Rolling Metal 2016

Xpost that's a good lineup!

Dunno if there's a new rolling stoner/psych/doom/whatever thread so I will say that the new Moon Curse album is really good.

legitimately pissed off @ this violet cold album

Why?

If you don't mind metal that sometimes doesn't bother to plug in, this Ukrainian folk-metal-ish band [Ті, що падають вгору] is pretty good!

spotify:album:6XnXXcYh9nHS8w2Oqui1gc

I tried to figure out what people call them in non-Cyrillic characters, but near as I can tell, nobody ever calls them anything in non-Cyrillic characters.

It's a stretch to call it metallic though.

I heard a Violet Cold album last year, it was fucking dreadful. As far as I recall it's basically the cheesiest Euro-dance chord progressions with some idiot rasping over it.

So it's Republica?

j3ff will love it then

Last year's Violet Cold album was one of my favorites of the year. I don't have chord progressions I do or don't consider appropriate for metal, though, and even without that it doesn't surprise me if not everybody likes it. It's like laptop Alcest.

(It doesn't sound anything like EDM, regardless.)

I don't consider anything "inappropriate" to mix with metal. I might be remembering what it sounded like a bit wrong because I couldn't take it for too long and I'm sure as hell not going back there now

It's like laptop Alcest.

the hardest of passes

The Voivod EP is so fuckin great

Looking forward to new Voivod.

Here's another new Oranssi Pazuzu song to fucking drive me crazy until I get my copy:

http://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/listen-to-oranssi-pazuzus_vasemman-kaden-hierarkia_

When that guitar comes in. When that fucking guitar comes in.

There's been some discussion of Ved Buens Ende/Virus/Fleuerety on the EXTREME METAL thread, here's a new album in that ill-defined genre by Pogavranjen:

http://pogavranjenband.bandcamp.com/

Never heard of these guys before but it's pretty solid stuff. Better than Seasons in the Abyss!!!!!!!

The wait for the new Oranssi Pazuzu is painful to me too.

I heard that Pogavranjen album recently, the Virus impression is a bit too on the nose, it was kind of distracting.

Didn't bother me but that can be a danger when you're trying to play what is essentially a one-band genre.

At least the new OP song is amazing, unless it goes crap in the last 5 minutes (unlikely, but the stream won't load for me past a certain point for some reason). I'll have to wait until I get it.

Yeah that tune is fucking crazy great. 3 days until my copy gets here. Hopefully.

Also found out that Relapse reissued Sacrilege's "Behind the Realms of Madness" mini-LP with a bunch of bonus tracks, recommended for fans of early metallic crust/crusty metallics.

Weird that no one has ever reissued their trad-doom album Turn Back Trilobite, but maybe they're ashamed of it.

Interesting article on the "Weird Global Appeal of Heavy Metal":

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-weird-global-appeal-of-heavy-metal-1455819419?curator=MediaREDEF

Cult of Luna have recorded a new album with Julie Christmas on vocals throughout. Five tracks, 55 minutes. I haven't listened to it yet, but I'm intrigued.

I heard a Violet Cold album last year, it was fucking dreadful. As far as I recall it's basically the cheesiest Euro-dance chord progressions with some idiot rasping over it.

― space prophet wogan (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, February 20, 2016 7:08 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

exactly. every song builds to the most predictably corny climax possible and then hangs out there for 4 mins

This description, modulo the value-judgments, is pretty much why I think it's great, too.

https://entropia.bandcamp.com/album/ufonaut

Entropia is a Black Metal band from Poland, shimmering with psyche-rock elements but not at the expense of heaviness or a more traditional black metal vibe than most who proudly take on the post- prefix and -gaze suffix.

Ufonaut is their second album. Released on 2/15 through Arachnophobia Records.

That's pretty nice. Already sold out, apparently.

You guys, you know what rules? Immortal's Blizzard Beasts. It's like they decided to do a tribute to Altars/Blessed era Morbid Angel.

Oranssi Pazuzu song upthread is monster

new Gorguts!

http://youtu.be/RDyn5lkVNlo

YES

aaaah

this is so good

guess we'll have to re-poll Extreme Metal in May

should be a new jute gyte by then too

Sounds great. Basically more of Colored Sands.

ahhhh!

Luc Lemay comments, “As our EP ‘Pleiades’ Dust’ consists out of a single long narrative composition, it was not written with the intention of being edited in segments. As the storyline proceeds in chapters though, I was able to isolated this part called ‘Wandering Times’ which will give the listener a good idea of the composition aesthetics which are present throughout the whole piece.

That's pretty nice. Already sold out, apparently.

the ltd edition one is sold out

15 Years Of ILM POll (Metal & Heavy Rock Edition) NOMINATIONS AND DISCUSSION THREAD (Nominations Close Friday April 1 2016)

the ltd edition one is sold out

any left?

Two. Clicky the linky.

Or get the jewel case version for only $11.99 including shipping through eBay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ENTROPIA-Ufonaut-CD-black-metal-sludge-post-metal-Poland-BLINDEAD-CULT-OF-LUNA-/252298903329

That listing is from Selfmade God Records though the CD is still cheaper through eBay from them than their website though that may not be the case for European buyers.

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a1266747464_10.jpg

Brimstone Coven - Black magic
Doomy Proto-Metal Hard Rock from West Virginia
Out January 29, 2016 on Metal Blade Records

http://open.spotify.com/album/2W9gHde4uAkgJii1f8HNNU

For fans of Pentagram, Withcraft

I liked it. Listening again to see if I love it or not.

I think I only like it.

But there are so many large breasts on the cover!

Thanks for the tip on the Entropia.

New Gorguts sound FFFUUUUCCKIIINNN AAAMAAAAZZUUULUUIIINGGG, I feel like I've been waiting for this EP forever but the sample points towards it being absolutely worth it. Goddamn they're so good.

Thanks for the tip on the Entropia.

Seconded, this is a great record, right up my street. Vinyl coming mid-March...

New Oranssi Pazuzu is now up on Spotify but I'm going to have to wait until tomorrow to give it a proper listen.

Heard The new Oranssi Pazuzu earlier, it's awesome.

Krallice's rhythm section have an album out in April, under the name of Geryon.

https://www.profoundlorerecords.com/geryon-complete-work-on-new-album/

I really like the EP they did a while back, and the preview song on that page sounds promising

Oranssi is cool so far. Groovy and dark.