Rolling Metal 2019

As a singer in a band i have always been serious about the Truth

sure sure sure

He said the Truth not the truth.

His lyrics always sounded like he had it all figured out, even in the old Amebix days.

Should anyone care, here are the 2019 metal LPs I've enjoyed the most so far, in alphabetical order and with highly approximate subgenre tags appended to each title:

Abyssic - High the Memory (symph death/doom)
Andavald - Undir skyggðarhaldi (depressive/atmo black)
Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them (drone/atmo sludge)
Darkenhöld / Griffon - Atra Musica (medieval black/dark folk)
Deus Mortem - Kosmocide* (black)
Esoctrilihum - The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods (blackened death)
Herxheim - Cultivating Throne of Fur (avant-death)
Inculter - Fatal Visions (thrash)
Inter Arma - Sulphur English (atmo sludge)
Kvelgeyst - Alkahest (melo black)
Maestus - Deliquesce (funeral doom)
Misþyrming - Algleymi (black)
Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I: War, Horrid War (atmo sludge/war)
Ringarë - Under Pale Moon (atmo black)
Sinners Bleed - Absolution (tech death)
Skáphe & Wormlust - Kosmískur hryllingur (avant-black)
Sunn O))) - Life Metal (drone)
Superstition - The Anatomy of Unholy Transformation (death)
Troll - Legend Master (epic doom)
Ultra Silvam - The Spearwound Salvation (black)
Veiled - In Blinding Presence (black)
Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis (avant)

*fash warning (newsfash?)

I need to check out Esoctrilihum, Troll and new Inter Arma. But right now I'm blasting my ears out with the new Abbath, party bm till death

And I am listening to Turilli/Leone Rhapsody's Zero Gravity (Rebirth and Evolution) because I am still a total mark for all Rhapsody (of Fire)-related foolishness.

Thanks for the shopping list, Pom!

Some melodic stoner-psych that might appeal to Elder fans:

https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/orbis-majora

I'd sort of given up trying to keep pace with Iron Bonehead because they put out SO MUCH STUFF but now I feel dumb, as this Celestial Grave thing is completely massive. Album probably could've been twice as long, so mesmerizing are the songs -- which sort of have that howling wind vibe that comes with a lot of the Icelandic stuff (though these are Finns), coupled with a more human, melodic approach that occasionally reminds me of Mgla. And best of all for my interests, each of the four songs has a long, LONG crescendo that can propel you over treetops. Just tremendous.
https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/celestial-grave-secular-flesh

Fans of the Cascadian bm style would undoubtedly dig it too. Lots of soaring tremolo leads to induce bucolic reveries. Haha.

Got the new Destruction (they're a quartet now and it sounds typically excellent) and the new Devourment (haven't listened to it yet) today.

This'll keep me occupied at work today... Picked up the limited @DarkFuneral box set from @worldofmusic for less than $60 including shipping! pic.twitter.com/IzFcSRaIVc

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) July 11, 2019

No surprise, the new Opeth track makes me very happy.

https://youtu.be/yAh7XQ0whvg

They've released the Swedish version simultaneously, of course:

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

So the new Cleric's been out since February and no one, LJ included, is talking about it?

I'm only just catching up with Retrocausal, which is very good, although I'm averse to core-esque vocals.

Is that the one that's only available as part of a super-expensive John Zorn box set? Yeah, I haven't heard it and I suspect no one else in this thread has either.

^this

Hmm… I didn't think that would be an obstacle…

Hmm - just saw Barnes and Noble has it on their website for 18 bux - may be worth getting it that way - I wanna hear it.

8 GBP and 10 USD for the mp3 version on Amazon.

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

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, June 6, 2019 12:38 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

would like to second this. lj check this out btw

Ok!

Cleric thing is them playing Zorn's compositions - maybe it's essential maybe not, but it's not something I've been gasping to hear yet

The Bergraven was cool but I kind of wanted them to drop the BM pretence and just stick to the prog.

This came out at the start of this month.

http://havens.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-verge-of-collapse

One-man black metal project from here in Philly.
Quite good if you like your black metal contemplative and ethereal.

if you like Morbid Angel & early Death you're clearly some kind of rare weirdo who would enjoy this Infernal Conjuration album

http://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/infernal-conjuration-infernale-metallum-mortis

new Falls of Rauros and Wormed releases are fantastic

Haven't heard those yet but the new Lingua Ignota and Tomb Mold fuckin' RULE, as expected.

jesus did those all come out today

Lingua Ignota, finally!

Opening track sounds like she's mixed together Wagner and NIN.

Pretty fantastic on first listen.

It doesn't quite match the nigh unrelenting onslaught of All Bitches Die, as she gives herself more room for neo-medieval piano balladry, and its 66 minutes are harder to take in, but I know I'll keep coming back to it.

"Fragrant is My Many Flowered Crown" is about Midsommar even though that doesn't make chronological sense.

As with the last one, it's hard to imagine me listening to it much, but it strikes me on first listen as an amazing work of art.

That the new Tomb Mold is gut-cleavingly good bears repeating.

If nothing else they enjoy the greatest synergy of band name and sound of anyone in the game rn

Heh, that's true.

Yeah i am enjoying tf out of it

Looking forward to this album based on the teaser track:

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cenotaph-of-defectuous-creation-2

Listened to Tomb Mold at an obnoxious volume in the car yesterday while running errands. Really hit the spot.

it's a good one!

that new Sempiternal Dusk sounds great. I love it when bands toss in a bit of disembowelment-style clean guitar.

Lingua Ignota is amazing but I'm not sure the metal thread is the place for it?

True, but ILM discovered her via the 2017 metal thread and she's signed to Profound Lore.

Fine. Well, it's amazing, and gets better with every listen

She clearly deserves her own thread, though, that's for sure.

She deserves her own thread but she is metal enough for me.

The Body, Full of Hell, and Uniform members are all on the new one too

Lmao at the revelation that the sequencing of the new Tomb Mold was inspired by the Blue Nile's Hats. Truly gunning for that metal poll #1

lmao of course