Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

the 2xCD splits comp is still my fave Cloud Rat release

L.G. Petrov of Entombed is dying of bile duct cancer (the Metalsucks writer couldn't be bothered to do a simple translation). There's a GoFundMe to support him in his final days.

I saw Entombed in 2007 or 2008 in NYC - Petrov and Alex Hellid were still in the band, with Nico Elgstrand on bass and Olle Dahlstedt on drums. Still have the T-shirt.

jfc

saw them in 97 touring To Ride Shoot Straight. short and fierce. would never guess Nicke was on is way out. LG was memorable! they were ~my~ metal band in my teens. supported, obv. this is beyond sad

:(

Blindsided by the news of Martin Birch's passing. He worked on so many classic albums, it is staggering.

Thanks to the people in this thread for turning me onto this one...

#NowPlaying Duma - Duma (Nyege Nyege Tapes)

Your average industrial grindcore duo from Kenya, Duma's debut is harsh and visceral. Compares to Godflesh, Atari Teenage Riot, and SPK, but even harsher somehow. Noise that is as inspired as it is inspiring. https://t.co/CCqy3Qry8A

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) August 10, 2020

The new Krallice is also quite good!

#NowPlaying Krallice - Mass Cathexis

The sprawl of olden days is long gone; now Krallice challenges themselves to fit damn-near tech-death-level complexity into pieces that tap out after five-of-less minutes that somehow conform to actual song structure. https://t.co/NsiWDwewLE

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) August 11, 2020

To save you the trial-and-error of finding the right Duma on Spotify, it's this one: https://open.spotify.com/album/1jEsVcciMGOYLx0gj1Y3oQ?si=1lzZOBxzQ3aWA1q57IuFdA

Thanks, I didn't know it was on Spotify!

the duma record is terrific and i liked this interview with them: https://toneglow.substack.com/p/025-duma

I think i prefer krallice’s new style... but i havent listened to their old stuff that much... any reccs?

1st Krallice album is my fave. It has 'Forgiveness In Rot' on it which is my fave song of theirs.

Years Past Matter is tops pour moi

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/11/mork-borg-swedish-metal-role-playing-game

Years Past Matter is tops pour moi

$115 to watch Metallica get streamed to your local drive-in? Jesus Christ these greedy assholes.

on brand tbh

Oh it is, absolutely, I should stop being surprised at just how greedy.

I'll admit to liking one of the associated shirts:

https://static.musictoday.com/store/bands/5818/product_600/X9CTMT05.png

That price seems absurd at first glance, but honestly, it's not that bad. The $115 allows you to bring up to six people total, so it theoretically could come down to less than $20 per person; you also get four download codes for copies of their new album (which I don't care about, but if you're buying a ticket to see them at a drive-in, you might).

gonna watch mulan afterward

Sure but I'm trying to think of how many people own a vehicle in which they'd want to be cramped in with six people for the duration.

Oh, I'm absolutely picturing a parking lot full of giant military-fetish SUVS full of whooping bros.

soon to have whooping cough

Tremendous (brutal) tech death from Vancouver, out on Friday:

https://atraebilisdeath.bandcamp.com/releases

*someone set my bat signal?*

I didn't know Duma was on Nyege Ntege Tapes; now I HAVE to listen to it

Well then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U5ZKKxqUzY

!

!!

It's a re-recording btw.

New Spirit Adrift album in October...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5CH-0xUIpc

love the cover art!

they are quite prolific

i never even listened to the last one! (and i like them)

re: Krallice. the peak for me is Diotima but I love this new one quite a bit. the Mick album, Arctopus, the Overgrow to Overthrow comp....Colin Marston is on a roll this year. every year usually, but these are all exceptionally excellent

First Martin Birch this week, now Pete Way. Old school metal is getting hit hard. Sad these deaths are being underreported, what a pair of titans. Pete was the coolest.

RIP to both of 'em

Digging this black/death/sludge/doom/everything album from Crust

http://crustband.bandcamp.com/album/and-a-dirge-becomes-an-anthem

Track 6 oddly starts off sounding a little like Kyuss.

Caverncore 4 evah:

https://angelmorgue-us.bandcamp.com

didn't realize one of the guitar players from the stevens was in a metal band, i checked it out but i didn't think it was nearly as good as the stevens unfortunately. a lot of death metal particular tends to all sort of blur together for me.

I'd never even heard of the Stevens until this thread, but that's exactly how I feel about bands that sound like them...I mean, you could tell me this was any one of a dozen different "indie" bands and I'd believe you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy9iZ2-Z4Qk

new undeath: https://undeath.bandcamp.com/album/lesions-of-a-different-kind

Bedsore's album is hitting the right buttons for me. Bits of death metal, thrash, atmosphere, variation. Like to see metal bands doing cool things with synths (see also Malokarpatan):

https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/hypnagogic-hallucinations

Ok the name Bedsore is good enuf for me.

Spinning

How did it go?

i enjoyed it....I was a bit hung over so I didn't get a non-distracted listen so I'll need to play again

I pre-ordered Intercepting Pattern's The Encounter because I trust the label (Rising Nemesis) and it sounded interesting — a single 30-minute tech-death composition divided into 10 tracks; features the drummer from Defeated Sanity — but I just got a promo of it and it's the most blatant, unimaginative Meshuggah worship imaginable. They might as well have called it Catch 34. I mean, there's a little bit of intriguing jazziness to the drumming, but everything else is cut 'n' pasted from Meshuggah.

Catch 44 surely

Now that September is almost upon us, let's play a game.

Thus far, which 2020 metal album has been slept on the most in your estimation?

I'd nominate the anti-kvlt post-BM of Förfallet (name your price): distant shrieks of despair in surround sound, drums you can almost touch, riffs upon riffs of deathless misery, lulling song structures that never slumber, quieter instrumental passages for extra impact.

Ripped to Shreds - Ruan

a virtual tie between Salqiu and Molde Volhal

Re: Luan, I've got an instinctive and unfair bias against one-man DM bands (unless it's Esoctrilihum), but I'll check it out.

Salqiu def up there (I quite liked the Moldé Volhal but it didn't sway me as much as it did you, lj).

This is cheating but I'd throw in Ayyur's two-song EP Balkarnin as well: Tunisian atmoblack that puts me in the same frame of mind as the best of late 90s/early 00s downtempo, using none of the same tricks (save for the ambient interludes). I was also tempted to mention Turia but I don't think they count as 'slept on' per se.