Rolling 2023 Metal thread

... 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

That interview gave me a chuckle. What a bunch of Nazi piss-babies! Typical metal elitism bollocks. “Our music isn’t political but [proceeds with bullshit political screed].” Love the guy with the mace on his shirt; if he saw someone wielding one at him in real life he would instantly shit his pants.

The first thing that got my Spider sense tingling was the Wagner over Schoenberg thing

Our music isn’t political but [proceeds with bullshit political screed

lol I hate this, it's always how it goes

if you need a political and musical antidote to bad metal, Ayloss has come through today

https://spectrallore.bandcamp.com/album/11-days

all proceeds to migrant support, etc

(all digital proceeds, half of physical)

(also he's a truly great modern songwriter regardless of the causes he promotes; they also happen to be very worthy ones)

The website d e a t h m e t a l . o r g is itself a cesspool.
They still have angry screeds against my friend Kim Kelly on the site, I'll bet.
It's a safe bet that if they like something that it's sketch.

oh yeah i have no idea. i follow kim kelly on twitter she seems cool.

i should just stay out of metal! i don't know enough about all this shit, too many pitfalls.

The first thing that got my Spider sense tingling was the Wagner over Schoenberg thing

it's a deep cut antisemitic dogwhistle but that's actually all it is. none of these guys could understand Schoenberg OR Wagner if you put them through the most basic questions

Yeah, even with the Wagner stuff at the beginning, I was still surprised to see them up the ante with a "Lügenpresse" drop later on in the interview. What a bunch of Nazi losers.

'stay out of metal' is a massive cop-out tho, even if you v understandably wanna avoid chud stuff it's quite easy to navigate towards the noble of heart imo. and there's lots of nice people in metal! look I even linked one who released a mini-album just today

Dawn Ray'd are a righteous band fighting the good fight and have a very good new album coming out Friday, if the preview tracks are worth anything.

also on friday the most famous trans metal artist delivers another whopping counterblast to the unchristian/set of pomo diagrams/glitchcore anthemz. although - landlord discourse??? eh who cares it is gonna rip

landlord discourse is righteous imo but I get not wanting to wade through metal to find the good actors. it's just tiring and there's so much music out there that doesn't have a nazi problem. esp if you wanna hear death metal, not strictly avant-garde / genre-blur / "pushing the envelope" metal, and I think you'll have to own that the righteous people in metal tend also to be the ones concerned with "moving the genre forward" etc. I mean the aesthetic politics of this are pretty transparent but...idk there's much to say.

'stay out of metal' is a massive cop-out tho

it's not my job to like metal. it's not my first (or second or third or fourth or fifth) choice of genre and there's just a lot of shit that seems to go along w/it. i know there are righteous people but sometimes i think you guys don't realize how often on the rolling metal threads this happens, someone brings up some cool band and then a while later it's oh shit they played a festival in poland that was booked by the dude from sacrificial wolfsbane records who's a total nazi etc etc

landlord discourse? in metal? pls explain.

i wasn't sure i caught that reference either, tbh, i assumed imago was referring to the new Liturgy album

xp
I don't know what's landlord-y about it, but I believe this is what was being referred to . . .
https://liturgy.bandcamp.com/album/93696

is liturgy really in the metal scene? i thought they were metal for corny indie fuxx like myself, metal for people who own a slowdive record or something

that is what they are

We lie to each other, uh huh

Really enjoying this new Gorod. It’s gotta lot of non-traditional vocal approaches and some fun jazzy riffs. Impressive.

oh fuck thanks for the heads up. saw them at deathfest an age ago, they were one of my favorites there -- chopsy cosmic shit, that's my shit