Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

I am not a big Sodom fan at all — if it wasn't for Tankard, they'd be my least favorite German band — but the new album is really good.

Glad to hear *checks notes* three fellow ILXors are interested in a 2020 metal poll. Anyone else? I’d rather not bother seandalai if it can be helped.

I'll definitely put in a ballot.

I would also vote in the poll.

yes

I might have somewhere around 20 or 25 albums this year, which is a lot for me.

Yes.

I will voet

That’s the spirit!

In!

i may even vote for some albums not from Tampere, Finland if we're lucky

With December now looming on the horizon, I’d like everyone to know that I’m up for a 2020 metal poll if you are, so do honk if you’re interested.

HONK

Forgot about Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Ascension is kicking my ass right now

Nice to see loads of enthusiasm for the poll! Got lots of catching up this year due to various reasons so woohoo

WILL VOTE.

Forgot about Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Ascension is kicking my ass right now

― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx),

That is one I bought too. I had somehow forgot about it.

I've not really engaged enough this year to vote but will definitely read and take part.

Pom has done it 2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: NOMINATIONS Thread (open until the 8th of January 2021)

I got my LP of the new Fuck the Facts but have not listened yet. each format/pressing has a different bonus track. fiendish!

I really like it

will vote!

same!

digging the new Azarath. the drums are thunderous, the riffs almost drone-y in a way in where they repeat over and over and over before giving way to another passage.

It’s really good, yeah. At first pass I can’t say I like it less than Blasphemers’ Maledictions.

giving this a headphone listen and man, it's taking a lot of restraint for me not to start knocking over furniture.

my mother is watching the Saved by the Bell relaunch, and man the show improves with this music in the background

ok the new Fuck the Facts is immense

yeah, it has many layers to it. probably gonna revisit that next.

Diminishing returns for me but it’s a highlight for sure.

digging the new Azarath. the drums are thunderous, the riffs almost drone-y in a way in where they repeat over and over and over before giving way to another passage.

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, November 28, 2020 8:36 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It’s really good, yeah. At first pass I can’t say I like it less than Blasphemers’ Maledictions.

― pomenitul, Saturday, November 28, 2020 8:42 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow, music to my ears

New Kaunis Kuolematon delivers the Finnish melodeath-doom goods.

my mother is watching the Saved by the Bell relaunch,

wtf?? a relaunch?? Who is playing Screech?

Nobody.

new azarath... now there’s that negativity i needed right now!

opener rules. had to go back and play it again right away on my first listen. you just know you’re in for something special ~20secs in.

I like how relatively intelligible it is

Anyone listened to the Scour EP? Superband featuring Philip H. Anselmo (Pantera, Down, En Minor, etc.), John Jarvis (Agoraphobic Nosebleed), Derek Engemann (Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals), Mark Kloeppel (Misery Index), and Adam Jarvis (Pig Destroyer, Lock Up). Black metal-ish?

I liked the Scour enough to play it a second time but not quite enough to buy it.

New fuming mouth!

https://fumingmouth.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-tomb

Mamaleek's Out of Time annoyed me with its shrivelled bag of tricks, but boy am I ever glad I checked out Come & See anyway. The focus on bluesy/jazzy noise/experimental rock suits them so much better, and the trip-hoppy undercurrents actually make sense now that they've been toned down.

killer be killed are the traveling wilburys of metal

lol otm

that song "Left of Center" as anti-Antifa anthem is....uhh.

it reads more like standard horseshoe theory stuff, not good but not notably bad compared to many other bands

Lord, grant me the wisdom to never parse the lyrics on a Max Cavalera album. (More seriously, I don't know why this is considered his thing when Greg Puciato and Troy Sanders are more dominant than ever. And a lot of the songwriting is way more Mastodon-ish than Soulfly/CavCon.)

I hadn’t even realized Sepultura dropped a new one this year and that it’s reportedly Not Bad.

People have been saying that about every Sepultura album since A-Lex. I don't know, though...

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

so, new Emptiness track

http://emptiness.bandcamp.com/album/vide

sounds very Kranky Records to me

These guys shriek in Arabic and claim to be from Iraq, which I very much doubt given the scene’s history with such things:

https://mulla.bandcamp.com/

There’s a twist, though: they’re an unblack metal band, as the lyrics reportedly express their devotion to Allah. The music itself is Darktronesque and involves some solid Middle Eastern riffage and soloing.

*Darkthronesque although the typo is very funny to me for some reason.

Btw don’t forget to nominate your faves here:

2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: NOMINATIONS Thread (open until the 8th of January 2021)