Rolling Metal Thread 2014

But yeah all of the song titles sound feasible. I'm actually surprised there isn't a JLB story called "City of Mirrors."

"Death and the Labyrinth" is the title of a book Foucault wrote about Borges, so I figure it counts; also I tend to get the title confused with "Death and the Compass"

I can think of at least one title to disprove your theory, though ("Ibn Hakkan al-Bokhari, Dead in His Labyrinth")

agree with you on "City of Mirrors"!

Oh, right, look at that. This has been a good excuse to pluck my own Borges collection from the shelf.

This is, like, third hand at best, two hands of which are people on the internet, but supposedly the Aborted vocalist panned the new ATG, saying it sounds like The Haunted with Tomas on vox. Actually I guess all three hands are on the internet, because I am in fact on the internet.

Still looking forward to getting it, because a) it's At the Gates, b) I dug the advance track, and c) who cares what someone from Aborted said. I don't think I've ever heard, or at least remembered, an Aborted song.

Meaning the Aborted dude claimed to have heard the whole thing.

There's a metal show on the amazing WFMU; I'd never heard it til tonight. Not bad! The dude likes him some King D/Mercyful.
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/57687

They're playing Communic at the moment and for one blissful moment I thought it was the new Sanctuary. Ha. Communic rules, though.

xp

cool I have no memory of that Ibn Hakkan one gonna have to revisit

xp to me

And I only just now realized the show is hosted by Bill Zebub. Well don't I feel out of the loop.

just gave a (semi-distracted) first listen to Inter Arma's new 45-minute one-track EP & came away very impressed--this might be even better than Sky Burial. definitely worth your time, even in a very strong year for doom

did we already discuss that the new stargazer sounds fucking awesome and that the bassist is just killing it in every way

http://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/a-merging-to-the-boundless

I think I mentioned that they had a new one coming out, but I assumed everyone knew they're fucking awesome and their bassist kills...

very much enjoyed the first three tracks on the new Godflesh record this evening...to me they sound p much exactly like Godflesh

http://www.metalinjection.net/av/full-album-stream/1349-is-streaming-massive-cauldron-of-chaos

So apparently 1349 rule now. Whatever of theirs I'd heard in the past made zero impression; this new album is wonderfully (and thrashily) riveting. I love that there's a decent amount of space between vocals, guitars, and drums, rather than everything blurring into Generic Black Metal Noise. So many wicked riffs here. And memorable songs! Reminds me of how Nile took inscrutable brutal death metal and reorganized it into something more dramatic and captivating.

Not that I dislike inscrutable brutable death metal. I was just listening to Internal Suffering earlier. They rule too.

Scrutable black metal.

fuck yeah stargazer!!! frets are an instrument of social control!!!

A bit far out, but in case anyone's interested:

2015 Decibel Magazine Tour: At The Gates + Converge + Vallenfyre + fourth band TBA

Friday, March 27-- Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
Saturday, March 28 -- San Francisco, CA The Regency Ballroom
Sunday, March 29 -- Portland, OR Roseland Theater
Monday, March 30 -- Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
Tuesday, March 31 -- Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market
Thursday, April 2 -- Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
Friday, April 3 -- Denver, CO Summit Music Hall
Saturday, April 4 -- Lincoln, NE Bourbon Street
Sunday, April 5 -- Minneapolis, MN Mill City Nights
Monday, April 6 -- Chicago, IL House of Blues
Wednesday, April 8 -- Toronto, ON The Phoenix
Thursday, April 9 -- Montreal, QC Metropolis
Friday, April 10 -- Boston, MA Royale
Saturday, April 11 -- Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
Sunday, April 12 -- New York, NY Webster Hall

I wonder if that implies a new Converge album next year, something new to tour behind. It'd be about the right time for them.

Does anybody else think Couch Slut (whose debut record is fantastic, by the way) sound like Cloud Rat if they were a sludgy hardcore/noise rock band, or is it just me? I don't even mean because they're both fronted by women; their respective vocalists have similar voices, and similar styles of emotional expression.

Also, reading up on Couch Slut I see one of their guitarists has a weirdo prog black metal band called Epistasis who put out a record on Crucial Blast this year. Good stuff.

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I'm just hearing the Couch Slut now and it's awesome. I like the singer, who yeah is a bit like Cloud Rat's. There must be obvious 80s dark noise-rock antecedents for this that I just haven't heard.

Couch Slut: http://handshakeinc.bandcamp.com/album/my-life-as-a-woman

I should add, the album cover is NSFW.

wow this Couch Slut thing is really good

started off feeling like it was p second tier noiserock but it's really digging its hooks into me

Satan was a total blast last weekend. Thanks to NYC Native's rave in April for inspiring me to go. Definitely one of the best reunion shows I've seen.

What is going on up in Portland, Maine? First Ogre, now this. I'm likin' it.

https://hessian-music.bandcamp.com/releases
http://youtu.be/UCmq3Vm6GQ0

Premiering a new Giant Squid song on Burning Ambulance today.

New Giant Squid album is great.

hey dudes i hope it's not a faux pas to rep for my friends here but:

ayo my friends are in this metal band called flaming tusk and they deeply shred, they just put out a new record, only halfway into the first track and man it is the thing http://music.flamingtusk.com/album/inquisitor

Man I really hope the new Spectral Lore album (III) doesn't get overlooked in year-end lists due to its relatively late arrival. It's a complete master class in avant garde black metal. I get hints of Ved Buens Ende/Virus, Blut Aus Nord, a much more fierce Alcest, mid-period Enslaved, Agalloch, even a Glenn Branca vibe during some of the extended instrumental passages. There are plenty of straight-ahead blasting parts, which are also excellent, but the real joy comes when they head out into the stratosphere electric guitar-wise and make noises that sound like the NASA Voyager recordings from a few decades ago. I'm not on the street team or anything. Just holy shit. At roughly 87 minutes, it's a lot to take in, but man is it worth it if you like that kind of thing. Diverse without being show-offy, some absolutely gorgeous finger-picked acoustic guitar during the handful of folky parts. Even when things get all nice and "sit down here by the fire while I tell you a story," you can feel the next launch into the dark clouds slowly building tension underneath, roiling, sometimes surprisingly patient, but of course always raging in the end. Sorry for the purple prose. This thread has been quiet for a while, but I haven't felt this strongly about an album in a while, so cheers!

I think emo canon and I must have been typing at the same time. Cool. Hi.

i listened to that today, sounded pretty good alongside the new blut aus nord

Anyone heard the new Mysticum yet?

i listened to that today, sounded pretty good alongside the new blut aus nord

geez it wouldn't kill either of them to record some bass parts though

I still haven't gotten around to the new Dawnbringer (though I really want to), but right now I'm listening to Convent Guilt's Guns for Hire and it pretty much rules in a very 1981 way.

I'm still wiped out from Housecore Fest this past weekend, but I keep spinning the Death Penalty album. Hits all my sweet spots.

Yay new Cretin.
http://youtu.be/eIBUoYZ52pk

The new Wizard Rifle album, while a hell of lot darker atmosphere-wise than the last one, is still really great -- "Psychodynamo" is probably their best song to date.

Actually I think the respective album covers accurately capture the shift in tone/production from fun trip to bad trip

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/wizardrifle_album.jpeg
http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2845697869_10.jpg

in case you're not familiar they play a brand of... I'll go with manic scuzzy trash-prog metal. super fun stuff

guitar tone on that new Dawnbringer is so grimy. (that's a good thing)

New Cretin is really good. No major changes in their sound.

I keep coming back to Nonexistence, this is so awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkUBUKEvLGw
The guitar melody reminds me of something though, can't quite put my finger on it.

Man I really hope the new Spectral Lore album (III) doesn't get overlooked in year-end lists due to its relatively late arrival. It's a complete master class in avant garde black metal. I get hints of Ved Buens Ende/Virus, Blut Aus Nord, a much more fierce Alcest, mid-period Enslaved, Agalloch, even a Glenn Branca vibe during some of the extended instrumental passages. There are plenty of straight-ahead blasting parts, which are also excellent, but the real joy comes when they head out into the stratosphere electric guitar-wise and make noises that sound like the NASA Voyager recordings from a few decades ago.

the long synth intro/outro to the last track is so lovely and enchanting

Totally. The whole album has a really nice unrushed feel to it. Whether it's that synth intro/outro, an acoustic section, a slow doomy part -- they take the time to develop each theme properly before they morph into the next movement. It's great to hear dynamics being employed like that over the long haul.

I was at the Siege of Limerick last weekend, the latest edition of a great free festival putting on Irish legends (like Mael Mordha and Abaddon Incarnate), up and comers (Malthusian, and Seprevation whose set I caught the end of, nice death/thrash crossover) and some impressive imports, such as Cruciamentum (why don't they have an album yet).

new Necrophagia album is a LOT of fun.

May all your weenies be hallowed.
http://youtu.be/2BWWQiHoLik

I'd just like to 3rd the Spectral Lore love because more people need to hear this. It's probably the best black metal release I've heard in ages, says a lot that it's almost an hour and a half long and I never get bored. I really enjoy how it blends dissonance, spacey ambient sections and a good dose of prog etc without getting cluttered and confused, since, as Skrot said, ideas are given ample room to grow.

And the track title 'Cosmic Significance' ties in nicely to a song on Petrychor's album this year which is also really good

Before the release of the band's Crucial Blast debut, An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood, in 2007, GNAW THEIR TONGUES crawled into the black metal/industrial underground via a number of ultra-limited EPs which quickly went out of print, and are now sought after by fans of the band's abject blackened horror. Collected Atrocities 2005-2008 is a new double CD anthology that gathers together essential, out-of-print early recordings from the band that span the first three years of GNAW THEIR TONGUES's existence, compiling the Prefering Human Skin Over Animal Fur, Horse Drawn Hearse and For All Slaves... A Song Of False Hope EPs, the material from the Static Hymnal compilation, and other rarities from the bowels of the GTT archive.

Collected Atrocities 2005-2008 will be released by Crucial Blast on January 26th. A demoralizing blast from the past, "Glorification Of Rats," from GNAW THEIR TONGUES' 2007-released Prefering Human Skin Over Animal Fur is currently emitting from THIS LOCATION.

Stand by for further updates on additional news on Collected Atrocities 2005-2008 and Crucial Blast's other upcoming GNAW THEIR TONGUES actions to take over 2015.

Collected Atrocities 2005-2008 Track Listing:

Disc One:
1. For All Slaves...A Song Of False Hope I
2. The Uncomfortable Silence In Between Beatings
3. A Fiery Deluge
4. My Womb Is Barren And I Want Revenge
5. Aderlating
6. For All Slaves...A Song Of False Hope II
7. Body Bouquet
8. Slaves

Disc Two:
1. The Behemoth Crawls Ashore
2. Horse Drawn Hearse
3. Another Study In Bleakness And Despair
4. Prefering Human Skin Over Animal Fur
5. Spasming And Howling
6. Glorification Of Rats
7. Circles Of The Abyss

Please note that the album cover at the link in the post above is of the very NSFW variety.

NSF anywhere I should think

hey skrot, ultros, what do you think of the first half of that spectral lore? it seems a little less well defined to me, maybe just because i keep replaying the back half over and over, but i haven't totally seen its place in the whole thing yet.

I think it's pretty consistent in quality, though in fact the first track is probably my the least favourite. I admit I'm still chewing this over as I have to listen to the whole thing and I can't alway be bothered even though it enjoy it a lot. The first half is in general more dissonant and less 'epic' than the second, and the last three tracks do feel like an entity of their own compared to the rest of it maybe, but one of the most impressive things about the album is how well sequenced it is.

The album does take a while to get going, but I'm guessing this is deliberate. It's kind of the opposite of most albums, in that usually a band leads with the most dynamic and impressive tracks, whereas this one takes its time and builds up to the coolest stuff. I just reorganized these tracks on my iPod so that they're grouped into two separate "albums," since I rarely have time to listen to the whole thing straight through. Perhaps the first half will start to pale in comparison with the second half once I get used to listening to it this way. Regardless, the highs are really high, and the lows are pretty damn awesome, too. I'm glad others are enjoying it!

motherfucker this is incredible