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.
Black Breath
Ranks
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2012#259 of 2213
2011 
2010#242 of 2582
2009 
2008 
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Black Breath · Sentenced to Life2012#2274058.0.853.625.369  
Daniel Brockman · Josh Kortbein · Kurt Orzeck · Matt Ryan · Matt Sullivan
Similar Albums
.2422Noisem · Blossoming Decay  (2015)
.1902Myrkur · M  (2015)
.1902Skeletonwitch · Serpents Unleashed  (2013)
.1572Krallice · Diotima  (2011)
.1332High on Fire · De Vermis Mysteriis  (2012)
.1203Converge · All We Love We Leave Behind  (2012)
.1162Black Breath · Heavy Breathing  (2010)
.1162In Solitude · Sister  (2013)
.1162Morbus Chron · Sweven  (2014)
.1073Carcass · Surgical Steel  (2013)
.0832Kvelertak · Meir  (2013)
.0832Pharmakon · Abandon  (2013)
.0572Pallbearer · Sorrow and Extinction  (2012)
.0572Pharmakon · Bestial Burden  (2014)
.0482Metz · Metz  (2012)
.0452Kylesa · Static Tensions  (2009)
.0452Pissed Jeans · King of Jeans  (2009)
.0412Pallbearer · Foundations of Burden  (2014)
.0352Iceage · New Brigade  (2011)
.0352Metallica · Death Magnetic  (2008)
Black Breath · Heavy Breathing2010#2095869.7.953.655.478  
Ben Donnelly · Kevin Stewart-Panko · Kurt Orzeck · Laina Dawes · Matt Sullivan · Zachary Smith
Similar Albums
.2863High on Fire · De Vermis Mysteriis  (2012)
.2615Converge · All We Love We Leave Behind  (2012)
.2503Yob · Atma  (2011)
.2345Carcass · Surgical Steel  (2013)
.2223High on Fire · Snakes for the Divine  (2010)
.2222Black Tusk · Set the Dial  (2011)
.2222Exhumed · All Guts, No Glory  (2011)
.1782Horseback · Half Blood  (2012)
.1782Skeletonwitch · Serpents Unleashed  (2013)
.1782Tombs · Savage Gold  (2014)
.1673Gorguts · Colored Sands  (2013)
.1604Kylesa · Static Tensions  (2009)
.1482Coffinworm · Iv.i.viii  (2014)
.1482Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas · Mariner  (2016)
.1482Darkthrone · The Underground Resistance  (2013)
.1482Junius · Reports From the Threshold of Death  (2011)
.1272Black Breath · Sentenced to Life  (2012)
.1272Inter Arma · Sky Burial  (2013)
.1272Nails · You Will Never Be One of Us  (2016)
.1272Neurosis · Fires Within Fires  (2016)
.1272Ufomammut · Oro: Opus Primum & Alter  (2012)
Similar Artists
.3333Mantar
.2726Carcass
.2503Skeletonwitch
.2345High on Fire
.2003Junius
.1782Weekend Nachos
.1673Darkthrone
.1673Horseback
.1673In Solitude
.1543Inter Arma
.1524Cobalt
.1482Cathedral
.1482Cattle Decapitation
.1482Exhumed
.1482Noisem
.1482VHÖL
.1454Yob
.1435Pallbearer
.1333Krallice
.1333Tombs
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com