Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

The new Valkyrie is really good.

No frills death/doom power trio from Montreal, on the swifter end of tempo. It just rips:

https://shezmu.bandcamp.com

this will surprise no one but i am feeling the Mystras record

ohhh that's the spectral lore thing about medieval insurrections, cool, will listen tomorrow

It's quite good and notably features a bangin' cover of 'Ai vist lo lop'.

this will surprise no one but i am feeling the Mystras record

― here 1st (roxymuzak), Wednesday, July 29, 2020 3:39 PM bookmarkflaglink

one track in and OOOOOOOOOMFG

anti-fascist, anti-nationalist medieval Greek black metal, with semi-necro production, epic scope, killer musicianship, great synths, pained vocals, fantastic atmosphere......

good quality black metal about rising up with your fellow serfs to murder your overlords

nice to hear truly chaotic bm paired with genuine ars nova repertory shit

yeah it only got better from there. this could be a top 10 contender, need a few more listens.

I haven't listened yet (got a long to-listen list rn), but it's also very nice to hear of a Greek metal band where I don't immediately have to check to see if they've got ties to the Golden Dawn party.

good lord this has quite the sound

sort of a metal equivalent of The Cure's Pornography title-track

I had pre-ordered that Imperial Triumphant on CD from Amazon a few weeks ago, but got an email late last night that essentially said, "yeah, this isn't getting delivered this weekend and we have no idea when it might get shipped". I don't know if Century Media is getting hit with production delays too now or what...

New Mastodon single out tomorrow.

my kingdom for a decent mastering job

though tbh I've always liked but rarely loved Mastodon, outside of, and this may count as a challops, Crack the Skye.

nah i can buy that as their only good album

Relapse signed Wolves in the Throne Room, which is a pretty good "get" for the label, I think.

xp nah Leviathan's a classic, in fact their first four are great on the whole. I pretty much lost interest when they started phoning it in after CtS, though.

I really don't like the vox on those earlier records, is my main problem. a lot of the songwriting/riffs is/are clearly great.

Lol their vocals sounded even worse live!

Re Mastodon: I love Leviathan and Crack the Skye, and like the three after it just fine — The Hunter's not great, but Once More 'Round the Sun and Emperor of Sand are both really good even if they're often more "heavy rock" than metal. I've always disliked Remission and was disappointed by Blood Mountain.

The new Imperial Triumphant is amazing. I really like the trombone-piano ballad section on "Transmission to Mercury," but then, I would.

I like them all but Remission is easily my fave.

xp

The Zealots Of Thessaloniki off the Mystras album is one of the greatest interpolations of traditional Greek music in a modern context that I've ever heard, and what a rousing tale it tells! Beating my chest and cheering tbqfh

it's a great song

also i rep Imperial Triumphant as folks + a band and the new record is magnificent

v excited for when that comes out in...just under 90 minutes!

to qualify my particular excitement for the Zealots song above, I'm half-Greek Cypriot and rarely hear anything from those quarters that really inspires any sort of long-lost Hellenic pride, not many Greeks have gone for the avant-metal-leftism angle tbf

I say avant-metal but it also helpfully sounds ancient as fuck, like much of the best BM

Did you hear the Spectral Lore / Mare Cognitum collab?

If you haven't, it'll keep you engaged for the next 90 mins.

I put it on and liked what I heard (while cooking), but haven't given it a proper concentrated listen yet

Not that it needs to be a competition or anything but so far the new Imperial Triumphant predictably blows the new Pyrrhon out of the water.

I need to try the Pyrrhon again cause I respect them a lot but man that album rubbed me wrong

Anyway, blackened metallic jazz as cinematic Nouveau Roman is a winning premise by default.

now if we can get blackened Metallic Jazz as cinematic Club Nouveau.....

You could be on to something here.

Not that it needs to be a competition or anything but so far the new Imperial Triumphant predictably blows the new Pyrrhon out of the water.

Well this has me excited, because I absolutely love the new Pyrrhon.

the first track on the Imperial Triumphant is positively horrifying

(though I did just watch a horror film beforehand, but...still....)

blackened metallic jazz as cinematic Nouveau Roman is a winning premise by default.

Ok will def be listening to Imperial Triumphant after all

no one was lying about imperial triumphant, damn

yep

Ugh, got an update that I should receive my Imperial Triumphant around the end of August (I got a download copy but I’m stuck driving between campuses for work all day today, so I won’t be anywhere I can get to it until this weekend).

If we aren’t going to be able to see live music, I wish physical distribution wasn’t also fucked beyond recognition this year.

Loving Alphaville. Well worth the anticipation. Frustrated by Century Media's lack of presence on Bandcamp which is pretty much exclusively where I buy music now. I haven't bought a physical copy of anything in years, but this one might be worth it. Spotify it is for now, though, I guess.

Cross-posted from Mastodon C/D Thread:

Mastodon was teasing a new song and it was just released today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiXTJvnWA_4

Not for a new album, but a "collection of rare tracks" called Medium Rarities that will be out 9/11.

http://linkstorage.linkfire.com/medialinks/images/872f0207-db7f-495f-9c50-1f5f7b4c6f1d/artwork-440x440.jpg

Track listing:

Fallen Torches (Previously Unreleased)
A Commotion (Feist Cover)
Asleep in the Deep (Instrumental version)
Capillarian Crest (Live)
A Spoonful Weighs A Ton (The Flaming Lips Cover)
Toe To Toes (Instrumental version)
Circle of Cysquatch (Live)
Atlanta (Butthole Surfers Cover)
Jaguar God (Instrumental)
Cut You Up With A Linoleum Life (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
Blood & Thunder (Live)
White Walker (from Game of Thrones mix tape)
Halloween (Instrumental version)
Crystal Skull (Live)
Orion (Metallica Cover)
Iron Tusk (Live)

"Cut You Up With A Linoleum Knife" is such a fuckin jam

ELLEFSON the eponymous solo band of Grammy-Winning Megadeth bassist/co-founder David Ellefson has announced the tentative tracklisting for NO COVER, out 10/2 on Combat Records, featuring 17+ cover songs including classic tracks from Motorhead, WASP, Def Leppard, Cheap Trick, Queen, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, Fastway, Fight, Dead Kennedys, and more, with cover art by Melody Myers (Ellefson, Altitudes and Attitude, Escape The Fate), an homage to the legendary Def Leppard debut On Through The Night.

http://static.wixstatic.com/media/f25262_37a99de83af149b480a20384eee682fc~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_740,h_740,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/f25262_37a99de83af149b480a20384eee682fc~mv2.webp

Tracklist:
1. Freewheel Burning (Judas Priest) ft. Jason McMaster, Gus G, Andy James, Dave McClain
2. Tear It Loose (Twisted Sister) ft. Eddie Ojeda, Dave McClain
3. Love Me Like A Reptile (Motorhead) ft. Doro Pesch, Greg Handevidt, Chuck Behler
4. Holiday in Cambodia (Dead Kennedys) ft. Charlie Benante
5. Rebel Yell (Billy Idol)
6. Wasted (Def Leppard) ft. Frank Hannon, Jacob Bunton, Dave McClain, Bumblefoot
7. Riff Raff (AC/DC) ft. Jason McMaster, Dave Lombardo
8. Nailed To The Gun (Fight) ft. Andrew Freeman, Russ Parrish, Jimmy DeGrasso
9. Not Fragile (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) ft. John Aquilino
10. Say What You Will (Fastway) ft. Troy Lucketta, Mark Slaughter
11. LOVE Machine (W.A.S.P.) ft. Dirk Verbeuren, Dave Alvin
12. Love Hurts (Nazareth) ft. Brandon Yeagley, Chuck Behler, Tyson Leslie
13. Sheer Heart Attack (Queen) ft. Bumblefoot, Doro Pesch, Charlie Benante
14. Sweet FA (Sweet) ft. Todd Kerns, Bumblefoot, Shani Kimelman
15. TBA
16. TBA
17. Auf Wiedersehen (Cheap Trick) ft. Al Jourgensen, Brandon Yeagley, Charlie Benante

Actually some good songs that they're covering...

Is there anything more useless than an all-star covers album, though?

I will admit that this surprises me enough to think it might be a typo, or a different Dave Alvin:

11. LOVE Machine (W.A.S.P.) ft. Dirk Verbeuren, Dave Alvin

It's almost 100% acoustic this time around but as far as moody, melodramatic death/doom metal bands from Olde England with neoclassical leanings and a silly name beginning with 'My' are concerned, relative whippersnappers My Silent Wake did a better job this year with their Damnum per saeculorum than My Dying Bride with The Ghost of Orion.