Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

also, you can get truly excellent, often mint tape players on eBay, it's a buyer's market. if you were feeling completely bonkers you could get a two-owner nakamichi dragon (generally considered the highest point of technical excellence that tape decks ever reached) for 1500 which is a steal.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/114875004316?hash=item1abf15759c:g:hz8AAOSw7lhg3k24

I mean, the band IS called Defacement...

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1502519686_10.jpg

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/defacement

Nice.

boringly literal album covers thread to thread

PR quote of the day: "Dawn Of A Dark Age is the main project of the multi-instrumentalist Vittorio Sabelli, a classical and jazz musician who gave to the clarinet a leading role for the first time in black metal." OH GOOD.

Nice.

The Defacement album is pretty good in a Portal-ish amorphous roaring-with-ambient-interludes sort of way.

yo you're clowning but black metal with a clarinet sounds rad

ok I"m listening to Dawn of a Dark Age's 2020 album and it's fantastic

Yeah, that got me to go look up Dawn of a Dark Age, too. Nice.

If you're interested in a sampler of mostly obscure black metal, sadly almost all of it not involving clarinets, here's one I just made: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3lbWHmuy1TU9wAh1yFYZb1?si=3695e91ca7954032

Promise you haven't sneaked in some goth metal there, Glenn?

The line between black and goth is drawn by an unsteady hand. In blud.

If the prospect of Zeuhl inspired by Brazilian modernist literature and steeped in sludge sounds appealing to you – and it should! – then may I suggest checking out Papangu's Holoceno?

https://papangu.bandcamp.com

On the more Cratylian end of metal, Sewer Fiend's EP Echoes from the Cistern is exactly what you think it is, and it's the shiznit (even more so than the Fossilization imo):

https://drycough.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-from-the-cistern

New Spirit Adrift EP (three songs) in August! The title track, "Forge Your Future," is out now. Closer to their earlier, doomier stuff than the epic power metal anthems on the last album IMO, but I'm into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtIR6Y_vVxU

Should we start taking bets on the next full-length album title?

Guided by Glory is my call.

Cool, I'm always up for more Spirit Adrift.

One more, for the tech death-inclined:

https://edgedcircleproductions.bandcamp.com/album/lost-on-voids-horizon

Ok I lied – two more because I can't believe no one's talking about the new Drawn and Quartered, which pwns:

https://krucyator.bandcamp.com/album/congregation-pestilence

i only just got into them recently (their older stuff). i'll check it out

thrilled to see Abigor's Nachthymnen got reissued this year apparently, back in June.

Attila sings a la how he does on "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" on the opening track of the new Mayhem, it's kind of LOL.

It's a solid little EP, packed with all punk rawk covers in the second half (Discharge, Dead Kennedys, Rudimentary Peni, Ramones), but I don't think I'll be revisiting it very often.

they’re back baby
https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/authority-through-intimidation

I was gonna order the Mayhem EP that just was released but for some reason Century media is asking $18 for a seven-song EP with only one new song and four punk covers that combined take up less than eight minutes. So fuck that.

(Please note I am referring to a Digipack CD, not vinyl!)

Is that including shipping, at least? Insane either way.

It is not including shipping at the Century Media site. It does come with free shipping through Amazon at the same price assuming you have Prime or tack on enough stuff for free shipping from them.

For shits and giggles I checked it out - this is what it costs to buy an EP Digipack CD by itself from Century media:

Subtotal$17.98
Shipping$6.82
Tax $1.49
Order Total$26.29

They do offer $5 shipping for orders $50 or more and free shipping for orders $75 or more, to be fair, but it's still ridiculous.

I mean I kind of understand why Deathcrush was always $19.99 (cashing in on historically important material) but this EP seems like a good argument for $9.99 EPs

Yep, I haven't found that EP for less than $18 base price anywhere, I'll stick with streaming on that one.

same here

So, I am ashamed to admit that I am only just now getting around to Thy Catafalque, despite seeing you folks hyping his stuff for awhile now. Glad I finally did though, Vadak is just so gloriously bonkers and insane, I absolutely love it.

For me Thy Catafalque is one for the "bands you keep trying to get into" thread.

Here's one of those sentences you have to read several times: Eyehategod will be playing a show on 9/11 (the 20th anniversary!) and Stormy Daniels will be running the merch table.

that rules tbh

good call on the Drawn and Quartered upthread. it's a bit different than the older D&Q that I've heard.

and thank fuck for blastbeats, the last three DM albums I bought didn't really have any and I've missed them.

Overkill bassist DD Verni putting out a rockabilly/big band record was not something I ever thought I would type... Here's the first single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4psjGtIRS3c

new Andrew WK songs sounds like he would love to do a power metal song but hasn't got the vocal range.

His twattish fanboys are trying to compare him to Dio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk8wi4XcQgk

The song definitely has a Dio-ish feel. I've hated AWK for 20 years but all three videos from this album have been freakish and fascinating, and honestly I'm kinda curious about the whole thing in a way I have never been about any of his previous work. He's going for a very explicit cosmic-horror/cult-initiation vibe here that reminds me of movies like Beyond the Black Rainbow and Devil's Candy, and I'm into it.

New Dola (BC link upthread) is excellent, don't sleep on it if you enjoyed last year's s/t.

I dreamed I was at a Deicide show and Glen was getting his dick sucked while performing.

that is all.

So I didn't know that hyper *melodic* tech death was actually a thing:

https://ophidiani.bandcamp.com

This Ghastly album is hitting the spot. Organic-sounding psychedelic death metal that flows really nicely on the strength of the riffs.

bought a pass for maryland deathfest next year, hopefully see y'all there if festivals exist

oh damn that lineup is seeerious

yeah i want to go but the Fringe Festival is always the same time every year and i'm usually in it :/

I have failed to get into the vocals on this album Khalkedonian Death by the Turkish band Diabolizer, but the music is great, so if the vocals work for you, you might like it a lot:

https://open.spotify.com/album/23Klb9TC1HiF5pbL0PQM0I?si=1237014987ae4ce2

It is great, yeah, and worth reposting.