Rolling Metal 2017

Metallica are apparently already starting work on the super deluxe ...And Justice For All and Black Album boxes. They just emailed fans to send them stuff:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DL92WDIWsAIS0xD.jpg

I checked to see if the closing track on the Enslaved album was indeed a Royksopp cover, and was not disappointed.

holy shit

it's pretty good!

That cover seems to have appeared previously (a couple weeks ago) on this comp:

https://open.spotify.com/album/7KhHt41OKUEpHjJ3XDc5H0

For those of you who like their music dark, merging electronic elements with the organic and cathartic, you could do worse than the new Kainskult by Trepaneringsritualen album that came out a couple weeks ago.

I still cannot pronounce the band's name however.

Spectral Voice record is definitely on my list right now.

Also there's a new Gloam EP coming out and Blood Harvest is reissuing their excellently titled Hex of Nine Heads album on CD. Blackened doom with great guitars, kinda unique sound.

new Tetragrammacide album is completely bananas blackened death noise. I posted the cover art in one of the rolling threads a while back cos I thought it was rad and the music is every bit as good, top 5 metal album of the year for me I reckon

Decapitated's guitarist and drummer have been officially charged with rape and kidnapping. The singer and bassist will have their first court appearance on Thursday. The band has released a statement:

An update – following extradition from California to Washington, the band has now been charged. We’d like to emphasise; the Spokane Police Department has pressed charges as procedural formality, without doing so, they would be forced to release band – this is not a conviction or any indication of guilt or innocence. Once again, we ask that everyone wait for each party’s case to be presented and await the court’s decision. With that said, whilst cases are being prepared on both sides, some facts are indisputable at this point – that the original officer who took the complaint from the accuser stated, "I do not have probable cause that a rape occurred”, and it’s taken a full 30 days to file charges, which is right up against the point at which the defendants would legally have had to be released.

The band firmly refutes the allegations and are confident that once the facts and evidence have been seen and heard, they will be released and able to return home.

Individuals who were present on the night in question with information about the case are asked to reach out to the defense lawyer, Steve Graham of Spokane, Washington.

"we'd like you to wait for each party's case before deciding, however here's why you should think we're innocent"

Oh, ok, good. I admit I haven't paid much attention to metal news lately and since there was no mention on the thread I had no idea it was well-known.

― Dinsdale, Thursday, October 12, 2017 3:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't know em and thanking u for sharing holy shit

Cannibal Corpse's new album comes out November 3. They went back to working with Erik Rutan, and it sounds amazing. Favorite song titles this time around: "Remaimed," "Heads Shoveled Off," "Scavenger Consuming Death," "Destroyed Without A Trace," "Firestorm Vengeance."

hell yes

I initially thought this Swedish band had a guy with high range, but it's a woman, the bad ass Sofie-Lee Johansson. Lyrical themes: "Freedom, supernatural vengeance." \../

https://listenable-records.bandcamp.com/album/exterminator

that rocks

sweet

The Antiversum album is out now. An immense-sounding death/doom hybrid, reminds me a bit of the excellent Mare Infinitum album from a couple of years ago:

https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/cosmos-comedenti

ah the magic words "reminds me a bit of the excellent mare infinitum album from a couple of years ago"

yknow I love Bell Witch but the prospect of an 83-minute single track is a bit mindnumbing. surely that's one of the longest rock recordings in history given that it can't fit on any physical format?

I threw it on the other day and enjoyed it, although I was admittedly happy to have my mind numbed at the time.

(And by "threw it on", I mean "pressed play on Soundcloud" since it can't actually fit on any physical format.)

Proto-metal Pentagram/Sab worship, but it scratches ALL my itches right now (I'm listening to promo, out Nov 3) - https://highreeper.bandcamp.com/album/high-reeper

https://doomcharts.com/2017/10/19/high-reeper-preview-giveaway/

New Yellow Eyes album is very much business as usual for them, but the last track Jubilat is fucking amazing

Beginning to see mentions that Martin Ain of Celtic Frost has passed away. Goddammit.

man. there goes a guy who played on records that changed music for me forever.

I know. I was just remembering teenage me plonking out the bassline to "Return to the Eve" over and over along with the tape. Not to mention the completely shit band I was in that only had two songs, one of which was "Dawn of Megiddo" stretched out as long as we could stand to play it.

RIP.

first song I heard by them was "The Usurper" off Tragic Serenades. Will never forget hearing that riff and laughing, like, what the fuck is going on here? They opened with it when I saw them two years later and man oh man oh man.

RIP indeed.

oh fuck :( RIP

this sucks

it's like...when I talk about Celtic Frost, I sound, to myself, like a fuckin boomer goin off about the Beatles or whatever. I couldn't explain to my friends what was great about it, they were all "Tom G. Warrior? lol w/e Joanie" but I was like "idk this is pretty incredible." like the Birthday Party in that respect - singular, very off-putting to plenty of people but transformational to those of us who locked in to the groove. so weird but so right. no other band scratching the same itch at ALL for me -- the heaviness of the riffs, the out-of-nowhere shit like the operatic vocal drop-ins...it was all a long time ago. Monotheist is great of course but that early run, when it felt like two guys and a huge idea they were wrangling and just on the verge of losing control of it...very little like that in music, to have watched a band like that grow and become what they became.

Amenra - Mass VI is out on Neurot in two different versions: one mixed by Billy Anderson and mastered by Justin Weis and the second one mixed+mastered by Jack Shirley
https://www.neurotrecordings.com/news/amenra-mass-vi-out-now

My mind is somewhat blown to find out Martin Ain was 17 when they recorded Morbid Tales (and 16 when he joined Hellhammer).

I wrote about Martin Ain for Stereogum.

excellent article, Phil.

i take it you know it says Marvin Ain btw? I know it's not your fault

"It's Marvin... your cousin Marvin Ain."

I could have sworn I found out about this album in this thread but it doesn't appear to be the case. Atmospheric black metal from a mysterious French dude.

Esoctrilihum - Mystic Echo From A Funeral Dimension

I emailed the editor and he fixed it.

Co-signing: great article, Phil.

Tom writes about Martin

Such a moving and wonderful piece.

Just got a promo of an industrial-ish black metal album that includes a cover of NON's "Total War." Subtle messaging there, dudes.

Weird Krallicey black metal!

https://blattaria.bandcamp.com/album/blattaria

If you like glossy gothic-symphonic pop-metal, the whole Metalite album is finally out!

https://open.spotify.com/album/4TQm0qnmv06YHZK6XUuWPK

And if you don't, https://open.spotify.com/album/3BrfgSK2ajxuGn46V1qWyn

Anyone know who the publicist is for Botanist?

OMG this Metalite album is masterful.

Just got a promo of an industrial-ish black metal album that includes a cover of NON's "Total War." Subtle messaging there, dudes.

― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 26 October 2017 16:47 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

listened to that and thought that track was the only musically interesting thing on it tbh

while I would on balance prefer it if no-one covered or endorsed Boyd Rice, I haven't generally found it to be true that people who enjoy his music are trying to say they're fascists in coded terms

Anyone know who the publicist is for Botanist?

It was Stephanie Marlow back in 2013, when I emailed Otrebor myself. The Botanist website still lists his website for contact so I'd flow him a message and he'll send you the right way.

Bruce Dickinson's autobiography is out next week. He narrates the audiobook version himself.