Rolling Metal 2017

somehow, that Urarv has already leaked (likely from the mastering engineer's own desktop). It's good. Totally one for the VBE and Dodheimsgard fans, and 2nd wave black metal folks. Great record, great riffs (even pulling out some of the '85 Destruction riffs that Aura Noir used to rip off), insanely great vocals

re: nokturnal mortum btw here's a statement issued by them a couple years back. whether it's exculpatory or w/e idk but this shit is usually findable by entering the band's name + the letter N into google & the autocomplete then gives you "Nokturnal Mortum no longer nazi" & similar stuff.

As well as a person who has many-sided world-view with its twists and turns, NOKTURNAL MORTUM – the band, which evolves in parallel with my own personal development – can’t stay the same. Many things change over time, because we learn and understand more deeply and comprehensively. Today it would be silly to stay the one who I was at my birth – life means learning, therefore we grow up and become wiser. Unlike many others, I don’t refuse my past – it’s a legacy which made me who I am now, and that is more than just important. Today I don’t share many views that I had in the past because of very different reasons – something was just husk, something disappointed me, something just does not matter. Nonetheless, I have been keeping music for myself as an instrument for self-development. The fact is that very kind of activity makes me leave behind well-known places and trails in search of myself. And this is what most important. Not number of CD sales, gigs, fame and other rubbish, but this. We have been walking a long way together and we have seen a lot with our music, we visited different places and we passed through different changes of our own personalities. Everything that I have said and done still lives in me because all this is what I am. I never lied and I am not going to lie further. If I claim something, this means that it is true at the present time; if I am not sure in something, I remain silent. For instance, when nowadays I am asked about my political views, I answer that I am out of this, and it’s true. I’ve seen a lot and I understand that this is not my side. As for religion, it’s not easy question neither, because it’s a very essence of man that should evolve over time. The person should not ossify and get stale, but always move forward to achieve the goal instead. All this has been reflected and will be reflected in my creative output. If it is interesting for you, you are free to walk with us towards this light together.
On account of what I said, a lot will be changed. Our logo, for example. It is no longer possible for NOKTURNAL MORTUM to exist under our old logo. With every new album we are born once again, and I am convinced that this is truly how the things are supposed to be. Every new album means new life and new view. Also I decided that on future re-editions of our works for every album we shall use the logo under which it was created. The same goes for artwork, layout etc. At least, we will work on this. Verity is in every one of you. Follow it!

TD;DR

Seriously, though, the editor in me is like 'get to the feckin' point already'.

Ugh, TL;DR obviously. The editor in me is now like 'Don't post on forums on Sunday morning before you've had coffee you dolt.'

Even if you read the whole thing it's not terribly convincing, and I was relieved when I actually listened to their last album that I didn't like it. Whether I'd already subconsciously decided that I'd find NM a bit crap I don't know...

Not convinced here either. I'm usually suspicious of long-winded explanations for things that could be summarised in a single sentence. Smacks of the kind of equivocation politicians excel at. And that sense of smug superiority. Blah, whatever, I don't care for the band or the music so I've got no skin in this game.

lol yeah I don't really care either, I don't know why I always chime in when this band comes up. There's a similar convo upthread somewhere iirc

Here's a video of Gojira covering Sepultura's "Territory" live:

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

So we're at the halfway point of the year. Here's all of the metal albums that came out this year thus far that I enjoy... In alphabetical order because I haven't the desire to rank them yet.

Anomalie - Visions (Art of Propaganda)
Bathsheba - Servus (Svart)
Beastmaker - Inside The Skull (Rise Above)
Black Anvil - As Was (Relapse)
Body Count - Bloodlust (Century Media)
Craven Idol - The Shackles of Mammon (Dark Descent)
Disharmony - Goddamn The Sun (Iron Bonehead)
Dread Sovereign - For Doom The Bell Tolls (Ván)
Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perrenial (Bindrune)
Farsot - Fail Lure (Prophecy)
Fen - Winter (Code666)
The Flight of Sleipnir - Skadi (Eisenwald Tonschmiede)
Full Of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy (Profound Lore)
Galley Beggar - Heathen Hymns (Rise Above)
Gruesome - Fragments of Psyche (Relapse)
Hexis - Tando Ashanti (Init)
Horn - Turm Am Hang (Northern Silence)
Ides of Gemini - Women (Rise Above)
Jagged Vision - Death Is This World (Fysisk Format)
Junius - Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light (Prosthetic)
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering (Relapse)
Kreator - Gods Of Violence (Nuclear Blast America)
Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum (Dunkelheit)
Lich King - The Omniclasm (Self-Released)
Light of the Morning Star - Nocta (Iron Bonehead)
Lo-Pain - In Tensions (Aqualamb)
Lorn - Arrayed Claws (I, Voidhanger)
Mammoth Mammoth - Mount the Mountain (Napalm)
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand (Reprise)
Medico Peste - Herzogian Darkness (World Terror Committee)
Nargaroth - End Of Threnody (Inter Arma Productions)
Naudiz - Wulfasa Kunja (Iron Bonehead)
Nokturnal Mortum - Істина (Oriana Music)
Obituary - Obituary (Relapse)
The Obsessed - Sacred (Relapse)
Overkill - The Grinding Wheel (Nuclear Blast America)
Pallbearer - Heartless (Profound Lore)
Pyriphlegethon - The Murky Black of Eternal Night (Iron Bonehead)
Rebel Wizard - Triumph Of Gloom (Prosthetic)
The Ruins Of Beverast - Exuvia (Ván Records)
Sabbath Assembly - Rites of Passage (Svart)
Saule - Saule (Avantgarde Music)
Slagmaur - Thill Smitts Terror (Osmose)
Solitary - Diseased Heart of Society (UKEM)
Sólstafir - Berdreyminn (Season Of Mist)
Stinking Lizaveta - Journey to the Underworld (Translation Loss)
Thron - Thron (Clavis Secretorvm)
Unearthly Trance - Stalking The Ghost (Relapse)
Uniform - Wake In Fright (Sacred Bones)
Venenum - Trance Of Death (Sepulchral Voice)
Violet Cold - Anomie (Self-Released)
Warbringer - Woe To The Vanquished (Napalm)
Woe - Hope Attrition (Vendetta)
White Ward - Futility Report (Debemur Morti Productions)

^^^ some great stuff on that list, a lot of stuff I need to check out. Cool to see Rebel Wizard, a promising band nobody seems to talk about.

So I didn't know Kam Lee's funeral doom band had released an album (after ten years of not releasing anything). It's pretty good! And they used EVP recordings for extra spoop!

http://pulverised.bandcamp.com/album/spiritus-immundus

Also, good news if you like 2nd-string Watain style modern black metal, there's a new Blaze of Perdition on the way! I'll probably buy it for some reason!

http://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/conscious-darkness

Four songs 40+ minutes, I dunno, maybe something interesting will happen.

Oh and the Ensnared album Dysangelium is totally worth checking out, well composed death metal (not brutal/cavernous/discordant) that has a little bit of old school thrash DNA in it. Also cool little instrumental interludes that flow well with the songs.

I'll cosign for Body Count, Kreator, Mastodon, Obituary, The Obsessed, and Sólstafir, and add:

Les Chants du Hasard - s/t
Cranial Engorgement - Horrific Existence
Crystal Viper - Queen of the Witches
Danzig - Black Laden Crown
Dimmu Borgir - Forces of the Northern Night
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Immolation - Atonement
Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him
Volur - Ancestors

I heard Planning for Burial - Below the House, and that hits the sweet spot so bad. It's metal the way some Mt Eerie is metal, that is, not very much, but it's so great. Noise, screams, bells, synths. The whole thing.

If you like Heavy Metal music, you might like this heavy metal music song:

https://open.spotify.com/track/1uyrnKbBlZJ7NWbgkdaZOx

it's gotta be heavy metal music
if you wanna thrash with me
if you wanna thrash with me

wow I had no idea NOcturnal Rites were still at it!

Cool to see Rebel Wizard, a promising band nobody seems to talk about.

so obsessed w/this band right now that I'm gonna buy a Takamine GX-200. like, for real

My favorites so far:

Apostate Viaticum - Before the Gates of Gomorrah - I guess this is OSDM, but not a slavish copy of anyone. The recording is raw and natural sounding - not one of those airless, stitched-together sounding recordings. The right balance of atmosphere and rocking. The rhythm section has some spring in its step, memorable melodies. Maybe for fans of last year's Cadaveric Fumes or Interment.

Power Trip - Nightmare Logic - Old-school thrash. Lively tempos. Loads of fun.

Extremity - Extremely Fucking Dead - Raw OSDM, with loads of attitude.

Immolation - Atonement - A sprawling opus, took me a few listens to start to find my way around. Some monster riffs appear, though none stay around for long.

Ministry are releasing a limited edition double live LP, Live Necronomicon, recorded in 1992, via Bandcamp. The set list includes Pailhead and Lard tunes. About 90 minutes of music in all.

Uh.. buddy you just got me interested in hearing a Ministry album in 2017.

P/i/L and Skinny Puppy covers, too. Is that Johnny Rotten singing on Public Image? I'm at work so I can't really crank it.

xxxp I gotta check out that Extremity and AV

Here's my so-far list:

Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Ascended Dead - Abhorrent Manifestation
Bathsheba - Servus
Celestial Bodies - Spit Forth From Chaos
Cemetery Urn - s/t
Circle - Terminal
Craven Idol - The Shackles of Mammom
Crystal Fairy - s/t
Demon Head - Thunder on the Fields
Emptiness - Not for Music
Ensnared - Dysangelium
Evo - Warfare
Fell Ruin - To The Concrete Drifts
Förgjord - Uhripuu
John Frum - A Stirring in the Noos
Gorephilia - Severed Monolith
Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
John Hoyles - Night Flight
Immolation - Atonement
Ingurgitating Oblivion - Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light
Jagged Vision - Death Is This World
Lantern - II: Morphosis
Lorn - Arrayed Claws
Lo-Ruhamah - Anointing
Loss - Horizonless
Morast - Ancestral Void
Mordbrand - Wilt
Necrot - Blood Offerings
Rude - Remnants...
ShadowThrone - Demiurge of Shadow
Succumb - s/t
Suffering Hour - In Passing Ascension
Tehom - The Merciless Light
Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity
Valborg - Endstrand
Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him
Völur - Ancestors

I like the new Schammasch and Jesters of Destiny stuff but I need to give both more listens.

That Evo record, btw, is highly recommended for any fans of Warfare or Venom. Fast Eddie and Lips play guitar on it. Nik Turner appears. It sounds like a grandpa metal hoedown but Evo's actually still writing solid punk metal bangers.

sounds like it's gonna be a grandpa metal hoedown I mean

new Chelsea Wolfe goes full metal, complete w/ Ballou production https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OexeAtxr24E

I wrote a thing thanks in no small part to the influence of reading and participating in this thread:
Album reviews of Les Chants du Hasard, Selcouth and Ex Eye

digging the new Decapitated as per usual

they're one that almost get better the less death metally they get

I wouldn't say they've gotten better with every album - I love Nihility and Organic Hallucinosis too much for that - but Carnival is Forever really was memorably weird, and the new album is shockingly good.

This Earache 4-disc anthology

http://uswebstore.earache.com/earache-adapt-or-die-30-shades-of-noise-4-cd-book

I wonder if the book explains why disc four is all shitty blues rock bands.

I liked Earache better when Dig answered the phone.

Pre-90s?

This new Father Befouled CD is fucking great, btw, y'all. Just the heavy downtuned death with pinch harmonics and Incantational doominess. And the guitar solo in the title track, Desolate Gods, is actually kinda pretty.

(check thread to make sure I posted about the Father Befouled CD, note that I did and that the thread doesn't have thirty new posts agreeing with me, sigh)

your least anticipated metal album of the year just came out btw

(not yours gott punch, I was talking to the thread collectively)

I listened to it a little while back, and liked it but it didn't make a huge impression. I always just wind up thinking, "But I have all these Incantation albums I could be listening to..."

20 Buck Spin are reissuing the Corrupted/Noothgrush split pretty soon. Here's hoping it's just the first step in a plan to reissue all their out-of-print albums in the US...

your least anticipated metal album of the year just came out btw

The new Stone Sour album? It's pretty good. There's a new-ish Dragonforce, too, but I haven't heard that one yet.

Haha!

It's not really been a good year for me and metal - today's release aside (and it's hardly metal at this point) I've not heard much beyond The Ruins Of Beverast to really excite me. Anyone got any weird under-the-radar leads?

My favorite metal albums of 2017 are Impetuous Ritual 'Blight Upon Martyred Sentience' and Condor 'Unstoppable Power.' Also love the reissue of Morbid Saint 'Spectrum of Death.'

I'll listen to that Father Befouled Jon! Really well done death metal in the Incantation style doesn't really ever get old for me -- but it does have to be REALLY well done (like this Morpheus Descends I just discovered) to lift it above the pile of bands going for that sound.

not been overly metal this year, but faves are Funeral Chant, Impetuous Ritual, Contaminated and the Urarv that nobody else will actually hear until September. I should probably relisten to the Artificial Brain. Biggest anticipated albums are Portal and Aura Noir.

More like Jute Shite

Not really I just wanted to say that

imago you might find the latest Todesstoss jam interesting, I'd call them divisive but repellant is more accurate (I actually like them though). The new Emptiness album's probably worth a bash too though I wasn't exactly bowled over

this Father Befouled is good. I would urge those of you hearing it to make sure you actually have heard the Incantation records, because the influence isn't exactly subtle. AND god I am getting sick of brickwalled production. Some metal can sound good like this -- but when your main stock in songwriting is huge headbanging riffs, why suffocate them in compression????

haha but yeah I like it

I didn't think it was that bad but I was listening to it really loud in a car so

(compressionwise I mean)

I've heard worse, and I am listening on crappy laptop speakers -- put the whole record on my phone, so will definitely get repeat listens on my commutes. I could tell it was good writing anyway, which is the most important thing to me

Wish I was still writing for European metal magazines so someone would fly me out to cover this...

http://files.constantcontact.com/8e40a73f401/cac03180-edad-4406-9b92-fe73cfbcc4b8.png

OZZFEST
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4

MAIN STAGE
Ozzy Osbourne
Prophets of Rage
Deftones
Children of Bodom
Orange Goblin


SECOND STAGE
Kreator
Baroness
High on Fire
Iron Reagan
1349
Havok
Kyng
Tombs
Night Demon
Thrown Into Exile


NUCLEAR BLAST EXTREME STAGE
Possessed
Suffocation
Fallujah
Rings of Saturn


KNOTFEST
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5

MAIN STAGE
Rob Zombie
Marilyn Manson
Stone Sour
Eighteen Visions
Prayers


SECOND STAGE
Testament
Life of Agony
Black Dahlia Murder
Upon a Burning Body
Goatwhore
Death Angel
Code Orange
ONI
Stitched Up Heart
DED


NUCLEAR BLAST EXTREME STAGE
Repulsion
Exhumed
Warbringer
Ghoul

Nuclear Blast Extreme is my third favorite Monster Energy Drink flavor.

This Mexican death metal album just got reissued and it's got that creepy old school Asphyx kinda flavor. It's from the late 1990s but these guys started in '86 and some of these songs definitely sound like they were lingering around since the days of Possessed, Celtic Frost, Autopsy, etc.

http://oldtemple.bandcamp.com/album/sargatanas-the-enlightenment

German deathgrinders Blood are back to their lineup from O Agios Pethane and are putting out a new album that sounds very much like that wonderfully hideous beast (if the single released is any indication)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKtpSF4FTw4

Sounds pretty good. And they got the guy from Deathcore, a band whose name did not seem ill-advised in 1987.

I was looking to see if there was any news of new Magic Circle, and was surprised I missed this live EP last year. Easy to miss as they lay low from social media.

https://magiccircle.bandcamp.com/album/scream-live-e-p

For more rock 'n' doom, Age Of Taurus, Las Cruces, Procession (from Chile) and Argus have new albums coming out this fall. Maybe Serpent Venom too. I ended up on a digital shopping spree, filling holes if my lossless collection for Age Of Taurus, Las Cruces, Orchid, Hour Of 13, Magister Templi and Italian band Return From The Grave.