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.
― ๊ฎ (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 Motรถrhead/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, yโknow, you can been into the Mythos because tentacled horrors from beyond space are cool .... or because of what the dude named his cat ๐
― 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 (four months ago) link
oooh a rainbow cover!
― summervillain, Saturday, 3 February 2024 12:47 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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.
― ๊ฎ (map), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:22 (four 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 (four months ago) link
ah shit
― ๊ฎ (map), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:36 (four 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 (four months ago) link
I haven't listened to the whole thing, but the two tracks streaming on Bandcamp are pretty good โ I like the prominence of the bass.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:39 (four 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 (four 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 โWAR PIGโ 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 ALBUMโฆ— 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 โsinew censerโ ๐
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 - iโm guessing - young skeptic types
― (โ_โ?) (original bgm), Saturday, 10 February 2024 18:23 (four 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 (four 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
― (โ_โ?) (original bgm), Saturday, 10 February 2024 18:34 (four 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 (four 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 (four months ago) link
Always happy for more Coffins!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 18:06 (four 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 (four months ago) link
Yeah, they're one of those bands I never think about, but whenever I listen to them โ especially Buried Death, the first record I heard by them โ 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 (four 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 (four 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.
― (โ_โ?) (original bgm), Thursday, 15 February 2024 00:08 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 โ 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 โ 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 accountโs replies and see heโs done nothing but bother the DOB and others about โexposingโ 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
@jgrindstone666 you are a real awesome person and we would love to meet you.— ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ (@VomitForth) February 19, 2024
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 February 2024 23:07 (three months ago) link
not sure anyone else will. not sure you could make an album more laser-targeted toward ivy and literally no one else
― ivy., Wednesday, 12 June 2024 22:12 (six days ago) link
The last two tracks are fucking phenomenal.
I caught the end of a listening party on Bandcamp last night - these two tracks killed.
― jmm, Thursday, 13 June 2024 12:58 (five days ago) link
tiptoeing cautiously into the metal thread ...
Any thoughts on Sarah Longfield? From Wisconsin. She's playing here in town on a metal bill this weekend, I'd never heard of her but she seems pretty cool. A lot of her stuff that I can find seems more metal-adjacent than metal per se โ I guess it's the shredding skills that land her in the genre. Anyway, just curious if she's got any kind of profile among metal fans.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 13 June 2024 14:53 (five days ago) link
xpost missed the listening party as I was at US v Brazil, but I'm so mega excited for this release.
was surprised to see, looking back into reviews of their second album, to see so many people call it a 'disappointment' compared to the first album. my feeling is the opposite, Ruins of Fading Light was a big leap forward to me. it's definitely more over the top, especially vocally, but for me OTT is welcome, even dare I say, encouraged in my metal.
is the new one more like the first or second (or neither)?
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 June 2024 15:10 (five days ago) link
It's been a long time since I've heard the debut tbh, I'd need to go back and give that a listen to fairly answer that. The new one is a lot like the second, imo, but more streamlined (about 10 minutes shorter overall) but also "bigger" (since there is only 6 tracks instead of 10). I don't know, to me it just sounds like another leap forward.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:06 (five days ago) link
There's gonna be a new Black Dahlia Murder album in September; rather than recruit a new singer, former guitarist Brian Eschbach has moved to vocals. Here's the first song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCFivg0a_co
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:17 (five days ago) link
The new Body Count song is a pretty good Slayer song. Seriously, I'm surprised every time Body Count puts out a record just how good they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kzTeaw0bbQ
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:40 (five days ago) link
also into this new (and imo superior!) era of body count. the last few records have all been so much fun.
― (โ_โ?) (original bgm), Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:35 (five days ago) link
Decibel gives the new Crypt Sermon a perfect 10. Can't say I disagree.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:55 (five days ago) link
Body Count indeed have no right to be as good as they are, on paper they should be terrible 90s has-beens like Biohazard or Sick Of It All.
― Siegbran, Friday, 14 June 2024 09:22 (four days ago) link
new Malignancy!!
\m/
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 June 2024 16:29 (four days ago) link
i wish more of today's tech death sounded like this....90's-2000's style where the riffs still pack a punch and aren't just fretboard olympics over what Algerian Goalkeeper liked to call 'typewriter drums'.
I like stuff like Archspire and Desecravity but miss stuff that was more like mid-period Deeds of Flesh
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 June 2024 17:07 (four days ago) link
You listen to Afterbirth, right? Because Afterbirth do this same kind of thing, arguably even weirder, and they rule.
https://afterbirthnydeathmetal.bandcamp.com/music
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 14 June 2024 17:24 (four days ago) link
Ulcerate and Crypt Sermon dropping on the same day is pretty cool. Both probably top 5 EOY albums for me.
― jmm, Friday, 14 June 2024 17:31 (four days ago) link
I love Afterbirth
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 June 2024 18:22 (four days ago) link
really liking the Ulcerate
― gman59, Friday, 14 June 2024 19:38 (four days ago) link
yeah it's really amazing that they still have that much to bring, they have been good for a minute and this is just MORE. crypt sermon also, have loved them since ruins of fading light, new one deserves the hype.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 15 June 2024 01:56 (three days ago) link
Crypt Sermon indeed is a winner. so fucking glad for them.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 15 June 2024 03:37 (three days ago) link
I love Afterbirthโ Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 June 2024 18:22
โ Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 June 2024 18:22
Underrated secret board.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Saturday, 15 June 2024 13:33 (three days ago) link
i teed that up, was hoping someone would run w/ it ;)
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 15 June 2024 15:25 (three days ago) link
I think what I like most about the Crypt Sermon is it kind of illustrates how distinct each album is. first album had hints of the epic stuff that would come later, and traditional heavy metal riffs, but there was a bit of Pentagram-y type doom embedded in there was well, and Brooks Wilson was almost kind of relegated to a background instrument on vocals, whereas Ruin of Fading Light, he was the focal point, riffs heavier and more abrasive underneath what he was doing.
this one's just so much moodier, like the last two songs are a perfect fucking closer. songs breathe a bit more, visit more places. Brooks is perfect, dialed back a bit for anybody who thought he was extra on the second album (note: NOT me), but very present and good use of harmonies throughout.
but all three albums are kind of their own thing, it's not like some of my fav bands where it's like the quality of the album is how well they do the new variation on the formula (i.e. Necrot, who prior to this looked like they might be unchallenged for my fav album of the year)
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 15 June 2024 15:30 (three days ago) link