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wimps and posers leave the hall!

Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 15:05 (one year ago) link

Saguzar's Total Necro D-Beat Desecration sounds exactly like you think it will, but it's doing the job this morning.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1041989003_10.jpg

https://saguzar.bandcamp.com/album/total-necro-d-beat-desecration

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 16:25 (one year ago) link

lol i love albums that have their genre descriptions in the title

Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 17:10 (one year ago) link

It won't make my playlist of great metal covers of non-metal songs because it's a metal song to begin with, obviously, but this Sershen&Zaritskaya version of "Rainbow In The Dark" is great.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6Wpuzey15pwj1mN0EBRw8s

glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 4 January 2024 00:37 (one year ago) link

This week’s post had the coloured vinyl reissues of Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. Haven’t spun the latter yet but the former sounds fantastic, far from the crackly experience that is the shitty pressing of From Enslavement to Obliteration that came out a few years ago (I can already hear unperson chastising me, vinyl is a sucker’s name, I know I know).

Also, RTL came with a download card but Puppets didn’t. Hmm. I’ve opened a ticket on the Metallica website and let’s see if that gets anywhere.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 6 January 2024 16:54 (eleven months ago) link

*weeks not years (that FETO reissue was in November I think?)

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 6 January 2024 16:54 (eleven months ago) link

new (old) corrupted incoming. not my fave release but haven't listened to this "much darker" version yet...

Out 26 Jan: CORRUPTED 'Felicific Algorithm / Mushikeras' CD/Shirt

Corrupted is a mysterious Japanese doom metal band, formed in 1994. Immensely downtuned guitar and crushingly slow bass are shrouded under deep layers of feedback. They are rightly hailed as one of the heaviest and darkest doom metal bands of all time.

This is not a simple reissue of the 2018 multi-speed, vinyl-only release "Felicific Algorithim" (Cold Spring). Though the first two tracks were created using the same field recordings / source material captured in Amagasaki, Osaka, and Fukushima, the tracks have been carefully reworked into a much darker sound. The new track titles 'Felicific Algiorithm' and 'Felicific Aligorithm' reflect this; like a mind virus appearing the same at first glance.

The 27-minute track 'Mushikeras' was recorded 2022-23 as a four-piece line-up of Kaz Mike (howling guitar and bass), Rie Lambdoll (vocal and bass), Mark Y. (guitar and bass), and Chew (drum and high carbon steel). A self-released digital-only track in autumn '23, this is the first physical manifestation of this doom metal behemoth, full of loud sludge, funeral dirge, haunting whispers / howling harsh vocals, and atmospheric build-ups.

6-panel flood-printed digipak with striking photography by Rie Lambdoll, Mark Y, Chew, and collage by Hyng Hoian.

Also accompanything this release is a new Corrupted black t-shirt with white print.

Track listing:

1. Felicific Algiorithm (11:15)
2. Felicific Aligorithm (9:34)
3. Mushikeras (27:45)

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/felicific-algorithm-mushikeras-csr333cd

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 01:34 (eleven months ago) link

There's a new Ministry album coming in March and it's...almost good? A lot of songs about needing to stamp out Nazis, a lot of samples of January 6 insurrectionists howling stupid shit into hot mikes, big thrash riffs with better production than he's had in several years...and it's pretty short (nine tracks, 42 minutes). On the other hand, Jello Biafra's on one song. Oh, and it's called HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES (all caps in original). So, a mixed bag.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 01:57 (eleven months ago) link

lol, oh Al, never chamge.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 15:36 (eleven months ago) link

ffs, autocorrect lets "chamge" go through?

Not a 2024 release, but just heard that Triumph of Death live album Tom G. Warrior did for the Hellhammer stuff, much better than I expected.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 15:50 (eleven months ago) link

the live set I saw of them in 2019 was incredible. was cool to hear those songs live

Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 15:55 (eleven months ago) link

just got tickets for the Sepultura farewell tour in.... November. so a way off, but still hyped that supports include Obituary and Jesus Piece.

Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 16:40 (eleven months ago) link

half expect Ministry to just like do an album of industrial metal version of Beatles songs but just make them all about Trump.

Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 17:39 (eleven months ago) link

I haven't listened to the three albums(!) he did ranting about GW Bush in at least 15 years, but I remember them being decent.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 18:50 (eleven months ago) link

Lots of good new metal and related this week, but my favorites are the new Leaves' Eyes (symphonic), Vnreal (vaudevillian), Magnum (hard rock), Dead Crown (death metal that sounds like a Big Country b-side) and Dödsrit (black metal that sounds like a Big Country b-side).

glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 11 January 2024 03:53 (eleven months ago) link

Bow before Hoplites!

https://hoplites.bandcamp.com/album/--8

This is a Massive Breakthrough ftr

imago, Saturday, 13 January 2024 09:37 (eleven months ago) link

Here's a list of things I endeavor to listen to.

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I blacked out the non-metal ones; you can guess what they are.
Not as trve or cult as other things here but I listen to those things as well.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:25 (eleven months ago) link

anybody got a favorite site for researching older tour itineraries for indie/small-theater/club level artists? setlist.fm is very cool but it doesn’t include dates no one had a setlist for, and I need to play games with drive times and off-days

summervillain, Monday, 15 January 2024 20:19 (eleven months ago) link

I'm not sure if there is a better resource than setlist.fm, I'd be curious to hear if anyone knows of anything. Undoubtedly there are probably some artist-specific tour sites that show old itineraries, but not sure if there's another collective place.

I have seen dates listed on setlist.fm for some bands, even if there are no setlists - for example this Boris show I saw at Empty Bottle back in 2008 is listed, but no setlist:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/boris/2008/empty-bottle-chicago-il-3bd68c38.html

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 15:00 (eleven months ago) link

New Vemod is out. It's good!

Frederik B, Monday, 22 January 2024 13:18 (eleven months ago) link

It came out towards the end of last year, but I'm still finding new things to enjoy in this Baring Teeth album:
https://everythingisnoise.net/reviews/baring-teeth-the-path-narrows/

o. nate, Monday, 22 January 2024 20:17 (eleven months ago) link

I was a huge fan of the progressive turn Lord Dying took with their last album and the new one continues in that vein, though it isn't quite as great. Got a whole new rhythm section, including Alyssa Maucere (Matt Pike's wife) on bass.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 22:06 (eleven months ago) link

The new Vitriol album, Suffer & Become, is absolutely kicking my ass this Friday afternoon. Face-punching death metal of the Vader/Vital Remains/Hate Eternal school...totally merciless. Blast beats and roars and dissonant guitar squiggles and Tom G. Warrior-esque "URGH"s. Loving it.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 26 January 2024 22:42 (eleven months ago) link

One of the reasons this album kicks as much ass as it does is that Matt Kilner (aka Nithing) is on drums.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 26 January 2024 23:31 (eleven months ago) link

Yeah the drumming is incredible

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2024 00:11 (eleven months ago) link

Spun a few tracks from the Dissimulator debut Lower Form Resistance on 20 Buck Spin and I can dig it. It’s being sold as tech-thrash and I can tell what they’re going for with that description.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 27 January 2024 10:05 (eleven months ago) link

ok yeah this vitriol rips

its sort of a given here (mostly) but this thing really is heavy. esp when it slows down a little. also loving the solos and the parts where “i am the black wizards” keys pop up.

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 27 January 2024 16:06 (eleven months ago) link

It's atmospheric as hell and there's an assload of stuff going on that's going to require several listens to fully appreciate.

Their riffs are so angular

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2024 16:25 (eleven months ago) link

I love the new Lucifer.

Hooky af and Johanna's vocals are still great as always.

Opening track seriously slaps

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2024 18:05 (eleven months ago) link

i checked out that vitriol album now i'm a fan.. i'm still pretty confused about what i'm hearing but it's definitely exciting me. plus the singer is hot.

ꙮ (map), Thursday, 1 February 2024 18:37 (eleven months ago) link

Anybody who knows what the hell is going on in Spain, let me know, because all of a sudden I am waist-deep in totally rockin' power/trad/speed metal bands from Spain that sound like Accept, like Judas Priest circa 1979, like...everything good in life. This is Savaged:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0032148295_10.jpg

Their debut album Night Stealer has songs called "Tons of Leather," "Knights of Metal," "Stealing the Night" and "Running for Your Love (Tonight)." They rule.

https://savaged.bandcamp.com/album/night-stealer

I've also been listening to Iron Curtain's Savage Dawn, their fifth album (and first since 2019), and they do the same type of thing, but maybe even a little speedier, in an early Motörhead/Tank mode:

https://ironcurtainattack.bandcamp.com/album/savage-dawn

I need more of this stuff!

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 1 February 2024 20:24 (eleven months ago) link

Anybody know how fashy Unaussprechlichen Kulten is or isn't? New one is the sorta of weird chewy death metal I like ... buuuuut it's on Iron Bonehead

summervillain, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:41 (eleven months ago) link

and I feel like naming yrself after a Lovecraft thing is distinctly unhelpful, coz, y’know, you can been into the Mythos because tentacled horrors from beyond space are cool .... or because of what the dude named his cat 🙄

summervillain, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:51 (eleven months ago) link

My big Bandcamp Friday splurge this month is the whole discography of Lady Beast, a Pittsburgh, PA trad/power metal band who've been around for like 15 years but I just discovered them tonight. I bought a compilation of their first two albums and an EP, their third and fourth albums, and another EP, all for about $20. If you're a fan of Crystal Viper, Christian Mistress, Huntress, and other trad/power metal bands with female singers, this will be your kind of thing.

https://ladybeast.bandcamp.com/

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 3 February 2024 02:41 (eleven months ago) link

oooh a rainbow cover!

summervillain, Saturday, 3 February 2024 12:47 (eleven months ago) link

Best album credits of 2024 so far:

L.B. - Six Strings of Doomed Dementia
B.P. - Six More Strings of Delirium, Choir of Madness
L.V.L. - 4 Chthonic Vibrations of the Earth, Blower of the Blossoming Horn, Choir of Blasphemy
T.H. - Beater of Skins from the Depths of Hades to the Heights of Olympus
N.C. - Invocator of the Primordial Fire and Spells of Enchantment

From Dionysiaque's Diogonos, out next month on I, Voidhanger (of course).

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:19 (ten months ago) link

I'd been off and on trying to fill a countries-of-the-world bingo card with music and movies to listen/watch, and this thread has been pretty great -- what's the most obscure country or region where you've found metal gems?

Philip Nunez, Monday, 5 February 2024 18:31 (ten months ago) link

sorry this is not exactly within the focus of this thread, but i'm not sure where else to post it. i've been really into that vitriol album, and wanting to know what else sounds like it, i asked my partner's metalhead nephew what else i should check out. i had never heard and now really like hate eternal. i'd never heard gorguts. i like it ("colored sands") but i think i should probably try an earlier record.

he told me he hadn't really listened to them but that he keeps hearing about deathspell omega. so i copped "the last defeat" and oh my fucking GOD it's completely blowing me away. it's just the best thing ever.

ꙮ (map), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:22 (ten months ago) link

I liked some of Deathspell Omega's earlier stuff - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice and Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum - but vocalist Mikko Aspa is both a Nazi and a pedophile, so...

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:32 (ten months ago) link

ah shit

ꙮ (map), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:36 (ten months ago) link

xpost - unperson, have you heard that Dionusiaque album yet? was considering ordering it with some other stuff from I, Voidhanger but was wondering if it was worth it.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:37 (ten months ago) link

I haven't listened to the whole thing, but the two tracks streaming on Bandcamp are pretty good — I like the prominence of the bass.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:39 (ten months ago) link

Cool, thanks. I liked those two, was just curious if the whole thing held up like that. Usually try to bundle a few things when I order from them since shipping is pretty high.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:42 (ten months ago) link

If there's one thing everyone in the music industry knows, it's Do Not Tempt The Wrath Of Sharon Fucking Osbourne. I almost feel sorry for Kanye West.

. @kanyewest ASKED PERMISSION TO SAMPLE A SECTION OF A 1983 LIVE PERFORMANCE OF “WAR PIG” FROM THE US FESTIVAL WITHOUT VOCALS & WAS REFUSED PERMISSION BECAUSE HE IS AN ANTISEMITE AND HAS CAUSED UNTOLD HEARTACHE TO MANY. HE WENT AHEAD AND USED THE SAMPLE ANYWAY AT HIS ALBUM…

— Ozzy Osbourne (@OzzyOsbourne) February 9, 2024

In case the tweet doesn't populate:

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Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 9 February 2024 21:47 (ten months ago) link

Was it Iron Maiden that she had people throw eggs at because they outplayed Ozzy at one of his festivals? She should start that up again.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:48 (ten months ago) link

There's a new Chapel of Disease album out today:

https://chapelofdisease.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-light

I liked their last one (...And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye, released in 2018) a lot, so this was an instant purchase for me.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 10 February 2024 03:54 (ten months ago) link

got the apartment to myself (well, myself and some sleepy cats), so taking the opportunity to loudly try out the new spectral voice (along with the new kali malone, which is metal adjacent and quite good). i love their demos comp and some of their splits, liked the first full-length tho thought it dragged a bit, and am pretty on board with the new one midway thru. currently at the big payoff moment in “sinew censer” 😈

they def lean more into the disembowelment sound than most of their contemporaries in the very crowded death doom field, which i enjoy

is this band really hyped or something? blood incantation connection? a quick glance at the bandcamp and rym comments is showing more negativity than expected from - i’m guessing - young skeptic types

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 10 February 2024 18:23 (ten months ago) link

I need to hear the new Kali Malone before I buy it. I like her organ stuff but this one seems like it might be a little too...active?

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 10 February 2024 18:27 (ten months ago) link

i had the same concern looking at the (long-ish) tracklist but the shorter choir pieces work as interludes for me and compliment the longer, slower organ drone tracks well imo

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 10 February 2024 18:34 (ten months ago) link

New Coffins album March 29! The first song is so gross (in the best way). I swear their guitar tone gives me literal chills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6FS5br7MYY

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 17:58 (ten months ago) link

posting about this in three threads now but the new poppy album... wow...

ivy., Friday, 15 November 2024 15:30 (one month ago) link

i love to post about bands that sound like evanescence and flyleaf in the rolling metal thread but she really accesses and like... kinda perfects that sound, as far as i'm concerned? the core, the heart music (for ivy only)

ivy., Friday, 15 November 2024 15:31 (one month ago) link

ivy, have you heard the State Faults album yet?

Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 15 November 2024 15:49 (one month ago) link

I've been reading some really good things about the new Bedsore

There was some very brief discussion of a Bedsore advance track above. Their previous album "Hypnagogic Hallucinations", which I liked, was fairly straightforward progressive death metal. Based on the two sample tracks available, this new one foregrounds the prog aspects, more prominent synths and lighter, jazzier arrangements.

o. nate, Friday, 15 November 2024 21:27 (one month ago) link

Yeah, that checks out with what I've heard. I liked the last one a lot too, but I'm also excited to hear them amp up the prog aspects.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 November 2024 21:51 (one month ago) link

enjoyed the poppy album, thanks for the rec! made me to listen to linkin park and that one djent-ey babymetal song

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 16 November 2024 01:05 (one month ago) link

On my way to Devastation on the Nation tour. Missed Fulci...AGAIN.

Damn traffic.

Btw if any of u are going they go on at 6:15 every night

Joe Boudin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 November 2024 01:08 (one month ago) link

fwiw i wouldn’t be too heartbroken about
missing fulci, enjoyable enough but not the most
memorable live act i’ve ever seen…

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 16 November 2024 01:12 (one month ago) link

What a weird night.

So it's an outdoor venue. There's a set curfew. They announced when the first band would start and then delayed start by an hour.

Suffocation comes on and they had to cut their set to 30 minutes to ensure I Am Morbid could play theirs. Their sound check was rushed and very clearly one guitar was not coming over the PA so they sounded like shit.

I Am Morbid were incredible though. I will not see official Morbid Angel again after that set

Joe Boudin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 November 2024 14:54 (one month ago) link

I wanted to like this more than I actually do, but if you're looking for a power metal album with vocals that sound like a lonely teenage boy singing along to his favorite power metal album in his bedroom, try Fellowship's The Skies Above Eternity may be for you.

https://fellowshipmetal.bandcamp.com/album/the-skies-above-eternity

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 20 November 2024 16:52 (one month ago) link

I get it, he's a one trick pony, but god damn it can be a good trick - the new Paysage d'Hiver might be my favorite of his yet.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 November 2024 18:11 (one month ago) link

Also digging the new Departure Chandelier, straight up '90s black metal worship without sounding like just ripping off a specific band.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 November 2024 14:55 (one month ago) link

omfg i'm really liking this fellowship album and uhh those boys are cute

he/him hoo-hah (map), Wednesday, 27 November 2024 17:14 (one month ago) link

the first power metal thing i've heard that i like, i think? the earnestness is a+

he/him hoo-hah (map), Wednesday, 27 November 2024 17:16 (one month ago) link

are they xtian? they sound like the could be lol

he/him hoo-hah (map), Wednesday, 27 November 2024 17:16 (one month ago) link

yes map yes. come over to the power metal side

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 27 November 2024 18:47 (one month ago) link

I really liked Fellowship's album from 2022. The 'power metal' and 'power pop' tags on Bandcamp were part of what piqued my curiosity - that combination makes a lot of sense on "Scars and Shrapnel Wounds."

jmm, Thursday, 28 November 2024 14:06 (one month ago) link

Theurgy's Emanations Of Unconscious Luminescence is absolutely blowing my mind this morning — it's a bunch of brutal death metal dudes (including the guy behind Anal Stabwound) paying tribute to Cynic, Decrepit Birth and that whole school of cosmic/psychedelic death metal, while still keeping it broooootal. Plus, amid all the squiggly prog-fusion guitar solos and insane riff-storms, they throw in a cover of Devourment's "Molesting the Decapitated" just for laughs. Seriously, this album rules.

https://newstandardelite.bandcamp.com/album/theurgy-emanations-of-unconscious-luminescence

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 30 November 2024 16:41 (one month ago) link

well, that’s a must hear in my book. thanks for passing the rec along!

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 30 November 2024 17:12 (one month ago) link

yeah, this is the good stuff. some of those sharp little micro riff bits even reminded me of gridlink!

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 30 November 2024 20:21 (one month ago) link

Big co-sign on the Theurgy album! Fave brutal/slam album of this year by far.

Where did Boo Berry go (Craig D.), Sunday, 1 December 2024 00:48 (one month ago) link

Hey, sorry I haven't been around much. I hope everyone had a good metal year!

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 1 December 2024 04:12 (one month ago) link

Really liking Theurgy too!

glenn mcdonald, Monday, 2 December 2024 02:50 (one month ago) link

The Judas Priest album made The Wire's year-end list, which suggests that I wasn't the only one of their writers to vote for it!

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 3 December 2024 15:39 (one month ago) link

Is it just me, or has this been a particularly strong year for metal?

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 December 2024 16:11 (one month ago) link

I always hesitate to compare years (there's so much out there; my metal interests are always changing), but yeah, I've found tons of great stuff.

I'm loving the new Bedsore. Proggy/psychedelic death metal with a dark, luxuriant, cinematic quality out of Italian prog of the 70s.

jmm, Tuesday, 3 December 2024 17:51 (one month ago) link

I've been avoiding them even though every time I read a description of their music it sounds like it would totally be for me, because their name is Bedsore. But I'm gonna listen to that album today. Hopefully I'll like it as much as I used to like, say, Ephel Duath.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 3 December 2024 17:54 (one month ago) link

Is it just me, or has this been a particularly strong year for metal?

All I know is the quality of the good stuff this year has been a) higher than the best albums in recent years, and b) in greater number than usual. Just a wallopingly fun year for metal.

A. Begrand, Tuesday, 3 December 2024 22:42 (one month ago) link

I've been avoiding them even though every time I read a description of their music it sounds like it would totally be for me, because their name is Bedsore

i’m glad i'm not the only one!

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 4 December 2024 05:05 (one month ago) link

same here. I'm going to, though! Maybe tomorrow..

beard papa, Wednesday, 4 December 2024 05:26 (one month ago) link

Yeah, me too...

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 4 December 2024 06:28 (one month ago) link

Yeah, the Bedsore is phenomenal, I love it. Not that I'm 100% on board with the idea (since I do also love the Blood Incantation), but I can understand those saying Bedsore does a better job of integrating the prog elements more naturally into their metal sound, instead of "this is the death metal section, this is the '70s psych solo, this is the keyboard noodly part".

Speaking of Blood Incantation, went to see them last night, they sounded fantastic. Because of my gout flare, I didn't want to spend more time on my feet than necessary, so I got there with a couple songs left in Midwife's set and it was so packed I couldn't see shit. They played incredibly well though.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 December 2024 15:49 (one month ago) link

I listened to about half the Bedsore record yesterday, and it's really good. Part Opeth, part Ephel Duath, part Goblin. Really into it.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 4 December 2024 16:11 (one month ago) link

Excited.

I was at Blood Incantation last night, too. Sounded pretty good. I got there early enough to get a good spot but lost it when I got a beer. Which was for the best, because those super cool rune-covered stage obelisks blocked the entire drumset, so I watched the last third from near the stairs, where I could see everything.

The three of us there were in agreement with Midwife, btw. We were all sympathetic to what she was doing and started out on board, but she lost us after a couple of songs.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 December 2024 16:23 (one month ago) link

Midwife lost me, only because I was so amped for Absolute Elsewhere. Her album's nice, though. The cool thing about the Montréal show, though, was how warmly received she was. All the chuds and chodes were probably at the sketchy black metal fest on the other side of the city.

I still can't get over how great Blood Incantation were. And although drum solos often bore me, give me an extended gong solo any day. That ruled.

A. Begrand, Wednesday, 4 December 2024 16:42 (one month ago) link

also the frontman looks like Gallagher

her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 December 2024 16:59 (one month ago) link

lol the last time I saw Swans live, I want to sayThor started the show with a 20-minute gong solo.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 December 2024 17:16 (one month ago) link

Huh, this Bedsore album is not what I expected. And it's pretty fucking weird, too! Kinda ... goth Van der Graaf Generator vibes?

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 December 2024 21:29 (three weeks ago) link

Finally had time to finish the whole Bedsore album and this is so absolutely my shit. I fucking love this record. So prog, and my favorite kind of prog, too: dark, operatic, not at all nerdy or corny.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 10 December 2024 18:47 (three weeks ago) link

Glad you liked it! I think it's fantastic and I actually kind of like how their are three big prog metal albums this year (Bedsore, Blood Incantation, Opeth) that are all terrific and proggy in such wildly varying ways.

I'm all about Bedsore being what the term "progressive metal" refers to and not, fuckin', Dream Theater.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 December 2024 20:25 (three weeks ago) link

Wonderbox 2024 metal list: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1kgAby8nqthbLeHDWW252d

Pretty sure I've never even heard of their #1: Civerous Maze Envy.

glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 15 December 2024 21:21 (two weeks ago) link

This Oxygen Destroyer album is on Bandcamp's year-end metal list. Blistering thrash that reminds me of Hypnosia:

https://oxygen-destroyer.bandcamp.com/album/guardian-of-the-universe

o. nate, Monday, 16 December 2024 19:23 (two weeks ago) link

this infernalivm (um, sure, whatever) ep is a nice little shot of morbid angel-ey fun

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 18 December 2024 01:17 (two weeks ago) link

Yeah, that Oxygen Destroyer album is a lot of fun.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 December 2024 16:29 (two weeks ago) link

if you're like me and you like your black metal songs to just be one slow, distorted bassline repeated for 10+ mins, then this new one from finland’s flail might be your black metal record of the year too

https://flail666.bandcamp.com/album/within-the-firths-of-futility

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 20 December 2024 23:38 (two weeks ago) link

Kari Rueslatten is back with The 3rd & The Mortal and they’re going to tour: https://www.facebook.com/61570829874525/posts/122099606546694329/

Siegbran, Sunday, 22 December 2024 21:50 (one week ago) link

Master of the Games by Demon Bitch is pretty awesome. High-energy, theatrical 80s heavy metal, like a fantasy-themed Mercyful Fate, with a ridiculous singer doing his best cartoon power metal voice the whole time.

Also, thanks to everyone for all the great recommendations in 2024!

jmm, Tuesday, 24 December 2024 16:56 (one week ago) link

FYI, here are all the metal or metal-adjacent records I included on my two-part list (the first part was published in July, the second today) for Burning Ambulance:

Aluk Todolo, Lux (The Ajna Offensive)
Attic, Return of the Witchfinder (Ván)
Bedsore, Dreaming The Strife For Love (20 Buck Spin)
Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media)
Buñuel, Mansuetude (Skin Graft)
Chapel of Disease, Echoes of Light (Ván)
Coffins, Sinister Oath (20 Buck Spin)
The Crown, Crown Of Thorns (Metal Blade)
Defeated Sanity, Chronicles Of Lunacy (Season of Mist)
Deicide, Banished By Sin (Reigning Phoenix)
Demiser, Slave To The Scythe (Metal Blade)
Final, What We Don’t See (Room40)
Grand Magus, Sunraven (Nuclear Blast)
High On Fire, Cometh The Storm (MNRK)
High Rise, Disturbance Trip (Black Editions)
Ingurgitating Oblivion, Ontology Of Nought (Willowtip)
Iron Curtain, Savage Dawn (Dying Victims Productions)
Judas Priest, Invincible Shield (Sony)
Lord Spikeheart, The Adept (HAEKALU)
Malignancy, Discontinued (Willowtip)
Mean Mistreater, Razor Wire (self-released)
Necrot, Lifeless Birth (Tankcrimes)
Opeth, The Last Will And Testament (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Phenocryst, Cremation Pyre (Blood Harvest)
Replicant, Infinite Mortality (Transcending Obscurity)
Slift, Ilion (Sub Pop)
Sunbomb, Light Up The Sky (Frontiers)
Theurgy, Emanations Of Unconscious Luminescence (New Standard Elite)
Ulcerate, Cutting The Throat Of God (Debemur Morti Productions)
Vitriol, Suffer & Become (Century Media)
Wolfbrigade, Life Knife Death (Metal Blade)
Wormed, Omegon (Season of Mist)

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 24 December 2024 17:18 (one week ago) link

If you like metal covers, I highly recommend both of these albums:

Crippled Black Phoenix: https://open.spotify.com/album/6oR81v3JiT1QWZHzgcwgGi
Tulip: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Ph0DGT5l7aOydaSTyLXEc

glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 15:40 (three days ago) link

Here's Chuck Eddy's top 20 "rock" albums of 2024 (mostly of the metal or punk persuasion):

Chapel of Disease (Cologne progressive death metal with gorgeous classic rock guitar interplay)
Kahfa (Noir Désir-like heavy Swiss graveyard blooze)
Wet Dip (Spanglish two-girl/one-boy neo-no wave Austinites)
Kontact (Alberta’s sci-fried answer to Voivod)
King Stingray (gleefully digeridooed indigenous Australians)
Tarot (Tasmanian prog-folk metal)
Bedsore (prog-death-metal from Rome)
Cumgirl8 (sex-positive four-woman NY post-post-punks)
Opeth (Stockholm stalwarts — and okay I guess prog-death metal did have a decent year)
Gates of Slumber (Indianapolis doom-metal)
Kill The Thrill (Marseille industrial metal)
Bewitcher (Portland, Oregon black-thrash with a rhythm that rolls)
Penza Penza (Estonian instrumental fuzz-surf garage)
Neptune Power Federation (Sydney AC/DC rock fronted by woman in elaborate ocean-goddess headgear)
Grand Magus (Stockholm power doom)
Träume (off-kilter Warsaw hardcore brats)
Satan’s Satyrs (Virginia biker metal’n’roll)
Sheepdogs (Saskatoon Southern boogie)
Hands of Goro (old-school San Francisco power-trio metal rookies)
Dolmen Gate (epic metal from Lisbon)

o. nate, Friday, 3 January 2025 23:01 (yesterday) link


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