Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

I loved the last three Ulcerate albums. This song sounds great and has me really excited for the release. I am also really hoping they do a tour date in my city. They're a bucket list show for me.

this is my shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkO_SAa07zI

It's really nice to have Green Carnation back making new music.

https://youtu.be/X0BD5KGuZ1M

oh wow! always loved those guys. I need more good wimp metal in my life

this sounds promising so far

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/stream-post-metal-trio-psychonauts-new-album-unfold-the-god-man/

And I continue to enjoy the hell out of this run of Body Count albums.

I'll get to it after the new My Dying Bride but liked the last BC a lot

It's more of the same (including a few clunkers as usual), which is fine by me

The BC?

The new Body Count is really good. This is my favorite track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSfHqY2vi_g

FIRE

The new Fluisteraars comes with horns and split-second glitched-up vocals and it reframes blackgaze beyond its usual bag of tricks so I don't think it's fair to say there's no innovation involved at all.

Polish ritual sludge with a post-rock slant, a smattering of kraut, avant, folk/jazz elements, echoes of Fushitsusha and… ah fuck it, just follow this link, it's one of the best metal albums to have come out this year:

https://dola.bandcamp.com/releases

^^^ that's great! first track didn't really grab me but as the album goes on it gets more trippy and interesting.

A fair assessment.

rolling metal 2020 with trumpet: Kelly Conlon plays trumpet in the new Azure Emote. wasn't, iirc, one of our own, who while reviewing their record before, wisely encouraged them to trim some fat ffs? they didn't read. not listening to this again, i think. trumpet is fine tho

cave goons, get in here now:

https://sentientdivide.bandcamp.com/album/haunted-by-cruelty

these trumpet-metal records y'all mention ... are they jazzy? i'm jonesing for some slightly jazzy new metal

The Fluisteraars? Not especially, no.

This, on the other hand:

https://souphl.bandcamp.com/album/comm-rages

xp

the Azure Emote def has some jazz fusions leanings. i found the record a bit overblown, but ymmv

cave goons, get in here now:

oh hell yeah, good looking out

new Vredehammer is some solid meathead metal

The new Fluisteraars comes with horns and split-second glitched-up vocals and it reframes blackgaze beyond its usual bag of tricks so I don't think it's fair to say there's no innovation involved at all.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Saturday, March 7, 2020 11:46 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is totally fair. My 'they do what they do so fucking good' wasn't meant to imply they aren't innovating!

I'm down with that Dola album, damn.

For sure, I was belatedly responding to Simon.

the Sightless Pit album goes great with watching the stock market shit itself

What’s a good Ulcerate song/album to start with?

The Sigtless Pit and the Vladislav Delay really fit the mood of these days

What’s a good Ulcerate song/album to start with?

The last album, Shrines of Paralysis, is the best one so far imho

The track “Cold Becoming” from “Destroyers of All” is my pick. It’s an utterly ferocious track that elevates to another level when it eventually gets to where it’s going. File under involuntary head-banging.

Another vote for Destroyers of All here

Tom Gabriel Fischer posted this cover image on FB earlier today. Can't wait.

https://scontent.fewr1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/89787678_3282932608388356_5852964406291333120_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_oc=AQlbmAHAEPEjYGDTDo00W7A6R2wghXXZr334-26DbVtqkgn9bo0dhW_oYUuQKkQ_YGU&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-3.fna&oh=ce4f4c8c1ee1c1bfd920873a9a2c48f3&oe=5E914F5B

Super stoked for that, even though I read it as the Metropolis Corkfest at first.

YES

That's awesome.

Official announcement just hit my inbox:

Swiss avant-garde extreme metal band Triptykon are pleased to announce their highly anticipated release of Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) opus on May 15th, 2020 via Prowling Death Records / Century Media Records worldwide. The release will be available for pre-order in various formats starting March 20th, 2020.

Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) marks the bombastic conclusion of a project over 30 years in the making: The legendary Celtic Frost/Triptykon "Requiem" performed for the first time in its entirety and with full classical orchestration by the Dutch Metropole Orkest.

"We are truly, deeply delighted to be able to have been granted the opportunity to finish this unique project begun by Celtic Frost so many years ago, and to finally share the completed recording with the world," Tom Gabriel Warrior states about the release. "This album is the result of two years of passionate work, and it marks the conclusion of a musical idea first considered over three decades ago. Moreover, this Requiem also represents drummer Hannes Grossmann's first recording with Triptykon, and we are very proud to feature him in such an extraordinary context. It was an incredible honour to collaborate with the Metropole Orkest, conductor Jukka Iisakkila, guest vocalist Safa Heraghi, and the esteemed Roadburn festival. In fact, there couldn't have been a better partner for the "Requiem" project than Roadburn. We are releasing this Requiem album in memoriam of our deeply missed friends and collaborators Martin Eric Ain and HR Giger."

Requiem (46:00 min.) is composed of three chapters:
1. "Rex Irae" (06:34 min.) (First appeared on 1987's "Into The Pandemonium" album by Celtic Frost)
2. "Grave Eternal" (32:28 min.) (Newly written middle part)
3. "Winter" (06:54 min.) (First appeared on 2006's "Monotheist" album by Celtic Frost)

This unique and groundbreaking release is available in the following formats:

- Special Edition CD + DVD Mediabook
- Ltd. Gatefold LP + DVD (With LP-Booklet and 2x poster)
Unlimited black 180g. vinyl and selected ltd. coloured editions!
- Standard CD Jewelcase
- Ltd. Deluxe Artbook with coloured LP + CD + DVD + coloured 7Inch (With bonus track, score book of 60 pages, 3x poster, artprint and photocard)
- Digital album

Hannes Grossmann's an amazing drummer; really looking forward to this. I don't think I need anything but the CD, but I might be convinced to buy the CD/DVD version.

ahhh fuck yeah!!!!

Oh wow!

Soooooo Exhorder. Not sure who's a fan but they fired Vinnie a while back.

They didn't hire a touring guitarist and so the remaining guy is carrying the load. It's not good.

My first time seeing these guys and they sound thin and weak. All solos over a bass guitar, guitar swallowed by bass and drums. Kyle has been in Trouble so long he thinks he's Eric Wagner now

I got bored two songs in.

The last album, Shrines of Paralysis, is the best one so far imho

actually i deleted this : /

Technical death but not overbrutal, only one song but it sounds good. And that cover!

https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/visitations-from-enceladus

Love that Triptykon cover.

Not surprised, but bummer to see Seattle and SF stops on the Decibel Magazine Tour have been cancelled. Guessing they won't be the last.

I feel fortunate to have attended the Cult of Luna/Emma Ruth Rundle/Intronaut show in SF on Monday night. Something tells me it’ll be my last show for a while and all three acts were great.

Damn, would've loved to attend that gig.

I've found it hard to tear myself away from both the new Fluisteraars and Turia records, but if your want is an ice cold Ukranian atmospheric black metal riffage fest about Northern (not Nordic) mythology and a melancholic sehnsucht for lost romantic times when nature reigneth, I'll gladly point you all towards the fine fellows of YGG's The Last Scald. Includes a 'vargan', a mouth harp!

https://ashen-dominion.bandcamp.com/album/ygg-the-last-scald

Very much agreed.

\m/

melodic but bleak af bm from january:

https://nimbifer.bandcamp.com/album/demo-ii

also i fucking love that revenant marquis album someone mentioned upthread. it's most of the best things black metal can be imo

You're on board! Awesome, it's so great.