rolling 2024 heavy metal and boutique blast beat thread

Three listens in, The High on Fire is sludgily reinvigorated for me. I like how "Burning Down" and "Darker Fleece" really hang on a pounding throb. I especially the Turkish touches, which really meet me half way with a lot of my listening to maqam/Persian/Turkish music. And now I will once again post my favorite metal video of all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jgJKDtdTEA

the new The Vision Bleak album is great again - how are these guys not bigger than Ghost?

The new Iron Monkey is some high quality sludge.

xpost - no in Minneapolis, show hasn't happened yet but sounds like I should go!

fuuuuck me this Sovereign album on Dark Descent, came out in January...it's like a perfect thing. Schuldiner style vox over Coroner style thrash...but drier than Coroner, kinda beefier...fuck this album is nice

woah i LOVE the transit method album

Back in 2021, the debut album by Sunbomb, Evil and Divine, came out of nowhere and knocked me on my ass. It was a collaboration between Stryper vocalist Michael Sweet and L.A. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns, but it wasn't hair metal, it was trad/power metal in a Trouble/Candlemass vein, and it was probably my biggest surprise of the year. (Here's my original review.) I naturally assumed it was a one-off, but I got an email today letting me know that there's a second album coming in June, and I am VERY excited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2oCTcB3kcI

right anyway, this is sounding amazing

https://couchslut.bandcamp.com/album/you-could-do-it-tonight

COUCH SLUT ARE BACK

I wrote 3000 words about High On Fire.

In "make it make sense" news....

Terrorizer reformed after only being broken up for a short while. I knew David Vincent was back in the band.

What I didn't know was right-wing, Trump-loving racist edgelord Brian Werner was the new vocalist. His claim to fame was briefly being in Vital Remains and a video on YouTube that shows him ripping down a cross from the ceiling that belonged to the owner and getting in a fight with her (a show that I, weirdly, was at). He is a self-professed theistic Satanist but this is probably just edgelordy posturing.

So he is now going to be screaming extreme left wing lyrics that probably offend him, while adding stage banter between songs that will contradict it.

This just proves Pete Sandoval is a huge sellout. He gives a job to a guy who probably makes disparaging remarks about people of his ethnicity, and once tried to sell a Stand Your Ground hoodie with Trayvon Martin's pic on it.

He quits Morbid Angel, claiming he is born again now, and can't perform MA's material anymore due to the content...then joins I Am Morbid, which plays these same songs.

And then hires a self-proclaimed extreme right-wing Satanist to sing with him.

Doubtful I'm gonna see them w Werner in the band. Fuck him.

On first listen, that Sovereign album is sounding like the best metal album I've heard in a while. Not even finished with it and can't wait to listen to it again.

The new Party Cannon album is a concept album about Action Park. Since I went there and lived, I guess I have to give it at least one listen. The cover is Bosch-meets-Robert Williams, and it's pretty amazing:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1622643158_10.jpg

He quits Morbid Angel, claiming he is born again now, and can't perform MA's material anymore due to the content...then joins I Am Morbid, which plays these same songs.

Anyway, it annoys the hell out of me to see so many people who dedicated their lives in the 80s to fighting christianity become unhinged born-again conspiracy nuts.

Magnificent artwork

That is indeed a glorious cover, the choice of band logo is *chef's kiss*

That Sovereign album is awesome, thank you. I love this drum sound.

I am very much enjoying this Toronto hard rock band Freeways. They're like Canadian Blue Öyster Cult - smooth and melodic, darker shades creeping in at the edges.

https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/album/dark-sky-sanctuary

Shellac and Party Cannon should go on tour

ffs I just bought a Terrorizer ticket then I read this

Sorry :( I didn't even know until a friend pointed it out

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMGhPNeX0AAAAD5.jpg

Look at the third row on this poster, then imagine being a member of Goatwhore or Krisiun and realizing that you're seen as equal in stature to a Van Halen cover band.

bands who even worry for a second about what line they're listed on are basic, that shit is for internet idlers & nothing else. the van halen cover band has a manager who's capable of negotiating line placement, it's meaningless.

instead we should be talking about the o_O factor of a band called, if I'm reading that correctly, "Poon Tickler"

Weekend Nachos?

those guys are actually pretty good!

Xxpost You did read that correctly and sadly they're a shitty pornogrind band from my lovely state.

They have thirteen minutes of recorded music in their discography, one of which is the song "I Want an Ass to Fuck My Ass"

ha, of course, thanks. i also can't decipher that middle bottom one that clearly starts with "ASS" before getting indecipherable

Piss from the Moat(?)

oh haha maybe not "clearly" to me

oh, must be Hiss From the Moat. I think my misreading is better.

I just don't get how these shitty low level death/grind bands have any following other than people wanting to brag to their friends about the extreme edgelordy band they like.

Another one, Gutalax, frequently gets lobbied to be on the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise. Their lyrics are 100% poop-themed*, fans bring plungers to the shows, but the vocals sound like the noise from Juon/The Grudge, and the music is awful, not even competent death metal.

*I know big shock that I of all people oppose the poop band

New Inter Arma has some amazing dissonant stuff on it. And then some of it is really melodramatic in a way I'm not so sure about.

The Japanese band Kriegshög has a new album out, 14 years after their first. It sounds like Discharge covering Hawkwind, or vice versa. It RULES.

https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/love-revenge

I'm so blown away by the new Inter Arma. Feels like a real turning point for the band.

The new Big | Brave album is phenomenal, just a big leap forward for a band that I already loved. It's probably even less "metal" than they've ever been, but it reminds me a little of Low's Double Negative in how he starts with their usual formula but futzes with it, glitched cuts in the feedback and clipped drones and all.

Whoa, also just noticed that Tashi Dorji is playing guitar on it as well!

Never heard of Big Brave but really liking this so far.

Patrick Shiroshi and Marisa Anderson on there too by the looks of it.

Yeah, the Big Brave sounds very good as well, might be their best?

I thought the last two were a bit boring, as they dropped too much of the heaviness, but this new one really works, even though they haven't really brought it back? It's just noisy and powerful.

I wrote about the new Deicide album in this week's Burning Ambulance newsletter.

Patrick Shiroshi and Marisa Anderson on there too by the looks of it.

yep! listened to it again today and I am starting to think it really might be their best.

Weird thing about new Deicide, which I like a lot, is riff-wise they seem to be trying to approximate their 90s sound without going all the way there and leaving just enough of their post-Hoffman melodic sound intact.

But also this is the first album I heard Glen growl and wonder "are his chords aging". Not that they don't sound good, but a wee bit more effort required

Well, they're clearly not abandoning their melodeath side if they've got the guy from The Absence on guitar. But yeah, there are some songs where they're definitely trying to have it both ways.

new Inter Arma is... heavy heavy heavy.
recent Devastator album super enjoyable! hitting the same pleasure centres as the last Hellripper.
also really into the new Couch Slut - oh and the new Haust lp is very fun.

on deathier side, the recent Dipygus and Slimelord both rule.

The new Ulcerate songs have me excited.

Inter Arma AOTY

yeah it's awesome

really need to get high and listen to it

this thread needs more rap beef