Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

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.

A couple more Twitter comments about albums that just came out that I like...

The new @jarboe_living album 'Illusory' (@consouling) seems meditative and contemplative but try as she might, it seems like an uneasy peace treaty with a world that doesn't deserve the courtesy (see "Man of Hate"). https://t.co/sSjn78RyQ5 #NowPlaying

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

.@Oranssi_Pazuzu's "Mestarin kynsi" (@nuclearblastusa) doesn't rely on mere psychedelics to make it's hallucinogenic point; there's Swans discomfort, Kraftwerk minimalism. A perfect soundtrack to an apocalypse that is long overdue. https://t.co/wWHkhGZofA #NowPlaying

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gyasCEbpro

I loved the last Ulthar record!

When you guys get wind of these, let the class know what you think:

5/1 --- Witchcraft, Havoc (I personally think they suck, but whatever)
5/8 --- Old Man Gloom, Oathbreaker,
5/15 --- Paradise Lost
5/29 --- Alestorm (I know, but I think they're fun), Xibalba

I've heard the Xibalba record. It's solid, knuckle-walking hardcore/beatdown death metal, somewhere between Entombed and Judge. RIYL big dumb riffs and a powerlifter barfing at you.

The Witchcraft record is a complete waste of time. It's eight tracks, maybe half an hour long, and it's just the singer and an acoustic guitar. Not even a second guitar from another bandmember. I'm pretty sure I slipped into unconsciousness at least twice listening to it.

xpost - do you keep your own list of release dates or did you copy that from somewhere?

i feel like i need a better way to know what metal albums are coming out. i had no idea new Oathbreaker is on the way.

Speaking of beatdown/hardcore, I'm definitely not Mister Current Affairs on that genre (I mean Hatebreed is still a "new" band in my book). But recently I've discovered Rise Of The Northstar - French, apparently named after a Japanese kids show, and they do hardcore-with-rapping Biohazard/Suicidal Tendencies-style. Esp the first EP and album from 2014 are incredibly entertaining, of course it's goofy but they absolutely go all-in on the intensity, and they bring the hooks.

Haha, Fist of the North Star, which is the show you might be thinking of, is most definitely *not* for children.

I'm not Mister Current Affairs on japanese comics either, it seems.

obv stating that the Old Man Gloom rec that they bandcamped, rules in all manners

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/seminar-ix-darkness-of-being

same amalgamation of awesomeness as ever, yeah, in a more captivating and very fluid way

Have no interest in the new Alestorm, but it got a pretty brutal (I think it's a 2 out of 10) review in the new Decibel.

Good to know I can safely skip the Witchcraft.

I'm sure I'm the only person in this thread uncool enough to like Trivium, but they've got a new one out on Friday that's pretty decent. About as good as the one before it, better than the one before that, not as good as the two before that (In Waves is still my favorite of their albums).

I like some Trivium, but the last couple haven't left much of an impression.

xpost - do you keep your own list of release dates or did you copy that from somewhere?

ah, gotcha. thanks.

i think my favorite heavy/metal album of 2020 so far is this one:

https://aktor.bandcamp.com/album/placebo

am i nuts?

Still waiting for my pre-order for the new Elder to arrive but I'm getting a kick out of Angry Metal Guy's absolute trashing of the new record which is, uh, quite a bit different from the other reviews I've read from people with far more trustworthy tastes.

I would love the shit out of the new Elder LP if dude didn’t sound like a 2nd tier 90s alt-rock singer. Good thing most of the record is instrumental – and less fuzz suits them, for the most part.

yeah his vox are really glaring in places on this one :/

I like the new Elder a lot, but not as much as I liked Floating World. When I want doomy prog with almost-too-much synth, I have Ancestors; I like Elder best when they head to the edge of Baroness/Kylesa territory. That said, I really liked the Krautrock stuff on the Gold & Silver Sessions EP, so...I don't know. I will say that the vocals don't bother me - they're fine-to-ignorable.

I know many have grown tired of Warbringer given their diminishing returns, but this new one on first listen is more balls out than anything they did since their first "demo" turned album.

I don't know the first thing about them but this is pretty good so far.

their first two were pretty inspired, esp the first one as the thrash revival wasn't so fuckin' oversaturated at the time, but they got less interesting over time. none of their shit is original or anything but they're good at what they do.

though last year's album by Sadistic Intent is better. and really good.

I like Warbringer but haven't heard the new one yet.

I've said it before, but my problem with thrash revival bands is that I feel like I need to properly immerse myself in the 80s before moving on to the nostalgia bait. Then again, a cursory look at RYM's thrash top 40 reveals that I've heard, like, 15 of them, which isn't that bad.