forgot that's out later this month (well, for the rest of us!)
\m/
― Neanderthal, Friday, 4 August 2017 00:35 (six years ago) link
Just checked Expulsion out... fuuuuuuuuuck indeed. It's only like 15 minutes long, though?
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, August 3, 2017 5:29 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yup. Quick hitter
― Neanderthal, Thursday, August 3, 2017 9:14 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was going to say Matt Harvey has found his niche as a mimic w/ this band and Gruesome but he kinda has done that his whole career, w/ Exhumed largely being Carcass worship.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 4 August 2017 00:36 (six years ago) link
It's a weird niche, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
Anyone checked this Iron Bonehead demo from Blooming Carrions yet? Aside from the Evil Outback Steakhouse name I'm not a huge fan of the production - the guitars feel overly EQ'd and it gives them a monotonous quality on my speakers, a little less so on headphones. But there's promise here for people that like the somewhat hypertrophied Incantation wing of death metal.
https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/blooming-carrions-sparkling-rotten-dreams
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 4 August 2017 07:21 (six years ago) link
if you didn't listen to this last year...listen to it this year. somehow threads a knot of the more technical style of EARLY death metal (not modern tech-death), sludge, and...art-rock?
https://oksennus.bandcamp.com/album/sokea-idiootti
Very, very good.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 4 August 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
Oksennus are cool. Some of my favorite cover art. I love Finland.
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 4 August 2017 12:43 (six years ago) link
ha wtf that Oksennus. have I even heard any metal that sounds like this?
― Dominique, Friday, 4 August 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
if I've done my time zone math correctly, Emperor should be coming up on the Wacken livestream in about an hour (3:30 EST/9:30 Wacken time)
http://stream.wacken.com/
(and after that, Megadeth, Turbonegro, and Annihilator)
― Devilock, Friday, 4 August 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
fucking sun going down as they play "...Nightspirit," this is incredible
honestly wasn't expecting much, as Emperor's music seems to lose something in a live setting but uhhh this is cool
― Devilock, Friday, 4 August 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
Thanks for posting - I didn't realize they were streaming, and this is awesome. Emperor!
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 4 August 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
Keijo Niinimaa of Rotten sound has a new band, Morbid Evils, who do a kind of postpunk doom thing that I like a lot, so I interviewed him for Bandcamp.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 7 August 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
too lazy to repost but the cover art for the new bell witch album mirror reaper is fucking incredible and may compel me to buy it on LP unheard
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 01:44 (six years ago) link
Kayla Dixon of Witch Mountain was apparently let go from her other band Helion Prime.
one less reason to care about HP I guess
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
Mayhem resurrecting its "De Mysteriis in full" tour from earlier this year, and Black Anvil is rejoining them, only replace Inquisition with.....Immolation.
...
fuck yes!
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
They played pretty much the whole album anyway on their regular tours, don't they?
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
a good chunk of it, I think. the first time I saw them (2015), they played Funeral Fog, Freezing Moon, Life Eternal, and uhh.....maybe the title track? the rest was spread out over their other albums/Deathcrush
I will admit I was bummed when I found out that literally it's the album and nothing else when I first caught this set in Feb, cos nothing is more fun than hearing "Deathcrush" live. will hope against hope that they bring back an extra set (I like the new stuff too so like....bring it too!).
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
but really the thing I'm excited about is Immolation cos I never get to see em
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 23:24 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I'm interested in that tour, but not interested in sticking around for Mayhem. (I kinda sorta like some of their weirdest stuff, but De Mysteriis... nah.) Black Anvil are really good live, and I've never seen Immolation but their last 3-4 albums have been pretty incredible.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
yeah I enjoyed Black Anvil (what I heard of their set).
Immolation was my first death metal show so I have warm memories of it. last saw them on the Decibel tour in 2013 promoting Kingdom of Conspiracy.
they're one of those bands where the setlist doesn't matter, it all sounds amazing
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
(tho it'd be nice if I could get "Father, You're Not a Father" this time)
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
I saw Black Anvil and Tombs open for Marduk...fuck, that was eight years ago.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
ahh nice, Withered too. only thing that bugs me about them is the first time I saw them they had the sound guy turn up their volume to painful decibels, I had to leave. last time they were much more, uhh, sparing with the loudness
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
Immolation + Mayhem tour is crazy! potential bad-scene-pairings yes, but why wouldn't I want to see them?
― Dominique, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
no reason, get thee there!
loling at the nearest show to me being Tampa (90 minute drive) the day after Thanksgiving. guess I'll burning off those calories in the pit.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
ok so I'm three tracks into the new pyrrhon and I think it stands a fair chance of being my metal AOTY
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/08/07/201787full-album-stream-pyrrhons-what-passes-for-survival/
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
Relapse really dropped the ball when they dropped Pyrrhon, but I guess that's the direction they're going and they're still putting out great stuff like the new Atriarch so whatevs.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 07:49 (six years ago) link
Yeah I thought that was strange - it was like signed-album out-dropped in a very short period of time. But it doesn't seem to have slowed the band down, thankfully.
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
Bonehunter album is pretty good punky black metal with more depth than you might expect. For an album with a bear-man with a huge erection stuck in a science tube on the cover.
Dunno if I mentioned it or whatever but Nuclear War Now seems to have gotten some wider distribution (through the Alliance one-stop) so there's a good chance their releases will turn up at well-stocked record stores they might not have previously. I picked up the Rites of Thy Degringolade "Arch Spatial" LP (an anthology of their demo, EP etc) recently and highly recommend it for anyone who likes Canadian black death with some really excellently weird drumming.
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 10 August 2017 04:22 (six years ago) link
The new Enslaved album is exciting, a big return to form after In Times. It sounds like the Bardspec and Skuggsja projects have inspired more experimentation in Ivar's songwriting, because there's more of an experimental feel than we've heard from the band lately. A couple really catchy, hard-charging tracks are on there, too.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
anybody heard the Venom, Inc album due out tomorrow?
how did I not know they were actually recording? had thought they were just touring.
we have two Venoms now. and two Entombeds. cray
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 10 August 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
"Ave Satanas" which I'm listening to now is....alright. kinda fist pumpy heavy metal, not really what I was expecting. somewhat catchy but a bit generic. and the spoken word bit in the middle sounds like the one from "Thriller".
7 minutes....oi.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 10 August 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
ok listening to "Dein Fleisch" and idk what they're going for but it's not interesting to me.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 10 August 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
guess I'll post my "stuff I like from 2017" list since it's August. no particular order
Decrepit Birth - Axis Mundi (one of the few tech death bands I like)Decapitated - AnticultMemoriam - For the FallenBroken Hope - Mutilated and AssimilatedDying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck WithOrigin - Unparalleled UniverseIced Earth - Incorruptible (I will stress there is absolutely nothing essential about this album)Sinister- SyncretismBody Count - BloodlustRuinous - Graves of Ceaseless DeathDanzig - Black Laden CrownBeheaded - Beast IncarnateMastodon - AndromedaImmolation - AtonementWarbringer - Woe to the VanquishedExpulsion - Nightmare FutureCemetery Urn - s/tArtificial Brain - Infrared HorizonVenenum - Trance of DeathLantern - II: MetamorphosisSuffocation - ...of the Dark Light
― Neanderthal, Friday, 11 August 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
I left a buncha stuff off that I've only listened to once cos this summer was brutal w/ work
You might dig the Contaminated album, Final Man, if you haven't heard it.
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 11 August 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link
For anyone who digs Maryland doom, there's a Force "Discography 1981-84" compilation out. Mastered from none-too-quiet vinyl but still, recommended if you dig the style; they're really good at writing hooky songs with riffs that have an almost Witchfinder General feel and great low key female vocals, couple of members went on to Iron Man.
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 11 August 2017 07:35 (six years ago) link
Maybe the greatest album ever of gothic symphonic metal covers of pop songs:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1z2VqMp0MNni68SZ37N1m4
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 11 August 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
Also, if you're into the visual-kei version of J-metal, Mucc has two new albums out at once:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0H5RxHktwweq029ONUYzdwhttps://open.spotify.com/album/2VMc5xfMUJusmSGR3wx2IV
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 11 August 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
Next week I could see either the reformed Captain Beyond or Profanatica.I let the wife choose and she chose the black metal show because she liked the venue better,
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 12 August 2017 04:12 (six years ago) link
Invictus is one of my favorite labels right now. They released my favorite metal album of the year so far (Apostate Viaticum), and the samples from their September and October release line-up all sound good as well (Antiversum, Inconcessus Lux Lucis, Oraculum).
― o. nate, Sunday, 13 August 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link
Newish Howls of Ebb/Khthoniik Cerviiks split. I was sold about two seconds into the first HoE track, which has a great intro riff like orcs trying to play King Crimson riffs. Warlike but bouncy.
http://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/howls-of-ebb-khthoniik-cerviiks-with-gangrene-edges-voiidwarp
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 13 August 2017 02:41 (six years ago) link
And the Poison Blood EP from the Horseback guy and Neil from Krieg is good stuff if you like your weirdmetal to have chunks of Beherit worship floating in it.
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 13 August 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
do you like Blessed Are the Sick? then you should probably get into this
https://phrenelith.bandcamp.com/album/desolate-endscape
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 13 August 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
that's a fuckin endorsement if I ever heard one!!!!
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 13 August 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link
god I love the new Incantation, I mean new INcantation being good isn't a surprise but this is fuckin' TAUT
if you like Begrime Exemious or other ugly clattering thrashy deathy stuff, Serpent Column is pretty good, the last two songs especially where things sort of open up
https://serpentcolumn.bandcamp.com/releases
I'm still catching up on this year; there's so much, aaaaaggghhh still haven't heard Incantation or Pyrrhon
― Devilock, Monday, 14 August 2017 01:09 (six years ago) link
or that Phrenelith for that matter and the BATS ref compels me to do so
― Devilock, Monday, 14 August 2017 01:12 (six years ago) link
Phrenelith is great. For Morbid Angel worship I think Tehom beats them out by a nose. A demon nose.
I think I'm in love with the one-man slam death project Needle Contaminated Pork from Japan right now btw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=385q2NN4dJ0
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
Also any recommendations for full-strength ignorant slam death would be appreciated, I need to pound this week out of my brain and it's only Tuesday.
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 04:28 (six years ago) link
Interesting article about a Minneapolis-based white power label and the corporate lawyer who runs it
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
Saw Tour of the Doomed on Sunday. Metal Mike Smith, organizer of Milwaukee's Days of the Doomed Fest which last happened in 2014, arranged this tour with Spillage (Tony Spillman of Earthen Grave), Beelzefuzz and the mighty sHEAVY from Newfoundland. The band formed in 1993, and remarkably this is their first U.S. tour! Highly recommended for fans of rock 'n' doom. One thing all the bands shared in common were strong, unique vocalists, which is often a weakness in this genre. They hit Cleveland tonight, then Pittsburgh, York and Brooklyn. Apostle Of Solitude opened in Chicago. Other dates will include Argus, Witch Hazel, Reign Of Zaius and Pale Divine.
Pics: http://www.johnmourlas.com/2017/20170813400/
Also on Friday I saw Castle probably for the fifth time. Rather than take them for granted, I'm always amazed all over again by their musicianship and commitment to put out with great performances every time (pics). My favorite husband-wife team currently in metal, Elizabeth Blackwell puts forth an intensity that suggests she's not just performing, but exercising demons nightly. Mat Davis is a first rate shredder, watching his fingers flying on the fret is a joy for all guitaraholics (ex on "Corpse Candles"). Drummer Al McCartney ably carries the weight of a power trio drummer. For some reason they haven't gotten quite the same attention as contemporaries such as Christian Mistress and Witch Mountain. They are true road dogs, criss-crossing the U.S. and playing in Europe, and deserve more love. Initially considered a doom band, they've always been a mix of mystical hard rock and traditional metal. Their fifth album should come out early next year. Friends and I chatted with Elizabeth a good 30 minutes before the show and my favorite thing she said was when she talked about how much she loved Judas Priest -- "I'd do anything for Rob Halford -- I'd feed his cats!"
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link