Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

Steel Bearing Hand - Slay in Hell

Just bought the CD from @Carbon_Forms. I caught these sooted thrashers in a West Philly basement show five years ago and the new one rips. Meet the new Cowboys from Hell (all the riffs, none of the baggage). https://t.co/JIIorRhqpN #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 2, 2021

I think New Standard Elite has figured out exactly what it takes for a brutal DM album to hit the pom spot if this and last year’s Putrescent Seepage album are anything to go by:

https://newstandardelite.bandcamp.com/album/metharoma-pipe-dreams-through-the-alley

Thanks for the tip. Bought all three of their new releases.

Speaking of the brutalness, this one just blipped onto my radar and subsequently sent me zooming. Enough curveballs in the songs to keep things interesting, but not techy.
https://shownomercyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/incubation-in-the-parallel-dimension-snm011

Also I've been on a Blood Harvest Recs kick the last few days and found this to be at the top of the heap. I guess it's just "death metal" but the dude brings the riffs like mad and knows how to stack a song into a comprehensible shape. Almost reminds me of Abbath's style in places, like "Mountains of Might" gone total death. Drum sound's kind of whack but ehhh. Really hope a full length is in the works.
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/altered-state

re: the latter

https://i.imgur.com/I80u7cj.jpg

oh yeah Xantam rules

I got a Bandcamp email from Sentient Ruin and the dude used "⚡️⚡️" runes as bullets on his list of releases and like... dude. Really?

another vote for this genghis tron album... good stuff!

Speaking of the New Standard Elite releases, I'm digging the Asphyxiate. Just enough hints of Old-school in their brutalness, and they're from Indonesia!

This T-shirt is fantastic, though I don't think it's a good color for me.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/4221/products/MensTee-Mockups-FRONT_1c0624dd-80dc-4914-8e1e-077617351a3c_800x.jpg

Some fuckin' awesome tech death from Bangalore feat. Kevin Hufnagel, among others:

https://moralcollapse.bandcamp.com/album/moral-collapse

yes! that one really delivered on the promise of the teaser tracks. the whole record is sweet as hell.

speaking of which, new altarage incoming:
https://altarage.bandcamp.com/album/succumb

those two teaser tracks bode very well imo

the odd production choices, hints of grind, and overall speed and density of the sound all make me think of knelt rote (who I love) without really sounding like them. great band.

Really enjoyed their previous LP so I’ll definitely be checking this one out.

How shall we know? We shall not. Not in a million years. Unworthy of grace. We shall see nothing. Unworthy of life. How shall we know? We shall not. Not in a million years. Not in the face of the end. We shall see nothing. Unworthy of creation.

some very solid new polish bm, opens with a sample from the devils which can only bode well

https://manbryne.bandcamp.com/releases

"Recorded Anno Pestis MMXIX - MMXX"

heh

I'm systematically revisiting some older stuff before dipping back into the unending flow of 2021 releases but that small detail makes me even more hyped to hear it.

Of course it's sponsored by/presented at a gym.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eyyb6SLWEAIBpkF.jpg

"OK, first things first — that whole thing about how if you ask them if they're a cop, legally they have to tell you? That's a bunch of bullshit, man, take it from me."

The new Xasthur song is hilariously awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf7fqGVorVg

I mean the music's not terrible but the lyrics and lyric video are certainly...a lot. Maybe the other 21 (!) songs will be less cringey.

So that's what he sounds like now, huh. I hadn't heard anything by him since 2009's All Reflections Drained.

Anyway, I had the same reaction as Simon.

at least 'the prison of mirrors' was existentially bleak in its simplistic view of the world eh lol

at least he doesn't seem to have gone fash so that's nice?

This is more hard rock than metal, but it will likely be my favorite album this year barring something else blowing me away.

Rubbery Lips by @hotbreathgbg (@TheSignRecords)

This Swedish hard rock is crunchy, catchy, and easily my favorite record of the year thus far. Think Runaways, old Riot, original Alice Cooper Band, with a metallic sheen. https://t.co/bkSWNkCBtN #NowPlaying

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 9, 2021

Yeah this is a lot of fun:

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

reminds me of...eagles of death metal?

I had All Reflections Drained on the other week and was pleased how well it had stood up.

That, on the other hand, is dreadful.

even tho the direction he's taken xasthur is... not my thing, I do respect that he seems to be doing exactly what he wants to be doing. a name change might have been good tho.

and speaking of going fash or not, thought this review was a little too charitable:
https://grizzlybutts.com/2021/04/04/sielunvihollinen-teloituskasky-2021-review/

DTB isn't just some vaguely sketchy black metal label, it is pretty openly what it is and it seems weird to mention the label but not mention that

maybe the combined dogwhistle power of namedropping Horna and Goatmoon back to back is supposed to do that heavy lifting for them.

Këkht Aräkh is making me smile. Bedroom black metal with a forlorn, romantic sensibility by a guy who calls himself the Crying Orc. Pretty close to Under a Funeral Moon at times.

https://kekhtarakh.bandcamp.com/album/pale-swordsman

Regarde Les Hommes Tomber stream of Ascension live is hitting HARD @ https://www.roadburnredux.com/

the new lion's daughter album is absolutely fucking awesome. I liked their last one, it was super intense, this one is...poppier? I mean the singer's still roaring like the dude from Darkane in '99. but the riffs are tight and the synths are soundtrack-y, they're kind of reaching for something beyond "overwhelm you with force." great band imo

lulz

THIS PIECE OF SHIT IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE METAL COMMUNITY! First he shames us with his terrorist actions on in DC, and THEN he becomes a rat to his own people for a lighter sentence! MAN THE FUCK UP! Own your shit! If you do the crime, do the time!https://t.co/jTo6EFVSDN

— Dee Snider🇺🇸 (@deesnider) April 18, 2021

Corpsegrinder called him out too. much more gently but still

I reviewed the new Cannibal Corpse album, which is very good.

late pass but THE NEW CRYSTAL VIPER ALBUM IS SO GOOD!!!

if you are not into trad 80s metal take a pass but otherwise the is ABSOLUTELY THE BUSINESS IN THIS STYLE.

I love Crystal Viper, and yeah, the new album is really good. (CW: It's a Lovecraftian concept album.)

This video — a newly married couple doing their first wedding dance to Napalm Death's "You Suffer" — is...well, I just described it. But you should watch anyway, because it rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjd_gUaM74s

Would've been ever better had they sung along.

loving the new Spectral Wound

so melodious at times

Monster Magnet is covering Dust as part of their covers record and I'm here for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC-UwU8xK68

at least he doesn't seem to have gone fash so that's nice?

Oh. :(

ugh

noticing that the 'minorities' are really the majority

noticing that the 'minorities' are really the majority

noticing that the 'minorities' are really the majority

noticing that the 'minorities' are really the majority

noticing that the 'minorities' are really the majority

noticing that the 'minorities' are really the majority

noticing that the 'minorities' are really the majority

noticing that the 'minorities' are really the majority

When will this die.

He was always sus from the moment years ago he talked about 'techno morons' in an interview tbh

wack, I used to think it was kind of cool that Xasthur was from the same town as me, but not any longer!

new altarage is gooooooood:

https://altarage.bandcamp.com/

huge sound

seems to be brutal death metal focused on drug abuse as a general topic. a lot of the tags say deathcore/slam, but a lot of it sounds like traditional brutal dm with occasional slam moments. there are actual riffs for one. vocals are kinda typical.

I dig. and it's name your own price.

https://newstandardelite.bandcamp.com/album/metharoma-pipe-dreams-through-the-alley

Me too, which is why I posted it upthread. :p

(I'm just messing with you. This one definitely bears repeating.)

lol totally missed that!

yeah, the Metharoma record, like pretty much all New Standard Elite releases, is good as hell.

It even inspired young Nikhil to emerge from his post-Anal Stabwound album release hibernation and/or grounding for a new cover vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYx-52lQ9zk