Rolling Metal 2016

Man, Timeghoul still rules. Just checking in. And I've got the new Cvinger album coming tomorrow, which should rule. But not as much as Timeghoul, most likely.

This Weird Light reissue on Shadow Kingdom's pretty cool trad-doom. Kinda wish they had overdubbed like fifteen more rhythm guitar tracks, though, always weird when the guitar seems low on a doom record.

Exodus just did a headlining show, one of two exclusive ones in FL (the other being in Davie). holy fuck, they're still great live. had seen em open a few times but much nicer to see them get a full set.

Who's singing for them now?

Zetro

Nice! I've always wanted to see that lineup (and Baloff as well, obviously).

Something I missed earlier in the year, Ophidian Forest's final album.

https://ophidianforest.bandcamp.com/album/susurrus

Nutty multinational black metal with the guy behind Botanist on drums and hammered dulcimer!

^ is that Ophidian Forest album only available on cassette or digital? My tape player really sucks, is all.

Looks like it but I don't know for sure, I just got the digital version and I don't do cassettes

Qrixkuor - Three Devils Dance EP
https://qrixkuordeath.bandcamp.com/album/three-devils-dance

Epic, blackened death metal. Fans of Teitanblood, Portal, and big, empty caverns.

yeah, that's a good one, even I feel like I'm sending a mischievous goblin back to its home dimension every time I try to say the band name.

Probably not news to anyone paying attention, but

http://www.metalsucks.net/2016/07/12/destroyer-666-officially-racist-d-bags-2/

that fucking sucks. kk said & did lots of shitty, racist stuff circa wolves (article doesn't cover the full extent), but i hoped he'd left it behind.

S'cool, never thought they were very good anyway

Kinda bummed to find out Vomitor have connections to that scene though

feel like I'm sending a mischievous goblin back to its home dimension every time I try to say the band name.
― Devilock, Monday, 11 July 2016 22:43

lol

finally getting around to this Ghoulgotha -- this is fucking good. The lead lines in particular stand out, and the structures might actually reach back to that Timeghoul stuff Jon referenced later. IMO no death metal album should be 54 minutes long -- Pack all that extremity into 33 or 36 minutes -- but definitely good while I/it lasts

occult burial lp arrived today, good times

xp yessss I love that record. Definitely agree re the length though.

Anyway, Bloodway and Valborg collaborative LP:

http://bloodway.bandcamp.com/album/karbon-winter

Don't worry, the guy from Valborg sings. First track is really cool and doomy, second is almost like some Kranky records 90s shit.

wow this ghoulgotha is nasty

At work I'm trying to improve our thing that calculates "similar" artists, so I fed it Ghoulgotha as a starting point, and had it make a playlist. Came out pretty well, I think:

https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/79f1nol1TsIGyOYWwdz2cH

friends: do i need to go see Beyond Creation and Rivers of Nihil when they come to my town? or no?

Beyond Creation sounded great live when I saw em open for Psycroptic

here's a song from the new subrosa album. they're coming to town in a few weeks here and i'm pretty psyched to see them. i haven't been to a metal show in years tbqh.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/subrosa-releasing-new-album-for-this-we-fought-the-battle-of-ages-share-wound-of-the-warden/

Bolzer just posted the Destroyer 666 album with the wolf "representing the spirit of the white man" on the cover and then disclaimed their politics in the comments. I'm starting to think these guys want just the tip of fascism.

well, they want the charge of the iconography - that's not a new development. fascism gives off "you should legitimately fear this" vibes more than much else.

I interviewed former Dio guitarist Craig Goldy for Burning Ambulance today.

Thread spotify playlist updated.
You guys are maniacs; this is as active a genre thread as any on ilx.

Xp - very much dug the Goldy interview

I forgot to post here saying voting has opened. Would be nice if everyone from here and wider ILM took part but even if you dont vote I hope you still feel like posting on the thread.

http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=41&threadid=104302

apparently Suffocation were not at the opening of Summer Slaughter tonight due to a one-off conflict and this was not made apparent to fans leading up. lots of people pissed.

fortunately I'm going tomorrow where they are supposed to be there.

way too much 'core' in this lineup still

New Coroner album in 2017, new 3DVD/CD best-of package in September. "Autopsy is a 3 x Blu-ray + LP or a 3 x DVD + CD set that is jam packed with a documentary movie of the band’s history, live recordings, previously unseen interviews and a best-of compilation."

Nice. Sony Switzerland is apparently more adventurous than the US branch...

I've been digging the Blizaro album Cornucopia della Morte on I, Voidhanger. Apparently was recorded in 2013 and not released until this year. I've not heard these guys before, but this is crunchy '70s doom with some boogie in it, a la Kadavar or King Heavy.

saw Sleep last night for Pulse fundraiser. won a Obituary autographed cymbal plus a Obituary t-shirt/hat for $100 at auction. Sleep were great as expected. Loud and punishing. got like 20 mins of Dopesmoker too as per usual.

My copy of the Dio box set arrived in today's mail.

I have a confession: I only have the first two Dio albums. I've only ever had those (well, and Rainbow). Do I need to fuck with later Dio?

Yeah, they're all good (well, these first six are - I haven't heard Angry Machines, Killing the Dragon, Master of the Moon, or Magica either), and for $30 you can't really pass this box up.

I might have to pick it up, I've developed a habit of buying cheap boxsets lately.

I'm not listening to the Tliltic Tlapoyauak compilation of Black Twilight Circle artists and man, Kampilan! Anticolonial (lyrics are about the Battle of Mactlan in the Philippines), epic, disembowelment-esque dirge-death. I think this is the only song they've released and it's great.

Does it transition into blasting, cavernous death metal and almost-crusty riffing? Yeah, man, it does EVERYTHING.

That compilation is great. I reviewed it for The Wire when it came out.

enjoying the new Be'lakor, but the vocalist totally wants to be Dr Claw

new anicon record is excellent https://anicon.bandcamp.com/ and they slay live

goddamn Colin Marston gets around

I know, I know, we've all heard enough Christcrushing virgin-defiling church-despoiling filth metal to last us a lifetime but honestly, seriously, hear me out, the new Anal Blasphemy is fucking outstanding. the second track, "I Am the Claw of Vengeance," sounds like they listened to a lot of super-early-80s dystopic post-punk like Killing Joke or Theater of Hate and then ran it through the Black Metalizer or something

awesome stuff

sold already by the title "i am the claw of vengeance"

whole album is great. it should be noted that about fifteen minutes of research while listening shows that the main dude runs a pretty big Finnish distro that stocks a whole shitload of the most questionable shit you can stock, e.g. swastika patches, totenkopf patches, an act called the Auschwitz Symphony Orchestra, etc. the band itself seems strictly focused on virgin-defiling et al but depending on how pure you keep it, you know....idk as a bleeding heart sjw-sympathetic type I'm used to having do perform some elaborate calculuses about this kinda thing but thought I'd mention it.

however if you just go on "what is the actual work like?" the anal blasphemy album is incredibly solid and great, easy year-end candidate. fuckin' Finnish metal bands and their nazi preoccupations, complicating fun listening since for fuckin' ever.

not just the connection to NS, I'm having trouble pulling the trigger on this because it would be the fourth band in my collection whose name begins with Anal and I can't deal w/ that atm

Ringworm are one of my favorite live bands as they are insanely energetic live, always felt their recorded material was good but didn't quite capture that raw energy...but the new one seems to do that! it's not anything different stylistically, but the production does them more favors than usual.