Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

I actually came to post about it, Jon, so count me in for beingh excited!

If brutal tech death is your thing, the new Defeated Sanity delivers in spades:

https://defeatedsanity.bandcamp.com/album/the-sanguinary-impetus

Just added this to my Wish List. Their CD was limited and sold out but they have reasonably priced vinyl in July...

"Dola" by Dola --- Polish trio repurposes Caspar Brötzmann Massaker's skronk and Stephen O'Malley's drone as ambient black metal. Adventurous sheets of doom cascade from the speakers with repeated listens revealing new textures every time. https://t.co/1NRFE8IXFd #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) May 14, 2020

Nice!

I like Defeated Sanity but hated the last thing they put out. but i'll pick it up when it's released

oh shit the Triptykon roadburn thing is out tonight?

Thanks for that NYCNative, that Dola album is pretty fascinating. So much going on here it sounds like a mixtape at times! :)

I am glad that some people like the Dola!

Earlier today Oranssi Pazuzu did a Livestream of their new album.
You can watch it in its entirety on YouTube even though it'sover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfANRKPnC8M

Pretty fucking amazing, actually; well worth an hour of your time if you're into the band.

Admittedly, openly folksy pagan-esque meloblack is pure pap to my ears, but the new Horn is phenomenal. I didn’t get much out of Retrograd so this comes as a complete surprise.

the new Okkultokrati is more metal than I was expecting on first listen

enjoying the new Mekong Delta. the riffs definitely fit in the "staccato prog thrash" mode, but they rock out now and then, lots of tempo changes. some moments feel James Horner-y.

though it does seem funny that this is basically the same place "prog thrash" has been stuck in for years.

It’s hardly as if there’s a million bands mining this territory tbf.

True.

I also like Artillery

A few things that just came out that I wrote about within Twitter character lengths...

"Mohngang" by Horn (@BoneheadIron) --- There are bigger bands in the genre but not many that embrace all the trappings and don't come off as cheesy. Don't get me wrong; I love Amon Amarth! But Horn is almost as anthemic and way more authentic. https://t.co/O4wTzHT9h8 #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) May 17, 2020

"Obsidian" by @OfficialPL (@nuclearblastusa) --- Probably the most Sisters of Mercy album, at least sonically, though still using the band's patented melancholic doom blueprint. It peters out a little at the end but there's still a lot to like. https://t.co/4dC48eCsnG #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) May 17, 2020

I really loved the album before this one. gonna have to get around to this one.

It's quite good when it steers clear of the Sisters influence.

A really good folk-metal jam just up came on my weekly playlist, and I thought "Oh, I should tell those ILM people who think Horn is good about THIS." But as you may immediately have guessed, it WAS Horn. So: Horn: count me in.

Enjoying the "Metal Section" version of Voivod's End of Dormancy that popped up on my Release Radar today.

Listening to the new Enslaved single now, can't say I'm in love with it but it's pretty solid. Most of it is in 7/8 but it's not exactly prog, although there are places that sound like the interplay is more complex than the ear will pick up on easily, in particular some stuff in the fast section around 3:00. Also I haven't heard an Enslaved album in ten years, and I don't know what "prog" means, obviously.

enjoying the Cauldron Black Ram, and its dank-ass atmosphere, and the occasional doom-y tempos

the new Cosmic Putrefaction album is f'n killer and a huge step up from their last one (which was still v good).

Even if you don't listen to the Cosmic Putrefaction album, the album and song titles are great.

The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers
1. Between Awe and Fear upon the Burst of the Ominous Star
2. This Landscape Sublimates Oblivion to Obliteration
3. The Glooming Murk of his Telluric Shrieks
4. Abysmal Resonance Projection
5. The Arcane Soothsayer Carefully Sculpted His Demise
6. Utterance of the Fall of Man

Looking forward to that one.

In the meantime, the new Esoctrilihum is the best thing he’s done so far. More tonal than his previous albums, which better highlights the (relatively) unorthodox chord changes. And minimalist baroque fiddles spinning out of control will always have my approval.

Valhalla by @wolftoothmetal (@RippleMusic)- Indiana heshers got riffs, languid Ozzy vocals, riffs, good songs, and riffs. Some are recycled, but like Grand Magus, early Khemmis, and The Sword (whom they most resemble) they borrow from the best. https://t.co/yD6lW997Ul #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) May 22, 2020

10/10 band name, music sounds pretty good too:

https://feminazgul.bandcamp.com/album/no-dawn-for-men

― coco vide (pomenitul)

I just asked them if there will be a physical release. Some label should definitely look at this, it's very well done and dare say relevant.

It's nothing you haven't heard before but it's such perfectly executed Scando black metal that I can't help but listen to it over and over again:

https://armagedda.bandcamp.com/album/svindeldjup-ttestup

This was my introduction to their music btw.

New Enslaved on the horizon. Here's a foretaste:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ptxt1FQiU

Albums I added to my Amazon Wish List after seeing them recommended in this thread:

Feminazgûl
Warbringer
Drottinn
Lucifer

Thanks, all!

I have bought something like 90 albums in the last 3 months so I forgot I had the Lucifer and it was good.

i need to go back to the Feminazgul. the first track had accordion!

I love the Lucifer! It's like a pop-occult metal album; sometimes it sounds like disco, sometimes it sounds like Heart, and Satan is always there lurking.

The Feminazgul is mind-blowingly good and smart. Unfortunately no physical release yet and the only one in the works is a cassette which is my least favorite format. Hoping they will do a CD or LP at some point. I honestly don't know why a label hasn't done something for them. The album is Name Your Price on Bandcamp though for those who like that sort of thing.

Yeah that new Lucifer is really fun!

I thought I'd listened to feminazgul but apparently not. It's great!

Just added the Couch Slut to my buy list. That last song is a mindfuck!

Ok so if you like death metal of any kind this fucking rules and you need to hear it:

https://mesacounojo.bandcamp.com/album/festering-excarnation

i pushed play then i added it to my wishlist after 3 seconds, thanks

It's a compilation of their first two demos.

Fwiw I had a similar experience when you linked to Herxeim's own demo in last year's rolling metal thread.

the instruments all sound like they're in different zip codes.

I am digging this tho.

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Purchased. Thanks.

good looking out pomenitul

Good news for fans of tech-death so proggy it's almost jazz fusion:

Obscura completes new line-up with rejoining guitarist Christian Münzner and is now ready to record their first album for NUCLEAR BLAST this summer! As revealed last month, Dutch fretless bass player Jeroen Paul Thesseling rejoined OBSCURA after a nine-year break. Earlier this month the group also announced Austrian drummer David Diepold as their new member. Now, with the comeback of former guitarist Christian Münzner, 75% of the classic Cosmogenesis (2009) and Omnivium (2011) line-up is reunited.

Steffen Kummerer - guitars, vocals
Christian Münzner - guitars
Jeroen Paul Thesseling - bass
David Diepold - drums

Nice, looking forward to it.

been listening to nothing lately but the Okkultokrati record; and yes, Chaotian is sounding right up my alley

oh, new Necrot, welcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3iaYQmJrs4

The Soft Pink Truth is an experimental house music side-project from Drew Daniel, one-half of experimental electronica duo Matmos.
As many may recall, in 2014 The Soft Pink Truth released an album of black metal covers entitled Why Do The Heathen Rage?
Well, he's back and about to release an album of crust punk covers.

The Soft Pink Truth - Am I Free To Go? tracklist
1. “Hellish View (Disclose cover)”
2. “Fuck Nazi Sympathy (Aus Rotten cover)”
3. “Multinationella Mördare (Totalitär cover)”
4. “Police Bastard (Doom cover)”
5. “Profithysteri (Skitsystem cover)”
6. “Respect The Earth (Crude SS cover)”
7. “Cybergod (Nausea cover)”
8. “Death Earth (Gloom cover)”
9. “Space Formerly Occupied By An Amebix Cover But Fuck That Guy For Being A Holocaust Denier”
10. “Protest and Survive (Discharge cover)”

It can be streamed at Bandcamp: https://thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com/album/am-i-free-to-go

I'm partial to track 9 myself...

Profithysteri might be my favourite song ever

I created this album about a year ago. It was made at the same time as "Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?" and in my mind these crust covers are a "prequel" to that record. The end of "Protest and Survive" is meant to be an onramp to the other album which is its opposite and complement. Thank you for listening.

^ relevant to my interests.

and since we're on rolling crust 2020 thread now

https://liktal.bandcamp.com/album/morgondagens-de

Here's something weird: When I pre-ordered the Triptykon Requiem album, I got 320kbps MP3s sent to me on street date, as part of the deal. There were eight tracks: the beginning, the end, and the middle was split into five parts. When I got the physical CD, though, it only has three tracks — the middle section is one 32-minute thing. I normally rip CDs as soon as I get them, but I'm not sure which version to keep here.

my mp3s have 8 tracks too. i guess on mp3s they just wanted to separate the 32 minute section into 5 parts. i thought that weird too, cos you can't always tell where one part ends and another begins.

the vocalist for Cauldron Black Ram sounds like Yoda