Rolling Metal 2019

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

Enjoyed the new Atlantean Kodex album, doesn't sound much different to the earlier albums, its still mid-paced epic doom mixed with epic metal and thankfully not high on cheese.

Fills the spot While Heaven Wept used to until they dumped the doom and embraced full on cheese. (and by god that last album was utter shit)

New coffins hit the spot tonight as always.

weeping sores sounded good until the cookie monster started so off it went

White Ward was good and the Cult Of Luna was quite superb.

xp lol how you gonna 'cookie monster' weeping sores and then listen to coffins

the vox are different enough and tolerable

C is for cookie
Das good enough for me

don't suppose anyone knows what's up w/ this:

we found out the hard way but never again 🥵

— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) September 23, 2019

(that's Riley from Power Trip)

It's about Psycho Las Vegas.

Get yr microtonal guitar licks and kicks right here:

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

Liked this a lot.

xp no, i know that. i'm curious what's driving his tweet and the one he's replying to.

i suppose i could just ask him.

Re: Exhorder

I interviewed Killing Joke when they did Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions and I mentioned how Ministry was kind of an influence and Jaz spit back at me "Don't you mean the other way around?"

And he wasn't wrong of course, but I clarified that Ministry took the original KJ sound and then ramped it up and adding more metallic moments which is how that album KJ album sounded to me at that time. It's certainly not the first or last time that a band was influenced by someone and then took it back, so to speak.

Anyway, that's what Mourn the Southern Skies feels like: They influenced Pantera who accentuated some key facets of the originators and added their own touches, and now the comeback sounds more like Vulgar Display of Power than Slaughter in the Vatican. This isn't bad but Pantera baggage is sometimes heavier than the sledgehammer riffs these days... But I do like the record for the same reasons I liked Pantera 25 years ago for what it's worth.

White Ward
Love Exchange Failure
(@DebemurMorti)

Loved 'Futility Report' but hesitated calling it jazz - it was black metal with horns. Sophomore release is improved all over: Deafheaven-like cascades of riffs, intricate progressiveness, and his time, real jazz. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/fkNrKL2ldM

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) September 26, 2019

Yeah, I kinda love the new White Ward as well. Sounds quite a lot like Lantlos ten years ago. Urban black metal, very good cover art as well.

The Neptune Power Federation
Memoirs of a Rat Queen
(@CruzDelSurMusic)

Royalty abounds! The Aussie crew namechecks Queen in the title, vocalist Loz Sutch is a Priestess, and they have the audacity to mimic Brian May's crew at their glammiest. They will rock you. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/LH0DUNcaFU

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) September 27, 2019

white ward cover art is incredible, can't wait to hear it

looks like total bradcore

That Neptune Power Federation album is great! "I'll Make a Man Out of You" is giant.

.... white ward aoty

total brad

deafheaven is an interesting point of comparison with the white ward record bc, like them, it will be totally accessible to people who don't listen to extreme metal. i think that's awesome bc the music is incredible anyway