Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

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.

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really into this Thou/ERR collab album. hella goth grandeur.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/quietus_production/images/articles/29128/Lamp_Of_Murmuur_1603641114_crop_550x733.jpg
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0291658041_16.jpg

Hat-tip to the Quietus for this one: Naturally, Lamp of Murmuur' is a primo bandname, and while I was expecting some bottomless pit Lurker of Chalice USBM, this is actually a) Way more riffy than I thought, and b) really good all the same. No boys without toys having their guitar ripped out of their hands crying in their echo-y ambient torture nihil nihil basement BM*, but musicians frivolously axing away, in a very melodic and song-oriented way. Didn't think I'd like this as much as I do, but it sure gets the adrenaline flowing!

https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/album/heir-of-ecliptical-romanticism

(*) how I prefer most of my BM tbf

holy fuck, that Lamp of Murmuur is great!

almost reminds me of At the Heart of Winter at times

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

― gman59, Friday, 30 October 2020 16:57 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's incredible! Building on the same vocal-heavy folky formula of Ecosystem, but way more prog. It's my favourite thing he's done so far.

There's a new Rob Zombie song. It sounds like it could have been recorded at any time in the last 25 years. The dude is in total aesthetic stasis, and the knuckle-walking part of me is totally fine with that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WULTU6zl2E

new azarath at the end of the month:
https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/saint-desecration

like with in extremis, the preview track doesn't have riffs with the catchy, absu-ey x factor that was all over blasphemers' maledictions. but I'm still always up for more azarath.

tangenttangent yeah I've checked it out since that post and like it a lot. not sure where it ranks within his discography for me but its solid as hell

also i'm late to the game here but really loving the newest Wayfarer that was mentioned above

i need to return to it, i liked it a lot and then a lot of other shit came out lol

Venom Prison comp is great. i guess they re-recorded some old demos and added a few new tracks.

they do breakdowns the right way, rather than becoming the song they supplement it.

and I'll say it - Larissa Stupar's vocals are out of this world sick

New stuff I like enough to buy (and in some cases already have):

Sólstafir - Endless Twilight of Codependent Love (Season of Mist)
http://img.discogs.com/Es_d8j3CB4luWSPCoQN-8XfDcAI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-16128265-1604370385-2761.jpeg.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7Gz2aaP3iC3eEzoNaMno4E?si=pDZTRbOiSyyuwbcsF6cLEw
http://solstafir.bandcamp.com/album/endless-twilight-of-codependent-love

A little less black metal, a lot more melancholic post-metal and a heavy dose of classic rock tropes this time out for the Icelandic band that does no wrong.

Barfbag - Let's Stop a War (Stay Gold Records)
http://metalshockfinland.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/barfbag-cover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2otZjLZkvYClwqWsMyI0FP?si=RLXRrxUHRpOo308ZPmMXQw
http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Stop-War-Explicit-Barfbag/dp/B086VRD3T4

I didn't expect much from this - A&R mogul David Bason and guys from the Dresden Dolls and AWOLNATION - but it hits me like the first Suicidal Tendencies record if they were a hell of a lot smarter (but a different kind of smart ST would eventually employ). Donald Trump is low-hanging fruit but this incredibly short EP was a kick in my ass when it came out election day. Not on Bandcamp and only available for purchase as an Amazon download, which kinda sucks.

Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full (Sacred Bones Records)
http://assets.boomkat.com/spree/products/686965/large/843563128633_T66333391490054.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6X2TkIjKz0JmifXmr0Tj79?si=8QQkiuUkStGgSsyevSDfnw
http://thou.bandcamp.com/album/may-our-chambers-be-full

I had a lot of trouble picking tracks from this for my 2020 Spotify Playlist because all of it is so compelling. It really takes the best of two disparate worlds, both of which I like very much, and makes the combination sound enevitable.

Getting a bit of Tribulation vibes from the Solstafir (that's a compliment in my book).

Just played the song Hexennacht by Hellripper and it frrrrrriiggiinnnnn rippssssss. Multilayered blackened vocals laid over a bloody track of trash guitars. I wonder if the entire album is as good as this?

New Darkenhöld is quite solid and will meet all of your 'Oyez, oyez, braves gens !' needs:

https://darkenhold.bandcamp.com/album/arcanes-sortil-ges

As usual, the folks over at Haeresis Noviomagi deliver the goods, cementing the Dutch BM scene as possibly my favourite thing in metal right now:

https://empyreangrace.bandcamp.com

Obscure cavernous DM from Greece that absolutely no one is talking about but that really hits the spot:

https://bognorband.bandcamp.com/album/brain-paralysis

Swedish blackened doom courtesy of Svartrit, for fans of violins and musique concrète-ish interludes:

https://svartrit.bandcamp.com/album/irreelle-sindelag

When you're feeling bellicose and dying to crush face while you die in a proverbially pointless war:

https://ceremonialbloodbath.bandcamp.com

Just to backtrack for a second: May Our Chambers Be Full would have been better without Bryan Funck imo. ERR is a much more compelling vocalist and her bits are invariably better throughout.

Also, I really don't get the appeal of Sólstafir, their music is terminally vacuous.

I totally disagree. I haven't heard anything resembling the dual-vocals on this album before and it's amazingly effective.

re: ERR/Thou

yeah I like the vocal interplay as well even if I agree that she's obviously the more talented vocalist

I agree, but also their blend is its own new thing. Whether one or the other is a better singer is irrelevant imo

This new Mindforce track kicks ass
https://bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/reign-of-terror

Tbf I'm nearly always unduly harsh on dual vocalists in a metal setting so you can chalk it up to my ear-blinkers. I also don't like Thou all that much.

There's a new Völur album, Death Cult, out on Friday. Folky art-doom with overtones of jazz and modern classical. No guitars, only violin and bass. I interviewed them in 2017, when their last album came out.

oooh I like their stuff a lot, good looking out

Shaidar Logoth - Chapter III: The Void God
Hey here's another grrrreat atmospheric, post-black, beast of an album!