Rolling Metal 2018

Feels like something that should be on Utech more than Sublime Frequencies tbh.

Yeah, when I think SF I think field recordings, and this is a masterful studio production. I'm just glad it's out there. Would love to see these guys live sometime, too.

I guess there is a 25 minute documentary from 2012!?!! so now I feel kind of late to the party.

http://www.vincentmoon.com/video-view-calling-the-new-gods-senyawa-live-in-java-2012-325.html

Best part of doc is probably performance at what appears to be some sort of "fair" in front of a enraptured but not exactly adoring audience. Music in it a little different from new record (or at least first track on new record) more Boredoms than Utech to me.

For those who loved Astronoid but wish they would be more prolific (it's been a while since their last album and with Mike DeMellia leaving the group it may be even longer even as they get yet another decent support slot for Between The Buried And Me and TesseracT) I think I discovered a reasonable facsimile in Sylvaine.

http://www.sylvainemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG_7981-copy.jpg

Her album Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone just came out yesterday on Season of Mist. Although this is the third album for the Norwegian multi-instrumentalist, I haven't heard her before. I am listening now for the first time and enjoying it very much.

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/425945-500x500.jpg

http://open.spotify.com/album/6UWmG28sc4akOQcOEQGJ1e?si=UFY_X_P2RP-SkjbxBHkOHA
http://sylvainemusic.bandcamp.com/album/atoms-aligned-coming-undone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ_bmkCiBa4

ok i am excited to check that out

new Envy album next year and two new tracks available:
https://envy.bandcamp.com/album/alnair-in-august

Two of the veteran metal bands here in the midwest I like have put out records in the past few months.

Stonecutters from Louisville just put out their fifth LP. Just heard a couple of tracks, but they are really good live and I hope to see them live again sometime soon.

https://stonecuttersmusic.bandcamp.com/album/carved-in-time

Apostle of Solitude from Indianapolis put out their album back in February but they are just getting ready to tour in Europe starting next week. Saw them last Saturday night here in Lexvegas. Doom metal with harmony vocals is pretty good in my boat. I like these guys quite a bit.

https://apostleofsolitude.bandcamp.com/album/from-gold-to-ash

Listening to Sleep for the first time. Love the fuzz but I can barely stomach these vocals. And the lyrics…

Revisiting the Shrinebuilder record and revelling in all its daft glory. The guitars are fabulous.

this is sounding cool

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/08/664665097/first-listen-azusa-heavy-yoke

I know nobody here will care, but I wrote about the new Disturbed album, specifically about why it debuted at #4 on the charts after their last five albums all debuted at #1.

I'll read it whether i like disturbed or not! only reading about shit they like is what boring people do!

ya I enjoy reading about the minutiae of careers I have no actual vested interest in

I know nobody here will care, but I wrote about the new Disturbed album, specifically about why it debuted at #4 on the charts after their last five albums all debuted at #1.

I'm interested in what you have to say even about bands I don't think I'm interested in and welp now I'm gonna listen to some Disturbed for a bit

as unperson suggests in that piece, the second disturbed album is p good

yeah, and 10K fists mostly goes down ok too

I like the new Psycroptic, cos it has hooks amongst its noodling, but I feel like every tech death album to come out in the wake of the two Necrophagist albums has the same wafer-thin, sterile production and it drives me nuts.

So, uh, Peste Noire is now a rap act:

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

Famine's lyrics are as despicable as ever, although when he spews the line 'gros comme Babar' (big like Babar the Elephant) to describe his pureblood tribe, I couldn't help but wonder whether he's been taking the piss all along.

that's the worst thing i've ever heard jesus fucking christ

Trap Metal it is here

Courtesy of RYM: 'Trap Rap, French Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Rap Metal, Political Hip Hop'.

Well uh... moving on from whatever the fuck that is.

The Sepulcher album is really good if you don't mind shouting caveman vocals.

We've all listened to Phil Anselmo

haha

First listen to Hekatomb. Maranatha was one of my favourite records back in the day (that and the Devilry EP - the first album weirdly passed me by). This is suitably committed to utter repellence and grotesquery. In an entirely positive way.

Funeral Mist-related post ^.

Yeah, Funeral Mist are great and that new record holds up alongside Maranatha.

It was your post elsewhere that prompted me to listen. Cheers. Was going to say it felt slightly less ambitious if anything (maybe I just meant more condensed)? Then Cockatrice came on. Cor.

Was there a new Marduk record this year, too?

Yeah, but it wasn't great. At least it was short (only about 30 minutes IIRC).

glad their answer to Nazi controversy was to put a Nazi lookin' dude on their cover

New Deceased and Artillery albs! Yay 4 olds.

Deceased's drummer died on Monday - drowned while visiting family in El Salvador.

Jesus

For fans of the Kriegsmaschine, here's another Polish band with a bit of a similar sludgy black metal vibe:

https://paganrecords.bandcamp.com/album/piach

I bet "Kriegmaschine" has really great political views

No clue, I couldn't even tell you what language the lyrics are sung in. However, from reading the lyrics on this page (translations?) it sounds like pretty typical death, blight and hopelessness type stuff: https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Kriegsmaschine/Apocalypticists/741196

that is in fact english, like the singing is

their lyrics read like Deathspell Omega style "metaphysical" stuff but yes it's fair to think a metal band from Poland who call themselves "kriegsmachine" might be a little dodgy

oh man that funeral mist record is awesome

They hide it well over the past ten years then, there’s nothing in the lyrics or artwork of Mgla & KMS and main guy Mikolaj “M” Zentara has done many interviews over the past few years where he’s made it pretty clear they’re not into the dodgy stuff.

Mgla is on Bestial Burst, though, right? BB is 100% not sky about issuing shit by nazis, which is a giant bummer, as they also release a lot of very very good stuff

Mgla is on the Finnish Northern Heritage label not on BB. Kriegsmaschine did release their first record in 2004 on the undeniably dodgy label Blutreinheit, although nothing more recent.

Hmmm yes Finnish Northern Heritage extremely normal name for a record label

NH is a pretty well established label I think?

None of this takes anything away from the fairly uncontroversial point that both Mgla/KMS are musically among the most relevant and exciting bands in metal over the past few years, and have no nazi imagery or lyrics - although one could indeed could object to the elephant in the room, ie their very explicitly negative and misanthropist worldview, which is not really helpful in building a better world.

Enh, abjectly misanthropic art can be quite joyful to experience in the right context

I suppose it could also be a bad influence on an impressionable person in the wrong state of mind, but I generally assume that other people are also capable of appreciating things like this with the appropriate amount of distance.

Listened to A Forest of Stars, at long last. It distantly brought to mind My Dying Bride, then I realized that Katie Stone was briefly a member of both bands. Anyhow, I'm afraid that the thespian male vocals, while entertaining, merely made me want to hear Eight Songs for a Mad King again. 'Unchecked cartoonishness' is not a valid charge in the world of metal, and yet…

Enjoying the new one by The Ocean. Not really sure what they’re singing about, but the snippets of lyrics and sad, epic feel of the music is a fine accompaniment to the apocalyptic environmental events of late. Walking through a city enshrouded in smoke surrounded by people in face masks. I guess I should read the lyrics which are probably about breaking up or something.