Rolling Metal 2019

https://youtu.be/nCR-OrN41E0

Oranssi Pazuzu were already the best rock band on the fucking planet but they might have gotten better

(with a bit of help from Dark Buddha Rising)

Whitesnake used to count as metal. I wrote about them for Burning Ambulance today.

speaking of things that may or may not count as metal, the Marissa Nadler / Stephen Brodsky collab album sounds pretty dope if this advance track is anything to go by. stoked to hear what they'll do with GnR's "Estranged"

https://youtu.be/zhUSJMp5y8Y

Slide It In was a formative gem for me and I still break it out from time to time.

Getting unsurprisingly strong Chelsea Wolfe vibes. I'm a sucker for this stuff, so I look forward to the rest.

I want Nadler, Wolfe and Anna von Hausswolff to team up as the macabre antimirror of Boygenius

lingua ignota, diamanda galas, her out of couch slut

Ignota doesn't really seem like the collaborative sort, but I'd be into it

literally collaborated with The Body last year!!!

which also reminds me, she's playing london in a few days, might check it out

Hmm, that might be worth a 2h (well, 4h in all) coach ride. I don't really know anything about Author & Punisher or RIOTMILOO, though.

I literally teared up at the Ignota show I went to. She's incredible live.

by a few days i mean nearly a month tbf

would be honoured to hang out w/ pomenitul tho so consider it yes!

Likewise, imago. I'll see what I can do!

I actually saw Author & Punisher open for The Body not too long ago. Was cool. Builds his own "instruments". Pretty interesting to watch him use his gear and figure out whats going on. I dig his homegrown mic a lot.

Yeah the Ignota show I saw last year was quite emotional as well. Played in the middle of the crowd.

I think I'd like to see Author & Punisher live just to watch him play with his machines, but the actual music is pretty basic industrial that anybody could make with a laptop. He's challenging himself to find hard ways to do things that can be - and is - done much more easily.

What about black metal?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47543875

xp yeah that is my exact feeling about A&P pretty much. also "steampunk"

2019 Metal albums I like to varying degrees (in alphabetical order)

Asthma Castle - Mount Crushmore
Astronoid - Astronoid
Bellrope - You Must Relax
Die Klute - Planet Fear
Dunkelnacht - Empires Of Mediocracy
Endon - Boy Meets Girl
Gorgon - Veil of Darkness
Insanity Alert - 666-Pack
Laceration - Remnants
Overkill - The Wings of War
Tyr - Hel
Venom Prison – Samsara
Yatra - Death Ritual
Great Falls / Great Sabatini - Split LP

This doesn't include stuff on the BriPod that I like which is coming out later. That list includes Eugenic Death, Hot Lunch, Noisem, Shabti, Ultra Silvam, Falaise, Magic Circle, Ultar, L' Acéphalem, Sabbath Assembly, BAT and Full of Hell.

I interviewed Venom prison for Invisible Oranges:
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/venom-prison-interview

This one will probably wind up high on my AOY lists. Just a wonderful, angry as shit record.

John Baizley confirmed the title and art for the new Baroness on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu7CzNJFwyv/

New Abbath album coming out this year.

The new Vircolac album is sounding pretty good to me right now:

https://vircolac.bandcamp.com/album/masque

With a name like that, I expected a proper Romanian band. Turns out it's more cultural appropriation by the Irish, as though Bram Stoker weren't enough.

(Just kidding, of course. I'll listen to a band called Vîrcolac no matter where they're from.)

sounding cool!

'so i hang from a wretched tree' exists magnificently at the nexus of black, death and punk

The new album was recorded after my friend JG left the band and I haven't got around to hearing if they've changed much since. They were a deadly live band before, though.

new Oozing Wound out today if you needed some thrashy misanthropic garbage to match the news

fuckin A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOnl1OMXTjo

that is v cool

Here's a couple of Twitter-length reviews of albums that came out this week that I like...

.@EugenicDeath
Under The Knife
(@HandHRec)

Unexpected Krishna-core, powerfully guttural vocals, and an abundance of circle pit-inducing riffs & double bass that merge Violence and "How Will I Laugh" ST separates these Tarheel thrashers from other revivalists. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/5W7hFNjOiy

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 16, 2019

Stream "Under The Knife" by @EugenicDeath via @Bandcamp https://t.co/NfsK1LegM6

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 16, 2019

.@HotLunch_SF
Under The Knife
(@teepeerecords)

Not sure about the scatological moniker (Google it at your own peril) but when you crank like a Motor City V8 with a touch of psychedelia befitting a San Francisco zip code, you can call yourself anything you want. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/yUhxPyRA4n

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 17, 2019

Stream "Under the Knife" by @HotLunch_SF via @Spotifyhttps://t.co/F7ZBdDxsfN

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 17, 2019

Drastus make a mean De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas impression, and more besides:

https://drastus.bandcamp.com/album/la-croix-de-sang

holy fuck new Drastus???

Beastmaker put out another four-track EP last month:

https://beastmaker.bandcamp.com/album/eye-of-the-storm

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1420143793_16.jpg

New logo, too!

Seems like Beastmaker is back to being a full band. The 10 EPs were Trevor Church doing everything, but all three members are credited on the new one.

Man I have to catch up on all of that Beastmaker stuff. I liked the first two albums but I missed the EPs until there were so many I felt way behind.

Surprised by how much I like the Devil Master album. They'd had such corny promo photos that I didn't really think I'd like it, but that breakneck punk death metal really scratches an itch for me. I haven't been really wowed by much new metal yet this year, even the new Overkill, while fine, felt like a step backwards.

Phil Anselmo was supposed to play two shows in New Zealand next week; in the wake of the Christchurch shootings, both have been cancelled by the venues, because of the video of him shouting "White power!" and throwing a Nazi salute onstage in 2016. Whoops!

Huh funny how that works out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh_8HBvkkr8

also new dreadnought album out may 10. last album was excellent and new song kicks ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHm1zQkdhEs

ok I'm ready for the Moon Tooth slbum now

I keep getting Moon Tooth confused with Moon Hooch and wondering why they're mentioned in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLU3Rp1fZo

(Moon Hooch are amazing)
(I don't know Moon Tooth)

Their first album placed on that year's metal poll. It's excellent.

Yeah - really looking forward to Moon Toon - that last record was awesome, and they're great live.

Moon Tooth - oops

They really are, and I'm sad they're not doing a headline gig here. Their tour with Astronoid was a peak ILXmetal experience

The new Brutus album comes out 3/29. I'm listening to it now, and it's fantastic. They're only kinda metal-adjacent, but they fucking rule.

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

oh wow, do unperson and I agree on something? :)

I love both advance tracks, very much looking forward to the album. sounds like a bold step up from the debut, which I already liked.

The forthcoming Inter Arma record is really great based on my first play through the entire thing.
Lots of interesting ideas the second half of the album, especially.