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
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 20:58 (five months ago) link
right anyway, this is sounding amazing
https://couchslut.bandcamp.com/album/you-could-do-it-tonight
― imago, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 14:58 (five months ago) link
COUCH SLUT ARE BACK
I wrote 3000 words about High On Fire.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:47 (five months ago) link
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.
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 20:43 (five months ago) link
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.
― beard papa, Thursday, 25 April 2024 20:38 (five months ago) link
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
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 25 April 2024 23:59 (five months ago) link
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.
― Siegbran, Friday, 26 April 2024 08:57 (five months ago) link
Magnificent artwork
― nxd, Friday, 26 April 2024 13:51 (five months ago) link
That is indeed a glorious cover, the choice of band logo is *chef's kiss*
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:01 (five months ago) link
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
― jmm, Friday, 26 April 2024 14:05 (five months ago) link
Shellac and Party Cannon should go on tour
― jmm, Friday, 26 April 2024 14:07 (five months ago) link
ffs I just bought a Terrorizer ticket then I read this
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 26 April 2024 14:37 (five months ago) link
Sorry :( I didn't even know until a friend pointed it out
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 15:25 (five months ago) link
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.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 26 April 2024 16:15 (five months ago) link
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.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 26 April 2024 16:56 (five months ago) link
instead we should be talking about the o_O factor of a band called, if I'm reading that correctly, "Poon Tickler"
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 April 2024 16:58 (five months ago) link
Weekend Nachos?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 April 2024 16:59 (five months ago) link
those guys are actually pretty good!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 April 2024 17:00 (five months ago) link
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"
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 17:01 (five months ago) link
ha, of course, thanks. i also can't decipher that middle bottom one that clearly starts with "ASS" before getting indecipherable
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 April 2024 17:03 (five months ago) link
Piss from the Moat(?)
― jmm, Friday, 26 April 2024 17:07 (five months ago) link
oh haha maybe not "clearly" to me
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 April 2024 17:09 (five months ago) link
oh, must be Hiss From the Moat. I think my misreading is better.
― jmm, Friday, 26 April 2024 17:10 (five months ago) link
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
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 17:14 (five months ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Monday, 29 April 2024 14:18 (five months ago) link
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
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 29 April 2024 17:55 (five months ago) link
I'm so blown away by the new Inter Arma. Feels like a real turning point for the band.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 29 April 2024 19:27 (five months ago) link
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.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:33 (five months ago) link
Whoa, also just noticed that Tashi Dorji is playing guitar on it as well!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:06 (five months ago) link
Never heard of Big Brave but really liking this so far.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 02:10 (five months ago) link
Patrick Shiroshi and Marisa Anderson on there too by the looks of it.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 07:09 (five months ago) link
Yeah, the Big Brave sounds very good as well, might be their best?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 11:33 (five months ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 11:40 (five months ago) link
I wrote about the new Deicide album in this week's Burning Ambulance newsletter.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 15:25 (five months ago) link
yep! listened to it again today and I am starting to think it really might be their best.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 21:48 (five months ago) link
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
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 22:00 (five months ago) link
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.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 22:13 (five months ago) link
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.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 5 May 2024 10:50 (four months ago) link
on deathier side, the recent Dipygus and Slimelord both rule.
The new Ulcerate songs have me excited.
― beard papa, Monday, 6 May 2024 16:35 (four months ago) link
Inter Arma AOTY
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 6 May 2024 16:48 (four months ago) link
yeah it's awesome
really need to get high and listen to it
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 May 2024 16:50 (four months ago) link
this thread needs more rap beef
― alpine static, Monday, 6 May 2024 16:50 (four months ago) link
Corpsegrinder vs Chris Barnes
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 May 2024 16:55 (four months ago) link
I really like this Big Brave, are they supposed to be metal? Reminds me more of a heavier Scrawl (a good thing)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 May 2024 17:06 (four months ago) link
yeah, stoked for the new ulcerate as well
nothing new by any means but the new unearthly rites is doing it for me:https://unearthlyrites.bandcamp.com/album/ecdysis
a little over 30 minutes of big, dumb chugging riffs. parts made me think of coffins.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 6 May 2024 20:14 (four months ago) link
Kim Kelly has an interview with Unearthly Rites in her latest newsletter. Not about music, but about politics and environmental issues in Finland. Worth reading.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 6 May 2024 20:27 (four months ago) link
oh, hell yeah
interesting about the nsbm scene in finland too. I'd, uh, assumed that it was still thriving...
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 6 May 2024 20:34 (four months ago) link
K.K.'s Priest books co-headlining tour with Accept.
message received - it truly doesn't matter what you put out as long as you have a decades-long reputation to coast on.
― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 18:25 (four months ago) link