Rolling Metal 2017

I STARTED IT I STARTED IT

Oh here we go.

Selcouth: avant-metal stuff for fans of the Viruses, the Ved Buenses, the Arcturuses maybe, with ALL of Khanus among their members. Signed to I, Voidhanger.

http://selcouthband.bandcamp.com/album/unfamiliar-yet-marvelous-promo-2016

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

From Profound Lore's FB:

Expect and (hopefully) anticipate new albums from.

Pallbearer
FUOCO FATUO
Loss
Artificial Brain
Full of Hell
PORTAL
Impetuous Ritual
Innumerable Forms
Krieg
Monarch!
Vacivus
Pissgrave
Vaura
Evoken (Official)

Of course there will be other notable prospects that are not mentioned here. But just a taste of what we will offer in the year we hopefully make contact.

And Dark Descent posted this:

PostPosted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 10:01 am Post subject: Dark Descent Release Schedule early 2017 Reply with quote
We have locked in our initial salvo for 2017. Jan and Feb will be relatively quiet but starting in March, we will let it rip.

March 3 - Gorephilia - Severed Monolith
March 17 - Lantern - II: Morphosis
March 17 - Ascended Dead - Abhorrent Manifestation
March 31- Diabolical Messiah - Demonic Weapons Against the Sacred
April 14 - Craven Idol - The Shackles of Mammon
April 14 - Ensnared - Dysangelium
April 28 - Sarcasm (swe) - Within the Sphere of Ethereal Minds
May 12 - Excommunion - Thronosis

Devouring Star - Antihedron EP (first quarter)

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 :)

Dude from Black Witchery showed up. He usually comes on good nights

Aluk Todolo are touring Europe with Oranssi Pazuzu

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

yes, yes they are

the Draugsól is now fully streamable at https://draugsol.bandcamp.com

xp Cool! If they make it to the west coast I'll have to check 'em out. Been a fan since Szyzyzyzyzgizyal Miscreancy!

Aluk Todolo are touring the states with Insect Ark!!!!

Aluk Todolo are touring the states with Insect Ark!!!!

― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF)

A festival I desperately want to attend, I might add.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2016/12/Stardust-VI-e1480622322912.jpg

Cool lineup. Who are Slagmaur? I mean, like, why are they topping the bill when I've never heard of them?

according to metal-archives, they're some avantgarde black metal band who have two albums, but none since 2009

Laster
Ons Vrije Fatum
(Dunkelheit Produktionen)
One Sheet
Release Sate: 1/9/2017

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3187917951_16.jpg

http://open.spotify.com/album/6sCLWGWVQRPvTzbRKZK1YV
http://dunkelheitprod.bandcamp.com/album/ons-vrije-fatum

The band bills itself "Obscure Dance Music from Utrecht" to which I can only say, sure. Why not?

Ons Vrije Fatum (literal translation is "Our Free Fatum," so something about free will is my guess, but it's all Dutch to me), the band's second album, is an ambitious but unpretentious blend of atmospheric black metal and post-rock but the real unique facet to the group's sound is the infusion of Joy Division at their most consonant and claustrophobic.

The shortest song on the album "De tijd vóór" typifies this collaboration while the longest, "Helemaal naar huis," is post-punk free jazz replete with saxophone bleat halfway through the eleven minute opus. That's not the only odd instrumentation as "Bitterzoet" includes shimmering strings that perfectly augment the blackgazing guitars, and electronics - especially the percussive kind - round out the sound. Unusual samples from movies I never saw also show up, like noirish interlopers curious what the band is up to.

I have listened to the album at least five times so far and each time something new emerged from the mix, a melody line hidden away here, some cool instrumentation there, and I get the feeling that repeated listens will continue to unearth newly discovered subtleties.

The bio makes comparisons to early Ulver and Agalloch, which is correct in that if you like those bands you will find a lot here to enjoy, but Ons Vrije Fatum is captivating and wonderful and no two people will dance to it the same way.

I have no idea how Slagmaur made it to the top of a bill, nor how their whole thing's gonna go over live in NYC, but they're definitely a unique bunch. Some sort of conceptual black metal-ish band -- crazy costumes, crazy music, crazy artwork -- they sound like half a dozen horror movie soundtracks stacked atop each other and given a mechanical clockwork Blut Aus Nord styled beat. The songs are extremely monotonous, but because of the dissonances and weird details in the layering of sounds, they can become very creepy and affecting. Sometimes it feels like being put into a trancelike state by a hypnotist with very bad intentions.

Speaking of, here is said hypnotist, one "General Gribbsphiiser," lately fashioning himself after a Scandinavian granny who reads nightmarish fairy tales to the kids:
http://i.imgur.com/9XI2MJb.jpg
He seems to be the main force behind the band; I remember reading an interview years ago where he said something to the effect of wanting to create music that sounds like hell's symphony orchestra. He's also a photographer, possibly professionally so, and on the Slagmaur FB page leaves the occasional pic of where I assume he lives, the insanely idyllic Fosen, Norway.

Anyway, curious to see how this whole thing goes down.

http://i.imgur.com/Ed7mcda.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/slagmaurofficial/

*My fav of theirs, maybe because it was the first I heard, is the Domfeldt demo, but really there isn't any great variance between their releases; it all sounds like possessed marionettes marching down from the attic:
https://infernaprofundusrecords.bandcamp.com/album/domfeldt

Actually the little that's been released from their looooong overdue new album does sound somewhat different from the old stuff, but it's been a while since I listened to it. I just want the whole thing.

Def going to buy a Moon Tooth/Astronoid ticket. Reggies is getting all the good shows, I saw Khemmis night before last there. They definitely have the energy of a younger band still, everything enthusiastically turned up to 11, drowning out the vocals. It was fun. I'm looking forward to Truckfighters next on the 24th.

xp wow thanks for the info Dev... I'll check it out later tonight but I have this feeling it won't be my thing.

The new Ruins (Australia) album is my thing, though, or at least in the Celtic Frost-via-Panzerfaust wing of my things.

I'm liking this Laster album

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

― Dinsdale

Hey Dinsdale, did you have new things jump out at you on repeated listens too?

xp ok maybe Slagmaur is my thing. Definitely can see a Blut Aus Nord comparison in the... plodding ethereality of it? They really do like that slow beat though.

Beheaded's Beast Incarnate is out next Friday on Unique Leader - it's floor-punching death metal RIYL Vader, Lost Soul, etc. The first two tracks are streaming on Bandcamp.

Firewind's new album Immortals comes out on Friday on AFM. Here's the first video - say cheese!

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

wow, Beheaded did take a turn toward the Lost Soul sound, didn't they. I went back and checked out their last album, which seems to be when it happened; they used to be one of those errrp errrp errrp brutal bands -- not that there's anything wrong with that. Sounds good.

I'm kind of in an errrp errrp errrp brutal phase now. Going through the New Standard Elite bandcamp to see what the irascible youth of today are vaping to or whatever. And at the newly hatched NSE forum I saw that Brodequin are working on new material. Neat. Can't get enough of the aluminum bat snare sound.

The Afternoon Gentlemen
Still Pissed 2012 - 2015
(Give Praise Records)
One Sheet
Release Sate: 1/13/2017

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0941/5810/products/a2296935364_10_large.jpg?v=1479485767

http://open.spotify.com/album/5YUNKz0EEb5xZsxuWWTTOi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aSqKfmiVDY

Some places have this as a 2016 release but it didn't get much ink that I noticed and other places have it a January release. Not sure it matters except for semantics since it's a compilation from a UK-based self-described grindcore/power violence troupe. I noticed it because it's on the same label that released Columbus crossover crew Killed In Action. It's very solid stuff, aside from the vocals very clean sounding - the guitars are crisp as well as crispy which is not a common thing for this kind of stuff. I am a sucker for discography CDs too which makes it more endearing to me than it might be others, but it's super-fast and super fun.

xp ok maybe Slagmaur is my thing.

hang on, does that imply there's some news about the long rumored new Slagmaur? (I feel like I ask this every year...)

sorry ignore me I thought I'd scrolled back to where I'd left off, but I hadn't.

If you don't mind your metal slathered with pop exuberance, the new Battle Beast song is pretty tremendous:

https://open.spotify.com/track/7eCw8ZXslDD5C5B6bRHc1H

I am listening to the new Immolation album. It is awesome. More later.

Aww fuck yea!

Aargh what a tease

hah this Battle Beast track is great! very false, very fun.

New Mord'A'Stigmata track is pretty hot, weird, epic, Polish:

http://paganrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hope

The Black Anvil album's really good!

just Mick Barr things
https://ocrilim.bandcamp.com/album/srilimia

Iron Maiden touring with Ghost!

I might have to splurge and get good tickets from a scalper. Something I have never done before except for sporting events.

they're coming here again, this time two hours closer! w00h00!

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

Uniform
Wake In Fright
(Sacred Bones Records)
Release Sate: 1/20/2017

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16105500_10158094442650597_4408646075777939833_n.jpg?oh=ee3c2cd00e476f01c376491c6c60b941&oe=590B6306

http://open.spotify.com/album/5clvJZcsu9jRhk6S0XFiIn
http://unifuckingform.bandcamp.com/album/wake-in-fright

Although I liked (and still do like) old industrial music, as a self-identified metalhead and punk rock fan I always wanted that stuff to be more evil. This band (duo, apparently) were made with me in mind. The whole record is thrashy with electronic beeps and screeches cutting through the mayhem. If old school Ministry was aping the then-current thrash metal scene, Uniform takes cues from the chaos of our times accordingly. Pummeling Armageddon on the dance floor the way it should be.

Someone mentioned the Lorn up-thread as an upcoming I, Voidhanger release. It's now out and worth a listen. I can't tell if the drums are real or programmed - definitely getting a bit of a Bathory circa "Blood Fire Death" vibe:

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/arrayed-claws

Wake in Fright is both a great movie and a great name for an industrial metal album

that Lorn sounds good

Not metal, exactly, but some folks here will like it: Japanese noise guitarist KK Null and Hungarian grind/free-improv drummer Balász Pándi have just released a collaborative album, Demon Core, on the Ohm Resistance label, for only $2.

https://ohmresistance.bandcamp.com/album/demon-core

nice!

I was just reading the wikipedia page on Massacre's "From Beyond" and learned this

Walter Trachsler played rhythm guitar on this album but was not credited.

Which is weird because he's also in one of my favorite demo-only bands, Rotting Corpse out of Texas and was a super-nice dude when I met him (gave me an RC demo and shirt). Kinda weird that they wouldn't credit him and kind of plays into the rumors at that time that Rick Rozz wasn't a super-solid guitarist.

Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial leaked early and I'm liking it a whole lot. Very cool mix of post-rock/folky interludes/atmospheric black metal stuff.

The Chasm, again on their FB, and in response to a comment, say that the new album is in fact going to be totally instrumental, which I can't say I'm looking forward to. The last one was really pushing it by being about 50/50. Here's to hoping it'll be some kind of psychedelic trip, I guess. (I'm just not a fan of instro metal.)

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).

It sounds really good, I should've said. On my never-ending list of metal to buy.

This is pretty cool (Iranian blackened folk metal): https://akvan.bandcamp.com/album/--3

(Buy on Friday!)

I interviewed that Akvan dude for Bandcamp. Should be on the site sometime in the near future. He's really sharp; I'm proud of the piece.

came here to post on that Au Champ du Morts album, that's a keeper

Bandcamp has a monthly metal column now. Some interesting-seeming stuff there.

No bylines makes me sad... Anyone here contributing to that?

All Bandcamp pieces are single-author. The byline is all the way at the bottom. It's by Brad Sanders.

I just saw "Editorial" but I looked at it quickly... Thanks!

Checking out the new Six Feet Under, out 2/24. Normally I wouldn't go within a hundred yards of a Six Feet Under album (and within a hundred miles of one of their covers albums), but this time out it's Chris Barnes and two ex-Brain Drill dudes - Jeff Hughell on guitar and bass, and Marco Pitruzzella on drums. So it's a little blast-ier and squigglier than they've been in the past. Still mostly chugga-chugga groove-death, though.

so wait, the last one was Cannabis Corpse guys, and this one is other ringers? lol

ok how am I just learning that Sodom's last album has a song called "Vaginal Born Evil"

Hey look, a Moon Tooth cover of Manic Depression. I love this band.
https://moontoothny.bandcamp.com/track/manic-depression

Bathsheba is a Belgian group that has a bunch of people in it from bands I don't know much about - ex-Serpentcult vocalist Michelle Nocon, Dwight Goosens of death metal act Disinterred, Raf Meukens of Death Penalty and Jelle Stevens of, the under appreciated, SardoniS.

Their forthcoming debut (after an EP), Servus will be released 2/24/2017 on the Svart label.

You can call it doom metal and you wouldn't be wrong because it's slow and grindy and menacing, but it's also a lot more than that. Michelle Nocon's vocals and the lurching chasms and drone disbursement the band throws into the proceedings will bring to mind the likes of Oathbreaker and Chelsea Wolfe.

CVLT Nation is streaming one song, "I At The End Of Everything," from the album. Good song on a pretty great disc.

I interviewed Resistenzia, a metalcore-ish band from Cuba, for Bandcamp.

is there any music that sounds like the aural equivalent of internal rage exploding and excising of internal demons cos I really need somefing like that now and don't say Cryptopsy cos I've heard every note of theirs 35,435352454ou2p5uo42i5425428549 times

here

and this one

or this on spotify

anybody get the Turbo re-release?

OK SO MOON TOOTH + ASTRONOID

Astronoid played through Air from front to back (minus "Violence"). I was sure they'd have some kind of keyboard/synth element but nah - three guitars! One of the few times I was wishing for a slightly bigger venue as their sound overwhelmed the space a bit. Still, they were great - absurdly locked in, and (as you might imagine) utterly enveloping. The vocalist managed to cut through the din, albeit with the aid of a harmonic backing track. (This threw me a bit at first but it was way preferable to, say, having someone else in the band doing less-than-perfect backing vocals). Also, that has to be the first time I've seen someone sing gently while performing an intricate tap line.

I gotta say, though, Moon Tooth ran way with the night. Seeing them at this stage felt like lucking out and catching an early set from Mastodon or Soundgarden. Their drummer is insane but really the entire instrumental trio is just so fun to behold. The vocalist lacked power but made up for it with writhing stage presence (he sort of makes me think of an endearingly chubby Jake Gyllenhaal). They were somehow mathy, groovy, and even occasionally a little bit bluesy. My favorite bit was probably when they got everyone to clap along only a few seconds before a carefully choreographed on-a-dime stop and start. The set ended with sweaty hugs and high fives all around. Killer vibes.

All in all a really great night, especially considering the low price tag. (I also very much enjoyed local conceptual metal-jazz-prog openers Earth's Yellow Sun.)

is there any music that sounds like the aural equivalent of internal rage exploding and excising of internal demons cos I really need somefing like that now and don't say Cryptopsy cos I've heard every note of theirs 35,435352454ou2p5uo42i5425428549 times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtwSnxnD2is

I've been on a bdm diet since, oh, let's say early November, and pretty much all of these Mountains of Death clips have been hitting the spot. There's an excellent Suffo show in there somewhere too.

and there's a crazy Disavowed show where the vocalist spends much of the time in the pit and getting crowd surfed, it's awesome, they end up with like 20 people on stage

speaking of internal rage exploding, Ululatum Tollunt

http://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/quantum-noose-of-usurpation

If you're in a mood for broootal death metal, Cranial Engorgement's Horrific Existence is worth your time.

https://gorehouseproductions.bandcamp.com/album/horrific-existence

I'm kind of stoked to see Astronoid (just got their LP delivered!) and Moon Tooth tonight!

I got Marduk and Incantation tomorrow. and Mayhem on the 13th!

Disharmony
Goddamn The Sun
(Iron Bonehead Productions)
Release Date: 3/3/2017

http://www.themidlandsrocks.com/wp-content/uploads/Disharmony-Goddamn-the-Sun-600x600.jpg

Decibel is streaming a track from the album
http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/2017/1/24/track-premiere-disharmony-open-the-gates-of-elthon

Despite having formed in 1991 and disbanded four years later, this is the Greek band's actual debut album following reformation a few years ago, although they did have a collection of demos and an EP appear during that time.

As Decibel says, "If you like your black metal arcane and your riffs memorable and slightly melodic you’ll instantly fall for this album. Goddamn the Sun sounds like something earnest and evil enough to have come out in ‘94, except the production rings true to the modern era, and there’s not an ounce of affectation to be found anywhere within earshot of this thing."

The Flight Of Sleipnir
Skadi
(Eisenwald)
Release Date: 1/20/2017

http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/190154045/TFOSSkadi2017.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=1000&w=1000

http://open.spotify.com/album/1pmCC3WVzkJSYzGg45zbyF
http://theflightofsleipnir.bandcamp.com/album/skadi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HraGatggx6c

This is the Denver band's sixth album, which is an accomplishment in and of itself. Every release has beautiful and intense artwork and packaging from what I can tell and that attention to detail certainly makes it's way into the music which merges heavy psych rock and folk influences but still embraces being a metal band, albeit a really unique metal band.

The band Venenum I was hyping above has a track on the Decibel forums available for streaming.

http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/2017/2/6/track-premiere-venenum-issue-cold-threat

sweet. I actually got their prior EP after you posted about them the other day - good stuff.

anyone listen to the Pillorian album yet? apparently it has leaked

I did (not a leak a digital promo). I liked it. Need to listen a few more times to see if I love it.

Ha, that's good to hear. I'll have to go and look for it in the dark corners of the internet.

Meanwhile, here's something for anyone who isn't sick of post/atmospheric black metal:

https://violetcold.bandcamp.com/album/anomie

My Bandcamp interview with Iranian black metal dude Akvan is up now.

Good interview. Picked that up per your mention, and it's very enjoyable.

I drove an hour and a half each way to the land of Rumspringa, Lancaster, PA, to catch the Astronoid / Moon Tooth tour. I am very glad I did.

Like how a Simon H. said above, if I closed my eyes during Astronoid's set I would have sworn that they had keyboards, but they got the sound out of three guitars that modulated with clashing harmonies to create shimmering soundscapes. The singer is an acquired taste with a high falsetto-like voice but it fit in with the dreamlike quality of the band's self-described "dream thrash." I spoke with one of the guitarists after the show for a bit, Mike is his name. Nice guy, stoked that we came from so far away to see them. He liked my Agalloch shirt so I asked him if they liked the emotive moods that shoegazing black metal conjure but felt such stuff wouldn't allow them to stretch out musically (honestly, prog fans would enjoy this band a lot too) and he hedged a bit saying they listen to everything, surprising me by saying they started off listening to pop punk! But also thrash which made more sense. Great band.

I liked the Moon Tooth album but live they were so much better, very tight with a singer who commanded attention. The wife thought they sounded like Incubus and then I read a review on Encyclopaedia Metallum and it also makes the comparison, though I also hear a lot of Dillinger Escape Plan crazy-catchy-crazy as well. I surmised that the guitarist was the real metal guy in the band and then come home to find out that he's in the latest incarnation of Riot, kinda confirming my suspicious.

I don't often make long drives to see bands anymore. Being in Philly it's usually not necessary. But I'm glad I did, it was a lot of fun.

Astronoid:

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16729539_10158204540895597_1704618321795902066_n.jpg?oh=7bb65afe15e766435a936cbbc18bff82&oe=590753D4

Mopon Tooth:

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16665631_10158204545155597_2625154205625184550_o.jpg?oh=97198454aa9d8c5e459f370e34e24a19&oe=5944AA64

new Overkill is pretty good! seems to be less high octane metuhl than their latest few releases and more like the sleazier 80s stuff they did, even a few elements of cock rock here and there. hooky as hell too.

surprising me by saying they started off listening to pop punk

ha! knew it

oh, blood command's funeral beach is one of my favorite metal records of the last few years and they're finally putting out a new one in april!

new song is definitely the poppiest thing they've ever done, i love it https://soundcloud.com/tigerfysisiskformat/blood-command-cult-drugs

new Overkill is pretty good! seems to be less high octane metuhl than their latest few releases and more like the sleazier 80s stuff they did, even a few elements of cock rock here and there. hooky as hell too.

― Neanderthal

I want to see them with Nile on Tuesday but I have seen both bands numerous times before and the same week Mayhem, Inquisition, Black Anvil is playing Thursday and Alcest with The Body is playing Saturday (and that same day Xibala is playing a matinee) and it's tough paying for three shows in a week (and also doing so with a 50+ hour work week).

New Pyrrhon EP has two free-metal improv pieces, one new song, one Death cover.

http://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/running-out-of-skin

Man, you people who saw Astronoid are making me envious.

Also wow that the singer plays those lines while singing those lines!

yeah that was unreal

huh, apparently Dallas Toler-Wade is leaving Nile. There's a tiny part of me that hopes this'll be a positive change: as much as I like his song contributions, it seems like over the years his thrashy, more direct style was getting farther and farther away from what I loved about the first two albums. OTOH I fear an album full of 10 minute Sanders epics, which I likewise have grown weary of.

New guy is from some fellow SC band called Enthean. Never heard of em but will check out.
https://www.facebook.com/nilecatacombs/posts/10154238517646016

ha, check that, I have in fact heard this Enthean before (they were mentioned at m-a), sort of a swirl of varying vanillas, but overall probably closest to late Emperor or even Zyklon's first one (in vox esp), with some Dimmu/Arcturus/Covenant and an occasional tech death part thrown in. Actually Bound by Entrails comes to mind, who I like much more.

https://enthean.bandcamp.com/album/priests-of-annihilation

I thought I had already posted this one but guess not

https://wiegedood.bandcamp.com/album/de-doden-hebben-het-goed-ii

Second album from this Belgian black metal group (features members of Amenra and Oathbreaker)

Dudes. Inquisition are PHENOMENAL live. Holy shit fuck

I've seen videos of them live that looked amazing. One of the live at Saint Vitus ones they play for like 15 minutes with no break and when they stop the drummer looks like he's going to die... then picks right back up after 30 seconds.

Apparently It/Tony Sarkka passed away; there's a lengthy remembrance by an ex-bandmate (and more importantly, longtime friend) here:
https://www.facebook.com/bohlinmichael/posts/1289794004446485:0

Awww man RIP.

Great week in Philly for shows...

Tonight - Overkill / Nile
Wednesday - Havoc / Exmortus
Thursday - Mayhem / Inquisition / Black Anvil
Saturday - Xibala (matinee) followed by Alcest / The Body / Creepers (Deafheaven side project)

Because I am working a lot this week and I have limited funds, I am only able to see the Thursday and Saturday shows unfortunately.

The band Anomalie that I was hyping above have premiered another song from their album:
http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/anomalie-preview-new-visions-album-with-stream-of-vision-ii-the-wanderer-exclusive-premiere

definitely going to Overkill/Nile. Nile, honestly, I don't care if I ever see again even though I love them and they're fun live, but I was blown away by Overkill in 2015.

of COURSE Cryptopsy are doing None So Vile in its entirety on this tour, and not coming to FL, and coming to ATL on a day I might not be able to get up there.

on the other hand, they pretty much played half of it the last time I saw them headline, so...I guess I'll live. it's kinda funny, Flo is like the only dude in the band who actually played on that album.

New Sabbath Assembly May 12th! Yay!

New Artificial Brain April 21
https://www.profoundlorerecords.com/artificial-brain-complete-work-on-new-album-infrared-horizon-pre-orders-available-new-track-posted/

art is wicked

http://i.imgur.com/qXYbMaa.jpg

there's a song there at the link, I should add, sounds very Artificial Brainy

Awesome

i am psyched

Champ Morgan, vocalist for awesome Texas grind act Kill The Client, has a new solo semi-ambient electronic noise project, Derelict Satellite. The debut release is four tracks, running about 55 minutes total:

https://derelictsatellite.bandcamp.com/

so Immolation opening for that Max/Iggor Roots show, eh? wish I'd known - I never get to see them.

dude that Artificial Brain record is the TRUTH

I refuse to listen to any album by any metal band with vowels in their name this week

there's a song there at the link, I should add, sounds very Artificial Brainy

― Devilock, Thursday, February 16, 2017 1:54 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg it really does, i love it so much

feels like there's a bit more space in the composition and everything sounds a little brighter than anything i remember from the previous record. so down

Looking forward to the new Apostate Viaticum. Atmospheric death-thrash from Ireland:

https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-gates-of-gomorrah

MIA on metal so far this year, but just heard this track from new Bay Area supergroup Extremity, and very much recalling old school Bay Area and Florida death metal:

https://soundcloud.com/20-buck-spin/extremity-crepuscular-crescendo

Looking forward to the new Apostate Viaticum

They played Dublin last weekend with Asphyx and Vircolac, another great Irish (OSDM) band. I missed it 'cause I'm old and tired and I had a cold.

there's uh another band called Extremity on Spotify. the tracklist of their 2016 album is errr

Very sad to hear about Tony Saarka above - that was a moving remembrance write-up ... Ophthalamia is always such an epic listen for me - all my fave metal touchstones in one band - Dominion and A Journey Into Darkness rule so hard.

the new Montfaucon is super interesting and good except for the vocals, which are super not necessary at all

https://youtu.be/EGX3tUWX4WM

Dimmu Borgir have a live 2CD/2DVD set coming out containing two full concerts they did with (real) orchestral backing. I haven't thought about Dimmu Borgir in years, but I was into this. (Not as into it as the trombone player, though!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg6n3ZhKwt4

I've been meaning to pick up the Vircolac EP from last year. The Extremity track sounds good too.

if anybody is near Miami, Churchill's Pub is having a black metal festival on 3/3 with Nocturnus AD and INQUISITION for $15.

just paid for my ticket and an Airbnb room. after seeing Inquisition open for Mayhem, it should be sweet. hope I can make it in time for Nocturnus AD, who are always a blast (I think I saw them four times between 2014-2015).

are Kult Ov Azazel any good?

as someone who will listen to just about any "traditional" black metal of the 90s variety, I say without reservation that KoA is terrible. their first album had the novelty of being this insanely relentless and one-dimensional black metal assault from Florida of all places, but thereafter they imagined they could write songs and things got boring fast.

Lol. Thanks!

apparently KoA's debut came out in 2001, could've sworn it was from like 98 or 99. either way, file them alongside stuff like Blood Stained Dusk, Abazagorath, Blood Storm, and Summon (though not even as decent as those last two)

Triumph of Fire is worth one (and I stress "one") listen just for the silliness; it was like everyone in the band was Animal from The Muppet Show

My Saturday Night

Went to Kung Fu Necktie in Philly to see Xibalba. About two songs in some asshole windmilled out of control into my face. Nose smashed. Blood dripping. Not nearly as metal as it sounds. I still love the band but it attracted some of the mookish assholes I have seen and the venue had nobody near the stage.

Cleaned myself up and walked ten minutes to the Fillmore where Creepers were just finishing up. I love Deafheaven but found the Creeper stuff boring and didn't mind that I missed most of their set. The Body were seemingly inert with three dudes (three this time, not two) behind setups creating staticky noise that bemused and confused a rused Alcest crowd. I went to clap when a song decayed before the next one started and I was literally the only person who did this.

Alcest was brilliant as usual, a fantastic crisply performed set of their best material. The crowd connected with this band - looking at the room the ratio of fans with eyes on phones checking Facebook and fans rapt with attention was definitely much higher for starstruck fans than usual.

I still think that The Body and Alcest is one of the weirdest fucking bills you'll see but I'm glad I did.

XIBALBA

http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16826078_10158245341170597_5424859231704717325_o.jpg?oh=8aa072d781ae5c51194e901d55c11f99&oe=59365EE2

MY BLOODY FACE

Not posted, here's the link

THE BODY

http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16797063_10158245881735597_3768273937581982520_o.jpg?oh=08747ba419ecd29fc4cb8e2f6bd3d91d&oe=5942C2EA

ALCEST

http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16836554_10158246033030597_1374641943941093355_o.jpg?oh=ec7f1ee78f80d841e26c3cd3a07c1224&oe=58FF5574
http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16864585_10158246032440597_8637496917468063632_n.jpg?oh=43c94c8be36d3fcd0ecc3a3927c567ad&oe=5937D2D2

So The Body are doing like straight-up noise?

(Sorry 'bout your face btw - glad it wasn't broken!)

Assholes thwacking around and hitting innocent bystanders is getting old

It was old 40 years ago too.

So The Body are doing like straight-up noise?

Noisey is streaming the new Bathsheba release here.

As Kim Kelly says:

Whatever you'd like to call them, the most important overall point is that Bathsheba is a very good band, and their Svart Records debut, Servus, may well be one of the finest contribution to the so-called "occult doom" subgenre in recent years. The guitar work is unexpectedly lively and nimble, cradled in distortion, lashings of feedback, and a sludgy tempo; the overall product is heavily atmospheric, in that cosmic YOB-ish, Samothrace-y sort of way, and retains a faint air of menace—a conjuration of fire.

There's a bit of a kitchen sink mentality present here, as scraps of black metal, true doom, stoner doom, sludge, and witchy 70s rock all coalesce into an immensely engaging whole. Michelle's winsome vocals are a clear focal point, her versatility behind the mic adding dynamic layers to the studied heft of Bathsheba's slowly unfurling riffs, especially when she stretches and contorts her vocal chords into an ululating wail and heated growl on closing epic "I At the End of Everything."

This is a really interesting and solid album and I would think that it would get love in this forum especially.

Power Trip's Nightmare Logic has leaked and it's been on repeat ever since. It's out this Friday, and you can preview three tracks on their bandcamp page. "Executioner's Tax" is so damn fun. The liner notes tell me that the intro to "Waiting Around To Die" was done by prurient!

https://powertripsl.bandcamp.com/album/nightmare-logic

Bathsheba sounds great so far

I already pre-ordered that Bathsheba based on the first song I heard.

http://i.imgur.com/myVLWHG.jpg

Got a promo of the new Naudiz album Wulfasa Kunja which drops in April on Iron Bonehead Productions.
It's the second album from the Italian band, the first since 2014.
It's really solid Hellhammer worship with blastbeat bursts that modernize it a bit.
But the riffs are vintage and grinding; between that and grunted "Ooh" one thinks Tom Warrior would approve.

Lead track on the album "Garmr" is on SoundCloud"
http://soundcloud.com/iron-bonehead-productions/naudiz-garmr

Stream three tracks from the new Woe, "The Din of the Mourning" is particularly relentless

https://woeunholy.bandcamp.com/album/hope-attrition

This isn't metal the way it's commonly defined in this thread, but it's fairly badass power trio instrumental rock.

https://apeshifter.bandcamp.com/releases

read that as Apeshitter at first

That Woe is pretty good. And gotta love a track called "No Blood Has Honour."

Randomly came across this through someone else's purchases on Bandcamp (one of their best features is being able to stalk peoples' tastes):

http://hyponic.bandcamp.com/album/-

I see that Hyponic were mentioned in Rolling Metal 2010 but this is a new album. RIYL Aluk Todolo, Kadura, Fushitsusha and a little bit of diseombowelment's twangy weirdo atmospheres. Track 5 is kind of reminding me of old Lycia doing psych, though.

OK it resembles Emptiness a bit too.

Wow that's really great. The funeral doom label put me off a bit but I'm glad I listened to it.

Here's some slightly weird folksy black metal that's a bit disjointed at times but usually in an intriguing way:

https://ungfell.bandcamp.com/album/t-tbring-re

The new Benighted album Necrobreed (they've been around forever, but I've never listened to them before) is pretty good. It's kind of a combination of Rotten Sound-style grind, brutal death metal (occasional pig squeal vocals), and beatdown hardcore. Not subtle, but effective.

This made the rounds yet? (The final two paragraphs are the key.)

http://gizmodo.com/this-400-million-year-old-worm-monster-is-metal-as-hell-1792584414

this is cool

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/manetheren-the-end-album-premiere/

A full-fledged concept album, The End tells the story of one man’s almost Nietzschean journey towards godhood as the world comes to an end. Each of the six tracks signifies a different event along the way, starting with Biblical plagues and pestilence and ending with the protagonist ruling over the dystopian wastes left behind. The sheer gorgeousness of the music, however, more than offsets the relative bleakness of the lyrics. Darkly atmospheric and characterized by layer upon layer of guitars, Manetheren’s approach to black metal brings to mind more overtly melodic bands like Woods of Desolation, but they also occasionally veer into the same sort of depressive rock territory as Amesoeurs – particularly on tracks like “And Then Came the Pestilence” and “The End,” both of which have sections that seem to draw influence from The Cure.

(also, no one is talking about the new Immolation album but I guess it's because Immolation making a great album is kind of a given)

i'm stoked for when it hits my Amazon music library. first death meta lband I ever saw live!

Really wanted to see Immolation and Full of Hell last week (they're opening for the Cavalera brothers' "playing Roots in its entirety" tour) but...didn't. New album's great, though.

I found out about the Atlanta show too late - the killer is if an impromptu project at work hadn't come up, I could have probably done it. I would have loved seeing them again (and the Roots set).

they have a headlining set in Arizona but I don't think I can make that work. kills me that the one time they came to my hometown three times in a year and a half, I missed them all three times back in like 2003.

I like that Ross doesn't use his death voice to talk between songs, just his thick Yonkers accent

the Cavalera brothers' "playing Roots in its entirety" tour

Really?! Sweet. That's definitely the Sepultura album we all want to hear live, right?

I know you're joking, but I would be more excited about a Chaos A.D. tour. (That was the tour I saw them on in 1993, with Fudge Tunnel, Fear Factory, and Clutch opening up.)

lol they only picked that one cos the tour was supposed to be all last year and it was 20th anniversary (and then some of the leg got cancelled or somethin idk).

I actually like Roots even if it isn't even the fourth best thing THEY did.

Heh

xp I would be way more excited by a Chaos AD tour! But Arise would be better. Or Beneath the Remains. Schizophrenia. Morbid Visions. Bestial Devastation. The list is endless, really...

I like Roots a lot and I bet it's a blast live

otm

It woulda been fun. And the new Masquerade in ATL doesn't have quite the same feel as the old location but it still rules

I have seen Clutch 3 times never on purpose I swear that band opens for everyone. Chevelle too

I have seen Clutch 3 times never on purpose I swear that band opens for everyone.

Yeah, me too: that '93 show, when they were just starting out, then again in '97 between Neurosis and Pantera, then I got a long break from their plodding asses, until they were the middle band again, this time between Valient Thorr and Motörhead in 2010. Talk about sucking the energy out of the room - Valient Thorr were absolutely on fire that night, and Motörhead were Motörhead, but Clutch came out and slogged through 45 minutes of one-chord boogie until I thought I was gonna lapse into a coma.

god 2 minutes into the new Immolation and it alraedy feels like walkin into an old friend's house for a beer

OK, I have only listened to it all the way through once, but based on that and playing the advance tracks several times each, I'm going to predict that the new Battle Beast is the album of the year.

Light Of The Morning Star
Nocta
(Iron BoneHead Productions)
Release Date: 3/3/2017

https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000200749317-s72o5v-t500x500.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHuMdnhTJwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNeRfAE9mh0

When you hear the term Gothic Metal you likely think of the current crop of bands that have neither the passion of Gothic music nor the power of metal, diluting both genres rather than invigorating them. Leave it to an album whose title literally translates to 'night' to finally have something embrace the darkness that draws in practitioners and devotees of both subcultures. The debut album from UK band Light Of The Morning Star after an EP Cemetery Glow that was released last June, Nocta incorporates enough Black Metal trappings to confuse the corpse-painted into thinking they are being serenaded, but the morose vibe that permeates the album is really far more Andrew Eldritch than Azaghal or Emperor, but being on a label primarily known for underground metal will likely give the band more exposure in that subculture, and that's fine.

The label has unleashed two tracks in advance of the album's release. "Ophidian" shows an actual groove with a post-punk prominent bass line weaving beneath whispered vocals whereas the title track kicks off with keys that could be harpsichord before melting into a mid-tempo anthem. As Cvlt Nation says when it premiered the song, "When I first heard the track... I knew I was going to love this despite not being much of a metalhead. It opens with a slow piano line before the rest of the instruments strike in. The vocals are not fierce and screaming, but rather deep, dark, and chanting. It really has a romantic, gothic (perhaps even vampiric) feel to it without being corny, so to me it’s the perfect blend of goth rock and metal. It’s a truly badass song that pulls you in right away.

My favorite song on the disc has yet to be released; "Coffinwood" is genuinely catchy, something as comfortable on a dancehall as a concert stage - anywhere it's dark, really.

The whispered vocals could be something of an acquired taste for metal fans, but the dynamic against the heavier-than-expected guitars and rhythm section makes it work. I wish that the production actually had a little more deference to those guitars, which might be the headbanger in me talking, but my inner Goth loves it and wants to share some absinthe with the O-A, the mysterious person behind this project, and frolic through a moonlit cemetery.

Junius
Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light
(Prosthetic Records)
Release Date: 3/3/2017

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http://junius-official.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-rituals-for-the-accretion-of-light
http://open.spotify.com/album/0LUp8pPrdr60BhFBr2Mdd7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-yN5358-S8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvZddkash0E

It's hard to believe that Junius has been around since 2003 but this is only the third full-length album from the group yet it is the final album of a trilogy though their discography is fleshed out with a slew of EPs and splits. I haven't heard everything they've done but from what I have heard, Eternal Rituals For The Accretion Of Light is likely the most accessible thing they've done to date.

Of the three songs released in advance of the album, "Clean The Beast" sounds like an artier, less organic Mastodon as it juxtaposes clean and harsh vocals. In the same vein is "A Mass for Metaphysicians," available at the Spotify link above, which delves into Deftones territory with a slippery riff and wailing background harmonies.

Rolling Stone debuted the other track from the album, "The Queen's Constellation," of which it says, "it takes the band's alternately soaring and crashing sound to even more diverse places, as can be heard on first single "The Queen's Constellation." Opening with a spiraling keyboard filigree, the song blends seismic riffs and singer-guitarist Joseph E. Martinez's Chino Moreno–esque vocal melodies as it builds to a chugging, upward march of a breakdown."

It seemed every time that Junius came by Philly they were supporting someone I didn't care too much about but in April they are doing a headlining club show that I am looking very forward to seeing.

It's been mentioned above but I have to say the forthcoming Obituary album is a monster! Guttural as hell and I still think John Tardy's got the best death metal pipes you'll find - and he uses them to great effect here.

nice - I didnt' care for the last one, is it similar? I didn't hate it either, just didn't like it as much as previous.

new Immolation is glorious, as is the POwertrip. Midnight, haven't had a great listen yet, but I'm sure I"ll love it.

next week = Inquisition on Friday, Overkill/Nile SAturday. was supposed to go to Suicidal Tendencies Sunday and even bought a ticket til I forgot I had a soccer game across town two hours away so I'm selling it.

humorously, the club (State Theatre in St Pete) is erroneously advertising Exodus as an opener. they have never been part of the tour package, maybe they were in negotiations early on, but they're definitely not going to be there, and part of me wonders if Exodus fans will show up pissed that it's Crowbar/Havok opening instead.

I emailed them to fix it, amazed it's gotten by this long

immortal bird are fuckin serious live

lol the questions starting coming in so frequently that ST's FB page manager had to swoop into the event and confirm, no Exodus would not be there, and yes, it was Havok/Crowbar.

venue STILL won't upset their website or reply to emails from several of ours.

gonna be some pissed Exodus fans lol

Immortal Bird got their van / gear / merch jacked ... have raised 14K in 3 days on GoFundMe ... shitty news / heartening news

https://www.gofundme.com/immortal-bird-stolen-gear-van

https://www.facebook.com/immortalbirdband/

Midnight album is fun as per usual. gonna be great to see them on the Decibel tour

attn Brad, this album has you written all over it I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjoIXjI7pok

Fuck, this Rebel Wizard album. Vicious, thrashy black metal with some Maiden/Priest guitar heroics thrown in. And it's Australian.

I wrote about Immolation.

If you like your female-vocal metal a little closer to Madder Mortem than to Xandria, check out the new Ravenscry album.

https://open.spotify.com/album/7vMCkszcwn6iLOpwtBcUim

(I just realized that I don't know if that's supposed to be ravens-cry or raven-scry. Kinda hoping it's the latter as an Odin reference.)

oh my god simon WHAT IS THAT SONG

dude the whole album is insane

aaaaaah

ostensibly they're considered a djent band? or used to be? I've listened to it like a half dozen times and I'm still confused

Junius were basically the only listenable djent band when their 1st album was out.

State Theater in St Pete STILL has Exodus listed on their website even after ST THEMSELVES were forced to go into the FB event to clarify the confusion.

People are getting massively confused, I am going to laugh my ass off if a shitload of Exodus fans show up and then start flipping things over when they realize they won't be there.

several of us have emailed them too, so dunno if they're just lazy or they really want to will this thing into existence.

If you say Exodus five times while staring into a mirror they suddenly appear and start thrashing behind u

I wish i hadn't just tried that when i was on the toilet

If your issue with BABYMETAL was that it still sounded too human, you might appreciate this:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5yoy8hzsgNMkAYHb350q7H

(It's vocaloid metal.)

Ha, that's good to hear. I'll have to go and look for it in the dark corners of the internet.

Meanwhile, here's something for anyone who isn't sick of post/atmospheric black metal:

https://violetcold.bandcamp.com/album/anomie

― Dinsdale

Also, for those of us who prefer physical format, there is a CD available and it's relatively inexpensive for US consumption.

For Vocaloid metal, I'll stick with Utsu-P:

https://open.spotify.com/album/7ex8PWSObIK1VQsUpixjnC

Medico Peste is yet another Polish band doing something a little different, somewhere in the Mgla/Furia/post-punk orbit. Apparently there's a cover of "Stigmata Martyr" on this upcoming EP.
http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/2017/2/26/streaming-medico-peste-hallucinating-warmth-and-bliss

Their debut album was really good, fwiw.

I wrote about Immolation.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, February 27, 2017 7:43 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great article. I really wish more people wrote about them (granted, Decibel gives them their due). never thought the one time I saw them headline in 1999 would be the *only* damn time.

Their releases over the past decade—2007’s Shadows in the Light, 2010’s Majesty and Decay, 2011’s Providence EP (a free giveaway from Scion AV), and 2013’s Kingdom of Conspiracy—have been some of their most bludgeoning.

this is otm. I have forgotten what Shadows looked like because that was during my weird showtunes phase (shut the fuck up, everybody), but I remember raving about Majesty on here after I got it, and Kingdom of Conspiracy I still play the fuck out of.

I think the only one I elevate slightly above the rest is Close to a World Below. I also have love for Failures for Gods, despite the clicky drums (I won't say typewriters, AG, won't do it), as it was the first one I owned.

some boring people might say Dawn of Possession is the best one or the only one worth owning. they'd be RONG. the angular atmospheric riffing is just hard to replicate. It's not about pummeling your skull a la Cryptopsy, it's making you feel like you're ambling slowly in Hell, crawling through an endless cesspool of blood, molasses, and raw sewage, and slowly losing your will to keep fighting upstream.

Since there was a lot of (justifiable) Astronoid love in the thread, the band will be playing a couple weeks of dates on the West Coast with Ghost Bath:

4/14/2017 The Park Theatre - Winnipeg, MB
4/15/2017 TBA - Regina, SK
4/16/2017 Distortion - Calgary, AB
4/17/2017 Astoria - Vancouver, BC
4/18/2017 Highline - Seattle, WA
4/19/2017 Ash Street Saloon - Portland, OR
4/20/2017 Thee Parkside - San Francisco, CA
4/21/2017 Complex - Los Angeles, CA
4/22/2017 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA
4/23/2017 Yucca Tap Room - Tempe, AZ
4/25/2017 Marquis - Theater Denver, CO
4/26/2017 Riot Room - Kansas City, MO

I expect full reviews from ILXors.

lol that should be a nicely polarizing bill

it's making you feel like you're ambling slowly in Hell, crawling through an endless cesspool of <yik>

in addition to the new immolation, have of late dug power trip, the great old ones, tomb mold, lorn & rebel wizard. ominous circle lp is okay, maybe better than okay, not sure yet. cultes des ghoules operetta thing is an endurance test but kind of fun. new portal & solstice soon?

Oh man the Great Old Ones record is killer. Lovecrafty black metal but just super fun to listen to.

Rebel Wizard and Tomb Mold are both spending a lot of time in my earholes. Waiting for my copy of the Lorn CD, secretly hoping Marc Maron will accidentally agree to interview them on his podcast.

Cathartic shrieky epic black metal by the aforementioned Ghost Bath: https://open.spotify.com/track/6eKu3fqaUDQm0iwwkFquy0

Re: Disperse

That was terrible.

hahaha no one but brad was meant to listen to that

Did Brad lose a bet?

(And for the record I listen to everything that is posted in this thread at least once as soon as I can hear the full album. Most don't get more than one listen, however. :) )

I love that Disperse song.

for real though I dig the hell out of that Disperse album, it sounds like someone went into the 1975's studio when they were off on spliff breaks and tried to make prog-metal using their setup xp

Simon OTM! I listened to the Disperse a few days ago when it got reviewed on AMG, and the first thing I thought was, "This sounds like that last 1975 album. But, you know, better." I think I even said something like that in the review comments.

It's not terrible, I don't think, but it's definitely not my kind of thing.

Hey guys. I haven't been contributing to this thread because frankly I'm severely burned out and need an extensive break from the new metal stuff. There's not much new stuff that makes me happy anymore. However the new Power Trip album is a hugely pleasant surprise in that it's ultra-formulaic thrash that remembers how catchy thrash is supposed to be. Hooks aplenty, great dynamics, the kind of filth and speed and tightness that has me comparing this record to Possessed and Exodus, with Slayer divebombs for good measure. Regressive metal for the proverbial win. It reminds me of being 17, at the height of my thrash obsession, in 1988.

And for those who like the girly metal (Glenn, take note) the new Kobra and the Lotus is a long-overdue strong effort by a band that always had a bad habit of underachieving in the past. They're a great fit on Napalm, and I hope they do well with the Euro-metal crowd.

Yes! I like "Gotham" a lot, and am looking forward to the rest of the Kobra and the Lotus album.

You guys.

Nocturnus (AD) debuted a new song at this show tonight.

And it is gooooood

Like Key good

WHAT

would die 4 that

Yeah man. If they can write 7 more songs like this daaaamn

Dread Sovereign
For Doom the Bell Tolls
(Ván Records)
Release Date: 3/3/2017

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/2/3/9/623928.jpg?0611

One Sheet

Doom metal without any of the hippie-dippy stuff. Even when they get a little psychedelic, it is only to make the music seem heavier. Doom metal is often morose and mournful; in the hands of this Irish group, it's all about anger and it's not a bad look.

The album is streaming via SoundCloud at Noisey, where Kim Kelly says

For Doom the Bell Tolls is dark—immensely dark. The sound of church bells ring out, puncturing the murky, twilit atmosphere and punctuating the howling ripples of distorted riffs. Joined by drummer Johnny King (Malthusian, Sodb) and guitarist Bones (Wizards of Firetop Mountain), vocalist and bassist Nemtheanga (AKA Primordial's Alan Averill) lays aside his usually epic vocal stylings in favor of an eerie sort of ur-wail, a wavering cry that undulates through the sepulchral fog to bring tidings of doom. A perfectly grimy (and extremely fitting) Venom cover at the end sees them ramp up the sleaze in a gritted-teeth reminder that doom has always been dirty. Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.

Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.

WHOA LORD YEAH

well fuck

omg I spent the whole first track thinking "wow this guy sounds like Alan Averill". Well duh.

got Incubus's drum stick after the Inquisition set. the thing was beat to shit. he plays the hell out of them.

It's not just a little matchstick?

Lol kinda is now.

NBD just met Corpsegrinder

http://i68.tinypic.com/xmsizl.jpg

Overkill still rule live and they play the best two songs (#1 and #3) from the new album live.

Caught Anvil with Night Demon and Graveshadow this evening in Philly. The venue, Johnny Brenda's, doesn't do a ton of metal shows and it is in the hipster neighborhood of Fishtown so I kind of expected some ironic attendees at the show but instead it was filled with lifers who put me to shame. I wore a Diamond Head shirt (Night Demon's Jarvis Leatherby approved, I said I thought maybe he heard a song or two of theirs and he laughed, "Yeah, one or two.") and at one point was at the bar next to someone in a Budgie shirt causing me to exclaim that we were responsible for half of Metallica's cover songs. It was certainly nice to not be the oldest person at a show for once.

I missed locals Hound because I was eating a cheesesteak, but they're quite good if you ever come across them, solid shit-kicking rock and roll will be your reward.

I was intrigued by Graveshadow enough to make sure I caught them. They have a video out which is really cheesy, but it's also quite infectious and has stuck in my head. I post it here so those who were offended at my negative views of Disperse can mock me for my questionable taste.

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

Live the band was a lot heavier than the clip and debut album I checked out on Spotify and the singer was having a great time, shrugging off rude catcalls and winning over a lot of the crowd by sheer will and an ability to sing quite well and also growl at times, something that helps set her and the band apart from the bulk of female-fronted, gothic metal bands. The bassist spent the whole set playing from the area in front of the stage or wandering around the balcony area and the singer did this as well. They were utterly uncool but a lot of fun too.

I really love Night Demon's updated NWOBHM and the two new songs they performed from an April album makes me think that will continue.

Anvil was Anvil (which can be a posthumous album title since they seem to love those three-word deals) which is fine with me since I liked 'em before the documentary. Lips was smiling all the time, making crude sexual jokes that might be unbecoming from someone past sixty, but the dude still does a guitar solo with a vibrator so, yeah, and he told some cool stories about Lemmy and stuck up for Metallica for letting them open for them in Singapore a few years ago when some dude in the crowd inexplicably started screaming how they suck.

I would have liked to hear a lot more old songs, but I understand that is unrealistic, and looking at the setlist (Philly got the same set, save for an encore of "Born To Be Wild" because we were a better crowd than Boston, ha!) I think they did fine overall. But man, it would be great to hear them do "School Love" live.

Overall a fun night out with two young bands that sound old and an old band that is classic.

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17098345_10158308973450597_8305012159831817383_n.jpg?oh=9220055992aa8bc638ec108f1191648f&oe=593AA546 http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17155682_10158309115105597_3495316403875898951_n.jpg?oh=50bf07c0592aa18e7452e765aa74213c&oe=596CA7DD

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Nice pic, Neanderthal! Surprised that you could get Corpsegrinder's neck in a shit and have room for you... :)

http://i.imgur.com/rU4W7FN.jpg

Man Corpsegrinder got some youthful hands, dude must SLATHER on the Oil of Olay

I MEAN BLOOD

Neanderthal that is a great pic. I have a similar merch table pic from a few years back, Fischer is a stand-up dude imo

yeah he's a stand-up dude. he wasn't acting aggravated about it or anything at all.

I saw Steve Asheim again as well but he's always at shows in that area.

nice pics of Anvil! they were fun the times I saw them a few years back. is their bass player still the goofy looking dude with missing teeth? I liked him.

surprised they didn't do "School Love" - they were playing that the time I saw it.

did they do "Mothra"? that was my fav of the night.

looking at recent setlists, I wish they'd stop playing "Bad Ass Rock 'n Roll", that's such a boring song.

did they do "Thumb Hang"?

This AV Club article on Nazism in metal is one of the best I've read on the subject. Worth checking out, particularly for the discussion of Profound Lore, who have put some really sketchy shit out while earning a seemingly unbroken stream of critical praise.

yeah that first paragraph, I had no idea

I miss when AVC regularly had good (any) metal content

If you're interested in the political morass associated with some ugly metal, the book The Lords of Chaos is a pretty gripping mostly-journalistic study, starting with Burzum and Norwegian church-burning and spiraling outwards into various kinds of nationalism and paganism...

I'm still disappointed that Sion Sono's proposed adaptation fell through

Ha, yeah. He said that he wanted to make it like 90210.

It is sad that so many people involved in Metal are fascist and/or misanthropic dicks. Definitely makes reading interviews much less enjoyable.

People need to be reminded that Craig Pillard is a full-blown Nazi, but it seems weird to conflate that with Charlie Fell saying some some dumb shit in defense of a misunderstood album cover.

I legitimately had no idea re: Pillard. granted I always think of McIntee when I think of Incantation and I have barely listened to the one Disma album I have, but like I think NS values are so often tied to black metal that non-black metal artists don't always get looked at as closely.

it is making me sadder each day to see the kind of plankton like this in the scene. had a convo with someone at the Overkill show Saturday and it was all fun until he defended Phil's 'white power' moment at the concert (even tho he wasn't expressing agreement w/ it) and talked about SJWs and all this stuff and I basically just talked to the other guys at the table the rest of the night. can these people please just leave the scene?

I've tabbed that article to read tomorrow, but it immediately reminds me of the whole 'I can listen to Burzum without endorsing Varg' thing and, well, can you? (Not that going down that path doesn't open up a whole can of worms.)

there are traces of that can of worms being opened and dumped on the floor of this board at least like...once every two years

Just wanted to say I really, really like Dying Beauty & the Silent Sky the Asphodelus EP that came out on Iron Bonehead last year. They're a Finnish doom-death outfit, used to be called Cemetery Fog. Don't think Dying Beauty got much notice, very few reviews online, but I keep coming back to it a year down the road. Anyone else?

AV Club article was great
Though I hate the Varg/Mayhem cru is "insane" thing, always feels like a copout they seem just like genuinely awful, hateful evil ppl who believe terrible things, but not crazy

had no idea about Pillard. granted when I think Incantation I think McIntee and I only have one Disma album, but seems like people with shitty beliefs not named Jef Whitehead fly under the radar if they're not NSBM.

Profound Lore link was an interesting one - artisan labels sometimes tend to make you assume they're mostly signing acts that are on the level but y'know...

That AV Club article bummed me out. One thing which surprised me was that the comments - and internet comments sections are notoriously a cesspool brought about by semi-anonymity emboldening - had a lot of good discussion.

When I worked at Relapse Records I was the buyer for the mailorder. I was also a buyer at an independent record store in Columbus, Ohio before that. My attitude was that I would stock things without judgement and people could vote with their wallets. I was fine with truth in advertising too - At the record store I remember making the bin card for Arghoslent "Richmond, VA Thrashy Death metal. Warning: Racist redneck assholes."

While at Relapse a left wing group started a campaign by actually emailing bands on the label or past bands pointing out some of the things we had in the mail order catalogue and how those bands were now associated with that. Apparently some of the bands - I never was told which ones - mentioned it to the powers that be at the label. They might not have been upset, they might have just given them a head's up, or maybe they were angry, I was never given details. I was given orders that I had to take down some bands and not stock them or similar ones ever again.

This was quite frustrating, and not because I was some paragon of allowing free speech (although that is a motivating factor) but the inconsistencies of who was included and who was safe. Someone with tangential innuendo would be forbidden to bring in but it was okay to stock other groups. I have always had issues with the contradictions of what was "allowed" in metal, excused because it's an extreme genre of music, and what wasn't. Bashing Christianity is almost a necessary component of many forms of metal, and metal has done this in very pointed ways, but of course Judaism can never be targeted (I am not naive to why this is the case). And violence against women is commonplace in metal, even sexual violence, but it's excused because it's metal. It made my job harder and one more than one occasion I was forced to explain why I stocked something that I shouldn't have.

I am really torn and the current state of affairs in this country with white supremacy in the White House doesn't help. Just last night some guy working a a grocery store saw my Agnostic Front shirt and asked if I liked metal. We had a brief discussion where he admitted to being open-minded as far as metal fans go (he liked AF and said he was listening to Dissection on the way to work but also said his favorite band was Epica) and he seemed like a nice enough guy, but I didn't give him my Facebook handle because in the back of my mind I was like, what if this guy's an asshole? I will be seeing Metallica in a few months and I know that I will be among a lot of racist asshole who voted for Trump.

I have a lot of music from sketchy bands in my collection. Some of it is quite good - Burzum is classic, the last Inquisition record was excellent. I even own that Arghoslent album and it's a shame they're such fuckheads because it's amazing. Part of me wants to just throw it all away, but where is the line drawn? But if it's that hard of a line to draw, why do I like metal and other art that I like to begin with?

I rationalize it this way: I don't think that anyone who has a Cannibal Corpse album in their collection is anti-women and pro-rape but that band (and many others) have graphic lyrics about those things and has for decades. And I don't buy that line about how death metal lyrics are like horror films, obvious over the top fiction, whereas white supremacists are all too real. Last I checked women get raped, women get murdered. That's real life as well.

I realize that I have my own inconsistencies. Ted Nugent is a piece of shit whose political views have made it difficult to listen to his music, but I don't feel the same way with other sketchy artists. I am not even sure why, as I type this. Maybe it's because Ted is mainstream and Varg isn't.

There is no easy answer here. I think that ultimately everyone makes their own decisions with their own morality and I think that quibbling over where the line is drawn is not going to help anything. At the end of the day the most benign art has influenced heinous acts and some of the most extreme art has been cathartic and allowed me to look at the world differently. I think the responsibility for the art someone consumes is not to the art, but to what they get out of it and what it inspires in them. But I'm a grown-ass man, not an impressionable kid.

It bums me out and may impact my consumption of some bands, or it may not. But I can rationalize whatever I wind up doing - to myself, and that's all that matters to me, frankly.

the plankton in the metal scene has to go. I have started way too many conversations with fellow metalheads at shows lately that have started innocently enough and then moved into some form of racist horseshit.

not remotely the majority of them, but more than enough for me to think twice about talking to some of them.

I have a lot of music from sketchy bands in my collection. Some of it is quite good - Burzum is classic, the last Inquisition record was excellent. I even own that Arghoslent album and it's a shame they're such fuckheads because it's amazing. Part of me wants to just throw it all away, but where is the line drawn? But if it's that hard of a line to draw, why do I like metal and other art that I like to begin with?

You should comment on my FB post. I'm asking people to list their favorite Nazi/racist bands, and explain what they like about them. After all, if it's not the ideology they're responding to, it must be the riffs, and if the riffs are that awesome, I don't wanna miss out!

Since I'm not on Facebook these days...

In February, an Hell's Headbangers co-released the latest from Goatmoon, a well-established Finnish NSBM act. The new album is okay, nothing special, but before I'd heard it or knew much about the band (which, of course, is just one guy), I gave a curiosity listen to Finnish Steel Storm, their 2007 "masterpiece". It's kind of incredible, flawed and at times rather silly, but also unique and palpably inspired. The songs, which owe as much to punk and folk as traditional black metal, are catchy, inventive and hugely energetic. It's honestly one of the best albums I've heard in the genre this side of the early 90s.

So, what do I do with that? I won't buy the album or support Goatmoon in any way. Apart from this mention, I won't talk FSS up, add it to playlists, or dig any deeper into the scene that produced it. But nor can I deny what I heard. Is it silly to cut yourself off from "great art" with shit values? Maybe, but it seems worse to swallow poison just because it tastes good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNl_18Kr56g

I remember glenn once saying something along the lines of, for every band you stumble on, there are a hundred similar bands you've never heard of.

So with a few genre-defining exceptions, my general take is that for every NSBM band with awesome riffs, there are probably a hundred non NS BM bands whose riffs are almost as awesome, and I'd rather support them instead.

In that spirit, here's a label whose bands I've been digging this morning that seems to have a fairly high bar for non plankton ness:
https://replenishrecords.bandcamp.com

After all, if it's not the ideology they're responding to, it must be the riffs, and if the riffs are that awesome, I don't wanna miss out!

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, March 6, 2017 7:47 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk i think we could all stand to miss out on awesome nazi riffs

Eh, every band you can find another band that's better until there's only one.
I want more than one album from every genre in my collection, thanks.

As I said on 誤訳侮辱's Facebook thread: I never understood why I had to endorse the band's ideology because I liked their music. Lyrics were never that important to me to begin with.

A ton of great metal bands sung about Satan, yet somehow other than some ultra-religious types, I never am told I have to account for Satanism in my record collection.

You might say that Satan is not real, but white supremacy is all-too real. I would agree but then again so is misogyny and sexual violence against women. Whole genres such as porno grind can be indicted here, but also most of death metal - certainly some of the biggest names in the genre (Cannibal Corpse) are guilty of this. Does having reviewed death metal bands with those kinds of lyrics means I am accountable for our rape culture?

I abhor that a lot of metal fans are fucking stupid. But whatever it is that the stupid metal fans get out of the music that makes them stupid, I'm not seeing it and more importantly I am living my life in a completely different way.

Goatmoon is really good and I was really bummed when I found out they were nazis. Are Ride for Revenge also nazis? Finland in general has a whole bunch of these dudes. But fuckin' RfR make incredibly good droney bass metal imo

Eh, every band you can find another band that's better until there's only one.
I want more than one album from every genre in my collection, thanks.

iirc this is not how music or numbers work

You recall wrong.

Pyriphlegethon
The Murky Black of Eternal Night
(Iron Bonehead Productions)
Release Date: 4/14/2017

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/922/Qe4hxe.jpg

"Monument Of Death" (Streaming at CVLT Nation
"The Serpent's Tongue" (Streaming at YouTube)

Yet another project for Maurice de Jong, Mories to his friends, whose best-known project is Gnaw Their Tongues. Believe it or not, Pyriphlegethon - named after one of the rivers of Hades - is actually more primal and minimalistic than Gnaw which is a feat in and of itself. "Monument Of Death" is straight-forward enough: Putrid vocals, mechanical drum machine, strangled riffs, claustrophobic mix. "The Serpent's Tongue" is a lot more chaotic and has a fuller sound reminding of the first creaky steps that black metal took when riff repetition morphed into atmospheric soundscapes.

It's not among the first couple of songs released, but my favorite song is the penultimate track on the album, "The Coldest Grave," which is a bubblegum pop song set to clanking industrial bludgeon, I shit you not, replete with memorable chorus and even a lead guitar break that sounds like something Helios Creed could have conjured up if he was into Satan instead of 'Shrooms.

I am unsure if this is getting a CD release but it is coming out on vinyl and I assume digital as well.

you can listen to "the coldest grave" here, right after hail conqueror's "heaven piercing phallos" and "necrolactation unborn goat" by perverted ceremony. i was disappointed to find it less bubblegum-sticky than i'd hoped (black metal shonen knife), but it's alright.

Well everything's relative... :)

i have a harder time with bands whose lyrics are intelligible that include hate rhetoric in their lyrics music. even though it's just plain ol conservatism and not "Nazi" stuff, I had a hard time listening to early Agnostic Front for a while cos the lyrics are so damn ignorant and right up front.

the whole 'giving money to these people' is a bit easier sidestepped of course in the digital age.

it's also just really hard to tell who's a piece of shit. recall the guy from Pyrexia last year that murdered like three people.

(ok well it's not ALWAYS hard to tell)

yeah, the third murder really gave it away

well they all happened at the same time so

guess we shoulda seen it coming since his last name was "Shute"

aw fuck he's one of those sovereign citizen assholes (https://www.google.com/#q=erick+shute+murder&*)

finally checked out one of the songs on the new Six Feet Under.

christ...I thought Barnes sounded bad on the previous album. he sounds like The D.O.C. trying to do death vox

Crude black/death, not war metal, kinda crusty:

http://funeralchant.bandcamp.com/album/funeral-chant

Although they're not a metal band per se, metal people have enjoyed Pissed Jeans in the past and I have to say the latest album Why Love Now is fantastic.

It's really great. I don't know if it's their best (it fizzles out a teensy bit near the end imo) but it's very damn close.

Since 2013 Finland’s Oranssi Pazuzu has released two critically lauded full length albums via 20 Buck Spin in North America, 2013’s ‘Valonielu’ and 2016’s ‘Värähtelijä’. Both albums showed the boundless enormity and remarkable uniqueness that Oranssi Pazuzu alone create. Are they a Psych influenced Black Metal band or a Black Metal influenced Psych band? No one knows for sure and it doesn’t matter anyway. No other band has the ability to bend these genres into such an extraordinarily cohesive whole.

For most in North America the Oranssi Pazuzu black hole only came into focus with the aforementioned last two albums. However the band had previously recorded and released two full length albums and a split LP. With their growing reputation here Oranssi Pazuzu’s back catalog has become increasingly in demand. 20 Buck Spin will now present the band’s back catalog on various formats domestically for the first time.

The ‘Farmokologinen’ MLP contains Oranssi Pazuzu’s songs from a split album they did in 2010 between the time of their first and second full lengths. Four tracks and nearly 27 minutes in length, even on a split album the band showcased their growing immensity and burning cold bleakness. Now released as a stand alone Oranssi Pazuzu release with all new artwork on vinyl and digital formats.

http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/farmakologinen

also WHAAAAOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHWWWWWW

thanks for the heads-up, gp. have wanted copies of muukalainen puhuu and kosmomonument for quite a while, but haven't been willing to pay the going rate. less interested in the ep, but w/e.

This YouTube channel has suddenly uploaded every Danzig video in HD quality. Don't know how long they'll be there - they all went up on March 3 - but there you go.

John D4rnielle on Church of Misery in NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/09/magazine/25-songs-that-tell-us-where-music-is-going.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#/church-of-misery-make-them-die-slowly-john-george-haigh

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

If there is someone who id read write about CoM ...its jd

Fen
Winter
(Aural Music/Code666)
Release Date: 3/10/2017

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/2/8/4/628426.jpg?2634

http://fenuk.bandcamp.com/album/winter

Video for "Winter II"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OenMFgZGE94

I fell in love with the British band's 2013 release Dustwalker after reading about it in the Rolling Metal Thread 2013 thread right here and I have a feeling that I will do the same with the new release which comes out tomorrow once I get to spend some time with it. Islander of No Clean Singing did get to spend time with itand streams the entire album of which he opines:

If it’s “self-indulgent”, it is so only in the sense that it indulges deeply felt emotions, memories, and creative impulses of the selves who made it. It’s ambitious in its reach, of course, seeking to capture the sensations of ancient landscapes and near-mystical revelations, but FEN’s ambitions haven’t exceeded their grasp.

While the spine of the music is atmospheric black metal, in its fully fleshed-out form it’s very much a prog album, intricate and rich in its textures and elaborate in its ever-changing instrumental variations. The drums will blast, the guitars will swarm, and the vocals will claw at your throat in abrasive snarls and impassioned cries. But the harsh, savage energy in the music is more than counterbalanced by other elements that become kaleidoscopic in the cascade of their sonic colors.

Trying to map all the ways in which the music changes over the course of these journeys wouldn’t serve much point. What might matter more is to say that despite the considerable distance the music travels both in time and in the range of its emotional resonances and instrumental and vocal variations, the songs are cohesive, and that might be the album’s crowning achievement. Everything seems to belong, and to integrate and unfold in ways that are fascinating, natural, and wholly immersive. Many minutes will pass, but if you’re like me, you won’t be counting them. By the end, you’ll wonder where the time went, and be glad for the time you spent with Winter.

I haven't really checked them out but I love that logo.

New Skaphe, wherein he gets all metal on us: https://skaphe.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-3

digging this Apostate Viaticum album:

https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-gates-of-gomorrah

Before listening to the song you’re about to hear, “In the Shadow of the Monolith”, I was seduced by Invictus‘ comparisons of the album to the likes of Diocletian, Bölzer, and Zom — along with Gospel of the Horns, Vomitor, and Throaat. And then the song itself seduced me. A melding of black and death, it’s a twisted piece of savagery that doesn’t unfold in a predictable straight line. It squeals, groans, vaults, and veers. It becomes a meat-grinder of morbidity and then a head-nodding, bone-mangling lurch, with a burst of frenzy at the end. My kind of nastiness.

Got a press release about Black Death. After forming in Cleveland in the late '70s, the group is reputably the first all-black heavy metal band.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-prnA3p2iVfo/U2hnUiVHd1I/AAAAAAAAHgY/aTvsIqDrXcw/s1600/blackdeath-thumb.jpg

The one album the band released, a self-titled album that came out in 1984, will be getting the reissue treatment from Hell's Headbangers sometime this year, presumably. It "consisted of a seven-song main LP and then a two-song 7", both of which Hells Headbangers will reproduce down to the same detail," says the press release.

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/8/6/5/4/8654.jpg?1734

Not to be confused with this Black Death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqteDk15Ud8

Psyched about that... Auburn was supposed to reissue that like ten years ago but it never happened, it's a fun heavy metal record.

Power Trip + Iron Reagan was v satisfying. IR's drummer didn't make it past the Cdn border, so there were a trio of fill-ins, incl the drummer from Skull Fist!

digging Funeral Chant (which should surprise nobody), reminds me of Vampire from Sweden

So apparently Nachtmystium are reuniting to play Louisville Deathfest? Anyone know anything about this? I can't imagine it'll happen.

Mentioned above, finally available to stream:

http://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/spit-forth-from-chaos

Free black jazz metal? With a little bit of Mind Flayer? I dunno how often I'll listen to it but I did order it.

This may already be known to all but Sweden's Sarcasm is putting out a new album at the end of next month (on Dark Descent ofc) and the advance track sounds exactly like where they left off over 20 yrs ago

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

this forum and metal-archives use the opposite youtube url's for embedding (or not embedding) vids and I always get them confused. dammit.

The Australian grind label Blastasfuk has put out complete-discography CDs by Assück and Mortalized (Mortalized being GridLink guitarist Takafumi Matsubara's previous band). Links:

https://blastasfuk.bandcamp.com/album/discography-1989-1998

https://blastasfuk.bandcamp.com/album/complete-mortality

That's fucking great! Will definitely pick up the Assück!

I bought the physical versions - $12 postage paid from Australia was too good a deal to pass up. And I can wait for the discs to arrive.

$6 digital Assück!

Hey, remember when Ulver were a metal band?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq0Kb4bFNzg

They call it "their pop album,”

all right, i'm listening

i'm pretty into that tbh

damn, mortalized rule & assück are straight-up one of the best grind bands ever. awesome.

The new Anomalie album, Visions (out on March 17 via Art of Propaganda), that I have been enjoying and hyping in this thread is finally streaming in full at Invisible Oranges. Joseph Schafer says of the album

The biggest weakness atmospheric black metal faces is thinness. I don’t mean production thinness, I mean a feeling that the music itself is slight. Listening to too many of these bands feels like ordering stew at a restaurant but reviving a bowl of hot broth.

Austria’s Anomalie know how to keep the soup hearty. The brainchild of live Harakiri for the Sky member Marrok, Anomalie mostly keep to the folksy side of the chilled black metal spectrum. You might think of them as gazpacho, soup to cool you down in the afternoon. At times, though, things get chunky, heavy and hot, thanks to some almost Heaven Shall Burn-ish melodic death metal riffage. Always every element is in balance, which makes their forthcoming third record, Visions, such a pleasant dish in a genre full of bland appetizers.

things get chunky, heavy and hot

block that metaphor

Do you get bread or crackers with it?

I'd be pretty ticked off if my gazpacho got chunky, heavy, and hot on me.

6
6 dollar
6 dollar Assuck

man I'm glad to finally be hearing this. love those vocals

Good couple of days in Philly... Monday was Deafheaven, This Will Destroy You and Emma Ruth Rundle and I just came home from Oathbreaker with King Woman and Jaye Jayle.

I wish I caught more of Emma Ruth Rundle's set since I like her albums but she went on so early... I like This Will Destroy you more as background music playing on my CD player than in concert, frankly... Deafheaven was probably the best I have seen them of the three times.

DEAFHEAVEN / THIS WILL DESTROY YOU

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17309650_10158358287420597_4163963446980559168_n.jpg?oh=d8fdb636e362055b26e78bb48f2718cb&oe=5967C978 http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17264890_10158358113875597_933427748867644324_n.jpg?oh=6040a193a9f9e38ad214f119fbda3b82&oe=59729756

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv739Qv7R1I

I really enjoyed Jaye Jayle's set, reminded me of Helios Creed if he used different drugs or was an earthling... Picked up the split they did with Emma Ruth Rundle, ironically enough! King Woman was fantastic, the singer jumping i the crowd at one point, really love the new album which I picked up at the show. Oathbreaker was a cathartic, thrilling, over the top force to be reckoned with. The amazing thing was after the show ended there was Caro at the merch booth without even a moment to rest, from screaming onstage to asking what size shirt you wanted in about as much time as it took to get from the stage to the merch table. It was funny to me how she spent the whole show shrouded in black fabric and with her long hair covering her face and suddenly people are taking pictures with her.

OATHBREAKER / KING WOMAN

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17361582_10158367761235597_6019386784612802952_n.jpg?oh=f451d8b7e5ff9d9c2a1eda0bf2f5eb09&oe=595B538D http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17343059_10158367623495597_7191381654189378199_n.jpg?oh=07dea856d87aadb433797461f0f056af&oe=59620510

JAYE JAYLE

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17309195_10158367406335597_4663312514551381169_n.jpg?oh=541583da08cf15e6dbe7b37f43f2d187&oe=592904B4

I could really complete the week if I caught SunnO))) on Saturday but I am old, tired and broke. Also, seeing Fishbone on Friday. :)

"such a pleasant dish in a genre full of bland appetizers" a pretty un-metal description of metal, but I'm still looking forward to hearing this album tomorrow.

This Anomalie album is great.

Yay! Glad someone else likes it!

But what kind of soup would you say it is?

goddamn the new Havok album is fun (even if the opening track makes me cringe a bit)

loving the new Obituary. I didn't care much for the last one - wasn't terrible, just didn't have many songs I was that into. My only disappointment is that it is largely bereft of some of the extended Celtic Frost-y groovy parts of their past, but then again I can listen to Slowly We Rot or "Redneck Stomp" if I want that.

I do like some of the forays into outside territory, like the heavy metal-ish moments during the first few tracks. the simplicity of the songwriting works too. I can see these songs going over well live (which I'll know for sure on Sunday)

I'm not particularly well-versed on soup analogies.

You need to start listening to more soup.

Broth in the Throne Room

De Mynistroniis Dom Sathanas

but spelled better

Wolf Layers a Bisque

Bak kut teh Attack

Bouillabaisse in the Northern Sky

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.

replace solid with great, really

many thanks for the heads-up on the new Cloud Rat splits, they are phenomenal

anybody besides me on the More Than Sounds mailing list? mainly (only?) a labor-of-love YouTube project that I don't remember signing up for though that doesn't mean I didn't -- their emails always contain totally obscure gems from the past

This a compilation of unknown, but great heavy metal bands in the old style: 80's heavy metal or even hard rock. Some of these bands don't have released albums, but are worth listening to.

More Than Sounds otm, this shit is really cool -- that Albatross tune is Melissa-era KD worship from India, really amazing, and the other stuff doesn't disappoint

https://youtu.be/9rtPV67kriY

I always adored Cloud Rat and glad they are still churning out quality stuff. Looking forward to seeing the band with Thou in June.
I was advocating that Relapse sign that band, I think it's a perfect mix, but I am not sure if either entity is on the other's radar.

Cloud Rat apparently have three more splits coming out this year.

What is the best split

to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the unplayed b-side

BOOOOOOOONANA

Thanks for those Cloud Rat links! That split with Crevasse has what's probably my new fave CR song in 'Fish in a Pool'. And I've also discovered Crevasse, who are from the same neck of the woods as Dead Neanderthals. So thanks again!

testing

oh come on this thread is innocent fun don't poison this one too

wow that Mortalized from upthread

those vocals are crazy.....fantastic riffs too

if Gridlink is anything like this i'm gonna be sad I ignored them for so long

Oh, you've gotta hear Gridlink. They were amazing. Especially the third album.

https://handshakeinc.bandcamp.com/album/longhena

omFG why did I wait so long to hear them, this is fabulous

^Yeah! That was my favourite album of 2014.

I think Pallbearer is finally clicking for me. I don't think this new one is such a big leap from their previous stuff, but I'm finding it more engaging. Maybe I'm just starved for some metal to listen to.

same here, gridlink were ~amazing~