Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

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

Uh, I can't be the only one itt absolutely thrilled to hear about a The Body / Big|Brave collaborative album coming out on Thrill Jockey, can I?

https://thrilljockey.com/products/leaving-none-but-small-birds

new WITTR album announced, due out August

oh cool is this one geothermally-powered

Big|Brave|Body news is exciting!

As long as Robin takes care of all vocal duties, it could be good.

Speaking of Montrealers, every year brings its share of top-shelf Québécois black metal and this year I'm tempted to argue that Oriflamme (feat. the drummer from Atramentus and an ex-member of Ossuaire) are its torchbearers:

https://oriflammeqc.bandcamp.com/album/l-gide-ardente-2

forgot to mention but latest Flotsam and Jetsam is again solid. they're on a good run on their last few albums!

Bands of note with albums being released today:

AFI
Cold Cave
Go Ahead And Die (Max Cavalera and Son)
Mammoth WVH
Mr. Bungle (Live Video)

I realize that AFI and Cold Cave are only tangentially relevant in this thread but there is support for those bands in metal circles, I think.

I just got the CD in the mail from Profound Lore and this might be one of my favorite black metal songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ff3fHS13FU

totally kicking myself for not checking out that 2019 Amenra fire ritual footage, they probably play the complete new album there (part 2, linked above, 10:35 is the start of another as yet unknown song, for instance)

Revolver Magazine
20 Best Albums of 2021 So Far
http://www.revolvermag.com/music/20-best-albums-2021-so-far

Architects - For Those Who Wish to Exist
The Armed - Ultrapop
The Devil Wears Prada - ZII
Enforced - Kill Grid
Evanescence - The Bitter Truth
Frozen Soul - Crypt of Ice
Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality
Gojira - Fortitude
Gulch/Sunami - Split
Kaonashi - Dear Lemon House, You Ruined Me: Senior Year
Noctule - Wretched Abyss
Poppy - EAT (NXT Soundtrack)
Pupil Slicer - Mirrors
Red Fang - Arrows
SeeYouSpaceCowboy/If I Die First - A Sure Disaster
Sanguisugabogg - Tortured Whole
Tomahawk - Tonic Immobility
Yautja - The Lurch
Youth Code x King Yosef - A Skeleton Key in the Doors of Depression
Rob Zombie - The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy