Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

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

*sees song titled "Botox Implosion"*
*reads lyrics*

yes what death metal needed in 2021 is an anti-botox screed

if you read the lyrics to "The Feeder" on the last album, you'll quickly realize it might be best to just throw away the lyric sheet when you buy a nu-breed Asphyx album

The doomier bits on the new Asphyx are better than the faster ones yet the album is paradoxically dragged down by its slower tempo. I also miss Martin van Drunen's unhinged delivery of old. Not bad, not great either.

new nervosa rips

I totally dig the faster moments on the Asphyx!

if you read the lyrics to "The Feeder" on the last album,

Why did I follow this advice?

next album will have a song called "Butt Chugger"

"Death Boof"

in news that will shock nobody, Decibel Metal and Beer Fest 2021 bumped again, this time to 9/25 - 9/26. Converge and Napalm Death still in the lineup.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0551043614_10.jpg

If you couldn't guess from their cover art, Insect Inside are a broooootal slam death metal band. They're from Russia, and their album The First Shining of New Genus is about people being devoured by insects. It comes out next month, and I like it. (I also like their name, which is a pretty good pun for people who don't speak English as a first language.)

I have now listened to four songs from the forthcoming Accept album (reminder: I LOVED Accept's mid '80s albums then, and still do) and while not-Udo tries very hard, he is and will always be not-Udo. Also, the songs are bland, hookless Euro post-thrash.

really into the thorn tracks on this short little split:
https://gurglinggore.bandcamp.com/album/fumes-thorn-split

"eclipsing a dying sun" reminds me a bit of metamorhogenesis-era estoteric but substantially picking up the pace and death metal grooving

I wanted to like the Asphyx, on unfortunately even with a car listen on pretty high volume, it was just kind of muddy. I thought there was a lot of promise with the songwriting and riffs but it never blew me away.

The last band I saw live before COVID, Warish, has a new album coming out in April.
This is the first video from it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj40gUGUEyY

I like it! It's punk with stoner metal fuzz; it seems obvious that Riley Hawk spent a lot of time listening to the SST stuff in skater dad Tony's vinyl collection though he loves him some grunge too.

Thanks for the heads up, I dug the Warish debut more than I expected, although I was more of a fan of Riley's other (prior?), even more stoner band, Petyr.

I like the new Genghis Tron song w the guy from the Armed

You have no idea how stoked I am for new Genghis Tron.

Some early 2021 faves so far, including a few, uh, advance copies:

Aberration – Aberration. A new band featuring members of Void Rot and Suffering Hour. Not a major departure from either band's sound, but it delivers in spades:

https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/aberration

Altered Dead – Returned to Life. Death metal from BC with a punkish edge that gets everything right, including 'Into the Crypt of Rays'.

https://altereddead.bandcamp.com/album/returned-to-life

Les Chants de Nihil – Le tyran et l'esthète. French medieval meloblack from Bretagne with a self-consciously anachronistic psychedelic slant.

https://leschantsdenihil.bandcamp.com/album/le-tyran-et-lesth-te

Ferriterium – Calvaire. More French medieval meloblack, except this one is simply phenomenal, an early EOY list contender.

https://ferriterium.bandcamp.com/album/calvaire

Nervosa – Perpetual Chaos. I'm a half-hearted thrasher compared to the true believers itt but this rips and it doesn't let up throughout.

https://nervosa-brazil.bandcamp.com/album/perpetual-chaos

The Ruins of Beverast – The Thule Grimoires. 'No album made by Alexander von Meilenwald is anything less than stellar' continues to be a self-evident statement.

https://theruinsofbeverast.bandcamp.com/album/the-thule-grimoires

StarGazer – Psychic Secretions. I'd never heard these guys before but I am now in thrall to their off-kilter, fretless bass-heavy tech-prog.

https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/psychic-secretions

Tribulation – Where the Gloom Becomes Sound. Before this one, I'd only listened to Down Below and it did precious little for me. The songwriting is much stronger this time around so perhaps conversion is nigh.

https://www.metalblade.com/tribulation/

Wardruna – Kvitravn. Obligatory 'not metal, but…' this is the ultimate low-fantasy Viking cosplay soundtrack and bits of it are frankly moving.

http://www.wardruna.com

i think so far I've mostly gotten into the

Asphyx (apparently I'm the only one!)
Nervosa
Gatecreeper

The Asphyx was decent, but I suspect I won't be revisiting it very often. I still need to hear the Gatecreeper.