Rolling Metal 2017

occvlta?

i regret never getting around to listening to the new immolation

More new Krallice! https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/go-be-forgotten

jfkrallice

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

Really liked this on first listen (although I can't pronounce anything about it), esp string coda to track 2. Botanist obv great.

first track on the new krallice wasn't doing much for me but the second track is overwhelming

yeah this is phenomenal. what a good and bizarre band

what, they're just doing band things, making records, playing shows, rocking out

so far I like this much better than Loum

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

Anathema
Caligula's Horse
Leprous
Soen

― Simon H.

That's a pretty good batch! Along more prog pop lines there's KOYO and Gold Key, and psych prog there's Kairon; IRSE!, Ghost Against Ghost, Kabbalah, Atavismo, Himmellegeme, Amplifier, The Dials, and most likely my album of the year, Motorpsycho.

the Kairon; IRSE will be high on my list for sure

and of course I will be big-upping my False Metal pick of the year, Disperse's Foreword

what's false about it Simon? (i like false metal)

to quote myself from back in March or whatever

it sounds like someone went into the 1975's studio when they were off on spliff breaks and tried to make prog-metal using their setup

Thanks! I shall hear this album today.

new Tribulation song/video

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

I am not overwhelmed by that new Tribulation.

@Brad any good metalcore-y stuff this year? I wasn't that struck by this year's August Burns Red, though I am enjoying this Ghost Key album I discovered completely by accident while looking for something else

i didn’t engage much beyond being bored by the abr

thought the previous two Cavalera Conspiracies were pleasant if not memorable, this third one is actually much better in my eyes.

enjoying it a lot.

ok the voiceover in the last track is ridiculous

apparently Prurient plays synth on this album which even though I like the guy I have a hard time imagining to be a hugely necessary teamup

Dawn Ray'd alb is good black metal w/ violin. though sometimes the moments where it appear seem tacked on rather than organic

speaking of good black metal,

rip imago swallowed by the voiid ov darkness

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/void-masquerading-as-matter

Dawn Ray'd disappointed me because I'm ready for some angry lefty bm but it didn't grab me much.

what do you non-journalists use to keep up with upcoming metal releases? I used Lambgoat's release calendar for the longest time, but something is seriously fucked with it lately. it didn't have the Cannibal Corpse release date, it didn't have In Flames, didn't have Taake, didn't have Exhumed....

I follow this guy/organization on Bandcamp, and find him/they add/buy/review a thorough enough chunk of new releases to stay on top of things enough (at least as a non-cvlt outside observer) :https://bandcamp.com/metalbandcamp

I regularly read Invisible Oranges and No Clean Singing, the latter is a bit uncritical and hyperbolic about some fairly ordinary stuff but both are good for finding new releases.

rateyourmusic charts, this thread and idk following the white rabbit of stuff i already like

Guys. If you love Immolation. And you love Atonement...see them open gor Mayhem. Holy shit.

Been thinking about it. They're playing NYC next Saturday.

Seen em 4x and this was the best one by far

Technically 2018 but Portal have a new song out:

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ion

It sounds like Portal!

amazing

it certainly sounds like portal

i wish my reaction to portal was stronger than 'this is impressive i guess'

bet they're incredible live mind

Yup. Very cool live.

That song didn't blow me away but I'm about ready for something new from them.

Also I've been listening to this, slightly weird black/death w/fretless bass and impressive drumming. I almost gave it a miss because of the crappy band name but it's good:

https://corpsegarden.bandcamp.com/album/iao-269

Ever considered getting a 'produced by Colin Marston' tattoo? ;)

Will give this a right good listen

Oh my, getting J*** G*** vibes off this

or maybe it's just amazing

but SO amazing. oh my days

The Elevenfold Vibration: jaw -> floor

guys. guys, you all need to hear this. metal album of the year (for a week at least)

Yeah I like it a lot more than I came across, I'm not great a hype man. I'm really glad all this great avant-metal stuff's coming up at the end of the year but Cleric I reckon will top them all. And yes lol Colin Marston is E V E R Y W H E R E

I'm amusing myself pretending imago's asterisk post is supposed to read Jim Goad vibe

@Brad any good metalcore-y stuff this year? I wasn't that struck by this year's August Burns Red, though I am enjoying this Ghost Key album I discovered completely by accident while looking for something else

― Simon H., Thursday, November 23, 2017 9:17 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i didn’t engage much beyond being bored by the abr

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, November 23, 2017 9:28 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to belatedly answer my own question, the best metalcorey thing I've heard this year (non-Converge division) is the Code Orange record, which was an impressive step forward

oh yeah i forgot to check that out, that band RIPS

An excerpt from the best press release I've read in a while:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPz78W-U8AA7eqv.jpg

Let the black wings of Omega be ferociously and perniciously uploaded to Spotify, this Night or some other Night soon, please.