rolling 2024 heavy metal and boutique blast beat thread

There
is
a
new

Nightwish

song.

Nightwish has gotten so wackadoodle, the campiness is off the charts, and I kind of LIKE this song because of that? I mean, this is utterly ridonkulous.

Just sounds great to me.

I couldn't claim to have ever been the most diligent Death fan, but I had a free evening yesterday and checked the concert calendar to see that Death to All was doing the second of two nights here. I admit I bought the ticket thinking I was going to see Cryptopsy, too, but at least half the information sources noted correctly that they weren't doing this date. NJ thrash-metal band Morbid Cross handled warm-up with admirable destructive glee. Death to All were tremendous, playing all of The Sound of Perseverance and a bunch of other mostly-later Death stuff. I read Choosing Death recently (also recommended), so the whole original scene had been on my mind again. DTA would sound like a dubious premise in most other contexts: former members of a band whose only constant member has been dead for longer than the band existed, playing songs that in many cases they weren't individually involved in creating at all, and certainly not together, with a singer who was never in the band. I would not pay to see Doobie Brothers To All. But these guys all have other bands, and the will to keep Chuck's music alive live in the world justifies this parallel project pretty well. Worth a night if your schedule and theirs line up.

I love Death to All because it's just basically a warm "we love and miss you, Chuck" experience. The band always sounding great helps too.

The best version of it that I saw wasn't actually officially Death to All, but a two day Death tribute that was attended by the surviving Schuldiners on the 20th anniversary of his death.

They had a mini-museum in the back featuring his guitars, pedals, original handwritten lyric sheets, as well as other odds and ends. And James Murphy was present.

I've never seen Death To All but their existence always reminds me of a show I went to, fuck, almost 20 years ago now. It was a whole night of tech-death bands, and one of them ended their set by saying, "We've only got one song left. We know an Atheist cover and a Death cover. Let's have a vote!" (The Atheist cover won.) The whole thing was...charming, is the only word I can come up with.

yo if i really like the new heseriarch album, what else new or old should i check out?

err heresiarch

RIYL the new Heresiarch album (IMO):

Incantation - Unholy Deification
Pneuma Hagion - Demiurge
Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
Portal - Avow (the U.S. Maple of this shit, kinda/vaguely?)
VoidRot - Descending Pillars
Of Feather And Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration
Altarage - The Approaching Roar

New Nile album in August, for those who like Nile. I'm not a big fan; saw them once and they bored me senseless. But anyway, the new song is called "Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes," so there's that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmwqMQ2g0NQ

Reasons To Be Grateful Brutal

Really liking this new album from Belgian thrashy/heavy/power metal group Scavenger. Energetic old-school 80s stuff. The funny thing is that Scavenger has a previous album from 1985, and re-formed in 2018, but the original members left, so the current band has no membership overlap with the 80s band.

https://scavenger1985.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-bells

Defacement (whose previous S/T album back in 2021 bore one of the most artfully gory metal covers in recent memory IMO) return with Duality, out in full on July 30th: https://totaldissonanceworship.bandcamp.com/album/duality

MEEEEMORIIIIIES
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whoa, that defacement preview track is really something! I hope there's at least one more epic on there when the whole thing gets released

Unclear whether this means Colin Marston is closing his studio, or something else, but Krallice have just announced their 15th album and it's described as the "final caves album."

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/inorganic-rites

I finally got a chance to see Liturgy a few days ago, and while Ravenna and crew were as great as I expected (played a couple 96936 tracks, a couple from Aesthethica, and a cover of MBV's "No More Sorry").

But it was Vermin Womb who completely floored me. Floored, and deafened. My ears are still a little tender. The grind/death/sludge they do is next-level: devoid of frills, just this massive roar coming from three guys, no triggers, no click tracks, just organic and ungodly filthy. I saw them at a great little venue with a wicked PA, so the intensity and volume was insane. Fun times!

RIYL the new Heresiarch album (IMO):

Incantation - Unholy Deification
Pneuma Hagion - Demiurge
Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
Portal - Avow (the U.S. Maple of this shit, kinda/vaguely?)
VoidRot - Descending Pillars
Of Feather And Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration
Altarage - The Approaching Roar

― River Through Howling Ska (Craig D.), Wednesday, May 29, 2024 2:24 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

thanks for this!
incantation - meh
pneuma - ok
aeviterne - sick
ulcerate - already like
portal - wild, not sure it clicks with me
void rot - ok
of feather and bone - sick
altarage - sick

and i checked out vermin womb's retaliation - sick. good on you, denver!

there's a new midnight odyssey. if you like midnight odyssey it's super good! if you weren't sold before this is the same deal as before.

there's a new midnight odyssey. if you like midnight odyssey it's super good! if you weren't sold before this is the same deal as before.

Especially since it's apparently the third album in an ongoing series...

There's a new Rhapsody of Fire album too. I've only heard a couple of songs but I don't love it so far.

Wait, which new Midnight Odyssey are we talking about? I thought part 3 of the Biolume series was last year. I assumed JCLC was talking about the new EP, Closer to the Sky.

I thought the new one was the first one NOT in the ongoing series. but I mainly only listen to the music for the vibe, I don't really follow Midnight Odyssey's whole, umm, concept.

The new Bat record is a blast!

https://www.facebook.com/NebulaBand/posts/pfbid02aw7fxZXz69JC5xGGWhYbcijLm4PRcEAfCJsxdA8QZRHfzojsCfWLNNcgvWidU3a7l?

new ulcerate streaming on youtube; holy shit is all I can say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGoCtJJN8aU

Ulcerate are insane. You can hear the kind of work and refinement that they put into it.

huh

https://www.metalsucks.net/2024/06/06/body-void-drops-off-remaining-tour-dates-with-liturgy-without-notifying-liturgy-first/

you're a metal band, you can't possibly be seen associating with weirdos, freaks and eccentrics

you can forgive her being a ludicrously wealthy landlord, but not this? bizarre. surely you knew the drill

Tbf being a lunatic for Christianity is just about the most forbidden move one could make in a metal band.

the key to remaining a liturgy fan is to think about the things she writes as little as possible

yep!

definitely not my preferred two-word band with second word 'void'

although the other one's first word is 'faith' so uh. getting religious vibes here. oh no heaven help us. wait no i mean

long day at work and finally threw this new ulcerate on

“transfiguration…” is a highlight so far

always think its interesting how fluid their sound is, the way everything ebbs and flows. a lot of work clearly went into this but it sounds… not effortless but… kinda like a force of nature.

destroyers of all is my personal fave. this is pretty different but its certainaly very strong stuff.

their aesthetic isnt really my fave in general but the artwork on this one kinda sucks tho? doesnt look much like it sounds, more like a new shudder original horror movie

props to the new Severe Torture, as usual.

and the new Benighted is bonkers , it came out several weeks ago but it got overshadowed by Necrot so I went a while without spinning.

So there's a new Nails album coming and it a) features an entirely new lineup except for the asshole singer, and b) has cover art by Jef Whitehead? I think this might be a record I don't need to hear!

FTR, the new lineup of Nails includes Shelby Lermo of Ulthar on guitar, Andrew Solis of Despise You on bass, and Carlos Cruz of Warbringer on drums.

Finally getting around to the Nocturnus AD and I love everything about it... except Browning's vocals this time, they just seem really out of place this time for some reason. A shame, since everything else hits so hard on it.

he is doing a kind of Henry Higgins thing which is odd, maybe he doesn't like growling anymore or maybe he felt it didn't fit on an album that's decidedly more prog and less death, but it is very weird for sure.

xp - also notable that the Nails record is called Every Bridge Burning

The Crypt Sermon preview tracks sound so sick

i listened to the last album as a primer for the new one and goooooooooooooooooooooooooooood I love it so much still

Yeah so my copy of Crypt Sermon showed up early. It fucking rules and I can't imagine y'all who loved the last one not loving this one too (possibly even more!).

god i can't wait. they were amazing live the only time i saw them too. which I managed to do while simultaneously watching a Miami Dolphins game stream on my phone

I can't remember exactly which of the tracks were previews or not, but I will say that of the two I had heard before, those were killer and yet somehow still landed in the bottom half of the record in terms of quality. The last two tracks are fucking phenomenal.

oh god i fucking love the new bring me the horizon

not sure anyone else will. not sure you could make an album more laser-targeted toward ivy and literally no one else

The last two tracks are fucking phenomenal.

I caught the end of a listening party on Bandcamp last night - these two tracks killed.