Rolling 2023 Metal thread

what it do

god that mare infinitum record is so fucking good

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 3, 2023 7:58 PM bookmarkflaglink

the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise resumes in 2023 and these morons had the audacity to book the new Vektor. naturally, it didn't go well, and the backlash was quick and they removed them, with the expected two factions emerging in reaction to the removal.

starting to remember why I didn't dress the part of metalhead in my 20s, the people screaming in defense of Vektor are really fucking hateful, stupid idiots. I'm sure the infighting will progress to the boat over this, kinda glad i'm not going.

https://metalinjection.net/news/drama/70000-tons-of-metal-books-then-removes-vektor-from-its-lineup

― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 10:29 AM bookmarkflaglink

I'm sure the infighting will progress to the boat over this, kinda glad i'm not going.

Nah. The people expressing the most anger over it aren't the go-outside type.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 10:32 AM bookmarkflaglink

in more positive news, lineup for Mass Destruction Metal Fest in ATL for this year is out and it's sick and I'm thinking of trying to find a way to go. other than big name Autopsy (who I've been dying to see), it's a very niche lineup that just happens to be a bunch of bands I love. seen Pagan Altar live once, they were incredible, Hellwitch same. Drawn and Quartered fucking rule, as does Vulcano. Loved the Oath of Cruelty debut. really the only band I don't know is Undergang.

Autopsy
Vulcano (Brazil - Bloody Vengeance Set)
Pagan Altar (UK)
Hellwitch
Undergang (Denmark)
Drawn & Quartered
Father Befouled
Oath of Cruelty

― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 10:38 AM bookmarkflaglink

wait I forgot what year it was

― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 10:41 AM bookmarkflaglink

Mare Infinitum have shared some info about the tracks on the album on their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/MareInfinitum/

god that mare infinitum record is so fucking good

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 3, 2023 7:58 PM bookmarkflaglink

finally got to this today

holy fucking shit

Ultra slow funeral doom fans, Finnish one man band Horre releases his next album on Friday : https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=586159996848003

Very incomplete list of metal(lic) albums on the horizon this year

13-Jan
Ahab
Obituary
VV (of HIM fame)

20-Jan
Katatonia

27-Jan
…And Oceans
G.I.S.M.

3-Feb
Sanguisugabogg
Xandria

10-Feb
In Flames

24-Feb
Host (Paradise Lost side project)
Venomous Concept

3-Mar
Enslaved
Majesties (Can't recall what prompted me to add this, sorry if it's not metal)
Tragedy (Bee Gees Metal Tribute Band!)

17-Mar
Night Demon
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

24-Mar
Baby Metal
Big|Brave
Dope
Heidevolk
The HIRS Collective
Insomnium
Liturgy

31-Mar
Rotten Sound

7-Apr
Lotus Thrones (Wolvhammer side project)

14-Apr
Metallica

Thy Darkened Shade's new one on Jan 10

Haxanu's on Feb 7

Was just listening to the latter's as of now only album, Snare of All Salvation, today, it should've gotten more attention -- USBM that doesn't really sound like borrowed ideas from other countries' scenes. Makes you feel like driving very fast.

oh right, the Haxanu guy is also the Ringare/Skaphe guy

Sanguisugabogg

never not laughing like a madman about this band name

That new Night Demon is so much fun. They've never put out a bad record, but this one takes things to a new level.

Oh cool! I've always liked them

funeral doom: Horre, not on Bandcamp yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDc1KiT9klM

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.

A bit from maybe the most insane metal press release I've ever read:

By sweep of sanguine axe and scorn of solar halo, the rusted chains of antediluvian iron broken by immortal talons, a pale visage of unholy supremacy leering with violent virtue, rises from cruel coffin sarcophagus the entity feared only as Nachtlich. Resurrected from its nocturnal medieval slumber in the age of 2016, Nachtlich is a Canadian revenant manifested by shady mournmaker U.E, whose infamy across a vast array of miserable entities is celebrated in low chants of ennui trance by tomb cults across the ephemeral realm. An arsenal of nightbringer brutality, Nachtlich’s library of intoxicating incantations is wide in its selection, but only by the keen eye of ritual master, Inferna Profundus Records, has this early masterwork of U.E been claw chosen to bathe in unlight of the half moon horror malfeasance.

Third Ritual is the grave stomping carrion call of the unliving ghast grume. An evocative alchemical fusion of bass heavy raw black metal and eerie atmospheric ambient ministrations, Nachtlich here truly awakens to the rotting majesty within; wielding putrescence of power chord, zombie shamble of percussion, penetration of shrieking oration, crypt shake of bass, fungal dissonance of production and ennui enlightenment of subversive synth. Dedicated to the true ways of the ancient, U.E carves a path familiar, yet unique in its twists and turns of labyrinthine composition, contrasting spectral synth passages with mid-pace of raw black metal massacre. Raw, stripped down and rancid—Nachtlich’s Third Ritual is the triune damnation triumphant.

TL;DR: It's a reissue of the third album by a one-man black metal band.

How Nachtlich got his grume back

Congratulations to the genius booking agent who knew that Ingested and Devourment belonged on tour together. Well done.

If you habitually skip over seemingly marginal niche metal, you might easily miss this magnificent Tolkien Metal epic:

Ainur "Forging of the Rings"
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WCzf7xdfXNNRsHQYbj1iR

!!!

I have always liked Prong, and I still do. I like this new song's main riff, but the lyrics are *hilariously* generic. "Political Protest Song [Project Your Specific Beliefs/Cause Here]".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC3NmLOQXTc

New Cattle Decapitation due in May. I, for one, am really stoked.

Not sure about the cover art tho:

https://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/1/0/4/1104775.jpg?4705

Ant Man sequel went dark

lol

it's giving Antz/A Bug's Life energy

hopefully this is in preparation of a new album now they have a bass player again: Darkspace back catalogue reissued on Season Of Mist -> https://shop.season-of-mist.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=darkspace

Technically from last year, but absolutely loving the new Hammers of Misfortune, just a dense mass of bonkers tech-prog.

i made this spreadsheet for metal releases this year, mostly stuff already mentioned here, some others. editable by anyone so feel free to contribute but also feel free to make a copy for your own use: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xn_OktEIIx-TUj7URk8cnGBAsT-ls_Ujfv6sUz50H0U/edit?usp=sharing i'll try and update it regularly too

does Djunah count? outta Chicago. They seem to market themselves as noise rock but they seem kinda metal (it's a duo and the guitarist/singer plays a custom made bass synthesizer w/her foot)

https://djunah.bandcamp.com/album/femina-furens

metal-adjacent maybe

enjoying the latest Deiquisitor. just glad to still have death metal that's raw and doesn't sound so artificially clean and clicky. no matter how much this drummer's speed degrades on blasts (and it does!).

i always like when the vocalists sound like the bad guy on an 80s toy television show.

i havent heard it yet but i love that their label is called "extremely rotten productions"

MESHUGGAH To Issue Remastered Fifteenth Anniversary Edition Of ObZen Full-Length March 31st Via Atomic Fire; Preorders Available

how the fuck is that album fifteen years old, jesus

yeah that's still one of the 'new ones' in my eyes

same

I still remember going to see them open for Ministry in 2008 just so I could hear some of that material live and screaming "what the FUCK" at the stage when they abandoned "Bleed" right before the intense end part.

Uncharacteristically bad show for the boys, who in the last six years have put on two of the most incredible shows I've ever seen

Always cracks me up when an album is remastered after such a short period of time, like has the loudifying technology advanced that much

actually all of the bass drum sounds were replaced by farts

i don't really get the point of a remaster of any Meshuggah album like, post-Chaosphere, the shit was fairly optimal the first time around on the albums after that. not a fan of the re-recorded Nothing with the 8-strings even.

Wow, if you aren't afraid of the upcoming Amberian Dawn album of ABBA covers, check out the new Dark Sarah album while we wait.

https://open.spotify.com/album/4WilNXjE7dhYxMzNXXwBLg?si=6fc498a0a343496f

Also, that Amberian Dawn album came out two months ago. I apparently thought the third single, which came out the same day, was another song released in advance of the record.

It's really good, unless the idea of a metal tribute to ABBA sounds inherently terrible to you, in which case it's exactly that terrible.

Also, I had forgotten that Dark Sarah was formed by Heidi Parviainen after her time as the singer for Amberian Dawn, so the similarity isn't coincidental at all.

Amberian ABBA: https://open.spotify.com/album/5mzhto5AZTFY6RDpiFtjXt

This new Ahab record is fantastic.

I am digging it too, even if dude's clean vocals remind me of Mr Mackey in the South Park episode where he got high and started singing

hey all it's new SANGUISUGABOGG time, make sure you have your SANGUISUGABOGG record ready to spin and that all valuables are safely tucked away in your house as you flail around to SANGUISUGABOGG boy i just love saying SANGUISUGABOGG

also three songs in and this rules.

however fans are likely to cry sellout because the SNARE ISN'T PINGY this time.

well it is a LITTLE

ok the ping is back

one-woman black metal project Brouillard from France is back with an album called (guess) : https://transcendance-bm.bandcamp.com/album/br0uillard-brouillard

hahahaha! i love that concept

I think I got her last Brouillard

new Spirit Possession March 31

https://spiritpossession.bandcamp.com/

excited for new Sanguisugabogg, didn't realize it was coming out so soon. I've taken to callin them "The Bogg" in the tradition of Steve Coogan as Tommy Saxondale calling Jethro Tull "The Tull."

i excuse and even enjoy violent imagery in a lot of music, perhaps particularly in death and grind. i do object to artists targeting a single oppressed identity with their violent lyrics (and indeed we call this NSBM when folks do it w/r/t race), and i do really wonder about sanguisugabogg's vocalist and his previous band that only wrote violently misogynistic rape anthems

Yeah, I knew nothing about Sanguisugabogg before seeing some hype this past week and saw that when digging through their Metal Archives page. That band had some really wtf lyrics and artwork.

i did not know that about Sanguisugabogg vocalist, but that's definitely fucked up. not that misogyny is new to metal but there is definitely a higher degree of wtf to making rape/abuse/violence against women the actual target of your lyrics - one reason I refuse to listen to anything pornogrind or Waco Jesus-y.

thanks for sharing the information roxy.

for real. i think it is reasonable to draw the line at violent misogyny being the entire theme of your themed band

absolutely

after awhile you'd hope artists would grow past bigotry or misogyny in lyrics and, if they didn't, listeners wouldn't reward it by failing to call it out, idk. there's such a wealth of music out there w/o that kind of lazy bullshit, or those kinds of shit worldviews. it's very easy to not write evil lyrics imo (as someone who doesn't write lyrics even i can recognize that.)

If you want to write those kinds of lyrics you should start a power metal band and really enunciate the fuck out of every word. Stop hiding behind growls and gurgles.

with a lot of these bands, they aren't 'just fantasies' either, they're a reflection of internalized toxicity (or worse, the Jef Whitehead incidents). i think roxy posted once that it permeates into the crowds as well at some of the shows of pornogrind and similar bands and it's not surprising.

hell, Don Decker of Anal Blast used to come into #metal on DALnet and he was every bit the caveman he portrayed himself as on disc.

at a minimum, people who make light of sexual violence do not take sexual violence seriously. that much at least should be obvious. it often goes beyond that. it isn't as simple as saying pornogrind guys are rapists, or whatever, but it isn't hard to imagine how they might respond to incidents of sexual assault in their communities (or even bands), and i can assure you those are happening

On another note, while more noise rock than metal proper, the new Oozing Would is hitting all the right spots for me today. Absolutely killer production on this one, it just sounds so good.

lol "Oozing Wound", although I wouldn't mind hearing these guys take on that Alice In Chains song

into the cut again
same old pus it was back thennnn

lol

On another note, while more noise rock than metal proper, the new Oozing Wound is hitting all the right spots for me today. Absolutely killer production on this one, it just sounds so good.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, February 7, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I like this. On the “this more noise rock than metal” front, I got into a band called Still/Form recently thanks to their opinion on an EOY list (can’t remember now which it was) They really nail a sound that reminds me of noises bands circa 93-94. Had me thinking of obscure bands lost to history like Johnboy or Milkmine

digging the latest Memoriam but if you weren't into them previously i don't think you'll like them still. everyone seems to be lukewarm on em, but I'm fine w/ their Bolt Thrower-inspired torch carrying, it's not as good as the predecessor, and this one has a lot of additional melodic hooks in it that you wouldn't have heard on BT.

tl;dr just call me a poser

i love that oozing wound. it feels like noise rock is kind of having an extended moment rn

the clips I heard of it sounded very promising. gotta get around to acquiring it and giving a proper listen.

xxpost re: the Memoriam, it's an extremely so bar that it's barely above the ground, but at least happy to hear a death metal band writing about war from the anti-war perspective

*low bar jfc

I like the Memoriam — not as much as the ones before, as you say, but enough that I've tried to at least formulate some thoughts on it for BA. Maybe in a week or two.

#NowPlaying Tidal Wave
'The Lord Knows'
(2023, @music_ripple)

Swedish stoner fare, emphasizing the bluesy classic rock stuff, with a vocalist who approximates Big Business' Jared Warren's loud as fuck bellowing. It's not possible to play this loud enough, but it's fun to try! pic.twitter.com/QWSkZdTU7e

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) February 7, 2023

Glad to see that post, I've really been digging that Tidal Wave record. Sometimes I hesitate to post about the more stoner leaning stuff here since there don't seem to be too many folks into that left around.

I don't post on this thread too often but I'm always interested to hear about new stoner/doom stuff, I enjoyed this Crypt Witch record from last year despite it being very derivative! https://cryptwitch.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-herbs

I’m new to this thread (after taking a 30-year sabbatical from metal up until last year) and I like stonery stuff, fwiw.

Spending more time with this Oozing Wound album today and it’s awesome

local band Bodybox are opening for Soulfly. i assumed this was just locally, but no...ENTIRE run of the tour!

they have a 9 minute EP and a 4 minute demo.

what the hell are they going to play? lol

there's no album due out anytime soon so I'm assuming set will be filled of songs they just wrote and covers.

Soulfly isn't even in my top 500 but holy hell they're great live.

They haven't even gotten to the Nailbomb cover yet

stoked on the first new kvist output since the 90s (from upcoming peaceville comp) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG_kffRy-QE

as a sidenote: peaceville needs to fix their website

digging the 2 Ulthar albums that just came out. I learned about Mastery through this board so thought there might be more hype here. But seems like just me. Anyhow both sounding great.

i was curious about those! awesome

saw Deceased last night. awesome as always. really tight band live and yet also really goofy.

but they never get much turnout.

Should have those two Ulthars waiting for me at home, though reading this Baandcamp interview with them is going to shadow that a little. Damn, that's rough. Hoping for the best.

Ulthar went into the studio ready to kick ass, armed with as much new music as they’d released up to that point combined. But when Lermo went to track his vocal parts, something seemed off.

“I had warmed up my voice a bunch, and I started singing, and Justin and Steve were in the control room, and they were like, ‘You don’t sound right,’” Lermo remembers. “And I was like, ‘Really?’ And I listened back, and I was like, ‘Yeah, my voice does sound weird.’ Eventually, I just worked more and more, trying to get into the right range and got it to sound right.”

Lermo also noticed some pain in his throat while he was recording vocals: “It wasn’t a bad pain. It was just like a scratchy something-or-other.” When it didn’t go away for over a month, he started to get concerned. When he felt a lump on his neck, he got it checked out. A couple short months after getting through the challenging Anthronomicon/Helionomicon sessions, his biopsy came back positive. Lermo had throat cancer.

“I was treated with chemotherapy and radiation for two and a half months. I ended up in the hospital for eight days. I lost the ability to eat and drink and talk,” Lermo says, stressing that the voice coming through the Zoom call isn’t what his voice normally sounds like. “We’ve had a couple of tour offers that I just had to straight-up turn down, even though it’s a couple of months in the future because I can’t predict when I’m gonna be able to sing again.”

He might never be able to sing again, and if he does, there’s no guarantee he’ll sound the way he used to: “I’ve talked to doctors about it and stuff, and it’s kind of a very, very niche question to be like, ‘I sing for a death metal band. When will my ability to do death growls come back?’ Nobody has an answer for that.”

new Hellripper is fantastic. not that I don't love a lot of it, but blackened speed metal is one of those subgenres that's so full of boring clones. I like that they manage to be inspired in their writing.

plus were part of an anti-Nazi comp in 2018

there's a ton of trad fist pumpy heavy metal in there as well without overwhelming the black heart of the sound and that's my language.

shit, this thing could be an EOY candidate. too early to say that, it's only Feb, and only one spin, but this is one of the better in its field I've heard in years

Waiting til my copy shows up later this week, good to read your raves though.

Listened to the more traditional of the two Ulthar albums this weekend, really damn good. Going to tackle the other one soon.

I enjoyed both Ulthar. the two song one has a cool synth sequence on one of the songs

Gene Hoglan on Chuck Schuldiner, also (since I hadn't kept up with posthumous Death) mostly news to me:

Hoglan joined DEATH in 1993. He replaced Sean Reinert, who — along with guitarist Paul Masvidal — quit the band to focus on CYNIC. He appears on the group's albums "Individual Thought Patterns" and "Symbolic".

The current lineup of DEATH TO ALL includes Hoglan, DiGiorgio on bass and Koelble on guitar. Max Phelps (CYNIC),who has been touring with DEATH TO ALL, is once again handling the vocal and second-guitar duties.

Schuldiner died on December 13, 2001 after a battle with pontine glioma, a rare type of brain tumor.

In recent years, DEATH's storied catalog has undergone a meticulous reissue campaign via Relapse Records.

Relapse released the first-ever fully authorized DEATH tab book, featuring 21 classic songs tabbed out for guitar from the band's entire discography. The book, which includes traditional notation as well as tablature, also comes with a digital download of all tracks

https://blabbermouth.net/news/gene-hoglan-remembers-chuck-schuldiner-he-was-not-a-big-fan-of-people-or-the-music-industry-but-he-liked-his-friends

Aside from "Pestilength" being a pretty funny band name, this Basque DM band has a nice generally mid- to down-tempo death/doom feel that's pretty darn good. Some Incantation similarities but there are some original rhythmic and riff ideas going on.

http://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/basom-gryphos

my friend was just talking about them and I too brought up the name.

And the one track up from this Auroch/Mitochondrion-related project shows a Jute Gyte influence imo, really bent guitar stuff

http://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/track/three-initiates-meet-at-the-cemetery-crossroads-2

The debut album by Parasitario from Osaka, Japan is out now. It's called Everything Belongs to Death and it is some grimy, knuckle-walking old school shit. Like Obituary with Asphyx vocals.

https://fda-records.bandcamp.com/album/everything-belongs-to-death

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1100304211_10.jpg

I think I prefer the 2 track Ulthar the most because it breathes and lets them really let loose but yeah both albums really hit the spot. Thank you for sharing that bandcamp article. I hope he recovers. Peacock is also a good vocalist. I dig Mastery and Spirit Possession as much as I do Ulthar.

Yeah, I'd agree with that. Helionomicon is definitely the better of the two, for exactly the reason you state, but I spun Anthronomicon again today and it holds up pretty damn well too. A huge leap forward for a band that I already liked well enough.

Looking forward to the new Spirit Possession.

At Weedeater show, and Rebelmatic are opening. All Black stoner/sludge metal band who has punky elements and hip hop/R&B elements.

The drummer is ODB's brother.

They were great

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

OMG that was awesome

... the dump?

lol

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

The new Smoulder track is a ripper.

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

New Arriver is imminent:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

still waiting for that meter data 2xLP

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

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

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

Havok are Trumpers?

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

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

which came across as more libertarian-y.

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

*inauguration day 2017

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

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

— HAVOK (@HAVOKthrash) May 4, 2022

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

fair enough

yeah Tim Pool is like gateway alt-right since 2020

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

"F.P.C."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fuck P.C.

Lol man I gotta pay more attention to lyrics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ugh.

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

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

So....this band is MAGA fascist scumbags

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

Apologies for posting lol why do I even try with metal

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

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

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

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

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

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

all proceeds to migrant support, etc

(all digital proceeds, half of physical)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

landlord discourse? in metal? pls explain.

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

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

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

that is what they are

We lie to each other, uh huh

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

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

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

Fuck. Sorry. I can't get the link to post but it's on Google

everybody in the bands is ok per revocation's twitter

That's good to hear. What a scary situation. :(

One person dead, 28 injured is what I'm seeing on Twitter.

Every once in a while I'll read reviews on Angry Metal Guy. The actual writing is terrible, across the board, but I find out about records I might want to hear. So while I was there, I looked up their review of a record I already owned and liked — Stabbing's Extirpated Mortal Process. (It's really good; I reviewed it for The Wire.) They didn't like it, but in the comments people recommended Wretched Inferno as a superior alternative. So I bought all three of their releases (two albums and an EP) on Bandcamp, and yeah, they rule. Really thick, gooey brutal/slam death metal. Their first EP, 2020's Fester, has some sweet guitar solos and some nice Black Dahlia Murder-esque gurgle/screech vocal tradeoffs. The production on their first full-length, 2021's Decayed Butchery, is a little thin, but they recover really nicely on last year's Cacophony of Filth. If you're in a mood for squeals, grinding guitars, and snares that sound like coffee cans tapped with a pencil, this will be your shit as it is mine.

https://wretchedinferno.bandcamp.com/

snares that sound like coffee cans tapped with a pencil

i'm out

Completely randomly came across this Brazilian album of black metal using all acoustic (!) instruments, it kinda rules?

https://kaatayra.bandcamp.com/album/s-quem-viu-o-rel-mpago-sua-direita-sabe

Looks like a one person band too

the only thing good about Florida is that there are certain bands I get to see often even if not officially on tour. Obituary is one, Cannibal Corpse is one, and Deicide, who I saw last night, is one.

a special treat, because I missed the "Legion in its entirety" set last year, and surprise....they did that again!

weirdly, Benton doesn't really do much stage banter anymore. I remember watching the When London Burns DVD and seeing him make bad "lol Brit" joke after joke between every song, and now he doesn't even introduce the songs or anything. guess someone told him "u not funny!".

I didn't even realize they're on yet ANOTHER set of guitar players, having gone through what seems like 1,000 of them in the last 5 years. I'm sure they offended Benton over some menial bullshit just decided to move on.

Asheim's drum kit seemed like it was ten feet tall, like any higher and you wouldn't have been able to see the top of his head as it would have been obscured by an awning.

only downside is the Legion in its entirety meant less tunes from other albums. they actually didn't really play anything post-Stench of Redemption. But I did get "Lunatic of God's Creation" for the first time in a few shows. Glen's voice sounded great, as always.

Only downside of the night is the friend I decided to invite. I wanted him to see them with me, as he likes them but doesn't know much of their old music, and he doesn't know all their music, so he asked me what they usually play and promised he'd do homework, so I sent him a list. He gets to the show, admits he listened to zero of the songs, spends much of the night drunkenly whining about not knowing the songs, FARTED ON ME at one point, and was so drunk by show's end that I booked an Uber to his house and rode in it with him and walked him into his house. I'd wanted to stay and try and chat w/ Steve Asheim (I don't know him or anything, but one of my friends used to fuck him so one night the three of us hung out at a show and he bought me a shot once and played me unreleased Deicide from his phone). but couldn't cos I had to babysit him.

then this morning he tells me it was one of the worst shows he's ever seen, doesn't even thank me or anything for babysitting him. yeah belongs in boundaries thread but uhhh known the guy 18 years and I forgot what a buzzkill he can be drunk.

but anyway, great show, next up Morbid Angel.

New to me, but Hellish Form, this "funeral drone sludge" duo, is hitting me in the right spot today. Crushingly heavy.

https://hellishform.bandcamp.com/album/deathless

Also, always good to discover a new band fighting the good fight:

Deathless is meant as a judgement of the purveyors of systemic transphobia and a balm to those suffering beneath its hold.

The new Dodheimsgard is sounding fabulous ofc

As is this

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

https://fest.prophecy.de/

Bethlehem (Germany)
Darkher (UK)
Dornenreich (Austria)
Grab (Germany)
Disillusion (Germany)
Laster (Netherlands)
Vemod (Norway)
Illudium (USA)
My Dying Bride (UK)
The Vision Bleak (Germany) “The Deathship Has A New Captain” exclusive show
E-L-R (Switzerland)
Amenra (Belgium)
Darkspace (Switzerland)
Novembers Doom (USA)
Agalloch (USA) exclusive reunion show

Just discovered this fantastic hard-rock band Tanith. Russ Tippins of Satan is one of the leads. I hear a definite Satan similarity but also crossed with the smooth melodies of BOC or Heart.

https://tanithnyc.bandcamp.com/album/voyage

Yeah, Tanith are great. They were a quartet on the first album (I wrote about it here) but are now a trio.

oooh I love this Tanith

they remind me of Ashbury a bit, but w/o the Southern rock element and more metal

Ooh didn't know they had a new one, really liked the last one.

Went to see Morbid Angel tonight.

It was ugly. Trey came out in stage and immediately was speaking unintelligibly, and said something like "if u don't like the show, fuck you!".

All tour there have been whispers that he's been intoxicated/high at most shows. I held out hope.

Three songs in, he disappeared and never returned. The show ended only five songs in. They said he hurt himself but many fans said they saw Trey high as fuck in the men's room minutes prior to show time AND all tour fans have whispered he's been high, drunk, and barely there. I knew going in this was a risk but Trey needs a lot of help and fast

A friend of mine said he hung out with them after the show last night and that it was indeed his back that seized up and that he was fine after.

I'm not entirely convinced that's all it was but it's not my place to speculate so I apologize for my previous post and will just say I hope he's ok.

https://blabbermouth.net/news/morbid-angel-guitarist-trey-azagthoth-collapses-on-stage-during-tampa-concert

Lustre just released a single, collab with Harakiri For The Sky, who are on a US tour right now:
https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=771909950957305

new Tanith is indeed great, thought I keep finding myself singing "Idris Elba" along to "Adrasteia".

I'm super enjoying the first album too. I think it's slightly better (i.e. proggier). My new favourite band.

Really excited about the whole new album by this Japanese gothic dream-metal band Isiliel: https://open.spotify.com/album/5626hEu75ZaGPcFUZIsDCS

Also, for actual extreme metal in the sense of being made in a war zone, the new Ignea record is a concept album about the Ukrainian documentary photographer Sofia Yablonska. https://open.spotify.com/album/6XWfpy136uE8zuWeTyyPwF

!

https://austere-official.bandcamp.com/album/corrosion-of-hearts

( extra track on the deluxe version https://austere-official.bandcamp.com/album/corrosion-of-hearts-deluxe-edition )

At the Massacre show tonight.

Morta Skuld opened.

Holy fuck.

Incredible set.

Anybody who saw Enslaved report back plz

Massacre were great too.

Between them, Morta Skuld and Druid Lord, what a nice of music

I really wanna hear that Austere now.

new Danava's real good if you like snaky 70s heavy prog into early 80s Maiden riffs

ooh, good stuff

Danava just showed up last night, haven't had a chance to spin it yet but I love those guys. Austere should be showing up today.

Glad to head Druid Lord is good live, was into their recent album.

oh yeah they're always a blast. since they're from here, I think I see them more than any other band. glad to see them having more of a national presence over the last several years

Danava sounds great gonna check that out

Oh my God, the Austere.

Droning Moody af black metal, almost shoegazery to an extent. Like Alcest if they kept more of their old sound with the gaze

The synthy title track on the Danava album is soooo cool

just realizing I saw Danava live once, opening for Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. knew they sounded familiar

xp oh wait, there are two sort-of title tracks - I meant "Nuthin But Nuthin" towards the end

I've been listening to the Swedish power metal band Air Raid a lot the last couple of weeks, so I wrote about them.

Nice, I really liked that Air Raid album

It might just be my mood lately but this feels like a very strong year for old-school heavy metal.

That Austere bonus track is a Type O Negative cover btw (only found out because it's in the booklet)

new surprise Krallice today. continuing down the synth-cum-guitar cosmic spacey path, which I can't complain about as I like it when they do that.

god on second listen this shit is entrancing af. i need gummies for the next listen

Austere is a very good comeback, nothing groundbreaking but I was a massive fan of their earlier albums so it's all good. Does exactly what I like in black metal, it's like a warm bath.

Speaking of warm baths, I didn't see any discussion when it came out in 2020 but check out Golden Ashes - In the Lugubrious Silence of Eternal Night, if you're intrigued by the idea of In The Nightside Eclipse dialed up to 12, there's your fix. Particularly track five From Grace Into Utter Ruin provides some major sensory overload. It's a Maurice De Jong/Gnaw Their Tongues side project.

I’ve got the new VoidCeremony on repeat. It’s so well recorded, too; there’s palpable space between the instruments which balances with the density of the hyper-technical riffing and rhythms. Love it.

hell yeah, perfectly stated. big fan of that one and the production and the way you’re describing it is a big part of why. it’s the first one of theirs that really hooked me but it is making me think i should go back again with the others.

The chorus of this Tyrann track is extremely dumb and great

https://electricassaultrecords.bandcamp.com/track/face-the-tyrant

i need gummies for the next listen

also a good idea for the voidceremony fwiw, it just sounds so damn good

thank you for hyping the VoidCeremony. I had their previous album but for some reason mistook them for a doom/death band (which I'm sick to death of atm) and not what they actually are.

this is hitting the spot right now, fuuuck yes.

It’s so good! I never heard them before, but it whips ass.

why I'll be - so after getting into that new Austere album, I find out that they're playing at a festival near me in a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, the rest of the bands are all more standard black metal or completely unknown to me. I don't think I'll go to a whole festival for just one band.

And then I check out some more depressive black metal playlists and I come across Thy Light - who had a 2007 demo called suici.de.pression that's actually quite special. I'm an immediate fan. And THEN I find out they're also playing live! At the same festival as Austere! On the same day! AND they have a track with Tim Yatras (from Austere) on their 2013 album!

Now I have to go, don't I?

it does sound like the universe is trying to tell you something

Yeah the Thy Light album from ten years ago is excellent, had no idea they were still around.

enjoying the new Cattle Decapitation, though they've definitely settled into the sound from the last two albums. but it works, so....i'll vibe.

there's one song that's kinda djenty which annoyed me but it stops 30 seconds in.

also glad to have the new Grave Desecrator out! though as of right now can apparently only be streamed on Youtube. I bought a physical copy on bandcamp which was supposed to come with a free digital copy, but only one song was posted on BC. when I emailed the label, he said something like he wasn't allowed to sell the album digitally and gave me a Youtube link.

err...ok. but it's solid as always. the vocals are intense and layered af, and kinda sound like they might summon Kandarian demons

yay for new Impetuous Ritual. as noisy and chaotic as ever. still can't ever make out all that is happening because 'clarity' is never their M.O., and they never mind having several different ideas going at the same time, esp the solos.

but i always come back for more.

VoidCeremony took me a few tries to approach, but holy cow, this is beautiful.

Yeah this might be on my EOY

Was just looking at Phil Tougas of VoidCeremony's website, and apparently his dad and uncles had a heavy metal band in Quebec in the '80s called D.D.T. They're pretty cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCuKu2-87JI

experiment for maybe a couple of days: https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/10-digital-albums

voidceremony is utterly my shit thanks y’all

hell yeah

new isiliel (necromidol) also significantly better than i was expecting

https://isiliel.bandcamp.com/album/-

cover had me expecting some idol nonsense (which would be fine if you’re into weebing out, which i certainly am, at least sometimes) but this seems more… i dunno, legit? than what i thought i’d be getting. i particularly like the more upbeat, nightwish-esque stompers like “genesis” and the third track

and the atmospheric black metal stuff is also solid. i could use a few more distinctive riffs but i’m into the folk elements. makes me want to pull out some moonsorrow records for the first time in many (sorrowful) moons.

I didn't think I was gonna like the VoidCeremony record, but there are parts that are really beautiful. I love the prominent bass, and the guitar solos are fantastic. The only thing I don't like is the vocals — some Chuck Schuldiner-style shrieks instead of this kinda placeholder-ish raspy shouting would have really put it over the top, but that's not a deal-breaker by any means. Very into this on first listen.

yeah, i’m a huge fan of the prominent bass! the playing is, of course, excellent and the way it pops in the mix really gives you something to latch onto

Yeah, I keep thinking of Squire and Howe in the bass and guitar

since I'm going to that black metal festival to see Austere & Thy Light I'm checking out more bands that are playing on the day and one of them is Kanonenfieber - blackened death, in German, about WW1 (but very anti-war, just to be sure).

https://noisebringer-records.bandcamp.com/ -> this is all by one man (three bands: Kanonenfieber, Non Est Deus and Leipa) - and it's all good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP7DkSpG2KA

^ I know people get real uncomfortable about germans making music about wars but with the whole humans just being used as cannon fodder-thing being back and the musician's great-grandfather's diaries being the base for the music - very poignant imho

new surprise Krallice today. continuing down the synth-cum-guitar cosmic spacey path, which I can't complain about as I like it when they do that.

― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Friday, May 5, 2023 9:26 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

god on second listen this shit is entrancing af. i need gummies for the next listen

― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Saturday, May 6, 2023 2:10 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

redundant, obvious to say "another mindcrushingly good new krallice record" and yet. really love the drums on it too

new Lustre side project Gråande s/n album was just released - two long black metal tracks

https://lustre.bandcamp.com/album/gr-ande

it’s impossible to tell this sort of thing, i think i’ve even missed out on a few of their surprise records over the past five years, but i think this is my favorite krallice release ever, or at least it’s the first that’s come out that’s become the only thing i listen to for like a whole day

Surprise new Khanate album out today! (Less welcome surprise: It's on Sacred Bones. Better than Profound Lore, mmmmmaybe, but not by much. Anyway, if there's a deluxe Japanese CD version on Daymare, I'll buy that to match the rest of my collection.)

What's wrong with Sacred Bones? A quick search isn't revealing much.

Ah, you're right — my mistake. I had them confused with Sargent House.

yeah sacred bones is like hipster stuff not nazi stuff

Enjoying the first song on the new Krallice a lot. It very specifically reminds me of if Signals/Grace Under Pressure era Rush tried to be Tangerine Dream

Signals/Grace Under Pressure era Rush tried to be Tangerine Dream

I was going to hold out for my physical version to get here first but, uh, to say this description has piqued my interest would be a massive understatement.

pretty accurate!

heads up if you are a CD luddite like me, there are only 7 copies of the new Khanate left

I own the deluxe Japanese mini-LP versions of their whole back catalog, so I have to wait to see if Daymare puts this one out so I can overpay massively just to have it match the rest of my collection. It's a sickness, I know.

any ilxors going to Hell in the Harbor fest in Baltimore next week?

we're putting dad in respite care for a week so I can have my first actual vacay in...years.

Spirit Adrift dropped but Jesus Piece replaced them.

ok as someone who’s been weirdly indifferent towards krallice despite being a general barr fan and seeing them live multiple times… just checked out the new one while the sun was setting walking over a windy bridge and i’m finally on board. the horror synth twist gives it some of that summoning low key bombast, which is a sound i’m always kinda chasing.

thanks thread for the push! what are the other ones that sound like this??

Go Be Forgotten, the album’s title track is my favorite and may not sound out of place on this.

Demonic Wealth has a lot of similarities as well

particularly the song "Stil"

new Frozen Soul rips.

shame that the one time I saw them live as an opener, it felt like they didn't know how to play live shows yet. the stage banter was awkward, and the crowd wanted to like them but they didn't feed off of them at all. I had just told my friend how good they were and he was bored and I said "ehh I just don't think they're really great at live shows yet".

weirdly even THEY'RE doing the horror synth thing only unlike Krallice, they're purely interludes and not worked into the music at all.

Gost guests a gazillion times on the album

More 80s-style stuff that I'm digging: this Chilean band Shadows. They're closest to early Mercyful Fate, I'd say, with more reverb and keyboards. The production is rough and imperfect but really works with the foggy horror movie vibes.

https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/out-for-blood

thanks for the recs above!

New Horrendous album in August! First song is really good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz8tHOwWHnk

Ahhh, this new Botanist album is lovely.

https://open.spotify.com/album/02pgsDRPLkny6RLJL57v5Y

I found a site taking pre-orders for the Japanese edition of the new Khanate album — July 5 is the release date — so I ordered one for about $30 including shipping. I'm sure I'll have forgotten all about it by the time it hits my PO box, making it a pleasant surprise.

that new horrendous track is goddamn great

Whoa, huge Denis d'Amour vibes in that opening riff. Tremendous.

*big sigh* - for the one time I'm going to a black metal festival (not to see Marduk but still) - this is how the headliner gets in the news https://www.metalsucks.net/2023/05/23/marduk-says-nazi-salute-incident-with-bassist-happened-because-he-was-drinking-covertly/

https://votsband.bandcamp.com/album/dance-you-monster-to-my-soft-song

not a metal diehard like some but victory over the sun is very much in my wheelhouse (i mean, pdx trans experimental black metal...)

it's amazing, that and the new Kostnateni have elevated 2023 metal for me

Whoa, huge Denis d'Amour vibes in that opening riff. Tremendous.

― A. Begrand, Friday, May 26, 2023 11:29 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow yeah super Voivod. they are one of those bands with such a unique tonality to their riffs and music, like they had access to their own scales that no one else knew or something.

New Wytch Hazel out today.

https://wytchhazel.bandcamp.com/album/iv-sacrament

and also Thantifaxath

Omg the Thantifaxath is a beautiful labyrinthian nightmare.

I am really loving the Wytch Hazel. They basically do one thing only - melodic 70s-style hard rock, heavy Christian imagery - but they're masters of the craft.

Still think the Tanith album is better though (my AOTY at the moment.)

Other than bizarre clippy production....which one definitely lowers things a half letter grade...

the new Metal Church is inspired.

I had liked their previous few and wasn't sure if new guy would fill Howe's shoes well, but Marc Lopes of Ross the Boss fame is great. Reminds me of Stu Block in his dynamic style.

The music goes way harder than I expected.

But man, whoever brickwalled this album deserves tainted yogurt. It's a real bummer

I guess the opener of The Dark was foreshadowing

the new Wytch Hazel continues their knack for strong melodic 70s hard rock/metal. I discovered them through a metal thread years ago.

but dang the whole "is this band Christian?" radar I had going off was definitely right, feels like it gets way more explicit on this one than it used to or maybe I'm just noticing.

Unfelled (feat. members of Woods Of Desolation, Austere and Drudkh) have an album out that's quite black metally: Pall Of Endless Perdition

idk if anybody is into Torture Rack but uhm the new Torture Rack is fun if not indebted to mid-period Cannibal Corpse a bit.

I hear a bit of Bolt Thrower in the Torture Rack too, especially in the solos. But that’s just me.

Yeah I hear that too!

Probably the wrong thread for it because they are pretty much not at all metal at this point, but since they don't have a dedicated thread and we've discussed them in past metal threads - the new Blood Ceremony record rules.

Oh it's a GREAT record. Maybe my favourite of everything there done.

"Eugenie" is crazy, psychedelic sleaze.

new Saturnus tomorrow, only 11 years after the previous one

Lots of live stuff from Hellfest on Arte Concerts youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL66OD4JjS_2PQTMDC3jP1iZJx30dG2Eia
(so far only been impressed by Amenra (predictably) and DVNE (did not know them, Scottish, "progressive sludge doom metal" :-) )

the Amenra video has been removed apparenly (maybe to fix the sound, the guitars did sound a bit weird earlier)

unusual lineups on festival days? https://www.lokersefeesten.be/en/line-up/6-aug/

I caught the Brooklyn Ludicra show on Friday.
Was well worth the trip there, especially since I didn't catch them when they were active.
Honestly the show was one of those life-affirming moments of metal joy for me. What a great band!

the Saturnus album is released on Bandcamp now, phew

the new Sarmat is leagues above, worlds beyond, unbelievably elegant and monstrous jazz + death metal, staggering compositions, if track 3 doesn't end u like it did me then we are not the same

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/determined-to-strike

I downloaded that promo but haven't had time to listen to it yet. I,V has a ridiculous batting average when it comes to weirdo jazz-metal.

feels like we're in a golden age of such

never thought I'd be so excited for a flute solo on a metal album but that's the new Thy Cantafalque

oh, I've been looking forward to that one

so, what are some of the other jazz metal highlights on I, V? I've been looking forward to that sarmat as well

from what i've heard, neptunian maximalism are alright but not something I am often in the mood to go back to. it's... a lot.

this record by -s- was more my speed, like the midpoint between om and dISEMBOWLMENT or something -

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dom-w-kt-rym-mieszka-w-a-house-where-dwelled-a-snake

I haven't heard big chunks of the big catalog tho

The Dolly Parton song with Rob Halford sounds like a Halford song with Dolly singing to a guide vocal laid down by, like, Liv Kristine or somebody. I don't know why I'm disappointed, since I went in with zero expectations, but I am.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQTM3Dwpk0I

If you liked -S- you could see if my Canonical Path thing starting from them yields anything else for you:

https://everynoise.com/canonicalpath.cgi?uri=spotify%3Aartist%3A2ekAeR9i79NtPR4PnMsORI

oh, neat. thanks for sharing!

New Baroness single is fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7vROjNY9Gk

New Cannibal Corpse album in September.

https://cannibalcorpse.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-horrific

I’m also curious about recent jazz metal highlights. Other than Sarmat and Neptunian Maximalism, what should we be checking out?

Have you heard the last Imperial Triumphant album, Spirit of Ecstasy? Came out just about a year ago (July 2022). It's pretty wild; their drummer, Kenny Grohowski, works with John Zorn a lot lately. There's one track where Kenny G plays a guest solo and his son, Max Gorelick, is on lead guitar, and it doesn't feel jokey or dumb at all; the shrillness of the soprano works really well with the music.

dang!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywcshfrpO3A

sarmat record is kinda like from wisdom to hate era gorguts jamming with some friends with horns. pretty good!

songwriting is more purposive and killer than simply 'jamming', but kinda yeah lol

I’ve heard some of the earlier Imperial Triumphant stuff, but I’m not familiar with that one. I actually don’t mind Kenny G at all, so that sounds doubly interesting. Thanks!

hoarse old man yelling vox:

jammin

and i hope you like jammin too

*intense horn honkin*

This shirt is amazing:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzNOISeWIAIT3vD.jpg

Limited edition; pre-order yours today!

Anyone remember this album?

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/5/8/3/1/58312.jpg

Imperial Crystalline Entombment (aka ICE) released this album in 2004. It came out when I was the metal buyer for an indie record store in Columbus, Ohio, and it's phenomenal! A black metal record with a coldness mimicking their name (purely intentional), great songs, great playing, well worth a listen.

http://open.spotify.com/album/3ifUNY4LxwoCLghz9oIb4z?si=eLggyDFwT7KLLB-dgO6NLw

Got a press release that suddenly almost two decades later (on 9/1) a follow-up "Ancient Glacial Resurgence" will be released via Debemur Morti Productions! Most unexpected and I cannot wait!

First single here:

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

It rips!

Okay, I was a little skeptical about another one-man black metal project, but finally hearing the new Kostnateni and it absolutely rips. There's a bit of noise rock thrown into the mix, which I like.

Saw Adrien tip off the single earlier upthread, but the entire Smoulder album smokes from start to finish.

What a fun album indeed!

Also it's super cool that they got Michael Moorcock to narrate on one of their tracks.

New Incantation album in August! Love that all the songs have parenthetical alternate titles, just like Radiohead on Hail To The Thief. And yes, I read the album title as Unholy Defecation when I first saw it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDbeI_3kWO0

gendo ikari full-length on the way, RIYL circle pits and/or anime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmqE-HMRtCE

New GridLink album in September. I've already heard the whole thing and it's amazing — blasting grindcore (with patented Jon Chang shrieks), but the songs are full of Swedish melodeath riffs. Album of the Year candidate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEL0yTfgCS8

Can't wait. They're the band that got me into grindcore.

jesus christ, had no idea they were still active. amazing!

keeping the grind train going, just caught the chepang record release set. have always liked them but feels like they’ve leveled up considerably. fantastic set.

haven’t even listened to the whole new record but… buy it on sight.

whoa, and takafumi is even playing on the new gridlink??? what a beautiful world

Chepang are great. Keep meaning to buy their stuff on Bandcamp.

K.K.'s Priest is naming their next album "Sermons of the Sinner" and the lead single is "One More Shot at Glory".

based on that, i'm just afraid the rest of the album is gonna be shit like

"Electric Eye(s)"
"Still Screaming for Vengeance"
"Many Sentinels"

oh sorry, the album is called The Sinner Rides Again.

having Ripper Owens as vocalist makes it an extra level of o_O.

but that said, the song is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sypj3SPBKKU

Breaking More Laws

The song's not bad. It reminds me of Ross the Boss more than Judas Priest, which is fine by me.

“victim of some more changes”
“painkiller II”
“still hot rockin”

Love Chews

KK's band is so beyond boring. I don't know if it's Ken's fault or Ripper's fault, but the vocal melodies on the new record are astonishingly forgettable. It's just screaming that's simply taking up space.

A maddening album, and a pathetic attempt to cling to the Priest brand.

I never spent much time with the first album - I was excited for it and was very let down on the first few listens. definitely was nowhere near as good as the Denner/Shermann releases, for a point of comparison.

I'll give this one a shot but I really wish he and Priest would just bury the hatchet and become another Iron Maiden where he, Glen, and Richie are now in the band in the studio (and him and Richie live).

but of course that'd put Richie in the unfair position of having to learn completely different solos for every song

Halford's first memoir hilariously painted KK as a very touchy fellow who was prone to tantrums. Glenn would always deliberately wind him up.

A six-piece lineup would be killer indeed. But with Richie they're doing just fine, and wow I'm excited to hear the new record.

yeah and Halford also touched on it again in his (admittedly disappointing) second book.

I'm reading KK's Heavy Duty now to compare his takes with Rob's.

yeah I'm very amped for the next Priest. still consider Firepower to be one of the most incredible late-stage metal albums in history

maybe i should update the 2022 thread but god idk how i completely missed the white ward record from last year. it's excellent like everything else they've done

Glad you found it Ivy, that record is killer. I thought there was no possible way for them to top Love Exchange Failure, but I was happily proven wrong.

So I saw a date listed at a local club for a couple black metal bands, Profanatica and Panzerfaust

Kind of caught my eye esp since Panzerfaust Records was a defunct white power skinhead label in Mpls

Not a ton of info but they seem sketchy - anyone know anything about them?

I think this is Panzerfaust the Canadian band, not the label? They're on Eisenwald Tonschmiede, same (German) label as Fluisteraars, Agalloch, Austere, etc.

yes the Canadian band, I just have the association, and the label name didn't exactly inspire confidence, so it's ok probably?

They did show up at the trucker convoy in Ottawa last year, so likely dumbfucks at the very least

https://www.reddit.com/r/rabm/comments/sft90f/panzerfaust_at_truck_convoy_rally_in_ottawa/

Yeah, anyone who sided with the convoy is instantly persona non grata in my books.

I'm digging this German band The Night Eternal. Dark and gothy heavy metal, like Danzig fronting Tribulation, pretty close to In Solitude sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suCxxWXRKn8

The Max and Igor Cavalera re-recordings of Bestial Devastation and Morbid Visions (plus two new songs dating back to that era) are really good. I'm writing about them for Burning Ambulance tomorrow.

Was morbidly curious about those, I normally am not a fan at all of re-recordings like that, but I might have to check them out based on your recommendation.

Just listened to *Morbid Visions* and yeah, lots of fun and sounded great; pretty clear to hear that they've kept to the spirit of the originals.

but lol at Nuclear Blast for releasing the 20-minute long EP separately and charging full price for it

damn jmm that night eternal is real nice. otm that it's like in solitude. I loved in solitude.

Yes, I love them. Pelle had a poetic spark which really elevated them. TNE's vocalist is eerily similar at times.

As promised, my thoughts on the new Cavalera records, plus some other stuff.

Re: Profanatica

They toured with sketchy bands and when I saw them on such a tour (doing a headlining show without the sketchy band) send shout-outs from the stage against "virtue signal" types. I count them as boneheaded and tolerant of stuff I am not so tolerant of. So I can see people having a problem with them or giving them a pass since they are not overtly Nazis themselves. I will admit they put a sour taste in my mouth and I probably won't see them again.

Was morbidly curious about those

nice

I'm looking forward to checking these out too. I was pretty disappointed with the old school morbid visions the first time I heard it, and specifically, with the production. but that was back when I was in high school (aka the nu-metal years). haven't gone back much since then.

Since this line of convo is still on-going, I'll chip in my two cents that I had a similar crisis regarding Panzerfaust based off their name when they toured with UADA and Imperial Triumphant a few years back. I spent way too much time trying to figure out their deal and my conclusion at the time was that they are classic dumb edgelord metal guys who are probably OK with sketchy shit (like choosing that fucking name), but not the types to promote gross stuff too directly in public at least.

At the time, the main search thing that came up was them was about them peeing on the Westboro Baptist Church ( https://loudwire.com/panzerfaust-piss-on-westboro-baptist-church/ ), which is low hanging fruit but pointed enough in the right direction for me to feel better about them. There were a couple little things about people protesting at their shows or trying to get them kicked off bills, but it didn't seem to be based in much concrete evidence apart from their name or their tour partners since I think UADA got in hot water for playing a big Euro fest with Graveland (or someone like that) around the same time.

Anyway, I decided to go to the show and all three bands were v good live, but Panzerfaust was a total highlight. I was genuinely mad that their set was as good as it was since I was kind of primed to dislike them based on how much kvetching I had done about it. They were selling some merch with dopey shit like "This is Not a Fucking Safe Space" written on the back though.

All that said, I do think them not only showing up to the trucker convoy but choosing to post about it on their own social media is enough of a bridge too far that I would try to avoid seeing them again, despite how good they were live. There's just too much great stuff made by people who aren't morons or who don't make you spend hours pouring through internet forums to figure out their needlessly opaque politics out there.

it's always implied that I don't "get" metal when I take issue with stuff like this but I don't see how the nazi name isn't the end of it

when I took issue with darkthrone having an album of the same name the backlash was pretty vicious and I'm still not sure exactly why

honestly, is there any reason to give a metal band the benefit of the doubt on this stuff?

no but metalheads will be metalheads

well, "boneheaded and tolerant of stuff I am not so tolerant of" kinda sums it up for me too. I sometimes go through a similar process to the one JDHH outlined above for some reason too... possibly because I was a young, dumb, and full of edginess at some point too?

not just metal tho. this applies to various adjacent fandom sewers I like to wade around in too, noise/industrial, horror/exploitation, anime (see girls und panzer... or, er, don't), etc. is there a point tho? I dunno. I'm not great at prioritizing what to do with my time...

anyway, if you're not bored with knuckle-dragging death/doom yet (I am not, somehow) the preview tracks for the new gateway have been fun to throw on lately:
https://gatewayband.bandcamp.com/album/galgendood

no frills, just some chugging, doomy riffs, you probably know what this sounds like already

given they turned in 2005 I'd imagine they are all 40 years old give or take

formed

oh, I'm not at all familiar with the canadian band and was speaking generally. sorry, that probably wasn't clear.

ah gotcha

This latest Horrendous track is so so cool

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

gonna drop in a mention of the new Church Of Misery which is EXCELLENT.

It's so great to have Church of Misery back, and the new album really feels like a return to form.

And those Horrendous tracks are unreal! There's a band that always seemed good-but-not-great to me, but there's some super creative stuff happening in these riffs that has me riveted.

Also, just a heads-up, Ken Mode's VOID, out in September, just might be my metal album of the year so far. It taps into the collective WTF feeling most of us had post-pandemic. I spent 2022 fretting about how and why humanity blew the opportunity to collectively eliminate covid, and VOID captures that unease in harrowing fashion. VOID taps into those awful feelings I was trying so hard to stifle, laying the misery bare. It's a brutal but also healing listen.

the new Outer Heaven record is kicking my ass this morning.

haha was just coming here to post about that. so glad to have another one from them. they ripped at Hell in the Harbor

Alkaloid (a prog/tech-death supergroup featuring members of Obscura and Triptykon) have a new album coming out soon, their first since 2018. Their music is surprisingly hooky; I like it a lot. Here's the new song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JVfMiwzgJo

Apparently they're pulling a Metallica/Baroness — the new album is 70 minutes of music, split across two CDs for mood reasons.

The broooootal slam/death label New Standard Elite is selling their entire digital catalog (110 releases!) for $1 on Bandcamp.

https://newstandardelite.bandcamp.com/album/molested-divinity-the-primordial

My Bandcamp collection is now ruined, but I couldn’t pass up that deal.

Angry Metal Guy picked up on it too, but it's insane how many musical references I can pick out in the new Outer Heaven.

I loved their last album but this one feels like a humongous leap forward

plus have always loved their vocals

still listening to it non-stop. jesus. I do find it interesting that most of the hardcore elements appear gone though.

took advantage of that $1 New Standard Elite deal upthread. tempted to do a 30 for 30 youtube review of each album but...let's be real.

The new Spirit Adrift album sounds like Ian Gillan singing songs from Bark At The Moon. I really didn't like their covers album, but this thing rules.

New Prong album in October. I love Prong, so this is good news:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smATksUfCF4

I always forget they used to be one of my favorite bands. Pretty good song. Maybe it's time I catch up on everything they've released since Rude Awakening.

not a big tech death fan but Paroxysm Unit mixes it with brutality and it mostly works on the new one.

but dear god everybody does the "sueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey" pig death vox nowadays, like don't even bother to come up with another sound or nothing.

I'll have to check that out; my friend Anton plays sax on one track.

I've been catching up on new standard elite's last few releases this week and that's a highlight for sure

but this run in general...

Molested Divinity -> Nithing -> Paroxysm Unit -> Trichomoniasis -> Inverecund -> Embodied Torment

...is all very solid and there's some really wild stuff in there too. the nithing and trichomoniasis are particularly 'out' - check out that track 17+ run on the trichomoniasis

as for the pig vox, well, they aren't my fave either. but I can compartmentalize, I guess.

I guess I should buy the whole damn catalog, esp since today is a bandcamp friday... but I already have 15 older releases and I'm not sure if I need quite so much of this sound...

Nithing was the other one I was planning to look at. just picked it up.

can't wait to listen to the Crypta album.

Yeah, Molested Divinity are great — and, as it turns out, a fantastic soundtrack to proofreading Medicare enrollment guides all day!

i have them on account of buying the entire discography for $1. I've only listened to maybe four of the 110 albums so far lol

did discover Deleterious who were great

the Crypta delivers as expected. they were great live so I expected nothing else.

all-female quality death/thrash from Brazil

Something like 3/4 of that band is ex-members of Nervosa, right? I liked Nervosa a lot, so I'll definitely check them out.

oh for real? well no wonder I like em then.

though admittedly I prefer Nervosa to this (so far)

Okay, so what's the deal with Wayfarer? What does everyone else think of them?

They definitely tap into the cartoonish cosplay of black metal, obviously influenced by Wovenhand and Fields of the Nephilim. I have the new record and it's fine, but although they boast that this is "a funeral for the American dream", their lyrics dwell on/romanticize the whole white settler experience, which is something I always find off-putting. It feels as though they're being billed as "profound" (no record label pun intended) but actually say little of any worth. When it comes to black metal mixing with Americana, I'll take Panopticon over anything else.

The first song from the new Cannibal Corpse album was just OK. But this new one...FUUUUUCK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh20dk87S4E

going way way back on the thread buy nyc native - that Tidal Wave record you posted is really doing it for me

And sound the Someone Has Done Good Symphonic Prog-Death klaxon. Of course it's on I, Voidhanger. Behold, Fleshvessel

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/yearning-promethean-fates-sealed

Never thought I'd see the day a headliner would announce their last (pre-encore) song at the 25 minute mark, but congrats Pyrexia!

(Terrible show overall...no wonder only 30 people showed up)

Thanks for the tip off on that Fleshvessel record imago, instantly purchased after sampling a few tracks. That label is killing it.

Stand by for badass ocarina solos

That Cannibal Corpse track is unreal.

I haven't really fucked with them after like 1995 tbh but that is good shit, though I kept thinking Dean Norris was getting hacked up in the video

man, the Horrendous album is sounding like a masterpiece on first listen

Intricate, emotional, super atmospheric. I'm hearing a lot of Voivod, Death, maybe some Tool in the mix

My copy should get here Friday, I've purposely avoided all the pre-release tracks to hear the full thing at once.

he Horrendous album is sounding like a masterpiece on first listen

dB just gave it a 10, though not the lead review

okay, yeah, this Sarmat record is amazing. makes sense, once I realized it featured members of Imperial Triumphant and Artificial Brain.

but somehow very distinct from them too

totally!

New Spirit Adrift and new Ringworm both out today. They both rule, but in very different ways (fist-pumping vs. floor-punching).

I don't know this dude at all, but this tweet made me laugh out loud.

The burned out older lady working the gas station register saw my Flotsam and Jetsam shirt and her face immediately lit up and she was like, “Oh man that band rules!” and I could witness her spirit transcend her body and return to 1986

— Dr. Death Metal (@TheUnshored) August 18, 2023

A great day for new metal releases, most excited for Horrendous, Godthrymm and Spirit Adrift.

That Horrendous is a veritable riffapalooza. Tight record too, I love proggy stuff that limits itself to 35 minutes or so. I'm wowed.

man, you weren't kidding. this is great. I've liked Horrendous from the jump but they really have leapt forward with their sound over the last few albums. the one before this sounded like it was going into late-era Chuck Schuldiner and this one is equally proggy but in a more accessible way.

surprised at the clean vox

I really appreciate the effort to improve the vocals, which honestly was my main gripe with their previous records. Vocals in metal are treated too much like an afterthought. But yeah, the new Horrendous is first-rate. That and KEN Mode are my two big faves going into the last quarter of 2023.

Me: "It's always great to hit play on a new Incantation album".
5 seconds after I hit play: "It's always great to hit play on a new Incantation album".

October Tide (Frederik Norman from Katatonia along with Matias his brother who also played on Katatonia records, though not on the good ones) has a new one that's really a pleasant surprise to me -- pop-goth melodic death kinda? really nice https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-cancer-pledge

Incantation are gods, of course, but my big pleasant surprise of the day is the Celestial Sanctuary album Insatiable Thirst For Torment. Super heavy chugging death-doom, with some really nice atmospheric guitar and some great song titles ("Glutted with Chunder," "Swivel Eyed and Gurning in the Shadows"). Highly recommended.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/25/whitesnake-guitarist-bernie-marsden-dead

Marsden is really underappreciated. He co-wrote so many great Whitesnake tunes. Those "Here I Go Again" residuals alone, I can't even imagine.

celestial sanctuary sounds up my alley. think I'll throw it on this afternoon to add some spice to cleaning my apartment, paying bills, vacation planning, and similarly brutal tasks.

unsure if this is the right thread but I've really been enjoying this new radiation blackbody record:
https://nervealtar.bandcamp.com/album/dead-seed-planted-in-dead-earth

if you've heard their other records, this one isn't a radical departure. but it rules.

if you haven't heard their other records, it's a drum + bass duo with members of anodyne + defeatist, who I loved. kinda like a very tight set of new instrumental man is the bastard songs.

My label, Burning Ambulance Music, is putting out a record in October that I think many folks here would like. It's by guitarist/composer Diego Caicedo, it's called Seis Amorfismos, and it's extreme metal guitar & vocals paired with a string quartet. Here's the first track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1DC0Ih1YPE

Street date is October 13, but pre-orders will launch on Bandcamp on Friday.

Really digging Vultures Like You, the full-length debut from Portland's Viral Tyrant:

https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/vultures-like-you

Don't let the Ripple label fool you (for those of you who are stoner averse), this is actually pretty grimy sludge and much darker than Ripple's usual fare.

finally listened to the new horrendous today while making a big batch of chili. they've always been good but i think they might've finally made a classic

STOP THE PRESSES

NEW AUTOPSY ALBUM ANNOUNCED

another one? hell yes

It’s not metal, but it’s on a metal-ish label: the new Sprain is out tomorrow and it’s immense.

New Dying Fetus is solid, if a bit generic and underwhelming on first blush. Hope it hits me better on revisiting.

Currently listening to the new Nithing record that was mentioned a little bit up thread and its brand of brootal chaos is fucking hitting the spot for me today.

Gonna queue up the new Blut Aus Nord after this . . .

The Horrendous album has pretty much taken over my AOTY spot. I just love it, it's everything I look for in metal.

I feel the same way about the new molested divinity lol. I can’t stop listening to it. it’s everything I look for in (brootal) metal.

Horrendous sounds like straight from the melodeath era (In Flames, Dark T, Soilwork), I was not expecting this but I'm intrigued.

I had some thoughts on seven new metal albums (Celestial Sanctuary, Cryptopsy, Dead And Dripping, Exmortus, Incantation, Sarmat, and Spirit Adrift)...

lol at having Cryptopsy and a band named after one of their songs in the same article.

very cool!

still need to hear the Exmortus, the Celestial Sanctuary is dope.

Imperial Triumphant just put out a really cool cover of Rush's "Jacob's Ladder". Great choice of song, it suits them very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8geD0Ok_20

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw-mOLOrb-A/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

okay the Fleshvessel album is indeed really good and bonkers in the best way, but would be even better with a real drummer. the programmed drums lack the oomph this needs.

also the last track has more false endings than The Fellowship of the Ring

but I do really love how crazy this is

Doesn't The Fellowship of the Ring have no endings, false or otherwise?

yeah, I guess "false endings" is not correct, it's more like a long, drawn out ending

I don't make a habit of watching interviews with Corey Taylor, but this one, starting at about the 33-minute mark (in case clicking the link doesn't take you right to it), was fascinating for me personally, because I was there during the era he talks about (I worked for Roadrunner Records from 2010-2014):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvtPKBAo9ng

It was all over the minute the label moved from its own offices in lower Manhattan to the Warner Brothers offices in midtown, but I stuck around for another year before I was let go, and it really did seem to get more dismal every day. Nobody around was excited about the records we were putting out — they all wanted to push Panic! at the Disco and Fun.

for those who care Behold... The Arctopus is unveiling a new album at 6pm est that evidently has no drums/synths/amps or distortion involved. I'm guessing it's going to be pretty far out there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y9gP1FMapA

Really wild stuff. Sounds a bit like King Crimson and Autechre on first listen.

Haha that is bonkers, but I kind of love it.

yeah that is cool, have enjoyed it

The Tomb Mold album sounds like two albums playing simultaneously, and frankly I wish someone would turn down the caveman death metal record so I can listen to the jazzy prog fusion record. (There are some serious hooks, though.)

This thing with Harley from the Cro-Mags is kinda nuts:

https://www.wearethepit.com/2023/09/cro-mags-involved-in-brawl-at-show-singer-harley-flanagan-stabbed-and-maced/

Mainly the two stories are so completely different from each other. I don't know what to believe. Harley has not always been a super nice guy but they make him out to be a violent predator lunatic.

Harley has been a violent predator lunatic since the age of 12. He himself would tell you so, assuming you don't work in law enforcement.

for whatever reason i struggled with the last one but this new tomb mold record is perfect

if you can’t handle me at my caveman death metal you don’t deserve me at my jazzy prog fusion

Tomb Mold are a bunch of nerdy sci-fi hippie kids and I love em. I'm so happy to have new music from them.

finally popping it on right now after waiting all day.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

^^^ true

tbh I'm still digesting the new tomb mold and gridlink records. which makes sense, since they both came out yesterday

the production sounds a little off on the gridlink, maybe. I'll play it nice and loud later today and see if that helps.

new cognizant too, with the same drummer:
https://nervealtar.bandcamp.com/album/inexorable-nature-of-adversity

New Tomb Mold sounding fucking killer so far.

Also gonna chip in a recommendation for the Fabricant album that finally came out over a decade after their memorably great (to me at least) demo. It's a fun nest of dense skronky Demilich style tech death.

The GridLink album is a melodeath record played at grindcore speed. It's incredible.

Tomb Mold's "Will of Whispers" is one of the best metal tracks I've heard all year. What a band, they just keep getting better.

this Arcotopus record is just so wonderful. in a less crowded metal landscape it would be making giant waves -- I mean, it's not as severe an outlier as its predecessors in the genre (Cynic and Voivod imo) were when they were new, but it's just so great to hear a band setting arbitrary limitations for the sake of finding something great within them

the clean intro with a bruef but memorable melodic solo on “will of whispers” really caught my attention

also the exhaled growl over that first ringing, jazzy chord makes me laugh, which i also like

xpost

*brief lol

I have tried and repeatedly failed to get past the Tomb Mold vocals, but this Gridlink thing is great, I'll be fine over here.

the production sounds a little off on the gridlink, maybe. I'll play it nice and loud later today and see if that helps.

well, I love the songs on this thing. +1 unperson the melodeath + grind formula is pretty novel. it's fun to just mentally try and keep up with what they're playing, so I'm really really looking forward to seeing them live next month. but there is also a black metal or and justice for all-like lack of low end on the recording too. I just a/b'ed spotify and flac files from bandcamp, and unsurprisingly, the latter sounded more full. I think my solution here will be to never listen to this on spotify, and otherwise, crank up that bass.

Arctopus album is so cool. Someone in the Youtube comments compared it to Univers Zero and I think there's something to that.

The new LP by Angelus Apatrida is one of the best metal LPs I've heard all year. Tight, aggressive thrash accentuated by strong vocal melodies, kind of a cross between Beneath the Remains and early Testament. Absolutely killer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCfydI2I1MI

Was just listening to the Gridlink album and was really puzzled by the quiet quasi-orchestral fills in the song-breaks. Finally realized I hadn't muted the broadcast-not-started-yet loop on the Apple TV app I have open for a soccer game about to start.

Lol

It took me a few tries to adjust my ears to the production on the Gridlink, but yeah, it is totally insane

also the exhaled growl over that first ringing, jazzy chord makes me laugh, which i also like

Ha, just got to this, that is such a good transition

Some new things I'm looking forward to checking out:

Undergang (crusty old school death):
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/de-syv-stadier-af-ford-rv

Temperance (symphonic metal with vocal harmonies):
https://temperance.bandcamp.com/album/hermitage-darumas-eyes-pt-2

Malokarpatan (Eastern European folk/thrash black metal):
https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/vertumnus-caesar

undergang are pretty high on my list of stuff that seems like it should be right up my alley but never really clicks. but… i will dutifully try again… i do like the cover art…

Another voice to say that the Tomb Mold is exactly my kind of death metal. Atmospheric and on the "spiritual" side, but also chops and chugs.

I was really impressed by the Tomb Mold review Pitchfork had the other day, but man I really don't agree with Currin's review of the new Baroness. Like at all.

Yeah, he's completely off base. Stone is a fucking great record. Currin's smart, but he often thinks he knows better than the artists he's reviewing and when he goes that route, he's usually wrong.

The new Cannibal Corpse album is...good but not great. There are a couple of amazing songs, which have already been released as singles, and the rest is up to their usual standard but the album feels really short (39 minutes, feels like less) and ends very abruptly. The last song could have used a fade, but instead it just ends.

the super clean and jazzy parts of that Tomb Mold record remind me of another band, but i can't quite place who it is ... clean and jazz not being my area of expertise, by any means. help? i'm not even sure if it's another metal band or some other style ...

Neptunian Maximalism?

Atheist? Cynic?

Dream Unending (the guitarist's other band)?

Orthodox?

certainly Dream Unending, though that's not the imaginary band in my head ... Cynic/Atheist seem too heavy for what I'm thinking. I should revisit that NepMax album.

i thought, 'maybe this is what Animal as Leaders sounds like' but then i listened to Animal as Leaders and that's not quite right.

maybe it's just cool Tomb Mold jams and i should not worry about it.

Would I be wrong to throw Sweven and Morbus Chron amongst these?

Australian deathcore band Thy Art Is Murder released their new album today, and along with it an announcement — not only have they kicked out their singer, who was apparently a transphobic piece of shit, but they wiped his vocals and brought in a new guy.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6ptSJVWcAA5MER.jpg

Partial quote from the above:

Our new album "Godlike" is now available worldwide digitally with an unforeseen change - Chris McMahon is no longer a part of Thy Art Is Murder and does not feature on the record.

We understand that this may come as a surprise and we want to assure you that this decision was made to preserve the band's integrity and direction.

What transpired over the past month was not the cause of this action, but just another symptom of the drawn out breakdown in his character and judgment. The straw that broke the camel's back if you will.

Long story short, the fallout has been immense. We were lobbed with threats to destroy Thy Art Is Murder from the inside if we did not capitulate to various ideologies that he holds.

Everyone has their own right to free speech and to seek their truth; they are also free to receive the consequences that come with it.

new desecresy

https://xtreemmusic.bandcamp.com/album/deserted-realms

i knew i was in good hands when it kicked off with mandy (the movie) sounds

What’s the story with Blue Grape Music? Looks like it’s mostly ex-Roadrunner people, with ex-Roadrunner bands. They’ve got the new one from Code Orange, which was recorded by Steve Albini and sounds nothing like a Steve Albini recording.

Moonlight Sorcery full-length is out today. The Dan Swanö production is much more polished and power metal-sounding than the EPs. Liking it so far, especially "Into the Silvery Shadows of Night"

https://moonlightsorcery.bandcamp.com/album/horned-lord-of-the-thorned-castle

xp wasn't Blue Grape Roadrunner's merch company back in the day? would be curious for the story behind the label.

NEW CORRUPTED SONG

https://corrupted1994.bandcamp.com/track/mushikeras

!!!!

it is almost boring how reliably brilliant Ayloss is. new Auriferous Flame is yet another masterpiece

https://auriferousflame.bandcamp.com/album/ardor-for-black-mastery

New Judas Priest album in March:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwC_KNT24kU

If the music in the teaser is indicative of the record as a whole, it's gonna be Turbo II... and honestly, I'm up for that.

Definitely hear a Turbo style gloss to it! I'm all-in if that's the case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQh2xNa_Bv4

Glorious. Wow.

New Priest above. I was so excited I used a New Zealand VPN to hear it, so it should be working soon, whatever time zone you're in.

ffs, just found out that my friend and former poster of this parish Sean Boyles aka SeanWayne (drummer of Hellbeard and various bands) passed away yesterday.

He will be sorely missed.

https://i.imgur.com/rkXFo9o.jpg

I remember him. RIP. Way too young.

He was a great guy. He did comedy clubs too. His grandaughter posted on fb yesterday, she's utterly heartbroken. He adored her.

am taking my youngest spawn to damnation festival this year, he's a total metalhead now so this is like an early christmas present for him. other than the obvious though, i don't really know anything about these bands. what's good?

https://louderthanwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/377508819_7563068373707296_2260504728296247621_n-768x389.jpg

Not sure which are obvious to you, but I would absolutely be ready to see Sigh, Amenea, Bossk, Anaal Nathrakh. Ahab, Khemmis and of course Enslaved and Electric Wizard.

Haven't heard Coffin Mulch, but dig the name.

cool, thank you! I did randomly check coffin mulch out and they're pretty cool imo.

I would be most excited to see Electric Wizard, Enslaved (especially the night they're playing Below The Lights), Akercocke (even though they got me in trouble), Khemmis, and especially Deadguy (a reunited noise-rock band from the 90s). Unearth are a melodic death metal/metalcore band whose songs are catchy and fist-pumpy, and based on a few songs on YouTube High Command are good, knuckle-walking thrash/metalcore.

Oh, and Rotten Sound are great! Finnish grindcore in a Napalm Death-ish vein. Very shouty.

Appreciate that, thanks! High Command is one of the things my son has been going on about, so I'm sure we'll be checking them out

I'm a total Katatonia amd Enslaved nerd. Julie Christmas would be killer, she's so underrated and I heard loads of great things about her set at Roadburn 2022.

Oh, and the nattily clad Akercocke, too.

My mate is the vocalist of Coffin Mulch. He also runs the record label At War With False Noise.

Sorry to hear about SeanWayne. I remember seeing him in these threads way back.

What can you tell me about Messa? Seeing them Sunday.

My mate is the vocalist of Coffin Mulch. He also runs the record label At War With False Noise.

oh nice, i did see they were from glasgow, definitely want to see them play

xpost - Hmm, they rule? Seriously though, great and unique doom band. Sara is an absolutely stellar vocalist.

What can you tell me about Messa? Seeing them Sunday.

They're great. I reviewed their most recent album for The Wire:

Messa
Close
Svart CD/DL/LP
Italy’s Messa came out of the gate strong and have steadily pushed at the limitations of doom and occult rock, challenging themselves and their listeners in a way that aligns them more with experimentalists like Spain’s Orthodox than with trad acts seeking nothing more than to sound like their favourite Ozzy-era Black Sabbath bootlegs. Their 2016 debut Belfry ran the gamut from rumbling drone tracks (“Alba”) via Danzig meets Heart anthems (“Hour Of The Wolf”) to the astonishing “Blood”, a nearly 11 minute track that pushed vocalist Sara Bianchin’s voice through a rack of effects while making room for eerie, warped clarinet and saxophone solos.

Messa’s second album, 2018’s Feast For Water, was more focused but just as powerful. Bianchin had become a much more powerful singer, capable of haunted wailing and gentle murmurs. The eight minute “Leah” transitioned smoothly from a thunderous doom riff to crooned, almost Mazzy Star-ish vocals over gentle, haunting electric piano – then the guitars came back in, with bonus spaghetti western twang to give it all that much more epic sweep. Drummer Rocco Toaldo’s mastery of space and dynamics anchored the music, driving it while allowing it to feel like it was expanding and contracting naturally, on its own.

Close is the band’s first album for Finland’s Svart label. It starts right up, with no preamble beyond a few seconds of keyboard before the riff to “Suspended” comes crashing in. Bianchin’s voice floats in a cloud of reverb, surrounded at first by massively distorted guitars and later by cleaner tones; the first big surprise comes when the solo is not a Tony Iommi-esque explosion, but a gentle Pat Martino-like jazz reverie.

The next track “Dark Horse” might feature the fastest tempo in the entire Messa catalogue to date; at one point, Bianchin lets out an exultant yelp. “Rubedo” vacillates between crushing whomp and a delicate, sardonic melody (and arena-ready guitar solo) worthy of Blue Öyster Cult, and the saxophone returns, forcefully, on the nearly 11 minute “0 = 2” as the band galumph along. Messa prove that doom is far from beholden to tradition; indeed, it’s wide open territory.

new Afterbirth today!

oh god i love this new priest song

I feel like my great grandkids are gonna be raving about new Priest and Maiden.

Crazy how good both bands have stated this late into their lives

New track indeed fire

always been a huge Turbo (and not huge but way more than most) Ram It Down fan so this fits the bill nicely

The new Priest earns that epic intro.

they better release the Stock Aitken Waterman tracks as bonus tracks.

someone has to release the full track of their cover of You are Everything, dammit

like this is the best thing ever but i want it all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL1JFybK9FE

Love the new Dream Unending tracks. To continue from the Tomb Mold discussion upthread, they're kinda like a Tomb Mold with the ratio of death metal to jazzy prog fusion reversed.

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

I'm sure the new Temperance album is going to take over much of my attention once I let it, but for the moment I'm enjoying a little obsessive looping of this amazing Sister Shotgun song:

https://open.spotify.com/track/0CofWYL9PCd2t67WdksS1I

fundraiser for Sean's family.

https://gofund.me/ad5dbc16

hey prolly a longshot, but: in '84 (pretty sure of year) Kerrang! ran a vicious, very short pan of an early Voivod (i think War and Pain, but maybe Rrroooaarr), and i'm trying to find a scan of it, or the text, or ha-ha a pointer to a library that might let me go through Kerrang! archives

also, nice to see names i remember after a long time away. hope you've all been well, at least by 2020s standards

also also brand new cirith ungol!? i'm unreasonably excited

Welcome back.

Messa was pretty good last night. Great vocals, though that's not the only thing that makes the group standout. I could imagine them really cracking the code and coming up with something even cooler in the near future.

can't deal with new Temperance singer

The new Afterbirth album is so fucking good. I wish I could review it for The Wire.

Hey summervillain!

https://64.media.tumblr.com/8956a63c7555bbb6c23a647b35dc5499/tumblr_n2p2hwwwxk1qfnqgvo1_1280.jpg

oh wow, thank you! that is amazing. I think it was actually the Mr X review that I saw waaaay back when, but I think this will work for my purposes if I can't find the original slagging.

so OF COURSE I'm playing War & Pain now, for the first time in a while, and didn't Kerrang! usually love Motorhead? coz I hear a lot of Motorhead influence...

Just from that selection Adrien posted, I'm wondering if Kerrang! even liked metal back then?

extreme metal was extreme then, they were probably still clutching Raven and Saxon tightly

XR = Xavier Russell. He has a famous dad.

He eventually became the thrash metal guy

Bertrand Russell?

lol, no

Never mind Bathory, more like Bath Plughole

hahaha

aside from that zinger for the ages, I cant say that made me particularly nostalgic for that era of music criticism

SO many people hated Voivod in 1984. Including 14 year-old me!!! I came around a few years later.

I remain unconverted.

:: The new Afterbirth album is so fucking good. I wish I could review it for The Wire.

if i pause this at random moments coz i have to run to a meeting when i come back i can very briefly mistake it for Discipline-era-KC or even Synchronicity-era-Police
...so yes into the shopping cart we go

New Job For A Cowboy song — new album in February:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ZRjEdIOGo

I've always liked these guys, and their journey from knuckle-walking deathcore to Decrepit Birth-ish prog-death has been weird and fascinating.

Can't say I always liked them, but I really did like Sun Eater. Kinda figured these guys were done for good after a decade, excited for that new one.

since i’m a simpleton, i think i’ll give a slight edge to the previous afterbirth after a few spins of the new one. i do get a little bored with parts of the second side. but this stuff rips and they’re easily one of long island’s greatest achievements, up there with disgustingly enormous portions of cheese-drenched pasta and mariah carey.

Starting to feel like a defining characteristic of recent death metal is how catchy the non-heavy parts of songs are. The new Afterbirth sounds like two bands with their own influences fighting for the spotlight. Felt the same about the recent Tomb Mold. I love metal, but almost wish these groups would trash the monster vox and just completely give in to their Cynic or, like, 80s King Crimson urges.

I guess I should have said "I love death metal" there, not to imply either band wouldn't be "metal" if they did that.

I love metal, but almost wish these groups would trash the monster vox and just completely give in to their Cynic or, like, 80s King Crimson urges.

This is how I've felt about Enslaved for a decade or more. The harsh vocals are basically a vestigial organ at this point; they should drop 'em and go full prog.

2 thoughts, nearly contradictory
i like plenty of metal this is just pure no-hyphens, but most of the stuff I love BEST fits only uneasily in its primary style.
i appreciate some metal vocal styles more when i don't think of them as singing, but a weird gnarly instrument that happens to be built-in

man the Afterbirth is great because of its contrasts - there was a while where 'avantgarde' death metal bands were forgetting to hit you in the mouth with riffs but Afterbirth do that and then create dream-like sequences as beautiful as any art-rock band and it doesn't sound jarring or gimmicky. loved their last one, really love this one.

]] man the Afterbirth is great because of its contrasts

yeah, I don't think it would be nearly as interesting as a pure prog record. that sense that you don't know which direction it will come from next is a lot of what makes it fun for me.

i appreciate some metal vocal styles more when i don't think of them as singing, but a weird gnarly instrument that happens to be built-in

This is precisely why I love brutal death metal — a) the vocals are just another sound and b) the almost-always-terrible lyrics are rendered incomprehensible.

This is precisely why I love brutal death metal — a) the vocals are just another sound and b) the almost-always-terrible lyrics are rendered incomprehensible.

yep. I also like that I can listen while working and not get distracted by the lyrics.

man the Afterbirth is great because of its contrasts - there was a while where 'avantgarde' death metal bands were forgetting to hit you in the mouth with riffs but Afterbirth do that and then create dream-like sequences as beautiful as any art-rock band and it doesn't sound jarring or gimmicky. loved their last one, really love this one.

agreed about the contrasts but the last record had em too! in a less a/b way tho

Century Media has put a bunch of their catalog up on Bandcamp. It's being handled by the European side (the prices are in Euro) and seems a little haphazard right now — not every album by every band, but usually just their first 2-3 releases. Presumably more to come. And now I'm listening to old Arch Enemy albums for the first time in forever. Doomsday Machine is a fucking great album.

https://centurymedia.bandcamp.com/music

good god, my late teen years resurrected. thanks for the head's up.

There's a new Doro album out today that includes a cover of "Total Eclipse of the Heart," sung as a duet with Rob Halford.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DguMk2Hze1E

Can't top Bonnie Tyler, but I like it!

dang, body count's "carnivore" is pretty slammin' imho. (didn't make it into the "YES, THAT, NOW" first cartful of century media stuff, now I'm going back through the 20 or so tabs I opened to check out, thanks unperson.)

New Autopsy doesn't hit me as immediately as the last one but it's still quality.

I like this https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-dialogue-with-the-eeriest-sublime

fwiw it's really the final 2 songs that deliver that elusive combo of weird (delicate flute: check; neoclassical more than prog?) thorny, but melodic that push it into "buy" for me

The story at the top of this month's Stereogum metal column is really great. A band whose just slightly too-late sound doomed them to obscurity in the early 90s now achieves success via sync licensing. Good for them.

(Also, in a surprise to me, one of the releases on my label is written up as a bonus at the end of the column!)

which one is yours?

Diego Caicedo's Seis Amorfismos.

https://diegocaicedo.bandcamp.com/album/seis-amorfismos

I like it!

getting a lot of love elsewhere but this is pretty excellent https://ragana.bandcamp.com/album/desolations-flower

I love Ragana so much.

Diego Caicedo's Seis Amorfismos.

https://diegocaicedo.bandcamp.com/album/seis-amorfismos

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this is wild and awesome

i think you will hate this reference haha but there are little bits that remind me of LULU where the modern classical strings are droning

totally forgot there's new Suffocation tomorrow!

Xoth drops a new one tomorrow as well

the new Tetragrammacide going for track titles of the year award. also sounds fantastic

https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/tetragrammacide-typho-tantric-aphorisms-from-the-arachneophidian-quran

oh shit, love Xoth!

Wow, this Tetragrammacide album is amazing (and has given me a new username).

lol

I'd been consciously avoiding the new Suffocation album, because no Frank? No interest. But I checked it out this morning and it's really fucking good. Some amazingly shredtastic guitar solos. And the new singer sounds enough like Frank that it's not a jarring transition. Now, does he do jazz hands live? That's the crucial question.

yeah I really dig the new Suffocation. definitely had an issue w/ no Frank the first time, but I am a Disgorge fan so I like Ricky.

might be the most vitality I've heard out of them in years, but I liked the last one a lot too.

the last one never really clicked but i LOVED pinnacle (aside from the cover). “sullen days,” “eminent wrath”… that’s good shit.

still gotta check the new one out. seeing them tomorrow tho. franks lawng island banter will be missed for sure.

I only got to see Frank with the band once, and the experience was somewhat hampered by a bad eye infection i had, but otm with his banter being missed. Ricky doesn't do much, I miss hearing "I love youse guys"

The one time I saw them his adult daughter was hanging out at the side of the stage, so we got some proud-dad banter and the revelation that "Breeding the Spawn" was about her, which was hilarious.

My mistake; he didn't say the song was about her, he just dedicated it to her.

hahahaha love it

the Xoth did not disappoint. \m/

how many calories are in these riffs, my ears are gaining weight

New Vastum drops today, one of the better death-metal bands currently operating, IMO:

https://vastum.bandcamp.com/album/inward-to-gethsemane

i like them, particularly their last two, but opted not to pick up yet, simply cos I'm slow to listen to anything lately. but maybe I"ll give a listen.

lol at the Incantation parody title

I listened to their previous one a lot. This one seems at least as good on first listen.

Out of curiosity - anyone itt ever order stuff direct from Nuclear Blast? I pre-ordered a few things months ago, with the latest street-date for them being October 27th, but still nothing has been shipped. Perhaps more worryingly, I can't get a response to my email asking for an update. Is this fairly typical for them? Not a big deal if something slipped back or there's a longer delay, just would be nice to have any kind of communication from them.

Yeah, I've bought things from them before — when they reissued the Earthless catalog I bought just about everything. But I think they might have changed webstores since then...and I don't remember them being super communicative, no.

Decibel's top 40 albums of 2023 have been posted:

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2023/11/16/spoiler-here-are-decibels-top-40-albums-of-2023/

Surprised not to see the Godflesh album on there.

This is the fewest I've heard of the Decibel top 40 like ever. That's not a brag, just a weird observation.

I've only heard 10, but four of them were on the list I submitted to The Wire. (I decided to submit an all-metal top 10 for their critics' poll this year.)

I've heard a couple of these. I've mainly defected to power metal.

Solid #1.

might need to see a urologist

looool

https://weirdsciencemarvelcomics.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/iceman-2-featured-image.jpg

Ha!

But yes, shocked by the lack of Godflesh. And KEN Mode.

that ken mode album cover makes me want to crawl out of my skin

re: that Decibel list, I'm kinda shocked to have heard 22 of them.

Nice to see the love for Fires in the Distance and that album by The Keening. Kind of surprised to see the Krieg album that high, it's fine I guess, but really nothing special. Surprised not to see Hellripper, Ulthar or Moonlight Sorcery (haven't heard the new LP yet, but it seems these guys were all the rage) on the list.

Another new Judas Priest song, and yeah, this one rules, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n5aFASWfDA

that's an earworm and a half

Oh yes: new Madder Mortem single today, new album in January!