Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

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.

bog body side of this split is killer:
https://stygianblackhand.bandcamp.com/album/the-gate-of-grief-undulating-torment

their demo was total ride for revenge worship and this one's... still kinda that but with improved songwriting and production (as far as these primitive affairs go)

other side's pretty cool too

This Prometheus EP "Astrophobos" is some great evil-sounding blackened death from Greece. Looking forward to the full album coming out later this year:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=623774115185544

Barnes/SFU blocked me from posting on their page after I insulted them on it the other day.

Lord, is Chris Barnes one of the thinnest skinned weenies alive. they also blocked comments on Youtube, and yet he regularly insults and harasses other bands on Twitter.

lol how long has that dude's career been running on fumes now?

an old man was on death row, but on the day he was to be executed, he's visited by the Attorney General, who promised to drop all charges under one condition - he listened to every Graveyard Classics album.

The man was pronounced dead that evening at 4:13 pm

in other news, uh, not that I was the hugest Morta Skuld fan (hell, I actually...forgot what they sounded like), but I picked up the new one out of curiosity, and...it's pretty dull.

weirdly commercial in a sense in that every chorus from a vocal perspective is nu-metally, not sonically, but in the sense that the lyrics are simple, inane, very "base emotion" focused, and are repeated frequently over a riff that is much dumber than the riffs that preceded it.

it's just odd. there's nothing really amazing about the non-chorus parts of the songs, per se, but the verses are your standard 'good' death metal fare, blasts, well-written tremolo riffs, and then they just kinda halt forward progress at the chorus.

vocalist is also just underwhelming in general, feel like there should be a Death Metal Idol or something to find these much-needed amazing, distinctive death metal vocalists that are lacking lately. Are you the next Sylvian Houde? show us if you have what it takes.

Man I was a Morta Skuld fan since their demos but somehow didn't feel like a 2020 MS album was something I needed to hear; sounds like my instincts were correct.

You'd be right. I do wanna revisit Dying Remains, tho, which i recall liking

Bête Immonde is a strange album from Griiim, a side project for Maxime Taccardi (also of K.F.R).

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2538237594_16.jpg

http://griiim.bandcamp.com/album/b-te-immonde

Sometimes it makes me think of Zeal & Ardour except way more minimalistic, way less song oriented, way less bombastic, way-way-way stranger. Sometimes it is cloud rap dressed up in corpsepaint. Sometimes it's like Captain Beefheart if he grew up on black metal instead of the blues. It's pretty intriguing.

Captain Beefhjerte

The production is indeed intriguing but his voice is kinda wheezy, impacting the delivery of his ridiculous lyrics, almost all of which would benefit from the usual unintelligibility (this won't be a problem for everyone, obv.).