:) 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
― imago, Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
You didnt know Summoning before?
― Siegbran, Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
not really!
― imago, Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
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.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
agreed on basically every point jclc (except for the malsanctum record which i now have to check out)
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
lj go immediately to let the mortal heroes sing your fame
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
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...
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
it's funny though - giving PIllars another try in the wake of how much I like The Density Parameter -- nope, you can keep Pillars, thanks!
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
the great filter/type iii is the one (or two) for me, and i also think 'absence' rules fyi
― imago, Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
absence and density parameter are my favs. great filter/type iii also amazing, i fell asleep to it nightly for like a week straight
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
sorta agree with joan that pillars leans a little too far into trance
Youse lot should listen to Nishaiar if you're into soft, ambient, spacey metal. They've already released two albums this year on bc (I haven't heard the more recent one though).
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 23 August 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
New Mantar is awesome.
― mikethegrouch, Friday, 24 August 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
Not metal but metal-adjacent: there's a new Ancestors album out today, their first in six years.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 24 August 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
Revising my statement on the new Convulsing - it's definitely got its harsh moments but there's also some epic, post-y parts (albeit still slathered in grime).
Also the new Innumerable Forms on Profane Lore is excellent death/doom, RIYL recent Mortuous, Tomb Mold, etc.
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 August 2018 06:45 (five years ago) link
The new Deicide comes out in three weeks (9/14) and it rips. But WTF is going on with this band photo? It looks like a gang of monkeys found a camera in the jungle:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dlec_IsWwAAD4Uc.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 25 August 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
lol. that's weird, Glenn is usually the scowler, Steve is good-humored. ran into him in Tampa at the Watain show in March (cos he still goes to all the shows) and he played me a demo of the new album. dude has the grip of a professional boxer tho.
can't wait for the new album....hope they come by again soon
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 August 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
Neanderthal, do you have a quick list of like... post Once Upon The Cross Deicide to check out? I kinda dropped them there. I did like Stench of Redemption but didn't actually buy it.
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 26 August 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
I really liked To Hell with God, which has the staple "Conviction", and In the Minds of Evil, of which my favs are the title track and "Thou Begone".
Like Stench, they moved into a wee bit more melodic territory, but the riffs are a bit more sinister and twisting than the stuff on Stench
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 August 2018 01:21 (five years ago) link
Don't sleep on Till Death Do Us Part, which I always call death metal's Here, My Dear - it's a whole album about how much he hates his ex-wife. It's hilarious. But it's got riffs.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 26 August 2018 02:08 (five years ago) link
thanks guys!
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 26 August 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link
Still very weird to hear a song like "Kill the Light of Christ" dripping with melody
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 26 August 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
Kill the light of christ and replace it with beautiful riffs
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 August 2018 12:25 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IMhNSro3GE
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 August 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
did we notice there's a new album by SKULL FIST out soon?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbGtTcRVupU
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 30 August 2018 02:02 (five years ago) link
new Master Boot Record is totally on my short list for year's best metal and I ain't even jokin
https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/direct-memory-access
― summervillain, Thursday, 30 August 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
pig destroyer record streaming on npr. i was a little unsure of it from the singles but atm it sounds like it fucking rips https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/641382167/first-listen-pig-destroyer-head-cage
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 August 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
the riff that opens "circle river" @_@
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 August 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
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this turned out to be a good idea
― imago, Friday, 31 August 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
New stuff I like from old bands:
The new Satan record is more of the majestic metal we have come to expect from the band. While reviewing it I noticed that their debut was one of the best albums of 1983 and the first comeback album was one of the best albums in 2013. Can you name a band in any genre that can claim two of the best albums of the year thirty years apart?
The new one from The Skull is doomy and psychedelic, the best of both '80s and '90s Trouble rolled into one album.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
Finland's Radux is Nuclear Assault Redux on their debut EP Disaster Imminent on Svart Records. Derivative but fun.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Can you name a band in any genre that can claim two of the best albums of the year thirty years apart?
Obituary came close; their last album was great, 28 years after their debut.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
for some reason i got sucked into a looong (and only part 1) and somewhat cheaply made documentary about Rigor Mortis last night....hilariously narrated by Phil Anselmo who is also a talking head in it...
anyway kind of interesting, though jeez it's detailed almost a gig by gig breakdown
def some wild texas boys
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
new thou record is their best, very tuneful, nice guitar tones, there's a weird black metal interlude way down in the mix at one point for reasons unknown
― adam, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
I was at the debut of that doc with the Rigor Mortis guys doing a Q&A. They told stories they left out of the doc because they were “in poor taste”
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
um so how'd that go
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
They were in poor taste. And some slightly criminal.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I met Bruce when Warbeast played NYC a couple of years ago. Super nice guy. And Rigor Mortis were great. Mike Scaccia was easily one of the most criminally under-recognized guitarists of the whole thrash era. He did some shit even with Ministry ("TV Song") that's fucking mind-blowing.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
I feel like he was born with the speed picking ability of one of those 1960s country dudes lilke Joe Maphis but he turned it towards evil
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
The Rigor Mortis guys were such sweethearts to me every time I met them. Sadly I didn't get to see them with Mike.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
i never liked ken mode before but their new album is sounding pretty alright
https://kenmode.bandcamp.com/album/loved
― j., Wednesday, 5 September 2018 03:04 (five years ago) link
pret-ty dang alright
― j., Wednesday, 5 September 2018 03:23 (five years ago) link
I liked the last one a lot, and this one sounds pretty good on first listen.
― o. nate, Friday, 7 September 2018 00:57 (five years ago) link
yeah, on first impression seems to split the difference between the last one and the older stuff, with a nice sheen.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 7 September 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
New Satan album is out and, on first listen, would appear to have RIFFS
― jmm, Friday, 7 September 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
they can do no wrong in my book
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 7 September 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
Brian Ross is 64, still sounds awesome, and concurrently handles vocal duties for a whole-ass other band (Blitzkrieg)
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 7 September 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
I reviewed the Satan record and agree with all of the above comments!
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/satan-cruel-magic/
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
I love Satan
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
Listening to the Siege of Power album, which is Chris Reifert on vocals and three dudes from Asphyx and/or Hail of Bullets and/or Grand Supreme Blood Court on guitar, bass, and drums. Care to guess what it sounds like?
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 7 September 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link