Rolling 2022 Metal Thread

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.

Macabre Damp, I think I had that in my bathroom once.

Why isn't it Damp Macabre?

new MWWB sounding sick as hell folks

enjoying the new messa

The new Haiduk album Diabolica [black / death metal]

Swarm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE9rWWZi7l0

Anyone who wants to own a test pressing of White Ward's "Love Exchange Failure", this is your chance:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/353983096370

Current bid is 334 euros.

The new Satan album is friggin great.

xp the lust for test pressings is fucking baffling to me, just weird vinyl cultism i guess

This email was exactly the laugh I needed this afternoon.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPXhv-LXEAUrZPF.jpg

(And yes, I did check it out. It sounds exactly like you'd expect, and I will probably buy it.)

The new Satan album is friggin great.

Really enjoying it. Maybe their best yet?

new Artificial Brain track, album in June

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/artificial-brain

This Friday, a really fascinating band called Abhorrent Expanse are releasing their debut album, Gateways to Resplendence. It's improvised death metal, basically, and it sounds amazing. I published (did not write) a review of it on Burning Ambulance today. Really good stuff.

If you like Destruction, you'll like the new Destruction album. It's a transitional album for them — the first without founding guitarist Mike Sifringer, who left in mid-2021. It's now bassist/vocalist Schmier and three ringers, but the two-guitar sound (which they started with on their last album, 2019's Born to Perish) is working really well and the songs are good, so I'm in.

There's a new Astronoid song! It sounds like them, but also kinda sounds like what I remember Coheed & Cambria sounding like 15 yars ago? Anyway, I'm into it, but I'm not sure I need another whole album's worth. Their sound is best appreciated in small doses, I think.

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

Good shred solo on that one. Liking the new Satan as well.

The new Golgothan Remains is not a big departure from their previous album, but if you like that sort of churning, murky death metal, it hits the spot. Some nice, new atmospheric touches.

https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/adorned-in-ruin

Ordered that one last week, waiting for it to get here.

Enjoying the new Abbath record, even though the guy is basically just black metal classic rock at this point.

Really into the new Nite album, Voices of the Kronian Moon. Classic metal sound with blackened vocals, works pretty well. Scott Hoffman from Dawnbringer and High Spirits is one of the guitarists.

Wow this new Undeath really killing it.

Nice to hear a good-quality upload of Tribulation's "The Dhampir," formerly a vinyl-only bonus track. It's my favourite thing they've done since Children of the Night.

Listening to it now; I like when they indulge their Jim Steinman side. (The whole three-part thing is 19 minutes long.) Kinda sounds like what I wish Ghost sounded like.

new corpsessed is good shit

Any good?

ALGAION

Oimai Algeiou

Shadow Records / Regain Records

22 April 2022

CD and tape release date: April 22nd
Vinyl release date: September 18th

SHADOW RECORDS (distributed & marketed by REGAIN RECORDS) is proud to present a long-overdue reissue of ALGAION’s classic debut album, Oimai Algeiou, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Formed in that fateful, fiery year of 1993, Sweden’s ALGAION took a counter direction to their contemporaries. Right from the start, with their self-titled demo in ’93 and the following year’s Heosphoros Ho Proi Anatellon demo, the duo of Mårten Björkman and Mathias Kamijo created a strikingly different black metal sound that had far more in common with the emergent Greek scene led by the likes of Rotting Christ, Thou Art Lord, and Necromantia. But it was ALGAION’s debut album, Oimai Algeiou, where that sound truly crystallized and etched itself into the hallowed halls of black metal legendry.

Released in 1995 by the pivotal Full Moon Productions, Oimai Algeiou was underground black metal for underground black metallers. Not kowtowing to increasingly trendy Scandinavian sounds, no “romance” or gothic or vampires, and definitely no mosh nor no fun: ALGAION here created a surging and windswept landscape on which to paint dark desires and honor that Hellenic pantheon. It was a raw landscape, to be sure, but one contemporaneous with their Greek brethren and duly emitting a perhaps-colder atmosphere than the duskiness usually associated with that scene. However, above all, it was the songwriting itself which put Oimai Algeiou amongst that hallowed company, pulsing with a simple-yet-sublime melodicism and never-forgotten heavy metal spirit, all dusted with just the right amount of melancholy and the subtlest hint of synth.

Although ALGAION would continue thereafter with a similar but more-polished sound, Oimai Algeiou inarguably stands as the perfect snapshot of a truly special time. Out of print for decades and only ever released on CD, this reissue of Oimai Algeiou features remastering by Devo Andersson at Endarker Studios and will be henceforth available on all formats. The past is forever alive!

Promo EU: jarne at regainrecords.se
Promo US: nathan at suspiciousactivitiespr.com

MORE INFO:
www.shadowrecords.se
www.regainrecords.se
www.facebook.com/shadowrecords.se
www.facebook.com/regainrecords.se

Don't think I've ever heard that but it sounds like it'd be right up my alley.