Rolling 2023 Metal thread

*brief lol

I have tried and repeatedly failed to get past the Tomb Mold vocals, but this Gridlink thing is great, I'll be fine over here.

the production sounds a little off on the gridlink, maybe. I'll play it nice and loud later today and see if that helps.

well, I love the songs on this thing. +1 unperson the melodeath + grind formula is pretty novel. it's fun to just mentally try and keep up with what they're playing, so I'm really really looking forward to seeing them live next month. but there is also a black metal or and justice for all-like lack of low end on the recording too. I just a/b'ed spotify and flac files from bandcamp, and unsurprisingly, the latter sounded more full. I think my solution here will be to never listen to this on spotify, and otherwise, crank up that bass.

Arctopus album is so cool. Someone in the Youtube comments compared it to Univers Zero and I think there's something to that.

The new LP by Angelus Apatrida is one of the best metal LPs I've heard all year. Tight, aggressive thrash accentuated by strong vocal melodies, kind of a cross between Beneath the Remains and early Testament. Absolutely killer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCfydI2I1MI

Was just listening to the Gridlink album and was really puzzled by the quiet quasi-orchestral fills in the song-breaks. Finally realized I hadn't muted the broadcast-not-started-yet loop on the Apple TV app I have open for a soccer game about to start.

Lol

It took me a few tries to adjust my ears to the production on the Gridlink, but yeah, it is totally insane

also the exhaled growl over that first ringing, jazzy chord makes me laugh, which i also like

Ha, just got to this, that is such a good transition

Some new things I'm looking forward to checking out:

Undergang (crusty old school death):
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/de-syv-stadier-af-ford-rv

Temperance (symphonic metal with vocal harmonies):
https://temperance.bandcamp.com/album/hermitage-darumas-eyes-pt-2

Malokarpatan (Eastern European folk/thrash black metal):
https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/vertumnus-caesar

undergang are pretty high on my list of stuff that seems like it should be right up my alley but never really clicks. but… i will dutifully try again… i do like the cover art…

Another voice to say that the Tomb Mold is exactly my kind of death metal. Atmospheric and on the "spiritual" side, but also chops and chugs.

I was really impressed by the Tomb Mold review Pitchfork had the other day, but man I really don't agree with Currin's review of the new Baroness. Like at all.

Yeah, he's completely off base. Stone is a fucking great record. Currin's smart, but he often thinks he knows better than the artists he's reviewing and when he goes that route, he's usually wrong.

The new Cannibal Corpse album is...good but not great. There are a couple of amazing songs, which have already been released as singles, and the rest is up to their usual standard but the album feels really short (39 minutes, feels like less) and ends very abruptly. The last song could have used a fade, but instead it just ends.

the super clean and jazzy parts of that Tomb Mold record remind me of another band, but i can't quite place who it is ... clean and jazz not being my area of expertise, by any means. help? i'm not even sure if it's another metal band or some other style ...

Neptunian Maximalism?

Atheist? Cynic?

Dream Unending (the guitarist's other band)?

Orthodox?

certainly Dream Unending, though that's not the imaginary band in my head ... Cynic/Atheist seem too heavy for what I'm thinking. I should revisit that NepMax album.

i thought, 'maybe this is what Animal as Leaders sounds like' but then i listened to Animal as Leaders and that's not quite right.

maybe it's just cool Tomb Mold jams and i should not worry about it.

Would I be wrong to throw Sweven and Morbus Chron amongst these?

Australian deathcore band Thy Art Is Murder released their new album today, and along with it an announcement — not only have they kicked out their singer, who was apparently a transphobic piece of shit, but they wiped his vocals and brought in a new guy.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6ptSJVWcAA5MER.jpg

Partial quote from the above:

Our new album "Godlike" is now available worldwide digitally with an unforeseen change - Chris McMahon is no longer a part of Thy Art Is Murder and does not feature on the record.

We understand that this may come as a surprise and we want to assure you that this decision was made to preserve the band's integrity and direction.

What transpired over the past month was not the cause of this action, but just another symptom of the drawn out breakdown in his character and judgment. The straw that broke the camel's back if you will.

Long story short, the fallout has been immense. We were lobbed with threats to destroy Thy Art Is Murder from the inside if we did not capitulate to various ideologies that he holds.

Everyone has their own right to free speech and to seek their truth; they are also free to receive the consequences that come with it.

new desecresy

https://xtreemmusic.bandcamp.com/album/deserted-realms

i knew i was in good hands when it kicked off with mandy (the movie) sounds

What’s the story with Blue Grape Music? Looks like it’s mostly ex-Roadrunner people, with ex-Roadrunner bands. They’ve got the new one from Code Orange, which was recorded by Steve Albini and sounds nothing like a Steve Albini recording.

Moonlight Sorcery full-length is out today. The Dan Swanö production is much more polished and power metal-sounding than the EPs. Liking it so far, especially "Into the Silvery Shadows of Night"

https://moonlightsorcery.bandcamp.com/album/horned-lord-of-the-thorned-castle

xp wasn't Blue Grape Roadrunner's merch company back in the day? would be curious for the story behind the label.

NEW CORRUPTED SONG

https://corrupted1994.bandcamp.com/track/mushikeras

!!!!

it is almost boring how reliably brilliant Ayloss is. new Auriferous Flame is yet another masterpiece

https://auriferousflame.bandcamp.com/album/ardor-for-black-mastery

New Judas Priest album in March:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwC_KNT24kU

If the music in the teaser is indicative of the record as a whole, it's gonna be Turbo II... and honestly, I'm up for that.

Definitely hear a Turbo style gloss to it! I'm all-in if that's the case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQh2xNa_Bv4

Glorious. Wow.

New Priest above. I was so excited I used a New Zealand VPN to hear it, so it should be working soon, whatever time zone you're in.

ffs, just found out that my friend and former poster of this parish Sean Boyles aka SeanWayne (drummer of Hellbeard and various bands) passed away yesterday.

He will be sorely missed.

https://i.imgur.com/rkXFo9o.jpg

I remember him. RIP. Way too young.

He was a great guy. He did comedy clubs too. His grandaughter posted on fb yesterday, she's utterly heartbroken. He adored her.

am taking my youngest spawn to damnation festival this year, he's a total metalhead now so this is like an early christmas present for him. other than the obvious though, i don't really know anything about these bands. what's good?

https://louderthanwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/377508819_7563068373707296_2260504728296247621_n-768x389.jpg

Not sure which are obvious to you, but I would absolutely be ready to see Sigh, Amenea, Bossk, Anaal Nathrakh. Ahab, Khemmis and of course Enslaved and Electric Wizard.

Haven't heard Coffin Mulch, but dig the name.

cool, thank you! I did randomly check coffin mulch out and they're pretty cool imo.

I would be most excited to see Electric Wizard, Enslaved (especially the night they're playing Below The Lights), Akercocke (even though they got me in trouble), Khemmis, and especially Deadguy (a reunited noise-rock band from the 90s). Unearth are a melodic death metal/metalcore band whose songs are catchy and fist-pumpy, and based on a few songs on YouTube High Command are good, knuckle-walking thrash/metalcore.

Oh, and Rotten Sound are great! Finnish grindcore in a Napalm Death-ish vein. Very shouty.

Appreciate that, thanks! High Command is one of the things my son has been going on about, so I'm sure we'll be checking them out

I'm a total Katatonia amd Enslaved nerd. Julie Christmas would be killer, she's so underrated and I heard loads of great things about her set at Roadburn 2022.

Oh, and the nattily clad Akercocke, too.

My mate is the vocalist of Coffin Mulch. He also runs the record label At War With False Noise.

Sorry to hear about SeanWayne. I remember seeing him in these threads way back.

What can you tell me about Messa? Seeing them Sunday.

My mate is the vocalist of Coffin Mulch. He also runs the record label At War With False Noise.

oh nice, i did see they were from glasgow, definitely want to see them play

xpost - Hmm, they rule? Seriously though, great and unique doom band. Sara is an absolutely stellar vocalist.