Bonus name-your-price brutal/slamming DM LP that is by far the best thing to have come out of that subgenre last year in my admittedly myopic estimation:
Putrescent Seepage – Dead and Demented
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 January 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
Old Nick - The Night Of The Ambush And The Pillage By The Queen Ann Styl'd Furniture, Animated By One Of The Dozen Or So Spells That Thee Eastern Vampyre Has Studied (T.N.O.T.A.A.T.P.B.T.Q.A.S.F.A.B.O.O.T.D.O.S.S.T.T.E.V.H.S)
I really didn't think there would be anything else left for me to discover from 2020, but then (thanks to the peeps at Angry Metal Guy) I came upon this entrancing and deeply charming of dungeon synth, black metal, and some other stuff. Also yes it does appear to be a concept album about evil furniture. The keyboards are wonderful. The mood is peculiar. The sonics are jagged but pleasing. Imagine Sigh as a basement act and you're almost there. I kinda love it!
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Thursday, 14 January 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
a concept album about evil furniture
Sold!
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 January 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link
Ok this is fun.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 January 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
Bumper.
― pomenitul, Friday, 22 January 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
https://tbeartravels.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/35-dodo-the-famous-extinct.jpg
― pomenitul, Sunday, 24 January 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
https://limalla.bandcamp.com/album/k-futuro-directo
Limalla, ¿Ké Futuro? Directo - Cuban punk, played live, during a pandemic. It's raw and hungry and it's Name Your Price, so why not?
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Sunday, 24 January 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
I thought Imago was going to have something to say about the Victory Over the Sun LP, but check that one out too. Microtonal black metal, but not as "I'm a Giant Brain"y as Jute Gyte.
https://votsband.bandcamp.com/album/a-tessitura-of-transfiguration
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Sunday, 24 January 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
https://bernelius.bandcamp.com/album/grave-dancer
Bernelius, Grave Dancer. Heavy rock one-man act with a great sense of humor. He had a Kickstarter to press this album to vinyl and it didn't make it, which makes me sad.
― Iannis Xenakis double fisting Cutty Sark (Tom Violence), Sunday, 24 January 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link
Thanks, Tom. Keep 'em coming, all, lest this poll go the way of [see above].
― pomenitul, Sunday, 24 January 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
The VOTS LP is amazing yeah. Jute Gyte is an acknowledged inspiration of hers
― imago, Sunday, 24 January 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link
Thirded re: Victory Over the Sun! That album is a lot of mad fun.
I'm also really enjoying Simon's Melted Bodies rec.
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 24 January 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
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― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 February 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
Is it too late for a nom? If not, can we add Dropped 'Dropdead 2020'?
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 4 February 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
Dropdead rather
nominations open til voting starts
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 4 February 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
Added.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 February 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
Can we add Autonoesis 'Autonoesis' too, please?
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 4 February 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
and Mongrel's Cross 'Arcana, Scrying and Revelation' too, please ?
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 4 February 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
Done.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 February 2021 16:54 (three years ago) link
Can we add White Stones 'Kuarahy' - please?
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 4 February 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
How about Ainsoph 'Ω - V' added too, please? Along with White Stones 'Kuarahy' - pretty please?
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 4 February 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
Sorry - a couple more please: Hexer - 'Realm of the Feathered Serpent' and Omegavortex 'Black Abomination Spawn' - Thanks!
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 4 February 2021 19:34 (three years ago) link
can you put all noms here please?
2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: NOMINATIONS Thread (open until the 8th of January 2021)
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 4 February 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
noms will be open til saturday or sunday i think
oh snap you're providing food?
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 February 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link
only for thought
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 4 February 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
Added those noms.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 February 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
I assume most of my top picks will do pretty well on their own so I'll add a few recs:
Aara - En Ergo Enaihttps://aara.bandcamp.com/album/en-ergo-einai
andEtoile Filante - Magnum Opus Caelestishttps://etoilefilante-northernsilence.bandcamp.com/
Couple of fiddeent flavours of atmoblack, both quite epic without being too over the top, Aara have some nifty neoclassical-inspired riffing, Etoile Filante wuth some rather nice proggy keys.
Herxheim - Incised Arrivalhttps://herxheim.bandcamp.com/album/incised-arrival-lp
Nastier black metal from ex-Howls of Ebb frontman, unrefined and crude but has an edge of weirdness that makes it notable.
SouphL - CommérageShttps://souphl.bandcamp.com/album/comm-rages
Chaotic multi-bass mathcore collective from Canada. On the more experimental end of mathcore, doesn't always hang tghether too well but it's engagingly bizarre.
Ivan - Silver Screenshttps://solitudeproductions.bandcamp.com/album/silver-screens
Dreamlike and exploratory death-doom.
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 6 February 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
One more for now
Edenic Past - Red Amacordhttps://edenicpast.bandcamp.com/album/red-amarcord
Three quarters of Krallice and an enraged pig go Br0000tally technical
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 6 February 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link
Thx, uug!
I liked Aara's first album even more but their second is quite good as well. They've got another one coming up btw – should be out in March.
The SouphL, while indeed disjointed, is definitely among the more unique metal LPs I heard last year.
Herxheim very good as well, although I preferred Cultivating Throne of Fur.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 February 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link
Regarding the last point, so did I tbh.
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 6 February 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
Also I made a mistake with Edenic Past, Lev Weinstein isn't involved, I assumed he was despite noting the programmed drums last year!
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 6 February 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
lol, never assume anything with metal poll
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 6 February 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link
Gonna campaign a bit for a release I re-listened to today - Draghkar's 'At the Crossroads of Infinity' - really dug a lot of the solos - exploding trad melodic metal flair, and there's a nice marriage of European riffy black metal with an American Death Metal atmosphere/song construction. On re-listens from 2020 releases, this is one I know I'll come back to a lot. The band's 'Eternal Abyss' comp from 2019 is pretty good too.
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 7 February 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
Onwards!
2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & FURTHER CAMPAIGNING thread (open until February 19)
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 February 2021 04:06 (three years ago) link