Rolling Metal 2016

there's a metal poll playlist for the results
https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/4zMb8zr6MP7xO6DAowXVG4

we're into the top 5 of metal poll btw
Fuck Brumpxit its the 2016 Metal and Hard N' Heavy Rock Poll Results Thread (With spotify and bandcamp links)

I love everything about Mesarthim - and especially the space nerd stuff, like how the morse code at the end of this Summer's album was "the great filter approaches" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter ) and now this Type III thing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale ) - oh, and the morse code at the end of this new new EP spells out: "RIGHT ASCENSION 01H 53M 31.81479S DECLINATION 19 17 37.8790 LEFT HORN OF THE RAM" ( http://astrologyking.com/fixed-star-mesarthim/ )

fuck, the new krallice is amazing

This just came out on the 19th, tip for the cavernous death massive

http://sevenchains.bandcamp.com/album/seven-chains

Does it appeal to you more if I add that there's also lots of weird orchestral (like, a real orchestra) stuff going on? And I think there's a saxophone solo in the first song? And some violin? No?

False to death metal!

Sounds good so far

Yep, right up my alley, and also now I get to have two songs called "Metanoia" on my '16 playlist

Um this is fucking incredible

If these dudes aren't signed to Profound Lore for their next album I'll eat my hat. I'll buy a hat first.

they might already be better than profound lore

We should really just start doing each year's metal poll in December of the following year.

(I'm allowed that hyperbole right)

It's the metal thread not a safe space for the hyperbole-allergic!

New Antaeus man. At first I was like "ahh man, why'd I buy this, it's just blistering, blastering stuff I'm not really in the mood for" and then "Flesh Ritual" started unhinging things a little bit and by "Angels of Despair" I was in luuuv.

seriously it is GOOD. had the exact same "do I really need new Antaeus in 2016?" reaction and then just got completely caught up in the maelstrom.

listening to Seven Chains, some *very* Swans moments here. Not sure I find it all that engaging overall, but the band certainly isn't afraid to do non-death metal stuff.

Yeah it's quite good, there's shades of Portal and Ehnahre in there but it doesn't grab me consistently

high five Brad!
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/12/23/mesarithm-interview/

cool work!

oh i forgot that i did that

Brad do you know if the two new EPs are the remnants of the scrapped 2nd album, done in the Isolate style?

(I suppose I could just start listening to their bandcamp and sort of judge for myself...)

no idea, i didn't follow up after they came out

hey brad, just curious: when did you turn that in?

right after thanksgiving iirc

Bandcamp lead times are print-mag long. The stuff I've written for them has run 4-6 weeks after I turn it in.

huh. ok. good to know, thanks.

it's mostly bc of volume afaict. ton of pieces running all the time

The Furia is fantastic!

Avoiding my relatives, listening to discordant and slightly proggy Australian death metal:

http://convulsing.bandcamp.com/

Has a Porcupine Tree cover (!?) which does the unthinkable and sounds good.

The guy at the metal record shop in Keene that I go to a couple times a year talked me into buying some German black metal I'd never heard of before. It's Dis Manibvs by Imperium Dekadenz, released this year on Season of Mist. Anyone else familiar with these folks? One track on side 3 sounds a little like Deafheaven, but most of it is a little more raw than that.

I remember liking their 2010 album Procella Vadens but not checking out further. I didn't even know they had a new one.

This was posted on Vektor's Facebook page tonight, but has now been taken down:

https://scontent.fewr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15781503_10211834348394080_6313819094695793081_n.jpg?oh=ee4fac5a7c83a7b3990a5d8354d77d3a&oe=5920DE2C

It would be a shame to break up, given how far they've gone together. Sounds like an issue with Dave.

Daaaamn.

ok why didn't I check this Blood Incantation out earlier this year. this is completely my wheelhouse.

It's a great record.

As a Vektonaut I'm displeased, but this made me laugh.

I apologize to anyone who was concerned about the post from earlier today. Vektor is not stopping. I started writing Vektor songs in 1999 and I'm still writing Vektor songs. As long as I live, Vektor will not die.
I appreciate everything that Blake, Frank, and Erik have done to help this ship take off. I also appreciate all of my band mates before them: Willy, Pablo, Adam, Mike, and Kian.
See you on the road!
-Dave

lol that is some first-class shade

for a moment, due to my sinus headache, read "Willy, Pablo" as "Petey Pablo"

Since I didn't really know anything about them, I imagined Vektor as a democratic alignment of nerdy virtuosos but I guess it makes more sense that it's principally the product of one particularly crazed nerdy virtuoso

Listening to Vektor with a sinus headache, oof.

A list of lists

https://www.facebook.com/metaltotheteeth/posts/1629762337319064

Man, Khemmis is so widely loved and I just don't get it.

Finally got my physical copy of the Haar/Ur Draugr split and have been listening to it... Haar's stuff is one of the better takes on the modern black metal sound (which is deadly dull if mishandled), vicious enough for my tastes. The Ur Draugr side is an epic 20 minute track that is all over the place, maybe a little too chaotic in terms of structure but with a lot of great ideas and stuff they havent explored before (including solid, Timeghoul-esque use of clean vocals). Feel like both of these bands are going to do great stuff with their next releases.

Moon Tooth + Astronoid (!!!)

Feb 1 – Brooklyn, NY – Saint Vitus
Feb 2 – Allston MA, – Great Scott
Feb 3 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz
Feb 4 – Toronto, ON – Hard Luck
Feb 5 – Detroit, MI – EL Club
Feb 6 – Chicago, IL – Reggies Rock Club
Feb 7 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Cafe
Feb 8 – Webster, NY -Harmony House
Feb 9 – Latham, NY – On The Circle
Feb 10 – Lancaster, PA – Lizard Lounge
Feb 11 – Amityville, NY – Amityville Music Hall

Tried to start Rolling Metal 2017, server is hanging endlessly in the void. Someone pls start it.

Rolling Metal 2017

Zealotry album from last year really deserved more att'n/love. Crowded marketplace & novelty's always gonna rule over known quantities but it's a thoughtful, focused, beautifully played death metal album with some Roger Patterson-endebted workouts in the breaks here and there and some really cool little decorative touches -- choral vocals on one track, an acoustic interlude on another (they did that on their previous too iirc and it's something I always like in DM albums).

Yes to all of that

just got caveman cult savage war is destiny which is some wild bestial shit featuring the drummer from torche (!) https://cavemancult.bandcamp.com/ highly recommended

dig this zealotry too

Since this thread popped up, here is my too-late-for-polls and unranked list of my favorite metal albums of 2016, in alphabetical order:

Abbath - Abbath
Airbourne - Breakin' Outta Hell
Alcest - Kodama
Aluk Todolo - Voix
Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole of the Law
Ash Borer - Irrepassable Gate
Asphyx - Incoming Death
Astronoid - Air
Babymetal - Metal Resistance
Brant Bjork - Tao of the Devil
Black Tusk - Pillars of Ash
Blood Ceremony - Lord of Misrule
Bloody Hammers - Lovely Sort Of Death
Blues Pills - Lady In Gold
The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
The Body and Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
Bolzer - Hero
Cadavarice - I: Exhumation
Charred Walls Of The Damned - Creatures Watching Over the Dead
Cobalt - Slow Forever
Comet Control - Center Of The Maze
Cough - Still They Pray
Crematory - Monument
Crippled Black Phoenix - Bronze
Crowbar - The Serpent Only Lies
Cult of Luna - Mariner
Cultes des Ghoules - Coven
Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign
Darkestrah - Turan
Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder
Destroyer 666 - Wildfire
Deviant Process - Paroxysm
Diamond Head - Diamond Head
Discharge - End of Days
Eight Bells - Landless
Entropia - Ufonaut
Esben and the Witch - Older Terrors
Exmortus - Ride Forth
Eye - Vision and Ageless Light
Falaise - As Time Goes By
Furia - Księżyc milczy luty
Gatecreeper - Sonoran Depravation
Ghost BC - Popestar
Ghoul - Dungeon Bastards
Goatess - Purgatory Under New Management
Grand Magus - Sword Songs
Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue
If These Trees Could Talk - The Bones of a Dying World
Ihsahn - Arktis
Inquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith
Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed
Krallice - Hyperion
Krallice - Prelapsarian
Krypts - Remnants of Expansion
Kuolemanlaakso - M.Laakso - The Gothic Tapes Vol 1
Lord Vicar - Gates of Flesh
Lotus Thief - Gramarye
Magrudergrind - II
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd Dwyll
Memoirs of a Secret Empire - Vertigo
Mesarthim - Isolate
Metallica - Hardwired...To Self Destruct
Mithras - On Strange Loops
Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika
Mortiis - The Great Deceiver
Mourning Beloveth - Rust & Bone
Myrkur - Mausoleum
Nervosa - Agony
Netherbird - Grander Voyage
Neurosis - Fires Within Fires
Oathbreaker - Rheia
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Otep - Generation Doom
Panopticon - Revisions of the Past
Prong - X - No Absolutes
Running Wild - Rapid Foray
Russian Circles - Guidance
Schammasch - Triangle
Skeletonwitch - The Apothic Gloom
Sodom - Decision Day
Spire - Entropy
Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of Ages
Surgical Meth Machine - Surgical Meth Machine
Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake
Thy Catafalque - Meta
Trap Them - Crown Feral
Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Voivod - Post Society EP
Volur - Disir
The Wakedead Gathering - Fuscus: Strings of the Black Lyre
Wardruna - Runaljod Ragnarok
Whores. - Gold.
Witchcraft - Nucleus
Worm Couroboros - What Graceless Dawn
Wormrot - Voices
The Wounded Kings - Visions In Bone
Wovenhand - Star Treatment
Wretch - Wretch
Wyrd - Death Of The Sun
Yidhra - Cult Of Bathory