Rolling Metal 2019

I just happen to think many things are prog masterpieces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsiuTxSEirU

Hearing this band for the first time today and they're pretty good - a combination of Mastodon, Elder, and Dawnbringer, sorta?

well you just got my attention

Ugh.

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Of the BM I've heard this year, I keep coming back to the Drastus and this one, by Gjendød:

https://hellthrasherproductions.bandcamp.com/album/krigsd-ger

I interviewed Set Sothis Nox La from L’Acéphale for Invisible Oranges.
The new album is wonderful and streaming in full there.
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/lacephale-interview-premiere

This comment was left on the L’Acéphale interview.

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I am not sure who should be offended more, me or the rest of ILX.
I think I'll just go with neither.

How prestigious of smellypenises to have heard of ILX in the first place.

"inoffensive"

New Alcest before the year is out and they just signed with Nuclear Blast.

I didn't know Kevin from Gorguts and Toby Driver were in a goth band, Vaura.

And there's a new Lucifyre EP coming out on Dark Descent.

This one by Judiciary has been out since January, but it's great:

https://judiciarytx.bandcamp.com/album/surface-noise

Vaura's last album, The Missing, was fantastic. I've been waiting for news of a new album.

I'm generally not very receptive to thrash but holy shit, Inculter fucking rips:

https://edgedcircleproductions.bandcamp.com/album/fatal-visions

Ifernach is an indigenous one-man BM project from the Gaspésie, in Northeastern Quebec, and his music draws upon Mi'kmaq legends. Pretty fucking cool on all fronts:

https://ifernach.bandcamp.com/album/v-wastow

Mi'kmaq atmoblack, bit of prog and drone

Ifernach with V. Wastow

Lol, finally got it. Ffs

Ligua Ignota has been performing what sounds like an awesome cover live. If you want it spoiled, visit Kim Kelly's twitter.

ffs I forgot to go to that gig

finally got a copy of the new frozen crown. I think only me & Glenn care about power metal but fuck they are so awesome.

Yespowermetalyesfrozencrownyes.

Oh man the new Farida Lemouchi band Molasses has a CD-Single (!) out. 15 minutes, two songs, Devil's Blood meets BOC and maybe Krautrock vibes.

RIP Michiel Eikenaar, 42, vocalist for Dutch bands Dodecahedron and Nihill.

RIP. I was particularly fond of Dodecahedron.

Seems like he left the band after the release of Kwintessens.

He's had health problems for a while.

That's really sad, he was no age. And I liked Dodecahedron

I still don't get Neurosis, mostly because all of the shouting, but I'm grateful for their strand of metal. Case in point: the new Inter Arma album, which is more symphonic than 99% of the bands that slap this label on their name.

I did not think I needed to see Amon Amarth live again, but they've just announced a North American tour with Arch Enemy, At The Gates, and Grand Magus (who I've wanted to see live forever) as support, so I guess I'm going.

Dates:

September 26 – Seattle, WA - Showbox SODO
September 27 – Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
September, 28 – Vancouver, BC - PNE Forum
September 30 – Edmonton, AB - Edmonton Convention Centre
October 1 – Calgary, AB - Grey Eagle
October 3 – Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex
October 4 – Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium
October 6 – Minneapolis, MN - Skyway Theater
October 7 – Chicago, IL - The Riviera Theater
October 9 – Toronto, ON - Rebel
October 10 – Montreal, QC - M Telus
October 12 – New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
October 13 – Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore
October 15 – Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
October 16 – Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
October 18 – New Orleans, LA - The Fillmore
October 19 – Houston, TX - House Of Blues
October 20 – San Antonio, TX - The Aztec Theatre
October 22 – Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren
October 23 – Las Vegas, NV - House Of Blues
October 25 – San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
October 26 – Los Angeles, CA - The Palladium

Back on the topic of power metal, I'm enjoying Ghost Ship Octavius, a new band with people from Nevermore and God Forbid. On the less-theatrical end of the power-metal spectrum, despite what you might assume from the fantabulous name...

https://open.spotify.com/album/247qFzCbpgNyQ4NPEH4bbr?si=okkPT-q1SNWZvf5uckCiCQ

Crossposting from the Game Of Thrones thread, I put this mix together:

https://www.mixcloud.com/metalmaester/game-ov-thr0nes-the-metal-mixtape/

Follow the download link in the description to get all the tracks in better quality.

Ungfell's latest music video, featuring documentary footage of SATYRS and WITCHES in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKA7KCIvwGs

ungfell is so fuckin good

Pagan Altar is reissuing their first two albums on vinyl, CD and cassette and also undertaking a small tour which includes the first time ever in New York.

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New Possessed!

https://youtu.be/Ixk00N1W78c

Dead to a Dying World - Elegy
(@profound_lore)

A myriad of voices, sounds, textures, and ideas come at you. 'Elegy' eloquently dispatches convention with conviction and makes what could possibly be my favorite album of the year. It's the shape of doom to come. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/zfQ6SbssOc

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 19, 2019

http://deadtoadyingworld.bandcamp.com/album/elegy-3
http://open.spotify.com/album/3sirhUOFCfP2qp2wlIQ4lB?si=ouP2OqLWQbedJi17161Kwg

have we done this yet

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnzm7/this-youtube-channel-streams-ai-generated-black-metal-247

headline is an error (vs the story), it's death metal mostly, though there are moments at first when it sounds black

They characterize their work with Dadabots as working towards “eliminating humans from black metal.”

True misanthropy

The Dead to a Dying World is alright, but it feels a tad… emotionally manipulative? I don't think it holds a candle to the Inter Arma.

oooh I love emotional manipulation

So do I, when it's seamless. Anyhow, I liked it better the second time around but I stand by my initial comment.

I like the Leonard Cohen-esque vocals on the first track

I love Lenny Cohen but that intro just screams faux world weariness to me. I'm probably not very receptive to the Southernness of it tbf.

That Judiciary album sounds great. Reminds me a bit of Power Trip.

rigging up the brad signal for this very Katatonia-esque record

https://sermonsound.bandcamp.com/

xp - That album sounds like my favorite late-period-Slayer song expanded to half an hour. Fantastic stuff.

Digging this Canadian epic doom

http://smoulder.bandcamp.com/album/times-of-obscene-evil-and-wild-daring

That Smoulder album is one of my 2019 favourites so far. Very strong swords & sorcery metal in the vein of Atlantean Kodex.

Worshipper album sounds very promising from the one preview track.

Enjoyed Smoulder as well.