Rolling Metal Thread 2014

Horns? I just lost any interest in checking out that record.. lol

That's funny, seeing that there are horns on it just made me want to check it out.

sean is not a horny dude

i listened to that record in the background but reasonably closely and "horns" did not really come up prominently in my mind, so i think you can probably still check it out.

It's not like it's ska metal, dude. The horns sound seriously evil.

The Skatanist?

Celtic Frost used horns, so horns are metal. Especially French horns.

yeah, they're flourishes, it's not like they're recording Extreme singles....

well I figured they were not doing bad ass Earth, Wind and Fire horn lines..

And I was more than half kidding

man this Obliteration album isn't innovative or anything but it's one of the most aggressive 80s-esque sounding death metal albums I've heard in a minute.

I would really like to hear/start a doom metal band with a lineup like Roy Wood's Wizzard - double drummers, cello and baritone saxophones. Mmm. Yeah. Metal needs more horns.

Or maybe have Borbetomagus play with Lugubrum. Anyway I gotta check out that Obliteration album.

It's not like it's ska metal, dude. The horns sound seriously evil.

I will be listening to this album

Just got the new Behemoth today, and while I haven't listened to it yet (currently playing Evangelion again to lead into it for possible continuity and contrast's sake, for I am nerd you see) I laughed at the reflective Time Person of the Year cover overlay. (It's you! You're the Satanist of the Year!) Internet feedback has been all over the place for this album; I'm genuinely curious.

And yes to Obliteration -- if you've not heard their previous album, Nekropsalms, you must. Hearing that for the first time last year is what compelled me to check out their newest.

Last, this Artificial Brain thing on Profound Lore is lining up nicely along the Demilich-Gorguts-Mitochondrion axis of weird: http://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinth-constellation

Oh wait, last for real: the new Blut Aus Nord, some kind of 10 year anniversary EP for the DMP label, is absolutely awesome, a little of each of their styles, the industrial conking and the electrified shimmering, and a great Pitchshifter cover: https://dmp666.bandcamp.com/album/debemur-morti

Folks, catch the Russian Circles / KEN Mode / Inter Arma tour if you can. All three bands are in top form. Great, great night of music.

gonna try to & make the cambridge show on the 21st, but will have to trade shifts. figure 50/50 at best. :(

amazing fucking albums i missed in 2013

portal - vexovoid
tribulation - the formulas of death
rotting christ - greek to me

HAILZ!

I really wish I'd heard The Formulas of Death before I made my year-end lists and whatnot. Awesome record.

coulda sworn the last Deathspell Omega album had horns in there somewhere in the maelstrom

If you're looking for horns and metal I heartily recommend these guys:

http://www.oretubadoom.com

Just got the new Behemoth today, and while I haven't listened to it yet (currently playing Evangelion again to lead into it for possible continuity and contrast's sake, for I am nerd you see) I laughed at the reflective Time Person of the Year cover overlay. (It's you! You're the Satanist of the Year!) Internet feedback has been all over the place for this album; I'm genuinely curious.

they're coming here in May. definitely going

Behemoth spoilers incoming:

Having listened to The Satanist three times last night, twice in a row and then once a few hours later, I can safely say that at the least it's their best since Zos Kia Cultus -- the other superlatives might have to wait. But yeah, it's pretty huge, full of actual songs with perfectly complementary parts rather than the usual tinker toy assemblage of stock riffs keeping time behind Inferno's distracting blast furnace drumming and Nergal's distracting blast furnace roaring. Inferno is way low key, you'd never even guess it was him, and boy does that work in favor of the songs. The wonderfully homogenizing murk of the production would've obscured most of his usual over-the-topness anyway. And yes, Nergal sounds amazing, like he actually knows where in the song he is, delivering not reciting.

The last song cracks me up. People on metal-archives were saying it sounds like "Kashmir," but with the choirs, horns, bluesy solo, and spoken word, it reminds me more of the "cover" of "Kashmir" that P Diddy did with Jimmy Page. So you have that to look forward to.

/END SPOILAGE

everyone otm about the new behemoth, holy shit

guyz, i think we might could need a dedicated behemoth thread this year for outreach purposes, i read noted ~poet~ michael robbins speculating that it would become a buncha kids' BLONDE ON BLONDE already (tho i am not sure which one is the 'funny' song about getting stoned yet)

It's only a construction defect in the fabric of time that led to Nergal rather than Dylan first using the expression, "bitch ov a sybilline vulva."

wish the lyrics were less comprehensible on this tbh

What I think of when I think of evil horns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC73Os9NmZE

Not very metal, tho.

um i listened twice and no horns really jumped out at me, were they just playing some sustained tones in the arrangements, if so zzz

lookin for some bb king, chess records, famous flames horn stabs here

I've always liked the low-in-the-mix horns on (most of) the QotSA records.

wow can the behemoth seriously be that good

I liked zos kia cultus plenty and have followed them casually since but I'm intrigued

I don't think it's all that special but I have never really cared for them in the past so ymmv

um i listened twice and no horns really jumped out at me, were they just playing some sustained tones in the arrangements, if so zzz

lookin for some bb king, chess records, famous flames horn stabs here

― j., Sunday, February 9, 2014 7:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're faint, background flourishes. I didn't notice them on first listen myself

I came on board with ZKC and have always admired Behemoth from a slight distance since then. This one is the first album of theirs I genuinely love. I wrote it up for Burning Ambulance.

started listening to new behemoth on the ride to work tonight, but then called a friend. so i find that it mostly sounds like a conversation about furniture and veterinary selection.

expected something a bit less genteel, tbh

man you just cannot find your sweet spot huh

I love it when I hear internet uproar about an album, do a search in my email box, and find a haulix invitation from two weeks ago. Will check back in soon.

Pretty much in the same boat as J0hn on this one going in. Thought ZKC was a fine album, but didn't change my life. Would be happy to find a Behemoth record worth going back to.

The live performance on the accompanying DVD is really good, too, but oh my god the combined strobing light show and incessant editing cuts put it at Seizure Level: Grand Mal. I had to keep glancing away from the screen.

j., the horns are most prominent on the title track (track 6), if you want to look for them.

feeling very positive towards the satanist on my first listen. they are great live and I've generally liked their albums in the past but time will tell if this is their first that I really keep returning to. guessing it will be.

yeah its a good album--catchy, well-made, rocks pretty hard

in a promo email from Relapse just now:

Recommended If You Like:
My Bloody Valentine, Smashing Pumpkins, Slowdive, Deafheaven, Torche, Jesu, Title Fight, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Hum, Cold Cave, Loop, True Widow

so I guess 2014 is going to be terrible

hum!!!

Heh, I was thinking about all of you dudes when I read that email.

FWIW, I'd love to read more press blasts bringing up Hum. Love that band so goddamned much.

Is that about the band Nothing? They're from Philly and I wanna check them out sometime.

hum were really good, no argument here

Is that about the band Nothing? They're from Philly and I wanna check them out sometime.

Bingo!

Triptykon's second album, Melana Chasmata (rough translation: "black, deep depressions/valleys") will be released on April 14 (Europe) and April 15 (North America), 2014, through Century Media Records/Prowling Death Records Ltd.

http://www.centurymedia.com/media/news/large/635273443691695003.jpg

Like its predecessor Eparistera Daimones, the album was produced by Triptykon's singer/guitarist Tom Gabriel Warrior and guitarist V. Santura and recorded and mixed at V. Santura's own Woodshed Studio in southern Germany as well as at Triptykon's rehearsal facilities in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2013 and 2014. Those who have already heard Melana Chasmata have described it as "atmospheric, dark, diabolical, and dramatic", "diverse, epic, and doomy, but on an entirely different level", "a fierce boulder of abhorrence", or "very heavy and yet very aesthetic at the same time".

Melana Chasmata will feature the following nine songs, at a playing time of around 67 minutes:

1. Tree Of Suffocating Souls
2. Boleskine House
3. Altar Of Deceit
4. Breathing
5. Aurorae
6. Demon Pact
7. In The Sleep Of Death
8. Black Snow
9. Waiting

Further new Triptykon music has been recorded, to be released as an EP or mini album later in 2014 or early in 2015.

Among other formats, the album will be released as a 32-page Mediabook (with lyrics and liner notes to every song, and with a special fold out poster), as a gatefold vinyl double album (with posters and large-format booklet), and for digital download. Additionally, Century Media is scheduled to issue a special box set, limited to 2000 copies. The box set will include the album, a Triptykon silver pendant, a poster, postcards, a Triptykon tote bag, and a cap.

The Triptykon album is very, very good. No surprise there, but I'm already enjoying it even more than the last one. Towering and beautiful.