Rolling Metal 2018

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

pig destroyer record streaming on npr. i was a little unsure of it from the singles but atm it sounds like it fucking rips https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/641382167/first-listen-pig-destroyer-head-cage

the riff that opens "circle river" @_@

lj go immediately to let the mortal heroes sing your fame

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this turned out to be a good idea

New stuff I like from old bands:

The new Satan record is more of the majestic metal we have come to expect from the band. While reviewing it I noticed that their debut was one of the best albums of 1983 and the first comeback album was one of the best albums in 2013. Can you name a band in any genre that can claim two of the best albums of the year thirty years apart?

The new one from The Skull is doomy and psychedelic, the best of both '80s and '90s Trouble rolled into one album.

Finland's Radux is Nuclear Assault Redux on their debut EP Disaster Imminent on Svart Records. Derivative but fun.

Can you name a band in any genre that can claim two of the best albums of the year thirty years apart?

Obituary came close; their last album was great, 28 years after their debut.

for some reason i got sucked into a looong (and only part 1) and somewhat cheaply made documentary about Rigor Mortis last night....hilariously narrated by Phil Anselmo who is also a talking head in it...

anyway kind of interesting, though jeez it's detailed almost a gig by gig breakdown

def some wild texas boys

new thou record is their best, very tuneful, nice guitar tones, there's a weird black metal interlude way down in the mix at one point for reasons unknown

I was at the debut of that doc with the Rigor Mortis guys doing a Q&A. They told stories they left out of the doc because they were “in poor taste”