Rolling Metal 2017

The 66.6 Best Metal Albums of the Millennium, according to some zine I've never heard of.

Not really in agreement with most of it but it's not a terrible list tbf, they make space for Yellow Eyes and Krallice which is good. But placing Baroness above Mastodon is a pretty wtf move

Including Baroness and Mastodon on such a list is bad enough already I would think.

66.6, the less impressive number of the beast for when you can't put in the effort to get to 666

Got a press release from some band Reign of Vengeance.

Reign in Vengeance announces their new vocalist The Illuminated Man. Shrouded in mystery, The Illuminated Man will be replacing former vocalist Marshall Beck. Before stepping down Beck had this to say..

I'd have liked to continue on with Reign of Vengeance. However, given the material of this EP it seems better that I step down as Reign of Vengeance's frontman and hand over the responsibilities to an entity which has been fully rehabilitated by the ever expanding government and state. He seems to be better suited for this job and band now.

Enter the Illuminated Man: He is a Master of Finance, a Master of Brutality, and a Master of Psychological Warfare upon the common populace of all humans which he (like the government) believes to be nothing more than consumers and vermin filth..

Reign of Vengeance also announces the release of their new EP The Final Aeon For All Humans

The Final Aeon For All Humans is an EP that is both musically and lyrically styled to narrate through a "fictional" depiction of class warfare if it were to transpire in our modern world. This Ep takes a dual perspective lyrically including that of the common man as well as the Occultist Elite. This EP is best listened to in its entirety from start to finish, playing through like a blood soaked and very brutal musical. This album is loaded with true and mysterious-esoteric theology, American "conspiracy theories", revelation interpretations, and (most importantly)- gore, blood, brutality, and violence.

Hahaha what the fuck this is the worst Crimson Glory reboot

Lmao. That album cover is nuts.

You've literally come in here in the past arguing "I should be able to listen to Nazi bands if I want 'cause I'm not a Nazi and the music totally rips," and now you're rejecting a band over "conspiracy theory bullshit" without saying a word about the music...those are some pretty flexible standards you've got there.

Thanks Gott Punch for causing me to spit take

Oh great, Godwin's riff

Well, unperson, if you are going to make up imaginary quotes (you do know what quote marks mean, right?) that misrepresent where I stand, you can go fuck yourself.

is there something in that artwork that should be jumping out at me as obviously offensive, as opposed to garden variety trenchant social commentary

You mean the Reign of Vengeance cover? Did anyone call it offensive? I just called it dumb.

Nice to see Sister on that 66.6 list. That's one I belatedly discovered this year. Should've been higher though.

Yeah. Sister is still one of my favourite albums of recent years.

Oh yeah that's a great record. I still need to get into their earlier stuff, though I have been warned it's drastically different.

This new Gigan is great on first listen. Gotta be one of the funnest death metal bands you could attach "brutal" and "technical" to.

I want to apologize to unperson for snapping off there.

For the record, I made a very long post concerning what I feel and why I feel it and to have it encapsulated with a quote that wasn't a quote which inaccurately encapsulated my position was disheartening.

But I didn't need to snap like that.

Don't worry about it. Honestly, it bugs me more that you act like you don't know who I am. (My initials are PF. We talked about the Preservation Hall Jazz Band earlier today.)

Norwegian black metal weirdos Fleurety are putting out a new album on Peaceville next month.

I'm curious about that one. I love Min Tid Skal Komme.

Yeah, I don't know why I didn't get into Gigan before, since I like Vektor, but maybe this new one is a step forward. Like the previous three, recorded by Sanford Parker, mastered by my bud Collin Jordan. I hope to catch them at Cobra Lounge 9/28.

https://gigan.bandcamp.com/album/undulating-waves-of-rainbiotic-iridescence

I thought the upcoming Fleurety thing was a collection of the EPs they've done in the last decade

Oh no it is new, my mistake. And Carl-Michael Eide's on it, oh shiiiit :D

highly doubt it'll have anything remotely as good as the opening track of the last Virus album but we'll see

Well I'm not excited as such since they only made one album that was truly great and that was 22 years ago but hopefully this'll be interesting.

One new Fleurety track is up on the Peaceville site and YT:
https://youtu.be/6ri7Orp6KwE
http://peaceville.com/bands/fleurety/
(info about lineup etc at both links)

I posted it almost a month ago but looking back now I made that post in the least conspicuous way possible.

It's a very odd track, needless to say. Sounds math rocky.

I wondered if grindgaze was a thing. It is.

http://37564recordings.bandcamp.com/album/0cadavernamedamyblue0

Hank Shteamer interviewed jazz pianist Matt Mitchell about metal and it's a pretty amazing read:

http://wbgo.org/post/heavy-metal-bebop-pianist-matt-mitchell-bonds-between-jazz-and-metal-and-his-hard-new-album#stream/0

Matt Mitchell is awesome and totally otm about Ordo Ad Chao. he's a Cardiacs fan too iirc

man I'm finally getting to this new Contrarian album

astral death metal in an oooold Schuldiner style is probably not what a lotta people are looking for in 2017 but I fucking LOVE it.

seriously it fuckin rules. and it does these Floyd-y moves toward the end...just wonderful. Death metal bands with a Pink Floyd jones are some of the best death metal bands.

astral death metal in an oooold Schuldiner style is probably not what a lotta people are looking for in 2017 but I fucking LOVE it.

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:33 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hoo boy thankfully i am

Hank Shteamer interviewed jazz pianist Matt Mitchell about metal and it's a pretty amazing read:

http://wbgo.org/post/heavy-metal-bebop-pianist-matt-mitchell-bonds-between-jazz-and-metal-and-his-hard-new-album#stream/0

― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, September 21, 2017 1:07 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Matt Mitchell is awesome and totally otm about Ordo Ad Chao. he's a Cardiacs fan too iirc

― Dominique, Thursday, September 21, 2017 2:28 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks for turning me onto this guy

I wrote a thing for Bandcamp about Ireland's heavy underground.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/09/21/ireland-heavy-underground-list/

x's and p's

Love that Contrarian - feel like it's way better than the first one? It's been a minute since I heard that album.

I feel like I shouldn't like the Contrarian album now, for *some reason*

Don't be an Arbitrarian

maaaaaaaaan that new Wolves in the Throne Room

The new Incantation album, unsurprisingly, rules.

Indeed. Wish some of the songs were longer but that's a good complaint to have.

Squalus
The Great Fish...
(Translation Loss Records)
Release Date: 9/24/2017
Formats: CD/LP/Digi

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Squalus-TheGreatFish1-500x500.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/0z4YWEx3lv6vxm3tL7mrWe
https://squalus.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-fish

Emerging from the ashes of cult-prog group Giant Squid, Squalus' debut is an ode to all things Jaws from the name and artwork to the lyrics and samples from the classic movie. The album is surprisingly fun and unpretentious.

New Akvan is really intense, a cut above the EP from last year.

There's a new Shining (the Norwegian one) song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3La4C7yxo4

Not great.

What happened to them? That sounds like WWE pay-per-view theme music.

That is the worst Turbonegro song I've ever heard

New Akvan is really intense, a cut above the EP from last year.

Really trebly, cutting BM vocals and guitars, but still melodic, and the Persian music elements are more prominent and integrated well. Guy plays tar and setar.

the last shining album was promising but seems they've doubled down on the vaguely industrial jock rock

this contrarian album is an enormous improvement on the last one, which i already liked! man!

xp sounds kinda like 'Halo' by Soil

think I must have missed an album or two of theirs if there was any previous clue they were devolving towards this point

anyone who's after big earnest alt-prog-metal could do plenty worse than the Caligula's Horse album