Rolling Metal 2016

it's a double album, so maybe there'll be places where they stretch out

80 minutes total, 6 tracks per disc...I bet there'll be at least two 10-minute tracks on this thing.

Unforgiven 4 - 6

digging the new Skeletonwitch E.P. thus far. new vocalist though is a bit generic, though inoffensive enough that he doesn't detract from my enjoyment. he's no Chance.

like that the first track is more heavy metally than blackened death/thrash.

It's weirdly adorable how Varg opens all his recent youtube videos with some loaded question, then points at the camera and says "let's find out"

I hope it's questions like "how much toothpaste is in a tube?" or "can I kickflip this children's skateboard?"

"Can I talk outrageous racist bullshit and still keep my French residency permit? Let's find out!"

Yeah that's what I was assuming.

I like this new Sewercide album. Someone complained that it sounds like Consuming Impulse; I say yay it sounds like Consuming Impulse!!! Kinda. But the vocalist definitely has a van Drunen quality.

You know who I'm feeling lately? Garden of Worm, especially "Idle Stones." Might be more Rolling Doom/Stoner/whatev appropriate, really, cause it's weird doom with psych and prog elements.

And Mortal Decay's "Forensic" is one of the better things I've heard on Unique Leader. Brutal death but fun, with vocals that tend towards more standard DM/Bill Steer and riff writing that's got Carcass, Suffo and Cryptopsy strains running through it. Also largely non-misogynistic lyrics.

Do Brocas Helm get any love around here? Black Death is the only traditional 80s metal album I could describe as "dreamlike" without feeling like a douche.

Brocas Helm are great!

I fucking love Brocas Helm. Bastards arise, we bring you death!

The new Negura Bunget is really good. Reminds me of Popol Vuh's soundtrack to Herzog's Nosferatu, but with blast beats.

SOLD.

BTW I saw Malokarpatan discussing Popol Vuh on their Facebook page. I'll be pretty happy if I start hearing more PV influences in metal.

Not exactly metal, but I reviewed the s/t studio debut by Australian jazz-dub-metal improv group Kurushimi for Burning Ambulance. RIYL Painkiller (the John Zorn group, not the Judas Priest album), and available on Bandcamp for pay-what-you-want.

Also not exactly metal, but this folk-noise-doom thing by Völur is pretty enthralling and dark: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Y2XCmgrMhdMpoNdGibU01

totes into PV-inspired metal <3
saw pallbearer last night, enjoyed

I love that Volur record, beautiful stuff. That and Blood Folke's albums are my favorite heavy music w/violins picks for the past year.

does any band do quiet-buildup-to-thunderous-crescendos better than Russian Circles? my god...

I'm going to be at Psycho Las Vegas next weekend. Any recommendations on the lessor known act stage?

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I though that Kurushimi album is quite good but I didn't love it, I probably need a higher tolerance for free jazz tbh.

xp I've not seen them live but White Hills (heavy space rock), Crypt Sermon (excellent trad doom), Spelljammer (stonery doomish), Lecherous Gaze (retro high energy hard rock), Lycus (epic crushing crust/doom) and Ides of Gemini (like a heavy version of ethereal goth stuff).

white hills live are VERY LOUD highly recommended. like eyehategod loud.

That is a cool looking festival. There are a bunch of bands I know on that list I would check out, but they are spread out. The others might be good, but I don't know them. Nice thing is that there is a fair amount of variety in bands although this looks to have more of a desert rock/rock and roll vibe than death metal.

Saturday @ The Joint looks like the place to be in the evening (High on Fire, Uncle Acid, BOC & Electric Wizard). A Place to Bury Strangers is pretty interesting, they are more Jesus & Mary Chain noisy than metal - but cool they were booked.

Sunday @ The Joint is pretty impressive too w/ Fu Manchu, Dead Meadow, Candlemass, Baroness, Sleep & Alice Cooper.

Black Mountain, Lecherous Gaze, the Shrine, Lo-Pan, Mothership are all pretty groovy. I'd bet quite a few of the other bands are good too. Boris would be wild to see live. Acid King is pretty doomy. Jucifer I've heard some, they raise alot of racket for a 2 piece and been around for a long time.

new favorite band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8flypGO0nHI

New Obituary song. They're putting out a CD in October, Ten Thousand Ways to Die, with two new studio songs and 10 or 11 live tracks. I don't love this on first listen, but maybe it'll grow on me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI8gz54O-i8

it's about as meh as their last one

I liked the last album, but this song is slow and boring.

the main riff doesn't really do anything

New Dysrhythmia track. It's tight, and is interesting, but I think I prefer the intricate, dissonant "Internal/Eternal" from July

I am listening to Erosion of Sanity by Gorguts and wanted to say it's a record you should be listening to.

I kept waiting for something to happen in that Obituary track, and nothing did.

Cockerels, dogs, water pump

I, too, am heading to Psycho Las Vegas this weekend. Woot.

Bongripper vs. Belzebong vs. Uncle Acid ... what say y'all?

I've seen UA and they were kinda snoozy BUT Bongripper's not really my thing and I just like Belzebong OK.

Anyone wanna ride for any of them as live acts?

Bongripper can be really intense, especially if they play anything from Satan Worshipping Doom. "Satan" is incredible live. But I like Uncle Acid a lot, and in the right setting their live show can be quite good, so given the choice I'd probably go see them. Wish I was making the trip!

I'll probably end up at Uncle Acid.

BOC: Worth seeing in 2016? Over Acid King? They (BOC) played to like 200 people (not including me) at our county fair a few years ago. :(

I saw Acid King and they were great but I don't know if I could turn down BÖC

as usual, new Inquisition is a feast of minor chords and dope tremolo riffs over blast beats, Popeye vocals, and a clinically chilly sounding atmosphere.

I'd say I have a boner but what else is new

Getting my copy tomorrow, psyched. Dagon is rifflord.

it ended even better than it began.

booyah

I love their attitude. Black metal needs a bit of inadvertent cheesiness, or else you end up with fancy spiritless music that just feels like the band misses the point (see: Deathspell Omega, the orthodox BM trend in general). And Inquisition bring the cheese.

But man, they've survived on infinite variations of three riffs for 20 yrs.

Worth catching live though.

Who is this guy?

He's right tho.

I enjoyed the Inquisition! Are they sketchy or what? I hear mixed vibes about it.

The members of Agalloch that aren't the Visionary Leader have formed a band lead by the frontman of Giant Squid, called Khorada. I'm glad they're carrying on but I could never get into Giant Squid, mostly cos of the guy's voice :/

Playlist is updated.

Ugh Carcass/Deafheaven co-headlining tour. No word on puppet show.

Digging this Finnish doom band with a cool, loose psychedelic feel to the guitar work. Goes well with the Garden of Worm and Goatess records I've been digging.

http://stoneship.bandcamp.com/album/the-eye

If only I could edit my thousands of posts where I use the same word twice.

If you're into Ved Buens Ende/Virus and Fleurety, check out the Taarenes Vaar demo comp on Kyrck btw. Not as accomplished, maybe, but still enjoyable.

new Mesarthim album outta nowhere at Bandcamp. Dumb ass title, first track sounds amazing.

http://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/-