Vorum - Poisoned Void/Undergang (new one with Danish title)Dark Descent death metal. Undergang takes me back to first hearing demos by Entombed, Grave, Funebre, etc, real gutteral grave gnarl. Vorum is just vicious old school death.
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the MultiverseA couple of songs on this approach Bolzer's "Entranced by the Wolfshook" for weird melodic ideas that sound new to metal. Also greatly appreciate the weird, warping riffs generally.
Stargazer - A Merging to the BoundlessThese guys are so great. I feel like this walks back what I didn't like about "A Work of Great Ages," a more defined production highlighting the contrast between the fluid, proggy bass guitar and mildly discordant, off-kilter riffs.
Root - Hell SymphonyFinally got a copy of this. Czech old school black metal, featuring the weird barks of Jiri "Big Boss" Valter, founder (and no longer member) of the Czech branch of the Church of Satan. I was listening to Triptykon recently and realized some of the bits with clean vocals actually reminded me of later Root.
Necrophobic - Nocturnal SilenceFile under bands I somehow never heard until recently. Great black death stuff, first time I listened to it in the car I wound up driving around for ten minutes so I wouldn't have to stop it before the album ended.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 20 July 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
Okay I used the word "weird" like fifty times, sorry.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 20 July 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
wait so you liked the one before 'work of great ages' better?
― j., Monday, 20 July 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
Nah, I should've separated that. I didn't like Work of Great Ages as much, kind loses the band in that murky production. New one's great, though.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 20 July 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link
kind of loses, that is. It's like 85 degrees and 99% humidity here, I think my brain's melting.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 20 July 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
At the moment i'm listening to:
Tribulation - Children Of The NightTaiga - Gaia (over-the-top Siberian depressive black metal)Obsequiae - Area Of Vernal TombsVile Creature - A Steady Descent Into The SoilBelow The Sun - Envoy (really beautiful cosmic doom, again from Siberia)
― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Monday, 20 July 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
*Aria*
― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Monday, 20 July 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
I love this Vorum track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaOECtl6Q4A
― jmm, Monday, 20 July 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
^^^^ awesome. They've really got a knack for making their stuff sound vicious.
Tribulation - Children Of The Night
I really like this record but it doesn't really stick with me; not necessarily a bad thing if you can kind of rediscover an album repeatedly.
Going to have to check out Below the Sun and Taiga later.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 20 July 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
I quite liked last years "Ashen Light" by Taiga so good to see they have a follow-up so quickly.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 07:22 (nine years ago) link
i don't have five right now but i genuinely can't stop listening to coroner's mental vortex and razor's shotgun justice
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Those are great albums, man, easily worth 250% of many other metal albums.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
I got the Violent Restitution reissue recently and it's awesome but I keep going back to Malicious Intent too. It's less polished and straight-up thrashy but still vicious.
― that's why god destroyed the radio (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
Well I've been hooked on Razor's Evil Invaders lately, our Canadian thrash stars are not aligning! Metal record I constantly find myself coming back to is Vhol's debut. Happy to hear a new one is coming out this year.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 23:19 (nine years ago) link
blut aus nord: 777 cosmosophymorbus chron: swevenmotley crüe: too fast for loveparadise lost: medusagorement: the ending quest
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 October 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
I think Cosmosophy is my favorite of the 777 series.
― DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 13 October 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
morbus chron: sweven
yeeeeeah
I listen to too much metal but here's five I keep coming back to recently:
Skepticism - StormcrowfleetThergothon - Stream from the HeavensAgalloch - Ashes Against the GrainFalls of Rauros - Vigilance PerennialAdramelech - Psychostasia (has a weird style of riffing similar to Nespithe but more listener-friendly)
I'm pretty certain that one day Blut aus Nord will click with me but I find them pretty hard going tbh
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 13 October 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
I actually had that reaction to BAN for many years - thought it was interesting but it didn't really grab me. The 777 series and Deus Salutis Meae finally did it.
Love that Adramelech album!
― DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 14 October 2018 07:41 (five years ago) link
I've never understood why Indian aren't huge - because of their un-searchable name?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB9ElBNon-E
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 14 October 2018 09:40 (five years ago) link
SubRosa - More Constant Than the GodsSlayer - Decade of AggressionAshbringer - YügenSárr - AvitunSepultura - Arise
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 15 October 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
xp tbh I never checked out Indian because the (not great) name led me to think they were on some generic stoner business... that's why more ripping than I was expecting.
Anyway this week:
Uncle Acid - WastelandMortuous - Through WildernessHigh On Fire - Electric Messiah (& a lot of Blessed Black Wings too)Voivod - The WakeDog Soldier - Barking of the Dogs of War (strong 80s UK metal punk vibes)
― DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 15 October 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
*way not why
Recently started going through my 2018 'to listen' list. So far:
Kroda - SelbstweltDautha - Brethren of the Black SoilHamferð - Támsins likamArgonavis - Passing Through the Igneous MawArkona - Khram
― pomenitul, Monday, 15 October 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless WildernessPortal - IONYOB - Our Raw HeartThe Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer.Thou - Magus
Would love to mention Deafheaven and The Armed but a bit too false for this
― gman59, Thursday, 18 October 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link
Gorguts - Colored SandsKEN Mode - Loved Helms Alee - Sleepwalking SailorsCult of Luna - MarinerImmolation - Atonement
― beard papa, Thursday, 18 October 2018 04:14 (five years ago) link
Ghost- Opus Eponymous (still my favorite of theirs)Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre li Anemi Francor (recent discovery)Tribulation- Down Below (their streak continues)Khanus- Flammarion (very promising debut)King Heavy- s/t (haven’t been able to get into the new one but this is still a classic)
― o. nate, Thursday, 18 October 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link