Ulcerate, Neptunian Maximalism and Faceless Burial are the ones I'd rep for the hardest, if they needed my help (maybe the latter a wee bit?).
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I"m hoping Faceless Burial place relatively high on the ILM Metal EOY Poll--I placed them high on my ballot (which is a weighted one), so I guess I did my part to try to push them further up the pack...
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Sunday, 14 February 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
New Dordeduh out in May. While we wait, here’s a single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZFmx82Dg2I
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
Really looking forward to it
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
thx for the heads up. there's a new LP pressing of dar de duh on the prophecy shop as well.
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link
so this new Suffering Hour is quite good but did the guitarist leave his chorus pedal on for the entirety of the album or did LAME just encode this poorly
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 19 February 2021 08:22 (three years ago) link
i appreciate the audacity but i almost wish he had gone for an Only Theatre of Pain level of chorus where it feeds back and detunes
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 19 February 2021 08:28 (three years ago) link
It's a feature not a bug imo. Great album.
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 February 2021 14:03 (three years ago) link
Vindsval (aka Blut aus Nord) is dropping a new one next week under his latest atmoblack moniker, Forhist.
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 February 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
No discussion of the Th1rt3en record that came out in January?
I concede it's more rap than metal but there's definitely some crossover here - "666 (Three Six Word Stories)" uses a Sabbath sample as a backbone, there's a ton of Eddie Hazel-gone-skrong guitar too.
I know it's kinda "Old man yells at clouds about a rap album he likes" but so is RTJ and this does a much better job of hitting the same rap/metal hot spots.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 19 February 2021 23:02 (three years ago) link
The Ad Nauseam album is excellent, probably the best skronk-metal I've heard in quite some time. It's also kind of melodic for its type!
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 20 February 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
It’s very good and scratches that post-Gorguts itch but I haven’t been able to get into it completely. It’s only a matter of time.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 20 February 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
Just got a promo of the new album from The Crown, Royal Destroyer, which will be out March 12. It sounds like The Crown. The first video is for "Motordeath":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP8YfOSu2Dc
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 03:45 (three years ago) link
There’s a new Furia out and I can’t imagine it being of much interest to non-Polish speakers due to all the theatrical declamation involved. I liked the musical bits, at least.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link
Re: Ad Nauseam, their first album is equally excellent, I'm finding it hard to choose between the two.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 25 February 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
On a completely different note, here's some shoegazey/ambient/drone metal for solo guitar:https://gauntemperor.bandcamp.com/releasesIt's quite beautiful, really.
https://gauntemperor.bandcamp.com/releases
It's quite beautiful, really.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 25 February 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
Serena from Svalbard has apparently made a black metal album about Skyrim. I kinda dig how clean-sounding this is, her vox are great, and you gotta respect the sheer dorkiness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUnxqczBQoA
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 03:38 (three years ago) link
i really like the Daius record and appreciate how well woven-in the "folk"/"atmospheric" elements are -- such a contrast with "here's the soft part, now here's the loud part"-metal
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Thursday, 25 February 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
Glad you liked the Gaunt Emperor, NYCNative, and the Daius, roxymuzak. The year is still young but there's a good chance both of these will make it onto my EOY list.
― pomenitul, Friday, 26 February 2021 02:55 (three years ago) link
paranorm's empyrean is essential listening for progressive thrash likers, one of the more accomplished and fun takes on this style I've heard in a minute
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 26 February 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
In an uncharacteristic move, Krallice just posted the following on Facebook to give us something to look forward to:
"Demonic Wealth"the 10th albumwritten in isolation, recorded in isolation, listened to in isolation, released in isolation. out next week, hopefully..
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 26 February 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
Maybe some day Krallice will fully click for me. Some day.
― pomenitul, Friday, 26 February 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
I haven't really cracked the recent releases tbh, but I always give the new ones a pass or two just to check in
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 26 February 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
ooh very cool. Krallice/Marston has been very active with promoting and releasing music on Bandcamp Friday's. seems like thats the idea for this one too. its been great. he's been promoting a ton of awesome projects throughout all of this.
― gman59, Friday, 26 February 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
Not metal, exactly, but it doesn't fit anywhere else: Lucifer have covered Dust's "Pull Away/So Many Times" for a split single with Kadavar (who cover Fleetwood Mac's "The Green Manalishi"). It's pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7OMvGoMTMQ
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 26 February 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
Much of the new Melvins sounds like a superannuated comedy rock album. The opener is a Beach Boys send-up whose 'humour' is derived from its copious use of the word 'fuck'. Uh...
― pomenitul, Saturday, 27 February 2021 01:29 (three years ago) link
'I Fuck Around', geddit? Geddit?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 27 February 2021 01:30 (three years ago) link
wah wah oooooh
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 February 2021 01:31 (three years ago) link
Tbf 'much' is a bit of an overstatement.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 27 February 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link
Yeah, this is not good. Curious to hear what the Gen X crew makes of it.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 27 February 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link
Melvins have sucked since they let the Big Business guys walk away.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 27 February 2021 02:26 (three years ago) link
New Big Brave LP out in April. Here’s an appetizer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CgK5w6E2ns
― pomenitul, Saturday, 27 February 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
Love it, can't wait for the album.
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 27 February 2021 16:02 (three years ago) link
Same. I can’t wait to see them live, hopefully next year?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 27 February 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link
I'm a total sucker for Jón Aldará's vocals, so much so that I find myself otm'ing Angry Metal Guy for once:
https://www.angrymetalguy.com/iotunn-access-all-worlds-review/
― pomenitul, Sunday, 28 February 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
There's a new Abominable Putridity album, their first since 2012. (When that album was reissued in 2015, I reviewed it for The Wire.) Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation has Ángel Ochoa of Disgorge and Cephalotripsy on vocals, and it rules.
https://inheritedsufferingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/abominable-putridity-parasitic-metamorphosis-manifestation
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0851292490_10.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 28 February 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
I just bought it, u gotta stop feeding my addiction
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 February 2021 23:51 (three years ago) link
God help me I'm actually kind of enjoying this one. I thought I hated brootal death stuff.
― o. nate, Monday, 1 March 2021 02:33 (three years ago) link
Speaking of Brootal SLAMZ, the new releases from Korpse and Insect Inside are both excellent scratchers of that itch as well.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the Insect Inside album is really good. I reviewed it.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
Abominable Putridity album is dope. vocalist sounds like like Sylvester Stallone if he had 47 years of black tar in his chest and was also slowly decaying from within
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 02:33 (three years ago) link
there is a band called Anal Stabwound on the same label. and the "n-a" is censored, so it appears as "A**l Stabwound".
is this some "google for ***** and find Jorel" shit?
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
"Weird A**l" Stabwound
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 02:40 (three years ago) link
Don’t forget to vote, folks!
2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & FURTHER CAMPAIGNING thread (open until March 5)
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
The Ad Nauseam is very impressive. Thought I might lose interest amid the sheer technicality, but it's full of interesting turns and textural variety, and obviously an enormous amount of production care.
― jmm, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
If you liked that Ataraxy debut from like a decade ago -- and the sort of Finndeath that it channeled -- this Chinese death metal band should appeal to you
https://mvltifission.bandcamp.com/album/decomposition-in-the-painful-metamorphosis
or if you just like death metal generally, I guess; it's very good
and I just realized Mefitis has not been mentioned in this year's thread (can't remember if the new album was anticipated at the end of 2020)
https://thetruemefitis.bandcamp.com/album/offscourings
They're both (sort of) in that same bouncy, shimmery, slimy ecosystem
― Devilock, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 07:54 (three years ago) link
Don’t forget to vote in the 2020 poll! We need *you* to keep the flame alive.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
KnollInterstice
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/92TjD7Z6lkg/mqdefault.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6UKXm1UJNFttknobiabdNy?si=ov0eBFvRT_OemJ6QpwWlPghttp://knollvhs.bandcamp.com/album/interstice-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92TjD7Z6lkg
Grindcore from Memphis, Tennessee. Reminds me of a modern take on Brutal Truth what with varied tempos and nods to influences outside grind but in Knoll's case, those influences are sludge and mathcore. It took me by surprise how damn good this was.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
Nice--that Knoll has been on my wishlist docket for a few days now. Smart slam FTW! On a related note to some aspects of their approach (instrumentally, not really vocally--esp how they incorporate Black trem riffs w/o being orthodox BM), am looking fwd to the new Krallice set to drop this Friday.
That Mefitis above is a real frontrunner/standout for me so far this year--am a sucker for the thrashy/early-death (and also a bit early [early-mid?] Death, in their case?) approach to riffs and production, especially when it's done as well as that.
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
Everyone who's posted itt (and everyone else, e.g. Siegbran – where art thou?): please help us uphold our yearly metal poll tradition by voting for your 2020 favourites. Don't worry about the length of your ballot:
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link