Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

*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.

The promo email for that StarGazer record emphasized their black metal side, and black metal is an auto-delete trigger for me, so I had to retrieve it from the Gmail trash and now I'm...kinda into it.

The Nervosa is very good for what it is, and sent me back to the last few Destruction albums, too; the Tribulation is...better than the last one, but I'm still not as big a fan of their records as I was seeing them open for Cannibal Corpse and Behemoth a few years back.

The StarGazer is about as BM-y as, say, Sweven, so yeah, their promo talk is just bait for another kind of reviewer.

Oh yeah, and while I enjoyed that Frozen Soul single I posted upthread, the LP itself is middling. I hear their EP from 2019 is a bit better, but I can't be arsed to investigate.

new coffins comp compiling a bunch of eps hits the spot

Thanks for the heads-up re: that new StarGazer, pomenitul--I really like that advance single
(up to now, their 2005 debut The Scream That Tore The Sky had impressed me most out of their discography, but I seem to have wishlisted it on Bandcamp a while ago w/o buying; will prob remedy that pronto)

really loved the stargazer record from... 2014? was it that long ago

psyched to check out the new one

I've been rooting around in StarGazer's back catalog and will be reviewing the new one. Some interesting stuff. Their publicist sold them short, IMO.

And yeah, the Coffins compilation kicks all kinds of ass.

Chelsea Wolfe collab with Emma Ruth Rundle that just seemed inevitable, really:
http://chelseawolfe.bandcamp.com/track/anhedonia-feat-emma-ruth-rundle

Full album down the road hopefully...

My thoughts exactly. We talked about it a bit in the Chelsea Wolfe thread, if you're curious.

That's where I discovered it. :)

This is pathetically little to go on, but I choose to believe that Sargent House retweeted this because it's actually in the works:

Please do a full album!

— Satellites At Sunset (@satellitesunset) January 28, 2021

Album premiere and writeup of new StarGazer just posted on No Clean Singing:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2021/01/28/an-ncs-album-premiere-and-a-review-stargazer-psychic-secretions/

I saw Armed mentioned above but not sure if we talked about the new announcement yet. very excited.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKjacGsFTJ3/

hell yeah

One of my favorite cheeseball power metal bands, Crystal Viper, have a new album out tomorrow.

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

https://listenable-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-cult

now that we have an ERR/CW single, we just need to add Marissa Nadler and we can finally have Evil Boygenius

On a completely different note, here's some shoegazey/ambient/drone metal for solo guitar:

https://gauntemperor.bandcamp.com/releases

It's quite beautiful, really.

new Tribulation as expected is high quality goth-pop metal, kinda like the last one.

vocalist sounding more and more like a dude who got his windpipe crushed in a car wreck but w/e

the contrast between the colorful, hooky instrumentals and the one-dimensionally gruff and mean vocals is a big part of their appeal for me

Good write-up summarizing The Ruins of Beverast's career ahead of The Thule Grimoires's official release (tomorrow):

https://www.nocleansinging.com/2021/01/29/the-ruins-of-beverast-a-retrospective-and-a-review-of-the-thule-grimoires/

Andy's playing along to some Black Metal hits on RockSmith during a 12hr livestream - https://www.twitch.tv/andysaor

(just heard Todeswalser, Woman Of Dark Desires, and now Mother North)

First video from a collaboration of hardcore industrialists Youth Code with trap-metal producer King Yosef.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkS4_6KI_2A

Seems like a new-fangled Americanized Atari Teenage Riot which I am definitely okay with.

The new Rob Zombie song is...kinda surprising! It starts off as his usual nonsense (the lyrics are a bunch of "Yeah!"s and "Alright!"s with random phrases thrown down in between), but goes full Nebula/Fu Manchu desert stoner rock in the second half.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuhL6aTONM0

Press release headline: ALL FOUR MEMBERS OF THE CLASSIC ANTHRAX LINEUP TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE UPCOMING "AMONG THE LIVING" GRAPHIC NOVEL

Guess that makes Dan Spitz the new "Not Man!"

Seriously though, he's an anti-vaxxer. Fuck him.

Haven't listened to Rob Zombie in more than a decade. Second half definitely makes that song.

Man, I want to like The Body, but those vox are just ass.

Fart vocals?

Yep, helium flatulence.

lol. came here to sing the praises of I've Seen All I Need To See only to see the above comments. I mean, thats been the vocal style he's used forever. shocked me at first but I love its uniqueness and passion. This album sounds more like the live show than a lot of their recent releases. I love it.