Rolling Metal 2019

this is making me feel better about ultimately not loving the tomb mold record as much as i wanted to

How do we rate the year in metal out of 10?

11

the teitanblood, abonormality, and facelift deformation records were my disappointments of 2019. spun previous records way more than these. all three just go in one ear and out the other.

liked the pissgrave (sick live btw) and blut aus nord but haven't gone back to either much. new darkthrone was cool I think but I barely remember it. tomb mold was OK (fun live tho).

need to hear the mgla. and a million more, I suppose. but I keep just playing the first convulse record instead. which works too.

good death metal that maybe leans on the synths for padding, but i love a beholder on an album cover

https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/altered-state

i like the teitanblood album a lot.

also thank you for the Disentomb rec, this is incredible.

Was just reminded on Twitter that Chuck Schuldiner died 18 years ago today. Wasn't planning on listening to Human and Individual Thought Patterns tonight, but now I guess I will.

I wish when the two Entombed factions split, they had naned themselves Disentombed and Datentombed

Yeah always a good time for Death. Think ill throw Human on

I've already been going through a Death revival over here because I watched that documentary about Chuck but any excuse to put on any of their records tbh

Ran into one of my exes a few weeks ago and she was with a friend. He saw how I was dressed and asked me if I knew who Chuck Schuldiner was.

On seeing my face light up, he starts telling me he went to high school with Chuck. Not shocking, he grew up within five miles of the building we were in. He recalled where his house was, all that.

But this guy wasn't a metalhead. He just said he knew him growing up, said he was a very quiet guy, and that he didn't even know he was a musician.

He talked about hearing about Chuck being sick, and eventually dying, and saw the outpouring of sadness from the metal community for Evil Chuck...he was stunned. He had no idea dude was a musician, much less a legend of an entire scene.

Kinda the amazing thing about the scene at the time. A casual friend of yours could have secretly been a metal god and you had no idea the dude even played music.

I... like? this new Ihsahn tune? I like that it features a horn section too.

After Turia, Fluisteraars have also announced a new album, to be released in February:

https://fluisteraars.bandcamp.com/album/bloem

this is probably the right/wrong place to point out that the white ward album is imo kind of boring, and as ever, if you wanted abstract BM with saxophones, head to the last dodheimsgard album

Def the right place (otm btw).

I for one will fire up Dodheimsgard asap.

in the last week, the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise added:

Toxik
Brujeria
Whiplash
Exodus
Vio-lence
Possessed

this is gonna be a fun cruise.