Rolling 2023 Metal thread

ok the ping is back

one-woman black metal project Brouillard from France is back with an album called (guess) : https://transcendance-bm.bandcamp.com/album/br0uillard-brouillard

hahahaha! i love that concept

I think I got her last Brouillard

new Spirit Possession March 31

https://spiritpossession.bandcamp.com/

excited for new Sanguisugabogg, didn't realize it was coming out so soon. I've taken to callin them "The Bogg" in the tradition of Steve Coogan as Tommy Saxondale calling Jethro Tull "The Tull."

i excuse and even enjoy violent imagery in a lot of music, perhaps particularly in death and grind. i do object to artists targeting a single oppressed identity with their violent lyrics (and indeed we call this NSBM when folks do it w/r/t race), and i do really wonder about sanguisugabogg's vocalist and his previous band that only wrote violently misogynistic rape anthems

Yeah, I knew nothing about Sanguisugabogg before seeing some hype this past week and saw that when digging through their Metal Archives page. That band had some really wtf lyrics and artwork.

i did not know that about Sanguisugabogg vocalist, but that's definitely fucked up. not that misogyny is new to metal but there is definitely a higher degree of wtf to making rape/abuse/violence against women the actual target of your lyrics - one reason I refuse to listen to anything pornogrind or Waco Jesus-y.

thanks for sharing the information roxy.

for real. i think it is reasonable to draw the line at violent misogyny being the entire theme of your themed band

absolutely

after awhile you'd hope artists would grow past bigotry or misogyny in lyrics and, if they didn't, listeners wouldn't reward it by failing to call it out, idk. there's such a wealth of music out there w/o that kind of lazy bullshit, or those kinds of shit worldviews. it's very easy to not write evil lyrics imo (as someone who doesn't write lyrics even i can recognize that.)

If you want to write those kinds of lyrics you should start a power metal band and really enunciate the fuck out of every word. Stop hiding behind growls and gurgles.

with a lot of these bands, they aren't 'just fantasies' either, they're a reflection of internalized toxicity (or worse, the Jef Whitehead incidents). i think roxy posted once that it permeates into the crowds as well at some of the shows of pornogrind and similar bands and it's not surprising.

hell, Don Decker of Anal Blast used to come into #metal on DALnet and he was every bit the caveman he portrayed himself as on disc.

at a minimum, people who make light of sexual violence do not take sexual violence seriously. that much at least should be obvious. it often goes beyond that. it isn't as simple as saying pornogrind guys are rapists, or whatever, but it isn't hard to imagine how they might respond to incidents of sexual assault in their communities (or even bands), and i can assure you those are happening

On another note, while more noise rock than metal proper, the new Oozing Would is hitting all the right spots for me today. Absolutely killer production on this one, it just sounds so good.

lol "Oozing Wound", although I wouldn't mind hearing these guys take on that Alice In Chains song

into the cut again
same old pus it was back thennnn

lol

On another note, while more noise rock than metal proper, the new Oozing Wound is hitting all the right spots for me today. Absolutely killer production on this one, it just sounds so good.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, February 7, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I like this. On the “this more noise rock than metal” front, I got into a band called Still/Form recently thanks to their opinion on an EOY list (can’t remember now which it was) They really nail a sound that reminds me of noises bands circa 93-94. Had me thinking of obscure bands lost to history like Johnboy or Milkmine

digging the latest Memoriam but if you weren't into them previously i don't think you'll like them still. everyone seems to be lukewarm on em, but I'm fine w/ their Bolt Thrower-inspired torch carrying, it's not as good as the predecessor, and this one has a lot of additional melodic hooks in it that you wouldn't have heard on BT.

tl;dr just call me a poser

i love that oozing wound. it feels like noise rock is kind of having an extended moment rn

the clips I heard of it sounded very promising. gotta get around to acquiring it and giving a proper listen.

xxpost re: the Memoriam, it's an extremely so bar that it's barely above the ground, but at least happy to hear a death metal band writing about war from the anti-war perspective

*low bar jfc

I like the Memoriam — not as much as the ones before, as you say, but enough that I've tried to at least formulate some thoughts on it for BA. Maybe in a week or two.

#NowPlaying Tidal Wave
'The Lord Knows'
(2023, @music_ripple)

Swedish stoner fare, emphasizing the bluesy classic rock stuff, with a vocalist who approximates Big Business' Jared Warren's loud as fuck bellowing. It's not possible to play this loud enough, but it's fun to try! pic.twitter.com/QWSkZdTU7e

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) February 7, 2023

Glad to see that post, I've really been digging that Tidal Wave record. Sometimes I hesitate to post about the more stoner leaning stuff here since there don't seem to be too many folks into that left around.

I don't post on this thread too often but I'm always interested to hear about new stoner/doom stuff, I enjoyed this Crypt Witch record from last year despite it being very derivative! https://cryptwitch.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-herbs

I’m new to this thread (after taking a 30-year sabbatical from metal up until last year) and I like stonery stuff, fwiw.

Spending more time with this Oozing Wound album today and it’s awesome

local band Bodybox are opening for Soulfly. i assumed this was just locally, but no...ENTIRE run of the tour!

they have a 9 minute EP and a 4 minute demo.

what the hell are they going to play? lol

there's no album due out anytime soon so I'm assuming set will be filled of songs they just wrote and covers.

Soulfly isn't even in my top 500 but holy hell they're great live.

They haven't even gotten to the Nailbomb cover yet

stoked on the first new kvist output since the 90s (from upcoming peaceville comp) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG_kffRy-QE

as a sidenote: peaceville needs to fix their website

digging the 2 Ulthar albums that just came out. I learned about Mastery through this board so thought there might be more hype here. But seems like just me. Anyhow both sounding great.

i was curious about those! awesome

saw Deceased last night. awesome as always. really tight band live and yet also really goofy.

but they never get much turnout.

Should have those two Ulthars waiting for me at home, though reading this Baandcamp interview with them is going to shadow that a little. Damn, that's rough. Hoping for the best.

Ulthar went into the studio ready to kick ass, armed with as much new music as they’d released up to that point combined. But when Lermo went to track his vocal parts, something seemed off.

“I had warmed up my voice a bunch, and I started singing, and Justin and Steve were in the control room, and they were like, ‘You don’t sound right,’” Lermo remembers. “And I was like, ‘Really?’ And I listened back, and I was like, ‘Yeah, my voice does sound weird.’ Eventually, I just worked more and more, trying to get into the right range and got it to sound right.”

Lermo also noticed some pain in his throat while he was recording vocals: “It wasn’t a bad pain. It was just like a scratchy something-or-other.” When it didn’t go away for over a month, he started to get concerned. When he felt a lump on his neck, he got it checked out. A couple short months after getting through the challenging Anthronomicon/Helionomicon sessions, his biopsy came back positive. Lermo had throat cancer.

“I was treated with chemotherapy and radiation for two and a half months. I ended up in the hospital for eight days. I lost the ability to eat and drink and talk,” Lermo says, stressing that the voice coming through the Zoom call isn’t what his voice normally sounds like. “We’ve had a couple of tour offers that I just had to straight-up turn down, even though it’s a couple of months in the future because I can’t predict when I’m gonna be able to sing again.”

He might never be able to sing again, and if he does, there’s no guarantee he’ll sound the way he used to: “I’ve talked to doctors about it and stuff, and it’s kind of a very, very niche question to be like, ‘I sing for a death metal band. When will my ability to do death growls come back?’ Nobody has an answer for that.”

new Hellripper is fantastic. not that I don't love a lot of it, but blackened speed metal is one of those subgenres that's so full of boring clones. I like that they manage to be inspired in their writing.

plus were part of an anti-Nazi comp in 2018

there's a ton of trad fist pumpy heavy metal in there as well without overwhelming the black heart of the sound and that's my language.

shit, this thing could be an EOY candidate. too early to say that, it's only Feb, and only one spin, but this is one of the better in its field I've heard in years

Waiting til my copy shows up later this week, good to read your raves though.

Listened to the more traditional of the two Ulthar albums this weekend, really damn good. Going to tackle the other one soon.

I enjoyed both Ulthar. the two song one has a cool synth sequence on one of the songs

Gene Hoglan on Chuck Schuldiner, also (since I hadn't kept up with posthumous Death) mostly news to me:

Hoglan joined DEATH in 1993. He replaced Sean Reinert, who — along with guitarist Paul Masvidal — quit the band to focus on CYNIC. He appears on the group's albums "Individual Thought Patterns" and "Symbolic".

The current lineup of DEATH TO ALL includes Hoglan, DiGiorgio on bass and Koelble on guitar. Max Phelps (CYNIC),who has been touring with DEATH TO ALL, is once again handling the vocal and second-guitar duties.

Schuldiner died on December 13, 2001 after a battle with pontine glioma, a rare type of brain tumor.

In recent years, DEATH's storied catalog has undergone a meticulous reissue campaign via Relapse Records.

Relapse released the first-ever fully authorized DEATH tab book, featuring 21 classic songs tabbed out for guitar from the band's entire discography. The book, which includes traditional notation as well as tablature, also comes with a digital download of all tracks

https://blabbermouth.net/news/gene-hoglan-remembers-chuck-schuldiner-he-was-not-a-big-fan-of-people-or-the-music-industry-but-he-liked-his-friends

Aside from "Pestilength" being a pretty funny band name, this Basque DM band has a nice generally mid- to down-tempo death/doom feel that's pretty darn good. Some Incantation similarities but there are some original rhythmic and riff ideas going on.

http://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/basom-gryphos

my friend was just talking about them and I too brought up the name.

And the one track up from this Auroch/Mitochondrion-related project shows a Jute Gyte influence imo, really bent guitar stuff

http://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/track/three-initiates-meet-at-the-cemetery-crossroads-2

The debut album by Parasitario from Osaka, Japan is out now. It's called Everything Belongs to Death and it is some grimy, knuckle-walking old school shit. Like Obituary with Asphyx vocals.

https://fda-records.bandcamp.com/album/everything-belongs-to-death

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1100304211_10.jpg

I think I prefer the 2 track Ulthar the most because it breathes and lets them really let loose but yeah both albums really hit the spot. Thank you for sharing that bandcamp article. I hope he recovers. Peacock is also a good vocalist. I dig Mastery and Spirit Possession as much as I do Ulthar.

Yeah, I'd agree with that. Helionomicon is definitely the better of the two, for exactly the reason you state, but I spun Anthronomicon again today and it holds up pretty damn well too. A huge leap forward for a band that I already liked well enough.

Looking forward to the new Spirit Possession.

At Weedeater show, and Rebelmatic are opening. All Black stoner/sludge metal band who has punky elements and hip hop/R&B elements.

The drummer is ODB's brother.

They were great

!!

the Darkspace album is one 47 minute track apparently, they played it at the Prophecy Festival - first impressions: some people will say it's all the same/boring but I think there's definitely clear different parts & progression: youtube watch?v=5XFJkDFvyRM

^ don't want to spoiler too much so I didn't embed it

Baring Teeth are a Dallas, TX based trio. Their latest album is a slab of atonal avant-metal that still manages to have memorable songs. Recommended for fans of Imperial Triumphant:

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-path-narrows

Vemod sounds promising too, don't know why it took them 11 years since Venter På Stormene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLh6yNFMcE8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnvMxclmUYQ