rolling 2024 heavy metal and boutique blast beat thread

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

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

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.

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

oh fuck no!

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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!)

ugh, somehow even worse than a NIMBY noise complainer.

also I see that this coward has already deleted their account.

would support harassing this guy daily

@jgrindstone666 you are a real awesome person and we would love to meet you.

— 𝐕𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐇 (@VomitForth) February 19, 2024

This Oxygen Destroyer album is on Bandcamp's year-end metal list. Blistering thrash that reminds me of Hypnosia:

https://oxygen-destroyer.bandcamp.com/album/guardian-of-the-universe

this infernalivm (um, sure, whatever) ep is a nice little shot of morbid angel-ey fun

Yeah, that Oxygen Destroyer album is a lot of fun.

if you're like me and you like your black metal songs to just be one slow, distorted bassline repeated for 10+ mins, then this new one from finland’s flail might be your black metal record of the year too

https://flail666.bandcamp.com/album/within-the-firths-of-futility

Kari Rueslatten is back with The 3rd & The Mortal and they’re going to tour: https://www.facebook.com/61570829874525/posts/122099606546694329/

Master of the Games by Demon Bitch is pretty awesome. High-energy, theatrical 80s heavy metal, like a fantasy-themed Mercyful Fate, with a ridiculous singer doing his best cartoon power metal voice the whole time.

Also, thanks to everyone for all the great recommendations in 2024!

FYI, here are all the metal or metal-adjacent records I included on my two-part list (the first part was published in July, the second today) for Burning Ambulance:

Aluk Todolo, Lux (The Ajna Offensive)
Attic, Return of the Witchfinder (Ván)
Bedsore, Dreaming The Strife For Love (20 Buck Spin)
Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media)
Buñuel, Mansuetude (Skin Graft)
Chapel of Disease, Echoes of Light (Ván)
Coffins, Sinister Oath (20 Buck Spin)
The Crown, Crown Of Thorns (Metal Blade)
Defeated Sanity, Chronicles Of Lunacy (Season of Mist)
Deicide, Banished By Sin (Reigning Phoenix)
Demiser, Slave To The Scythe (Metal Blade)
Final, What We Don’t See (Room40)
Grand Magus, Sunraven (Nuclear Blast)
High On Fire, Cometh The Storm (MNRK)
High Rise, Disturbance Trip (Black Editions)
Ingurgitating Oblivion, Ontology Of Nought (Willowtip)
Iron Curtain, Savage Dawn (Dying Victims Productions)
Judas Priest, Invincible Shield (Sony)
Lord Spikeheart, The Adept (HAEKALU)
Malignancy, Discontinued (Willowtip)
Mean Mistreater, Razor Wire (self-released)
Necrot, Lifeless Birth (Tankcrimes)
Opeth, The Last Will And Testament (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Phenocryst, Cremation Pyre (Blood Harvest)
Replicant, Infinite Mortality (Transcending Obscurity)
Slift, Ilion (Sub Pop)
Sunbomb, Light Up The Sky (Frontiers)
Theurgy, Emanations Of Unconscious Luminescence (New Standard Elite)
Ulcerate, Cutting The Throat Of God (Debemur Morti Productions)
Vitriol, Suffer & Become (Century Media)
Wolfbrigade, Life Knife Death (Metal Blade)
Wormed, Omegon (Season of Mist)

If you like metal covers, I highly recommend both of these albums:

Crippled Black Phoenix: https://open.spotify.com/album/6oR81v3JiT1QWZHzgcwgGi
Tulip: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Ph0DGT5l7aOydaSTyLXEc

Here's Chuck Eddy's top 20 "rock" albums of 2024 (mostly of the metal or punk persuasion):

Chapel of Disease (Cologne progressive death metal with gorgeous classic rock guitar interplay)
Kahfa (Noir Désir-like heavy Swiss graveyard blooze)
Wet Dip (Spanglish two-girl/one-boy neo-no wave Austinites)
Kontact (Alberta’s sci-fried answer to Voivod)
King Stingray (gleefully digeridooed indigenous Australians)
Tarot (Tasmanian prog-folk metal)
Bedsore (prog-death-metal from Rome)
Cumgirl8 (sex-positive four-woman NY post-post-punks)
Opeth (Stockholm stalwarts — and okay I guess prog-death metal did have a decent year)
Gates of Slumber (Indianapolis doom-metal)
Kill The Thrill (Marseille industrial metal)
Bewitcher (Portland, Oregon black-thrash with a rhythm that rolls)
Penza Penza (Estonian instrumental fuzz-surf garage)
Neptune Power Federation (Sydney AC/DC rock fronted by woman in elaborate ocean-goddess headgear)
Grand Magus (Stockholm power doom)
Träume (off-kilter Warsaw hardcore brats)
Satan’s Satyrs (Virginia biker metal’n’roll)
Sheepdogs (Saskatoon Southern boogie)
Hands of Goro (old-school San Francisco power-trio metal rookies)
Dolmen Gate (epic metal from Lisbon)

May as well add my own metal list in alphabetical order...

Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus (Debemur Morti Productions)
Alcest - Les Chants de L'Aurore (Nuclear Blast)
Aluk Todolo - Lux (NoEvDiA)
Aseethe - The Cost (Thrill Jockey Records)
Axioma - Live Totality (Stained Glass Torments)
Black Tusk - The Way Forward (Season of Mist)
Blasphemous - To Lay Siege and Conquer (Adirondack Black Mass)
Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg (Mighty Music)
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media Records)
The Body & Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile Heaven (Thrill Jockey)
The Body - The Crying Out of Things (Thrill Jockey Records)
Buñuel - Mansuetude (Skin Graft Records)
Bütcher - On Fowl of Tyrant Wing (Osmose Productions)
Category 7 - Category 7 (Metal Blade Records)
Chat Pile - Cool World (The Flesner)
Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full Of Blood (Red Crk Recordings)
The Clamps - Megamouth (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Corrupted - Felicific Algorithm / Mushikeras (Cold Spring)
Couch Slut - You Could Do It Tonight (Brutal Panda Records)
Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose (Dark Descent Records)
Darkthrone - It Beckons Us All (Peaceville Records)
Deadyellow - What Was Left of Them (Pile Of Heads Productions)
Deceased - Children of the Morgue (Hells Headbangers)
A Deer A Horse - Texas Math (Rookie Records)
Demiser - Slave to the Scythe (Metal Blade Records)
Desolus - System Shock (Hells Headbangers)
Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project (Duellist Holdings/BMG)
Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will (Wolves of Hades)
Early Moods - A Sinner's Past (RidingEasy Records)
Enforced - A Leap Into the Dark [EP] (Century Media Records)
Escuela Grind - Ddeeaatthhmmeettaall [EP] (MNRK Records)
Escuela Grind - Dreams on Algorithms (MNRK Records)
Exhorder - Defectum Omnium (Nuclear Blast)
Flight of the Sleipnir - Nature's Cadence (Eisenwald)
Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss (Closed Casket Activities)
Full of Hell with Andrew Nolan - Scraping the Divine (Closed Casket Activities)
Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition (Nuclear Blast Records)
The Gates of Slumber - The Gates of Slumber (Svart Records)
Ghoul - Noxious Concoctions [EP] (Tankcrimes)
God Bullies - As Above, So Below (Reptilian Records)
God Mother - Sinneseld [EP] (Self-Release)
Hands of Goro - Hands of Goro (Self-Release)
Hashtronaut - No Return (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Haunt - Dreamers (Iron Grip Metal)
Heavy Temple - Garden of Heathens (Magnetic Eye Records)
Hellbutcher - Hellbutcher (Metal Blade Records)
High on Fire - Cometh the Storm (MNRK Records)
High Reeper - Renewed by Death (Heavy Psych Records)
Houkago Grind Time - Koncertos of Kawaiiness (Obliteration Records)
Hulder - Verses in Oath (20 Buck Spin)
Insect Ark - Raw Blood Singing (Debemur Morti Productions)
Inter Arma - New Heaven (Relapse Records)
The Jesus Lizard - Rack (Ipecac Records)
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield (Sony Records)
Khold - Du dømmes til død (Soulseller Records)
Knoll - As Spoken (Self-Release)
Korpiklaani - Rankarumpu (Nuclear Blast Records)
Krallice - Inorganic Rites (P2)
Legions of Doom - The Skull 3 (Tee Pee Records)
Locrian - End Terrain (Profound Lore)
Lucifer - V (Nuclear Blast)
Melted Bodies - The Inevitable Fork (Self-Released)
Melvins - Tarantula Heart (Ipecac Recordings)
Mesarthim - Anthropic Bias / Departure (Avantgarde Music)
Midnight - Hellish Expectations (Metal Blade Records)
Ministry - Hopiumforthemasses (Nuclear Blast)
Morgul Blade - Heavy Metal Wraiths (No Remorse Records)
The Neptune Power Federation - Goodnight My Children (Cruz Del Sur Music)
Night Fever - Dead End (Svart Records)
No Gods - Counterfeit // Noose Wound (Heavy and Fast Records)
Nòtt - Ruinous Divinity (Self-Release)
The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow (Ripple Music)
Orange Goblin - Science, Not Fiction (Peaceville Records)
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja (Nuclear Blast)
Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive (Nuclear Blast Records)
Paysage D'Hiver - Die Berge (Kunsthall Produktionen)
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Do You Still Love Me? (Deathwish, Inc.)
Pyrrhon - Exhaust (Willowtip Records)
Riot V - Mean Streets (Atomic Fire Records)
Ripped to Shreds - Sanshi (Relapse Records)
Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou (Season of Mist)
Satan - Songs In Crimson (Metal Blade Records)
Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation (Silver Lining Music)
Scarcity - The Promise of Rain (The Flesner)
Skeletal Remains - Fragments of the Ageless (Century Media Records)
Slift - Ilion (Sub Pop Records)
Solar Temple & Dead Neanderthals - Embers Beget The Divine (Consouling Sounds)
Sólstafir - Hin helga kvöl (Century Media Records)
Spectral Voice - Sparagmos (Dark Descent Records)
Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire (Profound Lore)
Spiter - Enter the Gates of Fucking Hell (Hells Headbangers)
Suicidal Angels - Profane Prayer (Nuclear Blast)
Sumac - The Healer (Thrill Jockey Records)
Swans - Live Rope (Young God Records)
Thou - Umbilical (Sacred Bones Records)
Thy Catafalque - XII: A gyönyörü álmok ezután jönnek (Season of Mist)
Tribulation - Sub Rosa in Æternum (Century Media Records)
Týr - Battle Ballads (Metal Blade Records)
Ufomammut - Hidden (Neurot Recordings)
Undeath - More Insane (Prosthetic Records)
Unholy Altar - Veil of Death! Shroud of Nite (Liminal Dread Productions)
Uniform - American Standard (Sacred Bones Records)
Vicious Blade - Relentless Force (Redefining Darkness)
Whores. - War. (The Ghost Is Clear Records)
Witchtrap - Hungry as the Beast (Hells Headbangers)
Chelsea Wolfe - Unbound [EP] (Loma Vista Recordings)
Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (Loma Vista Recordings)
Yoth Iria - Blazing Inferno (Edged Circle Productions)
Youth Death Club - Demo [EP] (Self-Release)
Zeal & Ardor - Greif (Redacted)

A few that I enjoyed:

Abhorration - Demonolatry
Bedsore - Dreaming the Strife for Love
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Devenial Verdict - Blessing of Despair
Hideous Divinity - Unextinct
Huntsmen - The Dry Land
Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe
Recidivist - Madness Malformed
200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures

In no particular order mine are: Judas Priest, Ulcerate, Transit Method, Crypt Sermon, Blood Incantation, Bedsore, Oranssi Pazuzu, Couch Slut, and Chat Pile. There are so many on these lists I haven't listened to! The first few months of a new year are always busy times listening to the previous year's best.

Anybody on here heard Ploughshare from Canberra, Oz yet?
Really good fretless-bass tech-ish/proggy blackened death with a nicely higher-pitched vocal that reminds me in a great way of the likes of Mefitis (whose own album from last year was a relative disappointment to these ears comp. to prev album Offscourings, but still) or Stargazer (esp the latter w/r/t integration of creative fretless playing): https://ploughshare.bandcamp.com/album/second-wound

My 2024 metal(/-ish) list:

Nightwish: Yesterwynde
Imperia: Dark Paradise
Unleash The Archers: Phantoma
Caligula's Horse: Charcoal Grace
Elvellon: Ascending in Synergy
The Neptune Power Federation: Goodnight My Children
Botanist: Paleobotany
Madder Mortem: Old Eyes, New Heart
Leprous: Melodies Of Atonement
DGM: Endless
Thy Catafalque: XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek
Schammasch: The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
Reverorum ib Malacht: Aya Shi Karahn
Reverorum ib Malacht: Martyrium Matrimonii : Sacrificium Christi
Exit Eden: Femmes Fatales
Krallice: Inorganic Rites
Blood Stain Child: METALIA
Sinistro: Vértice
Yoth Iria: Blazing Inferno
Teramaze: Eli: A Wonderful Fall from Grace
Issa: Another World
Panzerfaust: The Suns of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion
Exist: Hijacking The Zeitgeist
Bonjour Tristesse: The World Without Us
Fellwarden: Legend
Vnreal: From Beyond
Grimgotts: The Time of the Wolfrider
Ante-Inferno: Death’s Soliloquy
Öxxö Xööx: +
Ulcerate: Cutting the Throat of God
Leaves' Eyes: Myths of Fate
The Mist From The Mountains: Portal - The Gathering of Storms
Silhouette: Les Dires de l'Âme
BAND-MAID: Epic Narratives
Massive Scar Era: ASSYAD
Déhà: Averses III
Frozen Crown: War Hearts
E-An-Na: Nomad
Akhlys: House of the Black Geminus
Mitochondrion: Vitriseptome
Starchaser: Into The Great Unknown
Hermóðr: Mountain Winds
Eivør: Enn
Dragony: Hic Svnt Dracones
Secret Sphere: Blackened Heartbeat (Deluxe)
Funeral: Gospel of Bones
Winterfylleth: The Imperious Horizon
Caelestra: Bastion
VOLA: Friend Of A Phantom
Vredehammer: God Slayer
Fleesh: Dreamension
Alunah: Fever Dream
Raat: Enchantment
Нуки: Терапия
Houle: Ciel Cendre et Misère Noire
Ingurgitating Oblivion: Ontology of Nought
Anomalie: Riverchild
Boris / Coaltar Of The Deepers: "hello there"
Horna: Nyx - Hymnejä Yölle
Synlakross: Mental Parasites
Veilburner: The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom
Charlotte Wessels: The Obsession
Poppy: Negative Spaces
Gigan: Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
Metalite: Expedition One
Wormwitch: Wormwitch
Grand Magus: Sunraven
Bossk: .4
HammerFall: Avenge The Fallen
Frost*: Life In The Wires
Sear Bliss: Heavenly Down
Al-Namrood: Al Aqrab
Biesy: Golem
Botanist: VII: Beast of Arpocalyx
Ghostheart Nebula: Blackshift
Brothers of Metal: Fimbulvinter
Paysage D'Hiver: Die Berge
FÓRN: Repercussions of the Self
Devin Townsend: PowerNerd
Rotting Christ: Pro Xristou
Monolithe: Black Hole District
Asenblut: Entfesselt
Firtan: Ethos
Inter Arma: New Heaven
Glare Of The Sun: TAL
Xandria: Universal Tales
Fellowship: The Skies Above Eternity
Crippled Black Phoenix: The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature
Forgotten Tomb: Nightfloating
Dödsrit: Nocturnal Will
Äera: Phantast
Agrypnie: Erg
Hiraes: Dormant
Dream Evil: Metal Gods
Dwell in Doom: Ruins of the Divine
IOTUNN: Kinship
Ensiferum: Winter Storm
dArtagnan: Herzblut
Aran: Maahan Laskettu

Yow, that was a good year.

New Christian Mistress album coming out in March! It's called Children Of The Earth and it's on Cruz Del Sur.

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Between that news and your Fushitsusha post, you are really making my day here!

Timings and venues are out for Incineration Festival.

Wish there was more time for Blood Incantation as this is the only UK date this year, but I guess they are playing the album and the album is 50 mins....

I know no other bands apart form Minami Deutsch, so would appreciate some early day recommendations.

you're in last year's thread but no matter. Coffin Mulch and Blackbraid is a sad time clash; both rule but i will have to hit Blackbraid as i've seen Coffin Mulch 3 times...
Spectral Wound are killer live - a shame they clash with Gorgon Vomit (London based rasta-death metal). also excited for Bedsore and Triptykon.

i hear good things about Lamp Of Murmuur live show too; not that familiar with recorded material tho

I would absolutely suggest seeing Bedsore, that new album is tremendous and I can see it translating well to a live show.

but you should also take some time to hit those classic Celtic Frost LPs because the Triptykon set should be a great end of fest closer