One 2016 album I didn't get to hear until 2017 is Khemmis. I guess I was put off by the nerd-friendly artwork. But it turns out the music itself was worth the hype.
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 12 January 2017 09:27 (seven years ago) link
What do we reckon to this, then?
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/pillorian-shoot-first-with-a-stygian-pyre/
John Haughm's first foray into music since Agalloch split. Must say I'm not particularly moved either way at this point.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 12 January 2017 14:31 (seven years ago) link
Actually, I like that! I'm surprised at how concise it is.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 January 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
I think it's... okay. Not particularly distinctive or remarkable but it's not bad. The outro reminds me of the Falling Snow outro a little.
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:54 (seven years ago) link
From Malokarpatan:
The final preparations have been done, in March we will be entering the "Dark Ceremonies" Studio Hostivaล in Prague to record our new full-lenght album Nordkarpatenland. Same place where Master's Hammer recorded the legendary 1989 demo The Mass, so we hope the spirits of the past will conjure up their magic again during our presence.To be released by Invictus Productions in Europe and The Ajna Offensive in the US in due course...
To be released by Invictus Productions in Europe and The Ajna Offensive in the US in due course...
Also, I don't even know what this is but it has to be excruciating:https://musicalexcrements.bandcamp.com/album/antithesis
― Devilock, Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:53 (seven years ago) link
looks like my first concert of 2017 will be Hellwitch tomorrow, $10
― Neanderthal, Friday, 13 January 2017 04:02 (seven years ago) link
Niiiiice. Have you seen them before? Are they as insanely fast live as on that first LP?
― ๐๐๐-BAM-O BAM A โ ๐๐-H US SEIN-U.S.-UNITED STATES (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 January 2017 06:09 (seven years ago) link
Also new Malokarpatan fuuuck yeeeahhh
― ๐๐๐-BAM-O BAM A โ ๐๐-H US SEIN-U.S.-UNITED STATES (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 January 2017 06:10 (seven years ago) link
I really like the Emptiness album
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 13 January 2017 11:06 (seven years ago) link
A couple of promising tracks, album supposedly out today
https://draugsol.bandcamp.com/album/vola-a-land
― Dinsdale, Friday, 13 January 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
Dang that's good. But we've really got to have a moratorium on Draug- names.
― ๐๐๐-BAM-O BAM A โ ๐๐-H US SEIN-U.S.-UNITED STATES (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 January 2017 00:14 (seven years ago) link
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nope first time seein' em but I'll let ya know :)
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 14 January 2017 00:31 (seven years ago) link
Dude from Black Witchery showed up. He usually comes on good nights
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 14 January 2017 02:22 (seven years ago) link
Aluk Todolo are touring Europe with Oranssi Pazuzu
― Duke, Saturday, 14 January 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
yes, yes they are
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 14 January 2017 20:34 (seven years ago) link
the Draugsรณl is now fully streamable at https://draugsol.bandcamp.com
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 14 January 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
xp Cool! If they make it to the west coast I'll have to check 'em out. Been a fan since Szyzyzyzyzgizyal Miscreancy!
― ๐๐๐-BAM-O BAM A โ ๐๐-H US SEIN-U.S.-UNITED STATES (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 January 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
Aluk Todolo are touring the states with Insect Ark!!!!
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 14 January 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
Aluk Todolo are touring the states with Insect Ark!!!!โ One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF)
โ One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF)
A festival I desperately want to attend, I might add.
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2016/12/Stardust-VI-e1480622322912.jpg
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 15 January 2017 00:58 (seven years ago) link
Cool lineup. Who are Slagmaur? I mean, like, why are they topping the bill when I've never heard of them?
― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 15 January 2017 01:24 (seven years ago) link
according to metal-archives, they're some avantgarde black metal band who have two albums, but none since 2009
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 15 January 2017 01:35 (seven years ago) link
LasterOns Vrije Fatum(Dunkelheit Produktionen)One SheetRelease Sate: 1/9/2017
http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3187917951_16.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6sCLWGWVQRPvTzbRKZK1YVhttp://dunkelheitprod.bandcamp.com/album/ons-vrije-fatum
The band bills itself "Obscure Dance Music from Utrecht" to which I can only say, sure. Why not?
Ons Vrije Fatum (literal translation is "Our Free Fatum," so something about free will is my guess, but it's all Dutch to me), the band's second album, is an ambitious but unpretentious blend of atmospheric black metal and post-rock but the real unique facet to the group's sound is the infusion of Joy Division at their most consonant and claustrophobic.
The shortest song on the album "De tijd vรณรณr" typifies this collaboration while the longest, "Helemaal naar huis," is post-punk free jazz replete with saxophone bleat halfway through the eleven minute opus. That's not the only odd instrumentation as "Bitterzoet" includes shimmering strings that perfectly augment the blackgazing guitars, and electronics - especially the percussive kind - round out the sound. Unusual samples from movies I never saw also show up, like noirish interlopers curious what the band is up to.
I have listened to the album at least five times so far and each time something new emerged from the mix, a melody line hidden away here, some cool instrumentation there, and I get the feeling that repeated listens will continue to unearth newly discovered subtleties.
The bio makes comparisons to early Ulver and Agalloch, which is correct in that if you like those bands you will find a lot here to enjoy, but Ons Vrije Fatum is captivating and wonderful and no two people will dance to it the same way.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 15 January 2017 01:46 (seven years ago) link
I have no idea how Slagmaur made it to the top of a bill, nor how their whole thing's gonna go over live in NYC, but they're definitely a unique bunch. Some sort of conceptual black metal-ish band -- crazy costumes, crazy music, crazy artwork -- they sound like half a dozen horror movie soundtracks stacked atop each other and given a mechanical clockwork Blut Aus Nord styled beat. The songs are extremely monotonous, but because of the dissonances and weird details in the layering of sounds, they can become very creepy and affecting. Sometimes it feels like being put into a trancelike state by a hypnotist with very bad intentions.
Speaking of, here is said hypnotist, one "General Gribbsphiiser," lately fashioning himself after a Scandinavian granny who reads nightmarish fairy tales to the kids:http://i.imgur.com/9XI2MJb.jpgHe seems to be the main force behind the band; I remember reading an interview years ago where he said something to the effect of wanting to create music that sounds like hell's symphony orchestra. He's also a photographer, possibly professionally so, and on the Slagmaur FB page leaves the occasional pic of where I assume he lives, the insanely idyllic Fosen, Norway.
Anyway, curious to see how this whole thing goes down.
http://i.imgur.com/Ed7mcda.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/slagmaurofficial/
*My fav of theirs, maybe because it was the first I heard, is the Domfeldt demo, but really there isn't any great variance between their releases; it all sounds like possessed marionettes marching down from the attic:https://infernaprofundusrecords.bandcamp.com/album/domfeldt
Actually the little that's been released from their looooong overdue new album does sound somewhat different from the old stuff, but it's been a while since I listened to it. I just want the whole thing.
― Devilock, Sunday, 15 January 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
Def going to buy a Moon Tooth/Astronoid ticket. Reggies is getting all the good shows, I saw Khemmis night before last there. They definitely have the energy of a younger band still, everything enthusiastically turned up to 11, drowning out the vocals. It was fun. I'm looking forward to Truckfighters next on the 24th.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 15 January 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
xp wow thanks for the info Dev... I'll check it out later tonight but I have this feeling it won't be my thing.
The new Ruins (Australia) album is my thing, though, or at least in the Celtic Frost-via-Panzerfaust wing of my things.
― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 16 January 2017 03:31 (seven years ago) link
I'm liking this Laster albumhttps://laster.bandcamp.com/album/ons-vrije-fatumโ Dinsdale
https://laster.bandcamp.com/album/ons-vrije-fatum
โ Dinsdale
Hey Dinsdale, did you have new things jump out at you on repeated listens too?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 16 January 2017 04:36 (seven years ago) link
xp ok maybe Slagmaur is my thing. Definitely can see a Blut Aus Nord comparison in the... plodding ethereality of it? They really do like that slow beat though.
― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 16 January 2017 05:07 (seven years ago) link
Beheaded's Beast Incarnate is out next Friday on Unique Leader - it's floor-punching death metal RIYL Vader, Lost Soul, etc. The first two tracks are streaming on Bandcamp.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (่ชค่จณไพฎ่พฑ), Monday, 16 January 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
Firewind's new album Immortals comes out on Friday on AFM. Here's the first video - say cheese!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF_nYCnVjcM
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (่ชค่จณไพฎ่พฑ), Monday, 16 January 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
wow, Beheaded did take a turn toward the Lost Soul sound, didn't they. I went back and checked out their last album, which seems to be when it happened; they used to be one of those errrp errrp errrp brutal bands -- not that there's anything wrong with that. Sounds good.
I'm kind of in an errrp errrp errrp brutal phase now. Going through the New Standard Elite bandcamp to see what the irascible youth of today are vaping to or whatever. And at the newly hatched NSE forum I saw that Brodequin are working on new material. Neat. Can't get enough of the aluminum bat snare sound.
― Devilock, Monday, 16 January 2017 22:59 (seven years ago) link
The Afternoon GentlemenStill Pissed 2012 - 2015(Give Praise Records)One SheetRelease Sate: 1/13/2017
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0941/5810/products/a2296935364_10_large.jpg?v=1479485767
http://open.spotify.com/album/5YUNKz0EEb5xZsxuWWTTOi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aSqKfmiVDY
Some places have this as a 2016 release but it didn't get much ink that I noticed and other places have it a January release. Not sure it matters except for semantics since it's a compilation from a UK-based self-described grindcore/power violence troupe. I noticed it because it's on the same label that released Columbus crossover crew Killed In Action. It's very solid stuff, aside from the vocals very clean sounding - the guitars are crisp as well as crispy which is not a common thing for this kind of stuff. I am a sucker for discography CDs too which makes it more endearing to me than it might be others, but it's super-fast and super fun.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:39 (seven years ago) link
xp ok maybe Slagmaur is my thing.
hang on, does that imply there's some news about the long rumored new Slagmaur? (I feel like I ask this every year...)
― summervillain, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
sorry ignore me I thought I'd scrolled back to where I'd left off, but I hadn't.
― summervillain, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
If you don't mind your metal slathered with pop exuberance, the new Battle Beast song is pretty tremendous:
https://open.spotify.com/track/7eCw8ZXslDD5C5B6bRHc1H
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
I am listening to the new Immolation album. It is awesome. More later.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (่ชค่จณไพฎ่พฑ), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
Aww fuck yea!
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link
Aargh what a tease
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
hah this Battle Beast track is great! very false, very fun.
― Frobisher, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 08:31 (seven years ago) link
New Mord'A'Stigmata track is pretty hot, weird, epic, Polish:
http://paganrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hope
― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 14:18 (seven years ago) link
The Black Anvil album's really good!
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
just Mick Barr thingshttps://ocrilim.bandcamp.com/album/srilimia
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 19 January 2017 09:22 (seven years ago) link
Iron Maiden touring with Ghost!
I might have to splurge and get good tickets from a scalper. Something I have never done before except for sporting events.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 20 January 2017 03:20 (seven years ago) link
they're coming here again, this time two hours closer! w00h00!
― Neanderthal, Friday, 20 January 2017 05:48 (seven years ago) link
This is the kind of stuff that doesn't really get a genre tag that makes any sense to me, like progressive sludge or stoner prog or something but this new Jagged Vision is shaping up nicely.
http://jaggedvision.bandcamp.com/album/death-is-this-world
― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 20 January 2017 08:55 (seven years ago) link
UniformWake In Fright(Sacred Bones Records)Release Sate: 1/20/2017
http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16105500_10158094442650597_4408646075777939833_n.jpg?oh=ee3c2cd00e476f01c376491c6c60b941&oe=590B6306
http://open.spotify.com/album/5clvJZcsu9jRhk6S0XFiInhttp://unifuckingform.bandcamp.com/album/wake-in-fright
Although I liked (and still do like) old industrial music, as a self-identified metalhead and punk rock fan I always wanted that stuff to be more evil. This band (duo, apparently) were made with me in mind. The whole record is thrashy with electronic beeps and screeches cutting through the mayhem. If old school Ministry was aping the then-current thrash metal scene, Uniform takes cues from the chaos of our times accordingly. Pummeling Armageddon on the dance floor the way it should be.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 20 January 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
Someone mentioned the Lorn up-thread as an upcoming I, Voidhanger release. It's now out and worth a listen. I can't tell if the drums are real or programmed - definitely getting a bit of a Bathory circa "Blood Fire Death" vibe:
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/arrayed-claws
― o. nate, Friday, 20 January 2017 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Wake in Fright is both a great movie and a great name for an industrial metal album
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 20 January 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link
that Lorn sounds good
― Dinsdale, Friday, 20 January 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link
Not metal, exactly, but some folks here will like it: Japanese noise guitarist KK Null and Hungarian grind/free-improv drummer Balรกsz Pรกndi have just released a collaborative album, Demon Core, on the Ohm Resistance label, for only $2.
https://ohmresistance.bandcamp.com/album/demon-core
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (่ชค่จณไพฎ่พฑ), Saturday, 21 January 2017 01:13 (seven years ago) link
nice!
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 21 January 2017 01:37 (seven years ago) link
Apropos of not much, I re-stumbled on this earlier. Hell yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXktYKl_hhM
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 21 December 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
unreasonably excited for the new Rolo Tomassi in March, awesomely titled Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
― Simon H., Thursday, 21 December 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
xpost - That is one of my favourite songs of the past 10 years.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 21 December 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
What version of COC is it these days?
This upcoming tour will be the Pepper Keenan-fronted version. They've got a new album coming out next year. It's OK.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
I started the Rolling Metal 2018 thread because nobody else did...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
heard it too late, otherwise I would have nominated this for the poll:
Anakim - Monuments to Departed Worldshttps://anakimuk.bandcamp.com/releases
Technical DM that stays catchy all the way through
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
Dunno how many people follow Evil Spirit in here but they put a new track from their forthcoming (December) album up and it's... weird.
Clean vocals, strings, horns that sound vaguely drunken, drifting guitar leads... it's different.
This seems to be the only mention of this album on ILM! Great album which I've only recently discovered. Kind of occult folk doom with unusual instrumentation.
― o. nate, Sunday, 19 July 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
it's definitely unique
also I didn't notice that Ulrich Krieger plays horns on it! kind of a big get for an obscure doom metal band.
― With deep regret I remove my bookmark from this thread (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 19 July 2020 06:45 (three years ago) link