Sabaton would be a phenomenal opener, and perfect for the Priest crowd. A lot of my fellow olds who don't follow the metal scene anymore would get a huge kick out of them.
And Priest have been sounding great with Sneap, plus he and Ritchie have been pushing Rob and Ian to dig deeper in the back catalogue. Two years ago they were playing stuff like Tyrant, The Sentinel, Starbreaker, Take These Chains.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 7 August 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
We got Starbreaker, All Guns Blazing, and Killing Machine at my last Priest show
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Saturday, 7 August 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
Well, okay! My son is having me take him to Korn next week (I don't dislike the band but I never would have guessed that Korn playing an amphitheater would be my first post-COVID show bacK) so I told him he needs to listen to Priest on Spotify and tell me if I can take him to see them. He got to see Motorhead before Lemmy died so it feels like something that just needs to happen.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 8 August 2021 06:54 (two years ago) link
Aduanten never got mentioned above which is a bit of a surprise - the band is self-described as a "dark-textured death metal collaboration formed in late 2019 from the ashes of melodic death metal cult favorites Vex and featuring members of Obsequiae, Panopticon, and Horrendous."
Their debut EP came out back in May and it's quite good, definitely brainier than most death metal but not at all pretentious and super melodic at times as well.
http://open.spotify.com/album/3LmeTgRTNQ1ioOf7pJKq5P?si=wimRxhxhQvGdZIFFSfK7sA&dl_branch=1http://aduanten.bandcamp.com/album/sullen-cadence
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 9 August 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05rjYI8hom8
― StanM, Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
Trve kvlt Buddhist-themed black metal from India, although you'd be forgiven for wondering whether this isn't yet another Western impersonator:
https://siddhatthagotama.bandcamp.com/album/-
― pomenitul, Thursday, 12 August 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
A roundup of recent favourites I haven't seen cited itt:
https://solbrud.bandcamp.com/album/levende-i-br-nsh-j-vandt-rn (there's a quasi improvisatory slant to Solbrud when they play live, which brings out the best in them)
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mokv-n-v-okovech (Czech OSDM that doesn't sound stale – I have no idea how they pull it off)
https://blutumhang.bandcamp.com/album/the-fires-of-domination (second wave Norwegian BM worship that plays up the folksy, keening ambient bits)
https://sanctuaire.bandcamp.com/album/spectre-de-mondes-pass-s (a Monarque alias that flirts with dungeon synth and possibly the best QC BM album I've heard this year)
https://drycough.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-endless-depths (caverncore made viable again by a bunch of Swedish teenagers who sound like they're discovering it for the first time, because they are)
This was already mentioned upthread, but special shoutout to Marie (aka Brouillard/Sphere) for putting out three stellar records in 2021, under those two monikers plus Transcending Rites (with Déhà). Wouldn't be surprised if there was a fourth one in the pipes.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 12 August 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah, and the new Ænigmatum is dropping tomorrow:
https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/deconsecrate
Hopefully this one will provide them with the attention they deserve. That they were picked up by 20 Buck Spin is an excellent sign in and of itself.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 12 August 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
It is my duty to inform you that a new Anal Stabwound EP just dropped on New Standard Elite and it's pretty darn good: https://analstabwound.bandcamp.com/album/abstraction-bathes-in-sunlight
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 13 August 2021 00:31 (two years ago) link
Portrait have a new album, At One With None, coming out September 3. It's pretty epic. They've made two videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCmak39UYLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwyt6IaiczA
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 13 August 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
Neptunian Maximalism update: Now that I have really big speakers, Éons sounds fucking amazing in my living room.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 13 August 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
This has already been an incredible year for tech death (Ad Nauseam, Atvm, Ophidian I, Seputus, Siderean, StarGazer) and now I may safely add Diskord to that list:
https://diskordband.bandcamp.com/album/degenerations-dissonant-technical-death-metal
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
I started listening to that Diskord record and liked what I heard, but I'm currently neck deep in the new Spirit Adrift EP. It's only three songs, 20 minutes, but it's exactly the right kind of retro.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
haven't listened to the diskord yet but it's gonna hard not to like an album that starts with a song titled "loitering in the portal"
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
As far as hopelessly retro metal goes, the Herzel remains excellent but if NWOBHM revival with a vocalist who rivals Lemmy is what you're hankering after, look no further:
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-sentence-bang-to-rights
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
Probably old news (I mean, it is) but these are all tons of fun and new to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A6R5GDXD2E
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
Guitarist Mike left Destruction back in March, so now it's apparently Schmier and three youngsters. They've got a new song (with a video clearly filmed in isolation), and it's fine, I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-62qSa5efOo
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 19 August 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
this laceration record sounding like one of the death metal records of the year to me on my first listen https://rottedlife.bandcamp.com/album/demise
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 20 August 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
this new Diskord record is extremely my shit
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 20 August 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
Good day for hipster black metal fans with new albums from both Deafheaven and Wolves in the Throne Room!I have held back on listening to the advance tracks and will be checking them out for the first time shortly.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 20 August 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
I've been playing the hell out of the Deafheaven all day. Any thoughts on the WIITR? I hope to get to it over the weekend.
― gman59, Friday, 20 August 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
#NowPlaying @BLASCREATION - Forsaken DynastyThis came out a few years ago but was reissued by @hpgd666 and is my first exposure to the Nevada bangers. What separates it from other death-thrash troupes is a commitment to thrash that this hesher who came of age in the '80s loves. pic.twitter.com/L1hyK3NQEm— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) August 20, 2021
Listen at @Spotify https://t.co/tSEVJL00vn— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) August 20, 2021
Listen at @Bandcamp https://t.co/NxPhZcKIC5— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) August 20, 2021
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 20 August 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
ooooh! gonna have to check that out.
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 20 August 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
The Diskord absolutely pwns, everyone needs to check it out.
I enjoy the new Deafheaven, as expected seeing as I've never been entirely sold on their shrieks. Resolving the BM vs shoegazing tension in favour of the latter was the correct move.
As for the Wolves in the Throne Room, it's a solid outing as usual, but it certainly won't dislodge any of the albums they cut back in their prime.
― pomenitul, Friday, 20 August 2021 22:50 (two years ago) link
lucubrationhttps://lucubration.bandcamp.com/album/aspiration-of-corrupted-ancient-blood
oksennus side project. primitive war metal with lots of noise and feedback. reminds me of corrupted in ways i’m having trouble articulating. love this stuff.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 21 August 2021 04:28 (two years ago) link
so now i finally threw this diskord record on and it sorta sounds like… prog death der kreuzen with lots of cowbell fills? not at all what i was expecting but i’m on board.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 21 August 2021 05:58 (two years ago) link
haha oops, i mean die kreuzen, shit is hard to write, mama mia
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 21 August 2021 06:06 (two years ago) link
I've caught up with my 2021 playlist at long last. If anyone's curious, here are the metal albums I've enjoyed the most this year, roughly and debatably organized by subgenre (please assume maximum subjectivity throughout):
Black Metal
Beastlor – Galaxies of Death (USA)Blutumhang – The Fires of Domination (Norway)Brouillard – Brouillard (France)Daius – Ascuns (Romania)Escumergamënt – …ni degu fazentz escumergamënt e mesorga… (Sweden)Ferriterium – Calvaire (France)Koldovstvo – Ни царя, ни бога (?)Леший – Поганые сны (Russia)Mare Cognitum – Solar Paroxysm (USA)The Ruins of Beverast – The Thule Grimoires (Germany)Sanctuaire – Spectre de mondes passés (Canada)Sarkasm – Les affres du néant (France)Solbrud – Levende i Brønshøj Vandtårn (Denmark)Sphere – π (France)Sur Austru – Obârșie (Romania)Transcending Rites – Enthronement of the Third (France/Belgium)Ungfell – Es grauet (Switzerland)
Black/Death Metal
Esoctrilihum – Dy’th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath (France)Suffering Hour – The Cyclic Reckoning (USA)
Death Metal
Cerebral Rot – Excretion of Mortality (USA)Drawn and Quartered – Congregation Pestilence (USA)Galvanizer – Prying Sight of Imperception (Finland)Morbific – Ominous Seep of Putridity (Finland)Patriarcha – Tumulus (Slovakia)Sněť – Mokvání v okovech (Czech Republic)Steel Bearing Hand – Slay in Hell (USA)
Death Doom Metal
Black Wound – To the Endless Depths (Sweden)Civerous – Live Promo MMXXI (USA)Decrepisy – Emetic Communion (USA)
Drone Metal
Gaunt Emperor – Femur (USA)
Funeral Doom Metal
Horre – Songs of a Wanderer (Finland)
Gothic Metal
Tribulation – Where the Gloom Becomes Sound (Sweden)
Post-Metal
Big Brave – Vital (Canada)Dola – Czasy (Poland)
Progressive Metal
Dordeduh – Har (Romania)Dvne – Etemen Ænka (United Kingdom)Iotunn – Access All Worlds (Denmark)Papangu – Holoceno (Brazil)
Stoner Metal
Sleep – Iommic Life (USA)
Technical Death Metal
Ænigmatum – Deconsecrate (USA)Ad Nauseam – Imperative Imperceptible Impulse (Italy)Diskord – Degenerations (Norway)Ophidian I – Desolate (Iceland)
― pomenitul, Saturday, 21 August 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
I already forgot about them at 12” and got absurdly excited that a new Sleep album was imminent.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 21 August 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
The 'rona got Eric Wagner.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 23 August 2021 12:07 (two years ago) link
He was, again reportedly, unvaccinated.
― pomenitul, Monday, 23 August 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link
gutted. I loved Eric's vocals. I fist-bumped him at The Earl in Atlanta while he made terrible jokes between songs.
it didn't have to happen, goddammit.
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 August 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
oh no :(
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Monday, 23 August 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
Goddamit. Trouble made some of my favorite music. When I heard he got COVID IU was really nervous - he's a bigger dude, he chain smokes on stage so he probably smokes a lot off it as well... But I hoped I was worried about nothing. Fuck.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 23 August 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
Ach, horrible news. The self-titled and Manic Frustration are two of my favourite records. RIP big man.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
I always thought that Hooded Menace were good but fell beneath the threshold of greatness. The new one might pierce that glass ceiling but I need to listen a few more times. There's a lot of old school Paradise Lost here methinks and there's a greater emphasis on melody, both of which are catching me by surprise as I listen the first time.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 27 August 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
The new Wormwitch that came out today is also quite good, lots of black metal meat to stick to one's bones!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 27 August 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
The new Antediluvian is a minor masterpiece of ritual, Bataillean avant-metal:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2021/08/30/an-ncs-album-premiere-and-a-review-antediluvian-the-divine-punishment/
― pomenitul, Monday, 30 August 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
Pleasantly surprised to see this reviewed in p4k even though the rating is rong:
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/aenigmatum-deconsecrate/
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 12:21 (two years ago) link
Superdigging the new Fluisteraars. It's rough and raw but its a lot more than that as well. Love the variations in vocals. The little instrumental flourishes, the stretched out guitar parts.
― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
'Rough and raw' sounds like a step up from their previous record, which I personally found a little too lush, even though I still enjoyed it a great deal.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
is it a metal album or a Wu-Tang album
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
'Verscheuring in de schemering' is an ODB cover iirc.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
That Ænigmatum review makes me want to listen to the record again, see what I missed.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
yeah, I also found it hard to get into, wish it had a little more groove or something to latch onto
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
Theirs is a characteristically winding and unpredictable path but with a strong feel for melody throughout. I love all of their releases so far.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
every day is a characteristically winding and unpredictable path
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
i get a little bit closer
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
looks like Negura Bunget are going after the Brad as tastemaker market
https://open.spotify.com/track/44LqSQ4Y7fhWoGFA8Zi0Y0?si=7e59e31f4e9d419a
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Friday, 3 September 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link