Rolling Metal 2017

the decibel list is out already?!

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/11/20/spoiler-decibels-top-40-albums-2017/#.WhLnb6M3y7Q.facebook

yesssss @ propagandhi!!

boo @ no Chelsea Wolfe

publishing a metal eoy before thantifaxath and cleric release their records is sheer folly tbh

that spirit adrift record is not my usual thing but my god it's lovely

the WITTR record is awfully high, it was nice enough but not a patch on their last (proper) one

nice to see the Oxbow in there too, great album

I guess they had to choose between Immolation and Incantation. I think they made the right choice.

In non-list news, I just discovered (by reading the CD booklet) that Dominick Fernow (aka Prurient) plays synth on 3 tracks on the new Cavalera Conspiracy album.

PL is top 5 2017 for me and if I didn't say something about that my bad Brad

PL is top 5 2017 for me and if I didn't say something about that my bad Brad

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, November 20, 2017 9:57 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's totally ok bc i had the best time listening to it just now! <3

Thought Elder would be on the Decibel list. I mean it's not less metal than the Ufomammut or Oxbow (and better than both IMO). Surprised by the absence of Falls of Rauros too.

yeah the Falls of Rauros album is a beaut

i'm back on the paradise lost record and the layering of guitars on "gods of ancient" is so exquisite aaaaah

Paradise Lost is incredible.

What are the other urgent and key doom and/or folk metal releases of the year? Playing a bit of catch up here.

Spectral Voice is the one everyone's been going mad about, I think it's a perfectly solid death-doom album hype but I don't really get the hype.

in terms of stuff with folky elements I love Lör's In Forgotten Sleep (it's not at all doomy, though)

https://halloflor.bandcamp.com/album/in-forgotten-sleep

xp There's also a quite overlooked album by a band called Vin de Mia Trix (I mentioned it upthread) which is loooong but really very good.

Regarding folksy stuff the latest Botanist album is one of my fave albums of the year in any genre, and I heard this EP recently:

https://arstidirlifsins.bandcamp.com/album/heljarkvi-a

and thought it was pretty dece. Oh and Enslaved dribbled something out a while back idk.

That first Paradise Lost album was one of my falling asleep records for years. Gave me some weird dreams. Good to hear they've returned to that sound.

good year for melodic prog-metal for anyone looking for stuff that's on the less-brootal side

Anathema
Caligula's Horse
Leprous
Soen

man put this new godflesh on in the club

everything I'm hearing about it is that it slays utterly

i'm halfway through and yep

it's fucking fantastic. NYCNative's review is pretty spot-on. the song "Be God" is massiiiiiiiive.

just got to the end of the godflesh, pretty sure the last track is cursed. fucking awesome album

it's just the right length too, which is not always/often the case with Broadrick things

occvlta?

i regret never getting around to listening to the new immolation

More new Krallice! https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/go-be-forgotten

jfkrallice

Regarding folksy stuff the latest Botanist album is one of my fave albums of the year in any genre, and I heard this EP recently:

https://arstidirlifsins.bandcamp.com/album/heljarkvi-a

Really liked this on first listen (although I can't pronounce anything about it), esp string coda to track 2. Botanist obv great.

first track on the new krallice wasn't doing much for me but the second track is overwhelming

yeah this is phenomenal. what a good and bizarre band

what, they're just doing band things, making records, playing shows, rocking out

so far I like this much better than Loum

good year for melodic prog-metal for anyone looking for stuff that's on the less-brootal side

Anathema
Caligula's Horse
Leprous
Soen

― Simon H.

That's a pretty good batch! Along more prog pop lines there's KOYO and Gold Key, and psych prog there's Kairon; IRSE!, Ghost Against Ghost, Kabbalah, Atavismo, Himmellegeme, Amplifier, The Dials, and most likely my album of the year, Motorpsycho.

the Kairon; IRSE will be high on my list for sure

and of course I will be big-upping my False Metal pick of the year, Disperse's Foreword

what's false about it Simon? (i like false metal)

to quote myself from back in March or whatever

it sounds like someone went into the 1975's studio when they were off on spliff breaks and tried to make prog-metal using their setup

Thanks! I shall hear this album today.

new Tribulation song/video

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

I am not overwhelmed by that new Tribulation.

@Brad any good metalcore-y stuff this year? I wasn't that struck by this year's August Burns Red, though I am enjoying this Ghost Key album I discovered completely by accident while looking for something else

i didn’t engage much beyond being bored by the abr

thought the previous two Cavalera Conspiracies were pleasant if not memorable, this third one is actually much better in my eyes.

enjoying it a lot.

ok the voiceover in the last track is ridiculous

apparently Prurient plays synth on this album which even though I like the guy I have a hard time imagining to be a hugely necessary teamup

Dawn Ray'd alb is good black metal w/ violin. though sometimes the moments where it appear seem tacked on rather than organic