Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

sad thing is unlike the other two bands, I think IE's lunacy is mostly concentrated in Schaffer (though ex-singer Barlow was a cop soooo...). but that's cos his bandmates seem to change every album.

I bet they break up as a result (or he replaces the current lineup after they quit)

These guys, dubbed ‘Cold Thrower’ in the comments (which I think is both funny and accurate) are about to drop their first LP tomorrow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EKV1O7gJDU

I listened to some of it this morning. It's fine. If you need one more record that sounds like that, get it. They're from Texas, though, so don't be surprised to find yourself deleting it in a month when they turn out to be Trumpoid revanchists or something.

re: Frozen Soul, am a big fan of their Maggot Stomp demo, but haven't had a chance to listen to the full length yet, but I'd say it's pretty unlikely they are right-wing Trumpists since they donated a few hundred bucks to BLM over the summer (more than Exhumed and other bigger bands did if I recall correctly) and have also mocked anti-maskers on their socials.

Those who listen to post-Udo Accept (i.e. not me) may be disappointed to hear that their upcoming album Too Mean to Die has been postponed from January 15 to January 29.

https://metalinjection.net/metal-crimes/iced-earths-jon-schaffer-now-listed-on-fbis-most-wanted

Jose Mangin, idiot:

Common ground = Heavy music.
Let’s focus on what we all hold close to our heart, and for us Metalheads, it’s our music.
What happens when someone falls in a mosh pit?
Do we ask them who they favor politically?
Or do we just automatically pick them up & continue rocking?
🤘🏽🙏🏽🤘🏽

— Jose Mangin (@josemangin) January 8, 2021

"favor politically" vs "showing up to an armed insurrection"

nail his ass

kinda wanna watch him getting perp walked and holding up an Oontz speaker playing "Reaching the End"...quiet tune but fitting

Guys, checking back a few days but I contributed to the Ramones Museum fundraiser/make space appeal during the summer (hoodie and some shirts for something stupid like €30) and one of the shirts they sent me was a Dee Dee King one. Lockdown means I haven't been anywhere to bust it out yet but it's just waiting.

Toilet Ov Hell was prompted by the insipid Jose Mangin tweet referenced above to publish 'Metal Alone Cannot Unite Us':

While that sentiment may be nice on the surface, it doesn’t hold much weight in reality.

Punk fought Nazis and kicked them out. Hardcore fought Nazis and kicked them out. Metal, in general, just kind of shrugged and allowed them to stick around. By doing so, these people have learned to tone down their rhetoric enough to start or join other bands, get signed to better known labels, and subtly reach a much larger audience. It is one of many blind spots in metal that continues to fester and push us apart rather than bring us together.

His desire to find commonality rather than focus on differences may be well-intentioned but chooses to ignore ongoing and underlying issues. It asks us to ignore the real world and put our arms around the sweaty person next to you at the show when “Raining Blood” plays over the PA. This is the equivalent of Marge Simpson saying “Now let’s forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream!” Ignore the difficult stuff, listen to music, and everything will be better. While a common interest in a specific genre of music may bring us together, it does not bind us together. We live in the real world where real things happen and they do not magically go away because of a shared love of a riff or lyrics.

Schaffer and Graves found more in common with seditionists and bigots. No riff was too great and no solo was too incredible to stop them from befriending and supporting the worst of the worst. That cannot be ignored, cannot be forgiven, and can never be forgotten.

Commonality is not good enough, especially after the events of last week.

evil bathroom otm

v well-said

Very much so, yes.

That said, I will continue enjoying unproblematic art made by problematic people, without slipping a single penny into their pocket.

reminds me a lot of the bullshit I used to read about "gamers" as if liking video games was some sort of coherent political orientation

Yes, this band's name is POUNDER and yes, they know EXACTLY what they're doing with this album cover.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Erfkg1nXAAIkNhu.jpg

one for the Yawnsomely Literal Cover Art thread

I don't want to link to it to give it any extra eyeballs, but there's a flyer flying around twitter for a fascist metal fest coming to an "undisclosed location" in New Jersey this summer.

Biggest thing on it appears to be Disma completely undermining their redemption narrative by appearing at this thing even after they ditched the Nazi vocalist.

Yeah, from what I've read not every band on that bill is explicitly Nazi, but...why would the non-Nazi bands agree to play that show?

That’s where I am, seems like something you wouldn’t want to be associated with, especially now. There are enough sketchy bands on that flyer to raise eyebrows.

DISMA (NJ)
ENGORGE (CA,NJ)
ABHOMINE (FL)
GODLESS NORTH
INTOLITARIAN (IL)
MANTICORE (OH)
BLOOD STAINED DUSK (AL)
CULTUS PROFANO (CA)
TRENCH WARFARE (TX)
FEVER (MO)
BERATOR (IL)
APOCRYPHAL REVELATION (KY)
ANCIENT MESSIAH (PA)
WITCH TOMB (MA)

How many of these bands are sketch?

Intolitarian and Fever for sure. Disma had a Nazi former lead singer, but supposedly cut ties with him because of it. Haven’t investigated all the rest yet.

I mean...

Gee, I wonder why bands like this are so upset about the existence of people who oppose fascism. pic.twitter.com/cAamXjgRYM

— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) January 12, 2021

ABHOMINE (FL)

Been sad watching Helmkamp go from weakness to weakness in his late career chasing the edgy extreme. He recently added the drummer from Grand Belial's Key to Abhomine and there's a song called "Gogamgoz" (ZOG Magog backwards get it?) on their recent EP, among some other outright dumb fash shit. Oh well.

Huh, I see Hell’s Headbangers is still comfortable releasing this sketchy and fash shit.

I’m not sure I get the non-biblical reference, re: that title.

just google ZOG

I see… ugh.

Nothing to do with King Zog of Albania then?

Man, I could do with a metal concept album about an early hypertext system designed at Carnegie Mellon in the '70s.

mind you. i think he was a fascist anyway

There's also this late addition to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tmnt/images/3/37/Triceraton_unknown.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/450/height/450?cb=20180702065437

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tmnt/images/5/50/Zog.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091123230926

Bah, screw that. He's a Triceraton named Zog.

Not the biggest Gatecreeper fan but they surprise-dropped a new release today. I would love for surprise releases to become more commonplace in metal tbh

Kristin Hayter posted something on Twitter about playing new Lingua Ignota music for folks and describing their reactions, anyone heard if a new LI album is due this year? Did I miss an earlier post? I ctrl F'd it. She said it's unlike anything she's done before and everyone who's heard it has cried, which may just be ad copy but if it's true, I'd be excited for it. I relistened to Caligula yesterday and it's still gutwrenching.

on @sargenthouse later this year. Release date tbd

— LINGUA IGNOTA (@LINGUA_IGNOTA_) January 14, 2021

I had no idea and am now massively stoked!

yesss

Two contrasting appetizers. First, a single from Chaotian's upcoming debut LP:

https://chaotian.bandcamp.com/album/adipocere-feast-mc-single

Second, a 13-minute atmoblack folk tale courtesy of Sur Austru, from their upcoming second album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y4K5m6AuqA

I think I like the new ERR/Thou EP better than last year's LP – seams are less audible this time around.

There's a new Eyehategod song from the album that's coming out in March and I gotta be honest, I'm not super into it, mostly because now that Mike Williams is enunciating his lyrics, he sounds like Keith Morris from the Circle Jerks/Off! Their self-titled album from 2014 was great, so this is a disappointment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQa5o9Q9Z7k

Actual raw-ish Egyptian BM. Loving it so far:

https://lycopolis.bandcamp.com/album/the-procession

Jon Schaffer was finally arrested today, so there's some good news.

just hosted a two hour all Les Legions Noires radio show during prime drive time on my local station, featuring an all-vordb solo block and some particularly horrible recordings of chapel of ghouls. feeling powerful

New War Metal from the Neckbeard Deathcamp crew This is War Metal done well and really hittin' the tone for today.

Nervosa album hitting the right spot, but they replaced like 75% of the lineup for this one? Mia Wallace, who's done a lot of other stuff, including being in the Triumph of Death touring band, is on this one.

new vocalist Diva Satanica is sick as hell

I for some reason am in a dark mood and decided to read about the Verruckt waterslide accident in 2016 at Schlitterbahn while listening to the new Asphyx.

the album sounds pretty grim when you pair it with what I did!

omggggggggg this Asphyx ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuules

especially "Mount Skull", which has a guitar solo which reminds me of Massacre's,just squealy horrific noise

Necrom - All Parts Are Left Here (Osmose Records, 25 March 2022)

This is getting released tomorrow, Ukrainian Entombed-worshipping OSDM from Kharkiv.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuno6605Aks

(ah using the wrong rolling Metal thread it seems!)

I just received last year's Panopticon album finally - they didn't do a standalone CD release this time, instead including it in with the vinyl, and I slept on the first pressing that immediately sold out. The second pressing finally made it into my grubby hands which means I have officially purchased every 2021 release I wanted on CD, LP, Tape, or Digital Download if all else failed.

As such, here's my list. It's late to the game but that's Panopticon's fault as far as I am concerned.

My Favorite 2021 Metal(lic) Albums

Aduanten - Sullen Cadence
Alda - A Distant Fire
Animal Schoolbus - Going To Grammy's House!? 2021 Remix
Artillery - X
Big|Brave - Vital
Black Mass - Feast at the Forbidden Tree
Blasphemous Creation - Forsaken Dynasty
Bloody Hammers - Songs of Unspeakable Terror
The Body - I've Seen All I Need to See
The Body & Big|Brave - Leaving None But Small Birds
Bone Tower - We All Will Die Someday
Bongzilla - Weedsconsin
Carcass - Torn Arteries
Cirith Ungol - Half Past Human [EP]
Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire (40th Anniversary Edition)
Cosmic Burial - …To The Past
Cradle of Filth - Existence is Futile
Craven Idol - Forked Tongues
The Crown - Royal Destroyer
Darkthrone - Eternal Hails…
Dead Neanderthals - Rat Licker
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Deceased - Thrash Times At Ridgemont High
Dola - Czasy
Dordeduh - Har
Dread Sovereign - Alchemical Warfare
Dusk in Silence - Beneath the Great Sky of Solitude
Enforced - Kill Grid
Evile - Hell Unleashed
Fiat Nox - In Contemptuous Defiance
The Flight of Sleipnir - Eventide
Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking
Full of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions
Gaunt Emperor - Femur
Graveyard Shifters - Head Turns First, Eyes Follow...
Haunt - Beautiful Distraction
Heavy Temple - Lupi Amoris
The HIRS Collective - The Third 100 Songs
Hot Breath - Rubbery Lips
Iceburn - Asclepius
Impaled Nazarene - Eight Headed Serpent
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
Khemmis - Deceiver
King Woman - Celestial Blues
Knoll - Interstice
Korpiklaani - Jylhä
Krallice - Demonic Wealth
Lingua Ignota - Agnus Dei [EP]
Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
Lucifer - IV
Lucifuge - Infernal Power
Lys - Silent Woods
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
Melvins - Working With God
Mesarthim - Vacuum Solution [EP]
Mesarthim - CLG J02182–05102
Monster Magnet - A Better Dystopia
Mourners - Act I: Tragedies
Necromantical Invocation - Dogme el Rituel de la Haute Magie
Negură Bunget - Zău
Pan-Amerikan Native Front - Little Turtle's War
Panopticon - …And Again Into the Light
Pantheist - Closer to God
Paysage d'Hiver - Geister
The Pretty Reckless - Death By Rock And Roll
Pyrexia - Gravitas Maximus
Red Fang - Arrows
The Ruins Of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires
Sentinel Beast - Depths Of Death (Reissue)
S.H.I. - 4 死 Death
Skepticism - Companion
Sleep - The Clarity [12"]
Spectral Wound - A Diabolical Thirst
Steel Bearing Hand - Slay In Hell
Stone Deaf - Killers
Sur Austru - Obârșie
Throat - Smile Less
Thy Catafalque - Vadak
Thyrfing - Vanagandr
Towards Atlantis Lights - When the Ashes Devoured the Sun
Tribulation - Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
Wardruna - Kvitravn
Warish - Next to Pay
White Ward - Debemur Morti [EP]
Windfaerer - Breaths Of Elder Dawns
Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
Youth Code / King Yosef - A Skeleton Key In The Doors Of Depression
V/A (Sisters of Mercy Tribute) - Black Waves Of Adrenochrome

No Meshuggah? I think the new one is great! Agree with the criticisms above that they aren't reinventing the wheel at this point, but I feel they've earned the right to simply skate along on the wheel they've already invented. They've simply honed and refined over time their groovy battering ram vibe, and sound as immaculate and uncompromising as ever. I dunno, I can never have too much of that sound.

This ended up being my top 5:

Asphyxiate - Altar of Decomposed
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Sněť - Mokvání v okovech
Temperance - Diamanti
Worm - Foreverglade

Dear anybody else who likes the school of black-ish metal-ish that sounds like the internal monologue of the last demon left in Hell after everybody else has moved away, check out the new Reverorum ib Malacht.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3pDeSwiNodraaR3tzEtbWV?si=skJrovsKSq661V6on4yYkQ