Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

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.

Something like this is a bit Aktor-y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTWTYCpKU7Q

lol man. I will admit to liking their Not of This World album, from back when I was a thumper

They had a few good tunes!

"Bema Seat", horrifying lyrics aside, is a bop.

if Aktor's similar to that, might have to give em another whirl. think I bought something of theirs five years ago and didn't return to it much.

never spun them before, but very into the Contrarian album that just dropped. "prog death metal" in 2020 sends me scampering because it usually means paper thin guitars playing boring as fuck riffs. this is more from the Death-school of prog death (though I wouldn't say they sound LIKE Death, just share more in common with that kind of prog death).

How did Tombs put out another album in 2020?

I don't like Under Sullen Skies quite as much as Monarchy of Shadows but it's still very good. I get a Celtic Frost/Triptykon vibe on some of the tracks here which is not a bad thing.

I only listen to 3-4 power metal albums a year, tops, but Decibel wasn't kidding when they gave Eternal Champion their #2 EOY spot. I wouldn't go that far, but it's pretty good.

Listening to the new Botanist quite a lot, love the dynamics, lots of tempo changes. Sludgy black shoegaze for the win!

ps. Otrebor (aka Roberto Martinelli aka Botanist) might be one of the few extreme metal dudes with a Linkedin profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/roberto-martinelli-sf/

lol that's quite funny

Couldn't help it and pre-ordered the mega deluxe Among the Living graphic novel package which includes picture disc vinyl, engraved plaque, t shirt, graphic novel, etc.

I just love that alb what can i say

Going through older issues of Decibel and playing this I didn't get to.

Man, this Uada album is great! Funny that the only mention of the band above was their exceedingly tenuous allegations of being semi-closeted Nazis.

I thought it was a real step down from their first two albums musically and that the mopey anti-SJW lyrical content of the track "No Place Here" belied their previous claims of being "apolitical" and made it pretty clear that their stance is much more right wing and reactionary than anything else.

I had no idea that large chunks of The Devil's Blood had reformed as Molassess, but better late than never, I like this quite a bit. Really obnoxious that they needed to break an album that was barely longer than an hour into two CDs though.

(xp) While I disagree it's a step down musically, checking out the lyrics of that song do tell a tale that the Decibel cover story did not.

Being "cancelled" due to tenuous connections (a la Woe, who seemed to suffer the same repercussions for the same reason) bothers me, but Woe didn't write anything like that, nor would they. I don't know if they are right wing but that track reeks of the kind of bothsiderism that I am pretty much done with. So thanks.

I'm not gonna listen to that Uada song but the lyrics as reproduced make me think the last section might be...a rap? Please tell me it is.

What's the deal with Woe getting "cancelled"? Nearest I can find is because they were sharing a bill with Inquisition?

And then I checked out Twitter to see what ws being said about the band.

Hahahahaha I'm sorry but Uada choosing this particular moment in time to release merch featuring "a battlte torn and bloodied American flag" is objectively more embarassing than every hammy corpse-paint photo combined.

— Kez Whelan (@kez_whelan) November 7, 2020

LOL pic.twitter.com/fy7gU858TQ

— EXTINCTION (eco-slam) (@Capt_Grapefruit) November 7, 2020

Uada are being fcken ridiculous. Today of all days is NOT the time to be ‘ambivalent’. And of course it was timed for release. pic.twitter.com/5sTNet11ym

— JayKeeley (@doomedparade) November 7, 2020

Yikes.

Gunning for that opening slot on the next Five Finger Death Punch tour (whenever that might be), I see.