This is a statistical index to the Village Voice Pazz & Jop music critics poll, generated in the process of its tabulation for the last few years.
 
Click any linked column-heading to sort a table by that column. Click any album or song for an artist profile, or any voter for a voter profile.
 
Some explanation of the various esoteric metrics:
Similarity is calculated for albums, songs and artists based on voter overlap, and for ballots and voters based on album+song+artist overlap. The ballot and voter scores are weighted by album/song/artist popularity.
Slayer
Ranks
2016 
2015#1504 of 2068
2014 
2013 
2012 
2011 
2010 
2009#166 of 2591
2008#1749 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Slayer · World Painted Blood2009#1578098.9.840.313.666  
Adem Tepedelen · Albert Mudrian · Brad Angle · Christopher Krovatin · DX Ferris · John Mincemoyer · Laina Dawes · Rich Bienstock · Rossiter Drake
Similar Albums
.2863Immortal · All Shall Fall  (2009)
.2863Red Fang · Murder the Mountains  (2011)
.2503Napalm Death · Time Waits for No Slave  (2009)
.2223Electric Wizard · Black Masses  (2011)
.2223Triptykon · Eparistera Daimones  (2010)
.1782Lord Mantis · Spawning the Nephilim  (2009)
.1782Tombs · All Empires Fall  (2016)
.1673Enslaved · Axioma Ethica Odini  (2010)
.1482Behemoth · Evangelion  (2009)
.1482Burzum · Belus  (2010)
.1482Daft Punk · Tron:Legacy Soundtrack  (2011)
.1482Municipal Waste · The Fatal Feast  (2012)
.1482Napalm Death · Utilitarian  (2012)
.1482Watain · Lawless Darkness  (2010)
.1272Cretin · Stranger  (2014)
.1272Darkthrone · The Underground Resistance  (2013)
.1272In Solitude · The World, the Flesh, the Devil  (2011)
.1113Converge · All We Love We Leave Behind  (2012)
.1112High on Fire · De Vermis Mysteriis  (2012)
.0955Mastodon · Crack the Skye  (2009)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Slayer · "You Against You"2015#46510 
Kory Grow
Slayer · "Hate Worldwide"2009#58510 
Leonard Pierce
Slayer · "Playing With Dolls"2009#58510 
Brandon Geist
Slayer · "Psychopathy Red"2009#58510 
 2008#45010 
Laina Dawes
Similar Artists
.2914Napalm Death
.2863Narrows
.2615Alice in Chains
.2503Municipal Waste
.2294Triptykon
.2223Goatwhore
.2003Immortal
.1823Meshuggah
.1823Red Fang
.1673Electric Wizard
.1673Pig Destroyer
.1604High on Fire
.1543Royal Thunder
.1482Agoraphobic Nosebleed
.1482Brutal Truth
.1482Craft
.1454Cobalt
.1272Mournful Congregation
.1272Rammstein
.1272Street Sweeper Social Club
.1272This Moment in Black History
.1272Watain
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com