rolling 2024 heavy metal and boutique blast beat thread

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

So The Pit, the metal news aggregator and website that was operated by Elektra/Roadrunner are calling it a day.

Not sure who here cares but I liked the emails, sometimes I got useful news and they put together lists and dug up old things that were entertaining.

Also, my guess is those writing for it are out of work which is never fun.

Debatable as to just how much "metal" they are, but a new album coming out in June from Sumac (Aaron Turner, Brian Cook, Nick Yacyshyn), The Healer.

Also, if you want the CD version, hurry - less than 10 copies left according to Thrill Jockey.

https://thrilljockey.com/products/the-healer

Chapel of Disease is the kind of thing that should make me very happy. Idk, that album doesn't seem to hit for me the way Tribulation or Morbus Chron do.

Got that Chapel of Disease on my "to play" pile, just haven't had a chance yet.

Is Metal Archives purposely trying to make the site look more like Wikipedia, or is broken code or their idea of an April Fools prank?

def an April Fool's prank, they do one every year

Kinda figured since I know they've done them in the past, but this one is kinda lame. Like, haha we made our site ugly?

definitely feels like an 'out of ideas' thing

Going to this on Saturday

https://www.monochromebristol.co.uk

This week's BA newsletter is a Q1 Metal Roundup with my thoughts on Judas Priest, Iron Curtain, Chapel of Disease, Vitriol, and Mean Mistreater. I thought about also including the new albums by Coffins and The Absence, which are both great, too.

NEW CRYPT SERMON SONG

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-stygian-rose

Stoked, already smashed the pre-order on that one.

xp- enjoyed that roundup, i need to check out that Iron Curtain record

That song rules.

so happy for Crypt Sermon putting another out. I was just talking about them the other day. they killed at Decibel Metal and Beer Fest back in 2021

xp- enjoyed that roundup, i need to check out that Iron Curtain record

I thought for sure that one or the Mean Mistreater would be the ones my wife would go for, but her favorite turned out to be Vitriol, which I really did not see coming. She also said the vocalist for Chapel of Disease was a total mismatch for the music, which I kinda get.

some recent doom and stoner adjacent stuff I've been digging:

Witchorious - self-titled debut from Paris doom band https://witchorious.bandcamp.com/album/witchorious-2
Hashtronaut - debut album, No Return, from Denver https://wearehashtronauts.bandcamp.com/album/no-return
Wicked Trip - Cabin Fever, latest from Tennessee "heavy occult doom" https://wickedtrip.bandcamp.com/album/cabin-fever

also really happy new REZN on the horizon:

https://rezzzn.bandcamp.com/album/burden

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

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 3 March 2024 11:33 bookmarkflaglink

oh how was this btw? was thinking of going but it sold out (and was pretty ill at the time so thought probably for the best I didn't have to get to London and back)

Oh, that new Crypt Sermon album is SO GOOD. Along with the expected Candlemass influence, I also hear King Diamond's band in the 1980s, 80s Savatage too. First class.

Wow, that sounds like my AOTY.

I always like doom with a heavy metal backbone. Having a vocalist that sounds like a neo-Dio helps.

Plus their album covers are dope

in news probably only relevant to unperson and myself, the new Tantric Bile is so far a gleefully horrible listen

https://tantricbile.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-conception

please ignore at least one of the tracktitles

okay but it's kind of hilarious to read all of those other song titles and then see, "The Insidious Lamp That Was There All Those Years".

like, dude, I get it! I need to pull together a garage sale myself to get rid of things like that!

Iron Curtain is sweet, thanks for the rec.

One of my Bandcamp Friday purchases today is gonna be the whole discography (3 albums) from the German band Attic, who play trad shred metal with an extremely King Diamond-y vocalist. They have an awesome band photo:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0004303157_10.jpg

the new Austere album is out

file Witch Vomit and Hour of Penance under "bands who are always reliable and knocked it out of the park again".

ok Witch Vomit is an incredible band name

one of the many that lead my friends to say 'you're just trolling now, right'

it always amuses me when bands have goofball juvenile names like that and you expect they're just going to be caveman shit and it's actually well-crafted, like the aforementioned WV, Anal Vomit, and Bathtub Shitter

similar to Detroit's Shitfucker, who are actually really well put-together 80s metal/punk but they're also called Shitfucker so who in the hell am I ever going to talk to them about

Bathtub Shitter is, for real, one of my favorite band names ever. Instantly alienating, instantly memorable, a disgusting but totally vivid image...it's perfect.

It's always hilarious to type, but honestly, big Shitfucker fan right here.

Shitfucker's "Suck Cocks in Hell" is an album title for the ages too