Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

Really digging this new EP from Sutrah right now. Pretty chill prog tech with eastern flourishes.

https://sutrahmetal.bandcamp.com/album/aletheia

Seconded.

finnish black metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7o0ZjU5s-8

The new new ep from Orm is very good. 20 minutes of black metal, and yes, it includes a long coda with trumpets. For fans of Møl and Solbrud.

This Orm isn't in any way related to the character from Norsemen?

It just means 'worm' in Danish / Norwegian

They should do a split with Cheep.

has anyone listened yet to Robert Andersson's new band Sweven? The Eternal Resonance out next friday (Ván Records)

When it was decided to put Morbus Chron to rest, I had begun working on what was originally supposed to be our third record. It has been a strenuous battle stretching from then to now. It is time to leave the trenches.

the advance track, Mycelia is stellar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7atkNuadaE

Nice. But probably better to stay in the trench for the moment.

The Korgonthurus album is the perfect soundtrack for when you're trapped at home with 2 kids running and screaming everywhere.

I liked the last Huntsmen record a lot but the new one is sadly an overblown, overlong dud. The epitome of bloat.

That's too bad, I was looking forward to it.

Other ppl have reacted a lot more positively than I tbf

came out a few months ago, but while I've always liked Midnight, this might be their best. the hooks are so much sharper.

live, they put on a hell of a show too, though be a long time before we see that again.

New Behold The Arctopus album in June. Press release contains the following fascinating (to me anyway) quote from the band:

"The 7th Behold the Arctopus recording, Hapeleptic Overtrove is imminent! This time, the band teams up with Willowtip, P2, and Denses(s) for what will be our most extreme, unique, and controversial album. Colin Marston (Warr guitar) and Mike Lerner (guitar guitar) are joined by drummer Jason Bauers (previously of Psyopus), who has brought his experience with classical percussion to the table, allowing the drums to become another melodic voice, rather than just a metric skeleton. For the new compositions, inspiration was drawn from the non-traditional setup of English free jazz drummer Tony Oxley, and the percussion music of 20th century composers Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varese, and Elliott Carter. The drum kit for the new album removes extreme metal's constant harsh static wash by deleting all hi-hats, crashes, and ride cymbals, replacing them with almglocken, wooden plank, metal pipe, broken stacks, and bell/chimes. Sticks are replaced by mallets, and, more importantly, the function of the drums is no longer to play 'beats.' Instead the drums take on a role more similar to the guitars, resulting in a sound closer to chamber music than rock.

Is anyone else tired of how painfully slow metal has evolved recently compared to how quickly innovations occurred at the end of the last century? Think about how drastic and surprising changes were in the 5 years between 1988 and 1993, versus how stagnant metal between 2015 - 2020 has been. On Hapeleptic Overtrove, Behold the Arctopus shows the utmost respect for the true spirit of extreme metal: a musical world that should challenge the audience to listen to and think about things in new ways, while reveling in mystery, surprise and excess which is simultaneously baroque and primitive."

I've listened to Tony Oxley a lot, mostly playing with Bill Dixon and/or Cecil Taylor, so this concept is fascinating to me.

that appears to be exciting yes

The past 2 times I've seen them they've done a setup similar to this and it was awesome both times. The drums look and sound wild. I thought Cognitive Emancipation was awesome but I'm even more excited for this one.

holy fuck, the Oath of Cruelty album that dropped last year.

some of the most inspired death/thrash (a la old Kreator) I've heard in ages.

Is anyone else tired of how painfully slow metal has evolved recently compared to how quickly innovations occurred at the end of the last century? Think about how drastic and surprising changes were in the 5 years between 1988 and 1993, versus how stagnant metal between 2015 - 2020 has been.

i understand this coming from BtA camp is surely intended with good spirits (that's how i've read it). beeing myself a post-Reign In Blood kind of guy (cf. that Siegbran post on that thread) i totally agree with the 88-93 timespan innovations the pr is goin for. best of times

otoh to some extent, that specific romanticised rearview look always rub me the wrong way. cause, yeah i remember 93, real metal dudes goin' batshit crazy about entombed and pestilence and obituary and (...) for !selling out! and not doin it anymore like they used to do in 89. reactionary times at its most close-minded. and oh have you heard of those norway dudes doin't it by the true spirit of extreme metal? ime, also the worst of times i had as metal goes
soon you either had to go full metallica/megadeth/pantera or full blasphemy/beherit/brzm. i def don't miss those days. instead of a hard-edged canon, there was then a two-headed stupid canon. almost no middle ground for the outsiders . in fact that made me quit everything metal related for some time. attending shows, drmn', managing, zinetrading, i'm out. [/bitter]

i guess, my point beeing, there was close to none audience ready to be chalenged in 93 by an extreme metal rec inspired by the works of Tony Oxley (by then, good luck to you heading to a metal label w a diferent notion of metal drumming). i do remember ppl pissing on pestilence because of... jazz drums?
in that sense it's better now

tl;dr - always ready for a new BtA

I mean, in the early days of metal, it was easier to break new ground because there was a smaller width to the genre then. there's still room for experimentation and innovation, but sometimes it comes across more subtle than when you had a band like Suffocation showing up in the 90s sounding like nothing you'd ever heard before.

there's still room for experimentation and innovation

sure is. since we're on Colin-band-topic, take new Krallice song for evidence. they're still goin' at it

have you heard the new Sweven, Neanderthal? (not sure if you were into Morbus Chron, btw) amazing record

I was into Morbus Chron! haven't heard Sweven yet but it's on my list.

while we're on it I'll just post the track they released. this is basically what the live show was like too, pretty darn rad. I love Krallice and the new song but this feels particularly exciting and different

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Y-t7jHHgE

^ compulsively listening

guess i'll just get rid of some cymbals now

Go the other way, replace your kicks with gongs, fight the system

I like the Meth Leppard from this year. 2 piece grind.

no bass

Old Man Gloom surprise-dropped another album besides the one they already announced, because of course they did.

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/seminar-ix-darkness-of-being

Re: experimentalism in metal. As with genre fiction, I prefer bands that aim for slight tweaks rather than those hellbent on tearing down the edifice and rebuilding it from the ground up, mostly because the latter approach is more interesting (to me) when the trappings of 'genre' are jettisoned altogether.

Yea me too

10/10 band name, music sounds pretty good too:

https://feminazgul.bandcamp.com/album/no-dawn-for-men

I actually like the new Huntsmen? I mean, it's double the length I like a metal/rock album to be, but there's some really awesome passages in it.

some of the other Bandcamp stuff I got is only aight.

New Ruins of Beverast coming up, a split with Mourning Beloveth. Here's a sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAP2CWGEEmA

new Hail Spirit Noir announced, yay

https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/eden-in-reverse

no samples yet

yessss, their last album was incredible

It really was! I loved the blend of prog and weird.

this Jordablod album is crazy. well except the second song where they just straightforward muscle-flex trad BM, they're not that

they're so awesöme when they sound like The Birthday Party thump on a séance. no shame, i guess. plus there are riffs here sounding like The fuckin Gun Club screwing Bathory's Hades. effortlessly. they're from Malmöe (lol, of course). also, svrf metal

https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/jordablod-the-cabinet-of-numinous-song

I like the latest On Thorns I Lay, even if some of it seems like 90s My Dying Bride-lite (no pummeling death riffs like MDB, but the violin is reminiscent).

new Okkultokrati song sounded good. nastier production, a d-beat number now expanded w more synth. a good look, imo. looking forward for the album in May

https://okkultokratisl.bandcamp.com/album/la-ilden-lyse

this new King Buffalo record is awesome. Real mix of styles ... Second track sounds like Screaming Trees, I mean it could be a track off 'Dust'.. Other stuff has the obvious Sleep influence but that is never a bad thing. Lots of cool twin guitar parts at times (even though i think they are a 3 piece}. And one cool track that kind of jumps on this AOR resurgence a la Aktor

https://kingbuffalo.bandcamp.com/

xp: Hell yeah. Love the new song. I've been thinking of them as "arena d-beat" for a while now.

agreed. there's kind of an anthemic flair in evidence, yeah

Any Morbus Chron fans here? Their two albums were among the best psych/prog/DM/thrash of the last decade. They’re dunzo but Robert Andersson has regrouped as Sweven and they’re phenomenal. I’m only 2 tracks into The Eternal Resonance but I’m hearing Blood Incantation spaghetti psych vibes and some Tribulation, too.

It didn't bowl me over as promised by a host of reviewers (something to do with the vocals – I need to hear it again to put my finger on it) but it's worth it for the ambition alone.

I read that way too fast and thought you had compared the new record to The Spaghetti Incident? and was wondering why that was a good thing

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You know, I don't think I've ever heard a G'n'R song from beginning to end.

Anyway, get yr Icelandic avant-doomy one-man BM right here:

https://sjalfsmordafgaleysi.bandcamp.com

If ever you do, avoid the Spaghetti Incident.
And, now once through the Sweven album, it’s better than I’d hoped. Funny you don’t like the vocals as I’m a sucker for that Schuldiner, Cavalera-type clean yell style and this album delivers just that.

I am too, it just didn't fully work on me at first pass. I need to spend more time with it.

Any Morbus Chron fans here? Their two albums were among the best psych/prog/DM/thrash of the last decade. They’re dunzo but Robert Andersson has regrouped as Sweven and they’re phenomenal. I’m only 2 tracks into The Eternal Resonance but I’m hearing Blood Incantation spaghetti psych vibes and some Tribulation, too.

― Yelploaf, Thursday, March 26, 2020 8:06 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh shit this was the news i needed!!!