Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

I'd put him in my top 5 without hesitation.

I didn't return to the last ATG after one listen, as it didn't catch me, but this one is pretty good so far.

Max Cavalera has a new band, Go Ahead And Die, with his son Igor and Khemmis's Zach Coleman on drums. The self-titled debut comes out June 11; it's primitive, crudely produced caveman thrash. Some of you may like it better than anything he's done since Arise. I still say Cavalera Conspiracy are a great band, particularly on their last two albums, but this is really good, too.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, May 17, 2021 10:14 AM bookmarkflaglink

good call I like this. the production is definitely more lo-fi than you'd be used to with his other stuff, and I think that's due to his son's desires probably. this definitely draws from a lot of 80s grimy extreme metal as well. definitely a lot of punk but it doesn't really feel like crossover.

no guitar solos anywhere.

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We're halfway through the year!
Here are the metal albums that came out this year that I like enough to pay for...

Animal Schoolbus - Going To Grammy's House!? 2021 Remix (Lawnmowerjetpack Records)
Artillery - X (Metal Blade Records)
Big|Brave - Vital (Southern Lord)
Tom Morello & The Bloody Beetroots - The Catastrophists (Comandante LLC)
Bloody Hammers - Songs of Unspeakable Terror (Napalm Records)
The Body - I've Seen All I Need to See (Thrill Jockey)
Bongzilla - Weedsconsin (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Cirith Ungol - Half Past Human [EP] (Metal Blade Records)
The Crown - Royal Destroyer (Metal Blade Records)
Dordeduh - Har (Prophecy Productions)
Dread Sovereign - Alchemical Warfare (Metal Blade Records)
Dusk in Silence - Beneath the Great Sky of Solitude (Flowing Downward)
Evile - Hell Unleashed (Napalm Records)
The Flight of Sleipnir - Eventide (Eisenwald)
Gaunt Emperor - Femur (SpicyBoi)
Haunt - Beautiful Distraction (Church Recordings)
Heavy Temple - Lupi Amoris (Magnetic Eye Records)
Hot Breath - Rubbery Lips (The Sign Records)
Impaled Nazarene - Eight Headed Serpent (Osmose Productions)
Knoll - Interstice (Sludgelord Records)
Korpiklaani - Jylhä (Nuclear Blast)
Krallice - Demonic Wealth (Independent)
Lingua Ignota - Angus Dei (Self-Released)
Lucifuge - Infernal Power (Dying Victim Productions)
Melvins - Working With God (Ipecac Recordings)
Mesarthim - Vacuum Solution [EP] (Avantgarde Music)
Monster Magnet - A Better Dystopia (Napalm Records)
Mourners - Act I: Tragedies (Personal Records)
Panopticon - …And Again Into the Light (Bindrune Recordings)
Paysage d'Hiver - Geister (Kunsthall Produktionen)
The Pretty Reckless - Death By Rock And Roll (Fearless Records)
Red Fang - Arrows (Relapse Records)
The Ruins Of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires (Ván Records)
S.H.I. - 4 死 Death [LP] (Relapse Records)
Spectral Wound - A Diabolical Thirst (Profound Lore Records)
Steel Bearing Hand - Slay In Hell (Carbonized Records)
Sur Austru - Obârșie (Avantgarde Music)
Throat - Smile Less (Svart Records)
Tribulation - Where the Gloom Becomes Sound (Metal Blade Records)
Wardruna - Kvitravn (By Norse Music)
Warish - Next to Pay (RidingEasy Records)
White Ward - Debemur Morti [EP] (Debemur Morti Productions)
Youth Code / King Yosef - A Skeleton Key In The Doors Of Depression (Self-Released)
V/A (Sisters of Mercy Tribute) - Black Waves Of Adrenochrome (Metalville)

My non-metal list does include some stuff metal folks may like as well including:
Amigo The Devil (Dark Folk/Cabaret)
EGGVN (Satanic Mexican Industrial)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
HIDE (Harsh Electronic Industrial)
Human Impact (NY Noise Scene Veterans)
Iceage
The Mountain Goats
Stalag 13 (Old School Nardcore)
th1rt3en (Rap with Guitars & Sabbath Samples)

My favorite metal or loud-enough-to-count releases of the first half of 2021:

The Absence, Coffinized
Cannibal Corpse, Violence Unimagined
The Crown, Royal Destroyer
Crypta, Echoes of the Soul
Distant, Aeons of Oblivion
Go Ahead and Die, s/t
Gojira, Fortitude
Gravesend, Methods of Human Disposal
Horndal, Lake Drinker
Mainliner, Dual Myths
Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Ding Dong. You’re Dead.
Mythic Sunship, Wildfire
Nervosa, Perpetual Chaos
Obsolete, Animate//Isolate
Slant, 1 집
StarGazer, Psychic Secretions
Sunbomb, s/t
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Way Down in the Rust Bucket
Rob Zombie, The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy

gravesend is such a shit town I never realised how metal its name is

I can get the vinyl hype, okay, but cassettes? Meh. (Not only is there a 9-release cassette box (and a new release) by Mesarthim, there's also this, by Austere: http://www.depthsofvoid.com/products/706069-austere-cassette-collection-3-tape-box )

I loved cassettes, back when I owned a cassette player that I used on a daily basis. But I just did a quick search and could only find one major brand cassette player — an ugly boombox:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81OaqdwzkqL.jpg

Everything else I saw was from some company I've never heard of and would probably last a month. No thanks.

Even that one probably isn’t up to much from a technical standpoint; Techmoan on YouTube has done multiple videos about the quality of contemporary cassette tape player mechanisms.

after about 5 plays in that, you'll be getting the Chopped n Skrewed metal experience, and then the "lol i ate ur tape' experience

are pencils coming back too? (how else are we going to rewind the loose tape?)

how else are we going to rewind the loose tape?

Bic biros were always better for that, almost as if they were designed for the job.

Avant Garde Polish non-metal according to Encyclopaedia Metallum group Dola just released a new album Czasy.

Bandcamp: http://dola.bandcamp.com/album/czasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGQkRx_9vM

Only the first single "Kije" is on Spotify as of now:
http://open.spotify.com/album/6eAMheANKpXAWFANB3Q6NI?si=4bs4n28CQdWdbfdtWlROsQ&dl_branch=1

holy fuck this fossilization album really is all that, hails pomenitul

also, you can get truly excellent, often mint tape players on eBay, it's a buyer's market. if you were feeling completely bonkers you could get a two-owner nakamichi dragon (generally considered the highest point of technical excellence that tape decks ever reached) for 1500 which is a steal.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/114875004316?hash=item1abf15759c:g:hz8AAOSw7lhg3k24

I mean, the band IS called Defacement...

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1502519686_10.jpg

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/defacement

Nice.

boringly literal album covers thread to thread

PR quote of the day: "Dawn Of A Dark Age is the main project of the multi-instrumentalist Vittorio Sabelli, a classical and jazz musician who gave to the clarinet a leading role for the first time in black metal." OH GOOD.

Nice.

The Defacement album is pretty good in a Portal-ish amorphous roaring-with-ambient-interludes sort of way.

yo you're clowning but black metal with a clarinet sounds rad

ok I"m listening to Dawn of a Dark Age's 2020 album and it's fantastic

Yeah, that got me to go look up Dawn of a Dark Age, too. Nice.

If you're interested in a sampler of mostly obscure black metal, sadly almost all of it not involving clarinets, here's one I just made: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3lbWHmuy1TU9wAh1yFYZb1?si=3695e91ca7954032

Promise you haven't sneaked in some goth metal there, Glenn?

The line between black and goth is drawn by an unsteady hand. In blud.

If the prospect of Zeuhl inspired by Brazilian modernist literature and steeped in sludge sounds appealing to you – and it should! – then may I suggest checking out Papangu's Holoceno?

https://papangu.bandcamp.com

On the more Cratylian end of metal, Sewer Fiend's EP Echoes from the Cistern is exactly what you think it is, and it's the shiznit (even more so than the Fossilization imo):

https://drycough.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-from-the-cistern

New Spirit Adrift EP (three songs) in August! The title track, "Forge Your Future," is out now. Closer to their earlier, doomier stuff than the epic power metal anthems on the last album IMO, but I'm into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtIR6Y_vVxU

Should we start taking bets on the next full-length album title?

Guided by Glory is my call.

Cool, I'm always up for more Spirit Adrift.

One more, for the tech death-inclined:

https://edgedcircleproductions.bandcamp.com/album/lost-on-voids-horizon

Ok I lied – two more because I can't believe no one's talking about the new Drawn and Quartered, which pwns:

https://krucyator.bandcamp.com/album/congregation-pestilence

i only just got into them recently (their older stuff). i'll check it out

thrilled to see Abigor's Nachthymnen got reissued this year apparently, back in June.

Attila sings a la how he does on "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" on the opening track of the new Mayhem, it's kind of LOL.

It's a solid little EP, packed with all punk rawk covers in the second half (Discharge, Dead Kennedys, Rudimentary Peni, Ramones), but I don't think I'll be revisiting it very often.

they’re back baby
https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/authority-through-intimidation

I was gonna order the Mayhem EP that just was released but for some reason Century media is asking $18 for a seven-song EP with only one new song and four punk covers that combined take up less than eight minutes. So fuck that.

(Please note I am referring to a Digipack CD, not vinyl!)

Is that including shipping, at least? Insane either way.

It is not including shipping at the Century Media site. It does come with free shipping through Amazon at the same price assuming you have Prime or tack on enough stuff for free shipping from them.

For shits and giggles I checked it out - this is what it costs to buy an EP Digipack CD by itself from Century media:

Subtotal$17.98
Shipping$6.82
Tax $1.49
Order Total$26.29

They do offer $5 shipping for orders $50 or more and free shipping for orders $75 or more, to be fair, but it's still ridiculous.

I mean I kind of understand why Deathcrush was always $19.99 (cashing in on historically important material) but this EP seems like a good argument for $9.99 EPs

Yep, I haven't found that EP for less than $18 base price anywhere, I'll stick with streaming on that one.

same here

So, I am ashamed to admit that I am only just now getting around to Thy Catafalque, despite seeing you folks hyping his stuff for awhile now. Glad I finally did though, Vadak is just so gloriously bonkers and insane, I absolutely love it.