Rolling Metal 2017

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'

bet they're incredible live mind

Yup. Very cool live.

That song didn't blow me away but I'm about ready for something new from them.

Also I've been listening to this, slightly weird black/death w/fretless bass and impressive drumming. I almost gave it a miss because of the crappy band name but it's good:

https://corpsegarden.bandcamp.com/album/iao-269

Ever considered getting a 'produced by Colin Marston' tattoo? ;)

Will give this a right good listen

Oh my, getting J*** G*** vibes off this

or maybe it's just amazing

but SO amazing. oh my days

The Elevenfold Vibration: jaw -> floor

guys. guys, you all need to hear this. metal album of the year (for a week at least)

Yeah I like it a lot more than I came across, I'm not great a hype man. I'm really glad all this great avant-metal stuff's coming up at the end of the year but Cleric I reckon will top them all. And yes lol Colin Marston is E V E R Y W H E R E

I'm amusing myself pretending imago's asterisk post is supposed to read Jim Goad vibe

@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

― Simon H., Thursday, November 23, 2017 9:17 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, November 23, 2017 9:28 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to belatedly answer my own question, the best metalcorey thing I've heard this year (non-Converge division) is the Code Orange record, which was an impressive step forward

oh yeah i forgot to check that out, that band RIPS

An excerpt from the best press release I've read in a while:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPz78W-U8AA7eqv.jpg

Let the black wings of Omega be ferociously and perniciously uploaded to Spotify, this Night or some other Night soon, please.

new jess and the ancient ones and morbid angel records came out friday. not sure where the morbid angel is gonna find them, given the last one, but i'll still get around to it

i am finally getting around to the new cannibal corpse and my god this rocks

HEADS! SHOVELED! OFF!

ok the combo of rutan production + azagthoth writing extremely nasty oblong gateways-esque riffs = i think the new morbid angel is going to be worth spending a lot of time with

In addition to the actual new Morbid Angel album, there's something on Spotify called Complete Acid Terror, which I think might be demos or something - it's seven instrumentals with a drum machine.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6zuftX4cS6TSq516EffNIa

"the pillars crumbling" -> "for no master" is so sweet

what's the icd-10 code for Gnosis of Pleroma?

riyl: machine learning; Krallice

(glenn?)

https://theoutline.com/post/2556/this-frostbitten-black-metal-album-was-created-by-an-artificial-intelligence

aaah hahaha thank you for this

Man the "Deep the Beatles" thing by those same dudes is pretty freaky.

all it needs is spiderman and pregnant elsa

lol

and... probably going to buy the new Morbid Angel tomorrow

The AI Krallice thing is maddening because I recognise all the elements but it doesn't go in the direction I'm used to. Apart from that well done computer? It still manages to be less weird and robotic than Glyptoglossio!

I'd prefer to hear it after the entire history of metal has been uploaded to the network, and the parameters set to 'go on, impress me'

not until you have listened to metal before 1999!

all it needs is spiderman and pregnant elsa

― imago, Sunday, December 3, 2017 9:52 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loool.. it's... not bad?

Simon h has started taking noms ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll 2017: NOMINATIONS thread - open till Dec. 19th!

Finally listening to the new Azonic & loving it, so thanks to unperson

http://www.metalinjection.net/av/full-album-stream/stream-clerics-sprawling-avant-garde-metal-masterpiece-retrocausal

aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

Cleric guitarist Matt Hollenberg is the interview subject on the next Burning Ambulance podcast, which comes out Friday. We talk about Cleric, John Frum, his work in Zorn's Simulacrum band, and lots of other stuff.

cool, will tune in :)

the album is great, obviously, and as close to straight-up jazz as any metal album I've heard - hopefully you'd say good jazz at that

this is getting even better on a subsequent listen

Cleric delivers.

Very excited for this. Regressions clicked with me a awhile back and I finally got to see them about a year ago with Dysrhythmia (Colin band) and they delivered then too. Matt Hollenberg is unreal. Whole band is awesome, can't wait to check this one out.

Enjoying the podcast! My main takeaway so far is that I need to hear Simulacrum

Just played through Retrocasual. It's fucking awesome. Lots of great moments all over this album but "Grey Lodge" is the big standout for me. It's insane.

New Chaos Echoes album in February! I loved Transient, so I am extremely excited about this.