Rolling Metal 2017

Seems to be a lot of it around now and yeah, I feel the same. It either encourages wankery or invites the listener to wish they had a vocalist IMO.

man I do not feel the same. I always welcome a break from DM vokills

like i prefer them to black metal but still...don't feel like there's a lot of interesting ground to tread. instrumental dm with cosmic solos will work for me fine!

DM really needs its next Sylvian Houde or Lord Worm

JCLC any instrumental bands you rate?

In other news this forthcoming release on I, Voidhanger sounds potentially interesting.

CELESTIAL BODIES "Spit Forth From Chaos" CD

Out on March 17th, 2017

With such a premise – a cosmic war between monstrous deities from an ancient, mythological past – it doesn't come as a surprise that Celestial Bodies' debut, “Spit Forth From Chaos”, is one of the most intense, hallucinating and mind-shattering sonic experiences ever put on record.

A duo based in The Netherlands and comprised of members from NIHILL and Dead Neanderthals, CELESTIAL BODIES are exactly the fruit of their unholy union. From Nihill they inherited the pitch-black and noise-drenched sound, as well as a conceptual approach with deep roots in gnosticism and occultism, while from Dead Neanderthals they borrowed the avant-garde sensibility and a free-jazz nature built on improvisation.

The result is “Spit Forth From Chaos”, a blasphemous and cacophonously disturbing blend of anti-cosmic black metal and raw noise, propelled by an imperious drumming that breaks through the gates of perceptions, tossing the listener into a nightmarish, sense-altering dimension where everything is Chaos, and Chaos is everything.

Nihill and Dead Neanderthals in the same band? And it's out on St Patrick's Day? Sign me up right now.

Anomalie
Visions
(Art Of Propaganda)
Release Date: 03/17/2017

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/2/6/8/626825.jpg?3030

The album doesn't come out until March but here's a video that the band/label put out there recently.

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

I am unfamiliar with the previous output of this Austrian project, essentially a solo undertaking of Marrok, though unlike on the previous two releases (all on Art Of Propaganda) he enlists the assistance of two studio musicians on Visions. The album takes Pagan black metal and tempers it with contemplative post-blackgaze. The video that was released for "Vision IV: Illumination" illustrates the nature of the band perfectly. As the song title alludes to, it seems to be a conceptual piece with every song a chapter of the story. It's ambitious and grandiose and very, very epic, but manages to avoid hyper-pretension despite the lofty goals, mainly because it's all done so stunningly well. The percussion is especially good, really driving the speedy metallic parts but letting the more delicate passages - sometimes augmented with piano or female vocals - take hold of the listener.

I would put this album up there with anything Alcest has done and they are only my favorite band that does this kind of thing, though Anomalie embraces metal in a way that French forefathers have somewhat abandoned as of late.

post-blackgaze? man, we're gonna run out of modifiers and hyphens

Well, I evidently didn't coin it, but it fits.

New Orthodox album is weird, crushing... jazz.

http://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/supreme

Yeah, it's great - I reviewed it for The Wire. A single 36-minute piece. Reminds me of Naked City's Leng Tch'e.

yet another amazing-sounding pre-order from Avantgarde

https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/nessun-luogo

I know Brujeria are kind of a novelty band but there's something invigorating about listening to "Viva Presidente Trump". for that song alone I'm goin to check em out tomorrow........(I do like their first album too)

A track from the upcoming Dodecahedron album

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QyQNvDt8Jk

Well that's nuts. Season of Mist seem to like the weird discordant stuff lately.

New Lantern track posted. I know I'm the only person who likes them, you don't have to say it. But they're Finnish, you see.

http://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ii-morphosis

I was just listening to that Lantern track, and yeah I'm not feeling it too much, I'm afraid.

In other news, the new Falls of Rauros album is really nice.

The first new Lantern track I don't like as much as their first album but I'm hopeful.

holy hell, I really dug that Lantern.

like old Unleashed but more blast-beaty

ha Gott Punch I am not as severe in my "send me more Finnish metal CDs, and send them here now" tendencies as I once was but I feel you

Brujeria are incredibly entertaining live.

However i learned attending shows sober is v alien to me

New album from Au Champ des Morts (French BM) out today

https://dmp666.bandcamp.com/track/dans-la-joie

new Kreator is...weird again. so many power metal-ish moments, triumphant-y sounding choruses, whereas I like to go to Kreator to have my face torn off with the angular riffing.

I'll have to listen again to see what I think but that's the issue I had with the album before too.

The weirdness - the orchestral stuff (done for them by the Fleshgod Apocalypse dudes), that epic final track - is what makes the album great for me. I love their head-down thrash stuff, but knowing that they're still trying to challenge themselves is really cool. I mean, the face-rippers-and-nothing-but approach is what we have Destruction for, right?

i liked the intro and I like that they're not doing rote thrash revival retread of their past, it's just those triumphant choruses sometimes feel like jarring.

i was also nursing a sore back and neck and driving home 80 miles at midnight tho so i'm gonna give it a headphones listen now

regardless tho I am positively stoked for that tour in March. w/ fucking Midnight, Horrendous, and Obituary (the latter I really, really don't ever need to see ever again - they seem to do multiple shows in FL every year and I'm beyond burnt)

Astonishingly (to me), I've never seen Obituary live, and I really want to. The new album's great.

They are actually a really good live band. I recommend catching them if you can.

I'm just burnt - seen them 8 times in the last few years

They are actually a really good live band. I recommend catching them if you can.

I'm just burnt - seen them 8 times in the last few years

Oops

In other news, the new Falls of Rauros album is really nice. ― Dinsdale

new Mythyrming song. fucking A I just think this band is great.

https://misthyrming.bandcamp.com/track/hof

i started playing that loudly and just remembered I'm on a conference call

http://www.vintag.es/2017/01/27-awful-heavy-metal-album-covers-from.html

major props to Kreator for "Side by Side", anti-homophobia song.

that IS awesome! I hadn't gotten that far on the album yet.

lol I finally just did. I'm warming to the album now - some of the power metally chorus moments still don't sit right with me but the riffing and songwriting is inspired. the angular riffing from their 80s output like Extreme Aggression is fully present.

anybody listen to Blood Freak? what are they up to, if anything?

man thanks for the Lantern mention, their first album is fantastic

Awesome! Good call on the early Unleashed vibes, reminds me of them but even more dank.

Invisible Oranges has a really interesting interview with Tom Allom, who produced all of Judas Priest's '80s albums, and engineer Jack Ruston, who worked on the live concert appended to the Turbo reissue coming out on Friday.

dudes from thou put this together for the greater baton rouge food bank, buy it: http://thrilljockey.com/products/many-waters-baton-rouge-flood-relief-2017

Checked out the new album by UK thrashers Solitary The Diseased Heart of Society (release date: 3/3/2017) and if you're the kind of person who grew up in the '80s, it will definitely appeal to you. Most of the album sounds like Legacy-era Testament with the chunky riffs, catchy songs, strong Chuck Billy-like vocals and excellent leads.

You can hear one of their new songs here:
http://soundcloud.com/imperative-pr/solitary-unidentified

I don't listen to much new death metal, even though I grew up on the stuff. I have found the genre becoming self-limiting and while some of the old bands that I loved still put out a good album from time to time, I usually just play the classic stuff when death metal I want.

The exception is Horrendous, who I think are brilliant, mainly because they have been able to expand the parameters of the genre while still unambiguously remaining a death metal band. I just checked out another newer band that has the same impact as Horrendous - Venenum.

The German group had a very well-received self-titled EP in 2011 on Sepulchral Voice Records but nothing since. However a debut full-length "Trance of Death" (which evidently was hinted at a release as far back as the middle of 2016) will finally come out on March 17th. The band remains on Sepulchral Voice for most of the world however The Ajna Offensive picked it up for the United States and Canada which should help the band's profile in North America considerably.

I never heard the EP as of yet, but the LP is really fantastic. It's eerie at times, with enough extra instrumentation and tempo-changing moodiness that some people will be tricked into hearing black metal, but make no mistake, this is death metal - just not boring or stereotypical stuff - with riffs that are brutal but actual dynamic songwriting that never seems pretentious.

No music online that I could find since it's still six weeks away from release though if a publicist sent me advance music, I am sure the active music critics in this forum have got it.

the body/full of hell do devo on that flood relief comp i posted. it's great. buy it.

Saw them do it live when they toured together... Inspired!

New album from Au Champ des Morts (French BM) out today

― Dinsdale, Friday, 27 January 2017 10:03 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Full album here:

https://dmp666.bandcamp.com/album/dans-la-joie

It's pretty good, like a more depressive Ecailles de Lune in parts

bookmarked for later

as for now it's death metal from Portugal
http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/appalling-ascension

"Appalling Ascension!" sounds like something the narrator on the 1966 Batman series would say, like if the Penguin was flying with a magic umbrella.

That's a great album (Ominous Circle).