Somewhat related to that Quietus piece...
I enjoyed Bergdorf, the sophomore album by Nachteule, an atmospheric black metal band from Montreal. I pitched one of my outlets to review it and they told me they're staying away from Wolfspell Records, the band's label, because they previously released some sketchy stuff (most notably Gontyra Kry). I couldn't find anything about the band in particular online but another publication is letting me review it (I pitched them both at the same time and didn't get the negative feedback from the first before the second could check it out) and now I don't know what to do.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 00:32 (five years ago) link
I saw a tweet today from a woman who's putting together a compilation and has to Google "(band name) + nazi + racist" every time she considers a band for inclusion. Seems like reviewers ought to be doing the same thing, and for labels as well.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 00:45 (five years ago) link
I did that and didn't find anything for the band and didn't think to check the label once the band was clear though of course absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I actually posted to the band's Facebook page and asked them pointed questions about it. We'll see what they say if they bother to respond at all...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
US metal magazine Revolver released their 30 best albums of 2018 list.
30. At the Gates - To Drink From the Night Itself29. The Black Queen - Infinite Games28. Underoath - Erase Me27. Tribulation - Down Below26. City Morgue - City Morgue Vol. 1: Hell or High Water25. Candy - Good to Feel24. Horrendous - Idol23. Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses22. Old Wounds - Glow21. Ghostemane - N/O/I/S/E20. YOB - Our Raw Heart19. Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms18. Cane Hill - Too Far Gone17. Harm's Way - Posthuman16. Nothing - Dance on the Black Top15. High on Fire - Electric Messiah14. Kaelan Mikla - Nott eftir nott13. Pig Destroyer - Head Cage12. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love11. Cult Leader - A Patient Man10. A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant9. Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar8. Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest7. The Soft Moon - Criminal6. Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit5. Sleep - The Sciences4. Judas Priest - Firepower3. Turnstile - Time & Space2. Vein - errorzone1. Ghost - Prequelle
Pretty solid list with a few more things on it that I don't know than I expected.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 00:56 (five years ago) link
all these metal mags pretending the armed and rolo tomassi aren't metal are cute
― imago, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
Got my answer:
http://scontent.fphl2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/46800928_10161173561995597_3148038795484463104_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl2-1.fna&oh=6e5bd616c7231ad3ff7cf3f7d4d9dd49&oe=5CA7F1B8
I won't be reviewing the record because that's just not good enough for me but I am glad he attempted to be honest about it.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 01:21 (five years ago) link
He added a third post: "If that bothers some people... So be it."
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
Man, that's like ten tells in three comments. Fuck that dude and fuck his band.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
Are all cores metal by default?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 09:35 (five years ago) link
"I don't ALWAYS agree with SOME nsbm bands"
Jfc dude
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
I mean there are a few openly non-metal albums on that list anyway (Black Queen, Soft Moon, Emma Ruth Rundle, Nothing) so they wouldn't have been out of place in any case
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
Got some info from someone who knows him...
http://scontent.fewr1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/46918722_10161175451425597_5319854850555510784_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-3.fna&oh=6dc22b15e7138a89e411d26ba409a1b1&oe=5C6C0D52http://scontent.fewr1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/47071627_10161175452030597_8213082917224579072_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-3.fna&oh=1b31c9df22752ed6e7bc8056e5c9dc79&oe=5C6EB148
Needless to say, I'm not feeling much remorse about my decision to not write about it. My editor understood and I thanked my other editor for being on top of this.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
Atalante are 'pure' scum.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
There's a new Rotting Christ song! And it's...OK. I've liked their last three albums a lot (AEALO is a masterpiece), but this song isn't their best work. Still, it makes me want to hear the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4LDxWlveKE
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
disappeared in foggy dan?
― DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
"Foggy day." They picked a really terrible font for the lyric video.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
Metallica's publicist sent me one of their $250 ...And Justice For All watches, for some reason. I haven't worn a watch in 20 years, and this thing weighs a fucking ton. I'll try it for a few days, and see if I can get used to this much extra metal hanging off my wrist.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link
Rotting Christ is a band who once released a song called "Fgmenth, Thy Gift," and for this I will forever be grateful
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 29 November 2018 01:29 (five years ago) link
I'm pretty pleased that some of my work at Spotify is why we have this as an official thing:
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO4xvbnh?si=0zEXW5CdS9i2E1qdu3ciJA
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 29 November 2018 02:40 (five years ago) link
Get yr deathgrind right here:
https://infernalcoil.bandcamp.com/album/within-a-world-forgotten
― pomenitul, Friday, 30 November 2018 08:34 (five years ago) link
I remember checking out some of that Infernal Coil, making a note to return to it and buy it, then I forgot. Seemed promising, thanks for reminding me.
In terrible news, however, Erik Lindmark of Deeds of Flesh and Unique Leader Records, has died.http://www.metalinjection.net/this-is-just-a-tribute/unique-leader-records-founder-deeds-of-flesh-guitarist-erik-lindmark-has-passed-away-r-i-p
I really REALLY love Deeds of Flesh, not just because of the music itself, but because they were one of the most important gateway bands between the "normal" brutal death I was into in the late 90s/early 00s (Suffo, Cryptopsy, Nile, etc), and all the bonkers under the underground stuff like Disgorge, Brodequin, Cinerary, Devourment, and on and on. I listen to DoF like once a week, was just blasting Mark of the Legion the night before last. They always felt like "my" band, even though every fan of every not-as-big-as-the-big-bands band feels that way. One of those cases where it seems as though you hear a new language for the first time and somehow totally understand it. Their last two albums, Of What's to Come and Portals to Canaan, were stellar, too.
And even though Unique Leader has gone off into areas I'm not too keen on, their output in the 2000s was ridiculous.
― Devilock, Friday, 30 November 2018 09:17 (five years ago) link
If you don't object to Dissection worship (I most certainly do not), Wormlight do a better job than most: https://wormlightsweblacklion.bandcamp.com/album/wrath-of-the-wilds
― pomenitul, Friday, 30 November 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
very much enjoying the Sylvaine album posted above
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 1 December 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
One-woman atmospheric black doom project from a member of Eigenlicht, produced by the Weavers from Wolves in the Throne Room, it's good stuff
https://vouna.bandcamp.com/album/vouna
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 3 December 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
finally got time to dig in to that new Obliteration record. Holy shit. Some of the best death metal in years??? just unbelievably good, creative, dynamic...a triumph
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
Yeah, it's really good, from a band I admit I'd forgotten all about. Five years between albums will do that.
Anybody who needs more broooootal death in their life should check out Post Mortal Possession's Perpetual Descent, which came out about two weeks ago.
https://postmortalpossession666.bandcamp.com/album/perpetual-descent
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 03:32 (five years ago) link
Napalm Death's Christmas show was great, hugely enhanced by a (mainly) brilliant undercard including Doom and Fukpig.
Seasonal novelties included Doom doing Symptom of the Universe, ND doing Victims of a Bomb Raid and Madball pretending to have invented hardcore.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 08:19 (five years ago) link
Since this thread is sorely lacking in Icelandic acts, here's Carpe Noctem's Vitrun, for fans of atmoblack:
https://carpenoctem.bandcamp.com
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
the Obliteration is indeed fantastic. the riffs remind me of the stuff Morbid Angel was doing on albums A-C, with perhaps a little blackish tinge thrown in. Very cool atmosphere over all and devoid of jock tendencies.
I also dig the new Blasphemer (UK death metal). straightforward old school death metal, just done very well, and not seeking to recreate 80s Death-isms a la Gruesome. also cool leads instead of the Massacre-ish "somewhere a cat is being strangled variety" (which I admittedly like too)
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link
Revolver Magazine (USA)Fan Poll: 10 Best Albums of 2018https://www.revolvermag.com/music/fan-poll-10-best-albums-2018
10. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want9. Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog8. Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream7. Parkway Drive - Reverence6. Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest5. Clutch - Book of Bad Decisions4. YOB - Our Raw Heart3. A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant2. Ghost - Prequelle1. Judas Priest - Firepower
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 6 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
all those silly fans have been obsessing over Yob's press releases I see
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
Yob is a great story but Our Raw Heart pales in comparison to their past work. This is definitely the Hive Mind Album of the Year.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 7 December 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
:eyeroll:
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
I mean I wouldn't put it on a top 10 list but the Alice in Chains record was surprisingly good!
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 December 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link
Stereogum: The 10 Best Metal Albums Of 2018https://www.stereogum.com/2024835/the-10-best-metal-albums-of-2018/
1 Fluisteraars / Turia – De Oord (Eisenwald)2 Agrimonia – Awaken (Southern Lord Recordings)3 Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods (Nuclear Blast)4 Mournful Congregation – The Incubus Of Karma (20 Buck Spin)5 Fórn – Rites Of Despair (Gilead Media)6 Délétère – De Horae Leprae (Sepulchral Productions)7 Unfelled – Beneath Distant Skies (Cold Ways)8 Tanith – Citadel (Self-released)9 Sear Bliss – Letters From The Edge (Hammerheart Records)10 Ritual Necromancy – Disinterred Horror (Dark Descent Records)
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 7 December 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
Oops, was already posted in the 2018 album lists thread.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 7 December 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
I completely missed that Aeternus had an album out this year, listening to it now. Good stuff.
― Siegbran, Friday, 7 December 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
Good thing the hive mind invented a time machine and forced me to like that Yob record back when I got the stream before I read any reviews.
That Agrimonia record really is terrific.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 December 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
oh boy that obliteration record does rule
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 7 December 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
oh crap!! i liked their last one so much
― j., Friday, 7 December 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
I put new music in my iPod all the time. If it sucks, or if I get bored of it, I delete it. These are the hard rock and metal albums from 2018 that made it all the way to December.
Ages of Atrophy – The Great Ascendancy FraudAncestors – Suspended in ReflectionsBeastmaker – EPs 1-8Deracinated – Adoration of Decaying CarrionDimmu Borgir – EonianDysmorfectomy – Disembodied AnomaliesEarthless – Black Heaven and From the WestFacelift Deformation – Dominating the ExterminationHate Eternal – Upon Desolate SandsHigh On Fire – Electric MessiahIneffable Demise – Beyond the Marrow GatesJudas Priest – FirepowerKrisiun – Scourge of the EnthronedMental Cruelty – PurgatoriumHedvig Mollestad Trio – Smells FunnyMonster Magnet – MindfuckerMythic Sunship – Upheaval and Another Shape of Psychedelic MusicNine Inch Nails – Bad WitchObliteration – Cenotaph ObscureOrganectomy – Domain of the WretchedPost Mortal Possession – Perpetual DescentTribulation – Down BelowUriah Heep – Living the DreamVisigoth – Conqueror’s OathXenoblight – Procreation
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 7 December 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
Loved the Obliteration and Xenoblight.
― pomenitul, Friday, 7 December 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
Going by the EOY lists I've seen so far, I'm saddened to see Burial Invocation so thoroughly slept on:
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/abiogenesis
― pomenitul, Friday, 7 December 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
i LOVE that xenoblight record
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 7 December 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
A lot of good stuff on unperson's list, but I have to say I'm really struggling to connect with that Monster Magnet - and I say that as someone that is typically a fan.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 December 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link
Interesting. I don't think it's their best (Milking the Stars is way better imo) but I do dig it. Kind of a flashback to the early major label years.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 December 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
man Aeternus is one of my mainstays, I revisited much of their back catalog this year...and I didn't know they had a new one either!
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 8 December 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Another vote for the Aeternus album here. I was planning to review it on Burning Ambulance at some point but never got around to it.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 8 December 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
Christ I forgot about the Krisiun and I bought the damn thing
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 December 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
My first encounter with Krisiun – not sure I need much more of it in my life but it's a solid record.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 8 December 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link