Rolling 2020 Metal Thread

WIMPS AND POSERS, LEAVE THE HALL

This is the kind of new beginning I can get behind.

Very happy to not open this thread to that ugly Yatra cover (or any record cover). I couldn’t hit ‘jump to most recent message’ enough.

Anyone here up on the Kolkata scene? The last metal release I got in ‘19 was the Brahmastrika tape. It’s maybe more noise than metal but there’s some kind of scene or collective going on there centered around Tetragrammacide.

ayyyy

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/my-dying-bride-announce-new-album-share-your-broken-shore/

Yesssssss

hell yeah

definitely read that album title as The Ghost of Onion

Same lol.

Yessss! Enjoyed the last one even if it had the worst title ever

pretty stoked for that Satan/Night Rider/Haunt tour, also

Wait what

Satan / Night Demon / Haunt / Bewitcher — 2020 Tour Dates
04/04 – Philadelphia, PA @ Decibel Beer & Metal Fest
04/05 – Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory
04/06 – Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place
04/07 – Boston, MA @ Once Ballroom
04/08 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
04/09 – Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck
04/10 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
04/11 – Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary
04/12 – Milwaukee, WI @ Blades of Steel Fest
04/14 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
04/14 – Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room
04/15 – Tulsa, OK @ The Shrine
04/16 – Austin TX @ Come and Take It Live*
04/17 – Houston, TX @ Hell’s Heroes Festival*

*No Bewitcher

Not coming here BUT i will be seeing them at Decibel Metal and Beer fest in Philly so....win

(Satan, that is)

Woulda liked to see Bewitcher tho :/

Some stuff that came out in the past few days:

Oath - Legacy (Steve from Tantrum's solo thing)
Erythrite Throne - Call of the Northern Moon
Pestilength - Eilatik
Sors Immanus - Le Diable Violoneux
Grimah - Intricacies of Bowed Wisdom

lmao Wilderun just tweeted about being on that ridiculous metal cruise ship thing, that kind of would make it worth it for me tbh

obviously Neanderthal has to actually start a thread/blog for it when it actually happens

It's my cruise they joined lol. It was a surprise add.

man when is that fucking decibel fest. I don't even drink beer now but I'd really like to see Satan.

April 3-4 at Fillmore in Philly.

You can get beerless tix, i think it's 85 for both days combined with no beer

I'm gonna be there and Satan is one reason why!

final lineup for the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise: Aborted, Aeternam, Aether Realm, Archon Angel, Atheist, At the Gates, Axxis, Bloodbound, Brujeria, Candlemass, Carach Angren, Cattle Decapitation, Cruachan, Dark Matter, Devin Townsend, Edenbridge, Einherjer, Emperor, Epica, Ereb Altor, Exodus, Finntroll, Firstbourne, Flotsam and Jetsam, Ghost Ship Octavius, Grave Digger, Haggard, Havok, Ihsahn, Incantation, Kampfar, Kissin’ Dynamite, Leaves Eyes, Michael Schenker Fest, Moonsorrow, No Raza, November's Doom, Omnium Gatherum, Once Human, Origin, Orphaned Land, Possessed, Ross the Boss, Seven Witches, Soen, Sortilege, Spoil Engine, Stam1na, Striker, Suffocation, The Agonist, The Faceless, Toxik, Trollfest, Venom, Vio-Lence, Whiplash, Wilderun, Wintersun, Without Waves, Zero Theorem

Have discovered Toxik and No Raza, as well as Ereb Altor, who are all solid.

Um, that "ridiculous metal cruise thing" is the best time ever. Pretty good lineup this year, too!

i hope it's the best time ever, given what I paid for it. getting to see Emperor is a bit of a dream

As in years past, I think it's gonna be up to me to pollute this thread with knuckle-dragging bullshit. Here's "Ex Inferis," a track from Phoenix, AZ blackened death metal act Deadspawn's independently released debut album Pestilence Reborn, which comes out this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcfNmm2HOEg

I dunno, that's pretty far from lunkheaded brutality to my ears (which is not a value judgement, love that shit too) - definitely will check out their album.

Recent current events had me reminiscing about 80s and 90s anti-war metal songs. I started putting together a playlist and am looking for suggestions. I have obvious stuff like War Ensemble, Mandatory Suicide, Disposable Heroes, War Pigs, The Trooper, Refuse/Resist (kinda?), World War Whatever (by dead horse - a personal favorite)... I could probably Google for more, but thought it might be more fun to solicit favorites from Rolling Metal.

Asphyx - Asphyx (Forgotten War)

Bolt Thrower - For Victory

Gorefest - The Glorious Dead

Dead Horse's Army Surplus from their Death Rides A Dead Horse is also great (Life is army surplus/200,000 die/The US Army claims us/For its filthy fucking lies)

https://adrasteia777.bandcamp.com/album/demo-ii

experimental "winter synth" black metal, released last week

Lingua Ignota, Dylan Walker and Lee Buford ARE.....The Screaming Wilburys Sightless Pit!

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/lingua-ignota-full-of-hell-the-body-members-form-sightless-pit-share-song-off-debut-lp/

Getting on the boat... tonight's sched for me is Vio-Lence, Exodus, Devin Townsend, Emperor, and late add Soilwork. Maybe Atheist if I decide not to eat

very excited for that Sightless Pit album. thank you for bringing this to my attention. love all 3 of them

the adrasteia sounding cool & intriguing ty

keep the updates coming N

plot twist: nuclear war breaks out, all the land of the world is destroyed, and only 70,000 Tons Of Metal survives. this, the dystopian debut nov

more of a concept album tbf

That's very Battlestar Galactica!

Day 1

Vio-Lence: sound was abysmal but i still enjoyed it

Exodus: fantastic. Since they're doing Bonded in its entirety in two days they focused on later material and it was great

Devin Townsend: in awe. He was amazing. He also played "All Hail the New Flesh" and "Detox"!

Emperor: outright life changing. I cried.

Ihsahn looks like a big fuckin nerd

Emperor: outright life changing. I cried.

<3

Keep up the shipping news!

Like the tide, shadows flow towards the shore of light.
The night comes whirling like a maelstrom.
Warring waves of crackling clouds embrace this nightside landscape.
The heavens bleed, through open wounds, the dim light of the Moon.
The winds are crying mournfully and tears fly with the gusts.
They whip my clenched faces freezing skin with ice-cold burning cuts.

Did anybody have crack at a My Heart Will Go On cover?

I might have to do that at karaoke

with growly vocals obv

Obv.

Two Dutch dorks made a death metal album, and roped John McEntee in to do vocals. It's awesome.

Beast of Revelation, The Ancient Ritual of Death, out in March.

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

https://adrasteia777.bandcamp.com/album/demo-ii

experimental "winter synth" black metal, released last week

― idgaf (roxymuzak), Tuesday, January 7, 2020 7:34 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

TY for this!

My day... getting a Possessed setlist, meeting Emperor

https://i.ibb.co/Q9kx8N5/IMG-20200108-161012.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/Wgz9f6v/IMG-20200108-123430.jpg

Also Suffocation were loud and disgusting...ly amazing

Daaaaaaaaaaaamn son

Your cruise is ridiculously sublime.

Seriously timewarping to my teams

Next are

Carach Angren and

CANDLEMASS

*teens

With Johan Längqvist, I hope.

Yes!

Fuck yeah!

Who was singing for Suffocation? Wondering if Frank was willing to come out of retirement for a free cruise...

Not Frank sadly. Ricky Myers.

I was hoping the cruise would entice Frank, esp since he's doing a few shows in Czechoslovakia this year

And just hugged Terrence Hobbs of Suffo.

The negative elements of the scene just aren't here.

\m/

The forthcoming album by Japanese slam/death act Gorevent is doomier than their previous work; it reminded me of Coffins, so now I'm on a major Coffins kick. Buried Death is such a disgustingly awesome record.

Me and Suffo

https://i.ibb.co/c3BtFNT/IMG-20200108-184757.jpg

Xpost you had me at Coffins

Day 2

Possessed - I had no idea Jeff Becerra is paralyzed. He gave every ounce of energy out there and constantly kept saying how awesome it was to be there. At one point there was a fan in the crowd in a wheelchair and everybody lifted him up in his chair so that he could lock eyes with Jeff. Amazing moment. Great set.

Suffocation - the loudest I've ever heard them. I was pretty drunk and they ended with "Infecting the Crypts", my fav Suffo tune. Amazing.

Carach Angren - boring. Left one song in.

Candlemass - good set, though lots of expected Doomicus songs omitted, except "Solitude". Be interesting to see if they pull them out during next set.

Venom - again, loudest I've heard them. Cronos was in a good mood for once. "Warheads" always gets me.

I was too tired to do any more

more stuff that came out in the last few days:

Grimah - Intricacies of Bowed Wisdom
triumphant nihilistic bm from Spain
https://grimah.bandcamp.com/album/intricacies-of-bowed-wisdom

Locator - Sounds End
crusty black/death from Indiana
https://locator.bandcamp.com/releases

Svrm - Занепад
one man (but huge sounding) raw, sometimes folky bm project from Ukraine
https://svrm.bandcamp.com/album/--9

Saw Devvy again. Mostly same setlist but outdoors and I just have chills.

"Detox" is the song that helped me realize I wasn't alone. 19 year old me cried and threw fists

Day 3: Shore day

We went to Cozumel. It's very...touristy. all I did was drink.

Only a half day of shows but a great crop.

Flotsam and Jetsam: so glad i caught them. They mixed some of their last two albs in with Doomsday and No Place for Disgrace songs. Amazing set.

Atheist: about as good as the Orlando set in November. Very Piece of Time and Unquestionable Presence heavy.

Devin Townsend: the wind had gotten out of hand. Ihsahn's solo set was stopped three songs in. There were doubts Devy would get to play. But he persevered. He was very jocular as the wind kept fuckin' with his click track computer. He talked to ne at one point. He was chugging water and I screamed "Drink that fuckin' water!" and he said "I'M DRINKING IT, I'M DRINKING IT!". Setlist was much the same, but it was so communal and awesome. Lots of people hugging. Highlight for sure. Can't wait to hear more varied material in March!

At the Gates: The weather became untenable. Banners started to tumble from the rafters. We were evacuated to inside. The set was delayed an hour, til about 1:30 am. They broke into their Slaughter of the Soul set and it was just beautiful. Tomas was so excited up there. Wonderful set,band I caught an At the Gates pick.

After three days of getting blitzed, I am digging deep today. Orphaned Land into Suffocation up next.

Day 4

Fatigue was starting to set in. Fighting a third straight hangover, I decided the only way I would wake up a little is to....drink heavily again. More on that.

Skipped the rest of Orphaned Land after a few songs. I like them, but they were gravitating towards material I was less favorable of.

Archon Angel: Wasn't intending to see them, I was on my way to breakfast. Fronted by Zak Stevens, ex-Savatage vocalist (1993 - 2001). I came up as they were ripping through a cover of Savatage's "Power of the Night", and stayed to the end as they played two songs from Edge of Thorns, which brought me back to age 17, when I first discovered that album.

Suffocation: I was pretty toasted by this point, and this time, the sound was perfect. Switched up the setlist and gave us "Jesus Wept" this time. Absolute cracker of a set.

Brujeria: By some miracle, I missed only two minutes of this set. These guys are such incredible fun live. I moshed briefly with a guy who was dressed up as a banana as well as people dressed as sharks (it was costume day). Of course they ended with "Marijuana".

I headed to see Possessed again and on the way, actually ran into Zak Stevens, and took a pic with him. And then heard the news that Neal Peart died.

Possessed: The news about Neal Peart somewhat overshadowed the set, as my excitement as largely gone after such fucked news. It was an enjoyable set, but not quite as much fun as the one from Day 2. Too many Eyes of Horror songs, and honestly, I was just bummed out.

Soilwork: Sat on a lawn chair and fell asleep for the entire set. It was at this point that I realized I needed to stop drinking for the day, as my energy was gone. Just ate dinner and drank tons of water.

Candlemass: Now THIS was awesome. Kept dozing now and then, due to fatigue, but this was a Doomicus heavy set, with "Crystal Ball", "Under the Oak", and "Demon's Gate" all getting played, in addition to "Solitude". Johan Längqvist sounded phenomenal!

At this point, I could only bring myself to see two more sets, as I was gassed.

Emperor: Not quite as awe-inducing as first show, mostly because you never beat your first, but a phenomenal set regardless. Setlist somewhat changed up, with "Curse Ye All Men!" and "Majesty of the Nightsky" thrown in. It was on the pool deck in front of a fierce windstorm, which felt appropriate. At the end of the set, "My Heart Will Go On" played over the loudspeakers as the band took selfies in front of the stage.

Exodus: Now this was cool. Bonded by Blood front to back Souza's microphone was extra-layered with reverb this night to approximate Baloff sound, and everything was played at a much higher speed than on disc. I was started to get aggravated by Exodus fans rudely elbowing and shoving people and could tell my transition back to an old man yelling at a cloud was complete. one more Toxic Waltz ended things, with the band jokingly covering verse 1 of "Hair of the Dog" by Nazareth first.

amazing experience. I was sated. Exhausted now and recharging.

the new Rage album is fun.

damn, you make me wanna go on this cruise

The Darkspace bass player lady has a new project and the only time she mentions Darkspace it's in the past tense

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/apokryphon-interview-premiere/

Thanks for the in-depth report, Neanderthal.

As for Zorgh/Ophis, I hope Darkspace's next project is merely being kept on Alpine ice, but in the meantime I'm very curious to hear what Apokryphon has to offer.

i just recently discovered vulture and chemicide ... sickest thrash bands ive heard in awhile! any other ones i'm missing?

I'm not much of a thrash guy but Inculter easily made their way into my listening regimen last year.

Possessed - I had no idea Jeff Becerra is paralyzed. He gave every ounce of energy out there and constantly kept saying how awesome it was to be there. At one point there was a fan in the crowd in a wheelchair and everybody lifted him up in his chair so that he could lock eyes with Jeff. Amazing moment.

omg i'm crying

I'm a bit behind Bstep but thanks for the suggs re: thrash. looking for good stuff in that arena atm.

I quite liked last years Wraith album Absolute Power.

Myrkur has gone full-on Nordic folk on her new album, out in March. The cover could almost be from a mid '80s Laibach single:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOQYzaSWkAAz7so.jpg

And this is the first song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=558TW8qVuNE

lol good look w/ the muslim invasion of europe stuff from the other year

More Myrkur is always welcome. And as pRoBLeMaTiC as her aesthetic may occasionally appear, she's also posted stuff like this in the past, which is more than can be said for most BM-adjacent musicians these days: https://www.instagram.com/p/BXtKsFrhRF6/

Tbf her comments about Islam were in reference to the way organized religions tend to treat women.

xp

metalhammer gave her the chance to walk that shit back and she completely ducked the question:

q: When you said you felt that Islam was ‘invading’ Europe, what were you trying to say? Many Muslims have grown up in and contributed positively to societies across Europe.

a: “Many Muslims have grown up in and contributed positively to societies across Europe; I agree. In Europe we have freedom to choose religion and you do not get persecuted for having the wrong religion, so of course it’s open to all and should remain that way.”

Many Muslims have grown up in and contributed positively to societies across Europe; I agree.

I can't think of many black metallers who would countersign this statement.

if my local listings are to be trusted, Horrendous has been added to that already-ridiculous Satan tour

all old school filth dogs get in here and wallow, this is absolutely the business

https://soulsellerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/old-old-death

Not bad at all, for a minimalist band there's some clever guitar stuff happening. I really like the subliminal ringing chords in the first part.

mmmm, surprise new Holy Fawn EP.

Sweet.

a dude from katatonia used to be in this band and isn't any more but this should still be of interest to people who like doomy metal with killer lines, though it's too fast to be doom

https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/garden-of-storms

VERY hard swerve from the style of the first track to the second -- the latter is melodic goth-metal & barely metal at all for half of it, really, but I'm into the guitarwork enough to just go along for the ride -- great tone, great direction

very good stuff in my view

:(

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/21/ozzy-osbourne-reveals-parkinsons-disease-diagnosis

Yeah. That's a major bummer :(

Dio's final four studio albums — Angry Machines, Magica, Master of the Moon and Killing the Dragon — are being reissued next month as 2CD sets with a bonus disc of live material tacked onto each. I never listened to any of them at the time, but I'm listening to Angry Machines now, and holy shit, this album rules.

oh hey there's a new Thy Catafalque out today

New Sacramentum (!) reportedly in the works.

Temperance is a really good melodic power-metal band. The new album came out today!

https://open.spotify.com/album/3rr2JHdaxZ7nVgMyXy5oYw?si=BANczLriS8eK-wkMXXbq0w

going back upthread to Myrkur, it still messes with me that she's doing metal now because I first became exposed to her singing hooks on R.A. the Rugged Man/Vinnie Paz songs, like this:

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

oh hey there's a new Thy Catafalque out today

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, January 24, 2020 8:32 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's fantastic

oh hey thanks for the heads-up on Temparance, "Of Jupiter and Moons" was great!

new Thy Catafalque is indeed very good, eclectic in that wonderfully natural/unforced way his stuff generally is

New Kalmankantaja diptych, Nostalgia (I: Bones and Dust / II: My Kingdom), is a marvel. I have no idea how they manage to be so consistent (almost 40 releases in 7 years).

Angry Metal Guy describes this as 'a collaboration between Mercyful Fate, Celtic Frost, Agent Steel and Darkthrone circa Transilvanian Hunger':

https://youtu.be/2QtF80_z1qM

Here's the embed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QtF80_z1qM

HELLO MY BATSIGNAL

New Aktor next month, the guy from Dawnbringer/High Spirits/etc and Circle ppl doing weird proggy, AOR-influenced stuff w/synths

https://aktor.bandcamp.com/album/placebo

As much as I don't like Ghost I could imagine people who enjoy them digging this.

Not really my thing either but I'll sample a track or two.

Meanwhile, I highly doubt anyone still cares, but a new Sepultura will be out next week.

I'm always morbidly curious what they're up to. I was under the impression the last album was something of an upswing?

Last two albums

Cult of Fire are back shortly with a double album; here's a single

https://cultoffire.bandcamp.com/album/un-clean

Mercyful Fate confirmed for Psycho Las Vegas

I can't not go now

new perversion EP (detroit death metal)

https://perversionisdeath.bandcamp.com/album/archaic-death-metal

oh that Perversion has exactly the kinda ridiculous echoing vocals I can't help but love

I love Ghost, and the same goes for Dawnbringer, High Spirits, and Circle. And especially Aktor. So yes, it is possible for a person who enjoys Ghost to like Aktor.

😎👍

Archaic Death Metal? Sign me up. And yeah, those vocals are right up my alley as well.

some good ol powerviolence from last month:

Escuela Grind from MA

https://escuelagrind.bandcamp.com/album/ppoowweerrvviioolleennccee

Psycho Las Vegas full lineup

Psycho Las Vegas — 2020 Lineup
Danzig
Mercyful Fate
Emperor
The Flaming Lips
Blue Öyster Cult
Down
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Ty Segall
Warpaint
Mayhem
Satyricon
Watain
Blonde Redhead
Health
Obituary
Ulver
Katatonia
At The Gates
Poison The Well
T.S.O.L.
Crowbar
Exhorder
Wolves In The Throne Room
Thursday
Pinback
Zola Jesus
Drab Majesty
Boris
King Dude
Paul Cauthen
Amigo The Devil
Eyehategod
Pig Destroyer
Repulsion
Immolation
Midnight
Mgla
Windhand
Cursive
Brutus
Profanatica
Lower Dens
Black Joe Lewis
Intronaut
Boysetsfire
Death By Stereo
Curl Up And Die
Adamantium
This Will Destroy You
Khemmis
Mothership
Guantanamo Baywatch
Dengue Fever
Kaelan Mikla
Blackwater Holylight
Fatso Jetson
Wino
Creeping Death
Mephistofeles
Frankie and the Witch Fingers
Toke
Foie Gras
Flavor Crystals
Silvertomb
Lord Buffalo
Warish
Alms
Bömbers
Glacial Tomb
Relaxer
Black Sabbitch
Hippie Death Cult
Vaelmyst
Mother Mercury
DJ Scott Seltzer
Two Minutes to Late Night

Xpost btw thanks for the Grimah sugg earlier this year, good stuff

Not metal per se but Crowhurst have just released a collaborative album with Gavin Bryars:

https://crowhurst.bandcamp.com/album/crowhurst-and-gavin-bryars-present-incoherent-american-narrative

That Psycho Las Vegas lineup: as someone who gave both Prowler in the Yard and Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons plenty of spins in 2001, that clash of contexts appeals to me.

Lol yea. I love that i can hear Flaming Lips and Repulsion at the same fest

I remember meeting someone who had worked for the guy who does Psycho LV and she said that he basically watches Youtube videos all day and then says "what about this band?" and her job was to try to get them lined up to play... seems like it's working surprisingly well tho.

Whosever idea it was to sign Mercyful deserves a raise

I had a ticket to see them in 1999 and it was cancelled. Boom, 20 year hiatus. I've been begging for this since I wasn't of drinking age.

he basically watches Youtube videos all day and then says "what about this band?"

I've finally found my calling in life.

As an aside, how do most of you come across/hunt for recent metal releases?

Other than the tidal wave of promos I get from various publicists, every few weeks I do a Bandcamp search for new metal arrivals, mostly looking for knuckle-walking broooootal death metal.

I used to read Decibel a lot for it. nowadays I either go on Lambgoat or Metal Storm each week to check their listings. sometimes I just do what unperson does and randomly dig through bandcamp (which is how I found Cerebral Rot)

Fwiw I often use RYM's metal charts and also keep up with certain users whose tastes tend to mirror my own. Bandcamp deep dives are probably the most reliable and satisfying way to go about it, but it gets exhausting sometimes.

Fwiw I often resort to RYM's metal charts and also keep up with specific users whose tastes tend to mirror my own. Bandcamp deep dives are probably the most reliable and satisfying method, but it gets exhausting sometimes.

Fwiw I often resort to RYM's metal charts and also keep up with specific users whose tastes tend to mirror my own. Bandcamp deep dives are probably the most reliable and satisfying method, but it gets exhausting sometimes.

Sorry, there was a bug there.

i'll see you in hell my friend

This is a ridiculously overlong (all the autobiographical stuff could have been cut) essay about Cannibal Corpse. There's some good stuff buried in it, but if the effort of digging tires you out, I understand.

Immoto is my first encounter with Nero di Marte and... holy shit, I'm often let down by avant-metal because so much of it tends to devolve into inept polystylism but this kind of thespian tech-prog shit is my jam.

often v much agree about inept polystylism fyi

sigh being a v influential offender

i think I mentioned them a while back but Hyponic from Hong Kong are fucking great death/doom and I need the world to know

RIYL disembowelment or death/doom w/weird atmosphere

should've included "funeral doom" in there

Sounds cool, I'll check it out.

Meanwhile, I give you the amusingly-named (to me) VENOMOUS SKELETON, from Tel Aviv:

https://venomousskeleton.bandcamp.com/album/drowning-in-circles

Just fucking solid DM from beginning to end with more atmosphere than is customary for the genre.

funny you mention them, I got an email notification from bandcamp that they had a new album out but had no idea i was following them. good shit tho!

new Envy sounding grand on first listen

There's a new Nightwish track, and it's typically Nightwishy: catchy and quite full of itself. It's enjoyable in spite of the band's tendency to overreach conceptually on their albums. The new double album looks bonkers.

Sticking with Finland, there's a new Oranssi Pazuzu album coming out in April, which I (and many others) am super excited about.

The trailer sounds epiccc

I hadn't noticed there's a 20-minute new Panopticon song, on a particularly heartrending subject.

https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/runes-heart-from-split-with-nechochwen

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xp - that was a gut wrenching read.

oh man that story

There are five albums out this year that I like enough to buy thus far:

Frayle - 1692
Cleveland doom that embraces the Gothic side of the genre without sounding corny.
https://frayle.bandcamp.com/album/1692

God Dethroned - Illuminati
They've been hit or miss for me but this one has a great tone and killer riffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqk5XiwHm6U

Lotus Thief - Oresteia
Avant garde chamber doom from what was once a Botanist offshoot but is now it's own entity.
https://lotusthief.bandcamp.com/album/oresteia

Thy Catafalque - Naiv
Gorgeous combination of prog, folk, and experimental metal using extra-instrumentation to great effect.
https://thycatafalqueuk.bandcamp.com/album/naiv

Yatra - Blood of the Night
Better than the debut that I liked quite a bit; sinister blackened doom.
https://stbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blood-of-the-night

brand new death metal from Spain, seem to have good politics and m/f vocals

https://abisme.bandcamp.com/album/as-fear-falls-in

the new Napalm Death single sounds a little like Killing Joke to me.

Yeah, it's very KJ-ish, and the B-side is a Sonic Youth cover.

wow it really does sound like 'em and... where the heck did that come from!?

Chinese BM that incorporates elements of folk music:

https://vengefulspectre.bandcamp.com/album/vengeful-spectre

Russian BM for Mgła fans:

https://bloodreddistribution.bandcamp.com/album/black-stream

German blackened death with sludgy leanings:

https://horresque.bandcamp.com/releases

This is crazy good and fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctn14oYz0qA

The Bütcher album I mentioned upthread is really fucking good, actually, and I'm not even that huge a fan of their touchstones (speed, early black, thrash, a dash of NWOBHM).

deftones/gojira/poppy tour just announced, i'm goin'

Burning churches won't make that acne go away:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51457787

A member of a black metal band himself, Matthews told prosecutors he believed the acts would elevate his status.

Ok this Atavisma / Void Rot split fucking crushes it – cavernous death/doom as deep as the Lascaux complex, with some especially compelling drumming from Atavisma's G.D.:

https://everlastingspewrecords.bandcamp.com/album/split

New Lychgate EP

https://lychgate.bandcamp.com/album/also-sprach-futura

Really like the murky Metropolis-gone-wrong cover art

new Sepultura is pretty decent. obv they're never gonna reclaim their old days, but the riffs and songs are decent, drumming good too, and it's not lame-groove like the bits of the last one I heard.

still want them to all bury the damn hatchet but it ain't really fair to kick Derrick out of a band he's been in longer than Max.

With Max they recorded the absolute worst material of the band’s history and Soulfly has been unadulterated shit from the beginning so I don’t put much hope in Max making any difference. It’s not 1989 anymore, they should go wherever they want to go.

are you talking about Roots or all of the Max era?

Haha, Roots of course!

ok phew

I'd say it's worth cross-posting that Black Sabbath is 50 years old today and therefore metal as a whole.

Speaking of which, this book looks like it totally rules

https://fastnbulbous.com/the-birth-of-metal/

xxxpost although I wasn't a huge fan of the previous two, the latest Cavalera Conspiracy was basically the best Sepultura album since Chaos AD.

That does look pretty awesome.

xp

One of our own!

New Lychgate sounding awesome obv

All the Cavalera Conspiracy albums are good, but yeah, the most recent one was a big leap forward. Guest appearances from Justin Broadrick and Prurient, people!

Yeah, Popoff's 'Who Invented Heavy Metal?' is the best book on the origins of the genre that I have ever read. It spares no detail, and has interviews with pretty much every key figure. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Ritual raw atmo-black with psychedelic underpinnings. Echoes of early The Ruins of Beverast. This may well be my single favourite 2020 metal release so far:

https://fortressoftheoldendays.bandcamp.com

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58 minutes seems like at least 10 too many for a Kvelertak album but here we go

Black 'n' Roll, eh? Usually not my thing but I might give it a spin regardless.

FOTOD sounding absolutely magnificent! Thanks pom, love it when psych BM uses major chords as counterpoint /not a muso

I was hoping you'd check it out – glad to know that it's up your alley (and that my intuition was correct).

Good intuition. Considering how dismissive I am about most metal, this was indeed an excellent call. Ruins Of Beverast seems to have quietly started something rather wonderful in Germania

(see also: Forgotten Spell)

Do try the Nero di Marte as well if you haven't already. I liked it a bit less the second time around but there's a fluid, almost rhapsodic organicity to their sound that pulls me back. And given your fondness for theatrically-minded vocalists…

Shall do, thank you!

I love Ruins of Beverast but the title Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite has always given me uh pause

Need to check out their whole discography soon.

Nothing on FOTOD was as amazing as the opening title track, but a very effective little album

I'm sort of hot & cold on Isahn, but enjoying the new one this morning. Really heavy compared to past material I've heard.

I'm a long time fan of Kvelertak, and it's funny because I used to think the one-note screamy vocals were detrimental to their sound, but not feeling the new vocals so far, either.

As expected, the new Turia, Degen van licht, is absolutely phenomenal, even though it's not quite the masterpiece I was hoping for, at least not at first pass. Along with Onielar, T is the female metal vocalist I admire the most, and O, the guitarist, has struck a kind of blend between finespun medieval Mediterranean riffs (even more audible on his solo project, Iskandr), an airier tone that recalls post-rock's heyday, and drone-like, minimalist BM, with just enough variations to render the trance more trance-like. J's drumming is less immediately remarkable, but it's a perfect fit for the the rest of the trio. I can't imagine this not making my EOY top 20.

https://montturia.bandcamp.com/album/degen-van-licht

Oh, and on the dodgier end of things, Cénotaphe just dropped an LP that's hard to ignore if you're a French BM fan.

Sorry, it'll be out in March, but there are… other ways of hearing it.

Hell yeah to a new Turia! I loved Dede Kondre, can't wait to dig in. I agree that T is an amazing vocalist.

In other news, I should be all over the Godthrymm LP (feat. ex-members of Paradise Lost, Anathema, Solstice and Vallenfyre, among others), but Glencross's vocals rub me the wrong way.

I love Ruins of Beverast but the title Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite has always given me uh pause

you gotta sing it like you were Mel Torme

A drum solo from Mario Duplantier of Gojira:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjcavNCQ7dU

I miss working with those guys. They're awesome human beings. Really hoping for/looking forward to a new album this year.

I wasn't sure about that first Sightless Pit song but the other two tracks they've put out are really good.

Anyone else check out the Ihsahn EP?

Covering Iron Maiden and Lenny Kravitz (!) and both of them feature lots of horns!
It's kinda fun (and the three original songs are kinda good too).

It's pretty enjoyable, yeah. Oddly unambitious for a prog record but it works.

Just a heads up: this year's metal poll BADLY needs y'all to send in your ballots.

unperson, I know you don't usually vote, but your participation would be much appreciated.

Likewise those who usually do (I think) but haven't submitted a ballot yet, such as GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ and Brad, please vote!

This way, good people:

2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 21st of February)

And it goes without saying that lurkers would be most welcome.

i mos def submitted a ballot!! but i'll resubmit tonight.

Sorry, I wasn't sure – I presumed based on your absence from the campaigning thread, but I don't actually have access to submitted ballots.

yeah I'm bad at the campaigning part, sorry

i'll vote tomorrow i think

We're counting on you, Brad!

🤘 GO BRAD GO 🤘

\m/ Brad \m/

This is like potty training

lol, it's like you want them to shirk metal ballot duty.

Even if people dont vote they should participate in the rollout otherwise we would be just as well dumping the results in one go magazine list style. So everybody please participate in any way you can!

Only need to relisten to one more album! Will send ballot soon

🤘

ill be there. excited for this. i already knew a good amount of the albums that placed in the non metal poll so hoping to be surprised and put on to some new stuff in this one

This Ruin Lust track sounds great

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/ruin-lust-premiere/

that's pretty good!

the Witchbones guy dissolved that project and started a new, chaotic and downtuned black/death project:

https://omnikinetic.bandcamp.com/releases

of course i'm already lovin' the new raspberry bulbs

https://raspberrybulbs.bandcamp.com/releases

^ also belongs in the punk/non indie thread, but hey

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liking the new Demons and Wizards, though tbh it sounds less like DaW and more like Blind Guardian songwriting wise, lol.

occasionally Schaffer chugga chugga shows up, but he doesn't seem to like to play those as much these days even on Iced Earth albums.

I like this nerd shit.

This Sightless Pit album rules. If you dug the Bufurd/Walker collabs on Caligula, you’ll love this.

2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock/Heavy Music Poll: RESULTS - Top 100 Countdown

Lurker Of Chalice early demo comp coming on NWN next month

https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/tellurian-slaked-furnace

Fuck yes! The Lurker of Chalice s/t is in my top 5 BM albums of all time.

Yay! More money for Jef Whitehead!

Yeah, did not mean to celebrate that, or him.

Who said anything about giving him money?

Weedian had a couple suggestions that I really ended up digging, the new Yuri Gagarin LP The Outskirts of Reality and the debut self titled EP by Fuzzriders. The latter sounds like a solid attempt at a desert stoner rock knockoff, the former like Acid Mothers Temple before the drugs kick in fully.

Ooooohh

I am going to go to a "slam DM" show on Wed cos why not and I like Visceral Disgorge but I simultaneously think slam death is a blight on death metal.

is it worse than deathcore?

As this thread's token slam/broooootal death metal fan, I gotta say slam rules. (I don't like Visceral Disgorge as much as some other bands, but their last album is fun.) I buy albums all the time on Bandcamp based on cover art alone; they're all half an hour long, they all sound basically the same, and they're exactly what I need them to be.

Slam's not among my favourite metal subgenres but it's magnitudes more interesting and listenable than deathcore.

Are there any female slam bands?

Slam seems to be about as inclusive as pornogrind.

by design?

This Modarin record is pretty good, too. One man black metal project from Germany, the dude is 21 and shares a birthday with my ex wife. It's not so self-conscious as to be tr00 kvlt bullshit, it's kind of nice to get that kind of honesty out of a black metal band these days.

http://modarin.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-distance

Nice, will check it out! I wonder if this is yet another in the Beverast tradition...

New Five Finger Death Punch album on Friday...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwroUDmB6wI

Ew

Decided I'm going to this. You should come too.

Migration Fest returns to Mr. Smalls in Pittsburgh, PA from July 31st to August 2nd, 2020. This marks the 3rd installment of the biennial festival and also celebrates 15 years of existence for both 20 Buck Spin and Gilead Media. Nothing about this year’s lineup should come as a huge surprise to anyone that follows the festival curators as Migration Fest stands as family reunion of sorts for label bands. The lineup also currently features 6 bands whom appear on the Decibel Magazine list of top 40 albums of 2019.

Migration Fest III lineup so far:

Black Magnet
Buildings
Buried At Sea
Cavernlight
Couch Slut
Daeva
Falls of Rauros
False
Immortal Bird
Imperial Triumphant
Kowloon Walled City
Krallice
Mizmor
Nightfell
Obsequiae
Ruin Lust
Skeleton
Spirit Adrift
Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle
Tomb Mold
Ulthar
Vastum
Witch Vomit
Yautja
Yellow Eyes

Pretty good lineup!

I was hunting for the best metal/punk fest lineup at a city/area I could access by bus without too much hassle, and this one won pretty easily.

If I wasn't already doing three festivals, incl one in Philly in April, this might be on my list.

Some of these bands outright never make it to FL. esp Krallice

$140 isn't bad tho

Speaking of Gilead Media, it's time to buy some music:

HOUSE CLEANING / NEW RELEASE PREPARATION

We have a handful of releases to send off to the plant, which means we need to make some room and pad up the bank account to pay some bills and move things along. So we're having one of our most extensive sales ever.

Typically label releases within a certain period are exempt, but this time everything is included except pre-orders. That means some of 2019's best black metal records are up for sale at 22% off, alongside the rest of our in-stock label catalog and a number of distro items we found and added to the store.

Head over to our website or bandcamp now to take advantage of the sale. The sale will run throughout February.

Visit Gileadmedia.net where the 22% discount will be applied automatically at checkout.

Visit gileadmedia.bandcamp.comwhere you must enter housecleaning for every item as you add it to your cart.

If I wasn't already doing three festivals, incl one in Philly in April, this might be on my list.

Yup!

New to me, Revenant Marquis Youth in Ribbons is rather enticing. Lo-fi BM - at times merely M w/ some wailing, sounding like it's coming from an empty water tank - aimless and sinister in how messy it is. I like it. Good cover, too. bandcamp

In his/their (?) own words, as if already chalked up for next years Metal poll roll-out:

Once more Revenant Marquis returns from the sequestered black waters of Wales with Youth In Ribbons - a long play collection of raw black metal necromancy that serves to bring the tortured, the forgotten, and the abused back from choking abyss. There is no space for hope or light in this assembly of rituals, as the listener must break bread with the maligned forces that lurk eternally waiting for granted passage. This is not music, but rather a pact between the listener, and the spectral realm.

Sounds cool. I'll have quite a bit of catching up to do after the 2019 poll.

So now there's a black metal "supergroup" called Blasphamagoatachrist (members of Blasphemy, Goatpenis, and Antichrist), a name so stupid, the publicist couldn't even spell it right in the email subject line, where it's rendered as BLASPHAMAGAGOATACHRIST.

Kiss the ga-goat

they added a MAGA where none existed. bad form.

They missed the obvious comedy gold of Christpenis

BLOATCHRENIS would have gotten all of 'em in much less painfully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XSl8reBmeA&t=214s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XSl8reBmeA

Swedish 70s-style doom that I discovered by just clicking on it because I liked the name. Fucking great.

https://nightchyldeofficial.bandcamp.com/album/flight-of-the-black-swan

Blasphamagoatachrist

blasphamajehoshaphatagoatachrist

is that the Big Pun skit

Dude from Tchornobog has a solo doom project called Drown, the new album Subaqueous is pretty good. Name Your Price on BC, or you can get both his albums and a hand painted underwater landscape for $62.

https://markovsoroka.bandcamp.com/album/subaqueous

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bernelius/bernelius-grave-dancer-on-vinyl

^ This Finnish one man band made a surprisingly fun deathrock/boogie/stoner album, and he wants to put it out on vinyl, and I want him to put it out on vinyl. It's on Spotify and Bandcamp, too, if you want to check it out (Bernelius - Grave Dancer), then maybe pledge for the vinyl so I can get my copy too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdlPg33com4

Featuring everyone's favourite metal musician Lingua Ignota, and spanning nine tracks of proggy, sludgy post-medievalism, here is PSALM ZERO.

https://psalmzero.bandcamp.com/album/sparta

The whole album is on Spotify

I interviewed all three members of Sightless Pit — Lingua Ignota, the dude from Full of Hell, and the dude from The Body — for the current issue of The Wire (Oneohtrix Point Never cover).

Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum are apparently releasing a split triple LP, which is very on brand for both bands, but also, lollllllllll split triple LP

There's an awesome new Violet Cold album. Awesome if you don't mind lots of broken shards of other things in your one-man Azeri black metal, at least.

https://open.spotify.com/album/68YTkekCQT3joyJtpPTV4d?si=pipnL8pLTgysHl8ONtvkOg

Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum are apparently releasing a split triple LP

has this *ever* been done before? hilarious.

new Fluisteraars sounding really good, also can we have more sub-40 minute BM albums?

more metal albums under 40 minutes generally would be great

less than 30 is fine w/me

yeah. those are my fav.

I actually got through all of the latest Blood Incantation driving back from the doctor today, that was cool.

from last year, but 12/20 so it was practically 2020....but I'm really digging Mephistofele's "Satan Sex Ceremonies".

yeah, they're definitely riding in the Electric Wizard-y 70s evil doom lane, but hey I'll always take more of that.

new Fluisteraars sounding really good, also can we have more sub-40 minute BM albums?

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, March 2, 2020 4:50 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Otm, it is really good! Expected nothing less, they don't disappoint.

One of those BM bands doing zero innovating, simply delivering wonderful atmosphere and deeply pleasing chord progressions.

Absolutely, they're so consistent and just deliver the goods every time. When you hear those first chord progressions on a new album it's just like a warm bath: 'Ahh, so glad they're back'.

some very weird and wild saxophone-and-grand-piano-heavy black metal from Sweden here -- ferocious and creative, great stuff

https://seedsinbarrenfields.bandcamp.com/album/s-nger-som-r-mnar?fbclid=IwAR0R8KvT-226Xtn96bQmyG4miarmo5mkJj26G6pLfZjh9nhPXauKLkX0iF0

hello

The Sightless Pit album is very very good. Will check out any metal album with saxophone, btw

wow i really love this seeds in barren fields album thank you joan

yet another metal album under 40 minutes

Will check out any metal album with saxophone

This has been true for me since I first heard The Painter's Palette in high school

right now metal with trumpet is where it's at. count me in the Fluisteraars praise

sorry, no trumpet, but here's new Ulcerate track from their upcoming album:
https://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/track/stare-into-death-and-be-still

my favorite of the technical death metal bands (non-Gorguts division)

Is there trumpet on the fluisteraar?

yes! celestial twinklings also have been heard, and a vocalist anouncing it by perfectly executing the Dave Wyndorf aaaahhhhhhh: Nasleep. metal soundtracking blossoming is my thing now. in love w this rec

Speaking of celestial twinklings, here's an advance track for the new Lustre album, scheduled for April 24.

This time they've got a full band lineup and gone full-on prog metal with operatic vocals and blastbeats and...ah who am I kidding it sounds exactly the same as ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw4Ldo1P0zA

i never count out lustre, although in terms of 'weird ambient synth metal siegbran brought to ilm that i now religiously listen to' nothing will ever beat moldova's finest

I loved the last three Ulcerate albums. This song sounds great and has me really excited for the release. I am also really hoping they do a tour date in my city. They're a bucket list show for me.

this is my shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkO_SAa07zI

It's really nice to have Green Carnation back making new music.

https://youtu.be/X0BD5KGuZ1M

oh wow! always loved those guys. I need more good wimp metal in my life

this sounds promising so far

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/stream-post-metal-trio-psychonauts-new-album-unfold-the-god-man/

And I continue to enjoy the hell out of this run of Body Count albums.

I'll get to it after the new My Dying Bride but liked the last BC a lot

It's more of the same (including a few clunkers as usual), which is fine by me

The BC?

The new Body Count is really good. This is my favorite track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSfHqY2vi_g

FIRE

The new Fluisteraars comes with horns and split-second glitched-up vocals and it reframes blackgaze beyond its usual bag of tricks so I don't think it's fair to say there's no innovation involved at all.

Polish ritual sludge with a post-rock slant, a smattering of kraut, avant, folk/jazz elements, echoes of Fushitsusha and… ah fuck it, just follow this link, it's one of the best metal albums to have come out this year:

https://dola.bandcamp.com/releases

^^^ that's great! first track didn't really grab me but as the album goes on it gets more trippy and interesting.

A fair assessment.

rolling metal 2020 with trumpet: Kelly Conlon plays trumpet in the new Azure Emote. wasn't, iirc, one of our own, who while reviewing their record before, wisely encouraged them to trim some fat ffs? they didn't read. not listening to this again, i think. trumpet is fine tho

cave goons, get in here now:

https://sentientdivide.bandcamp.com/album/haunted-by-cruelty

these trumpet-metal records y'all mention ... are they jazzy? i'm jonesing for some slightly jazzy new metal

The Fluisteraars? Not especially, no.

This, on the other hand:

https://souphl.bandcamp.com/album/comm-rages

xp

the Azure Emote def has some jazz fusions leanings. i found the record a bit overblown, but ymmv

cave goons, get in here now:

oh hell yeah, good looking out

new Vredehammer is some solid meathead metal

The new Fluisteraars comes with horns and split-second glitched-up vocals and it reframes blackgaze beyond its usual bag of tricks so I don't think it's fair to say there's no innovation involved at all.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Saturday, March 7, 2020 11:46 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is totally fair. My 'they do what they do so fucking good' wasn't meant to imply they aren't innovating!

I'm down with that Dola album, damn.

For sure, I was belatedly responding to Simon.

the Sightless Pit album goes great with watching the stock market shit itself

What’s a good Ulcerate song/album to start with?

The Sigtless Pit and the Vladislav Delay really fit the mood of these days

What’s a good Ulcerate song/album to start with?

The last album, Shrines of Paralysis, is the best one so far imho

The track “Cold Becoming” from “Destroyers of All” is my pick. It’s an utterly ferocious track that elevates to another level when it eventually gets to where it’s going. File under involuntary head-banging.

Another vote for Destroyers of All here

Tom Gabriel Fischer posted this cover image on FB earlier today. Can't wait.

https://scontent.fewr1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/89787678_3282932608388356_5852964406291333120_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_oc=AQlbmAHAEPEjYGDTDo00W7A6R2wghXXZr334-26DbVtqkgn9bo0dhW_oYUuQKkQ_YGU&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-3.fna&oh=ce4f4c8c1ee1c1bfd920873a9a2c48f3&oe=5E914F5B

Super stoked for that, even though I read it as the Metropolis Corkfest at first.

YES

That's awesome.

Official announcement just hit my inbox:

Swiss avant-garde extreme metal band Triptykon are pleased to announce their highly anticipated release of Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) opus on May 15th, 2020 via Prowling Death Records / Century Media Records worldwide. The release will be available for pre-order in various formats starting March 20th, 2020.

Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) marks the bombastic conclusion of a project over 30 years in the making: The legendary Celtic Frost/Triptykon "Requiem" performed for the first time in its entirety and with full classical orchestration by the Dutch Metropole Orkest.

"We are truly, deeply delighted to be able to have been granted the opportunity to finish this unique project begun by Celtic Frost so many years ago, and to finally share the completed recording with the world," Tom Gabriel Warrior states about the release. "This album is the result of two years of passionate work, and it marks the conclusion of a musical idea first considered over three decades ago. Moreover, this Requiem also represents drummer Hannes Grossmann's first recording with Triptykon, and we are very proud to feature him in such an extraordinary context. It was an incredible honour to collaborate with the Metropole Orkest, conductor Jukka Iisakkila, guest vocalist Safa Heraghi, and the esteemed Roadburn festival. In fact, there couldn't have been a better partner for the "Requiem" project than Roadburn. We are releasing this Requiem album in memoriam of our deeply missed friends and collaborators Martin Eric Ain and HR Giger."

Requiem (46:00 min.) is composed of three chapters:
1. "Rex Irae" (06:34 min.) (First appeared on 1987's "Into The Pandemonium" album by Celtic Frost)
2. "Grave Eternal" (32:28 min.) (Newly written middle part)
3. "Winter" (06:54 min.) (First appeared on 2006's "Monotheist" album by Celtic Frost)

This unique and groundbreaking release is available in the following formats:

- Special Edition CD + DVD Mediabook
- Ltd. Gatefold LP + DVD (With LP-Booklet and 2x poster)
Unlimited black 180g. vinyl and selected ltd. coloured editions!
- Standard CD Jewelcase
- Ltd. Deluxe Artbook with coloured LP + CD + DVD + coloured 7Inch (With bonus track, score book of 60 pages, 3x poster, artprint and photocard)
- Digital album

Hannes Grossmann's an amazing drummer; really looking forward to this. I don't think I need anything but the CD, but I might be convinced to buy the CD/DVD version.

ahhh fuck yeah!!!!

Oh wow!

Soooooo Exhorder. Not sure who's a fan but they fired Vinnie a while back.

They didn't hire a touring guitarist and so the remaining guy is carrying the load. It's not good.

My first time seeing these guys and they sound thin and weak. All solos over a bass guitar, guitar swallowed by bass and drums. Kyle has been in Trouble so long he thinks he's Eric Wagner now

I got bored two songs in.

The last album, Shrines of Paralysis, is the best one so far imho

actually i deleted this : /

Technical death but not overbrutal, only one song but it sounds good. And that cover!

https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/visitations-from-enceladus

Love that Triptykon cover.

Not surprised, but bummer to see Seattle and SF stops on the Decibel Magazine Tour have been cancelled. Guessing they won't be the last.

I feel fortunate to have attended the Cult of Luna/Emma Ruth Rundle/Intronaut show in SF on Monday night. Something tells me it’ll be my last show for a while and all three acts were great.

Damn, would've loved to attend that gig.

I've found it hard to tear myself away from both the new Fluisteraars and Turia records, but if your want is an ice cold Ukranian atmospheric black metal riffage fest about Northern (not Nordic) mythology and a melancholic sehnsucht for lost romantic times when nature reigneth, I'll gladly point you all towards the fine fellows of YGG's The Last Scald. Includes a 'vargan', a mouth harp!

https://ashen-dominion.bandcamp.com/album/ygg-the-last-scald

Very much agreed.

\m/

melodic but bleak af bm from january:

https://nimbifer.bandcamp.com/album/demo-ii

also i fucking love that revenant marquis album someone mentioned upthread. it's most of the best things black metal can be imo

You're on board! Awesome, it's so great.

And there it is, the entirety of the Decibel Tour canceled.

40 more dollars to me to spend on what i need at the grocery store.

Endless rolls of toilet paper, I assume.

i'm just shitting into a vaccuum cleaner, cutting out the middle man

Watch the placement and suction level lest you end up looking like a goregrind album cover

Decibel's annual Metal & Beer Fest has been "postponed indefinitely" due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

I was just chatting with Albert yesterday and he thought it wouldn't affect the Fest.
Funny how fast things are changing.

I know there's a lot bigger things impacted and people are dying so it's hard to get too upset, but this is the first thing other than sports that touched me personally. I hope it's the last but probably not... :(

yeah :( . I understand why it was done, but shows and fests are one of the few social activities I have besides theatre that actually engage me. I've made a ton of friends in the scene over the years, and in the last few months, it's been one of the few things that's relieved me from severe anxiety. I often use them to motivate me to get through the week.

I know it's the right move, but being that I'm probably going to lose the Orlando Fringe this year too...it's really hard to lose my social outlets, the ones that actually work.

personal corny melodjent faves Caligula's Horse have a new one on the way, RIYL Steven Wilson etc.

https://youtu.be/dNc5PT645sU

Ooh nice, I really dug that last Caligua's Horse album.

new Code Orange is a blast so far

also out today, new Ruin Lust (mem. Yellow Eyes/Vanum/Anicon). nasty no fuss blackened death stuff.

also also a 78-minute (?!?!) new Huntsmen album if you like some Americana in yr metal

as is the two-hour Spectral Lore/Mare Cognitum split+collab but that doesn't appear to be on streaming services yet.

it's on bandcamp
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wanderers-astrology-of-the-nine

ah, it was listed but not streaming on a different bandcamp page. thanks!

this is neat:

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/code-orange-cancel-release-show-but-theyre-livestreaming-it-from-an-empty-venue/

I fucking hate that bands will have to "innovate" to get by but so it goes

fuck. I have a feeling we'll be seeing a LOT of this:

https://www.metalinsider.net/news/insomnium-and-omnium-gatherum-north-american-tour-cancelled?fbclid=IwAR3dmzLhAhPgwXHCvokaAiieCX3KK2zZ5Q5uCCIM_YppyqiuEcvafzTp8fU

not the cancellation, but the financial ruin

Gonna end up buying a lot of band merch with my travel refunds.

that's a thing I already do. but if they put up Gofundmes I might go that route

I'm really enjoying this new gothic symphonic metal album Worlds, by the French band Fourth Circle:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2CuDTHaPofIqYTy2UZYkUR?si=KSqSDHAqQXCBDf2DnfJpPw

French band Pénitence Onirique used to be a duo but are now a 6-piece and released their second one in December 2019 - cold & melodic black metal (I'm still listening to their debut V.I.T.R.I.O.L a lot)

https://penitence-onirique.bandcamp.com/

Kristin Hayter of Lingua Ignota needs back surgery and her income (touring) has basically stopped, so Bandcamp/Profound Lore has agreed to shift the proceeds from her Bandcamp page over to her directly instead of to the label, according to Sargent House. Now is the time to buy that tarot card jacket if you were eyeing it.

Oh no. Thanks for the heads up.

New demo from a North Carolina band

https://ralenc.bandcamp.com/album/2020-demo

Nothing-new death metal but I love the raw, wide open production and they play pretty ferociously.

Deathwish offering straight-to-the-artist PWYC prices on a bunch of releases:

https://deathwishinc.com/blogs/news/support-our-touring-bands

Really digging this new EP from Sutrah right now. Pretty chill prog tech with eastern flourishes.

https://sutrahmetal.bandcamp.com/album/aletheia

Seconded.

finnish black metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7o0ZjU5s-8

The new new ep from Orm is very good. 20 minutes of black metal, and yes, it includes a long coda with trumpets. For fans of Møl and Solbrud.

This Orm isn't in any way related to the character from Norsemen?

It just means 'worm' in Danish / Norwegian

They should do a split with Cheep.

has anyone listened yet to Robert Andersson's new band Sweven? The Eternal Resonance out next friday (Ván Records)

When it was decided to put Morbus Chron to rest, I had begun working on what was originally supposed to be our third record. It has been a strenuous battle stretching from then to now. It is time to leave the trenches.

the advance track, Mycelia is stellar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7atkNuadaE

Nice. But probably better to stay in the trench for the moment.

The Korgonthurus album is the perfect soundtrack for when you're trapped at home with 2 kids running and screaming everywhere.

I liked the last Huntsmen record a lot but the new one is sadly an overblown, overlong dud. The epitome of bloat.

That's too bad, I was looking forward to it.

Other ppl have reacted a lot more positively than I tbf

came out a few months ago, but while I've always liked Midnight, this might be their best. the hooks are so much sharper.

live, they put on a hell of a show too, though be a long time before we see that again.

New Behold The Arctopus album in June. Press release contains the following fascinating (to me anyway) quote from the band:

"The 7th Behold the Arctopus recording, Hapeleptic Overtrove is imminent! This time, the band teams up with Willowtip, P2, and Denses(s) for what will be our most extreme, unique, and controversial album. Colin Marston (Warr guitar) and Mike Lerner (guitar guitar) are joined by drummer Jason Bauers (previously of Psyopus), who has brought his experience with classical percussion to the table, allowing the drums to become another melodic voice, rather than just a metric skeleton. For the new compositions, inspiration was drawn from the non-traditional setup of English free jazz drummer Tony Oxley, and the percussion music of 20th century composers Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varese, and Elliott Carter. The drum kit for the new album removes extreme metal's constant harsh static wash by deleting all hi-hats, crashes, and ride cymbals, replacing them with almglocken, wooden plank, metal pipe, broken stacks, and bell/chimes. Sticks are replaced by mallets, and, more importantly, the function of the drums is no longer to play 'beats.' Instead the drums take on a role more similar to the guitars, resulting in a sound closer to chamber music than rock.

Is anyone else tired of how painfully slow metal has evolved recently compared to how quickly innovations occurred at the end of the last century? Think about how drastic and surprising changes were in the 5 years between 1988 and 1993, versus how stagnant metal between 2015 - 2020 has been. On Hapeleptic Overtrove, Behold the Arctopus shows the utmost respect for the true spirit of extreme metal: a musical world that should challenge the audience to listen to and think about things in new ways, while reveling in mystery, surprise and excess which is simultaneously baroque and primitive."

I've listened to Tony Oxley a lot, mostly playing with Bill Dixon and/or Cecil Taylor, so this concept is fascinating to me.

that appears to be exciting yes

The past 2 times I've seen them they've done a setup similar to this and it was awesome both times. The drums look and sound wild. I thought Cognitive Emancipation was awesome but I'm even more excited for this one.

holy fuck, the Oath of Cruelty album that dropped last year.

some of the most inspired death/thrash (a la old Kreator) I've heard in ages.

Is anyone else tired of how painfully slow metal has evolved recently compared to how quickly innovations occurred at the end of the last century? Think about how drastic and surprising changes were in the 5 years between 1988 and 1993, versus how stagnant metal between 2015 - 2020 has been.

i understand this coming from BtA camp is surely intended with good spirits (that's how i've read it). beeing myself a post-Reign In Blood kind of guy (cf. that Siegbran post on that thread) i totally agree with the 88-93 timespan innovations the pr is goin for. best of times

otoh to some extent, that specific romanticised rearview look always rub me the wrong way. cause, yeah i remember 93, real metal dudes goin' batshit crazy about entombed and pestilence and obituary and (...) for !selling out! and not doin it anymore like they used to do in 89. reactionary times at its most close-minded. and oh have you heard of those norway dudes doin't it by the true spirit of extreme metal? ime, also the worst of times i had as metal goes
soon you either had to go full metallica/megadeth/pantera or full blasphemy/beherit/brzm. i def don't miss those days. instead of a hard-edged canon, there was then a two-headed stupid canon. almost no middle ground for the outsiders . in fact that made me quit everything metal related for some time. attending shows, drmn', managing, zinetrading, i'm out. [/bitter]

i guess, my point beeing, there was close to none audience ready to be chalenged in 93 by an extreme metal rec inspired by the works of Tony Oxley (by then, good luck to you heading to a metal label w a diferent notion of metal drumming). i do remember ppl pissing on pestilence because of... jazz drums?
in that sense it's better now

tl;dr - always ready for a new BtA

I mean, in the early days of metal, it was easier to break new ground because there was a smaller width to the genre then. there's still room for experimentation and innovation, but sometimes it comes across more subtle than when you had a band like Suffocation showing up in the 90s sounding like nothing you'd ever heard before.

there's still room for experimentation and innovation

sure is. since we're on Colin-band-topic, take new Krallice song for evidence. they're still goin' at it

have you heard the new Sweven, Neanderthal? (not sure if you were into Morbus Chron, btw) amazing record

I was into Morbus Chron! haven't heard Sweven yet but it's on my list.

while we're on it I'll just post the track they released. this is basically what the live show was like too, pretty darn rad. I love Krallice and the new song but this feels particularly exciting and different

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Y-t7jHHgE

^ compulsively listening

guess i'll just get rid of some cymbals now

Go the other way, replace your kicks with gongs, fight the system

I like the Meth Leppard from this year. 2 piece grind.

no bass

Old Man Gloom surprise-dropped another album besides the one they already announced, because of course they did.

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/seminar-ix-darkness-of-being

Re: experimentalism in metal. As with genre fiction, I prefer bands that aim for slight tweaks rather than those hellbent on tearing down the edifice and rebuilding it from the ground up, mostly because the latter approach is more interesting (to me) when the trappings of 'genre' are jettisoned altogether.

Yea me too

10/10 band name, music sounds pretty good too:

https://feminazgul.bandcamp.com/album/no-dawn-for-men

I actually like the new Huntsmen? I mean, it's double the length I like a metal/rock album to be, but there's some really awesome passages in it.

some of the other Bandcamp stuff I got is only aight.

New Ruins of Beverast coming up, a split with Mourning Beloveth. Here's a sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAP2CWGEEmA

new Hail Spirit Noir announced, yay

https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/eden-in-reverse

no samples yet

yessss, their last album was incredible

It really was! I loved the blend of prog and weird.

this Jordablod album is crazy. well except the second song where they just straightforward muscle-flex trad BM, they're not that

they're so awesöme when they sound like The Birthday Party thump on a séance. no shame, i guess. plus there are riffs here sounding like The fuckin Gun Club screwing Bathory's Hades. effortlessly. they're from Malmöe (lol, of course). also, svrf metal

https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/jordablod-the-cabinet-of-numinous-song

I like the latest On Thorns I Lay, even if some of it seems like 90s My Dying Bride-lite (no pummeling death riffs like MDB, but the violin is reminiscent).

new Okkultokrati song sounded good. nastier production, a d-beat number now expanded w more synth. a good look, imo. looking forward for the album in May

https://okkultokratisl.bandcamp.com/album/la-ilden-lyse

this new King Buffalo record is awesome. Real mix of styles ... Second track sounds like Screaming Trees, I mean it could be a track off 'Dust'.. Other stuff has the obvious Sleep influence but that is never a bad thing. Lots of cool twin guitar parts at times (even though i think they are a 3 piece}. And one cool track that kind of jumps on this AOR resurgence a la Aktor

https://kingbuffalo.bandcamp.com/

xp: Hell yeah. Love the new song. I've been thinking of them as "arena d-beat" for a while now.

agreed. there's kind of an anthemic flair in evidence, yeah

Any Morbus Chron fans here? Their two albums were among the best psych/prog/DM/thrash of the last decade. They’re dunzo but Robert Andersson has regrouped as Sweven and they’re phenomenal. I’m only 2 tracks into The Eternal Resonance but I’m hearing Blood Incantation spaghetti psych vibes and some Tribulation, too.

It didn't bowl me over as promised by a host of reviewers (something to do with the vocals – I need to hear it again to put my finger on it) but it's worth it for the ambition alone.

I read that way too fast and thought you had compared the new record to The Spaghetti Incident? and was wondering why that was a good thing

Xpost

You know, I don't think I've ever heard a G'n'R song from beginning to end.

Anyway, get yr Icelandic avant-doomy one-man BM right here:

https://sjalfsmordafgaleysi.bandcamp.com

If ever you do, avoid the Spaghetti Incident.
And, now once through the Sweven album, it’s better than I’d hoped. Funny you don’t like the vocals as I’m a sucker for that Schuldiner, Cavalera-type clean yell style and this album delivers just that.

I am too, it just didn't fully work on me at first pass. I need to spend more time with it.

Any Morbus Chron fans here? Their two albums were among the best psych/prog/DM/thrash of the last decade. They’re dunzo but Robert Andersson has regrouped as Sweven and they’re phenomenal. I’m only 2 tracks into The Eternal Resonance but I’m hearing Blood Incantation spaghetti psych vibes and some Tribulation, too.

― Yelploaf, Thursday, March 26, 2020 8:06 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh shit this was the news i needed!!!

Just relistened to the Sweven – the hypesters were right.

New Ulcerate album in about four weeks. Two songs have been released so far, one just yesterday. They're very Ulcerate-y (as is the album) They're no longer on Relapse; they're on Debemur Morti now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohk73dP1voE

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

New Mamaleek out for those who care about such things:

https://mamaleek.bandcamp.com/

The only two mentions above of the new Kvelertak are negative but I enjoyed the one listen I gave it on Spotify just now. Will have to give it a few more listens before I decide to buy it but my initial impression was still better than I expected.

Since I am not writing anymore but still getting promos, I am listening to everything and trashing almost all of it. A few things that I did like and are on my Amazon Wish List (i.e. things I will try and buy on physical format at some point) include:

Eye Flys - Tub of Lard (Thrill Jockey Records)
Philadelphia AmRep/Melvins worship featuring dudes from bands including Full of Hell. Debut LP after an EP and both are quite tasty.

Frayle - 1692 (Aqualamb Records / Lay Bare Recordings)
Cleveland doom metal with female lead vocals that carry some solid melodies.

God Dethroned - Illuminati (Metal Blade)
I think this album from the hit-or-miss death metallers is more of a hit.

Human Impact - Human Impact (Ipecac Recordings)
New York noise veterans (Swans, Cop Shoot Cop) are far more melodious than some might expect, but I expect that was the whole point.

Hyborian - Vol. II (Season of Mist)
Those who miss the old days of Baroness need look no further.

Ihsahn - Telemark (Nuclear Blast)
I like the covers which apparently puts me in the minority. But I like the originals as well.

Insect Ark - The Vanishing (Profound Lore Records)
Pedal steel drenched in reverb may as well be deemed post-psych rock.

Lili Refrain - ULU (Subsound)
One-woman project from Italy, one 22+ minute song of live experimentation.

Lotus Thief - Osteria (Prophecy Productions)
Like a metallic Dead Can Dance with vestiges of the project's birth as a Botanist side project still intact.

Psychonaut - Unfold the God Man (Pelagic Records)
Belgian post-rock with a palpable classic rock reference.

Riot - Rock World (Rare & Unreleased 87-95) (Metal Blade)
Truth in advertising, rare and unreleased gems from Riot's Thundersteel period.

Sightless Pit - Grave of a Dog (Thrill Jockey Records)
Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota) teams up with Lee Buford (The Body) and Dylan Walker (Full of Hell)? Yes, please.

Smoulder - Deam Ends Quest (Cruz del Sur Music)
Canadian female-led trad metal. Only an EP with some demo tracks but the killer verison of "Cage of Mirrors" by Manilla Road warrants inclusion.

Thy Catafalque - Naiv (Season of Mist)
Everything this band does is siomply stunning.

Tombs - Monarchy of Shadows (Relapse Records)
Blackened post-punk? Sure, why not.

Yatra - Blood of the Night (STB Records)
Baltimore sludge that is a big improvement on a debut I kinda liked.

Sorry if this is boring to anyone. I am cooped up and had some time to kill.

On my "they didn't send me promos but I want to check them out" list is the new Myrkur and the Nechochwen / Panopticon split. I usually don't care about splits but I really love both of those bands so an exception may be made.

(I also plan on running through this thread for streaming goodness.)

I like Tombs generally; I liked Human Impact more than I thought I would ("Unsane goes postpunk/industrial" was my short take); I profiled Sightless Pit for The Wire and like the album, although I doubt I'll listen to it again; I lost track of Ihsahn several years ago but am willing to at least give his new stuff a listen.

I haven't been in much of a metal mood lately. Something about my emotional landscape and general state of mind is pulling me toward jazz and dub and some techno here and there. But I enjoyed guitarist Christian Muenzner's new album, which is absurdly shreddy. I reviewed it here.

tomb > tombs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaGZQV8GA-U

i will probably never love another tombs record as much as 'path of totality' but it's good to hear what they're up to

I needed some ignorant assed shit so I bought the new Deranged. gonna give it a spin.

btw thanks for posting that B, definitely have so much time I'm looking to find more stuff to listen to

NYCNative the Nechochwen/Panopticon split is fantastic, if you have kids make sure you're in a good place before listening to the Panopticon side though.

Lucifer III is in my wheelhouse.

I think the hooks are stronger than the previous album. it's not the debut, but I can listen to this shit all day.

i think it's their best yet?

It is really good.

Thanks for that Jordablod link ^^^ enjoyed it greatly.

good review unperson, agree with your take.

I gravitate towards the first one due to its doominess, but this one definitely has more immediacy over the previous album.

I love occult rock so this shit is always in my wheelhouse. Sadonis is a powerhouse vocally too.

new Serpent Column EP

https://serpentcolumn.bandcamp.com/album/endless-detainment

are folks into this envy album or no

it's good as hell. talked about it on the emo thread some, since they're always a little screamo adjacent

i like it but tbh feel kind of exhausted by the end? i wish they didn't try to sustain these emotional peaks for so long and back to back to back, like a hundred peaks in a direct row feels like flat ground. but idk i guess that's why i'm not a screamo fan

Holy crap the Panopticon track, Rune's Heart, and the story behind it.

idk if dungeon synth is welcome here but the druadan forest track (and only the druadan forest track) on this 3 way split rules
some hearts of space type of shit
https://antiqofficial.bandcamp.com/album/kingdoms-long-gone

also wow @ that Seeds in Barren Fields album O_O

i love when things that sound that frenzied and chaotic also sound crisp and detailed

AOTY https://bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/three-knee-deep

good stuff thx

The Sweven album is impressive on first listen. There's so much in there, I'm wondering what's going to wind up sticking.

xps

yeah, good review unperson. good piece on the Mythic Sunship, too

Listened to the Seeds in Barren Fields album last night. Holy f*ck -- amazing! Roxymuzak is totally on the money about the production. Clear separation of the guitars, with no extraneous murk detracting from the individual lines and their interplay. I wish more black/death metal was produced like this. The guitar tone is plenty dirty, but the recording of that tone is pristine, if that makes sense. Beautiful.

The new Afterbirth album is so fucking good. Genuinely weird, hybrid art-death; sometimes it sounds like Suffocation, other times like Krallice, other times like Astronoid. I just wrote a long review that'll be on Burning Ambulance on Friday. This is one of the best death metal records of the year.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1320487242_10.jpg

https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/four-dimensional-flesh

We agree on something metal-related for once. Look forward to reading the review.

ooooh

I like this song from Jacob Bannon's new supergroup...a lot.

https://youtu.be/EFj4u_Tt_ek

🤯

also have we mentioned there's a new Pyrrhon out in June? there's a new Pyrrhon out in June.

https://youtu.be/rtUpHSLbllM

I finally checked out the Fluisteraars record that a handful of people praised above. Totally agreed that it is beautiful and lush and dar say a little innovative (or at least unique).

This isn't exactly good but I was expecting worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ApQGcxgqc

3/4 of Kill The Client, one of the greatest US grind bands ever, are back as Triage. They have a s/t album out digitally, with a promise of physical CDs to come someday.

https://triage666.bandcamp.com

Oh nice. KTC were great

Black/doom with a crusty vibe to it

https://vualhate.bandcamp.com/album/to-end-all-life

personally don't dig the vocal distortion effect they use relentlessly but still good stuff.

For today's Rolling Metal 2020 version of "What are you listening to?", I'm starting out every WFH day first by waking up with some mellow new age-y synth music (e.g., Chi Factory, Suzanne Ciani, M. Geddes Gengras), then after morning coffee/team meeting going straight into Fluisteraars's "Bloem", followed by Mgła's "Age of Excuse", which for some reason is really resonating with me right now (I've never cared for anything else by them). Then, depending on mood, some Old Man Gloom, Human Impact, Ulcerate, or Sweven (hard disagree with negative opinions about the singer's voice which seems to me to have improved over time).

In the afternoon I've been listening to a lot of Intronaut's "Fluid Existential Inversions", (which I didn't care for compared to their earlier work on the first few listens, but I'm pretty hooked on now). And pretty much everything by Elder who I hadn't really heard much of 'til recently, so I'm enjoying catching up on their earlier stuff.

This morning I had to go out to do laundry, which takes about two hours. I started out with Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss (first 3 or 4 songs), then moved to Danzig's Black Laden Crown followed by Rob Zombie's Spookshow International Live.

I got a digital promo of a reissue of Skepticism's Alloy, with their Aes EP appended as a bonus track. I've never listened to them before and am not super into it so far.

I have bought so many albs i went back to rap temporarily cos i needed a metal break

I've been considering going on a post Lucifuge (when I stopped paying attention) Danzig binge lately. I've also been meaning to check out post-Don't Break the Oath Mercyful Fate. I went on a Voivod binge last week. Right now seems like as good a time as any to explore back catalogs.

I had a similar reaction to that Skepticism a couple of years ago.

In the Shadows and Time are the best post-Oath Fate IMO.

I've been considering going on a post Lucifuge (when I stopped paying attention) Danzig binge lately.

Dooooon't dooooo it. The first five Danzig through Thrall/Demonsweatlive are all great, and Deth Red Sabaoth and Black Laden Crown are good/very good. Everything in between is dire tripe.

i mean if you haven't listened to III you need that in your life mos def

4p actually isn't bad either

As promised, my review of the new Afterbirth album.

Good stuff, thanks.

I rarely come back to stoner/heavy psych past the first encounter 'cause I'm not a WEED DEMON to quote the name of a band I stumbled across not too long ago but the new Lowrider is some quality shit.

On an unrelated note, this guy's aliases are ever expansive yet rut-like and a sight to behold:

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/bobby-maggard

holy shit, this fuckin' thing GOES. grindcore from Seattle

grindcore more of the 90s style after it started to congeal more around the death metal bands

some really good melodic bits on this alb too

https://ratkingband.bandcamp.com/album/vicious-inhumanity

Recorded by Tad Doyle as well, I see.

Maori Metal by David Freid about New Zealand band Alien Weaponry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc-8rBi31Q8

yay, new Benighted! it sounds like...Benighted!

woohoo!

\m/

there's a song on it called "Mom, I Love You the Wrong Way"...

there's a lyric sheet I ain't going to be reading.

they must've thought Forgive Me Father was too subtle

Caustic Wound's Death Posture out today -Profound Lore- is so good. they have songs!
C. Lynsdstrom from Cerebral Rot taking care of vox & their drummer is playing the goatest

new Azusa is sick, don't sleep on it

The LP itself is a solid helping of blackened DM but the closer promises so much more:

https://nekrovault-vanrecords.bandcamp.com/track/eremitorium

https://tomarum.bandcamp.com/album/wounds-ever-expanding

Just... the cover. Is Lewandowski trolling us now?

haha, take a look at the tags

Hahahaha

'Dedicated to our good friend Jesse Isenhower, who passed away during the recording of this EP.'

best thing about the Caustic Wound is the length. grindcore that overstays its welcome sucks, but this is a tidy 26 mins

also realized there was a Perdition Temple I overlooked recently.

Doom rains down upon us, all the way from Ottawa:

https://loviatar.bandcamp.com/album/lightless

'Silica' is a clear highlight.

New Oranssi Pazuzu kinda snuck up on me:
https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/album/mestarin-kynsi

Available on three different colors of cassette, total of 115 being pressed (or whatever verb applies to constructing a cassette).

They have their own thread now! WASTEMENT: Oranssi Pazuzu, Dark Buddha Rising and Waste Of Space Orchestra

Some fairly typical slam/brutal DM that I actually want to hear again when it's over:

https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/betrayal

I'd be curious to hear what you make of this one, unperson.

god, the newest Perdition Temple is great.

ex-Angelcorpse guitarist, and the riffs are def in that vein, little more chaotic.

new Cauldron Black Ram coming out on 20 Buck Spin

https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/slaver

StarGazer/Mournful Congregation/80 other bands members. I always thought of them as the primitive cutthroat counterparts to SG.

I like The Black Dahlia Murder's new album.

I would like to restate my boosting of Azusa, especially if you like really, really melodic* post-hardcore. absolutely one of the best things I've heard this year

https://azusaband.bandcamp.com/

*so much so it borders on psych-pop at times. don't worry, it's still br00tal and whatever

is there an equivalence for pentecostalism in dark arts?

i think Black Curse got that right wrong bad

https://blackcurse-svr.bandcamp.com/releases