A momentary change in subject, my apologies, but I'm extremely pleased to report that Multishiva is only getting better and better
https://multishiva.bandcamp.com/album/savup-iv
― the oxford book of chaos (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 18 November 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
I've never heard these guys but 'Total Fucking Dunkelheit' is an A+++ title.
― pomenitul, Monday, 18 November 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link
One last thing, re: the Wilderun album. Is this the first documented instance of T. S. Eliot metal?
― pomenitul, Monday, 18 November 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
*posts the Cats trailer again*
― imago, Monday, 18 November 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
Just listening to the Kampfar record that came out earlier this year - this is a band that I’ve always thought had a 10/10 classic in them someday, and this might not quite be that but it’s very good and probably the best thing they did in this millennium.
Highlight are the vocals, really well done mix of screams, chants, yells and some lady that sounds suspiciously like Fever Ray. It keeps things moody and dark mostly, but plenty of hooks, it’s an easy listen.
Also, how can you not enjoy a song with the chorus going “the rowers keep on rowing”?
― Siegbran, Monday, 18 November 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
Acclaimed guitar virtuosos Rodrigo y Gabriela have unveiled a spectacular new version of the Metallica classic, “Battery,” which will be featured on the duo’s upcoming METTAL EP, due from ATO Records on Black Friday, November 29, as a one-sided 12” vinyl Record Store Day First release, limited to 2,500 and available only at independent record stores. Side 2 will have an art etching. This companion EP to their latest full-length, METTALVOLUTION, sees Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero paying tribute to the icons of thrash metal with three previously unreleased covers, shedding light on some of their favorite foundational songs. Along with “Battery,” METTAL EP includes stunning new versions of Megadeth’s “Holy War” and Slayer’s epic “Seasons In The Abyss.” All three tracks were produced and recorded by Sanchez in Oslo, Norway and finished at the duo’s own Lumbini Studio in Ixtapa, Zihuatenejo, Mexico. METTAL EP was mixed by Jim Monti (Slipknot, Metallica, KoRN) and then mastered by GRAMMY® Award-winner Ted Jensen (Bring Me The Horizon, Disturbed, Halestorm) at Sterling Sound, Nashville.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
maybe not everyone's taste here but i diggithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUL3-rXIATc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
iirc R&G famously went from playing in a metal band in mexico to doing cruise ship flamenco where they would work to camouflage metal tracks into the songs. then somehow they caught on big time in ireland and have been doing american arena shows for nearly a decade. it's a story!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
Yeah I dug Rodrigo y Gabriela the first time I saw them, but I kinda faded fast on being into them. That said, their new one from this year is surprisingly good. Definitely not metal in any sense of the word, but it has a side-length cover of Pink Floyd's "Echoes" that is really good.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
Indeed ulysses, Rodrigo y Gabriela were fucking massive here in Ireland for a while.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
y'all like intricate guitar!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
I admire what R&G do, but I don't really need to hear it. They seem like the kind of thing that does really well on YouTube, like one step removed from those "hot girl drummer covers Tool" videos, but somehow they managed to translate it into a full-fledged career. Good for them.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
i've seen them live maybe six times including in a couple of very small clubs and they're remarkably skilled guitarists and have amazing chemistry. they're really good musicians and composer/arrangers. i understand the impulse to shrug them off as a novelty act but the reason they've done so well for themselves and lasted as long as they have is because they're talented performers and spectacular live, not because they're doing acoustic megadeth.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure my favorite metal-related thing from this year that doesn't involve any women singing is the new envy song "A step in the morning glow".
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GORbtwX5guuohmSbr8NI3?si=EyU-cE5AQsqphq8s7CZqyQ
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
dudes
just checked out the Wilderun
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― alpine static, Thursday, 21 November 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
oh jesus he's speaking in tongues
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 November 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
the prog is in him
― imago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 03:18 (four years ago) link
Ok so here's some mildly blackened death featuring Greg Mackintosh of Paradise Lost which I just had to check out on account of their name, Strigoi (a kind of restless, malevolent revenant in Romanian mythology):
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2019/11/19/strigoi-abandon-all-faith/
The single, 'Phantoms' is a pure monster and now I need to hear Vallenfyre as well.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
Btw Siegbran, I very much enjoyed Ofidians Manifest, but like you said, as good as it is, I too like to think they have an even better album in store for us at some point in the near to distant future.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
increasingly convinced the new Cattle Decapitation is gonna be my metal AOTY
https://youtu.be/k3G2Iz8Vhd8
― Simon H., Friday, 22 November 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
Blood Incantation is heading for mine.
I hope the clean vocal breaks aren't as jarring on this one. I liked em on Monolith but sometimes on the last album it felt like they would just abruptly and awkwardly pivot to them (tho i like the alb).
Gonna see em on Tuesday, tho more excited for Atheist
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 November 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
the Bolzer EP is good
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 22 November 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
Travis's singing voice is kinda like Krang on Ninja Turtles now. it's weird how he produces that sound. I like it though.
wehre did all of the black metally riffs start coming from on the last three albums? not that I'm complaining cos I love BM but they just kinda...showed up.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 November 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link
Listening to the Blood Incantation for the first time now. (I didn't get a promo on it.) I like prog-death a lot, but this is not the kind of prog-death I like. Too muddy and doomy. Could have used some fretless bass à la Obscura. The Tangerine Dream-y bit in the long song is my favorite part.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 23 November 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
"too muddy and doomy" as if such a thing were possible
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 23 November 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
jk but i don't hear that on this record
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 23 November 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
digging the new Obsequiae a lot
― gman59, Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Same. Then again, I'm easily entertained by medieval-esque metal.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
i'm actually loving this Alcest album, although I haven't cared much about anything post-Souvenirs and used to think they peaked with Le Secret.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
I haven't heard Le Secret but their latest is now my favourite after Souvenirs d'un autre monde.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
The Vitriol album that came out in September is surprisingly great. Technical yet brutal death that has nice melodic flourishes.
Production does hurt the nuance a bit but it is nonstop pummeling energy.
They are opening for Cattle Decap
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
god the bill for that tour (Cattle Decap/Atheist/Full of Hell/Author and Punisher/Vitriol) makes that show very tempting
― Simon H., Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:15 (four years ago) link
Yea i am very much there
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:36 (four years ago) link
On Tues
please report back, it's a little more than I like to spend on a gig (esp a weekday night gig!)
― Simon H., Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:45 (four years ago) link
Will do!
Glad i have the week off, Tuesday nights are usually tough otherwise
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:49 (four years ago) link
Cattle Decap leaked. Normally wouldn't play a leak but i can't wait, plus i have the alb pre-ordered
Spinning now
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
Lifetime of ILM 2000-19 Heavy Rock,Noise, Heavy Psych, punk, emo, nu-metal & Metal (or related) Poll VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread(All welcome to participate) Voting close 23:59 December 13th
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Monday, 25 November 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
xpost shit's of poor sound quality (brickwalled), which was to be expected from a leak, but it's good stuff. idk if I'm as high on it as all of you (I miss the crazier grind from even as recently as Monolith of Inhumanity), and the melodic stuff is even more front and center, though it works far better than on the past album.
gonna give another listen when it's not 2 am
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 07:04 (four years ago) link
I've never heard these guys and I'm not really into grind to begin with but I'll be sure to check out the new album.
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 November 2019 09:13 (four years ago) link
I feel like the newer stuff especially you can enjoy without being a huge grind fan. not to say they aren't extreme but they're more proper 'songs' than their stuff like Humanure (which I also like)
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 12:28 (four years ago) link
I just wanted to type Humanure again
also an option: typing out the lyrics to Inpropagation by Carcass
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 25 November 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
that Maryland Deathfest lineup is insane.
I'm supposed to be part of a theatre festival that goes on at the same time (EVERY YEAR) and part of me is hoping we lose the lottery to be a part of it so I can go.
Dismember, Coffins, Cancer, Onslaught, Necrophobic, Exhorder, Demilich, Impaled (!!!), Monstrosity, Grave Desecrator, Skeletal Remains, Suffocation, Fuck the Facts, Cloud Rat, Negative Approach.....oof.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
Revolver MagazineTop 25 Albums of 2019
25. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race24. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Suffer On23. The Devil Wears Prada - The Act22. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds21. 3TEETH - Metawar20. Ithaca - The Language of Injury19. Fury - Failed Entertainment18. Angel Du$t - Pretty Buff17. Venom Prison - Samsara16. Une Misère - Sermon15. Korn - The Nothing14. Russian Circles - Blood Year13. Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence12. Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - End of Suffering11. Jinjer - Macro10. Rammstein - Rammstein9. Spirit Adrift - Divided by Darkness8. Brutus - Nest7. Devil Master - Satan Spits on Children of Light6. Killswitch Engage - Atonement5. Baroness - Gold & Grey4. Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue3. Gatecreeper - Deserted2. Slipknot — We Are Not Your Kind1. Tool - Fear Inoculum
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/25-best-albums-2019
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
There is some bad, bad music on that list.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
Rammstein and Chelsea Wolfe are the only ones that look remotely appealing, although I have to say I'm intrigued by a band named Une Misère.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
Oh and Devil Master is supposedly good.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
Devil Master are fun as fuck
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
Way upfront for High on Fire, if me or my ears die tell everyone I loved Cloud Rat
― Simon H., Tuesday, 26 November 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link