Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

But tbh I'm more hyped for Void Rot's debut LP, which came out today:

https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/descending-pillars

I hope Pallbearer will click for me one day

Do you generally enjoy trad doom?

I do! idk why their stuff is always in one ear, out the other for me

https://tedium.co/2020/09/11/life-after-death-metal/

^ carcass deep dive

has any good cartoonish/horror brutal death metal (other than Skeletal Remains) come out recently?

keep scouring Bandcamp for some....

Seconding the enthusiasm for the new Void Rot. It totally kills, scratching that death/doom itch way better than the new Incantation does. Just pre-ordered a shirt to pay respects.

Feel like Incantation decided to lean closer to death much further than usual on their latest.

But I'll check this one out

The new Napalm Death gets better every time I play it. Full review later this week on Burning Ambulance.

Glad to hear. Stoked

exciting! about on par with AP/EM I hope?

Yeah, I mean, they've basically been on a nonstop hot streak since The Code is Red..., with my personal favorites being Time Waits for No Slave, Smear Campaign and Utilitarian (mostly for Zorn), but this one is right up there. "Amoral" is the catchiest song they've written in years, and there's another one that's got a Big-Ass Riff so unsubtle it's almost hilarious.

Seconding the enthusiasm for the new Void Rot. It totally kills

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner)

yes!!

there's a cvltnation live session from days ago streaming on youtube, where they play this record, and confirm the insane depth they are able to dive you in

Their split with Atavisma earlier this year also pwns, as does the latter's 2018 debut. SPELEOLOGY 4 EVAH.

On the artier, more blackened side of metal, these Czech dudes nimbly incorporate post-hardcore and post-rock tropes, especially noticeable in the bass, and end their 30-minute LP on a 13:30 epic that reminded me of Jackie-O Motherfucker, partly due to the untethered sax 'n' noise freakout that serves as a coda to the whole thing:

https://voluptas.bandcamp.com

yeah, i pick that split after you've listed some of yr faves of the year, above. it was a vg amuse-bouche

picked*

As threatened promised, my thoughts on Napalm Death's new one.

nice. thanks for sharing. your Arctopus write up was great btw. I keep going back to that album.

I used to like the *idea" of Arctopus more than I ever felt like listening to them, in that they pissed off all the right sorts of people, but the new one is genuinely really great, yeah.

got my ticket to the Virginia drive-in GWAR show. scary print on the ticket that says you have to have a mask and the only place you're allowed to roam outside of the immediate space outside your vehicle is the bathroom and if you go anywhere else you get kicked the fuck out and you don't get a refund and they get to keep your car.

stoked nonetheless. it's live music, and I've gotten more into GWAR beyond just the cheesy theatrics.

they actually remixed/remastered Scumdogs, which is all kinds of hilarious to me. the crazy phaser/reverb they had drowning the guitars is gone, guitar a wee bit crunchier.

The new Uniform record that came out Friday fucking kills if you are into overly aggro industrialized punk in your metal, and I am.

Fun fact: I currently live in Delaware County, the inspiration for lead track "Delco."

Thanks to gaudio I wound up tracked down this Icelandic band's demo on a Norwegian label from a German distro. It's well worth checking out even though their misanthropic presence makes it hard to find out anything about the band or even hear the debut.

I hate tapes; I could care less about being grimmer-than-thou. But I had to get this Drottinn demo.

The Icelandic ofurhópur (members of Misþyrming, Skáphe, Svartidauði) is raw and uncompromising but classical allusions and other avant garde subtleties emerge from the mire. pic.twitter.com/8p7LgnVXii

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) September 17, 2020

Sounds cool. Too bad I no longer own a cassette player.

Use your mouth - as the tape goes through your teeth, whistle.

That won't actually make any sound other than the whistle but....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbp0bET06wc

AAAH there's a new Drastus album out! Anyone hear it yet?

Listening to the new Enslaved now and enjoying it more than I expected to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkEXIpym5E0

An Alice In Chains cover album came out today with a few relatively "big" bands contributing.

http://en.spkr.media/out/pictures/generated/product/1/250_250_100/various.artists-alice.in.chains-dirt.redux-mer073.jpg

1 Thou - Them Bones 02:47
2 Low Flying Hawks - Dam That River 05:25
3 High Priest - Rain When I Die 06:30
4 Khemmis - Down in a Hole 06:40
5 These Beasts - Sickman 05:20
6 Howling Giant - Rooster 05:41
7 Forming the Void - Junkhead 04:38
8 Somnuri - Dirt 05:32
9 Backwoods Payback - God Smack 03:39
10 Black Electric - Iron Gland 00:42
11 -(16)- - Hate to Feel 05:52
12 Vokonis - Angry Chair 04:59
13 The Otolith - Would? 05:54

http://open.spotify.com/album/4K7c0sJMAncs8mRSYZOL72?si=8Q2HyVIGRT-SpYjx3SN_TA
http://reduxrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dirt-redux

AAAH there's a new Drastus album out! Anyone hear it yet?

It's a compilation, apparently.

Added three albums that came out on Friday to my Amazon Wish List.

Not a huge shock that I added the new Finntroll and Napalm Death records, since I love both bands (the new Napalm record is fantastic).
Joining them was this band I had never heard before.

Melted Bodies
Enjoy Yourself
(Sweatband Records)

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2050181391_16.jpg

http://open.spotify.com/album/2rAOY50XLcpUuLPvK48hm9?si=DZIH6n6fSMSvAIjh0bRXfA
http://meltedbodies.bandcamp.com/album/enjoy-yourself

They're likely being compared to Mr. Bungle and that's not at all incorrect, but I hear the circus-like whimsy of the underrated Dog Fashion Disco and a vocalist who reminds me of a youthful Jello Biafra. There's also some Zappa-esque takes on these times we live in. Pretty solid. No CD release unfortunately but available on vinyl as well as digital download.

They're likely being compared to Mr. Bungle and that's not at all incorrect, but I hear the circus-like whimsy of the underrated Dog Fashion Disco and a vocalist who reminds me of a youthful Jello Biafra. There's also some Zappa-esque takes on these times we live in.

You say all this like it's a good thing...

Cover art is definitely disturbing though, without tipping all the way over into Pissgrave-ish edgelordism.

Yes, I do say it's like a good thing. Because to me, it is.

I think your brootal slam death crap sucks for the most part but somehow refrain from commenting.

oh hey I like this a lot! we'll see how it holds up over an entire album but the first few tracks are great fun.

yeah I kinda love this

also I just got to track 7 which was a very fun surprise

I am glad that someone else dug it.

Do you need a totally generic, never-ever-coloring-outside-the-lines Swedish death metal album? Good news, Lik has one coming out Friday! RIYL Dismember or early Entombed or any of their 500,000 clones.

i hate generic swe death.

I love good Swe death.

I don't love it per se but I mind generic SWE death way less than most other generic metal subgenres. It's honest work.

i think I've just grown tired of that guitar tone playing mediocre riffs.

I hate generic death metal more, mostly because lately all brutal death i keep finding on bandcamp = either just 'slam' or "hey all of the guitar is panned hard left and sounds like a walrus licking a pinecone and the drums are all blast beats with massive speed degradation cos dude actually sucks at drumming and we don't have a bass player".

I do like Amagortis though with their hit "Chainsaw Ass Massacre". it's fun.

Generic grindcore also bores me to tears.

This is good shit tho, I don't recall anyone bringing it up itt:

https://stygianblackhand.bandcamp.com/album/preparations-for-human-disposal

And it's over in less than 15 mins, which is exactly as it should be.

Lik always sounding so self-conscious. are they in the gateway hm2 business now? its aesthetic so redundant

in contrast, i could listen to these shameless self-unconscious indulgent fools doing generic (not generic!) catchy deranged swedish death, everyday

https://bastardpriest.bandcamp.com/album/vengeance

New Akhlys album coming out and I am excite

xp someone really needs to invent a new metal pedal

Omg this is bad. And look at the ratio of thumbs up to thumbs down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX9RCYgMJWc

The great irony of Six Feet Under is that they literally only exist because Chris Barnes wanted/needed a new band, but they would be a thousand times better with almost anyone else on vocals. I mean, that's a pretty decent Obituary-clone riff, but his voice just suuuuucks.