The voting period for triple j's annual Hottest 100 closed today. With this in mind, we thought we'd take a look at which acts from the world of heavy music are currently considered likely candidates to place in the countdown when it takes place on Saturday.
The popularity of heavy bands has been wildly misrepresented in the results of the countdown of late with last year's countdown only featuring Bring Me The Horizon (sTrAnGeRs) at #28, Parkway Drive (Glitch) at #86 and The Amity Affliction (Show Me Your God) at #89, and if popular predictions site 100 Warm Tuna's are correct, this year's countdown stands be even slimmer pickings for heavy music representation.
In the latest preview provided by the site only Sydney metalcore crew Polaris and Sheffield deathcore turned modern radio rock giants Bring Me The Horizon are deemed likely to make the top 100 in this years countdown.
Polaris are currently predicted by the site (which draws its data from user-submitted voting screenshots and then applies a variety of statistical analysis to the collated data), to place at #70 with Nightmare from their celebrated 2023 full-length Fatalism.
Bring Me The Horizon are predicted to feature twice with Darkside tipped to land at #75 and lost to place at a very respectable #44. Both tracks are fom their forthcoming POSTHUMAN: NeX GEn release. That release is expected to feature a collaboration with the artist tipped to finish at #4 on this years countdown Billie Eilish.
If Bring Me The Horizon do place twice in the countdown it will give them a combined total of 14 times since first rocketing into the countdown in 2013 with Shadow Moses and Sleepwalking. The predicted presence of just two acts from the heavy world stands in stark contrast with the countdowns of the '90s, '00s and even early 2010's which featured frequent representation from acts on the heavier end of the musical spectrum.
Guitar-oriented rock is tipped to do moderately better in the countdown with the likes of Paramore, Nothing But Thieves, Trophy Eyes, King Stringray, Dear Seattle, and blink-182, predicted to feature in quite prominent positions in the countdown. While that is reassuring for rock fans, it is still undeniably a far cry from the imprint rock, metal, punk and hardcore once had on the countdown.
the band is confirmed to tour Australia in April with Sleep Token, Make Them Suffer and Daine.
Bring Me The Horizon
NEXGEN Down Under Tour
With Special Guests
Sleep Token
Make Them Suffer
Daine
Tickets from destroyalllines.com
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