Rolling Metal 2017

Maybe they meant it like "no safer space".

i read it as "no more [oppression, this is a] safe space"

Give me Norwegian Shining any day.

Yeah, it sucks for them that they share a name.

Crazy talk, Swedish Shining is so much better than the Norwegian one, despite the stupid PR shtick.

Nah, even if you discard the moronic schtick, Swedish Shining is crap. Norwegian Shining is great.

This Cloud Rat half-LP is good stuff.

https://soundcloud.com/halo-of-flies/sets/cloud-rat-moloch-split-lp

oh cool I like them

idk about Swedish Shining but Norwegian one could put together a 45-minute compilation of killer material

Swedish Shining is crap. Norwegian Shining is great.
No, seriously? I rate III, IV and V easily among the best black metal albums of the last 15 years, as well as 8½ (with all the guest vocalists). Anyway, I have this theory that as jazz-Shining-with-the-emo-singer adds ever more metal, and metal-Shining adds more jazz, both will eventually fuse into one multinational Shining entity.

That Cloud Rat stuff is great. Goth grindcore!

"Baby Sling Ballon Born" is such a Cocteau Twins title.

The Moloch side sounds pretty good too. I don't know anything about that band.

Wow, more new Cloud Rat stuff just this morning.

https://soundcloud.com/halo-of-flies/sets/cloud-rat-crevasse-split-7

Cirith Ungol's King of the Dead is being reissued by Metal Blade next month with a bunch of live bonus tracks (some from the 80s, some from last year) and a DVD with a live performance from 1983.

I love these little mini grind suites Cloud Rat keeps putting out

man I'm surprised to hear Siegbran digs Shining, that stuff has always sounded super poseur to me. not that people who like it are posing but their whole shtick feels so forced and personality/persona-driven and the music just has never worked for me at all

JCLC, allow me to point you (and everyone else) to Suffering Hour, whose debut album In Passing Ascension comes out in May. Two songs are streaming on Bandcamp, and they rule. Doomy, dissonant, clanging death metal that reminds me of Aevangelist and Esoteric.

https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-passing-ascension-cd-12lp

just on a song title basis "devouring shapeless void" really delivers. looking forward to listening

both of those tracks sound v good

Doomy, dissonant, clanging death metal that reminds me of Aevangelist and Esoteric.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱)

colored curious. dig the latter but not not not the former (despite love for doomy, clanging dissonance). will check tonite when near proper speakers.

Shining, that stuff has always sounded super poseur to me. not that people who like it are posing but their whole shtick feels so forced and personality/persona-driven and the music just has never worked for me at all

― though the tempest rages, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:29 AM (one hour ago)

this, but i'm so completely put off by the DSBM schtick that maybe i've never given the music a fair shake. norway shining bugs too, tho for different reasons.

all of my life-loathing psychedelia/Kvarforth needs are met by the Skitliv album; that thing is massive and wonderfully exhausting

also

this is the suicidal black metal shining right

I can hear it being announced in one of those crackling warbling 80's high school filmstrip voice-overs like in a My Life with the Thrill Kult song

Bunch of actually decent bands on Warped Tour this year. Not enough to make me deal with being old and sitting through the requisite gaggle of pop-punk kids, but I wouldn't mind seeing*** Alestorm, Barb Wire Dolls, Riverboat Gamblers, Street Dogs, The Adolescents, The Alarm, The Dickies, Municipal Waste, Sick Of It All, T.S.O.L., Valient Thorr, The Acacia Strain, Candiria, Hatebreed and GWAR.

*** "Wouldn't mind seeing" doesn't mean that I love the band but at worst I would go to a show early to catch them if I was going to see the headliner.

going back to last year's thread, the Ruinous album is fuckin' fantastic.

love the vocals on it too......closer to the Benton layered vocals of yore than the "squeal like a pig"-Deliverance death metal style of late

Yeah it's a solid record. I saw a couple of not-entirely-positive reviews of it saying the vocals were too -core sounding, bollocks that.

replace solid with great, really

many thanks for the heads-up on the new Cloud Rat splits, they are phenomenal

anybody besides me on the More Than Sounds mailing list? mainly (only?) a labor-of-love YouTube project that I don't remember signing up for though that doesn't mean I didn't -- their emails always contain totally obscure gems from the past

This a compilation of unknown, but great heavy metal bands in the old style: 80's heavy metal or even hard rock. Some of these bands don't have released albums, but are worth listening to.

More Than Sounds otm, this shit is really cool -- that Albatross tune is Melissa-era KD worship from India, really amazing, and the other stuff doesn't disappoint

https://youtu.be/9rtPV67kriY

I always adored Cloud Rat and glad they are still churning out quality stuff. Looking forward to seeing the band with Thou in June.
I was advocating that Relapse sign that band, I think it's a perfect mix, but I am not sure if either entity is on the other's radar.

Cloud Rat apparently have three more splits coming out this year.

What is the best split

to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the unplayed b-side

BOOOOOOOONANA

Thanks for those Cloud Rat links! That split with Crevasse has what's probably my new fave CR song in 'Fish in a Pool'. And I've also discovered Crevasse, who are from the same neck of the woods as Dead Neanderthals. So thanks again!

testing

oh come on this thread is innocent fun don't poison this one too

wow that Mortalized from upthread

those vocals are crazy.....fantastic riffs too

if Gridlink is anything like this i'm gonna be sad I ignored them for so long

Oh, you've gotta hear Gridlink. They were amazing. Especially the third album.

https://handshakeinc.bandcamp.com/album/longhena

omFG why did I wait so long to hear them, this is fabulous

^Yeah! That was my favourite album of 2014.

I think Pallbearer is finally clicking for me. I don't think this new one is such a big leap from their previous stuff, but I'm finding it more engaging. Maybe I'm just starved for some metal to listen to.

same here, gridlink were ~amazing~

Darke Complex, the nü-metal band I wrote about for Stereogum, turned the headline into a T-shirt. I couldn't be prouder.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7xjIwfVMAAtQkc.jpg

Noice!

love longhena, but have to admit i prefer the instrumental "karaoke" version. jon's vocals wear me down quick.

Slagmaur was discussed above when the band came to Brooklyn for a one-off festival appearance. The band is about to release Thill Smitts Terror, the band's first new release since 2009.

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/files/2017/03/slagmaurthillsmittsterror.jpg?w=630&h=567&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89

I was fortunate enough to get a digital promo of the record and it's brilliant. It orchestral but not orchestrated, it's heady but still heavy, it's unique in a genre that seems more open-ended than most but also has a lot of cliquishness as well. One gets the feeling they don't care. And as someone who adores Goth and industrial music, it's always nice to see those flavors incorporated into metal, hold the cheese.

Invisible Oranges is premiering the album that comes out 3/31 via Osmose Productions. Joseph Schafer says,

Thill Smitts Terror calls on black metal’s history and the underground’s current fascination with industrial music. Slagmaur’s songs share dense, layered production and vague choral arrangements with both symphonic black metal and Deathspell Omega’s coterie of disciples, but their steady, deterministic drums, and ever-present synthesizers seem kindred to Valborg, or even Code Orange. There’s no frostbitten forests in Slagmaur’s fairytale soundscape. Instead, the dilapidated industrial environments of the ‘Silent Hill’ video game franchise comes to mind. It’s the lind of record I can’t imagine receiving any kind of hype five years ago, but it’s exactly what black metal enthusiasts running the raw and atmospheric tape circuit ought to consider.

i know discussion of them is buried upthread but the new lantern album cooks

omg Slagmaur is actually going to happen!? I will struggle to rein in my expectations.

I'm reflexively a little worried about a band with "White" in their name, but I really enjoyed the teaser track from White Ward's upcoming "Futility Report."
For those who don't mind post-hxc in their black metal, or possibly the other way around.

https://dmp666.bandcamp.com/album/futility-report

that track rules

it reminds of something but I can't place it right now

Expander - Endless Computer

Sci-fi thrashpunk from Austin w/ an album forthcoming on NWN. Only a couple tracks up on their bandcamp atm, but both great.

xhuxk recommended Hammer King on Facebook and it's a hoot, really hooky power/trade metal. Dudes love hammers and kings

Is trade metal an autocorrect mishap or is it an exciting new subgenre I haven't heard