Rolling Metal 2016

What's the deal with Arkaik? Just heard them, crazy technical death metal, but I don't think I'd heard them before.

A stream of the new Woman is the Earth album is up over at Invisible Oranges

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/woman-is-the-earth-torch-of-our-final-night-album-premiere/

― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Monday, April 11, 2016 2:36 PM (1 month ago)

I think this is my favorite heavy-ish record of the year so far. Lovely, windswept post/black/rock/metal/whatever. Had never even heard the name before ... thanks, Dinsdale.

Really enjoying Unique Leader's output the last nine months or so. Inherit Disease, Internal Suffering, Katalepsy, and Omnihility albums all kicking my ass today.

I have a thing that generates (and periodically updates) Spotify playlists from releases on a given record label. Here's the one for Unique Leader: https://open.spotify.com/user/thesoundsofspotifylabels/playlist/4q479XKyx8koJhpKYX3ING

new Obsessed song is on youtube and sounds great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx8C0R1HQdk&feature=youtu.be

Yeah that's pretty good!

yeah, is great! "be the night" is so completely dio, tho.

"within the disco world they made"

struggling not to post trailer park boys img

Anyone going to Temples Festival in Bristol?

Roll call. Who is in MDF this weekend?

Just got here. Ready to kill.

hey metal dilettante here

digging Blood Ceremony, though I guess I don't know how metal they are...more hard rock? Dig the flutes...sometimes it's almost just psych-pop not even heavy

it's funny the entry on the drums on this one is SOOOOO Ringo Starr/Day in the Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le09s6FeTuI

anyway really good songs, singing, nice variety a heck of a rock band IMO

glad you dug it! one of my 2016 favorites, and 2013's the eldritch dark is even better. hard rock v metal distinction is contentious & impossibly vague besides. i guess blood ceremony are metal (according to metallum, et al) in that they initially borrowed sufficient from sabbath, pentagram & deep purple to pass muster. these days, those influences aren't quite so dominant.

a favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJwTS_2M5M

cool yeah good recommendation, i should say how "metal" something is means very little to me, good band overall....maybe the new one even has a bit of pentangle-meets-cream type vibe...which i dig...or early purple i guess...heavy stuff is great too

Horrendous was grebt live. So r Centinex.

ugh wish I was there now- got caught up in errands and bullshit, can't roll up to MDF today til like Samael play- was at lots yesterday- Waco Jesus, Buzzov*en, Bongripper, Jungle Rot, Goblin, Earth. went to Absu / Profanatica too. Stoked for more tonight and tomorrow!

Has anyone seen Moon Tooth live? They're playing a pizza place near my old high school tomorrow night and I'm checking out the album now (finally). Seems like it would be fun to see them play.

For sure. Nuclear Assault and Satan are my two can't waits

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So I caught Moon Tooth tonight and one of the five other bands was amazing. Warm, from Connecticut, has a Googleproof name and a vibe kind of like Cult of Luna or maybe latter Swans. All their stuff is free on Bandcamp, but you can send them a couple bucks for their new single if you want them to get home from Nowhere, New Hampshire tonight. They claim to have a full-length coming out on June 17.

https://warm.bandcamp.com/

Temples festival cancelled. Fucksticks.

MDF was fucking great this year, I must say.

Some highlights:

BUZZOV*EN - can't believe they're alive and damn they were actually funky and really great
BONGRIPPER - my first time seeing them and they ruled
GOBLIN
EARTH

SAMAEL - they played a very good new song after playing all of the "Ceremony of Opposites" album and It was a nice way to avoid a pure nostalgia thing
MAYHEM - my fifth time seeing them, they are always rad but this was more intense and yet also more exploratory- nice use of field recordings of fire in the middle of the set too

ANGELCORPSE - really struck by their originality of their weird ass forms- felt original and chaotic

IMPALED NAZARENE - they did "Total War Winter War" and a Motorhead tribute and kept it turbulent and fast

INFEST - easily the wildest pit of the fest, fucking raging intensity in the room

Man, didn't know Buzzov*en were doing shit. And I envy anyone who gets to see Infest.

I like the new Withered album. Never heard them before, but it's a nice, Gorgutsy thing. I wish they'd expand on the little glimpses of Sabbath-via-Flag guitar that pops up from time to time though.

https://www.facebook.com/akercockeofficial/posts/558054787707974

that seems like an awful lot of fuss to make over such a mid-card sized band tbh

regarding Temples, which I enjoyed last year and was planning to attend this year, it's really great that the UK's reputation as a place where interesting overseas bands go if they want to lose money hand over fist is going to be further cemented by this dipshit promoter

As insane as it is to begin the anticipation now, apparently 2017 will be the year of Blut Aus Nord, something for everyone:

While the split with AEVANGELIST is soon to hit the Earth, French creators of hallucinogenic sonic landscapes, BLUT AUS NORD, are working on two different albums scheduled for next year : "Memoria Vetusta - Empyerus" and "La Lumière Sous Le Monde". Both being very different on an Artistic plan.

In the meanwhile, Vindsval (BLUT AUS NORD) and Bjarni Einarsson (SINMARA, SLIDHR) are working on the first Yərûšəlem album.

Yərûšəlem is not to be considered as a side project but as a real thematic emanation of a specific BLUT AUS NORD facet bringing up a shamanic, hideously heavy and deeply ritualistic form of extreme music.

The first Yərûšəlem offering could be released by the end of the year. Time will tell...

https://www.facebook.com/blutausnord.official/posts/1675331302730787

Just decided to head to Bristol anyway and see what's on. Got tickets for the Fleece on Saturday - Bongripper, Dragged Into Sunlight, ACxDC and more. Apparently The Exchange are going to announce Melvins later today for Saturday.

Looking for shows on Friday and Sunday to come through, but not going to die in a ditch. Urfaust (who are actively looking for a show) and Gnaw Their Tongues are at first thought the bands I really want to announce something.

New Goatess record is fun as hell.

^ rhymes with "poetess"

Rhino is remastering and boxing up the first six Dio albums (on CD) for $35. Street date 7/22.

new Death Angel is fun.

however I'm on a mega thrash kick at the moment.

Everyone should be.

I hope that Dio reissue project gets more attention paid to Strange Highways. It's like Dehumanizer pt. 2, just heavy, angry, and metallic. Not a lot of RJD crooning. (I also hope the remastering is done well on all of them.)

Me too coincidentally but mostly old stuff. I'm revisiting Holy Moses, Metal Church, Annihilator, Onslaught, Thanatos, Sacred Reich, Necrodeath, Turbo, Laaz Rocket, Dead Horse, Debustrol, Ferat, Agent Steel and Paradox - and it's pretty much all good. Just discovered local Swiss legends Apocalypse who released a surprisingly good Metallica-style album in 1988.

Paradox has a new one out. I kept seeing the name and thinking surely that's not the old German band. I had no idea they'd been making albums regularly since 2008.

I'm listening to lotsa Nuclear Assault, Demolition Hammer, newer Sodom, Toxic Holocaust...etc

Throwback Wednesday... :)

I am not much of a tech death guy, but the First Fragment album Dasein on Unique Leader is really interesting and solid and quite the showcase for the tech side of the equation as well.

http://open.spotify.com/album/0pNsb6TjmP90UNHQnOx2kp

I've seen people writing that the new reissue of Nemesis Divina (on Napalm) has that scraping/ringing blade sound in "Dawn of a New Age" removed -- you know, when Satyr says something about a scythe. Assuming it's true, that must be one of the most bizarre editorial decisions I've heard yet. Also, supposedly "Immortality Passion" has some time taken off but I'm not sure how much.

Slow news day, eh.

I always wonder if stuff like that is deliberate or they just made more than one mix of a track and pulled the wrong file. It would be really odd to remove that sound. Maybe it's a copyrighted sample they didn't pay for?

I remember Dimmu Borgir had to cut two intros from the Stormblast reissue (actually a rerecording) because they turned out to be plagiarized.

Weird era we live in.

Speaking of weird! If you like odd, seasick black metal with odd, seasick orchestral (but restrained) keyboards: Ahpdegma, from Japan. Part of the AAAAA (may be off by an A) collective.

http://drakkar-productions-official.bandcamp.com/album/ahpdegma-seolfkwyllen

man this new cough album is really something. solidly RVA in feel to me i.e. "beautiful sludge" or whatever you wanna call it, even at its fiercest it's so richly textured that I just keep thinking man...that is pretty, they have to mean this to be pretty? which I feel like is its own area in doom, as vs. harsher/downer doom or funereal doom (which can also be super pretty but not in this sort of colorful way I'm hearing here). anyway. a fucking great listen to my ears

I've been looking forward to the new Cough record, glad to hear it's good....

And a song named after a Gene Wolfe novel too!

a totallly great song, too! really think this album deserves some spotlight this year

...the First Fragment album Dasein on Unique Leader is really interesting and solid and quite the showcase for the tech side of the equation as well.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, June 1, 2016 7:57 PM (5 days ago)

^ not kidding. hell of a listen, and i didn't enjoy any of the other unique leader stuff mentioned upthread.

loving the new cough, too

I can't wait for the new SubRosa. More nice Beardsley-ish cover art: https://www.facebook.com/profoundlorerecords/posts/1095023120545725

I finally got a copy of Terminal Redux. I love this album more and more.

cheese and crackers!

cool track from upcoming hammers of misfortune LP:

http://www.metalblade.com/hammersofmisfortune/

sounds like hammers of misfortune