I tried several times to get into Manilla Road but never could. Oh, well. RIP to a dude who lived it for real. Nothing but respect for that.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 28 July 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
I greatly admire Manilla Road, and Shelton was a true gentleman who exuded positivity. Open the Gates and Crystal Logic are two of the best underground metal albums of the '80s. He will be sorely missed.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 28 July 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
The Sadistik Forest album fucking RULES
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 29 July 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
Kerry not making it past the border
What happened?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 30 July 2018 00:10 (five years ago) link
Good musical taste on the part of the border guard? (I kid, I kid)
― A. Begrand, Monday, 30 July 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
It's official: new Sunn O))) album in 2019, engineered by Steve Albini.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjXjLgaU4AEoZtq.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 30 July 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
― Skrot Montague, Monday, 30 July 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
well they're still making albums so
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 30 July 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
The new Khanus is even better than I was hoping from the teaser track above. I would say it's kind of a progressive Viking black metal thing, but it's hard to pigeonhole.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
Lychgate is another interesting progressive black metal one. Maybe not as immediate as the Khanus but well worth checking out, especially for name-your-own-price:
https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/the-contagion-in-nine-steps
― o. nate, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
I liked the Lychgate a lot but maybe not as much as the previous one. But I'm a sucker for those gothic (as in architecture) church organ breakdowns. Totally looking forward to the Khanus!
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 08:07 (five years ago) link
I really like this Lychgate and think it might win over some of the doubters. Less circus, less organ.
― imago, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 11:45 (five years ago) link
New Krisiun album in September. Sounds like a Krisiun album. I like it.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Djca2lGVAAAzOhJ.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
Yaaaaaay!
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
August albums I like:
Rebel Wizard (8/17, Prosthetic) Exactly everything I love about the band - chaotic riffs aplenty, maybe a shade more epic than in the past, and he wears it well.
Tile (8/17, Limited Appeal) Allentown, PA noise outfit that touches all the right Jesus Lizard/Black Flag receptors for me. I'm planning on catching their record release show.
Uniform (8/17, Sacred Bones) Their first album was more industrial but they seem more like brainy, disjointed hardcore now (with Liturgy's drummer in the fold) based on their recent show with Deafheaven and the few spins I have given the new one. And that's fine.
Thou (8/31, Sacred Bones) It's fucking Thou, man.
Throat (8/31, Svart) A Finnish noise-noir group whose sophomore release provides uneasy listening that I can get behind, like Nick Cave joined Shellac. They are playing Philly the day after the Tile record release show which will make for a noisy weekend for me!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
oh shit i didn't know greg fox played with uniform now, that rules.
― adam, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
It's pretty cool to see the Black Dahlia Murder taking out some underground bands. Much respect.
http://files.constantcontact.com/28b23da7301/053279e3-84d9-450f-a7ff-9d91e362b39d.jpg
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
This new Taphos is sounding pretty good. Gritty death "from the same Danish scene as Undergang and Phrenelith":
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/come-ethereal-somberness
― o. nate, Monday, 6 August 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
The new High On Fire song sounds like a High On Fire song. New album out 10/5, produced by Kurt Ballou again. It's good, but I think they should stop working with him and maybe work with Erik Rutan or someone else instead.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 6 August 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
Anybody listen to the Manticora album?
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 August 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
I haven't played the whole thing yet, but I've enjoyed the two songs I've played. Muscular heavy/power metal, nowhere near as ponderous (or abstruse) as the ridiculous titles (e.g. "The Farmer's Tale Pt. 1 - The Aftermath of Indifference") might lead you to expect.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 6 August 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
I am digging the hell out of it
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 August 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
this is probably old news but Wytch Hazel is really dope for old skool 70s metal vibes
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 August 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
I also really like that Manticora album!
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 9 August 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
guess the band
On this album the band have changed direction with frontman [redacted] commenting, ‘this new record is more Muse than Meshuggah, more Ghost than Gojira, and more Biffy Clyro than Burzum!’'
― still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Friday, 10 August 2018 09:20 (five years ago) link
The ABBA reunion?
― Siegbran, Friday, 10 August 2018 09:41 (five years ago) link
i don't know but i shan't be purchasing it
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 10 August 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link
Ha! I have no idea who that is but I won't be listening, either.
Now playing: the new Primal Fear. I remember seeing these guys open for Halford in 2003 or so; it was like when Wire brought a Wire cover band out as their opening act.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 10 August 2018 12:44 (five years ago) link
commenting, ‘this new record is more Muse than Meshuggah, more Ghost than Gojira, and more Biffy Clyro than Burzum!’'
― still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Friday, August 10, 2018 2:20 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I mean this is a good capsule description of the last twenty anathema records
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 10 August 2018 12:46 (five years ago) link
does he mean the japanese ghost
no, of course not, nobody _ever_ means the japanese ghost
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 10 August 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
it's the (Norwegian) Shining
grudging respect to them for cheerfully owning their descent into total shitness tbh
― still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Friday, 10 August 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
xp I would love it if Temple Stone or Lama Rabi Rabi started turning up in metal bands lists of influences
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 10 August 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
ahahahaha remember when these guys made jazz-metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq-4eFBaRGg
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 10 August 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
honestly if the chorus weren't so lazy I'd be pretty into this, who am I kidding
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 10 August 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link
wait which is the nazi shining and which is the jazzbo black metal shining?
― adam, Friday, 10 August 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
nazi Shining is from Sweden and still makes black metal as fas as I know/care, former jazzbo shining are from Norway
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 10 August 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
This is their new band photo, from Facebook:
https://scontent.fewr1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/38894218_10156791607008714_8393560380760129536_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=269a174989c98c73a643a1c1a5291851&oe=5BCB57E0
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 10 August 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
of course it is
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 10 August 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, August 10, 2018 7:51 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i dig the BOC lite Ghost ok but man i resent them for overshadowing the O.G. prog Ghost
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 August 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
One other note re Shining: I mentioned on Twitter that the first line of that song is a straight-up steal from Nickelback, and the band replied that yes, it was.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 10 August 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
oh man I thought we were talking about shitty Nazi Shining not that one, weird ass world
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 10 August 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
oh yes me too i will never forgive them for that honestly
and yeah it's a weird world where there are now _two_ shitty metal shinings but i guess they had nowhere go to from "live blackjazz" but down, so i can't begrudge them too much for going that way with a vengeance.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 August 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
Can't believe I haven't mentioned it here but Nachash put an album out on Shadow Kingdom
http://shadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/phantasmal-triunity
Occulty epic weird black metal with death elements (and I swear I hear some Amebix/Axegrinder in some of the riffs), they have that left-field feel that means they probably listen to a lot of Eastern European and Mediterranean 1.5th wave stuff. And Samael maybe.
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 11 August 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
Neckbeard Deathcamp interview on Bandcamp Daily...
What do you think is it about black metal that it developed this particular white nationalism streak? One doesn’t automatically leap to racism when one thinks about death metal or metalcore or, say, EBM.KOMRADEZ: BLACK METAL IS AN OUTSIDER ART FORM. NAZIS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IN ANY OTHER COMMUNITY, SO THEY STARTED CIRCLE JERKING IN BLACK METAL, WHERE THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD STROKE THEIR EGOS AND MASK THEIR INSECURITIES IN PEACE. BLACK METAL WILL NO LONGER STAND FOR RACISTS. HAIL BLACK METAL, HAIL VICTORY.
KOMRADEZ: BLACK METAL IS AN OUTSIDER ART FORM. NAZIS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IN ANY OTHER COMMUNITY, SO THEY STARTED CIRCLE JERKING IN BLACK METAL, WHERE THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD STROKE THEIR EGOS AND MASK THEIR INSECURITIES IN PEACE. BLACK METAL WILL NO LONGER STAND FOR RACISTS. HAIL BLACK METAL, HAIL VICTORY.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 13 August 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
HAIL KE$HA
― imago, Monday, 13 August 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
KRIEGMEISTER HATESTORM: I THINK KE$HA IS THE MOST POWERFVL EXAMPLE OV CONTEMPORARY MAINSTREAM BLVCK METAL.
xp beat me to it :)
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 13 August 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
Just now starting to make my way through this year's RM, but gotta go ahead & ask: What 2018 Motorhead-type bands should I check, also what Japanese psychmetal etc, and if there is a 2018 Japanese mirroshades Motorhead Mad Max band (or non-Japanese version of the rest of that), please mention. Would like throat sounds more Lemmy than Cookie Monster.
― dow, Monday, 13 August 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
Apparently Neckbeard Deathcamp's record is gonna be getting real-world distribution via Prosthetic. Just got emailed the promo.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 13 August 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
xp these guys are local on the Motorhead tip with some hardcore mixed in... vocals might not be what you're looking for but I like em
http://pinkmistband.bandcamp.com/releases
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 13 August 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
One doesn’t automatically leap to racism when one thinks about death metal or metalcore
interviewer hasn't listened to enough metalcore
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 13 August 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link