Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

Just a heads up: this year's metal poll BADLY needs y'all to send in your ballots.

unperson, I know you don't usually vote, but your participation would be much appreciated.

Likewise those who usually do (I think) but haven't submitted a ballot yet, such as GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ and Brad, please vote!

This way, good people:

2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 21st of February)

And it goes without saying that lurkers would be most welcome.

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

We're counting on you, Brad!

🤘 GO BRAD GO 🤘

\m/ Brad \m/

This is like potty training

lol, it's like you want them to shirk metal ballot duty.

Even if people dont vote they should participate in the rollout otherwise we would be just as well dumping the results in one go magazine list style. So everybody please participate in any way you can!

Only need to relisten to one more album! Will send ballot soon

🤘

ill be there. excited for this. i already knew a good amount of the albums that placed in the non metal poll so hoping to be surprised and put on to some new stuff in this one

This Ruin Lust track sounds great

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/ruin-lust-premiere/

that's pretty good!

the Witchbones guy dissolved that project and started a new, chaotic and downtuned black/death project:

https://omnikinetic.bandcamp.com/releases

of course i'm already lovin' the new raspberry bulbs

https://raspberrybulbs.bandcamp.com/releases

^ also belongs in the punk/non indie thread, but hey

you guys have 7 hours or so left to cast a ballot in the
2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 21st of February)

liking the new Demons and Wizards, though tbh it sounds less like DaW and more like Blind Guardian songwriting wise, lol.

occasionally Schaffer chugga chugga shows up, but he doesn't seem to like to play those as much these days even on Iced Earth albums.

I like this nerd shit.

This Sightless Pit album rules. If you dug the Bufurd/Walker collabs on Caligula, you’ll love this.

2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock/Heavy Music Poll: RESULTS - Top 100 Countdown

Lurker Of Chalice early demo comp coming on NWN next month

https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/tellurian-slaked-furnace

Fuck yes! The Lurker of Chalice s/t is in my top 5 BM albums of all time.

Yay! More money for Jef Whitehead!

Yeah, did not mean to celebrate that, or him.

Who said anything about giving him money?

Weedian had a couple suggestions that I really ended up digging, the new Yuri Gagarin LP The Outskirts of Reality and the debut self titled EP by Fuzzriders. The latter sounds like a solid attempt at a desert stoner rock knockoff, the former like Acid Mothers Temple before the drugs kick in fully.

Ooooohh

I am going to go to a "slam DM" show on Wed cos why not and I like Visceral Disgorge but I simultaneously think slam death is a blight on death metal.

is it worse than deathcore?

As this thread's token slam/broooootal death metal fan, I gotta say slam rules. (I don't like Visceral Disgorge as much as some other bands, but their last album is fun.) I buy albums all the time on Bandcamp based on cover art alone; they're all half an hour long, they all sound basically the same, and they're exactly what I need them to be.

Slam's not among my favourite metal subgenres but it's magnitudes more interesting and listenable than deathcore.

Are there any female slam bands?

Slam seems to be about as inclusive as pornogrind.

by design?

This Modarin record is pretty good, too. One man black metal project from Germany, the dude is 21 and shares a birthday with my ex wife. It's not so self-conscious as to be tr00 kvlt bullshit, it's kind of nice to get that kind of honesty out of a black metal band these days.

http://modarin.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-distance

Nice, will check it out! I wonder if this is yet another in the Beverast tradition...

New Five Finger Death Punch album on Friday...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwroUDmB6wI

Ew

Decided I'm going to this. You should come too.

Migration Fest returns to Mr. Smalls in Pittsburgh, PA from July 31st to August 2nd, 2020. This marks the 3rd installment of the biennial festival and also celebrates 15 years of existence for both 20 Buck Spin and Gilead Media. Nothing about this year’s lineup should come as a huge surprise to anyone that follows the festival curators as Migration Fest stands as family reunion of sorts for label bands. The lineup also currently features 6 bands whom appear on the Decibel Magazine list of top 40 albums of 2019.

Migration Fest III lineup so far:

Black Magnet
Buildings
Buried At Sea
Cavernlight
Couch Slut
Daeva
Falls of Rauros
False
Immortal Bird
Imperial Triumphant
Kowloon Walled City
Krallice
Mizmor
Nightfell
Obsequiae
Ruin Lust
Skeleton
Spirit Adrift
Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle
Tomb Mold
Ulthar
Vastum
Witch Vomit
Yautja
Yellow Eyes

Pretty good lineup!

I was hunting for the best metal/punk fest lineup at a city/area I could access by bus without too much hassle, and this one won pretty easily.

If I wasn't already doing three festivals, incl one in Philly in April, this might be on my list.

Some of these bands outright never make it to FL. esp Krallice

$140 isn't bad tho

Speaking of Gilead Media, it's time to buy some music:

HOUSE CLEANING / NEW RELEASE PREPARATION

We have a handful of releases to send off to the plant, which means we need to make some room and pad up the bank account to pay some bills and move things along. So we're having one of our most extensive sales ever.

Typically label releases within a certain period are exempt, but this time everything is included except pre-orders. That means some of 2019's best black metal records are up for sale at 22% off, alongside the rest of our in-stock label catalog and a number of distro items we found and added to the store.

Head over to our website or bandcamp now to take advantage of the sale. The sale will run throughout February.

Visit Gileadmedia.net where the 22% discount will be applied automatically at checkout.

Visit gileadmedia.bandcamp.comwhere you must enter housecleaning for every item as you add it to your cart.

If I wasn't already doing three festivals, incl one in Philly in April, this might be on my list.

Yup!

New to me, Revenant Marquis Youth in Ribbons is rather enticing. Lo-fi BM - at times merely M w/ some wailing, sounding like it's coming from an empty water tank - aimless and sinister in how messy it is. I like it. Good cover, too. bandcamp

In his/their (?) own words, as if already chalked up for next years Metal poll roll-out:

Once more Revenant Marquis returns from the sequestered black waters of Wales with Youth In Ribbons - a long play collection of raw black metal necromancy that serves to bring the tortured, the forgotten, and the abused back from choking abyss. There is no space for hope or light in this assembly of rituals, as the listener must break bread with the maligned forces that lurk eternally waiting for granted passage. This is not music, but rather a pact between the listener, and the spectral realm.

Sounds cool. I'll have quite a bit of catching up to do after the 2019 poll.