Rolling Metal 2017

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...

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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.

Digging this Costa RIcan metalcore outfit quite a bit more than I expected. Nothing groundbreaking maybe, but nice sense of space and dynamics.

https://dumahcr.bandcamp.com/

Oh my word what is Todesstoß and why haven't I been pointed this way before

It's like the slow flipside to Forgotten Spell

New Execration release date was yesterday in the US. Except it's not out anywhere. Called the other record store and they have it scheduled for the 21st as an import; our distributor says August 4th as an import.

Fuckin Metal Blade.

what I'm saying is GIMME EXECRATION

I keep forgetting they have a new album, their last one was very impressive. It's up on bandcamp btw.

Oh my fucking god there's a song on there titled Unicursal Horrorscope. I don't know if that's moronic or amazing, probably both

It's metal so both.

Thanks btw!

Drudkh/Paysage D'Hiver split EP on Aug 25th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYT-Fugbv0U

fuck yeah new propagandhi

https://open.spotify.com/track/2MQg48PyosvgPe8OmCKzeH

I treated myself to the double deluxe reissues of Voivod for my b-day. They await me in the mailbox when I get home tonight.

It was really tempting to binge on all the ones of Celtic Frost, Kreator and Helloween too.

http://www.noiserecords.net/releases/

we never posted the third ClouD Rat split of the year, with Disrotted. Side-long tracks!

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/cloud-ratdisrotted-cloud-rat-disrotted-split-album-premiere/

I treated myself to the double deluxe reissues of Voivod for my b-day. They await me in the mailbox when I get home tonight.

It was really tempting to binge on all the ones of Celtic Frost, Kreator and Helloween too.

http://www.noiserecords.net/releases/

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 22:04 (twenty-eight minutes ago)

Save your money on the Celtic Frost ones. They're really sketchily put together, and have no real extras or sleeve notes.

The Voivod ones are brilliant though. Finished the first two and diving into Dimension Hatross tomorrow.

FnB (any anyone else) I'd love to know how the new Voivods sound vs. the old Noise discs. The Frost ones too (I was under the impression that TGW was involved during the remastering process, but maybe that's wrong?).

I bought the recent reissue of Tiamat's "Sumerian Cry". It's actually pretty good. The Treblinka demo collection and Loudblast have been on my playlist lately: death metal from the era of weird guitar sounds and inept engineering.

Also this weird, proggy sludge album from Fleshpress is kinda great

http://fleshpress.bandcamp.com/album/hulluuden-muuri-2

Sumerian Cry is a very overlooked album indeed, same with the Therion debut.

a twitter follow was saying he didn't buy into the "hype" on the new Undergang - not sure where this hype is unless it's Dark Descent's admittedly very large scene presence right now - but anyway, dude's gripe was that Putrevore had already done the same thing much better. I don't hear it, myself, and the Undergang record is fucking aces.

https://undergang.bandcamp.com/album/misantropologi

Never heard of this band before today, but this album rips: Psymbolik by Lustration, from Australia...

https://forgottenwisdomprod.bandcamp.com/album/psymbolik