Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

new Benediction with Dave Ingram, eh?

The new Sumac is indeed quite good. Feels like a step towards less aimlessness or perhaps a more meaningful aimlessness.

Only heard the preview track for Sumac but agree that it was sounding exciting.

I've finally got around to listening to both Kaatayra albums. Both are meritorious, but the epic closing track of the latest one is particularly mysterious and lovely. Some of the most inventive atmospheric black metal around.

Completely agree, hence my overall preference for Toda história pela frente. My Portuguese is lacking but I quite like the title, too. I think the gist is of is: all history ahead/the whole story ahead.

That's nice. 'Misery of Wisdom' as a translation of the last track is like a truncated Jute Gyte title. Yeah, I will listen to these again for sure. Very foresty and hypnotic.

Very rainforesty and hypnotic

FTFY ;)

I think this Sunken album might be my metal album this year. Cheers for the heads-up, pom.

Glad you like it! Angry Metal Guy and No Clean Singing both gave it glowing reviews but it still feels slept on imo.

new Benediction album is sounding pretty nice. Ingram is back on vocals and sounds very good.

anybody digging the Wayfarer album?

Haven't heard it yet, but I really liked their first one.

enjoying it! started out with a silent film piano roll type tune

this feels like Black Metal meets OK Corral

Edenic Past album came out yesterday:
http://edenicpast.bandcamp.com/album/red-amarcord

The tech deth project features Nicholas McMaster and Colin Marston from Krallice and that sentence alone should cause many here to spontaneously orgasm.

cave goons, get in here now:

https://sentientdivide.bandcamp.com/album/haunted-by-cruelty

Forgot to say this rules seven months ago. Still rules today.

Another Boris and Merzbow collab due out in December on Relapse.

2R0I2P0 Tracklist:

Away From You
To The Beach
Coma
Love
Absolutego
Journey
Uzume
Evol
Boris
Shadow Of Skull

Sunken album is gorgeous! TY

yes it's v v nice

Trying in vain to catch up but 'Toda história pela frente' is seriously amazing and just what I need now. Never heard of them before, have not checked out their previous records. Are they really this good, too?

I've only listened to his other 2020 LP, which I enjoyed, but not quite as much as Toda história pela frente. I've yet to hear his first two albums, which were incidentally re-released as a twofer earlier this year.

The previous one is almost as good imo (maybe with a slightly stronger folk emphasis), but I’m yet to listen to the other two. Suits many moods.

Ha xp

Só quem viu o relâmpago à sua direita sabe

Err, that was supposed to be italicized. The caffeine has yet to kick in, it seems.

You guys will probably want to know that the same guy has another album out under a different name:

https://brii.bandcamp.com/album/entre-tudo-que-visto-e-oculto

Cuts out the folk entirely in favour of electronic elements, glitch, vocoder and the like

Undeath album just dropped - feels a bit neo-Cannibal Corpse without the slick production. vocals are much more raw and unprocessed like the classic death metal of the early 90s.

omg there's a backing vocalist or the original vocalist doing a different voice, this high pitched shrill wail that's really dope

their facebook page is called @fundeath

this stomps in ways that nowadays death metal often doesn't like to

ok this ruelz

Acidic Twilight Visions has this gonzo middle part where I imagine the entire band is on LSD and accidentally murdering the poor gardener during a bad trip

You guys will probably want to know that the same guy has another album out under a different name:

https://brii.bandcamp.com/album/entre-tudo-que-visto-e-oculto

Cuts out the folk entirely in favour of electronic elements, glitch, vocoder and the like

Listening to it now. This guy can do no wrong, it seems. He also dabbles in darkwave, apparently:

https://rasha.bandcamp.com/album/i

Not really into darkwave but I'll check it out!

On the more avant and not-really-metal end of things, Stephen O'Malley, aka half of Sunn O))), fucked around with two pieces by arch-spectralist composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram back in 2012, with intriguing results:

https://ideologicorgan.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-grm-paris-performed-by-stephen-o-malley

First track should be 'Crepuscule' rather than the admittedly tastier typo.

as usual, loving the new Pallbearer. some really punishing thick riffs on this, but continuing to expand their goth-pop hooks.

Zeal & Ardor newie is a very much BLM-themed EP and lord, "Vigil" is incredible.

powerful piece of music

Neadrathal - thanks for saying something nice about the Pallbearer - I can't understand why folks shit on em do much - the couple of times I've seen em live I really dug em and thought they brought talent and heart to the songs. Really great musicianship overall.

Yeah i adore em, and they are great live. I could feel the thick chords in ny chest live.

Listening to the Pallbearer now. It's nice, has some grandeur to it and I like the surprise synths on "Stasis", but I think I'm gonna be coming back to the Spirit Adrift record more often.

New Wyrmwoods! Beguiling stuff as ever: https://wyrmwoods.bandcamp.com/album/gamma

New Asphyx album coming in January!

A new quarterly UK metal mag is being launched
https://fistfulofmetal.co.uk

https://i.imgur.com/XDBQuqG.jpg

dad metal

Möjö

genuine lol @ Möjö

New Botanist out https://verdant-realm-botanist.bandcamp.com/album/photosynthesis
Haven't listened yet but loved Ecosystem

new Carcass seemed good on first listen but definitely sounds like an EP, with no mindblowing tracks but a good collection of tide-over material.

waiting to hear Junior Bruce album

meanwhile Convulse have a new one out but as of two albums ago, they're no longer a standard death metal act and they are writing all of this ponderous, non-deathy prog type material that i have no interest in.

I started listening to the Convulse album last night and liked what I heard, but yeah, it ain't straight death metal by any means. (They haven't turned into Opeth, mind you; just a weirdo prog-death band. Lots of weird touches like whispering vocals in the corner of the mix and sort of folkish late-Primordial type melodies.)

And nothing against that kind of music which i do like for some bands. I'm sure it's done well. I just wanted more floor punching from them like World without God or their first reunion album.