Rolling Metal 2016

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Mourning Beloveth - Rust & Bone (Ván Records)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2z5BrccoY

The Encyclopaedia Metallum page says it came out in December but everywhere else it's listed as this year.

It's quite good, straddling funeral doom, straight-up doom metal and death metal. Very epic. The only quibble is that all five songs occupy the same tempo, but I really enjoy the contrasting vocals that go from grandiose Candlemass-inspired almost spoken word to death metal growls.

http://cdn.theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/rip-in-the-wind.jpg

Looking forward to hearing this R.I.P album, on Totem Cat Records...
Chiefly because the Obelisk described it as 'Street Doom'.

Hey hip-hop nerds. What kind-of hip-hop is this?

R.I.P single is streaming here... So good
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2016/02/03/r-i-p-in-the-wind-tremble/

As someone who likes stoner metal but not constant weed references, that's nice stuff.

As someone who likes stoner metal but not constant weed references

I have to take every opportunity to mention Abdullah and their album Graveyard Poetry. Great band, great vocals, just kinda lackluster production. (They were on Meteor City so maybe they're more well known than I think; I just never see em talked about.) I feel like they could've honed themselves into a QOTSA type crossover thing but they didn't stay together long enough. Those songs are immortal in my book, though.

https://youtu.be/TLA3qnjuPnU

I pay pretty close attention to the Portland (heavy) scene - including scanning gig listings every week - and I've never even heard the name R.I.P. Weird?

Good tune, though, looking forward to hearing more.

new Krallice for yr face ears

OK I think I like that Mourning Beloveth; where the fuck can I get Van stuff in the US for, say, less than $30?

Also all you dudes digging Chthe'ilist should check out Howls of Ebb if you haven't!

As someone who likes stoner metal but not constant weed references

I pay pretty close attention to the Portland

^^^^ Ugh... above post due to dumb fat fingers ^^^^

What I was trying to say was:

I pay pretty close attention to the Portland (heavy) scene

If you go see them, let me know how it was... I can't imagine getting to see them in the UK anytime soon

If you liked the Violet Cold album last year, be advised that a new one came out today!

https://open.spotify.com/album/06EZss4sACNROJBE64nSFR

If you missed it: experimental one-man atmospheric post-blackgaze metal from Azerbaijan!

Anyone heard the new Rotting Christ?

so who's going to Maryland Death Fest this year? kinda excited for Testament (who I will see for the first time finally in a few weeks), Wormed, Desaster, etc.....

also not at all feeling the new Megadeth. better than what I heard from Supercollider, but very bland.

def going to mdf this year. psyched to live so much closer now

was gonna go, schedule won't allow it. get in the pit on my behalf everybody

I'm going to MDF! Stoked!

still need to get a pass but i'm definitely going again this year

sweet. I got my three day pass for Edison lot. Lookin forward to...

Horrendous
Mayhem (are they seriously doing all of De Mysteriis?)
Samael
The Haunted (tho I'm seeing them this Tuesday)
Sinister
Wormed (really stoked for this one)
Exciter
Gruesome (seen em once tho)
Hail of Bullets
Impaled Nazarene
Nuclear Assault (hell yea!)
Testament (tho I'm seeing them end of this month)
Satan
Destroyer 666
Desaster
Venom

got my hotel booked cheaply .5 miles away, still need to find cheap airfare, but was able to last time...

gotta say I am really down with the latest Enforcer album. the instrumental on the album kinda reminds me of Anvil a little and there are hooks a plenty all over it.

also I'm diving deeper into Trouble's back catalog now (previously I had only Psalm 9 and The Skull) after seeing them at Florida Metal Fest. and holy fuckballs, is the s/t album from 1990 the best Led Zep stoner album never made. other than the one Dark Side of the Moon ripoff, it's a fav.

can I just say tho seeing Trouble (while they were the best band of the night easily) was funny cos they were doing Psalm 9 stuff (hella fuckin' cool) and hearing the Christian lyrics being sung, song ends, and then Kyle Thomas says something like "how the motherfuck are you fuckin' doin tonight?!"

Hey, man, Jesus totally looks like a dude who would say that.

Totally right about the s/t album, btw! Like it's one of those albums that could be regarded as a sellout except for the fact that it's so fucking great.

looking forward to this album

Fallujah reveal artwork, track listing for upcoming album ‘Dreamless’
http://www.metalinsider.net/releases/fallujah-reveal-artwork-track-listing-for-upcoming-album-dreamless

April 29th

their last one was pretty good, looking forward to it

Picked up the new Eight Bells CD at the show last night in Philly.

It's pretty phenomenal, taking the catharsis and beauty of their debut and expanding on both emotions until they ethereally collide.

Also, Voivod is still great and the two new Vektor songs make me anxious for their new one on Earache in March.

OK I think I like that Mourning Beloveth; where the fuck can I get Van stuff in the US for, say, less than $30?

there's a second new Vektor track?

new Eight Bells

oh nice, I didn't know they had a new one

New Cobalt track up with that goon from Lord Mantis singing

http://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/slow-forever

there's a second new Vektor track?

Two new songs, or two songs? (Their songs are pretty long, and first-opener sets can be pretty short...)

Not new stuff, but thanks to Dominique for mentioning Convulse. World Without God is rocking my world right now.

Haha, two new songs, silly.

I didn't make it out last year but I might make more of an effort this year...

SHADOW WOODS METAL FEST Returns To Devastate Central Maryland In September; More Than Twenty Bands Already Confirmed

http://files.ctctcdn.com/28b23da7301/d7ed3dce-8650-4e19-998b-1652a8949784.jpg

SHADOW WOODS METAL FEST 2016 Confirmed Lineup:
A SOUND OF THUNDER (DC) **traditional old-school heavy metal
ACID WITCH (Detroit) **horror death
BLOOD STORM (PA/TX) **black thrash
BOUND BY THE GRAVE (Baltimore) *death
CEMETERY PISS (Baltimore) **black
COFFIN DUST (Philadelphia) **death
CORPSE LIGHT (Baltimore) *doom
DARSOMBRA (MD) **metal drone
DESTROYER OF LIGHT (Austin, TX) **sludge
EMPYREUS(Chicago) **black
FAITH IN JANE FEATURING WINO (MD) ** doom trio joined by the godfather of the sound
GENEVIEVE (MD) **experimental black
GRAVE GNOSIS (St. Petersburg, FL) **black
HAXEN (Rhode Island) **black
HELLEBORUS (Manitou Springs, CO) **black
MYOPIC (DC) **death/doom
SAPREMIA (New Jersey) **death
TELOCH VOVIN (NY) **black
TEMPLE OF VOID (Detroit) **doom
WIZARD EYE (PA) **doom
XEUKATRE (Baltimore) **black
MANY MORE BANDS YET TO BE ANNOUNCED

I don't know if more than two people care about this including myself but Ehnahre's new one is out:

https://kathexis.bandcamp.com/album/douve

a friend of mine just recommended this to me and i immediately thought, "where is imago, has he heard this"

Hey, Anthrax? Enough with the pentagrams. You guys are the least pentagrammy band in metal.

Yeah they should bring the Not Man back.

Cult of Luna / Julie Christmas collab

https://youtu.be/z_O-NZfzvj0

https://kathexis.bandcamp.com/album/douve

a friend of mine just recommended this to me and i immediately thought, "where is imago, has he heard this"

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, February 11, 2016 9:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good crikey, he's hearing it now, ty

i mean, so far it's more 'intriguing' than 'mindblowing' and could yet tumble back to 'irritating' but oh hey look the big guitars have come in

Checked out the Ehnahre at the bequest of a few people above... It's like Tom Waits started a depressive black metal band. Interesting stuff.

I do like Douve quite a lot, could possibly have done with some editing, it starts to lose me slightly towards the end of the middle (it's a long album OK) but picks up again on the last handful of tracks I feel

snuck off to Wilmington, NC, without a word to anybody this weekend, just cos Cryptopsy/Cannibal Corpse/Obituary/Abysmal Dawn tour is here otnight and I'm too impatient to wait for the Tampa stop (tho I'll hit that one up too).

stoked given that I liked the Topsy EP, the rest I figure I know what's coming.

Cult of Luna / Julie Christmas collab

I was wondering what Julie Christmas was up to!

One of my favorite-ever concert memories was catching Made out of Babies at a showcase of some kind in NYC, w/ the whole band (and JC in particular) evilly amused at playing right after a particularly obnoxious, bro-y pop=punk band. Just tore the place up.

Listening to Goatwhore's Carving Out The Eyes Of God on Spotify; it's working for me better than it ever has before, and I don't know why. I've never liked this band, but somehow tonight their head-down dumbassery is just what I want to hear. I hope I don't wind up listening to Devildriver next.

Goatwhore = good on disc....boring live

spent valentine's day catching up on 2016 stuff so far

abbath's album rips imo. great riffs as ever. priest cover kicks so much ass!

disappointed to find that the chthe'ilist album is so very much not my thing, esp after so many people told me i'd love it! i was expecting atmospherics, or maybe something dungeon synth-y, or moevot-esque. but i got canadian tech death with boodlypanking bass! not a dis, but not for me at all.

ehnahre: really like it, but def an endurance event at 18 substantial tracks, damn

bored by krallice tbh. have the guitars always sounded this early 2000s post hardcore? that tone.

stoked to see eight bells, voivod et al tonight. did i mention i moved to richmond and there are so many great shows that i have to be super choosy? not used to that at all! and having baltimore/DC in driving distance has me doubly spoiled.