Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

deftones/gojira/poppy tour just announced, i'm goin'

Burning churches won't make that acne go away:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51457787

A member of a black metal band himself, Matthews told prosecutors he believed the acts would elevate his status.

Ok this Atavisma / Void Rot split fucking crushes it – cavernous death/doom as deep as the Lascaux complex, with some especially compelling drumming from Atavisma's G.D.:

https://everlastingspewrecords.bandcamp.com/album/split

New Lychgate EP

https://lychgate.bandcamp.com/album/also-sprach-futura

Really like the murky Metropolis-gone-wrong cover art

new Sepultura is pretty decent. obv they're never gonna reclaim their old days, but the riffs and songs are decent, drumming good too, and it's not lame-groove like the bits of the last one I heard.

still want them to all bury the damn hatchet but it ain't really fair to kick Derrick out of a band he's been in longer than Max.

With Max they recorded the absolute worst material of the band’s history and Soulfly has been unadulterated shit from the beginning so I don’t put much hope in Max making any difference. It’s not 1989 anymore, they should go wherever they want to go.

are you talking about Roots or all of the Max era?

Haha, Roots of course!

ok phew

I'd say it's worth cross-posting that Black Sabbath is 50 years old today and therefore metal as a whole.

Speaking of which, this book looks like it totally rules

https://fastnbulbous.com/the-birth-of-metal/

xxxpost although I wasn't a huge fan of the previous two, the latest Cavalera Conspiracy was basically the best Sepultura album since Chaos AD.

That does look pretty awesome.

xp

One of our own!

New Lychgate sounding awesome obv

All the Cavalera Conspiracy albums are good, but yeah, the most recent one was a big leap forward. Guest appearances from Justin Broadrick and Prurient, people!

Yeah, Popoff's 'Who Invented Heavy Metal?' is the best book on the origins of the genre that I have ever read. It spares no detail, and has interviews with pretty much every key figure. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Ritual raw atmo-black with psychedelic underpinnings. Echoes of early The Ruins of Beverast. This may well be my single favourite 2020 metal release so far:

https://fortressoftheoldendays.bandcamp.com

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58 minutes seems like at least 10 too many for a Kvelertak album but here we go

Black 'n' Roll, eh? Usually not my thing but I might give it a spin regardless.

FOTOD sounding absolutely magnificent! Thanks pom, love it when psych BM uses major chords as counterpoint /not a muso

I was hoping you'd check it out – glad to know that it's up your alley (and that my intuition was correct).

Good intuition. Considering how dismissive I am about most metal, this was indeed an excellent call. Ruins Of Beverast seems to have quietly started something rather wonderful in Germania

(see also: Forgotten Spell)

Do try the Nero di Marte as well if you haven't already. I liked it a bit less the second time around but there's a fluid, almost rhapsodic organicity to their sound that pulls me back. And given your fondness for theatrically-minded vocalists…

Shall do, thank you!

I love Ruins of Beverast but the title Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite has always given me uh pause

Need to check out their whole discography soon.

Nothing on FOTOD was as amazing as the opening title track, but a very effective little album

I'm sort of hot & cold on Isahn, but enjoying the new one this morning. Really heavy compared to past material I've heard.

I'm a long time fan of Kvelertak, and it's funny because I used to think the one-note screamy vocals were detrimental to their sound, but not feeling the new vocals so far, either.

As expected, the new Turia, Degen van licht, is absolutely phenomenal, even though it's not quite the masterpiece I was hoping for, at least not at first pass. Along with Onielar, T is the female metal vocalist I admire the most, and O, the guitarist, has struck a kind of blend between finespun medieval Mediterranean riffs (even more audible on his solo project, Iskandr), an airier tone that recalls post-rock's heyday, and drone-like, minimalist BM, with just enough variations to render the trance more trance-like. J's drumming is less immediately remarkable, but it's a perfect fit for the the rest of the trio. I can't imagine this not making my EOY top 20.

https://montturia.bandcamp.com/album/degen-van-licht

Oh, and on the dodgier end of things, Cénotaphe just dropped an LP that's hard to ignore if you're a French BM fan.

Sorry, it'll be out in March, but there are… other ways of hearing it.

Hell yeah to a new Turia! I loved Dede Kondre, can't wait to dig in. I agree that T is an amazing vocalist.

In other news, I should be all over the Godthrymm LP (feat. ex-members of Paradise Lost, Anathema, Solstice and Vallenfyre, among others), but Glencross's vocals rub me the wrong way.

I love Ruins of Beverast but the title Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite has always given me uh pause

you gotta sing it like you were Mel Torme

A drum solo from Mario Duplantier of Gojira:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjcavNCQ7dU

I miss working with those guys. They're awesome human beings. Really hoping for/looking forward to a new album this year.

I wasn't sure about that first Sightless Pit song but the other two tracks they've put out are really good.

Anyone else check out the Ihsahn EP?

Covering Iron Maiden and Lenny Kravitz (!) and both of them feature lots of horns!
It's kinda fun (and the three original songs are kinda good too).

It's pretty enjoyable, yeah. Oddly unambitious for a prog record but it works.

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i mos def submitted a ballot!! but i'll resubmit tonight.

Sorry, I wasn't sure – I presumed based on your absence from the campaigning thread, but I don't actually have access to submitted ballots.

yeah I'm bad at the campaigning part, sorry

i'll vote tomorrow i think

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This is like potty training