Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

maybe the new eyehategod has good songs but the production is horrible. turns out--brace yourself--that if you put mike's vocals real clean way up in the mix he's a terrible lyricist with a weird petulant inflection. keith morris as mentioned upthread is a good comparison.

the riffs are good and big but sit way down under the vocals.

Yeah, the production really is bad on this one. It's not just the foregrounding of the vocals — the guitars seem really compressed and lacking in nuance; they're like a wave of distortion with no underlying riff, and the drums are super muffled and blocky. It's really too bad, because their last album — the self-titled one from 2014 — was one of their best.

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definitely wasn't wowed by the Eyehategod on first listen. will listen again later.

Disappointed to hear its not good. Was really really looking forward to it

some of the riffs were dope, but agree with the production concerns. it's very weird.

but it could be a grower. definitely wasn't 'bad' by any means.

new lovebites single/anime theme/super accurate representation of the romanian countryside totally rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsE4Ub_Pjh8

well, not that new but the whole EP just dropped

Human Impact, the "American noise rock supergroup made up of members from Unsane, Swans, Cop Shoot Cop and Xiu Xiu" according to Wiki, released a new EP digitally today with vinyl coming in August.

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3409365642_16.jpg

http://open.spotify.com/album/0FHiuFZn3IewRCOd1OWuTj?si=mvTrRNk8T3-g-T073DI1hQ
http://humanimpact.bandcamp.com/album/ep01

I liked their album that came out last year so it's not a shock I dig this as well. Of interest to some metal folks.

Also, the new Crown record rips. Neanderthal, methinks you will approve.

The last two Rob Zombie albums kinda sucked, but the new one is...good? I'll have a review on BA next week, just to fuck with the editor of Avant Music News (an aggregator site that regularly links to my stuff).

Agree on the Crown.

That Crown record was a fun listen today. Might be their best.

NYCNative thanks for the tip. weirdly I only ever owned one album of theirs (Possessed 13), which I liked a lot, but I was thinking of checking this out. so now I'll check this and Deathrace King (how I never heard that one, idk!)

still think it's hilarious that they were sued by a Christian death metal band which is why they had to change their name back in the early 90s

Yeah, the new Rob Zombie album is a lot more fun, reminds me of the White Zombie days with all the movie samples.

Not sure I'll buy it, but good on him for showing a bit more creativity.

will this be the year I get into powerviolence

https://worldfuckingpeace.bandcamp.com/album/come-and-see

I wish the lyrics on the new Eyehategod were unintelligible.

The Crown newie is indeed sweet af

Timely title also.

Lol yes

If you're in the mood for Candlemass-esque trad doom with female vox, allow me to draw your attention to, uh, Witchtit:

https://witchtit.bandcamp.com/album/intoxicating-lethargy

Thank you for the Brouillard recommendation! It, eh, fit right into my (this is seriously what I came up with when trying to think of another way to say "I like it") black metal hole.

Any time. There's always a Paysage d'Hiver-shaped hole somewhere…

Witchtit

Would definitely not have been in a hurry to listen to a band with this name w/o the recommendation and description and it's great stuff, thanks! I'm super picky about vocals in trad doom and Reign's are excellent.

I'm super picky about vocals in trad doom

This is the correct attitude imo. They nearly make or break a trad doom band for me.

I mean they do kinda tend to be pretty dominant in the mix for starters

I guess what I meant to say, after Gott Punch, is that trad doom activates my pure subjectivity centres even more than other metal subgenres. For instance, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus is one of my favourite albums of all time, but I can't stand most of the band's discography due to Messiah Marcolin. It feels unfair somehow, but how I am supposed *not* to reel from his singing?

Speaking of trad doom (post-trad doom? if such a thing exists), I also enjoyed this admittedly more depressing album by Seed:

https://seedma.bandcamp.com/album/dun-pageant

really hoping for a new 40 watt sun album this year

One more for the road, from the windswept shores of Brittany, and possibly the trad-est of them all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U30WDDgXLKs

Tempted to describe this as New Wave of Breton Heavy Metal.

Caio Lemos aka Kaatayra just released a new LP under his Bríi alias:

https://brii.bandcamp.com

Name your price, as usual.

New Mare Cognitum is out tomorrow and it's typically stellar. You can stream it here if you're in a hurry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzK0fp1ZJ18

I wish I liked the forthcoming Genghis Tron record. Alas...

I like the advance tracks :shrug:

I'm liking the two GT songs well enough so far, but neither have knocked my block off like their last two albums did. I'm hopeful the rest of the album delivers.

Just now getting around to the Iotunn record that pom mentioned last month, really scratching an itch as far as progressive metal goes. Really hard to nail this kind of combination of epic scale space rock with actual death metal intensity, it's not just patching death vox over bog-standard prog metal.

Also finally received my copy of the new Ruins of Beverast, I really like how open and spacious that one is.

Glad you like the Iotunn, jon. Speaking of prog metal – this time with a post-metal bent – holy shit is the new Dvne ever amazing:

https://songs-of-arrakis.bandcamp.com/album/etemen-nka

This one's going to rank very high on lots of people's EOY lists, I suspect.

Ooh, thanks for the tip. That does sound promising.

Speaking of prog metal, I've been seeing a couple people saying really good things about the new Chevelle record, of all things. Anyone brave enough to check that out? I don't think I've knowingly heard anything from them since their alt-rock radio songs around the turn of the century, but I've seen it being called very good TOOL inspired stuff.

I don't recall them from back in the day, and I can't tell whether this should make me more or less likely to check out their latest.

"Send the Pain Below" was their big hit, I don't recall ever hearing a full album by them but they were sold as kind of the "brainier" nu-metal band at one point.

new archival release of old decomposed material:
https://mesacounojo.bandcamp.com/album/demos

hope finally died is top tier death doom, so I'm excited for this one

Max Cavalera and his son Igor have a new band, Go Ahead And Die. The first song, "Truckload Full Of Bodies," is pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjCMyT4Bsm4

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So that's where they got their name.

Checked out the Serj Tankian EP that came out today.
Sounds like Dead Kennedy's meets Electric Light Orchestra.
Which is to say it didn't do it for me though I like System of a Down.

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Sounds like Dead Kennedy's meets Electric Light Orchestra.

Heh, I was tempted to give it a shot but this definitely sounds like it's Not For Me.

Two great tastes that do not go great together.

DK is mostly his voice and delivery, you know how he sounds.

Serj Tankian singing over ELO actually sounds potentially good.