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!

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?

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