rolling 2024 heavy metal and boutique blast beat thread

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.

digging the slimelord

another DVNE track

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

Listening to the new Deicide now (out 4/26). I don't think they get enough credit for improvement. I don't like their early albums at all, but starting with The Stench of Redemption they got really good.

Mongolian folk metal band The Hu (never heard of them before today) will be opening Iron Maiden's fall US tour, and they're pretty good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYD8isM7RH4

Man, the second Chapel Of Disease sank like a rock into the ocean, didn't it? Out in early February and already forgotten, it seems. I'm listening to it again this morning and it's fucking glorious. Reminds me of Ghost, Tribulation, and/or Tanith in its shaggy 70s-ness. Holding a year-end list spot for it.

A gimmicky trad heavy/speed metal concept album about the last day of Dale Earnhardt's life shouldn't be as catchy and legit as this, but I've been enjoying it a bit these last couple of days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eprtpa5VDcU
https://iamtheintimidator.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-the-intimidator

also been digging this album from Noor, a Canadian 80s style heavy/power metal band, that has a rather inexplicable cover and title, but is riffy and epic as heck:
https://noorband.bandcamp.com/album/mothers-guilty-pleasure-part-one