exceptional album? to clarify "brat" would be my album of the month if i'm honest with myself and you, my personal priest. it just really does rule that hard. memories of the initial club-mate-caffeine-high is just another quiver in the bow, to mix metaphors terribly |
Winesburgohio
07.11.24 | and it's not as though this thread hasn't fulfilled that purpose. i'm 100 percent going to check SUMAC instead of 20. ...and the new Moby, for that matter. i too am always centered at night |
someone
07.11.24 | Yo Sunny, if it comes to a tie, please switch me to Sumac, will you? |
JesperL
07.11.24 | if it's a tie please put me on brat a second time |
Pikazilla
07.11.24 | Sumac - The Healer |
tectactoe
07.11.24 | based pika |
SteakByrnes
07.11.24 | who truly is sue mac |
JohnnyoftheWell
07.11.24 | macmum76 |
mouldypigeon
07.11.24 | charli xcx - brat |
SteakByrnes
07.11.24 | is this shit closed yet goddamn |
evilford
07.11.24 | Lol |
YoYoMancuso
07.12.24 | michael jackson - thriller |
Sunnyvale
07.12.24 | Sorry folks, LOL - I will likely close this tomorrow, so get your votes in (Thriller comeback incoming...) |
Drifter
07.12.24 | Sumac |
Sunnyvale
07.12.24 | And voting is closed.
The winner is Sumac-The Healer. If you voted for that album and are interested in writing a short blurb for it, please let me know! |
Demon of the Fall
07.12.24 | WE DID IT!
is this the most overall votes / most votes required to secure victory? Epic |
onionbubs
07.12.24 | in celebration we can make drifter actually listen to it |
Scheumke
07.12.24 | Ahh too late. Good month though |
JohnnyoftheWell
07.12.24 | metal wins
probably means that Charli has the second most votes ever cast for one albums, so she also wins even though pop#2
nice of ulcerate to keep the foot of the podium warm |
Demon of the Fall
07.12.24 | in the face of such a monumental and titanic battle, would it be unreasonable to have a bonus edition this month?
i.e. both albums get write-ups
scrap July if necessary (lol?) |
mkmusic1995
07.12.24 | Definitely the most competitive battle I've seen for album of the month thus far. A lot of great stuff in June so makes sense |