Rolling 2022 Metal Thread

Moon Tooth and Mournful Congregation albums are awesome.

love the Moon Tooth, they have slowed it down / calmed down on the pyrotechnics, which I did like, but I'm completely in the tank for this band -- love the dude's voice, love the vibe, they're all great players.

new Devil Master about as fun as the last. feels like the Cure meets black metal and punk

I think it might even be more fun than the last one.

yeah it's a good'un

Feel like lots of folks that regularly post itt would love the Tómarúm debut as much as I do, absolutely killer blackened prog metal.

https://tomarum.bandcamp.com/album/ash-in-realms-of-stone-icons

Moon Tooth is super good. They almost sound like they could get on the Mainstream Rock chart.

currently really enjoying the Pharmacist record that came out last month. Its primo Carcass worship from Japan that keeps it entertaining despite (or perhaps because of?) the weirdly long 7.5 minute average track lengths.

came here to hype up the Gospel album mentioned above? maybe its good for the emo/punk thread. anyhow, it rules though. technically proficient post hardcore. back like no time has passed since 2005

sorry my punctuation is all over the place

This NPR piece on Matt Pike is worth reading. Pike is an extremely...frustrating figure at this point.

Ugh such a bummer.

not surprised given what i've read about him in the past. he just seems a little bit like a dude who has smoked too much weed and doesn't get why people are exasperated with his erratic ignorance or why David Ickes is...maybe not a guy to follow.

Neanderthal otm, but it's extra exasperating to watch him being given chance after chance after chance to walk back some of this shittier implications of whatever it is he actually believes, but her refuses to do so in order to keep playing the victim.

A big bummer, for sure.

I would say to Currin "do Wino next," but Wino's stock has already diminished to what's-the-point? levels. It's not like the Obsessed are gonna be nominated for a Grammy anytime soon.

Goddammit, Matt.

This also popped up on Twitter today:

one weird thing about sunn 0))) and related acts becoming fully assimilated into the world of wire-type highbrow experimental music is that i don't think i've seen anyone ever mention how much straight-up nazi shit stephen o'malley published in his descent zine in the 90s

— Jess Harvell (@cheaptrickrules) May 19, 2022

not even exaggerating here either: in addition to the usual pussyfooting are-they-or-arent-they black metal bands, issue five contains an interview with the proudly white supremacist power electronics act control resistance, among others

— Jess Harvell (@cheaptrickrules) May 19, 2022

i knew he'd done a black metal zine but hadn't actually read any of it until recently, and you could maybe write it off as the flirtations of a young man into "extreme" shit, but he designed a burzum box set just two years ago

— Jess Harvell (@cheaptrickrules) May 19, 2022

Jess up to date as ever

Not that I am defending anyone willing to work with Varg at any point, but fwiw, I cannot find anything about O'Malley doing art for him "two years ago". He did artwork for him back in the late 1990s for something that, somehow, keeps being reissued, but nothing that recent.

Again, not trying to defend O'Malley though.

I'd like to perform artwork on Varg's teeth

lol

The new Malevolence album, Malicious Intent, is really good floor-punching chudcore, if that's what you're in the mood for. Out today on Nuclear Blast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqoFbD1xVWM

i considered it until I saw the smoke bombs

new Septic Flesh is good as usual Septic Flesh.

A local promoter put two tours into one small venue that happens to have a second, even smaller stage, for a mini-metal fest tonight, and it's truly a mix or eras and tempos:

http://d1htavafy9m5bl.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcm9kLXNpaC5zZWV0aWNrZXRzdXNhLnVzIiwia2V5IjoiMjRlMTU4MzUtZTVlOC00YTk0LWEyOWItNzE5OWNjNzliNTUzIiwiZWRpdHMiOnt9fQ==

Of course I am going though my plan is to leave before Vio-Lence who I always thought were overrated and I think even less of them now that they're all MAGA.

Exciter and Coroner? Holy hell

That tour (the Coroner one) is hitting NYC tomorrow night and part of me really wants to go, but I know it's not gonna happen.

new heaving earth record is sick:
https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/darkness-of-god

it's something like the midpoint between ulcerate and atonement-era immolation

early stream up here:
https://grizzlybutts.com/2022/05/24/an-early-stream-of-heaving-earth-darkness-of-god-lp-2022-premiere/

ok you got my attention by situating it between those two things

well, I was immediately second-guessing myself for dropping atonement (which is such a specific sound so unique to them) but.. it's fantastic. I don't think you'll be disappointed if you like those two things.

A friend asked me about songs re: death w non-English lyrics, and I--overloaded? Plain blanked? German, Greek, Scand tongues, other--suggestions please! Would be good if "Death" in title, but not strictly nec.

Like these?

(Norwegian)
Dimmu Borgir - Dødferd
Gorgoroth - Drømmer om Død
Undergang - Dødshymne
Satyricon- Hvite Krists Død
Trelldom - Min Død Til Ende
Kampfar - De Dødes Fane
Burzum - Jesu Død
Urgehal - Dødsmarsj Til Helvete

(Swedish)
Arckanum - Kri Til Dødha Daghi
Bergraven - Dagen Före Döde
Shining - Död
Manes - Til Kongens Grau De Döden Vander
Sorhin - Tills Döden Er Alla Tar

(Dutch)
Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed
Turia - Met Sterven Beboet

can go on for a while, need more?

(Undergang is Danish not Norwegian btw)

Wow the Pharmacist album from this year is fantastic. Progressive-y death/grind but with serious teeth.

There's a riff that sounds like Living Colour in the midst of carnage on the opening track

ya, that Pharmacist record totally rules

can go on for a while, need more? Your favorites,yeah. Thanks so much!

(German)
Atrocity - Todessehnsucht
Forgotten Tomb - Todestrieb
Falkenbach - Baldurs Tod
Tumulus - Der Grimmig Tod
Wigrid - Hoffnungstod
Farsod - Thematik Tod
Autumn, Leaves, Scars - Tod
Ungfell - Trommler Tod
Rammstein - Stirb Nicht Vor Mir

(French)
Alcest - L’Île Des Morts
Au Champ Des Morts - Le Sang, La Mort, La Chute
VI - Une Place Parmi Les Morts
Foscor - Encenalls De Mort
Trust - Instinct De Mort
Peste Noire - Le Mort Joyeux

(Russian & Ukrainian)
Black Flux - Рефлексия Смерти
Svrm - Подих смерти
Dub Buk - Цену смерти спроси у мертвых...
Культура Курения - Танец Смерти

(Polish)
Furia - Kosi ta smierc
Gontyna Kry - Kruk Smierci
Graveland - w objecia śmierci
Kat - W sadzie śmiertelnego piękna
Strzepy - Śmierć We Mnie, Nicość Poza Mną I-III

These are the two Spanish language ones that popped into mind but a quick search for "muerte" on metal archives should pop up hundreds more.
Parabellum (Col) - Madre Muerte
Reencarnacion - Un minuto de vida y un siglo de muerte

New Imperial Triumphant album due out in July, which apparently features appearances from both guitarist Max Gorelick AND his dad, Kenneth. As in the Kenny G.

haha YES

enjoying this new abythic EP:
https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/abythic-eden-of-the-doomed

I don't think it got the warmest reception but I actually really liked their last one specifically for the way it integrated some discouraged ones-isms into their core death doom sound. well, that's basically all gone but this one's fun too!

the new cosmic putrefaction sounding like a step up to my ears too

Decapitated's new album is called "Cancer Culture"

*reads lyrics to title track*

yeaaaaaaah fuck you guys

uughhhh

The Cosmic Putrefaction is good, but didn't quite blow me away like the Haunter did.

Haunter is quite good yes

Decapitated's new album is called "Cancer Culture"

jesus christ

Roaring lion hidden
Behind his wireless mouse

lol

I was already p much done w/ them after they were accused of rape (even though charges were dropped) but ....yeah, way to step in it further.

Omg great recc on Cosmic Putrefaction

The new Kreator album, out in two weeks, is really good. I'm a huge fan — I even like their "weird" late '90s albums — but this one sounds both clean and massive at the same time; quality production really brings out the aggression of the riffs. Lyrically, it's the same old same old (are people really still writing songs called "Killer of Jesus" in 2022?) but musically it's absolutely crushing.