Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

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.

I loved the last Pyrrhon album but I'm completely defeated by the new one.

I've been getting my tech fix from the new Ænigmatum EP instead:

https://aenigmatum.bandcamp.com/album/adorned-in-wrath

live (recorded last summer) YOB performance from the literal woods of Oregon today at 1 Pacific / 4 Eastern ... search the Pickathon and/or MusiCares Facebook and/or YouTube to find your way there.

I loved the last Pyrrhon album but I'm completely defeated by the new one.

And here's one that I don't see being discussed as much as I think it should be...

#NowPlaying Ligeia by Eye of Nix (@ProphecyProd) - This one concentrates on the extreme fringes of their sound; it's both louder and more delicate than 'Black Somnia.' The intensity makes it more challenging to consume but infinitely more rewarding. https://t.co/TyDmjzDKhG

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

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

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are they still doing the racist heritage metal shit they do in their other band?

News to me. Which band are you referring to?

It's your man from Winterfylleth, isn't it?

Honest question, is Winterfylleth straight up racist? Or just uncomfortably close to it with their British heritage focus? From what I know of them it seems the latter, but this isn't first time I've heard them called flat out racist. I've only heard one of their older albums, I think.

Ah, those guys. It's safe to say that 90% of self-identified 'pagan' bands are iffy as fuck, 99% if they're from Eastern Europe. I don't know enough about Winterfylleth to say – I started listening to their latest LP and it didn't hold my attention.

I disagree. I loved the last one and find the new one very good as well.

I phrased my alienation as such because I'm sure it's "good", I've just yet to locate the entrance.

lets put it this way i used to know the original singer of Atavist and he quit due to them being racist in his own words.

More awesome BM that no one is talking about, this time from Greece:

https://pestproductions.bandcamp.com/album/nex-fornix

lets put it this way i used to know the original singer of Atavist and he quit due to them being racist in his own words.

:(

The name itself sounds considerably more suspicious all of a sudden.

New Uniform album in September. I can't figure out whether Uniform are for old fucks nostalgic for the noise bands who'd play third on the bill midweek at CBGB, or kids who were still in elementary school when CBGB shut its doors. Either way, they might be the least original band on Earth. Here's the first track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-zUmoNS4EE