Rolling Metal 2017

Enjoying that Fen album

Great Old... Won Ton

Don't Bake the Okra

It's wayyyyy better fried

That's a fact, btw, not parody

lol I think fried is the only way I've ever had it

new venenum is out:
https://venenum.bandcamp.com/album/trance-of-death

haven't listened to it yet but I love the old record, so I am psyched to hear this when I get a minute

venenum album is excellent

This is the cover art to the next Danzig album, out in May. I don't think I need to know anything more about it, frankly.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7YM8ODV4AAfVbV.jpg

yup. nope.

hahaha

when your neck is thicker than your waist

Will NAILS finally impress me enough that I finally understand all the critical love their album got last year?
Will TOXIC HOLOCAUST kick my ass yet again despite having no new music in nearly three and a half years?
Will FULL OF HELL be able to deliver on a stage much bigger than I have ever seen them on before?
Will GATECREEPER be as great as their last album?

All will be revealed tonight...

Toxic was great the other night. I left during Nails...like em ok but it was so overdriven it sounded like nothing but a cacophony of noise.

damn, Negru, drummer and co-founder of Negura Bunget, dead at 42

can't say I've heard any of their stuff since the 2010 album but they've definitely had some tremendous works

I reviewed their most recent album, Zi, for The Wire. It's great. It was supposed to be the second album in a trilogy; I'm assuming that's over. I doubt they had the final volume recorded already.

Oh my god, I love that fucking band! Only 42... Fuck!

Aww man RIP.

Just announced a date for Taake in Philly in June!

Everyone's up in arms over the name of the forthcoming North American Shining and Revenge tour...

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/files/2017/03/no-safe-spaces2.jpg

this is the suicidal black metal shining right

anyway what a profoundly stupid yet unsurprising name for a tour by swedish suicidal black metal band shining, hope no one sees them

Are people "up in arms" or "laughing at jackasses who think they're being provocative"? 'Cause in my case it's mostly the latter.

Those two bands are the worst. That Shining SWE guy especially, what a clown. Give me Norwegian Shining any day.

the only thing that really bugs me about the tour name is "more". no safe space would be alright.

Maybe they meant it like "no safer space".

Can't wait for a tour called Triggered, Snowflakes? with a kvlt pepe logo

Maybe they meant it like "no safer space".

i read it as "no more [oppression, this is a] safe space"

Give me Norwegian Shining any day.

Yeah, it sucks for them that they share a name.

Crazy talk, Swedish Shining is so much better than the Norwegian one, despite the stupid PR shtick.

Nah, even if you discard the moronic schtick, Swedish Shining is crap. Norwegian Shining is great.

This Cloud Rat half-LP is good stuff.

https://soundcloud.com/halo-of-flies/sets/cloud-rat-moloch-split-lp

oh cool I like them

idk about Swedish Shining but Norwegian one could put together a 45-minute compilation of killer material

Swedish Shining is crap. Norwegian Shining is great.
No, seriously? I rate III, IV and V easily among the best black metal albums of the last 15 years, as well as 8½ (with all the guest vocalists). Anyway, I have this theory that as jazz-Shining-with-the-emo-singer adds ever more metal, and metal-Shining adds more jazz, both will eventually fuse into one multinational Shining entity.

That Cloud Rat stuff is great. Goth grindcore!

"Baby Sling Ballon Born" is such a Cocteau Twins title.

The Moloch side sounds pretty good too. I don't know anything about that band.

Wow, more new Cloud Rat stuff just this morning.

https://soundcloud.com/halo-of-flies/sets/cloud-rat-crevasse-split-7

Cirith Ungol's King of the Dead is being reissued by Metal Blade next month with a bunch of live bonus tracks (some from the 80s, some from last year) and a DVD with a live performance from 1983.

I love these little mini grind suites Cloud Rat keeps putting out

man I'm surprised to hear Siegbran digs Shining, that stuff has always sounded super poseur to me. not that people who like it are posing but their whole shtick feels so forced and personality/persona-driven and the music just has never worked for me at all

JCLC, allow me to point you (and everyone else) to Suffering Hour, whose debut album In Passing Ascension comes out in May. Two songs are streaming on Bandcamp, and they rule. Doomy, dissonant, clanging death metal that reminds me of Aevangelist and Esoteric.

https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-passing-ascension-cd-12lp

just on a song title basis "devouring shapeless void" really delivers. looking forward to listening

both of those tracks sound v good

Doomy, dissonant, clanging death metal that reminds me of Aevangelist and Esoteric.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱)

colored curious. dig the latter but not not not the former (despite love for doomy, clanging dissonance). will check tonite when near proper speakers.

Shining, that stuff has always sounded super poseur to me. not that people who like it are posing but their whole shtick feels so forced and personality/persona-driven and the music just has never worked for me at all

― though the tempest rages, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:29 AM (one hour ago)

this, but i'm so completely put off by the DSBM schtick that maybe i've never given the music a fair shake. norway shining bugs too, tho for different reasons.

all of my life-loathing psychedelia/Kvarforth needs are met by the Skitliv album; that thing is massive and wonderfully exhausting

also

this is the suicidal black metal shining right

I can hear it being announced in one of those crackling warbling 80's high school filmstrip voice-overs like in a My Life with the Thrill Kult song

Bunch of actually decent bands on Warped Tour this year. Not enough to make me deal with being old and sitting through the requisite gaggle of pop-punk kids, but I wouldn't mind seeing*** Alestorm, Barb Wire Dolls, Riverboat Gamblers, Street Dogs, The Adolescents, The Alarm, The Dickies, Municipal Waste, Sick Of It All, T.S.O.L., Valient Thorr, The Acacia Strain, Candiria, Hatebreed and GWAR.

*** "Wouldn't mind seeing" doesn't mean that I love the band but at worst I would go to a show early to catch them if I was going to see the headliner.

going back to last year's thread, the Ruinous album is fuckin' fantastic.

love the vocals on it too......closer to the Benton layered vocals of yore than the "squeal like a pig"-Deliverance death metal style of late

Yeah it's a solid record. I saw a couple of not-entirely-positive reviews of it saying the vocals were too -core sounding, bollocks that.