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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (three months ago) link
oooh a rainbow cover!
― summervillain, Saturday, 3 February 2024 12:47 (three months ago) link
Best album credits of 2024 so far:
L.B. - Six Strings of Doomed DementiaB.P. - Six More Strings of Delirium, Choir of MadnessL.V.L. - 4 Chthonic Vibrations of the Earth, Blower of the Blossoming Horn, Choir of BlasphemyT.H. - Beater of Skins from the Depths of Hades to the Heights of OlympusN.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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
ah shit
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:36 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
Always happy for more Coffins!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 18:06 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
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
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2024 18:41 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
oh fuck no!
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2024 21:55 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
totally. a mid show shut down on a Friday night is such an unnecessarily dick-ish move, too, especially if this whole thing is just over paperwork.
Fortunately, they've been booking more "Saint Vitus presents" shows at other venues in the greater NYC area so hopefully they can shift some of their shows over without too too much trouble for the time being. My wife and I are actually planning on going to see Vomit Forth and Jarhead Fertilizer at one of em on the Jersey Shore this weekend.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 19 February 2024 22:36 (three months ago) link
Apparently this is the dude responsible:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGqwj1kWgAAoy9E.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGqwj1kXMAE_iBb.jpg
And yes, this has exactly the backstory you'd expect.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGqwj1iW0AAoa1X.jpg
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 19 February 2024 22:54 (three months ago) link
If this is to be believed, maybe not a neighbor but a chud who's mad that Saint Vitus is "woke":
Funny how you can randomly stumble upon the guy who got Saint Vitus Bar shut down on Twitter. You can look up this account’s replies and see he’s done nothing but bother the DOB and others about “exposing” Vitus. pic.twitter.com/ScpZnr6NkW— a___ b____ (@blckbltnhlst) February 19, 2024
(ha xpost!)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 February 2024 22:57 (three months ago) link
ugh, somehow even worse than a NIMBY noise complainer.
also I see that this coward has already deleted their account.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 19 February 2024 22:59 (three months ago) link
would support harassing this guy daily
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2024 23:06 (three months ago) link
Heresiarch - Edificehttps://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4232526190_10.jpgDoesn't totally sound like Ulcerate, but the vocals remind me of them--great riffs IMO, RIYL the blast sections in Formulas/Gateways-era Morbid Angel but also the suffocating Aussie/NZ 'war metal' sound I assume? (Still v much a metal newb, pls forgive me)https://heresiarchofficial.bandcamp.com/album/edifice
Melanie Loves Death Metal review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_pqeyf-fh8The-reviewer-formerly-known-as-Grizzly-Butts review (now Mystification Zine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4qzAOJ50ks
― Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Saturday, 18 May 2024 12:08 (two weeks ago) link
The new Unleash the Archers album is great, and if that’s your kind of thing, check out the new Elvellon album, too.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 19 May 2024 13:39 (two weeks ago) link
Update: the Nocturnus AD is great and you should listen. Little more leaning into the cosmic stuff and slightly less death. Browning speaks lyrics often on this one.
But it's not a great departure.
Also enjoying the new Pallbearer, which is somewhat shoegazy in comparison to older Pallbearer
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 May 2024 15:30 (two weeks ago) link
that heresiarch album is great
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Sunday, 19 May 2024 20:11 (two weeks ago) link
was almost turned off enough not to check out the new Vale of Pnath because metalheads were calling it 'symphonic deathcore' and comparing it to Lorna Shore (one person compared it to Dummy Burger, which was completely wrong), but on listening to half of it thus far, I actually like it a lot? it's more black metally, less techy.
I find the deathcore label completely wrong, there's no breakdowns, nor are the vocals deathcore, nor did Lorna Shore invent the pairing of symphonic music with death metal. but I'm the wrong guy to talk LS with, I feel like their music sounds like it was created by AI and has zero human touch at all.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 May 2024 14:50 (one week ago) link
i caught vitriol on tuesday night. great show. their stage presence at the start was very "pro metal guys" but they revealed over the course of the set that at heart they're sensitive and ambitious. kyle broke a string halfway through which threw them off a bit but they finished strong. matt kilner's drumming is something to behold.
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 24 May 2024 15:16 (one week ago) link
oh killer! would love to see them live
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 May 2024 16:13 (one week ago) link
Thereisanew
Nightwish
song.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 25 May 2024 01:11 (one week ago) link
Nightwish has gotten so wackadoodle, the campiness is off the charts, and I kind of LIKE this song because of that? I mean, this is utterly ridonkulous.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 25 May 2024 04:27 (one week ago) link
Just sounds great to me.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 26 May 2024 23:33 (one week ago) link
I couldn't claim to have ever been the most diligent Death fan, but I had a free evening yesterday and checked the concert calendar to see that Death to All was doing the second of two nights here. I admit I bought the ticket thinking I was going to see Cryptopsy, too, but at least half the information sources noted correctly that they weren't doing this date. NJ thrash-metal band Morbid Cross handled warm-up with admirable destructive glee. Death to All were tremendous, playing all of The Sound of Perseverance and a bunch of other mostly-later Death stuff. I read Choosing Death recently (also recommended), so the whole original scene had been on my mind again. DTA would sound like a dubious premise in most other contexts: former members of a band whose only constant member has been dead for longer than the band existed, playing songs that in many cases they weren't individually involved in creating at all, and certainly not together, with a singer who was never in the band. I would not pay to see Doobie Brothers To All. But these guys all have other bands, and the will to keep Chuck's music alive live in the world justifies this parallel project pretty well. Worth a night if your schedule and theirs line up.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 27 May 2024 13:53 (six days ago) link
I love Death to All because it's just basically a warm "we love and miss you, Chuck" experience. The band always sounding great helps too.
The best version of it that I saw wasn't actually officially Death to All, but a two day Death tribute that was attended by the surviving Schuldiners on the 20th anniversary of his death.
They had a mini-museum in the back featuring his guitars, pedals, original handwritten lyric sheets, as well as other odds and ends. And James Murphy was present.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Monday, 27 May 2024 14:41 (six days ago) link
I've never seen Death To All but their existence always reminds me of a show I went to, fuck, almost 20 years ago now. It was a whole night of tech-death bands, and one of them ended their set by saying, "We've only got one song left. We know an Atheist cover and a Death cover. Let's have a vote!" (The Atheist cover won.) The whole thing was...charming, is the only word I can come up with.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 27 May 2024 16:07 (six days ago) link
yo if i really like the new heseriarch album, what else new or old should i check out?
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 02:53 (four days ago) link
err heresiarch
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 02:54 (four days ago) link
RIYL the new Heresiarch album (IMO):
Incantation - Unholy DeificationPneuma Hagion - DemiurgeAeviterne - The Ailing FacadeUlcerate - Stare Into Death And Be StillPortal - Avow (the U.S. Maple of this shit, kinda/vaguely?)VoidRot - Descending PillarsOf Feather And Bone - Sulfuric DisintegrationAltarage - The Approaching Roar
― River Through Howling Ska (Craig D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 13:24 (four days ago) link
New Nile album in August, for those who like Nile. I'm not a big fan; saw them once and they bored me senseless. But anyway, the new song is called "Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes," so there's that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmwqMQ2g0NQ
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:14 (four days ago) link
Reasons To Be Grateful Brutal
― River Through Howling Ska (Craig D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:29 (four days ago) link
Really liking this new album from Belgian thrashy/heavy/power metal group Scavenger. Energetic old-school 80s stuff. The funny thing is that Scavenger has a previous album from 1985, and re-formed in 2018, but the original members left, so the current band has no membership overlap with the 80s band.
https://scavenger1985.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-bells
― jmm, Friday, 31 May 2024 12:46 (two days ago) link
Defacement (whose previous S/T album back in 2021 bore one of the most artfully gory metal covers in recent memory IMO) return with Duality, out in full on July 30th: https://totaldissonanceworship.bandcamp.com/album/duality
― River Through Howling Ska (Craig D.), Saturday, 1 June 2024 00:48 (yesterday) link
MEEEEMORIIIIIEShttps://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1502519686_10.jpg
― River Through Howling Ska (Craig D.), Saturday, 1 June 2024 00:49 (yesterday) link
whoa, that defacement preview track is really something! I hope there's at least one more epic on there when the whole thing gets released
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:07 (yesterday) link