Rolling Metal 2019

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

yeah the riffs on the new darkthrone are my fav they've come up with ages. not that i'm complaining about how good they've been for the past hundred years

i own all of their albums now and really they're all at least good. avoided Total Death, Ravishing, etc for a long time but really i celebrate their entire catalog.

that new Wormed song is fucking sick. I listen to Krighsu maybe once a year and that's about all the sci fi grind-death or whatever I need these days, but it seems like they're expanding their palette a bit?

Yeah the production's a little clearer and it feels a little more accessible in some indefinable way?

Contemporary trad metal isn't usually my jam but the Traveler record is awesome:

https://travelermetal.bandcamp.com/album/traveler

― pomenitul, Friday, March 1, 2019 12:27 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is great, thanks

the new Bergraven (not sure when it came out exactly) is absolutely fucking fantastic

This is sort of surprising...a one-man Australian black metal act paying tribute to Yukio Mishima.

https://kommodus.bandcamp.com/album/an-imperial-sun-rises

When I think of Yukio Mishima, I think of one word: discipline. Here’s a man who never missed a deadline for his writing, or art. A man who identified the physical weakness within himself and sought to crush it.

In his short lifetime he left a body of work, a legacy that contained 35 novels, 25 plays, 200 short stories, and 8 volumes of essays. An amazing bibliography that assured him a place as Japan’s most celebrated author. An athlete who forged himself a new body from sun and steel. A pariah who disregarded the zeitgeist of his era – the erosion of Japanese tradition and the cultural pressures to transform the country into an emasculated leftist shadow of its former self. He contested his surroundings and matched his words with action, transforming his world to reflect his art. Training religiously, forming a militia, and ultimately immortalising himself through his work and through his death. Total commitment, total belief. Mishima had the drive and vision to make a poem out of his life. And in our contemporary era I think there is much to learn from him. To attempt to attain and exercise that same monastic drive in our own chosen paths. To have the sheer will and faith in ourselves to ignore all the ephemeral influences, distractions, and rabbit holes that are shoved down our throats, that obscure our focus, and derail our progress. To recognise and understand what it is we want and attain it, to attack it mercilessly until we are synonymous with it. How can we change the world if we can’t first change ourselves with discipline, determination and steadfast focus?

News, politics, social rhetoric and trends it’s all agenda and half-truths. Instead, we need the glorious sun, that defined our earliest incarnation of gods and goddesses. We need the steel to make us stronger and conquer. We need Mishima.

Having read the blurbs he's posted alongside his previous three albums, I don't think this guy's a fascist; I think he's just a dummy who's absorbed Extremely Online ideas about nihilism and filtered them through his own mental problems ("'One Thousand Years Of The Wolf' was recorded in the dry, infernal summer of MMXVIII amidst constant mental anguish and instability"). And the music is standard shouting-from-the-back-of-the-cave, dull and monotonous; I was just intrigued to see YM's photo on the cover.

Going by this cover I've got to imagine he's goofing on some level

https://imgur.com/fao70P1

well anyway dude's wearing a baseball cap on his first demo and what looks like his grandma's mink stole on his head on the second...

I don't think this guy's a fascist

Mishima was famously a Japanese nationalist, so 'far-right dog whistle' warning still applies.

I wonder if he knows Mishima was gay, and whether finding that out would change his impressions any.

In any case, the album art >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the actual music.

Inter Arma stop in Chicago was a lot of fun this week - if they come through your town, go see 'em! Great bill, too - Thantifaxath & Pulchre Morte had great sets.

I am at the Dio hologram show in Asbury Park, NJ. Full report next week.

Mishima's revered in the Noise/PE world for the same qualities the Kommodus dude mentions and his sexuality is embraced as perverted/transgressive. I'd guess Kommodus has read only Sun & Steel and maybe Patriotism. Doubt he's delved into Confessions of a Mask.

hey seriously though this Bergraven album is the fuckin business

As promised, my review of the Dio hologram show.

JCLC, you were not lying. this is crazy!

Yeah, this new Bergraven - which came out in March, apparently - is great. And how did I not know these guys made four albums under the name Stilla (with a different vocalist) between 2013 and 2018? Gonna check those out soon.

I love the Stilla stuff but haven't enough Bergraven to compare them. Ensamhetens Andar has some really interestingly weird riffs and basslines.

Imprecation's Damnatio Ad Bestias is one of the better death metal albums I've heard so far this year.

As usual, Esoctrilihum delivers the esoteric goods:

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-telluric-ashes-of-the-o-vrth-immemorial-gods

It's at least on par with last year's Inhüma.

On the tech death end of things, I'm really enjoying Sinners Bleed's Absolution:

https://war-anthem-records.bandcamp.com/album/absolution

I should probably check out their debut.

:(

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/megadeths-dave-mustaine-diagnosed-with-throat-cancer/

do your best Dave, hopefully you've got years of recording albums i have no interest in hearing ahead of you

In a way it's a real shame since their last one Dystopia had a couple of really excellent songs but man those lyrics. I'm not easily offended but it's just facepalm after facepalm.

I don't want him to get cancer but I would like it if he wasn't such a right wing tool.

exactly

btw Siegbran if you remember the track titles could you post them, I'd be interested to hear them

For example The Threat Is Real is a pretty awesome song but I dare you to sit it out.

Well the music's good

There are several ways to interpret the lyrics and I don't think I like any of them

Not sure how long this has been floating around out there, but I just found out about it today - not so excited about anything new from Vektor any longer.

DiSanto's wife's appeal for help got RTed by Kim Kelly but I don't think it mentioned Vektor so I'm just figuring this out too. Yeah, horrifying and I'm done with them.

Yep, that's exactly how I found out about it. Awful story.

from what I gathered, he was the only remaining member.

The new Organectomy album, Existential Disconnect, is out today on Unique Leader.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2958267555_10.jpg

So are Meads of Asphodel sketchy? I hope not. I always thought they were genius weirdos and the new one out today doesn't change my mind.

They're pretty sketchy, yeah.

meads of asphodel, whose song titles include the lovely "jew killer" and "children of the sunwheel banner"

— machine girl kelly (@mulchlord) June 12, 2019

Are Meads of Asphodel one of those problematic acts? I honestly need to start keeping a spreadsheet.

— Jeff Treppel (@JeffTreppel) May 20, 2019