Rolling Metal 2017

new Overkill and Kreator out shortly as well

New Lantern and Innumerable Forms!! And I'll happily investigate the other ones I don't know.

New Portal and Artificial Brain YEAH

seconding YEAH for these two + Vaura

Always up for new Monarch!.

Apparently Spectral Lore just sneaked something out before the new year, one of his genre experiment EPs

https://spectrallore.bandcamp.com/album/fossils

I hope we get a full-length this year

fuck this is amazing

https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/extermination-mass

members of Revenge & Blasphemy. NWY Prod so you know the deal. Which I generally think of myself as being sympathetic to but generally not needing more, but...fuuuuuck this is solid as hell. A commenter on Bandcamp dares to invoke the name of Beherit and normally I'd be like "c'mon" but the vibe here...it is a fucking vibe

it also concludes with a thirty-minute phone interview so be stoked for that

Oh shit, wish I wasn't at work... I'd crank that just on principle.

I, Voidhanger announcement:

Support Black Metal has included I, Voidhanger Records in the list of Top Record Labels of 2016. Thanks.

2017 will be another hectic year, with new releases from Todesstoß, Lorn, Tome of the Unreplenished, Celestial Bodies, Khanus, Selcouth, Midnight Odyssey, Inconcessus Lux Lucis, Chaos Moon, Spectral Lore, Divine Element, Lo-Ruhamah, Howls Of Ebb, FELL RUIN, Benighted in Sodom, Ævangelist, Tongues... and many more.

NEW HOWLS OF EBB! NEW KHANUS! NEW TONGUES! ETC.

new Midnight Odyssey! wonder how many hours it'll be

acc to Ben Koller we can expect new All Pigs Must Die, Mutoid Man, and The Armed; Converge will start recording in the spring

New Portal and Artificial Brain YEAH

― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, January 2, 2017 3:41 AM (eleven hours ago)

Hyus. Plus psyched for Howls of Ebb & at least curious abt new Inconcessus Lux Lucis.

Just found out there was an Yngwie album released in 2016 - only in Japan, apparently, though it's on US Spotify.

One for fans of ultra crude black death, guitars that sound like they're strung with rusty barbed wire, Finland

http://scourgelair.bandcamp.com/album/abominable-entities

The Chasm posted on FB that they're setting up in studio to record a new album.

oh hell yes

New, s/t Obituary album coming out in March on Relapse. 10 tracks, 33 minutes.

Nice, the late career s/t.

Nice indeed

thanks for the I, Voidhanger news, definitely one of (if not my top) favorite metal labels right now. And loving the Death Worship.

The first 50 of 111 tracks in my 2016 playlist are metal, more or less. (As are a few of the others.)

http://www.furia.com/newparticles/2016-12-31.html

Implore are very good if you like Trap Them, Rotten Sound, Distaste, etc., etc. They've got two 7"s, and an album from 2015. Their latest 7" is below:

https://implore.bandcamp.com/album/thanatos

2016 but really digging the Cadaveric Poison release from last year

new Immolation next month huh?

There were two bands with Cadaveric name (Fumes and Poison) and both were solid!

I've been listening to Marduk's first album... so fucking (euro) death metally. It's fun.

Pyrrhon's set to have a new one out late in the year on Willowtip.

Nice. Didn't know Willowtip had picked them up after Relapse seemed to fart on promoting their album.

Here's some stuff I wished I had heard in time for the 2016 poll:

Kosmokrator - First Step Towards Supremacy (excellent, psychedelic death RIYL Krypts, Tongues, Swallowed, etc)

http://initiate-decimation.bandcamp.com/album/first-step-towards-supremacy

Ultha - Converging Sins (epic black metal that incorporates "post-rock" elements without losing the plot)

http://ultha.bandcamp.com/album/converging-sins

Ultha's "Pain Cleanses Every Doubt" (long) EP is available as a pay what you want download there, btw, and is worth listening to and paying for - a bit more doom-influenced than the LP and I think I like it a bit more.

Worth reposting:

Moon Tooth + Astronoid (!!!)

Feb 1 – Brooklyn, NY – Saint Vitus
Feb 2 – Allston MA, – Great Scott
Feb 3 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz
Feb 4 – Toronto, ON – Hard Luck
Feb 5 – Detroit, MI – EL Club
Feb 6 – Chicago, IL – Reggies Rock Club
Feb 7 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Cafe
Feb 8 – Webster, NY -Harmony House
Feb 9 – Latham, NY – On The Circle
Feb 10 – Lancaster, PA – Lizard Lounge
Feb 11 – Amityville, NY – Amityville Music Hall

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.)

Ultha - Converging Sins (epic black metal that incorporates "post-rock" elements without losing the plot)

http://ultha.bandcamp.com/album/converging-sins

Yeah, I'm really liking this! Will check out the EP as well. Thanks!

I'm liking this Laster album

https://laster.bandcamp.com/album/ons-vrije-fatum

Respect to Armored Saint for putting out a live album that's only 8 tracks and 39 minutes long.

A) Twiggy Ramirez produced the new Emptiness album
B) You can stream it here and there's an interview with him (but not the band)

http://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/how-marilyn-mansons-twiggy-ramirez-helped-emptiness-embrace-their-inner-goth

awesome, really looking forward to listening to that later; the bits I've heard sound even odder than the last album

oh my

this is not a metal album but it's fucking otherworldly, all the guitars and drums have been thinned out and pushed to the back, it sounds like it's seething

"Ever" sounds like "Goodbye Horses" if it were played on a warped record at an Eyes Wide Shut party. I have no idea how these guys are also in Enthroned. (Or were?)

Black Anvil's new one As Was comes out 1/13.
It is streaming at Noisey/Vice as of now.

http://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/black-anvil-returns-to-primordial-chaos-on-new-album-as-was

xp two of them are still listed as Enthroned members on M-A. Guess it's the duality of man thing... anyway, yeah that album's sounding pretty amazing.

apologize for making this the "2016 shit I only now heard in 2017" thread but man that Gatecreeper from last year.

I held off on listening to it cos I've grown sick of the 90s Swe-DM sound and all of its neo-emulators but this band, like Entrails, does it very well, w/ taut songwriting.

One 2016 album I didn't get to hear until 2017 is Khemmis. I guess I was put off by the nerd-friendly artwork. But it turns out the music itself was worth the hype.

What do we reckon to this, then?

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/pillorian-shoot-first-with-a-stygian-pyre/

John Haughm's first foray into music since Agalloch split. Must say I'm not particularly moved either way at this point.

Actually, I like that! I'm surprised at how concise it is.

I think it's... okay. Not particularly distinctive or remarkable but it's not bad. The outro reminds me of the Falling Snow outro a little.

From Malokarpatan:

The final preparations have been done, in March we will be entering the "Dark Ceremonies" Studio Hostivař in Prague to record our new full-lenght album Nordkarpatenland. Same place where Master's Hammer recorded the legendary 1989 demo The Mass, so we hope the spirits of the past will conjure up their magic again during our presence.

To be released by Invictus Productions in Europe and The Ajna Offensive in the US in due course...

Also, I don't even know what this is but it has to be excruciating:
https://musicalexcrements.bandcamp.com/album/antithesis

looks like my first concert of 2017 will be Hellwitch tomorrow, $10

Niiiiice. Have you seen them before? Are they as insanely fast live as on that first LP?

Also new Malokarpatan fuuuck yeeeahhh

I really like the Emptiness album

A couple of promising tracks, album supposedly out today

https://draugsol.bandcamp.com/album/vola-a-land

Dang that's good. But we've really got to have a moratorium on Draug- names.

Niiiiice. Have you seen them before? Are they as insanely fast live as on that first LP?

― 𝐌𝐀𝐁-BAM-O BAM A – 𝐔𝐒-H US SEIN-U.S.-UNITED STATES (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, January 13, 2017 1:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nope first time seein' em but I'll let ya know :)

In addition to the actual new Morbid Angel album, there's something on Spotify called Complete Acid Terror, which I think might be demos or something - it's seven instrumentals with a drum machine.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6zuftX4cS6TSq516EffNIa

"the pillars crumbling" -> "for no master" is so sweet

what's the icd-10 code for Gnosis of Pleroma?

riyl: machine learning; Krallice

(glenn?)

https://theoutline.com/post/2556/this-frostbitten-black-metal-album-was-created-by-an-artificial-intelligence

aaah hahaha thank you for this

Man the "Deep the Beatles" thing by those same dudes is pretty freaky.

all it needs is spiderman and pregnant elsa

lol

and... probably going to buy the new Morbid Angel tomorrow

The AI Krallice thing is maddening because I recognise all the elements but it doesn't go in the direction I'm used to. Apart from that well done computer? It still manages to be less weird and robotic than Glyptoglossio!

I'd prefer to hear it after the entire history of metal has been uploaded to the network, and the parameters set to 'go on, impress me'

not until you have listened to metal before 1999!

all it needs is spiderman and pregnant elsa

― imago, Sunday, December 3, 2017 9:52 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loool.. it's... not bad?

Simon h has started taking noms ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll 2017: NOMINATIONS thread - open till Dec. 19th!

Finally listening to the new Azonic & loving it, so thanks to unperson

http://www.metalinjection.net/av/full-album-stream/stream-clerics-sprawling-avant-garde-metal-masterpiece-retrocausal

aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

Cleric guitarist Matt Hollenberg is the interview subject on the next Burning Ambulance podcast, which comes out Friday. We talk about Cleric, John Frum, his work in Zorn's Simulacrum band, and lots of other stuff.

cool, will tune in :)

the album is great, obviously, and as close to straight-up jazz as any metal album I've heard - hopefully you'd say good jazz at that

this is getting even better on a subsequent listen

Cleric delivers.

Very excited for this. Regressions clicked with me a awhile back and I finally got to see them about a year ago with Dysrhythmia (Colin band) and they delivered then too. Matt Hollenberg is unreal. Whole band is awesome, can't wait to check this one out.

Enjoying the podcast! My main takeaway so far is that I need to hear Simulacrum

Just played through Retrocasual. It's fucking awesome. Lots of great moments all over this album but "Grey Lodge" is the big standout for me. It's insane.

New Chaos Echoes album in February! I loved Transient, so I am extremely excited about this.

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/nevermore-and-sanctuary-singer-warrel-dane-dies-of-heart-attack-in-brazil/

NO!

dammit fuck

Listening to The Year of the Voyager now.

Scroll down for my metal lists: http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-17/#breakdown

Man there's so much interesting stuff on those lists... fodder to follow up on throughout 2018.

Here's one for the ripping thrashy death people.

http://degial.bandcamp.com/album/predator-reign

There's a lot of Morbid Angel DNA in there and that's just fine with me.

I put together an unranked, alphabetical year-end metal list for Burning Ambulance. Here it is.

*hyperventilates*

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Jute_Gyte/Helian/685106

Nice!!

boom

The perverse madness of this bill really appeals to me; I would absolutely go to this show. Sadly, there's no NYC date - just EHG solo at Saint Vitus, again.

EYEHATEGOD w/ Black Label Society, Corrosion Of Conformity:

12/27/2017 Growler's - Memphis, TN *
12/28/2017 The Brewery - Rock Island, IL *
12/29/2017 Anthem at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - Sioux City, IA
12/30/2017 Uptown Theater - Kansas City, MO
12/31/2017 Pop's Nightclub - Sauget, IL
1/02/2018 Sokol Auditorium - Omaha, NE
1/03/2018 House Of Blues - Chicago, IL
1/04/2018 Egyptian Room at Old National Centre - Indianapolis, IN
1/05/2018 The Fillmore Detroit - Detroit, MI
1/06/2018 Saint Vitus Bar- Brooklyn, NY *
1/07/2018 Upstate Concert Hall - Clifton Park, NY
1/08/2018 M Telus - Montreal, QC
1/09/2018 Rebel - Toronto, ON
1/10/2018 20 Monroe Live - Grand Rapids, MI
1/11/2018 Vaudeville Mews - Des Moines, IA *
1/12/2018 Diamond Ballroom - Oklahoma City, OK
1/13/2018 Bomb Factory - Dallas, TX
1/14/2018 Emo's - Austin, TX
1/15/2018 House Of Blues - Houston, TX
1/17/2018 House Of Blues - New Orleans, LA
1/18/2018 Marathon Music Works - Nashville, TN
1/19/2018 Bogart's - Cincinnati, OH
1/20/2018 Center Stage - Atlanta, GA
1/21/2018 The Merry Widow - Mobile, AL *
2/07/2018 Cactus Club - Milwaukee, WI *
2/08/2018 Big's - Sioux Falls, SD *
2/09/2018 The Aquarium - Fargo, ND *
2/10/2018 The Pyramid - Winnipeg, MB *
2/11/2018 O'Brians Event Centre - Saskatoon, SK
2/12/2018 The Ranch Roadhouse - Edmonton, AB
2/14/2018 Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC
2/16/2018 Bowes Event Center at Revolution Place - Grande Prairie, AB
2/17/2018 MacEwan Hall - Calgary, AB
2/19/2018 Showbox SoDo - Seattle, WA
2/20/2018 Roseland Theater - Portland, OR
2/21/2018 Ace Of Spades - Sacramento, CA
2/23/2018 House of Blues - Las Vegas, NV
2/24/2018 The Marquee - Tempe, AZ
2/25/2018 Sunshine Theater - Albuquerque, NM
2/27/2018 The Fonda Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
3/01/2018 Marquis Theater - Denver, CO *
3/02/2018 Jake's - Lubbock, TX *
* EYEHATEGOD only

that Degial album rips

A band I've never heard of before, Iron Void, are putting out their third album in March. RIYL Gates of Slumber and/or Grand Magus.

"The Coming of a King": https://shadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-coming-of-a-king

What version of COC is it these days? I had Blind on recently; it's fantastic. 'When innocents cried/in the face of the guilty/No one said anything!'

Apropos of not much, I re-stumbled on this earlier. Hell yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXktYKl_hhM

unreasonably excited for the new Rolo Tomassi in March, awesomely titled Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It

xpost - That is one of my favourite songs of the past 10 years.

What version of COC is it these days?

This upcoming tour will be the Pepper Keenan-fronted version. They've got a new album coming out next year. It's OK.

I started the Rolling Metal 2018 thread because nobody else did...

heard it too late, otherwise I would have nominated this for the poll:

Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worlds
https://anakimuk.bandcamp.com/releases

Technical DM that stays catchy all the way through

Dunno how many people follow Evil Spirit in here but they put a new track from their forthcoming (December) album up and it's... weird.

Clean vocals, strings, horns that sound vaguely drunken, drifting guitar leads... it's different.

This seems to be the only mention of this album on ILM! Great album which I've only recently discovered. Kind of occult folk doom with unusual instrumentation.

it's definitely unique

also I didn't notice that Ulrich Krieger plays horns on it! kind of a big get for an obscure doom metal band.