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.
High on Fire
Ranks
2016 
2015#487 of 2068
2014 
2013#1545 of 2104
2012#221 of 2213
2011 
2010#168 of 2582
2009 
2008 
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
High on Fire · Luminiferous2015#459152      
David Accomazzo · Kurt Orzeck
High on Fire · De Vermis Mysteriis2012#2194258.4.848.643.581  
David Pehling · DX Ferris · Kurt Orzeck · Laina Dawes · Matt Sullivan
Similar Albums
.2613Black Breath · Heavy Breathing  (2010)
.2422Black Tusk · Set the Dial  (2011)
.1924Converge · All We Love We Leave Behind  (2012)
.1902Goatwhore · Blood for the Master  (2012)
.1634Kylesa · Static Tensions  (2009)
.1572Coffinworm · Iv.i.viii  (2014)
.1572Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas · Mariner  (2016)
.1572Darkthrone · The Underground Resistance  (2013)
.1572Red Fang · Murder the Mountains  (2011)
.1484Pallbearer · Foundations of Burden  (2014)
.1332Black Breath · Sentenced to Life  (2012)
.1332Gojira · L'Enfant Sauvage  (2012)
.1332Shrinebuilder · Shrinebuilder  (2009)
.1332Ufomammut · Oro: Opus Primum & Alter  (2012)
.1162Morbus Chron · Sweven  (2014)
.1162Yob · Atma  (2011)
.1073Carcass · Surgical Steel  (2013)
.1032Cobalt · Slow Forever  (2016)
.1032High on Fire · Snakes for the Divine  (2010)
.0853Mastodon · The Hunter  (2011)
High on Fire · Snakes for the Divine2010#16276710.9.885.605.482  
Ben Donnelly · Brad Angle · Jeff Treppel · Laina Dawes · Leonard Pierce · Matt Sullivan · Phil Freeman
Similar Albums
.2403Black Breath · Heavy Breathing  (2010)
.2052Neuraxis · The Thin Line Between  (2008)
.2052Yakuza · Of Seismic Consequence  (2010)
.1763Opeth · Watershed  (2008)
.1672Amon Amarth · Twilight of the Thunder God  (2008)
.1672Perfume · JPN  (2011)
.1672Wormrot · Dirge  (2011)
.1623Gorguts · Colored Sands  (2013)
.1402Coffinworm · Iv.i.viii  (2014)
.1402Darkthrone · The Underground Resistance  (2013)
.1402Immortal · All Shall Fall  (2009)
.1402Iron Maiden · The Final Frontier  (2010)
.1223Pallbearer · Sorrow and Extinction  (2012)
.1212High on Fire · De Vermis Mysteriis  (2012)
.1212Ufomammut · Oro: Opus Primum & Alter  (2012)
.1072Electric Wizard · Black Masses  (2011)
.1072Gojira · The Way of All Flesh  (2008)
.1033Future of the Left · Travels With Myself and Another  (2009)
.0983Kylesa · Static Tensions  (2009)
.0862The Sword · Warp Riders  (2010)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
High on Fire · "The Black Plot"2015#46510 
Steve Forstneger
High on Fire · "Slave the Hive"2013#44010 
Laina Dawes
High on Fire · "Fertile Green"2012#25320 
DX Ferris · Laina Dawes
Similar Songs
.1032Mastodon · "Oblivion"  (2009)
High on Fire · "Samsara"2012#25320 
DX Ferris · Nick Green
High on Fire · "Snakes for the Divine"2010#33120 
Jen Guyre · Josh Kortbein
High on Fire · "Bastard Samurai"2010#57710 
David Marchese
High on Fire · "Frost Hammer"2010#57710 
Laina Dawes
Similar Artists
.3105Black Breath
.2905Gojira
.2168Kylesa
.2143Amon Amarth
.2143Coffinworm
.2107Pallbearer
.1943Goatwhore
.1943Ufomammut
.1905Carcass
.1854Slayer
.1763Ulcerate
.1623Red Fang
.1517Converge
.1504Harvey Milk
.1504Wolves in the Throne Room
.1503Behemoth
.1503Electric Wizard
.1434Opeth
.1403Darkthrone
.1403Royal Thunder
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com