Rolling Metal 2018

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

disappeared in foggy dan?

"Foggy day." They picked a really terrible font for the lyric video.

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.

Rotting Christ is a band who once released a song called "Fgmenth, Thy Gift," and for this I will forever be grateful

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

Get yr deathgrind right here:

https://infernalcoil.bandcamp.com/album/within-a-world-forgotten

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.

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

very much enjoying the Sylvaine album posted above

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

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

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

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.

Since this thread is sorely lacking in Icelandic acts, here's Carpe Noctem's Vitrun, for fans of atmoblack:

https://carpenoctem.bandcamp.com

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)

Revolver Magazine (USA)
Fan Poll: 10 Best Albums of 2018
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/fan-poll-10-best-albums-2018

10. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
9. Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
8. Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream
7. Parkway Drive - Reverence
6. Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest
5. Clutch - Book of Bad Decisions
4. YOB - Our Raw Heart
3. A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant
2. Ghost - Prequelle
1. Judas Priest - Firepower

all those silly fans have been obsessing over Yob's press releases I see

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.

:eyeroll:

I mean I wouldn't put it on a top 10 list but the Alice in Chains record was surprisingly good!

Stereogum: The 10 Best Metal Albums Of 2018
https://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)

Oops, was already posted in the 2018 album lists thread.

I completely missed that Aeternus had an album out this year, listening to it now. Good stuff.

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.

oh boy that obliteration record does rule

I completely missed that Aeternus had an album out this year, listening to it now. Good stuff.

oh crap!! i liked their last one so much

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 Fraud
Ancestors – Suspended in Reflections
Beastmaker – EPs 1-8
Deracinated – Adoration of Decaying Carrion
Dimmu Borgir – Eonian
Dysmorfectomy – Disembodied Anomalies
Earthless – Black Heaven and From the West
Facelift Deformation – Dominating the Extermination
Hate Eternal – Upon Desolate Sands
High On Fire – Electric Messiah
Ineffable Demise – Beyond the Marrow Gates
Judas Priest – Firepower
Krisiun – Scourge of the Enthroned
Mental Cruelty – Purgatorium
Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Smells Funny
Monster Magnet – Mindfucker
Mythic Sunship – Upheaval and Another Shape of Psychedelic Music
Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch
Obliteration – Cenotaph Obscure
Organectomy – Domain of the Wretched
Post Mortal Possession – Perpetual Descent
Tribulation – Down Below
Uriah Heep – Living the Dream
Visigoth – Conqueror’s Oath
Xenoblight – Procreation

Loved the Obliteration and Xenoblight.

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

i LOVE that xenoblight record

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.

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.

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!

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.

Christ I forgot about the Krisiun and I bought the damn thing

My first encounter with Krisiun – not sure I need much more of it in my life but it's a solid record.

not feeling that aeternus my first time thru, rhythm section sounds really weak : (

Metal af: https://www.cbs17.com/news/south/death-metal-guitarist-arrested-after-florida-home-catches-fire-with-ammunition-inside/1652311989

Already a Gofundme for his bail.

Uhh...pass

metal (enough) tour announcement worth posting here, i think:

Baroness x Deafheaven x Zeal & Ardor across much of America and Canada next year
http://www.metalinjection.net/tour-dates/baroness-deafheaven-zeal-ardor-team-up-for-2019-north-american-tour

that's such an awesome lineup that I kind of regret seeing Deafheaven this year minus a guitarist

props to the Angry Metal Guy crew for reminding me about the Paara album, which I will definitely vote for if we end up doing a poll this year

Likewise.

fuck, the Frontierer album just clicked for me and is *great*, very much in the vein of DEP's Ire Works and a few Shining (the Norwegian non-fashy one) albums ago

The new Metal Church is surprisingly good!

Also dig the fuck out of the depressive sounding Outer Heaven album, whose vocals sound like a chorale of grunters emulating a vacuum cleaner

Beastmaker is continuing his/its EP series; #s 9 and 10 popped up this weekend. He's now charging $4 each instead of $1.

Here's a neat record I discovered completely by accident today while trying to find a different band with a similar name. muscular and slightly mathy Melbourne metalcore-y stuff (I'm shit at subgenres) with killer female vox, convincing stylistic digressions, and a lyrical focus on the Indonesian genocide of the 1960s

https://hightensionband.bandcamp.com/album/purge

Oh wow, that High Tension is good.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5l50jECqj1B8vSMOvdPrDH for the stream-minded...