Rolling 2023 Metal thread

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

Dixie Dave now has delayed the start of the show because he has to take a dump

OMG that was awesome

... the dump?

lol

This Oak album, Disintegrate, is really hitting hard today. One long, 45-minute track of funereal doom with death metal vocals, features a couple of the guys from Gaerea.

The new Smoulder track is a ripper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mOnashhRZc

New Arriver is imminent:

https://www.invisibleoranges.com/arriver-azimuth-stream-interview/

Yakuza are back! They're releasing their first studio album in more than a decade in May. I used to love these guys, and saw them live once, opening for Triptykon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Obw8-VvlM

Yeah, I was surprised to see them pop up on Svart, but really glad to have them back.

zero production value black metal from Italy, concept album about "the 16th century coastal towers of Further Abruzzo, which were built near river outlets by the Kingdom of Naples and used as guard posts to spot and signal the presence of incoming privateer ships." as themes for an album go, I'm hard pressed to think of a better one. RIYL the sound of tapes that were stored in a moldy cardboard box for three years before being pressed up into a limited hand-numbered edition of 25.

https://xenoglossyproductions.bandcamp.com/album/coastal-towers

Doom metal veterans Saturnus return 10 years after their previous one with two new guitarists and an album: https://saturnus-official.bandcamp.com/album/the-storm-within

man i'm still stuck on this oozing wound record. it definitely hits the noise rock spot but what it most consistently reminds me of is...Tad?

but i must admit "concept album about 16th century coastal towers" now has my attn

still waiting for that meter data 2xLP

https://flatspotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fsr66-a-new-tomorrow

this is hardcore i guess, but def powerviolence-y and even thrashy sometimes

Good: Toxic Holocaust is touring!
Bad: MAGA dorks Havok are co-headlining.

Havok are Trumpers?

they released the song "Hang 'Em High" on inauguration day, and I can't really find much in Google for them and Trump other than this quote:

But if there is one good thing about Trump it’s that I have never seen a president get hated so much so maybe people are at least waking up to the political system; you know it’s bullshit, it’s a nonsense and we shouldn’t subscribe to this. What’s so fascinating is that people will then still say you have to go out and vote for one of the same two parties that have been in power for a hundred years; the two party system is just two heads of the same snake. Both are about big business, neither give a fuck about the American people. It’s mind numbing.

which came across as more libertarian-y.

just curious - I know some of this stuff is more on the d/l in metal.

*inauguration day 2017

I mean, this is one of the most recent tweets from their official account . . .

Would anybody like to see Havok on Tim Pool’s podcast? #Repost @DavidFreethink
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🎙 Thanks to Louie Cordero in Los Angeles for recommending Havok and “Conformicide” to Tim Pool. Maybe a Timcast IRL + Riffs Or Die swapcast is in order…? @Timcast @riffsordie_ pic.twitter.com/MIHLMF0W3y

— HAVOK (@HAVOKthrash) May 4, 2022

They may or may not be full on MAGA chuds, but they are definitely stupid and have bad politics.

fair enough

yeah Tim Pool is like gateway alt-right since 2020

This is what tipped me off - the first song off Conformicide:

"F.P.C."

They want to shut you up
And put your mind in a cage
Dictate the words that you can use
Freedom of speech goes up in flames

When the censorship begins
They will come for you
Speaking your mind becomes a sin
Political correctness breaking through

With the suppression of ideas
Everyone pays the price
Beware of this because
Political correctness ends your rights

When the censorship begins
They will come for you
Speaking your mind becomes a sin
Political correctness breaking through

P.C. warriors want to force you to speak their way
P.C. warriors want to prohibit what you can say today
That's right

Political correctness: free speech is seized
Political correctness is a social disease
Political correctness: free speech is seized
Political correctness is a social disease
Fuck it

Political correctness: free speech is seized
Political correctness is a social disease
Political correctness: free speech is seized
Political correctness is a social disease

Fuck P.C.

Lol man I gotta pay more attention to lyrics.

i says "you can't do a god damn thing about it, because i'm expressing myself in your court, and there is nothing you can do about it. you think you're god because you have a robe and you can put people up the god damn river for 20 years? well you're not."
and i left it at that...

man i'm still stuck on this oozing wound record. it definitely hits the noise rock spot but what it most consistently reminds me of is...Tad?

― here 1st (roxymuzak), Wednesday, March 15, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Me too! This has turned out to be my favorite album of the year so far. And yeah I am definitely picking up on the Tad vibes (and Karp, and noisier Nirvana in spots).

yeah thirding the love for the Oozing Wound record. kind of astounded that they started out very, very good but somehow just keep getting better.

Stunning noise-rock/jazz/metal from Bulgaria. 'Ivane' is especially soul-melting

https://turdomkean.bandcamp.com/album/nemesta

Megaton Sword album is good fun. The world needed a metal ballad called "Babe Eternal".

I blocked the Season of Mist publicist after her TERF wars however according to the Toilet ov Hell podcast she is now tweeting anti-vax nonsense.

Ugh.

My friend who is a super metal dude sent me this - Cromlech - Ascent of Kings, operatic doom/folk with faster than usual tempos and ridiculously operatic vocals that I think I love. musically i love it for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qH_84dtEp8

So....this band is MAGA fascist scumbags

d e a t h m e t a l dot org / interview / interview-with-cromlech-ca

Apologies for posting lol why do I even try with metal