Rolling 2022 Metal Thread

haha YES

enjoying this new abythic EP:
https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/abythic-eden-of-the-doomed

I don't think it got the warmest reception but I actually really liked their last one specifically for the way it integrated some discouraged ones-isms into their core death doom sound. well, that's basically all gone but this one's fun too!

the new cosmic putrefaction sounding like a step up to my ears too

Decapitated's new album is called "Cancer Culture"

*reads lyrics to title track*

yeaaaaaaah fuck you guys

uughhhh

The Cosmic Putrefaction is good, but didn't quite blow me away like the Haunter did.

Haunter is quite good yes

Decapitated's new album is called "Cancer Culture"

jesus christ

Roaring lion hidden
Behind his wireless mouse

lol

I was already p much done w/ them after they were accused of rape (even though charges were dropped) but ....yeah, way to step in it further.

Omg great recc on Cosmic Putrefaction

The new Kreator album, out in two weeks, is really good. I'm a huge fan — I even like their "weird" late '90s albums — but this one sounds both clean and massive at the same time; quality production really brings out the aggression of the riffs. Lyrically, it's the same old same old (are people really still writing songs called "Killer of Jesus" in 2022?) but musically it's absolutely crushing.

Apparently we've reached the "public sex in the pit at Maryland Deathfest" stage of civilizational collapse.

lol what? I had a few friends that were there. gonna see if they posted about it

https://www.theprp.com/2022/05/28/news/couple-engage-in-oral-sex-in-the-middle-of-the-crowd-during-autopsys-2022-maryland-deathfest-set/

wow this is almost as wild as the ass-eating in the pool incident at the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise

Someone also allegedly committed suicide at MDF by jumping off a parking structure adjacent to one of the outdoor stages. From what I can gather on various Twitter threads, it does appear to be a true story unfortunately.

can concur that friends of mine saw the aftermath and it was quite ugly

Not sure this is the best thread for bringing these guys up, but years ago there was a lot of talk about the prog leaning band Astra in the rolling metal threads so I thought I'd give it a go.

Anyway, Conor and Brian from Astra have a new band, Birth, their debut album just went up for pre-order. Haven't heard the single yet, but really dug their three song demo from last year. I'm excited.

https://birthprog.bandcamp.com/album/birth

Oops, that link was to the demos, the new album link is https://birthprog.bandcamp.com/album/born

Of course I have three mutual friends on FB with the MDF suicide jumper. Fuck, so tragic.

^ amily has a gofundme for expenses

https://www.ghostcultmag.com/a-fan-died-this-weekend-during-maryland-deathfest/

Has anyone seen any sort of official acknowledgement from the festival organizers? (I haven't.) The situation wasn't their fault or anything like that, it just seems odd not to at least acknowledge what happened and pay respects. The guy was a metalhead, it wasn't just some random fluke occurrence.

I didn't see it from them directly, but I wasn't watching closely. I learned of it from a fan who was basically telling everybody due to the impact on traffic o_O

Yeah, yeah, it's owned by the WMG. Still, here is The Pit's top albums of the year so far:

15. Crowbar – Zero and Below
14. George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher – Corpsegrinder
13. Shadow of Intent – Elegy
12. Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
11. Septicflesh – Modern Primitive
10. Undeath – It’s Time… To Rise from the Grave
9. Papa Roach – Ego Trip
8. Ibaraki – Rashomon
7. Zeal & Ardor – Zeal & Ardor
6. Foo Fighters – Dream Widow
5. Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What The Future Holds
4. Korn – Requiem
3. Meshuggah – Immutable
2. Ghost – Impera
1. Rammstein – Zeit

https://www.wearethepit.com/2022/05/the-best-metal-albums-of-2022-so-far-as-voted-by-readers-of-the-pit

I rep for Crowbar, Zeal & Ardor, that sort of Foo Fighters album, Ghost, and Rammstein.

I really like the Cave In record.

Man, I forgot that Meshuggah record even came out. I guess my favorite metal records of the first half of 2022 are (more or less in order of release):

Maule, s/t
Immolation, Acts of God
Eric Wagner, In the Cold Light of Mourning
Extinction A.D., Culture of Violence
Abhorrent Expanse, Gateways to Resplendence
Analepsy, Quiescence
Demiricous, Chaotic Lethal
Posthuman Abomination, Mankind Recall
Misery Index, Complete Control
Origin, Chaosmos
Orthodox, Proceed (out the end of this month)

in no particular order, here are all of the metal albums from the first half of the year that i would recommend:

Wilderun - Epigone
MWWB - The Harvest
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Black Death Cult - Diaspora
Haunter - Discarnate Ails
Tzompantli - Tlazcaltiliztli
Messa - Close
Nite - Voice of the Kronian Moon
Slaegt - Goddess
Tomarum - Ash in Realms of Stone Icons
Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade
Somali Yacht Club - The Space
Devil Master - Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
Undeath - It's Time... to Rise from the Grave
Incandescence - Le coeur de l'homme
Hath - All That Was Promised
Pure Wrath - Hymn to the Woeful Hearts
Krallice - Crystalline Exhaustion
Voivod - Syncrho Anarchy
Konvent - Call Down the Sun
JIRM - The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam
Absent In Body - Plague God
Earthless - Night Parade of One Hundred Demons

Yeah, I'd add the Hath, Messa and Earthless albums to my list as well.

Did I dream that there's a new Adversarial record releasing this year?

Enjoying the extent to which the new Black Void album Antithesis delivers on the promise of an album called Antithesis by a band called Black Void.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1MrRF4jRDDHLZy45Y6g2WW

There's a new Amon Amarth song and video...and it's got a whole lot of guns and Mad Max-ish vehicles in it. It seems like a pretty big miscalculation, in the season of The Northman, for them to decide that now's the time to come for Five Finger Death Punch's spot. I doubt it'll work out for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2-_PW4kzQo

Yeah, that seems like odd timing. It would be perfect to lean even harder into the gritty Viking aspect

oh shit they covered the GNR song?

That would actually have been better, because they'd have to include an opening screen explaining who Bob Guccione, Jr. was, who his father was, that Spin used to be a magazine, that there used to be magazines about music...

Listened to that Heaving Earth on Bandcamp and liked it a lot.

RIP Ken Kelly, the painter who suckered so many kids into listening to Kiss's Destroyer. He also painted covers for Rainbow's Rising and about 16 Manowar albums.

Saw Voivod last night. They were really great; Snake especially just seems pumped to be out and playing again. They played songs from all across their catalogue.

Yeah, they were so good. "Astronomy Domine" the highlight for me, though I don't really know the catalogue.

My brother texted me last night that he took his younger son out to his first show — GWAR, Goatwhore and Necrogoblikon. The kid's gonna be 17 in August, so he should have likely been going to shows for a couple of years already, but...you know. His older son, who's in his early twenties now, was there too. My brother and I took the older kid to his first show back in 2007: Heaven & Hell, Judas Priest, Motörhead and Testament.

Doing a music video shoot for a local metal band (Ginko Balboa). I'm the lead character.

It's bizarre and fun.

Xpost helluva first show!

Jmm, the "Astronomy Domine" cover is on Nothingface, my favourite album of theirs. I was excited to see that one too. They didn't do it when I saw them previously, years ago.

Much thanks to Siegbran and made entirely of styrofoam; I'm the fellow who asked Don for Death tracks in languages other than English. "Death (and the afterlife)" is going to be the theme for the July edition of Tom's twitter polls, and I'm always looking for stuff from outside Anglo-America.

I clicked best with the Norwegian tracks, though I don't have any insight as to why. Also a couple from Sweden and Poland. I put several in the spotify Suggestions Box, though since there are 950 (!) tracks in it I'm not optimistic about any getting nominated. But maybe a handful of people will listen.

Artificial Brain is always dope but there's a song on the new one that has a mid-section that sounds like 70s Steve Hackett era Genesis playing death metal

Came here also to thank yall also for those death songs, and to share an ancient preview I wrote, about even more ancient dogz:

The Godz
In the early 70s, when “heavy metal” was still mostly a fancy rock critic’s term, the Godz fed molten tonnage to the bikers of Columbus, and anyone anywhere who felt the need to drive anything. Singer-guitarist Eric Moore’s ever-combustible crew get a well-deserved overview on Twenty Five Moore Years, but the Godz saga doesn’t stop there. We may get some new songs at this show, we’ll surely get re-fueled.
04/16 @ The LC Pavilion, 405 Neil Ave.
7 p.m.

Think this was a different night:

Darsombra
Sunday @Bernie’s Distillery
Darsombra is the one-man-band incarnation of progressive/doom metal veteran Brian Daniloski, whose baritone guitar builds dense, vivid atmospheres, secret passageways of counterpoint and harmonic accompaniment. Darsombra’s new album, Eternal Jewel, seems set in low-budget sound, but the centerpiece, “Night’s Black Agents,” evokes iron wasps, pressing against the window of a cathedral in which classified industrial, surgical and other activities are well underway. Later, the guitar achieves a droning, vocal intonation, and chants its way toward fugues of feedback, fuzz, and bell-like tones. Pedals and loops should animate the live experience too.

I don't really know the catalogue. Don't sleep on Dimension Hatröss!

Also, Wiki sez:

The master tapes for Voivod's MCA-era albums were long thought to have been destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire; this was later disputed by Blacky, who revealed in late 2019 that the master tapes for Nothingface, Angel Rat and The Outer Limits were located in a facility in Pennsylvania, after persistently questioning Universal staff, and claimed that they are now in his possession.[25][26]

It didn't come up in the thread but former ILM Metal Thread heroes Astronoid have a new album of "dream thrash" that came out last week.

No surprise, it's thrashy and dreamy, though a little heavier on the dream part this time out, maybe. Still like it just fine though.

think I'm the only Symphony X fan here but saw them last night. they were tight as hell. I think I like them as much as I do as I was big into Kansas as a teen and they're basically Kansas meets power metal. met Michael Romeo after.

still got laughs at everybody cheering "one more song" before the encore, because they did play 'one more song', The Odyssey - which is the length of 5 or 6 songs.

I love Kansas, so I will check them out. Thanks!

Phrase I encountered in my work today that would make an excellent brutal death metal band name:
Fetal Shunt

I like Symphony X, too.