Rolling Metal 2017

guys this Lich King album is *fantastic*
http://music.lichkingmetal.com/album/the-omniclasm

Totally reverent, yet totally relevant as far as I am concerned.

Also, I love it that "Crossover Songs Are Too Damn Short" is the shortest song on the album!

seanwayne, formerly of this parish will be raging Loudness got cancelled

Where is he anyway? I miss the big lug.

he's on FB. I think he joined a band who tours japan a lot funnily enough

we need to get the hairy old git back on here

OK this Artificial Brain album's fucking crazy good

Like it starts off with some discordant death metal stuff done really well but keeps mutating and somehow manages to be a little catchy. Also some melodic parts remind me of StarGazer, which is about the highest compliment.

I wrote about Tokyo Blade.

listening to Artifical Brain, some very (to my ears) Gorguts-y stuff going on, or like a more brutal take on Stargazer. Ha and I just read your comment Jon

god damn, local news clip on the death of Internal Bleeding drummer (and firefighter) William Tolley

on a much much brighter note, there's a teaser clip for the new Progenie Terrestre Pura, coming at the end of May, and it sounds even cooler than the debut

well, I guess I can't link to the embedded video for some reason, but the PTP thing is on the Avantgarde timeline
https://www.facebook.com/avantgardemusiclabel/

edit: good grief I suck
https://www.facebook.com/avantgardemusiclabel/videos/10154277503982260/

Decibel Metal & Beer Fest starts today! Woo!

new mesarthim dropped https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/presence-e-p

track one turns into straight techno about halfway through lmao

they did it again

really enjoying the smooth '90s r&b-ish backbeat on "presence"

actually there's a swing to it and a playfulness in the synth playing that makes me think they were going for a metal "my prerogative" feel

enjoying this blog featuring posts of plagiarism in metal cover art https://artplagiarism.wordpress.com/

features a mix of no-name bozos and p well known bands

Watching this Van Halen show from 1983 (remember when Van Halen counted as metal?) and trying to imagine the balls it takes to put the drum solo after the second song of your concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY3vt-48Zzk

track 3 of the new mesarthim has started and...um...holy shit

nothing that brad said up there is in any way misleading

I have bought every mesarthim release and I plan on keeping it up, excited to dive in

The new Obsessed album is a lot better/more interesting than I thought it would be. Wino runs pretty hot and cold for me; I loved Spirit Caravan, and the second and third Obsessed albums, but could easily live without ever hearing Place of Skulls, the Hidden Hand, or any of his solo albums ever again, especially not the acoustic ones. But this new Obsessed record is really good - he goes even more early '70s than before (Thin Lizzy and Mountain covers, a talkbox), without losing his essential biker-doom awesomeness. Highly recommended.

I, too, reviewed The Obsessed record. I also liked it.
It has a live Stinking Lizaveta review as well.

That plagiarism blog is amusing!

I'm digging this Tehom "The Merciless Light" CD on Blood Music (a label I'm starting to think of as relatively reliable). Very 1989-1991 sounding death metal, a lot of Morbid Angel (AoM/BaTS) riff influence, nice guitar tone, nothing new but fun. Also metal album #751 with a stylized occult anus on the cover.

http://i.imgur.com/OutrKhk.jpg?1

Also the dude from Exocytosis posted about this band on FB and they're kind of amazing, like NYC 80s scum rock, Jesus Lizard and King Crimson rolled into one. Not really metal but I dunno someone here might dig it and I couldn't think of where else to put it.

http://the-mass.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-fleet

Yeah, The Mass are great. I reviewed that album for The Wire.

Cool! Any idea if there was/is going to be a physical release?

new blood command album is out!!! it fuckin rips!!!!!! https://bloodcommand.bandcamp.com/album/cult-drugs

Playing the new Body Count now. There is some serious fucking shredding going on on this album.
― Don Van Gorp

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

I finally checked it out on Spotify and yeah, this is good. I wasn't expecting much for some reason as I recall only the debut being good and I haven't listened to that in years but this is really solid.

new Schammasch coming. last one continues to captivate, really a wonderful, excessive trip

https://schammasch.bandcamp.com/album/the-maldoror-chants-hermaphrodite

Nobody discussed it above but has anyone checked out the Nergal's Me And That Man project Songs of Love and Death?
It came out in January but the CD evidently had a US release date at the end of last month.
It's not metal but, with Behemoth's frontman, of obvious interest to metal fans.
It's also very, very good - Nick Cave meets Johnny Cash.

Nick Cave meets Johnny Cash

Exactly why I deleted the promo unheard.

My what a rebel.

I've never liked Nick Cave. And the whole "metal dude gets old, goes 'dark country'" thing is...not for me.

Fair enough. I love both Nick Cave and Johnny Cash and I think he did it well.

New Full Of Hell.
24 minutes of Hell.
Love this band!

what i've heard from the full of hell record sounded incredible

This is pretty nice, not a million miles away from the LLNN record but less core more black

http://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/mind-mold

Bolt Thrower finally kinda clicked for me this morning; turns out they make excellent laundry-folding music.

There's a version of Metallica's Death Magnetic making the rounds that's supposedly "de-loudness-war-ized":

foobar2000 1.3.5 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-04-30 06:19:00

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Analyzed: Metallica / Death Magnetic Unloaded
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR9 -0.03 dB -10.82 dB 7:08 01-That Was Just Your Life
DR9 -0.46 dB -10.81 dB 7:52 02-The End Of The Line
DR8 -0.19 dB -11.06 dB 6:24 03-Broken, Beat & Scarred
DR10 -0.52 dB -11.78 dB 7:54 04-The Day That Never Comes
DR8 0.00 dB -8.96 dB 7:58 05-All Nightmare Long
DR9 -0.89 dB -10.73 dB 6:39 06-Cyanide
DR10 -0.14 dB -12.71 dB 7:46 07-The Unforgiven III
DR9 -0.63 dB -11.25 dB 8:01 08-The Judas Kiss
DR9 -0.15 dB -10.85 dB 9:56 09-Suicide & Redemption
DR9 0.00 dB -9.86 dB 4:59 10-My Apocalypse
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR9

I'm listening to it now, and honestly, I can't hear any major differences between this, the officially released CD, and the Guitar Hero version that leaked around the time the album first came out. But maybe my ears are just too cooked to register the subtleties.

誤訳侮辱, do you use any kind of a DAC when you're listening? I am totally not an audiophile but the difference in EVERYTHING I listen to since I started putting a DAC in line is night and day.

No, I just plug headphones into my laptop. But they're decent headphones - Sony MDR-ZX600s, not earbuds or anything.

Cool, yeah like I say I'm not an audiophile, but since I started using a USB DAC I hear so much more than I used to -- when I was auditing mixes of my own new stuff, it was really pronounced, like I could not variations that if I a/b'd w/o the DAC in-line the difference was "that seems fine" (w/o DAC) vs. "dial that effect back about 50%" (with). I'm also using Sonys. My right ear is pretty fried but I'm always preaching the gospel of the Microstreamer DAC because it really 3d'd a lot of shit for me, especially metal

And this will help even on only average-quality files? Cause the vast majority of what I listen to is either 320kbps MP3s or 256kbps AACs; I'm not a FLAC/AIFF/WAV guy at all.

that's what I listen to unless it's something of my own that I'm mixing/evaluating.. don't have room for bigger files otherwise. seriously from the first measure of anything you listen to, especially if it's something you're familiar with...night & day.

Ordered it this morning. Thanks!

But they're decent headphones - Sony MDR-ZX600s, not earbuds or anything.

http://scontent.fewr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18221744_10158627727120597_8276973726021520126_n.jpg?oh=ddfe482cbc250a3273dc36c69d77133a&oe=597B0128

lol I had the wrong model. I use MDR-7506, which is what p much every engineer I know mixes with - very neutral and unglamorous, just the way I like em. They cost me 80 bucks and you can basically back over em with a truck.

hope you love the microstreamer like I do, it has added so much to my listening