Rolling Metal 2016

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

Shit, that's terrible. Four Phantoms is a great album. RIP.

(And I'll have to check that Inquisition out later)

Grave Digger, Helloween, Kamelot, Kreator, Running Wild, Sinner, Skyclad, and Tankard all have new 2CD compilations out called [Title Here]: The Very Best Of The Noise Years.

my Schammasch triple LP arrived :)

is the guy really saying "embrace my creative flow" in that dark suns track"

?

sammich sound like sisters of mercy having a drum seizure

Dark Suns guy is a highly creative person.

New Gojira song/video. Can't wait for this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvXB-Vwnco

he hollers out "when you change yourself you change yourself you change the world" like an angry office poster. why? why is the poster so angry? plus thanks for gross picture.

thanks ilx. now i hate metal.

destroyer 666 tho

gojira makes you hate metal or something else? I dont get why gojira get so much flak

i don't really have an opinion on gojira. that one line killed my ability to hear the song anymore, and given the chocolate hair face picture, i probably shouldn't have tried in the first place.

lately it has seemed very clear to me upon waking that i hate many things

What do you think of the Schammasch?

Also have you heard the Wrong album? That's right up your alley. I posted about it on FB (that place you never seem to ever be active on)

facebook scares me. i actually think about it sometimes and then get so worried i have to count to certain numbers a lot. mostly because fuck what if they hate me now? i haven't even looked under there in months.

i only listened to a little of the schammasch track. wasn't feeling it, but i'm getting increasingly intolerant of shit without a strong core of thrash, punk, doom &/or classic hard rock. i.e. i'm old.

wrong is badass. plus i mike to pretend they are named after the nomeansno album. only some of their face looks right tho.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e174/conedust/wrongband.jpg

i also like some of that ketzer album everybody hates

I like the new Gojira song, though it doesn't seem to be breaking any new ground for them. Their lyrics have always been kind of painfully earnest, lots of stuff about saving the environment, etc. The line doesn't sound so bad in the context of the song- but yeah, they'll never win points for subtlety.

Good call on the Wrong. Kinda reminds me of the KEN Mode album I liked from last year, another exercise in '90s sludge revivalism.

Attila from Mayhem, Fred from Dragonforce, Joey Jordison and a couple of other dudes have a new band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI4I68UMaQo

Hard pass on that.

New Inquisition track sounds pretty good. I'm in Inquisition mode right now, though. Dude's kind of a genius guitarist.