Rolling Metal 2018

does he mean the japanese ghost

no, of course not, nobody _ever_ means the japanese ghost

― 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

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.

oh man I thought we were talking about shitty Nazi Shining not that one, weird ass world

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)

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.

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.

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.

HAIL KE$HA

KRIEGMEISTER HATESTORM: I THINK KE$HA IS THE MOST POWERFVL EXAMPLE OV CONTEMPORARY MAINSTREAM BLVCK METAL.

xp beat me to it :)

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.

Apparently Neckbeard Deathcamp's record is gonna be getting real-world distribution via Prosthetic. Just got emailed the promo.

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

One doesn’t automatically leap to racism when one thinks about death metal or metalcore

interviewer hasn't listened to enough metalcore

sorta into heel turn shining (more in theory than reality)

ya me too (and me too)

vocals might not be what you're looking for They fit fine, thanks for the link!

There's a new Hate Eternal album coming out in October. I'm about four tracks deep (out of nine) now and while I don't like it as much as their last one, it's good.

I interviewed Rutan back in 2015.

I guess we can move Nokturnal Mortum from the "somewhat questionable" category to the "probably Nazis" category

http://www.toiletovhell.com/too-scared-to-attend-unite-the-right-try-asgardsrei-2018/

Peste Noir? *sigh*

Wow, and it's the weekend of my birthday, too!

Huntress singer Jill Janus has committed suicide.

I saw them perform two or three times, and met her once. She seemed nice, and mildly nuts, but in a theater-girl sort of way, not a manic/suicidal sort of way. And I liked their music; they weren't great, but they got better with every album.

well, shit. I agree that Huntress's albums were on an improving path, but I also think "Eight of Swords" is a woefully under-appreciated shoulda-been classic.

the Rebel Wizard album fuckin' rips. "Mother Nature, Oh My Sweet Mistress..." in particular is just groovy as hell

For fans of being hit with a sack full of doorknobs

New Convulsing
http://convulsing.bandcamp.com/

New Sulaco
http://sulacotl.bandcamp.com/album/the-prize

the pace of my life, and the huge amount of stuff I want to know about, means it can take me an age to get around to something -- the more interested I am in it, the less likely I am to just play it as soon as I download it (physical releases have a better chance, because I drive to & from the office almost every day, so they go directly onto the passenger seat, where their presence reminds me: play this thing you bought). anyway, this morning, after listening to the Malsanctum album on Iron Bonehead (which is super interesting funereal doom SORT OF but bleaker than most of what you think of in that vein -- it reminds me of Khanate's Catch and Release, I think, though admittedly I haven't listened to that record in 10 years so grain of salt there. Reminds me of how I remember Catch and Release, anyway), I finally got around to Mesarthim's The Density Parameter...

...this is really super good. It's more derivative of Summoning than they used to be, which I probably shouldn't be surprised about -- they were on the tribute album a couple years back -- but their keyboard lines are totally different, more lyrical / less proto-dungeon-synth -- and, if Summoning's guitar lines can't be bettered (they can't), this has its own strengths -- the long tracks really crescendo into huge payoffs, immensely satisfying stuff...I think this band merits a lot of close listening, even if when they favor the synth harder than I like (Pillars) I tend not to connect as much...but damn. Mesarthim makes very good and interesting music.

:) nice to have you on board JCLC. correspondingly i have started listening to the new summoning album of late and found it delightful. i shall enjoy diving deeper into their body of work. they know their way around a tune

You didnt know Summoning before?

not really!

Booming post JCLC.

the more interested I am in it, the less likely I am to just play it as soon as I download it

God yes. Though I started playing the Malsanctum album right away after reading your post (the Khanate ref sealed it). Will get to Summoning straight after.

agreed on basically every point jclc (except for the malsanctum record which i now have to check out)

lj go immediately to let the mortal heroes sing your fame

That post doesn't make me want to listen to Mesarthim, but it does remind me that I keep meaning to order the Japanese 2CD editions of the whole Khanate catalog and should really get on that while my Paypal account is pleasingly full...

it's funny though - giving PIllars another try in the wake of how much I like The Density Parameter -- nope, you can keep Pillars, thanks!

the great filter/type iii is the one (or two) for me, and i also think 'absence' rules fyi

absence and density parameter are my favs. great filter/type iii also amazing, i fell asleep to it nightly for like a week straight

sorta agree with joan that pillars leans a little too far into trance

Youse lot should listen to Nishaiar if you're into soft, ambient, spacey metal. They've already released two albums this year on bc (I haven't heard the more recent one though).

New Mantar is awesome.

Not metal but metal-adjacent: there's a new Ancestors album out today, their first in six years.

Revising my statement on the new Convulsing - it's definitely got its harsh moments but there's also some epic, post-y parts (albeit still slathered in grime).

Also the new Innumerable Forms on Profane Lore is excellent death/doom, RIYL recent Mortuous, Tomb Mold, etc.

The new Deicide comes out in three weeks (9/14) and it rips. But WTF is going on with this band photo? It looks like a gang of monkeys found a camera in the jungle:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dlec_IsWwAAD4Uc.jpg

lol. that's weird, Glenn is usually the scowler, Steve is good-humored. ran into him in Tampa at the Watain show in March (cos he still goes to all the shows) and he played me a demo of the new album. dude has the grip of a professional boxer tho.

can't wait for the new album....hope they come by again soon

Neanderthal, do you have a quick list of like... post Once Upon The Cross Deicide to check out? I kinda dropped them there. I did like Stench of Redemption but didn't actually buy it.

I really liked To Hell with God, which has the staple "Conviction", and In the Minds of Evil, of which my favs are the title track and "Thou Begone".

Like Stench, they moved into a wee bit more melodic territory, but the riffs are a bit more sinister and twisting than the stuff on Stench

Don't sleep on Till Death Do Us Part, which I always call death metal's Here, My Dear - it's a whole album about how much he hates his ex-wife. It's hilarious. But it's got riffs.

thanks guys!

Still very weird to hear a song like "Kill the Light of Christ" dripping with melody

Kill the light of christ and replace it with beautiful riffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IMhNSro3GE

did we notice there's a new album by SKULL FIST out soon?!

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

new Master Boot Record is totally on my short list for year's best metal and I ain't even jokin

https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/direct-memory-access