Rolling Metal 2016

I'm gonna make another attempt to like Morbid Angel.

Two things: Pleiades' Dust is brilliant and I'm enjoying the Vektor album a lot more than I thought I would (I'm just not that big on thrash)

I have tried so much to appreciate Morbid Angel, but to this day I cannot remember how any of their songs go. Can't tell them apart. Except for the ones on that hilarious album a few years ago.

So this is happening in my backyard...

http://dinv6bnu2wkbe.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Rock-Allegiance-5.6-website.jpg

A mixture of things I like with things I abhor.
My 13-year old son wants to go!

I still regret missing the Psycho Cali in May 2015 so yeah, I'm going to Vegas baby. Finally get to see Colour Haze!

"gourmet man food"

Buried deep in that Psycho Vegas lineup is UK psych prog band Family. That could be interesting!

Wonder how his voice holds up now

I'm gonna make another attempt to like Morbid Angel.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, May 10, 2016 6:22 AM (5 hours ago)

i do not like morbid angel. of course i'd never admit it. i do like the new vektor. and that weird buzzy orange pazuzu thing and chtheilist not that i can spell it plus howls of ebb. i've also been lurking due to slacking on music basically but hugs & hails to mtl ppl.

http://erinhunter.katecary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/kitten-hugs.jpg

OK this Sxuperion album is pretty cool, violent black metal with a vaguely cosmic feel and death metalish vocals:

http://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-void

I want to compare it to Zemial but that isn't really accurate. Super monotonous/trance-inducing guitars, almost-almost qualifies for the Branca-metal thread.

also vampire (swe) had an EP out late last year that i failed to notice. it's good! more of the same, but good-same.

i do like the new vektor. and that weird buzzy orange pazuzu thing and chtheilist not that i can spell it plus howls of ebb.

^ I wholeheartedly concur with all of this, and also (especially) the kittens.

I came here to say that I can't not hear Vektor's 'Pillars of Sand' as Christina Milian's AM to PM, which slightly enhances it for me, if anything.

And there was much rejoicing.

https://www.facebook.com/AnataDeathMetal/posts/1343725292310971

Obviously this isn't much, or anything, to go on, but I'm just gonna let my hopefulness consume me.

1) devilock, holy shit!!

2) not really metal, but on a metal label being serviced to metal pubs presumably because the drummer is from Alcest - Sylvaine, which is kinda Explosions in the Sky but ethereal-gothier...my resistance to midtempo shoegazey "post metal' is pretty strong but the groove here is nice, not breaking down any doors but pretty pleasant stuff

anyone going to Temples Festival in Bristol?

checked out the Metal Church album from this year. not mindblowing or anything but v listenable and catchy, I lieks.

Assuming Anata is indeed back, I guess there wasn't room for two great bands that start with "a."

https://www.facebook.com/AgallochOfficial/posts/10154268288083606

wow what

Damn, Agalloch were never one of my favourite bands but that sucks

listening to the Schammasch. expect raptures

hmm, it's quiiiite good i guess

The Schammasch is much better than quite good! The ambient final third feels a little unnecessary imo, but the first two sides bring fury.

I'd recommend 'Metanoia' as a highlight.

I liked Schammasch a decent amount but it really doesn't sustain the 100 minute run time. If they exercised some restraint/editing it could've been a killer... saying that, it never really gets too spectacular but enjoyable nonetheless.

As for Vektor I've listened to it through fully three times I think but keep going back to the first and last tracks becasue they honestly oveshadow everything else on the record entirely.

I generally have a problem with that hollow guitar tone they use but it fits better during the more progressive moments than it does during the 'heavier' moments, which is why I suspect they use it.

Vektor album reminded me of Ayreon

For those who'd like their Deafheaven and Alcest to be more orchestral, uplifting, saccharine and (mildly) folky, there's the new Skyforest record, Unity. I'm not sure if pushing the blackgaze thing *this* far is really the best idea, but he's at least pushing some boundaries. You know what they say...blessed are the cheesemakers.

(dude behind it is the same Russian who's also in post-rockers Blurry Lights and A Light In The Dark)

Not metal exactly, but metal-adjacent, and thoroughly ass-kicking: There's a new Hedvig Mollestad Trio album, Black Stabat Mater, coming out June 24.

I for one am very excited for a new Hedvig Mollestad album!

lol apparently Venom have gone the Entombed route. Abaddon and Mantas have formed "Venom, Inc". Christ, what next, "Morbid Angeldust"

Incantation Inc

Beherit LLC

The Panamanian Holding Company Formerly Known As Metallica

Putrid Pile & Sons

The Panamanian Holding Company Formerly Known As Metallica

still waiting for the joke

Immortal Ltd.

Legacy of Cryptopsy

Just earlier today I read that the Angelcorpse guys, past and present, have done the opposite: they have two bands, each one with the same members (Gene, Pete, drummer Ronnie Parmer), Kerasphorus being "the black-cloaked side of Angelcorpse."

Angelcorpse definitely need a darker outlet

I thought that was Revenge

k so apparently Angelcorpse is playing at Ram's Head, and Repulsion is playing at Baltimore Soundstage, neither of which I have a ticket to at MDF. but the ticket is cheap enough to where it'd be worth buying for just one of the two bands.

who would you pick? Note: I've seen Repulsion once (blew my effing mind)

The singer from Kill The Client has a new industrial noise-grind band, BLK OPS. They've got two songs up on Bandcamp.

Here's some live video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enmXZLM2xWg

man this is smooth proggy barely-metal metal, the vocals have the Porcupine Tree post-Floyd/later Katatonia smoothness that I usually have a strong allergy to but the tunes are really doing it for me. barely qualifies for this thread at all imo, more "good rock music" than metal, but if any of the stuff I'm ref'ing here speaks to you you might give this one a listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLWbQHa4UZ4

who would you pick?

Probably Repulsion, but I've never seen them. From videos I've seen Helmkamp isn't the most exciting live performer...

BLK OPS is fun live.

xpost I went with Repulsion. after playing Horrified on the way home, easy choice

Yeah I don't think you could go wrong there.

Hey Rolling Metal, how come nobody ever told me about the French band P.H.O.B.O.S. before? Sounds like Jeff Walker fronting an especially pissed off Godflesh circa Slavestate (crunchier percussion, light dub touches, less painfully dissonant than Streetcleaner - I'm thinking like "Perfect Skin" and "Someone Somewhere Scorned"). Sounding pretty good on a quiet night after a long, shitty day.

In addition to the upcoming studio album, Hedvig Mollestad Trio is putting out a double live album, which appears to be a) vinyl-only (though a CD version will be tucked inside; it just won't be sold separately) and b) entirely composed of epic jams.

Side C is on Soundcloud.

new Inquisition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGdbsGFrvbY

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/bell-witch-drummer-adrian-guerra-rip/

goddamnit, RIP