Yeah this is a lot of fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzftRferCLc
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
reminds me of...eagles of death metal?
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
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.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
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
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link
maybe the combined dogwhistle power of namedropping Horna and Goatmoon back to back is supposed to do that heavy lifting for them.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
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
― jmm, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber stream of Ascension live is hitting HARD @ https://www.roadburnredux.com/
― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
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
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 12:01 (two years ago) link
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
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
Corpsegrinder called him out too. much more gently but still
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
I reviewed the new Cannibal Corpse album, which is very good.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
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.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
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
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:41 (two years ago) link
Would've been ever better had they sung along.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
loving the new Spectral Wound
so melodious at times
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Thursday, 22 April 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
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
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 22 April 2021 02:43 (two years ago) link
at least he doesn't seem to have gone fash so that's nice?
― brimstead, Thursday, 22 April 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link
Oh. :(
― pomenitul, Thursday, 22 April 2021 12:14 (two years ago) link
ugh
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 22 April 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
noticing that the 'minorities' are really the majoritynoticing that the 'minorities' are really the majoritynoticing that the 'minorities' are really the majoritynoticing that the 'minorities' are really the majoritynoticing that the 'minorities' are really the majoritynoticing that the 'minorities' are really the majoritynoticing that the 'minorities' are really the majoritynoticing that the 'minorities' are really the majority
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When will this die.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 22 April 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link
He was always sus from the moment years ago he talked about 'techno morons' in an interview tbh
― imago, Thursday, 22 April 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
wack, I used to think it was kind of cool that Xasthur was from the same town as me, but not any longer!
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Thursday, 22 April 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
new altarage is gooooooood:
https://altarage.bandcamp.com/
huge sound
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 23 April 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
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
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
Me too, which is why I posted it upthread. :p
(I'm just messing with you. This one definitely bears repeating.)
― pomenitul, Monday, 26 April 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
lol totally missed that!
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
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
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
That whole label is awesome. I'm gonna have to explore their other 2021 releases.
Also, this is going to sound sacrilegious, but I revisited Suffocation's Effigy of the Forgotten a few days ago and I've come to the conclusion that I actually prefer their contemporary copycats in terms of performance (often tighter and more virtuosic) and recording technique (a fuller, beefier sound that suits the subgenre better).
xp
― pomenitul, Monday, 26 April 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
go to your room
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
the other thing I discovered today
https://anthropophagous.bandcamp.com/album/death-fugue
starts with a horror movie synth (makes sense, Anthropophagous was a movie), this is very much the old school 80s/early 90s death style. lots of blasts, hollow guitars that are crisp and crunchy, vocals that are unique, lots of tempo changes.
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
also chorus drenched guitar solos that sound like evil spectres
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
thrashy bits too
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
Just bought a bunch of things that just came out:
Amigo The Devil- Born Against
http://glide-assets-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/15005902/AmigoTheDevil_BornAgainst_Cover.3000px-1536x1536-1-578x578.jpg
Not metal, but metalheads definitely love the guy. The new one has a cabaret feel to the thing, for example...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRsftCQezFo
Big|Brave - Vital
http://i0.wp.com/www.musicomh.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Big-Brave-Vital.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1
A little more metal than their other stuff, which is fine with me, and I still love the powerful vulnerability of Robin Wattie's delivery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CgK5w6E2ns
Paysage d'Hiver - Geister
http://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Paysage_dHiver-Geister.jpg.webp
Songs are condensed into actual songs now, using more traditional song structures, making the whole thing the most accessible blizzard yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgjt_rBkIEo
S.H.I. - 4 死 Death
http://imagestore.ffm.to/link/7b8b883c697227eaaaef9f142316c632.jpg
Ever wonder what Ministry would have sounded like if Al Jourgensen was a Japanese crusty instead of an American junkie? Wonder no more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5kX_l7PeT0
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 03:48 (two years ago) link
I really dig the Big Brave but it seems less overtly heavy than the last one? I don't really know any of their older stuff but will get to it eventually.
New Crust (the Russian band)
http://crustband.bandcamp.com/album/stoic
One of those bands I never quite know how to describe but descriptives could include blackened, sludgy, death, doom.
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 10:28 (two years ago) link
Dusk In SilenceBeneath The Great Sky Of Solitude(Flowing Downward)
http://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/250x/album/359958-beneath-the-great-sky-of-solitude.jpg
http://duskinsilence.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-great-sky-of-solitudehttp://flowingdownward.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-great-sky-of-solitude
I really like this one-man atmospheric black metal project from Indonesia. Not groundbreaking but very uplifting and with more melody than usually found in this kind of stuff. "Towards the Infinite Horizon" is the song I would add to my 2021 Spotify Playlist it it were on Spotify.
It is available digitally and also on CD from Italy (the label is a subsidiary of Avant Garde Music) however it should be getting a CD release here on 6/4 based on what I am seeing online so I am gonna pick it up then.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
New Standard Elite is a label with a clear sense of their own aesthetic. I keep a list of such labels and generate automatic Spotify samplers for them...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3gF4jmXoQcpuvthDQJiruL?si=ajUF4bzkSyKOmLt4AJmk0A
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
I recently bought three New Standard Elite releases, but somehow overlooked Meshum's Enigmatic Existential Essence (which honestly could just as easily have been a mid '70s Jean-Luc Ponty album title).
https://meshum.bandcamp.com/album/enigmatic-existential-essence
One-man slam from a Turkish dude who plays every instrument, including real drums. Good stuff.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
That S.H.I album posted upthread is really good. It's like a Japanese cross between Ministry's "W Trilogy" and Motörhead's Orgasmatron, with some utterly unpredictable weirdness thrown in. Really needs to be heard as loud as possible.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 29 April 2021 01:58 (two years ago) link
The new Gojira album is very good. On first listen I might like it better than Magma, about as much as L'Enfant Sauvage.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 29 April 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
Art hipster false metallers rejoice, Spectral Lore is here again!
https://spectrallore.bandcamp.com/album/-
Unsurprisingly I think it's amazing. The mixing on this one gives the guitars more bite than most of the guy's other stuff, if you enjoyed Mystras from last year do check it out.
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 29 April 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
anybody else like Evile here? their new one just dropped, and it's still their typically high quality thrash (that refreshingly isn't of the 'lol crossover revivalist circuit' variety that we have 70,000 of)
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 April 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
I have to admit I was surprised to see them covering Mortician's "Zombie Apocalypse". Not sure that song benefits from decipherable vocals, but go off, fellas.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 30 April 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
lol yeah that was a weird choice
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 April 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
just gonna go ahead and plug this: some friends of mine make excellent drone-rock (strictly guitars, vocals, and fx, I believe) that gets heavy enough to qualify as of interest to at least some metal thread dwellers, and they have a new album out today recorded remotely in quarantine. it's great and I am proud of them. it should be hitting bandcamp with a cassette issue next week.
https://open.spotify.com/album/0Wx8GWLOy9RWrtfRpPdeRs?si=YsSWyP49QK2wp8TH4bTU3g
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 30 April 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
Answering my own question from way upthread, I actually listened to the new Chevelle and it's really not bad. A lot of Tool worship at times, but if Tool was told to wrap up all of their songs in less than 5 minutes.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
Finally getting around to the Suffering Hour album. I often have a problem with the same-yness of melodic black metal, which often seems to cycle endlessly through the same three chords. This takes enough twists and turns to keep my interest up. Good stuff.
― o. nate, Friday, 30 April 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
Axewitch's Out of the Ashes Into the Fire wins Album Cover of the Month IMO. (Power metal-ish hard rock from Sweden.)
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81kB4Bgzz7L.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 1 May 2021 01:10 (two years ago) link
Infernal Power by LucifugeEveryone compares them to Venom & early Bathory, and that's not wrong, but to me this rips like Fearless Undead Machines-era Deceased, similarly upping the aggression from the originators. Killer G.I.S.M. cover too! https://t.co/GpL2e91Oxb #NowPlaying— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) May 3, 2021
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 3 May 2021 00:46 (two years ago) link
FED era Deceased? Sold
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 May 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
Sorry FUM