Rolling Metal 2019

Sabaton did that first :)

That Lingua Ignota track took me a few listens to get into, but is pretty amazing imo. High hopes for this album.

I love the Nocturnus AD. The guitars and keyboards aren't quite as in rhyme as on The Key, but it's hard to believe that this isn't Nocturnus proper

do we talk about how good the Big Brave album is here or somewhere else

alright then, I shall go outside and shout it to the sky cause it's really fucking good.

anyway looking forward to the new Tristengrav:

TRISTENGRAV hail from Patras, Greece and released their first demo, Incendiarism of Nous in 2018 Now, roughly a year later comes Nychavge, a four-track (plus one outro) recording featuring their unique blend of black metal with gothic rock. Imagine GISM crossed with Rozz Williams-era Christian Death or later Anti-Cimex covering Mighty Sphincter and you have some glimpse into the ever-growing madness that is TRISTENGRAV...

https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/ii-nychavge

Their demo is quite good, ferocious black metal with crust influence but lacking the gothic element.

The new Dreadnought should be right up my alley, and ephemeral bits of it rival The 3rd and the Mortal, but it still comes across as a structural mess for the most part. Perhaps I need to spend more time with it.

so there are two Batushkas now?

https://sphieratz.bandcamp.com/album/-

I’ve been loving the Big Brave. Also listening a lot to new Helms Alee.

I will be interviewing Carl Canedy tomorrow and although he was never inaccessible or anything, I am still looking forward to it. He is someone whose name I saw on records by Anthrax and Overkill who played in The Rods so it goes back to one of the earlier recognizable-names-on-album-jackets in my metal fandom.

Also, he played on the first Manowar demo which I found out about many years later.

Haven't played the Big | Brave record yet, but really digging the Helms Alee one. They've always been a band I've liked, but this is the first album of theirs that I've really loved. Also been spending a lot of time with some recent RidingEasy releases, especially The Well and BUS. The former might be their best yet, I like the post-punk darkness they swirled into the doom and the latter is a surprisingly solid mix of psych and doom. I'd never expect to hear Primus (as a positive, no less) in a RidingEasy album.

every year there's one tour that attracts all of yr city's biggest meathead assholes, and every year I dodge their combat boots. this year that tour is

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/harms_way_jesus_piece_to_play_toronto_on_summer_tour

Any thoughts on the new Deathspell Omega? I've followed them since the beginning but something clicked (or broke) with me on this one and I can't stand them. Sold off my entire discography in the last week. As mentioned upthread, I may just be done with dodgy BM. The music just isn't enough to engage with bad politics.

I haven't gotten around to it yet but I've always found them to be somewhat overrated (except for Paracletus) so there's no emotional connection to reassess on my part.

The Big Brave LP is awesome btw.

Parts of BB remind me of like Fushitsusha or C. Brotzmann Massaker or something. Very good.

Had my first listen to the DSO tonight. The music's good but it's hard to get over the feeling that Paracletus was their peak and they're never going to do anything that interesting again. Anyone uh read the lyrics to this one?

I don't know if my mood changes significantly between the two different times I spend listening to the Big Brave, but I thought the first three tracks were amazing but the last two really didn't grab me.

Frankly terrifying:

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/slipknots-corey-taylor-says-he-blew-out-his-left-testicle-while-singing/

how is that even possible?! by "fucking around" does he mean he was prancing in a field of scissors?

he was just joking

Listening to the new Deathspell Omega while looking at the lyrics, and while they're definitely from a position I don't agree with - they conflate basically every political movement there is - I don't think they're 'dodgy'. I honestly think it's pretty brilliant, not really fascist, just absolutist in the Sadean, Bataillean, Nietszchean sense. I like them a lot more than what was going on on 'The Synarchy of Molten Bones', which was... muddy, and could easily be seen as dodgy. I mean:

The mere existence of conflicting opinions means that the Truth has yet to triumph. Diversity is an outrage, freedom of thought will be terminated. Everything is a lie but that which we feed you, believe me. If your thoughts collide with what we say, these thoughts can not be yours. We will rip your mouth open and stuff you with Truth, like a goose. The Truth will blossom in the end, be it over your swollen corpse

new Darkthrone is v satisfying

^^^ yes it is

I'm really liking Bethlehem's Lebe dich leer. Onielar's vocals are right up my alley – she is a thespian of pure despair.

I see they've been around since 1991. How is the rest of their discography?

I countersign DSO, Darkthrone and Bethlehem, too. (And I had no idea that Bethlehem's (and Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult's) singer was female, which both doesn't matter and is interesting.)

i had no idea she was in Bethlehem, can only help them imo.

pomenitul just to help very slightly: the early Bethlehem stuff is great, kinda black metal and doom in equal measures. Dark Metal is my favorite but check out Dictius Te Necare if you like absolutely unhinged vocal performances.

Thanks GP!

There are a lot of incredible female vocalists on the extreme metal front at the moment. See also: Turia, Xenoblight, Venom Prison.

Xenoblight is a name I keep running across, gonna check 'em out. Already love VP!

Unsure what to make of the new DsO. Ignoring the political ambiguities for a second (and I'd say, having read the lyrics, that it's probably fine, albeit crazed), the music is this kind of impressive wash that I can't really latch onto. It feels like punishment. I know it's black metal and all but there's no sense of ritual, of incantation or magic here - it's didactic in sound as well as content. You WILL suffer. You WILL behold the incessant towers of sound. I'm aware that coming from a Jute Gyte fan, this may sound somewhat hypocritical, but there's a wit and a sense of surrender to mathematics and technology that somehow sublimes the latter act into something bewildering and Other - this simply feels like a bunch of pissed-off humanities professors inflicting their revenge on the idiotic world. While I would agree with much of their analysis, and even their methods, I don't necessarily want revenge - I want transcendence. There's only so much fast-fingered atonal rage I can listen to before I wonder how else these ideas can be approached, and how else this amount of musical talent and ingenuity can be manifested.

I haven't listened to it yet but your assessment echoes my own experiences with their previous albums.

I kinda think 'atonal rage' is exactly what I want from black metal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Or hatred, it's supposed to be hateful. I've been really delving into the satanic trilogy, including all the eps, and they're much more faceted than this, filled with allusions to Bataille and Hegel and Pascal, coopting so much of catholic thought and ritual. It's just a more interesting subject. But as far as political black metal goes, I'm really impressed by it. It's absolutely raging and hateful and out for blood, and I'm honestly kinda impressed that it still doesn't feel fascist, you know? I wasn't sure it could be done...

Having just heard The Furnaces of Palingenesia for the first time, imago otm x2. Also: I can only take so much Finnish street preaching.

Have you checked out Abigor?

I thought the problem with DsO wasn't their lyrical content but the fact it's Mikko Aspa singing?

If that was for me, yeah, I very much enjoy Verwüstung / Invoke Dark Age and Orkblut - The Retaliation in particular. I haven't heard their stuff post-Opus IV, though.

xp

their post-Opus stuff like Leytmotif Luzifer and Hollenzwang should be right up yr DsO-alley, super dense avantgarde ‘atonal rage’.

Time Is The Sulphur In The Veins Of The Saint too.

I'll check them out, thanks. DsO-style dissonance is an oft-disappointing BM subgenre in my experience but when it's on, it's a misanthropic feast, and I can't imagine the genre as a whole without it.

thoughts on the new Darkthrone:
+ maybe my favorite Ted vocal production, sounds very Cronos
+ title track is pretty great
+ it's Darkthrone
- they're not as good at slow/epic hm riffss as I want them to be
- it's not as good/memorable as Arctic Thunder

ok listening to it rn and
+ the back half is actually super fucking solid

imo in their current phase (their regal phase as far as I'm concerned) they've gotten impeccable with the back half of their albums

New Wormed song! (New Wormed EP in July!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TwlPMrQYQ8

Box of the first four Krallice albums just went up on Bandcamp. The vinyl is selling for $800.

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/the-wastes-of-time

thoughts on the new Darkthrone:
+ maybe my favorite Ted vocal production, sounds very Cronos
+ title track is pretty great
+ it's Darkthrone
- they're not as good at slow/epic hm riffss as I want them to be
- it's not as good/memorable as Arctic Thunder

― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, June 4, 2019 3:09 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think it's much better and more memorable than arctic thunder, though i should really revisit the last two again

i mean "much better" is overstating it

guess i'm gonna listen to darkthrone all day

does this go here or emo thread

https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2018/42

yes

haha

The vinyl is selling for $800.

I laughed pretty hard at this, then I clicked the Bandcamp link and realized you added a zero by mistake.

shipping to Canada is 63$ :( :( :(

I know it's noted on the bandcamp blurb but damn

Whoops! Sorry about the typo.

New Wormed song!

lol i knew this was you before i got to the end of the post

i count on you for my contrarian metal gatekeeping