Bandcamp has a monthly metal column now. Some interesting-seeming stuff there.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
No bylines makes me sad... Anyone here contributing to that?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 18:07 (seven years ago) link
All Bandcamp pieces are single-author. The byline is all the way at the bottom. It's by Brad Sanders.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
I just saw "Editorial" but I looked at it quickly... Thanks!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link
Checking out the new Six Feet Under, out 2/24. Normally I wouldn't go within a hundred yards of a Six Feet Under album (and within a hundred miles of one of their covers albums), but this time out it's Chris Barnes and two ex-Brain Drill dudes - Jeff Hughell on guitar and bass, and Marco Pitruzzella on drums. So it's a little blast-ier and squigglier than they've been in the past. Still mostly chugga-chugga groove-death, though.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 2 February 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
so wait, the last one was Cannabis Corpse guys, and this one is other ringers? lol
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 2 February 2017 02:15 (seven years ago) link
ok how am I just learning that Sodom's last album has a song called "Vaginal Born Evil"
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 2 February 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link
Hey look, a Moon Tooth cover of Manic Depression. I love this band.https://moontoothny.bandcamp.com/track/manic-depression
― jmm, Thursday, 2 February 2017 05:07 (seven years ago) link
Bathsheba is a Belgian group that has a bunch of people in it from bands I don't know much about - ex-Serpentcult vocalist Michelle Nocon, Dwight Goosens of death metal act Disinterred, Raf Meukens of Death Penalty and Jelle Stevens of, the under appreciated, SardoniS.
Their forthcoming debut (after an EP), Servus will be released 2/24/2017 on the Svart label.
You can call it doom metal and you wouldn't be wrong because it's slow and grindy and menacing, but it's also a lot more than that. Michelle Nocon's vocals and the lurching chasms and drone disbursement the band throws into the proceedings will bring to mind the likes of Oathbreaker and Chelsea Wolfe.
CVLT Nation is streaming one song, "I At The End Of Everything," from the album. Good song on a pretty great disc.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 2 February 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
I interviewed Resistenzia, a metalcore-ish band from Cuba, for Bandcamp.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link
is there any music that sounds like the aural equivalent of internal rage exploding and excising of internal demons cos I really need somefing like that now and don't say Cryptopsy cos I've heard every note of theirs 35,435352454ou2p5uo42i5425428549 times
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
here
― Siegbran, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
and this one
― Siegbran, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link
or this on spotify
― Siegbran, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link
anybody get the Turbo re-release?
― Neanderthal, Friday, 3 February 2017 23:11 (seven years ago) link
OK SO MOON TOOTH + ASTRONOID
Astronoid played through Air from front to back (minus "Violence"). I was sure they'd have some kind of keyboard/synth element but nah - three guitars! One of the few times I was wishing for a slightly bigger venue as their sound overwhelmed the space a bit. Still, they were great - absurdly locked in, and (as you might imagine) utterly enveloping. The vocalist managed to cut through the din, albeit with the aid of a harmonic backing track. (This threw me a bit at first but it was way preferable to, say, having someone else in the band doing less-than-perfect backing vocals). Also, that has to be the first time I've seen someone sing gently while performing an intricate tap line.
I gotta say, though, Moon Tooth ran way with the night. Seeing them at this stage felt like lucking out and catching an early set from Mastodon or Soundgarden. Their drummer is insane but really the entire instrumental trio is just so fun to behold. The vocalist lacked power but made up for it with writhing stage presence (he sort of makes me think of an endearingly chubby Jake Gyllenhaal). They were somehow mathy, groovy, and even occasionally a little bit bluesy. My favorite bit was probably when they got everyone to clap along only a few seconds before a carefully choreographed on-a-dime stop and start. The set ended with sweaty hugs and high fives all around. Killer vibes.
All in all a really great night, especially considering the low price tag. (I also very much enjoyed local conceptual metal-jazz-prog openers Earth's Yellow Sun.)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 February 2017 05:37 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtwSnxnD2is
I've been on a bdm diet since, oh, let's say early November, and pretty much all of these Mountains of Death clips have been hitting the spot. There's an excellent Suffo show in there somewhere too.
― Devilock, Sunday, 5 February 2017 08:47 (seven years ago) link
and there's a crazy Disavowed show where the vocalist spends much of the time in the pit and getting crowd surfed, it's awesome, they end up with like 20 people on stage
― Devilock, Sunday, 5 February 2017 08:54 (seven years ago) link
speaking of internal rage exploding, Ululatum Tollunt
http://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/quantum-noose-of-usurpation
― Anthology of Literature's Finest Penis Descriptions (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 6 February 2017 07:17 (seven years ago) link
If you're in a mood for broootal death metal, Cranial Engorgement's Horrific Existence is worth your time.
https://gorehouseproductions.bandcamp.com/album/horrific-existence
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 6 February 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
I'm kind of stoked to see Astronoid (just got their LP delivered!) and Moon Tooth tonight!
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 6 February 2017 21:43 (seven years ago) link
I got Marduk and Incantation tomorrow. and Mayhem on the 13th!
― Neanderthal, Monday, 6 February 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link
DisharmonyGoddamn The Sun(Iron Bonehead Productions)Release Date: 3/3/2017
http://www.themidlandsrocks.com/wp-content/uploads/Disharmony-Goddamn-the-Sun-600x600.jpg
Decibel is streaming a track from the albumhttp://decibelmagazine.com/blog/2017/1/24/track-premiere-disharmony-open-the-gates-of-elthon
Despite having formed in 1991 and disbanded four years later, this is the Greek band's actual debut album following reformation a few years ago, although they did have a collection of demos and an EP appear during that time.
As Decibel says, "If you like your black metal arcane and your riffs memorable and slightly melodic you’ll instantly fall for this album. Goddamn the Sun sounds like something earnest and evil enough to have come out in ‘94, except the production rings true to the modern era, and there’s not an ounce of affectation to be found anywhere within earshot of this thing."
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 6 February 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
The Flight Of SleipnirSkadi(Eisenwald)Release Date: 1/20/2017
http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/190154045/TFOSSkadi2017.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=1000&w=1000
http://open.spotify.com/album/1pmCC3WVzkJSYzGg45zbyFhttp://theflightofsleipnir.bandcamp.com/album/skadi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HraGatggx6c
This is the Denver band's sixth album, which is an accomplishment in and of itself. Every release has beautiful and intense artwork and packaging from what I can tell and that attention to detail certainly makes it's way into the music which merges heavy psych rock and folk influences but still embraces being a metal band, albeit a really unique metal band.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
The band Venenum I was hyping above has a track on the Decibel forums available for streaming.
http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/2017/2/6/track-premiere-venenum-issue-cold-threat
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link
sweet. I actually got their prior EP after you posted about them the other day - good stuff.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 02:25 (seven years ago) link
anyone listen to the Pillorian album yet? apparently it has leaked
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 9 February 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link
I did (not a leak a digital promo). I liked it. Need to listen a few more times to see if I love it.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 9 February 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
Ha, that's good to hear. I'll have to go and look for it in the dark corners of the internet.
Meanwhile, here's something for anyone who isn't sick of post/atmospheric black metal:
https://violetcold.bandcamp.com/album/anomie
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 9 February 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link
My Bandcamp interview with Iranian black metal dude Akvan is up now.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 10 February 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Good interview. Picked that up per your mention, and it's very enjoyable.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2017 21:02 (seven years ago) link
I drove an hour and a half each way to the land of Rumspringa, Lancaster, PA, to catch the Astronoid / Moon Tooth tour. I am very glad I did.
Like how a Simon H. said above, if I closed my eyes during Astronoid's set I would have sworn that they had keyboards, but they got the sound out of three guitars that modulated with clashing harmonies to create shimmering soundscapes. The singer is an acquired taste with a high falsetto-like voice but it fit in with the dreamlike quality of the band's self-described "dream thrash." I spoke with one of the guitarists after the show for a bit, Mike is his name. Nice guy, stoked that we came from so far away to see them. He liked my Agalloch shirt so I asked him if they liked the emotive moods that shoegazing black metal conjure but felt such stuff wouldn't allow them to stretch out musically (honestly, prog fans would enjoy this band a lot too) and he hedged a bit saying they listen to everything, surprising me by saying they started off listening to pop punk! But also thrash which made more sense. Great band.
I liked the Moon Tooth album but live they were so much better, very tight with a singer who commanded attention. The wife thought they sounded like Incubus and then I read a review on Encyclopaedia Metallum and it also makes the comparison, though I also hear a lot of Dillinger Escape Plan crazy-catchy-crazy as well. I surmised that the guitarist was the real metal guy in the band and then come home to find out that he's in the latest incarnation of Riot, kinda confirming my suspicious.
I don't often make long drives to see bands anymore. Being in Philly it's usually not necessary. But I'm glad I did, it was a lot of fun.
Astronoid:
http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16729539_10158204540895597_1704618321795902066_n.jpg?oh=7bb65afe15e766435a936cbbc18bff82&oe=590753D4
Mopon Tooth:
http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16665631_10158204545155597_2625154205625184550_o.jpg?oh=97198454aa9d8c5e459f370e34e24a19&oe=5944AA64
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 11 February 2017 06:02 (seven years ago) link
new Overkill is pretty good! seems to be less high octane metuhl than their latest few releases and more like the sleazier 80s stuff they did, even a few elements of cock rock here and there. hooky as hell too.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 11 February 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
surprising me by saying they started off listening to pop punk
ha! knew it
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 February 2017 14:53 (seven years ago) link
oh, blood command's funeral beach is one of my favorite metal records of the last few years and they're finally putting out a new one in april!
new song is definitely the poppiest thing they've ever done, i love it https://soundcloud.com/tigerfysisiskformat/blood-command-cult-drugs
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 February 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
new Overkill is pretty good! seems to be less high octane metuhl than their latest few releases and more like the sleazier 80s stuff they did, even a few elements of cock rock here and there. hooky as hell too.― Neanderthal
― Neanderthal
I want to see them with Nile on Tuesday but I have seen both bands numerous times before and the same week Mayhem, Inquisition, Black Anvil is playing Thursday and Alcest with The Body is playing Saturday (and that same day Xibala is playing a matinee) and it's tough paying for three shows in a week (and also doing so with a 50+ hour work week).
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 11 February 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
New Pyrrhon EP has two free-metal improv pieces, one new song, one Death cover.
http://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/running-out-of-skin
― Anthology of Literature's Finest Penis Descriptions (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 12 February 2017 13:25 (seven years ago) link
Man, you people who saw Astronoid are making me envious.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Sunday, 12 February 2017 14:02 (seven years ago) link
Also wow that the singer plays those lines while singing those lines!
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Sunday, 12 February 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
yeah that was unreal
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 12 February 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
huh, apparently Dallas Toler-Wade is leaving Nile. There's a tiny part of me that hopes this'll be a positive change: as much as I like his song contributions, it seems like over the years his thrashy, more direct style was getting farther and farther away from what I loved about the first two albums. OTOH I fear an album full of 10 minute Sanders epics, which I likewise have grown weary of.
New guy is from some fellow SC band called Enthean. Never heard of em but will check out.https://www.facebook.com/nilecatacombs/posts/10154238517646016
― Devilock, Monday, 13 February 2017 19:42 (seven years ago) link
ha, check that, I have in fact heard this Enthean before (they were mentioned at m-a), sort of a swirl of varying vanillas, but overall probably closest to late Emperor or even Zyklon's first one (in vox esp), with some Dimmu/Arcturus/Covenant and an occasional tech death part thrown in. Actually Bound by Entrails comes to mind, who I like much more.
https://enthean.bandcamp.com/album/priests-of-annihilation
― Devilock, Monday, 13 February 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
I thought I had already posted this one but guess not
https://wiegedood.bandcamp.com/album/de-doden-hebben-het-goed-ii
Second album from this Belgian black metal group (features members of Amenra and Oathbreaker)
― Dinsdale, Monday, 13 February 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link
Dudes. Inquisition are PHENOMENAL live. Holy shit fuck
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 02:36 (seven years ago) link
I've seen videos of them live that looked amazing. One of the live at Saint Vitus ones they play for like 15 minutes with no break and when they stop the drummer looks like he's going to die... then picks right back up after 30 seconds.
― Anthology of Literature's Finest Penis Descriptions (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 11:11 (seven years ago) link
Apparently It/Tony Sarkka passed away; there's a lengthy remembrance by an ex-bandmate (and more importantly, longtime friend) here:https://www.facebook.com/bohlinmichael/posts/1289794004446485:0
― Devilock, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
Awww man RIP.
― Anthology of Literature's Finest Penis Descriptions (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 23:14 (seven years ago) link
Great week in Philly for shows...
Tonight - Overkill / NileWednesday - Havoc / ExmortusThursday - Mayhem / Inquisition / Black AnvilSaturday - Xibala (matinee) followed by Alcest / The Body / Creepers (Deafheaven side project)
Because I am working a lot this week and I have limited funds, I am only able to see the Thursday and Saturday shows unfortunately.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
The band Anomalie that I was hyping above have premiered another song from their album:http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/anomalie-preview-new-visions-album-with-stream-of-vision-ii-the-wanderer-exclusive-premiere
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 23:52 (seven years ago) link
definitely going to Overkill/Nile. Nile, honestly, I don't care if I ever see again even though I love them and they're fun live, but I was blown away by Overkill in 2015.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 23:54 (seven years ago) link