rolling 2024 heavy metal and boutique blast beat thread

wimps and posers leave the hall!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

lol, oh Al, never chamge.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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).

Bow before Hoplites!

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

This is a Massive Breakthrough ftr

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.

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

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

New Vemod is out. It's good!

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/

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.

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.

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

Yeah the drumming is incredible

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.

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.

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

I love the new Lucifer.

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

Opening track seriously slaps

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.

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!

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

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 🙄

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/

oooh a rainbow cover!

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).

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?

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.

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...

ah shit

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

Corpsegrinder vs Chris Barnes

I really like this Big Brave, are they supposed to be metal? Reminds me more of a heavier Scrawl (a good thing)

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.

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.

oh, hell yeah

interesting about the nsbm scene in finland too. I'd, uh, assumed that it was still thriving...

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.

I tried listening to all the previous Tornillo-fronted Accept albums last year. They were so bad. I haven't gone anywhere near the new one.

And just for the record, Udo's albums are pretty bad, too. But he's still fuckin' Udo, and the voice still does it for me just as much as it did when I was 14.

The first two Accept reunion albums were really, really good, but the last three are just recycling riffs, and EGADS the lyrics are embarrassing. I don't know if it's because Wolf ran off with some skinny woman half his age, but Accept has made some questionable choices lately. That symphonic thing? GTFO.

Both Accept's new one and KK's record are two of the year's dumbest albums so far, but I'll probably see the Montréal show to hear the classics and deep cuts.

And for the record, that new Inter Arma is a revelation through headphones. You've got the right idea, Neanderthal.

Not exactly metal (and even less so given what I've heard about its Italian giallo influences), but anyone heard the new Uncle Acid?

Rise Above absolutely botched this one. First new album in six years and it is impossible to get on day of release. Out of stock in every format direct from Rise Above, "unavailable" from Amazon, I've searched dozens of US based records stores and either it doesn't exist in their database or it's listed as "out of stock, rare item". No Bandcamp option, either from the band or label. I would be furious if I was in a band and my label failed so miserably.

I admire the effort that went into the new Uncle Acid, it's a fun idea. The attention to detail is spot-on, faithful to Giallo/Poliziotteschi films of the 70s. I hope the physical product, if we can ever get our hands on it, helps flesh out the story, because without the little plot summary journalists were given, it would have been confusing as hell.

Ha yeah, I was wondering about that with it being all in Italian. I've been a fanboy for these guys ever since I first played Blood Lust and when I caught them on the Mind Control tour. I thought the concept sounded like a cool new path for them and I've dug the artwork so far.

Oooh child. I finally feel old for the first time. Was at the Welcome to Rockville festival the past two days. This is one of those Wimmer festivals that really celebrates rock mediocrity, so I don't go often, but this year, both Judas Priest decided to do their only Florida appearance at this festival, and MR BUNGLE....same.

Plus some other funsies like Nitzer Ebb, Anthrax with Dan Lilker on bass, etc.

Priest were incredible as always and it was great to hear the new stuff live. Condensed set meant a lot of staples cut out.

Anthrax with Lilker was just a standard Anthrax set, but it was cool to see Danny on the bass.

Bungle was a fuckin riot. Part of me is still disappointed that they're still mostly just doing Easter Bunny tracks (and don't get me wrong, I like that re-recording a lot), but we DID get "My Ass is on Fire", as well as his typical 70s AM nerd covers ("Hopelessly Devoted to You", "I'm Not in Love", and "True", which in ace trolling fashion came after the intro to "Hell Awaits"). He also sang the Pepto Bismol "upset stomach diarrhea" jingle after MAIOF , and legitimately farted into the mic. Multiple times. Incredible set and oddball behavior, now one day I hope I get to hear classic Bungle!

Nitzer Ebb were a fun EBM trip in scorching daylight.

Kerry King's set featuring his solo act was kind of disappointing. First of all, only one track released, so majority of the set nobody knows. He did end with two Slayer covers, which of course got the biggest response, which I'm sure he wasn't thrilled about (but whadya expect dude).

Not sure what I think of his solo material yet....I need to hear it in headphones, not outdoors at a festival w dodgy sound. But y'know some of it was good.

Anyway my gout flared up today so I walked back to the car on a toe I can't bend and recuperating at home, just having soaked in the bathtub.

Metal up yr tushy!

Apparently Nuclear Blast spotted a nickel at the bottom of the barrel and has signed Marilyn Manson.

oof, rough

gross

He's heading out on tour with Five Finger Death Punch, too, which says a lot about who his audience is at this point.

Christ, just imagine the type of people that'll show up to that thing

You could not pay me enough money to be within 1000 yards of that crowd of knuckleheads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIqcEiaOpM8

probably not gonna get much love here (not knocking ilm, i get it, besides which their current sound kinda lurks between deathcore and nu-metal) but i'm soooo excited for the new kittie record

I don't need to hear a whole album, but that's a good song. Their current lead guitarist is pretty good. I still remember meeting them at Irving Plaza in 2001, opening for Disturbed; the sisters' dad was there with them.

all of the new (nu?) kittie tracks have been cool. I'm also looking forward to it!

I am admittedly very picky when it comes to what I like and don’t like about metal; I’m definitely out of step with the genre overall.

Nevertheless! The band that consistently does everything exactly in line with my tastes is Ufomammut. Their new album today is GREAT. Since last year they’d released 4 out of the 6 songs here but they all sound better as part of a sequenced whole. Absolutely loving it.

Ufomammut is band I thought about with the Albini discussion, but I dunno if it would work because of the laptop loops they play along with. The electronic flourishes are more forward on this one, I think. Which I love.

I saw this on Twitter and pulled it up on Tidal mostly because I thought it would suck and I could move quickly on, feeling superior to people I saw praising it. Well, it fucking rules. Ten Ton Slug, Colossal Oppressor. Get some.

https://tentonslug.bandcamp.com/album/colossal-oppressor

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3691132613_10.jpg

that slug looks like it would weigh more than 10 tons.

Didn't you know? Slugs have hollow bones, which is why/how they can fly.

This Ten Ton Slug is fun. Some great grooves.

Kerry King album is kind of what I felt like when I heard the shit live a week ago. not terribly exciting.

Mark Osegueda can be REALLY annoying when he overdoes it, even on Death Angel songs, and he's in his worst tendencies here, over-elocuting/over-emoting to the point of cheese.

some of the songs are decent but literally nobody would give a fuck about this if it wasn't KK. not to say it's bad. there's good moments here and there. but live, we felt a bit letdown and halfway through this disc, it's kinda confirming it wasn't just 'festival fatigue'.

btw, for Nocturnus AD fans, they put out a (not very well-publicized) new one. i haven't gotten to all of it yet but...in case you are a fan of og Nocturnus's "The Key", it's still in that vein

I listened to about 2/3 of the Kerry King album earlier and...the cover art looks like a streaming service's "modern metal" playlist, and that's kinda what the album sounds like. Kerry and a bunch of thrash lifers doing songs that aren't quite as good as Slayer songs, but frequently sound close enough to make you perk your head up for a second. And Osugueda is trying really hard to sound like Tom Araya on several tracks. But I gotta admit, when I heard his guitar on the opening instrumental, it almost gave me the same thrill I used to get from classic Slayer.