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

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 26 January 2024 23:31 (eight months ago) link

Yeah the drumming is incredible

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2024 00:11 (eight months ago) link

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.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 27 January 2024 10:05 (eight months ago) link

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.

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 27 January 2024 16:06 (eight months ago) link

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

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2024 16:25 (eight months ago) link

I love the new Lucifer.

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

Opening track seriously slaps

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2024 18:05 (eight months ago) link

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.

ꙮ (map), Thursday, 1 February 2024 18:37 (eight months ago) link

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!

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 1 February 2024 20:24 (eight months ago) link

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

summervillain, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:41 (eight months ago) link

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 🙄

summervillain, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:51 (eight months ago) link

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/

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 3 February 2024 02:41 (eight months ago) link

oooh a rainbow cover!

summervillain, Saturday, 3 February 2024 12:47 (eight months ago) link

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).

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:19 (eight months ago) link

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?

Philip Nunez, Monday, 5 February 2024 18:31 (eight months ago) link

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.

ꙮ (map), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:22 (seven months ago) link

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...

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:32 (seven months ago) link

ah shit

ꙮ (map), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:36 (seven months ago) link

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.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:37 (seven months ago) link

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.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:39 (seven months ago) link

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.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:42 (seven months ago) link

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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Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 9 February 2024 21:47 (seven months ago) link

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.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:48 (seven months ago) link

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.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 10 February 2024 03:54 (seven months ago) link

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

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 10 February 2024 18:23 (seven months ago) link

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?

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 10 February 2024 18:27 (seven months ago) link

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

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 10 February 2024 18:34 (seven months ago) link

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

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 17:58 (seven months ago) link

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

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 18:06 (seven months ago) link

Always happy for more Coffins!

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 18:06 (seven months ago) link

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

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 18:09 (seven months ago) link

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.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 18:23 (seven months ago) link

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

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 18:41 (seven months ago) link

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.

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 15 February 2024 00:08 (seven months ago) link

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

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 16 February 2024 02:41 (seven months ago) link

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

A. Begrand, Friday, 16 February 2024 14:33 (seven months ago) link

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

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

glenn mcdonald, Friday, 16 February 2024 15:32 (seven months ago) link

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

Definitely ready for HoF!

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 February 2024 15:41 (seven months ago) link

yup re: witch vomit

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

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 16 February 2024 16:36 (seven months ago) link

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

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 18 February 2024 14:07 (seven months ago) link

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.

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 18 February 2024 14:28 (seven months ago) link

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

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 18 February 2024 14:42 (seven months ago) link

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.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 18 February 2024 18:28 (seven months ago) link

I do not recommend reading the comments under that story; what a cesspit.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 19 February 2024 19:57 (seven months ago) link

i only saw one but really the shitheads acting like this is some minor band that metal media is only focusing on because they're 'woke' is complete horseshit. they're a solid band and went on a headlining tour last year and also played Hell in the Harbor and other festivals.

CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2024 20:11 (seven months ago) link

I can't say I know enough about the ins and outs of NYC venue permits and the like, but it certainly seems like someone has it out to get Saint Vitus shut down:

https://gothamist.com/news/beloved-brooklyn-bars-abrupt-shutdown-sends-bands-scrambling-to-book-new-venues

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 February 2024 21:54 (seven months ago) link

oh fuck no!

CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2024 21:55 (seven months ago) link

Yeah, the way the actual complaint is phrased reeks of pissed-off neighbor — and this being Brooklyn, it's probably someone new to the neighborhood. Real loser shit that's gonna have major consequences for that business and possibly others, if it inspires a broader Department of Buildings crackdown. 'Cause hey, maybe closing some Brooklyn nightclubs will distract the local media from how badly DOB has been fucking up when it comes to NYCHA (low-income housing, where landlords give low-bid contracts to their cronies who don't even do the work most of the time — there was a huge wave of arrests not long ago).

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 19 February 2024 22:14 (seven months ago) link

totally sucks about Saint Vitus. Figured something was up since the last couple of shows I went to there ended around 10PM on Friday/Saturday nights, even with stacked bills, so it certainly seemed like someone was hounding them with noise complaints. But as I am now in my 40s, I really liked being able to go see a metal show and not have to stay out until 1AM to see the headliner.

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 19 February 2024 22:15 (seven months ago) link

As a fellow member of the show going 40 year olds club, I too am happy to be done earlier, but this one sucks. I hate when new people come into a neighborhood and decide only they know what should be happening within it.

This reminds me of the new neighbors that tried to get Empty Bottle in Chicago shut down some years ago. Fortunately the venue won that one and it still around, hoping for the same for Saint Vitus.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 February 2024 22:21 (seven months ago) link

nice review

it’s all combined seamlessly, making perfect conceptual sense and never seeming duct-taped together

immediately in awe, still i wasn't quite sure of that on the first couple of listens, au contraire, until tablet incantation kicked in, i guess, what a record

+subtle (gaudio), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 05:04 (three days ago) link

Really digging the debut from Dreamless Veil, black metal trio from Dan Gargiulo (Artifical Brain), Mike Paparo (Inter Arma) and Dave Haley (Psycroptic).

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 18:51 (three days ago) link

I want to again encourage everybody to listen to the NoHoN album

https://bjeima.bandcamp.com/album/nohon

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 21:06 (three days ago) link

xxpost - Dreamless Void album is excellent. Thanks for the recommendation! Sneaky AOTY for me. LL Cool J and Nilüfer Yanya considered.

They’re a bit like Mgla, minus the balaclavas and NS bs (I hope).
It’s also the best sounding metal record I’ve heard of late.

avoid boring people, Thursday, 3 October 2024 01:16 (two days ago) link

*Veil, not Void (though interchangeable as far as metal band names go).

avoid boring people, Thursday, 3 October 2024 01:17 (two days ago) link

I reviewed six new metal or metal-adjacent albums (Aluk Todolo, Demiser, High Rise, Ingurgitating Oblivion, Wolfbrigade, and Wormed) for this weeks Burning Ambulance newsletter. Selected quotes:

"If you love the cosmic stoner rock of Slift and the brain-scraping psychedelic improvisations of Fushitsusha, you’re ready for the next stage, which is Aluk Todolo."

"Demiser make music for doing donuts in high school parking lots at two AM, screaming 'Hail Satan' out the window."

"[Ingurgitating Oblivion] is technical death metal that nods to Pink Floyd and Opeth, and feels symphonic but dissonant at the same time, like if Dimmu Borgir decided to become Ulcerate. It’s a lot."

"Are Spain’s Wormed the Autechre of death metal? Like that English electronic duo, they seem to make music based on an inscrutable system that frequently yields results that sound like a room full of machines entertaining themselves based on an utterly alien aesthetic. And yet, like Autechre, they’re still somehow grounded, still human on some level."

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 3 October 2024 14:29 (two days ago) link

NoHoN album is really good yeah, checked it the other day. Very much up my street and hopefully a few of yours too.

Stereogum have done an article about zeuhl metal? Awesome! That Kraanerg album is absolutely amazing and it's by an internet pal of mine, wouldn't expect it to get mentioned independently on here!

imago, Thursday, 3 October 2024 14:31 (two days ago) link

def right up my street too. did blast Fyret Bak Sløret just yesterday. their clean vocals became a dealbreaker, but that's me. soundwise is freaking good, yeah

+subtle (gaudio), Thursday, 3 October 2024 14:45 (two days ago) link

The Freak Puke album from that Stereogum article is great too btw. If 15 minutes of genuinely witty instrumental hijinks sounds like your thing...

https://freakpuke.bandcamp.com/album/future-toast

imago, Thursday, 3 October 2024 14:52 (two days ago) link

Okay yeah, side A of the Blood Incantation is brilliant. Can't to hear the rest.

jmm, Thursday, 3 October 2024 16:03 (two days ago) link

*Can't wait

jmm, Thursday, 3 October 2024 16:03 (two days ago) link

Yeah, the Blood Incantation sounds like 'the one', like Sunbather or Monoliths & Dimension. Perhaps not the best metal album of the decade, but the one that will be the metal album on a lot of non-metal end-of-decade lists.

Frederik B, Friday, 4 October 2024 07:18 (yesterday) link

And, I mean, I'm astonished too.

Frederik B, Friday, 4 October 2024 07:18 (yesterday) link

Absolute Elsewhere is also the non-playable B-side to this 1984 Coil EP btw: https://www.discogs.com/release/97399-Coil-How-To-Destroy-Angels

StanM, Friday, 4 October 2024 09:54 (yesterday) link

Try this if you want some kickass, catchy-as-fuck psych-DM

https://devenialverdictband.bandcamp.com/album/blessing-of-despair

Suggested track: Cold Lantern, which, honestly, should have been a single

imago, Friday, 4 October 2024 13:34 (yesterday) link

Sadly both my CD box and vinyl copies (ordered separately) of Blood Incantation are delayed, not sure I want my first listen to be a stream... but...

unperson - agreed with your write-up yesterday about Aluk Todolo and Wormed, thanks for point me to the Ingurgitating Oblivion, right up my alley!

avoid boring people - glad you like the Dreamless Veil, holding up well for me and I hope it's not just a one-off (also I loled because my initial post I did type 'Dreamless Void' too, but realized it didn't look right)

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 October 2024 13:53 (yesterday) link

dreamless void, as a mybandnameisthis goes, sounds like fire to me, so i would gladly typo too (no zing to the veil guys, btw, they fine)

+subtle (gaudio), Friday, 4 October 2024 14:04 (yesterday) link

That zeuhl metal piece is fantastic, also. Really interesting interviewees.

jmm, Friday, 4 October 2024 14:11 (yesterday) link

I was kinda surprised in the zeuhl metal piece that nobody (writer or interviewee) pointed out that Kraanerg is probably the only metal band named for a Xenakis composition. Which reminds me of something Weasel Walter told me a million years ago, back when we were still friendly: "Metal already has enough Wagner. We're trying to add some Xenakis."

Wait, am I reading that right that the label will send out CDs free? Obviously I'm gonna find a way to kick them some money for it, but that's something you don't see often.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 October 2024 14:40 (yesterday) link

back when we were still friendly

I want to know more about this unperson/Weasel Walter beef! (I’m only joking.)

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, 4 October 2024 17:02 (yesterday) link

Metal music festival loses headliner, multiple bands after announcing Kyle Rittenhouse as guest

https://archive.ph/9wNH6

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 October 2024 17:43 (yesterday) link

So, instead, the new headliner for Shell Shock II, per Loudwire, will be a Slipknot cover band.

Slipnot?

jmm, Friday, 4 October 2024 17:55 (yesterday) link

the hits keep coming…

new coffin rot is some very enjoyable no gimmicks death. was not expecting for this one to click like it did.

new cosmic putrefaction is awesome but def cannot also be described as a no frills affair. there’s a lot going on here but it all feels very cohesive and smartly arranged. killer!

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 5 October 2024 00:09 (five hours ago) link

Seeing Dark Tranquillity (for the first time), and oh yes yes yes.

glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 5 October 2024 01:04 (four hours ago) link

Blood Incantation

;_;

smears for fears (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 October 2024 01:29 (three hours ago) link

Amorphis, by contrast, are less effusive. They’re here to play their songs. But I adore those songs, so it works for me. This is my first time seeing them live, too. A magnificent double bill. I feel like my body has had its supply of vitamin drop-D replenished.

glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 5 October 2024 03:00 (two hours ago) link


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