rolling 2024 heavy metal and boutique blast beat thread

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

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

you're generally right but the guy claiming to be Mortiis is worth a laff.

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.

i’ve noticed the same but thought it was just part of the general post-covid “we’re the city that does sleep now, and pretty early too” transformation

ugh this really sucks btw

I have just realized that Hoplites is a Chinese one-man band. Also that two millenia ago there was a conflict between the Han dynasty and a Greek kingdom called the War of the Heavenly Horses.

that lasted long

https://www.revolvermag.com/music/slayer-reuniting-2024-louder-life-and-riot-fest

I'm sure the onstage vibe will be just great, given all the shit King just said in Rolling Stone.

Really glad I got to see them twice in the early 2000s, with Hanneman and Lombardo (and once with Hanneman and Bostaph).

five times with Hanneman, twice with classic lineup, 11 times with Holt (nothing more than 'me coming into a lot more money' than intent there)

Araya and Kerry fighting on stage would be pretty hilarious

Araya announcing a song and Kerry launching into a different song to fuck with him

Wow I’m looking at that festival lineup and it’s just Slayer amidst a sea of shit.

Sailing the Seas of Shit

these don't belong in the same post, I know, but:

New Austere!
https://austere-official.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-threshold-deluxe-edition

New The Vision Bleak!
https://the-vision-bleak.bandcamp.com/album/weird-tales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWwAR77hDMo

I like the idea of more new Austere already but, uh, hoping there's a cheaper CD option than that $32 deluxe version!

there doesn't seem to be - https://en.prophecy.de/en/Artists/Austere/Austere-Beneath-The-Threshold.html

(just in case you were wondering: VVK on there means Vorverkauf = preorder in German)

Ugh, thanks, oh well.

saw Tomb Mold on Saturday and they were incredible. Played all of Manor of Infinite Forms which sounded even better live. then they came out and played 2 from the most recent album. was really a great time, highly recommend.

ah, had tix for the NY gig but couldn’t make it for life reasons. did afterbirth open on sat too? how were they if so?

Afterbirth's whole set is on YouTube. Sound quality's not great but people seem into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY6FiOYlBkk

oh nice. I'll check that out, thanks!

hyped for this friday - Napalm Death / Primitive Man / Pig Destroyer / Wormrot about 20 mins walk from my house.

excited but also worried for my wallet at those merch tables. do I need a third Napalm shirt?

You need a sixth

saw Hulder last night, seeing Vader tonight.

idk if there are any Hulder fans in here, but I loved her first album, and the live album. the new one is also good, doesn't quite hit the highs of the previous but it's close enough. for anybody wanting a listen, they're (she's) medieval black metal, the kind that doesn't get made much anymore (think like Summoning, or early Satyricon, with the folksy elements and there are subtle keys).

anyway, the show was incredible, the atmosphere was awesome, and the show was ...empty. sad. definitely gonna keep spinning the new one

oh, that’s surprising. vaguely got the sense she’s gotten pretty hyped. see shirts at shows here, the quick 20 buck spin pickup, etc.

anyway, haven’t listened but “summoning” is the magic word to get my ears perked up…

I will say she's not THAT good (yet) but it's a good start.

I honestly was surprised. Saturday night, and when normally there are people standing about fifteen feet from the bar...even on a moderate day.

There were only people in half the venue. My guess is this isn't like this at every stop, but it was at the venue most metalheads don't like because the layout is ass, and the parking nonexistent.

Listening to Hymns For The Lesser Gods, the debut album by one-man tech-death act Fathomless Ritual, which I pre-ordered a long time ago but was just released on Friday:

https://fathomlessritual.bandcamp.com/album/hymns-for-the-lesser-gods

It's pretty good. Alternately chunky and squiggly, with really nice drum programming, broken-toilet vocals and loads of bass. And the cover art is a gouache painting, which is unexpected.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0556850626_10.jpg

Glen Benton and Steve Asheim of Deicide are at this show

I said hello to Glen.

He looked at me like I was a huge dork.

Accurate

I'm looking forward to the new Deicide album.

Vader was incredible last night btw. no idea why they have Origin with them, they stick out like a sore thumb.

Great timing to have an album coming out now, DVNE (a.k.a. Songs Of Arrakis)

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

that album : Voidkind (out April 19, 2024)

Thanks, I loved the last DVNE record!

Oh, wow, the new Neptune Power Federation album! It’s like a glorious Meatloaf record, but more classic-metal, and Meatloaf shuts up and lets the other voices imagine an acid-rock ABBA.

I am 100% against the idea of "guilty pleasures" — like what you like — but DragonForce really seem like they want me to be ashamed of liking them. I'm listening to their new album right now and this is some of the corniest, uncoolest shit ever. And yet, it's exactly what I want to hear.

New Pallbearer song! Mind Burns Alive comes out in May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFPSYuLd7WE

Digging that. Lots of good new announcements this week, also excited for new Ufomammut.

This Slimelord record on 20 Buck Spin is great.

https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/chytridiomycosis-relinquished

As is the Brad Moore art:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2422072240_10.jpg

things I liked from last few weeks

latest Necrophobic
latest Aborted

the Aborted is a continuation of what they've been gradually gravitating towards for the last decade or so, basically brutal death with large brushes of cinematic horror. Necrophobic is basically what they're known for (blackened melodic death), in some areas it's more resolute than usual.