Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

In the Shadows and Time are the best post-Oath Fate IMO.

I've been considering going on a post Lucifuge (when I stopped paying attention) Danzig binge lately.

Dooooon't dooooo it. The first five Danzig through Thrall/Demonsweatlive are all great, and Deth Red Sabaoth and Black Laden Crown are good/very good. Everything in between is dire tripe.

i mean if you haven't listened to III you need that in your life mos def

4p actually isn't bad either

As promised, my review of the new Afterbirth album.

Good stuff, thanks.

I rarely come back to stoner/heavy psych past the first encounter 'cause I'm not a WEED DEMON to quote the name of a band I stumbled across not too long ago but the new Lowrider is some quality shit.

On an unrelated note, this guy's aliases are ever expansive yet rut-like and a sight to behold:

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/bobby-maggard

holy shit, this fuckin' thing GOES. grindcore from Seattle

grindcore more of the 90s style after it started to congeal more around the death metal bands

some really good melodic bits on this alb too

https://ratkingband.bandcamp.com/album/vicious-inhumanity

Recorded by Tad Doyle as well, I see.

Maori Metal by David Freid about New Zealand band Alien Weaponry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc-8rBi31Q8

yay, new Benighted! it sounds like...Benighted!

woohoo!

\m/

there's a song on it called "Mom, I Love You the Wrong Way"...

there's a lyric sheet I ain't going to be reading.

they must've thought Forgive Me Father was too subtle

Caustic Wound's Death Posture out today -Profound Lore- is so good. they have songs!
C. Lynsdstrom from Cerebral Rot taking care of vox & their drummer is playing the goatest

new Azusa is sick, don't sleep on it

The LP itself is a solid helping of blackened DM but the closer promises so much more:

https://nekrovault-vanrecords.bandcamp.com/track/eremitorium

https://tomarum.bandcamp.com/album/wounds-ever-expanding

Just... the cover. Is Lewandowski trolling us now?

haha, take a look at the tags

Hahahaha

'Dedicated to our good friend Jesse Isenhower, who passed away during the recording of this EP.'

best thing about the Caustic Wound is the length. grindcore that overstays its welcome sucks, but this is a tidy 26 mins

also realized there was a Perdition Temple I overlooked recently.

Doom rains down upon us, all the way from Ottawa:

https://loviatar.bandcamp.com/album/lightless

'Silica' is a clear highlight.

New Oranssi Pazuzu kinda snuck up on me:
https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/album/mestarin-kynsi

Available on three different colors of cassette, total of 115 being pressed (or whatever verb applies to constructing a cassette).

They have their own thread now! WASTEMENT: Oranssi Pazuzu, Dark Buddha Rising and Waste Of Space Orchestra

Some fairly typical slam/brutal DM that I actually want to hear again when it's over:

https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/betrayal

I'd be curious to hear what you make of this one, unperson.

god, the newest Perdition Temple is great.

ex-Angelcorpse guitarist, and the riffs are def in that vein, little more chaotic.

new Cauldron Black Ram coming out on 20 Buck Spin

https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/slaver

StarGazer/Mournful Congregation/80 other bands members. I always thought of them as the primitive cutthroat counterparts to SG.

I like The Black Dahlia Murder's new album.

I would like to restate my boosting of Azusa, especially if you like really, really melodic* post-hardcore. absolutely one of the best things I've heard this year

https://azusaband.bandcamp.com/

*so much so it borders on psych-pop at times. don't worry, it's still br00tal and whatever

is there an equivalence for pentecostalism in dark arts?

i think Black Curse got that right wrong bad

https://blackcurse-svr.bandcamp.com/releases

foregone conclusion Migration will be canceled, it would be cool if 20 Buck Spin / Gilead offered some kind of merch bundle alternative in their refunds.

Migration had such a good lineup

have to relisten to the Nekrovault. the cover is so good

just bought 2 good records from caligari

Sign of Evil - Psychedelic Horror - good fun hybrid thrash/kraut/italianhorror from Chile
https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/psychodelic-horror

Ahna - Crimson Dawn - death crust angry as hell vets from Vancouver. loved it
https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/crimson-dawn

enjoying the new Abysmal Dawn

missed them. that's my preferred death metal style (although atm, it's more Tomb Mold/Blood Incantation)

At The Altar of the Horned God from Spaniard Heolstor (Mystagos) does a masterful job of adding Dead Can Dance mysticism with a black metallurgists' drone. Powerful and elegant; makes me want to drink absinthe at Stonehenge. https://t.co/clJCRmGzS2 #nowplaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 19, 2020

There's a new Malokarpatan out. On first listen, doesn't sound like a huge departure from the last one, which is fine by me:

https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/krupinsk-ohne

Migration has been rescheduled to October. Of 2021.

A couple more Twitter comments about albums that just came out that I like...

The new @jarboe_living album 'Illusory' (@consouling) seems meditative and contemplative but try as she might, it seems like an uneasy peace treaty with a world that doesn't deserve the courtesy (see "Man of Hate"). https://t.co/sSjn78RyQ5 #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 19, 2020

.@Oranssi_Pazuzu's "Mestarin kynsi" (@nuclearblastusa) doesn't rely on mere psychedelics to make it's hallucinogenic point; there's Swans discomfort, Kraftwerk minimalism. A perfect soundtrack to an apocalypse that is long overdue. https://t.co/wWHkhGZofA #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 19, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gyasCEbpro

I loved the last Ulthar record!

When you guys get wind of these, let the class know what you think:

5/1 --- Witchcraft, Havoc (I personally think they suck, but whatever)
5/8 --- Old Man Gloom, Oathbreaker,
5/15 --- Paradise Lost
5/29 --- Alestorm (I know, but I think they're fun), Xibalba

I've heard the Xibalba record. It's solid, knuckle-walking hardcore/beatdown death metal, somewhere between Entombed and Judge. RIYL big dumb riffs and a powerlifter barfing at you.

The Witchcraft record is a complete waste of time. It's eight tracks, maybe half an hour long, and it's just the singer and an acoustic guitar. Not even a second guitar from another bandmember. I'm pretty sure I slipped into unconsciousness at least twice listening to it.

xpost - do you keep your own list of release dates or did you copy that from somewhere?

i feel like i need a better way to know what metal albums are coming out. i had no idea new Oathbreaker is on the way.

Speaking of beatdown/hardcore, I'm definitely not Mister Current Affairs on that genre (I mean Hatebreed is still a "new" band in my book). But recently I've discovered Rise Of The Northstar - French, apparently named after a Japanese kids show, and they do hardcore-with-rapping Biohazard/Suicidal Tendencies-style. Esp the first EP and album from 2014 are incredibly entertaining, of course it's goofy but they absolutely go all-in on the intensity, and they bring the hooks.

Haha, Fist of the North Star, which is the show you might be thinking of, is most definitely *not* for children.

I'm not Mister Current Affairs on japanese comics either, it seems.

obv stating that the Old Man Gloom rec that they bandcamped, rules in all manners

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/seminar-ix-darkness-of-being

same amalgamation of awesomeness as ever, yeah, in a more captivating and very fluid way

Have no interest in the new Alestorm, but it got a pretty brutal (I think it's a 2 out of 10) review in the new Decibel.

Good to know I can safely skip the Witchcraft.

I'm sure I'm the only person in this thread uncool enough to like Trivium, but they've got a new one out on Friday that's pretty decent. About as good as the one before it, better than the one before that, not as good as the two before that (In Waves is still my favorite of their albums).

I like some Trivium, but the last couple haven't left much of an impression.

xpost - do you keep your own list of release dates or did you copy that from somewhere?

ah, gotcha. thanks.