Rolling 2022 Metal Thread

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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.

New Faceless Burial album in October! New song up on Bandcamp:

http://mesacounojo.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-foothills-of-deliration

great news, their last record ruled

Was bored, so I wandered over to AngryMetalGuy and discovered the band Early Moods, a doom/trad outfit from L.A. composed of five Latin dudes playing some incredible Trouble/Pentagram/Saint Vitus ultra-heaviness. They have a 2020 EP and a full-length that just came out last week. The latter is what I'm listening to right now and it fucking rips.

This album cover says "early Doobie Brothers," but trust me, it gives no indication of the actual music. Don't pass this one by.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0144175054_10.jpg

http://earlymoods.bandcamp.com/album/early-moods

Apparently Olav Berland (main dude in Forgotten Woods and Joyless) died last month at 45 years of age of an unspecified illness - both bands have been long defunct and somewhat but released excellent dark psychedelic-tinged droning rock-ish black-ish metal records in the mid-1990s.

one or more of the Crestfallen Dusk guys have this bluegrass/black metal thing called Primeval Well that I (or someone) may have posted either this year or last when it came out, and which I've been listening to regularly ever since (they have a few other bands that dabble in varying Appalachian moods)

https://primevalwell.bandcamp.com/

https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Ryan_Clackner/821808

"She Flies Undead" and "Where All Things are Forgotten" are the two that really go straight for the O Black Wizards Where Art Thou vibe, very cool stuff

Finally listening to the new Herxheim and it has their forebears Howls of Ebb's weird and elliptical rhythmic feeling mixed with a cruder, caveman Master/Repulsion kind of vibe. Appropriate for a band named after a site where some people think primitive mass cannibalism occurred.

http://herxheim.bandcamp.com/album/woe-unto-thee-lp

caveprog

the tour I've been hoping for , for 3+ years, is finally hitting my city. Cavalera Conspiracy playing Beneath the Remains and Arise in its entirety.

for this kid who got into Sepultura after Max was already gone, this could be a dream come true.

(I mean classic Sepultura, there are some Derrick era albums that are good, perhaps even great, but none that hit like these two)

both on the same night? that's pretty cool!

Yep

iirc i never cared much about howls of ebb. otoh herxheim sounding extremely right up my alley! thx punch

Good to hear they finally realized that few fans are interested in Chaos AD/Roots groove-metal era Sepultura.

Posted in IMM thread but it fits better here.

Local metal band Ginko Balboa and I have been friends for years (the vocalist, Matt, I've know for 17) so they asked me to be the lead character in their vid.

So here it is. They're good folk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2ChDo3l94I

What an awesome video and song! Loved it!

just about every song on the new Soilwork plods at the same boring tempo with the same songwriting patterns.

I liked them better at the beginning of the 21st century when they sounded like Gothenburg by way of 80s synth pop

Night Flight Orchestra has become one of my favorite bands ever, and as much as I listened to Chainheart Machine, Predator's Portrait, and Natural Born Chaos back then, Bjorn Strid will henceforth only matter to me when he wears the white jacket. (I didn't like their new single, sadly, but the last four albums have pretty much been loaded end-to-end with the best pop-rock songs I've ever heard.)