Rolling Metal 2019

increasingly convinced the new Cattle Decapitation is gonna be my metal AOTY

https://youtu.be/k3G2Iz8Vhd8

Blood Incantation is heading for mine.

I hope the clean vocal breaks aren't as jarring on this one. I liked em on Monolith but sometimes on the last album it felt like they would just abruptly and awkwardly pivot to them (tho i like the alb).

Gonna see em on Tuesday, tho more excited for Atheist

the Bolzer EP is good

Travis's singing voice is kinda like Krang on Ninja Turtles now. it's weird how he produces that sound. I like it though.

wehre did all of the black metally riffs start coming from on the last three albums? not that I'm complaining cos I love BM but they just kinda...showed up.

Listening to the Blood Incantation for the first time now. (I didn't get a promo on it.) I like prog-death a lot, but this is not the kind of prog-death I like. Too muddy and doomy. Could have used some fretless bass à la Obscura. The Tangerine Dream-y bit in the long song is my favorite part.

"too muddy and doomy" as if such a thing were possible

jk but i don't hear that on this record

digging the new Obsequiae a lot

Same. Then again, I'm easily entertained by medieval-esque metal.

i'm actually loving this Alcest album, although I haven't cared much about anything post-Souvenirs and used to think they peaked with Le Secret.

I haven't heard Le Secret but their latest is now my favourite after Souvenirs d'un autre monde.

The Vitriol album that came out in September is surprisingly great. Technical yet brutal death that has nice melodic flourishes.

Production does hurt the nuance a bit but it is nonstop pummeling energy.

They are opening for Cattle Decap

god the bill for that tour (Cattle Decap/Atheist/Full of Hell/Author and Punisher/Vitriol) makes that show very tempting

Yea i am very much there

On Tues

please report back, it's a little more than I like to spend on a gig (esp a weekday night gig!)

Will do!

Glad i have the week off, Tuesday nights are usually tough otherwise

Cattle Decap leaked. Normally wouldn't play a leak but i can't wait, plus i have the alb pre-ordered

Spinning now

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xpost shit's of poor sound quality (brickwalled), which was to be expected from a leak, but it's good stuff. idk if I'm as high on it as all of you (I miss the crazier grind from even as recently as Monolith of Inhumanity), and the melodic stuff is even more front and center, though it works far better than on the past album.

gonna give another listen when it's not 2 am

I've never heard these guys and I'm not really into grind to begin with but I'll be sure to check out the new album.

I feel like the newer stuff especially you can enjoy without being a huge grind fan. not to say they aren't extreme but they're more proper 'songs' than their stuff like Humanure (which I also like)

I just wanted to type Humanure again

also an option: typing out the lyrics to Inpropagation by Carcass

that Maryland Deathfest lineup is insane.

I'm supposed to be part of a theatre festival that goes on at the same time (EVERY YEAR) and part of me is hoping we lose the lottery to be a part of it so I can go.

Dismember, Coffins, Cancer, Onslaught, Necrophobic, Exhorder, Demilich, Impaled (!!!), Monstrosity, Grave Desecrator, Skeletal Remains, Suffocation, Fuck the Facts, Cloud Rat, Negative Approach.....oof.

Revolver Magazine
Top 25 Albums of 2019

25. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
24. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Suffer On
23. The Devil Wears Prada - The Act
22. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds
21. 3TEETH - Metawar
20. Ithaca - The Language of Injury
19. Fury - Failed Entertainment
18. Angel Du$t - Pretty Buff
17. Venom Prison - Samsara
16. Une Misère - Sermon
15. Korn - The Nothing
14. Russian Circles - Blood Year
13. Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence
12. Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - End of Suffering
11. Jinjer - Macro
10. Rammstein - Rammstein
9. Spirit Adrift - Divided by Darkness
8. Brutus - Nest
7. Devil Master - Satan Spits on Children of Light
6. Killswitch Engage - Atonement
5. Baroness - Gold & Grey
4. Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue
3. Gatecreeper - Deserted
2. Slipknot — We Are Not Your Kind
1. Tool - Fear Inoculum

https://www.revolvermag.com/music/25-best-albums-2019

There is some bad, bad music on that list.

Rammstein and Chelsea Wolfe are the only ones that look remotely appealing, although I have to say I'm intrigued by a band named Une Misère.

Oh and Devil Master is supposedly good.

Devil Master are fun as fuck

Way upfront for High on Fire, if me or my ears die tell everyone I loved Cloud Rat

Oh lord man. Good luck hearing for a week lol.

Regarding that Revolver list, I am baffled why that Jinjer thing is so popular these days. They are stupefyingly awful.

I saw a Jinjer shirt at the show tonight and wondered wtf that was

Maybe it was the venue's sound but I wasn't feeling that HoF set; I left early :/

Could be. HoF are one of my fav live bands, but when I saw them at Psycho Las Vegas, the sound was so terrible it muted their raw power.

Sometimes you just aren't in the mood for a show too. Happens to me now and then.

Love that 'oh shit we need to put Blood Incantation on the list or people will think we're squares' move.

I like that Jinjer record pretty well. I'm not sure it would be top-25 for me, but it's easily my favorite thing on the Revolver list, which I suppose is consistent with the idea that it doesn't belong there.

That Revolver list is full of WTF, but cool to see Russian Circles making an appearance. Also kinda surprised to see Brutus up so high on it.

Well, scored algorithmically according to my listening data, Jinjer is in a 19-way tie for my #213 metal album of the year.

Wow was there a lot of good metal this year. I no longer even pretend to keep it all in my head. That's what we have computers for. They report that this is what it has been like for me (so far):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0wc2cDNOwLQUtQdKCngupo?si=2PCR5rGGS3eRBlRtt-DdTg

Listening to the Cattle Decap and it's not quite what I expected. So far, their 'tenor' got a few lols out of me (not a good sign) and if anything I'd rather the songwriting were grindier overall.

Full of Hell's sound is really bad tonight. I've seen them before and they usually sound better

Just...mush

Atheist was AWESOME. If you love their first two albums...go.

"Piece of Time" was the last song and it ruled. I am so sore.

oh my god

Cattle Decapitation up soon

PopMatters Best of 2019 list:

20. Copperhead - Gazing in the Dark
19. Drastus - La Croix de Sang
18. Ossuarium - Living Tomb
17. Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry
16. Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong
15. Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Calling
14. Necropanther - The Doomed City
13. Vimur - Triumphant Master of Fates
12. PH - Osiris Hayden
11. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
10. Lord Mantis - Universal Death Church
9. Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect
8. Exhorder - Mourn The Southern Skies
7. Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
6. Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
5. Baroness - Grey and Gold
4. Inter Arma - English Sulphur
3. Sunn O))) - Life Metal/Pyroclasts
2. BIG|BRAVE - A Gaze Among Them
1. Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis

I like the #1 choice and a few others, but this is otherwise a typical twitter hive mind top 20: heavy on black metal (sorry, when I see black metal titles these days I dibs out instantly), ignorant of every metal subgenre that emphasizes melody save for that mediocre Baroness album as a token selection.

Good list, all things considered.

9. Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect

fuck, i completely missed that this record came out

I live the top 6 records for sure, nice to see some love for the BIG|BRAVE record and I think I'm one of the few people that really loves that Baroness record.