Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

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.

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

Yes, this is where I lost my shit!

I mean… just look at them. They can't possibly be older than, like, 19-20? Best time to be cutting VILE and BEGRIMED metal records imo.

(de)formed in 2020.

lol, this band is cute.

that Morbific is INSANELY heavy

No such thing as too much downtuning imo.

they're from the same town as Nightwish :D

If 1h14m of doom-inflected depressive black metal sounds appealing to you, Mourning Dawn has got you covered:

https://mourningdawn.bandcamp.com/album/dead-end-euphoria

If you like 90s era tech but not too tech death a la Death, Atheist, Oppressor's Solstice of Oppression, supernaturally channeled through high schoolers in Idaho, this performance will rivet you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryqwbNDzaUE

On their BC they have an album of these songs where the production does way more harm than good. Really hope they re-record everything.

They are called Barn.

well that was supposed to be the non-embed link, hence my bothering to name them, but each time I post a YT clip I have a 50/50 shot at remembering

this Boss Keloid record is pleasantly groovy...tough to put my figure on exactly who or what they sound like, but I thought of Baroness and Moon Tooth a couple times, with an extra dollop of 70s prog flavor

https://bosskeloid.bandcamp.com/album/family-the-smiling-thrush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-5pOBUmNbg

I don't think I can remember my own language being used this poetically in the kind of music I like anywhere since the early 80s wave band Aroma Di Amore :-)

This song is OK, as shreddy death metal goes, but I'm mostly posting it because I really like the name Deformatory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M5DSSNg3fY

my god, amenra played that song two years ago during their fire ritual already, why have I never checked that out in full? (fast forward to 27 minutes etc) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddxt3v15K4k