Rolling 2022 Metal Thread

When I was younger I was repulsed by the abject stupidity of Pantera, ended up revisiting Cowboys From Hell a couple of years ago and I will admit through gritted teeth that it is a fantastic record - but that single thing (ok, and Walk at a stretch) can not redeem the absolute horror show that is the rest of their forty-fucking-year career.

Wormrot album is probably the most I've liked a grind album since Longhena

sorry to post avant-nowave-BM to Rolling Death Metal but the new Scarcity is a rare example of Good Marstoncore; it absolutely goes

https://scarcity-nyc.bandcamp.com/

Aw man, RIP to Mariusz Lewandowski, who did a lot of great album covers:

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/rip-mariusz-lewandowski-painter-who-designed-album-artwork-for-many-metal-bands/

Aww. So many good ones, but that Bell Witch cover is one of my favourites of all time.

I knew without looking which covers he did from that short list. He had a great style.

finally listening to this new wormrot. that mosh part they ride out in “seizures,” hell yeah.

this album rules

why would you post an article about a guy who did a bunch of albums covers and include ... one ... of his album covers? am i missing a slideshow? if ever there was a time for a slideshow...

I don't remember the first Sumerlands album, though it seems like I should have listened to it — the dude from Hour of 13 was on vocals. But he's gone now and the new guy is much more of an '80s screamer. The new album, Dreamkiller, comes out in September and it's totally retro AOR metal, big Ultimate Sin-style hooks and solos, solos, solos. The only thing missing are huge gated Vinny Appice drums. Here's the first video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap2YdhQs3Fc

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One of the guys in Scarcity did some work with the Glenn Branca ensemble, and it shows. Was gonna mention it in the Metal That Sounds Like Glenn Branca thread. I like it a lot.

That new Sumerlands LP is sp great. It's been a very strong year for metal (that I gravitate towards) but this might be my fave. Imitating 80s metal is fun and all, but like Chris Black, Rizk has a very keen ear for the nuance of early-'80s heavy metal, and wow do I ever get Dokken/Ratt/Imaginos vibes on this one. Having Brendan from Magic Circle on vocals helps immensely.

What little I've heard of the new Sumerlands didn't really do it for me, weird cause I love Brendan's voice in Stone Dagger but he just doesn't quite uh fill the Phil void.

new on El Salvador's Morbid Skull label. The second I heard the opening guitar tone I was completely hooked. Fuckin awesome.

https://morbidskull.bandcamp.com/album/morbid-re-incantations-2022

Really late on this one, but can confirm that the new Kreator is awesome. These dudes continue a hell of a late career run.

There's a book of essays from 2020 by the children of celebrities and other notable figures called To Me, He Was Just Dad, and Miles Davis's son Erin contributed a piece which contains this amazing anecdote:

"I remember watching a heavy metal show on MTV and when Slayer came on, I thought, 'Dad’s going to hate this.' He watched for a bit and then said, 'Huh. That drummer is really laying it down, isn’t he?'"

Incantation are putting out a 3LP/2CD compilation via Relapse in October. Track listing is pretty incredible...

Pest Savagery (Previously Unreleased)
Ordained by Night’s Will (Previously Unreleased)
Obelisk Reflection (25th Anniversary LP)
Nefarious Warriors (25th Anniversary LP)
Degeneration (Decibel Flexi)
Absolved in Blood (After Party Massacre OST)
Scapegoat (Scapegoat 7")
Sacrificial Sanctification (Scapegoat 7")
Thieves of the Cloth (Thieves of the Cloth)
Exiling Righteousness (Thieves of the Cloth)
Hell Awaits (Slayer cover)
Horde of Bestial Flames (Diabolical Conquest outtake)
Ethereal Misery (Legions of Iron & Steel compilation)

Incantation 1996 Promo:
Impending Diabolical Conquest
Forsaken Mourning of Angelic Anguish
Nocturnal Kingdom of Demonic Enlightenment
Subjugation Divine

Emaciated Holy Figure (Corporate Death compilation)
Deliverance of Horrific Prophecies (Deliverance of Horrific Prophecies 7")
Profanation (Deliverance of Horrific Prophecies 7")
Intro-Entrantment of Evil (Entrantment of Evil 7”)
Eternal Torture (Entrantment of Evil 7”)
Devoured Death (Entrantment of Evil 7”)
Unholy Massacre (Entrantment of Evil 7”)

Live in Lyss, Switzerland at Carnage Feast (9/27/2014):
Oath of Armageddon (Live)
Portal Consecration (Live)

Live in Cleveland, OH at Peabody’s Night Club (11/21/2010):
Impending Diabolical Conquest (Live)

Live in Montpellier, France at Secret Place (11/13/2013):
From Hollow Sands (Live)
Iconoclasm of Catholicism (Live)

Live in Cleveland, OH at Peabody’s Night Club (11/21/2010):
Absolved in Blood (Live)
Lead to Desolation (Live)

https://t.co/qWhcNLmbNL

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Nick Lee of Moon Tooth going through what sounds like a rather scary medical crisis.

Dang, that's scary. Thanks for sharing the Gofundme.

Such a great guitarist. Really hoping he pulls through and is healthy soon. In an alternate universe, Moon Tooth would be huge.

$95K raised in 17 hours. That's awesome. (Never mind the larger context of health care in America, etc.)

is this the place to talk about that new chat pile record? (no rolling noise rock/nu-metal thread afaict)

it's good

I was hoping for a little more nirvana/grunge like on their "brutal truth" single but it's good

WHY

Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by that (considering its general unpleasantness). I like the relative plain-spokenness of the vocalist; very Chicago, very 90s.

yeah, definitely chicago/90s.

the bad vibes are really hitting right for me, works the same way a band like dystopia works. between this and that mad god movie, it's been a strong few months for "the world is shit" entertainment.

but I like the little glimpses of humor too. I mean "​grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg" is a hilarious name for a song.

Today in "you say that like it's a good thing," a quote from a PR email I just received:
"...the goal was to play only the darkest and most doomed-out DEATH METAL...with no room for innovation or progression."

That to me is like when actors show up at auditions for shows I'm directing and say they're method actors.

You're already in the hole with me and we just started.

("we're gonna be Incantation but instead really boring!")

I don't want all or even most DM bands to be like that, however I do have some time for it occasionally.

New Midnight Rider song is out, won't bother linking the video for Beyond the Blood Red Horizon because I don't know how many people care about retro old man HM from Germany but they've got a shit-hot vocalist who clocks in somewhere between Halford (he was in a Priest cover band) and Eric Wagner (maybe an octave lower because he's 53). Sounds like they're trying to include a little more heavy prog (Lucifer's Friend and Captain Beyond maybe) this time. Fine with me.

Today in "you say that like it's a good thing," a quote from a PR email I just received:
"...the goal was to play only the darkest and most doomed-out DEATH METAL...with no room for innovation or progression."

I am one of the people whose interest will be raised by a description like this

I love good doomed-out death metal but it's a subgenre that's recently become very oversaturated at the moment and I've heard many bands do it lazily.

Chat Pile album is tedious miserabilism imo, no idea why it has the profile it does (actually I do: people want to wallow)

boo this man. booo

also it’s the opposite, i think you need a sense of humor for the chat pile record

"Why" works a lot better if you assume it's from the POV of a five-year-old asking their dad questions on the way to school.

posts vmic today

"Why" definitely does not make feel like wallowing

“why” is the brain’s automatic and entirely reasonable response to witnessing homelessness, it embodies a rage i feel daily and maybe more ppl older than five should tap back into

ofc and nobody here doesn't feel immense rage at the plight of the homeless, but the music i find to be a thudding reminder to feel bad, with no possibility of transcendence, no left-hand path, no hope and not really much in the way of kickass riffs either with the possible exception of 'anywhere'

Transcendence is so not the point of this kind of music though, it doesn't need to always offer solutions.

yeah sometimes it just needs to be groovy as fuck

i listened to it yesterday sandwiched between helmet meantime and jesus lizard goat and had an amazing afternoon

i can't really explain it but something like Couch Slut mines similar territory but kicks so much more ass, sounds way more alive and amped-up and wild

no left-hand path

not sure how you're using this phrase but "the left hand path" = the way of Satan, not "the road not taken"

https://www.learnreligions.com/left-hand-and-right-hand-paths-95827

was intended in a loose metaphorical spirit, not so much a path not taken as a means of finding hope and defiance - a means of exercising cunning and seeking pleasure - even while the Inferno rages, so despite not having too rigorous a theological grounding, I'd say I did intend it in the manner of Satan being the Alternative, the other half of divinity which can serve to arm oneself against annihilation. ofc one may argue you don't need Satan, whether metaphorical or not, for that, and this is the central question of metal right now imo

Chat Pile do not appear to invoke strength from light nor dark though, which is my issue - if they did, they would join fuckin forces with the purple man

anyway to return to Chat Pile, they remind me quite a lot of Clockcleaner, if anyone remembers them. Definitely a Cramps-y psychobilly thing going on along with the AmRep/Jesus Lizard stuff.

i briefly mentioned it above but the way the band blends those big dumb nu metal riffs in is what makes them stand out for me. works surprisingly well and seems pretty unique.

godlesh is another band I'm reminded of that i don’t normally associate with amrep revival bands. but i’ll admit that i haven’t been following this sub genre very closely since the first few pissed jeans records.

and i love the lyrics + vox on “why” and it seems to be annoying the right type of internet assholes from some comment boxes i’ve observed. “doesn’t have to offer solutions” comment above otm.

yall heard this hill country blues/black metal band??? https://crestfallendusk.bandcamp.com

Haven't heard that yet, but read a review the other day that made me slightly curious. Definitely love the micro-pressing reality of physical media these days that means all physical versions of an album released... checks notes... two and a half weeks ago are gone already though.

The first time I checked out the Chat Pile album, I sampled the first track ("Slaughterhouse"), didn't hear anything too memorable, and left it at that. But seeing how people are still talking about it, I went back and tried a track that has a video ("Wicked Puppet Dance") and surprise, surprise, its kind of good. It seems the album gets better towards the middle.