Rolling Metal 2018

Ironflame - Tales Of Splendor And Sorrow: Second album from Brimstone Coven's Andrew D'Cagna. Some songs address Greco-Roman mythology, and closer "Our Great Defender" is an allegorical tribute to DIO!
https://tribunalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tales-of-splendor-and-sorrow

For those who are interested my top (mostly) albums of the year.
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/brian-oneills-top-albums-of-2018

New Swallow the Sun EP, along with a video about the majesty of winter and shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6mgM7szaWY

Favorite movie over the holiday weekend: Heavy Trip, the epic tale of Finland’s greatest symphonic post apocalyptic reindeer-grinding-Christ-abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandian metal band, Impaled Rektum. Bottoms up to Jynkky in Valhalla! Also watched completely bonkers horror flick Mandy, which uses King Crimson's "Starless and Bible Black" as the theme song. Nick Cage is at his most unhinged since Vampire’s Kiss (1988), complete with a chainsaw battle. Lots of creepy, psychedelic horror. I’m traumatized.

Pretty interesting story pertinent to our photojournalist friends:

How I Got Banned from Photographing the Band Arch Enemy

that is disgusting. Angela Gossow's page is getting lit up with people calling her on it, too.

you expect more out of a popular band? *hollow laugh*

A lot of stuff I never heard of, and he also rattles off a long list of honorable mentions.

20 NWOTHM Albums of 2018

#20: Sign of the Jackal - Breaking the Spell
#19: Wytch Hazel - II: Sojourn
#18: Eliminator - Last Horizon
#17.1: Shadowkiller - Guardians of the Temple
#17.2: Ancient Empire - Eternal Soldier
#16: Evil-Lÿn - Disciple of Steel
#15: Lucifer's Hammer - Time Is Death
#14: Steelballs - Thunder Strikes Again
#13: Seven Sisters - The Cauldron and the Cross
#12: Espionage - Digital Dystopia
#11: Gatekeeper - East of Sun
#10. Manacle - No Fear to Persevere
#9. Lizzies - On Thin Ice
#8. Blackslash - Lightning Strikes Again
#7. Toledo Steel - No Quarter
#6. Striker - Play to Win
#5. Snakebite - Rise of the Snake
#4. Silver Talon - Becoming A Demon
#3. Haunt - Burst Into Flame
#2. Hitten - Twist of Fate
#1. Visigoth - Conqueror’s Oath

Friday's Viking's Choice podcast was pretty good:
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/12/28/674533914/vikings-choice-the-year-in-the-loud-and-the-weird

Chapel of Disease, ... And As We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye
Four words: Death-metal Dire Straits. No, wait, come back! Metal has long reckoned with its rock and roll roots, from Entombed's Wolverine Blues to Tribulation's flamboyantly gothic King Diamond worship. Germany's Chapel of Disease may have started as a Morbid Angel homage, but on its third album it embraces '70s hard-rock swagger, proggy sorcery and, most surprisingly, the fluid melodicism of Mark Knopfler's guitar work, all atop death-metal growls and chugged riffs. There's no reason why this should work, and it's a testament to Chapel of Disease's heavily worn record collection, as the group now raises fists and beer to the storm.
https://chapelofdisease.bandcamp.com/album/and-as-we-have-seen-the-storm-we-have-embraced-the-eye

There's a lot of Tribulation in the first track on that album (the only one I've listened to so far). Might be worth giving them $7.

Broooootal slamz of the day: Habitual Depravity's Realms of Abysmal Servitude:

https://realityfaderecords.bandcamp.com/album/realms-of-abysmal-servitude

some nice discoveries from the AMG lists that have yet to be mentioned in this thread: lovingly gloomy doom-black hybrid Eneferens (The Bleakness of Our Constant); Woods of Ypres-influenced bleak alt-metal from Altars of Grief (Iris)l; very melodic, very extended (like, 6 songs in 70 minutes) doom, somewhat akin to what I recall of early Opeth, from the appropriately named The Eternal (Waiting for the Endless Dawn).

Where do you see those? They are not on this list: https://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/2018/favorite-metal

AMG = Angry Metal Guy, I think?
https://www.angrymetalguy.com/

Ah I see

If there's no metal poll this year, do we all post our top 10/25/50 lists here?

I guess so. That would really suck, though.

been started!

We are doing metal poll this year!

ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll 2018: NOMINATIONS thread - open till Jan. 19th, 2019!

Go ahead and nominate your favorite albums and talk about them at great lengths, if you so choise

Haha xp

Apparently nominations should be bolded. My mistake; I'm the new guy!

Yob - Our Raw Heart
Sleep - The Sciences
Ghost - Prequelle
Thy Catafalque - Geometria
Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma
Pillorian - Obsidian Arc
Khorada - Salt
Evoken - Hypnagogia

Aw fuck

Four words: Death-metal Dire Straits. No, wait, come back!

― Fastnbulbous

why did i listen to this

in other news from now on whenever i see the acronym "amg" i will substitute in "angry metal guy" in my brain

Yay for the metal poll! I was getting worried.

Pretty interesting story pertinent to our photojournalist friends:

How I Got Banned from Photographing the Band Arch Enemy

this story - or, more specifically, the online reaction to it - is kinda crazy to me. is this photographer a particularly well-connected or widely read guy? i realize he has his own niche site and re-ran the story on a photography site, but i guess i'm surprised he has rallied this band's fans against it - quite vocally, it seems - over his own copyright claim ... which i would think is something very few people actually care about, especially enough to turn against a band they love!

what am i missing here?

i guess what i'm saying is, yes, he is right, and he did a good job of detailing his side of the story, and still i am amazed that the Arch Enemy FB is full of comments like "how dare you re-post an artist's work without credit, you are scum and i'm done supporting this band!" and not "whatevs, it's just a pic on the internet, the photog should be happy for the exposure, Arch Enemy rules"

Because of the missing counter narrative from the band?

Ah I see Angela Gossow did respond - in the dumbest way possible, in a whiny dramatic tone accusing the photographer’s factual statements as ‘highly emotionalizing’ the issue.

Rolling Metal 2019