Rolling Metal 2017

my list will only come into being when Cleric release the new one

I'll vouch for the Beheaded (which Phil recced and is dope) and the Hour of Penance and Overkill.

Yeah, Rate Your Music tends to overrate power metal.

Haven't heard anywhere near a majority of those, but these are the ones I rep for:

3. Immolation - Atonement
5. Soen - Lykaia
6. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
11. Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
13. Kreator - Gods of Violence
22. Benighted - Necrobreed
24. Pallbearer - Heartless
27. Firewind - Immortals
31. Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
44. Battle Beast - Bringer of Pain

It's not so much that RYM tends to overrate power metal as everyone else tends to underrate power metal, btw.

And Converge - the high ratings for everything they put out are a complete mystery to me.

Obvious standouts for me so far this year include: Ikina, Battle Beast, Ravenscry, Fen, Heretoir.

Black Anvil, Ungfell and Todesstoss are what I've been digging this year, Stabscotch's record is my AOTY so far though I think it's more strictly noise-rock than metal. I'm really impressed by Dodecahedron's new one after the first listen too.

In alphabetical order...

2017 Metal Albums I Own
The Afternoon Gentlemen - Still Pissed 2012-2015
Circle Of Dust - Machines of our Disgrace
Junius - Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Kreator - Gods Of Violence
Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
Uniform - Wake In Fright
Woe - Hope Attrition

2017 Metal Albums On Wish List
Anomalie - Visions
Anvil - 5 Original Albums in 1 Box
Bathsheba - Servus
Black Anvil - As Was
Disharmony - Goddamn The Sun
Dread Sovereign - For Doom The Bell Tolls
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perrenial
Fen - Winter
Horn - Turm Am Hang
Light of the Morning Star - Nocta
Lorn - Arrayed Claws
Naudiz - Wulfasa Kunja
Obituary - Obituary
Pallbearer - Heartless
Pyriphlegethon - The Murky Black of Eternal Night
Rebel Wizard - Triumph Of Gloom
Solitary - Dise​ased Hear​t of Soci​ety
Venenum - Trance Of Death
Violet Cold - Anomie

This is the kind of stuff that doesn't really get a genre tag that makes any sense to me, like progressive sludge or stoner prog or something but this new Jagged Vision is shaping up nicely.

http://jaggedvision.bandcamp.com/album/death-is-this-world

― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ)

shit I'll ride for in 2017

Ruinous--Graves of Ceaseless Death
Obituary--Obituary
Beheaded--Beast Incarnate
Immolation--Atonement
Hour of Penance--Cast the First Stone
Midnight--Shox of Violence
Lantern--II
Iron Reagan--Crossover Ministry
Mastodon--Emperor of Sand
Overkill--The Grinding Wheel
Power Trip--Nightmare Logic
Kreator--Gods of Violence

actually been a pretty slow purchase year in 2017 so far, a lot of what i've recently acquired is from 2016

I checked out the Havoc record. Heard a shitty funk bass line that sounded like something Robert Trujillo threw away two decades ago and a rant against supposed political correctness and shut it off. Pretty sure the rest is not genius.

Oh yeah, the Body Count album is out now. I'm gonna check that out today.

xp Yeah I want to play that record to someone next time I hear the argument that metal should become more "political." We don't need a bunch of mini-Mustaines running around so please stick to nameless horrors and space and forests and shit, thanks.

even Anvil had a song called "Gun Control" last year, which I was amazed and disappointed that wasn't merely a metaphor for Lips's dick

man y'all wasn't kiddin' about this Venenum album....

\m/

holy hell there's an instrumental break straight out of a 70s rock album with organ and all....

even Anvil had a song called "Gun Control" last year, which I was amazed and disappointed that wasn't merely a metaphor for Lips's dick

I also don't mind political stances. Just not derpy ones.

i generally don't go to my metal for politics....i have punk for that

Q1 picks

Immolation - Atonment
Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed II
Anomalie - Visions
Entheos - Le Zahie
Woe - Hope Attrition
Au champ des morts - Dans la joie
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
Draugsól - Volaða land
Pillorian - Obsidain Arc
The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
Laster - Ons vrije fatum
Lorn - Arrayed Claws

I'm waiting on the Au Champ des Morts album in the mail.

Emptiness

Soen

Slagmaur (it's on Spotify)

I've not been following either of them very closely, but since when are Ice-T and Dave Mustaine best buddies? Dave guesting on the BC record, talk of a joint world tour, etc.

The Pillorian album is my fave so far this year

the Mastodon album is so good I've played it 5 times since yesterday when the lp arrived. Its having the same effect on me as the last Ghost album as every track is a winner. Its definitely their heaviest since Blood Mountain yet retains the hooks of later stuff.

I hope people haven't forgot about this album when the EOY comes round.
This and the Pillorian could well be classics.

The Fen album is magnificent too.

finally listening to Mithras's "On Strange Loops" from last year.

this is p trippy stuff

I dug that! not gonna start a sep thread cos I doubt it'd get much traction but besides this and Fallujah, what other death metal out there is 'pretty' without being like, your typical "melodic death"?

The Pillorian album is great

http://lambgoat.com/news/28145/Max-Cavalera-to-perform-entire-Nailbomb-album-on-tour

xpost that Sarpanitum, Blessed Be My Brothers, from a couple years ago, qualifies as pretty, and isn't far removed from something like Mithras (I think someone from Mithras was in it)

xpost he seems to be enjoying playing old albums of his by bands he's no longer in this year

cool, I did get the Sarpanitum and loved it, didn't get the second one tho

sounds like Max just needs money and knows he can tempt the fans out for this

xps

well, sure, with Roots. this album is def a genre fav but doesn't quite have the notoriety of Roots with more casual fans.

then again, what kind of crowds do Soulfly pull these days?

there might be a lot of people who leave after the Nailbomb set ends, which would be kind of hilarious

Honestly, I might go to that. Cavalera Conspiracy > Soulfly, though.

later Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy exist in that space for me of "this is pleasant, I'll probably never listen to it again tho"

Chaos A.D. > Cavalera Conspiracy > Nailbomb > Roots > Killer Be Killed > Sepultura '84-'92 > Soulfly

Elyse from Raging Slab passed away from cancer a couple days ago.

I loved this band so much. After seeing the "Don't Dog Me" video on Headbanger's Ball and being intrigued by their Skynyrd-meets-Metallica vibe, I subsequently moved back to New York and wound up becoming friendly with Greg and Elyse. It was funny watching them trying to hail cabs in buckskin. Saw them play a poorly thought out set with Moby at the Palladium during a CMJ or NMS, forget which. Also saw them as hand-picked by Axl openers for the GNR show at The Ritz in 1991. Among many other times.

To this day one of my favorite things I ever did was trek out to the band's rural Pennsylvania farm for a huge feature in Creem when they put out Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert.

Greg and Elyse and the bassist Marc were all so fucking great to me. I am heartbroken about this especially for Greg as he was her husband and he has been with her forever.

I have been working my way through the band's discography and now I will have a shot of bourbon in her honor.

I had the True Death EP on cassette when it came out. My need for Southern rock, whether original or retro, is pretty minimal - Allmans yes, Skynyrd no, Molly Hatchet eh, but the Slab had some actual songs. Never saw them live or paid serious attention, but they definitely should have been bigger than they were and were ill served by every label they were on during their first decade or so.

the king woman album fuckin rules

fuckin RULES i say

It does. They put on a great show too!

aw man that Benighted. reminds me of a slightly more accessible and less seething Pig Destroyer.

horror death/grind always has a spot in my heart.

Anwar Sadat
Ersatz Living
(Broken World Media)
Release Sate: 1/27/2017
Formats: Digital, LP, Cassette

http://s0.limitedrun.com/images/1212999/v600_BWM127_anwar_vinyl_mockup.jpg

http://open.spotify.com/album/4Yxw756aOB7J7E63bmtjR7
http://anwarsadat.bandcamp.com/album/ersatz-living

Came across this title on a Rate Your Music search - it's currently listed as the #82 album of the year and more importantly the #2 Post-Punk album of 2017, second only to Priests. However unlike Priests, this Louisville, Kentucky group's sound should definitely appeal to those of us of the metal persuasion - comparisons to Godflesh, KMFDM, the more angsty-guitar moments of Trent Reznor's cannon, Peste Noire and some of Iceage's heavier stuff can be made. The result is really unique and fucked up in all the best ways.

For the last track, "Todestriebe," the band made an extremely NSFW video which Brooklyn Vegan posted late last year. It involves someone having his cock cut off as the first thing you see and doesn't get much tamer from there.

This is inspired stuff, right in my wheelhouse, and despite that it's almost too scary even for me! Almost...

So far this year I like the Apostate Viaticum, Immolation and Lorn albums.

i'm bout to spin the new Lock Up

God Dethroned have reformed and are now back with a new album and a single, again WW1-themed, seems they've shifted down a few gears and are now full-on Bolt Thrower-worship:

Youtube

A good list of good songs. If you say you don't like anything here, you are posing. (Personally, I'd have put "Round and Round" at #1, and found room for Junkyard's "Hollywood" and W.A.S.P.'s "I Wanna Be Somebody" or maybe "Wild Child.")