Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

After many long hours and painstaking work, DeathOrchestra - a collaboration by Russian Death Metal band Buicide and the Olympic Symphony Orchestra - are proud to present the upcoming full-length Symphony of Death. The album captures a live performance from May 4, 2019 at the Opera Concert Club in Saint Petersburg during which DeathOrchestra performed covers of songs from the legendary Death.

Have to admit after reading the first part I didn't see the bolded part coming.

can't wait for Evil Dead, that shit must sound ferocious with cellos

Glad to see Amenra signed to Relapse, I'm excited to see what they have coming.

yeah I love Amenra. great live show too

Don't remember if it was discussed in 2019 but there's a new Nar Mattaru album (Chilean kinda epic DM, not to be confused with the other Nar Mattaru also from Chile) called The Underground Chapel of Deformation and it's quite good.

there's = there was

Woebegone dream poppy atmoblackgaze from Denmark, all about the sublime meaninglessness of existence:

https://sunkendenmark.bandcamp.com/album/livslede

Absolutely loving this.

loving this one, esp the clattering, cacophonous drums. ex-timeghoul.

This started as me being upset at not having real drums and just messing around with YouTube videos. Well, thanks to Ananya on drums it turned into some pretty cool lo fi blackened death metal. Enjoy!!!!

https://grevlar.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-of-death

The new Spirit Adrift is a little frustrating. I love the band's reverent spirit and execution but Nate Garrett's vocal limitations seem more glaring this time out.

another good Conjureth EP came out recently

http://conjureth.bandcamp.com/album/the-levitation-manifest

ex-Ghoulgotha

The new Sumac is really hitting the right spots today, feels like they took a lot from their collabs with Keiji Haino and have accordingly pushed themselves in some new directions.

new Benediction with Dave Ingram, eh?

The new Sumac is indeed quite good. Feels like a step towards less aimlessness or perhaps a more meaningful aimlessness.

Only heard the preview track for Sumac but agree that it was sounding exciting.

I've finally got around to listening to both Kaatayra albums. Both are meritorious, but the epic closing track of the latest one is particularly mysterious and lovely. Some of the most inventive atmospheric black metal around.

Completely agree, hence my overall preference for Toda história pela frente. My Portuguese is lacking but I quite like the title, too. I think the gist is of is: all history ahead/the whole story ahead.

That's nice. 'Misery of Wisdom' as a translation of the last track is like a truncated Jute Gyte title. Yeah, I will listen to these again for sure. Very foresty and hypnotic.

Very rainforesty and hypnotic

FTFY ;)

I think this Sunken album might be my metal album this year. Cheers for the heads-up, pom.

Glad you like it! Angry Metal Guy and No Clean Singing both gave it glowing reviews but it still feels slept on imo.

new Benediction album is sounding pretty nice. Ingram is back on vocals and sounds very good.

anybody digging the Wayfarer album?

Haven't heard it yet, but I really liked their first one.

enjoying it! started out with a silent film piano roll type tune

this feels like Black Metal meets OK Corral

Edenic Past album came out yesterday:
http://edenicpast.bandcamp.com/album/red-amarcord

The tech deth project features Nicholas McMaster and Colin Marston from Krallice and that sentence alone should cause many here to spontaneously orgasm.

cave goons, get in here now:

https://sentientdivide.bandcamp.com/album/haunted-by-cruelty

Forgot to say this rules seven months ago. Still rules today.

Another Boris and Merzbow collab due out in December on Relapse.

2R0I2P0 Tracklist:

Away From You
To The Beach
Coma
Love
Absolutego
Journey
Uzume
Evol
Boris
Shadow Of Skull

Sunken album is gorgeous! TY

yes it's v v nice

Trying in vain to catch up but 'Toda história pela frente' is seriously amazing and just what I need now. Never heard of them before, have not checked out their previous records. Are they really this good, too?

I've only listened to his other 2020 LP, which I enjoyed, but not quite as much as Toda história pela frente. I've yet to hear his first two albums, which were incidentally re-released as a twofer earlier this year.

The previous one is almost as good imo (maybe with a slightly stronger folk emphasis), but I’m yet to listen to the other two. Suits many moods.

Ha xp

Só quem viu o relâmpago à sua direita sabe

Err, that was supposed to be italicized. The caffeine has yet to kick in, it seems.

You guys will probably want to know that the same guy has another album out under a different name:

https://brii.bandcamp.com/album/entre-tudo-que-visto-e-oculto

Cuts out the folk entirely in favour of electronic elements, glitch, vocoder and the like

Undeath album just dropped - feels a bit neo-Cannibal Corpse without the slick production. vocals are much more raw and unprocessed like the classic death metal of the early 90s.

omg there's a backing vocalist or the original vocalist doing a different voice, this high pitched shrill wail that's really dope

their facebook page is called @fundeath

this stomps in ways that nowadays death metal often doesn't like to

ok this ruelz

Acidic Twilight Visions has this gonzo middle part where I imagine the entire band is on LSD and accidentally murdering the poor gardener during a bad trip

You guys will probably want to know that the same guy has another album out under a different name:

https://brii.bandcamp.com/album/entre-tudo-que-visto-e-oculto

Cuts out the folk entirely in favour of electronic elements, glitch, vocoder and the like

Listening to it now. This guy can do no wrong, it seems. He also dabbles in darkwave, apparently:

https://rasha.bandcamp.com/album/i

Not really into darkwave but I'll check it out!

On the more avant and not-really-metal end of things, Stephen O'Malley, aka half of Sunn O))), fucked around with two pieces by arch-spectralist composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram back in 2012, with intriguing results:

https://ideologicorgan.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-grm-paris-performed-by-stephen-o-malley

First track should be 'Crepuscule' rather than the admittedly tastier typo.

as usual, loving the new Pallbearer. some really punishing thick riffs on this, but continuing to expand their goth-pop hooks.

Zeal & Ardor newie is a very much BLM-themed EP and lord, "Vigil" is incredible.

powerful piece of music

Neadrathal - thanks for saying something nice about the Pallbearer - I can't understand why folks shit on em do much - the couple of times I've seen em live I really dug em and thought they brought talent and heart to the songs. Really great musicianship overall.

Yeah i adore em, and they are great live. I could feel the thick chords in ny chest live.