Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

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

Infernal Power by Lucifuge

Everyone 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

FED era Deceased? Sold

Sorry FUM

Check it out, I think it's fucking excellent!

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

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.

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

btw: Caro Tanghe, Oathbreaker's female singer, is listed as being part of the band

ooooh love Amenra

Agreed, always stoked for more Amenra.

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

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...

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/

nice

I mean

nice

haha

wait a minute! what!

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

oh ok - you're your own sock account then, I suppose

new Solstice (the Rob Barrett one!)

spinning now, let's see if it's any good

(to be clear, he isn't in the band anymore lol, just clarifying Solstii)

second song steals the Slayer "Dittohead" riff

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

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

Oooh I love Artillery!

Pretty sure you will enjoy the new one then!

Oh the new Spectral Lore is sounding gooood

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.

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.

Yeah, it absolutely rules.

Big Brave is cool, almost like a metal Scrawl or something

Through most of the first half, I was thinking, "okay cool, another great album", but from the second half of "Of This Ilk" it really took off to a whole new level of greatness.

this doesn't really feel like metal to me? though i know being metal doesn't have much to do with being metal anymore

i hear a lot more, like, later period swans or something

i think part of it is the indie rock industrial complex made it hard for heavy underground bands so i guess saying it's metal is probably easier for marketing, getting ahead

Oh yeah, they aren’t very metal but they’ve always had a good reception in the ilx metal threads, which is why I mention it here. Swans isn’t a bad reference point and they have some ties to the GYBE post-rock scene in Montreal, which is a huge influence. But I’d imagine being on Southern Lord helped their reach and rep among metal fans. Fwiw, and it isn’t much, the metal archives black listed them as “not metal” long ago for, iirc, “no riffs”.

the vocals on this one are so so great, slightly-restrained-julie-christmas vibes

fucking great record!

yeah def heavy but not metal.

the metal archives black listed them as “not metal” long ago for, iirc, “no riffs”.

this is very hilarious that they do that and kind of interesting from a conceptual perspective, no riffs = no metal is an interesting idea i've never thought about

Main genres according to RYM: drone metal, post-metal. Seems right.

Like I said I think in the 90s this would have fit in with tons of underground U.S. post punk but we as a society have lost the ability to talk about heaviness in non-metal contexts, so voila drone metal, post metal, etc

this could have been on thrill jockey or something back in the day

haha also in my mind LJ is the big boss man of RYM

not untrue

He's more like the final boss.

oh, the new fucked up album is the most metal thing they've ever done and should appeal to at least some metal thread peeps

This new Paysage d'Hiver is pretty good! It definitely feels more "accessible', but I still dig it. The people that post reviews to the metal archives seem to haaaaate it though.

hadn't realized there's a new Panopticon record out Friday!

Anybody else remember The Absence? They were a super-Swedey melodeath act from Florida who made three albums for Metal Blade between 2005 and 2010, then disappeared. They came in 2018; they're on M-Theory Audio now, and their new one is coming out in late June. It sounds exactly like their old stuff, which is to say it sounds exactly like At The Gates and/or The Black Dahlia Murder. I like them probably more than I should.

https://theabsenceofficial.bandcamp.com/

This new Paysage d'Hiver is pretty good! It definitely feels more "accessible', but I still dig it. The people that post reviews to the metal archives seem to haaaaate it though.

haven't heard it yet but I smell gatekeeping...

this is very hilarious that they do that and kind of interesting from a conceptual perspective, no riffs = no metal is an interesting idea i've never thought about

yeah, agreed! had the same reaction where I laughed and then was like hmmmm🤔 and took a look at the guidelines, which I'd never read before:
https://www.metal-archives.com/content/rules

the "side projects" thing already seems like a bit of a cop out. I guess that's why stuff like abruptum stays but those records wouldn't really fit otherwise. then there's this:

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which is just funny

haven't heard it yet but I smell gatekeeping...

Yeah, it definitely seems like a case of this.

I tend to be unduly harsh on USBM, especially that of the one-man variety, but this is some good shit courtesy of Mick Barr and imo better than Demonic Wealth:

https://beastlor.bandcamp.com/album/galaxies-of-death