Rolling 2023 Metal thread

'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.

amazes me that people keep robbing artists at about every conceivable opportunity and then act genuinely aggrieved when artists lash back.

I wonder what the venue would do if a band got onstage and said “Merch table’s in the parking lot after the show”…pull the plug, probably.

English venues are very intense about merch cuts & local sellers

But they probably pay the artists super well right

Lol

Withholding VAT is one thing but 25% commission? Yeah, no.

late pass for me on this -- tchornobog have really grown, the latter half of the track is super great. especially if you like sonic youth lol but seriously it's good

https://abyssal-home.bandcamp.com/album/tchornobog-abyssal

Man, there's so much good stuff in the epic heavy metal mold coming out right now. New Gatekeeper album, Savage Oath EP, another great Smoulder track. I can't get enough of this kind of stuff.

New Spirit Adrift in August, too! First track is out now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vrFXyAiwMM

https://powertrip.live/

which is the former Desert Trip Festival in Indio:

Oct 6 : Guns n' Roses & Iron Maiden
Oct 7 : AC/DC & Ozzy Osbourne
Oct 8 : Metallica & Tool

passes : https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/972532647261794358/1091033597357588592/FB_IMG_1680192793045.jpg <- !

seating map: https://powertrip.live/tickets/#location-chart <- general admission is the lawn at the back

Maybe it's just me, but I was immediately put off by them hijacking the Power Trip name after Riley Gale died.

maybe it was inspired by the Monster Magnet album? (yeah, probably not)

I mean, maybe had nothing to do with it, just felt weird to me.

https://nakay.bandcamp.com/album/seized-ep

vocals by inter arma's mike on the whole EP

The only EC appearance of the reunited Ludicra is happening at Saint Vitus in June.

https://dice-media.imgix.net/attachments/2023-03-29/5b53d4c8-9d82-4966-b68a-60158af15742.jpg?rect=0%2C0%2C1584%2C1584

I got tickets, will make the trek up the turnpike.
Looking forward to seeing a rare event and reconnecting with friends and the city I once roamed.

Roof collapse at Apollo Theater in Chicago during Morbid Angel show in Illinois.

Fuck

https://www-mystateline-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/first-responders-called-to-belvideres-apollo-theater-on-reports-of-collapsed-roof-due-to-powerful-storm/

https:/www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/first-responders-called-to-belvideres-apollo-theater-on-reports-of-collapsed-roof-due-to-powerful-storm