Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

Slutet do come across as visionaries in comparison, musically as well as epidemiologically.

New Tribulation single! This is the Sweden thread now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKRQ0OFHJrg

hey lurker on this thread - but looking for recommendations of melodic metal stuff that's not grating and corny like power metal generally hits me

i guess high spirits would be the a good example of what i'm looking for, so some AOR tendencies is good too

Sunken’s Liveslede is pretty melodic and shoegazey and accessible black metal, if you’re into that kind of thing. Lowrider’s Refractions is a very attractive record and fulfills all my stoner needs as a non-stoner. Try Mystras if you want to go all medieval or Horn’s Mohngang if you like folksy German stuff.

looking for recommendations of melodic metal stuff that's not grating and corny like power metal generally hits me

i guess high spirits would be the a good example of what i'm looking for

The new Spirit Adrift, Enlightened in Eternity, is exactly this, and one of the best records I've heard all year. I wrote about it here, and it's available on Bandcamp.

It’s okay.

;)

thanks appreciate the recommendations!

i love huge riffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1y6kcZSJkY

the armed album won't be until next year, their label has just personally informed me

about to listen to the Blood from the Soul alb

the Macabre is a lot of fun, as usual

Even-numbered tracks of the DBR are just insane

hey lurker on this thread - but looking for recommendations of melodic metal stuff that's not grating and corny like power metal generally hits me

i guess high spirits would be the a good example of what i'm looking for, so some AOR tendencies is good too

The new Dark Buddha Rising is more to my liking than either last year’s Waste of Space Orchestra or this year’s Oranssi Pazuzu, prodigious though they may both be.

It's been mentioned on other threads but who here is digging the new AC/DC? I was surprised at how solid it was myself.

Don't think much of the new Beherit but I guess they're only churning out dungeon synth now, so...

Challops, but I don't really see the point of any new AC/DC albums after Back in Black, where they perfected their form. I've tried, but every album since has made me want to go back to that one instead. I have no logical explanation for why I feel this way, since a similar argument could be made for Motorhead with Ace of Spades, but I can't get enough of their stuff.

Mystery ritualistic black metal, presumably from Europe, that bridges the gap between Mayhem, Oranssi Pazuzu and Blut aus Nord, although most of its cues come from the former, starting with the vampiric, Attila-esque vocals:

https://prosternatur.bandcamp.com/album/mortuus-et-sepultus

I always seem to find a couple of flat-out death metal records I like every year.
This year the band that put out one of those records is Of Feather and Bone.

I could have sworn it was talked about in here earlier on but not seeing much when I search this thread but... the Mr. Bungle re-do of The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny is a blast.

haven't really wanted to listen to that! a band that left off on California coming back and redoing some early demos just...felt like a letdown idk

it's for sure different from what they are known for, its a fairly straight forward thrash album but I'm liking it a bunch. I get the sense that they had fun making it too

yeah the super low expectations certainly help but it's a very fun record

It's just done really well. And the demo is almost unlistenable with all of the static so this is a rare time i support a re-record.

This year the band that put out one of those records is Of Feather and Bone.

Thanks for the reminder on this one! I really liked their last one, keep meaning to check out the new one.

Yesterday I coincidentally revisited HWWAUOCH's first couple of albums only to discover just now that a new one dropped overnight:

https://hwwauoch.bandcamp.com/album/protest-against-sanity

Tomb Mold have a song on the Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack. I hope that was a nice check for my homeboys.

A new Converge song too, apparently!

hey thanks again for the recommendations, unperson Spirit Adrift is like exactly what I was looking for

also Huntsmen and Aktor are really cool too, Aktor is interesting almost a weird Devo energy at times

i really like the Of Feather and Bone so far, but between this and Endless Curse, is it a new death metal trend now to record the albums to sound as if you're in a noisey cave? occasionally the riffs become hard to discern in the fracas.

Spelunking good not bad imo.

caverncore 4ever

Like Tomb Mold, I prefer my death metal to be recorded in a mildewed crypt.

I've been listening to some recent DM and really liked Undeath and Necrot. Both nail the production.

Agreed, both rule.

yeah both are ace. the Undeath gets progressively better as it goes.

the Of Feather and Bone is a killer headphones listen.

my biggest complaint is there being too little death metal that goes this hard, as the brutal acts have kinda settled into this congealed soup sound and the riffs often aren't there, but fuck, they're here in droves. the kinda energy Cryptopsy used to bring to the table, but they don't sound like Cryptopsy.....

plus they have a name that isn't Pissgrave.

Like Tomb Mold, I prefer my death metal to be recorded in a mildewed crypt.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, November 19, 2020 10:35 AM bookmarkflaglink

Tomb Mold's production seems uniquely awesome to me in that it feels like you're on another planet wearing a spacesuit and not knowing how you got there or who that green guy is talking to you

i friggin' love Aktor's weird Devo energy.

i actually kinda think it ruined High Spirits for me. (i'm overstating it, but it's not *too* far from true.)

the melodic sensibility and mood of the Fuck the Facts album is fucking fantastic so far

Feminazgul is some hard shit! It’s a girl band!

Feel like I'm still catching up on albums that this thread was all over earlier this year, but: FLUISTERAARS

Such nice atmosphere and songwriting on this album.

Glad ppl are coming around to the Aktor. That album is sorta like what I wish Ghost B.C. sounded like

The new Wytch Hazel is some damn solid 70s trad metal revival shit.

Lamp of Murmuur have a really nice sound. Icy and raw but with enough low-end to nod along to.

That much is true, but upon revisiting it I found myself bored with its songwriting.

there's a new Inquisition on the way and the fact that the special editions are already sold out illustrates that there are a good amount of metal guys who not only don't care about politics but also don't care if their heroes are probably pedos

What's it called, "Securing an Enlargement of the Undraped Stripling's Likeness"?

Shockingly, the label that was willing to release it appears to be run by dumbfucks.

I mean... 😬 Fuck all the way off guys, seriously pic.twitter.com/XkGWVTh9bF

— Kez Whelan (@kez_whelan) November 21, 2020

Won't anybody think of the poor black metal musician

Glad you guys brought up Aktor again. Listening to it again now, and the more I listen the more I like it. Reminds me a bit of synthy 80s Christian hard rock bands like Petra.