Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

New Necrophobic out in October.

the PIg Destroyer is nice, and interesting. first half, balls-out grindcore. second half, noisy ambient with occasional industrial.

albums longest track is kind of an industrial noise piece.

grind half is pretty ripping, which is enough for me. but wasn't quite sold on the industrial half myself.

pretty into this 200 stab wounds ep, kinda like if pissgrave slammed:
https://200stabwounds-maggotstomp.bandcamp.com/album/piles-of-festering-decomposition

anyone familiar with the other bands on maggot stomp?
https://maggotstomp.bandcamp.com/

only really know THÆTAS (who rule) and casually checked out fluids last night (mortician worship, not bad)

If you like metal covers of pop songs, Ihsahn has a cover of a-ha's "Manhattan Skyline" with Einar Solberg of Leprous singing.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6uJ2SZOE5L8ztpJBSn9PcW?si=pB5KBbQQQASUmNvVAQ745w

(And, if you like that kind of thing and didn't already know, I maintain an ongoing playlist of metal covers of non-metal songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ELFqIEIGDt9qkd96WgdMq)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=w-k1rXXMYHM&feature=emb_title

Even though I'm not a huge fan of YouTube reviews, I'll sometimes end up watching some of the BANGERTV metal reviews for some albums I'm curious about (like the new Necrot). I did get some cognitive dissonance listening to this new reviewer describe herself as a "huge, huge social justice advocate" while looking at the Burzum poster hanging behind her.

The NYTimes Popcast put out an episode about Riley and Power Trip. Nice to hear folks talk about them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/arts/music/popcast-riley-gale-power-trip.html

I miss my friend.

I'll have to listen, thanks for that link! I was always cautiously positive with Power Trip, but Nightmare Logic was so great and has gotten better with each passing year. I'm still sad I missed them playing with Sheer Mag last summer.

As for the Banger clip posted earlier, holy crap. I'm shocked they posted that.

The new Incantation is just… boring. Maybe they need to take longer breaks between albums.

ah, my first Power Trip show...I will always carry with me fond memories of goons with combat boots swinging their feet far too close to my head, helpfully presaged by one guy yelling "are you ready to die?!" as the band came on

Misery Index signed to Century Media Records, which is good for them after previously moving from Relapse to Season of Mist.

crossover/thrash shows were usually signals to me to get out of dodge re: pit. been hit by too many wayward fists/legs. sadly venues don't always afford you that luxury of being able to escape it and then it's every person for themselves.

I saw Power Trip twice I think, but never was a headlining act, sadly :/

I miss mosh pits :(

I don't think the Incantation is boring, it's Incantation doing Incantation. I guess the complaint would be that they are playing it safe, I personally still miss some of the doomy elements from Dirges of Elysium. If this was my first Incantation record I think I still would have dug it though, it's just not really much they haven't done before.

as happens too often now, i am checking out a band (power trip) i always meant to check out because someone died.

sorry for your loss EZ.

this is really great thrash.

speaking of the gone but not forgotten:

was happy the Pitchfork review of Metallica's new SM2 symphony thing (it's as bad as you expect) called out the version of anaesthesia (pulling teeth) done by the SF orchestra's double bass player...really cool, esp when he kicks in the effects pedals.

feels like it hints at something a lot more interesting that could happen w/metal orchestra than layer glop over metallica warhorses

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

My wife had to stop at Target the other day and she brought me home S&M2 since she knows I like Metallica. Let's just say I appreciate the thought, but it's still sitting in the shrink wrap. I actually used the first one as study music quite a bit back in grad school, but I can't say I need to hear a sequel.

Unfortunately I never got to see Power Trip. I actually think I slightly prefer Manifest Decimation, but I was really happy to see that Nightmare Logic was pushing them to a whole new level of popularity.

I'm sorry, EZ.

Re: Incantation, dunno, it's the playing that sounds underpowered to me. I don't think there's anything wrong with the songwriting per se, they're just not bringing any sense of genuine conviction to the table anymore.

I miss mosh pits :(

― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, September 2, 2020 10:09 AM bookmarkflaglink

yeah, otm :(.

considering I was a dude that would go to 50+ shows a year, surprised at how well I've taken the lack of them this year.

Most intense mosh pit was at an Exodus gig at the Astoria when it felt like the floor was going to give way. Amazing. Least favourite was at a Xentrix (remember them?) gig, stage diving *over* the mosh pit and landing slap on my pelvis in the sludge of sweat and spilt beer.

most intense mosh pit i ever saw was about eight years ago in bushwick with a band whose lead dude, naked with what i remember as a raw chicken on his head, leaped into a scrum of leather and studs. What the hell was the band's name?

does it matter at that point

i posted about this years ago but most adorable mosh pit moment for me was being at Cannibal Corpse, and "Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead" starts so I join the pit, and almost immediately take an accidental, hard headbutt that leaves a knot. This big hulking dude behind me picks me up, asks if I'm ok.

then....I inexplicably get ready to go back out there, and he pulls me back, not letting me go back out there, wagging his finger at me. I had a pit nanny. it was cute.

ah, finally remembered the band: Dawn of Humans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOD6ugjSzpo

There was a fanzine writer guy that used to be at all the metal gigs I went to. He was huge, a real unit, with a big fuzz of red curls and he would always magically appear when someone was behaving out of line and gently nudge them out to the edge, corral them and have a quiet word. I'd swear he was called Russ but it's 25+ years ago.

I took part in some really shitty punk mosh pits when I was a teen and not especially into metal. That turned me off the whole thing for good.

new york is alright 2014? i've heard some mad stories... did you saw Lumpy & The Dumpers?

xp to forks

i don't think so! I was working a club for the ny alright show in question. It was a scene! i remember one dude broke his arm or something and they had him signing paperwork by the stage waiving the venue for culpability before they called an ambulance.

oh fuuuuck that

tbf, that guy jumped up on the stage and mounted an amp and then leapt full on into the crowd from like fifteen feet. not really the club's fault!

ahh yeah that's a wee bit diff.

i only tended to mosh when I was drunk as then I didn't feel the pain so much. on the metal cruise, during the Brujeria set, the mosh pit included people dressed as bananas for some reason.

gaining 60 pounds helped, trying to do it when I weighed 140 pounds was like a lesson in "nope"

I had a blast reading Justin Quirk's Nothin' But A Good Time and you may well too if you've ever hummed more than one Desmond Child tune.

Least favourite was at a Xentrix (remember them?) gig, stage diving *over* the mosh pit and landing slap on my pelvis in the sludge of sweat and spilt beer.

I saw Dawn of Humans in 2014, not in NYC though, and I have seen Lumpy & the Dumpers (actually I was in the pit for that one). I miss punk gigs :(

whatever happened to dawn of humans anyway? they played the museum of modern art at one point!

they are/were all in other NY punk bands - Crazy Spirit, Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, Murderer, Warthog are probably the best known (to me anyway)

sweet death metal shirt

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eg8QbfzWoAAy64K?format=jpg&name=large

whatever happened to jeff t?

Thanks for the condolences.

I saw Power Trip around a dozen times in Dallas, a few more times in Ft. Worth and Denton, once in Austin and once in Nashville. It was special to see them in their hometown, every show packed with the kids who bought their first 7" records up front screaming every word right back at Riley. He was very close to some of my friends and that brought us into the same social spaces now and again. Seemed like every time we'd end up in a corner talking music and philosophy and comic books and science fiction. He thrived on engagement, on learning things and sharing what he knew in return. I made him late for soundcheck one night because we couldn't stop making music recommendations to each other and jotting them down on our phones. I'm gonna miss that guy a lot. And I'm gonna miss that band and the way it connected with people.

I think Jeff T is taking a social media break, guessing maybe from ilx too. I think he’s doing well, he popped in to offer condolences about Riley Gale on Twitter.

there was a deathfest where i just kept getting in the pit, it was just a really lovely weekend and every band i saw whipped ass, though i was way too scared to get near the agoraphobic nosebleed pit which was a flesh blur at several mph. i got in the pit during sacrifice and it was kind of lame but i was also stoked to be in a pit during sacrifice!!! my favorite was melt banana. they started off with this drony synth thing and i was just standing around not even thinking about a pit forming, when all of a sudden they start ripping through the first song, someone sends a shower of glowsticks into the air, and everyone who stood near me a second before were suddenly transported to the other side of the room, like the crowd got bent by the pit's gravity, it was so sick and i was so sore after that set lol

very sorry for your loss, EZ. he seemed like he was full of life and vigor, and I always enjoyed watching him perform

Kaatayra's second LP of 2020 easily tops the first: the songwriting is stronger (melody-wise in particular), the blend of genres more secure, and the suites less rife with awkward non sequiturs. Impressive stuff:

https://kaatayra.bandcamp.com/album/toda-hist-ria-pela-frente

thanks for sharing that EZ. really sorry for your loss. miss you posting around

I have seen Lumpy & the Dumpers (actually I was in the pit for that one)

― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo)

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feel free to post here about hc/crust/dbeat new stuff. i believe ilmetal crew would be fine with that? i would appreciate it

I'd be around more if I was still listening to much metal. The time I spend with heavy loud music has gravitated more towards experimental and noise stuff the last few years.

i think i've noticed that it has gravitated that way...

your posting has been missed nonetheless. stay strong

Thanks. You too

Most of the new funeral doom I've heard this year has made little to no impression on me, but it doesn't matter anymore because this Chthe'ilist side project makes up for it in spades:

https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/stygian

The cover features the Large Sad Man and his shadowy trail of Large Sad Men.

"Stygian" seems to be the word of the year for funereal doom.

When name-checking the River Styx is no longer dope, you settle for a mere adjective.

I can be convinced "The Tempter" by Trouble is the best metal song ever. Riff after riff, each one more Godly than the next. This cover that features members of Snow Burial, Huntsmen, The Atlas Moth, Pelican, and Yakuza doesn't change my mind a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME0_5TktXmg&feature=youtu.be

Er...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME0_5TktXmg