Rolling Metal 2016

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/-

remorseless!

Is the title morse code or something?

I think it's Absence in morse code

Ha, ok. At first I was wondering if it was the Wow Signal or something else spacy.

have listened to it all. think Pillars is better but will relisten soon

Uhhh Demilich is touring. The United States. Or at least the west coast, with Vastum and Hooded Menace.

the mesarthim is fucking amazing. again!

jeez these guys could be my new favorite band

Brad have you heard the Astronoid record yet? It's like Mew gone death metal.

I wouldn't want to see Demilich live, I have it in my head that they are actual space mutants and I don't want anything to destroy that.

Brad have you heard the Astronoid record yet? It's like Mew gone death metal.

from this description and the tags on their bandcamp i wasn't sure how i'd feel (i mean, theoretically i'm super about mew as death metal but you can see how that combination could go wrong or boring), but wow i love this, huge devin townsend vibes

wish i were still in contact with my ex from college who loves devin townsend, she would go nuts over this record

this is also like, "what if that last cynic record were any good"

the vocal melodies are very mew, but they're also very coheed/elliott

possibly this record was built just for me

<3

Excellent running album.

Trying to figure out why Okkultokrati's albums all come in under a 3 score on rateyourmusic

cuz weird gothy metal-crust is sounding pretty good to me right now

Remember when Black Metal was Black Metal? These guys do:

Nordjevel - s/t
https://nordjevel.bandcamp.com

Don't know if any of you have heard of Devil to Pay from Indianapolis, but they have been around for quite a while and have a new album out. Steve Janiak the lead singer is also now in Apostles of Solitude which tours Europe and is a doom band from Indy too. Both bands are really good. Anyway Devil to Pay has a new album out.

http://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-bend-through-space-and-time

for whatever it's worth, my main takeaway from Psycho Las Vegas was that Tribulation is the best band on Earth. man, I loved their last two albums, but they were *mind-blowing* live, and that was with a 45-minute set on a temporary stage next to a pool at a second-rate casino.

Tribulation rules.