Rolling Metal Thread 2014

um i listened twice and no horns really jumped out at me, were they just playing some sustained tones in the arrangements, if so zzz

lookin for some bb king, chess records, famous flames horn stabs here

― j., Sunday, February 9, 2014 7:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're faint, background flourishes. I didn't notice them on first listen myself

I came on board with ZKC and have always admired Behemoth from a slight distance since then. This one is the first album of theirs I genuinely love. I wrote it up for Burning Ambulance.

started listening to new behemoth on the ride to work tonight, but then called a friend. so i find that it mostly sounds like a conversation about furniture and veterinary selection.

expected something a bit less genteel, tbh

man you just cannot find your sweet spot huh

I love it when I hear internet uproar about an album, do a search in my email box, and find a haulix invitation from two weeks ago. Will check back in soon.

Pretty much in the same boat as J0hn on this one going in. Thought ZKC was a fine album, but didn't change my life. Would be happy to find a Behemoth record worth going back to.

The live performance on the accompanying DVD is really good, too, but oh my god the combined strobing light show and incessant editing cuts put it at Seizure Level: Grand Mal. I had to keep glancing away from the screen.

j., the horns are most prominent on the title track (track 6), if you want to look for them.

feeling very positive towards the satanist on my first listen. they are great live and I've generally liked their albums in the past but time will tell if this is their first that I really keep returning to. guessing it will be.

yeah its a good album--catchy, well-made, rocks pretty hard

in a promo email from Relapse just now:

Recommended If You Like:
My Bloody Valentine, Smashing Pumpkins, Slowdive, Deafheaven, Torche, Jesu, Title Fight, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Hum, Cold Cave, Loop, True Widow

so I guess 2014 is going to be terrible

hum!!!

Heh, I was thinking about all of you dudes when I read that email.

FWIW, I'd love to read more press blasts bringing up Hum. Love that band so goddamned much.

Is that about the band Nothing? They're from Philly and I wanna check them out sometime.

hum were really good, no argument here

Is that about the band Nothing? They're from Philly and I wanna check them out sometime.

Bingo!

Triptykon's second album, Melana Chasmata (rough translation: "black, deep depressions/valleys") will be released on April 14 (Europe) and April 15 (North America), 2014, through Century Media Records/Prowling Death Records Ltd.

http://www.centurymedia.com/media/news/large/635273443691695003.jpg

Like its predecessor Eparistera Daimones, the album was produced by Triptykon's singer/guitarist Tom Gabriel Warrior and guitarist V. Santura and recorded and mixed at V. Santura's own Woodshed Studio in southern Germany as well as at Triptykon's rehearsal facilities in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2013 and 2014. Those who have already heard Melana Chasmata have described it as "atmospheric, dark, diabolical, and dramatic", "diverse, epic, and doomy, but on an entirely different level", "a fierce boulder of abhorrence", or "very heavy and yet very aesthetic at the same time".

Melana Chasmata will feature the following nine songs, at a playing time of around 67 minutes:

1. Tree Of Suffocating Souls
2. Boleskine House
3. Altar Of Deceit
4. Breathing
5. Aurorae
6. Demon Pact
7. In The Sleep Of Death
8. Black Snow
9. Waiting

Further new Triptykon music has been recorded, to be released as an EP or mini album later in 2014 or early in 2015.

Among other formats, the album will be released as a 32-page Mediabook (with lyrics and liner notes to every song, and with a special fold out poster), as a gatefold vinyl double album (with posters and large-format booklet), and for digital download. Additionally, Century Media is scheduled to issue a special box set, limited to 2000 copies. The box set will include the album, a Triptykon silver pendant, a poster, postcards, a Triptykon tote bag, and a cap.

The Triptykon album is very, very good. No surprise there, but I'm already enjoying it even more than the last one. Towering and beautiful.

True NSBM.
http://youtu.be/ZrIMq0DEo9E

(Maybe I knew about this last year, I don't even remember, but after seeing it mentioned in this interview http://thequietus.com/articles/14452-nergal-interview-behemoth I had to track down a scene or two. Hilarious.)

Really glad I saw Triptykon when they toured the US for the last album. Doubt I'll get to see them again. That Tom G. Warrior guitar tone live: totally mind-crushing.

Well, they are playing Maryland Deathfest.

still debating on whether I'm going but since I missed NOcturnus AD when they came here and want to see Pungent Stench, I believe it's a yes.

At first the Behemoth record didn't really jump out at me but after a couple of listens there are a few really great melodic moments. It's surprisingly subtle.

i noticed that--there are some interesting basslines and some un-metal riffs that are pretty cool

very quiet pauses too

man you just cannot find your sweet spot huh

― j., Sunday, February 9, 2014 7:52 PM (Yesterday)

i can! and it's the satanist. listened to it three times in the last 24 hours, love it almost unreservedly. the horns are wonderful, generally low enough in the mix to add atmosphere but not give off any kind of "symphonic" vibe, just some nice, menacing, entertainingly pompous texture. the lyrics are similarly obscured, but the lines that do pop out seem both amusing & rather poetic (tho i'm quite disappointed to find he isn't singing "bring forth thy anus offering" in the first stanza ov thee title track). great album.

re: amusing/poetic lyrics, is that opening line what I think it is

all that & a bag ov snakes

The Triptykon album is very, very good. No surprise there, but I'm already enjoying it even more than the last one. Towering and beautiful.

unprepared for a record better than the last triptykon record

not sure whether I like it or not but here's a Chinese atmospheric black metal act with synth-string sections and some Louisville feeling in the slow parts - I want to say "it's all over the place" but that's not exactly it, it coheres and is its own odd thing

(4th track is especially good but lacks the weird synth stuff.)

revisiting last year's Secrets of the Sky album...still really like this a whole lot. at times the band lacks identity, but I really like the underlying moodiness. some of the vocoded vocals on the second track reminded me of Cynic's "Traced in Air" but executed here a bit better.

I'm probably the last person to hear this but the track released from the upcoming Morbus Chron sounds amazing, and nothing like their debut (which I did like a lot). I see they took the Tribulation freakout plunge as well.
https://soundcloud.com/centurymedia/morbus-chron-it-stretches-in-1/

man this Obliteration album isn't innovative or anything but it's one of the most aggressive 80s-esque sounding death metal albums I've heard in a minute.

Noob question: what '80s death-metal bands should I check out if I like this Obliteration album?

try Autopsy. production sound not as big but they're very much worth your time. also Abscess, which shares several members with Autopsy - there were two Abscess albums on Tyrant Syndicate, who also put out one of the two Obliteration albums. recommend both of those Abscess records & Autopsy's Mental Funeral and Severed Survival.

Awesome, thx.

did sund4r not post about the new Jute Gyte on here?

https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/

80s death isn't really my thing, but 2nd autopsy, esp mental funeral

there's a smidge of stuff like early Death and Possessed too. they combine a lot of influences into a kind of dm-gumbo.

Just listened to Vardlokk's new "Skraelingjahlaut" 7" and really dug it. Doomy with a serious groove, coffin squeak vocals (a bit like the Botanist, but less grating), oozing slide guitar chords (like Fields of the Nephilim at their closest approach to metal) and big piles of sheer noise -- "out" guitar bits, nasty layered synths, probably a kitchen sink. B-side is dubbish (not dubstep) reworking with all that plus demented air raid siren theremin (I think). Yum. On Outer Battery records and presumably the usual streaming sources -- I found it on Google All Access, anyway.

the NWN reissue of the four Cremation demos is some of the best, most obscure music I've ever heard. Not obscure in the sense of "nobody's ever heard of it" but in its mood, its feel. An incredible disc.

Just ordered the Vardlokk 7" and intending to order the Cremation. Thanks dudes, you're making this thread pay off for me today!

you might think of DM in waves.. First wave, the Florida stuff.. second wave, the swedish stuff.. 3rd wave, everything since. lol. With bands like Possessed, Venom and even Slayer being proto.. just my opinion

anything on this cremation thing that wasn't in the vinyl release from a few years ago?

and yeah, really great. been too long since I've spun those guys.

Noob question: what '80s death-metal bands should I check out if I like this Obliteration album?

While the bands I'm gonna mention don't share the sound of that Obliteration disc, and were more 90s than 80s, I think the early Norwegian death metal scene is unique and substantive enough to merit its own recommendation.

Molested - Blod-Draum
Cadaver - Hallucinating Anxiety; In Pains
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Thou Shalt Suffer - Into the Woods of Belial

With the exception of Cadaver, these bands went on, in much more popular guises, to make black metal (and even Cadaver put out Discipline as Cadaver Inc, which has a millennial, grinding, Voivod-inflected black metal thing going on), but before that transition they created some of the most unique and sceneless death metal I've ever heard. I can't really compare them to anything, not even to each other. Weird, ghostly music that died prematurely.

Also Algol's Entering the Woods of Enchantment.

Craig Locicero from Forbidden/SpiralArms/Man Made God referred to Ghost as Scooby Doom... I thought that was pretty funny.

Meanwhile Locicero played on that horrendous Tateryche album last year.

He's a goofy dude.. Don't get him going on conspiracy theories.. whoa!

Neurot Recordings is pleased to welcome long-running Eugene, Oregon-based doom metal trio, YOB, to their expanding household of eclectic, thought-provoking music. The band -- founding vocalist/guitarist Mike Scheidt, drummer Travis Foster and bassist Aaron Rieseberg -- will release their seventh studio offering this Fall preceded by an appearance at the illustrious Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands in April.

Comments Scheidt of the recent union, "YOB is very happy to have signed to Neurot for our new album. Travis, Aaron and I agree that Neurosis is the epitome of forward-thinking heavy music, made with zero compromise. Our love for their music is total. Neurot's dedication to putting out uncompromising music is no different. To have this opportunity to put an album out on their label is an honor that runs deep. We cannot wait to share our new music with Neurot and our friends worldwide."

Neurosis' Steve Von Till notes, "This was meant to be. Neurot has always sought out to work with those who share in the purification of spirit through sound and who harvest their sound from originality and intensity. When I listen to YOB, see them leave it all on the stage, or share a conversation with them about life, I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that they embody what Neurot stands for completely and we are so very honored that we get the opportunity to work together with them on their next album."

Adds Scott Kelly, "YOB, as with all things that actually matter, there is only one. They have built their temple with a foundation concreted in absolute truth. The truth is the riffs, the truth is in the delivery, it's in the unwavering commitment, and in the handshake and the look in their eyes. If you don't know them, then you are fucking up your own lifes' truth. There's is nothing heavier on the face of this earth than this band. The Neurot Family is honored to be a part of legacy of this, the monolithic treasure of sonic achievement that is YOB."

Further details on YOB's forthcoming new release to be unveiled in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.