Rolling Metal 2019

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

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

― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:55 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like...there's no Vasemman Kaden Hierarkia there but I think it's a much more consistent and dynamically-structured album than anything they've put out on their own. it's stunning imo

Hmmm yeah I was a bit more dismissive than I ought to have been, though I stand by my point, I just don't like it as much as I'd like to. The last track alone is undeniably spectacular.

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

I’d be really happy to assist with this if you decide to approach them! I’ve been idly wondering about starting a metal and prog...blog for a while now, but writing with a team would definitely be more fun! I know I’m kind of a low key poster, but my thoughts on metal do usually amount to more than ‘the new Astronoid album is so cute’.

you are prone to saying things like "a prog masterpiece" unless LJ is hijacking your accounts

I just happen to think many things are prog masterpieces

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

Hearing this band for the first time today and they're pretty good - a combination of Mastodon, Elder, and Dawnbringer, sorta?

well you just got my attention

Ugh.

http://scontent.fewr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/56894434_10161670508450597_5756870457278070784_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-1.fna&oh=f3b9d1db920bb8486c55aba0d22752c0&oe=5D4B354D

Of the BM I've heard this year, I keep coming back to the Drastus and this one, by Gjendød:

https://hellthrasherproductions.bandcamp.com/album/krigsd-ger

I interviewed Set Sothis Nox La from L’Acéphale for Invisible Oranges.
The new album is wonderful and streaming in full there.
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/lacephale-interview-premiere

This comment was left on the L’Acéphale interview.

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I am not sure who should be offended more, me or the rest of ILX.
I think I'll just go with neither.

How prestigious of smellypenises to have heard of ILX in the first place.

"inoffensive"

New Alcest before the year is out and they just signed with Nuclear Blast.

I didn't know Kevin from Gorguts and Toby Driver were in a goth band, Vaura.

And there's a new Lucifyre EP coming out on Dark Descent.