Rolling 2022 Metal Thread

And I think the Queen and I'm not sure if far right guy is supposed to be Biden.

oh is that who it is? I was thinking "dad from Alf"

CG album is fun like I expected. songs a bit verse/chorus/verse-y though.

not really 'necessary' but glad to have it nonetheless.

xpost - haha, I'm actually not sure, it also kinda looks a little like prez Bush senior too

Getting a promo for a new Sabaton album on a day when there's an actual invasion/war happening in Europe really drives home how hard Sabaton's music fucking sucks.

excited for a new batch of inzanejohnny Blood Incantation memes

i'm gonna peep the BI ambient album soon.

Sabaton has been a case of slowly diminishing returns, but Carolus Rex is legit one of the best metal albums of the previous decade.

Listened to the new Scorpions record out of obligation, not expecting much, but hey, it's pretty good!

It runs a little long but has some good high points: "Peacemaker" in particular is a total jam.

I just purchased the 2xLP Isolation released by New Hampshire Post-Metal group KYOTY.

http://i1.wp.com/distortedsoundmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Isolation-KYOTY.jpg?resize=768%2C762&ssl=1

The band spent the COVID lockdown digitally releasing a stream of singles. This LP compiles all of them and tacks on one new song. It's only the second full-length release for a band that has been around since 2010.

Over at @invisoranges, @tednubel hyped me to KYOTY. The New Hampshire instrumental sludgy post-metal has a dark accessibility to it, falling somewhere between Neurosis and Tool; in a world of COVID-compelled darkness, they search for light and find it.https://t.co/RIuflQIkcL

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) February 26, 2022

The band has released a string of videos as well. Clips and links to full album streams below...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmIJDPxMGjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2dlui4G9DI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2dlui4G9DI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Ca65z3XQk

http://open.spotify.com/album/1imbw9BG6kokDfR0enPbPQ?si=fNmUOIIOSe-yPI4wWa31IA
http://kyoty.bandcamp.com/album/isolation

I've always liked Shape Of Despair but this new one, I just can't handle how out of tune she's singing. Is it just me?

news from Kharkiv: Drudkh album on the way

https://metalstorm.net/events/news_comments.php?news_id=45245

Ukrainian metal scene was mainly in Kharkiv, and most of them are now fighting. Here's the Facebook pages of the main Ukrainian metal bands, a few of them now get updated daily:

Kharkiv:
Khors
Nokturnal Mortum
Drudkh
Kroda
Burshtyn
Svrm
Ulvegr

Lviv:
1914
Zgard

Odessa:
White Ward

Kyiv:
Vin De Mia Trix
Raventale
Stoned Jesus
Bergrizen
Ignea

Dnipro:
Severoth

Rivne:
Colotyphus

Thank you Siegbran

Hmm, so Testament announced their new drummer, okay, let's see who got the gig... OH FUCK IT'S DAVE LOMBARDO!!!!

A good choice. I liked The Gathering, the album he did with them back in 1999, and as much as I like them, his talents were being wasted in Suicidal Tendencies given their current punk direction. I mean, why would you hire Dave Lombardo and have him play D-beats?

Maybe he enjoys playing d-beats

fuck like 5 of the bands in Kharkiv are about a degree or two away from NSBM or RAC

Yeah, I was gonna say..

You could add Somali Yacht Club to the Lviv list, on the stoner metal tip. Not aware of any problematic aspects, but maybe someone will come along to disabuse me of that.

New Dysmorfectomy is some beautiful slammy brootal shit. It brings me joy.

Didn't even know there was a new one, and I'm pretty up on that stuff. Thanks for the tip!

200 Stab Wounds were confirmed as being part of an upcoming Rochester festival, and they publicly made a post telling their fans not to buy tickets, that this was not something they agreed to and they have no idea about it, and they and their team were looking into it.

then the promoter putting on the festival publicly shared a screenshot of a cropped portion of the email agreement.

just realizing disputes like these are this much more awkward now on social media.

https://amenra.bandcamp.com/track/amenra-roads-written-by-portishead

single track for bandcamp friday

I interviewed two members of Hath about their excellent new album, which is out today.

Kolovorot metal merch store in Kharkiv destroyed

new Midnight is out. if you like Midnight, you'll enjoy this. if you don't, you won't.

that's my byline, now pay me.

xpost aw fuck, that's so sad :(

A posthumous Eric Wagner solo album was released this week on Cruz Del Sur. It's really good. The band is mostly members of Trouble and The Skull, but Victor Griffin (Pentagram, Place of Skulls) plays guitar on one track.

http://ericwagner.bandcamp.com/

All songs on this release originally adapted from traditional Turkish songs of the same respective names by unspecified authors.

https://kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/ohe-ho-tam-kde-padl

good stuff

2022 Metal(lic) records I like enough to have purchased (or will be doing so shortly)

Backslider - Psychic Rot
Buñuel - Killers Like Us
Crowbar - Zero and Below
Eight Bells - Legacy of Ruin
Karmanjaka - Gates of Muspel
Krallice - Crystalline Exhaustion
KYOTY - Isolation
Maule - Maule
Napalm Death - Resentment is Always Seismic
The Neptune Power Federation - Le Demon de L'amour
Sanhedrin - Lights On
Saxon - Carpe Diem
Scorpions - Rock Believer
Venom Prison - Erebos
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor

A posthumous solo album by former Trouble/The Skull vocalist Eric Wagner came out last week on Cruz del Sur; I wrote about it because it's really good (without being a major departure from his previous work).

International Women’s Day means lots of things to lots of people. Few will say it’s all about multiple emails on the subject from The Great Kat’s publicist.

To be fair, every day is Unsolicited Messages From The Great Kat’s Publicist Day.

— CSTB (@cstbtweet) March 8, 2022

I kind of admire the dogged persistence of the Great Kat's PR, who have been flooding my email for nearly 20 years. I don't have the heart to request removal from the mailing list.

I am not on that list, which as a former employee of her first label, kinda bums me out a little.

I was not expecting the new Destruction album to end with a cover of GBH's "City Baby Attacked By Rats".

Cavalera Conspiracy tour of all Beneath the Remains and Arise songs, which I've been waiting for since they hinted at it 4-5 years ago, is finally here, and......nope, no Florida or anywhere close. dammit.

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/max-iggor-cavalera-announce-us-tour-of-sepulturas-beneath-the-remains-arise/

Who else is in the band? I know Marc Rizzo has split with the Cavaleras, pretty acrimoniously too.

apparently Iggor and Max are the only permanent members (lol), and they have some touring members, but both of them it says they play bass, and neither lead guitar. guessing they're going to hire someone or switch one of them over?

This review of the new Ghost seriously reads as though the reviewer has only listened to the three advance tracks.

https://www.metalsucks.net/2022/03/09/review-ghosts-impera-is-the-soundtrack-to-a-new-satanic-panic/

I like the Ghost album quite a bit, but then again I LOVED Prequelle. "Twenties" sticks in my craw - I like how Tobias combines the fall of German democracy with the current fall of American democracy, but the lyrics lack his usual cleverness. "Spillways" and "Watcher in the Sky" are phenomenal, and I get a kick out of how "Kaisarion" sounds like a Gamma Ray tune.

Many's the time I've felt like the only person on Earth who likes em but the new Mutterlein is quite good if you're looking for something that has apocalyptic post-Neurosis heft, industrial punch and a little bit of goth.

https://mutterlein.bandcamp.com/album/bring-down-the-flags

Last night I saw Converge in Philly. I am not even the biggest Converge fan but the lineup they assembled - three bands I all love for different reasons - was phenomenal.

Thou played first followed by Full of Hell and then Uniform. Each band played an intense set that really brought out the uniqueness of each of them: Thou's set was sludgier than I ever saw from them, Full of Hell was more eclectic, and the street-industrial sounds of Uniform were grimier.

And it wasn't like I never saw these bands before or knew about them. Between them and their collaborative efforts I probably own over a dozen records between them and saw them all live but they absolutely destroyed last night.

My theory is bands will all be on fire now. They've been cooped up forever, in some cases writing new stuff that never was played before live. Even the inconveniences about touring don't seem like a burden to them right now. And it's better for bands that purvey extreme music because there's also a lot of rage about the last two years that can use an outlet.

And maybe my own tentative steps towards a "normal" concert attending schedule is also playing a part in my perceptions.

Or maybe I caught three bands I love already just "on" it, spurned on by friendly competition on such a strong bill.

Regardless, had a great time.

Sounds like a killer lineup!

That wasn't the Blood Moon configuration, correct?

no, they have specific "Blood Moon" shows booked.

I see they played two songs from Poacher Diaries. makes sense since they're reissuing their half of it.

Ah, thanks!

saw The Armed last night and it was similar. everyone was operating at 100 and it was a lot of fun.

I am unreasonably excited that there's a new Demiricous album coming out in May. Their first album, One (Hellbound), was a blatant Slayer clone, but Two (Poverty) was something else, punky and grimy and exciting. But they never managed to reach an audience and Metal Blade dropped them. Now, 15 years later, they're back, and the new stuff is really good. Plus, it's all the same dudes, so this isn't some shameful one-original-member desperation move.

http://demiricousofficial.bandcamp.com/album/chaotic-lethal

Received a promo for a black metal album called Macabre Damp, which I misread initially as Macabre Dump, and for two seconds I was almost interested in hearing it.