METAL for ART-metallers

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

with a more palatable title

rolling metal can be wall to wall genre exercises and brutal death and 'this could have come out in 1982!' and we can all be happy

Sure, why not? Although now you're tempting me to start a rolling thread per metal subgenre, that I may forever be exempt from -core-related hype.

<snooty voice>genre exercises</snooty voice>

you're probably underestimating how snooty I felt as I typed that

I've begun to think of the metal I like as soundscape metal. That thing where I mostly love how I get images in my mind of winds and demons and fjords. Lots and lots of beautiful icy fjords. My faves this year has been stuff like Inter Arma, Abyssal and Pissgrave.

ok plan abandoned

i saw my friend's little brother's band the other night -- Apprentice Destroyer -- kinda kraut-y. Nice kids!

Apprentice Destroyer

Awwww.

here's a nice article about them:
https://cvltnation.com/erase-your-mind-apprentice-destroyer-permanent-climbing-monolith-exclusive-full-album-premiere/

So I've just discovered Murmuüre :D

they probably didn't need FOUR guitarists to pull this sound off but it rules anyway!

Murmuüre were amazing. I have their CDr but missed out on the vinyl issue when it came out a few years later as it sold out instantly and has been selling on eBay/Discogs for silly money ever since

Even the CD is £85 on here https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2500715?ev=rb

Not sure if they are arty enough for this thread, but the new White Ward is awesome lounge-jazz black metal. Also, if you want more cool arty metallic stuff their recommendations at the end of this interview are all very cool: https://kvlt.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Interview_with_WHITE_WARD_wwwKVLTpl.pdf

Shit, the last post before the revive was a plug for... White Ward. Now I feel dumb.

Don't sleep on those recommendations though: Genghis Tron, Cult Leader, Valborg, Hybrid... so much goodness.