Rolling Metal 2017

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.

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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.

Progenie Terrestre Pura by oltreLuna, on Avantegarde, is a major work meriting close listens. just wonderful.

artist/album reversed there I think?

yep, oltreLuna is the album

new Exhumed is a lot of fun, concept album about the Burke and Hare murders w/ actual orchestral interludes lolol....but musically it's more in the vein of their last album, not mere Carcass worship anymore, there's melody and actual songwriting going on (not that I dislike old Exhumed)...

Never got around to this Progenie Terrestre Pura album but I liked the first one. Will have to dive in

The new Primal Fear best-of includes a cover of Heart's "If Looks Could Kill," a song whose lyrics don't benefit from gender-flipping, to put it mildly.

I'm already struggling to keep up with my exploration of older, canonical material so I've barely heard anything from this year. Yet I'm curious to hear your thoughts on sites like Angry Metal Guy or Metal Injection. What are their biases? Are they at all 'trustworthy'?

Subjective questions bound to elicit subjective answers, to be sure…

Despite some slightly annoying quirks, I've found some great, great albums through AMG that I would not have otherwise, and I'm constantly impressed by just how many reviews they crank out.

Speaking of which, I'm not normally a power metal guy but man are Galneryus a blast.

I don't get much in the way of recommendations from AMG, but I find all but one of their reviewers bar one quite entertaining so I read it fairly often. They're quite harsh scorers, when in doubt they round down; what I *do* find annoying is their obsession about production/mixing, they often have valid criticisms but anything remotely raw or sub-professional gets shat on.

yeah that's my primary beef, perfectly fine-sounding albums get docked for having a DR5 or whatever.

I like AMG but tbh I rarely discover albums through reviews these days, I'm more prone to following links to premieres or tooling around the Bandcamp pages of labels and bands I like.

Listening to Dodsengel - Interequinox. Pretty good, slightly weird black metal that sounds like they probably slip some creeping death rock influences in. Vocals are nuts.

Okay as it goes on it just gets weirder and weirder. There's a song that sounds like Garden of Worm (Finnish doom band, not the KC song) with meandering slide guitar and female vocals.

I've been revisiting The Crown on Spotify. Man, some of those albums really fucking rip.

I liked the one that had "13" in the title (forget its name).

Been listening to Mirror Reaper by Bell Witch this morning, which is a single track, 83-minutes long.
I just checked on my player figuring I must be almost all the way through... I'm only 28 minutes in!
So apparently funeral doom has the ability to warp time.

I'm intrigued enough by the 2 free sampler tracks from this album that I think I'll take the plunge and buy it:

https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/nordkarpatenland

New Godflesh song is good, if unsurprising (reminds me of their Pure/Selfless-era work):

https://godflesh1.bandcamp.com/track/post-self-single

There's also a new Attila song. If you're down with the Devil, say hell yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVC7f59ibI8

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I've been revisiting The Crown on Spotify. Man, some of those albums really fucking rip.

Hell is Here and Deathrace King are my go-to albums for Swedish velocity (well, Defleshed too). "Rebel Angel" is so obnoxious with the repetitive lyrics but it has one of the greatest riff sequences ever.

I've been on a bit of a late 90s/early 00s kick lately (meaning the last 17 years) and those first two post Crown of Thorns discs are so perfectly of their time.

I've been revisiting The Crown on Spotify. Man, some of those albums really fucking rip.

Hell is Here and Deathrace King are my go-to albums for Swedish velocity (well, Defleshed too). "Rebel Angel" is so obnoxious with the repetitive lyrics but it has one of the greatest riff sequences ever.

I've been on a bit of a late 90s/early 00s kick lately (meaning the last 17 years) and those first two post Crown of Thorns discs are so perfectly of their time.

Amenra's release show in AB Brussels, yesterday, is on youtube and it's... VERY intense (they already had their singer suspended on hooks in his arms live on stage during the last track of their 23.10 live DVD (also on youtube) but this was WAY more visible and in your face, with weights hanging on hooks that were put in his front and back in full view) - I'm not really sure I need to see that to believe the music is intense/cathartic :-/

Five Finger Death Punch have a best-of coming out in December with two new songs. The first of those, "Trouble," is pretty bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buDl_QY640k

what next, I ask, what next #gutter

I don't/can't keep up with much new metal but christ the new Bell Witch is magnificent.

This a fun Halloween release. Some of the spoken word parts remind me of The Residents!

https://acid-witch-detroit.bandcamp.com/album/evil-sound-screamers

the new Lustre album is out (this is somehow classified as metal)
https://lustre.bandcamp.com/

I don't even... what is that? It's like Vangelis-gaze.

it's "atmospheric black metal/ambient" :

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Lustre/3540266973

(I like all his stuff a lot, but I'm perplexed by the label)

this is where he started out, I guess the label stuck and the guitar/screams just went away over the years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9GvebVOP4k

Lustre is great!

If you like diseased doomy death, Serpentrance

http://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-besieged-sanctum

Chepang - vicious Nepalese grindcore with two drummers and two vocalists, one guitarist. I'm pretty picky about grind these days but this one singed my ear hair.

http://nervealtar.bandcamp.com/album/dadhelo

Aussie blackened hardcore with lots of diverse textural ("gaze"-y I guess) things happening, some "Nothingface" style weird melodic ideas, noisy one second and beautiful the next.

http://slowlybuildingweapons.bandcamp.com/album/sunbirds-2