Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

Mixed and mastered by Colin Marston, here's some standout proggy tech death/thrash from London:

https://atvm.bandcamp.com/album/famine-putrid-and-fucking-endless

man, this one's cool! audible basslines, what a concept!

nice job on the production too. sounds like humans playing music, what a concept!

Audible bass virtuosity is a telltale sign the tech death will be good.

ha, totally

this one's been doing the trick for me lately:
https://nihilisticnoisepropaganda.com/album/the-life-feeding-flame

sounds a bit like godflesh gone black metal to my ears

New Panopticon is brilliant, end stop.

I reviewed the Sunbomb album.

Panopticon always delivers imo but wow, yeah this is something else. Maybe its my yearning for nature after this long year but it's really hitting hard for me.

are there black metal bands that incorporate the motorik beat? maybe that's impossible, idk, the idea just crossed my mind

Aluk Todolo?

First band that came to mind for me as well, I’d say try Occult Rock and see how that grabs you.

good call. love that album, haven't listened in years.

Apostasy - Death Return
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1057899320_10.jpg
Chilean power metal/thrash with great production, straightahead but well-played riffs and gruffly barked vox,
nailing a retrofitted mid-'80s evil vibe IMO (sometime you can def tell an album by its cover):
https://fallentemple.bandcamp.com/album/death-return

Digging the Kataan EP, this is really good. Bummed to be reminded that Vattnet is no longer though.

new hooded menace incoming:
https://hoodedmenace.bandcamp.com/album/the-tritonus-bell

the last one is going to be hard to top imo. you can definitely hear the retro heavy metal influences mentioned in the promo blurb on the teaser track and that def threw me off for a sec. but I'm curious to hear how this plays out over a whole record.

oh and love that apostasy cover too, caught my eye as well. those colors are poppin! (relatively speaking)

Pumped for the new Hooded Menace. And Apostasy sounds appetizing indeed.

New Ghastly coming soon on 20 Buck Spin, psyched/deathed.

Mesarthim has an EP that came out last month digitally and on CD on 5/28.
They seem to be employing more synth to cerate their spacy moods on this one.
Also on 5/28 the band is releasing a limited cassette box set of everything they have done.

http://www.sound-cave.com/uploads/Product/image/mesarthim-phase-one-8-tapes-box.jpg?v=1617285956

Kinda crazy for nearly $100 US but I am sure it'll sell out!

I've heard none of their previous albums but the new Gojira is as meh as it gets.

ah shit ... the temptation on that Mesarthim

I like the new Gojira a lot, but I liked most of their old albums too.

I never liked Gojira much and the new one doesn't change my mind.

But there are far more offensive bands that got huge, so good for them!

New Esoctrilihum just dropped and I’m sure it’s nothing short of excellent, as usual:

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dyth-requiem-for-the-serpent-telepath

Just got a promo of a new Graveland album. Nope, nope, none for me, thanks.

lol can’t say I blame you.

the new Abysskvlt is even more funeral doom than the previous two - but with Tibetan instruments and lyrics as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxDqE43NV3Q

Haha, I too deleted the digital Graveland promo!

Monster Magnet covers record is a lot of fun with tons of obscure Nuggets (So much isn't on Spotify that I gave up trying to cull a playlist of the original versions) all done up Monster Magnet style.

Track listing for those interested:

“The Diamond Mine” (originally by Dave Diamond)
“Born to Go” (originally by Hawkwind)
“Epitaph for a Head” (originally by JD Blackfoot)
“Solid Gold Hell” (originally by The Scientists)
“Be Forewarned” (originally by The Macabre)
“Mr. Destroyer” (originally by Poo-Bah)
“When the Wolf Sits” (originally by Jerusalem)
“Death” (originally by The Pretty Things)
“Situation” (originally by Josephus)
“It’s Trash” (originally by The Cavemen)
“Motorcycle (Straight to Hell)” (originally by Table Scraps)
“Learning to Die” (originally by Dust)
“Welcome to the Void” (originally by Morgen)

Metallica's $5.98 EP is the only covers record I like, usually, but Monster Magnet sound enough like their inspirations that I'm willing to give this one a try. The version of "Born To Go" is loud as fuck, as it should be.

xp Monster Magnet covering that Poobah track seems so obvious I'm surprised it took 35 years

Don’t sleep on the Esoctrilihum if you enjoyed his previous releases, this might just be the best one yet, albeit a wee bit too long as usual.

On the mathier end of things, I'm liking the new Yautja:

https://yautja.bandcamp.com/album/the-lurch

That drumming!

Didn't see this coming...

pic.twitter.com/ioVveK1UXp

— Megadeth (@Megadeth) May 24, 2021

Mustaine/born-again christian/adultery…I am not surprised in the least.

But Ellefson is super Christian too! I think he was even a youth minister or something! (Which of course makes the stuff he's accused of both unsurprising and even creepier.)

Live by the sword, die by the sword, etc. Adultery is a big deal with these people.

Had no idea Earthless had another live album out, but it is terrific, as expected:

https://earthless.bandcamp.com/album/earthless-live-in-the-mojave-desert-volume-1

Eternal Champion and Blood Incantation got added to the new, reconstituted lineup for Decibel Beer and Metal Fest in Sept, as well as the original 3 headliners remaining the same (Napalm Death, Converge, Pig Destroyer). they also got a reunited Deadguy.

You still coming out for that, 'Thal?

I am!

That's a killer lineup!

A person named Jade on Twitter accused Mateo Longoria, aka Necrobalmer of Texas Death Metal band Mortuary Descent of raping her and all of Metal Twitter is in an uproar. Mainly because a guitarist Luis quit the band while the rest of his bandmates have said things like this:

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2NPpY4XMAAMN-O?format=jpg&name=large

Also the label Life After Death Productions has gone on shitting on Jade and anyone else believing her. Makes it easy for me to not support any of them.

Neathderthal we will hang a lot I promise!

That will be a quality hang. Killer bands, killer brew list too.

Metal Sucks discovered and published the results of Power Trip’s Riley Gale's autopsy reports against the wishes of the band and his family.

Metal Sucks took it down and replaced it with an apology and a donation to a charity that Riley supported:
http://www.metalsucks.net/2021/05/26/an-apology-to-rileys-family-friends-and-fans/

Be nice if Pitchfork did the same, but it's still up on their site.

sounds like a plan NYCNative! \m/

A person named Jade on Twitter accused Mateo Longoria, aka Necrobalmer of Texas Death Metal band Mortuary Descent of raping her and all of Metal Twitter is in an uproar. Mainly because a guitarist Luis quit the band while the rest of his bandmates have said things like this:

Also the label Life After Death Productions has gone on shitting on Jade and anyone else believing her. Makes it easy for me to not support any of them.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, May 26, 2021 4:20 PM bookmarkflaglink

jesus fuck.

For the Svalbard (and RPG) fans among us, Serena Cherry is about to release a solo black metal record devoted to Skyrim lore:

https://noctule.bandcamp.com/album/wretched-abyss

I heard a couple of the advance tracks - sounds really good, with almost-perverse clean tidy production

20 Buck Spin put the new Ghastly on Youtube and it's delicious if you like weird trippy death metal

This guy has a parrot that freestyles vocals while he plays classic rock riffs on guitar. Here they are interpreting Judas Priest's "Livin' After Midnight":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ui1cjBcHU