Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

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.

haha comments are turned off

holy moly, that is pretty hilarious

really into the two preview tracks from the upcoming undeath record:
https://undeath.bandcamp.com/album/lesions-of-a-different-kind

great cover too

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2287052272_10.jpg

regular jeans guy sure picked the wrong place to go hiking

Speaking of Obituary, they have live streams a-comin'. SWR, COD, and an "other."
https://obituarylive.com/

re: Undeath, lol @ "Kicked in the Protruding Guts"

xpost word, I saw the Slowly We Rot in-full tour and hung out on their tour bus, but never heard CoD live. just bought that stream

Undeath is my most anticipated record this year. Both of their demos cracked my top 20 last year and they're great live.

Re: Akhlys

Apparently Naas Alcameth is a bit of a shitbag - In a Decibel interview for Nightbringer's 2017 album Terra Damnata is this Q&A:

Can you clarify the spoken word accompaniment to “The Lamp of Inverse Light”?

Naas: The spoken accompaniment was taken from an interview with Julius Evola, [who’s been described by linguistics professor Aaron Gillette as ‘one of the most fascist racists in Italian history’ and is favorably cited by both Steve Bannon as well as white nationalist figurehead Richard Spencer, F.P.] an individual who is of great importance to us all, and has to do with the Left Hand Path in its original and accurate context.

This came up on a Facebook group I frequent that is loosely involved with the Toilet ov Hell blog when the Akhlys came up.

regular jeans guy sure picked the wrong place to go hiking

this is the funniest thing i've read in a while. i'm in tears.

xp ah Evola, the guy you mention when you know that Hitler will get you kicked out of the cocktail party.

oh yeah and he's not only in Nightbringer but also Bestia Arcana and Excommunion. wonderful.

At least with Hitler there's always a chance it's an attempt at edgy humour. With Evola, there is no such thing: to look up to him is to out oneself as a cryptofascist from the get-go.

Ugh, had no idea about Nightbringer. I remember liking their song on that 4-way split that I bought for the Aluk Todolo song, but iirc that had no sampled Nazis on it. Good to know now though.

glad this type of shit is at least being outed now.

I'd already bought a Disma album before I learned about Craig Pillard

You aren't the only one.

new Svalbard sounding really strong, RIYL Rolo Tomassi etc.

gonna check out the latest Morta Skuld that came out

A couple of my Twitter-length reviews on new albums that came out today...

Chrome Waves
Where We Live
(Disorder Recordings)

The melancholy mood makes this a proper send off to
Bob Fouts (RIP); this is rare Black metal to be Beatlesque with actual subversive odes to pop-craft along with the psychedelics. https://t.co/WacMCAkvXp #NowPlaying️

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) September 25, 2020

Early Moods
Spellbound
(Dying Victims Productions)

LA band debut employes the same proto-metal influences as Witchcraft - vocalist Alberto Alcaraz even approximates Magnus Pelander's plaintive wail - but a touch heavier, which is rarely bad. https://t.co/chAw5twAq9 #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) September 25, 2020

The Morta Skuld is...ehh

I’m no Evola apologist but if he’s a non-starter for metal dude name checks, some here will be surprised to learn the breadth of his influence. He wrote a lot about hermeticism and the occult and is as accepted as, say, Nietzsche in many extreme music circles.