Rolling Metal 2019

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.

The new Amon Amarth video is...something I'd expect from a band on Napalm or AFM. There was a time I'd pre-order an Amon Amarth album the day it was announced. Not this time. I can't even remember the last time I listened to their previous album. Twilight of the Thunder God and Surtur Rising are the last ones I have real fondness for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H24S0nym-pE

oh shit brutus kicks ass! i'm glad they have another record coming out already

New Darkthrone in May:

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/darkthrone-to-release-old-star-album-in-may/

New Darkthrone, new Dreadnought, new Dead to a Dying World. Lots to look forward to, particularly in the 'D' section of my metal shelf.

i was feeling like a new darkthrone was coming!!!

the advance track of that DtaDW album is immense

Quench your thirst for old school Finnish death/doom with Asphodelus's Stygian Dreams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbnCe5q6KEc

The new Mike Browning & friends d/b/a Nocturnus AD is pretty much everything I could've wanted from a follow-up to The Key (though I do love both Thresholds and Ethereal Tomb):
https://youtu.be/4CT09g-aCbw

And the demo version of the other song, released a year ago. Recommended especially for the baffling video:
https://youtu.be/1k07H4_OAzE

awesome. I loved the new one they did live, and their live show is fantastic, hearing all the old The Key classics played flawlessly. half the time I've seen them play for $7 or less too.

Jon Chang and Rob Marton of Discordance Axis have a new band called No One Knows What The Dead Think; they'll be releasing an album later this year. It sounds about how you think it will.

I reviewed The Dirt for Stereogum.

I have heard the new Sunn O))) album. It's very good, mostly due to Hildur Guðnadóttir, who plays cello (acoustic and electric) and halldorophone, and adds vocals to the first track. It's gonna sound really, really good through big-ass speakers.

ooooh

very happy with the Brutus and Moon Tooth albums, both out today.

thank you devilock for mentioning the new nocturnus ad record, i cannot wait

Brutus rips

Ah just came here to write that. Thanks for the heads up on the Brutus release. Loving it so far. The Moon Tooth isn't doing much for me yet but I only got about 2 tracks in.

Manowar are putting out three EPs this year, which will ultimately be compiled into their next full-length. The first one is out now. Four songs, one of which is a bombastic orchestral intro. The tracks have the words "Blood," "Steel," "Sword," and "Die" in the titles, but I don't see the word "Fire" anywhere. They're slipping.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D27AL1DX4AEriQj.jpg

I’ve got the chance to see them here, I’m somewhat tempted.

If you go, buy me a T-shirt (size L) and I'll Paypal you the costs + shipping.

(Re: Lingua Ignota in London. I won't be able to make it, alas. Ever more work beckons until May.) :(

That's all fine - I don't know if we can even go. If we do there will be a report

Keep us posted!

An understandable initiative: http://good.metal-archives.com/

Haha, Metal Archives and their April Fools Day pranks!

Some things I recently did #TwitterLPReviews for (and a capsule review for Invisible Oranges)

.@wearebrutus - Nest (@sargenthouse)

It lacks the immediacy of the Belgian trio's 2017 debut 'Burst,' but makes up for it by incorporating a ton of raw ideas into the album. This spirals the band's post-rock into a dozen directions yet they never lose the plot. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/JWGXg6FzXD

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 30, 2019

Magic Circle - Departed Souls (@20buckspinlabel)

Most bands that ape Sabbath lose sight that they were more than doom. Magic Circle taps into the other, often overlooked facets of the Brummie originators with an organic Foghat plod. Oh yeah, they got songs too. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/9zE1T36YR6

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 30, 2019

I say that @exumerofficial's 'Hostile Defiance' (out 4/5 on @MetalBlade) is "a frenetic, furious assault that transcends the nostalgia tag by kicking so much ass it doesn’t matter what decade it came out" at @invisoranges.https://t.co/7XDMpmw6Ww pic.twitter.com/F2UYTIJVpn

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 1, 2019

Falaise - A Place I Don’t Belong To
(A Sad Sadness Song)

Italian duo makes the most lush and beautiful blackgaze. Lilting pianos and clean guitars make the metallic elements seem heavier but even that's more about ornate atmosphere. Deafheaven fans take note. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/egpIl9ij2v

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 1, 2019

Syntheosis is streaming: https://www.loudersound.com//features/oranssi-pazuzu-and-dark-buddha-rising-join-forces-for-an-exhilarating-cosmic-rite

I'm in an airport but you lot can dive in

nice!!

guys

guys

This is everything I wanted the Entropia album to be.

yes but you also don't need the last 7 words

Even Angry Metal Guy likes it.

Hey that Entropia album is fuckin' great. This is also awesome

what is Chris Black up to?

is he on Twitter? anyone know?

apparently High Spirits, Savage Master and Demon Eye are touring together in May. that rules.

Waste of Space Orchestra are fine but sound like a lesser Oranssi Pazuzu to me, shrug emoji

Does anybody want to take over PopMatters' metal column? The dude who's been writing it for a while is stomping off in a snit because people got pissed at him for telling them they were devoting too much time to rooting Nazis out of metal.

I've decided to can MetalMatters. It has become apparent to me over the last couple of days that it is a waste of timing running a feature that exists to promote cool music. Simple reason: all folks want to do is bicker about politics on here, suppress any opinion that doesn't...

— Dean James Brown (@reus85) April 3, 2019

wanna share it, anyone? i'm serious. i'd love to pitch 'em on a team of people taking it over.

it looks like others were writing it with him ... wonder what their status is.

after he posted that, the eic at popmatters tweeted "actually, we're keeping the column" ... but it looks like she might've deleted that?

I'd do it if anybody gaf about what i thought

nobody gaf what anybody thinks

if you wait for that, you never start writing

would be up for a team effort, if i can be forgiven for flying off the handle the other week

tt listens to far more metal than me and would probably be even better of a team member if she can be persuaded