Rolling Metal 2019

Anyone hear the new Botanist? The album comes out on 10/25 but I never received a promo on it.

Turns out the abysmally named Fvneral Fvkk are excellent purveyors of doom.

The new Teitanblood is fantastic. I feel like I just got hit by a truck, in the best way. https://teitanblood.bandcamp.com/album/the-baneful-choir

Also, great week for avant-garde metal, new Sunn new Botanist.

Mayhem's latest album, Daemon, is out today, and it's fairly solid, more so than most of their post-De mysteriis dom Sathanas output, perhaps because parts of it consciously seek to approximate the debut's sound.

The real story, though, is Unaussprechlichen Kulten's Teufelbücher, which fucking decimates:

https://www.nocleansinging.com/2019/10/14/an-ncs-album-premiere-and-a-review-unaussprechlichen-kulten-teufelsbucher/

As a side note, these guys are from Chile. I think it's my first time hearing metal from that part of the continent.

*Teufelsbücher

really? there was a cracking Chilean doom band a few years back that made the metal poll

Yeah there's TONS of great Chilean rick

rick astley is Chilean?

I'll look into it.

Oh yeah, and the new Alcest, Spiritual Instinct, is out today too. Reviews appear to be quite positive overall.

not metal exactly, but Föllakzoid make nice Chilean space rock

They're a great band... in a Neu!/Hawkwind hybrid zone

There was a Pentagram from Chile and their demos are worth seeking out if you dig the death/thrash sound. Death Yell (lol) were another solid old school Chilean band.

Nar Mattaru, Slaughtbbath, Uttertomb, Invincible Force and Atomic Aggressor are all good to great modern metal bands from Chile.

oh and Ripper! One of the few modern thrash bands I rate.

Thanks, all. I'll check them out.

For now, Unaussprechlichen Kulten (unspeakable cults?) is really hitting the spot.

Condenados were great. (the band I was talking about above)

I do enjoy the new Mayhem. It's pretty aggressive without purely just being a back to roots thing, still plenty of angular moments.

One of the riffs sounds like the Inspector Gadget.

Cautiously optimistic about the new Mayhem, I was surprised to read the glowing and practically fawning 4.5 review at Angry Metal Guy, since they typically don't really love anything over there.

Oh they love all kinds of stuff, like melo power prog and proggy power melo, preferably from the US.

Ha, yeah, I just meant more the final score. I can't tell you how many glowing reviews turn into a 3.0 rating, usually along with a complaint about DR scores.

Mayhem’s post-De Mysteriis discography is really strong and varied, only Chimaera was a bit redundant. Quite looking forward to hearing the new one. Timely since I finally saw Lords Of Chaos which is much better that I feared but still feels like it was designed by committee.

Siegbran and everyone else you are needed Lifetime of ILM 2000-19 Heavy Rock,Noise, Heavy Psych, punk, emo, nu-metal & Metal (or related) Poll Nominations (All welcome to participate) Noms close 23:59 November 8th

Cool, I had completely missed that!

well you have 2 weeks to nominate still but you want to add to the Spotify playlist early so that people will hear it

I'm an idiot; a bunch of those TONS of great Chilean bands I referred to are actually from Peru :(

I know Holydrug Couple are from Chile; they get lumped in w Follakzoid a lot. And this was one of my favorite albums from last year, as almost like a South American Daydream Nation

https://youtu.be/y0yQQNks6Kk

first Forcefield release in forever:
Voarm (black metal)
https://voarm1.bandcamp.com/

More Chilean leads...

Chilean metal: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-chileanmetal.html
Chilean black metal: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-chileanblackmetal.html

New Sunn 0))) , Desert Sessions in the mail. Alcest didn't arrive. Now I find out the new Botanist came out today.

Am at the Oranssi Pazuzu show right now. They’re about to start. Ails blew me away.

goddamn OP and Ails?! lucky

New Vastum (Leila Abdul-Rauf's band) is very good, if you're into atmospherically-inclined death-doom.

Pyroclasts is kind of boring compared to Life Metal, partly because Hildur Guðnadóttir's input is less audible.

Both Pyroclasts and Ecosystem have lived up to the hype for me. Been a good week for metal.

On follow up listens this is my fav Mayhem since Wolf Lair.

I doubt many Ordo fans will agree but it's just me

the new Alcest is superb. Best thing he's done in a decade

Booked a room on the 70000 tons of metal cruise today.

Emperor and Candlemass already confirmed

tempted

the bars on our ship never close - you heard us, bars that never close!

I'm not exactly teetotaling these days but I am pretty immune to the charms of the 24-hour bar at this point

Me too. Sadly not immune to Emperor tho.

Now book Mercyful Fate

I’m not a drinker, but on a cruise ship it’s nice not to have time restrictions on booze or fro-yo.

the new Alcest is superb. Best thing he's done in a decade

Very much agreed. And so Alcest remains the gold standard for blackgaze.

Anyone know what’s up with the NWN forum. It’s been down for a couple weeks, coincident with the Never Surrender Fest which raised some antifa awareness. Wondering if the two are related.

Yeah, it seems like there's a connection there...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHgAcVkVUAIUkKO.png

Does anyone know if the Pyroclasts vinyl comes with a download code?

Thanks for the info. I was really enjoying the thread about Indian metal over there. Hope it comes back with maybe a few less Nazis this time.

Does anyone know if the Pyroclasts vinyl comes with a download code?

You can order the vinyl from their Bandcamp page and get digital that way.

https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/pyroclasts

oh man the new Vastum is SO good

I haven't heard a note of Leprous's previous albums, but their latest is a) definitely-not-metal and b) squarely aimed at the The Voice crowd. What a waste of pipes.

Is it that bad? I haven't checked in on Leprous since Coal and The Congregation, which I recall being pretty decent progressive metal.

It's art rock with an overwhelmingly melodramatic slant. I have a high tolerance for the stuff but this was too much for me. YMMV, of course.

I love Leprous, but I agree that they are precessing away from metal...