Rolling Metal 2019

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?

Pretty much.

Holy shit @ the Weeping Sores LP. Not disappointed in the least.

Mournfully melodic death/doom with an almost improvisatory streak and a judicious dosage of violin-led passages for maximum pathos. Doug Moore of Pyrrhon is the axeman. My jam.

I haven't heard any of Cult of Luna's previous albums but A Dawn to Fear is incredible. I liked Fear Inoculum well enough, but this one does a better job of justifying its sheer length.

New White Ward (the Kenny G of Ukrainian blackgaze) just came out as well.

Weeping Sores album indeed excellent!

Looking forward to digging into CoL and my beloved White Ward.

someone needs to reissue the first Fleshcrawl album it's fucking great

Loving the Cloud Rat album so much. My favorite yet.

Catching up to stuff I missed this year and my favorite so far is Finland's Pyöveli - No Speed Limits. Pure thrash with excellent cardboard drums and dubbed out fills. Extremely groovy bass and that pissed, exasperated vocal approach that I love from Slayer and Possessed and, if I can stretch, Judge and Cro-Mags. It's only available on cassette from Portland's Headsplit which will deter many but it's a perfect album for the format.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUZa9dPF-EY

Blut aus Nord's face turn sounds pretty damn good on first flush

I haven't heard any of Cult of Luna's previous albums but A Dawn to Fear is incredible. I liked Fear Inoculum well enough, but this one does a better job of justifying its sheer length.

The collaboration they did with Julie Christmas, "Mariner", is well worth checking out. Enjoying this so far, too.

listening to the new Exhorder

man, the similarities between Anselmo and Kyle's voices have only strengthened....

well except Kyle sounds better

though three songs in, it's not exactly ripping my face off.

it sounds like they're....trying to be Pantera?

so in a sense, ripping...themselves off.

yeah, this is a snooze fest

Misthyrming dude turns out to be a moron, haven't heard the new one but reviews are mixed. I don't consider these moronic opinions "fuck your music, then" stupid but they're...stupid. maybe he's like 16 years old? otherwise...dude.

http://www.bardomethodology.com/articles/2019/05/22/misthyrming-interview/

The Misþyrming is really good. And if dude's got edgy, juvenile opinions, that just seems like par for the course? It also sounds like he himself is depressed (shockah!) and has latched on to Petersonian twaddle as a way of dragging himself out the ditch.

if a band appears in Bardo Methodology they're probably going to say at least one incredibly stupid edgy thing, that site is the barely thinking man's death metal dot org

that said the excerpt of the Blasphemy interview is a mixture of scary and hilarious. if they had been born ten-fifteen years later they probably would've been a beatdown hardcore band.

Canadian black metal skinheads BLASPHEMY

Uh, really?

Never mind, my knowledge of skinheads is lacking.

missed that ilm faves wizard rifle put out a third album this summer

https://wizardrifle.bandcamp.com/album/wizard-rifle