Rolling 2023 Metal thread

and also Thantifaxath

Omg the Thantifaxath is a beautiful labyrinthian nightmare.

I am really loving the Wytch Hazel. They basically do one thing only - melodic 70s-style hard rock, heavy Christian imagery - but they're masters of the craft.

Still think the Tanith album is better though (my AOTY at the moment.)

Other than bizarre clippy production....which one definitely lowers things a half letter grade...

the new Metal Church is inspired.

I had liked their previous few and wasn't sure if new guy would fill Howe's shoes well, but Marc Lopes of Ross the Boss fame is great. Reminds me of Stu Block in his dynamic style.

The music goes way harder than I expected.

But man, whoever brickwalled this album deserves tainted yogurt. It's a real bummer

I guess the opener of The Dark was foreshadowing

the new Wytch Hazel continues their knack for strong melodic 70s hard rock/metal. I discovered them through a metal thread years ago.

but dang the whole "is this band Christian?" radar I had going off was definitely right, feels like it gets way more explicit on this one than it used to or maybe I'm just noticing.

Unfelled (feat. members of Woods Of Desolation, Austere and Drudkh) have an album out that's quite black metally: Pall Of Endless Perdition

idk if anybody is into Torture Rack but uhm the new Torture Rack is fun if not indebted to mid-period Cannibal Corpse a bit.

I hear a bit of Bolt Thrower in the Torture Rack too, especially in the solos. But that’s just me.

Yeah I hear that too!

Probably the wrong thread for it because they are pretty much not at all metal at this point, but since they don't have a dedicated thread and we've discussed them in past metal threads - the new Blood Ceremony record rules.

Oh it's a GREAT record. Maybe my favourite of everything there done.

"Eugenie" is crazy, psychedelic sleaze.

new Saturnus tomorrow, only 11 years after the previous one

Lots of live stuff from Hellfest on Arte Concerts youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL66OD4JjS_2PQTMDC3jP1iZJx30dG2Eia
(so far only been impressed by Amenra (predictably) and DVNE (did not know them, Scottish, "progressive sludge doom metal" :-) )

the Amenra video has been removed apparenly (maybe to fix the sound, the guitars did sound a bit weird earlier)

unusual lineups on festival days? https://www.lokersefeesten.be/en/line-up/6-aug/

I caught the Brooklyn Ludicra show on Friday.
Was well worth the trip there, especially since I didn't catch them when they were active.
Honestly the show was one of those life-affirming moments of metal joy for me. What a great band!

the Saturnus album is released on Bandcamp now, phew

the new Sarmat is leagues above, worlds beyond, unbelievably elegant and monstrous jazz + death metal, staggering compositions, if track 3 doesn't end u like it did me then we are not the same

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/determined-to-strike

I downloaded that promo but haven't had time to listen to it yet. I,V has a ridiculous batting average when it comes to weirdo jazz-metal.

feels like we're in a golden age of such

never thought I'd be so excited for a flute solo on a metal album but that's the new Thy Cantafalque

oh, I've been looking forward to that one

so, what are some of the other jazz metal highlights on I, V? I've been looking forward to that sarmat as well

from what i've heard, neptunian maximalism are alright but not something I am often in the mood to go back to. it's... a lot.

this record by -s- was more my speed, like the midpoint between om and dISEMBOWLMENT or something -

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dom-w-kt-rym-mieszka-w-a-house-where-dwelled-a-snake

I haven't heard big chunks of the big catalog tho

The Dolly Parton song with Rob Halford sounds like a Halford song with Dolly singing to a guide vocal laid down by, like, Liv Kristine or somebody. I don't know why I'm disappointed, since I went in with zero expectations, but I am.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQTM3Dwpk0I

If you liked -S- you could see if my Canonical Path thing starting from them yields anything else for you:

https://everynoise.com/canonicalpath.cgi?uri=spotify%3Aartist%3A2ekAeR9i79NtPR4PnMsORI

oh, neat. thanks for sharing!

New Baroness single is fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7vROjNY9Gk

New Cannibal Corpse album in September.

https://cannibalcorpse.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-horrific

I’m also curious about recent jazz metal highlights. Other than Sarmat and Neptunian Maximalism, what should we be checking out?

Have you heard the last Imperial Triumphant album, Spirit of Ecstasy? Came out just about a year ago (July 2022). It's pretty wild; their drummer, Kenny Grohowski, works with John Zorn a lot lately. There's one track where Kenny G plays a guest solo and his son, Max Gorelick, is on lead guitar, and it doesn't feel jokey or dumb at all; the shrillness of the soprano works really well with the music.

dang!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywcshfrpO3A

sarmat record is kinda like from wisdom to hate era gorguts jamming with some friends with horns. pretty good!

songwriting is more purposive and killer than simply 'jamming', but kinda yeah lol

I’ve heard some of the earlier Imperial Triumphant stuff, but I’m not familiar with that one. I actually don’t mind Kenny G at all, so that sounds doubly interesting. Thanks!

hoarse old man yelling vox:

jammin

and i hope you like jammin too

*intense horn honkin*

This shirt is amazing:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzNOISeWIAIT3vD.jpg

Limited edition; pre-order yours today!

Anyone remember this album?

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/5/8/3/1/58312.jpg

Imperial Crystalline Entombment (aka ICE) released this album in 2004. It came out when I was the metal buyer for an indie record store in Columbus, Ohio, and it's phenomenal! A black metal record with a coldness mimicking their name (purely intentional), great songs, great playing, well worth a listen.

http://open.spotify.com/album/3ifUNY4LxwoCLghz9oIb4z?si=eLggyDFwT7KLLB-dgO6NLw

Got a press release that suddenly almost two decades later (on 9/1) a follow-up "Ancient Glacial Resurgence" will be released via Debemur Morti Productions! Most unexpected and I cannot wait!

First single here:

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

It rips!

Okay, I was a little skeptical about another one-man black metal project, but finally hearing the new Kostnateni and it absolutely rips. There's a bit of noise rock thrown into the mix, which I like.

Saw Adrien tip off the single earlier upthread, but the entire Smoulder album smokes from start to finish.

What a fun album indeed!

Also it's super cool that they got Michael Moorcock to narrate on one of their tracks.

New Incantation album in August! Love that all the songs have parenthetical alternate titles, just like Radiohead on Hail To The Thief. And yes, I read the album title as Unholy Defecation when I first saw it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDbeI_3kWO0

gendo ikari full-length on the way, RIYL circle pits and/or anime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmqE-HMRtCE

New GridLink album in September. I've already heard the whole thing and it's amazing — blasting grindcore (with patented Jon Chang shrieks), but the songs are full of Swedish melodeath riffs. Album of the Year candidate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEL0yTfgCS8

Can't wait. They're the band that got me into grindcore.

jesus christ, had no idea they were still active. amazing!

keeping the grind train going, just caught the chepang record release set. have always liked them but feels like they’ve leveled up considerably. fantastic set.

haven’t even listened to the whole new record but… buy it on sight.

whoa, and takafumi is even playing on the new gridlink??? what a beautiful world

Chepang are great. Keep meaning to buy their stuff on Bandcamp.

K.K.'s Priest is naming their next album "Sermons of the Sinner" and the lead single is "One More Shot at Glory".

based on that, i'm just afraid the rest of the album is gonna be shit like

"Electric Eye(s)"
"Still Screaming for Vengeance"
"Many Sentinels"

oh sorry, the album is called The Sinner Rides Again.

having Ripper Owens as vocalist makes it an extra level of o_O.

but that said, the song is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sypj3SPBKKU