Rolling Metal 2019

oh hey a lineup just for me!!!!!

I wonder if they'll be doing the same when they play here w/ Baroness

lmao my dumb brane confused them with Deafheaven for some reason

Both are pfork metal.

does that denote anything other than "well reviewed by pfork"

Nah, just being a dick. I enjoy both.

it would be amusing if Pitchfork announced a metal tour a la Decibel

Pitchforks are metal as fuck.

They're no scythes tho.

If it's good enough for satan, it's good enough for me.

TS: Satan vs. the Grim Reaper.

Anyway, here's Leprous's cover of 'Angel':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VaRCjRpWBE

From the "things you never thought you'd see in the New York Times bucket":

Letter of Recommendation: Ronnie James Dio

oooh I like Leprous and that cover sounds pretty much exactly like I expected (in a good way)

Disappointed that this is not a Shaggy cover.

loving this. can't wait to sit down with the full album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4miK2kxrHM

Good discordant DM, kinda reminds me of The Erosion of Sanity but that might just be the production

http://lightdweller.bandcamp.com/album/incandescent-crucifix

Also really loving this Obduktio album from a year or so ago, really good OSDM-meets-primitive grind vibe, 100% in love with the LG Petrov style vocals

https://obduktio.bandcamp.com/album/holotna

Also, from Finland

Today's the last day to vote in the metal poll! Don't forget the send in a ballot. Minimum is 5 albums, maximum 50!

The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE! Ballots due by Friday, February 15th 11.59pm PST

Right now I'm liveblogging my reactions to the big high-profile metal albums of last year so don't be afraid to come mosey on over and save the thread!

there's no minimum is there?

Oh ok my bad

OK let's post this here too. Your other favourite metal is Finnished. All fucking hail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ia-nyd_K8

The new Astronoid album isn't really doing it for me, not enough songs on par with their debut. Dream in Lines is great, though, and the one I'd heard a lot before, which makes me think I should give it another few listens.

Another great thing, though: Downloading and listening to Astronoid in Apple Music made them recommend the new Vanum album, which is kinda generic but really nice. All hail Apple.

I'm loving the new Astronoid though I'm still awaiting my CD coming

ILM METAL POLL 2018 RESULTS THREAD!

Violet Cold just released a new album:
http://violetcold.bandcamp.com/album/kosmik

My favorite project from Azerbaijan whose Anomie album was one of my favorite releases of 2017. I haven't listened yet but posting in here in part to make sure I do, If you like severely eclectic blackgaze, you might want to give it a listen as well.

Have you recovered yet Brian from Black Label Society making the poll?

Just found out that I live next to Hailz from Neckbeard Deathcamp! Get to know your neighbors! Maybe he'll come over and play my drums!

There's a new Demon Head album, which is exciting.

http://demonhead.bandcamp.com/album/hellfire-ocean-void

Kinda annoying this trend of up-pricing downloads to $12 or $15 when the CD is $12 on Amazon

New Candlemass rules!

It really does. I love the shit out of Epicus Doomicus Metallicus but have consistently been underwhelmed by their subsequent albums for a very simple reason: the absence of Johan.

he sounds a bit different here tho, in a good way. a little more rock 'n rollish

Omg this Funereal Presence album is absolutely incredible! Some kind of flaneur-punk black metal sounding very much like it's from New York (which it is). https://funerealpresence.bandcamp.com/album/achatius

Achatius was a Roman martyr, and there are some marked medieval overtones throughout, so it is indeed strange to hear these archaic themes subjected to the speed metal treatment. Definitely the most original metal album I've heard this year.

A Greek martyr, rather.

Yeah, it's certainly an unusual choice of band name (I've realised just now after reading the Wikipedia entry for Achatius). Also, when I said flaneur-punk, I think I was a bit taken in by the skeleton strolling on the cover and saw it like death taking from the city at leisure. But actually it's more like extreme power walking. Anyway, original is right - what an excellent album.

This sounds AMAZING

On the more derivative end of things, this is some really solid Aussie death-doom:

https://horrisonous.bandcamp.com/album/a-culinary-cacophony

More doom, this time symphonic:

https://osmoseproductions.bandcamp.com/album/high-the-memory

I hear vague echoes of Valentin Silvestrov in their stasis.

I am at The Armed gig and I have never hated any gig so much in my life. They are playing the best song off the last album and I’m just talking to the bouncers about how gross the crowd is. The band is also gross. I hate The Armed and I retract all of my points. From now on I only like forest prog and people who aren’t sick everywhere.

I wouldn't go quite as far as that, but that was a miserable tuneless disappointment and I'm happy to be getting pizza instead

I've never wanted to leave the gig of a band I've liked that much before, but that was not the deconstructive pop-hardcore party I expected - it was a horrible noise blare over a bar fight

The support band was great though! Rough Hands. Check 'em

I had no idea I needed a black metal cover of Gabriel Fauré's Pavane, yet here we are:

https://sarastus.bandcamp.com/album/enter-the-necropolis

I have always been and will always be more of a Wino guy than a Reagers guy, but there's a new self-titled Saint Vitus album coming out in May with Reagers on vocals and it kicks ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCJz8FdsHo0

Wow. Sorry to hear about The Armed show. That was not the experience I had with it. It was lots of hugs, tons of fun and the sound was great to my ears. This was in BK right after Only love came out. The swamp monster kept the crowd pretty much under control. No more crazy than any other hardcore/noise show. I'm sorry it was a bummer. I feel responsible for hyping it up.

Not at all! We would have gone to it anyway and probably I am just not cut out for hardcore shows in general, my previous experience of which probably extended to like seeing Thrice in 2005... I guess I felt cynically about people at the very edge of the crowd being dragged in by band members, but I heard that a guy had an epileptic fit at the end and the band stopped the gig, which is decent.

Jesus. Yeah I can see that, it was like an hour of strobe lights. The one I went to was a pretty standard hardcore crowd but the swamp thing was doing magic tricks in the middle and Cara was taking selfies, passing out champagne and on vocals. Which definitely changed things. I found it refreshing and fun but definitely more of a hardcore show vibe than anything else.

Well then:

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/agalloch-members-condemn-john-haughm-pillorian-bandmates-quit-after-anti-semitic-remark/

Very disappointed.