Rolling Metal 2019

I wish more metal bands took their cues from the likes of Graham Hancock, Robert Anton Wilson, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gene Wolfe etc.

finally getting around to this year's Soen album and goddamn that is some great mid-period Opeth worship

... does Darkspace even exist anymore? After they abruptly emptied their website and stopped their tour half way last year?

Anyway, they just won 15,000 Swiss francs (just like a hobo player and two other musical acts) in their hometown Bern: https://www.derbund.ch/bern/stadt/berner-musikpreis-fuer-mysterioese-metalband/story/19130003
Let's hope that pays for album III II in the next couple of years.

iirc the blut aus nord comes out today and i've heard only wonderful things

i saw oranssi pazuzu and insect ark last night!
didn't realize it was the first night of their tour

Ohhh how was it?

Insect Ark's set was very much my cup of tea (super heavy/slow/repetitive/simple) until maybe 2/3 of the way through it seemed like something stopped working. I didn't realize at the time that it was their first show of the tour and I think there were just some cord/tech issues. The guitar made a weird popping noise a couple times. Nothing too distracting/end of the world. The new drummer (guy from Subrosa) seemed chill and ready to do his job. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot.

Oranssi Pazuzu spoke 0 words during their set and were very very very loud, also enjoyable. The one song I could recognize was Lahja and it was their last song before an encore. They played for about an hour? Maybe 70 min. The sound was kind of muddy (there's a lot going on) and my friend told me they had brought their own engineer, so I bet it could sound better in a different space.

tl;dr - Overall, enjoyed it and would recommend to anyone who likes these bands.

Drugs, it's definitely them. This album is a bit of s shift from everything they've been doing. Moments of full on thrash and Death like guitar moments. I saw them live the other night and there were even moments that could be described as "danceable" almost. They joke about it. New album is great though but a bit of a shift for sure.

What kind of degenerate shits at a show? (In the men’s room, not, like, on the floor. But STILL.)

I went to the Amon Amarth/Arch Enemy/At The Gates/Grand Magus show tonight. The gulf in showbiz-ness between AA and AE and the other two bands was stunning. And yet, I was most excited to see Grand Magus’s five-song, 25-minute set. I’ve been a fan for over a decade, and this was their first ever US tour. I bought a shirt.

xp people with intestinal issues? i guess you could call us "degenerates" if you're feeling extra dickish

Hell i've done it. When nature calls, what are ya supposed to do?

just take a bottle of VIPoo with you

Is Prostitute Disfigurement the most cretinous of the 40 something inveterate edgelord bands? Given their song titles and lyrics, it's definitely up there.

They’re a good example of a band whom I’m not interested in knowing anything about beyond great riffs and blah blah incomprehensible serial killer growling.

Counter-Gregorian BM from Montreal done exactly right:

https://ossuaire.bandcamp.com/album/derniers-chants

ooooh

Next year's Decibel Metal & Beer Fest is a great lineup of classic bands paired with new bands that sound classic.
I hope to attend it again!

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG7zwVwW4AA1SJX?format=jpg&name=large

Would much rather see Napalm Death play an all Smear Campaign/Time Waits For No Slave/Utilitarian set, but that's probably just me.

Agree with unperson on the Napalm Death set, but that's a pretty killer lineup.

Even though it was ultimately disappointing Harmony Corruption was a big deal at the time (I think their first US release?) but I haven't even thought of Utopia Banished in thirty years.

I guess in a way maybe it's more interesting to play overlooked and nearly forgotten albums for this type of show instead of the tried and true.

Utopia Banished is their best album!

Looks like Pessimist is full MAGA.

Fuckers

My friend's fav band is ND and although he would probably prefer an album set like the one unperson suggested, he's positively ecstatic about this.

ND is though one of those bands that i prefer a traditional setlist from. But id still see this

Yeah I would see them play just about any of their albums.

The show I saw the week after Trump was elected was my fav. Great setlist, and Barney was angry about DJT, and when one pro-Trumper protested everybody told him to stfu

Lotsa From Enslavement that night.

Plus humorously, "Twist the Knife (Slowly)", the first song of theirs i heard thanks to the MK soundtrack

https://xoth.bandcamp.com/album/interdimensional-invocations

haha wow now taht is an opening riff

XOOOOOOOOOTH!!!

nominate your fave tracks of 2000-19 in the poll simon and I are doing. 3 years after the albums poll we are doing the tracks poll.

Get your fave tracks nominated

Lifetime of ILM 2000-19 Heavy Rock,Noise, Heavy Psych & Metal (or related) Poll Nominations (All welcome to participate) Noms close 23:59 November 8th

that full Xoth album is up on bandcamp now and it's completely sick

The Xoth record is pretty awesome - a nice upgrade on 'invasion of the tentacube'

Anyone hear the new Botanist? The album comes out on 10/25 but I never received a promo on it.

Turns out the abysmally named Fvneral Fvkk are excellent purveyors of doom.

The new Teitanblood is fantastic. I feel like I just got hit by a truck, in the best way. https://teitanblood.bandcamp.com/album/the-baneful-choir

Also, great week for avant-garde metal, new Sunn new Botanist.

Mayhem's latest album, Daemon, is out today, and it's fairly solid, more so than most of their post-De mysteriis dom Sathanas output, perhaps because parts of it consciously seek to approximate the debut's sound.

The real story, though, is Unaussprechlichen Kulten's Teufelbücher, which fucking decimates:

https://www.nocleansinging.com/2019/10/14/an-ncs-album-premiere-and-a-review-unaussprechlichen-kulten-teufelsbucher/

As a side note, these guys are from Chile. I think it's my first time hearing metal from that part of the continent.

*Teufelsbücher

really? there was a cracking Chilean doom band a few years back that made the metal poll

Yeah there's TONS of great Chilean rick

rick astley is Chilean?

I'll look into it.

Oh yeah, and the new Alcest, Spiritual Instinct, is out today too. Reviews appear to be quite positive overall.

not metal exactly, but Föllakzoid make nice Chilean space rock

They're a great band... in a Neu!/Hawkwind hybrid zone

There was a Pentagram from Chile and their demos are worth seeking out if you dig the death/thrash sound. Death Yell (lol) were another solid old school Chilean band.

Nar Mattaru, Slaughtbbath, Uttertomb, Invincible Force and Atomic Aggressor are all good to great modern metal bands from Chile.

oh and Ripper! One of the few modern thrash bands I rate.

Thanks, all. I'll check them out.

For now, Unaussprechlichen Kulten (unspeakable cults?) is really hitting the spot.

Condenados were great. (the band I was talking about above)

I do enjoy the new Mayhem. It's pretty aggressive without purely just being a back to roots thing, still plenty of angular moments.

One of the riffs sounds like the Inspector Gadget.

Cautiously optimistic about the new Mayhem, I was surprised to read the glowing and practically fawning 4.5 review at Angry Metal Guy, since they typically don't really love anything over there.

Oh they love all kinds of stuff, like melo power prog and proggy power melo, preferably from the US.

Ha, yeah, I just meant more the final score. I can't tell you how many glowing reviews turn into a 3.0 rating, usually along with a complaint about DR scores.