Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

I dreamed I was at a Deicide show and Glen was getting his dick sucked while performing.

that is all.

So I didn't know that hyper *melodic* tech death was actually a thing:

https://ophidiani.bandcamp.com

This Ghastly album is hitting the spot. Organic-sounding psychedelic death metal that flows really nicely on the strength of the riffs.

bought a pass for maryland deathfest next year, hopefully see y'all there if festivals exist

oh damn that lineup is seeerious

yeah i want to go but the Fringe Festival is always the same time every year and i'm usually in it :/

I have failed to get into the vocals on this album Khalkedonian Death by the Turkish band Diabolizer, but the music is great, so if the vocals work for you, you might like it a lot:

https://open.spotify.com/album/23Klb9TC1HiF5pbL0PQM0I?si=1237014987ae4ce2

It is great, yeah, and worth reposting.

Priest's 50 Year box set is, I fear, too much Priest in one go for nearly everyone.

https://shop.judaspriest.com/products/singles-boxset

(finishes checking out)

what was that?

oh fuck they're releasing shows from the Painkiller era....really the one live era that was mostly captured on bootlegs up until now.

I want to know what the unreleased studio recordings are. I want to hear the full goddamn cover of "You Are Everything", goddammit

I don't know, if I had the disposable income I'd be in, looks very cool. Who wants to kick in to the jvc needs more Priest gofundme?

I'm buying this shit and it's not even a question.

this is less money than I spent on the Z2 Comics Among the Living Graphic Novel/vinyl re-release/gold record deluxe set that STILL HASN'T ARRIVED mroe than a year after I ordered it.

It is kind of funny that there are two discs of "Live & Rare" with a total of 25 songs, of which... checks again... a grand total of 1 is "rare" and not "live".

I want all that live stuff. And respect to them for including all the Ripper Owens-era albums. But while I can absolutely afford this object, I will not be purchasing it.

I know this kind of comparison isn't always useful or helpful and doesn't take into consideration the box and other items, you'd think they could have done a little better than $11.30 per disc.

Just getting around to checking out the Yautja, which is indeed very good. I had to laugh when I saw this very otm and prescient post from the 2014 rolling metal thread since they are indeed now signed to relapse and I indeed had not heard them until now:

the new yautja record is amazing, don't sleep on it until they get signed to relapse like yall did with inter arma

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, February 3, 2014 10:08 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Roxy is a seer.

More people need to talk about King Woman. The new album is fantastic.

ILM Metal's favorite Kenyan industrial grindcore duo Duma just released an Adult Swim single "Mambo ya Gizani."

It, along with the rest of this year's entries to date (including metallic ones from Cloud Rat and Feminazgûl), can be streamed here:
http://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2021

It's eerie and fun!

Never been very much interested in Andrew WK but I like the new songs.

need to hear the king woman. they fucking rule

I think they're okkult synths but they sound like trumpets, on the Dawn Ray'd 2021 songs? I like it.

Oh they're versions of one song. The folky one is zzz :(

A few weeks late, but here's the metal and adjacent albums I liked from the first half of the year, roughly in order of preference (minus some stuff I haven't gotten to yet, like the other Portal and Cerebral Rot)

They Catafalque - Vadak
Vokonis - Odyssey
Mainliner - Dual Myths
The Body - I've Seen All I Need to See
Big | Brave - Vital
Iotunn - Access All Worlds
DVNE - Etemen Ænka
Portal - Avow (still haven't heard the other one)
Darkthrone - Eternal Hails...
Crypta - Echoes of the Soul
Amenra - De doorn
King Woman - Celestial Blues
Yautja - The Lurch
Domkraft - Seeds
Paysage d'Hiver - Geister
Here Lies Man - Ritual Divination
Eximperitus - Šahrartu
Bossk - Migration
Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon
Ghastly - Mercurial Passages
Tribulation - Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
Senyawa - Alkisah
Gojira - Fortitude
Helloween - Helloween
Alastor - Onwards and Downwards
Warish - Next To Pay
Red Fang - Arrows
The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires
Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
Monster Magnet - A Better Dystopia
Robots of the Ancient World - Mystic Goddess
Wode - Burn in Many Mirrors
Chevelle - Niratias

My working list:

Herzel – Le Dernier Rempart
Tyrann – Djävulens Musik
Këkht Aräkh – Pale Swordsman
Ghastly – Mercurial Passages
StarGazer – Psychic Secretions
Emptiness – Vide
Darkthrone – Eternal Hails......
Tribulation – Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
Genghis Tron – Dream Weapon

really digging this "I can't believe it's CanCon" swaggering black+viking-metal record

https://hexenklad.bandcamp.com/album/heathenheart

Heike Langhans (Draconian, Light Field Reverie, ex-ISON, :LOR3L3I:) and Mike Lamb (Sojourner, Light Field Reverie) have yet another new project: REMINA ( https://www.instagram.com/remina.doom/ )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLaLK28wJTA

https://www.facebook.com/HeikeLanghansOfficial/posts/345428253717920

(afraid it's not my thing, just like with LFR - I only found out about Draconian via DOOM:VS and am more of a Johan Ericson fan - even though her voice works very well with Draconian's last two albums)

Necromantical Invocation is a project for Echetleos, who has played in a bunch of groups in Greece, most notably Caedes Cruenta. A demo that was only on cassette Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie was released by Belgian label Zombi Danz Records in February and was just given a CD/LP release by Helter Skelter Productions/Regain Records, which promises to grant it a bigger audience.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0662607540_16.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx9vJFr6Wcg
http://regainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dogme-et-rituel-de-la-haute-magie

It's pretty unique, with spooky Gothic cornerstones supporting noir-ish avant garde black metal. It's essentially two long, grandiose songs with a shorter intro and outro cut bookending the EP. "Necromantical Ritual" is plodding with pleqasantly cheese synths while the title track is laden with baroque piano and supple bass. Pretty interesting!

Metal Church Facebook just posted that vocalist Mike Howe passed away. Sucks.

Fuck

def enjoying this decrepisy (ex-vastum guitarist) record on my first spin. grooves pretty hard, which is how I like my death metal.

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2021/07/27/album-premiere-decrepisy-emetic-communion/

Wow, Joey Jordison of Slipknot has died!

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/joey-jordison-slipknot-dead-1203167/

RIP

More people need to talk about King Woman. The new album is fantastic.

I didn't get much out of their first album despite it being totally my jam (the fact that it came out the same year as Hiss Spun didn't help) but this is great so far, much more convincing in terms of songwriting, which I thought was the debut's weak link.

I would say that's fair. I really did like the debut, but this feels like such a huge step forward.

New Succumb album coming out end of Sept, one song up and it sounds scathing as fuck

http://succumb.bandcamp.com/album/xxi

Saw this on Twitter — the cover of Brazilian rapper FBC's 2018 album S.C.A. is a direct nod to Sarcofago.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7oTUk8XEAM68AG.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7oTP90WUAERsjs.jpg

I was going to make a “is king woman metal” post but apparently that’s unnecessary. last one was great this one seems to be too but i need to give it time

It's obviously unnecessary one minute in. I like how the rhythm section keeps it heavy all the way through. idk if I prefer this over the first album as it's been in constant rotation for the past few years for me.

love these guys: https://fulcicult.bandcamp.com/album/exhumed-information

Fulci-inspired death metal. The album is a concept based on the film "Voices from Beyond” (1991).. their death metal isn't really outside the beaten path or anything, but it it's good for fist-pumping, and occasional synths or melodic leads show up to accentuate the riffs and make things more 'cinematic' (they give it an 80s sleaze-horror feel)

it has a few all-synth interludes that seriously fucking rule

I'm not really a war metal aficionado, but there was no way I was going to skip an album called Blood and Extinction by a band called Caveman Cult, and I'm glad I checked it out. It's only 22 minutes long, but it's a raw blast half way between super-primitive black metal and Lair of the Minotaur, with some bursts of electronic noise thrown in. Out October 1.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0558583510_10.jpg

https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/blood-and-extinction

I like Caveman Cult, they're from Miami! saw them open for Black Witchery and live, it was ....let's just say, really intense.

Nice. Added it to my list.

New Serpentrance (stanky death/doom from Russia)

https://godzovwarproductions.bandcamp.com/album/akra-tapeinosis

A little less exciting than The Besieged Sanctum (which has this amazing, reverby and sludgy production) but it has some weird Demoncy-esque blackened vibes from time to time.

the king woman album is the best album of all time

It's so good! Happy to see more love.

This, folks, is some damn good old school Finnish deathgrind:

https://mesacounojo.bandcamp.com/album/prying-sight-of-imperception