METAL for ART-metallers

Ascend = great. I'm really loving this album.
ready to be blown away/ sucked in by the new Velvet Cacoon!

I have my copy of the new Velvet Cacoon "Atropine" double CD from Full Moon Productions - huge, absorbing ambient drones and tones, though I miss the driving-rain drum machine.

Their long-lost "P aa opal poere pr. 33" LP is finally out as a limited release from Starlight Temple Society, and my copy is ordered. I have two leaked versions, one with a really horrible Goth drum track, and one that's guitars only - be interested to see what they've settled on for the official mix.

What's good in the avant metal world lately?

Locrian?

2nd or 3rd time ive seen them recommended on ILM in the past week.

Hi Christopher,
I'm writing to inform you that we do not have Rotting Christ - Aealo on red vinyl. We do have it in stock on blue which we will gladly send you

did you purchase it?

New Agalloch album is imminent:

http://www.profoundlorerecords.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=998&Itemid=2

cant wait to hear it!

Hope it gets released on vinyl

Really getting into Agalloch, thanks to the metal poll. The band achieve exactly what I always thought Black Metal should but never previously has for me, ie vividly evoking snow-bound forests and mountains.

hurrah!! Success for the metal poll!! I hope everyone discovers lots of good stuff because of it.

Is there any other BM I might like? Basically nothing too lo-fi. And I don't like blastbeats.

You should ask on the actual poll thread, I think there's others more qualified there to help you. Do you like Absu?

Absu has blast beats iirc - amazing band, amazing drummer

I've just checked out a couple of tracks, they sound interesting. Thanks. I'm cool with blastbeats in moderation actually. It's only when they go on for an entire song without variation that I find it tiring, like in lots of first wave BM stuff I've heard.

youre looking for more atmospheric BM? Try Drudkh.

New Drudkh is a bit more post-rockish, so I dunno if you would prefer that or the other stuff.

Yeah, they sound kind of like what I'm after. Plenty to be getting on with, cheers.

Tried real hard w/ the Vlevet Cacoons, but couldn't get into em. Sound great as background music, like having a thousand amplified cats purring at you, but there's no there there. It's just a pleasant tone, carried out for forty-some minutes. I have way too many "pleasant tone" records.

goddamnit this sounds so fucking incredible ^^^^

must seek out now

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001759430

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/25/8840233/art-metal

Not sure how 'arty' High on Fire are. Not that that's the article's biggest problem.

But now I know this thread exists I might use it to dump any and all weirdo-metal bands I discover that don't fit on the Branca-metal thread to the resounding indifference of all.

Why didn't you?
What are the best Art-Metal albums of 2016 then?

Aluk Todolo - Voix
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Schammasch - Triangle

what else?

http://www.themonolith.com/music/review-schammasch-triangle/

New Dysrhythmia is great: http://clrvynt.com/dysrhythmia-the-veil-of-control/

I've ordered that but dunno when it will arrive. a couple of weeks I think so not gonna listen to a stream and will wait for the CD but as I own all of their albums and liked them a long time I am looking forward to hearing it!

Does it differ to the other albums, sund4r?

Ha, I don't know their other albums tbh. I have one of Kevin Hufnagels' solo albums, which I like a lot. (Need to get the new one.)

oh! Ive been a fan of them since the 2nd album. Mr HCI loves to annoy me with pics of his demo cdr he got when it came out. Ive never ever seen one on sale anywhere

btw that Schammasch album I managed to get Mark S intrigued enough to listen to it a few months ago and he seemed to like some of it. So I really really recommend giving it a shot. It might be a bit over-ambitious but I find it quite rewarding to listen to.

It does help of course to listen to the album in 3 different sittings.
I have the triple lp so have a break inbetween each side so it feels more like listening to 3 different albums (which tbh it is)

https://schammasch.bandcamp.com/album/the-maldoror-chants-hermaphrodite

"Swiftly following their Triangle triple album, Schammasch return with the first of a number of releases exploring the 19th century poetic novel, Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont. Centred around a protagonist who opposes God and renounces morality’s conventions, this long-prose poem certainly lends itself thematically to an ambitious metal act"

It has a bit of an industrial feel to it. Its short (32 mins) but very good.

black metal jazz! https://whiteward.bandcamp.com/album/futility-report

can we make this a rolling thread from 2020 onwards

with a more palatable title

rolling metal can be wall to wall genre exercises and brutal death and 'this could have come out in 1982!' and we can all be happy

Sure, why not? Although now you're tempting me to start a rolling thread per metal subgenre, that I may forever be exempt from -core-related hype.

<snooty voice>genre exercises</snooty voice>

you're probably underestimating how snooty I felt as I typed that

I've begun to think of the metal I like as soundscape metal. That thing where I mostly love how I get images in my mind of winds and demons and fjords. Lots and lots of beautiful icy fjords. My faves this year has been stuff like Inter Arma, Abyssal and Pissgrave.

ok plan abandoned

i saw my friend's little brother's band the other night -- Apprentice Destroyer -- kinda kraut-y. Nice kids!

Apprentice Destroyer

Awwww.

here's a nice article about them:
https://cvltnation.com/erase-your-mind-apprentice-destroyer-permanent-climbing-monolith-exclusive-full-album-premiere/

So I've just discovered Murmuüre :D

they probably didn't need FOUR guitarists to pull this sound off but it rules anyway!

Murmuüre were amazing. I have their CDr but missed out on the vinyl issue when it came out a few years later as it sold out instantly and has been selling on eBay/Discogs for silly money ever since

Even the CD is £85 on here https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2500715?ev=rb

Not sure if they are arty enough for this thread, but the new White Ward is awesome lounge-jazz black metal. Also, if you want more cool arty metallic stuff their recommendations at the end of this interview are all very cool: https://kvlt.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Interview_with_WHITE_WARD_wwwKVLTpl.pdf

Shit, the last post before the revive was a plug for... White Ward. Now I feel dumb.