Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

Shall do, thank you!

I love Ruins of Beverast but the title Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite has always given me uh pause

Need to check out their whole discography soon.

Nothing on FOTOD was as amazing as the opening title track, but a very effective little album

I'm sort of hot & cold on Isahn, but enjoying the new one this morning. Really heavy compared to past material I've heard.

I'm a long time fan of Kvelertak, and it's funny because I used to think the one-note screamy vocals were detrimental to their sound, but not feeling the new vocals so far, either.

As expected, the new Turia, Degen van licht, is absolutely phenomenal, even though it's not quite the masterpiece I was hoping for, at least not at first pass. Along with Onielar, T is the female metal vocalist I admire the most, and O, the guitarist, has struck a kind of blend between finespun medieval Mediterranean riffs (even more audible on his solo project, Iskandr), an airier tone that recalls post-rock's heyday, and drone-like, minimalist BM, with just enough variations to render the trance more trance-like. J's drumming is less immediately remarkable, but it's a perfect fit for the the rest of the trio. I can't imagine this not making my EOY top 20.

https://montturia.bandcamp.com/album/degen-van-licht

Oh, and on the dodgier end of things, Cénotaphe just dropped an LP that's hard to ignore if you're a French BM fan.

Sorry, it'll be out in March, but there are… other ways of hearing it.

Hell yeah to a new Turia! I loved Dede Kondre, can't wait to dig in. I agree that T is an amazing vocalist.

In other news, I should be all over the Godthrymm LP (feat. ex-members of Paradise Lost, Anathema, Solstice and Vallenfyre, among others), but Glencross's vocals rub me the wrong way.

I love Ruins of Beverast but the title Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite has always given me uh pause

you gotta sing it like you were Mel Torme

A drum solo from Mario Duplantier of Gojira:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjcavNCQ7dU

I miss working with those guys. They're awesome human beings. Really hoping for/looking forward to a new album this year.

I wasn't sure about that first Sightless Pit song but the other two tracks they've put out are really good.

Anyone else check out the Ihsahn EP?

Covering Iron Maiden and Lenny Kravitz (!) and both of them feature lots of horns!
It's kinda fun (and the three original songs are kinda good too).

It's pretty enjoyable, yeah. Oddly unambitious for a prog record but it works.

Just a heads up: this year's metal poll BADLY needs y'all to send in your ballots.

unperson, I know you don't usually vote, but your participation would be much appreciated.

Likewise those who usually do (I think) but haven't submitted a ballot yet, such as GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ and Brad, please vote!

This way, good people:

2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 21st of February)

And it goes without saying that lurkers would be most welcome.

i mos def submitted a ballot!! but i'll resubmit tonight.

Sorry, I wasn't sure – I presumed based on your absence from the campaigning thread, but I don't actually have access to submitted ballots.

yeah I'm bad at the campaigning part, sorry

i'll vote tomorrow i think

We're counting on you, Brad!

🤘 GO BRAD GO 🤘

\m/ Brad \m/

This is like potty training

lol, it's like you want them to shirk metal ballot duty.

Even if people dont vote they should participate in the rollout otherwise we would be just as well dumping the results in one go magazine list style. So everybody please participate in any way you can!

Only need to relisten to one more album! Will send ballot soon

🤘

ill be there. excited for this. i already knew a good amount of the albums that placed in the non metal poll so hoping to be surprised and put on to some new stuff in this one

This Ruin Lust track sounds great

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/ruin-lust-premiere/

that's pretty good!

the Witchbones guy dissolved that project and started a new, chaotic and downtuned black/death project:

https://omnikinetic.bandcamp.com/releases

of course i'm already lovin' the new raspberry bulbs

https://raspberrybulbs.bandcamp.com/releases

^ also belongs in the punk/non indie thread, but hey

you guys have 7 hours or so left to cast a ballot in the
2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 21st of February)

liking the new Demons and Wizards, though tbh it sounds less like DaW and more like Blind Guardian songwriting wise, lol.

occasionally Schaffer chugga chugga shows up, but he doesn't seem to like to play those as much these days even on Iced Earth albums.

I like this nerd shit.

This Sightless Pit album rules. If you dug the Bufurd/Walker collabs on Caligula, you’ll love this.

2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock/Heavy Music Poll: RESULTS - Top 100 Countdown

Lurker Of Chalice early demo comp coming on NWN next month

https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/tellurian-slaked-furnace

Fuck yes! The Lurker of Chalice s/t is in my top 5 BM albums of all time.

Yay! More money for Jef Whitehead!

Yeah, did not mean to celebrate that, or him.

Who said anything about giving him money?

Weedian had a couple suggestions that I really ended up digging, the new Yuri Gagarin LP The Outskirts of Reality and the debut self titled EP by Fuzzriders. The latter sounds like a solid attempt at a desert stoner rock knockoff, the former like Acid Mothers Temple before the drugs kick in fully.

Ooooohh

I am going to go to a "slam DM" show on Wed cos why not and I like Visceral Disgorge but I simultaneously think slam death is a blight on death metal.

is it worse than deathcore?

As this thread's token slam/broooootal death metal fan, I gotta say slam rules. (I don't like Visceral Disgorge as much as some other bands, but their last album is fun.) I buy albums all the time on Bandcamp based on cover art alone; they're all half an hour long, they all sound basically the same, and they're exactly what I need them to be.

Slam's not among my favourite metal subgenres but it's magnitudes more interesting and listenable than deathcore.

Are there any female slam bands?

Slam seems to be about as inclusive as pornogrind.

by design?