Rolling Metal 2019

I am at The Armed gig and I have never hated any gig so much in my life. They are playing the best song off the last album and I’m just talking to the bouncers about how gross the crowd is. The band is also gross. I hate The Armed and I retract all of my points. From now on I only like forest prog and people who aren’t sick everywhere.

I wouldn't go quite as far as that, but that was a miserable tuneless disappointment and I'm happy to be getting pizza instead

I've never wanted to leave the gig of a band I've liked that much before, but that was not the deconstructive pop-hardcore party I expected - it was a horrible noise blare over a bar fight

The support band was great though! Rough Hands. Check 'em

I had no idea I needed a black metal cover of Gabriel Fauré's Pavane, yet here we are:

https://sarastus.bandcamp.com/album/enter-the-necropolis

I have always been and will always be more of a Wino guy than a Reagers guy, but there's a new self-titled Saint Vitus album coming out in May with Reagers on vocals and it kicks ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCJz8FdsHo0

Wow. Sorry to hear about The Armed show. That was not the experience I had with it. It was lots of hugs, tons of fun and the sound was great to my ears. This was in BK right after Only love came out. The swamp monster kept the crowd pretty much under control. No more crazy than any other hardcore/noise show. I'm sorry it was a bummer. I feel responsible for hyping it up.

Not at all! We would have gone to it anyway and probably I am just not cut out for hardcore shows in general, my previous experience of which probably extended to like seeing Thrice in 2005... I guess I felt cynically about people at the very edge of the crowd being dragged in by band members, but I heard that a guy had an epileptic fit at the end and the band stopped the gig, which is decent.

Jesus. Yeah I can see that, it was like an hour of strobe lights. The one I went to was a pretty standard hardcore crowd but the swamp thing was doing magic tricks in the middle and Cara was taking selfies, passing out champagne and on vocals. Which definitely changed things. I found it refreshing and fun but definitely more of a hardcore show vibe than anything else.

Well then:

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/agalloch-members-condemn-john-haughm-pillorian-bandmates-quit-after-anti-semitic-remark/

Very disappointed.

Who likes mammoths? Who likes weed? Who likes wizards? Who likes bastards?

I'm only in favor of half of those things in isolation, but combine them? Then great.

My thoughts exactly. Last three tracks on this thing are monstrous

I know the bar is extrmely low but it's pretty rare to see a metal guy straight up apologize

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/agallochs-john-haughm-apologizes-for-anti-semitic-remark/

True enough.

Contemporary trad metal isn't usually my jam but the Traveler record is awesome:

https://travelermetal.bandcamp.com/album/traveler

more bands should release "play-throughs" like Moon Tooth just did for their recent single

https://youtu.be/NbuNz3Hghkg

Decibel Tour totally slayed last night - so good to see Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse(with Erik Rutan providing excellent guitar, too) back to back - energetic, face-melting shows from both!

as if summoned by me, there's now another new Moon Tooth song. this one has a full-on alt rock vibe a la...Incubus?

I was wondering what Immortal Bird were up to these days, and apparently they've signed with the mighty 20 Buck Spin for a new album out this year.

🔥TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT🔥 -- We've got dates on the way to/from Northwest Terror Fest and some of 'em are with Gadget and Cloud Rat! We haven't been out west since 2016, and we're stoked to return and debut tunes from LP3, out this year via 20 Buck Spin. More info on that soon! See ya on the road!

5.24 Denver, CO at Syntax*
5.25 CO Springs, CO at Triple Nickel*
5.27 Tempe, AZ at Yucca Tap Room*
5.28 Los Angeles, CA at Catch One
5.29 Sacramento, CA at Blue Lamp
5.30 Oakland, CA at Elbo Room JL*
5.31 Eugene, OR at Old Nick's
6.01 Seattle, WA - Northwest Terror Fest
6.02 Portland, OR at High Water Mark
6.04 SLC, UT at Kilby Court
6.06 STL, MO at Fubar

* w/ Gadget & Cloud Rat

Northwest Terror Fest lineup is pretty badass. I'd like to try to get to that.

https://youtu.be/nCR-OrN41E0

Oranssi Pazuzu were already the best rock band on the fucking planet but they might have gotten better

(with a bit of help from Dark Buddha Rising)

Whitesnake used to count as metal. I wrote about them for Burning Ambulance today.

speaking of things that may or may not count as metal, the Marissa Nadler / Stephen Brodsky collab album sounds pretty dope if this advance track is anything to go by. stoked to hear what they'll do with GnR's "Estranged"

https://youtu.be/zhUSJMp5y8Y

Slide It In was a formative gem for me and I still break it out from time to time.

Getting unsurprisingly strong Chelsea Wolfe vibes. I'm a sucker for this stuff, so I look forward to the rest.

I want Nadler, Wolfe and Anna von Hausswolff to team up as the macabre antimirror of Boygenius

lingua ignota, diamanda galas, her out of couch slut

Ignota doesn't really seem like the collaborative sort, but I'd be into it

literally collaborated with The Body last year!!!

which also reminds me, she's playing london in a few days, might check it out

Hmm, that might be worth a 2h (well, 4h in all) coach ride. I don't really know anything about Author & Punisher or RIOTMILOO, though.

I literally teared up at the Ignota show I went to. She's incredible live.

by a few days i mean nearly a month tbf

would be honoured to hang out w/ pomenitul tho so consider it yes!

Likewise, imago. I'll see what I can do!

I actually saw Author & Punisher open for The Body not too long ago. Was cool. Builds his own "instruments". Pretty interesting to watch him use his gear and figure out whats going on. I dig his homegrown mic a lot.

Yeah the Ignota show I saw last year was quite emotional as well. Played in the middle of the crowd.

I think I'd like to see Author & Punisher live just to watch him play with his machines, but the actual music is pretty basic industrial that anybody could make with a laptop. He's challenging himself to find hard ways to do things that can be - and is - done much more easily.

What about black metal?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47543875

xp yeah that is my exact feeling about A&P pretty much. also "steampunk"

2019 Metal albums I like to varying degrees (in alphabetical order)

Asthma Castle - Mount Crushmore
Astronoid - Astronoid
Bellrope - You Must Relax
Die Klute - Planet Fear
Dunkelnacht - Empires Of Mediocracy
Endon - Boy Meets Girl
Gorgon - Veil of Darkness
Insanity Alert - 666-Pack
Laceration - Remnants
Overkill - The Wings of War
Tyr - Hel
Venom Prison – Samsara
Yatra - Death Ritual
Great Falls / Great Sabatini - Split LP

This doesn't include stuff on the BriPod that I like which is coming out later. That list includes Eugenic Death, Hot Lunch, Noisem, Shabti, Ultra Silvam, Falaise, Magic Circle, Ultar, L' Acéphalem, Sabbath Assembly, BAT and Full of Hell.

I interviewed Venom prison for Invisible Oranges:
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/venom-prison-interview

This one will probably wind up high on my AOY lists. Just a wonderful, angry as shit record.

John Baizley confirmed the title and art for the new Baroness on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu7CzNJFwyv/

New Abbath album coming out this year.

The new Vircolac album is sounding pretty good to me right now:

https://vircolac.bandcamp.com/album/masque

With a name like that, I expected a proper Romanian band. Turns out it's more cultural appropriation by the Irish, as though Bram Stoker weren't enough.

(Just kidding, of course. I'll listen to a band called Vîrcolac no matter where they're from.)

sounding cool!

'so i hang from a wretched tree' exists magnificently at the nexus of black, death and punk

The new album was recorded after my friend JG left the band and I haven't got around to hearing if they've changed much since. They were a deadly live band before, though.