the occasional thread for mean, nasty, ugly, evil metal that doesn't smell good and that takes itself way too seriously

if you have a problem with "cookie monster" vocals go somewhere else and fuck off and die!

but know that i love you.

You're going to hell, Scott. And there your innards will be carved out by cannibalistic demons and boiled in old shoe laces and then force-fed to you for eternity.

true or false: ganzmord's monolithic in darkness album is the black metal album of the year.

answer: TROO!

Judging by the songs on that myspace, that doesn't really sound evil or scary. It kind of sounds like my TV is broke and someone is working on the street outside.

So has the rolling metal thread balkanized? I must check in again.

i didn't say it was scary. i said that joe wolfe is one of the finest goregrind singers on earth. and it IS evil. PURE evil. you'll realize it later when YOU DROP DEAD FROM FRIGHT later tonight.

I've been listening to the new DHG. I like the weird parts, but the actual black metal parts are too thinly produced, especially the drum sound. It's kind of cool, but I'm not as in love with it as the rest of the metal dudes on here seem to be.

When does the rolling boogie rock thread start?

DHG don't belong on this thread. they make pop music. i like that album though. i listen to it when i'm doing my nails.

MORE anal nun rape answers please! enough messing around.

Sorry! How about these guys:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre700/e748/e74871lks4k.jpg

They're called Accidental Suicide, the album is titled Deceased, it's from 1992, the cover art was done by the bassist from Cradle of Filth, and they're on Grind Core records. Lots of cookie monster growling and killer guitar solos.

Also, I got it for a dollar.

DOLLAR GORE RULES.

MORE BLOOD.

MORE DEATH.

MORE SEVERED LIMBS.

MORE DESTRUCTION.

So has the rolling metal thread balkanized? I must check in again.

-- Ned Raggett, Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:45 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i think i ruined it my posting abt the scorpions

nah, nobody really did anything. just seems like there aren't that many people on there who like blood-soaked mayhem and death and wholesale slaughter that much. i like tons of senseless repetitive third-rate death metal that wouldn't know a hook or a melody from a gaping chest wound! but whenever i hear anything frilly and pretty i'll be sure to post about it on the girl metal thread. i mean the rolling metal thread. :)

I can't wait for a new Wormed album. That's all I've got for this thread, sorry. :(

I've been listening to the new Watain a bit more, and while I still like it a lot, I can't say they're doing anything really fascinating that Immortal weren't doing back at the turn of the millennium. I hope this new Glorior Belli is good, though, because I have a lot of faith in French black metal right now and I'd hate for them to be the band to blow their home country's winning streak.

this is as ugly as it gets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlEyIG7a5sQ

i don't like that video. who's the old dude playing piano? is that lavender's dad? and how old is lavender for that matter? she looks like she's pushing 40 and twee-pop from an old lady ain't cute it just makes you look like ellen's old boss on ellen's old sitcom. the one who always wore pink. the one with the annoying voice.

loving the reissue of old dead conspiracy demos. punk teens from portland oregon making a sloppy speed metal racket. singer rules!

http://www.blackmetal.com/scans0706/deadcon.jpg

also digging:

http://www.beowolfproductions.com/NunSlaughter-Goat.jpg

http://www.beowolfproductions.com/EvilIncarnate-WaitingForHisReturn.jpg

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/754985.jpg

and:

http://www.blackmetal.com/scans0706/atomizer_songs.jpg

yay a thread for people like me, run by people like me, talking about music made for people like me!

They're called Accidental Suicide, the album is titled Deceased, it's from 1992, the cover art was done by the bassist from Cradle of Filth, and they're on Grind Core records. Lots of cookie monster growling and killer guitar solos.

i 'knew' those dudes via tape-trading, i'm pretty sure (i have their demo around somewhere, unlabelled with no cover so it usually takes a listen to remember what the fuck it is). did eric greif produce that? he produced fucking everything from that scene (milwaukee area) - morbid saint, morta skuld, viogression...

also i just got coffins "other side of blasphemy." plug ugly autopsy/winter/c. frost worship. and the tondra/nordic mist split, two bands featuring nunslaughter and minch (!) members, both seemingly named after drink mixers, both sounding more or less like celtic frost.

oh yeah, and entety "cadaveric necrogrind" is like carcass without the brains. or with the brains SPLATTERED ON YER FUCKIN WALL.

"and the tondra/nordic mist split"

hahaha, it's funny, isn't it! and fucking demented.

seriously though, do you want NOISE!!!!??? the Ganzmord album will fuck your ears until you are BLIND! so cool.

http://www.negativityrecords.com/images/icons/ganzmord.monolithic.web.jpg

xp: it is pretty fucking funny, actually, especially the way NM dicks up the vocals every third line. but he has the TG cadence fucking down, plus the occasional WTF? misuse of an english word.

will have to check out ganzmord

and on the basement bm tip, you could do worse than japan's endless dismal moan. very very cool indeed.

http://www.negativityrecords.com/images/icons/edm-lon.web.jpg

anyone like SCEPTER? or are you all PUSSIES?

Black eyes stare at the sun
Burning wheel in the sky
Frozen hearts turn to fire
(As) sunset bleeds into night
Energy bolts for power and spell
Are harnessed from death and despair
Weapons of war are begging for blood
UNLEASH THE FUCKING SLAYER!

Never lost never drawn
Never to be guiled
Harder than tempered steel
Born to lose live to win
Fuck'em till you die
Your only thought is to kill
When you're obsessed by metal

Slave and master side by side
Or one beneath the other
Only one of them can have the power
Whether by the demons
Or of the burning sword
They say the same get on your knees
And suck your fucking lord

Obsessed by metal
Obsessed by death
Obsessed by black desire
Obsessed by power beyond my control
Obsessed by fucking fire
Obsessed by fury
Obsessed by hatred
Obsessed by vengeance and lust
Fuck off and die 'cause we gotta live
WE ARE OBSESSED BY METAL

singer is now in HELLREALM. they're this-thread, too.

pretty cool mp3 up on ganzmord's site from the ganzmord/dodsferd split. the split is cool, but dodsferd ends up sounding like a rockabilly act after ganzmord's half.

http://www.ganzmord.com/

if you were gonna actually BUY one, i would say buy the monolithic album. which is an old demo and new stuff. it makes me want to kill rabbits with my bare hands!!

el sabor, are you down with the New Wave Of Latino Thrash? i am. they rule. and they don't give a SHIT about ANYTHING except thrash fuckin' metal.

merciless death:

http://www.myspace.com/mercilessdeath

fueled by fire:

http://www.myspace.com/fueledbyfire

violator:

http://www.myspace.com/viothrash

eternal devastation:

http://www.myspace.com/eternaldevastationthrash

sociofobia:

http://www.myspace.com/sociofobia

wardeath:

http://www.myspace.com/wardeaththrash

slaver:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=74397371

crucifier:

http://www.myspace.com/crucifiergreece

comando nuclear:

http://www.myspace.com/comandonuclear

witchaven:

http://www.myspace.com/witchaven

street force:

http://www.myspace.com/streetforcethrash

infantry:

http://www.myspace.com/thrashtokill

warbringer:

http://www.myspace.com/warbringer

hatchet:

http://www.myspace.com/hatchet2006

sakrificer:

http://www.myspace.com/sakrificer

malicious assault:

http://www.myspace.com/maliciousassault

a couple of those might not actually be cali or south american thrash, but they might as well be!

i love the Merciless Death album. those dudes are on fire. their influences:

The following bands in no particular order : Slayer - Exodus - Anthrax - Testament - Death Angel - Dark Angel - Possessed - Vio-Lence - Exumer - Voivod - Kreator - Destruction - Sodom - Venom - Sepultura - Nasty Savage - Nuclear Assault - Overkill - Metal Church - Sabbat (UK)- Sabbat (Jap)- Mortal Sin - Exciter - Annihilator - Agent Steel - D.R.I. - Celtic Frost - Iron Angel - Assassin - Sacrifice - Slaughter (Canada) - Acid Reign - Korzus - Coroner - Darkness - Paradox - Blessed Death - Deathrow - Artillery - Razor - Heathen - Forbidden - Death (Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy) - Necronomicon - Sarcofago - M.O.D. - Exorcist - Devastation - Whiplash - Vendetta - Blood Feast - Morbid Saint - Powerlord - Vulcano - Accuser - Apocalypse - Coven - Onlaught - Atomkraft - Sentinel Beast - Hell Bastard - Gothic Slam - Evil Dead - Flotsam and Jetsam - Hirax - Viking - Laaz Rockit - Abbatoir - Num Skull - Deathwish - Mutilator - Destructor - Torture - Violent Force - Kublai Khan - Slaughter Lord - Rigor Mortis - S.O.D. - Sadus - Virus (UK Thrash) - Sacred Reich - Anacrusis - Mercenary (Bay Area) - Acrophet - Dream Death - Poison (Germany) - Warrant (Germany) - Mercyful Fate - Morbid Angel - Deicide WE ARE VINYL/CD/CASSETTE/VHS COLLECTORS OF ALL THE BANDS WE HAVE LISTED!

Hrmm, so uhh, is it just me or is that Ganzmord song basically polka with some chaotic grindy bits between verses? I guess it doesn't swing enough for that to be quite true, but this song is way too happy to be evil. I did like the Bad Brains section. Could do without the Death-style bridge.

I think there's something in me that in effect strips off all the noise and screaming and takes the melody/beat to the fore. This kind of sucks, because it makes a lot of these evil bands sound surprisingly happy. Often rockabilly-like (Heretic come to mind)
Maybe I've simply lost my black metal listening-skills. [insert bit about "faggots don't like $band it hurts their pussys"]
I just don't feel the grim any more!
I did consider going to see Nunslaughter live, but suspect I'd be sick of it in 10 minutes, just like I was with the (admittedly funny) live record I used to have.

So, fuck it all. Thrash is where it's at. I'm gonna go put on some Terror Squad! Discö bloody discö!

ganzmord makes me happy! there is some GREAT noise on the album. i still like the stuff from the split though too. the stuff from the demo on the album is the most over-the-top skreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee noise. in a year, he'll probably be scoring operas and forming bm supergroups.

also digging archival french speed from 84:

http://www.hellsheadbangers.com/accelerationprocess.jpg

DOLLAR GORE RULES.

How about free gore? My husband did security at one of the Metal Fests in Milwaukee (Hawkwind, do you live there?) eons ago and came home with a stack of free CDs. One title I'll never forget was Inbreeding The Anthropophagi (had to look up "anthropophagi") by Deeds of Flesh who might be too girlie for this thread. Also remember a song called "Chunks in the Shower" which AMG tells me is by Deeds of Flesh as well. But other "chunks" titles came up and I came across this album by one Broken Hope:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dcfwxq9hld6e

Titles seem promising beyond "She Came Out In Chunks": "Coprophagia" (know that word!), "Hobo Stew," "Decimated Genitalia," and, my favorite, "Felching Vampires." No nun rape, though, unless "Preacher of Sodomy" preaches thusly. And you gotta love that parental advisory sticker.

Aside: you should check out nunsploitation cinema if you haven't already. Start with Alucarda and then move your way down. I can't get enough of the stuff.

Hey my buddy's in a pretty good Mexican thrash band:

http://www.myspace.com/muertevilla

ahh, scott - i'm so glad you dig morsure, i mentioned them on rolling metal and no one seemed to give a shit. that album's fucking great. i said it somewhere else and i'll say it here: the metal urbain of thrash.

going to have to check out the latino thrash links later, but i remember in the late 80s when the mexican dudes started getting into the scene in a big way, some killer bands and many of them didn't get past the demo stage. sadistic intent and nausea/terrorizer did, though.

I was listening to Karma Bloody Karma by Cattle Decapitation yesterday - does that count or are they too pussy for this thread, I mean they are vegans and everything?

The Morsure is rad! I only just got it, which is why i couldn't comment before.

a lot of the non-Cali thrash bands are from Brazil. Like Slaver:

http://a884.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01385/38/86/1385836883_l.jpg

http://a450.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00731/94/45/731945449_l.jpg

i dig cattle decapitation. i don't care if they are vegan. it's not like i can tell they are vegan from the music. and even if they sucked, they would always be classic just for this:

http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/files/2006/07/az_1478_Humanure_Cattle%20Decapitation.jpg

OMGLOL. I haven't seen that one before.

japanese hentai-inspired goregrind is the best kind of hentai-inspired goregrind:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2OXKogY0zz8

amoebic dysentery:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hk8cZ2LVBQA&mode=related&search=

-vs-

pulmonary fibrosis:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7N4DyWEPFk4&mode=related&search=

dammit man i was about to go get lunch 3xpost

herman neuname wrote on the other metal thread:

"I bought the Whitehorse 2xCD from 20 Buck Spin."

i like it. i'd never heard whitehorse before. they do the ugly epic doom thing very well. i might like that monarch! double cd on crucial blast more though. maybe.

you know what i REALLY like is the stormcrow/sanctum split that 20 buck spin sent me. but i'm a sucker for a d beat. stormcrow and sanctum call their music WAR CRUST. which is a great tag. i wonder what last fm would come up with if i typed that in.

also got the new one from Forgotten Woods. from Norway. first album in over 10 years! they must have gotten lost in those woods. or they forgot to make a record. in the woods. i'm sad that oystein doesn't feel the grim anymore :( that means that geir is the lone grim Norwegian on ilm. and that is really sad!

Putrid Pile you guys

seriously

at MDF dude was unfuckinghinged and made noises without any vocal effects that were, 'ow you say, SIIIIIIIIIIIICK

Putrid Pile have a new album coing out on the ever-loveable Goregiastic Records:

http://www.goregiasticrecords.com/

that new Forgotten Woods album is pretty fucked. Kinda mellow for this thread though. They must smoke a lot of pot. What kind of pot do you get in Norway?

oh man Foetopsy's on Goregiastic - they were one of my favorites at MDF, their album isn't breakin' a lot of ground but it sure is breakin' a lot of grind har har har! fuckin' love those guys

got Moribund mail yesterday too. new Drawn And Quartered album sounds nice. MERCILESS HAMMER OF LUCIFER! also new Hacavitz which i'm looking forward to and new Godless Rising featuring dudes from Vital Remains.

have you heard the new Drawn And Quartered, John? i would think you would like it.

got the latest issue of SOD in the mail the other day too. kinda disappointed that Lordi were on the cover. And also kinda disappointed that the cd was just a southern lord sampler. they usually have great death label comps. oh well. still a great issue overall of one of my fave mags.

haven't heard it, no - feel like I saw it though! will poke around

the thing about Foetopsy that makes them great though is that they don't take themselves seriously AT ALL - dude was wearing a belt made up of tampons onstage

dud of the week: seizure crypt album. dudes trying to revive old skool (but not that old) NYHC but it's really anemic. don fury production and all that, but so flat. half sung/half rapped (kinda) shit. i'd rather listen to judge. or madball. or sick of it all. definitely did NOT provide the "unbridled crossover ferocity" that it advertised. where's my token entry reunion! (there probably was one. what the hell do i know? i think everyone has reunited four times by now.)

NYHC is so often anaemic and weak if it's not done right. I can see why a lot of HC fans just write off the whole genre. I mean I do most of the time! I like old Agnostic Front though. Their 3rd album sucked so much shit I never bothered with anything after.

I will be downloading Foetopsy :)

finally getting around to the Vital Remains's Icons of Evil...fuck do I ever love this band

not as great as "Dechristianize" yet but we'll see

fucking GUITAR SOLOS up in this bitch, proper stuff

i love the first two agnostic front albums too. cause for alarm is so awesome. wish i still had a copy. it's been so long since i heard the third album. i don't think i hated it. it was metallic, i remember that.

It was metallic but in a really feeble and powerless way. Like a lot of crossover. Even good crossover stuff like DRI and COC has songs that just fall flat and 3rd AF is a whole album of that.

I'm not a big crossover fan though, in general.

I tend to like "proper" hardcore punk, or thrash metal, much more than most attempts to combine the two.

I like Cryptic Slaughter a lot. And Dead Horse.

this hacavitz is the shit. drummer is just going nuts. i love that they recorded it as a duo. very very cool album so far.

honestly, this is probably my favorite crossover album of all time and i know people who HATE it with a passion:

http://xclaim.com/images/hwr.gif

i mean, i can't even tell you how many times i've played that album. 500 times? i do love dri, but my love for their early days knows no bounds.

i guess i wasn't really that much of a skate punk fan in the 80's. speaking of which, Mcrad have a new album out.

i took to thrash like a fish to water though.

I've never heard that SSD album. I'm not a huge fan of theirs though, compared to other Boston bands like DYS, Jerry's Kids, Negative FX, Freeze etc.

Hacavitz album is definitely my pick of the week. great black/death action. great riffs. insane drummer. gnarly solos. punk energy and feel. total sweetness. oh, and completely fugly.

"i guess i wasn't really that much of a skate punk fan in the 80's."

although i loved jfa with a passion. there are always exceptions.

You've motivated me to look for How We Rock now. Partly because it's so hated by hardcore punkers!

xpost I'm not a big skate punk fan at all but I do dig JFA and Ill Repute (amongst others)

this might be the first punk record i bought where i thought to myself at the time, hey, this sounds like metal!

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~alr237/kraut_whettingthescythe.jpg

not all of it, but the songs ngri and flossing with an e string especially.

hey, col. poo, have you heard daymares or sss? i have to review their new albums. on the punk tip and all.

http://www.myspace.com/yourdaymares

http://www.myspace.com/shortsharpshock

oh wait i lied i'm not reviewing the sss. though i like the sss album. i am reviewing the new toxic bonkers album though.

http://www.myspace.com/toxicbonkers

Fueled by Fire are boring as shit live. Saw them open for, I think, Municipal Waste, who admittedly will make any band seem boring, but they were still pretty damn boring. Did I mention that they're boring?

SSS, on the other hand, are totally awesome.

Fueled by Fire just signed to Metal Blade, so I don't know what that says about metal blade in 2007.

Although I did like the Middian album, which is doom but doesn't smell good at all.

More dollar death:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre400/e496/e496368zop0.jpg

Also on Grind Core, cover art also by Cradle of Filth dude. Apparently Tipper Gore didn't like these guys in the 80s, but this one is from 1992, with the main guy and some scabs. Crap production (obviously), but it's actually pretty tuneful. The local used record store has tons of Grind Core releases in the dollar bin.

i think the tipper gore hated impaler was the other one, the silly american one.

yeah, this is the tipper Impaler:

http://www.rootofallevil.com/label/bands/impaler/impaler.html

that combat debut has such a great cover. wish i had a copy. tipper gore. i still can't get over that name. so perfect.

http://www.avopolis.gr/metal/reviews/Municipal%20Waste%20-%20Hazardous%20Mutation.JPG

i really like this band a lot. they sound like DRI. and they have a song on this album about Capenter's "The Thing" called..."The Thing".

Antarctica winter 1982 research was going steady, And there was nothing much to do
In the distance a lone wolf flees, But no one knows the carnage that this animal will bring
VIOLENE UNFOLDS
Assaulted by Norwegian guests theyll have to die like all the rest
SEARCHING THROUGH SNOW
Discovering the frozen corpse of something thats not of this earth
THE CREATURE COMES FORTH
An evil makes its presence known attempting to create a clone
NOWHERE TO GO
And something grim is at hand something in this arctic land
The Thing, No one knows the hell it will bring
Its got you from the inside, Its taking over your life
Intensions so unexplained, Until the gets a hold of your brain
Hiding till the damage is done, Killing them off one by one
The sense of fear begins to grow, and no one has protection from this dangerous infection
Their fates in the hands of the unknown, and nerves are quickly blowing while the thing is steadily growing
Whom to trust theyll never now
And nothing can contain a creature of the unexplained
Half the crews dead more to go
Somehow its got to stop and now McReady's getting pissed off
Now theres nothing left to do
Discovering whose human is what this final test will prove
Deadly results are what this test brings
But its the final hope to unveil this gruesome being
VIOLENCE UNFOLDS
The test was the solution now its time for execution
SEARCHING THROUGH SNOW
And now Blair is the last Thing left Hell fight until his dying breath
THE CREATURE COMES FORTH
But this will be the final clash and kills it with a giant blast
NOWHERE TO GO
Our heros fate is finally sealed
The camp is lost The Thing is killed (or is it?)

new album coming out any day now:

http://www.facethewaste.com/aopbig.jpg

awesome.

Impaler do a song called "Black Leather Monster." Is that a cover of The Plasmatics' song on Metal Priestess?

I did a paper on the PMRC in high school and picked the NASTIEST lyrics I could find to quote. I think the winner was a song called "Golden Showers" (I think) by The Mentors. Something about leaving a shit tower on someone's face. It felt sooooooo good writing the phrase "shit tower" in a formal high school paper. My teacher wrote "yuk!" in the margins. I got an A.

lol @ non-zombie regular party shenanigans on far left xpost

All Music said that they were the same Impaler! THEY LIED!

I blame Ned.

the new Blood Freak album on Razorback btw, while not taking itself too seriously (Razorback's kind of a mondo sorta label), is great - good riffs & freaking incredible tone on the solos

troo n0rvegian blek metle

this is my riff of the day:

http://www.myspace.com/lightningswordsofdeath

i like it. i'd never heard whitehorse before. they do the ugly epic doom thing very well. i might like that monarch! double cd on crucial blast more though. maybe.

You might still be able to pick up the 2nd and 3rd live cdrs of Whitehorse(the 1st one is on that 20 buck spin cd).
The Monarch is great. Compiles two vinyl releases and a tour single. Also pick up the 1st double cd "666". It's killer!

Thrash from Colombia:

http://www.myspace.com/ubergehen

http://www.myspace.com/deathhuntercrew

i'm sad that oystein doesn't feel the grim anymore :(
Yes, it's all very terrible. I actually traded my copy of Countess' "Ad maiorem smashing superhits" for a Ruins record this weekend. What has become of me!

(on the plus side, I did hold the fire hire last night be enjoying some fine Sabbat - Satanasword action). Not very mean, nasty, ugly, evil METAL though. Just fun and metal. Maybe a bit evil, eh.)

s/be/by

got an awesome care package from Jerusalem yesterday. really cool stuff on Heart & Crossbone Records:

http://hcbrecords.com/

*Grave In The Sky - Cutlery Hits China: English For The Hearing Impaired*

awesome bass/drum/vocals sludge/doom (very psychedelic)

http://www.myspace.com/graveinthesky

*Lietterschpich - I Cum Blood In The Think Tank!!!!!!!!!!!*

totally fucked noise/weirdness

http://www.myspace.com/doomdub

*Barbera - Peger*

more bass/drums dementia (love this stuff!)

http://www.myspace.com/barbara666

this is exciting music to me. go israel!

other cool stuff on the label:

http://www.myspace.com/poochlatz

http://www.myspace.com/mildew666

http://www.myspace.com/cadavereyes

(and the three albums i got are guitar-free! of the six-string variety anyway.)

is there any point to providing myspace links to stuff? i'm just curious. is it helpful? do people actually check stuff out? i do if it really seems like something i would like. i just wonder if its a waste of time.

These are the kind of people one might see at the guitar store, the music store or anywhere else for that matter and think to oneself, "Man, what a dipshit! Grow up, retard."

Then, one might go home and put on their album and say, "Damn, these guys ROCK!"

xp

i check them out if the description sounds interesting. like later i intend to dig graves in the sky cause that sounds like my bag.

anyway... does kreator count for this thread circa "coma of souls?" i just rebought it on cd and it's pretty killer. but around this point they're starting to look less like guys who'd get arrest for breaking beer bottles in a cemetary and more like guys who paint houses for a living and get arrested for having one spindly weed plant in their back window.

the grave in the sky album is soooooooooooooooo good.

you can certainly talk about kreator here. and sodom and destruction if you'd like.

I don't listen to myspace stuff no, and it's not 'cause I'm a snob - it's 'cause the player doesn't feed to my speakers, and that's how I wanna hear stuff

i just wish everyone could hear how friggin' massive the actual grave in the sky cd is. so loud. seriously, i can't even put the volume up halfway, i'd break my speakers. i love how they get the psychedelic element right in their doom. so hypnotic. and so fierce.

Sometimes it appears as if everyone who likes evil etc metal in the world (and even some who don't) must be in evil etc metal bands. Except for Scott.

should i start one?

It's all up to you. Since you can work alone on computer, it has to be doable.

You'd have to be better than Striborg and Zweiz. People probably even know you better than them, anyway.

if cadaver eyes can do it, why not me?

CADAVER EYES IS A ONE-MAN-GRIND-BAND, THIS IS THE SETUP;

1. OLD SLINGERLAND DRUM SET [3 TOMS, 2 SNARE, DBL BASS PEDAL, A FEW CYMBALS AND BELLS].

2. 3 TRIGGERS [TRIGGER PERFECT], 2 ON THE SNARES AND ANOTHER ON THE BASS DRUM
+2 CYMBAL TRIGGER [VISU LITE BLACK].

3. DMPRO [THE TRIGGERS ARE CONNECTED TO THIS BOX].

4. ENSONIQ ASR 10R SAMPLER [CONNECTED TO THE DM PRO].

5. DIGI-TECH WHAMMY PEDAL [CONNECTED TO ONE OF THE OUTS OF THE SAMPLER].

6. COMPRESSOR [ALESIS SHYTE].

why do people hate on striborg so much, I kinda dig it

i like striborg. i haven't heard nefaria but i like the other one southern lord did, i dig his defiant use of as few notes as possible. like he's so into the first one he doesn't really want to get off it but knows technically it isn't a riff otherwise.

Defiant use of as few notes as possible. Almost makes it sound like he's just playing "Louie Louie" instead of the trash that's on the CD. I bet Striborg can't actually play "Louie Louie." He would self-destruct.

http://warehouse.carlh.com/article_141/lolmetal_03.jpg

http://warehouse.carlh.com/article_141/lolmetal_01.jpg

http://warehouse.carlh.com/article_141/lolmetal_celticfrost.jpg

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http://www.myspace.com/bolznmusic

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i dig that bolz'n noize. cheers!

ok, scott, i am with you on grave in the sky. pretty killer stuff. reminded me of sword heaven for a minute, strangely the only slow/crush/bang/BRRRR band NOT listed under "SOUNDS LIKE."

also, i am listening to tank. tank rules.

feel bad that i haven't been feeling the last round of willowtip releases. i swear i am not a part of the tech-death backlash.

the grave in the sky album is just wonderful and definitely the best of the three that i got from those dudes. but i do like the other two as well. it's just that the grave in the sky is just TOTAL, you know. one of those albums that seems like some sort of definitive statement.

got an order from Gorgiastic. Guttural Secrete is a fucking brutal, ugly, hard to defend but pretty fuckin' great band.

i like their latest album as well. never heard their earlier stuff.

if this thread has been dormant it's because after writing about 12 or 13 blackmetal.com albums, three other metal albums, three stoner rock classics, and a list of 50 forgotten hard rock/proto-metal albums in a three day stretch i decided that i needed to hear some lighter fare. well, not completely light, but i raided our school bus and i've been revisiting vinyl i haven't listened to in a long time. some metal vinyl too.

I've listned to a fuck of a lotta goregrind this year

Foetopsy is the most likeable grind band in forever, seriously, see 'em if you get a chance...they're straight-out FUN!

I e-mailed a bunch of those Latino retro-thrash bands Scott listed above (Infantry, Death Hunter, Slaver, Merciless Death and a couple of others); there'll be a decent-sized piece on the "movement" in the Voice in a couple of weeks.

cool! i keep meaning to e-mail the decibel dudes and tell them to do a story. i don't want to do it, but someone could do a cool scene report.

I think Decibel did the story on neo-retro-thrash already didn't they?

did they? i don't remember.

Uh, yeah - I produced Accidental Suicide...must have been in '91 or thereabouts. I don't know whatever happened to them. They were nice guys and were friends with Viogression, I believe. Their album was out on Peaceville/Deaf. I got really busy with Death's Human release & tour and I lost track of AS. I recall that their singer was a nice guy - big as hell but soft spoken. One dude had Satan's bangs, his hair was so unique. We had to play with their guitar actions because they tuned down so low.

ERIC

wait wait Eric Greif posted here and none of us even flinched? wtf to us all

haha... i didn't even notice that. i remember him being like the guru of wisconsin metal or something. i miss morta skuld, at least their demos.

anyone heard the new sodom reunion album? final sign of evil or something like that. angelripper/witchhunter/grave violator line-up, covering the first ep plus songs that were allegedly written at the time and it was recorded/mixed by the band's webmaster for some reason. i haven't heard it - i want to! - but the review on maelstrom said something to the effect that it was "fucking terrible and you'll love it."

it sounds like Sodom! what's not to love?

i even like the new re-recorded moonspell thing of their old satanic stuff. even if i usually think such projects are pretty pointless.

i've been digging the stuff that no colours sent me: satanic warmaster, diabolic force, alastor, those who bring the torture.

also got a buttload of french canuck tech-death that i still need to wade through. got like four CDs by the band Obliveon for some reason. they are pretty good though.

best thing ever though is the defiance box that phil threw my way. just sounds so good to me right now. bay area thrash at its bayareaist.

http://www.defiance1.com/images/Insomnia.jpg

listening to cast in stone by venom, it occurs to me that someone should go back in time and take mantas' fucking pantera and sepultura albums away from him. this shit's kind of embarassing, JUGGA-JUGGA-JUHJUGGA riffs and cronos sounds exhausted. also, WHERE'S THE BASS? i mean, i can HEAR bass but it's coke zero to at war with satan's ginger beer. this is pretty shit, i'm glad i only paid a couple of bucks for it. plus listening to the second disc's "updated" versions of old venom songs is going to be painful and maybe laughable.

i did get messiah's hymns to abramelin used, too, which is pretty killer death/thrash stuff. i want lists of good old death/thrash i might have missed. i'll recommend the r.u. dead? cd here cause it's killer. and they used to be the german band poison, who had one great death/thrash/doom ep and a bunch of subpar demos.

ok, goodnight.

post calm before the storm venom albums are all about mantas proving he can really play the guitar, and thus forsaking the low grade, shittily brilliant riffs and hooks he was good at. "i think more arpeggios here, yeah, conrad?"

i secretly like calm before the storm. don't tell anyone.

Haven't hear the last Alastor album but they're \m/ as fuck.

listening to liers in wait "spiritually uncontrolled." pretty good swede death metal recorded in 1990 or so, yeah dismember and entombed influences with a little bit of grindy american death metal leaking in. they're swedish, so their "mean, nasty, ugly, evil" appearance centers around black jeans, leather jackets, sunglasses and the faintest hint of a beard. maybe that's all they can grow over there, i dunno. but it's a good ep, apparently they later became diabolique who i know nothing about but they're listed as "doom/gothic/rock" or something on metal-archives.

oh, and outside of one track with overblown euro-harmonizing guitars, i really dig the new nifelheim. they're all balding now.

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SKVLLETS!!

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slaughter's strappado was just reissued again on metal mind. i was gonna post about it on rolling metal but those guys don't know where it's at. they don't know what it's like to have three canadians kick your ass and none of them's gedde lee. all they care about is prog-folk-power-black metal. none of those dudes has a copy of the funeral bitch demo, for instance. this thread is the real.

bonus tracks on this - like four from the album sessions, i think, and a hilarious live show complete with idiotic banter and guys in the crowd screaming "I'M READY TO DIE!!!" and "CELTIC FROST!!!"

i guess this would be the thread where I talk about how much I love Satanic Warmaster. Strength & Honour is one brutal fuckin black metal album. Last one I heard by him though was Carelian Satanist Madness. I've heard that the newer stuff is different, anyone out there a fan? Anyone into real black metal and not fuckin Nachtmystium?!

i'm into "real" black metal, but SW always bored the piss out of me. from that same axis, though, torturium were pretty good when they started out.

i'm digging the new arckanum album. fat oldhead riffing. if you are digging craft or latter-day darkthrone you will dig:

http://www.diabolicalconquest.com/news/arckanum-Antikosmos.jpg

also, new impiety ep is kicking my head like a drunk mule:

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll298/Pulverised/impiety2.gif

And rightly so. Impiety are my heroes.

Furthermore, this might be the suitable thread to express my utter shock and repulsion with the results of this all-time chart. Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slayer allright but WHERE THE FUCK DO ALL THOSE TASTELESS MORONS COME FROM THAT PUT FIVE (FIVE!!!) FUCKING OPETH ALBUMS IN AN ALL TIME TOP 25?????????

yeah, that list is lamer than most. i think they were making up iron maiden album titles by the end of it.

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fashion-wise this is the best of all metal styles, imo.

It seems sort of silly to get annoyed at that chart -- I mean, it's just a tally of what people have in their collections. No big surprise that a lot of metalheads have a bunch of Opeth albums.

any metal list where any opeth album beats out reign in blood is obviously wrong.

latebloomer, who are those deadbeats? nice vw bros.

here, go vote in this stupid poll:

BARBATOS song title POLL

Black Sabbath Paranoid is the 38th most popular metal record of all time? Umm...

J3ff perhaps you're not aware of the effect Opeth has on our man Siegbran.

Has anybody here heard the Voetsek album? It has one of the best sleeves of the year, and kicks ass, and has an hc/thrash version of "Strange Fruit."

also if I haven't said it enough times this year AURA FUCKING NOIR.

THINGS I HAVE ENJOYED RECENTLY THAT FIT IN THIS THREAD:

sacramentary abolishment - river of corticone
pre-axis of advance/revenge/rites of thy degringolade black/death/grind stuff like a more bizarre beherit/blasphemy thing. or like the bands they eventually became. weird, weird sci-fi/post-apocalypse concept lyrics.

barbatos - rocking metal motherfucker
street punk metal from japan. dumbb.

dr. shrinker - grotesque wedlock
80s death metal dumbassery with early grind influence. pretty good WISCANSIN stuff.

also been listening to manilla road a lot. still. they're not really nasty or evil, maybe a little mean and ugly. but definitely metal. their first album was called METAL, man.

just listening to ROTD.
fun stuff

Blackwinds - Flesh Inferno has some pretty rad symphonic black metal a la Emperor or Dimmu Borgir. Gets kind of samey towards the end, but fun while it lasts.

Today I'm only listening to Clandestine Blaze
i used to listen to all kinds of things, now i only like black metal
with some occasional death metal
i don't know whats going on

new midnight 10" on nuclear war now is killer. athenar/jaime whatever is an endless font of fucking great punk-metal tank/venom/motorhead riffs and satanic bullshit. the "die hard" version comes with a bonus 7" has a great bonus track + a live performance that ends abruptly when something pyrotechnic happens and the club manager (i think) loses his mind and starts yelling. (they get kicked out in the end.)

btw i will keep mentioning midnight until like one person says "oh yeah those guys are alright."

Just heard Sabbat for the first time a couple days ago. How the fuck did I miss out on THIS for so long?

sabbat japan? s'gotta be. yeah, i think everyone missed out on them for a long time. back when i first got into metal the only japanese bands i remember hearing about were gastunk and casbah, and some of the hardcore bands. (well, and loudness/ezo/etc. but they're not superrelevant here.)

but yeah, they're great. the early singles comp on time before time is really cool and crude

The album I listened to, Evoke, is pretty weird. It's kind of all over the place. there's of course some old-school black metal, some more traditional metal songs, and even this extremely long death/doom sort of song. It's really a fun record

that's more or less the template for most of the albums i've heard, and they're definitely a fucking fun band to listen to, makes me wish i knew metal dudes so i could share their awesomeness. oh well.

looking at their nightmarishly huge discography - i think boris would be envious - it doesn't look like they've done a proper album since karmagmassacre in 2003! tons of live albums though.

i like midnight! or at least the thing i had on shifty. which is all i've heard, but i liked it a bunch.

not ugly enough for this thread, but i am digging the new album by WINTERFYLLETH on profound lore. and i don't feel like finding the other metal thread right now. u.k. doom guys making "English Heritage Black Metal". one of the dudes is in Atavist, and I dig them too. nice atmosphere. nice chanting. sorry for the non-ugly shout-out though. Winterfylleth make bedtime lullabies as far as black metal goes.

this live footage of sabbat (japan) is awesome:

(i like the u.k. sabbat too. though a whole 'nother thing entirely.)

(well, not a WHOLE 'nother thing, come to think of it...)

need more covers on this thread. i hope these show up. i found a great page for death stuff.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_H9F1DlCd0bY/SE8t0M4ITVI/AAAAAAAACxI/wxyPSbG_tuo/s1600/Inhume%2B-%2BIn%2BFor%2BThe%2BKill%2B-%2BFront.jpg

okay, guess not. that's sad.

are you guys familiar with the band MINCING FURY AND GUTTURAL CLAMOUR OF QUEER DECAY? i dig them. if you are a fan of DESTRUCTIVE EXPLOSION OF ANAL GARLAND you would probably like them.

http://www.myspace.com/mincingfury

Listening to this:

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Really amateurish crude poorly-recorded black metal! I love stuff like this!

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that would be Armatus - Blutvolk
i'm retarded today

i've got a stupid question. what else sounds like 'reign in blood'? or what should i get next if i love it? metal is so huge, idk much about the sub-genres. i haven't really heard any of the classics, not even metallica! i love the fuck-you lyrics on RIB and the fact that i can still understand them. growls are cool but i need to ease into them. something else nasty and unhinged but not self-conscious about it. and evil. i like 'south of heaven' too, it kicks ass but it's more uh melodic i guess.

Absu "Tara"

"what else sounds like 'reign in blood'?"

Not the same, but similar in quality and importance: try Voivod Killing Technology and Dimension Hatross.

Also recommended as it has the exact qualities you seem to be looking for (big hooks, evilness and understandable vocals):
Samael "Ceremony Of Opposites"

Does anyone know if Samael still performs any of that classic old material? They are playing my fest here in Portland next month and I'm not quite sure what to expect...

"what else sounds like 'reign in blood'?"

nothing. but check out epidemic - decameron.

Two of my favorite Slayer-iffic albums are Necrophobic The Nocturnal Silence and Vader The Ultimate Incantation. But both channel it into death or black/death and the vocals sound accordingly...

i was listening to satan today. i love this album. nwobhm gives thrash a big wet kiss.

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/S/SA/Satan/Suspended/satan-suspended-20.jpg

um, that is not a response to the slayer question.

every time i hear a new nu-thrash album that sounds slayer-ish i always like it, but then i listen again and realize how much further most bands would have to go to REALLY sound like reign in blood or whatever. that blood tsunami album with faust on drums comes to mind. it's good and all, but there is really no comparison.

i enjoyed some of Entombed's latter-day Slayer impressions. morning star and inferno are cool records. just don't get the last album, whatever it was called. pretty stinky. and you can understand all the words for sure!

this track is from inferno:

one thing about that last album though! and this is sad, but it opens with the totally killer slayerific title-track "Serpent Saints" and then gets suckier after that. which is a shame, cuz if all the songs were half as great as serpent saints the album would have ruled.

here's a live serpent saints:

Samael still play Baphomets Throne and Black Trip if I recall correctly.

Just get Entombed "Left Hand Path" then, it doesn't sound like a Slayer copy but is ten times better than any recent Entombed. Can't imagine any Slayer fan disliking that. The guitar sound alone flattens whole city blocks.

speaking of Satan, here's a cool live clip from 1986:

everyone should own left hand path. this is true. i was just being specific as far as the question went. i'm actually a fan of early/middle/late when it comes to entombed. i love left hand path, clandestine, wolverine blues, uprising, and morning star. which is a pretty good stretch of time. (and if you go back to nihilist stuff, then an even bigger stretch of time)

speaking of the nwobhm, why don't i own any tank albums? i love that shit. i better get my act together.

there's a metal mind box set, dude! i've got the first one on LP, some euro press where the vinyl's a little bit thicker than a flexi.

i enjoyed some of Entombed's latter-day Slayer impressions. morning star and inferno are cool records.

second this. esp. "morning star," "inferno" has some rilly dumb lyrics and the production's a little crap.

metal mind spams me every day, but they will never send me anything no matter how much i beg. their release schedule is fucking nuts.

Another perfect companion to Reign In Blood:
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

When they still looked like this:
http://www.hardrockhouse.com/Interviews/Sepultura6.jpg

okay, so i knew grave were back together. and i knew they had a new album or five out. but i didn't know that "back from the grave" had a second disc with all of their 80s demos on it, so i bought the shit out of it wednesday. and it brings back memories, man, hearing them after listening to nihilist (pre-entombed) demos for like a year straight and then "anatomia corporis humani" kinda blowing those out of the water for guttural basement creep. scandinavians really had death metal locked down for a while there. then they had to go and ruin it with "melody."

funebre, from finland, were pretty good too. i always wondered why euro guitar tones were just so evil back then. i think they made their guitar pedals out of bog bodies and uranium or something.

(was gonna post this in rolling metal but they're too busy pretending the new enslaved is GREAT and then there's the amon amarthing.)

haven't even listened to "back from the grave" yet, btw.

i came home from a long day of mopping up blood and hauling laundry and the new stuff from willowtip made my day. phobia, kill the client, maruta. viva the 22 minute album! those bands will give people a reason to keep on living. the new kill the client is nasty in all the right ways.

Sweet, I just heard the latter two bands on This Comp Kills Fascists. Grind is very much alive and well (although this trend of grind bands sans bassists is a little bit White Stripes for me. One Pig Destroyer is plenty, thank you very much).

On second thought, my appreciation for Discordance Axis completely undermines my point. I'll get my coat.

Tonight we rock.

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3953/fullwp2.jpgThis album fucking rules.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh400/h412/h41226wf0fd.jpgAnd of course you can't go wrong with this.

YES

Oh go on then
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thread needs more baphomet album covers

I have a stack of stuff on my desk with names like Alghazanth and Those Who Bring the Torture and Impiety and Chthonian and Dagoba that I'm kind of afraid to listen to.

this thread type bands i have enjoyed lately:
SABBAT (JAPAN, NOT THE PUFFY SHIRT METAL DUDES FROM THE UK)
VOMITOR
DEAD (the US one)
MIDNIGHT

sabbat are really eternal favorites, but i just bought their first proper album and getting reacquainted with what a great, sloppy, fun fucking band they are.

I don't know how to make it sound smelly, but this Christbait album by BLOOD is pretty serious. The dudes, I mean. They do one track called JOIN STOCK COMPANY

funnily enough i've had songs by BLOOD going through my head lately. mostly from their "spasmo paralytic dreams" demo, because that's the one i got by them first. the immortal line "you feel like a chicken in a cow-house - like a rebel!" always sticks with me.

listening to DEMOLITION HAMMER again right now, though. "mammoth charges with malice/tries to feast upon his death/armed with a broken rampike, impale its massive chest." fucking best, wordiest ridiculoid thrash metal lyrics ever. "lead-forged exit wound exempted me from/melancholic psychosis! cybernetic annihilation, finally set me free."

"snare a woolly rhino in a camouflaged abyss!"

okay!

Well, If you really need a woolly rhino, that's got to be the way to go!

http://metalinquisition.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-metal-dead-yes-but-only-in-certain.html

tip for retro thrash dudes, BRAND NEW JEAN VESTS COVERED IN BRAND NEW PATCHES MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE POSEUR OK

OK that blog is brilliant and I am going to read a ton of it on and off today. Thank you

np man i love that blog.

also this thready, DISHAMMER. the DIS- d-beat bands finally meet the -HAMMER hellhammer clones. from spain! and i've only got four songs right now but i'm buying the album.

hey i bought the dishammer album
it's really pretty fucking good if you like metallic punk or d-beat mixed with old school death/black

ahh what's the fuckin' use

I've been really getting into Beherit's "Drawing Down the Moon" album- the way that album is mixed is so, so weird- tons of vocal processing that's really loud, breakdowns to guitars that are incredibly quiet and tinny and tiny in the mix, super weird record.

Also jamming:

Toxic Holocaust "An Overdose of Death"
Municipal Waste "Hazardous Mutation"
Behexen - pretty much all of it
and old Bathory

Definitely a touch of Chrome in the Beherit tracks available on Youtube. Thanks for the tip - I love insane lo-fi BM production. Will investigate further.

got some cool nastiness from no colours the other day. new murk album was black & rolling me nicely:

http://www.myspace.com/darkmurk

new impiety album slaaaaaaays!

gonna say it up in dis thread:

BONE AWL

other than that i have not been troo to this thread lately, except still listening to dishammer and dug out my dr. shrinker discography cd, which is pretty fucking nice. maybe not really evil, cause they're a little nerdy seeming. being named after a sid and marty krofft show and all.

Does that Impiety album have the annoying digital brick-wall compression the previous 2 album had? Really diminished the listening pleasure, esp compared to the older stuff like Skullfucking Armageddon.

These guys are in league of their own live. Really hope they'll manage come around these parts this year.

i would LOVE to see them live, and i hardly care about seeing anyone live.

as far as the new album goes, sadly, i've gotten so used to bad metal production that it barely registers with me anymore. all i know is that i put the album on yesterday while i was at work and it kinda singlehandedly made everything else new i've heard all year sound flabby and slow. i'm gonna listen again today at maximum volume and i'll take note of production/cd sound.

that's my problem with the brick wall stuff. i CAN'T play it at top volume because it just gets all distorted and sounds like hell. but not the good kind of hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHulWnPnda8

listen to that speed pickin'

Hey, John, you are safe here from the experi-mentalists cuz i'm just gonna post youtube medleys of slam metal breakdowns. i could listen to them for hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ5dSP5wKKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bg8m0oVVWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAh3Fr1xdgc

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Y4Beh0cv8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS8-MUupe34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL8vhw1xYys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOZBCa9PpUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90KRSmbpgsk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0ONTHx9hKs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCq9Ujwx_Ms

speaking of black metal, the new malfeitor album is great! go italy!

damn! new Deiphago album is sooooo good and nasty!

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les%20goupes/D/Deiphago/Filipino%20Antichrist/Filipino%20Antichrist.jpg

Filipino Antichrist is the title, by the way. on Hells Headbangers.

Siegbran, you might dig this one.

whoa how the hell did i miss this revive? i love deiphago. they really upped the ante on that cover art, the last one was just an inverted cross.

deiphago made my favorite album of the year. it's a thing of beauty.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu-wxu-BDiU

deiphago made my favorite album of the year. it's a thing of beauty.

that was true for me of their last one! I have not heard their 2009 album yet - didn't it just come out in the past month or two?

scott you gotta hear this band conjuration. it's the dude from irritate & ride for revenge doing a sort of midtempo horror metal vibe. fucking awesome.

get hells headbangers to send you the deiphago!

this local band lich king is playing their first show at the teen center around the corner tomorrow and i can't go! well, i can go if i take the kids... i might do it. maria is going to my brother's store in hudson for the diane cluck show so i'm on my own. the kids would probably dig it. they do good old school thrash:

http://www.myspace.com/lichkingmetal

diane cluck is pretty awesome and the kids might like her too, don't know if that's yr thing tho

they aren't going to the cluck show though. maria and a friend are driving to my brother's store in hudson, ny for that. he has good shows there. you should ask him about the mark eitzel show he had there recently. hahahaha! (he just did an akron/family show too. i don't think they are my thing either. or eitzel for that matter.)

i am all about nina violet though! you should tour with her! for real. she is the real deal. i can't understand why she doesn't have a big record deal by now. she is amazing live. i wish i had the power to discover people or make them known to the world! people like her. but i am no david geffen.

http://www.myspace.com/ninaviolet

but none of these people belong on this thread!!!! sorry diane. sorry nina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK30Qo5bl9A

ILX metal bros, let me point you in the direction of an album whose metal is heavy and righteous.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m46/smokedemon69/Excoriate/ExcoriateOnPestilentWindsAlbum.jpg

it is THE SHIT.

what a fantastic cover

if you like dirty death metal with an early-days feel you seriously need to hear this, it fucking stomps

FITE!!!!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AQj_jPYhGIA/SwxTmtb3TNI/AAAAAAAACaM/vcI8i3SoiSQ/s1600/Amon_Duul_II_-_Yeti.jpg

i'm basically a sucker for all scythe-rock.

hahaha awesome

http://i50.tinypic.com/9r4037.jpg

POWER FROM HELL (from Brazil)

http://www.myspace.com/dayoflust

About as retrograde as Hellhammer worship gets.

Oh yeah, and Helmkamp (from Angelcorpse and Order From Chaos) and J. Read (Conqueror, Revenge, Axis of Advance) have a new project called Kerasphorus. Sounds exactly like you think.

AMPUTATOR/BAPHOMETS HORNS-SPLIT CD
ARTERY ERUPTION/IMHUMAN DISSILIENCY-SPLIT CD
ANATIOS/STIGMATA CHORUS-SPLIT CD
BELZEC/DARK FAITH-SPLIT CD
B!TCH INFECTION/ANUS TUMOR-SPLIT CD
CLITORTURE/GOREALITY-SPLIT CD
CORPSEFVCKING ART/GORETRADE-SPLIT CD
DECOMPOSED/CREATED TO KILL-SPLIT CD
DR DOOM/COLLISION -SPLIT CD
DROGHEDA/BRUTAL INSANITY-SPLIT CD
DROGHEDA/INTENSE HAMMER RAGE-SPLIT CD
EMBRYONIC DEVOURMENT/GOREVENT-SPLIT CD
E.T.T.S./FEC@L CORPSE-SPLIT CD
FLESHRIPPER/GARROTER/MUTILATION-SPLIT CD
FETUS EATERS/BRAINCHOKE-SPLIT CD
FETUS EATERS/DIORRHEA-SPLIT CD
GONRRHEA PVSSY/NECRO TAMPON-SPLIT CD
GORED FACE/FECES ERUPTION/EL MUERMO-SPLIT CD
HAEMOPHAGUS/BLOODRAISED/SICK BONG HEADQUARTER-SPLIT CD
HUMAN MASTICATION/FLESH DISGORGED-SPLIT CD
MAGGOTS/EVOKERS-SPLIT CD
MINCING FURY.../ SCREAM...ABIRTH-SPLIT CD
MUCUPURULENT/INFECTED PVSSY-SPLIT CD
PROPHECY/CRYPTIC-SPLIT CD
SANITY'S DAWN/MECHANICAL SEPERATION-SPLIT CD
SEPTICEMIA/ANTRAKS-SPLIT CD
VIOLENT HEADACHE/NECROMORPH-SPLIT CD

JASAD- WITNESS OF PERFECT TORTURE
LEUKORRHEA- HATFVCKED AND TORTURED
DEADEN- DISPLAYING THE ART OF CARNAGE
SCARS OF CHAOS- DAEMONIC ALCHEMY
BEHEADED- RECOUNTS OF DISEMBODIMENT
DECRYPT- HOLY EROTIC RAPTURE
BLOODTHRONE- STORMS OF APOCALYPSE
GOLGOTHA- NEW LIFE
MUCOPUS-UNDIMENSIONAL
ARCHAEON- VANITAS
ABRASIVE- AWAKENING OF LUST
CATHOLICON- OF AGES PAST -DVD ALSO
CORPSING- THE STENCH OF HUMANITY
DIABOLIC- INFINITY THROUGH PURIFICATION
KEMET- DYING WITH ELEGANCE
KATATONIC DESPAIR- INNER SCARS
EMBRACE DAMNATION- GLORY OF A NEW DARKNESS (LIVIDITY MEMBERS)
STILLBIRTH- PLAKATIVE AGGRESSION
STREETSWEEPER- GHETTO FROM THE GET GO
TERMINALLY YOUR ABORTED GHOST- SLOWLY PEELING THE FLESH FROM THE INSIDE OF A FOLDED HAND
WHORRID- TIME HEALS NOTHING
WOLFTIRBE- PUZA ODIUM
SOULSKINNER- BREEDING THE GROTESQUE
SONS OF CHAOS- REDWORK
SOUL REAPER- LIFE ERAZER
HYBRID VISCERY- THE HISTORY OF TORTURE, EXECUTION AND SICKNESS
IRRATE- TEN STABS OF DEMENTED VIOLENCE
FLESH RIPPER/OBLITERATION- SPLIT CD
FERMENTO- INSIGNIA
NOCTUARY-WHEN FIRE BREEDS BLOOD
DEATH VOMIT- S/T
ANDROPHAGIA- BLOOD SOAKED FREAKS
CLOSING THE ETERNITY / AD LUX TENEBRAE- NEARLY BEING- SPLIT CD- DIGI

that's the listening list for this thread. get on those.

the Putrid Servant / Tombs / Krallice / Ludicra show last night was great, by the way

that must have been very heavy.

i interviewed my friend mary last week for a future issue of decibel. she lives here and takes awesome pictures of the kids in town. her son is the drummer for tombs.

Scott, I think you're really gonna like the debut CD by Warbeast. It's called Krush the Enemy, it's on Phil Anselmo's Housecore label and he produced it, too. It features the former vocalist for Rigor Mortis, who kinda sounds like a cross between Steven Rathbone of Lair of the Minotaur and Oderus Urungus, and the music is pure gutter thrash.

i will check out warbeast.

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Warbeast's video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vZ8TNp3Ub0

i will watch right after i am done making the latin freestyle tape mix i am making.

now playing:

http://www.blackmetal.com/scans1008/massemord-skogen-kaller.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/MasseMord_-_Namtar_02.jpg

i think i actually posted a picture of the wrong massemord. oh well. nice picture anyway.

it makes me feel good to get e-mails with subject lines like this:

Deathgasm Reintroduces Blaspherian's Allegiance To The Will Of Damnation

hey fuckin' A lovers of this style of metal, may I strongly, STRONGLY encourage you to seek out this five-band split:

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les%20goupes/D/Decrepit%20Womb/Fermenting%20in%20Five-Way%20Filth/Fermenting%20in%20Five-Way%20Filth.jpg

me to mrs. aerosmith, just now: "Man, this band Down From the Wound is not fucking around!"

this record slays

basically half-assedly liveblogging this as I bang my head but fuckin A I didn't know Heinous Killings was a full band now with live drums! wasn't hung with barbwire a one-man-band affair? anyway, as a full band, they are fucking savage. the song titles are as offensive as ever but there's no lyric sheet, which is a relief, since I think I may have thrown away hung with barbwire in a fit of skeevedness. but damn! the heinous killings tracks on this cap off 18 tracks of pure goregrind madness! fucking awesome split! grind grind grind grind grind

did I spend the last hour having a totally good time scouring the house to locate my copy of hung with barbwire? yes I did. did I find it? you bet I did. is it rocking the dayroom right now as I enjoy a lovely cocchi americano & soda? yes. yes it is.

heinous killings live in their rehearsal space

this is fucking sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9OstqWOq9k

i have no memory of writing this. i wrote it for whiney, apparently! i kinda like it. i don't write good no more. or have the energy to. but i'm getting that cpap machine soon! can't wait for that. once i can sleep right again, watch out, america!

Defcon 4

You ever see the movie Defcon 4? Yeah, me neither. Or wait, did I? Eh, probably. Who knows anymore. I’m so jaded when it comes to kitschy apocalyptica. And my memory is poor. And I’ve seen a million movies. Today at work I was emptying one of those big outdoor ashtrays. You know the ones. A Rubbermaid. Jesus, Rubbermaid, there’s a movie for you. Thousands of Ohioans living and dead could tell the whole dirty story while gritting their teeth at the memory of the loss and the misplaced pride. What, like the end of the world hasn’t actually come yet? You need futuristic neon dystopias to tell the tale of man’s folly? Take a look around, buddy. Anyway, this big-ass plastic ashtray with the gaping metal mouth was beyond full. The butts crammed to the top formed a single tube of soggy and yet hardened nic fit. It took forever to get them out of there. And I couldn’t help but feel like I had seen this movie before. And I had. In a way. When I was 16 and wiping shit off of supermarket bathroom walls. When I was 26 and on my hands and knees cleaning mouse shit off of dirty deli floors. And when I was 36 and changing stinky diapers by myself in a small damp house far from everyone and everything that I knew and trying to embrace the love I felt for my son, while, at the same time, ducking dark storm clouds of isolation and fear.
Which is just another way of saying that Defcon 4 are a decent Boston punk band that mixes doom and crust and sharpened Eyehategod teeth all in the service of…what? I don’t know. Another pennant? Hatred of Ben Affleck’s street cred? All I know is, from the area of the universe that gave me SSD and Converge, I expect MORE pain. And MORE convincing wails of torment. Their stylistic twists and turns aren’t as compelling as the more advanced cosmic crust moves of Kylesa or Baroness either. But, hey, they are young, right? I have no idea, are they? Well, they sound young. And kinda peppy even. And hanging out with Steve Austin was a good move too. Their record sounds smooth. I’m just not feeling very smooth. I give any young band the same advice I gave a guy I met last week who only has two months to live (gallbladder): It’s never too late to become a reader. You might not want to start with War & Peace though.

also, i am listening to tank. tank rules.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:02 PM (3 years ago)

Still true. I mean they probably didn't take themselves way too seriously, but fuck they rule.

microphallus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59bjjF0DmvQ

omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcg-jSvef1E&feature=related

i hope heaven sounds like necrofago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSytpSwnUGo&feature=related

words fail to describe the drumming on here. kinda awe-inspiring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujlbVdDPgbc&feature=related

anyway, nunslaughter has been on my hit parade ALL week. sounds so good. their 80's stuff is so inspiring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yFX5c56p6A&feature=related

new ravencult album on hells headbangers is hotttttttttt

album of the year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwQ9g5rW5jg

this is one of my favorite albums of the last ten years and hardly anyone heard it. came out on a tiny label. never made it to the ststes, etc. kinda avant-black, but great vibe. great tension. jim jones worship is kind of a throwback in the transgressive sweepstakes - what's next manson? - but its okay cuz it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4PuPQCuhQk&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G65oVUSrNuA&feature=channel&list=UL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBosT9rPRPk&feature=related

pretty excited for the new deiphago and I've never been a huge fan. really into the three songs hells headbangers posted.

cover rules too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqRPKWLKPT0

otm

dude...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2-YWG1pgu4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JJOyt34hPU

so sickkkkkkkkkk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdgUv9Bl3cw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3liyM-sjNRI

gettin' my warwulf on again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKuJDc-Wmrk#t=17

Being an MST3K fan I'm obliged to post A WARWULF?!

That's that stuff that's so loud and violent that, at low volume, it sounds kind of soothing. Like a dude whispering over muted static.

Why does ILX get so wulfed out on saturdays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWgOsn7lMMg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJMVIF8JG-M

sweet stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqzYFoC_Q2k

xp More metal logos should incorporate axes.

really digging Undergang lately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xpyj8j9Xa4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWlUB-5E3I

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

Undergang bass sound really hits the spot.

Yeah Undergang is awesome, this is the kind of stuff where the guitar/bass sound is already enough, they don't actually need any tunes.

i agree.

Fucking LOVE Undergang. Got them and Vorum at the same time, it was a great day for pulverizing my brain.

this video is insane. who even knew that Barbara even had a video for this song? love that album a ton. NSFW. just so you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y-lWXOlGEk

stuff i've been listening to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-7r8H4jenE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcaWMa23C4M

also, just everything nagelfar-related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTIPVS8Tt1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5X2jATkE1k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ny5SpVuIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqpC92yFe0I

I getta get into Ruins of Beverast some more.

I've been digging Nocturnal Blood's super-vile black/death chaos (just consider this one 26 minute piece):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQDxan3haFc

Can't believe that dude's from Fontana!

...and Temple Nightside's druggy cave metal, which gets very floaty and psychedelic. I mean, you're floating in a SEA OF BLACK BLOOD, but still.

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

love this picture of Mystifier back in the day

http://i64.tinypic.com/ncb1qo.jpg

OK I just listened the shit out of this

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

I love that special viciousness thrashy/speedy metal bands got after Reign in Blood and Seven Churches came out. Also they're from Jersey.

i used to have their first album many moons ago. Kill Or Be Killed. a minor classic to be sure.

I'll have to dig that up tomorrow. Was also digging Sacrilege B.C. earlier. I think the anti-thrash stuff on the extreme metal thread have given me a reaction formation.

ha that's awesome! I can hear some Dark Angel too -- vocalist is repelling me a bit tho, but he is unique.

I kinda dig the vocalist, but I can go for that caveman-via-Halford thing.

In other news I finally got my copy of Ruins of Beverast's Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite. Fucking crazy stuff. Dude had me when he kicked in with what sounds like a two-bass solo in the first song.

I feel like Inhume fit this category

Avulsed - Goresplattered Suicide too, though they dont' take themselves v seriously

Both those Blessed Death albums got remastered reissues via the Metal Mind label back in 2007 or so. I got copies sent to me at Metal Edge, along with a million other early Roadracer/Roadrunner titles nobody remembers or cares about anymore. So much great stuff.

this album. man. listening to this whole album really loud on big speakers makes swans sound like the pizzicato five. so intense. and it just keeps getting crazier. listening on a computer doesn't count. so fucked up.

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

is that punk maybe? i can't always tell the difference

They were a hardcore band, that's their "metal" album. Those quotes aren't because it isn't metal but because it's on some other fucked up crazy plane. Just as insane as when they were doing 2 minute songs like "I Killed My Family," though.

Fuckin PHILLY alright

i mean if you're gonna abuse drugs make an album like THAT.

I nominate Shub-Niggurath "Kinglike Celebration"

That works!

I'm feeling this lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ693Drg0YU

I guess it's "war metal" but the drummer plays like he's a jazz drummer who's been conscripted. All these weird little flams and one-handed rolls.

I need someone to acknowledge how good and weird the Norwegian Svartsyn is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiHFpI-82js

Cold, weird black/doom with horror movie synths.

And the reissue of this Sargatanas album is fucking great. Mexican death metal.

http://oldtemple.bandcamp.com/album/sargatanas-the-enlightenment

Released in the late 90s but these guys had been around since '86 and have that ur-metal quality, like some riffs are thrashy, some are doomy, some are brutal, but it's all fucking fun as shit.

^kinda reminds me of Mexican Obituary at times

Nothin wrong with that!

that svartsyn track is indeed nice.

Yay!

epidemic - decameron.

wow this rules

Yeah! Those dudes were crazy. I still gotta track down a copy of their first album.

Oh my fucking god, Nuclear Death, slow down why dontcha

I love that their second demo is like 9 minutes long, 4 tracks.

I'm listening to their full lengths for the first time, Carrion for Worm is even more nuts than the first one

This rules

but I have nooo idea what the hell's going on

I actually used to correspond and tape trade with Phil, the guitarist, and he told me he was tone deaf. I think that kind of helps explain them. That and being from the whitest suburb of Phoenix, AZ.

need to buy this record. my kinda old school homage coming from a new band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPaG6jWj-_c

yes!

listening to that right now! it's so good. between this and the new Mammoth Grinder, Relapse is off to a good start in 2018.

Goddamn I am a sucker for that kind of death metal.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/02/study-finds-heavy-metal-music-beneficial-mental-health/

canada hell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NgmeDfEv60

I wrote a grindcore song about building a bookcase.

Tome Coffin

Determine your dimensions!
Measure your frame!
Cut your wood to leeeeeeeeength!
Mark the sides!
Cut the joints!
Chorus:
Assemble the unit!
Assemble the unit!
Assemble the unit!
Finish the face!
Wipe off the DUST!
Paint! Or stain! Or DIEEEEEE!

it's a jam

Spare parts scattered everywhere!

it's a freestanding bookcase
you wouldn't understand

not a big slam dude but i dig this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNXt44gXTXQ

Yeah that's cool. Just the right amount of ridiculousness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2QNQ8SmBEs

endurance test of the year! play it loud on big speakers and you die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHXt_Rfalqo&t=1544s

Looks like you broke YouTube already. What was it?

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

Scott!

trying to remember the name of a band I randomly heard from an old ILM metal poll. I think they might be Polish, blackened death metal (I think?), with a name beginning with 'A' - Asgareth or Azarath or something like that. Sorry, that's all I have...

wait, wait I got it - Azarath: Blasphemers' Malediction. And damn, it's not on Spotify

That is a phenomenal record, it has a conviction and truly pissed-off vibe that's unique. Their other releases before/after are just one or two notches lower in intensity, and immediately the magic disappears.

they're a bit too 'big' for this thread, but to me the forgotten Immolation album is Failures for Gods, which was my first, and the first two songs on this motherfucking thing are so massive.

the double-bass drum sounds like a basketball being dribbled and the guitar is pretty stank but lord, is this atmosphere oppressive as fuck. maybe I have a soft spot as I saw them on this tour, my first death metal show?

"No Jesus, No Beast", silly title = A+, and the "CAN YOU HEAR US? DEATH TO JESUS!" part rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YMtvA-DK3k

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

taking the "doesn't smell too good" literally here, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2JBk3p0-s

Plagued with diarrheal secretions
Post-anal drip
Unable to stop the flow of fecal matter
Colostomy irrigation necessary
Colon brought to the surface of the skin
For intestinal drainage
Obsolete anus sewn closed
Remnants of my bowels flood into a bag
I have a new ass
Porthole constantly leaking
Cavity always stinking
I just long to be normal
Secrete from an open bunghole

Overflowing liquified feces
I can't keep it a secret, the evidence stains my clothes
Colostomy has a hole
I soiled myself

Lock thread

I stumbled upon Expulser's "The Unholy One".

one of the songs is called "Gore Pussy of Virgin". another is called "Fornications (at the Church)"

it's really good 90s Brazilian death metal with vocals that kinda sound like Sarcofago

great record!

yeah I'm digging the fuck out of it. it's exactly the type of thing I wanted to listen to and it only took me doing the 6-degrees-to-Kevin-Bacon thing on metal-archives for about a half hour to stumble across.

Gorgasm - Masticate to Dominate

Surprisingly well-crafted riffs

Regurgitation's Tales of Necrophilia has a level of brutality and organic open production that really does feel like a lost relic of the 90s.

\m/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Py23seWm8

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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

Nice

bought a copy of this today. fuck yeah.

Drawn and Quartered - To Kill is Human

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9oDr4J-fQ

Nice, would not have guessed that was a 2018 album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGyM7AQLUE0

This band Faff-Bey might fail on the taking themselves way too seriously thing but how many proto-black thrash bands were on Bad Vugum back in the day. Honestly some label like Hell's Headbangers should be falling over themselves to reissue this, it's better than 9/10ths of their retro shit.

Oh ofc some Finnish label reissued this album and their demos earlier this year.

not 'old', but kind of obsessed with the band Fluids lately. many call this the "Mortician-clone", some pejoratively, some in praise, but it's somewhat unfair. the main similarities are that they have programmed drums (but much quieter and more subtle than Mortician's endless battering ram), really sub-zero detuned guitar/bass and the vocals aren't too different, but riff-wise, they like to play hella fucking slow, whereas Mortician often do fast deathgrind that can be an incomprehensible blur of power chords at times. Fluids like to slow it down and pummel. Like Mortician also, no solos.

but they also do a lot of synth work, sometimes between songs or as an intro to songs, and it's unsettling. oh, and the final similarity is the soundbites, though Fluids doesn't take theirs from movies, but real life horrors.

if you're into things like complex riffing or, idk, significant variance, look elsewhere, but when I'm in the mood for this oppressive shit, it's pretty great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWj8552nJZc

though Fluids doesn't take theirs from movies, but real life horrors

this is basically why i don’t like them nearly as much as mortician. kicking off with your record with a guy reading his suicide note before presumably offing himself is just not my idea of a good time.

always loved horror movies, always hated faces of death…

Nean, thanks for posting Fluids. I could live w/o the intros too but I am sitting here at a laptop banging my head with joy to these fucking grotesque riffs.

Mutiilation - Vampires of Black Imperial Blood

Good shit! I always liked Suffer the Gestalt or whatever a lot too. And Black Millennium had its moments, think it gets downrated because he pretending to kill himself before it was releases or something.

really into this band i heard on the radio, Visceral Reaction. i guess they're in high school? lol. i think it's awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZPK3ivVFoU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK4nPyt9Yb8

https://mesacounojo.bandcamp.com/album/suppuration-morphog-n-siaque

Sedimentum

this person has great playlists. demos, obscurities. some real dirty gems in there.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKGPQujnvIswq0aQcrGr9NmM62Q6JmGzI

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKGPQujnvIsyh7SgmNuaisZXpXmHc9f4P

for instance, this one. love this! chicago-area band. never did anything else i don't think. but i'm sure these guys went on to other bands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKcs3vb_UO4

really enjoying this. black/death stuff. they have a new EP. gonna play that next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxUDYMGQyH8

this also speaks to me. guess i'm just in a blackdeath mood. i blame the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la1I0pBhq7Y

love this! (hard to find a copy of the reissue in the u.s. but i will prevail.)

https://larvaerec.bandcamp.com/album/gangrena-infected-ideologies

:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzQteBZY-eM

this makes my top ten of the year. if i had one. love the atmosphere. and its from the states too! which surprises me for some reason. maybe because i love it. but there are people hidden away doing good things here. hiding. hiding makes sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4x70_zYNuk

(to be fair to americans who don't hide i really did like that Horrendous album a lot and they are very popular in that world of theirs...)

There's a new Petrification album coming out in February. They're from Portland, Oregon, but they're on Svart, a label from Finland. Anyway, here's "Twisted Visions of Creation":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzg7l7iN_dc

amazing artwork too!

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0333397984_10.jpg

i bought stuff from NWN on vinyl. the stuff i don't love will go in the store. some stuff i just needed for myself like the undergang and grave upheaval records. it all belongs on this thread though:

Mefitic "Woes of Mortal Devotion"
Bunkur / Mordor Split
The Satan's Scourge "Threads of Subconscious Torment"
Howls of Ebb / Khthoniik Cerviiks Split
Detritivore "Pakt"
Har "Baal Ha'ov"
Undergang "Aldrig i livet"
Undergang "Misantropologi"
V/A Vestibule of Hell LP + Booklet
Capitis Damnare "Ex Regnum Spiritus in Manifestus"
Funerary "Starless Aeon"
Adversvm "Aion Sitra Ahra"
Sete Star Sept "Beast World"
Sektarism "Hosanna Sathana"
Sator Marte "Termonuklearni Evoluce"
Deep Desolation "Boski Jad"
Blasphamagoatachrist "Bastardizing the Purity"
Pneuma Hagion "Demiurge"
Pneuma Hagion "Voidgazer"
V/A "Far East Gate In Inferno" Double LP (Sabbat, Sigh, etc.)
Trifixion (Venezuela) “Demo 1996″
Grave Upheaval "1st Album"
Grave Upheaval "Demo" LP
Mortuary Drape "Secret Sudaria" Double LP
Cerebral Rot "Excretion of Mortality"
Cénotaphe "La Larve Exulte"
Blasphemy "Fallen Angel of Doom...."

oh man that petrification video speaks to me. also, luring sounds great.

this is kind of 'random old metal' but i think fits this thread. i got curious about seeing what kevin drumm interviews were floating around out there, and in one of them he mentions this band from edmonton, revenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WKDTU8_790

love Cerebral Rot

i never get tired of this record. someone should reissue it. unheralded sludge classic! i might have heralded it in Decibel Mag at the time. definitely one of my fave rock records of the 21st century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVitmgve--s

got a copy in at the store that still has the wooden match in it. keeping it.

https://i.discogs.com/LNSKynBuZA9P4ltRHcjnZCVPtOJUvwkmK5E_5YeMr5Q/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:400/w:457/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMTcx/NDA4LTE1MTExNzg0/OTMtODI5Ni5qcGVn.jpeg

Aha I remember this

one of my bleaker reviews! from 2007? my economic message is almost Trumpian here. who knew? i was in a bad mood.

Defcon 4 - The Bad Road
You ever see the movie Defcon 4? Yeah, me neither. Or wait, did I? Eh, probably. Who knows anymore. I’m so jaded when it comes to kitschy apocalyptica. And my memory is poor. And I’ve seen a million movies. Today at work I was emptying one of those big outdoor ashtrays. You know the ones. A Rubbermaid. Jesus, Rubbermaid, there’s a movie for you. Thousands of Ohioans living and dead could tell the whole dirty story while gritting their teeth at the memory of the loss and the misplaced pride. What, like the end of the world hasn’t actually come yet? You need futuristic neon dystopias to tell the tale of man’s folly? Take a look around, buddy. Anyway, this big-ass plastic ashtray with the gaping metal mouth was beyond full. The butts crammed to the top formed a single tube of soggy and yet hardened nic fit. It took forever to get them out of there. And I couldn’t help but feel like I had seen this movie before. And I had. In a way. When I was 16 and wiping shit off of supermarket bathroom walls. When I was 26 and on my hands and knees cleaning mouse shit off of dirty deli floors. And when I was 36 and changing stinky diapers by myself in a small damp house far from everyone and everything that I knew and trying to embrace the love I felt for my son, while, at the same time, ducking dark storm clouds of isolation and fear.
Which is just another way of saying that Defcon 4 are a decent Boston punk band that mixes doom and crust and sharpened Eyehategod teeth all in the service of…what? I don’t know. Another pennant? Hatred of Ben Affleck’s street cred? All I know is, from the area of the universe that gave me SSD and Converge, I expect MORE pain. And MORE convincing wails of torment. Their stylistic twists and turns aren’t as compelling as the more advanced cosmic crust moves of Kylesa or Baroness either. But, hey, they are young, right? I have no idea, are they? Well, they sound young. And kinda peppy even. And hanging out with Steve Austin was a good move too. Their record sounds smooth. I’m just not feeling very smooth. I give any young band the same advice I gave a guy I met last week who only has two months to live (gallbladder): It’s never too late to become a reader. You might not want to start with War & Peace though.

so cool...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WufFxQIzU4Q

love!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppU5jHOD6RU

I like US Disgorge and Disgorge Mexico

i don't really need much more out of life really. don't get me wrong i like lots of new death but the form was perfected so long ago. all its many forms were. i do love variations on a theme though. the reinvention of the death wheel. forever and ever. but there are some days, like today, when cruddy demos and singles and EPs are all one really needs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNH9-Cj811k

my problem with death metal now is the definition of 'brutal' death has changed to this homogeneous, unimaginative glut of bands that are basically just breakdowns, pingy drums, and pig-vocals with sterile, pristine production, whereas 'brutal' death in the 90s had this wide gulf of talented bands with earthy, raw production and personality. oh, there was shit too, lots of it, but like nowadays idk who is even at the forefront of 'brutal death' that isn't just an old school band that didn't retire.

which is...why I liked Disgorge (US) a lot, tbh.

(the non-brutal wing of death metal, otoh, seems to be fine as it has always been, thriving even)

oh yah all the flavors like prog/tech/blackened/doom have so many great bands doing it now. an abundance of riches. that crunchy riffy swedish style. i love all the stuff that sounds like that now. even some people who know how to write songs! like, memorable songs.

listened to nihilist and entombed demos today too. they never get old. they could come out today and they would be my new favorite band!

my problem with death metal now is the definition of 'brutal' death has changed to this homogeneous, unimaginative glut of bands that are basically just breakdowns, pingy drums, and pig-vocals with sterile, pristine production

I love that shit, but I freely admit that it all sounds the same. I buy those albums based solely on cover art, because I know they're gonna sound indistinguishable from one another. I feel like I should put them all into a giant playlist like I do with all the Total compilations on the Kompakt label, and just shuffle it. Gurgh gurgh gurgh gurgh gurgh, ping ping ping ping ping, all day long.

a little fancy for this thread but i wanted to give some love to something new. i love the way it sounds. very digi. i like the way its edited. like it was engineered by someone with a latin freestyle background. death metal bands should start putting their records together on tape with razorblades. that would be awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cehSqvek4N0

why won't someone reissue this on cd for me? the old cd copies go for stupid money. they became something completely different later but i don't care about that stuff i am all about this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Oy7qO3NLg

so sikkkkkkkk!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjaV-3PLXh8

i can't keep up with all the insanity that GoatowaRex is putting out. sheesh. they don't even let a fella catch his breath!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARWFOjki3tU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n80pKUmyCUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzcwVNjLL1M

very entertaining tribute album. good job by everyone. lots of great crunch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY6f3pqIiAo

the guitar sound on this is just.....fuck....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIJp9_BM1Qg

reason #6666 why i never need to listen to Pantera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSNuZC3ymc

I'd not heard that Necrophobic but the guitars are SO clearly a Tomas Skogsberg production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcBC9D8atNE

recorded in the 90s. released in 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1YxhKaq0bI

I wrote this in 2008:

Upon Listening To Amok's Necrospiritual Deathcore

I listen to a lot of music. Tons. It is one of the great joys in my life. And you never really know what is going to hit you the hardest next. Or at least I don't. Not all the time anyway. Sure, I have a good idea by now what I will like and what I won't like based on prior listening and descriptions. Some things definitely sound enticing to me when I read about them beforehand. And I know I will probably be turned off if I read certain warning sign words in a review or article or whatever. "post-Soft Bulletin Flaming Lips", "emocore", "Death Cab For Cutie", "Amerindie pop with a dash of electronica". Stuff like that. Basically, 90% of the junk promo e-mail I get reads like a worst-case scenario to some degree. And I definitely anticipate loving certain things before I hear them. I was so blown away by French band Deathspell Omega's Kenose album that I really couldn't wait to hear their next album. Lots of people felt this way. Kenose was special. It FELT genuinely evil. The darkness surrounding it is the kind that is not easily duplicated or faked. You have to commit wholeheartedly to making music like that, and you have to give of yourself to receive something so, in some ways, repellent. Or abrasive. Well, not if you are a metal fan you don't. Not usually. Abrasive and repellent is par for the course. But some records work so hard to push against you. Push you away from the music. For adventurous listeners, this means that it's time to push back. To dive in and see how far under you can go. Try and figure out what the hell is going on in there. This is me, anyway. This is what I like to do. I allow the music to take me over. To have its way with me. Which is one reason why I listen to music louder than most people do. I don't want it to be background. Wallpaper. Something to wash dishes too. Don't get me wrong. I do wash dishes and listen to music. But I want to HEAR it. And the people in my life have been turning it down for decades.
Anyway, the follow-up to Deathspell Omega's Kenose came out in 2007 and I enjoyed it a great deal. But it didn't suck me in like Kenose. I didn't grapple with it. Ultimately, it's probably a more "listenable" album. It's still crazed and heavy and nuts and all that, but it doesn't create that perfect storm of atmosphere that Kenose whipped up in its tsunami of blackness. Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum, the latest album, suffers a bit from Kenose's success. This band has already BEEN to the other side. So what do you do for an encore? It's a tough trick. A trick that many bands before them have tried to pull.
Norway's Amok was one of the bands that pulled me down to new depths in 2007. Their Necrospritual Deathcore album on the Planet Satan Revolution label threw me for all kinds of loops. Here's my review from Decibel Magazine:

Color me impressed! Amok’s first full-length is a helluva malevolent beast. A big shout-out to Necrocum, Goatpromoter Lava, Iscariah and… Stanley. Sigh. Attention, dudes in bands: Just GIVE your drummer a cool name, OK? Apparently they have a hard time coming up with one on their own. Anyhoo, these Norse noise boys serve up the blackened death-thrash hybrid with scary aplomb. With their heavy, heavy super-repetitive riffs that sink below ground in a swirling depressive spiral, you can see why the band name-checks olde-tyme demonic thudmasters like Von and Sadistik Exekution. But just when you think you’re in for simple heads-down mid-tempo thrash or proto-BM, they throw in a what-the-fuck echo-laden blues guitar solo or some other disorienting effect and top it all off with some modern BM flair. Suffice it to say, there’s more than meets the eye here.

And this leads you to the three-part showpiece of the disc. The creepy Jim Jones samples in between songs are another harbinger of the dementia to come. After a long-ass intro of tubular bells and monk chanting comes a completely sick guitar line that sets the mood for this mini-epic. Lots of spoken word shouting—Jim Jones transcripts?—culminates in the drone-like repetition of the line “No way out/ There is never a legitimate reason for leaving” amid all manner of unearthly sounds, time-changes and that sick sick guitar. So cool! Also, it sounds like a different band entirely from the first half of the album. Then things get really weird. More of these fucked noises, please! And a shout-out to Nazipenis Hoest, who plays drums on this “Goatflesh Removal” trilogy; he’s always there when you need him. Apparently Malfeitor Fabban from Aborym is on this thing somewhere too, but all is chaos, and who can tell what’s going on? Highly recommended for fans of all things mysterious and spooky. Or just for Satanists with a taste for bad-ass guitars. You aren’t all into cheesy keyboard action, right? —Scott Seward

So, yeah, that's how I felt about the album at the time in spring of 2007. Translated into Decibelese, of course. And I kept coming back to it. The guitars on Amok's album...ooh la la. They are everything over-distorted guitars should be. Just glorious. But it's that album-ending "Goatflesh Removal". Man, I just can't explain it properly. The spoken vocals that are at complete odds with the rest of the album. The mantra-like calm. One of the missions for Amok as a band was to take things back to that old school of 80's scuzzbucket death and (actually fairly rocking) destruction of yore. And it is mission accomplished until this last bit. Because the last bit doesn't remind me of any Cro-Magnon proto-death acts I can think of. When I'm listening to the Goat Removal Trilogy, and Necrocum and Goatpromoter Lava and the rest are firing on all cylinders, I realize that I want everything to sound like this forever. That I want it to last forever. The song. This music. I never asked for these sounds. I had no idea what to expect when I put the cd on. I had never heard Amok before. The last albums by Primordial, Harvey Milk, and Converge have made me feel this way as well. It's as if time has stopped. The sounds these bands are making are simply archetypal sounds that act as perfect illustrations of what their music is and what their time on earth sounds like and what their creative goals are and what has come before them and what will come after them. I mean, PERFECT. The noises they are making are historic noises. They are making history in sound. Not for record books. I mean, that they are making history in the way that a tree makes history when it grows another ring. Their growth has enabled them to perfectly actualize their moment in time and space. Your most perfect day on earth may beat these albums by a mile, but nobody, as of this moment, has devoted a 100% cotton hoodie to your perfect day. And I never SAW your perfect day. So I must report on phenomena as it reaches me through whatever means are at my disposal. You can send me pictures of your perfect day, but I can't promise anything. Okay?

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