METAL for ART-metallers

man, I love that last time of orchids record. not sure that they were at all metal (esp. by that point), but THERE was a band that were doing their own thing. a shame they called it quits; they were at the height of their game.

I love how they took this fragmented, spazzy off-shoot of prog and made it into something so pretty and epic. I mean, they really make you work for it, but when a song climaxes, it can be pretty amazing. the "darling abandon" track that's streaming on paper thin walls is the perfect example. people should listen to that.

still bummed that I missed them open for koenjihyakkei. :-/

fucking great list of music up there from scott

The best album I've ever heard for working to is Earth Pentastar. I can play it over and over and never get tired of it.

Erik Davis wrote a great thing in the Voice, about art waltzing its way into metal, againe and againe: think the title was "Only A Northern Song," or close to that, and still in the online no doubt. Leave us not forget Mastodon, Nadja, Yakuza.

New Velvet Cacoon double 'Atropine' announced for Oct/Nov on the Full Moon Productions site: "This album was carefully created over a four year period under the closely supervised influence of mandrake, hemlock, datura stramonium, henbane, belladonna and jesaconitine isolate. Most of the drone library was originally recorded to DAT and buried in the ground for two years before reviving them for use."

New album by Lustmord is pretty good. Arguably more conventional than previous releases, in that it doesn't sound like being pulled out of airlock into space, but identifiably him.

Finally got around to downloading "Where the black stars hang", which you recommended to me ages ago. Immense! Perhaps not metal as such, but a lot of the 'ambient' BM I've been listening to recently approaches a similar feel. I'd be surprised if Darkspace weren't fans.

Stunning clip, zero information, as per with Velvet Cacoon. Appears to be a track from the new VC CD. Could be a fanvid from found footage - if so, I'd like to know where they found it.

can someone educate me about Ascend? There's one album titled "Ample fire within" here in the store.

It's great and the best thing Greg Anderson has been involved with in years!

okay, I'm going to buy it NOW! : )

It's more like sunn o))) than Goatsnake but better than the formers recent output. I think it's better than the Pentemple album.

Agreed Ascend is Greg's best stuff in years. It's with the Iceburn / Engine Kid guy. There's one track of swirly backwards guitar drone that is just outstanding. Worth buying.

New Velvet Cacoon? Psyched!

New Velvet Cacoon . . real soon, according to their Full Moon Productions page. The vid almost makes me believe it's actually going to happen.

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