Rolling Metal 2017

Simon your offer to help out in the jjj role still open?
You needn't worry about tabulation or setting up forms as seandalai takes care of that.

the jjj role would just be handling the rollout?

and demanding photos of Spider-Man

no, the jjj role was keeping the threads top of sna by keeping chat going, enforcing the "those bands arent metal" stuff and you get to see the results when i do. (you can also do blurbs n stuff should you wish)

what's 'not metal' this year we wonder

oh there was a Dälek album haha

omg I pledge to be the laxest metal enforcer ever, please let me do that

I can grab press clippings and stuff

good man. We need to be in contact tho, are you on FB?

yep, ILXmail me and we can link up

done

for anyone looking for a quick way to catch up on some 2017 stuff I'm maintaining a playlist of 2017 metal I have enjoyed, currently up to 97 albums/artists (sadly, many worthy ones are not on spotify)

https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/6L9VX7Ct09dRRnVb3T7VUv

*93

I'm going to rep hard for Elder and Bell Witch, I liked both of those more than the Pallbearer album.

I could see Elder damn near winning this thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVdflCH76t4

New Machine Head song. Album in late January. I don't love it but I'll probably catch them live; they're still doing the whole no-opening-band "An Evening With..." thing.

I wrote about the 20th anniversary of Metallica's Reload for Stereogum.

love the fuckin new Godflesh

hitting the spot on my dreary day.

I reviewed that for Invisible Oranges!
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/godflesh-post-self

Holy feck the Aosoth

The new Malokarpatan is as great as the teaser tracks led me to suspect. Hard-riffing dinosaur metal (similar to what Kadavar used to purvey) with Baroque instrumental interludes and bellowing Slavic vocals (fans of the Furia album will be on familiar ground here), and with a knack for the catchy riff that calls Hail Spirit Noir to mind at times.

my metal ballot is gonna be hella false this year lemme tell ya

no one informed me there was a new paradise lost record!!!!

it's good iirc

god i love this band

Just enabled collaboration on this 2017 metal playlist so people can add anything that's missing - my only rules are, 1 song per artist/album, and pls don't remove anything for falseness

https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/6L9VX7Ct09dRRnVb3T7VUv

re: paradise lost, this is def the doomiest record they've ever done, which explains why it's no. 1 on the decibel list i suppose. i wish it were just sliiiightly gothier but it's still so so good

the decibel list is out already?!

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/11/20/spoiler-decibels-top-40-albums-2017/#.WhLnb6M3y7Q.facebook

yesssss @ propagandhi!!

boo @ no Chelsea Wolfe

publishing a metal eoy before thantifaxath and cleric release their records is sheer folly tbh

that spirit adrift record is not my usual thing but my god it's lovely

the WITTR record is awfully high, it was nice enough but not a patch on their last (proper) one

nice to see the Oxbow in there too, great album

I guess they had to choose between Immolation and Incantation. I think they made the right choice.

In non-list news, I just discovered (by reading the CD booklet) that Dominick Fernow (aka Prurient) plays synth on 3 tracks on the new Cavalera Conspiracy album.

PL is top 5 2017 for me and if I didn't say something about that my bad Brad

PL is top 5 2017 for me and if I didn't say something about that my bad Brad

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, November 20, 2017 9:57 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's totally ok bc i had the best time listening to it just now! <3

Thought Elder would be on the Decibel list. I mean it's not less metal than the Ufomammut or Oxbow (and better than both IMO). Surprised by the absence of Falls of Rauros too.

yeah the Falls of Rauros album is a beaut

i'm back on the paradise lost record and the layering of guitars on "gods of ancient" is so exquisite aaaaah

Paradise Lost is incredible.

What are the other urgent and key doom and/or folk metal releases of the year? Playing a bit of catch up here.

Spectral Voice is the one everyone's been going mad about, I think it's a perfectly solid death-doom album hype but I don't really get the hype.

in terms of stuff with folky elements I love Lör's In Forgotten Sleep (it's not at all doomy, though)

https://halloflor.bandcamp.com/album/in-forgotten-sleep

xp There's also a quite overlooked album by a band called Vin de Mia Trix (I mentioned it upthread) which is loooong but really very good.

Regarding folksy stuff the latest Botanist album is one of my fave albums of the year in any genre, and I heard this EP recently:

https://arstidirlifsins.bandcamp.com/album/heljarkvi-a

and thought it was pretty dece. Oh and Enslaved dribbled something out a while back idk.

That first Paradise Lost album was one of my falling asleep records for years. Gave me some weird dreams. Good to hear they've returned to that sound.

good year for melodic prog-metal for anyone looking for stuff that's on the less-brootal side

Anathema
Caligula's Horse
Leprous
Soen

man put this new godflesh on in the club

everything I'm hearing about it is that it slays utterly