Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

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

nuh uh

i mean, only a little

i found out to my surprise i own three other Cauldron Black Ram albums, this is definitely one of the good ones

enjoying the new Putrid Pile album. a lot more tuneful and hooky-riffed than I expected given the cover art.

"Hurley and Behnkhen received their wake-up call at 4:45 a.m. EDT with the song 'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath."

Space is metal.

lotta metal bands doing their all to support the protests/BLM.

i opted to throw a little business their way.

Noisem and Ripped to Shreds two prominent examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Hi6Dgq8gU

Zola Jesus covering Black Sabbath's "Changes"!

https://open.spotify.com/track/6kuKaUCSTPAPzcVNKg0pPW

Bought all three albums by Vancouver trad-metal act Spell yesterday. Their new one, Opulent Decay, came out back in April. Has an early '80s BÖC feel to me.

I bought a shirt from them a couple years back and it came with a very sweet note. Nice folks!

New Oceans of Slumber album out in September, first single/video out now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR5x8NNHy4o

A couple albums that came out this past week that I enjoy...

#NowPlaying Vernal by Witching - I have seen this band many times but their debut album is far more dynamic than I expected, with nods to grunge, hardcore, and even hints of accessibility beneath the slugdy exterior. Someone sign them, please. https://t.co/Q7ISX9Q1zr

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) June 5, 2020

The Unfit by The Unfit (@ShareItMusic) - The feel of catchy (not poppy) righteous midwestern punk ala New Bomb Turks and "Sorry Ma"-era Replacements but from Seattle and never forgetting that bears great responsibility to the rock. https://t.co/StRhhKn1jX #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) June 6, 2020

The Unfit is more punky than metal but there's crossover appeal here, I think.
The Witching is great and unambigiously metal, however!

https://biesy.bandcamp.com/album/transsatanizm

This has just about the most bludgeoningly heavy and evil opening track I have ever heard to any black metal album ever.

progge ppl: the new Ebonivory (I know, I know) rules

acc to J Bannon, a studio incarnation of Blood Moon (Converge + Chelsea Wolfe, Stephan Brodsky and Ben Chisolm) is working on a record, so that's now my most anticipated thing in a long time

https://www.theprp.com/2020/06/08/news/converge-napalm-death-megadeth-ex-nasum-members-have-a-new-band/

That Armagedda album is really good. Thanks for the recommendation, pomenitul.

My pleasure! I really need to hear their previous stuff now.