Your five favorite metal records of the moment

autopsy -'tourniquets, hacksaws and graves'
morbus chron - 'sweven'
annihilator - 'alice in hell'
mayhem - 'deathcrush'
behemoth - 'the satanist'

also,
necrovation - s/t
slaughter - 'strappado'
the obsessed - s/t
paysage d'hiver - 'einsamkeit'
pestilence - 'consuming impulse'

rigor mortis!!!

Teitanblood - Death
Thorns - s/t
Harvest Gulgaltha - Necrosophic
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
Dream Death - Somnium Excessum

Brutality - Screams of Anguish

xp I feel like I should note that this is the first Rotting Christ album I've ever owned, having taken some weird disliking to their music back in the day that I'm over. Great stuff!

http://lastrit.es/reviews/7257/spectral-lore-iii

still feeling this so much this year

https://jackholesrealm.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/c0021227-solar-system-and-nicolaus-copernicus-spl.jpg

If I had wishes, I would shout to you and scream
But now I realize, you're like young dying streams
I'm in the real world, with people, crises and scars
Copernicus, I don't care about your stars

Vorum - Poisoned Void/Undergang (new one with Danish title)
Dark Descent death metal. Undergang takes me back to first hearing demos by Entombed, Grave, Funebre, etc, real gutteral grave gnarl. Vorum is just vicious old school death.

Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
A couple of songs on this approach Bolzer's "Entranced by the Wolfshook" for weird melodic ideas that sound new to metal. Also greatly appreciate the weird, warping riffs generally.

Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless
These guys are so great. I feel like this walks back what I didn't like about "A Work of Great Ages," a more defined production highlighting the contrast between the fluid, proggy bass guitar and mildly discordant, off-kilter riffs.

Root - Hell Symphony
Finally got a copy of this. Czech old school black metal, featuring the weird barks of Jiri "Big Boss" Valter, founder (and no longer member) of the Czech branch of the Church of Satan. I was listening to Triptykon recently and realized some of the bits with clean vocals actually reminded me of later Root.

Necrophobic - Nocturnal Silence
File under bands I somehow never heard until recently. Great black death stuff, first time I listened to it in the car I wound up driving around for ten minutes so I wouldn't have to stop it before the album ended.

Okay I used the word "weird" like fifty times, sorry.

wait so you liked the one before 'work of great ages' better?

Nah, I should've separated that. I didn't like Work of Great Ages as much, kind loses the band in that murky production. New one's great, though.

kind of loses, that is. It's like 85 degrees and 99% humidity here, I think my brain's melting.

At the moment i'm listening to:

Tribulation - Children Of The Night
Taiga - Gaia (over-the-top Siberian depressive black metal)
Obsequiae - Area Of Vernal Tombs
Vile Creature - A Steady Descent Into The Soil
Below The Sun - Envoy (really beautiful cosmic doom, again from Siberia)

*Aria*

I love this Vorum track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaOECtl6Q4A

^^^^ awesome. They've really got a knack for making their stuff sound vicious.

Tribulation - Children Of The Night

I really like this record but it doesn't really stick with me; not necessarily a bad thing if you can kind of rediscover an album repeatedly.

Going to have to check out Below the Sun and Taiga later.

I quite liked last years "Ashen Light" by Taiga so good to see they have a follow-up so quickly.

i don't have five right now but i genuinely can't stop listening to coroner's mental vortex and razor's shotgun justice

Those are great albums, man, easily worth 250% of many other metal albums.

I got the Violent Restitution reissue recently and it's awesome but I keep going back to Malicious Intent too. It's less polished and straight-up thrashy but still vicious.

Well I've been hooked on Razor's Evil Invaders lately, our Canadian thrash stars are not aligning! Metal record I constantly find myself coming back to is Vhol's debut. Happy to hear a new one is coming out this year.

blut aus nord: 777 cosmosophy
morbus chron: sweven
motley crüe: too fast for love
paradise lost: medusa
gorement: the ending quest

I think Cosmosophy is my favorite of the 777 series.

morbus chron: sweven

yeeeeeah

I listen to too much metal but here's five I keep coming back to recently:

Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
Thergothon - Stream from the Heavens
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial
Adramelech - Psychostasia (has a weird style of riffing similar to Nespithe but more listener-friendly)

I'm pretty certain that one day Blut aus Nord will click with me but I find them pretty hard going tbh

I actually had that reaction to BAN for many years - thought it was interesting but it didn't really grab me. The 777 series and Deus Salutis Meae finally did it.

Love that Adramelech album!

I've never understood why Indian aren't huge - because of their un-searchable name?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB9ElBNon-E

SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods
Slayer - Decade of Aggression
Ashbringer - Yügen
Sárr - Avitun
Sepultura - Arise

xp tbh I never checked out Indian because the (not great) name led me to think they were on some generic stoner business... that's why more ripping than I was expecting.

Anyway this week:

Uncle Acid - Wasteland
Mortuous - Through Wilderness
High On Fire - Electric Messiah (& a lot of Blessed Black Wings too)
Voivod - The Wake
Dog Soldier - Barking of the Dogs of War (strong 80s UK metal punk vibes)

*way not why

Recently started going through my 2018 'to listen' list. So far:

Kroda - Selbstwelt
Dautha - Brethren of the Black Soil
Hamferð - Támsins likam
Argonavis - Passing Through the Igneous Maw
Arkona - Khram

Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Portal - ION
YOB - Our Raw Heart
The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer.
Thou - Magus

Would love to mention Deafheaven and The Armed but a bit too false for this

Gorguts - Colored Sands
KEN Mode - Loved
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors
Cult of Luna - Mariner
Immolation - Atonement

Ghost- Opus Eponymous (still my favorite of theirs)
Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre li Anemi Francor (recent discovery)
Tribulation- Down Below (their streak continues)
Khanus- Flammarion (very promising debut)
King Heavy- s/t (haven’t been able to get into the new one but this is still a classic)