Rolling Metal 2018

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.

Neckbeard Deathcamp interview on Bandcamp Daily...

What do you think is it about black metal that it developed this particular white nationalism streak? One doesn’t automatically leap to racism when one thinks about death metal or metalcore or, say, EBM.

KOMRADEZ: BLACK METAL IS AN OUTSIDER ART FORM. NAZIS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IN ANY OTHER COMMUNITY, SO THEY STARTED CIRCLE JERKING IN BLACK METAL, WHERE THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD STROKE THEIR EGOS AND MASK THEIR INSECURITIES IN PEACE. BLACK METAL WILL NO LONGER STAND FOR RACISTS. HAIL BLACK METAL, HAIL VICTORY.

HAIL KE$HA

KRIEGMEISTER HATESTORM: I THINK KE$HA IS THE MOST POWERFVL EXAMPLE OV CONTEMPORARY MAINSTREAM BLVCK METAL.

xp beat me to it :)

Just now starting to make my way through this year's RM, but gotta go ahead & ask: What 2018 Motorhead-type bands should I check, also what Japanese psychmetal etc, and if there is a 2018 Japanese mirroshades Motorhead Mad Max band (or non-Japanese version of the rest of that), please mention. Would like throat sounds more Lemmy than Cookie Monster.

Apparently Neckbeard Deathcamp's record is gonna be getting real-world distribution via Prosthetic. Just got emailed the promo.

xp these guys are local on the Motorhead tip with some hardcore mixed in... vocals might not be what you're looking for but I like em

http://pinkmistband.bandcamp.com/releases

One doesn’t automatically leap to racism when one thinks about death metal or metalcore

interviewer hasn't listened to enough metalcore

sorta into heel turn shining (more in theory than reality)

ya me too (and me too)

vocals might not be what you're looking for They fit fine, thanks for the link!

There's a new Hate Eternal album coming out in October. I'm about four tracks deep (out of nine) now and while I don't like it as much as their last one, it's good.

I interviewed Rutan back in 2015.

I guess we can move Nokturnal Mortum from the "somewhat questionable" category to the "probably Nazis" category

http://www.toiletovhell.com/too-scared-to-attend-unite-the-right-try-asgardsrei-2018/

Peste Noir? *sigh*

Wow, and it's the weekend of my birthday, too!

Huntress singer Jill Janus has committed suicide.

I saw them perform two or three times, and met her once. She seemed nice, and mildly nuts, but in a theater-girl sort of way, not a manic/suicidal sort of way. And I liked their music; they weren't great, but they got better with every album.

well, shit. I agree that Huntress's albums were on an improving path, but I also think "Eight of Swords" is a woefully under-appreciated shoulda-been classic.

the Rebel Wizard album fuckin' rips. "Mother Nature, Oh My Sweet Mistress..." in particular is just groovy as hell

For fans of being hit with a sack full of doorknobs

New Convulsing
http://convulsing.bandcamp.com/

New Sulaco
http://sulacotl.bandcamp.com/album/the-prize

the pace of my life, and the huge amount of stuff I want to know about, means it can take me an age to get around to something -- the more interested I am in it, the less likely I am to just play it as soon as I download it (physical releases have a better chance, because I drive to & from the office almost every day, so they go directly onto the passenger seat, where their presence reminds me: play this thing you bought). anyway, this morning, after listening to the Malsanctum album on Iron Bonehead (which is super interesting funereal doom SORT OF but bleaker than most of what you think of in that vein -- it reminds me of Khanate's Catch and Release, I think, though admittedly I haven't listened to that record in 10 years so grain of salt there. Reminds me of how I remember Catch and Release, anyway), I finally got around to Mesarthim's The Density Parameter...

...this is really super good. It's more derivative of Summoning than they used to be, which I probably shouldn't be surprised about -- they were on the tribute album a couple years back -- but their keyboard lines are totally different, more lyrical / less proto-dungeon-synth -- and, if Summoning's guitar lines can't be bettered (they can't), this has its own strengths -- the long tracks really crescendo into huge payoffs, immensely satisfying stuff...I think this band merits a lot of close listening, even if when they favor the synth harder than I like (Pillars) I tend not to connect as much...but damn. Mesarthim makes very good and interesting music.

:) nice to have you on board JCLC. correspondingly i have started listening to the new summoning album of late and found it delightful. i shall enjoy diving deeper into their body of work. they know their way around a tune

You didnt know Summoning before?

not really!

Booming post JCLC.

the more interested I am in it, the less likely I am to just play it as soon as I download it

God yes. Though I started playing the Malsanctum album right away after reading your post (the Khanate ref sealed it). Will get to Summoning straight after.

agreed on basically every point jclc (except for the malsanctum record which i now have to check out)

lj go immediately to let the mortal heroes sing your fame

That post doesn't make me want to listen to Mesarthim, but it does remind me that I keep meaning to order the Japanese 2CD editions of the whole Khanate catalog and should really get on that while my Paypal account is pleasingly full...