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).
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― pomenitul, Monday, 26 April 2021 17:14 (three years ago) link
go to your room
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:17 (three 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 (three years ago) link
also chorus drenched guitar solos that sound like evil spectres
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
thrashy bits too
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 April 2021 17:34 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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
Check it out, I think it's fucking excellent!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 3 May 2021 01:02 (two years ago) link
oh man, I used to listen to that deceased album all the damn time. pretty nostalgic thinking back to when a metal album about a zombie apocalypse was at least sorta novel. also remember some serious poser accusations leveled at slayer and for their then current undisputed attitude record in the liners <3
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 3 May 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
i saw Deceased a few years ago (wanna say 2018?) and the weird thing was they were the headliner, but local death/doom act Druid Lord got a much bigger turnout, and there couldn't have been more than 20 people left by the time Deceased took the stage.
they didn't care, Fowley and company tore it up with a fairly eclectic setlist.
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 May 2021 04:08 (two years ago) link
new Amenra album De Doorn, June 25th on Relapse Records (first one not following their Mass I-VI naming scheme)
https://amenra.bandcamp.com/album/de-doorn
― StanM, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
btw: Caro Tanghe, Oathbreaker's female singer, is listed as being part of the band
― StanM, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
ooooh love Amenra
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
Agreed, always stoked for more Amenra.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
there'a a video as well. Pretty weird to hear Flemish vocals to be honest (even though they've had South-West-Flemish dialect titles before, like "Némelèndèlle. Twuhste en Tljiste." (that was "heaven and earth, the highest and the lowest") )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEI5tJDD2fc
― StanM, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
newish split with earth federation - a grind band with hevi from corrupted and the drummer from 324 - on one side is out there via a few distros. here's one track:https://rsrhap.bandcamp.com/album/rsr-203-earth-federation-noizegoat-lp
got mine yesterday and it's definitely nice to hear that voice again.
noizegoat is not a band I'd heard of before but seem pretty cool. the corrupted influence noted in the promo copy doesn't seem like an exaggeration, their side is similar to their early splits. but maybe without that mysterious x factor that made their stuff so special...
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
also, I'm pretty certain that the "New album will be released in the autumn 2021" wasn't there a couple of days ago: http://www.skepticism.fi/
― StanM, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
nice
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
I mean
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
haha
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
wait a minute! what!
― StanM, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
not terribly interesting but switched to this DN for a variety of reasons a while ago but am also stupid and sometimes post from the wrong one by mistake
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
oh ok - you're your own sock account then, I suppose
― StanM, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
new Solstice (the Rob Barrett one!)
spinning now, let's see if it's any good
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 May 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
(to be clear, he isn't in the band anymore lol, just clarifying Solstii)
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 May 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
second song steals the Slayer "Dittohead" riff
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 May 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
There's absolutely nothing new or innovative about Inhuman Condition, but if you like early '90s Florida death metal as much as I do, you'll like them.
https://inhumancondition.bandcamp.com/album/rat-god
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 7 May 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
Out today...
#NowPlaying @ArtilleryMetal - X (@MetalBlade)Old dogs have no use for new tricks when the old ones are still so potent and seared with the blueprint of classic-metal majesty."In Thrash We Trust," they say. Me too. https://t.co/S7fBI9rSgT— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) May 7, 2021
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 7 May 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
Oooh I love Artillery!
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 May 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
Pretty sure you will enjoy the new one then!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 7 May 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
Oh the new Spectral Lore is sounding gooood
― imago, Saturday, 8 May 2021 12:44 (two years ago) link
the Evile album, I thought sounded much diff than the Evile I'd previously heard, then I realized their vocalist left and they hadn't recorded anything in 8 years, and they kinda went more deathy with it.
I approve.
it's holding up after many listens.
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 May 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
Mortician cover, as mentioned upthread, out of place af.
Just finally getting around to the new Big|Brave but, holy crap, it is wonderful - especially the second half.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 10 May 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link