Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

The new Afterbirth album is so fucking good. Genuinely weird, hybrid art-death; sometimes it sounds like Suffocation, other times like Krallice, other times like Astronoid. I just wrote a long review that'll be on Burning Ambulance on Friday. This is one of the best death metal records of the year.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1320487242_10.jpg

https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/four-dimensional-flesh

We agree on something metal-related for once. Look forward to reading the review.

ooooh

I like this song from Jacob Bannon's new supergroup...a lot.

https://youtu.be/EFj4u_Tt_ek

🤯

also have we mentioned there's a new Pyrrhon out in June? there's a new Pyrrhon out in June.

https://youtu.be/rtUpHSLbllM

I finally checked out the Fluisteraars record that a handful of people praised above. Totally agreed that it is beautiful and lush and dar say a little innovative (or at least unique).

This isn't exactly good but I was expecting worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ApQGcxgqc

3/4 of Kill The Client, one of the greatest US grind bands ever, are back as Triage. They have a s/t album out digitally, with a promise of physical CDs to come someday.

https://triage666.bandcamp.com

Oh nice. KTC were great

Black/doom with a crusty vibe to it

https://vualhate.bandcamp.com/album/to-end-all-life

personally don't dig the vocal distortion effect they use relentlessly but still good stuff.

For today's Rolling Metal 2020 version of "What are you listening to?", I'm starting out every WFH day first by waking up with some mellow new age-y synth music (e.g., Chi Factory, Suzanne Ciani, M. Geddes Gengras), then after morning coffee/team meeting going straight into Fluisteraars's "Bloem", followed by Mgła's "Age of Excuse", which for some reason is really resonating with me right now (I've never cared for anything else by them). Then, depending on mood, some Old Man Gloom, Human Impact, Ulcerate, or Sweven (hard disagree with negative opinions about the singer's voice which seems to me to have improved over time).

In the afternoon I've been listening to a lot of Intronaut's "Fluid Existential Inversions", (which I didn't care for compared to their earlier work on the first few listens, but I'm pretty hooked on now). And pretty much everything by Elder who I hadn't really heard much of 'til recently, so I'm enjoying catching up on their earlier stuff.

This morning I had to go out to do laundry, which takes about two hours. I started out with Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss (first 3 or 4 songs), then moved to Danzig's Black Laden Crown followed by Rob Zombie's Spookshow International Live.

I got a digital promo of a reissue of Skepticism's Alloy, with their Aes EP appended as a bonus track. I've never listened to them before and am not super into it so far.

I have bought so many albs i went back to rap temporarily cos i needed a metal break

I've been considering going on a post Lucifuge (when I stopped paying attention) Danzig binge lately. I've also been meaning to check out post-Don't Break the Oath Mercyful Fate. I went on a Voivod binge last week. Right now seems like as good a time as any to explore back catalogs.

I had a similar reaction to that Skepticism a couple of years ago.

In the Shadows and Time are the best post-Oath Fate IMO.

I've been considering going on a post Lucifuge (when I stopped paying attention) Danzig binge lately.

Dooooon't dooooo it. The first five Danzig through Thrall/Demonsweatlive are all great, and Deth Red Sabaoth and Black Laden Crown are good/very good. Everything in between is dire tripe.

i mean if you haven't listened to III you need that in your life mos def

4p actually isn't bad either

As promised, my review of the new Afterbirth album.

Good stuff, thanks.

I rarely come back to stoner/heavy psych past the first encounter 'cause I'm not a WEED DEMON to quote the name of a band I stumbled across not too long ago but the new Lowrider is some quality shit.

On an unrelated note, this guy's aliases are ever expansive yet rut-like and a sight to behold:

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/bobby-maggard

holy shit, this fuckin' thing GOES. grindcore from Seattle

grindcore more of the 90s style after it started to congeal more around the death metal bands

some really good melodic bits on this alb too

https://ratkingband.bandcamp.com/album/vicious-inhumanity

Recorded by Tad Doyle as well, I see.

Maori Metal by David Freid about New Zealand band Alien Weaponry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc-8rBi31Q8

yay, new Benighted! it sounds like...Benighted!

woohoo!

\m/

there's a song on it called "Mom, I Love You the Wrong Way"...

there's a lyric sheet I ain't going to be reading.

they must've thought Forgive Me Father was too subtle

Caustic Wound's Death Posture out today -Profound Lore- is so good. they have songs!
C. Lynsdstrom from Cerebral Rot taking care of vox & their drummer is playing the goatest

new Azusa is sick, don't sleep on it

The LP itself is a solid helping of blackened DM but the closer promises so much more:

https://nekrovault-vanrecords.bandcamp.com/track/eremitorium

https://tomarum.bandcamp.com/album/wounds-ever-expanding

Just... the cover. Is Lewandowski trolling us now?

haha, take a look at the tags

Hahahaha

'Dedicated to our good friend Jesse Isenhower, who passed away during the recording of this EP.'

best thing about the Caustic Wound is the length. grindcore that overstays its welcome sucks, but this is a tidy 26 mins

also realized there was a Perdition Temple I overlooked recently.

Doom rains down upon us, all the way from Ottawa:

https://loviatar.bandcamp.com/album/lightless

'Silica' is a clear highlight.

New Oranssi Pazuzu kinda snuck up on me:
https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/album/mestarin-kynsi

Available on three different colors of cassette, total of 115 being pressed (or whatever verb applies to constructing a cassette).

They have their own thread now! WASTEMENT: Oranssi Pazuzu, Dark Buddha Rising and Waste Of Space Orchestra

Some fairly typical slam/brutal DM that I actually want to hear again when it's over:

https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/betrayal

I'd be curious to hear what you make of this one, unperson.

god, the newest Perdition Temple is great.

ex-Angelcorpse guitarist, and the riffs are def in that vein, little more chaotic.

new Cauldron Black Ram coming out on 20 Buck Spin

https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/slaver

StarGazer/Mournful Congregation/80 other bands members. I always thought of them as the primitive cutthroat counterparts to SG.

I like The Black Dahlia Murder's new album.

I would like to restate my boosting of Azusa, especially if you like really, really melodic* post-hardcore. absolutely one of the best things I've heard this year

https://azusaband.bandcamp.com/

*so much so it borders on psych-pop at times. don't worry, it's still br00tal and whatever

is there an equivalence for pentecostalism in dark arts?

i think Black Curse got that right wrong bad

https://blackcurse-svr.bandcamp.com/releases

foregone conclusion Migration will be canceled, it would be cool if 20 Buck Spin / Gilead offered some kind of merch bundle alternative in their refunds.

Migration had such a good lineup

have to relisten to the Nekrovault. the cover is so good

just bought 2 good records from caligari

Sign of Evil - Psychedelic Horror - good fun hybrid thrash/kraut/italianhorror from Chile
https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/psychodelic-horror

Ahna - Crimson Dawn - death crust angry as hell vets from Vancouver. loved it
https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/crimson-dawn

enjoying the new Abysmal Dawn

missed them. that's my preferred death metal style (although atm, it's more Tomb Mold/Blood Incantation)

At The Altar of the Horned God from Spaniard Heolstor (Mystagos) does a masterful job of adding Dead Can Dance mysticism with a black metallurgists' drone. Powerful and elegant; makes me want to drink absinthe at Stonehenge. https://t.co/clJCRmGzS2 #nowplaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 19, 2020

There's a new Malokarpatan out. On first listen, doesn't sound like a huge departure from the last one, which is fine by me:

https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/krupinsk-ohne

Migration has been rescheduled to October. Of 2021.