The problem with it is that Gary Holt is basically a second Kerry King, so between that and the much more locked-in drumming of Paul Bostaph vs. Dave Lombardo, it sounds like just any thrash band - it lacks the wildness and noise that made Slayer so great.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 12 December 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
yeah I mean I could easily tell which track had Hanneman's input when I listened.
the second half is better than the first in my esteem, but I don't get the fondness some had for "When the Stillness Comes", which I find to be a dire retread of their Diabolus-style material
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 12 December 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
Relapse is reissuing the Incubus (Lousiana) album "Serpent Temptation" under their later name Opprobrium, looks like with the original vocals replaced. Fucking classic album of thrashy death metal IMHO, these guys were ahead of the curve for a bit (Altars of Madness came out the following year)...
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/opprobrium-incubus-premiere/
― prickly festive towers (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 13 December 2015 11:57 (eight years ago) link
https://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/sick-with-bloom
new yellow eyes, i wasn't too hot on their last one but this seems quite good
― j., Sunday, 13 December 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
Late arriving gothic symphonic excellence: Nocturnal Resurrection by Graveshadow. Seriously good.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 02:30 (eight years ago) link
two also-ran, too-late-to-vote-on good records from 2015:
Coffincraft - In Eerie Slumberhttps://coffincraft.bandcamp.com/album/in-eerie-slumber
Finnish OSDM in the vein of Swedish bands like Entombed, Dismember, Carnage. Not experimental in the slightest, leans towards thrash.
Desecresy - Stoic Deathhttps://desecresy.bandcamp.com/album/stoic-death
Also Finnish, also OSDM, but more Finnish sounding (Demigod, Demilich, Convulse, Rippikoulu). Not experimental in the slightest, leans towards doom.
― Dominique, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 02:05 (eight years ago) link
(youtube link for 2nd album because they mystifyingly don't stream their shit)
― Dominique, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 02:07 (eight years ago) link
Village Voice Pazz & Jop Poll. Every year I encourage other metal writers to participate. I'm pretty sure if they'd let me do it this past decade, they'd let nearly anyone ;) It would only take 5-7 extra votes to get some key albums into the top 100 -- this poll gets more attention than any other, and would do the bands some real good to get them exposure. Simply write to pazzandjop at villagevoice dot com to ask for a ballot and give them a) Name and current address, b) email and phone, c) Publications you write for. If they invite you, you have until December 28.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 05:47 (eight years ago) link
Everything Yellow Eyes release sounds exactly the same, I should be bored by now but I can't help but love 'em.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
This is some pretty cool death metal from Australia:
https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2089437439_10.jpg
Ur Draugr - With Hunger Undyinghttps://atmfsssdtp.bandcamp.com/album/with-hunger-undying
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 14:20 (eight years ago) link
I really like that cover, very Beksinsi-esque. Will give it a listen.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 14:27 (eight years ago) link
Well well well.
http://witchinghourproductions.bandcamp.com/album/litourgiyaorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnv3jkb-S_w
This can't possibly be the Mgla/Kriegsmaschine guys in yet another ridiculously strong band, can it? Some of that melodic warmth, not to mention the open, midpaced passages and how they kind of plummet out of the blasty parts, feels awfully familiar. And man, it all just flies by without a hitch.
for fans of: Polish black metal church services, a wrathful god
― Devilock, Thursday, 17 December 2015 06:06 (eight years ago) link
dammit meant to use the non embed yt link; oh well, year's almost over
Really liking this new album by energetic Montana blackish metal band Martriden.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2iJRLtRjdGHqFySsnBUMP8
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 19 December 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
I was wondering if the Mgla guys were involved in Batushka. The drums have the same feel. Sounded great on first listen.
― Musical strategies to eliminate the ego (Skrot Montague), Saturday, 19 December 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
yea this batushka is killer, the chanting vox are absolutely *perfect* for this music!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 19 December 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
Someone suggested it may be some guys from Polish band Hermh, who I'd never heard of. I still say there are some Mgla-isms in those rhythm guitars. Who knows, though.
I checked out a couple songs from Hermh and there were some liturgical sounding chants however. And the black metal vox were similar too.
― Devilock, Saturday, 19 December 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
Satan – Atom By AtomKing Heavy – King HeavyTrixter Human EraCave Of Swimmers – ReflectionVhöl – Deeper Than SkyBlack Space Riders – RefugeeumMagister Templi – Into DuatMelechesh – EnkiHelrunar – NiederkunfftGhost – MelioraThe Sword – High CountryNight Demon – Curse Of The DamnedVisigoth – The Revenant KingMy Dying Bride – Feel The MiseryMyrkur – MSigh – GravewardRaven – ExtermiNationCrypt Sermon – Out Of The GardenHeidevolk – VeluaIron Maiden – The Book Of Souls
― o. nate, Sunday, 20 December 2015 00:36 (eight years ago) link
Oops, sorry left off the title. That was Rhapsody's top 20 metal albums of 2015.
― o. nate, Sunday, 20 December 2015 00:37 (eight years ago) link
That's Chuck Eddy's list, for what it's worth.He doesn't post in this thread, I don't think.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 20 December 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
that King Heavy is pretty great, the vocals especially, which I can't quite tell are serious...or ultra serious
― Dominique, Sunday, 20 December 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
http://doomcharts.com/2015/12/21/best-of-2015/
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 21 December 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
Some nice name-your-price atmoblack from Mexico
https://lluvia.bandcamp.com/album/eternidad-solemne
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
oh I wanted to see them a couple of weeks in Oakland but it didn't work out.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link
My Year in Metal, 2015https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/59NtrREsm0x5Cmi7XyGuBj
My top 10 went like this:
1. Agent Fresco2. Moonspell3. Amberian Dawn4. Panopticon5. Imperia6. Myrkur7. Violet Cold8. Nightwish9. Obsequiae10. Öxxö Xööx
And then 90 more, in associative order:
Shape Of Despair, Leprous, Amorphis, Leviathan, Enslaved, So Hideous, Draconian, Eldritch, Rie a.k.a. Suzaku, Halo, Gloryhammer, Kamelot, Baroness, Dream Theater, Avantasia, Primal Fear, Tau Cross, Elder, To/Die/For, Raaka-Aine, Månegarm, Korpiklaani, Wolfheart, Omnium Gatherum, Turmion Kätilöt, Blind Guardian, Malrun, Santa Cruz, Nergard, Amoral, Graveshadow, Tales Of Evening, Sirenia, Setanera, Xandria, Elyose, Elferya, Dalriada, Triosphere, Battle Beast, Dark Sarah, Embassy Of Silence, Anfel, Crimson Sun, End of the Dream, Against Myself, Coronatus, Elvellon, Symphonic Destiny, Head Phones President, Christian Mistress, Dead Sara, Lucifer, Lotus Thief, Lethe, Imperial Triumphant, Monasteries, Sanzu, Black Tongue, Sunn 0))), Osculum Infame, Heretical, Entrails, Morphinist, Aetherius Obscuritas, A Forest Of Stars, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Vattnet Viskar, Drudkh, Kampfar, Tsjuder, Whispered, Mastery, Shining, Bosse-de-Nage, Cradle Of Filth, Finsterforst, Thy Catafalque, Negative Voice, Sannhet, Martriden, Kill The Thrill, Deafheaven, Envy, Cronometrobudú, Saurom, Mokoma, Kauan, Widek, Divides
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
fuuuuck this Imperial Triumphant
FUUUUUUUUCK
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 24 December 2015 05:26 (eight years ago) link
should be fuuuuck, this Imperial Triumphant
Amazing record, don't know why the RYM average is just barely over 3
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 24 December 2015 06:29 (eight years ago) link
So there's a song on the YouTubes - Amon Amarth doing "Viking Christmas."Except that I cannot find it as part of their discography and people online say it isn't them.
Anyone know anything about this?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 25 December 2015 02:33 (eight years ago) link
It's not them. Doesn't sound anything like them.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 25 December 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link
Thanks for clearing that up... Do you know who it is?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 25 December 2015 03:39 (eight years ago) link
No idea. It's weird to think someone would consider Amon Amarth famous enough to record a parody Christmas song under their name. But in fact, there are two now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDcu87hyIb8
The singer on that one sounds a little more like Johan, except he's German (which you can hear most clearly on the chorus).
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 25 December 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
So sometimes I go stupid and I bought this Black Tongue album "The Unconquerable Dark" based on a couple of samples I heard in the store; to me it sounds like sludgy, mildly proggy, kinda djenty kinda doomy stuff with an overwrought vocalist doing, like, EVERY extreme vocalist thing he can think of. He reminds me a bit of Desalvo from Cryptopsy, actually. I get home and apparently these dudes are considered "beatdown hardcore" but call themselves (sigh) doomcore. So are these guys part of some subgenre of hardcore I'm unaware of?
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 12:15 (eight years ago) link
Beatdown is definitely a thing.
http://everynoise.com/engenremap-beatdown.html
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 14:20 (eight years ago) link
ha played 4 bands on that link, and if you had told me before that they were not only the same band, but samples from 4 parts of the same song, I would have believed you
― Dominique, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
I believe both of your posts. I guess I'm more curious as to whether some subgenre has mutated into discordant prog-sludge...
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 31 December 2015 00:36 (eight years ago) link
that's so weird
how could there be like, that many bands i have never heard of who are part of a subgenre i've never heard of that is THAT CLOSE to things i have
― j., Thursday, 31 December 2015 02:06 (eight years ago) link
lol black tongue, I like that one in small doses too, I put it on to do dishes sometimes
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 31 December 2015 03:12 (eight years ago) link
Maybe it's just the mood for head-nodding music that I'm in but the more I listen to Enki the more I think it should've found a place on my year end list. That guy's riffs, especially in the build-up beginning of every song, are just out of this world. And those rhythms -- forget about sitting still when jamming this thing.
Have they even had a single bad song on their last four albums? I feel like Melechesh is gonna end up alongside bands like The Chasm and Anata, appreciated by a lot of people but still not really at the recognition level they deserve for what they're doing.
Fuckin' "Multiple Truths." When they slow things down to that serpentine drone thing, like "Ghouls of Ninevah," I pretty much go to a place no other metal band takes me these days. We need more sexy beats in the netal.
Er, ok, all done I think. Roll my old clattering bones into 2016 please.
― Devilock, Thursday, 31 December 2015 04:00 (eight years ago) link
netal = *metal
― Devilock, Thursday, 31 December 2015 04:01 (eight years ago) link
The Beast in the Nettles sounds like a Derleth or Howard story title.
― Devilock, Thursday, 31 December 2015 04:04 (eight years ago) link
But, please, Gervase, pray close the shades before I relate my tale. It's those nettles... I can't bear to see them, they fill me with a dread redolent of the chill a soul feelsin the last throes of death. Those awful, sting-y nettles!
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 31 December 2015 05:07 (eight years ago) link
Spoil that shit!
― Devilock, Thursday, 31 December 2015 05:22 (eight years ago) link
spoiler* even
― Devilock, Thursday, 31 December 2015 05:46 (eight years ago) link
Goodbye, Rolling Metal Thread 2015! You were a good timekiller, a fruitful giver of good music, and a fun place to hang out. My favorite thread on ILM. Looking forward to 2016!
― alpine static, Friday, 1 January 2016 04:43 (eight years ago) link
well im not starting the new one
― Ted Nü-Djent (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 1 January 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
Something I posted on Facebook under the title of "10 Great Metal Albums of 2015", although I would probably try to work in King Heavy if I redid it now:
10) Christian Mistress - To Your DeathFairly straightforward hard rock with twin guitar leads reminiscent of Wishbone Ash and a unique vocal presence in singer Christine Davis.9) Aevangelist - Enthrall to the Void of BlissDiscordant, atmospheric black metal featuring unintelligible guttural vocals, churning guitars, and creative use of a harp.8) Elder - LoreA melodic prog-metal odyssey featuring five tracks all over 10 minutes long that somehow don’t overstay their welcome.7) KEN Mode - SuccessArguable whether this is metal, the vocals code as post-hardcore to me, but either way a righteous rocking slab of anger, negativity and irony.6) Dodheimsgard - A Umbra OmegaKind of an indescribable maximalist prog-black-metal suite with over-the-top theatrical vocals.5) Kadavar - BerlinAnother fairly straightforward hard rock album, this time a power trio, with solid songcraft and winningly understated hooks.4) Satan - Atom by AtomDon’t be fooled by the name, these guys are more Richard Dawkins than Aleister Crowley lyrically, and don’t miss this non-stop barrage of catchy speed-metal riffs.3) Mare Infinitum - Alien Monolith GodA unique death-doom-prog-metal sci-fi odyssey, reminiscent of classic-era Opeth for its melodic inventiveness and alternation of clean and guttural vocals.2) Ghost - MelioraAs enjoyable and slickly-produced an off-beat occult progressive pop metal album as you’ll likely hear this year.1) Tribulation - The Children of the NightA seemingly oil-and-water pairing of guttural growls and melodic yet understated classic psych instrumentation that somehow gels into an atmospheric nocturnal journey that was one of the year’s most compelling listens.
― o. nate, Saturday, 2 January 2016 02:08 (eight years ago) link
Rolling Metal 2016
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 2 January 2016 02:22 (eight years ago) link