Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

by design?

This Modarin record is pretty good, too. One man black metal project from Germany, the dude is 21 and shares a birthday with my ex wife. It's not so self-conscious as to be tr00 kvlt bullshit, it's kind of nice to get that kind of honesty out of a black metal band these days.

http://modarin.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-distance

Nice, will check it out! I wonder if this is yet another in the Beverast tradition...

New Five Finger Death Punch album on Friday...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwroUDmB6wI

Ew

Decided I'm going to this. You should come too.

Migration Fest returns to Mr. Smalls in Pittsburgh, PA from July 31st to August 2nd, 2020. This marks the 3rd installment of the biennial festival and also celebrates 15 years of existence for both 20 Buck Spin and Gilead Media. Nothing about this year’s lineup should come as a huge surprise to anyone that follows the festival curators as Migration Fest stands as family reunion of sorts for label bands. The lineup also currently features 6 bands whom appear on the Decibel Magazine list of top 40 albums of 2019.

Migration Fest III lineup so far:

Black Magnet
Buildings
Buried At Sea
Cavernlight
Couch Slut
Daeva
Falls of Rauros
False
Immortal Bird
Imperial Triumphant
Kowloon Walled City
Krallice
Mizmor
Nightfell
Obsequiae
Ruin Lust
Skeleton
Spirit Adrift
Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle
Tomb Mold
Ulthar
Vastum
Witch Vomit
Yautja
Yellow Eyes

Pretty good lineup!

I was hunting for the best metal/punk fest lineup at a city/area I could access by bus without too much hassle, and this one won pretty easily.

If I wasn't already doing three festivals, incl one in Philly in April, this might be on my list.

Some of these bands outright never make it to FL. esp Krallice

$140 isn't bad tho

Speaking of Gilead Media, it's time to buy some music:

HOUSE CLEANING / NEW RELEASE PREPARATION

We have a handful of releases to send off to the plant, which means we need to make some room and pad up the bank account to pay some bills and move things along. So we're having one of our most extensive sales ever.

Typically label releases within a certain period are exempt, but this time everything is included except pre-orders. That means some of 2019's best black metal records are up for sale at 22% off, alongside the rest of our in-stock label catalog and a number of distro items we found and added to the store.

Head over to our website or bandcamp now to take advantage of the sale. The sale will run throughout February.

Visit Gileadmedia.net where the 22% discount will be applied automatically at checkout.

Visit gileadmedia.bandcamp.comwhere you must enter housecleaning for every item as you add it to your cart.

If I wasn't already doing three festivals, incl one in Philly in April, this might be on my list.

Yup!

New to me, Revenant Marquis Youth in Ribbons is rather enticing. Lo-fi BM - at times merely M w/ some wailing, sounding like it's coming from an empty water tank - aimless and sinister in how messy it is. I like it. Good cover, too. bandcamp

In his/their (?) own words, as if already chalked up for next years Metal poll roll-out:

Once more Revenant Marquis returns from the sequestered black waters of Wales with Youth In Ribbons - a long play collection of raw black metal necromancy that serves to bring the tortured, the forgotten, and the abused back from choking abyss. There is no space for hope or light in this assembly of rituals, as the listener must break bread with the maligned forces that lurk eternally waiting for granted passage. This is not music, but rather a pact between the listener, and the spectral realm.

Sounds cool. I'll have quite a bit of catching up to do after the 2019 poll.

So now there's a black metal "supergroup" called Blasphamagoatachrist (members of Blasphemy, Goatpenis, and Antichrist), a name so stupid, the publicist couldn't even spell it right in the email subject line, where it's rendered as BLASPHAMAGAGOATACHRIST.

Kiss the ga-goat

they added a MAGA where none existed. bad form.

They missed the obvious comedy gold of Christpenis

BLOATCHRENIS would have gotten all of 'em in much less painfully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XSl8reBmeA&t=214s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XSl8reBmeA

Swedish 70s-style doom that I discovered by just clicking on it because I liked the name. Fucking great.

https://nightchyldeofficial.bandcamp.com/album/flight-of-the-black-swan

Blasphamagoatachrist

blasphamajehoshaphatagoatachrist

is that the Big Pun skit

Dude from Tchornobog has a solo doom project called Drown, the new album Subaqueous is pretty good. Name Your Price on BC, or you can get both his albums and a hand painted underwater landscape for $62.

https://markovsoroka.bandcamp.com/album/subaqueous

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bernelius/bernelius-grave-dancer-on-vinyl

^ This Finnish one man band made a surprisingly fun deathrock/boogie/stoner album, and he wants to put it out on vinyl, and I want him to put it out on vinyl. It's on Spotify and Bandcamp, too, if you want to check it out (Bernelius - Grave Dancer), then maybe pledge for the vinyl so I can get my copy too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdlPg33com4

Featuring everyone's favourite metal musician Lingua Ignota, and spanning nine tracks of proggy, sludgy post-medievalism, here is PSALM ZERO.

https://psalmzero.bandcamp.com/album/sparta

The whole album is on Spotify

I interviewed all three members of Sightless Pit — Lingua Ignota, the dude from Full of Hell, and the dude from The Body — for the current issue of The Wire (Oneohtrix Point Never cover).

Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum are apparently releasing a split triple LP, which is very on brand for both bands, but also, lollllllllll split triple LP

There's an awesome new Violet Cold album. Awesome if you don't mind lots of broken shards of other things in your one-man Azeri black metal, at least.

https://open.spotify.com/album/68YTkekCQT3joyJtpPTV4d?si=pipnL8pLTgysHl8ONtvkOg

Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum are apparently releasing a split triple LP

has this *ever* been done before? hilarious.

new Fluisteraars sounding really good, also can we have more sub-40 minute BM albums?

more metal albums under 40 minutes generally would be great

less than 30 is fine w/me

yeah. those are my fav.

I actually got through all of the latest Blood Incantation driving back from the doctor today, that was cool.

from last year, but 12/20 so it was practically 2020....but I'm really digging Mephistofele's "Satan Sex Ceremonies".

yeah, they're definitely riding in the Electric Wizard-y 70s evil doom lane, but hey I'll always take more of that.

new Fluisteraars sounding really good, also can we have more sub-40 minute BM albums?

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, March 2, 2020 4:50 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Otm, it is really good! Expected nothing less, they don't disappoint.

One of those BM bands doing zero innovating, simply delivering wonderful atmosphere and deeply pleasing chord progressions.

Absolutely, they're so consistent and just deliver the goods every time. When you hear those first chord progressions on a new album it's just like a warm bath: 'Ahh, so glad they're back'.

some very weird and wild saxophone-and-grand-piano-heavy black metal from Sweden here -- ferocious and creative, great stuff

https://seedsinbarrenfields.bandcamp.com/album/s-nger-som-r-mnar?fbclid=IwAR0R8KvT-226Xtn96bQmyG4miarmo5mkJj26G6pLfZjh9nhPXauKLkX0iF0

hello

The Sightless Pit album is very very good. Will check out any metal album with saxophone, btw

wow i really love this seeds in barren fields album thank you joan

yet another metal album under 40 minutes

Will check out any metal album with saxophone

This has been true for me since I first heard The Painter's Palette in high school

right now metal with trumpet is where it's at. count me in the Fluisteraars praise

sorry, no trumpet, but here's new Ulcerate track from their upcoming album:
https://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/track/stare-into-death-and-be-still

my favorite of the technical death metal bands (non-Gorguts division)

Is there trumpet on the fluisteraar?