Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

yeah I dig this.\m/

Here’s a Euro-BM twofer.

From the Netherlands, an EP of gorgeously depressing, semi-proggy atmoblack with momentum for miles and a conflagration of a conclusion – pure pap for yours truly:

https://verval.bandcamp.com/album/beeldenstorm

From Portugal, an unapologetically hyper-emotive, full-blooded take on BM. Its ‘cathartic’ genre tag on Bandcamp borders on the ridiculous, and it’s all a bit much, really, but suspension of disbelief goes a long way:

https://gaerea.bandcamp.com

And here's some brutal tech death for unperson, who is probably rolling his eyes at my last couple of suggestions:

https://desolateentity.bandcamp.com/album/deconstruction

god bless Napalm Death for naming a new song "Joie de ne Pas Vivre"

also, new single: https://youtu.be/FFDHuCeaM_Y

One more: a Hell-adjacent post-doom (whatever that means) project featuring Weeping Sores violinist Gina Eygenhuysen. Unsurprisingly beautiful:

https://loweryourhead.bandcamp.com/album/obliviosus

That Desolate Entity is decent but not amazing. It sent me back to the latest Black Dahlia Murder album, which is really good.

I had on my releases to check out list a collaboration with Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou that I thought came out today but I cannot find anything about it.

Does anyone know what happened here? Was it pushed back or am I imagining it?

i just checked out Xibalba for the first time, they sound awesome

Was it pushed back or am I imagining it?

I think it's supposed to come out later this year, but the exact date has yet to be announced.

I liked Xibalba more before I almost got my nose broken at one of their shows.

this is a fairly weird thing, but the drums on the new Defeated Sanity, idk, something the drummer does makes the drums make this chime-y sound in the right headphone, and it makes me think I have a ringing in my ears. very distracting.

I like the album though. might have to listen to it off of headphones though.

Here’s a Euro-BM twofer.

From the Netherlands, an EP of gorgeously depressing, semi-proggy atmoblack with momentum for miles and a conflagration of a conclusion – pure pap for yours truly:

https://verval.bandcamp.com/album/beeldenstorm

This hits the spot, dank Pom! Can always count on you bringing the Dutch goods I've not heard of lol

Haha, I must say the current Dutch scene brings together almost everything I like about BM, so I'm always on the lookout for more. I'm still waiting for Turia to unleash the masterpiece they've surely got in them, though.

Speaking of quality atmoblack with a soft spot for brief post-rock interludes, these guys aren't Dutch (they're from Sweden) but it's some of the best I've heard all year:

https://forfallet.bandcamp.com

The newest Imperial Triumphant advance single is, I have to admit, pretty incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_lb8564Kcs

so it's a...triumph, then?

an imperial one

Sounds problematic.

they are all about the contradictions & glorious evils of imperial america, let them rage

Love those guys. Can't wait to hear that album.

same here. I read a the quietus blurb about the new album and assumed it had been released. This week?

Out on Thursday, I think. Reportedly it’s as good or better than Vile Luxury *and* a stylistic curveball so I’m stoked.

I heard that a fairly recognizable metal blog has decided that they would not cover Imperial Triumphant because Zachary Ezrin said he liked Hate Forest in a piece that was posted to Revolver Magazine's website. The piece was removed fairly quickly and Ezrin posted the following apology:

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaPI1QnWsAgZxf4?format=jpg&name=medium

But that is all it took for the band to be cancelled by this one website that will remain nameless (I heard this from a friend who contributes to the website so I am fairly confident it is accurate).

I am all for cancelling people who deserve it and truth be told, my personal criteria has gotten more discerning with current events being what they are inside and outside of extreme music. But I thought it was bullshit when the adamantly antifascist Woe was thrown off festivals because they merely played shows with Inquisition and this kind of cancel-by-association seems similarly weak sauce to me.

I don't know how pervasive the attitude will be beyond the specific website, however, but this collateral damage really stinks.

also it's a low bar to clear, I know, but that's an above average apology for a metal musician

At least unperson is consistent in his refusal to listen to black metal. If merely liking a problematic band is enough to get you canceled, even if you’re firmly on the other side of the political aisle, then what the fuck are we still doing here? Anyway, I’ve already said my piece – repeatedly – so just assume that I’ll be rolling my eyes at the sheer hypocrisy of it all for the foreseeable future.

At least unperson is consistent in his refusal to listen to black metal.

TBF the fact that I hate the actual sound of black metal (the guitars, the vocals, the drumming, the production) makes it easier.

I wonder if those are related facts

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Were they really ‘cancelled’? How does one define ‘cancelled’, anyway? This is the first I’ve heard of it but it seems to me, going from the screenshot as posted above, that the band (or this member specifically) was held to account for expressing approval for a known NSBM project, and he’s apologised for it. It looks like an actual apology, too, not one of those ‘sorry if you were offended’ bullshit statements, though it doesn’t specifically mention what he’s been held to account for, so understandable if people take it with a grain of salt.

Do the same people who hate BM for being 'nazi' listen to Pantera and Down plus other anselmo projects?

iirc he was one of the 1st high profile metal musicians to embrace black metal? Look how he ended up.

Were they really ‘cancelled’? How does one define ‘cancelled’, anyway? This is the first I’ve heard of it but it seems to me, going from the screenshot as posted above, that the band (or this member specifically) was held to account for expressing approval for a known NSBM project, and he’s apologised for it. It looks like an actual apology, too, not one of those ‘sorry if you were offended’ bullshit statements, though it doesn’t specifically mention what he’s been held to account for, so understandable if people take it with a grain of salt.

why even bring that up? it was over a month ago, he was pilloried for recommending some dodgy music, he apologised, line surely drawn. absolutely no need to relitigate it now when we could instead be focusing on the amazing music

Imago you're cancelled for voting for Nokturnal Mortem in the eoy poll :D

imagine what all the cool kids will say when they find out his nom de plume used to be 'ilya goddessraper' (an unfortunate edgy-young-man choice he's obviously gotten beyond and presumably also apologised for)

nowadays he seems cool and makes good music, sure he shouldn't use his 'platform' to promote 'hateful' music ideally but so what, people can make informed decisions about art. i'm guessing he just said it was music he liked amongst a few other things. i mean i like a few songs by dodgy, nsbm-adjacent nokturnal mortum. granted, i wouldn't recommend them in an interview - i think the issue is that young ilya probably didn't know the extent of hate forest's hatefulness? the main thing is that it isn't his own hatefulness. he probably just digs the sound. people shouldn't be cancelled for hatefulness that isn't their own

anyway listen to the nice song

<i>Did you read my post? I specifically said that a relatively prominent metal blog is refusing to cover them over this.</i>

That’s not cancelling. That’s just one outlet refusing to cover an artist. Coverage they are no way entitled to.

I mentioned this in another thread but it's also worth pointing out here: having since checked the lyrics, that Caverne album I recommended earlier features a song written from the point of view of a noble 'Aryan' who bemoans the 'Berber scum' about to overwhelm Europe, perfectly in line with the so-called 'great replacement' theory peddled by the French far-right. Aka fuck that shit.

Then again, Caverne is Nécropole minus one member so this is hardly surprising.

http://imgflip.com/i/49q5rt

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeDOja5WAAI3Gq9?format=png&name=small

Oops. Wrong thread.

That’s not cancelling. That’s just one outlet refusing to cover an artist. Coverage they are no way entitled to.

Nobody said that they were entitled to coverage, but the website in question isn't passing on the band because they don't think their audience is interested, or they don't have a writer who wants to cover it, or the publicist won't work with them. If an outlet refuses to cover an artist because they disagree with their "objectionable behavior or opinions," that outlet has indeed cancelled that artist.

That outlet might very well be alone, picking this as a hill to die on, I have no idea. I hope so. It would make them look dumb and while I like the people who work for this website, I disagree with this decision. But make no mistake - the band is not being denied coverage by this somewhat well-known metal website because that somewhat well-known metal website cancelled the band.

Hell, the writer who was unhappy with the decision said to me "There’s a lot more canceling but association going on" when we discussed it.

That should read, "the band is being denied coverage by this somewhat well-known metal website because that somewhat well-known metal website cancelled the band."

The new Valkyrie is really good.

No frills death/doom power trio from Montreal, on the swifter end of tempo. It just rips:

https://shezmu.bandcamp.com

this will surprise no one but i am feeling the Mystras record

ohhh that's the spectral lore thing about medieval insurrections, cool, will listen tomorrow

It's quite good and notably features a bangin' cover of 'Ai vist lo lop'.

this will surprise no one but i am feeling the Mystras record

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one track in and OOOOOOOOOMFG

anti-fascist, anti-nationalist medieval Greek black metal, with semi-necro production, epic scope, killer musicianship, great synths, pained vocals, fantastic atmosphere......

good quality black metal about rising up with your fellow serfs to murder your overlords