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.
― Dominique, Friday, 23 December 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
Yeah it's quite good, there's shades of Portal and Ehnahre in there but it doesn't grab me consistently
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 23 December 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
high five Brad!https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/12/23/mesarithm-interview/
― alpine static, Friday, 23 December 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
cool work!
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Friday, 23 December 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
oh i forgot that i did that
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 23 December 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
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...)
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 23 December 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
no idea, i didn't follow up after they came out
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 23 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
hey brad, just curious: when did you turn that in?
― alpine static, Friday, 23 December 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
right after thanksgiving iirc
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 December 2016 00:18 (seven years ago) link
Bandcamp lead times are print-mag long. The stuff I've written for them has run 4-6 weeks after I turn it in.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 24 December 2016 00:40 (seven years ago) link
huh. ok. good to know, thanks.
― alpine static, Saturday, 24 December 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link
it's mostly bc of volume afaict. ton of pieces running all the time
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 24 December 2016 03:42 (seven years ago) link
The Furia is fantastic!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 25 December 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 26 December 2016 05:18 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Tom Violence, Monday, 26 December 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
I remember liking their 2010 album Procella Vadens but not checking out further. I didn't even know they had a new one.
― Dinsdale, Monday, 26 December 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
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
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 29 December 2016 01:57 (seven years ago) link
It would be a shame to break up, given how far they've gone together. Sounds like an issue with Dave.
― jmm, Thursday, 29 December 2016 02:24 (seven years ago) link
Daaaamn.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 29 December 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
ok why didn't I check this Blood Incantation out earlier this year. this is completely my wheelhouse.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 29 December 2016 05:06 (seven years ago) link
It's a great record.
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 29 December 2016 05:07 (seven years ago) link
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
― jmm, Thursday, 29 December 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
lol that is some first-class shade
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 29 December 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
for a moment, due to my sinus headache, read "Willy, Pablo" as "Petey Pablo"
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 29 December 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
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
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 29 December 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
Listening to Vektor with a sinus headache, oof.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 30 December 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
A list of lists
https://www.facebook.com/metaltotheteeth/posts/1629762337319064
― Dinsdale, Friday, 30 December 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 31 December 2016 04:08 (seven years ago) link
Moon Tooth + Astronoid (!!!)
Feb 1 – Brooklyn, NY – Saint VitusFeb 2 – Allston MA, – Great ScottFeb 3 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le RitzFeb 4 – Toronto, ON – Hard LuckFeb 5 – Detroit, MI – EL ClubFeb 6 – Chicago, IL – Reggies Rock ClubFeb 7 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club CafeFeb 8 – Webster, NY -Harmony HouseFeb 9 – Latham, NY – On The CircleFeb 10 – Lancaster, PA – Lizard LoungeFeb 11 – Amityville, NY – Amityville Music Hall
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 1 January 2017 02:30 (seven years ago) link
Tried to start Rolling Metal 2017, server is hanging endlessly in the void. Someone pls start it.
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 January 2017 11:32 (seven years ago) link
Rolling Metal 2017
― Forty Watson & the Jute Gute (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 January 2017 11:35 (seven years ago) link
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).
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 13:36 (seven years ago) link
Yes to all of that
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
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
― adam, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 14:35 (seven years ago) link
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 - AbbathAirbourne - Breakin' Outta HellAlcest - KodamaAluk Todolo - VoixAnaal Nathrakh - The Whole of the LawAsh Borer - Irrepassable GateAsphyx - Incoming DeathAstronoid - AirBabymetal - Metal ResistanceBrant Bjork - Tao of the DevilBlack Tusk - Pillars of AshBlood Ceremony - Lord of MisruleBloody Hammers - Lovely Sort Of DeathBlues Pills - Lady In GoldThe Body - No One Deserves HappinessThe Body and Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I AcheBolzer - HeroCadavarice - I: ExhumationCharred Walls Of The Damned - Creatures Watching Over the DeadCobalt - Slow ForeverComet Control - Center Of The MazeCough - Still They PrayCrematory - MonumentCrippled Black Phoenix - BronzeCrowbar - The Serpent Only LiesCult of Luna - MarinerCultes des Ghoules - CovenDark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever ReignDarkestrah - TuranDarkthrone - Arctic ThunderDestroyer 666 - WildfireDeviant Process - ParoxysmDiamond Head - Diamond HeadDischarge - End of DaysEight Bells - LandlessEntropia - UfonautEsben and the Witch - Older TerrorsExmortus - Ride ForthEye - Vision and Ageless LightFalaise - As Time Goes ByFuria - Księżyc milczy lutyGatecreeper - Sonoran DepravationGhost BC - PopestarGhoul - Dungeon BastardsGoatess - Purgatory Under New ManagementGrand Magus - Sword SongsHail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in BlueIf These Trees Could Talk - The Bones of a Dying WorldIhsahn - ArktisInquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial ZenithInter Arma - Paradise GallowsInverloch - Distance | CollapsedKrallice - HyperionKrallice - PrelapsarianKrypts - Remnants of ExpansionKuolemanlaakso - M.Laakso - The Gothic Tapes Vol 1Lord Vicar - Gates of FleshLotus Thief - GramaryeMagrudergrind - IIMammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd DwyllMemoirs of a Secret Empire - VertigoMesarthim - IsolateMetallica - Hardwired...To Self DestructMithras - On Strange LoopsMoonsorrow - Jumalten AikaMortiis - The Great DeceiverMourning Beloveth - Rust & BoneMyrkur - MausoleumNervosa - AgonyNetherbird - Grander VoyageNeurosis - Fires Within FiresOathbreaker - RheiaOranssi Pazuzu - VärähtelijäOtep - Generation DoomPanopticon - Revisions of the PastProng - X - No AbsolutesRunning Wild - Rapid ForayRussian Circles - GuidanceSchammasch - TriangleSkeletonwitch - The Apothic GloomSodom - Decision DaySpire - EntropySubrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of AgesSurgical Meth Machine - Surgical Meth MachineTestament - Brotherhood Of The SnakeThy Catafalque - MetaTrap Them - Crown FeralUrfaust - Empty Space MeditationVektor - Terminal ReduxVoivod - Post Society EPVolur - DisirThe Wakedead Gathering - Fuscus: Strings of the Black LyreWardruna - Runaljod RagnarokWhores. - Gold.Witchcraft - NucleusWorm Couroboros - What Graceless DawnWormrot - VoicesThe Wounded Kings - Visions In BoneWovenhand - Star TreatmentWretch - WretchWyrd - Death Of The SunYidhra - Cult Of Bathory
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link