Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

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.

the opening of that Biesy track sounds like Sweet at 45 rpm, not intended as an insult

The old Armagadda stuff is all great, although they do love Darktrone...a lot.

Reposting from Rush thread, bc wtf:

Alestorm apparently have the #7 album in Canada. I remembered them as a goofy pirate-themed metal band about 10 years ago? I had no idea they were this big.

https://musiccanada.com/charts/#albums

Oh wow, this album is ... something.

Oh, Biesy is a member of Gruzja under another moniker. Makes sense.

As for Alestorm… it takes true dedication to keep the joke going for almost 15 years now. Good on them.

I have to admit I loved the last Alestorm record, thought it was a lot of fun and catchy.

The new one didn't elicit the same response from me, alas.

Digging this Living Gate EP, new death metal group from members of Yob, Amenra, Oathbreaker and Wiegedood. Giving me some Suffocation vibes at a couple points.

there's a new live Archgoat, it's exactly like you think which to my ears is pretty good

The Behold... The Arctopus is just as wild as I hoped. The percussion is unreal and really sets it apart from everything else they've done. Loving it.

This is kind of cool: guitarless (it's all bass & drums) blackened, funereal death/doom by a lone (and, I assume, lonely) dude from Bilbao.

https://arvalastra.bandcamp.com/album/the-key-to-the-shrine-of-putrefaction

https://kaatayra.bandcamp.com/album/s-quem-viu-o-rel-mpago-sua-direita-sabe

^been getting into this recently...acoustic blackgaze/Brazilian folk hybrid. Quite lovely in places; v much in the Stara Rzeka/Botanist orbit. Many thx to Ultros for the headsup

Sounds cool on paper, I'll check it out. Where'd ultros go btw?

This is admittedly less original but if bluesy doom with a stoner edge is your thing, these dudes from Victoria, BC do it right:

https://hailthevoid666.bandcamp.com/releases

kinda slept on their last couple, but the new Protest the Hero is sounding great so far. RIYL latter day Propagandhi and white nationalist baiting/bashing

Also lots of Coheed style drama in the mix

Somehow this had flown under my radar but lost time has been made up for by my smacked-in-the-face obsession with it. Apparently they've been around for a while, at that. Very heavy metal through an extreme metal filter, sort of how so much 90s melodic black and death took Maiden and extrapolated. Not a dud on the album. If you were a fan of that quick phase of Sentenced between death metal and whatever they turned into post-Jarva, you will dig it.

https://antipope.bandcamp.com/album/apostle-of-infinite-joy

new Bell Witch/Aerial Ruin scratching my hyper-depressive 40 Watt Sun itch, though it seems destined to sound better in winter.

I should probably add that the album art has some very brightly colored cartoony frontal nudity, should anyone be at work.

As long as I'm here, if anyone's still scavenging for that traditional second wave black metal sound, as I'm always doing, the new Haxanu, Snare of All Salvation, and both the two Grifteskymfning, but especially the one with the castle on the cover, are fucking exquisite.

https://amorfatiproductions.bandcamp.com/album/h-xanu-snare-of-all-salvation

https://svartrit.bandcamp.com/album/bedr-velsens-h-rd

xpost a thousand pardons

new Hail Spirit Noir sounding like a (much) mellower Oranssi Pazuzu, I'm very into it

Out today and quite unique...

#NowPlaying Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! by @vilecreature666 - When it's guttural, it's as ugly as the album cover. When it's experimental, it's as intriguing as the album cover. Anyone who thinks it's impossible to reinvent sludge metal, think again. https://t.co/Yjax2TZHKi

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

New Atavist (their first LP in twelve years) is quite beautiful, especially the closer.

Anyone have opinions, published or otherwise, on the Lamb of God that just came out Friday?

Settling in for a Spotify stream now...

Oh and the new Cro-Mags record (with Rocky George in the band now/again) is decent.
More 'Best Wishes' than 'Age of Quarrel' which means it's a non-starter to many.
I'm cool with that but wish it was a little more memorable.