Rolling Metal 2019

My favorite album of 2019 thus far! Okay, it's early...

Yatra
Death Ritual
(Grimoire Records)

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0253581787_10.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/3vmb7gXxJ63L7jhQmU6Raz?si=KHUgAOMdQKaludW_0jC1TA
https://grimoirerecords.bandcamp.com/album/death-ritual

This Baltimore band reminds me if Matt Pike decided evolution was for nerds and kept on with the caveman doom of "The Art of Self Defense." Love the growlish vocals and guitars tuned to subterranean levels.

The band will be in Philly next month among other isolated northeast dates though they will evidently be playing SxSW in March.

ayyyyy

we should be hearing about new Baroness and Moon Tooth soon

The Yatra record is OK, but I wish it was a little faster and the rhythm section swung a little better.

The German power/prog metal band Eternity's End (featuring ex-members of Necrophagist, Obscura, Alkaloid, Symphony X, etc.) have released their second album in Japan and South Korea, with a European release coming later this year. I reviewed it for Burning Ambulance.

The only article I've seen about this so far is on Breitbart, so no link, but the NSBM label Elegy Records (based out of my home state in NJ, shamefully) is closing its doors because they were kicked off Paypal.

late 2018 but i just noticed there's a new revenge single:
https://revengeofficial.bandcamp.com/album/deceiver-diseased-miasmic

sounds like revenge, riyl revenge

Brooklyn Vegan has a roundup of stuff that should be coming out this year

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/13-metal-albums-were-anticipating-in-2019/

just in case you were wondering, Todd Jones from Nails is still determined to kill Metal Sucks for being mean to him

Folks, we are on the right track to taking these cowards down. And I have to say, we wouldn’t have come this far without your enthusiasm. This is not a “Nails” thing, this is not a “Todd Jones” thing. This all of us banding together and saying “no” and ending this shit.

— NAILS (@NAILStyranny) January 6, 2019

another recent hit: threatening to beat up Slaves BC if they come to LA because they questioned his support of a USBM group accused of sexual assault.

He also seems to be part of the conspiracy that it was Magrudergrind instead, as far as I can tell.

oh i saw him mention them but didn't know the context.

Got an NSBM band kicked off Bandcamp today...I was going through "new arrivals" in metal and saw a couple of things by a band called Todesstrafe with extremely fashy cover art. I looked them up on metal-archives and sure enough their Lyrical Themes were "War, Europe, National Socialism." So I dropped Bandcamp support an email that said:

Hi! I just found this band when searching new metal releases:

h__ps://todesstrafe.bandcamp.com/

According to metal-archives.com, their lyrical themes are "War, Europe, National Socialism" and their art definitely has unsubtle fascist overtones. I don't know what Bandcamp's policy is on that kind of thing, but I thought you should know anyway.

Bandcamp just replied:

Thanks for letting us know. That account was indeed found in violation of our Terms of Use and has been removed from the site at this time.

They're on a Russian label called Barbatos Productions which puts out a bunch of other Nazi black metal acts. I'm idly curious how many more Barbatos acts have Bandcamp accounts, but I'm too busy to search right now.

Some old friends of mine put this out (mathy/thrashy/maybe kinda silly), idk sounds pretty sick to me: https://freighter.bandcamp.com/track/psychic-reading-94

Todd Jones is so much fun to troll

the name Todd Jones is so fuckin' metal

I like the newest Soilwork. they've continued to expand their sonic palette since The Ride Majestic, made up significantly for some of the dire shit they did on Figure Number Fire and afterwards.

Speed's screams still irritate me though. That throaty, phlegm drenched yell belongs in the ash-heap. his clean vocals remind me of Human League a little tho.

a few days late to this but new Krallice ep is incredible

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-ep

new Moon Tooth out 03/29

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/crux/1447822902

Listening to ILX Listen: 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCmV5LM_smk xp

fucking sick

ahhh there are HORNS!!

That horn section rules

album of the year

lol

then again I just listened to this six times

Just got a press release that said that a musician who committed suicide "went to Hell by his own hands". Am I being too uptight thinking that was a pretty shitty way to put that?

It may be a positive implication in this context tbh.

Yeah, in metalworld that's a humblebrag.

love the solo piano interlude in the middle of this.

https://moynoq.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-in-a-dead-language

So Erik Rutan is replacing Pat O'Brien for the Cannibal Corpse tour which is definitely trading up.

Fuck yea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7zrHiqoJ6k

I've heard decent things! Still wish we could've seen the Sion Sono vision, though

For those into what Spite Extreme Wing did on Vltra:
https://imhatarikat.bandcamp.com/album/kara-ihlas

Nice loose, grainy punky black metal with straight-up-into-the-sky guitar leads. The pacing of each song reminds me of Mgla sometimes and, well, anything that conjures both them and SEW must be onto something.

I interviewed the lovely and talented Kim Kelly to preview the Black Flags Over Brooklyn Fest she is putting on in Brooklyn this weekend.

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/bfob2019-kim-kelly-interview

Anyone attending the fest? I wanted to but I can't with work.

I don’t go to Brooklyn (because relying on NJ Transit makes it impossible, not for snobbish reasons). Total respect to her for putting this thing on, though.

I was unaware that you made any decisions without at least one or two snobbish reasons.

:P

RIP, Bruce Corbitt of Rigor Mortis.

Some old friends of mine put this out (mathy/thrashy/maybe kinda silly), idk sounds pretty sick to me: https://freighter.bandcamp.com/track/psychic-reading-94

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This is great!

I'm enjoying the Krallice EP and Revenge single posted upthread too.

Some metal favourites from this year so far:

Quercus - Verferum: Funeral doom with massive walls of church organ. Manages to be forbidding, and yet somehow not take itself too seriously. Tracks undergo some lovely and unexpected transformations.
Veiled - In Blinding Presence: Lightly experimental bm that would not be out of place in gross underground club.
Bleach Birth - Caesarean Tapestries: Engaging, effects-laden and riff-heavy crust.
RASHŌMON - Pathogen X: Very solid and nicely grimy hardcore.
Griefloss - S/T: Quite lovely, Alcest-like, clean-vocalled blackgaze.

I wish there was a way to open Bandcamp links in their app. Bleach Birth is sounding good today.

Quercus has an ode to pu-erh tea so respect due

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February 9th is the actual date

Rolling Stone's Hank Shteamer reviewed last weekend's Black Flags Over Brooklyn Fest and much to my surprise quoted from and linked to the interview I did with Kim Kelly to preview the festival. That was a cool surprise, though it's a really solid review from a guy who seemed to really get the Fest and the bands that played it.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/black-flags-over-brooklyn-kim-kelly-anti-fascist-metal-fest-785088/

http://www.musikuniverse.mu/images/nouvelles/glory-hammer-3e-album.jpg

well the astronoid record kicks a lot of ass so far

I'm not feeling the new Astronoid as much as Air - I'm sure I just need a few more listens.

it's gonna suffer a bit simply from the fact that we've now heard what they do ... there's less surprise factor with this one. and i think that first album carried a fair amount of surprise with it, i.e. "whoa, look how this band is putting this and that and this together"

which isn't to say the new one isn't great ... i think it is. but it'll be hard to capture that same feeling again.

I feel like the new one is even more dream-pop and less metal than the last one, but maybe my memories of Air have faded. I do know that I'm having a pretty viscerally negative response to the vocals.

The new Magic Circle album is the first 2018 album I've heard that I'm genuinely excited about. The usual no-frills, Trouble-style doom from the guys, with a little late-'70s greasiness for good measure. This track is a good indication:

http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/departed-souls

The new Ceremony of Silence album Oútis is fantastic - pummeling, dissonant death metal made by two insane Slovenians. Out in April, available for pre-order from Willowtip:

https://ceremonyofsilence.bandcamp.com/album/o-tis

Sorry, two insane Slovakians.

Just found out a Dismember reunion is underway: http://www.truemetal.it/news/intervista-dismember-robert-senneb-ck-105562-p2

I'm very much enjoying the new Astronoid album, though perhaps there is a little less distinction between tracks than last time around. It does remind me a lot of Mew, which is never a bad thing.

Panopticon have released a little northern lights-inspired EP that is managing to satisfy some of my Mesarthim cravings (since they've disappeared for an unprecedented 7 months now!). https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/the-crescendo-of-dusk

New Sunn O))) out in April, apparently. I loved Monoliths & Dimension when it came out but haven't explored their output further. Worthwhile?

that is the best one but...Black One is pretty intense, and there's an early track called My Wall that has a fun Julian Cope narration

Noted.

Kannon is great, as is Oracle (an EP on which they explore their Einstürzende Neubauten side - Joe Preston "plays" jackhammer on it). The live Dømkirke is really good, too. And I like their collaboration with Ulver, Terrestrials, though it's not very Sunn-y.

^^^

Pretty much exactly the ones I would recommend, I was surprised by how much I liked Kannon, a tighter representation of what they can do. Looking forward to the new one.

I am so behind on metal this year. stoked to check out that imha tarikat record from upthread though.

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hard pass

No Grimes?

Hey, some of us had some formative years listening to KMFDM and making out with Goth girls.

Kinda feels that the Sunn O))) doom-panto might have run its course? Still interested to see what they do but not convinced.

Was having a conversation with someone the other day and we came to the conclusion that of all the industrial stuff we listened to in the late 80s/early 90s, KMFDM has aged the worst by far.

xp I see it's produced by Albini. Hmm...

I think Ministry has aged far worse actually. I saw them live a couple years ago and I actually left before they finished which is rare for me and unthinkable considering in the mid '90s they were completely unfuckwithable.

Maybe it's just the few sites I go on but Astronoid seem to be facing some heavy backlash which is fully undeserved imo, I mean most people will happily listen to bands that essentially do the same thing every time (myself included) and this is as prevalent in metal as anywhere else, maybe even more so. But when this band do it it's hard to swallow? Just seems weird to me.

I think Ministry has aged far worse actually. I saw them live a couple years ago and I actually left before they finished which is rare for me and unthinkable considering in the mid '90s they were completely unfuckwithable.

Okay, I am talking about how the band held up with new material. Having seen both bands in their prime and much more recently, I was talking about how that. As far as older material, I still enjoy KMFDM but find the singles to be more to my taste than any full-length albums, but I'm not really sure that I felt differently back in the day.

I never got to see Ministry in their prime, though I did see the 1990 Revolting Cocks tour. I finally caught up with Al 'n' co. in 2005 or so. It was an uninspired show to say the least. He had motorcycle handlebars on his mic stand and I'm convinced they were there to keep him from falling over. Ogre from Skinny Puppy showed up for the obligatory run through "Supernaut."

I saw KMFDM in 1992 and had fun, but the only stuff of theirs I remember at all fondly were the "Godlike" single and the Money album, and both of those sounded much less awesome the last time I heard them (a year or two ago) than they did at the time.

Skinny Puppy, on the other hand, I've come around on quite a bit the last few years. I didn't like them at all in the 80s and 90s, and now I'm convinced they were one of the smartest and most interesting industrial acts.

I saw Skinny Puppy on the Greater Wrong tour and they were absolutely life affirming.

I saw them in 1992 (Last Rights tour, I think) and I was kinda bummed because Godflesh were supposed to open the show but they were refused entry into the country. I remember the show being very creepily theatrical - there was some kind of weird treelike sculpture onstage - but musically Not For Me. I was there with a big fan, though, and she had a blast.

I saw them 80s 90s and 00s and I fkn love them, but have genuinely thought they bettered with age.

uh I saw KMFDM open for Ministry on The Mind Is A Terrible Thing tour and thought they were both great.

but Ministry has become more embarassing in the long run (still listen to their albums up to and including Filth Pig tho)

I also saw them both on that tour and the "Ministry has become more embarassing in the long run" is what I was getting at previously.

Second vote for Skinny Puppe being life affirming every time I saw them.

Stupid, but funny: a right-wing Arkansas state senator is calling for a boycott of a Little Rock club because the band Eyehategod put a picture of him eating a baby on the poster for their show.

I’m sure they’ll lose a lot of business over that.

The pitchfork pan of the Astronoid record is the first review they've published in years to successfully make me Mad Online

I normally hate Ian Cohen’s writing but I thought that review was dead on. There’s just nothing there - not one memorable song. It’s all texture. And sure, that’s rich coming from someone who likes Sunn O))) as much as I do, but still.

Idk the criticisms he has of it (too samey! silly lyrics!) are also true of so many metal albums they've lauded. (And incidentally, also completely true of many great albums!) And don't get me started on the argument about the vocals - "too much himself"? What the fuck does that mean? The dismissive tone reminds me of when they used to blanket-pan emo albums for their sonic qualities, which kinda makes sense cause it feels closer to emo than metal in sensibility.

ooof, Lords of Chaos sounds awful. also the movie Akerlund did for Netflix recently was fucking terrible

https://www.stereogum.com/2031231/lords-of-chaos-jonas-akerlund-review/franchises/sounding-board/

besides the ethical/historical objections....of all the bands you could get to score this, Sigur Ros?!

Lords of Chaos is pretty darn good, actually. Eliminates all mythology and hero worship, focuses on how they were all really, really dumb kids.

If I want to watch a movie about dumbass metalheads who kill somebody, I'll pull out my Blu-Ray of River's Edge.

Lords of Chaos is pretty darn good, actually. Eliminates all mythology and hero worship, focuses on how they were all really, really dumb kids.

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i've heard this a lot but i'm still... suspicious

also this isn't really a story i'm interested in seeing as a film, until the light takes us was about as close as i want to get

this isn't really a story i'm interested in seeing as a film

This is where I'm at with it, too.

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River's Edge is a much more accurate depiction of '80s teen headbangers, of course. I've long stated that as well (I was in a small town scene much like the one depicted in the movie, albeit with less murder). But Åkerlund does a very good job stripping the legend away from black metal. Black metal, from its inception, has been every bit of a pose as any other metal gimmick (i.e. *ALL* metal is a gimmick), and it's nice to see a film portray it that way.

Isn’t stripping away the legend to show it’s all just a bunch of dumb kids the least interesting and most banal approach to tell this story as fiction? I mean it definitely works for River’s Edge fictional story, but what does that approach add to all the documentaries that already firmly established the banality of it all?

Nope, because there's been way too much worship of the Norwegian black metal "myth" already. That needed to be debunked as publicly as Åkerlund does here. And besides, the flick is entertaining.

OMG SJW

http://i65.tinypic.com/n66r0o.jpg

So about that Astronoid… I enjoy Alcest and even derive pleasure from Deafheaven but these 3m0 fuxx0r melodies, coupled with that voice, simply did not arrive at an age where I am still open to such things. I had to turn it off after the second track, irrepressibly – should I persevere?

yes

No. They're a one-trick band - they don't change, so if one song doesn't do it for you, a second isn't gonna do it for you, either.

Got an email from Bandsintown that says Mastodon is playing BB&T Pavilion, the big shed in south Jersey outside of Philly, on 6/8. Looked at the page and it shows four dates around there in the east coast in outdoor arenas with Coheed & Cambria as on the Coney Island show.

https://www.bandsintown.com/a/731-mastodon

Anyone know anything about these dates? Is there some big package I don't know about going out or is Coheed taking Mastodon out and big enough to headline in the sheds?

Every year needs its carnie prog BM:

https://penseesnocturnes.bandcamp.com/album/grand-guignol-orchestra

new Inter Arma track/album

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/inter-arma-announce-new-album-sulphur-english-share-citadel/

Inter Arma give a great live show - really looking forward to this record.

I rarely get their stuff stuck in my head or anything but their stuff has a....for lack of a better word, architectural quality I like

That's actually a kinda great description of Inter Arma, I like it. Haven't had a chance to hear the new track yet, but I'm really glad they have a new album imminent.

Haven't really delved into too much 2019 metal just yet, slow start to the year. I was impressed with John Garcia's new record, at least compared to Brant Bjork's latest (in the battle of workman Kyuss dudes, non Homme division). The vocal melodies are a little too samey on a couple of songs, but it's got the fuzz and groove I want from stoner rock. I'll take it if we aren't getting another Vista Chino record. Bjork's latest tried to incorporate more funk and R&B elements, which really didn't work.

I got a press release answering my own question...

COHEED AND CAMBRIA ANNOUNCE “THE UNHEAVENLY SKYE TOUR” WITH SPECIAL GUEST MASTODON
EVERY TIME I DIE JOIN AS SUPPORT ON ALL DATES
TICKETS ON SALE TO GENERAL PUBLIC STARTING FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 AT LIVENATION.COM

http://scontent.fphl2-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/51899482_10161460905080597_2474477783330324480_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl2-4.fna&oh=8f11750b158dde6db85c5a1e0c07653d&oe=5CF2730B

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 Louisville, KY Iroquois Amphitheater*
Wednesday, May 29, 2019 Columbus, OH Express Live! Outdoor Amphitheatre*
Friday, May 31, 2019 Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola Roxy
Saturday, June 01, 2019 Simpsonville, SC CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park Simpsonville
Sunday, June 02, 2019 Baltimore, MD MECU Pavilion
Tuesday, June 04, 2019 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony Summer Stage
Thursday, June 06, 2019 Boston, MA Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion
Friday, June 07, 2019 New York, NY Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk
Saturday, June 08, 2019 Camden, NJ BB&T Pavilion
Monday, June 10, 2019 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE – Outdoors*
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Detroit, MI Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
Thursday, June 13, 2019 Council Bluffs, IA Harrah's Council Bluffs - Stir Cove*
Friday, June 14, 2019 Chicago, IL Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
Saturday, June 15, 2019 Minneapolis, MN The Armory
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Kansas City, MO Starlight Theatre
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
Thursday, June 20, 2019 Salt Lake City, UT The Great Saltair
Saturday, June 22, 2019 Seattle, WA Marymoor*
Sunday, June 23, 2019 Portland, OR Theater of the Clouds at Moda Center
Tuesday, June 25, 2019 San Francisco, CA The Masonic
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 San Diego, CA Petco Park - Park at the Park
Friday, June 28, 2019 Las Vegas, NV The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
Saturday, June 29, 2019 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
Sunday, June 30, 2019 Phoenix, NV Comerica Theatre
Tuesday, July 02, 2019 Austin, TX ACL Live at The Moody Theater / Austin360 Amphitheater
Wednesday, July 03, 2019 Irving, TX The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory

I wonder if this means we're getting new ETID this year

the first side of Crack the Skye is my ideal stretch of Mastodon

Holy crap, it's the 10th anniversary of Crack The Skye... I saw the tour when they played it in full for the first time (with High On Fire and Converge opening).

I wonder if they'll be doing the same when they play here w/ Baroness

What a record Crack the Skye was. In retrospect that was peak Mastodon. For me, anyway. Subsequent stuff has been nice, but their mind-blowing days seem long behind them.

oh hey a lineup just for me!!!!!

I wonder if they'll be doing the same when they play here w/ Baroness

lmao my dumb brane confused them with Deafheaven for some reason

Both are pfork metal.

does that denote anything other than "well reviewed by pfork"

Nah, just being a dick. I enjoy both.

it would be amusing if Pitchfork announced a metal tour a la Decibel

Pitchforks are metal as fuck.

They're no scythes tho.

If it's good enough for satan, it's good enough for me.

TS: Satan vs. the Grim Reaper.

Anyway, here's Leprous's cover of 'Angel':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VaRCjRpWBE

From the "things you never thought you'd see in the New York Times bucket":

Letter of Recommendation: Ronnie James Dio

oooh I like Leprous and that cover sounds pretty much exactly like I expected (in a good way)

Disappointed that this is not a Shaggy cover.

loving this. can't wait to sit down with the full album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4miK2kxrHM

Good discordant DM, kinda reminds me of The Erosion of Sanity but that might just be the production

http://lightdweller.bandcamp.com/album/incandescent-crucifix

Also really loving this Obduktio album from a year or so ago, really good OSDM-meets-primitive grind vibe, 100% in love with the LG Petrov style vocals

https://obduktio.bandcamp.com/album/holotna

Also, from Finland

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Oh ok my bad

OK let's post this here too. Your other favourite metal is Finnished. All fucking hail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ia-nyd_K8

The new Astronoid album isn't really doing it for me, not enough songs on par with their debut. Dream in Lines is great, though, and the one I'd heard a lot before, which makes me think I should give it another few listens.

Another great thing, though: Downloading and listening to Astronoid in Apple Music made them recommend the new Vanum album, which is kinda generic but really nice. All hail Apple.

I'm loving the new Astronoid though I'm still awaiting my CD coming

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Violet Cold just released a new album:
http://violetcold.bandcamp.com/album/kosmik

My favorite project from Azerbaijan whose Anomie album was one of my favorite releases of 2017. I haven't listened yet but posting in here in part to make sure I do, If you like severely eclectic blackgaze, you might want to give it a listen as well.

Have you recovered yet Brian from Black Label Society making the poll?

Just found out that I live next to Hailz from Neckbeard Deathcamp! Get to know your neighbors! Maybe he'll come over and play my drums!

There's a new Demon Head album, which is exciting.

http://demonhead.bandcamp.com/album/hellfire-ocean-void

Kinda annoying this trend of up-pricing downloads to $12 or $15 when the CD is $12 on Amazon

New Candlemass rules!

It really does. I love the shit out of Epicus Doomicus Metallicus but have consistently been underwhelmed by their subsequent albums for a very simple reason: the absence of Johan.

he sounds a bit different here tho, in a good way. a little more rock 'n rollish

Omg this Funereal Presence album is absolutely incredible! Some kind of flaneur-punk black metal sounding very much like it's from New York (which it is). https://funerealpresence.bandcamp.com/album/achatius

Achatius was a Roman martyr, and there are some marked medieval overtones throughout, so it is indeed strange to hear these archaic themes subjected to the speed metal treatment. Definitely the most original metal album I've heard this year.

A Greek martyr, rather.

Yeah, it's certainly an unusual choice of band name (I've realised just now after reading the Wikipedia entry for Achatius). Also, when I said flaneur-punk, I think I was a bit taken in by the skeleton strolling on the cover and saw it like death taking from the city at leisure. But actually it's more like extreme power walking. Anyway, original is right - what an excellent album.

This sounds AMAZING

On the more derivative end of things, this is some really solid Aussie death-doom:

https://horrisonous.bandcamp.com/album/a-culinary-cacophony

More doom, this time symphonic:

https://osmoseproductions.bandcamp.com/album/high-the-memory

I hear vague echoes of Valentin Silvestrov in their stasis.

I am at The Armed gig and I have never hated any gig so much in my life. They are playing the best song off the last album and I’m just talking to the bouncers about how gross the crowd is. The band is also gross. I hate The Armed and I retract all of my points. From now on I only like forest prog and people who aren’t sick everywhere.

I wouldn't go quite as far as that, but that was a miserable tuneless disappointment and I'm happy to be getting pizza instead

I've never wanted to leave the gig of a band I've liked that much before, but that was not the deconstructive pop-hardcore party I expected - it was a horrible noise blare over a bar fight

The support band was great though! Rough Hands. Check 'em

I had no idea I needed a black metal cover of Gabriel Fauré's Pavane, yet here we are:

https://sarastus.bandcamp.com/album/enter-the-necropolis

I have always been and will always be more of a Wino guy than a Reagers guy, but there's a new self-titled Saint Vitus album coming out in May with Reagers on vocals and it kicks ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCJz8FdsHo0

Wow. Sorry to hear about The Armed show. That was not the experience I had with it. It was lots of hugs, tons of fun and the sound was great to my ears. This was in BK right after Only love came out. The swamp monster kept the crowd pretty much under control. No more crazy than any other hardcore/noise show. I'm sorry it was a bummer. I feel responsible for hyping it up.

Not at all! We would have gone to it anyway and probably I am just not cut out for hardcore shows in general, my previous experience of which probably extended to like seeing Thrice in 2005... I guess I felt cynically about people at the very edge of the crowd being dragged in by band members, but I heard that a guy had an epileptic fit at the end and the band stopped the gig, which is decent.

Jesus. Yeah I can see that, it was like an hour of strobe lights. The one I went to was a pretty standard hardcore crowd but the swamp thing was doing magic tricks in the middle and Cara was taking selfies, passing out champagne and on vocals. Which definitely changed things. I found it refreshing and fun but definitely more of a hardcore show vibe than anything else.

Well then:

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/agalloch-members-condemn-john-haughm-pillorian-bandmates-quit-after-anti-semitic-remark/

Very disappointed.

Who likes mammoths? Who likes weed? Who likes wizards? Who likes bastards?

I'm only in favor of half of those things in isolation, but combine them? Then great.

My thoughts exactly. Last three tracks on this thing are monstrous

I know the bar is extrmely low but it's pretty rare to see a metal guy straight up apologize

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/agallochs-john-haughm-apologizes-for-anti-semitic-remark/

True enough.

Contemporary trad metal isn't usually my jam but the Traveler record is awesome:

https://travelermetal.bandcamp.com/album/traveler

more bands should release "play-throughs" like Moon Tooth just did for their recent single

https://youtu.be/NbuNz3Hghkg

Decibel Tour totally slayed last night - so good to see Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse(with Erik Rutan providing excellent guitar, too) back to back - energetic, face-melting shows from both!

as if summoned by me, there's now another new Moon Tooth song. this one has a full-on alt rock vibe a la...Incubus?

I was wondering what Immortal Bird were up to these days, and apparently they've signed with the mighty 20 Buck Spin for a new album out this year.

🔥TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT🔥 -- We've got dates on the way to/from Northwest Terror Fest and some of 'em are with Gadget and Cloud Rat! We haven't been out west since 2016, and we're stoked to return and debut tunes from LP3, out this year via 20 Buck Spin. More info on that soon! See ya on the road!

5.24 Denver, CO at Syntax*
5.25 CO Springs, CO at Triple Nickel*
5.27 Tempe, AZ at Yucca Tap Room*
5.28 Los Angeles, CA at Catch One
5.29 Sacramento, CA at Blue Lamp
5.30 Oakland, CA at Elbo Room JL*
5.31 Eugene, OR at Old Nick's
6.01 Seattle, WA - Northwest Terror Fest
6.02 Portland, OR at High Water Mark
6.04 SLC, UT at Kilby Court
6.06 STL, MO at Fubar

* w/ Gadget & Cloud Rat

Northwest Terror Fest lineup is pretty badass. I'd like to try to get to that.

https://youtu.be/nCR-OrN41E0

Oranssi Pazuzu were already the best rock band on the fucking planet but they might have gotten better

(with a bit of help from Dark Buddha Rising)

Whitesnake used to count as metal. I wrote about them for Burning Ambulance today.

speaking of things that may or may not count as metal, the Marissa Nadler / Stephen Brodsky collab album sounds pretty dope if this advance track is anything to go by. stoked to hear what they'll do with GnR's "Estranged"

https://youtu.be/zhUSJMp5y8Y

Slide It In was a formative gem for me and I still break it out from time to time.

Getting unsurprisingly strong Chelsea Wolfe vibes. I'm a sucker for this stuff, so I look forward to the rest.

I want Nadler, Wolfe and Anna von Hausswolff to team up as the macabre antimirror of Boygenius

lingua ignota, diamanda galas, her out of couch slut

Ignota doesn't really seem like the collaborative sort, but I'd be into it

literally collaborated with The Body last year!!!

which also reminds me, she's playing london in a few days, might check it out

Hmm, that might be worth a 2h (well, 4h in all) coach ride. I don't really know anything about Author & Punisher or RIOTMILOO, though.

I literally teared up at the Ignota show I went to. She's incredible live.

by a few days i mean nearly a month tbf

would be honoured to hang out w/ pomenitul tho so consider it yes!

Likewise, imago. I'll see what I can do!

I actually saw Author & Punisher open for The Body not too long ago. Was cool. Builds his own "instruments". Pretty interesting to watch him use his gear and figure out whats going on. I dig his homegrown mic a lot.

Yeah the Ignota show I saw last year was quite emotional as well. Played in the middle of the crowd.

I think I'd like to see Author & Punisher live just to watch him play with his machines, but the actual music is pretty basic industrial that anybody could make with a laptop. He's challenging himself to find hard ways to do things that can be - and is - done much more easily.

What about black metal?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47543875

xp yeah that is my exact feeling about A&P pretty much. also "steampunk"

2019 Metal albums I like to varying degrees (in alphabetical order)

Asthma Castle - Mount Crushmore
Astronoid - Astronoid
Bellrope - You Must Relax
Die Klute - Planet Fear
Dunkelnacht - Empires Of Mediocracy
Endon - Boy Meets Girl
Gorgon - Veil of Darkness
Insanity Alert - 666-Pack
Laceration - Remnants
Overkill - The Wings of War
Tyr - Hel
Venom Prison – Samsara
Yatra - Death Ritual
Great Falls / Great Sabatini - Split LP

This doesn't include stuff on the BriPod that I like which is coming out later. That list includes Eugenic Death, Hot Lunch, Noisem, Shabti, Ultra Silvam, Falaise, Magic Circle, Ultar, L' Acéphalem, Sabbath Assembly, BAT and Full of Hell.

I interviewed Venom prison for Invisible Oranges:
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/venom-prison-interview

This one will probably wind up high on my AOY lists. Just a wonderful, angry as shit record.

John Baizley confirmed the title and art for the new Baroness on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu7CzNJFwyv/

New Abbath album coming out this year.

The new Vircolac album is sounding pretty good to me right now:

https://vircolac.bandcamp.com/album/masque

With a name like that, I expected a proper Romanian band. Turns out it's more cultural appropriation by the Irish, as though Bram Stoker weren't enough.

(Just kidding, of course. I'll listen to a band called Vîrcolac no matter where they're from.)

sounding cool!

'so i hang from a wretched tree' exists magnificently at the nexus of black, death and punk

The new album was recorded after my friend JG left the band and I haven't got around to hearing if they've changed much since. They were a deadly live band before, though.

new Oozing Wound out today if you needed some thrashy misanthropic garbage to match the news

fuckin A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOnl1OMXTjo

that is v cool

Here's a couple of Twitter-length reviews of albums that came out this week that I like...

.@EugenicDeath
Under The Knife
(@HandHRec)

Unexpected Krishna-core, powerfully guttural vocals, and an abundance of circle pit-inducing riffs & double bass that merge Violence and "How Will I Laugh" ST separates these Tarheel thrashers from other revivalists. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/5W7hFNjOiy

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 16, 2019

Stream "Under The Knife" by @EugenicDeath via @Bandcamp https://t.co/NfsK1LegM6

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 16, 2019

.@HotLunch_SF
Under The Knife
(@teepeerecords)

Not sure about the scatological moniker (Google it at your own peril) but when you crank like a Motor City V8 with a touch of psychedelia befitting a San Francisco zip code, you can call yourself anything you want. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/yUhxPyRA4n

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 17, 2019

Stream "Under the Knife" by @HotLunch_SF via @Spotifyhttps://t.co/F7ZBdDxsfN

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 17, 2019

Drastus make a mean De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas impression, and more besides:

https://drastus.bandcamp.com/album/la-croix-de-sang

holy fuck new Drastus???

Beastmaker put out another four-track EP last month:

https://beastmaker.bandcamp.com/album/eye-of-the-storm

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1420143793_16.jpg

New logo, too!

Seems like Beastmaker is back to being a full band. The 10 EPs were Trevor Church doing everything, but all three members are credited on the new one.

Man I have to catch up on all of that Beastmaker stuff. I liked the first two albums but I missed the EPs until there were so many I felt way behind.

Surprised by how much I like the Devil Master album. They'd had such corny promo photos that I didn't really think I'd like it, but that breakneck punk death metal really scratches an itch for me. I haven't been really wowed by much new metal yet this year, even the new Overkill, while fine, felt like a step backwards.

Phil Anselmo was supposed to play two shows in New Zealand next week; in the wake of the Christchurch shootings, both have been cancelled by the venues, because of the video of him shouting "White power!" and throwing a Nazi salute onstage in 2016. Whoops!

Huh funny how that works out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh_8HBvkkr8

also new dreadnought album out may 10. last album was excellent and new song kicks ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHm1zQkdhEs

ok I'm ready for the Moon Tooth slbum now

I keep getting Moon Tooth confused with Moon Hooch and wondering why they're mentioned in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLU3Rp1fZo

(Moon Hooch are amazing)
(I don't know Moon Tooth)

Their first album placed on that year's metal poll. It's excellent.

Yeah - really looking forward to Moon Toon - that last record was awesome, and they're great live.

Moon Tooth - oops

They really are, and I'm sad they're not doing a headline gig here. Their tour with Astronoid was a peak ILXmetal experience

The new Brutus album comes out 3/29. I'm listening to it now, and it's fantastic. They're only kinda metal-adjacent, but they fucking rule.

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

oh wow, do unperson and I agree on something? :)

I love both advance tracks, very much looking forward to the album. sounds like a bold step up from the debut, which I already liked.

The forthcoming Inter Arma record is really great based on my first play through the entire thing.
Lots of interesting ideas the second half of the album, especially.

The new Amon Amarth video is...something I'd expect from a band on Napalm or AFM. There was a time I'd pre-order an Amon Amarth album the day it was announced. Not this time. I can't even remember the last time I listened to their previous album. Twilight of the Thunder God and Surtur Rising are the last ones I have real fondness for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H24S0nym-pE

oh shit brutus kicks ass! i'm glad they have another record coming out already

New Darkthrone in May:

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/darkthrone-to-release-old-star-album-in-may/

New Darkthrone, new Dreadnought, new Dead to a Dying World. Lots to look forward to, particularly in the 'D' section of my metal shelf.

i was feeling like a new darkthrone was coming!!!

the advance track of that DtaDW album is immense

Quench your thirst for old school Finnish death/doom with Asphodelus's Stygian Dreams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbnCe5q6KEc

The new Mike Browning & friends d/b/a Nocturnus AD is pretty much everything I could've wanted from a follow-up to The Key (though I do love both Thresholds and Ethereal Tomb):
https://youtu.be/4CT09g-aCbw

And the demo version of the other song, released a year ago. Recommended especially for the baffling video:
https://youtu.be/1k07H4_OAzE

awesome. I loved the new one they did live, and their live show is fantastic, hearing all the old The Key classics played flawlessly. half the time I've seen them play for $7 or less too.

Jon Chang and Rob Marton of Discordance Axis have a new band called No One Knows What The Dead Think; they'll be releasing an album later this year. It sounds about how you think it will.

I reviewed The Dirt for Stereogum.

I have heard the new Sunn O))) album. It's very good, mostly due to Hildur Guðnadóttir, who plays cello (acoustic and electric) and halldorophone, and adds vocals to the first track. It's gonna sound really, really good through big-ass speakers.

ooooh

very happy with the Brutus and Moon Tooth albums, both out today.

thank you devilock for mentioning the new nocturnus ad record, i cannot wait

Brutus rips

Ah just came here to write that. Thanks for the heads up on the Brutus release. Loving it so far. The Moon Tooth isn't doing much for me yet but I only got about 2 tracks in.

Manowar are putting out three EPs this year, which will ultimately be compiled into their next full-length. The first one is out now. Four songs, one of which is a bombastic orchestral intro. The tracks have the words "Blood," "Steel," "Sword," and "Die" in the titles, but I don't see the word "Fire" anywhere. They're slipping.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D27AL1DX4AEriQj.jpg

I’ve got the chance to see them here, I’m somewhat tempted.

If you go, buy me a T-shirt (size L) and I'll Paypal you the costs + shipping.

(Re: Lingua Ignota in London. I won't be able to make it, alas. Ever more work beckons until May.) :(

That's all fine - I don't know if we can even go. If we do there will be a report

Keep us posted!

An understandable initiative: http://good.metal-archives.com/

Haha, Metal Archives and their April Fools Day pranks!

Some things I recently did #TwitterLPReviews for (and a capsule review for Invisible Oranges)

.@wearebrutus - Nest (@sargenthouse)

It lacks the immediacy of the Belgian trio's 2017 debut 'Burst,' but makes up for it by incorporating a ton of raw ideas into the album. This spirals the band's post-rock into a dozen directions yet they never lose the plot. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/JWGXg6FzXD

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 30, 2019

Magic Circle - Departed Souls (@20buckspinlabel)

Most bands that ape Sabbath lose sight that they were more than doom. Magic Circle taps into the other, often overlooked facets of the Brummie originators with an organic Foghat plod. Oh yeah, they got songs too. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/9zE1T36YR6

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 30, 2019

I say that @exumerofficial's 'Hostile Defiance' (out 4/5 on @MetalBlade) is "a frenetic, furious assault that transcends the nostalgia tag by kicking so much ass it doesn’t matter what decade it came out" at @invisoranges.https://t.co/7XDMpmw6Ww pic.twitter.com/F2UYTIJVpn

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 1, 2019

Falaise - A Place I Don’t Belong To
(A Sad Sadness Song)

Italian duo makes the most lush and beautiful blackgaze. Lilting pianos and clean guitars make the metallic elements seem heavier but even that's more about ornate atmosphere. Deafheaven fans take note. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/egpIl9ij2v

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 1, 2019

Syntheosis is streaming: https://www.loudersound.com//features/oranssi-pazuzu-and-dark-buddha-rising-join-forces-for-an-exhilarating-cosmic-rite

I'm in an airport but you lot can dive in

nice!!

guys

guys

This is everything I wanted the Entropia album to be.

yes but you also don't need the last 7 words

Even Angry Metal Guy likes it.

Hey that Entropia album is fuckin' great. This is also awesome

what is Chris Black up to?

is he on Twitter? anyone know?

apparently High Spirits, Savage Master and Demon Eye are touring together in May. that rules.

Waste of Space Orchestra are fine but sound like a lesser Oranssi Pazuzu to me, shrug emoji

Does anybody want to take over PopMatters' metal column? The dude who's been writing it for a while is stomping off in a snit because people got pissed at him for telling them they were devoting too much time to rooting Nazis out of metal.

I've decided to can MetalMatters. It has become apparent to me over the last couple of days that it is a waste of timing running a feature that exists to promote cool music. Simple reason: all folks want to do is bicker about politics on here, suppress any opinion that doesn't...

— Dean James Brown (@reus85) April 3, 2019

wanna share it, anyone? i'm serious. i'd love to pitch 'em on a team of people taking it over.

it looks like others were writing it with him ... wonder what their status is.

after he posted that, the eic at popmatters tweeted "actually, we're keeping the column" ... but it looks like she might've deleted that?

I'd do it if anybody gaf about what i thought

nobody gaf what anybody thinks

if you wait for that, you never start writing

would be up for a team effort, if i can be forgiven for flying off the handle the other week

tt listens to far more metal than me and would probably be even better of a team member if she can be persuaded

Waste of Space Orchestra are fine but sound like a lesser Oranssi Pazuzu to me, shrug emoji

― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:55 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like...there's no Vasemman Kaden Hierarkia there but I think it's a much more consistent and dynamically-structured album than anything they've put out on their own. it's stunning imo

Hmmm yeah I was a bit more dismissive than I ought to have been, though I stand by my point, I just don't like it as much as I'd like to. The last track alone is undeniably spectacular.

wanna share it, anyone? i'm serious. i'd love to pitch 'em on a team of people taking it over.

I’d be really happy to assist with this if you decide to approach them! I’ve been idly wondering about starting a metal and prog...blog for a while now, but writing with a team would definitely be more fun! I know I’m kind of a low key poster, but my thoughts on metal do usually amount to more than ‘the new Astronoid album is so cute’.

you are prone to saying things like "a prog masterpiece" unless LJ is hijacking your accounts

I just happen to think many things are prog masterpieces

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

Hearing this band for the first time today and they're pretty good - a combination of Mastodon, Elder, and Dawnbringer, sorta?

well you just got my attention

Ugh.

http://scontent.fewr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/56894434_10161670508450597_5756870457278070784_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-1.fna&oh=f3b9d1db920bb8486c55aba0d22752c0&oe=5D4B354D

Of the BM I've heard this year, I keep coming back to the Drastus and this one, by Gjendød:

https://hellthrasherproductions.bandcamp.com/album/krigsd-ger

I interviewed Set Sothis Nox La from L’Acéphale for Invisible Oranges.
The new album is wonderful and streaming in full there.
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/lacephale-interview-premiere

This comment was left on the L’Acéphale interview.

http://scontent.fphl2-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/56623221_10161672964195597_1584295246584348672_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl2-3.fna&oh=93bc5ef988adaffdaacbc0b6b71620ec&oe=5D31E2F0

I am not sure who should be offended more, me or the rest of ILX.
I think I'll just go with neither.

How prestigious of smellypenises to have heard of ILX in the first place.

"inoffensive"

New Alcest before the year is out and they just signed with Nuclear Blast.

I didn't know Kevin from Gorguts and Toby Driver were in a goth band, Vaura.

And there's a new Lucifyre EP coming out on Dark Descent.

This one by Judiciary has been out since January, but it's great:

https://judiciarytx.bandcamp.com/album/surface-noise

Vaura's last album, The Missing, was fantastic. I've been waiting for news of a new album.

I'm generally not very receptive to thrash but holy shit, Inculter fucking rips:

https://edgedcircleproductions.bandcamp.com/album/fatal-visions

Ifernach is an indigenous one-man BM project from the Gaspésie, in Northeastern Quebec, and his music draws upon Mi'kmaq legends. Pretty fucking cool on all fronts:

https://ifernach.bandcamp.com/album/v-wastow

Mi'kmaq atmoblack, bit of prog and drone

Ifernach with V. Wastow

Lol, finally got it. Ffs

Ligua Ignota has been performing what sounds like an awesome cover live. If you want it spoiled, visit Kim Kelly's twitter.

ffs I forgot to go to that gig

finally got a copy of the new frozen crown. I think only me & Glenn care about power metal but fuck they are so awesome.

Yespowermetalyesfrozencrownyes.

Oh man the new Farida Lemouchi band Molasses has a CD-Single (!) out. 15 minutes, two songs, Devil's Blood meets BOC and maybe Krautrock vibes.

RIP Michiel Eikenaar, 42, vocalist for Dutch bands Dodecahedron and Nihill.

RIP. I was particularly fond of Dodecahedron.

Seems like he left the band after the release of Kwintessens.

He's had health problems for a while.

That's really sad, he was no age. And I liked Dodecahedron

I still don't get Neurosis, mostly because all of the shouting, but I'm grateful for their strand of metal. Case in point: the new Inter Arma album, which is more symphonic than 99% of the bands that slap this label on their name.

I did not think I needed to see Amon Amarth live again, but they've just announced a North American tour with Arch Enemy, At The Gates, and Grand Magus (who I've wanted to see live forever) as support, so I guess I'm going.

Dates:

September 26 – Seattle, WA - Showbox SODO
September 27 – Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
September, 28 – Vancouver, BC - PNE Forum
September 30 – Edmonton, AB - Edmonton Convention Centre
October 1 – Calgary, AB - Grey Eagle
October 3 – Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex
October 4 – Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium
October 6 – Minneapolis, MN - Skyway Theater
October 7 – Chicago, IL - The Riviera Theater
October 9 – Toronto, ON - Rebel
October 10 – Montreal, QC - M Telus
October 12 – New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
October 13 – Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore
October 15 – Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
October 16 – Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
October 18 – New Orleans, LA - The Fillmore
October 19 – Houston, TX - House Of Blues
October 20 – San Antonio, TX - The Aztec Theatre
October 22 – Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren
October 23 – Las Vegas, NV - House Of Blues
October 25 – San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
October 26 – Los Angeles, CA - The Palladium

Back on the topic of power metal, I'm enjoying Ghost Ship Octavius, a new band with people from Nevermore and God Forbid. On the less-theatrical end of the power-metal spectrum, despite what you might assume from the fantabulous name...

https://open.spotify.com/album/247qFzCbpgNyQ4NPEH4bbr?si=okkPT-q1SNWZvf5uckCiCQ

Crossposting from the Game Of Thrones thread, I put this mix together:

https://www.mixcloud.com/metalmaester/game-ov-thr0nes-the-metal-mixtape/

Follow the download link in the description to get all the tracks in better quality.

Ungfell's latest music video, featuring documentary footage of SATYRS and WITCHES in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKA7KCIvwGs

ungfell is so fuckin good

Pagan Altar is reissuing their first two albums on vinyl, CD and cassette and also undertaking a small tour which includes the first time ever in New York.

http://scontent.fewr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/57251231_10161702092145597_7671624911432974336_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-1.fna&oh=e9724bb3ef397b7c6d4bb0f40651debd&oe=5D3F265A

New Possessed!

https://youtu.be/Ixk00N1W78c

Dead to a Dying World - Elegy
(@profound_lore)

A myriad of voices, sounds, textures, and ideas come at you. 'Elegy' eloquently dispatches convention with conviction and makes what could possibly be my favorite album of the year. It's the shape of doom to come. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/zfQ6SbssOc

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 19, 2019

http://deadtoadyingworld.bandcamp.com/album/elegy-3
http://open.spotify.com/album/3sirhUOFCfP2qp2wlIQ4lB?si=ouP2OqLWQbedJi17161Kwg

have we done this yet

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnzm7/this-youtube-channel-streams-ai-generated-black-metal-247

headline is an error (vs the story), it's death metal mostly, though there are moments at first when it sounds black

They characterize their work with Dadabots as working towards “eliminating humans from black metal.”

True misanthropy

The Dead to a Dying World is alright, but it feels a tad… emotionally manipulative? I don't think it holds a candle to the Inter Arma.

oooh I love emotional manipulation

So do I, when it's seamless. Anyhow, I liked it better the second time around but I stand by my initial comment.

I like the Leonard Cohen-esque vocals on the first track

I love Lenny Cohen but that intro just screams faux world weariness to me. I'm probably not very receptive to the Southernness of it tbf.

That Judiciary album sounds great. Reminds me a bit of Power Trip.

rigging up the brad signal for this very Katatonia-esque record

https://sermonsound.bandcamp.com/

xp - That album sounds like my favorite late-period-Slayer song expanded to half an hour. Fantastic stuff.

Digging this Canadian epic doom

http://smoulder.bandcamp.com/album/times-of-obscene-evil-and-wild-daring

That Smoulder album is one of my 2019 favourites so far. Very strong swords & sorcery metal in the vein of Atlantean Kodex.

Worshipper album sounds very promising from the one preview track.

Enjoyed Smoulder as well.

Worshipper is very good - a big step up from their last album, which I didn't love.

Anxious to hear that Worshipper one. I really, really liked the new Magic Circle record. Yes, very Sabbath derivative, but derivative of the Vol. 4 era in the best possible way - meaning not just the riffs, but the sense of widening the lens a little.

Holy shit, a postmillennial Darkthrone track I actually enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6h4b-Jm8iU

that fucking rocks

FUCK YEAH

Yeah, this fucking rules. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I look forward to the new LP now.

HI ALL OF YOU! As you may know we have a new album coming out (I am not on social media at all anymore so I don't know what you've seen or heard so far) and Ted said that this time our fans will hear a new song first. So guys here it is - our new track, “The Hardship Of The Scots” and since Ted and me always write our own songs, one song could not fully represent Old Star, but let’s start with this one. Normally the journalists and other scenesters get to check out new albums 2-3-4 months before fans get to hear it, but not this time .. you are first!
FENRIZ

love fenriz so much

This is so good!

This Dark Heresey reissue on Svart is pretty cool

https://darkheresy.bandcamp.com/album/abstract-principles-taken-to-their-logical-extremes

If you're looking for weird riffs in the Argh*slent vein but with no abhorrent political baggage (that I'm aware of) and much more imagination, check it out. I hear a Sabbat UK influence and there's some jazzy acoustic bits.

Can someone Cliff Notes what's going on with MGLA?

Two gigs with Deus Mortem got cancelled in Munich and Berlin due to alleged antisemitism. Members of the latter were apparently in a Nazi band called Infernal War. Mgła claims it's all just a smear campaign and will take legal action against any and all instances of 'defamation'.

Here's an article about Infernal War, published last year after one of their shows got cancelled in the UK:

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/infernal-war-metal-band-nazi-atrocities-antisemitism-hope-not-hate-1.464498

So wait... Nobody in MGLA is sketchy? They were just playing with a band whose members *other* band was sketchy? Do I have that correct?

As far as I can tell, yes.

Huh, because I definitely saw some vague comments on twitter about MGLA being "cancelled". Glad to have more context though.

dont read the comments on mgla's facebook post

Tbf M. put out a cassette titled Judenfrei under his power electronics moniker, Leichenhalle, back in 2000, so make of that what you will.

https://i.redd.it/rtoynz4v32v21.png

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but uhhhhhhhhhh "brown mud" seems a weird inclusion.

yeahhh that's a little odd huh

Tbf M. put out a cassette titled Judenfrei under his power electronics moniker, Leichenhalle, back in 2000, so make of that what you will.

also a release called "Bloodsoil"

You're not the only one who did a double-take at 'brown mud'. And that's besides the defensive verbosity alone -- which, by the way, includes no disavowals or denials of what they've been accused of, only vague threats of legal action. (Like, GTF over yourselves, band that's been caught out platforming Nazis.)

Exactly, there certainly wasn't any heartfelt (or even feigned heartfelt) disavowal of anything in there. The "brown mud" thing struck me because it was so pointless, just "mud" would do guys.

I'm not exactly shocked (that would be dumb, at this point) but as someone who really liked the Mgla releases this is pretty shitty to learn

Not to mention Kriegsmaschine, so yeah, this blows. I think it's safe to assume that at least 50% of BM bands are affected by the rot in some way, whether its symptoms are visible or not.

Mgla always bored the shit out of me so I'm fine with this development

^high five!

<i>I think it's safe to assume that at least 50% of BM bands are affected by the rot in some way, whether its symptoms are visible or not.<i/>

The rot, for me, is in the feigned 'we're apolitical!' BS. Too often to me that's a couch for 'we've chosen a side: we prefer being edgy to, like, taking any kind of stand against right-wing populism'.

Bleh messed up the tags there.

we regret to inform you that these guys making some of the most violent and hateful misanthropic music on earth are not as woke as we hoped

there's a pretty huge gap btwn "not being woke" and generalized misanthrophy vs the stuff cited in the MetalSucks post

More like I prefer it when it's just a depiction of violence and hateful misanthropy rather than a tacit vehicle for far-right propaganda. Thankfully, art is always more (and less) than what its catalyst/creator intends it to be, so I have no qualms about listening to this stuff (I won't pay for it, though). Nor do I have any qualms about saying that M. is an edgy shithead and that there are other ways of meaningfully engaging with anti-theism and the holocaust.

If you're as tired of all this "which black metal band is racist this week, and how racist are we talking here, really?" bullshit as I am, here's something different.

Tanith are a NYC-based band who combine 70s hard rock/metal crunch (think BÖC, Heart) with excellent, folky male/female vocal harmonies. Their debut album, In Another Time, comes out 5/24 on Metal Blade. Here's the first song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPY_Jw-O5k0

70s hard rock/metal crunch (think BÖC, Heart) with excellent, folky male/female vocal harmonies

sold!

Whoa, thanks for the Tanith recommendation, Phil! It's so much better than the black metal bs that's distracting the hive mind these days.

Not bad, although I still struggle with this neo-trad stuff due to its relative lack of aura. I like their touchstones but the original records' documentary value is at least half the fun for me.

Going back to the Polish fash/black metal bs for a second, the Deus Mortem album is actually quite good and the lyrics don't contain any objectionable material as far as I can tell.

new Misþyrming announced for 05/24

https://misthyrming.bandcamp.com/album/algleymi

oh and there's a new DSO album out the same day

https://deathspellomega.bandcamp.com/album/the-furnaces-of-palingenesia
https://youtu.be/E-sNygFHM9M

Ok so... Palingenesis is a general philosophical term but also has a meaning specific to fascism, if it was another band perhaps there would be more cause for doubt but given what we know about their vocalist I'm not sure I can look past it personally.

It sucks because I've been a fan of theirs for years, all to do with the riffs and drumming and not the pseudo-intellectual gurgling of the frontman but I'm just so sick of this shit.

So I guess I needed a reminder that not every black metal let is a fash weenie

https://spectrallore.bandcamp.com/album/no-excuses-for-fascist-sympathy-book-of-sand-cover

And in case anyone has another speech about separating art from artist or how bm is supposed to be evil please tell it to your goldfish or something instead of me thanks

I had no idea about its fascist meaning – hardly surprising, alas. I'll listen to it when it comes out but there's no question that this lingering bullshit detracts from my enjoyment of the music.

xp

And yeah sorry I get a bit aggressive and go on about this stuff, but it gets me down. I don't judge anyone who still wants to listen to this stuff fwiw, there might even be something defiant about listening to music by people who would gladly see me dead lol

knowing nothing about them / their vocalist, given the direction of the imagery in that video, I would have assumed the opposite ideological bent tbh

someone smarter than me will need to divine the possible significance of the title / lyrics

From the Wikipedia page on palingenesis:

British political theorist Roger Griffin has coined the term palingenetic ultranationalism as a core tenet of fascism, stressing the notion of fascism as an ideology of rebirth of a state or empire in the image of that which came before it – its ancestral political underpinnings. Examples of this are Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany...

DSO's lyrics have always had a spiritual bent and there's been no problem there at least before now (don't know about the new one though). And as I say there'd be reasonable doubt in many cases, but Aspa is an out and proud neo-Nazi.

Should we have a separate thread for black metal bullshit?

I'm not opposed to airing it out here tbh

I'd vote yes for a separate BM Assholes thread or something - the metal thread for me is coolest when it's about good music. I can get "this obvious black metal nazi dude has turned out to be a nazi" from every other metal source I follow.

I wouldn't have even known about it if I hadn't posted the track here so it gets dicey. if another thread does get srted maybe we can just link to it whenever someone accidentally nazi-posts

I was literally relistening to Vigilance Perennial today and wondering when we could expect new Falls of Rauros, when lo and behold...

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2019/05/02/track-premiere-falls-of-rauros-new-inertia/

Regarding DSO, I don't think Mikko writes the lyrics and I'm not sure he's an out and proud neo-Nazi. Honestly, with metal and noise, I assume the worst of everyone unless they're explicitly not terrible (ie Masami Akita). He runs the forum at Special-Interests and is quite active. You could probably ask him outright if only to settle your feelings about DSO. I know Mgla is going through it now based on their Northern Heritage association.

Look I'm happy to leave the subject alone now but this article seems pretty damning, along with stuff I've read in the past there's really not much room for interpretation

https://varisverkosto.com/2019/03/the-influencers-of-the-finnish-ns-music-scene-part-3-mikko-aspa-of-northern-heritage-clandestine-blaze-vapaudenristi-sarvilevyt/

Excited for new Falls of Rauros though! (They're probably OK. Probably).

new False album on Gilead is very good indeed - never really listened before, think the heavyhanded irony of the name put me off - is assuredly in the antifascist camp and Revolver are streaming one of its three lengthy songs it seems https://www.revolvermag.com/music/hear-black-metal-crew-falses-vicious-new-song-victual-our-dead-selves

There's a new HammerFall song, and...well:

JOACIM CANS describes the creation of “(We Make) Sweden Rock,” “This is a glorious tribute to the Swedish hard rock and metal movement with a lyrical theme using direct references to both other bands and songs. With catchy contagious riffs and enchanting (ear-worm) melodies this song will be an instant classic at future HammerFall shows. Without the Swedish rock and metal scene with bands like Heavy Load, At the Gates and Yngwie Malmsteen the world would be a pretty boring and dull place! This is our noble tribute to all the bands that inspired not only us to play metal, form bands and eventually crusading around the world in the name of Heavy Metal. All hail the sons of the northern light!“

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwNo-pWxDAY

Going to withhold full judgment until I can hear the full album, but uh... the Belzebubs track I heard ("Blackened Call") is actually pretty good. I was surprised. The whole album is getting rave reviews from some unexpected quarters.

Last thing I'll say about the fash: I've repeatedly advocated for distinguishing between the music and its maker(s) but that doesn't mean the music is in any way 'pure' or devoid of ideology – I just think it's always more (and less) than the sum total of its catalysts'/creators' political intentions, whether good or ill. So I'm perfectly alright with bringing up the matter here whenever it rears its ugly head, especially if Mikko fucking Aspa is involved. That article ultros posted about the Finnish scene sums it up quite well.

I've liked several tracks from that Belzebubs album.

Thanks for the link, Ultros. MA's politics are undeniable and the NS bent is explicit in Clandestine Blaze. I never sensed it in DSO which has been enough for me to enjoy the incredible music. But then again, some of my favorite metal is Graveland and Grand Belial's Key which I would never say is okay. It might be time to just be done with it all.

There's a new Martyrdöd album coming out this month (May 10 on Century Media worldwide, May 24 on Southern Lord in the US). Here's a lyric video for "Pharmacepticon." Praktik ditt svenska!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzrdzc1CmlI

new Wildhearts album is terrific

Guys if u like Priest hit the 2019 Firepowe tour if ya can.

We got "Starbreaker" tonight

And ALL GUNS BLAZING

ahhhh there's finally a new Immortal Bird album! First track is a ripper.

https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/thrive-on-neglect

The Martyrdöd caught my attention. Thanks to the very ancient-Bob Mould guitar tone and some unorthodox and unexpected pop in some of the record, it sounds like Land Speed-era Husker Du gone crusty D-Beat and it's quite intriguing!

i keep seeing that name but not checking it out because i just can't help but think "Marty Dude"

Marty Dude died a Martyr's Death.

New Tomb Mold single out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7FYTCsvzOg

Fuck yeah!

oh nice

yesssss

new Cult of Luna - I'd have loved more material w/ Julie Christmas but this sounds mighty fine regardless

https://youtu.be/XoFJA24GhfA

Man, that Tomb Mold track is great. 20 Buck Spin is on one hell of a roll.

Speaking of 20 Buck Spin, I'm digging this sampler track from the upcoming Fetid album, seems like an apt title for this sort of queasy sludgy death metal:

https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/steeping-corporeal-mess

really digging this Herxheim demo (physical release on NWN soon), wondering how long it'll be until they're outed as white supremacists

An odd title, that. Sold.

It's pretty good and yeah bizarre title, sounds like something Demilich would use as a song title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH3cwxxjfB8

not sure how well this'll go over but i had never heard of this band before and this song is pretty sick. def on the metalcore/nu-metal revival side of hardcore but a really excellent version of that

Saw them a few years ago with no idea what to expect and loved them.

Zig Zags @randysezz
They'll Never Take Us Alive
(@EasyRiderRecord)

Parallel universe. Cliff Burton (alive) is dissatisfied with band's direction. Fires therapist, throws this LP on table, says "we need to return to this." Metallica then makes best album ever. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/FLcl3alTnS

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) May 10, 2019

Gonna have to check that out, loved their first album but wasn't super-fond of the second

had never heard Zig Zags before but this is rad.

yeah, ditto on first listen
also any band that has a track called Ms 45 is cool by me

sounds good, also watch Ms .45

I'm trying to decide whether to pay $42 to go see this:

Fauna (11:45 pm)
Yellow Eyes (10:35 pm)
Vanum (9:30 pm)
Sanguine Eagle (8:30 pm)
Zoloa (7:35 pm)
Endorphins Lost (6:40 pm)
Caustic Wound (5:55 pm)
Lunar Temple (4:55 pm)
Iron Scepter (4:00 pm)
Doors (3:30 pm)

I love Vanum. I like Yellow Eyes. Don't know anyone else.

Any great stuff here that'll edge me closer to "yup, this is worth it"?

Once again, one of the best metal show line-ups of the year in the Chicago area is taking place at a brewery special release even (Dark Lord Day @ Three Floyd's). No longer worth the $200 and standing in line all day for me, but the only twitch of FOMO I got was looking at the band line-up:

HIGH ON FIRE 8pm

POWER TRIP 6:45pm

NUCLEAR ASSAULT 5:30pm

SACRED REICH 4:15pm

THE ATLAS MOTH 3:15pm

MINSK 2:15pm

RIVER BLACK 1:15pm

even = event

xxp - Caustic Wound is great! OSDM with grindy vocals. I'm a sucker for vocalists that can switch quickly between cookie monster and pig squeal. One of the guitarists is in Fetid who seem to be blowing up so which could mean less Caustic Wound activity.

oh shit Herxheim is Howls of Ebb related. started to suspect it because of the vocals and some of the riff construction is similar... and song titles like "with glib fork i dialect" lol

I was sure that had to be an anagram but the best I could find was "balk codifier twilight"

makes sense to me

Slipknot are Ghost fans, it seems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpATBBRajP8

New album We Are Not Your Kind in August. "All Out Life" was a standalone single, apparently.

According to an announcement on FB, Chaos Echoes have called it quits. They were supposed to be releasing something this year - I've reached out to the label to see where that stands.

I really...really...really like the new Possessed!

It's not perfect - by now, so many new bands are emulating the 80s death metal sound that it doesn't sound ahead of the curve. And yea, lots of songs at the same tempo.

But it's pretty inspired overall.

The new Phobia album - out in August from Willowtip - is called Generation Coward, and has songs called "Internet Tough Guy" and "PC Fascist Fuck Off," the latter of which opens with a sample of the "dicks, pussies and assholes" speech from Team America. This is the cover art:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1264083175_10.jpg

Since their last album had a caricature of Donald Trump being dismembered on the cover, it seems like someone must have said something mean to them on Facebook between 2017 and now.

New Lingua Ignota album coming out in July. Here's the single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH10IyS2FOc

So fucking hyped.

yessss

Hyped because the extra letter of psyched is just too much work.

On a completely different note, I'm surprised no one's commenting the latest Rammstein.

I'm a fan, but I haven't listened to it all the way through yet. Maybe I will today. Their 2010 show at Madison Square Garden was one of the greatest things I've ever seen in my life. They should do a Vegas residency.

Since I brought up Lingua Ignota itt, Uboa's The Origin of My Depression also goes a long way towards scratching that twisted itch for me at the moment:

https://uboa.bandcamp.com/album/the-origin-of-my-depression

RYM files it under 'death industrial' aka 'dark noise' – I was not aware either of these appellations had any currency.

Oh right, that's the Clockwork Orange intro music in the Lingua Ignota track.

I absolutely love the new Rammstein. Really tight, some good variety, and great vocal performances by Till.

I give you… Troll: trad/stoner doom from Portland, OR that flirts with prog structures and doesn't skimp on the vocals, for once:

https://shadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/legend-master

Another Troll? There are like four of em, not even counting the Swedish disco act.

The glut is such now that it's almost impossible to come up with an original metal band name, so it might as well be blindingly obvious. Although the other day a friend and I were talking about how 'Traumatic Insemination' is still up for grabs.

I used to write a fanzine with another bloke and he used to give any old death metal shit a good review. Two mates and I went as far as recording a tape of us hitting biscuit tins and shrieking and burping and sent it in for review. We were called Impaled Rats Cunt (no apostrophe); as far as I'm aware, the name is still available.

A subtle reference to Impaled Northern Moonforest?

This was '94, man. Way before those pretenders had even heard of a blast beat.

Subrosa calling it a day

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2202260859819897&id=107632335949437

To all of our beautiful, supportive fans and friends, After a magical 13-year run, SubRosa is calling it quits (for now). Rebecca decided she wanted to focus on her solo project, The Keening, and Kim, Sarah, Levi and Andy have all been able to focus their creative energies on other musical ventures. We would never have experienced our dreams as reality without you, and we cannot thank you enough.

Can't say I much care at this point but a new Opeth is reportedly on the way.

Subrosa were a great band and they're going out with an unblemished discography. Nothing wrong with that.

I'm intrigued by the new Opeth, not just because I'm a fan, but because the album will be released in two versions - one in English and one in Swedish, and the track titles aren't exact translations from one language to the other. Sometimes they're close, but other times they're pretty different, as you'll see below.

Unless there's a 2CD bundled version, which I'm sure there will be, I'll definitely be buying both.

In Cauda Venenum Tracklisting:

1. Livet’s Trädgård / Garden Of Earthly Delights (Intro) ("Livets Trädgård" = "Life's Garden")
2. Svekets Prins / Dignity ("Svekets Prins" = "Betrayal's Prince")
3. Hjärtat Vet Vad Handen Gör / Heart In Hand ("Hjärtat Vet Vad Handen Gör" = "The Heart Knows What The Hand Does")
4. De Närmast Sörjande / Next Of Kin
5. Minnets Yta / Lovelorn Crime ("Minnets Yta" = "The Memory's Surface")
6. Charlatan
7. Ingen Sanning Är Allas / Universal Truth ("Ingen Sanning Är Allas" = "No Truth Is Everyone's")
8. Banemannen / The Garroter
9. Kontinuerlig Drift / Continuum
10. Allting Tar Slut / All Things Will Pass

That does sound interesting tbh.

Sabaton did that first :)

That Lingua Ignota track took me a few listens to get into, but is pretty amazing imo. High hopes for this album.

I love the Nocturnus AD. The guitars and keyboards aren't quite as in rhyme as on The Key, but it's hard to believe that this isn't Nocturnus proper

do we talk about how good the Big Brave album is here or somewhere else

alright then, I shall go outside and shout it to the sky cause it's really fucking good.

anyway looking forward to the new Tristengrav:

TRISTENGRAV hail from Patras, Greece and released their first demo, Incendiarism of Nous in 2018 Now, roughly a year later comes Nychavge, a four-track (plus one outro) recording featuring their unique blend of black metal with gothic rock. Imagine GISM crossed with Rozz Williams-era Christian Death or later Anti-Cimex covering Mighty Sphincter and you have some glimpse into the ever-growing madness that is TRISTENGRAV...

https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/ii-nychavge

Their demo is quite good, ferocious black metal with crust influence but lacking the gothic element.

The new Dreadnought should be right up my alley, and ephemeral bits of it rival The 3rd and the Mortal, but it still comes across as a structural mess for the most part. Perhaps I need to spend more time with it.

so there are two Batushkas now?

https://sphieratz.bandcamp.com/album/-

I’ve been loving the Big Brave. Also listening a lot to new Helms Alee.

I will be interviewing Carl Canedy tomorrow and although he was never inaccessible or anything, I am still looking forward to it. He is someone whose name I saw on records by Anthrax and Overkill who played in The Rods so it goes back to one of the earlier recognizable-names-on-album-jackets in my metal fandom.

Also, he played on the first Manowar demo which I found out about many years later.

Haven't played the Big | Brave record yet, but really digging the Helms Alee one. They've always been a band I've liked, but this is the first album of theirs that I've really loved. Also been spending a lot of time with some recent RidingEasy releases, especially The Well and BUS. The former might be their best yet, I like the post-punk darkness they swirled into the doom and the latter is a surprisingly solid mix of psych and doom. I'd never expect to hear Primus (as a positive, no less) in a RidingEasy album.

every year there's one tour that attracts all of yr city's biggest meathead assholes, and every year I dodge their combat boots. this year that tour is

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/harms_way_jesus_piece_to_play_toronto_on_summer_tour

Any thoughts on the new Deathspell Omega? I've followed them since the beginning but something clicked (or broke) with me on this one and I can't stand them. Sold off my entire discography in the last week. As mentioned upthread, I may just be done with dodgy BM. The music just isn't enough to engage with bad politics.

I haven't gotten around to it yet but I've always found them to be somewhat overrated (except for Paracletus) so there's no emotional connection to reassess on my part.

The Big Brave LP is awesome btw.

Parts of BB remind me of like Fushitsusha or C. Brotzmann Massaker or something. Very good.

Had my first listen to the DSO tonight. The music's good but it's hard to get over the feeling that Paracletus was their peak and they're never going to do anything that interesting again. Anyone uh read the lyrics to this one?

I don't know if my mood changes significantly between the two different times I spend listening to the Big Brave, but I thought the first three tracks were amazing but the last two really didn't grab me.

Frankly terrifying:

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/slipknots-corey-taylor-says-he-blew-out-his-left-testicle-while-singing/

how is that even possible?! by "fucking around" does he mean he was prancing in a field of scissors?

he was just joking

Listening to the new Deathspell Omega while looking at the lyrics, and while they're definitely from a position I don't agree with - they conflate basically every political movement there is - I don't think they're 'dodgy'. I honestly think it's pretty brilliant, not really fascist, just absolutist in the Sadean, Bataillean, Nietszchean sense. I like them a lot more than what was going on on 'The Synarchy of Molten Bones', which was... muddy, and could easily be seen as dodgy. I mean:

The mere existence of conflicting opinions means that the Truth has yet to triumph. Diversity is an outrage, freedom of thought will be terminated. Everything is a lie but that which we feed you, believe me. If your thoughts collide with what we say, these thoughts can not be yours. We will rip your mouth open and stuff you with Truth, like a goose. The Truth will blossom in the end, be it over your swollen corpse

new Darkthrone is v satisfying

^^^ yes it is

I'm really liking Bethlehem's Lebe dich leer. Onielar's vocals are right up my alley – she is a thespian of pure despair.

I see they've been around since 1991. How is the rest of their discography?

I countersign DSO, Darkthrone and Bethlehem, too. (And I had no idea that Bethlehem's (and Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult's) singer was female, which both doesn't matter and is interesting.)

i had no idea she was in Bethlehem, can only help them imo.

pomenitul just to help very slightly: the early Bethlehem stuff is great, kinda black metal and doom in equal measures. Dark Metal is my favorite but check out Dictius Te Necare if you like absolutely unhinged vocal performances.

Thanks GP!

There are a lot of incredible female vocalists on the extreme metal front at the moment. See also: Turia, Xenoblight, Venom Prison.

Xenoblight is a name I keep running across, gonna check 'em out. Already love VP!

Unsure what to make of the new DsO. Ignoring the political ambiguities for a second (and I'd say, having read the lyrics, that it's probably fine, albeit crazed), the music is this kind of impressive wash that I can't really latch onto. It feels like punishment. I know it's black metal and all but there's no sense of ritual, of incantation or magic here - it's didactic in sound as well as content. You WILL suffer. You WILL behold the incessant towers of sound. I'm aware that coming from a Jute Gyte fan, this may sound somewhat hypocritical, but there's a wit and a sense of surrender to mathematics and technology that somehow sublimes the latter act into something bewildering and Other - this simply feels like a bunch of pissed-off humanities professors inflicting their revenge on the idiotic world. While I would agree with much of their analysis, and even their methods, I don't necessarily want revenge - I want transcendence. There's only so much fast-fingered atonal rage I can listen to before I wonder how else these ideas can be approached, and how else this amount of musical talent and ingenuity can be manifested.

I haven't listened to it yet but your assessment echoes my own experiences with their previous albums.

I kinda think 'atonal rage' is exactly what I want from black metal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Or hatred, it's supposed to be hateful. I've been really delving into the satanic trilogy, including all the eps, and they're much more faceted than this, filled with allusions to Bataille and Hegel and Pascal, coopting so much of catholic thought and ritual. It's just a more interesting subject. But as far as political black metal goes, I'm really impressed by it. It's absolutely raging and hateful and out for blood, and I'm honestly kinda impressed that it still doesn't feel fascist, you know? I wasn't sure it could be done...

Having just heard The Furnaces of Palingenesia for the first time, imago otm x2. Also: I can only take so much Finnish street preaching.

Have you checked out Abigor?

I thought the problem with DsO wasn't their lyrical content but the fact it's Mikko Aspa singing?

If that was for me, yeah, I very much enjoy Verwüstung / Invoke Dark Age and Orkblut - The Retaliation in particular. I haven't heard their stuff post-Opus IV, though.

xp

their post-Opus stuff like Leytmotif Luzifer and Hollenzwang should be right up yr DsO-alley, super dense avantgarde ‘atonal rage’.

Time Is The Sulphur In The Veins Of The Saint too.

I'll check them out, thanks. DsO-style dissonance is an oft-disappointing BM subgenre in my experience but when it's on, it's a misanthropic feast, and I can't imagine the genre as a whole without it.

thoughts on the new Darkthrone:
+ maybe my favorite Ted vocal production, sounds very Cronos
+ title track is pretty great
+ it's Darkthrone
- they're not as good at slow/epic hm riffss as I want them to be
- it's not as good/memorable as Arctic Thunder

ok listening to it rn and
+ the back half is actually super fucking solid

imo in their current phase (their regal phase as far as I'm concerned) they've gotten impeccable with the back half of their albums

New Wormed song! (New Wormed EP in July!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TwlPMrQYQ8

Box of the first four Krallice albums just went up on Bandcamp. The vinyl is selling for $800.

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/the-wastes-of-time

thoughts on the new Darkthrone:
+ maybe my favorite Ted vocal production, sounds very Cronos
+ title track is pretty great
+ it's Darkthrone
- they're not as good at slow/epic hm riffss as I want them to be
- it's not as good/memorable as Arctic Thunder

― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, June 4, 2019 3:09 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think it's much better and more memorable than arctic thunder, though i should really revisit the last two again

i mean "much better" is overstating it

guess i'm gonna listen to darkthrone all day

does this go here or emo thread

https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2018/42

yes

haha

The vinyl is selling for $800.

I laughed pretty hard at this, then I clicked the Bandcamp link and realized you added a zero by mistake.

shipping to Canada is 63$ :( :( :(

I know it's noted on the bandcamp blurb but damn

Whoops! Sorry about the typo.

New Wormed song!

lol i knew this was you before i got to the end of the post

i count on you for my contrarian metal gatekeeping

yeah the riffs on the new darkthrone are my fav they've come up with ages. not that i'm complaining about how good they've been for the past hundred years

i own all of their albums now and really they're all at least good. avoided Total Death, Ravishing, etc for a long time but really i celebrate their entire catalog.

that new Wormed song is fucking sick. I listen to Krighsu maybe once a year and that's about all the sci fi grind-death or whatever I need these days, but it seems like they're expanding their palette a bit?

Yeah the production's a little clearer and it feels a little more accessible in some indefinable way?

Contemporary trad metal isn't usually my jam but the Traveler record is awesome:

https://travelermetal.bandcamp.com/album/traveler

― pomenitul, Friday, March 1, 2019 12:27 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is great, thanks

the new Bergraven (not sure when it came out exactly) is absolutely fucking fantastic

This is sort of surprising...a one-man Australian black metal act paying tribute to Yukio Mishima.

https://kommodus.bandcamp.com/album/an-imperial-sun-rises

When I think of Yukio Mishima, I think of one word: discipline. Here’s a man who never missed a deadline for his writing, or art. A man who identified the physical weakness within himself and sought to crush it.

In his short lifetime he left a body of work, a legacy that contained 35 novels, 25 plays, 200 short stories, and 8 volumes of essays. An amazing bibliography that assured him a place as Japan’s most celebrated author. An athlete who forged himself a new body from sun and steel. A pariah who disregarded the zeitgeist of his era – the erosion of Japanese tradition and the cultural pressures to transform the country into an emasculated leftist shadow of its former self. He contested his surroundings and matched his words with action, transforming his world to reflect his art. Training religiously, forming a militia, and ultimately immortalising himself through his work and through his death. Total commitment, total belief. Mishima had the drive and vision to make a poem out of his life. And in our contemporary era I think there is much to learn from him. To attempt to attain and exercise that same monastic drive in our own chosen paths. To have the sheer will and faith in ourselves to ignore all the ephemeral influences, distractions, and rabbit holes that are shoved down our throats, that obscure our focus, and derail our progress. To recognise and understand what it is we want and attain it, to attack it mercilessly until we are synonymous with it. How can we change the world if we can’t first change ourselves with discipline, determination and steadfast focus?

News, politics, social rhetoric and trends it’s all agenda and half-truths. Instead, we need the glorious sun, that defined our earliest incarnation of gods and goddesses. We need the steel to make us stronger and conquer. We need Mishima.

Having read the blurbs he's posted alongside his previous three albums, I don't think this guy's a fascist; I think he's just a dummy who's absorbed Extremely Online ideas about nihilism and filtered them through his own mental problems ("'One Thousand Years Of The Wolf' was recorded in the dry, infernal summer of MMXVIII amidst constant mental anguish and instability"). And the music is standard shouting-from-the-back-of-the-cave, dull and monotonous; I was just intrigued to see YM's photo on the cover.

Going by this cover I've got to imagine he's goofing on some level

https://imgur.com/fao70P1