Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

i can't believe there's a new cynic song, and also i somehow missed that sean malone died last year :(

the new Skepticism (out later this week) arrived on CD here today - it's majestic and I feel like they could do some of this with a big orchestra :-)

that's my most anticipated metal record of the year, probs. they never miss, so I am not surprised that it's majestic :)

alloy will be hard to top for me but I always love what they do

I would say it's more like Alloy than Ordeal (the cover art is also similar, don't know if we're meant to make that connection)

i can't believe there's a new cynic song, and also i somehow missed that sean malone died last year :(

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, September 20, 2021 9:54 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh my God, I had no idea. At first I thought you meant to type Reinert but I just checked and confirmed that Malone is gone, too. Amazing musician and those Gordian Knot records are really overlooked and great. Fuck.

Excited for a new Cynic album, though.

some recent bandcamp finds -

quick hit of death/doom, I'd be happy with a whole album stretching out those keyboard intro/outros tbh:
https://oothecaslc.bandcamp.com/album/excretions-of-lore

raw, tremelo-heavy black metal, you know what this sounds like already but there are actually some songs to be found here:
https://blutumhang.bandcamp.com/album/the-fires-of-domination

murky, grooving finnish death metal, nails the atmosphere at least:
https://spellblood.bandcamp.com/album/spellblood-demo

more finns, pretty much right at the death/black midpoint but the whole record just keeps coming at you like a punk bulldozer or something, def my top pick out of all of these:
https://fallentemple.bandcamp.com/album/ikuinen-kamppailu

uh, still need to listen to the new skepticism, carcass, and maiden records tho! as always, I guess I just like procrastinating with fun low-stakes stuff...

also out: https://warningdoom.bandcamp.com/album/watching-from-a-distance-live-at-roadburn

Was liking that Warning record (my first exposure to them) right up until the vocals came in.

Not heard the live album yet but Pat Walker is one of the great doom metal singers.

indeed, one of the great metal singers, period.

Great catchy/well-produced sludge/hard rock from Bancroft, Ontario:
https://unclewoe.bandcamp.com/track/nine-kinds-of-time-3

(XP thanks for reminding me of that Ootheca mini-EP, og bgm, already had it wishlisted and just bought it; do you have a Bandcamp fan account set up?)

xxpost Does Patrick Walker actually agree with Warning being doom metal? I'm on the fence. Yes, in a way it's the quintessential doom metal album, but it's also just this type of slow post-rock song played with doom guitar pedals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix2fKq88kR4 (IMHO, nothing about this is doom metal but they still only get reviewed in metal publications, just because of that earlier band he was in)

The new LLNN is really good.

Yeahhh it is, I feel like they're expanding their sound a bit but it's still crushing.

New Succumb is really good too, but only if you like riffs flying at your face for 34 and a half minutes.

do you have a Bandcamp fan account set up?

@craig: yep! just sent you one of those ilx webmail things

yeah wow yall weren't joking about this LLNN. they've struck a cool balance between space/atmospheric sounds and just undeniably cool sludge metal

full of hell out today: https://fullofhell.bandcamp.com/album/garden-of-burning-apparitions

and

body/big brave: https://thebody.bandcamp.com/album/leaving-none-but-small-birds

Love Full of Hell but gotta say I don't love paying full price for 20 minutes of music...

Body & BIG|BRAVE is fantastic so far.

Waiting for my copy of that to get here, most excited for that.

It's like a heavy Fairport Convention/Sandy Denny record. Pretty cool.

Ok that description makes me even more excited to hear it than I already was!

K.K.'s Priest album is fun so far, but not as good as JP's Firepower (at least what i've heard so far). KK's personality comes across more in lengthy instrumental breaks rather than the shell of the song itself.

vocalist is Ripper Owens, lol, so for all intents in purposes I guess this is a second Judas Priest. he sounds good here though because for once he's not actively trying to sing like a predecessor like he had to in JP and Iced Earth. his falsetto is still really powerful.

I am only a few songs into the Body/Big|Brave collab.

Sounds like Godspeed You! Black Emperor meets Jaye Jayle with a female vocalist (haven't heard any Chip King screeches yet).

Loving it!

Just finished the K.K.'s Priest album.

Naturally one would expect fantastic guitar work on an album featuring KK Downing.

He must have left it on another cd. This is boring af

So lazy. So disappointed

Ffs it has a song called "Return of the Sentinel" on it :/

Half expected there to be "You've Got Even More Things Coming" right after

Victim of More Changes

"Living After One A.M."
"Ram It Down Again"
"Love Nibbles"
"Painkillers (Refill)"

Savatage Frontman Jon Oliva Arrested for Cocaine Possession and DUI

http://consequence.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Jon-Olvia-mugshot.jpeg?resize=1031,580

http://consequence.net/2021/10/jon-oliva-arrest-cocaine-dui/

Yikes.

Sirens iirc

fuck pic.twitter.com/UYbzrJBnpc

— 𝐤𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐚 ⛓ 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐰 (@afroxvx) October 3, 2021

this year's record from spain's graveyeard of souls...
https://graveyardofsouls.bandcamp.com/album/infinity-equal-zero

sounding a bit like katatonia's brave murder day songwriting at discouraged ones (mid-)tempos to me. the way the soaring guitars and keys bounce of each other also bringing blut aus nord's memoria vetusta ii (a personal favorite).

a cryptic message on their fb page seems to indicate that this project has recently come to a stop. too bad but there are still quite a few records in the back catalog that I still haven't even heard. and the ones that I have are of comparable quality. then there's the guitarist's other releases from this year...
https://ornamentosdelmiedo.bandcamp.com/album/ecos
https://massburialdeathmetal.bandcamp.com/album/souless-legions

love the body big/brave so much. as mentioned above, not going with any Chip King screeches was a cool show of restraint that I think this album really benefits from

Listening to the new Trivium album, which is called In the Court of the Dragon and has this cover art:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81nVd9p+83S.jpg

Their current drummer, Alex Bent, used to be in Battlecross and Brain Drill, and he's really lit a fire under them on their last two albums and this one. They're doing some of their most aggressive material with him, though it's still got big melodic choruses 'cause Matt Heafy's a giant dork. Anyway, if you're a fan, this is just as good as the album they put out last year, which I liked a lot.

Scott Koenig died from COVID. I knew him back when he was still in New York and I was an up and coming metal journo type. He was always really nice to me back in the day and I never heard a bad word about him. Legend has it that he turned Rick Rubin onto Slayer (and Trouble) and he also managed Fear Factory and Biohazard along the way. Terrible loss.

Xxxpost yay for new Blood Red Throne todayyy

Another entry for the Disappointing Metal Band Name list: this better-than-decent death metal duo opted for Swelling Repulsion when Repulsive Swelling was RIGHT THERE.

https://swellingrepulsion-scp.bandcamp.com/album/the-severed-path

Superdigging the new Fluisteraars. It's rough and raw but its a lot more than that as well. Love the variations in vocals. The little instrumental flourishes, the stretched out guitar parts.

― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Finally got round to hearing this - excellent stuff, easily the best thing they did since the debut.

Not sure if Primeval Well has come up yet, I haven't seen them. And I may have missed and thus need to circle back to Panopticon if this is the sort of thing I've been lacking in life, but great god almighty, pass the fucking jug.

https://primevalwell.bandcamp.com/album/talkin-in-tongues-with-mountain-spirits

if you were hankering for a converge record about the end of the world this year, the new every time i die will do in a pinch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIdHbo4qdKE

New Massacre slays.

It's not the bullshit lineup from 2014. This is Kam Lee. He sounds like a demon on vox

Grand Cadaver are a Swedish death metal act fronted by Mikael Stanne of Dark Tranquillity. All the other dudes have been in other bands, too, but I've never heard of any of them. Anyway, their debut album Into the Maw of Death is out this week and it sounds like...Swedish death metal. Grinding, fast, plenty of guitar distortion.

https://grandcadaver.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-maw-of-death

New album from 40 Watt Sun: https://svartrecords.com/product/40-watt-sun-perfect-light-album (can't see a release date unless that 27.5 = May 27 2022)

okay, it actually is May 2022 - says so in the text below this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2knzupwDrk

Probably stupid question, but I had a new 1914 track come up on Spotify yesterday and kind of dug it. But that whole war metal thing from that area of the world can attract some, uh, more right leaning elements. Basically, is 1914 fashy? Or just big into World War I?

They have an album called Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland. I'd steer clear.