Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

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.

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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.

Industrial metal is back back back

http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/hallucination-scene

xps didn't Dave Alvin also have a psychedelic project where he covered Alice Coltrane recently? dude is branching out

The new Valkyrie is really good.

otm, this bears repeating.

The Gulch album is some nice crunchy metalcore.

https://gulch.bandcamp.com/album/impenetrable-cerebral-fortress

12. Love Hurts (Nazareth)

150 on black 150 on colour

https://metalodyssey.8merch.com/product/neptunian-maximalism-eons-3lp/

the gold imperial triumphant "guest" masks are a merchandising triumph and yes i bought one

5. Rebel Yell (Billy Idol)

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative)

why bother? tiny tim already did the definitive version

can't wait for this prominent metal musician's cover album prominently featuring a cover of a song by white people that prominently features the n-word, used ironically, of course, to be released

Xpost oh word

I've only just realized that Ifernach released a new album in June:

https://ifernach.bandcamp.com/album/the-green-enchanted-forest-of-the-druid-wizard

Reminds me of a less wintry Blut aus Nord ca. Ultima Thulée.

is there a balearic Blut Aus Nord

here is some stellar, classic sounding black metal, very "over the river and through the woods," triumphant mountain sledding sort of thing
https://moldevolhal.bandcamp.com/releases

with this cover
https://i.imgur.com/Q0FKi9O.jpg

is there a balearic Blut Aus Nord

lol this idea will not leave my mind. Blut Aus Sud!

quicksearching metallum with all ballearic beeings i could google think of

i have nothing. some Tanith did pop up, unfortunately sounding nothing like ideal balearic Blut, imo

Gulch debut posted upthread is surprisingly fine. the drums recording is where it's at. not to get too audiophile with this but listen to those fuckin tom toms! perfection! sure thing they're upfront in the mix. a good decision

now if only Envy's debut could sound overall a little less stiff, and more like when, you know.... when like... playing live?

ctrl F underrated = 0 /

i'm callin this Funeral Leech rec underrated, then. sour pouring peacevillelike89/90 doom with redemption by the end

https://carbonizedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/death-meditation

enjoying Draghkar's debut. no death metal, that i know of, sounding remotely like this right now + it's just heavy metal, lol + some terrific yet unexpected guitar solos + vocals by Daniel Butler

https://draghkar.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-crossroads-of-infinity

We need a Kickstarter to make Blut aus Sud happen.

Blut aus Süd would be a step too close to syntactical correctness, and we can't have that.

new Ifernach is good and relaxing, kinda like the Seals and Crofts of black metal

ooh I was v into their EP last year, will tune in

His Waqan EP from January is also quite good, more aggro and less dungeon synth-inflected overall.

Back to Alphaville for a second, I like how 'Experiment' kicks off with the grooviest and most conventional riff on the album.

well that's cos voïvod wrote that riff