Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

though Temple of Void's latest was nice

Still need to check out that Ulcerate, I loved the last one so much.

Scanned unperson's list too fast the first time and thought maybe there was a new Christian Mistress for a second.

Converge and Rolo Tomassi fans should check out the new stuff from Infant Island. "mini LP" released a couple weeks ago, full-blown LP out in a couple weeks. lots of post-rock mood and screamo angst but doesn't skimp on heaviness

https://infantisland.bandcamp.com/album/sepulcher
https://infantisland.bandcamp.com/album/beneath

Last week's releases I liked enough to Tweet about and eventually purchase:

...to be alive at the end of the world by Total Fucking Destruction (@TranslationLoss) --- Don't think the group know how prescient the title would feel when it came out... Reminds me of those eclectic grind records that didn't always grind. https://t.co/9UuqjXfzFj #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 27, 2020

Forever Black by @CirithU (@MetalBlade) --- This album is way better than it has any right to be. It lacks the absurd feel of the early stuff but that's only because absurdity is the new normal. "The Fire Divine" is my jam. https://t.co/sUIBEjILKb #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 27, 2020

I wrote about the new Trivium record, and about the state of being Trivium in 2020.

very much down for this Bell Witch/Aerial Ruin album

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/bell-witch-aerial-ruin-announce-collaborative-album-share-song/

Wait is Erik Moggridge of Aerial Ruin the same guy who was in Epidemic back in the day?

acc to Metallum, same guy!

wow! quite a change for him but the song sounds good.

Aw man, RIP to Bob Fouts of Gates of Slumber.

Fuck.

That band has been hit hard.

Yeah, seriously. That's gutting.

That sucks; I'd been getting back into GoS recently after not listening to them for a couple of years.

In slightly better news... new Imperial Triumphant album, Alphaville, out 7/31; the cover art is incredible.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWxxJQmXkAY7gQY.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWxxLwFX0Acc0yg.jpg

darkspace fiends rejoice

https://paysagedhiver.bandcamp.com/album/im-wald

Lmao @ the runtime

$50 for 4 LPs isn't that bad these days. A 4 LP Dead live set would probably be three figures.

Okay I don't know anything about Imperial Triumphant, but that is some of my favorite cover art of the year. Love it.

I see it includes both a Voivod cover and a Residents cover (at lease the deluxe version does) so I'm definitely intrigued!

They're pretty amazing; I wrote about their last album and am really excited to hear this one.

I'm watching a lot of Project Runway and am half-expecting Imperial Triumphant to be a contestant on the next series at this rate

xpost - thanks for the link, I'm definitely interested in hearing them now. Sounds up my alley.

Imperial Triumphant are ILM metal pap of the best kind.

New Paysage D’Hiver in June!

It’s terrific. I listed it among my faves so far.

The Blasphamagoatachrist (Blasphemy + Goatpenis + Antichrist) is waging war on my headphones right now and I like it.

god that name cracks me up every time

I can't help but read it in a Mario/Luigi voice every time.

I'd also like to draw everyone's attention to this piece of ONE-MAN HIGH METAL ART. I can't resist the temptation of quoting the introductory text he provides on his Bandcamp page:

This album is to be listened as the recital of a poem. A dark, twisted, surrealist poem. Any other mindset will not allow your full enjoyment of the concept. It portrays the raging inner turmoil of Orpheus, ending in it's descending to Hell...where he embraces the darkest of his thoughts, and is able to put them into words.

Musically, the album presents a mix of Mellotrons, Piano, Harp, Violins, Cellos, Trombone, Trumpet, African Percussion, Middle Eastern instruments, Trance rhythms, Real Oboé and Sax, Cinematic FX, Psychedelic guitars and... Black Metal...
It's a voyage through uncanny and new territories, as SALQIU always strives to offer.

This is an exercise in futility. An antidote to the "prison" to which I've been confined, aiming to dive deep into the realms of the madness we are trying to prevent during these rough times.
By facing madness one becomes prepared to embrace and expose it.

https://salqiu.bandcamp.com/album/orfeu

the preorder track from this is absolutely fucking scorching.

https://aversiohumanitatis.bandcamp.com/album/behold-the-silent-dwellers

Well if it's "an exercise in futility", I guess I know not to even bother!

Omg pomenitul, this is stunning. How did you come across it? Relatively little fanfare from what I can see.

‘Tis bound to remain an Orphic mystery. ;)

pomenitul literally listens to every release tagged as metal imo

anyway this is bringing the weirdo bm vibe v v convincingly where other comparable acts make it bitty and frustrating

Not true, only black and death and doom and their precipitates, in that order.

baal's work, my good man

<3 the mellotron

No stranger to katabasis either iirc.

xp

This just came out and I quite like it...

Cosmic Burial - Impakt (Purity Through Fire) --- There's no atmosphere in space but there's plenty in this 75-minute, four-song star-ward excursion. None of it is psychedelic; the one-man German project repurposes old school BM riffs for fuel. https://t.co/RIpxwVG7a4 #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) May 2, 2020

jumping on the Salqui love train, this is superb

Awesome!

He also dropped an EP a couple of days ago that I haven't heard yet. Once again, the introductory notes are worth quoting in full:

TAKE NOTICE: This is the counterpart to my (just released) latest full length! It's not your "usual" SALQIU, but a different face of it!

This EP was recorded in a mere 2 days span, with the exception of "I Am the Angel of Despair", which was recorded back in new years eve 2018/19.

There are no mix tricks here. The EP portrays the exact vibe in which it was recorded. It captures the rage, the hate, the primal feelings that conducted the recordings. It's crude, I know...that's exactly how it is suppose to be. It's a path of chaos.

This is my attempt to release all the extreme pressure and tiredness I have been suffering. It shows my most vicious side, in relentless way...pounding, escaping...free at last!

Now you will hear the purest form of Black/Blackened Death Metal that I can make....my furthest step aside from pure experimentation which, in the end, is also something new for me.

stoked to hear that tomorrow

Orfeu joins the new Mountain Goats and our little compilation as the first great lockdown albums imo

I'll give the Salqui a listen tomorrow, along w/ revisiting the SouphL album

Salqiu was an obscure warrior-god of death and the underworld in Lusitanian mythology, apparently.

um there's a new Couch Slut album too!!!

https://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/take-a-chance-on-rock-n-roll

!!!!!!!

it is killing it

also the lyrics are available and my god

strikes me as much nastier / less accessible than the last album, real pigfuck hours