Rolling Metal 2018

ok this is *awesome*

drastically pitch-shifted stacked harmonies

what is up

this record is v cool and i like it, thank you!

And the Chicago Reader is the first to cross the finish line with a Neckbeard Deathcamp interview.

There's a new Axegrinder but it's terrible.

RIP Mark "The Shark" Shelton from Manilla Road

http://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/633051009/manilla-roads-mark-the-shark-shelton-traditional-metal-s-innovator-dead-at-60

props to Deafheaven for giving is their best last night despite Kerry not making it past the border

I tried several times to get into Manilla Road but never could. Oh, well. RIP to a dude who lived it for real. Nothing but respect for that.

I greatly admire Manilla Road, and Shelton was a true gentleman who exuded positivity. Open the Gates and Crystal Logic are two of the best underground metal albums of the '80s. He will be sorely missed.

The Sadistik Forest album fucking RULES

Kerry not making it past the border

What happened?

Good musical taste on the part of the border guard? (I kid, I kid)

It's official: new Sunn O))) album in 2019, engineered by Steve Albini.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjXjLgaU4AEoZtq.jpg

Good musical taste on the part of the border guard? (I kid, I kid)

well they're still making albums so

The new Khanus is even better than I was hoping from the teaser track above. I would say it's kind of a progressive Viking black metal thing, but it's hard to pigeonhole.

Lychgate is another interesting progressive black metal one. Maybe not as immediate as the Khanus but well worth checking out, especially for name-your-own-price:

https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/the-contagion-in-nine-steps

I liked the Lychgate a lot but maybe not as much as the previous one. But I'm a sucker for those gothic (as in architecture) church organ breakdowns. Totally looking forward to the Khanus!

I really like this Lychgate and think it might win over some of the doubters. Less circus, less organ.

New Krisiun album in September. Sounds like a Krisiun album. I like it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Djca2lGVAAAzOhJ.jpg

Yaaaaaay!

August albums I like:

Rebel Wizard (8/17, Prosthetic) Exactly everything I love about the band - chaotic riffs aplenty, maybe a shade more epic than in the past, and he wears it well.

Tile (8/17, Limited Appeal) Allentown, PA noise outfit that touches all the right Jesus Lizard/Black Flag receptors for me. I'm planning on catching their record release show.

Uniform (8/17, Sacred Bones) Their first album was more industrial but they seem more like brainy, disjointed hardcore now (with Liturgy's drummer in the fold) based on their recent show with Deafheaven and the few spins I have given the new one. And that's fine.

Thou (8/31, Sacred Bones) It's fucking Thou, man.

Throat (8/31, Svart) A Finnish noise-noir group whose sophomore release provides uneasy listening that I can get behind, like Nick Cave joined Shellac. They are playing Philly the day after the Tile record release show which will make for a noisy weekend for me!

oh shit i didn't know greg fox played with uniform now, that rules.

It's pretty cool to see the Black Dahlia Murder taking out some underground bands. Much respect.

http://files.constantcontact.com/28b23da7301/053279e3-84d9-450f-a7ff-9d91e362b39d.jpg

This new Taphos is sounding pretty good. Gritty death "from the same Danish scene as Undergang and Phrenelith":

https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/come-ethereal-somberness

The new High On Fire song sounds like a High On Fire song. New album out 10/5, produced by Kurt Ballou again. It's good, but I think they should stop working with him and maybe work with Erik Rutan or someone else instead.

Anybody listen to the Manticora album?

I haven't played the whole thing yet, but I've enjoyed the two songs I've played. Muscular heavy/power metal, nowhere near as ponderous (or abstruse) as the ridiculous titles (e.g. "The Farmer's Tale Pt. 1 - The Aftermath of Indifference") might lead you to expect.

I am digging the hell out of it

this is probably old news but Wytch Hazel is really dope for old skool 70s metal vibes

I also really like that Manticora album!

guess the band

On this album the band have changed direction with frontman [redacted] commenting, ‘this new record is more Muse than Meshuggah, more Ghost than Gojira, and more Biffy Clyro than Burzum!’'

The ABBA reunion?

i don't know but i shan't be purchasing it

Ha! I have no idea who that is but I won't be listening, either.

Now playing: the new Primal Fear. I remember seeing these guys open for Halford in 2003 or so; it was like when Wire brought a Wire cover band out as their opening act.

commenting, ‘this new record is more Muse than Meshuggah, more Ghost than Gojira, and more Biffy Clyro than Burzum!’'

― still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Friday, August 10, 2018 2:20 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean this is a good capsule description of the last twenty anathema records

does he mean the japanese ghost

no, of course not, nobody _ever_ means the japanese ghost

it's the (Norwegian) Shining

grudging respect to them for cheerfully owning their descent into total shitness tbh

xp I would love it if Temple Stone or Lama Rabi Rabi started turning up in metal bands lists of influences

ahahahaha remember when these guys made jazz-metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq-4eFBaRGg

honestly if the chorus weren't so lazy I'd be pretty into this, who am I kidding

wait which is the nazi shining and which is the jazzbo black metal shining?

nazi Shining is from Sweden and still makes black metal as fas as I know/care, former jazzbo shining are from Norway

This is their new band photo, from Facebook:

https://scontent.fewr1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/38894218_10156791607008714_8393560380760129536_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=269a174989c98c73a643a1c1a5291851&oe=5BCB57E0

of course it is

does he mean the japanese ghost

no, of course not, nobody _ever_ means the japanese ghost

― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, August 10, 2018 7:51 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dig the BOC lite Ghost ok but man i resent them for overshadowing the O.G. prog Ghost

One other note re Shining: I mentioned on Twitter that the first line of that song is a straight-up steal from Nickelback, and the band replied that yes, it was.

oh man I thought we were talking about shitty Nazi Shining not that one, weird ass world

i dig the BOC lite Ghost ok but man i resent them for overshadowing the O.G. prog Ghost

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

oh yes me too i will never forgive them for that honestly

and yeah it's a weird world where there are now _two_ shitty metal shinings but i guess they had nowhere go to from "live blackjazz" but down, so i can't begrudge them too much for going that way with a vengeance.

Can't believe I haven't mentioned it here but Nachash put an album out on Shadow Kingdom

http://shadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/phantasmal-triunity

Occulty epic weird black metal with death elements (and I swear I hear some Amebix/Axegrinder in some of the riffs), they have that left-field feel that means they probably listen to a lot of Eastern European and Mediterranean 1.5th wave stuff. And Samael maybe.