Rolling 2023 Metal thread

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

haela ravenna from liturgy was revealed as being a landlord, that is the discourse. she is from an insanely wealthy family but at least has chosen to devote her life to making art

it's pretty easy to devote your life to making art when you're insanely wealthy i'd imagine

you'd think, but usually it's just 'being cruel to underlings' with a side-order of 'becoming even wealthier'. obv nobody should be that wealthy anyway but she's making about the best of it she can, probably

didn't realize until researching this morning just how rich her family really was. seems like her and her sister (a big Occupy activist) are at least trying to move the needle in a better direction

Hendrix, along with his wife Helen LaKelly Hunt, developed Imago Relationship Therapy, a form of relationship and couples therapy.

Lol was just gonna post that. Makes you think.

The couple is locked in a closet for 24 hours and forced to listen to Cardiacs

brought together by adversity! works every time!

H. L. Hunt is like a real-life Montgomery Burns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Hunt

Books

Fabians Fight Freedom. Dallas: H. L. Hunt Press.
Alpaca. Dallas: H. L. Hunt Press (1960)
Alpaca Revisited. Dallas: HLH Products (1967)

was reading that exact wiki page just now. couldn't stop thinking of Succession, esp the 'lobotomising the initial heir' part

HRHH's mum seems to have been the one who rebelled, went off and married a psychotherapist. the black sheep lol. or, at least, the Lindsay Bluth

damn h.l. hunt will drink yr milkshake for sure

^this also came to mind

re: Alpaca

Rare utopian novel by oil tycoon HL Hunt - with his Constitution appended. The TV series "Dallas" is said to have been inspired by Hunt....It is known that Hunt published his novel privately and sent it to heads of state around the world.

the problem is that it SOUNDS like it was made by a bushwick landlord

No dodgy politics in this week's BA newsletter — I review the new albums by Memoriam, Voltax and Hellripper.

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

No need to beat yourself up over it. Happens to all of us. Hell, it happened in this very thread alone to Neanderthal, one of the coolest dudes I know re: Havok.

You're not obligated to like metal, or even care about it, of course. But when you're the first person to respond to your own post pointing out a band is sketch, that tells me you're cognizant of these matters and react accordingly. That's all you can do whether you're "in league" or not.

I, for one, welcome you here.

Oh, and Liturgy is still metal as fuck.
Saw them live last month. There was nothing not metal about it.

It's @LITVRGY "Subterranean Dissonance Fest" @UndrgroundArts pic.twitter.com/XqVMs64D1G

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) February 12, 2023

Hellripper rules. I've been listening to that album a lot this last week.

yeah it's fantastic

Majesties (Can't recall what prompted me to add this, sorry if it's not metal)

Just figured out why it's on my radar: Side project for guys in Obsequiae and Inexorum who are both all kinds of awesome.

This is all kind of '90s Gothenburg worship, but it is absolutely hitting the spot for me today.

also... what the fuck. 25% commission? not just the good ol' USA trying to kill off touring.

Paris we are sorry to announce we will not be selling merch tonight. pic.twitter.com/sq9FtrDqSr

— Russian Circles (@RussianCircles) March 22, 2023

I will admit to being ignorant/blind to some of these predatory venues that take hefty-assed commissions on merch-sales, but I'm glad to see a movement of bands who are basically giving them the middle finger and telling their fans "hell, just order the shit online, you still get the merch, we get the money, and the venues get fuck all".

I would literally not cry about the inability to get a snazzy new tee at a show if that was the reason.