rolling 2024 heavy metal and boutique blast beat thread

Here's a list of things I endeavor to listen to.

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I blacked out the non-metal ones; you can guess what they are.
Not as trve or cult as other things here but I listen to those things as well.

anybody got a favorite site for researching older tour itineraries for indie/small-theater/club level artists? setlist.fm is very cool but it doesn’t include dates no one had a setlist for, and I need to play games with drive times and off-days

I'm not sure if there is a better resource than setlist.fm, I'd be curious to hear if anyone knows of anything. Undoubtedly there are probably some artist-specific tour sites that show old itineraries, but not sure if there's another collective place.

I have seen dates listed on setlist.fm for some bands, even if there are no setlists - for example this Boris show I saw at Empty Bottle back in 2008 is listed, but no setlist:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/boris/2008/empty-bottle-chicago-il-3bd68c38.html

New Vemod is out. It's good!

It came out towards the end of last year, but I'm still finding new things to enjoy in this Baring Teeth album:
https://everythingisnoise.net/reviews/baring-teeth-the-path-narrows/

I was a huge fan of the progressive turn Lord Dying took with their last album and the new one continues in that vein, though it isn't quite as great. Got a whole new rhythm section, including Alyssa Maucere (Matt Pike's wife) on bass.

The new Vitriol album, Suffer & Become, is absolutely kicking my ass this Friday afternoon. Face-punching death metal of the Vader/Vital Remains/Hate Eternal school...totally merciless. Blast beats and roars and dissonant guitar squiggles and Tom G. Warrior-esque "URGH"s. Loving it.

One of the reasons this album kicks as much ass as it does is that Matt Kilner (aka Nithing) is on drums.

Yeah the drumming is incredible

Spun a few tracks from the Dissimulator debut Lower Form Resistance on 20 Buck Spin and I can dig it. It’s being sold as tech-thrash and I can tell what they’re going for with that description.

ok yeah this vitriol rips

its sort of a given here (mostly) but this thing really is heavy. esp when it slows down a little. also loving the solos and the parts where “i am the black wizards” keys pop up.

It's atmospheric as hell and there's an assload of stuff going on that's going to require several listens to fully appreciate.

Their riffs are so angular

I love the new Lucifer.

Hooky af and Johanna's vocals are still great as always.

Opening track seriously slaps

i checked out that vitriol album now i'm a fan.. i'm still pretty confused about what i'm hearing but it's definitely exciting me. plus the singer is hot.

Anybody who knows what the hell is going on in Spain, let me know, because all of a sudden I am waist-deep in totally rockin' power/trad/speed metal bands from Spain that sound like Accept, like Judas Priest circa 1979, like...everything good in life. This is Savaged:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0032148295_10.jpg

Their debut album Night Stealer has songs called "Tons of Leather," "Knights of Metal," "Stealing the Night" and "Running for Your Love (Tonight)." They rule.

https://savaged.bandcamp.com/album/night-stealer

I've also been listening to Iron Curtain's Savage Dawn, their fifth album (and first since 2019), and they do the same type of thing, but maybe even a little speedier, in an early Motörhead/Tank mode:

https://ironcurtainattack.bandcamp.com/album/savage-dawn

I need more of this stuff!

Anybody know how fashy Unaussprechlichen Kulten is or isn't? New one is the sorta of weird chewy death metal I like ... buuuuut it's on Iron Bonehead

and I feel like naming yrself after a Lovecraft thing is distinctly unhelpful, coz, y’know, you can been into the Mythos because tentacled horrors from beyond space are cool .... or because of what the dude named his cat 🙄

My big Bandcamp Friday splurge this month is the whole discography of Lady Beast, a Pittsburgh, PA trad/power metal band who've been around for like 15 years but I just discovered them tonight. I bought a compilation of their first two albums and an EP, their third and fourth albums, and another EP, all for about $20. If you're a fan of Crystal Viper, Christian Mistress, Huntress, and other trad/power metal bands with female singers, this will be your kind of thing.

https://ladybeast.bandcamp.com/

oooh a rainbow cover!

Best album credits of 2024 so far:

L.B. - Six Strings of Doomed Dementia
B.P. - Six More Strings of Delirium, Choir of Madness
L.V.L. - 4 Chthonic Vibrations of the Earth, Blower of the Blossoming Horn, Choir of Blasphemy
T.H. - Beater of Skins from the Depths of Hades to the Heights of Olympus
N.C. - Invocator of the Primordial Fire and Spells of Enchantment

From Dionysiaque's Diogonos, out next month on I, Voidhanger (of course).

I'd been off and on trying to fill a countries-of-the-world bingo card with music and movies to listen/watch, and this thread has been pretty great -- what's the most obscure country or region where you've found metal gems?

sorry this is not exactly within the focus of this thread, but i'm not sure where else to post it. i've been really into that vitriol album, and wanting to know what else sounds like it, i asked my partner's metalhead nephew what else i should check out. i had never heard and now really like hate eternal. i'd never heard gorguts. i like it ("colored sands") but i think i should probably try an earlier record.

he told me he hadn't really listened to them but that he keeps hearing about deathspell omega. so i copped "the last defeat" and oh my fucking GOD it's completely blowing me away. it's just the best thing ever.

I liked some of Deathspell Omega's earlier stuff - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice and Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum - but vocalist Mikko Aspa is both a Nazi and a pedophile, so...

ah shit

xpost - unperson, have you heard that Dionusiaque album yet? was considering ordering it with some other stuff from I, Voidhanger but was wondering if it was worth it.

I haven't listened to the whole thing, but the two tracks streaming on Bandcamp are pretty good — I like the prominence of the bass.

Cool, thanks. I liked those two, was just curious if the whole thing held up like that. Usually try to bundle a few things when I order from them since shipping is pretty high.

If there's one thing everyone in the music industry knows, it's Do Not Tempt The Wrath Of Sharon Fucking Osbourne. I almost feel sorry for Kanye West.

. @kanyewest ASKED PERMISSION TO SAMPLE A SECTION OF A 1983 LIVE PERFORMANCE OF “WAR PIG” FROM THE US FESTIVAL WITHOUT VOCALS & WAS REFUSED PERMISSION BECAUSE HE IS AN ANTISEMITE AND HAS CAUSED UNTOLD HEARTACHE TO MANY. HE WENT AHEAD AND USED THE SAMPLE ANYWAY AT HIS ALBUM…

— Ozzy Osbourne (@OzzyOsbourne) February 9, 2024

In case the tweet doesn't populate:

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Was it Iron Maiden that she had people throw eggs at because they outplayed Ozzy at one of his festivals? She should start that up again.

There's a new Chapel of Disease album out today:

https://chapelofdisease.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-light

I liked their last one (...And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye, released in 2018) a lot, so this was an instant purchase for me.

got the apartment to myself (well, myself and some sleepy cats), so taking the opportunity to loudly try out the new spectral voice (along with the new kali malone, which is metal adjacent and quite good). i love their demos comp and some of their splits, liked the first full-length tho thought it dragged a bit, and am pretty on board with the new one midway thru. currently at the big payoff moment in “sinew censer” 😈

they def lean more into the disembowelment sound than most of their contemporaries in the very crowded death doom field, which i enjoy

is this band really hyped or something? blood incantation connection? a quick glance at the bandcamp and rym comments is showing more negativity than expected from - i’m guessing - young skeptic types

I need to hear the new Kali Malone before I buy it. I like her organ stuff but this one seems like it might be a little too...active?

i had the same concern looking at the (long-ish) tracklist but the shorter choir pieces work as interludes for me and compliment the longer, slower organ drone tracks well imo

New Coffins album March 29! The first song is so gross (in the best way). I swear their guitar tone gives me literal chills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6FS5br7MYY

new Necrowretch is really solid blackened death, though it really does lean more on the blackened side

Always happy for more Coffins!

me too. i think Joan Chachi got me into them in one of these rolling metal threads back in the day

Yeah, they're one of those bands I never think about, but whenever I listen to them — especially Buried Death, the first record I heard by them — they give me such pure, simple pleasure. They've really achieved perfection in their sound.

Yeah I wish Buried Death was still in print, I missed that one but have followed them since.

other side of blasphemy -> buried death is my personal coffins sweet spot, but yeah, its all very enjoyable. there isn't a lot that you can count on in this world anymore but you can count on coffins, thats for sure.

This Rolling Stone interview with Kerry King surprised me. I've never read any interviews with him, because he's always given the impression of being kind of a steakhead, and I've never interviewed him myself (though I've talked to Tom Araya and Dave Lombardo). Anyway, Kerry King is not who I thought he was.

And the first single from his solo album (which has Mark Osugueda of Death Angel on vocals, Phil Demmel of Machine Head on guitar, Kyle Sanders on bass, and Paul Bostaph on drums) is surprisingly good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOwFC56MQgA

That's a really great piece on King, and the new track is really good. Mark from Death Angel really steps up on vocals, wow.

And meanwhile, new High on Fire, at long last!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHOj0O-qkC8

New single from Unleash the Archers! New album in May!

https://open.spotify.com/track/3PFhTnE0mWxkDOOhHDw3ua?si=e4d3f78f534a4021

Given some teases the other day, sounds like a new Witch Vomit might be announced today as well.

Definitely ready for HoF!

yup re: witch vomit

https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/funeral-sanctum

i'm taking one of my spawn to see xentrix tonight. i know nothing about xentrix. excited though!

Oh man. I saw Xentrix at the Marquee sometime in the 90s. I remember two things: 1) Dennis Gasser's hair 2) diving off a bass bin *over* the pit and landing square on my bollocks on the sweaty cement floor. I somehow escaped serious injury.

haha ouch! 'doing a chinaski' definitely not in my plans, but it looks like dennis gasser is still in the band though i think his hair retired some time ago

No word on when it will be released, but apparently Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is a guest on "three or four tracks" from the upcoming Opeth album.

Well this has gotten ugly

https://lambgoat.com/news/41773/escuela-grinds-guitarist-denies-tour-driver-allegations-while-it-surfaces-drummer-is-a-free-mason/comments/#0

new Paysage d'Hiver 2CD on Friday: https://paysagedhiver.bandcamp.com/album/die-berge

not the current Drudkh drummer Vlad though, this is Amorth who was with them 2004-2006

iirc, there was quite a bit of love for Obsequiae around here - as a heads up, 20 Buck Spin has just put up new vinyl and CD pressings of their first two albums.

just another shout about the new immortal bird album, "sin querencia". the atonal riffs are stately, elegant and hypnotizing. the black metal and hardcore elements are seamlessly combined. so grim, so beautiful.

will give that a roll!

meanwhiiiile, hell yes, cometh the hour, cometh the Ayloss. who wants (or needs) some thrashed-up revolutionary castle BM rn

https://truecultrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-insurrectionists-and-the-caretakers

no surprise The Body album is sounding very good today in the wake of one hell of a week

new The Body* album

I know they are barely even metal anymore, but listening to and loving the new Tribulation.

I saw some chatter about Abhorration’s Demonolatry and I’m instantly loving it. Thrashy old-school death metal, killer riffs and Morbid Angel-style guitar solos. The raw sound is perfect.

Sounds like I need to check that out.

The Decibel list is out there, though I haven't looked at it yet.

Okay I peeked, can't argue with their 1-2 and, honestly, I'm happy with that order.

probably the fewest I've heard in recent years, and not meant as a brag as several are by bands I enjoy but just didn't get to. some of them I forgot even came out (the Darkthrone, wtf!). i had no idea there was a new Black Curse either, got into them during the beginning of the pandemic.

glad to see the Ripped to Shreds get some love.

Heh, I should probably be ashamed of this, but I actually own 29 of 'em this year.

Decibel's 2024 list is out. Some very nice surprises, and a great top five. Spoilers:

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/11/12/spoiler-here-are-decibels-top-40-albums-of-2024/

Blood Incantation, Absolute Everywhere

Yup, absolutely everywhere

I saw them last night. I thought they performed well, but the sound didn't seem great to me. I'm sure it was the venue. Or maybe my own ears. It felt like the midrange was lost, including the vocals. All the Moog excursions were buried in rumble. I had the thought that maybe the sound system just wasn't up for the range of music being played. Like, it was fine for the death metal parts, but all subtlety of the other stuff was lost.

I also found the contrast between blast beat full throat DM and Pink Floyd parts jerked the audience around a bit. Like there'd be a pit and people in the back head-banging and throwing goats, then suddenly we're looking around for our bongs and wanting to be in our painted conversion van.

That said; I'm glad I went and they were very good.

I always worry about that which is why I feel more confident about shows if they're in familiar venues.

will never forget the Mortician show that had such a comically bad PA that everything clipped into a incomprehensible mess (which Mortician already kinda sounds like to begin with, but ffs you can at least hear the damn chords). vocals sounded like they went through a 90s Singing Machine included-in-package karaoke mic.

glad you got to see them though, supposed to go next week. at a venue that USUALLY has good sound.

big lols at the jarring between pit and quiet. I would mosh to Tangerine Dream tho

Saw the Sepultura bye-bye tour tonight in London. First up missed jesus piece, hen saw a fantastic obituary set and then was bored as hell by Jinja. Sepultura were incredible, great mix of new and old, and have a ton of respect for Derrick and Kisser and paulo for sticking with it and making great lps despite years of shit from old nostalgia boys.

If this is actually the end, lets give it 6 months before the cavaleras somehow wrestle back the name and are back on tour with it though

Decibel list is a good excuse to use the list-to-playlist thing I recently wrote:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1LeFFzKfRQiDQPlS8a8Mnj

Like there'd be a pit and people in the back head-banging and throwing goats, then suddenly we're looking around for our bongs and wanting to be in our painted conversion van.

lmao

high on fire is TOO LOW on the decibel list. i am not into chat pile, they sound like kids, in a bad way. still nonplussed by blood incantation. glad to see necrot high up. crypt sermon is killer, can't argue with it being #1.

I predict a full Sepultura reunion by 2026. It'll be the biggest metal story in ages, they all know there's huge money to be made.

Yeah it's one example of where just the name makes all the difference.

Heads love the Cavalera bros touring and playing their own albums but them actually being Sepultura again would be an earthquake

I'm still infatuated with the Blood Incantation record. I absolutely get the complaints about it feeling too separated into "parts", but that's not a barrier for me. Still stoked to see them next month.

I've been reading some really good things about the new Bedsore, speaking of prog-infused death metal, but haven't heard it yet myself. In fact, one review explicitly said something the lines of it being like the Blood Incantation record but with the prog parts more well integrated.

Holy shit guys. The new Thy Catafalque album is a masterpiece. You have to get on it. What a year for metal this is turning out to be.

wow i love this

Waiting for my pre-order to get here this weekend.

Still not heard of mine being mailed yet.

posting about this in three threads now but the new poppy album... wow...

i love to post about bands that sound like evanescence and flyleaf in the rolling metal thread but she really accesses and like... kinda perfects that sound, as far as i'm concerned? the core, the heart music (for ivy only)

ivy, have you heard the State Faults album yet?

I've been reading some really good things about the new Bedsore

There was some very brief discussion of a Bedsore advance track above. Their previous album "Hypnagogic Hallucinations", which I liked, was fairly straightforward progressive death metal. Based on the two sample tracks available, this new one foregrounds the prog aspects, more prominent synths and lighter, jazzier arrangements.

Yeah, that checks out with what I've heard. I liked the last one a lot too, but I'm also excited to hear them amp up the prog aspects.