Rolling Metal 2017

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

speaking of good black metal,

rip imago swallowed by the voiid ov darkness

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/void-masquerading-as-matter

Dawn Ray'd disappointed me because I'm ready for some angry lefty bm but it didn't grab me much.

what do you non-journalists use to keep up with upcoming metal releases? I used Lambgoat's release calendar for the longest time, but something is seriously fucked with it lately. it didn't have the Cannibal Corpse release date, it didn't have In Flames, didn't have Taake, didn't have Exhumed....

I follow this guy/organization on Bandcamp, and find him/they add/buy/review a thorough enough chunk of new releases to stay on top of things enough (at least as a non-cvlt outside observer) :https://bandcamp.com/metalbandcamp

I regularly read Invisible Oranges and No Clean Singing, the latter is a bit uncritical and hyperbolic about some fairly ordinary stuff but both are good for finding new releases.

rateyourmusic charts, this thread and idk following the white rabbit of stuff i already like

Guys. If you love Immolation. And you love Atonement...see them open gor Mayhem. Holy shit.

Been thinking about it. They're playing NYC next Saturday.

Seen em 4x and this was the best one by far

Technically 2018 but Portal have a new song out:

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ion

It sounds like Portal!

amazing

it certainly sounds like portal

i wish my reaction to portal was stronger than 'this is impressive i guess'