Today's disappointment: Ignitor's Haunted By Rock & Roll. That's a great album title (if better suited to the Jesus & Mary Chain than a metal band), and the band features two ex-members of Agony Column and Jason McMaster on vocals, so I had medium-high hopes going in, but they're just not that great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBZWAWkF_LI
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
In some circles the Los Angeles band Starcrawler are called metal. They're certainly loud. And I think kinda good. Any other metal friends check 'em out yet?
http://shopusa.roughtraderecords.com/media/catalog/product/cache/5/image/350x/85e4522595efc69f496374d01ef2bf13/r/t/rtradlp890_starcrawler.jpg
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
man that Slayer tour is gonna be nuts. Anthrax, Testament added to last year's Behemoth+Lamb of God package.
somehow the VIP packages for the Orlando show sold out like.....before I"d even seen they were on sale. blah.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
New Portal is blowing me away. Favorite thing they’ve done since Swarth (including those excellent Impetuous Ritual albums. Its as Branca like and brain melt-y as ever but also sounds like they might be having some fun shredding. ‘Phreqs’ is the highlight right now. When those drums drop out they are on another level. I love it.
― gman59, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
Very impressive, cathartic black metal/funeral doom - good if you're in a foul mood
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/loss
― you can make fun of birthday parties all you want (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
Looking forard to hearing Portal though neither preview track really grabbed me, I'm hoping for a cumulative effect on the album.
― you can make fun of birthday parties all you want (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
Brief thoughts on the new Tribulation: songs so good, singing so bad.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
I've only heard three of the Tribulation songs, but yeah, I absolutely love the guitar playing, but wish the singer could do more than one thing.
― jmm, Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
hard disagree, dynamic instrumentals + one-note vocalist is a winning combo
― Simon H., Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
Starcrawler's similar artists list (Estrons, Black Honey, INHEAVEN etc) is even farther from metal orthodoxy, but I'm digging it. glenn, you got your ears on?
― summervillain, Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
Starcrawler didn't immediately do much for me, but I do like INHEAVEN.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 25 January 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
just a reminder to you all . We only have 7 or 8 ballots in. So your votes will count
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― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
I can't tell if this is meant to be dismissive of both bands
no not at all, i like em, i'm sure they have well deserved local followings too, but their current renown seems distinctively internet-viral
― j., Thursday, 25 January 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
All in on the new Portal here. The cleaner production (relatively speaking, it's hardly pristine) only highlights the mindbending intricacies of their riffs and rhythms. It's the same band but through a different prism, for lack of a better metaphor. Great stuff.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, 26 January 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
big day! new Portal, Tribulation, Hooded Menace, Mammoth Grinder, and (sigh) Machine Head now kicking around.
― Simon H., Friday, 26 January 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link
feel like the new Tribulation seems like extreme metal merged with gloomy 80s goth pop/rock a la The Cure.
this is a good thing.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 January 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
yeah I think it's their best to date
― Simon H., Friday, 26 January 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
I am utterly baffled by the Machine Head.
why did Rob change his signature vocal style to wanting to sound like a 19-year old Jonathan Davis? and begin the opening track with the least convincing "Fuck the wooooooorld!" and sub-Pantera lyrics?
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 January 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
"break it, smash it, burn it to the ground".....jesus.
instrumentally still some cool moments but his vocals and the shitty teen angst lyrics ruin everything for me.
going back to nu-metal elements such a weird choice, and the songs have even less flow than ever
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 January 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
I liked Unto the Locust but yeah this one seems dire
― Simon H., Friday, 26 January 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
I liked the last 3 of their albums quite a bit.
now Robb is singing "I got head beneath the Fresno sign" in a song called....California Bleeding.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 January 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
Wait till you get to the "street-punk" song.
I liked Unto the Locust (disclaimer: I worked for the label at the time) and Bloodstone and Diamonds a lot, but this one is not good overall.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 26 January 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
midlife-crisis metal
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 January 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
I lasted 3 songs. Very disappointing
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 26 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
seeing him call our own J3ff out for the Decibel review is sad.
he's gone from taking Phil Anselmo down to imitating him in short time.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 January 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
The Tribulation album is very nice. Definitely pushing the goth direction more than the last album. There's even some disco beats here and there.
The vocals do have a kind of stone-faced effect and keep them from sounding retro.
― jmm, Friday, 26 January 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
Machine Head have always had a big corny streak; on some albums (the first two, The Blackening and the two after) they mostly keep it in check, on other albums (The Burning Red, Supercharger, the new one) it gets away from them.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 26 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
New Monolithe out today too FYcollectiveI
― you can make fun of birthday parties all you want (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 26 January 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
here's a metal/free-jazz thing by Mick Barr and Marc Edwards
https://sleepinggiantglossolalia.bandcamp.com/album/marc-edwards-mick-barr-duo-the-bowels-of-jupiter
― Dinsdale, Friday, 26 January 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
I love the new Hooded Menace. cotdamn.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
the new Judas Priest single....fuck yes.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
this has been an utterly fantastic January for metal imo
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 27 January 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
these records all just killing it for me so far: Hyvmine, Frozen Crown, Oceans of Slumber, Sinistro, and Summoning. Haven't gotten to Hooded Menace, I always confuse them in my mind with Hooded Priest who I totally love
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 27 January 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
the Summoning is indeed great, need to return to that one.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
finally got to my first concert of the year - CoC opening for Black Label Society.
had a surprising good time, the band sounded great, they played for about an hour. I left before Wylde and company came on stage to put me to sleep.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
oh also the new Abigor's around & Silenius is on vox again and I'm one track in & it's great.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 27 January 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
well I see this is going to be a busy Saturday for me.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
xxp ooh gonna have to check that
Anyway, here's some promising new OSDM with BIG GUITARS from Noose Rot 👍👍👍
http://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/the-creeping-unknown
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 27 January 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
I interviewed Nortt for Bandcamp.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 29 January 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
when is that danged Panopticon album getting announced properly
― Simon H., Monday, 29 January 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
finally listening to the new summoning and it fuckin' rocks thanks
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 29 January 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
yeah they're not really my thing but when the mood hits it sounds so great
― Simon H., Monday, 29 January 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
how can a band kick so much ass for so long
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
for instance the extremely lonely and gorgeous intrusions of piano in "mirklands"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
I appreciate Summoning for like actually creating what sounds like Middle Earth music black metalized
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
I'm starting to enjoy the record more and more, the mix is still terrible, but they're doing cool stuff on Silvertine and indeed Mirklands, which both feature the good singer of the two (always forget which one it is).
That closing song tries way too hard though and is almost a complete rehash of Earthshine from the previous record.
― Siegbran, Monday, 29 January 2018 23:40 (six years ago) link
mammoth grinder is aight
― j., Tuesday, 30 January 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
I don't know how popular heavy crust is but this band is giving me full on Sacrilege UK vibes, fucking storming
http://qualitycontrolhq.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-7-3
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 08:23 (six years ago) link
I'm starting to enjoy the record more and more, the mix is still terrible
I know they wouldn't be Summoning if this sort of concern even occurred to them, and Summoning as they are is one of my favorite bands ever, but can you even imagine Summoning with a producer who actually wanted shit to sound huge and sweeping
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link