Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

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

Since we're about 1/3 of the way through the year, let's see how the Rate Your Music chart for Metal and Hard Rock is shaping up...

1. Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald
2. Ulcerate - Stare Into Death and Be Still
3. Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
4. Spectral Lore & Mare Cognitum - Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
5. Black Curse - Endless Wound
6. Mick Gordon - Doom Eternal (Original Game Soundtrack)
7. Slift - Ummon
8. Wake - Devouring Ruin
9. Elder - Omens
10. Fluisteraars - Bloem
11. Cirith Ungol - Forever Black
12. Malokarpatan - Krupinské ohne (The Fires of Krupina)
13. Caustic Wound - Death Posture
14. Lowrider - Refractions
15. Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
16. Thy Catafalque - Naiv
17. Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion
18. Sweven - The Eternal Resonance
19. Drown - Subaqueous
20. Mamaleek - Come and See
21. Sadness - Alluring the Distant Eye
22. Perdition Temple - Sacraments of Descension
23. Nechochwen / Panopticon - Nechochwen / Panopticon
24. Thanatos - Violent Death Rituals
25. Cénotaphe - Monte Verità
26. Loathe - I Let It In and It Took Everything
27. H.e.a.t - H.e.a.t II
28. Testament - Titans of Creation
29. Poppy - I Disagree
30. Vengeful Spectre - 殞煞 (Vengeful Spectre)
31. Warbringer - Weapons of Tomorrow
32. Aeternam - Al Qassam
33. Warp Chamber - Implements of Excruciation
34. Psychotic Waltz - The God-Shaped Void
35. Kvelertak - Splid
36. Dopelord - Sign of the Devil
37. Korgonthurus - Kuolleestasyntynyt
38. Traveler - Termination Shock
39. Ilium - Carcinogeist
40. Black Swan - Shake the World
41. Marrasmieli - Between Land and Sky
42. Sepultura - Quadra
43. Kawir - Adrasteia
44. Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
45. Plague - Portraits of Mind
46. Godthrymm - Reflections
47. Katatonia - City Burials
48. Harem Scarem - Change the World
49. Kvaen - The Funeral Pyre
50. Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions
51. Disembowel - Echoes of Terror
52. Regarde les hommes tomber - Ascension
53. Hällas - Conundrum
54. Dark Fortress - Spectres From the Old World
55. Izthmi - The Arrows of Our Ways
56. On Thorns I Lay - Threnos
57. The Spirit - Cosmic Terror
58. Dynazty - The Dark Delight
59. Ripped to Shreds - 亂 (Luan)
60. Brothers of Metal - Emblas Saga
61. Benighted - Obscene Repressed
62. Coffin Curse - Ceased to Be
63. Jordablod - The Cabinet of Numinous Song
64. Dzö-nga - Thunder in the Mountains
65. Seven Spires - Emerald Seas
66. Internal Rot - Grieving Birth
67. Nero di Marte - Immoto
68. Old Man Gloom - Seminar IX: Darkness of Being
69. Sentient Divide - Haunted by Cruelty
70. Worm - Gloomlord
71. Turia - Degen van Licht
72. Novena - Eleventh Hour
73. Dool - Summerland
74. Borgne - Y
75. Red - Declaration
76. Dola - Dola
77. Invent, Animate - Greyview
78. Ensnared - Inimicus Generis Humani
79. Code Orange - Underneath
80. Khymera - Master of Illusions
81. Lovebites - Electric Pentagram
82. Circle of Ouroborus - Viimeinen juoksu
83. Solothus - Realm of Ash and Blood
84. My Dying Bride - The Ghost of Orion
85. Sylosis - Cycle of Suffering
86. Snorlax - II
87. Ygg - The Last Scald
88. Molested Divinity - Unearthing the Void
89. Lucifer - Lucifer III
90. Cemetery Filth - Dominion
91. Temple of Void - The World That Was
92. Svrm - Занепад
93. Wolfheart - Wolves of Karelia
94. Warmoon Lord / Vultyrium -
95. DRAIN - California Cursed
96. Leeched - To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse
97. Beneath the Massacre - Fearmonger
98. Master Boot Record - Floppy Disk Overdrive
99. Funeral Leech - Death Meditation
100. The True Werwolf - Devil Crisis
101. Cult of Fire - Nirvana
102. Deogen - The Endless Black Shadows of Abyss
103. Nekrovault - Totenzug: Festering Peregrination
104. Huntsmen - Mandala of Fear
105. Marko Hietala - Pyre of the Black Heart
106. Apep - The Invocation of the Deathless One
107. Biff Byford - School of Hard Knocks
108. Elephant Tree - Habits
109. The Black Dahlia Murder - Verminous
110. Heaven Shall Burn - Of Truth and Sacrifice
111. Violet Cold - Noir Kid
112. Local H - Lifers
113. The Motion Mosaic - Avant-Garbage
114. Frayle - 1692
115. Midnight - Rebirth by Blasphemy
116. Ambush - Infidel
117. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals
118. Blaze of Perdition - The Harrowing of Hearts
119. Skyforest - A New Dawn
120. Aara - En Ergô Einai

I've heard six of those, and a song or two from two others.

Poppy at 29, nice.

I haven't heard the Doom Eternal strk yet but the Doom one ruled

In case you're not tired of incredibly long records yet this year, that one comes in at a svelte four and a quarter hours.

Where are people hearing the Paysage d'Hiver?

So far Oranssi is the only thing I've found wholly satisfying. I also really like parts of the Poppy and Sweven albums. Not sure yet about Ulcerate. It's obviously excellent death metal, but so single-minded and serious, and it all kind of blurs together.

Oranssi my much-publicised album of the year obv but that Slift album is a-ma-zing and you'd all do well to give it a try if you fancy another trip to space

Paysage album leaked and he did an angry Fbook post about it iirc

new Lantern album coming up on Dark Descent

stoked for Couch Slut and Lantern new albums

loving the new Barishi

https://barishi.bandcamp.com/album/old-smoke

Fully onboard with Salqui, that's positively amazing. Oranssi AOTY contender for me I think.

Still v much fuck with Revenant Marquis Youth in Ribbons, which isn't on RYM's list, I see. If you don't believe me, believe Roxymuzak at least.

Regarding the Paysage d'Hiver leak. It's been floating around since February. There was an invitation-only listening party in January and attendees received a wood-encased and engraved USB stick of the album. The files were all 128 (possibly to discourage sharing). I haven't checked if there are better files out there yet.

Dude from Tchornobog has a solo doom project called Drown, the new album Subaqueous is pretty good. Name Your Price on BC, or you can get both his albums and a hand painted underwater landscape for $62.

loving the Couch Slut album. that ender...whew

Psycho Vegas moved to 2021, with they claim almost the exact same lineup. if Mercyful Fate stays on, I'll keep my ticket.

it's the right move, but this effectively has cancelled the last thing I gave a shit about this year.

all that means is I'm all in on this motherfuckin' lockdown

That RYM list is great, but it definitely has a certain...bias. If you're interested in some other metal from the year so far, here's a playlist with an intentionally different bias, produced by math from Spotify listening patterns:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6eyQHP5r9jxSjqhIsMw41X

1. Fourth Circle "Survive"
2. Tomorrow Is Lost "Hideaway"
3. Semblant "Mere Shadow"
4. Stitched Up Heart "My Demon"
5. Ad Infinitum "See You in Hell"
6. Memoremains "Pounding Heart"
7. September Mourning "Overdose"
8. Skarlett Riot "Human"
9. MoonSun "Wanted and Wild"
10. Lena Scissorhands "All The Things She Said"
11. Temperance "The Cult Of Mystery"
12. Diabulus in Musica "The Misfit's Swing"
13. Blackbriar "Madwoman in the Attic"
14. Beyond The Black "Golden Pariahs"
15. Evereal "When You're Gone"
16. Leaves' Eyes "Black Butterfly"
17. Ravenword "Blue Roses"
18. Amberian Dawn "Butterfly"
19. Circus of Fools "Eris (To the Fairest One)"
20. Clio Cadence "Drive"
21. Ardours "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes"
22. Dark Sarah "Melancholia"
23. セヴン・スパイアーズ "ドラウナー・オブ・ワールズ"
24. ILLUMISHADE "World's End"
25. Future Palace "Illusionist"
26. Liv Kristine "Skylight"
27. Her Chariot Awaits "Dead & Gone"
28. Mezmerized "Shutdown"
29. Kalidia "To the Darkness I Belong - Orchestral Version"
30. Metalite "Hunting High and Low"
31. BASEMENT PROPHECY "The Silence of the Tide"
32. Ignea "Jinnslammer"
33. The Murder of My Sweet "Hit the Ground"
34. Berserkyd "Axe (Unofficial Dota Theme)"
35. Scarlett Breaks "Hide & Seek"
36. Nemesea "New Year's Day"
37. Exlibris "Megiddo"
38. Crimson Sun "Virtual Reality"
39. Devilskin "Corrode"
40. Volturian "Broken"
41. Ember Falls "We Are Become Fire"
42. Daimonic "Might Concealed"
43. Helion Prime "Mr. Torture"
44. DIAMANTE "Serves You Right"
45. Killus "Vortex"
46. The Dirty Youth "Shut Your Mouth"
47. Oliver Tray "Shotokan - Radio Edit"
48. Rise of Insanity "Dark Figure"
49. GAUPA "Vakuum"
50. Sertraline "Inside Out"
51. Skar "Face My Fears"
52. Omnimar "You & I"
53. Burning Witches "Sea of Lies"
54. SCARLET "Beauty & Beast"
55. Fallcie "Parasites"
56. Blues Pills "Proud Woman - Radio Edit"
57. Kamara "Tämäkin vielä"
58. Secret Rule "Purgatory"
59. METALHAWK "Dance Monkey - Metal Version"
60. Нуки "Пищевая цепочка"
61. Ravenscry "Maybe"
62. Ауткаст "Пустота"
63. Smackbound "Run"
64. Eluveitie "Ambiramus"
65. Diztord "Follow Me"
66. Flowerleaf "All My Life"
67. Psycho Choke "Obey"
68. Morphide "Queen of Blame"
69. Silentium "Unchained"
70. Lock The Basement "No Revolt"
71. Nicumo "Same Blood"
72. Dead End Scene "Gates of Heaven"
73. Cryoshell "Creeping in My Soul - Classical Version"
74. Krashkarma "Girl with a Hammer"
75. Fairyland "Heralds of the Green Lands"
76. Rob Lundgren "Toss A Coin To Your Witcher - Metal Version"
77. Hemina "In Technicolour"
78. The Silenced "Death on the Rise"
79. Unzucht "Sonnentod"
80. Argion "Sobre el Mar"
81. Wake up Frankie "Afterlifestyle"
82. My Favourite Nemesis "Wake"
83. Velvet Ocean "It's So Hard"
84. A Life Divided "Confronted"
85. Rainover "Lumina Omnia"
86. Halflives "One Bad Day"
87. Rainbowdragoneyes "Dragons"
88. Royal Deceit "Bite the Curb"
89. I Revolt "$uicide Watch"
90. Chronoform "The Paradox"
91. Apron "Kaleidoskop"
92. Detset "Graves"
93. Not One of Us "Mission: Undertaker"
94. Ends With A Bullet "Who You Are"
95. Night Fiends "Death Lead the Way"
96. The Great Discord "Breathe"
97. TreBell08 "Kingdom Animalia"
98. Paralydium "Finding the Paragon"
99. Ten Second Songs "Hello of Broken Dreams"
100. The Hellfreaks "Witches Heal"

The problem I have with these streaming charts is that it’s essentially a circular metric - whatever music gets pushed onto the listeners playlists, gets fed back into the “this is what they’re actually listening to” lists. You’re back to the old model of radio play-based charts.

RYM may have its defects (downvoting mobs) but at least its general bias is towards music its users actually care enough about to rate.

I recognize, I think, two bands on that top 100 lol

is that a Spotify playlist or an AI generated list of fake metal releases

one for the freaks

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ons

Belgium's NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM (aka NNMM) is a community of “cultural engineers” with a variable line-up, mixing drone metal with spiritual free jazz and psychedelic music.

By exploring the evolution of the human species, NEPTUNIAN MAXMALISM question the future of the living on Earth, propitiating a feeling of acceptance for the conclusion of the so called "anthropocene" era and preparing us for the incoming “probocene” era, imagining our planet ruled by superior intelligent elephants after the end of humanity. As Guillaume Cazalet explains, “for certain scientists, if we hadn't rule the Earth, elephants were supposed to be at the top of the pyramid of terrestrial life.”

The ambitious album trilogy of “Éons” is a musical experience of gargantuan proportions where each chapter is part of a fascinating ritual, a cosmic mass of light and darkness recalling the works of SUNN O))), EARTH, ALUK TODOLO, ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE, SWANS, MOTORPSYCHO, SUN RA and the late JOHN COLTRANE.

joining Botanist in the 'who will rule Earth when we're gone' speculative metal bracket

personally I'm rooting for the ravens #oldschool

or maybe the seagulls

a seagull-themed metal band would be sick