Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

Got the promo of that Xythlia yesterday:

"[BAND] brilliantly blend the most extreme tech death/grind metal with Voivod's progressive/experimental approach and the mind-shattering guitar acrobatics of Krallice and Ocrilim." Um, SOLD. (I'm hearing some Agoraphobic Nosebleed, too...)

— burning ambulance (@burn_amb) July 6, 2020

oooh new lunatii!

This Mare Cognitum/Spectral Lore split LP is a BEAST :))

Thanks for clarifying here, I was wondering which band that tweet was referring to. Sounds great.

highly recommend this new collection of material from sick/tired splits:

http://sick-tired.bandcamp.com/album/obsessed-with-death-splits-compilation

grind!

thoughts on the new armagedda? can’t make up my mind on it tbh. it all sounds a bit too... polite? i feel like i might be missing something here tho.

afterbirth record prob my fave of the year so far. can’t stop going back to that one.

the suffocation worship on that thaetas record def also hitting the spot.

Czech BM with atypically stellar drumming, a well-judged predilection for 'post-' (rock, hardcore, metal) gestures and a decidedly urban feel for atmosphere. Bonus: inspired by Gustav Meyrink's The Golem.

https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/the-meyrinkian-slumber

The Armagedda is top 5 EOY material for me btw but I'm a sucker for the stuff.

xp

interesting! if you’ll indulge me, what makes it stand out of the pack for you? (aside from the lineage, more like as a recording of songs.) i’ve tried it a few times now and am struggling to hear what others hear but i want to believe.

Songwriting, vocals, production, a fondness for mid-tempo BM, the sense that they're beating the 2nd wave classics at their own game. But I'm an idiosyncratic listener, to be sure, and routinely get excited over material that leaves most fellow ILMers cold.

agreed on the vox and also have a fondness for mid-tempo (or slower) BM. i can’t make up my mind on the production (and the drum sound in particular) but i’m going to give this a focused listen soon, thanks!

Armagedda has a very crisp production, on first listen? I'd not heard of them before, but will def get back to this. It leaves me cold Pom, but that's what the best BM does ;)

can you guess what kind of music a band called Eternal Rot plays

http://godzovwarproductions.bandcamp.com/album/putridarium

for a death/doom band there's a good amount of imaginative stuff happening and surprising amounts of shambling groove

Industrial grind from Kenya:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd35MhHqjhc

I'm intrigued. Bandcamp preorder link

new Napalm Death!!! Apex Predator-Easy Meat was brilliant.

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/napalm-death-announce-first-album-in-5-years-throes-of-joy-in-the-jaws-of-defeatism/

There are no bad Napalm Death albums. Can't wait.

Fear Emptiness Despair is pretty bad I’d say.

What are your 2020 metal highlights so far, Siegbran? I miss your write-ups of old.

I've hardly heard new metal this year. I've liked Thanatos, Sepultura, Sivyj Yar, Ygg, Deathwhite, Paysage d'Hiver, Armagedda and Lustre but I'll probably do most of my metal listening around the end of the year.

The Ygg, Armagedda and Paysage d’Hiver are among my favourites this year but I’ve yet to hear all of those, so thanks.

Any thoughts on the Maggot Heart record?
There's a Beastmilk/Grave Pleasures connection (both bands were/are ILM faves) so I figure they would be on the radar of some people here.
I liked them live with King Dude last March.
I listened to the album a few times and I like the spirit of it but cannot seem to latch onto it.

Does anyone know if that Boris is getting any kind of physical release, or is it digital only? Trying to decide if I should shell out for the digital now, or hold off a little.

(No dice means I didn't get a reply, not that they are not doing a physical release, sorry abou that!)

pre-ordering Duma!

Skeleton's debut, out tomorrow, ticked a lot of boxes. rock solid pünkened black, full of stately mayhem hooks

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

new Sumac coming in september

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/sumac-announce-new-album-may-you-be-held/

now back to the uneasy pantheon of BM for people with big crust punk analog hearts: new Utzalu!!!

https://vrasubatlat.bandcamp.com/album/vt-xxvi-the-grobian-fall

(No dice means I didn't get a reply, not that they are not doing a physical release, sorry abou that!)

Thanks for checking though, let me know if you hear anything!

Definitely excited for some new Sumac, that's good news.

now we just need a new release date for the Carcass album

Thanks for checking though, let me know if you hear anything!

well, let's GET physical!

Thanks, at least I know.

mid-tempo growly underwater doom with dreamy spidery guitars from Markov Soroka. Very very good

https://markovsoroka.bandcamp.com/album/subaqueous

like very very VERY fuckin good. dang

omg this new Lantern

there's 'clean' vocals and the vocalist sounds like Javier Bardem when he sings even though he's Finnish

Finally got around to that Neptunian Maximalism and it's the real deal.

The Regarde les hommes tomber LP Neechy mentioned upthread is very much worth hearing as well.

on second listen, new Lantern is fuckin' fantastic

11 minutes into 'Avènement de l’éon évaísthitozoïque probocène flamboyant' for the second time today and I'm tempted to argue that Éons is the Espaces acoustiques of metal.

I have a lot of catching up to do, apparently.

Actual quote from a PR email I just received: "If you are looking for something polished, advanced, or otherwise consistent with industry standards, prepare to be disappointed." Seriously, what the fuck? "Our music is poorly played and recorded like shit! Excited yet?"

man, poorly played and recorded metal, what an innovation

on second listen, new Lantern is fuckin' fantastic

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oh man they really killed it

The Neptunian Maximalism (triple?) album is amazing!

Actual quote from a PR email I just received: “If you are looking for something polished, advanced, or otherwise consistent with industry standards, prepare to be disappointed.” Seriously, what the fuck? “Our music is poorly played and recorded like shit! Excited yet?”

They could just say it sounds ‘raw’ and not tie themselves up in rhetorical knots.

what does "advanced" mean in that sentence

The chords don't progress, there's only one chord per song

frankly, i'm in

"we heard you like microtonal metal so we kept it to one tone"

maybe it's like Zaireeka where they make a cd for every note possible on the fretboard and you have to play the cds simultaneously to make the music you want

Name a name plz, this is already sounding like my AOTY.

It's an album by Siege Column, coming out on Nuclear War Now! in August. (Musical merits - or not - of this particular record aside, hasn't NWN thrown in with politically shady folks in the past?)