Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

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

There's a new Portal album out today:

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/avow

Oh, wait, there are two new Portal albums out today!

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/hagbulbia

whaaaaa

lol i bought both, haven't spun yet.

There's an eight-minute new Cloud Rat song on Adult Swim. It rules, obviously

https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2021

Hyped for the two Portals. I just need to catch up with my paralyzingly long 2021 backlog first.

i can't believe a new Helloween album is maybe my most anticipated release of 2021 but a new Helloween album is my most anticipated release of 2021.

the two singles they've dropped have both been really good, it's probably mine too haha

New Bone Marrow EP really good. Wish it was longer!

The Tyrann record is great stuff. Swedish old-school HEAVY METAL, anthemic and punchy, with great drumming from Jakob Ljungberg (ex-Tribulation).

https://electricassaultrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dj-vulens-musik

I think the Portal albums are meant to be played simultaneously. Hagbulbia is mostly just noise

Avow sounds more like trad Portal

Loving Avow so far. Will need to come back to Hagbulbia.

Not quite the weather for it, but this is early-mid 90s Finnish funeral doom worship done right:

https://horre.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-a-wanderer

Love the new The Flight of Sleipnir album that just came out.

http://grizzlybuttscom.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/a2341783207_10.jpg?w=450

http://open.spotify.com/album/224ycWRwdpMF0m8qN8TJWZ?si=TMneEcBPSaK8U2tcaLnG1Q

I discovered Skadi in the 2017 ILM Rolling Metal. The Denver group is shoe-horned into doom metal, but this seems far more American folk, very lovingly textured and pleasantly melancholic, but powerful at times as well.

xxpost: thanks for that Horre recommendation, I like the minimalism

Gone back and played through Hagbulbia. It's overwhelming but in a really cool way. It's how I remember feeling when i first heard Swarth. They keep pushing things to their breaking point.

So are the two Portal records meant to be played simultaneously, or not?

They’re different lengths, and don’t have the same number of tracks, so I would think not?

Maybe there is something im missing but I think they are two different releases that just happened to come out the same day. Both are wild.

Probably a smart move to release the somewhat normal one with the obviously polarizing one.

They called it a "companion" album which can mean a great variety of things between "play them both simultaneously" to "buy them both we put them out the same day, most ppl only put out 1 album at a time"

new Killing Addiction out today. I miss the raw production and filthiness of their debut, but this is fun nonetheless.

New Skepticism album in September...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpj6gR1AE24

New King Woman song! Album out late July.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk-rxh1xmKs

I absolutely love this. It starts out like a typical KW song but it keeps building into something glorious.

the "other" portal album is kind of great

Def excited to finally have more King Woman!

The word about the Portal is making me want to break my hiatus from giving PL money.

That Skepticism album has several track titles that are vmic: I had to check "wait - don't they have one with that name yet?" :-)

https://svartrecords.com/product/skepticism-companion-album/

loving this song. god, skepticism are just the best.

the new nekromantheon is the one I'm currently hooked on:
https://nekromantheon-norway.bandcamp.com/album/visions-of-trismegistos

super fast + aggressive thrash with obliteration members. it rules. I wish there was some audible low end on it but it rules.

Bands of note with albums out tomorrow:

Atreyu
Flotsam & Jetsam
Pestilence
Red Fang

I mean I guess "of note" technically applies to Atreyu...

Def looking forward to Red Fang, love those guys.

For those who like their riffs dipped in a cavernous wellspring, this pwns:

https://morbific.bandcamp.com/album/ominous-seep-of-putridity

that's such a mad libs metal album title lol

ESL ftw.

also I just bought it because of that

:D

the song titles are hilarious, too ... and maybe it's just me but i was reading through them and when i got to #8, i just busted out laughing. it's like they ran out of gross ideas and had to come up with something that they thought sounded scary

I was already chuckling by "Cauldron of Execution"

nothing there approaching Fuck of Death sadly

'Sawmill in the Mist' sounds vaguely impressionistic, actually. Could be the title of a Eero Järnefelt painting.