Rolling Metal 2019

ok so they were Slayer-worshipping tryhards

kind of a relief

speaking of thrash dumbassery, a while back I picked up the Schizo (ITA) demo collection and discovered several versions of a song called Nazi and Proud. they dropped it from their set by the time of their first album but jesus fucking christ

https://i.imgur.com/zJL666w.jpg?1

I like the Witch Vomit

― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Saturday, August 31, 2019 9:48 AM (three days ago)

yeah this is alright

New Esoteric album in November. Double CD, six tracks, 98 minutes.

Mentioned it upthread. HOW DARE YOU steal my funereal thunder.

the 28-minute opener is supposed to be streaming here but I can't get it to work :/

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/esoteric-share-27-minute-new-single-descent/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QjXtrQKf88

simultaneously, holy shit at this song and lmao at the hilariously literal cover art

Hilariously literal cover art has a grand tradition in metal!

Liturgy keeps on Liturgy'in (which is fine by me)

https://liturgy.bandcamp.com/track/god-of-love

new Cloud Rat is solid, not up to anything new I don't think but that's also fine by me

Get the CD version, Simon. It comes with a bonus EP of very atypical stuff from the band - a few reverb-soaked acoustic songs and the rest have post-punk synths. I love the record as well.

ooooh

how did I miss the Noisem from earlier this year? seems more crossover/grindy than their old death/thrash stuff. lotsa blast beats.

love it

As far as Bands That Should (Perhaps) Remain Unmentioned are concerned, I daresay the new Mgła is as good as Exercises in Futility.

And since blackened doom is less common than I'd like, the new Mizmor definitely deserves to be mentioned itt:

https://mizmor.bandcamp.com/album/cairn

xxp yeah i like the noisem a lot more than their previous one. they lost a lotta personnel so they are now leaner.

new Serpent Column
as usual mixing bewildering chaotic black metal with stretches of surprisingly eloquent melody.

https://serpentcolumn.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-in-darkness

Yeah this is excellent.

Right now if you go to Amazon digital music and search for King Diamond there is a song from last Friday titled "In Your Pants" with the single having a cover featuring a picture of pants.

And it's just some computer boice saying something about pants backwards for three minutes over an electronic beat.

Also hells yes: https://loudwire.com/mercyful-fate-2020-reunion-new-songs/

A wee bit disappointed that Denner won't be back but I will take what I can get.

Crusty BM (or crusty anything, really) leaves me cold but it's hard to argue with Arnaut Pavle:

https://arnautpavle.bandcamp.com

Many thanks for the Serpent Column recommendation, immediately grabbed every release

And since blackened doom is less common than I'd like, the new Mizmor definitely deserves to be mentioned itt

This is hitting the funeral/black doom spot really nicely

There's an Atlantean Kodex album??

it's hard to argue with Arnaut Pavle:

wow this is vicious!
love it

fuckin A that Cattle Decapitation tune kicks fucking ass

guys do not miss Lingua Ignota if you can help it

Xoth! Xoth! Xoooooth!

https://xoth.bandcamp.com/album/interdimensional-invocations

Metal Blade is reissuing all four of Anacrusis's albums, the first two two weeks from now and the next two in November.

nice

remastered but not brickwalled one hopes

Anacrusis!!! That's exciting.

Another new Howls of Ebb related project

https://golgotrise.bandcamp.com/releases

He only plays drums on this but it's not a million miles from HoE or Herxheim, slightly more standard primitive black metal vibes but jesus that guitar tone sounds like his amp is full of pus.

hard to argue with the title "Carrion (My Leprous Son)" imo

"Carrion (My Leprous Son)"

Sold.

Get yr microtonal guitar licks and kicks right here:

https://kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/hr-za-zv-t-z

Its maker speaketh:

I know that every band has caught onto Deathspell Omega’s influence on extreme metal and that almost everyone right now is pushing to coax more chaos, more dissonance out of the genre. If I am moving in that direction as well, and I want to be remembered in ten years’ time, there has to be something truly remarkable about my methods. To that end, I believe I have mostly succeeded.

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2019/09/06/full-album-premiere-kostnateni-hruza-zvitezi/

New Crypt Sermon is p badass

Yeah it's good! Singer's got one of my favorite voices in doom.

Was gonna say, he's amazing. He's kinda Robert Lowe-ish

Yes this Mgla does nothing new vs the five previous Mgla/KMS albums and clearly if you’re not on board now you never will be but man is there any metal band around with a better drummer?

If there is one, I have no idea who it might be.

I mean this dude must be a dream to play off as a guitarist, you can just cycle through some random arpeggios, sit back and watch the fireworks.

Here's a foretaste of the upcoming Blut aus Nord LP:

https://www.loudersound.com/features/blut-aus-nord-debut-trippy-new-track-taken-from-their-forthcoming-album-hallucinogen

30 seconds in: he's heard the Wastement lads raise the game and responded

Whole way in: this is very cool, if not quite Cosmosophy

Nobody seems to be talking about the glorious new Atlantean Kodex album, but then again it's Manowar style epic metal, not black metal. C'est la guerre. Still, underrated as they are it's so great to have that band back after too many years away.

I couldn't make it through a single track, and you know I like that style sometimes, certainly more than other folks hereabouts, but I may have just been in a bad mood that day.

In weird membership-switch news, Fred Leclercq, formerly of DragonForce, is now playing bass for...Kreator.

I couldn't make it through a single track, and you know I like that style sometimes

Likewise.

I own a couple of atlantean kodex albums but haven't heard the latest yet

I assume theyve dropped the doom and gone full on epic metal?