My favorite album of 2019 thus far! Okay, it's early...
YatraDeath Ritual(Grimoire Records)
http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0253581787_10.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3vmb7gXxJ63L7jhQmU6Raz?si=KHUgAOMdQKaludW_0jC1TAhttps://grimoirerecords.bandcamp.com/album/death-ritual
This Baltimore band reminds me if Matt Pike decided evolution was for nerds and kept on with the caveman doom of "The Art of Self Defense." Love the growlish vocals and guitars tuned to subterranean levels.
The band will be in Philly next month among other isolated northeast dates though they will evidently be playing SxSW in March.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 4 January 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link
ayyyyy
we should be hearing about new Baroness and Moon Tooth soon
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 4 January 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
The Yatra record is OK, but I wish it was a little faster and the rhythm section swung a little better.
The German power/prog metal band Eternity's End (featuring ex-members of Necrophagist, Obscura, Alkaloid, Symphony X, etc.) have released their second album in Japan and South Korea, with a European release coming later this year. I reviewed it for Burning Ambulance.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 4 January 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
The only article I've seen about this so far is on Breitbart, so no link, but the NSBM label Elegy Records (based out of my home state in NJ, shamefully) is closing its doors because they were kicked off Paypal.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 6 January 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
late 2018 but i just noticed there's a new revenge single:https://revengeofficial.bandcamp.com/album/deceiver-diseased-miasmic
sounds like revenge, riyl revenge
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 6 January 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
Brooklyn Vegan has a roundup of stuff that should be coming out this year
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/13-metal-albums-were-anticipating-in-2019/
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 7 January 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
just in case you were wondering, Todd Jones from Nails is still determined to kill Metal Sucks for being mean to him
Folks, we are on the right track to taking these cowards down. And I have to say, we wouldn’t have come this far without your enthusiasm. This is not a “Nails” thing, this is not a “Todd Jones” thing. This all of us banding together and saying “no” and ending this shit.— NAILS (@NAILStyranny) January 6, 2019
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
another recent hit: threatening to beat up Slaves BC if they come to LA because they questioned his support of a USBM group accused of sexual assault.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
He also seems to be part of the conspiracy that it was Magrudergrind instead, as far as I can tell.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 23:22 (five years ago) link
oh i saw him mention them but didn't know the context.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
Got an NSBM band kicked off Bandcamp today...I was going through "new arrivals" in metal and saw a couple of things by a band called Todesstrafe with extremely fashy cover art. I looked them up on metal-archives and sure enough their Lyrical Themes were "War, Europe, National Socialism." So I dropped Bandcamp support an email that said:
Hi! I just found this band when searching new metal releases:h__ps://todesstrafe.bandcamp.com/According to metal-archives.com, their lyrical themes are "War, Europe, National Socialism" and their art definitely has unsubtle fascist overtones. I don't know what Bandcamp's policy is on that kind of thing, but I thought you should know anyway.
h__ps://todesstrafe.bandcamp.com/
According to metal-archives.com, their lyrical themes are "War, Europe, National Socialism" and their art definitely has unsubtle fascist overtones. I don't know what Bandcamp's policy is on that kind of thing, but I thought you should know anyway.
Bandcamp just replied:
Thanks for letting us know. That account was indeed found in violation of our Terms of Use and has been removed from the site at this time.
They're on a Russian label called Barbatos Productions which puts out a bunch of other Nazi black metal acts. I'm idly curious how many more Barbatos acts have Bandcamp accounts, but I'm too busy to search right now.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 00:50 (five years ago) link
Some old friends of mine put this out (mathy/thrashy/maybe kinda silly), idk sounds pretty sick to me: https://freighter.bandcamp.com/track/psychic-reading-94
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 11 January 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
Todd Jones is so much fun to troll
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 January 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
the name Todd Jones is so fuckin' metal
― alpine static, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
I like the newest Soilwork. they've continued to expand their sonic palette since The Ride Majestic, made up significantly for some of the dire shit they did on Figure Number Fire and afterwards.
Speed's screams still irritate me though. That throaty, phlegm drenched yell belongs in the ash-heap. his clean vocals remind me of Human League a little tho.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
a few days late to this but new Krallice ep is incredible
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-ep
― gman59, Sunday, 13 January 2019 05:19 (five years ago) link
new Moon Tooth out 03/29
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/crux/1447822902
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
Listening to ILX Listen: 2019
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCmV5LM_smk xp
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
fucking sick
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
ahhh there are HORNS!!
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
That horn section rules
― jmm, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
album of the year
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
lol
then again I just listened to this six times
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
Just got a press release that said that a musician who committed suicide "went to Hell by his own hands". Am I being too uptight thinking that was a pretty shitty way to put that?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 18 January 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
It may be a positive implication in this context tbh.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 13:32 (five years ago) link
Yeah, in metalworld that's a humblebrag.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 18 January 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
love the solo piano interlude in the middle of this.
https://moynoq.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-in-a-dead-language
― summervillain, Friday, 18 January 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
So Erik Rutan is replacing Pat O'Brien for the Cannibal Corpse tour which is definitely trading up.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
Fuck yea
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7zrHiqoJ6k
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 19 January 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
I've heard decent things! Still wish we could've seen the Sion Sono vision, though
― resident hack (Simon H.), Saturday, 19 January 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
For those into what Spite Extreme Wing did on Vltra:https://imhatarikat.bandcamp.com/album/kara-ihlas
Nice loose, grainy punky black metal with straight-up-into-the-sky guitar leads. The pacing of each song reminds me of Mgla sometimes and, well, anything that conjures both them and SEW must be onto something.
― Devilock, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 06:56 (five years ago) link
I interviewed the lovely and talented Kim Kelly to preview the Black Flags Over Brooklyn Fest she is putting on in Brooklyn this weekend.
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/bfob2019-kim-kelly-interview
Anyone attending the fest? I wanted to but I can't with work.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
I don’t go to Brooklyn (because relying on NJ Transit makes it impossible, not for snobbish reasons). Total respect to her for putting this thing on, though.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
I was unaware that you made any decisions without at least one or two snobbish reasons.
:P
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
RIP, Bruce Corbitt of Rigor Mortis.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 25 January 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 11 January 2019 18:18 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is great!
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 27 January 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
I'm enjoying the Krallice EP and Revenge single posted upthread too.
Some metal favourites from this year so far:
Quercus - Verferum: Funeral doom with massive walls of church organ. Manages to be forbidding, and yet somehow not take itself too seriously. Tracks undergo some lovely and unexpected transformations. Veiled - In Blinding Presence: Lightly experimental bm that would not be out of place in gross underground club.Bleach Birth - Caesarean Tapestries: Engaging, effects-laden and riff-heavy crust. RASHŌMON - Pathogen X: Very solid and nicely grimy hardcore.Griefloss - S/T: Quite lovely, Alcest-like, clean-vocalled blackgaze.
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 27 January 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
I wish there was a way to open Bandcamp links in their app. Bleach Birth is sounding good today.
― beard papa, Sunday, 27 January 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
Quercus has an ode to pu-erh tea so respect due
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 January 2019 06:00 (five years ago) link
Voting is now available for metal poll. You got two weeks to draw up a ballot!
The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 2nd!
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 28 January 2019 08:08 (five years ago) link
Not to nitpick but isn’t that 1 week (actually less now)?
― o. nate, Monday, 28 January 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
February 9th is the actual date
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 28 January 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
Rolling Stone's Hank Shteamer reviewed last weekend's Black Flags Over Brooklyn Fest and much to my surprise quoted from and linked to the interview I did with Kim Kelly to preview the festival. That was a cool surprise, though it's a really solid review from a guy who seemed to really get the Fest and the bands that played it.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/black-flags-over-brooklyn-kim-kelly-anti-fascist-metal-fest-785088/
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
http://www.musikuniverse.mu/images/nouvelles/glory-hammer-3e-album.jpg
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
well the astronoid record kicks a lot of ass so far
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
I'm not feeling the new Astronoid as much as Air - I'm sure I just need a few more listens.
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 31 January 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link
it's gonna suffer a bit simply from the fact that we've now heard what they do ... there's less surprise factor with this one. and i think that first album carried a fair amount of surprise with it, i.e. "whoa, look how this band is putting this and that and this together"
which isn't to say the new one isn't great ... i think it is. but it'll be hard to capture that same feeling again.
― alpine static, Thursday, 31 January 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
I feel like the new one is even more dream-pop and less metal than the last one, but maybe my memories of Air have faded. I do know that I'm having a pretty viscerally negative response to the vocals.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 23:54 (five years ago) link
The new Magic Circle album is the first 2018 album I've heard that I'm genuinely excited about. The usual no-frills, Trouble-style doom from the guys, with a little late-'70s greasiness for good measure. This track is a good indication:
http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/departed-souls
― A. Begrand, Friday, 1 February 2019 02:18 (five years ago) link
The new Ceremony of Silence album Oútis is fantastic - pummeling, dissonant death metal made by two insane Slovenians. Out in April, available for pre-order from Willowtip:
https://ceremonyofsilence.bandcamp.com/album/o-tis
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 1 February 2019 02:40 (five years ago) link
Sorry, two insane Slovakians.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 1 February 2019 02:41 (five years ago) link
Just found out a Dismember reunion is underway: http://www.truemetal.it/news/intervista-dismember-robert-senneb-ck-105562-p2
― pomenitul, Sunday, 3 February 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
I'm very much enjoying the new Astronoid album, though perhaps there is a little less distinction between tracks than last time around. It does remind me a lot of Mew, which is never a bad thing.
Panopticon have released a little northern lights-inspired EP that is managing to satisfy some of my Mesarthim cravings (since they've disappeared for an unprecedented 7 months now!). https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/the-crescendo-of-dusk
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 3 February 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
New Sunn O))) out in April, apparently. I loved Monoliths & Dimension when it came out but haven't explored their output further. Worthwhile?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 11:45 (five years ago) link
that is the best one but...Black One is pretty intense, and there's an early track called My Wall that has a fun Julian Cope narration
― imago, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 11:47 (five years ago) link
Noted.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 11:48 (five years ago) link
Kannon is great, as is Oracle (an EP on which they explore their Einstürzende Neubauten side - Joe Preston "plays" jackhammer on it). The live Dømkirke is really good, too. And I like their collaboration with Ulver, Terrestrials, though it's not very Sunn-y.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
^^^
Pretty much exactly the ones I would recommend, I was surprised by how much I liked Kannon, a tighter representation of what they can do. Looking forward to the new one.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link
I am so behind on metal this year. stoked to check out that imha tarikat record from upthread though.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
.@Die_Klute Planet Fear(@CleopatraRecord)Members of Die Krupps, Leæther Strip and Fear Factory go back to a time when smoky dancefloors throbbed with metallic guitars that got vampires in big black boots stomping and metalheads at the bar nodding approvingly. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/ba6yBGdcC1— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) February 5, 2019
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
hard pass
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
No Grimes?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
Hey, some of us had some formative years listening to KMFDM and making out with Goth girls.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
Kinda feels that the Sunn O))) doom-panto might have run its course? Still interested to see what they do but not convinced.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
Was having a conversation with someone the other day and we came to the conclusion that of all the industrial stuff we listened to in the late 80s/early 90s, KMFDM has aged the worst by far.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
xp I see it's produced by Albini. Hmm...
I think Ministry has aged far worse actually. I saw them live a couple years ago and I actually left before they finished which is rare for me and unthinkable considering in the mid '90s they were completely unfuckwithable.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
Maybe it's just the few sites I go on but Astronoid seem to be facing some heavy backlash which is fully undeserved imo, I mean most people will happily listen to bands that essentially do the same thing every time (myself included) and this is as prevalent in metal as anywhere else, maybe even more so. But when this band do it it's hard to swallow? Just seems weird to me.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
― beard papa, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
Okay, I am talking about how the band held up with new material. Having seen both bands in their prime and much more recently, I was talking about how that. As far as older material, I still enjoy KMFDM but find the singles to be more to my taste than any full-length albums, but I'm not really sure that I felt differently back in the day.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
I never got to see Ministry in their prime, though I did see the 1990 Revolting Cocks tour. I finally caught up with Al 'n' co. in 2005 or so. It was an uninspired show to say the least. He had motorcycle handlebars on his mic stand and I'm convinced they were there to keep him from falling over. Ogre from Skinny Puppy showed up for the obligatory run through "Supernaut."
I saw KMFDM in 1992 and had fun, but the only stuff of theirs I remember at all fondly were the "Godlike" single and the Money album, and both of those sounded much less awesome the last time I heard them (a year or two ago) than they did at the time.
Skinny Puppy, on the other hand, I've come around on quite a bit the last few years. I didn't like them at all in the 80s and 90s, and now I'm convinced they were one of the smartest and most interesting industrial acts.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
I saw Skinny Puppy on the Greater Wrong tour and they were absolutely life affirming.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
I saw them in 1992 (Last Rights tour, I think) and I was kinda bummed because Godflesh were supposed to open the show but they were refused entry into the country. I remember the show being very creepily theatrical - there was some kind of weird treelike sculpture onstage - but musically Not For Me. I was there with a big fan, though, and she had a blast.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link
I saw them 80s 90s and 00s and I fkn love them, but have genuinely thought they bettered with age.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
uh I saw KMFDM open for Ministry on The Mind Is A Terrible Thing tour and thought they were both great.
but Ministry has become more embarassing in the long run (still listen to their albums up to and including Filth Pig tho)
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 05:08 (five years ago) link
I also saw them both on that tour and the "Ministry has become more embarassing in the long run" is what I was getting at previously.
Second vote for Skinny Puppe being life affirming every time I saw them.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
Stupid, but funny: a right-wing Arkansas state senator is calling for a boycott of a Little Rock club because the band Eyehategod put a picture of him eating a baby on the poster for their show.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
I’m sure they’ll lose a lot of business over that.
― beard papa, Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:05 (five years ago) link
The pitchfork pan of the Astronoid record is the first review they've published in years to successfully make me Mad Online
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 06:23 (five years ago) link
I normally hate Ian Cohen’s writing but I thought that review was dead on. There’s just nothing there - not one memorable song. It’s all texture. And sure, that’s rich coming from someone who likes Sunn O))) as much as I do, but still.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 12:23 (five years ago) link
Idk the criticisms he has of it (too samey! silly lyrics!) are also true of so many metal albums they've lauded. (And incidentally, also completely true of many great albums!) And don't get me started on the argument about the vocals - "too much himself"? What the fuck does that mean? The dismissive tone reminds me of when they used to blanket-pan emo albums for their sonic qualities, which kinda makes sense cause it feels closer to emo than metal in sensibility.
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 12:38 (five years ago) link
ooof, Lords of Chaos sounds awful. also the movie Akerlund did for Netflix recently was fucking terrible
https://www.stereogum.com/2031231/lords-of-chaos-jonas-akerlund-review/franchises/sounding-board/
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
besides the ethical/historical objections....of all the bands you could get to score this, Sigur Ros?!
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
Lords of Chaos is pretty darn good, actually. Eliminates all mythology and hero worship, focuses on how they were all really, really dumb kids.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
If I want to watch a movie about dumbass metalheads who kill somebody, I'll pull out my Blu-Ray of River's Edge.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
― A. Begrand, Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:04 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i've heard this a lot but i'm still... suspicious
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
also this isn't really a story i'm interested in seeing as a film, until the light takes us was about as close as i want to get
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
this isn't really a story i'm interested in seeing as a film
This is where I'm at with it, too.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:33 (five years ago) link
Week extension on the 2018 metal poll! One of the best ways to get ppl to listen to your favorite albums from last year! You have til Friday the 15th to get your ballot in!
The 2018 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE! Ballots due by Friday, February 15th 11.59pm PST
― aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 7 February 2019 19:40 (five years ago) link
River's Edge is a much more accurate depiction of '80s teen headbangers, of course. I've long stated that as well (I was in a small town scene much like the one depicted in the movie, albeit with less murder). But Åkerlund does a very good job stripping the legend away from black metal. Black metal, from its inception, has been every bit of a pose as any other metal gimmick (i.e. *ALL* metal is a gimmick), and it's nice to see a film portray it that way.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 7 February 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
Isn’t stripping away the legend to show it’s all just a bunch of dumb kids the least interesting and most banal approach to tell this story as fiction? I mean it definitely works for River’s Edge fictional story, but what does that approach add to all the documentaries that already firmly established the banality of it all?
― Siegbran, Thursday, 7 February 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
Nope, because there's been way too much worship of the Norwegian black metal "myth" already. That needed to be debunked as publicly as Åkerlund does here. And besides, the flick is entertaining.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 7 February 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
OMG SJW
http://i65.tinypic.com/n66r0o.jpg
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 February 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
So about that Astronoid… I enjoy Alcest and even derive pleasure from Deafheaven but these 3m0 fuxx0r melodies, coupled with that voice, simply did not arrive at an age where I am still open to such things. I had to turn it off after the second track, irrepressibly – should I persevere?
― pomenitul, Sunday, 10 February 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
yes
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 10 February 2019 20:42 (five years ago) link
No. They're a one-trick band - they don't change, so if one song doesn't do it for you, a second isn't gonna do it for you, either.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 10 February 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
Got an email from Bandsintown that says Mastodon is playing BB&T Pavilion, the big shed in south Jersey outside of Philly, on 6/8. Looked at the page and it shows four dates around there in the east coast in outdoor arenas with Coheed & Cambria as on the Coney Island show.
https://www.bandsintown.com/a/731-mastodon
Anyone know anything about these dates? Is there some big package I don't know about going out or is Coheed taking Mastodon out and big enough to headline in the sheds?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
Every year needs its carnie prog BM:
https://penseesnocturnes.bandcamp.com/album/grand-guignol-orchestra
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
new Inter Arma track/album
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/inter-arma-announce-new-album-sulphur-english-share-citadel/
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
Inter Arma give a great live show - really looking forward to this record.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
I rarely get their stuff stuck in my head or anything but their stuff has a....for lack of a better word, architectural quality I like
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
That's actually a kinda great description of Inter Arma, I like it. Haven't had a chance to hear the new track yet, but I'm really glad they have a new album imminent.
Haven't really delved into too much 2019 metal just yet, slow start to the year. I was impressed with John Garcia's new record, at least compared to Brant Bjork's latest (in the battle of workman Kyuss dudes, non Homme division). The vocal melodies are a little too samey on a couple of songs, but it's got the fuzz and groove I want from stoner rock. I'll take it if we aren't getting another Vista Chino record. Bjork's latest tried to incorporate more funk and R&B elements, which really didn't work.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
I got a press release answering my own question...
COHEED AND CAMBRIA ANNOUNCE “THE UNHEAVENLY SKYE TOUR” WITH SPECIAL GUEST MASTODONEVERY TIME I DIE JOIN AS SUPPORT ON ALL DATESTICKETS ON SALE TO GENERAL PUBLIC STARTING FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 AT LIVENATION.COM
http://scontent.fphl2-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/51899482_10161460905080597_2474477783330324480_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl2-4.fna&oh=8f11750b158dde6db85c5a1e0c07653d&oe=5CF2730B
Tuesday, May 28, 2019 Louisville, KY Iroquois Amphitheater*Wednesday, May 29, 2019 Columbus, OH Express Live! Outdoor Amphitheatre*Friday, May 31, 2019 Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola RoxySaturday, June 01, 2019 Simpsonville, SC CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park SimpsonvilleSunday, June 02, 2019 Baltimore, MD MECU PavilionTuesday, June 04, 2019 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony Summer StageThursday, June 06, 2019 Boston, MA Rockland Trust Bank PavilionFriday, June 07, 2019 New York, NY Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island BoardwalkSaturday, June 08, 2019 Camden, NJ BB&T PavilionMonday, June 10, 2019 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE – Outdoors*Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Detroit, MI Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom HillThursday, June 13, 2019 Council Bluffs, IA Harrah's Council Bluffs - Stir Cove*Friday, June 14, 2019 Chicago, IL Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly IslandSaturday, June 15, 2019 Minneapolis, MN The ArmoryTuesday, June 18, 2019 Kansas City, MO Starlight TheatreWednesday, June 19, 2019 Denver, CO Fillmore AuditoriumThursday, June 20, 2019 Salt Lake City, UT The Great SaltairSaturday, June 22, 2019 Seattle, WA Marymoor*Sunday, June 23, 2019 Portland, OR Theater of the Clouds at Moda CenterTuesday, June 25, 2019 San Francisco, CA The MasonicWednesday, June 26, 2019 San Diego, CA Petco Park - Park at the ParkFriday, June 28, 2019 Las Vegas, NV The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las VegasSaturday, June 29, 2019 Los Angeles, CA Greek TheatreSunday, June 30, 2019 Phoenix, NV Comerica TheatreTuesday, July 02, 2019 Austin, TX ACL Live at The Moody Theater / Austin360 AmphitheaterWednesday, July 03, 2019 Irving, TX The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
I wonder if this means we're getting new ETID this year
the first side of Crack the Skye is my ideal stretch of Mastodon
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
Holy crap, it's the 10th anniversary of Crack The Skye... I saw the tour when they played it in full for the first time (with High On Fire and Converge opening).
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
I wonder if they'll be doing the same when they play here w/ Baroness
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
What a record Crack the Skye was. In retrospect that was peak Mastodon. For me, anyway. Subsequent stuff has been nice, but their mind-blowing days seem long behind them.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
oh hey a lineup just for me!!!!!
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
lmao my dumb brane confused them with Deafheaven for some reason
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
Both are pfork metal.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
does that denote anything other than "well reviewed by pfork"
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
Nah, just being a dick. I enjoy both.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
it would be amusing if Pitchfork announced a metal tour a la Decibel
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
Pitchforks are metal as fuck.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
They're no scythes tho.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
If it's good enough for satan, it's good enough for me.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
TS: Satan vs. the Grim Reaper.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
Anyway, here's Leprous's cover of 'Angel':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VaRCjRpWBE
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
From the "things you never thought you'd see in the New York Times bucket":
Letter of Recommendation: Ronnie James Dio
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
oooh I like Leprous and that cover sounds pretty much exactly like I expected (in a good way)
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
Disappointed that this is not a Shaggy cover.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link
loving this. can't wait to sit down with the full album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4miK2kxrHM
― gman59, Thursday, 14 February 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link
Good discordant DM, kinda reminds me of The Erosion of Sanity but that might just be the production
http://lightdweller.bandcamp.com/album/incandescent-crucifix
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 February 2019 07:54 (five years ago) link
Also really loving this Obduktio album from a year or so ago, really good OSDM-meets-primitive grind vibe, 100% in love with the LG Petrov style vocals
https://obduktio.bandcamp.com/album/holotna
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 15 February 2019 00:23 (five years ago) link
Also, from Finland
Today's the last day to vote in the metal poll! Don't forget the send in a ballot. Minimum is 5 albums, maximum 50!
Right now I'm liveblogging my reactions to the big high-profile metal albums of last year so don't be afraid to come mosey on over and save the thread!
― aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 15 February 2019 11:41 (five years ago) link
there's no minimum is there?
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Friday, 15 February 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
Oh ok my bad
― aquaman goes to college (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 15 February 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
OK let's post this here too. Your other favourite metal is Finnished. All fucking hail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ia-nyd_K8
― imago, Friday, 15 February 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
The new Astronoid album isn't really doing it for me, not enough songs on par with their debut. Dream in Lines is great, though, and the one I'd heard a lot before, which makes me think I should give it another few listens.
Another great thing, though: Downloading and listening to Astronoid in Apple Music made them recommend the new Vanum album, which is kinda generic but really nice. All hail Apple.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 16 February 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
I'm loving the new Astronoid though I'm still awaiting my CD coming
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Saturday, 16 February 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
ILM METAL POLL 2018 RESULTS THREAD!
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Saturday, 16 February 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link
Violet Cold just released a new album:http://violetcold.bandcamp.com/album/kosmik
My favorite project from Azerbaijan whose Anomie album was one of my favorite releases of 2017. I haven't listened yet but posting in here in part to make sure I do, If you like severely eclectic blackgaze, you might want to give it a listen as well.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 16 February 2019 22:56 (five years ago) link
Have you recovered yet Brian from Black Label Society making the poll?
― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Saturday, 16 February 2019 23:21 (five years ago) link
Just found out that I live next to Hailz from Neckbeard Deathcamp! Get to know your neighbors! Maybe he'll come over and play my drums!
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 18 February 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
There's a new Demon Head album, which is exciting.
http://demonhead.bandcamp.com/album/hellfire-ocean-void
Kinda annoying this trend of up-pricing downloads to $12 or $15 when the CD is $12 on Amazon
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 22 February 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
New Candlemass rules!
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 February 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
It really does. I love the shit out of Epicus Doomicus Metallicus but have consistently been underwhelmed by their subsequent albums for a very simple reason: the absence of Johan.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 February 2019 12:42 (five years ago) link
he sounds a bit different here tho, in a good way. a little more rock 'n rollish
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 February 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
Omg this Funereal Presence album is absolutely incredible! Some kind of flaneur-punk black metal sounding very much like it's from New York (which it is). https://funerealpresence.bandcamp.com/album/achatius
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 24 February 2019 10:16 (five years ago) link
Achatius was a Roman martyr, and there are some marked medieval overtones throughout, so it is indeed strange to hear these archaic themes subjected to the speed metal treatment. Definitely the most original metal album I've heard this year.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 24 February 2019 10:25 (five years ago) link
A Greek martyr, rather.
Yeah, it's certainly an unusual choice of band name (I've realised just now after reading the Wikipedia entry for Achatius). Also, when I said flaneur-punk, I think I was a bit taken in by the skeleton strolling on the cover and saw it like death taking from the city at leisure. But actually it's more like extreme power walking. Anyway, original is right - what an excellent album.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 24 February 2019 10:35 (five years ago) link
This sounds AMAZING
― imago, Sunday, 24 February 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
On the more derivative end of things, this is some really solid Aussie death-doom:
https://horrisonous.bandcamp.com/album/a-culinary-cacophony
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 February 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
More doom, this time symphonic:
https://osmoseproductions.bandcamp.com/album/high-the-memory
I hear vague echoes of Valentin Silvestrov in their stasis.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
I am at The Armed gig and I have never hated any gig so much in my life. They are playing the best song off the last album and I’m just talking to the bouncers about how gross the crowd is. The band is also gross. I hate The Armed and I retract all of my points. From now on I only like forest prog and people who aren’t sick everywhere.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't go quite as far as that, but that was a miserable tuneless disappointment and I'm happy to be getting pizza instead
― imago, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
I've never wanted to leave the gig of a band I've liked that much before, but that was not the deconstructive pop-hardcore party I expected - it was a horrible noise blare over a bar fight
― imago, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:29 (five years ago) link
The support band was great though! Rough Hands. Check 'em
I had no idea I needed a black metal cover of Gabriel Fauré's Pavane, yet here we are:
https://sarastus.bandcamp.com/album/enter-the-necropolis
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
I have always been and will always be more of a Wino guy than a Reagers guy, but there's a new self-titled Saint Vitus album coming out in May with Reagers on vocals and it kicks ass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCJz8FdsHo0
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
Wow. Sorry to hear about The Armed show. That was not the experience I had with it. It was lots of hugs, tons of fun and the sound was great to my ears. This was in BK right after Only love came out. The swamp monster kept the crowd pretty much under control. No more crazy than any other hardcore/noise show. I'm sorry it was a bummer. I feel responsible for hyping it up.
― gman59, Thursday, 28 February 2019 10:09 (five years ago) link
Not at all! We would have gone to it anyway and probably I am just not cut out for hardcore shows in general, my previous experience of which probably extended to like seeing Thrice in 2005... I guess I felt cynically about people at the very edge of the crowd being dragged in by band members, but I heard that a guy had an epileptic fit at the end and the band stopped the gig, which is decent.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Thursday, 28 February 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
Jesus. Yeah I can see that, it was like an hour of strobe lights. The one I went to was a pretty standard hardcore crowd but the swamp thing was doing magic tricks in the middle and Cara was taking selfies, passing out champagne and on vocals. Which definitely changed things. I found it refreshing and fun but definitely more of a hardcore show vibe than anything else.
― gman59, Thursday, 28 February 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
Well then:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/agalloch-members-condemn-john-haughm-pillorian-bandmates-quit-after-anti-semitic-remark/
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 March 2019 10:18 (five years ago) link
Very disappointed.
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 1 March 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link
Who likes mammoths? Who likes weed? Who likes wizards? Who likes bastards?
― imago, Friday, 1 March 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
I'm only in favor of half of those things in isolation, but combine them? Then great.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
My thoughts exactly. Last three tracks on this thing are monstrous
― imago, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
I know the bar is extrmely low but it's pretty rare to see a metal guy straight up apologize
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/agallochs-john-haughm-apologizes-for-anti-semitic-remark/
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Friday, 1 March 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
True enough.
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 March 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
Contemporary trad metal isn't usually my jam but the Traveler record is awesome:
https://travelermetal.bandcamp.com/album/traveler
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 March 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
more bands should release "play-throughs" like Moon Tooth just did for their recent single
https://youtu.be/NbuNz3Hghkg
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
Decibel Tour totally slayed last night - so good to see Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse(with Erik Rutan providing excellent guitar, too) back to back - energetic, face-melting shows from both!
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
as if summoned by me, there's now another new Moon Tooth song. this one has a full-on alt rock vibe a la...Incubus?
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
I was wondering what Immortal Bird were up to these days, and apparently they've signed with the mighty 20 Buck Spin for a new album out this year.
🔥TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT🔥 -- We've got dates on the way to/from Northwest Terror Fest and some of 'em are with Gadget and Cloud Rat! We haven't been out west since 2016, and we're stoked to return and debut tunes from LP3, out this year via 20 Buck Spin. More info on that soon! See ya on the road!5.24 Denver, CO at Syntax*5.25 CO Springs, CO at Triple Nickel*5.27 Tempe, AZ at Yucca Tap Room*5.28 Los Angeles, CA at Catch One5.29 Sacramento, CA at Blue Lamp5.30 Oakland, CA at Elbo Room JL*5.31 Eugene, OR at Old Nick's6.01 Seattle, WA - Northwest Terror Fest6.02 Portland, OR at High Water Mark6.04 SLC, UT at Kilby Court6.06 STL, MO at Fubar* w/ Gadget & Cloud Rat
5.24 Denver, CO at Syntax*5.25 CO Springs, CO at Triple Nickel*5.27 Tempe, AZ at Yucca Tap Room*5.28 Los Angeles, CA at Catch One5.29 Sacramento, CA at Blue Lamp5.30 Oakland, CA at Elbo Room JL*5.31 Eugene, OR at Old Nick's6.01 Seattle, WA - Northwest Terror Fest6.02 Portland, OR at High Water Mark6.04 SLC, UT at Kilby Court6.06 STL, MO at Fubar
* w/ Gadget & Cloud Rat
― Simon H., Friday, 8 March 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
Northwest Terror Fest lineup is pretty badass. I'd like to try to get to that.
― alpine static, Friday, 8 March 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/nCR-OrN41E0
Oranssi Pazuzu were already the best rock band on the fucking planet but they might have gotten better
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
(with a bit of help from Dark Buddha Rising)
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
Whitesnake used to count as metal. I wrote about them for Burning Ambulance today.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
speaking of things that may or may not count as metal, the Marissa Nadler / Stephen Brodsky collab album sounds pretty dope if this advance track is anything to go by. stoked to hear what they'll do with GnR's "Estranged"
https://youtu.be/zhUSJMp5y8Y
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
Slide It In was a formative gem for me and I still break it out from time to time.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
Getting unsurprisingly strong Chelsea Wolfe vibes. I'm a sucker for this stuff, so I look forward to the rest.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
I want Nadler, Wolfe and Anna von Hausswolff to team up as the macabre antimirror of Boygenius
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
lingua ignota, diamanda galas, her out of couch slut
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
Ignota doesn't really seem like the collaborative sort, but I'd be into it
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
literally collaborated with The Body last year!!!
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
which also reminds me, she's playing london in a few days, might check it out
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
Hmm, that might be worth a 2h (well, 4h in all) coach ride. I don't really know anything about Author & Punisher or RIOTMILOO, though.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
I literally teared up at the Ignota show I went to. She's incredible live.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
by a few days i mean nearly a month tbf
would be honoured to hang out w/ pomenitul tho so consider it yes!
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
Likewise, imago. I'll see what I can do!
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
I actually saw Author & Punisher open for The Body not too long ago. Was cool. Builds his own "instruments". Pretty interesting to watch him use his gear and figure out whats going on. I dig his homegrown mic a lot.
Yeah the Ignota show I saw last year was quite emotional as well. Played in the middle of the crowd.
― gman59, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
I think I'd like to see Author & Punisher live just to watch him play with his machines, but the actual music is pretty basic industrial that anybody could make with a laptop. He's challenging himself to find hard ways to do things that can be - and is - done much more easily.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
What about black metal?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47543875
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 10:54 (five years ago) link
xp yeah that is my exact feeling about A&P pretty much. also "steampunk"
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 11:59 (five years ago) link
2019 Metal albums I like to varying degrees (in alphabetical order)
Asthma Castle - Mount CrushmoreAstronoid - AstronoidBellrope - You Must RelaxDie Klute - Planet FearDunkelnacht - Empires Of MediocracyEndon - Boy Meets GirlGorgon - Veil of DarknessInsanity Alert - 666-PackLaceration - RemnantsOverkill - The Wings of WarTyr - HelVenom Prison – SamsaraYatra - Death RitualGreat Falls / Great Sabatini - Split LP
This doesn't include stuff on the BriPod that I like which is coming out later. That list includes Eugenic Death, Hot Lunch, Noisem, Shabti, Ultra Silvam, Falaise, Magic Circle, Ultar, L' Acéphalem, Sabbath Assembly, BAT and Full of Hell.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link
I interviewed Venom prison for Invisible Oranges:http://www.invisibleoranges.com/venom-prison-interview
This one will probably wind up high on my AOY lists. Just a wonderful, angry as shit record.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
John Baizley confirmed the title and art for the new Baroness on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu7CzNJFwyv/
― Simon H., Wednesday, 13 March 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
New Abbath album coming out this year.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 March 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
The new Vircolac album is sounding pretty good to me right now:
https://vircolac.bandcamp.com/album/masque
― o. nate, Friday, 15 March 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
With a name like that, I expected a proper Romanian band. Turns out it's more cultural appropriation by the Irish, as though Bram Stoker weren't enough.
(Just kidding, of course. I'll listen to a band called Vîrcolac no matter where they're from.)
― pomenitul, Friday, 15 March 2019 09:15 (five years ago) link
sounding cool!
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Friday, 15 March 2019 09:28 (five years ago) link
'so i hang from a wretched tree' exists magnificently at the nexus of black, death and punk
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Friday, 15 March 2019 09:38 (five years ago) link
The new album was recorded after my friend JG left the band and I haven't got around to hearing if they've changed much since. They were a deadly live band before, though.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, 15 March 2019 10:26 (five years ago) link
new Oozing Wound out today if you needed some thrashy misanthropic garbage to match the news
― Simon H., Friday, 15 March 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
fuckin A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOnl1OMXTjo
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 16 March 2019 01:13 (five years ago) link
that is v cool
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Saturday, 16 March 2019 08:55 (five years ago) link
Here's a couple of Twitter-length reviews of albums that came out this week that I like...
.@EugenicDeath Under The Knife(@HandHRec)Unexpected Krishna-core, powerfully guttural vocals, and an abundance of circle pit-inducing riffs & double bass that merge Violence and "How Will I Laugh" ST separates these Tarheel thrashers from other revivalists. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/5W7hFNjOiy— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 16, 2019
Stream "Under The Knife" by @EugenicDeath via @Bandcamp https://t.co/NfsK1LegM6— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 16, 2019
.@HotLunch_SFUnder The Knife(@teepeerecords)Not sure about the scatological moniker (Google it at your own peril) but when you crank like a Motor City V8 with a touch of psychedelia befitting a San Francisco zip code, you can call yourself anything you want. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/yUhxPyRA4n— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 17, 2019
Stream "Under the Knife" by @HotLunch_SF via @Spotifyhttps://t.co/F7ZBdDxsfN— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 17, 2019
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 17 March 2019 05:23 (five years ago) link
Drastus make a mean De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas impression, and more besides:
https://drastus.bandcamp.com/album/la-croix-de-sang
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 11:10 (five years ago) link
holy fuck new Drastus???
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 11:14 (five years ago) link
Beastmaker put out another four-track EP last month:
https://beastmaker.bandcamp.com/album/eye-of-the-storm
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1420143793_16.jpg
New logo, too!
Seems like Beastmaker is back to being a full band. The 10 EPs were Trevor Church doing everything, but all three members are credited on the new one.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
Man I have to catch up on all of that Beastmaker stuff. I liked the first two albums but I missed the EPs until there were so many I felt way behind.
Surprised by how much I like the Devil Master album. They'd had such corny promo photos that I didn't really think I'd like it, but that breakneck punk death metal really scratches an itch for me. I haven't been really wowed by much new metal yet this year, even the new Overkill, while fine, felt like a step backwards.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
Phil Anselmo was supposed to play two shows in New Zealand next week; in the wake of the Christchurch shootings, both have been cancelled by the venues, because of the video of him shouting "White power!" and throwing a Nazi salute onstage in 2016. Whoops!
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
Huh funny how that works out.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:50 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh_8HBvkkr8
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
also new dreadnought album out may 10. last album was excellent and new song kicks ass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHm1zQkdhEs
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
ok I'm ready for the Moon Tooth slbum now
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 March 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
I keep getting Moon Tooth confused with Moon Hooch and wondering why they're mentioned in this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLU3Rp1fZo
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
(Moon Hooch are amazing)(I don't know Moon Tooth)
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 18:57 (five years ago) link
Their first album placed on that year's metal poll. It's excellent.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
Yeah - really looking forward to Moon Toon - that last record was awesome, and they're great live.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
Moon Tooth - oops
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
They really are, and I'm sad they're not doing a headline gig here. Their tour with Astronoid was a peak ILXmetal experience
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
The new Brutus album comes out 3/29. I'm listening to it now, and it's fantastic. They're only kinda metal-adjacent, but they fucking rule.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBRYSlKDlws
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
oh wow, do unperson and I agree on something? :)
I love both advance tracks, very much looking forward to the album. sounds like a bold step up from the debut, which I already liked.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 19 March 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link
The forthcoming Inter Arma record is really great based on my first play through the entire thing.Lots of interesting ideas the second half of the album, especially.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
The new Amon Amarth video is...something I'd expect from a band on Napalm or AFM. There was a time I'd pre-order an Amon Amarth album the day it was announced. Not this time. I can't even remember the last time I listened to their previous album. Twilight of the Thunder God and Surtur Rising are the last ones I have real fondness for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H24S0nym-pE
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
oh shit brutus kicks ass! i'm glad they have another record coming out already
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
New Darkthrone in May:
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/darkthrone-to-release-old-star-album-in-may/
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
New Darkthrone, new Dreadnought, new Dead to a Dying World. Lots to look forward to, particularly in the 'D' section of my metal shelf.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
i was feeling like a new darkthrone was coming!!!
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
the advance track of that DtaDW album is immense
― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 March 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
Quench your thirst for old school Finnish death/doom with Asphodelus's Stygian Dreams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbnCe5q6KEc
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 March 2019 10:31 (five years ago) link
The new Mike Browning & friends d/b/a Nocturnus AD is pretty much everything I could've wanted from a follow-up to The Key (though I do love both Thresholds and Ethereal Tomb):https://youtu.be/4CT09g-aCbw
And the demo version of the other song, released a year ago. Recommended especially for the baffling video:https://youtu.be/1k07H4_OAzE
― Devilock, Thursday, 21 March 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
awesome. I loved the new one they did live, and their live show is fantastic, hearing all the old The Key classics played flawlessly. half the time I've seen them play for $7 or less too.
― early to board the Buttigieg train (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 March 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
Jon Chang and Rob Marton of Discordance Axis have a new band called No One Knows What The Dead Think; they'll be releasing an album later this year. It sounds about how you think it will.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 21 March 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
I reviewed The Dirt for Stereogum.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 22 March 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
I have heard the new Sunn O))) album. It's very good, mostly due to Hildur Guðnadóttir, who plays cello (acoustic and electric) and halldorophone, and adds vocals to the first track. It's gonna sound really, really good through big-ass speakers.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
ooooh
― Simon H., Tuesday, 26 March 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
very happy with the Brutus and Moon Tooth albums, both out today.
― Simon H., Friday, 29 March 2019 12:23 (five years ago) link
thank you devilock for mentioning the new nocturnus ad record, i cannot wait
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 29 March 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
Brutus rips
― Mule, Friday, 29 March 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
Ah just came here to write that. Thanks for the heads up on the Brutus release. Loving it so far. The Moon Tooth isn't doing much for me yet but I only got about 2 tracks in.
― gman59, Friday, 29 March 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
Manowar are putting out three EPs this year, which will ultimately be compiled into their next full-length. The first one is out now. Four songs, one of which is a bombastic orchestral intro. The tracks have the words "Blood," "Steel," "Sword," and "Die" in the titles, but I don't see the word "Fire" anywhere. They're slipping.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D27AL1DX4AEriQj.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 30 March 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
I’ve got the chance to see them here, I’m somewhat tempted.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 30 March 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
If you go, buy me a T-shirt (size L) and I'll Paypal you the costs + shipping.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 30 March 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
(Re: Lingua Ignota in London. I won't be able to make it, alas. Ever more work beckons until May.) :(
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 April 2019 09:27 (five years ago) link
That's all fine - I don't know if we can even go. If we do there will be a report
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Monday, 1 April 2019 09:52 (five years ago) link
Keep us posted!
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 April 2019 10:34 (five years ago) link
An understandable initiative: http://good.metal-archives.com/
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 April 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
Haha, Metal Archives and their April Fools Day pranks!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 1 April 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
Some things I recently did #TwitterLPReviews for (and a capsule review for Invisible Oranges)
.@wearebrutus - Nest (@sargenthouse)It lacks the immediacy of the Belgian trio's 2017 debut 'Burst,' but makes up for it by incorporating a ton of raw ideas into the album. This spirals the band's post-rock into a dozen directions yet they never lose the plot. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/JWGXg6FzXD— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 30, 2019
Magic Circle - Departed Souls (@20buckspinlabel)Most bands that ape Sabbath lose sight that they were more than doom. Magic Circle taps into the other, often overlooked facets of the Brummie originators with an organic Foghat plod. Oh yeah, they got songs too. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/9zE1T36YR6— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 30, 2019
I say that @exumerofficial's 'Hostile Defiance' (out 4/5 on @MetalBlade) is "a frenetic, furious assault that transcends the nostalgia tag by kicking so much ass it doesn’t matter what decade it came out" at @invisoranges.https://t.co/7XDMpmw6Ww pic.twitter.com/F2UYTIJVpn— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 1, 2019
Falaise - A Place I Don’t Belong To(A Sad Sadness Song)Italian duo makes the most lush and beautiful blackgaze. Lilting pianos and clean guitars make the metallic elements seem heavier but even that's more about ornate atmosphere. Deafheaven fans take note. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/egpIl9ij2v— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 1, 2019
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 1 April 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link
Syntheosis is streaming: https://www.loudersound.com//features/oranssi-pazuzu-and-dark-buddha-rising-join-forces-for-an-exhilarating-cosmic-rite
I'm in an airport but you lot can dive in
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
nice!!
― Simon H., Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
guys
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 08:38 (five years ago) link
This is everything I wanted the Entropia album to be.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 08:54 (five years ago) link
yes but you also don't need the last 7 words
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 08:55 (five years ago) link
Even Angry Metal Guy likes it.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
Hey that Entropia album is fuckin' great. This is also awesome
― gman59, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
what is Chris Black up to?
is he on Twitter? anyone know?
― alpine static, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
apparently High Spirits, Savage Master and Demon Eye are touring together in May. that rules.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
Waste of Space Orchestra are fine but sound like a lesser Oranssi Pazuzu to me, shrug emoji
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link
Does anybody want to take over PopMatters' metal column? The dude who's been writing it for a while is stomping off in a snit because people got pissed at him for telling them they were devoting too much time to rooting Nazis out of metal.
I've decided to can MetalMatters. It has become apparent to me over the last couple of days that it is a waste of timing running a feature that exists to promote cool music. Simple reason: all folks want to do is bicker about politics on here, suppress any opinion that doesn't...— Dean James Brown (@reus85) April 3, 2019
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 4 April 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
wanna share it, anyone? i'm serious. i'd love to pitch 'em on a team of people taking it over.
it looks like others were writing it with him ... wonder what their status is.
after he posted that, the eic at popmatters tweeted "actually, we're keeping the column" ... but it looks like she might've deleted that?
― alpine static, Thursday, 4 April 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
I'd do it if anybody gaf about what i thought
― Buttigieg comes right from the source (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 April 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
nobody gaf what anybody thinks
if you wait for that, you never start writing
― alpine static, Thursday, 4 April 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
would be up for a team effort, if i can be forgiven for flying off the handle the other week
tt listens to far more metal than me and would probably be even better of a team member if she can be persuaded
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Friday, 5 April 2019 08:08 (five years ago) link
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:55 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
like...there's no Vasemman Kaden Hierarkia there but I think it's a much more consistent and dynamically-structured album than anything they've put out on their own. it's stunning imo
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Friday, 5 April 2019 08:09 (five years ago) link
Hmmm yeah I was a bit more dismissive than I ought to have been, though I stand by my point, I just don't like it as much as I'd like to. The last track alone is undeniably spectacular.
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 5 April 2019 10:33 (five years ago) link
I’d be really happy to assist with this if you decide to approach them! I’ve been idly wondering about starting a metal and prog...blog for a while now, but writing with a team would definitely be more fun! I know I’m kind of a low key poster, but my thoughts on metal do usually amount to more than ‘the new Astronoid album is so cute’.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Friday, 5 April 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
you are prone to saying things like "a prog masterpiece" unless LJ is hijacking your accounts
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 5 April 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
I just happen to think many things are prog masterpieces
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Friday, 5 April 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsiuTxSEirU
Hearing this band for the first time today and they're pretty good - a combination of Mastodon, Elder, and Dawnbringer, sorta?
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
well you just got my attention
― alpine static, Monday, 8 April 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
Ugh.
http://scontent.fewr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/56894434_10161670508450597_5756870457278070784_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-1.fna&oh=f3b9d1db920bb8486c55aba0d22752c0&oe=5D4B354D
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:03 (five years ago) link
Of the BM I've heard this year, I keep coming back to the Drastus and this one, by Gjendød:
https://hellthrasherproductions.bandcamp.com/album/krigsd-ger
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
I interviewed Set Sothis Nox La from L’Acéphale for Invisible Oranges.The new album is wonderful and streaming in full there.http://www.invisibleoranges.com/lacephale-interview-premiere
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
This comment was left on the L’Acéphale interview.
http://scontent.fphl2-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/56623221_10161672964195597_1584295246584348672_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl2-3.fna&oh=93bc5ef988adaffdaacbc0b6b71620ec&oe=5D31E2F0
I am not sure who should be offended more, me or the rest of ILX.I think I'll just go with neither.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 05:00 (five years ago) link
How prestigious of smellypenises to have heard of ILX in the first place.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 08:09 (five years ago) link
"inoffensive"
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 09:58 (five years ago) link
New Alcest before the year is out and they just signed with Nuclear Blast.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
I didn't know Kevin from Gorguts and Toby Driver were in a goth band, Vaura.
And there's a new Lucifyre EP coming out on Dark Descent.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
This one by Judiciary has been out since January, but it's great:
https://judiciarytx.bandcamp.com/album/surface-noise
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 11 April 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
Vaura's last album, The Missing, was fantastic. I've been waiting for news of a new album.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 11 April 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
I'm generally not very receptive to thrash but holy shit, Inculter fucking rips:
https://edgedcircleproductions.bandcamp.com/album/fatal-visions
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 April 2019 10:44 (five years ago) link
Ifernach is an indigenous one-man BM project from the Gaspésie, in Northeastern Quebec, and his music draws upon Mi'kmaq legends. Pretty fucking cool on all fronts:
https://ifernach.bandcamp.com/album/v-wastow
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 April 2019 21:02 (five years ago) link
Mi'kmaq atmoblack, bit of prog and drone
― imago, Friday, 12 April 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
Ifernach with V. Wastow
Lol, finally got it. Ffs
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Friday, 12 April 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link
Ligua Ignota has been performing what sounds like an awesome cover live. If you want it spoiled, visit Kim Kelly's twitter.
― Simon H., Friday, 12 April 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
ffs I forgot to go to that gig
― imago, Friday, 12 April 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
finally got a copy of the new frozen crown. I think only me & Glenn care about power metal but fuck they are so awesome.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 12 April 2019 21:59 (five years ago) link
Yespowermetalyesfrozencrownyes.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 12 April 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link
Oh man the new Farida Lemouchi band Molasses has a CD-Single (!) out. 15 minutes, two songs, Devil's Blood meets BOC and maybe Krautrock vibes.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 13 April 2019 02:03 (five years ago) link
RIP Michiel Eikenaar, 42, vocalist for Dutch bands Dodecahedron and Nihill.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 April 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
RIP. I was particularly fond of Dodecahedron.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 13 April 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
Seems like he left the band after the release of Kwintessens.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 April 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
He's had health problems for a while.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 13 April 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
That's really sad, he was no age. And I liked Dodecahedron
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 13 April 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
I still don't get Neurosis, mostly because all of the shouting, but I'm grateful for their strand of metal. Case in point: the new Inter Arma album, which is more symphonic than 99% of the bands that slap this label on their name.
― pomenitul, Monday, 15 April 2019 08:30 (five years ago) link
I did not think I needed to see Amon Amarth live again, but they've just announced a North American tour with Arch Enemy, At The Gates, and Grand Magus (who I've wanted to see live forever) as support, so I guess I'm going.
Dates:
September 26 – Seattle, WA - Showbox SODOSeptember 27 – Portland, OR - Roseland TheaterSeptember, 28 – Vancouver, BC - PNE ForumSeptember 30 – Edmonton, AB - Edmonton Convention CentreOctober 1 – Calgary, AB - Grey EagleOctober 3 – Salt Lake City, UT - The ComplexOctober 4 – Denver, CO - Fillmore AuditoriumOctober 6 – Minneapolis, MN - Skyway TheaterOctober 7 – Chicago, IL - The Riviera TheaterOctober 9 – Toronto, ON - RebelOctober 10 – Montreal, QC - M TelusOctober 12 – New York, NY - Hammerstein BallroomOctober 13 – Silver Spring, MD - The FillmoreOctober 15 – Charlotte, NC - The FillmoreOctober 16 – Atlanta, GA - TabernacleOctober 18 – New Orleans, LA - The FillmoreOctober 19 – Houston, TX - House Of BluesOctober 20 – San Antonio, TX - The Aztec TheatreOctober 22 – Phoenix, AZ - The Van BurenOctober 23 – Las Vegas, NV - House Of BluesOctober 25 – San Francisco, CA - The WarfieldOctober 26 – Los Angeles, CA - The Palladium
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 15 April 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
Back on the topic of power metal, I'm enjoying Ghost Ship Octavius, a new band with people from Nevermore and God Forbid. On the less-theatrical end of the power-metal spectrum, despite what you might assume from the fantabulous name...
https://open.spotify.com/album/247qFzCbpgNyQ4NPEH4bbr?si=okkPT-q1SNWZvf5uckCiCQ
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
Crossposting from the Game Of Thrones thread, I put this mix together:
https://www.mixcloud.com/metalmaester/game-ov-thr0nes-the-metal-mixtape/
Follow the download link in the description to get all the tracks in better quality.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
Ungfell's latest music video, featuring documentary footage of SATYRS and WITCHES in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKA7KCIvwGs
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 09:41 (five years ago) link
ungfell is so fuckin good
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
Pagan Altar is reissuing their first two albums on vinyl, CD and cassette and also undertaking a small tour which includes the first time ever in New York.
http://scontent.fewr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/57251231_10161702092145597_7671624911432974336_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ht=scontent.fewr1-1.fna&oh=e9724bb3ef397b7c6d4bb0f40651debd&oe=5D3F265A
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
New Possessed!
https://youtu.be/Ixk00N1W78c
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 April 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
Dead to a Dying World - Elegy(@profound_lore)A myriad of voices, sounds, textures, and ideas come at you. 'Elegy' eloquently dispatches convention with conviction and makes what could possibly be my favorite album of the year. It's the shape of doom to come. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/zfQ6SbssOc— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) April 19, 2019
http://deadtoadyingworld.bandcamp.com/album/elegy-3http://open.spotify.com/album/3sirhUOFCfP2qp2wlIQ4lB?si=ouP2OqLWQbedJi17161Kwg
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 19 April 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
have we done this yet
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnzm7/this-youtube-channel-streams-ai-generated-black-metal-247
headline is an error (vs the story), it's death metal mostly, though there are moments at first when it sounds black
― j., Friday, 19 April 2019 23:08 (five years ago) link
They characterize their work with Dadabots as working towards “eliminating humans from black metal.”
True misanthropy
― jmm, Friday, 19 April 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
The Dead to a Dying World is alright, but it feels a tad… emotionally manipulative? I don't think it holds a candle to the Inter Arma.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 20 April 2019 09:55 (five years ago) link
oooh I love emotional manipulation
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 April 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
So do I, when it's seamless. Anyhow, I liked it better the second time around but I stand by my initial comment.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 20 April 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
I like the Leonard Cohen-esque vocals on the first track
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 April 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
I love Lenny Cohen but that intro just screams faux world weariness to me. I'm probably not very receptive to the Southernness of it tbf.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 20 April 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
That Judiciary album sounds great. Reminds me a bit of Power Trip.
― o. nate, Monday, 22 April 2019 01:28 (five years ago) link
rigging up the brad signal for this very Katatonia-esque record
https://sermonsound.bandcamp.com/
― Simon H., Monday, 22 April 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
xp - That album sounds like my favorite late-period-Slayer song expanded to half an hour. Fantastic stuff.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 22 April 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link
Digging this Canadian epic doom
http://smoulder.bandcamp.com/album/times-of-obscene-evil-and-wild-daring
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 22 April 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
That Smoulder album is one of my 2019 favourites so far. Very strong swords & sorcery metal in the vein of Atlantean Kodex.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 22 April 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
Worshipper album sounds very promising from the one preview track.
Enjoyed Smoulder as well.
― Armand Frippanino (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
Worshipper is very good - a big step up from their last album, which I didn't love.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
Anxious to hear that Worshipper one. I really, really liked the new Magic Circle record. Yes, very Sabbath derivative, but derivative of the Vol. 4 era in the best possible way - meaning not just the riffs, but the sense of widening the lens a little.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
Holy shit, a postmillennial Darkthrone track I actually enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6h4b-Jm8iU
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
that fucking rocks
― Simon H., Wednesday, 24 April 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
FUCK YEAH
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
Yeah, this fucking rules. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I look forward to the new LP now.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
HI ALL OF YOU! As you may know we have a new album coming out (I am not on social media at all anymore so I don't know what you've seen or heard so far) and Ted said that this time our fans will hear a new song first. So guys here it is - our new track, “The Hardship Of The Scots” and since Ted and me always write our own songs, one song could not fully represent Old Star, but let’s start with this one. Normally the journalists and other scenesters get to check out new albums 2-3-4 months before fans get to hear it, but not this time .. you are first!FENRIZ
love fenriz so much
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
This is so good!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
This Dark Heresey reissue on Svart is pretty cool
https://darkheresy.bandcamp.com/album/abstract-principles-taken-to-their-logical-extremes
If you're looking for weird riffs in the Argh*slent vein but with no abhorrent political baggage (that I'm aware of) and much more imagination, check it out. I hear a Sabbat UK influence and there's some jazzy acoustic bits.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
Can someone Cliff Notes what's going on with MGLA?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
Two gigs with Deus Mortem got cancelled in Munich and Berlin due to alleged antisemitism. Members of the latter were apparently in a Nazi band called Infernal War. Mgła claims it's all just a smear campaign and will take legal action against any and all instances of 'defamation'.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
Here's an article about Infernal War, published last year after one of their shows got cancelled in the UK:
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/infernal-war-metal-band-nazi-atrocities-antisemitism-hope-not-hate-1.464498
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
So wait... Nobody in MGLA is sketchy? They were just playing with a band whose members *other* band was sketchy? Do I have that correct?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
As far as I can tell, yes.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
Huh, because I definitely saw some vague comments on twitter about MGLA being "cancelled". Glad to have more context though.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
dont read the comments on mgla's facebook post
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
Tbf M. put out a cassette titled Judenfrei under his power electronics moniker, Leichenhalle, back in 2000, so make of that what you will.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/rtoynz4v32v21.png
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but uhhhhhhhhhh "brown mud" seems a weird inclusion.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
yeahhh that's a little odd huh
also a release called "Bloodsoil"
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
You're not the only one who did a double-take at 'brown mud'. And that's besides the defensive verbosity alone -- which, by the way, includes no disavowals or denials of what they've been accused of, only vague threats of legal action. (Like, GTF over yourselves, band that's been caught out platforming Nazis.)
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
Exactly, there certainly wasn't any heartfelt (or even feigned heartfelt) disavowal of anything in there. The "brown mud" thing struck me because it was so pointless, just "mud" would do guys.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
I'm not exactly shocked (that would be dumb, at this point) but as someone who really liked the Mgla releases this is pretty shitty to learn
― Simon H., Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:08 (five years ago) link
Not to mention Kriegsmaschine, so yeah, this blows. I think it's safe to assume that at least 50% of BM bands are affected by the rot in some way, whether its symptoms are visible or not.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link
Mgla always bored the shit out of me so I'm fine with this development
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
^high five!
― imago, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
<i>I think it's safe to assume that at least 50% of BM bands are affected by the rot in some way, whether its symptoms are visible or not.<i/>
The rot, for me, is in the feigned 'we're apolitical!' BS. Too often to me that's a couch for 'we've chosen a side: we prefer being edgy to, like, taking any kind of stand against right-wing populism'.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:47 (five years ago) link
Bleh messed up the tags there.
we regret to inform you that these guys making some of the most violent and hateful misanthropic music on earth are not as woke as we hoped
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
there's a pretty huge gap btwn "not being woke" and generalized misanthrophy vs the stuff cited in the MetalSucks post
― Simon H., Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
More like I prefer it when it's just a depiction of violence and hateful misanthropy rather than a tacit vehicle for far-right propaganda. Thankfully, art is always more (and less) than what its catalyst/creator intends it to be, so I have no qualms about listening to this stuff (I won't pay for it, though). Nor do I have any qualms about saying that M. is an edgy shithead and that there are other ways of meaningfully engaging with anti-theism and the holocaust.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:42 (five years ago) link
If you're as tired of all this "which black metal band is racist this week, and how racist are we talking here, really?" bullshit as I am, here's something different.
Tanith are a NYC-based band who combine 70s hard rock/metal crunch (think BÖC, Heart) with excellent, folky male/female vocal harmonies. Their debut album, In Another Time, comes out 5/24 on Metal Blade. Here's the first song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPY_Jw-O5k0
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
70s hard rock/metal crunch (think BÖC, Heart) with excellent, folky male/female vocal harmonies
sold!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
Whoa, thanks for the Tanith recommendation, Phil! It's so much better than the black metal bs that's distracting the hive mind these days.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
Not bad, although I still struggle with this neo-trad stuff due to its relative lack of aura. I like their touchstones but the original records' documentary value is at least half the fun for me.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 May 2019 08:23 (five years ago) link
Going back to the Polish fash/black metal bs for a second, the Deus Mortem album is actually quite good and the lyrics don't contain any objectionable material as far as I can tell.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 May 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
new Misþyrming announced for 05/24
https://misthyrming.bandcamp.com/album/algleymi
― Simon H., Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
oh and there's a new DSO album out the same day
https://deathspellomega.bandcamp.com/album/the-furnaces-of-palingenesiahttps://youtu.be/E-sNygFHM9M
― Simon H., Thursday, 2 May 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
Ok so... Palingenesis is a general philosophical term but also has a meaning specific to fascism, if it was another band perhaps there would be more cause for doubt but given what we know about their vocalist I'm not sure I can look past it personally.
It sucks because I've been a fan of theirs for years, all to do with the riffs and drumming and not the pseudo-intellectual gurgling of the frontman but I'm just so sick of this shit.
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 2 May 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
So I guess I needed a reminder that not every black metal let is a fash weenie
https://spectrallore.bandcamp.com/album/no-excuses-for-fascist-sympathy-book-of-sand-cover
And in case anyone has another speech about separating art from artist or how bm is supposed to be evil please tell it to your goldfish or something instead of me thanks
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 2 May 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
I had no idea about its fascist meaning – hardly surprising, alas. I'll listen to it when it comes out but there's no question that this lingering bullshit detracts from my enjoyment of the music.
xp
― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 May 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
And yeah sorry I get a bit aggressive and go on about this stuff, but it gets me down. I don't judge anyone who still wants to listen to this stuff fwiw, there might even be something defiant about listening to music by people who would gladly see me dead lol
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 2 May 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
knowing nothing about them / their vocalist, given the direction of the imagery in that video, I would have assumed the opposite ideological bent tbh
― Simon H., Thursday, 2 May 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
someone smarter than me will need to divine the possible significance of the title / lyrics
― Simon H., Thursday, 2 May 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link
From the Wikipedia page on palingenesis:
British political theorist Roger Griffin has coined the term palingenetic ultranationalism as a core tenet of fascism, stressing the notion of fascism as an ideology of rebirth of a state or empire in the image of that which came before it – its ancestral political underpinnings. Examples of this are Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany...
DSO's lyrics have always had a spiritual bent and there's been no problem there at least before now (don't know about the new one though). And as I say there'd be reasonable doubt in many cases, but Aspa is an out and proud neo-Nazi.
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
Should we have a separate thread for black metal bullshit?
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
I'm not opposed to airing it out here tbh
― Simon H., Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
I'd vote yes for a separate BM Assholes thread or something - the metal thread for me is coolest when it's about good music. I can get "this obvious black metal nazi dude has turned out to be a nazi" from every other metal source I follow.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 2 May 2019 23:00 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't have even known about it if I hadn't posted the track here so it gets dicey. if another thread does get srted maybe we can just link to it whenever someone accidentally nazi-posts
― Simon H., Thursday, 2 May 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
I was literally relistening to Vigilance Perennial today and wondering when we could expect new Falls of Rauros, when lo and behold...
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2019/05/02/track-premiere-falls-of-rauros-new-inertia/
― Simon H., Friday, 3 May 2019 02:07 (five years ago) link
Regarding DSO, I don't think Mikko writes the lyrics and I'm not sure he's an out and proud neo-Nazi. Honestly, with metal and noise, I assume the worst of everyone unless they're explicitly not terrible (ie Masami Akita). He runs the forum at Special-Interests and is quite active. You could probably ask him outright if only to settle your feelings about DSO. I know Mgla is going through it now based on their Northern Heritage association.
― Yelploaf, Friday, 3 May 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link
Look I'm happy to leave the subject alone now but this article seems pretty damning, along with stuff I've read in the past there's really not much room for interpretation
https://varisverkosto.com/2019/03/the-influencers-of-the-finnish-ns-music-scene-part-3-mikko-aspa-of-northern-heritage-clandestine-blaze-vapaudenristi-sarvilevyt/
Excited for new Falls of Rauros though! (They're probably OK. Probably).
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 3 May 2019 10:39 (five years ago) link
new False album on Gilead is very good indeed - never really listened before, think the heavyhanded irony of the name put me off - is assuredly in the antifascist camp and Revolver are streaming one of its three lengthy songs it seems https://www.revolvermag.com/music/hear-black-metal-crew-falses-vicious-new-song-victual-our-dead-selves
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Friday, 3 May 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
There's a new HammerFall song, and...well:
JOACIM CANS describes the creation of “(We Make) Sweden Rock,” “This is a glorious tribute to the Swedish hard rock and metal movement with a lyrical theme using direct references to both other bands and songs. With catchy contagious riffs and enchanting (ear-worm) melodies this song will be an instant classic at future HammerFall shows. Without the Swedish rock and metal scene with bands like Heavy Load, At the Gates and Yngwie Malmsteen the world would be a pretty boring and dull place! This is our noble tribute to all the bands that inspired not only us to play metal, form bands and eventually crusading around the world in the name of Heavy Metal. All hail the sons of the northern light!“
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwNo-pWxDAY
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 3 May 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link
Going to withhold full judgment until I can hear the full album, but uh... the Belzebubs track I heard ("Blackened Call") is actually pretty good. I was surprised. The whole album is getting rave reviews from some unexpected quarters.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 May 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
Last thing I'll say about the fash: I've repeatedly advocated for distinguishing between the music and its maker(s) but that doesn't mean the music is in any way 'pure' or devoid of ideology – I just think it's always more (and less) than the sum total of its catalysts'/creators' political intentions, whether good or ill. So I'm perfectly alright with bringing up the matter here whenever it rears its ugly head, especially if Mikko fucking Aspa is involved. That article ultros posted about the Finnish scene sums it up quite well.
― pomenitul, Friday, 3 May 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
I've liked several tracks from that Belzebubs album.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 3 May 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
Thanks for the link, Ultros. MA's politics are undeniable and the NS bent is explicit in Clandestine Blaze. I never sensed it in DSO which has been enough for me to enjoy the incredible music. But then again, some of my favorite metal is Graveland and Grand Belial's Key which I would never say is okay. It might be time to just be done with it all.
― Yelploaf, Friday, 3 May 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
There's a new Martyrdöd album coming out this month (May 10 on Century Media worldwide, May 24 on Southern Lord in the US). Here's a lyric video for "Pharmacepticon." Praktik ditt svenska!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzrdzc1CmlI
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
new Wildhearts album is terrific
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 3 May 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
Guys if u like Priest hit the 2019 Firepowe tour if ya can.
We got "Starbreaker" tonight
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 May 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link
And ALL GUNS BLAZING
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 May 2019 03:16 (five years ago) link
ahhhh there's finally a new Immortal Bird album! First track is a ripper.
https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/thrive-on-neglect
― Simon H., Saturday, 4 May 2019 03:18 (five years ago) link
The Martyrdöd caught my attention. Thanks to the very ancient-Bob Mould guitar tone and some unorthodox and unexpected pop in some of the record, it sounds like Land Speed-era Husker Du gone crusty D-Beat and it's quite intriguing!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 May 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
i keep seeing that name but not checking it out because i just can't help but think "Marty Dude"
― alpine static, Saturday, 4 May 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
Marty Dude died a Martyr's Death.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 4 May 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
New Tomb Mold single out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7FYTCsvzOg
Fuck yeah!
― pomenitul, Monday, 6 May 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link
oh nice
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 6 May 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
yesssss
― Simon H., Monday, 6 May 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
new Cult of Luna - I'd have loved more material w/ Julie Christmas but this sounds mighty fine regardless
https://youtu.be/XoFJA24GhfA
― Simon H., Monday, 6 May 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
Man, that Tomb Mold track is great. 20 Buck Spin is on one hell of a roll.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 04:49 (five years ago) link
Speaking of 20 Buck Spin, I'm digging this sampler track from the upcoming Fetid album, seems like an apt title for this sort of queasy sludgy death metal:
https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/steeping-corporeal-mess
― o. nate, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 01:15 (five years ago) link
really digging this Herxheim demo (physical release on NWN soon), wondering how long it'll be until they're outed as white supremacists
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 10 May 2019 09:32 (five years ago) link
An odd title, that. Sold.
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 09:35 (five years ago) link
It's pretty good and yeah bizarre title, sounds like something Demilich would use as a song title
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 10 May 2019 11:48 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH3cwxxjfB8
not sure how well this'll go over but i had never heard of this band before and this song is pretty sick. def on the metalcore/nu-metal revival side of hardcore but a really excellent version of that
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
Saw them a few years ago with no idea what to expect and loved them.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
Zig Zags @randysezzThey'll Never Take Us Alive (@EasyRiderRecord)Parallel universe. Cliff Burton (alive) is dissatisfied with band's direction. Fires therapist, throws this LP on table, says "we need to return to this." Metallica then makes best album ever. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/FLcl3alTnS— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) May 10, 2019
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 12 May 2019 00:55 (five years ago) link
Gonna have to check that out, loved their first album but wasn't super-fond of the second
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 12 May 2019 07:48 (five years ago) link
had never heard Zig Zags before but this is rad.
― gman59, Monday, 13 May 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
yeah, ditto on first listenalso any band that has a track called Ms 45 is cool by me
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link
sounds good, also watch Ms .45
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 01:38 (five years ago) link
I'm trying to decide whether to pay $42 to go see this:
Fauna (11:45 pm)Yellow Eyes (10:35 pm)Vanum (9:30 pm)Sanguine Eagle (8:30 pm)Zoloa (7:35 pm)Endorphins Lost (6:40 pm)Caustic Wound (5:55 pm)Lunar Temple (4:55 pm)Iron Scepter (4:00 pm)Doors (3:30 pm)
I love Vanum. I like Yellow Eyes. Don't know anyone else.
Any great stuff here that'll edge me closer to "yup, this is worth it"?
― alpine static, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
Once again, one of the best metal show line-ups of the year in the Chicago area is taking place at a brewery special release even (Dark Lord Day @ Three Floyd's). No longer worth the $200 and standing in line all day for me, but the only twitch of FOMO I got was looking at the band line-up:
HIGH ON FIRE 8pm
POWER TRIP 6:45pm
NUCLEAR ASSAULT 5:30pm
SACRED REICH 4:15pm
THE ATLAS MOTH 3:15pm
MINSK 2:15pm
RIVER BLACK 1:15pm
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
even = event
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
xxp - Caustic Wound is great! OSDM with grindy vocals. I'm a sucker for vocalists that can switch quickly between cookie monster and pig squeal. One of the guitarists is in Fetid who seem to be blowing up so which could mean less Caustic Wound activity.
― Yelploaf, Thursday, 16 May 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link
oh shit Herxheim is Howls of Ebb related. started to suspect it because of the vocals and some of the riff construction is similar... and song titles like "with glib fork i dialect" lol
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 16 May 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
I was sure that had to be an anagram but the best I could find was "balk codifier twilight"
― Simon H., Thursday, 16 May 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
makes sense to me
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
Slipknot are Ghost fans, it seems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpATBBRajP8
New album We Are Not Your Kind in August. "All Out Life" was a standalone single, apparently.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
According to an announcement on FB, Chaos Echoes have called it quits. They were supposed to be releasing something this year - I've reached out to the label to see where that stands.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 16 May 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
I really...really...really like the new Possessed!
It's not perfect - by now, so many new bands are emulating the 80s death metal sound that it doesn't sound ahead of the curve. And yea, lots of songs at the same tempo.
But it's pretty inspired overall.
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 May 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
The new Phobia album - out in August from Willowtip - is called Generation Coward, and has songs called "Internet Tough Guy" and "PC Fascist Fuck Off," the latter of which opens with a sample of the "dicks, pussies and assholes" speech from Team America. This is the cover art:
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1264083175_10.jpg
Since their last album had a caricature of Donald Trump being dismembered on the cover, it seems like someone must have said something mean to them on Facebook between 2017 and now.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 17 May 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link
New Lingua Ignota album coming out in July. Here's the single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH10IyS2FOc
So fucking hyped.
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 May 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
yessss
― Simon H., Monday, 20 May 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
Hyped because the extra letter of psyched is just too much work.
On a completely different note, I'm surprised no one's commenting the latest Rammstein.
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 May 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
I'm a fan, but I haven't listened to it all the way through yet. Maybe I will today. Their 2010 show at Madison Square Garden was one of the greatest things I've ever seen in my life. They should do a Vegas residency.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 20 May 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
Since I brought up Lingua Ignota itt, Uboa's The Origin of My Depression also goes a long way towards scratching that twisted itch for me at the moment:
https://uboa.bandcamp.com/album/the-origin-of-my-depression
RYM files it under 'death industrial' aka 'dark noise' – I was not aware either of these appellations had any currency.
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 May 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
Oh right, that's the Clockwork Orange intro music in the Lingua Ignota track.
― jmm, Monday, 20 May 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
I absolutely love the new Rammstein. Really tight, some good variety, and great vocal performances by Till.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 02:56 (four years ago) link
I give you… Troll: trad/stoner doom from Portland, OR that flirts with prog structures and doesn't skimp on the vocals, for once:
https://shadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/legend-master
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
Another Troll? There are like four of em, not even counting the Swedish disco act.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
The glut is such now that it's almost impossible to come up with an original metal band name, so it might as well be blindingly obvious. Although the other day a friend and I were talking about how 'Traumatic Insemination' is still up for grabs.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
I used to write a fanzine with another bloke and he used to give any old death metal shit a good review. Two mates and I went as far as recording a tape of us hitting biscuit tins and shrieking and burping and sent it in for review. We were called Impaled Rats Cunt (no apostrophe); as far as I'm aware, the name is still available.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
A subtle reference to Impaled Northern Moonforest?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
This was '94, man. Way before those pretenders had even heard of a blast beat.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
Subrosa calling it a day
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2202260859819897&id=107632335949437
To all of our beautiful, supportive fans and friends, After a magical 13-year run, SubRosa is calling it quits (for now). Rebecca decided she wanted to focus on her solo project, The Keening, and Kim, Sarah, Levi and Andy have all been able to focus their creative energies on other musical ventures. We would never have experienced our dreams as reality without you, and we cannot thank you enough.
― omar little, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
Can't say I much care at this point but a new Opeth is reportedly on the way.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
Subrosa were a great band and they're going out with an unblemished discography. Nothing wrong with that.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
I'm intrigued by the new Opeth, not just because I'm a fan, but because the album will be released in two versions - one in English and one in Swedish, and the track titles aren't exact translations from one language to the other. Sometimes they're close, but other times they're pretty different, as you'll see below.
Unless there's a 2CD bundled version, which I'm sure there will be, I'll definitely be buying both.
In Cauda Venenum Tracklisting:
1. Livet’s Trädgård / Garden Of Earthly Delights (Intro) ("Livets Trädgård" = "Life's Garden")2. Svekets Prins / Dignity ("Svekets Prins" = "Betrayal's Prince")3. Hjärtat Vet Vad Handen Gör / Heart In Hand ("Hjärtat Vet Vad Handen Gör" = "The Heart Knows What The Hand Does")4. De Närmast Sörjande / Next Of Kin5. Minnets Yta / Lovelorn Crime ("Minnets Yta" = "The Memory's Surface")6. Charlatan7. Ingen Sanning Är Allas / Universal Truth ("Ingen Sanning Är Allas" = "No Truth Is Everyone's")8. Banemannen / The Garroter9. Kontinuerlig Drift / Continuum 10. Allting Tar Slut / All Things Will Pass
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
That does sound interesting tbh.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
Sabaton did that first :)
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
That Lingua Ignota track took me a few listens to get into, but is pretty amazing imo. High hopes for this album.
― jmm, Thursday, 23 May 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
I love the Nocturnus AD. The guitars and keyboards aren't quite as in rhyme as on The Key, but it's hard to believe that this isn't Nocturnus proper
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
do we talk about how good the Big Brave album is here or somewhere else
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 27 May 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
alright then, I shall go outside and shout it to the sky cause it's really fucking good.
anyway looking forward to the new Tristengrav:
TRISTENGRAV hail from Patras, Greece and released their first demo, Incendiarism of Nous in 2018 Now, roughly a year later comes Nychavge, a four-track (plus one outro) recording featuring their unique blend of black metal with gothic rock. Imagine GISM crossed with Rozz Williams-era Christian Death or later Anti-Cimex covering Mighty Sphincter and you have some glimpse into the ever-growing madness that is TRISTENGRAV...
https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/ii-nychavge
Their demo is quite good, ferocious black metal with crust influence but lacking the gothic element.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 12:25 (four years ago) link
The new Dreadnought should be right up my alley, and ephemeral bits of it rival The 3rd and the Mortal, but it still comes across as a structural mess for the most part. Perhaps I need to spend more time with it.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
so there are two Batushkas now?
https://sphieratz.bandcamp.com/album/-
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
I’ve been loving the Big Brave. Also listening a lot to new Helms Alee.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
I will be interviewing Carl Canedy tomorrow and although he was never inaccessible or anything, I am still looking forward to it. He is someone whose name I saw on records by Anthrax and Overkill who played in The Rods so it goes back to one of the earlier recognizable-names-on-album-jackets in my metal fandom.
Also, he played on the first Manowar demo which I found out about many years later.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
Haven't played the Big | Brave record yet, but really digging the Helms Alee one. They've always been a band I've liked, but this is the first album of theirs that I've really loved. Also been spending a lot of time with some recent RidingEasy releases, especially The Well and BUS. The former might be their best yet, I like the post-punk darkness they swirled into the doom and the latter is a surprisingly solid mix of psych and doom. I'd never expect to hear Primus (as a positive, no less) in a RidingEasy album.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
every year there's one tour that attracts all of yr city's biggest meathead assholes, and every year I dodge their combat boots. this year that tour is
https://exclaim.ca/music/article/harms_way_jesus_piece_to_play_toronto_on_summer_tour
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 May 2019 02:29 (four years ago) link
Any thoughts on the new Deathspell Omega? I've followed them since the beginning but something clicked (or broke) with me on this one and I can't stand them. Sold off my entire discography in the last week. As mentioned upthread, I may just be done with dodgy BM. The music just isn't enough to engage with bad politics.
― Yelploaf, Thursday, 30 May 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
I haven't gotten around to it yet but I've always found them to be somewhat overrated (except for Paracletus) so there's no emotional connection to reassess on my part.
The Big Brave LP is awesome btw.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 30 May 2019 08:57 (four years ago) link
Parts of BB remind me of like Fushitsusha or C. Brotzmann Massaker or something. Very good.
Had my first listen to the DSO tonight. The music's good but it's hard to get over the feeling that Paracletus was their peak and they're never going to do anything that interesting again. Anyone uh read the lyrics to this one?
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 30 May 2019 11:11 (four years ago) link
I don't know if my mood changes significantly between the two different times I spend listening to the Big Brave, but I thought the first three tracks were amazing but the last two really didn't grab me.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 May 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
Frankly terrifying:
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/slipknots-corey-taylor-says-he-blew-out-his-left-testicle-while-singing/
― pomenitul, Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
how is that even possible?! by "fucking around" does he mean he was prancing in a field of scissors?
― Simon H., Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
he was just joking
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 31 May 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
Listening to the new Deathspell Omega while looking at the lyrics, and while they're definitely from a position I don't agree with - they conflate basically every political movement there is - I don't think they're 'dodgy'. I honestly think it's pretty brilliant, not really fascist, just absolutist in the Sadean, Bataillean, Nietszchean sense. I like them a lot more than what was going on on 'The Synarchy of Molten Bones', which was... muddy, and could easily be seen as dodgy. I mean:
The mere existence of conflicting opinions means that the Truth has yet to triumph. Diversity is an outrage, freedom of thought will be terminated. Everything is a lie but that which we feed you, believe me. If your thoughts collide with what we say, these thoughts can not be yours. We will rip your mouth open and stuff you with Truth, like a goose. The Truth will blossom in the end, be it over your swollen corpse
― Frederik B, Friday, 31 May 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
new Darkthrone is v satisfying
― Simon H., Friday, 31 May 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link
^^^ yes it is
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 31 May 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
I'm really liking Bethlehem's Lebe dich leer. Onielar's vocals are right up my alley – she is a thespian of pure despair.
I see they've been around since 1991. How is the rest of their discography?
― pomenitul, Friday, 31 May 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
I countersign DSO, Darkthrone and Bethlehem, too. (And I had no idea that Bethlehem's (and Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult's) singer was female, which both doesn't matter and is interesting.)
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
i had no idea she was in Bethlehem, can only help them imo.
pomenitul just to help very slightly: the early Bethlehem stuff is great, kinda black metal and doom in equal measures. Dark Metal is my favorite but check out Dictius Te Necare if you like absolutely unhinged vocal performances.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
Thanks GP!There are a lot of incredible female vocalists on the extreme metal front at the moment. See also: Turia, Xenoblight, Venom Prison.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 1 June 2019 06:27 (four years ago) link
Xenoblight is a name I keep running across, gonna check 'em out. Already love VP!
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 1 June 2019 09:33 (four years ago) link
Unsure what to make of the new DsO. Ignoring the political ambiguities for a second (and I'd say, having read the lyrics, that it's probably fine, albeit crazed), the music is this kind of impressive wash that I can't really latch onto. It feels like punishment. I know it's black metal and all but there's no sense of ritual, of incantation or magic here - it's didactic in sound as well as content. You WILL suffer. You WILL behold the incessant towers of sound. I'm aware that coming from a Jute Gyte fan, this may sound somewhat hypocritical, but there's a wit and a sense of surrender to mathematics and technology that somehow sublimes the latter act into something bewildering and Other - this simply feels like a bunch of pissed-off humanities professors inflicting their revenge on the idiotic world. While I would agree with much of their analysis, and even their methods, I don't necessarily want revenge - I want transcendence. There's only so much fast-fingered atonal rage I can listen to before I wonder how else these ideas can be approached, and how else this amount of musical talent and ingenuity can be manifested.
― imago, Monday, 3 June 2019 08:51 (four years ago) link
I haven't listened to it yet but your assessment echoes my own experiences with their previous albums.
― pomenitul, Monday, 3 June 2019 09:32 (four years ago) link
I kinda think 'atonal rage' is exactly what I want from black metal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Or hatred, it's supposed to be hateful. I've been really delving into the satanic trilogy, including all the eps, and they're much more faceted than this, filled with allusions to Bataille and Hegel and Pascal, coopting so much of catholic thought and ritual. It's just a more interesting subject. But as far as political black metal goes, I'm really impressed by it. It's absolutely raging and hateful and out for blood, and I'm honestly kinda impressed that it still doesn't feel fascist, you know? I wasn't sure it could be done...
― Frederik B, Monday, 3 June 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
Having just heard The Furnaces of Palingenesia for the first time, imago otm x2. Also: I can only take so much Finnish street preaching.
― pomenitul, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
Have you checked out Abigor?
― Siegbran, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
I thought the problem with DsO wasn't their lyrical content but the fact it's Mikko Aspa singing?
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
If that was for me, yeah, I very much enjoy Verwüstung / Invoke Dark Age and Orkblut - The Retaliation in particular. I haven't heard their stuff post-Opus IV, though.
― pomenitul, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
their post-Opus stuff like Leytmotif Luzifer and Hollenzwang should be right up yr DsO-alley, super dense avantgarde ‘atonal rage’.
― Siegbran, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
Time Is The Sulphur In The Veins Of The Saint too.
― Siegbran, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
I'll check them out, thanks. DsO-style dissonance is an oft-disappointing BM subgenre in my experience but when it's on, it's a misanthropic feast, and I can't imagine the genre as a whole without it.
― pomenitul, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
thoughts on the new Darkthrone:+ maybe my favorite Ted vocal production, sounds very Cronos+ title track is pretty great+ it's Darkthrone- they're not as good at slow/epic hm riffss as I want them to be- it's not as good/memorable as Arctic Thunder
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
ok listening to it rn and+ the back half is actually super fucking solid
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
imo in their current phase (their regal phase as far as I'm concerned) they've gotten impeccable with the back half of their albums
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
New Wormed song! (New Wormed EP in July!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TwlPMrQYQ8
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
Box of the first four Krallice albums just went up on Bandcamp. The vinyl is selling for $800.
https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/the-wastes-of-time
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, June 4, 2019 3:09 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think it's much better and more memorable than arctic thunder, though i should really revisit the last two again
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
i mean "much better" is overstating it
guess i'm gonna listen to darkthrone all day
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
does this go here or emo thread
https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2018/42
― alpine static, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
haha
― alpine static, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
The vinyl is selling for $800.
I laughed pretty hard at this, then I clicked the Bandcamp link and realized you added a zero by mistake.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
shipping to Canada is 63$ :( :( :(
I know it's noted on the bandcamp blurb but damn
― Simon H., Wednesday, 5 June 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
Whoops! Sorry about the typo.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
New Wormed song!
lol i knew this was you before i got to the end of the post
i count on you for my contrarian metal gatekeeping
― j., Wednesday, 5 June 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
yeah the riffs on the new darkthrone are my fav they've come up with ages. not that i'm complaining about how good they've been for the past hundred years
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 June 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
i own all of their albums now and really they're all at least good. avoided Total Death, Ravishing, etc for a long time but really i celebrate their entire catalog.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 June 2019 03:26 (four years ago) link
that new Wormed song is fucking sick. I listen to Krighsu maybe once a year and that's about all the sci fi grind-death or whatever I need these days, but it seems like they're expanding their palette a bit?
― Simon H., Thursday, 6 June 2019 03:26 (four years ago) link
Yeah the production's a little clearer and it feels a little more accessible in some indefinable way?
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 June 2019 08:57 (four years ago) link
― pomenitul, Friday, March 1, 2019 12:27 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is great, thanks
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
the new Bergraven (not sure when it came out exactly) is absolutely fucking fantastic
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 6 June 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
This is sort of surprising...a one-man Australian black metal act paying tribute to Yukio Mishima.
https://kommodus.bandcamp.com/album/an-imperial-sun-rises
When I think of Yukio Mishima, I think of one word: discipline. Here’s a man who never missed a deadline for his writing, or art. A man who identified the physical weakness within himself and sought to crush it.In his short lifetime he left a body of work, a legacy that contained 35 novels, 25 plays, 200 short stories, and 8 volumes of essays. An amazing bibliography that assured him a place as Japan’s most celebrated author. An athlete who forged himself a new body from sun and steel. A pariah who disregarded the zeitgeist of his era – the erosion of Japanese tradition and the cultural pressures to transform the country into an emasculated leftist shadow of its former self. He contested his surroundings and matched his words with action, transforming his world to reflect his art. Training religiously, forming a militia, and ultimately immortalising himself through his work and through his death. Total commitment, total belief. Mishima had the drive and vision to make a poem out of his life. And in our contemporary era I think there is much to learn from him. To attempt to attain and exercise that same monastic drive in our own chosen paths. To have the sheer will and faith in ourselves to ignore all the ephemeral influences, distractions, and rabbit holes that are shoved down our throats, that obscure our focus, and derail our progress. To recognise and understand what it is we want and attain it, to attack it mercilessly until we are synonymous with it. How can we change the world if we can’t first change ourselves with discipline, determination and steadfast focus? News, politics, social rhetoric and trends it’s all agenda and half-truths. Instead, we need the glorious sun, that defined our earliest incarnation of gods and goddesses. We need the steel to make us stronger and conquer. We need Mishima.
In his short lifetime he left a body of work, a legacy that contained 35 novels, 25 plays, 200 short stories, and 8 volumes of essays. An amazing bibliography that assured him a place as Japan’s most celebrated author. An athlete who forged himself a new body from sun and steel. A pariah who disregarded the zeitgeist of his era – the erosion of Japanese tradition and the cultural pressures to transform the country into an emasculated leftist shadow of its former self. He contested his surroundings and matched his words with action, transforming his world to reflect his art. Training religiously, forming a militia, and ultimately immortalising himself through his work and through his death. Total commitment, total belief. Mishima had the drive and vision to make a poem out of his life. And in our contemporary era I think there is much to learn from him. To attempt to attain and exercise that same monastic drive in our own chosen paths. To have the sheer will and faith in ourselves to ignore all the ephemeral influences, distractions, and rabbit holes that are shoved down our throats, that obscure our focus, and derail our progress. To recognise and understand what it is we want and attain it, to attack it mercilessly until we are synonymous with it. How can we change the world if we can’t first change ourselves with discipline, determination and steadfast focus?
News, politics, social rhetoric and trends it’s all agenda and half-truths. Instead, we need the glorious sun, that defined our earliest incarnation of gods and goddesses. We need the steel to make us stronger and conquer. We need Mishima.
Having read the blurbs he's posted alongside his previous three albums, I don't think this guy's a fascist; I think he's just a dummy who's absorbed Extremely Online ideas about nihilism and filtered them through his own mental problems ("'One Thousand Years Of The Wolf' was recorded in the dry, infernal summer of MMXVIII amidst constant mental anguish and instability"). And the music is standard shouting-from-the-back-of-the-cave, dull and monotonous; I was just intrigued to see YM's photo on the cover.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:08 (four years ago) link
Going by this cover I've got to imagine he's goofing on some level
https://imgur.com/fao70P1
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
well anyway dude's wearing a baseball cap on his first demo and what looks like his grandma's mink stole on his head on the second...
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 June 2019 11:38 (four years ago) link
I don't think this guy's a fascist
Mishima was famously a Japanese nationalist, so 'far-right dog whistle' warning still applies.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 8 June 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
I wonder if he knows Mishima was gay, and whether finding that out would change his impressions any.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 8 June 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
In any case, the album art >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the actual music.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 8 June 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
Inter Arma stop in Chicago was a lot of fun this week - if they come through your town, go see 'em! Great bill, too - Thantifaxath & Pulchre Morte had great sets.
― BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 8 June 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
I am at the Dio hologram show in Asbury Park, NJ. Full report next week.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 8 June 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
Mishima's revered in the Noise/PE world for the same qualities the Kommodus dude mentions and his sexuality is embraced as perverted/transgressive. I'd guess Kommodus has read only Sun & Steel and maybe Patriotism. Doubt he's delved into Confessions of a Mask.
― Yelploaf, Sunday, 9 June 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
hey seriously though this Bergraven album is the fuckin business
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 9 June 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
As promised, my review of the Dio hologram show.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 10 June 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
JCLC, you were not lying. this is crazy!
― Simon H., Monday, 10 June 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
Yeah, this new Bergraven - which came out in March, apparently - is great. And how did I not know these guys made four albums under the name Stilla (with a different vocalist) between 2013 and 2018? Gonna check those out soon.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 10 June 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
I love the Stilla stuff but haven't enough Bergraven to compare them. Ensamhetens Andar has some really interestingly weird riffs and basslines.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 10 June 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
Imprecation's Damnatio Ad Bestias is one of the better death metal albums I've heard so far this year.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
As usual, Esoctrilihum delivers the esoteric goods:
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-telluric-ashes-of-the-o-vrth-immemorial-gods
It's at least on par with last year's Inhüma.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 June 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
On the tech death end of things, I'm really enjoying Sinners Bleed's Absolution:
https://war-anthem-records.bandcamp.com/album/absolution
I should probably check out their debut.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 15 June 2019 11:30 (four years ago) link
:(
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/megadeths-dave-mustaine-diagnosed-with-throat-cancer/
― pomenitul, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
do your best Dave, hopefully you've got years of recording albums i have no interest in hearing ahead of you
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
In a way it's a real shame since their last one Dystopia had a couple of really excellent songs but man those lyrics. I'm not easily offended but it's just facepalm after facepalm.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 10:41 (four years ago) link
I don't want him to get cancer but I would like it if he wasn't such a right wing tool.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
exactly
btw Siegbran if you remember the track titles could you post them, I'd be interested to hear them
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
For example The Threat Is Real is a pretty awesome song but I dare you to sit it out.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
Well the music's good
There are several ways to interpret the lyrics and I don't think I like any of them
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Not sure how long this has been floating around out there, but I just found out about it today - not so excited about anything new from Vektor any longer.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 June 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
DiSanto's wife's appeal for help got RTed by Kim Kelly but I don't think it mentioned Vektor so I'm just figuring this out too. Yeah, horrifying and I'm done with them.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
Yep, that's exactly how I found out about it. Awful story.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
from what I gathered, he was the only remaining member.
― beard papa, Friday, 21 June 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
The new Organectomy album, Existential Disconnect, is out today on Unique Leader.
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2958267555_10.jpg
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
So are Meads of Asphodel sketchy? I hope not. I always thought they were genius weirdos and the new one out today doesn't change my mind.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
They're pretty sketchy, yeah.
meads of asphodel, whose song titles include the lovely "jew killer" and "children of the sunwheel banner"— machine girl kelly (@mulchlord) June 12, 2019
Are Meads of Asphodel one of those problematic acts? I honestly need to start keeping a spreadsheet.— Jeff Treppel (@JeffTreppel) May 20, 2019
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
That Treppel tweet begins a thread to which I contributed.
I know you're gonna "BUT DA RIFFFFFS" anyway, but hey, at least you asked. That's something.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
That thread doesn't really say much. The band was asked about Sonderkommando:
What is the story of Sonderkommando? From what I’ve read, it’s taken from the point of view of the individual who takes the bodies from the gas chambers and searches their bodies for valuables before finally putting them in the incinerators.The story is of hatred and how racism can create such horror. The album deals with Hitler and the German war machine that cloaked the racial elimination of the Jews. It tells of most European countries being complicit to the crime of murder where women and children were slaughtered because of a twisted ideology. Anti-Semitism, no matter what your view is on this subject; can be no excuse for killing children and treating a race of human beings like vermin. Hatred is the key lesson the human race needs to learn as it is hatred that drives us to obscene cruelty and illogical acts of brutality. The Sonderkommando were the unfortunate Jews who dragged the naked corpse covered in piss and vomit from the gas chambers. They pulled out the gold teeth of the dead and cremated the remains. It was mass murder unlike anything else in history. Maybe not as vast as Stalin’s crimes, but the deliberate European scale of an industrial death machine that involved vast logistics and efficiency is beyond comparison.The Grim Tower
The story is of hatred and how racism can create such horror. The album deals with Hitler and the German war machine that cloaked the racial elimination of the Jews. It tells of most European countries being complicit to the crime of murder where women and children were slaughtered because of a twisted ideology. Anti-Semitism, no matter what your view is on this subject; can be no excuse for killing children and treating a race of human beings like vermin. Hatred is the key lesson the human race needs to learn as it is hatred that drives us to obscene cruelty and illogical acts of brutality. The Sonderkommando were the unfortunate Jews who dragged the naked corpse covered in piss and vomit from the gas chambers. They pulled out the gold teeth of the dead and cremated the remains. It was mass murder unlike anything else in history. Maybe not as vast as Stalin’s crimes, but the deliberate European scale of an industrial death machine that involved vast logistics and efficiency is beyond comparison.
The Grim Tower
Also, kindly keep your self-righteous snark to yourself.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
I snark because we've done this dance before, and we'll do it again. You always come down to "separate the art from the artist" (even when the art is called "Jew Killer") and "but the music's good" (as though there's not multiple lifetimes' worth of good music in the world without the taint of Nazism on it) and "I know I'm not a Nazi, so it's OK". So whatever. Be happy with what makes you happy. So far as I know, Miles Davis beat every woman in his life at one point or another - I'm not throwing away any of his records.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
You haven't been paying attention but that's okay. I don't have the ego you do so I don't take it personally.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 22 June 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
Invisible Oranges contributors put together Top Ten lists for the best albums at the midway point of the year.
Here is mine.
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9mmaJIW4AI8-YX?format=png
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 23 June 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
i know i'm a few years late but the last Raspberry Bulbs album, Privacy... phew. Like Bone Awl but with catchy melodies and arena rock riffs. A little like Okkultokrati but from a different angle.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 23 June 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
Blackened funeral doom from Aalborg, Denmark:
https://hethe.bandcamp.com
Angry Metal Guy hates it so you know it must be good.
― pomenitul, Monday, 24 June 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
Add 'drone', 'trip-hop' and 'Stuart Dempster-ish' to the list of labels. It's quite the trip.
― pomenitul, Monday, 24 June 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
Nature Ganganbaigal from Tengger Cavalry has died.
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/tengger-cavalry-frontman-nature-ganganbaigal-has-died
I wrote about his band that I saw twice. We hung out a lot when I ventured to Brooklyn a while back for a panel when Brian Slagel's book came out and he was there; we went over to Saint Vitus and talked all night about music. He was engaging and friendly.
He had a somewhat public suicide attempt some time ago but the prevailing thought was that he was doing much better. Perhaps not. Mental illness is a bitch.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
Revolver Fans' Top Five Albums of 2019 (so far)http://www.revolvermag.com/music/fan-poll-5-best-albums-2019-so-far
1. Rammstein2. Motionless in White3. Whitechapel4. Baroness5. Death Angel
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
man that news about tengger cavalry is so sad.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 28 June 2019 01:32 (four years ago) link
I wasn’t interested in this Rammstein record at all but I saw them live last week. They absolutely killed it and the new songs sounded great so I probably should listen to the new album.
― Siegbran, Friday, 28 June 2019 09:03 (four years ago) link
scathing doom-sludge w/an ex-Moss member
https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/nightfucker
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 28 June 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
Is this a band that people know? Sounds kinda like shoegaze-y black metal.https://yelloweyes.bandcamp.com/album/rare-field-ceiling
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 28 June 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
hell yeah
― Simon H., Friday, 28 June 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
i played their last album a lot
― j., Friday, 28 June 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
er, next-to-last, i guess! i knew there was one in 2017 but i wasn't really feeling it like 'sick with bloom' so i just gave it a pass
― j., Friday, 28 June 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
yellow eyes are great. New Slough Feg album just arrived
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 28 June 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
at least based on the first couple tracks, this Ashbringer album is really great. post-black-metal stuff with hints of 70s prog. also a weirdly appealing collision of ambitious songs vs. not-too-polished production
https://ashbringermusic.bandcamp.com/album/absolution
― Simon H., Friday, 28 June 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
Wtf Delta
http://www.metalsucks.net/2019/06/29/delta-airlines-employees-robbed-high-on-fire-sleep-frontman-matt-pike/
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
that's f'ed up hope he gets his pedals back
hey there's a new Valborg for anyone who likes weird industrial metal with a guy screaming in German
https://valborg.bandcamp.com/album/zentrum
This one's less caustic than Endstrand (which was like the guy screaming in German was also punching you), a little more gothy vocal presence here and there.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 1 July 2019 06:26 (four years ago) link
This is delightfully nasty
http://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/black-nuclear-magick-attack
Black/death/war metal vibe but some nice moments of creepy ambience that remind me of Temple Nightside or early Disembowelment.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 1 July 2019 06:32 (four years ago) link
The new Organectomy is great, if you like broooootal death metal. I reviewed it.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
Riffs for days, and a paragon of 'this fucking rips':
https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/the-anatomy-of-unholy-transformation
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
At the other end of the spectrum, Floyd-esque psych-doom couched in pretty melodies:
https://fleshofthestars.bandcamp.com/album/mercy
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
The Chinese secret service doesn't like Japanese grindcore:
However, the surveillance app also searches for information on a range of other material – from fasting during Ramadan to literature by the Dalai Lama, and music by a Japanese metal band called Unholy Grave.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
Come to think of it, I doubt I've ever heard any Chinese metal.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
https://pestproductions.bandcamp.com/album/past-evil
is good
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
Thanks, I'll check it out.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
God dammit. I actually liked the first two Tau Cross albums a lot.
Relapse has dropped Tau Cross for thanking a Holocaust denier in the liner notes to their upcoming album.
Over the weekend the German magazine Ox brought it to our attention that a person named Gerard Menuhin was prominently thanked in the new Tau Cross album, and specifically credited in the liner notes for inspiring Rob Miller. All Relapse records go through a vigorous proofing process–checking for spelling and punctuation mistakes, mostly. We all read this name, but didn’t recognize it or think that it was anything other than a personal friend of the band’s, that we did not know. Ox however recognized the name as a far right conspiracy theorist, focused specifically on Holocaust denial. Suddenly the lyrics and themes of the new record were cast in a new light, for me. I spoke with Rob Miller, who is the individual in the band who Ox was interviewing, and while he denied being a Holocaust denier, I cannot comfortably work on or sell a record that dabbles in ideologies such as these. There are certain issues that rise above mere political differences and this is one of them. I spoke with the rest of the band on Monday, and NONE of them had any idea who Gerard Menuhin was, and were as shocked by these references in the record, as we at the label were. I firmly believe that these references and mentions in the record do not represent the band as a whole. but rather just Rob Miller’s. In light of all this, Relapse swiftly decided we cannot move forward with this album–we gave the masters back to the band, together with the rest of their catalog.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
Apparently his father is Yehudi Menuhin
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Menuhin
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
Self-hatred runs deep.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
Rob Miller was clearly always on the politically extremist side and vocal about it, but fuck me really did this dude go from
the sky was tinted with yellow and black/and the air smelt like Dachau today
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
Speaking of which, I really enjoyed Flamen's Furor lunae – medieval black metal with bewildering flashes of 80s Italo-pop. But what are the chances that Alexander Ivanov, the vocalist, who also plays in a band called Aryan Art, is non-fash?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
thematically and in terms of the labels they worked with that band were unambiguously NSBM from what I recall so unless he's actively made a point of renouncing that, pretty much zero
― wot's the tea mum? (not beef again) (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
Thought as much.
At the other end of the political spectrum, has anyone checked out Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze? On their Bandcamp page, they describe themselves as 'aggressively antifascist, antihierarchy, and anticapitalist'.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
This reminds me of when Morbid Angel controversially thanked "a certain leader from the past whose name I shall not mention but whose spirit I embrace" on Blessed Are The Sick and promptly got signed by Irving Azoff.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
Chinese metal: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/56w4CTZ5B1kCuJfw0IEmrk
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
Statement from the other four dudes in Tau Cross, one of whom is apparently in control of the band's Facebook page:
This is a statement from Michel, Andy, Jon and Tom regarding the recent events with Tau Cross and Relapse Records.On Monday, July 1st, the four of us received a very concerning e-mail from Relapse stating that they will not be releasing our upcoming album and severing all ties to any previous work. To say that we were blindsided by this news is an understatement.During initial production of the album, we were asked individually to provide our thanks list, which for us consisted of family and friends.Now, the four of us were informed that Rob Miller has submitted a thank you to a notorious right-wing author who none of us are familiar with. We promptly researched this author's history and we are adamantly against anything relating to this kind of ugliness. We've been vigilant in our attempts to get answers as to why this has happened and, frankly, how it could possibly happen considering our background and beliefs.We are all crushed. We've worked so hard on this album—to have something of this nature destroy it is absolutely devastating. For the many of you who know us, you're aware that we are sincere and honest with ourselves and with the world. Tau Cross was an outlet for us to experience the love and passion we all have, while staying true to our beliefs and ideals. It is truly beyond comprehension to see it take this very unexpected turn.With that, we want to extent our love and appreciation to Relapse Records and all our friends and family who have supported us. With love and light,Michel, Andy, Jon and Tom
On Monday, July 1st, the four of us received a very concerning e-mail from Relapse stating that they will not be releasing our upcoming album and severing all ties to any previous work. To say that we were blindsided by this news is an understatement.
During initial production of the album, we were asked individually to provide our thanks list, which for us consisted of family and friends.
Now, the four of us were informed that Rob Miller has submitted a thank you to a notorious right-wing author who none of us are familiar with. We promptly researched this author's history and we are adamantly against anything relating to this kind of ugliness. We've been vigilant in our attempts to get answers as to why this has happened and, frankly, how it could possibly happen considering our background and beliefs.
We are all crushed. We've worked so hard on this album—to have something of this nature destroy it is absolutely devastating. For the many of you who know us, you're aware that we are sincere and honest with ourselves and with the world. Tau Cross was an outlet for us to experience the love and passion we all have, while staying true to our beliefs and ideals. It is truly beyond comprehension to see it take this very unexpected turn.
With that, we want to extent our love and appreciation to Relapse Records and all our friends and family who have supported us.
With love and light,
Michel, Andy, Jon and Tom
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 4 July 2019 00:48 (four years ago) link
Really the only hope is if he actually meant to thank Gerard Way and Yehudi Menuhin
But rly people on Twitter are saying the dude was into some conspiracy theory/"deep state" paranoia bullshit... sigh. What a fucking waste.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 4 July 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link
The best song on the last record was "Deep State." I wondered abut the lyrics - just as I have seen some people say that this revelation is causing them to look at some of the latter-period Amebix lyrics in a different light.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 4 July 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link
Just listened to the forthcoming albums from FALSE and Falls of Rauros back-to-back. They come out within a week of each other later this month. Gilead Media is killing it for these two albums alone.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 4 July 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
The Tau Cross Facebook page no longer exists, but before it disappeared, Rob Miller posted this statement:
I would like to second the sentiments of the other members of Tau Cross, i do owe them an apology for not explaining my lines of enquiry or the people who have influenced my view so dramatically over the past few years,they are not in any way to blame for anything i have written or read,and i understand the need to distance themselves from that subject.i wish them all the very best in their futures and treasure the times we have shared together. The book ‘tell the truth and shame the devil’ by Gerard Menuhin is available on Amazon and Kindle,and also in good reads, where it gets a consistent 4.5 stars out of 5,so not exactly obscure or unavailable, unless you live in Germany where it is forbidden to engage in any conversation on some of the matters contained within those pages.There are a number of people languishing in Prisons over there for expressing even a slight academic interest in the matter, so effectively all discussion is shut down and we live in a state of what can only be described as Religious obedience. it is a Religion,and anyone approaching the matter is in danger of being charged with heresy and publicly executed, so you can feel free to examine yourself and see if you believe this is a good thing or not.As a singer in a band i have always been serious about the Truth, trying to refine the material and ideas to some kind of overarching theory, i cannot simply skim the material,i have to go into it and prepare to be changed by that journey. that has happened on a number of occasions, through reading Menuhins book,through John Lash and his work,through 9/11 research,through the Europa-the last battle video series that is constantly popping up and being pushed back down on youtube.If I stop asking questions I stop being true to myself,so i have no choice. For 99 percent of people they have already made up their mind about me based on the words of another man written in a book they have never read, and that is enough to make a judgement,so on you go,join in the feeding frenzy of virtue signalling and outrage if you like but i stand by my endorsement of this book as it was such an important part of this journey, this is not to say that i like the Author as a person or even know that much more about him,the book is primarily a collection of quotes and original source materials, a book to study and not for salacious gossip. Others will see what is real in this situation and what is not.Messengers of deception is probably our best album to date, it continues the enquiry and refines it through the lens of the Gnostic heresy and what that really was,why it had to be completely eradicated and what that means for our World today, the irony of having released a single about the inquisition and the suppression of speech should not be lost on anyone. Love and Light to all who want it, Rob Miller–Tau Cross…over and out.
There are a number of people languishing in Prisons over there for expressing even a slight academic interest in the matter, so effectively all discussion is shut down and we live in a state of what can only be described as Religious obedience. it is a Religion,and anyone approaching the matter is in danger of being charged with heresy and publicly executed, so you can feel free to examine yourself and see if you believe this is a good thing or not.
As a singer in a band i have always been serious about the Truth, trying to refine the material and ideas to some kind of overarching theory, i cannot simply skim the material,i have to go into it and prepare to be changed by that journey. that has happened on a number of occasions, through reading Menuhins book,through John Lash and his work,through 9/11 research,through the Europa-the last battle video series that is constantly popping up and being pushed back down on youtube.
If I stop asking questions I stop being true to myself,so i have no choice. For 99 percent of people they have already made up their mind about me based on the words of another man written in a book they have never read, and that is enough to make a judgement,so on you go,join in the feeding frenzy of virtue signalling and outrage if you like but i stand by my endorsement of this book as it was such an important part of this journey, this is not to say that i like the Author as a person or even know that much more about him,the book is primarily a collection of quotes and original source materials, a book to study and not for salacious gossip. Others will see what is real in this situation and what is not.
Messengers of deception is probably our best album to date, it continues the enquiry and refines it through the lens of the Gnostic heresy and what that really was,why it had to be completely eradicated and what that means for our World today, the irony of having released a single about the inquisition and the suppression of speech should not be lost on anyone. Love and Light to all who want it, Rob Miller–Tau Cross…over and out.
The presence of the magic phrase "virtue signaling" should be more than enough warning to anyone that Miller has vanished down the rabbit hole, but the citation of the Europa - The Last Battle videos (which you can find on Vimeo if you like) really settles it for good. The dude is dangerously deluded.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 4 July 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
"As a singer in a band i have always been serious about the Truth."
I'm not sure what definition of "truth" involves Holocaust denialism, but it's not the definition I'm familiar with.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 4 July 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
You have already heard the official history millions of times. This new epic documentary gives an overview of how Europe has been shaped in modern history. In it, you will find the secret history, where you will find the real causes of the events....It presents the true historical events that lead to this world catastrophe known as the second world war, as well as the aftermath. Do be forewarned though, your worldview will never be the same. THE TRUTH FEARS NO INVESTIGATION.
Gee, I wonder where this is going.
― jmm, Thursday, 4 July 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
I tried watching the video but as soon as he said "Karl Marx, whose real name was Moses Mordecai Marx Levy" (hint: THIS IS A LIE), I bailed out.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 4 July 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
lol this shit is always unspeakably stupid in addition to everything else.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 4 July 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
Just listened to the forthcoming albums from FALSE
oh man i have been waiting for this for four years, i played the shit out of their last one
first track sounds great already
https://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/portent
― j., Thursday, 4 July 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
"Karl Marx, whose real name was Moses Mordecai Marx Levy"
jesus christ that is so fucking stupid
― Simon H., Thursday, 4 July 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Anyone ever fuck with Reveal from Sweden? I've been listening to Flystrips from 2016 a lot lately, it's quite an obnoxious combination of black metal and noise rock n punk.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 5 July 2019 12:28 (four years ago) link
I really struggle with overtly punk or hardcore-imbued metal, alas. BM/noise rock is up my alley though.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 July 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
it definitely errs more on the noise rock side tbh
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 5 July 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
Rob Miller speaks!
You Kids are in a Prison, one that you created and you maintain. One that you build onto year by year and yet never see. It maintains itself through the characters you represent, both the guards and the snitches, monitoring and judging every detail of your fellow inmates, telling tales and spreading gossip. i cannot be a part of that.No walls, no guard, no wire no yard, we are the perfect Prisoner.You have created a hierarchy of victimhood, desperately scrambling for status on a ladder of the imaginary oppressed, nice kids from nice homes still trying to fight against evil mummy and daddy, the people who gave you everything, and who you turned your backs on. You live vicariously through a compromised media, themselves terrified of uttering an inappropriate phrase or idea, furiously signalling their own virtues through self censorship and speech regulation. Your movies sell you the same stories, with an increasingly complex mixing of archetypes, until there are no real stories of any value left, and still you consume.The worst thing is that you see yourselves as rebels of some kind, anti system warriors against the vague “Patriarchy”. You ARE the system, you are the useful idiots that keep the cogs turning, you are the Prison guards, glued to your screens on the Worldwide Panopticon. You are the Beast i despise, and the whole reason i have spent my life seeking answers, immersing myself in the forbidden, the occult, the Taboo, the places where there are still clues to how we got here, and how we can get back out.You People set the dogs on me, you threw me under that bus without a moments hesitation, and that shows your true nature, the imaginary friends of the Internet, the curtain twitchers and tittle tattlers, the town hall gossips and Intenational knitting circle. You are not people i would want on my side in any kind of struggle.To the very few men and women who have reached out on their own initiative, i salute you, we are Brothers and Sisters, a crazy family who may disagree fundamentally with what one another has to say ,or the opinions we hold ,but we will fiercely defend their right to do so. and that is the difference between the Prisoner and the Free man, the winnowing and separation of the wheat from the chaff, some of you passed the test and many did not.I have made a decision about Tau Cross. It is a band that i created and nurtured on my own for one and a half years, in the bitter disappointments of the Amebix break up, i wrote all the original material and retain the band as my own intellectual property, to do with as i wish.I am releasing Michel Langevin from Tau Cross, he should not be associated with this band in any manner in future, apart from the material that he has contributed, which has always been remarkable, and i have thought of him as a dear friend. however, the association with this Stigma is something people must choose or lose.Andy Lefton is released with immediate effect, he has managed to embody the twin roles of Victim and Judas on far more occasions now than were strictly necessary, and we share nothing in common anymore, philosophically or ethically.The remaining members will probably leave of their own accord and are encouraged to do so should they feel pressured, but there is a welcome place her for anyone brave enough to stay.i will continue this band, even if it becomes a sad one man and a dog cassette making venture, it has never been about fame or money, it is about the journey for truth, the places that takes us and the need to remain true to ourselves. i feel this episode has demonstrated something of primary importance, and these words from the song are both prophetic and illuminating.So you seek the truth, embrace her while you maywalk into the Fire, you and i shall never diewe become the Flame, Burn with Me.Rob Miller- Tau Cross- July 2019
No walls, no guard, no wire no yard, we are the perfect Prisoner.
You have created a hierarchy of victimhood, desperately scrambling for status on a ladder of the imaginary oppressed, nice kids from nice homes still trying to fight against evil mummy and daddy, the people who gave you everything, and who you turned your backs on. You live vicariously through a compromised media, themselves terrified of uttering an inappropriate phrase or idea, furiously signalling their own virtues through self censorship and speech regulation. Your movies sell you the same stories, with an increasingly complex mixing of archetypes, until there are no real stories of any value left, and still you consume.
The worst thing is that you see yourselves as rebels of some kind, anti system warriors against the vague “Patriarchy”. You ARE the system, you are the useful idiots that keep the cogs turning, you are the Prison guards, glued to your screens on the Worldwide Panopticon. You are the Beast i despise, and the whole reason i have spent my life seeking answers, immersing myself in the forbidden, the occult, the Taboo, the places where there are still clues to how we got here, and how we can get back out.
You People set the dogs on me, you threw me under that bus without a moments hesitation, and that shows your true nature, the imaginary friends of the Internet, the curtain twitchers and tittle tattlers, the town hall gossips and Intenational knitting circle. You are not people i would want on my side in any kind of struggle.
To the very few men and women who have reached out on their own initiative, i salute you, we are Brothers and Sisters, a crazy family who may disagree fundamentally with what one another has to say ,or the opinions we hold ,but we will fiercely defend their right to do so. and that is the difference between the Prisoner and the Free man, the winnowing and separation of the wheat from the chaff, some of you passed the test and many did not.
I have made a decision about Tau Cross. It is a band that i created and nurtured on my own for one and a half years, in the bitter disappointments of the Amebix break up, i wrote all the original material and retain the band as my own intellectual property, to do with as i wish.
I am releasing Michel Langevin from Tau Cross, he should not be associated with this band in any manner in future, apart from the material that he has contributed, which has always been remarkable, and i have thought of him as a dear friend. however, the association with this Stigma is something people must choose or lose.
Andy Lefton is released with immediate effect, he has managed to embody the twin roles of Victim and Judas on far more occasions now than were strictly necessary, and we share nothing in common anymore, philosophically or ethically.
The remaining members will probably leave of their own accord and are encouraged to do so should they feel pressured, but there is a welcome place her for anyone brave enough to stay.i will continue this band, even if it becomes a sad one man and a dog cassette making venture, it has never been about fame or money, it is about the journey for truth, the places that takes us and the need to remain true to ourselves. i feel this episode has demonstrated something of primary importance, and these words from the song are both prophetic and illuminating.
So you seek the truth, embrace her while you maywalk into the Fire, you and i shall never diewe become the Flame, Burn with Me.
Rob Miller- Tau Cross- July 2019
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
sad lol
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
Creed's 'My Own Prison' played in my head as I read Miller's post. On par with the quality of his argumentation.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 July 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
As a singer in a band i have always been serious about the Truth
sure sure sure
― j., Saturday, 6 July 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
He said the Truth not the truth.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 July 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
His lyrics always sounded like he had it all figured out, even in the old Amebix days.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 6 July 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
Should anyone care, here are the 2019 metal LPs I've enjoyed the most so far, in alphabetical order and with highly approximate subgenre tags appended to each title:
Abyssic - High the Memory (symph death/doom)Andavald - Undir skyggðarhaldi (depressive/atmo black)Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them (drone/atmo sludge)Darkenhöld / Griffon - Atra Musica (medieval black/dark folk)Deus Mortem - Kosmocide* (black)Esoctrilihum - The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods (blackened death)Herxheim - Cultivating Throne of Fur (avant-death)Inculter - Fatal Visions (thrash)Inter Arma - Sulphur English (atmo sludge)Kvelgeyst - Alkahest (melo black)Maestus - Deliquesce (funeral doom)Misþyrming - Algleymi (black)Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I: War, Horrid War (atmo sludge/war)Ringarë - Under Pale Moon (atmo black)Sinners Bleed - Absolution (tech death)Skáphe & Wormlust - Kosmískur hryllingur (avant-black)Sunn O))) - Life Metal (drone)Superstition - The Anatomy of Unholy Transformation (death)Troll - Legend Master (epic doom)Ultra Silvam - The Spearwound Salvation (black)Veiled - In Blinding Presence (black)Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis (avant)
*fash warning (newsfash?)
― pomenitul, Monday, 8 July 2019 10:50 (four years ago) link
I need to check out Esoctrilihum, Troll and new Inter Arma. But right now I'm blasting my ears out with the new Abbath, party bm till death
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 8 July 2019 11:26 (four years ago) link
And I am listening to Turilli/Leone Rhapsody's Zero Gravity (Rebirth and Evolution) because I am still a total mark for all Rhapsody (of Fire)-related foolishness.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 8 July 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the shopping list, Pom!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 8 July 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
Some melodic stoner-psych that might appeal to Elder fans:
https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/orbis-majora
― o. nate, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
I'd sort of given up trying to keep pace with Iron Bonehead because they put out SO MUCH STUFF but now I feel dumb, as this Celestial Grave thing is completely massive. Album probably could've been twice as long, so mesmerizing are the songs -- which sort of have that howling wind vibe that comes with a lot of the Icelandic stuff (though these are Finns), coupled with a more human, melodic approach that occasionally reminds me of Mgla. And best of all for my interests, each of the four songs has a long, LONG crescendo that can propel you over treetops. Just tremendous.https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/celestial-grave-secular-flesh
― Devilock, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
Fans of the Cascadian bm style would undoubtedly dig it too. Lots of soaring tremolo leads to induce bucolic reveries. Haha.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
Got the new Destruction (they're a quartet now and it sounds typically excellent) and the new Devourment (haven't listened to it yet) today.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
This'll keep me occupied at work today... Picked up the limited @DarkFuneral box set from @worldofmusic for less than $60 including shipping! pic.twitter.com/IzFcSRaIVc— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) July 11, 2019
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 11 July 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
No surprise, the new Opeth track makes me very happy.
https://youtu.be/yAh7XQ0whvg
― A. Begrand, Friday, 12 July 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
They've released the Swedish version simultaneously, of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImegHhTVudI
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 12 July 2019 10:03 (four years ago) link
So the new Cleric's been out since February and no one, LJ included, is talking about it?
I'm only just catching up with Retrocausal, which is very good, although I'm averse to core-esque vocals.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 July 2019 11:33 (four years ago) link
Is that the one that's only available as part of a super-expensive John Zorn box set? Yeah, I haven't heard it and I suspect no one else in this thread has either.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 12 July 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
^this
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2019 13:19 (four years ago) link
Hmm… I didn't think that would be an obstacle…
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 July 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
Hmm - just saw Barnes and Noble has it on their website for 18 bux - may be worth getting it that way - I wanna hear it.
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 12 July 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
8 GBP and 10 USD for the mp3 version on Amazon.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 July 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, June 6, 2019 12:38 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
would like to second this. lj check this out btw
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 12 July 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
Ok!
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
Cleric thing is them playing Zorn's compositions - maybe it's essential maybe not, but it's not something I've been gasping to hear yet
― imago, Friday, 12 July 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
The Bergraven was cool but I kind of wanted them to drop the BM pretence and just stick to the prog.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 July 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
This came out at the start of this month.
http://havens.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-verge-of-collapse
One-man black metal project from here in Philly.Quite good if you like your black metal contemplative and ethereal.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 12 July 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
if you like Morbid Angel & early Death you're clearly some kind of rare weirdo who would enjoy this Infernal Conjuration album
http://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/infernal-conjuration-infernale-metallum-mortis
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 13 July 2019 11:34 (four years ago) link
new Falls of Rauros and Wormed releases are fantastic
― Simon H., Friday, 19 July 2019 07:13 (four years ago) link
Haven't heard those yet but the new Lingua Ignota and Tomb Mold fuckin' RULE, as expected.
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 July 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
jesus did those all come out today
― Simon H., Friday, 19 July 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
Lingua Ignota, finally!
― jmm, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
Opening track sounds like she's mixed together Wagner and NIN.
― jmm, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
Pretty fantastic on first listen.
― jmm, Friday, 19 July 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
It doesn't quite match the nigh unrelenting onslaught of All Bitches Die, as she gives herself more room for neo-medieval piano balladry, and its 66 minutes are harder to take in, but I know I'll keep coming back to it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 July 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
"Fragrant is My Many Flowered Crown" is about Midsommar even though that doesn't make chronological sense.
― jmm, Friday, 19 July 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
As with the last one, it's hard to imagine me listening to it much, but it strikes me on first listen as an amazing work of art.
― beard papa, Friday, 19 July 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
That the new Tomb Mold is gut-cleavingly good bears repeating.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 20 July 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
If nothing else they enjoy the greatest synergy of band name and sound of anyone in the game rn
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
Heh, that's true.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
Yeah i am enjoying tf out of it
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
Looking forward to this album based on the teaser track:
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cenotaph-of-defectuous-creation-2
― o. nate, Sunday, 21 July 2019 01:34 (four years ago) link
Listened to Tomb Mold at an obnoxious volume in the car yesterday while running errands. Really hit the spot.
― beard papa, Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
it's a good one!
that new Sempiternal Dusk sounds great. I love it when bands toss in a bit of disembowelment-style clean guitar.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
Lingua Ignota is amazing but I'm not sure the metal thread is the place for it?
― imago, Monday, 22 July 2019 08:48 (four years ago) link
True, but ILM discovered her via the 2017 metal thread and she's signed to Profound Lore.
― pomenitul, Monday, 22 July 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link
Fine. Well, it's amazing, and gets better with every listen
― imago, Monday, 22 July 2019 08:56 (four years ago) link
She clearly deserves her own thread, though, that's for sure.
― pomenitul, Monday, 22 July 2019 09:10 (four years ago) link
She deserves her own thread but she is metal enough for me.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 22 July 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
The Body, Full of Hell, and Uniform members are all on the new one too
― gman59, Monday, 22 July 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
Lmao at the revelation that the sequencing of the new Tomb Mold was inspired by the Blue Nile's Hats. Truly gunning for that metal poll #1
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 July 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
lmao of course
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
lol, this is a perfect instance of ‘thanks, I hate it’ from where I’m standing.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
I tried the Tomb Mold album and it did exactly nothing for me.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
I feel that way about the majority of hyped metal albums tbh.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
I still just think of them as local weirdos so the newfound coverage level feels odd
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 July 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
The Body were astonishing on Saturday night.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
I love the new Tomb Mold.I also interviewed them in my car.
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/files/2019/07/tomb-mold-interview.jpg?w=630&h=472&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/tomb-mold-interview-2019/
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 02:51 (four years ago) link
if you don't like Tomb Mold you probably don't like life and/or death metal
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
Life metal sucks
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 03:43 (four years ago) link
it's a Sunn 0))) album so that's self-evident
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 04:19 (four years ago) link
cosign
dis-sign
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 08:51 (four years ago) link
ayyy Crypt Sermon's got a new one coming
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-ruins-of-fading-light
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 25 July 2019 04:39 (four years ago) link
Cherubs signed to Relapse?!
https://cherubs.bandcamp.com/album/immaculada-high
"Sooey Pig" sounds great... kinda excited
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 25 July 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
Ceremony also signed to them. I'm interested to see how Relapse markets a band that's really more in the realm of Sub Pop, or their old label Matador.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Thursday, 25 July 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link
ahhhh new White Ward out v close to my birthday!!!
https://youtu.be/PXQnEfPRcVU
― Simon H., Friday, 26 July 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
Bohren and der Club of Gorecore
― Simon H., Friday, 26 July 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
cloud rat! are back!
https://cloudrat.bandcamp.com/
― Simon H., Monday, 29 July 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
love that white ward track
― adam, Monday, 29 July 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
― Simon H., Monday, July 29, 2019 8:49 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
at last
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 29 July 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
I like that WW track as well even if I miss some of the tinnier/goofier lo-fi aspects of the sound. the idea of them stretching out and doing a wild opus-length record is v appealing to me
― Simon H., Monday, 29 July 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
White Ward is the Black Metal / Smooth Jazz hybrid, right?
― Frederik B, Monday, 29 July 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
Yep, Taake meets Kenny G or whatever.
― pomenitul, Monday, 29 July 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
Yacht Metal.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 July 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
Blackgazey stuff is not usually my thing but the WW track sounds good, yeah.
― o. nate, Monday, 29 July 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
there's a new Deiquisitor album, highly recommended if you like threshing riffs and blastbeats
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 06:23 (four years ago) link
Sonata Arctica fans are pissed that the new tune is mid-tempo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiM94N3FnQA
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 10:32 (four years ago) link
The new Deiquisitor is good, yeah. Feels like a slight step up from the last one.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
https://nooneknowswhatthedeadthink.bandcamp.com/album/no-one-knows-what-the-dead-think
2/3 of discordance axis. no dave witte but still sounds pretty good
― adam, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
And from the looks of that Bandcamp page, they've also got vocal-less 'karaoke' tracks of the whole album (which in fairness is probably only 10 minutes tops, so they've got to fill it out a little).
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
they did the same think with the last gridlink record
needless to say: can't wait for whatever the fuck that is
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
I've heard it. It's great.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Negură Bunget's final lineup (minus the late Gabriel Mafa, who was the sole remaining member of the OM era) are back under a new name, Sur Austru. Folk outweighs metal here, even more so than on Tău and ZI, for which I have more fondness than I should, and everything comes across as by-the-numbers, but fuck it, I like this better than Syn Ze Șase Tri, so I might as well hear the rest when it comes out in September:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6NGk_PTZZI
The actual good news is that a new Dordeduh (featuring two OM-era Negură Bunget members) album is apparently in the works. Their debut, Dar de duh, is the best thing the Transylvanian BM constellation has produced aside from OM, so I've got high hopes for LP2.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
Yes it’s kind of a big mess with all these Negura Bunget offshoots but all these people consistently produce excellent music, at least if you’re not put off by the usual folky flutes.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
oh that Dordeduh news is very cool, thought they had just become Sunset in the 12th House
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
this tomb mold record had me from hello, they didn't need to win me over with the blue nile concept lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 August 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
Finnish BM that draws on the ravings of trance-preacher and cult leader Maria Åkerblom:
https://werewolfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ilmestykset
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 August 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
Also Finnish and trance-like, a one-man death/doom act that really hits the spot:
https://xtreemmusic.bandcamp.com/album/towards-nebulae
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 August 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
Oh, and a new Esoteric album (one hour and thirty-eight minutes, obviously) will drop in November.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 August 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
I've been immersed in the new Opeth album all week, and it is easily the best of their post-growly stuff. Massively heavy in that Purple/Heep sort of way, loads of jazzy excursions. Both the English and Swedish versions are cool, but the Swedish version is definitely the most cohesive seeing that there are Swedish interludes between tracks. That said, I have no complaints about the English lyrics. Oh, and "All Things Will Pass" has one of the best riffs I've ever heard Åkerfeldt write.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 1 August 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
I've pre-ordered a copy but apparently don't rate a super-advance promo anymore. Just looking at the crudeness of the translations of the lyrics, though, I could tell that the English version was effectively an afterthought, and that he put his heart into the Swedish version.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 1 August 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
Aaaaaaaaah @ new Esoteric!
― Simon H., Friday, 2 August 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
Mostly unrelated to 2019 (albeit not entirely), but I've been revisiting old school Swedish DM and am impressed with Dismember's consistency from album to album, whereas Entombed still don't do much for me beyond Left Hand Path, which I ultimately like less than Like an Ever Flowing Stream on account of the latter's superior songwriting. With a bit of luck Dismember's reunion will result in a proper release.
(Apologies to the OG buzzsaw/death 'n' roll crew.)
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
LHP and Clandestine are all the Entombed anyone needs.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 2 August 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I'll take Clandestine too.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
Wolverine Blues is amazing too
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 2 August 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
Clandestine is firmly in my top 5 metal albums. I think it's largely flawless. Saw them a couple of times on that tour, though (Gods of Grind, with Carcass and Cathedral and supporting Napalm Death at the Marquee) and they just couldn't quite match that crunch. Nicke Andersson still one of finest drummers I've seen live, tho.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 2 August 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
'Largely flawless' is an empty phrase. I'll go with 'it's fucking great'.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 2 August 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
Clandestine is definitely good but I'm not a huge fan of the vocals (or at least I wasn't when it came out and I haven't so far been able to shake off this feeling of disappointment).
Completely agree with pomenitul, Dismember is much more consistent for the first few albums. Unleashed too, actually.
There's something about that crunch indeed. It really hit the scene like a ton of bricks, it was a total game changer. Everything else, the Morrisound bands, even Napalm Death and Carcass, instantly sounded weak as piss. It certainly felt that way among the metalheads in my social circle and from what I've read and heard since we were definitely not alone. Bands like Bolt Thrower, Pestilence and Asphyx immediately had to (and by and large did) catch up soundwise.
― Siegbran, Friday, 2 August 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
So it's worth going beyond Where No Life Dwells. Noted.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
I feel like Grave doesn't get enough respect when the early Swedish scene is discussed. I like their old stuff a lot, and their comeback album, Back From The Grave, was great.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 2 August 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
Also noted.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah Unleashed all the way until Victory is more or less equally good. The whole viking thing makes it somewhat cheesy but the metal is strong.
― Siegbran, Friday, 2 August 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
Anybody going to Psycho Las Vegas Fri/Sat?
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 August 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
Oh we're talking Swe DM.
Like an Everflowing Stream is the best.
As is the first two Entombed.
And most Grave.
― Fuck Trump, cops, and the CBP (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 August 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
Speaking of Sweden, the finale to Mylingar's triptych of the dead (Döda vägar, Döda drömmar and now Döda själar) is as single-mindedly terrifying as the first two panels:
https://mylingar.bandcamp.com/album/d-da-sj-lar
― pomenitul, Saturday, 3 August 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
(Do take note if you like Thantifaxath or relish the idea of a Portal-ized early Anaal Nathrakh.)
― pomenitul, Saturday, 3 August 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
Along the same lines but exhibiting greater structural freedom, also on the heels of a 2018 highlight, I give you the unpronounceable HWWAUOCH:
https://hwwauoch.bandcamp.com
― pomenitul, Saturday, 3 August 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
With apologies for spamming, looks like a new Mgła is also underway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ryOwlXkP4
― pomenitul, Saturday, 3 August 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
There's a 4CD box set coming in October with remasters of Ulver's first 3 albums and their demo.
Tracklisting CD 1 (Vargnatt)1. I: Her begynner Mine Arr2. II: Tragediens Trone 3. III: Trollskogen4. IV: Ulverytternes Kamp5. V: Nattens Madrigal 6. VI: Vargnatt
Tracklisting CD 2 (Bergtatt) 1. Capitel I: I Troldskog faren vild [Led astray in the Forest darke] 2. Capitel II: Soelen gaaer bag Aase need [Betwixt cragges a descending Sunne]3. Capitel III: Graablick blev hun vaer [She senses Eyne of Grey] 4. Capitel IV: Een Stemme locker [A Voice Beckons Her] 5. Capitel V: Bergtatt – ind i Fjeldkamrene [Spellbound – Into the Mountaine]
Tracklisting CD 3 (Kveldssanger)1. I: Østenfor Sol og vestenfor Maane [East of the Sunne and West of the Moone]2. II: Ord [Wordes]3. III: Høifjeldsbillde [The Mountainetops]4. IV: Nattleite [Nighte Time]5. V: Kveldssang [Twilight Song] 6. VI: Naturmystikk [Naturall Mystick]7. VII: A Capella (Sielens Sang) [A Cappella (Song of the Soule)] 8. VIII: Hiertets Vee [The Heart's Woe] 9. IX: Klædt i Nattens farver [Cladde in Colours of the Nighte]10. X: Halling [Halling] 11. XI: Utreise [Exodus] 12. XII: Søfn-ør paa Alfers Lund [Drowsieness on Fairie Mound]13. XIII: Ulvsblakk [Wolfsgray]14. XIV: Synen
Tracklisting CD 4 (Nattens Madrigal)1. I2. II3. III4. IV5. V6. VI7. VII8. VIII
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 3 August 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
Nice!
― pomenitul, Saturday, 3 August 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
Ooooh
― Simon H., Saturday, 3 August 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
13. XIII: Ulvsblakk (Wolfsgray)
Missed an opportunity for “Wolfsgraye” there.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 3 August 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
The Dayton shooter was in a pornogrind band. I can't wait for the Fox News Channel's thoughts on pornogrind. I CAN'T WAIT.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 5 August 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
I don’t want to know what this “pornogrind” is. I could find out in a second. But my wilful ignorance is problematic, you know the old “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing” saying. Well who’s fighting pornogrind on 8ch* ? https://t.co/mt2p6jzVq3— Sol 🇬🇧 (@SolWpolski) August 5, 2019
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
Germany-based Cock and Ball Torture,
― j., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
Speaking of which, did we ever get to the bottom of that crossbow-wielding German medieval sex cult?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
Terrible month for grindcore, first Rob Miller now this.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
I like this. It is good:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2019/08/08/an-ncs-premiere-weeping-sores-scars-whispering-secret-tongues/
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 August 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
ooh yeah that is nice
Debemur Morti posted the new Blut Aus Nord on Bandcamp but there are no streaming tracks. This is an uh interesting blurb
Hallucinogen begins a new era for BLUT AUS NORD, ending the cycle of clandestine industrialised dissonance that culminated with previous transmission Deus Salutis Meae and moving skyward into freshly melodic territories of progressive clarity.
Interweaving dreamlike choirs, inimitable harmonic developments, reflective clean guitars, palpable organic drumming and a welcome rock and roll swagger, Hallucinogen is a spacious, emotionally wide-ranging record that finds BLUT AUS NORD more open than ever, full of life and revelling in the element of surprise.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 8 August 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
a welcome rock and roll swagger
Hmmm…
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 August 2019 09:17 (four years ago) link
stoked
― imago, Friday, 9 August 2019 09:25 (four years ago) link
The new Slipknot album is really, really good.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 9 August 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
.@suicidalangels Years of Aggression(@NoiseArtRecords)Hellenic thrash reeking in authenticity from Ed Repka art to the dive-bomb solos to the harmonized, ragged riffs. The title implies a best of record but more impressively, it sounds like it too. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/0m8thWKgRw— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) August 9, 2019
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 9 August 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
Everything about this is just so fucking moronic and edgelord-y.
https://www.discogs.com/Gestapo-666-Satanic-Shariah/release/13517132
And to think these dumbfucks got started in 2000 – they're no longer in their teens.
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 August 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
Yeah, if my real name was Cyril I'd change it to k.NkTU too.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 9 August 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
"A Rape in the Name of Peace"
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 August 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
saddest thing about that band (other than everything else) is that Noktu is the guy from the once-excellent Celestia and Mortifera and Willy from Mutiilation was an early member. Now Satanic Warmaster dude's a member which is unsurprising.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 9 August 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
Noktu also runs the Drakkar label of course.
But yeah this designed-to-offend approach is not very in touch anymore with modern sensibilities. It all goes in cycles, Venom and Slayer were incredibly offensive at the time with authorities banning shows and many an oldschool metalhead loudly proclaiming they'd never support such outrageous bands, then this period where nobody really got offended even by stuff like Impaled Nazarene or Beherit and shock rockers like Marilyn Manson and Rammstein could become legit superstars, and now the cultural pendulum has swung firmly back to where this attitude is beyond the pale.
― Siegbran, Friday, 9 August 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
btw Suicidal Angels are an absolutely fantastic band with not one ounce of originality.
― Siegbran, Friday, 9 August 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
The new Destruction album is out today and it's really good. They've added a second guitar player — like Motörhead, they're meant to be a trio, but they work as a quartet.
There's also a new Pathology album out today, so if you like knuckle-walking death metal as much as I do... [everyone else in the thread looks away in embarrassment]
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 9 August 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
But yeah this designed-to-offend approach is not very in touch anymore with modern sensibilities.
Maybe I was too young at the time to really pay attention but the shock rock superstars of the 90s weren't overt fascists. Then again, when you're in a band called Gestapo 666 and you put out an album titled Satanic Shariah, it's fair to wonder whether it's just post-post-post-adolescent trolling. I wouldn't be surprised to discover they pulled that combination of words from an outdated algorithm.
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 August 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
Slayer were considered by many metalheads as too fascist in the 80s (Angel of Death etc) and Rammsteins whole imagery, well...
The cultural sensitivities in the 80s were mainly around Christianity, nuclear war, anarchism etc and that has shifted to other areas, and so have the shock-rockers.
― Siegbran, Friday, 9 August 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
Were it not for Phil and Brad, I would never have given the new Slipknot a minute of my time. It's one hell of a bold album.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 9 August 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
I had the first Gestapo 666 album at one point and it's as weak musically as you'd expect btw
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 10 August 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
my initial thought on the new Immortal Bird was "not as good as the debut" but now I'm not so sure. they seem to be fairly unique in injecting a level of emotion (and concision!) into the blackened death racket
― Simon H., Monday, 12 August 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
question to pomenitul: what is your thinking about fascist/racist metal? you posted a link above to FÖRGJORD which is on Satanic Warmaster's label and Lauri (SW) is a member of Gestapo 666, who you condemn. i have no moral high ground as i listen to bad metal and noise/PE. i'm just curious where the line is for you and others on this board.
― Yelploaf, Monday, 12 August 2019 04:13 (four years ago) link
A fair question. We briefly discussed it upthread in relation to Deus Mortem and Deathspell Omega, but I don't think I've ever 'formalized' my stance.
I hadn't made the connection between Förgjord and Gestapo 666 as I know very little about the former (or Satanic Warmaster, for that matter). I usually draw the line (i.e. 'I won't be returning to this') at hate speech that targets specific communities (unless it's a mere mise en scène of evil or an assault on organized religion of any kind, in which case I don't care), but the fash needs to be audible in the music itself. That said, there are plenty of notable exceptions, such as the Vikernes-penned, race-baiting 'Over fjell og gjennom torner' from Transilvanian Hunger, an album that is routinely praised as one of the best ever by ILM metalheads. As a general rule, however, I a) won't pay for anything made by a demonstrably neo-nazi contemporary metal musician, even if their political beliefs don't explicitly seep into their records; b) will invariably think less of the music they make, even if it happens to be superlative (to my mind, there is a clear barrier between politics and aesthetics, but that doesn't mean it isn't shot through with holes).
When the (racist) lyrics are easy to make out and in a language I understand, I'm also likelier to feel disgust, Peste Noire and Nécropole being two prime examples. Like Siegbran said, the timeline matters, as well. I wasn't into metal in the late 90s but I probably wouldn't have given much of a fuck back then, not least because I was too young and edgy to care about politics, but also because white supremacy seemed like less of a pressing problem in my neck of the woods. It's also just easier to tune out that dross when it comes from a bygone era as one can safely (albeit not infallibly) assume that most of it was provocative posturing.
Anyway, re: Förgjord, if a band puts out an ostensibly 'unobjectionable' record on a label run by a notorious neo-nazi, I don't have enough of a bone to pick with the band itself, but I won't give them a cent, either.
― pomenitul, Monday, 12 August 2019 08:13 (four years ago) link
Speaking of which (?), new Mayhem dropping in October, Daemon.
― pomenitul, Monday, 12 August 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
i appreciate your thoughtful response, pomenitul. yours is a good policy to have when it comes to material support of questionable artists, though it's difficult to know where blanket hatred/misanthropy ends and a targeted philosophy begins. i guess bands like Gestapo 666 make it clear but most don't. i own several Satanic Warmaster CDs and can't glean from the lyrics or art anything that would set its politics apart from, say, Morbid Angel or Slayer. a friend of mine is involved in the Finnish BM scene and says that some of those guys' race attitudes which are, let's say, regressive, are not informed by any direct contact with 'others.' so much of it is posturing and it's probably a waste of time to parse it beyond what it purports to be. that said, the english lyric sheet with the recent Nécropole album is unambiguous in its anti-semitism and disappointing as i love it musically.
― Yelploaf, Monday, 12 August 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Is there a link to anything more about the Pr0f0und L0re dude? I keep seeing vague allegations and insinuations pop up on Twitter and in other corners, but I'm not sure I've ever fully understood what was going on there. It's just surprising that Lingua Ingnota would work with the label if there was a lot there, genuinely curious.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 12 August 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
I don’t think there have been any accusations against the label head himself, it’s just that he works with and supports Craig Pillard, who’s a Nazi, and Jef Whitehead, who’s a woman-beating piece of shit, so theoretically, you could find a better label to associate yourself with.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 12 August 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
Okay, I knew about those two, didn't know if there was more. I thought he had finally, albeit way too late to matter much, cut ties with Pillard though.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 12 August 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
I have now heard the new Opeth album. It's definitely the heaviest of the "prog Opeth" records, but it's not in any way a return to death metal, sorry saddos. It kinda reminds me of present-day Uriah Heep at times, though, which is a very good thing (if you haven't heard the last 3-4 Heep albums, you're missing out). Also, fair warning, there's one track with scat singing at the end.
I haven't listened to the English-language version yet, btw, only the Swedish one (which is the one Åkerfeldt prefers).
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link
It's quickly become my favourite of Opeth's albums from this decade.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
Yeah, after one listen I'd rank them In Cauda Venenum > Pale Communion > Sorceress > Heritage. (I like them all, of course.)
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
Well now I'm suitably excited for the Opeth.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
I haven't listened to any of their albums post-Blackwater Park, so this should be interesting.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
Tomb Mold just killed it at Psycho Las Vegas. Sweet young kids withban oppressive sound.
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 August 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
Good goddamn death metal from California
https://reek-of-putrescine.bandcamp.com/album/the-one-reborn
Avowedly antifascist as well.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 08:10 (four years ago) link
a friend of mine is involved in the Finnish BM scene and says that some of those guys' race attitudes which are, let's say, regressive, are not informed by any direct contact with 'others.'
was just in helsinki and stopped into a BM shop (kvlt) and I was 100% expecting them to stock some sketchy records from the minimal research I had done beforehand but was def taken back by the very open display of swastika, anti-islam, etc. patches lovingly arranged next to a large finnish flag. pretty much right in your face when you walk into a tiny shop. charming!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
lol at the tasteful (black) patio furniture in front of nazi hot topic:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpbS9_TXgAAXvJX.jpg
― adam, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
Much of Eastern Europe (and Finland, an ex-Russian Grand Duchy, sort of counts) takes 'both-siding' to the next level: due to the pervasive influence communist Russia has exerted on its neighbours throughout much of the 20th century, there's a tendency not only to argue that fascism was ultimately just as bad but also, more often than not, to argue that it has something positive to teach us. Putin's Russia is on board with it as well, provided it remains an expression of 'patriotism'. Given how ethnically and culturally homogenous Finland is (and American 14 worders speak of it with infinite longing), there's unfortunately nothing surprising about this.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
Profound Lore update: They've just released the new Diocletian album. Diocletian's main dude is a hardcore racist and general piece of shit.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
Kinda like emperor Diocletian
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
Metal moodz unto fathomless infinity:
https://orisonwrethe.bandcamp.com
― pomenitul, Sunday, 25 August 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
Courtesy of the Dutch BM scene that spawned Turia, Iskandr, Nusquama, etc.:
https://amorfatiproductions.bandcamp.com/album/imperial-cult-spasm-of-light
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
There's a new Facelift Deformation album, Cybernetic Organism Atrocities, out this week. They've got a live drummer now!
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1131995627_10.jpg
https://realityfaderecords.bandcamp.com/album/cybernetic-organism-atrocities
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 31 August 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
I like the Witch Vomit
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Saturday, 31 August 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
It's fucking great.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 31 August 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
Even the new Entombed AD is fun
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Saturday, 31 August 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
The new Sacred Reich is good but the Witch Vomit is the only thing i want to listen to.
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 September 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
Also gott good call on the Putrescine
Are the left/right guitars being out of tune an aesthetic choice?
Doesn't matter. It rocks
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 September 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
Also I like the new Cerebral Rot. The rhythm guitar isn't exactly setting the world on fire, but the leads are reverb drenched nightmares that feel like they are played by the Loch Ness Monster
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 September 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
the true vintage here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSwI4PUuTZk&fbclid=IwAR1cutCp1kbyC6XoBFsQpdCK4M6bDekq7LQ9pgyqGUbBDw9AqYAO4MlPHjM
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 2 September 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
let's try that again
https://youtu.be/VSwI4PUuTZk
Adding to the Cerebral Rot praise. My metal AOTY. Particularly love the vocal approach. Spare, buried, reverbed to hell and phasing at times. They hit my reptile brain deeper than say Blood Incantation or Tomb Mold who tend to pack in too many riffs per song than I can handle. Man, from Portland up to Vancouver/Victoria, the PNW has an incredible metal scene.
― Yelploaf, Monday, 2 September 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
Also love that new Holocausto track though heads up to the unaware - the recent reissue of the 30 year old debut, "Campo de Extermínio", might suggest ongoing nazi sympathies.
― Yelploaf, Monday, 2 September 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
I had to look it up to make sure that wasn't just a crass joke
― Simon H., Monday, 2 September 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
xp Due to general subject matter or is there something else?
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 September 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
Metal-Archives.com says "In the beginning of their career, they incorporated a Nazi aesthetic, though they only did that in order to shock people (much like Sepultura, Escola Alemã, and others)." Oh, OK then. Boys will be boys, right? Though I gotta say I don't remember Sepultura's Nazi phase.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 2 September 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
Oh, OK then. Boys will be boys, right?
― Simon H., Monday, 2 September 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
Not at all meant as a joke. Check the insert from the OG press of the album. https://www.discogs.com/Holocausto-Campo-De-Exterm%C3%ADnio/release/5838017
― Yelploaf, Monday, 2 September 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
Lovely.
― Simon H., Monday, 2 September 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
yikes. only ever had a cd that didn't feature that unpleasantness.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 September 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
the lyrics on that record are explicitly anti-nazi. metal had a lot of "expose the brutality of this shit world" philosophy going on back then, which imo eventually attracted people who reveled in said shiftiness.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
Speaking of which, stoked to pirate the new Mgla record
― Simon H., Tuesday, 3 September 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
I mean like here's the song "III Reich":
O CAMPO MENOR SE ENCONTRA EM CHAMASDE FOGO E DESTRUIÇÃONA FORRE DE VIGIASENTINELAS DEIXAM METRALHADORAS DESGUARNECIDASAS SIRENES GRITAM ALTOANUNCIANDO MAIS UM BOMBARDEIOO CHÃO ESTREMECE PELAS ATIRADASCAUSANDO DOR NO CEREBROAWSCHWITZ, CONCENTRAÇÃO DA MORTECREMATÓRIOS, ALIMENTAM-SE DE JUDEUSIII REICH, O MAIOR DOS MASSACRESHITLER, FUHRER DO IMPÉRIO NAZISTAIII REICH
which google translate gives as:
THE LOWER FIELD IS IN FLAMESFIRE AND DESTRUCTIONON THE WATCHSIGNALS LEAVE MACHINERY MISSEDSIRENS CRY HIGHANNOUNCING ONE MORE BOMBARDMENTCAUSING PAIN IN BRAINAWSCHWITZ, DEATH CONCENTRATIONCREMATORIES, FEED FROM JEWSIII REICH, THE GREATEST MASSACREHITLER, FUHRER OF THE NAZI EMPIREIII REICH
this is basic-issue thrash "these are the horrors of war" stuff. it's a fair q to ask "why are you so fascinated by nazi shit?" but Holocausto's response, back when they were new, was exactly the "documenting the horrors of war" standard-issue post-Slayer thing which, while not exactly the most intellectually persuasive argument of all time, doesn't automatically read as "they're literal nazis" for me.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
(also, finally, per Allmusic: "[Campo de Extermínio's CD reissue in 2003 added the bonus track "Massacre," from the Lost Tapes of Cogumelo compilation, and boasted a prominent front cover disclaimer attempting to renounce any anti-Semitic intentions once and for all.]"
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
Fair enough. Dumbasses > Nazis.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 01:59 (four years ago) link
ok so they were Slayer-worshipping tryhards
kind of a relief
speaking of thrash dumbassery, a while back I picked up the Schizo (ITA) demo collection and discovered several versions of a song called Nazi and Proud. they dropped it from their set by the time of their first album but jesus fucking christ
https://i.imgur.com/zJL666w.jpg?1
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 09:34 (four years ago) link
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Saturday, August 31, 2019 9:48 AM (three days ago)
yeah this is alright
― j., Wednesday, 4 September 2019 02:44 (four years ago) link
New Esoteric album in November. Double CD, six tracks, 98 minutes.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
Mentioned it upthread. HOW DARE YOU steal my funereal thunder.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
the 28-minute opener is supposed to be streaming here but I can't get it to work :/
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/esoteric-share-27-minute-new-single-descent/
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 September 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QjXtrQKf88
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
simultaneously, holy shit at this song and lmao at the hilariously literal cover art
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
Hilariously literal cover art has a grand tradition in metal!
― Siegbran, Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Liturgy keeps on Liturgy'in (which is fine by me)
https://liturgy.bandcamp.com/track/god-of-love
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 September 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
new Cloud Rat is solid, not up to anything new I don't think but that's also fine by me
― Simon H., Friday, 6 September 2019 04:47 (four years ago) link
Get the CD version, Simon. It comes with a bonus EP of very atypical stuff from the band - a few reverb-soaked acoustic songs and the rest have post-punk synths. I love the record as well.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 6 September 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
― Simon H., Friday, 6 September 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
how did I miss the Noisem from earlier this year? seems more crossover/grindy than their old death/thrash stuff. lotsa blast beats.
love it
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Saturday, 7 September 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
As far as Bands That Should (Perhaps) Remain Unmentioned are concerned, I daresay the new Mgła is as good as Exercises in Futility.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 7 September 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
And since blackened doom is less common than I'd like, the new Mizmor definitely deserves to be mentioned itt:
https://mizmor.bandcamp.com/album/cairn
― pomenitul, Saturday, 7 September 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
xxp yeah i like the noisem a lot more than their previous one. they lost a lotta personnel so they are now leaner.
― j., Saturday, 7 September 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
new Serpent Columnas usual mixing bewildering chaotic black metal with stretches of surprisingly eloquent melody.
https://serpentcolumn.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-in-darkness
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 9 September 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
Yeah this is excellent.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 11:11 (four years ago) link
Right now if you go to Amazon digital music and search for King Diamond there is a song from last Friday titled "In Your Pants" with the single having a cover featuring a picture of pants.
And it's just some computer boice saying something about pants backwards for three minutes over an electronic beat.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
Also hells yes: https://loudwire.com/mercyful-fate-2020-reunion-new-songs/
A wee bit disappointed that Denner won't be back but I will take what I can get.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
Crusty BM (or crusty anything, really) leaves me cold but it's hard to argue with Arnaut Pavle:
https://arnautpavle.bandcamp.com
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:14 (four years ago) link
Many thanks for the Serpent Column recommendation, immediately grabbed every release
― Brakhage, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
And since blackened doom is less common than I'd like, the new Mizmor definitely deserves to be mentioned itt
This is hitting the funeral/black doom spot really nicely
― Simon H., Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
There's an Atlantean Kodex album??
― jmm, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
it's hard to argue with Arnaut Pavle:
wow this is vicious!love it
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
fuckin A that Cattle Decapitation tune kicks fucking ass
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
guys do not miss Lingua Ignota if you can help it
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 September 2019 06:26 (four years ago) link
Xoth! Xoth! Xoooooth!
https://xoth.bandcamp.com/album/interdimensional-invocations
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 September 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
Metal Blade is reissuing all four of Anacrusis's albums, the first two two weeks from now and the next two in November.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 13 September 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
nice
remastered but not brickwalled one hopes
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 September 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
Anacrusis!!! That's exciting.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 13 September 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
Another new Howls of Ebb related project
https://golgotrise.bandcamp.com/releases
He only plays drums on this but it's not a million miles from HoE or Herxheim, slightly more standard primitive black metal vibes but jesus that guitar tone sounds like his amp is full of pus.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 September 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
hard to argue with the title "Carrion (My Leprous Son)" imo
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 September 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
"Carrion (My Leprous Son)"
Sold.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
Get yr microtonal guitar licks and kicks right here:
https://kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/hr-za-zv-t-z
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Its maker speaketh:
I know that every band has caught onto Deathspell Omega’s influence on extreme metal and that almost everyone right now is pushing to coax more chaos, more dissonance out of the genre. If I am moving in that direction as well, and I want to be remembered in ten years’ time, there has to be something truly remarkable about my methods. To that end, I believe I have mostly succeeded.
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2019/09/06/full-album-premiere-kostnateni-hruza-zvitezi/
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
New Crypt Sermon is p badass
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 September 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
Yeah it's good! Singer's got one of my favorite voices in doom.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 September 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
Was gonna say, he's amazing. He's kinda Robert Lowe-ish
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 September 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
Yes this Mgla does nothing new vs the five previous Mgla/KMS albums and clearly if you’re not on board now you never will be but man is there any metal band around with a better drummer?
― Siegbran, Sunday, 15 September 2019 13:19 (four years ago) link
If there is one, I have no idea who it might be.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 15 September 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
I mean this dude must be a dream to play off as a guitarist, you can just cycle through some random arpeggios, sit back and watch the fireworks.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 15 September 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
Here's a foretaste of the upcoming Blut aus Nord LP:
https://www.loudersound.com/features/blut-aus-nord-debut-trippy-new-track-taken-from-their-forthcoming-album-hallucinogen
― pomenitul, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
30 seconds in: he's heard the Wastement lads raise the game and responded
― imago, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
Whole way in: this is very cool, if not quite Cosmosophy
― imago, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
Nobody seems to be talking about the glorious new Atlantean Kodex album, but then again it's Manowar style epic metal, not black metal. C'est la guerre. Still, underrated as they are it's so great to have that band back after too many years away.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
I couldn't make it through a single track, and you know I like that style sometimes, certainly more than other folks hereabouts, but I may have just been in a bad mood that day.
In weird membership-switch news, Fred Leclercq, formerly of DragonForce, is now playing bass for...Kreator.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
I couldn't make it through a single track, and you know I like that style sometimes
Likewise.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 07:38 (four years ago) link
I own a couple of atlantean kodex albums but haven't heard the latest yet
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
I assume theyve dropped the doom and gone full on epic metal?
Pretty much.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Holy shit @ the Weeping Sores LP. Not disappointed in the least.
Mournfully melodic death/doom with an almost improvisatory streak and a judicious dosage of violin-led passages for maximum pathos. Doug Moore of Pyrrhon is the axeman. My jam.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 19 September 2019 12:49 (four years ago) link
I haven't heard any of Cult of Luna's previous albums but A Dawn to Fear is incredible. I liked Fear Inoculum well enough, but this one does a better job of justifying its sheer length.
― pomenitul, Friday, 20 September 2019 09:45 (four years ago) link
New White Ward (the Kenny G of Ukrainian blackgaze) just came out as well.
― pomenitul, Friday, 20 September 2019 09:47 (four years ago) link
Weeping Sores album indeed excellent!
Looking forward to digging into CoL and my beloved White Ward.
― Simon H., Friday, 20 September 2019 10:23 (four years ago) link
someone needs to reissue the first Fleshcrawl album it's fucking great
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 20 September 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
Loving the Cloud Rat album so much. My favorite yet.
― gman59, Friday, 20 September 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Catching up to stuff I missed this year and my favorite so far is Finland's Pyöveli - No Speed Limits. Pure thrash with excellent cardboard drums and dubbed out fills. Extremely groovy bass and that pissed, exasperated vocal approach that I love from Slayer and Possessed and, if I can stretch, Judge and Cro-Mags. It's only available on cassette from Portland's Headsplit which will deter many but it's a perfect album for the format.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUZa9dPF-EY
― Told Yahoo of the snub (Yelploaf), Friday, 20 September 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
Blut aus Nord's face turn sounds pretty damn good on first flush
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 20 September 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
The collaboration they did with Julie Christmas, "Mariner", is well worth checking out. Enjoying this so far, too.
― beard papa, Friday, 20 September 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
listening to the new Exhorder
man, the similarities between Anselmo and Kyle's voices have only strengthened....
well except Kyle sounds better
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 21 September 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
though three songs in, it's not exactly ripping my face off.
it sounds like they're....trying to be Pantera?
so in a sense, ripping...themselves off.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 21 September 2019 04:06 (four years ago) link
yeah, this is a snooze fest
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 21 September 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
Misthyrming dude turns out to be a moron, haven't heard the new one but reviews are mixed. I don't consider these moronic opinions "fuck your music, then" stupid but they're...stupid. maybe he's like 16 years old? otherwise...dude.
http://www.bardomethodology.com/articles/2019/05/22/misthyrming-interview/
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 21 September 2019 06:35 (four years ago) link
The Misþyrming is really good. And if dude's got edgy, juvenile opinions, that just seems like par for the course? It also sounds like he himself is depressed (shockah!) and has latched on to Petersonian twaddle as a way of dragging himself out the ditch.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 21 September 2019 08:18 (four years ago) link
if a band appears in Bardo Methodology they're probably going to say at least one incredibly stupid edgy thing, that site is the barely thinking man's death metal dot org
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 21 September 2019 08:28 (four years ago) link
that said the excerpt of the Blasphemy interview is a mixture of scary and hilarious. if they had been born ten-fifteen years later they probably would've been a beatdown hardcore band.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 21 September 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link
Canadian black metal skinheads BLASPHEMY
Uh, really?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 21 September 2019 11:27 (four years ago) link
Never mind, my knowledge of skinheads is lacking.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 21 September 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
missed that ilm faves wizard rifle put out a third album this summer
https://wizardrifle.bandcamp.com/album/wizard-rifle
― j., Saturday, 21 September 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
Enjoyed the new Atlantean Kodex album, doesn't sound much different to the earlier albums, its still mid-paced epic doom mixed with epic metal and thankfully not high on cheese.
Fills the spot While Heaven Wept used to until they dumped the doom and embraced full on cheese. (and by god that last album was utter shit)
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 22 September 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
New coffins hit the spot tonight as always.
weeping sores sounded good until the cookie monster started so off it went
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 22 September 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
White Ward was good and the Cult Of Luna was quite superb.
xp lol how you gonna 'cookie monster' weeping sores and then listen to coffins
― j., Sunday, 22 September 2019 02:23 (four years ago) link
the vox are different enough and tolerable
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 22 September 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
C is for cookieDas good enough for me
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 September 2019 03:56 (four years ago) link
don't suppose anyone knows what's up w/ this:
we found out the hard way but never again 🥵— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) September 23, 2019
(that's Riley from Power Trip)
― alpine static, Monday, 23 September 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
It's about Psycho Las Vegas.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 23 September 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
Get yr microtonal guitar licks and kicks right here:https://kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/hr-za-zv-t-z
Liked this a lot.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 00:39 (four years ago) link
xp no, i know that. i'm curious what's driving his tweet and the one he's replying to.
i suppose i could just ask him.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 05:03 (four years ago) link
Re: Exhorder
I interviewed Killing Joke when they did Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions and I mentioned how Ministry was kind of an influence and Jaz spit back at me "Don't you mean the other way around?"
And he wasn't wrong of course, but I clarified that Ministry took the original KJ sound and then ramped it up and adding more metallic moments which is how that album KJ album sounded to me at that time. It's certainly not the first or last time that a band was influenced by someone and then took it back, so to speak.
Anyway, that's what Mourn the Southern Skies feels like: They influenced Pantera who accentuated some key facets of the originators and added their own touches, and now the comeback sounds more like Vulgar Display of Power than Slaughter in the Vatican. This isn't bad but Pantera baggage is sometimes heavier than the sledgehammer riffs these days... But I do like the record for the same reasons I liked Pantera 25 years ago for what it's worth.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 27 September 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
White WardLove Exchange Failure(@DebemurMorti)Loved 'Futility Report' but hesitated calling it jazz - it was black metal with horns. Sophomore release is improved all over: Deafheaven-like cascades of riffs, intricate progressiveness, and his time, real jazz. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/fkNrKL2ldM— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) September 26, 2019
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 27 September 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I kinda love the new White Ward as well. Sounds quite a lot like Lantlos ten years ago. Urban black metal, very good cover art as well.
― Frederik B, Friday, 27 September 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
The Neptune Power FederationMemoirs of a Rat Queen(@CruzDelSurMusic)Royalty abounds! The Aussie crew namechecks Queen in the title, vocalist Loz Sutch is a Priestess, and they have the audacity to mimic Brian May's crew at their glammiest. They will rock you. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/LH0DUNcaFU— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) September 27, 2019
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
white ward cover art is incredible, can't wait to hear it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
looks like total bradcore
― j., Friday, 27 September 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
That Neptune Power Federation album is great! "I'll Make a Man Out of You" is giant.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 27 September 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
.... white ward aoty
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 27 September 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
total brad
― j., Friday, 27 September 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
deafheaven is an interesting point of comparison with the white ward record bc, like them, it will be totally accessible to people who don't listen to extreme metal. i think that's awesome bc the music is incredible anyway
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 27 September 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
you've just killed any chance of smiffy liking it now
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 27 September 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
eh i would not say the nonstandard instrumentation has anything to do with jazz—more like a bit of throwback to pre-rock nightclub soul/r&b/cabaret music, in more or less the same slot that any black metal band puts its signifiers of soulfulness. bit of piano, bit of saxamaphone is all.
― j., Saturday, 28 September 2019 01:44 (four years ago) link
edward hopper soundtrack kinda shit
― j., Saturday, 28 September 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
just from the brief descriptions itt i was really hoping for wild slides into a albert ayler spiritual disunity sort of thing but this is still good
― j., Saturday, 28 September 2019 01:47 (four years ago) link
new car bomb is a monstrous, melodic rollercoaster designed pretty much exclusively for me
― imago, Monday, 30 September 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
Um...
INFIDEL REICH are something of a cross-continental supergroup, featuring ACHERON founder Vincent Crowley on vocals, early ASPHYX guitarist Tony Brookhuis, prolific drummer Bob Bagchus (ex-Asphyx, Soulburn, Grand Supreme Blood Court etc), and one McNasty on bass. The band released their first recording, the self-titled Infidel Reich EP, in 2017 through HELTER SKELTER, proving that old dogs don’t learn new tricks – because there’s no trickery involved in the INFIDEL REICH!And prove that they do with their crushing and cantankerous debut album, Reichenstein: an utterly devastating 41 minutes of true “Working-Class Death Metal” victory! A true sum of their all-too-considerable parts, INFIDEL REICH sonically hearken back to the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, influenced as they are by the death metal, punk, and thrash of that era. Mighty names invoked include Carnivore, Venom, Motörhead, Celtic Frost, and S.O.D., but Reichenstein exudes its own unique charm – with the force of a steel-toed boot.But, let it be known that INFIDEL REICH does not endorse any political, religious, or racial agendas. “We are the voices of reason and truth,” they confidently declare. More pointedly, this band of metal veterans is the enemy of all extremist groups who are trying to take away “The People's” freedom of speech, expression, and self-defense. Political correctness must be put to an end! Time has become to balance the scales, and that’s where Reichenstein confidently strides forward.Indeed, INFIDEL REICH represent all people who dare to question authority and the status quo. Their aim is to use Reichenstein as an album to promote the freedom of speech and artistic expression, protesting against radical extremists, pride of individuality and the band’s disgust for media manipulation. If their REICH’s membership wasn’t significant enough, the track “Hymn to Victory” features a cavalcade of supreme guest vocalists, including Mike Browning (Nocturnus AD), Kam Lee (Massacre), Dave Ingram (Benediction), Wannes Gubbels (Pentacle), Aad Kloosterwaard (Sinister), Stephan Gebedi (Thanatos), Scott Reigel (Brutality), Tomas Stench (Morbosidad), and Rai Wollers. Beware, for the gang’s all here, and Reichenstein draws near!
And prove that they do with their crushing and cantankerous debut album, Reichenstein: an utterly devastating 41 minutes of true “Working-Class Death Metal” victory! A true sum of their all-too-considerable parts, INFIDEL REICH sonically hearken back to the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, influenced as they are by the death metal, punk, and thrash of that era. Mighty names invoked include Carnivore, Venom, Motörhead, Celtic Frost, and S.O.D., but Reichenstein exudes its own unique charm – with the force of a steel-toed boot.
But, let it be known that INFIDEL REICH does not endorse any political, religious, or racial agendas. “We are the voices of reason and truth,” they confidently declare. More pointedly, this band of metal veterans is the enemy of all extremist groups who are trying to take away “The People's” freedom of speech, expression, and self-defense. Political correctness must be put to an end! Time has become to balance the scales, and that’s where Reichenstein confidently strides forward.
Indeed, INFIDEL REICH represent all people who dare to question authority and the status quo. Their aim is to use Reichenstein as an album to promote the freedom of speech and artistic expression, protesting against radical extremists, pride of individuality and the band’s disgust for media manipulation. If their REICH’s membership wasn’t significant enough, the track “Hymn to Victory” features a cavalcade of supreme guest vocalists, including Mike Browning (Nocturnus AD), Kam Lee (Massacre), Dave Ingram (Benediction), Wannes Gubbels (Pentacle), Aad Kloosterwaard (Sinister), Stephan Gebedi (Thanatos), Scott Reigel (Brutality), Tomas Stench (Morbosidad), and Rai Wollers. Beware, for the gang’s all here, and Reichenstein draws near!
So they're against "political correctness" and "media manipulation" and claim to be "the voices of reason and truth" but they have no political agenda. Got it.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
nothing more exciting than the toothless provocations of a bunch of old farts who really oughta know better
"Infidel Reich" ffs
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
Yeah, no political or religious agenda in that combination of words. No, sir.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
I used to be friends with Vincent Crowley back in Columbus. Used to give him discounts at the record store I worked at and purchased music from him to sell in the store.
When I moved away, I saw how his Facebook page started filling up with total derp. One exchange I recall was when he posted how he saw a black family buying ribs and other expensive food using their EBT card, acting like entitled jerks, the usual bullshit. We went back and forth about how EBT fraud is rare, more white people are on it. I doubt I said he was full of shit and never saw that but inside I thought that was likely.
Anyway, he unfriended me not long after that, claiming "I have been banned several times from people that are offended or don’t like what I post. I just deleted some of the people from the past that haven’t liked what I put up. That is the only reason I deleted you." I never reported him. This was in 2013. Haven't heard from him since.
So based on my personal experience, Crowley is quick to take up right wing talking points and will cut off anyone who takes him to task for the more odious among them.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
Sucks that Bagchus had a hand in The Rack, which I fucking love.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
Yeah he was Asphyx' drummer forever back to the demo days (and Tony was their guitarist back then). Was kinda hoping they were just along for the ride but their interview with Decibel has him parroting standard metal-dad right wing horseshit.
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2019/07/01/bob-bagchus-vincent-crowley-infidel-reich/
They admit that the name is just a cheap attempt to "trigger" people. I'm guessing anyone who points out that that's tiresome and lame as shit will be smirkingly described as "triggered."
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
I asked for lyrics. Wondering how apolitical a song called "Gunzilla's Stand" will be.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
Asphyx actually improved when Baghus left, Stefan Hüskens is a much better drummer but yeah he was still part of some of the best music in metal history, but then again so was Mustaine & countless others.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
Kudos to the Decibel editors for putting these Vincent Crowley quotes right next to each other:
“Gunzilla’s Stand” is just a tongue-in-cheek title (since this album had a monster-type title) that is basically my views on gun rights for citizens. Laws are different in Holland, but I think we all agree every stable human being should be able to be armed and have the ability to defend themselves if needed.And “Nuclear Showdowns” is self-explanatory. Are you talking about the East-West Cold War confrontation or the always-imminent threat of thermonuclear war between Nation A and Nation B?Vincent Crowley: The song explains the stupidity of how nuclear-armed countries always try to out-number each other with nuclear weapons. It is very much like little kids fighting over “My Dad can beat your Dad up!” You can say it is very anti-nukes. Get the wrong asshole behind the button and this whole fucking planet could be wiped clean.
And “Nuclear Showdowns” is self-explanatory. Are you talking about the East-West Cold War confrontation or the always-imminent threat of thermonuclear war between Nation A and Nation B?Vincent Crowley: The song explains the stupidity of how nuclear-armed countries always try to out-number each other with nuclear weapons. It is very much like little kids fighting over “My Dad can beat your Dad up!” You can say it is very anti-nukes. Get the wrong asshole behind the button and this whole fucking planet could be wiped clean.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
Remind me of every tedious asshole at shows that I've had a beer with only to walk away hastily after they talk for two minutes.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
deafheaven is an interesting point of comparison with the white ward record bc, like them, it will be totally accessible to people who don't listen to extreme metal. i think that's awesome bc the music is incredible anyway― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, September 27, 2019 4:25 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglinkyou've just killed any chance of smiffy liking it now― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, September 27, 2019 7:25 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, September 27, 2019 4:25 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, September 27, 2019 7:25 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
correct
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
lol sorry!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
i may have overstated that quality tbf, i was mostly determined to make tim f listen to it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
it's cool I get less of my hate on lately just because there's so much shit squarely in my zone to enjoy
new Nightfell utterly kicking my ass
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
ok yeah that's hitting the spot
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
I've been listening to the new DragonForce album. I find them completely ridiculous, and their lyrics are nightmarish, but I have a permanent bias because they were some of the nicest dudes I ever worked with at Roadrunner (Herman can be dickish, but the others were all either friendly beer-swilling yahoos or wide-eyed, joyful man-children). Anyway, there's a song on the new album called "Cosmic Power of the Infinite Shred Machine," and at the halfway mark it goes into this completely insane synth-rock breakdown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7wt-3KPD48?t=210
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
I liked the Nightfell record enough to buy a hard copy, very worth it
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
This White Ward record is really good. It's an obscure reference but it reminds me of the first Cradle of Filth record, which I still love. It's something to do with the vocal phrasing.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
Are you guys desperate to turn everyone off it to keep them to yourselves?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
― Simon H., Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
It’s a fun gimmick and worth a listen or two.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
Hahaha. I love that first CoF record, what can I say. Of Mist and Midnight Skies gives me goosebumps (and, on reflection, sounds fuck all luck White Ward).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtf7lBTg_J4
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
So White Ward is a combination of Cradle of Filth and Deafheaven? Got it. ;)
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
The CoF debut is great, “Vempire” probably even more so. The rest is hot garbage, including the demos.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
That night they came and took her away from meI lost the woman I lovedAnd I learned how to curse and to spit in the face of their Jesus fucking CHRIIIIIIIIIST!
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
Still waiting for my copy to get here, but I'm loving the new Exhumed cover and I'm hearing really great things about them bringing back in more of the grind sound this time. Feel like they've been on a pretty good run since All Guts, No Glory.
http://relapse.com/exhumed-horror/_assets/img/ex_jewelcase_750.jpg
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
Pre-orders for the second Sunn O))) album of 2019, Pyroclasts, went live today on the Southern Lord store, but they're only offering the various vinyl options, not the CD. So I decided to buy the fancy Japanese mini-LP sleeves of this one and Life Metal from Inoxia, where I get all my Japanese Sunn stuff (I also bought Kannon and Terrestrials, the Ulver collaboration, from them - 2CD sets in both cases).
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I was disappointed they didn't have a CD option. They didn't initially with Life Metal either though, but it eventually showed up. Failing that, I might have to go that route. How expensive is the shipping for that stuff?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
Six bucks. The whole order was a little under $60.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
Cool, thanks. Asking because I was also eyeing the CD version of that new Boris 2CD thing that so far is only out on vinyl from Third Man.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
bring back the plague
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBy4gn8VBMo
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 October 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
New Dysrhythmia is streaming. Sounds really great so far. Saw them live a few months ago with Cleric and it was the best I've ever seen em.
https://www.popmatters.com/dysrhythmia-terminal-threshold-stream-2640821619.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
― gman59, Thursday, 3 October 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
the new Cattle Decapitation songs are stunning
for anyone for a weakness for melodeath, the new Eternal Storm record is sounding *excellent*
― Simon H., Friday, 4 October 2019 06:39 (four years ago) link
Was just about to say!
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 08:05 (four years ago) link
A new Bölzer EP will be out before the year's through. Here's the first single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPwmdr5nbfM
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
Cattle Decapitation and Atheist are coming soon to a place within walking distance. Never really been a fan, but the new song is great. Are they good live?
― beard papa, Friday, 4 October 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
YES. Saw CD on a bill with Suffocation, Krisiun, and Visceral Disgorge last year and they were definitely the highlight.
― methanietanner, Friday, 4 October 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
that Bolzer track sounds good as heck
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 October 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link
ready to admit idg the big deal about Gatecreeper
― Simon H., Saturday, 5 October 2019 05:05 (four years ago) link
I've never gotten the big deal about them
it's OSDM
there are way better OSDM bands but i guess what makes them special is they're on Relapse
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 October 2019 06:12 (four years ago) link
I liked them at first during my Swedish OSDM saturation phase but when I burnt out on it they didn't really make the cut.
I recall there being a newer band I discovered the same year as Gatecreeper whose name begins with an E who does it better but long forgot who.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 October 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
Gatecreeper makes groovy, very catchy death metal. What's not to like?
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 5 October 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
I don't get Gatecreeper either. They're very bland and generic.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 6 October 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
Listening to new Dysrhythmia. The shifting riffs are there and the band sounds tight as hell per usual, yet it's not grabbing my attention the way The Veil of Control...hmmm maybe my tastes shifted a bit :/
― the cretin hits the cast (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 6 October 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
Gatecreeper ist gut.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 6 October 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link
The new Exhumed is really hitting the spot.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 6 October 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
Yeah, i enjoyed it.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 October 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
I'm gonna pull a Brad here and say that, at first pass, the new Blood Incantation is metal aoty.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link
i love to see it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
Saw Blood Incantation last night with Immolation and they absolutely ripped. Listened to the new album while driving to the venue and they execute it flawlessly live.
― Yelploaf, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
what is this new album like? describe it in such a way as to emphasise its merits
― imago, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
Is it officially out yet?
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
It's out 11/22 but the pre-order came with mp3s.
― Yelploaf, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Oh cool.
Still upset i missed that show
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
what is this new album like?
Fluctuating forms. Leitmotivic riffs. Phenomenal drumming. Bouts of arabesque doom and babbling post-rock. TREPANATION.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 10 October 2019 09:36 (four years ago) link
you have secured my intrigue
― imago, Thursday, 10 October 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
arabesque doom and babbling post-rock.
What lj said!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 10 October 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
Metal aoty may be stretching it a little but it's still very much worth everyone's time.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 10 October 2019 11:25 (four years ago) link
Arabesque doom is a great descriptor! Both guitars are hard panned and each play mostly different parts in a sludgy SCG/Richard Bishop style that line up in wild ways. I also can't think of another modern DM band that rips so many pinch harmonics. Another huge plus is that the whole thing is just 36 minutes long (with the last song running half that). If I could identify 2 touchstones for this album I'd say Death 'Human' and Vektor 'Terminal Redux.'
― Yelploaf, Thursday, 10 October 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
!!
― jmm, Thursday, 10 October 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
Well now I'm even more excited! Did you pre-order it through bandcamp or the label's site to get the mp3s? I'm not sure I want to wait another month and a half.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 October 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
Ordered the LP from the Dark Descent bandcamp though I'd already received the files from a friend. I'd be happy to Wetransfer to you (though I don't want to run afoul of anyone here who'd object, though I suspect most everyone here buys music and merch).
― Yelploaf, Thursday, 10 October 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
If you're gonna make an 18-minute song, "Awakening from the Dream of Existence to the Multidimensional Nature of Our Reality (Mirror of the Soul)" is a good name for it.
― Simon H., Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
I wish more metal bands took their cues from the likes of Graham Hancock, Robert Anton Wilson, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gene Wolfe etc.
― Yelploaf, Thursday, 10 October 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
finally getting around to this year's Soen album and goddamn that is some great mid-period Opeth worship
― Simon H., Thursday, 10 October 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
... does Darkspace even exist anymore? After they abruptly emptied their website and stopped their tour half way last year?
Anyway, they just won 15,000 Swiss francs (just like a hobo player and two other musical acts) in their hometown Bern: https://www.derbund.ch/bern/stadt/berner-musikpreis-fuer-mysterioese-metalband/story/19130003Let's hope that pays for album III II in the next couple of years.
― StanM, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
iirc the blut aus nord comes out today and i've heard only wonderful things
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 11 October 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
i saw oranssi pazuzu and insect ark last night! didn't realize it was the first night of their tour
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
Ohhh how was it?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 11 October 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
Insect Ark's set was very much my cup of tea (super heavy/slow/repetitive/simple) until maybe 2/3 of the way through it seemed like something stopped working. I didn't realize at the time that it was their first show of the tour and I think there were just some cord/tech issues. The guitar made a weird popping noise a couple times. Nothing too distracting/end of the world. The new drummer (guy from Subrosa) seemed chill and ready to do his job. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot.
Oranssi Pazuzu spoke 0 words during their set and were very very very loud, also enjoyable. The one song I could recognize was Lahja and it was their last song before an encore. They played for about an hour? Maybe 70 min. The sound was kind of muddy (there's a lot going on) and my friend told me they had brought their own engineer, so I bet it could sound better in a different space.
tl;dr - Overall, enjoyed it and would recommend to anyone who likes these bands.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 11 October 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
Drugs, it's definitely them. This album is a bit of s shift from everything they've been doing. Moments of full on thrash and Death like guitar moments. I saw them live the other night and there were even moments that could be described as "danceable" almost. They joke about it. New album is great though but a bit of a shift for sure.
― gman59, Saturday, 12 October 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
What kind of degenerate shits at a show? (In the men’s room, not, like, on the floor. But STILL.)
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 13 October 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
I went to the Amon Amarth/Arch Enemy/At The Gates/Grand Magus show tonight. The gulf in showbiz-ness between AA and AE and the other two bands was stunning. And yet, I was most excited to see Grand Magus’s five-song, 25-minute set. I’ve been a fan for over a decade, and this was their first ever US tour. I bought a shirt.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 13 October 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
xp people with intestinal issues? i guess you could call us "degenerates" if you're feeling extra dickish
― blows with the wind donors (crüt), Sunday, 13 October 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Hell i've done it. When nature calls, what are ya supposed to do?
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 13 October 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
just take a bottle of VIPoo with you
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 13 October 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
Is Prostitute Disfigurement the most cretinous of the 40 something inveterate edgelord bands? Given their song titles and lyrics, it's definitely up there.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 October 2019 10:22 (four years ago) link
They’re a good example of a band whom I’m not interested in knowing anything about beyond great riffs and blah blah incomprehensible serial killer growling.
― beard papa, Monday, 14 October 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
Counter-Gregorian BM from Montreal done exactly right:
https://ossuaire.bandcamp.com/album/derniers-chants
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 11:01 (four years ago) link
― Simon H., Tuesday, 15 October 2019 12:08 (four years ago) link
Next year's Decibel Metal & Beer Fest is a great lineup of classic bands paired with new bands that sound classic.I hope to attend it again!
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/EG7zwVwW4AA1SJX?format=jpg&name=large
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Would much rather see Napalm Death play an all Smear Campaign/Time Waits For No Slave/Utilitarian set, but that's probably just me.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
Agree with unperson on the Napalm Death set, but that's a pretty killer lineup.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
Even though it was ultimately disappointing Harmony Corruption was a big deal at the time (I think their first US release?) but I haven't even thought of Utopia Banished in thirty years.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
I guess in a way maybe it's more interesting to play overlooked and nearly forgotten albums for this type of show instead of the tried and true.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
Utopia Banished is their best album!
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
Looks like Pessimist is full MAGA.
Fuckers
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 01:13 (four years ago) link
My friend's fav band is ND and although he would probably prefer an album set like the one unperson suggested, he's positively ecstatic about this.
ND is though one of those bands that i prefer a traditional setlist from. But id still see this
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
Yeah I would see them play just about any of their albums.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
The show I saw the week after Trump was elected was my fav. Great setlist, and Barney was angry about DJT, and when one pro-Trumper protested everybody told him to stfu
Lotsa From Enslavement that night.
Plus humorously, "Twist the Knife (Slowly)", the first song of theirs i heard thanks to the MK soundtrack
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
haha wow now taht is an opening riff
― j., Thursday, 17 October 2019 04:49 (four years ago) link
XOOOOOOOOOTH!!!
― Simon H., Thursday, 17 October 2019 05:04 (four years ago) link
nominate your fave tracks of 2000-19 in the poll simon and I are doing. 3 years after the albums poll we are doing the tracks poll.
Get your fave tracks nominated
Lifetime of ILM 2000-19 Heavy Rock,Noise, Heavy Psych & Metal (or related) Poll Nominations (All welcome to participate) Noms close 23:59 November 8th
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Saturday, 19 October 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
that full Xoth album is up on bandcamp now and it's completely sick
― Simon H., Sunday, 20 October 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
The Xoth record is pretty awesome - a nice upgrade on 'invasion of the tentacube'
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
Anyone hear the new Botanist? The album comes out on 10/25 but I never received a promo on it.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 20 October 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
Turns out the abysmally named Fvneral Fvkk are excellent purveyors of doom.
― pomenitul, Monday, 21 October 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link
The new Teitanblood is fantastic. I feel like I just got hit by a truck, in the best way. https://teitanblood.bandcamp.com/album/the-baneful-choir
Also, great week for avant-garde metal, new Sunn new Botanist.
― gman59, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
Mayhem's latest album, Daemon, is out today, and it's fairly solid, more so than most of their post-De mysteriis dom Sathanas output, perhaps because parts of it consciously seek to approximate the debut's sound.
The real story, though, is Unaussprechlichen Kulten's Teufelbücher, which fucking decimates:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2019/10/14/an-ncs-album-premiere-and-a-review-unaussprechlichen-kulten-teufelsbucher/
As a side note, these guys are from Chile. I think it's my first time hearing metal from that part of the continent.
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 October 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
*Teufelsbücher
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 October 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
really? there was a cracking Chilean doom band a few years back that made the metal poll
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Friday, 25 October 2019 09:41 (four years ago) link
Yeah there's TONS of great Chilean rick
― hexágonos sin sabor por favor (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 October 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
rick astley is Chilean?
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Friday, 25 October 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
I'll look into it.
Oh yeah, and the new Alcest, Spiritual Instinct, is out today too. Reviews appear to be quite positive overall.
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 October 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
not metal exactly, but Föllakzoid make nice Chilean space rock
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Friday, 25 October 2019 09:45 (four years ago) link
They're a great band... in a Neu!/Hawkwind hybrid zone
There was a Pentagram from Chile and their demos are worth seeking out if you dig the death/thrash sound. Death Yell (lol) were another solid old school Chilean band.
Nar Mattaru, Slaughtbbath, Uttertomb, Invincible Force and Atomic Aggressor are all good to great modern metal bands from Chile.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 25 October 2019 10:15 (four years ago) link
oh and Ripper! One of the few modern thrash bands I rate.
Thanks, all. I'll check them out.
For now, Unaussprechlichen Kulten (unspeakable cults?) is really hitting the spot.
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 October 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
Condenados were great. (the band I was talking about above)
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Friday, 25 October 2019 11:01 (four years ago) link
I do enjoy the new Mayhem. It's pretty aggressive without purely just being a back to roots thing, still plenty of angular moments.
One of the riffs sounds like the Inspector Gadget.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 October 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
Cautiously optimistic about the new Mayhem, I was surprised to read the glowing and practically fawning 4.5 review at Angry Metal Guy, since they typically don't really love anything over there.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 25 October 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
Oh they love all kinds of stuff, like melo power prog and proggy power melo, preferably from the US.
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 October 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
Ha, yeah, I just meant more the final score. I can't tell you how many glowing reviews turn into a 3.0 rating, usually along with a complaint about DR scores.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 25 October 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
Mayhem’s post-De Mysteriis discography is really strong and varied, only Chimaera was a bit redundant. Quite looking forward to hearing the new one. Timely since I finally saw Lords Of Chaos which is much better that I feared but still feels like it was designed by committee.
― Siegbran, Friday, 25 October 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
Siegbran and everyone else you are needed Lifetime of ILM 2000-19 Heavy Rock,Noise, Heavy Psych, punk, emo, nu-metal & Metal (or related) Poll Nominations (All welcome to participate) Noms close 23:59 November 8th
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Friday, 25 October 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
Cool, I had completely missed that!
― Siegbran, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
well you have 2 weeks to nominate still but you want to add to the Spotify playlist early so that people will hear it
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
I'm an idiot; a bunch of those TONS of great Chilean bands I referred to are actually from Peru :(
I know Holydrug Couple are from Chile; they get lumped in w Follakzoid a lot. And this was one of my favorite albums from last year, as almost like a South American Daydream Nation
https://youtu.be/y0yQQNks6Kk
― the oxford book of chaos (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 25 October 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
first Forcefield release in forever:Voarm (black metal)https://voarm1.bandcamp.com/
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Friday, 25 October 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
More Chilean leads...
Chilean metal: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-chileanmetal.htmlChilean black metal: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-chileanblackmetal.html
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 25 October 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
New Sunn 0))) , Desert Sessions in the mail. Alcest didn't arrive. Now I find out the new Botanist came out today.
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Friday, 25 October 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
Am at the Oranssi Pazuzu show right now. They’re about to start. Ails blew me away.
― beard papa, Saturday, 26 October 2019 05:49 (four years ago) link
goddamn OP and Ails?! lucky
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 26 October 2019 05:57 (four years ago) link
New Vastum (Leila Abdul-Rauf's band) is very good, if you're into atmospherically-inclined death-doom.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 26 October 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
Pyroclasts is kind of boring compared to Life Metal, partly because Hildur Guðnadóttir's input is less audible.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 26 October 2019 10:39 (four years ago) link
Both Pyroclasts and Ecosystem have lived up to the hype for me. Been a good week for metal.
― gman59, Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
On follow up listens this is my fav Mayhem since Wolf Lair.
I doubt many Ordo fans will agree but it's just me
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 October 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
the new Alcest is superb. Best thing he's done in a decade
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Saturday, 26 October 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
Booked a room on the 70000 tons of metal cruise today.
Emperor and Candlemass already confirmed
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
tempted
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
the bars on our ship never close - you heard us, bars that never close!
― imago, Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
I'm not exactly teetotaling these days but I am pretty immune to the charms of the 24-hour bar at this point
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
Me too. Sadly not immune to Emperor tho.
Now book Mercyful Fate
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
I’m not a drinker, but on a cruise ship it’s nice not to have time restrictions on booze or fro-yo.
― beard papa, Sunday, 27 October 2019 04:09 (four years ago) link
Very much agreed. And so Alcest remains the gold standard for blackgaze.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 27 October 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
Anyone know what’s up with the NWN forum. It’s been down for a couple weeks, coincident with the Never Surrender Fest which raised some antifa awareness. Wondering if the two are related.
― Yelploaf, Monday, 28 October 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it seems like there's a connection there...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHgAcVkVUAIUkKO.png
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 28 October 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
Does anyone know if the Pyroclasts vinyl comes with a download code?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 October 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the info. I was really enjoying the thread about Indian metal over there. Hope it comes back with maybe a few less Nazis this time.
― Yelploaf, Monday, 28 October 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
You can order the vinyl from their Bandcamp page and get digital that way.
https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/pyroclasts
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 28 October 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
oh man the new Vastum is SO good
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
I haven't heard a note of Leprous's previous albums, but their latest is a) definitely-not-metal and b) squarely aimed at the The Voice crowd. What a waste of pipes.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
Is it that bad? I haven't checked in on Leprous since Coal and The Congregation, which I recall being pretty decent progressive metal.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
It's art rock with an overwhelmingly melodramatic slant. I have a high tolerance for the stuff but this was too much for me. YMMV, of course.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
I love Leprous, but I agree that they are precessing away from metal...
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:46 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
oh boy
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
anyone need some weird death/doom
https://pulverised.bandcamp.com/album/smoking-mirror
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
new Wilderun is a serious, major upgrade
― Simon H., Friday, 1 November 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
Omg the new Angel Witch is pretty inspired
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 November 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
It practically sounds like it came out in 82
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 November 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
I thought As Above, So Below was forgettable but this one has hooks everywhere
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 November 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
I liked the last one so looking forward to this
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Friday, 1 November 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
On second listen, this might make my year end list.
This is as good as the last three Satan albums
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 2 November 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
As far as trad doom goes, the new Orodruin is mighty fine. I should check out their first album.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 2 November 2019 10:00 (four years ago) link
This Vastum is my kind of death metal.
― o. nate, Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
Yeah it's really evil
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link
Dave Davidson from Revocation is an Anthony Braxton fan:
Went to the #BerlinJazzFestival last night and got to meet living legend Anthony Braxton. His performance was completely awe inspiring, truly one of the most forward thinking musicians and composers of our time #AnthonyBraxton pic.twitter.com/6UIcjuqhJK— David Davidson (@Dave_Revocation) November 4, 2019
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 4 November 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
Three new things I'm particular enjoying:
Finnish punk/rock/metal by IKINÄ: https://open.spotify.com/album/2UCiGRnp35IZR8ttel3RdX?si=VbVkUmqYQtS4MvRzqkWXvQHungarian symphonic power metal by Tales of Evening: https://open.spotify.com/album/7neSlMMIKmqeV7ZaGcJbLL?si=Ex4ZK-PAR9-ZBLmc1eUxGgA chaotic splatter of Norwegian solo-black-metal "albums" and EPs and whatever by Massemord: https://open.spotify.com/artist/018gIUaP08hROTOiVdiEQ3?si=NqADV275TDKOLBxezH6CEw
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
seeing Exhumed, Gatecreeper, Necrot tonight and I have just about zero gas left in the tank having gone to (and gotten drunk at) Slayer and King Diamond in the last four days. probably gonna just not drink, but really wanna see Necrot again, and Exhumed (don't really care about the rest).
album wise, digging the newest Angel Witch (like a fucking ton), Nile I haven't really played all the awy as I wasn't in the mood yet for it, the new November's Doom is sufficient bleak as well.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
― Simon H., Friday, November 1, 2019 1:50 AM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is sounding great
― imago, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
make that 'amazing'
― imago, Thursday, 7 November 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
happy new Esoteric day
― Simon H., Friday, 8 November 2019 06:32 (four years ago) link
There's a new King Diamond song and it rules:
https://youtu.be/im0l-QeHJw0
― Devilock, Friday, 8 November 2019 07:18 (four years ago) link
Yeah, liking this. How does his voice still sound so good?
― beard papa, Friday, 8 November 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
stopped smoking after his heart attack, I'd imagine. boots I heard from the 90s weren't as kind.
live he sounded ridiculous the other night. this was one of the songs he played.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 November 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
ridiculous as in bad?
― beard papa, Friday, 8 November 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
no, as in "unbelievably awesome for a 63 year old man"
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 November 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
He sounds great these days, the 3-tiered stage & the theatrics are pretty cool too.
― Siegbran, Friday, 8 November 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
New Esoteric sounds great on first listen. One hell of a dark trip.
― gman59, Saturday, 9 November 2019 08:06 (four years ago) link
really enjoyed it on headphones yesterday
― Brad C., Saturday, 9 November 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
It’s a lot to digest, but I’ve been enjoying it as well. I can’t tell if the first song is my favorite or if I just can’t absorb much more in one sitting.
― beard papa, Sunday, 10 November 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
listened to it all. would say good but not amazing, think i liked 'consuming lies' the best.
the wilderun, i must clarify, is one of the best prog-metal albums i've ever heard
― imago, Sunday, 10 November 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
the last track on the Esoteric is amazing
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 10 November 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
yeah that was good too. surprisingly major-key?
― imago, Sunday, 10 November 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
Unsurprisingly the Esoteric is sounding incredible so far. I listened to half of a Wilderun track and regret that I persisted past the two minute mark (sorry, lj).
― pomenitul, Sunday, 10 November 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
lol that recommendation certainly wasn't for you!
― imago, Sunday, 10 November 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
so uhhh, the 70000 tons of metal bookings have gotten a lil more lackluster, but still, there's 10 bands I'm interested in (Emperor, Ihsahn, Candlemass, Kampfar, Aborted, At the Gates, Origin, Devin Townsend, Venom, Flotsam and Jetsam), two, maybe three of whom are bucket listers.
the extreme metallers are whining (loudly and obnoxiously) that there's next to no death/grind and asking for some shit band (literally) called Gutalax, the power metallers are whining that there's no power metal, and I'm kinda wondering if I can tolerate four days on a boat with these guys. Buuuut, already made half the payments, sooo....
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 November 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
sometimes I wonder how I ever got into this scene considering how much most metalheads aggravate me (when I'm sober). but then I'm also an amateur actor and I hate actors.
Metal is mostly interesting (and got to where it is) because of the unhinged crazies that make up the scene, not despite them.
― Siegbran, Monday, 11 November 2019 08:37 (four years ago) link
https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/abbath-plays-disastrous-two-song-concert-in-buenos-aires-fans-request-refund/
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
Happy Birthday, Neanderthal!
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 14 November 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
I would push back on this a bit! It seems to me most of the good metal being made lately is by earnest and disciplined regular folks/enthusiasts, not unhinged outsiders or whatever. They might have taken some of their cues from the crazies, but these days most of the actual crazies are just tiresome and reactionary.
― Simon H., Thursday, 14 November 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
yep!
although when the crazies are really crazy, like Forgotten Spell, the results can still be great
― imago, Thursday, 14 November 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
I mean even ppl like the Jute Gyte guy are really just mildly eccentric nerds/bookworms
― Simon H., Thursday, 14 November 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
As far as I can tell, openly 'problematic' bands only make up a tiny percentage of my favourite metal this year. Not by design, mind you.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
Sanks buddy! Xxxxposts
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
At Electric Wizard/Midnight.
I have liked Midnight for a while but man they blew the roof off today.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 November 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
Orphaned Land, Suffocation, and Cattle Decapitation added to 70000Tons cruise
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 November 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
really enjoying the Casket Huffer album
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 November 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
Listening to the full Wilderun album in case I missed something and, sure enough, I did. LJ-purveyed rumours according to which this is 'not for pom' turned out to be greatly exaggerated. Based on the excerpt I initially heard, I expected straight-up folk metal from beginning to end (a subgenre I enjoy… when it's more than a mishmash of hearsay) but this is in fact esoteric fantasy symphonic prog metal, and It Is Good.
― pomenitul, Monday, 18 November 2019 10:06 (four years ago) link
Excellent! Incidentally, they did a Discord q&a yesterday and I got it out of Evan (the songwriter) that he thinks Tim Smith is probably the best living songwriter, so there
― imago, Monday, 18 November 2019 10:10 (four years ago) link
whoa
anyway I'm glad to hear you came around, it's one of my most-listened-to this year
― Simon H., Monday, 18 November 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
An hour flies by on the strength of the songwriting. It really is a user's guide on how to make prog metal not-boring
― imago, Monday, 18 November 2019 10:21 (four years ago) link
Btw next week's classical decade poll will feature Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, without which much of the music you worship would be unthinkable, lj, so you better vote! In exchange I'll stop postponing my intention to hear a Cardiacs record and dive into On Land and in the Sea forthwith.
You should vote too, Simon, as well as everyone else!
― pomenitul, Monday, 18 November 2019 10:22 (four years ago) link
I know jack shit about classical but I will use it as an opportunity to acquint myself better :)
― Simon H., Monday, 18 November 2019 10:26 (four years ago) link
*acquaint, not acquit lol
― Simon H., Monday, 18 November 2019 10:27 (four years ago) link
It sounds like a fantastic symphony. I'll check in
― imago, Monday, 18 November 2019 10:28 (four years ago) link
That's the spirit! The aim of these polls is neither exhaustiveness nor chichi-ness, it's just an excuse to listen and discover music you might like.
― pomenitul, Monday, 18 November 2019 10:28 (four years ago) link
Oh and as far as the current (1820s) poll is concerned, Beethoven's Missa solemnis and the Große Fuge in particular are your tickets to pre-prog bewilderment.
― pomenitul, Monday, 18 November 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link
A momentary change in subject, my apologies, but I'm extremely pleased to report that Multishiva is only getting better and better
https://multishiva.bandcamp.com/album/savup-iv
― the oxford book of chaos (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 18 November 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
I've never heard these guys but 'Total Fucking Dunkelheit' is an A+++ title.
― pomenitul, Monday, 18 November 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link
One last thing, re: the Wilderun album. Is this the first documented instance of T. S. Eliot metal?
― pomenitul, Monday, 18 November 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
*posts the Cats trailer again*
― imago, Monday, 18 November 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
Just listening to the Kampfar record that came out earlier this year - this is a band that I’ve always thought had a 10/10 classic in them someday, and this might not quite be that but it’s very good and probably the best thing they did in this millennium.
Highlight are the vocals, really well done mix of screams, chants, yells and some lady that sounds suspiciously like Fever Ray. It keeps things moody and dark mostly, but plenty of hooks, it’s an easy listen.
Also, how can you not enjoy a song with the chorus going “the rowers keep on rowing”?
― Siegbran, Monday, 18 November 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link
Acclaimed guitar virtuosos Rodrigo y Gabriela have unveiled a spectacular new version of the Metallica classic, “Battery,” which will be featured on the duo’s upcoming METTAL EP, due from ATO Records on Black Friday, November 29, as a one-sided 12” vinyl Record Store Day First release, limited to 2,500 and available only at independent record stores. Side 2 will have an art etching. This companion EP to their latest full-length, METTALVOLUTION, sees Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero paying tribute to the icons of thrash metal with three previously unreleased covers, shedding light on some of their favorite foundational songs. Along with “Battery,” METTAL EP includes stunning new versions of Megadeth’s “Holy War” and Slayer’s epic “Seasons In The Abyss.” All three tracks were produced and recorded by Sanchez in Oslo, Norway and finished at the duo’s own Lumbini Studio in Ixtapa, Zihuatenejo, Mexico. METTAL EP was mixed by Jim Monti (Slipknot, Metallica, KoRN) and then mastered by GRAMMY® Award-winner Ted Jensen (Bring Me The Horizon, Disturbed, Halestorm) at Sterling Sound, Nashville.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
maybe not everyone's taste here but i diggithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUL3-rXIATc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
iirc R&G famously went from playing in a metal band in mexico to doing cruise ship flamenco where they would work to camouflage metal tracks into the songs. then somehow they caught on big time in ireland and have been doing american arena shows for nearly a decade. it's a story!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
Yeah I dug Rodrigo y Gabriela the first time I saw them, but I kinda faded fast on being into them. That said, their new one from this year is surprisingly good. Definitely not metal in any sense of the word, but it has a side-length cover of Pink Floyd's "Echoes" that is really good.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
Indeed ulysses, Rodrigo y Gabriela were fucking massive here in Ireland for a while.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
y'all like intricate guitar!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
I admire what R&G do, but I don't really need to hear it. They seem like the kind of thing that does really well on YouTube, like one step removed from those "hot girl drummer covers Tool" videos, but somehow they managed to translate it into a full-fledged career. Good for them.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
i've seen them live maybe six times including in a couple of very small clubs and they're remarkably skilled guitarists and have amazing chemistry. they're really good musicians and composer/arrangers. i understand the impulse to shrug them off as a novelty act but the reason they've done so well for themselves and lasted as long as they have is because they're talented performers and spectacular live, not because they're doing acoustic megadeth.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure my favorite metal-related thing from this year that doesn't involve any women singing is the new envy song "A step in the morning glow".
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GORbtwX5guuohmSbr8NI3?si=EyU-cE5AQsqphq8s7CZqyQ
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
dudes
just checked out the Wilderun
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― alpine static, Thursday, 21 November 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
oh jesus he's speaking in tongues
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 November 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
the prog is in him
― imago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 03:18 (four years ago) link
Ok so here's some mildly blackened death featuring Greg Mackintosh of Paradise Lost which I just had to check out on account of their name, Strigoi (a kind of restless, malevolent revenant in Romanian mythology):
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2019/11/19/strigoi-abandon-all-faith/
The single, 'Phantoms' is a pure monster and now I need to hear Vallenfyre as well.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
Btw Siegbran, I very much enjoyed Ofidians Manifest, but like you said, as good as it is, I too like to think they have an even better album in store for us at some point in the near to distant future.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
increasingly convinced the new Cattle Decapitation is gonna be my metal AOTY
https://youtu.be/k3G2Iz8Vhd8
― Simon H., Friday, 22 November 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
Blood Incantation is heading for mine.
I hope the clean vocal breaks aren't as jarring on this one. I liked em on Monolith but sometimes on the last album it felt like they would just abruptly and awkwardly pivot to them (tho i like the alb).
Gonna see em on Tuesday, tho more excited for Atheist
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 November 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
the Bolzer EP is good
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 22 November 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
Travis's singing voice is kinda like Krang on Ninja Turtles now. it's weird how he produces that sound. I like it though.
wehre did all of the black metally riffs start coming from on the last three albums? not that I'm complaining cos I love BM but they just kinda...showed up.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 November 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link
Listening to the Blood Incantation for the first time now. (I didn't get a promo on it.) I like prog-death a lot, but this is not the kind of prog-death I like. Too muddy and doomy. Could have used some fretless bass à la Obscura. The Tangerine Dream-y bit in the long song is my favorite part.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 23 November 2019 00:55 (four years ago) link
"too muddy and doomy" as if such a thing were possible
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 23 November 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
jk but i don't hear that on this record
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 23 November 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
digging the new Obsequiae a lot
― gman59, Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Same. Then again, I'm easily entertained by medieval-esque metal.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
i'm actually loving this Alcest album, although I haven't cared much about anything post-Souvenirs and used to think they peaked with Le Secret.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
I haven't heard Le Secret but their latest is now my favourite after Souvenirs d'un autre monde.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 November 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
The Vitriol album that came out in September is surprisingly great. Technical yet brutal death that has nice melodic flourishes.
Production does hurt the nuance a bit but it is nonstop pummeling energy.
They are opening for Cattle Decap
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
god the bill for that tour (Cattle Decap/Atheist/Full of Hell/Author and Punisher/Vitriol) makes that show very tempting
― Simon H., Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:15 (four years ago) link
Yea i am very much there
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:36 (four years ago) link
On Tues
please report back, it's a little more than I like to spend on a gig (esp a weekday night gig!)
― Simon H., Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:45 (four years ago) link
Will do!
Glad i have the week off, Tuesday nights are usually tough otherwise
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:49 (four years ago) link
Cattle Decap leaked. Normally wouldn't play a leak but i can't wait, plus i have the alb pre-ordered
Spinning now
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
Lifetime of ILM 2000-19 Heavy Rock,Noise, Heavy Psych, punk, emo, nu-metal & Metal (or related) Poll VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread(All welcome to participate) Voting close 23:59 December 13th
― Vote (with a bullet) (Oor Neechy), Monday, 25 November 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
xpost shit's of poor sound quality (brickwalled), which was to be expected from a leak, but it's good stuff. idk if I'm as high on it as all of you (I miss the crazier grind from even as recently as Monolith of Inhumanity), and the melodic stuff is even more front and center, though it works far better than on the past album.
gonna give another listen when it's not 2 am
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 07:04 (four years ago) link
I've never heard these guys and I'm not really into grind to begin with but I'll be sure to check out the new album.
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 November 2019 09:13 (four years ago) link
I feel like the newer stuff especially you can enjoy without being a huge grind fan. not to say they aren't extreme but they're more proper 'songs' than their stuff like Humanure (which I also like)
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 12:28 (four years ago) link
I just wanted to type Humanure again
also an option: typing out the lyrics to Inpropagation by Carcass
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 25 November 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
that Maryland Deathfest lineup is insane.
I'm supposed to be part of a theatre festival that goes on at the same time (EVERY YEAR) and part of me is hoping we lose the lottery to be a part of it so I can go.
Dismember, Coffins, Cancer, Onslaught, Necrophobic, Exhorder, Demilich, Impaled (!!!), Monstrosity, Grave Desecrator, Skeletal Remains, Suffocation, Fuck the Facts, Cloud Rat, Negative Approach.....oof.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
Revolver MagazineTop 25 Albums of 2019
25. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race24. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Suffer On23. The Devil Wears Prada - The Act22. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds21. 3TEETH - Metawar20. Ithaca - The Language of Injury19. Fury - Failed Entertainment18. Angel Du$t - Pretty Buff17. Venom Prison - Samsara16. Une Misère - Sermon15. Korn - The Nothing14. Russian Circles - Blood Year13. Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence12. Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - End of Suffering11. Jinjer - Macro10. Rammstein - Rammstein9. Spirit Adrift - Divided by Darkness8. Brutus - Nest7. Devil Master - Satan Spits on Children of Light6. Killswitch Engage - Atonement5. Baroness - Gold & Grey4. Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue3. Gatecreeper - Deserted2. Slipknot — We Are Not Your Kind1. Tool - Fear Inoculum
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/25-best-albums-2019
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
There is some bad, bad music on that list.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
Rammstein and Chelsea Wolfe are the only ones that look remotely appealing, although I have to say I'm intrigued by a band named Une Misère.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
Oh and Devil Master is supposedly good.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
Devil Master are fun as fuck
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
Way upfront for High on Fire, if me or my ears die tell everyone I loved Cloud Rat
― Simon H., Tuesday, 26 November 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
Oh lord man. Good luck hearing for a week lol.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 02:33 (four years ago) link
Regarding that Revolver list, I am baffled why that Jinjer thing is so popular these days. They are stupefyingly awful.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 04:22 (four years ago) link
I saw a Jinjer shirt at the show tonight and wondered wtf that was
Maybe it was the venue's sound but I wasn't feeling that HoF set; I left early :/
― Simon H., Tuesday, 26 November 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
Could be. HoF are one of my fav live bands, but when I saw them at Psycho Las Vegas, the sound was so terrible it muted their raw power.
Sometimes you just aren't in the mood for a show too. Happens to me now and then.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 08:03 (four years ago) link
Love that 'oh shit we need to put Blood Incantation on the list or people will think we're squares' move.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 10:37 (four years ago) link
I like that Jinjer record pretty well. I'm not sure it would be top-25 for me, but it's easily my favorite thing on the Revolver list, which I suppose is consistent with the idea that it doesn't belong there.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
That Revolver list is full of WTF, but cool to see Russian Circles making an appearance. Also kinda surprised to see Brutus up so high on it.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
Well, scored algorithmically according to my listening data, Jinjer is in a 19-way tie for my #213 metal album of the year.
Wow was there a lot of good metal this year. I no longer even pretend to keep it all in my head. That's what we have computers for. They report that this is what it has been like for me (so far):
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0wc2cDNOwLQUtQdKCngupo?si=2PCR5rGGS3eRBlRtt-DdTg
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
Listening to the Cattle Decap and it's not quite what I expected. So far, their 'tenor' got a few lols out of me (not a good sign) and if anything I'd rather the songwriting were grindier overall.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
Full of Hell's sound is really bad tonight. I've seen them before and they usually sound better
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 01:19 (four years ago) link
Just...mush
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
Atheist was AWESOME. If you love their first two albums...go.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
"Piece of Time" was the last song and it ruled. I am so sore.
oh my god
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
Cattle Decapitation up soon
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
PopMatters Best of 2019 list:
20. Copperhead - Gazing in the Dark19. Drastus - La Croix de Sang 18. Ossuarium - Living Tomb17. Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry16. Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong15. Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Calling14. Necropanther - The Doomed City13. Vimur - Triumphant Master of Fates12. PH - Osiris Hayden11. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race10. Lord Mantis - Universal Death Church9. Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect8. Exhorder - Mourn The Southern Skies7. Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence6. Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance5. Baroness - Grey and Gold4. Inter Arma - English Sulphur3. Sunn O))) - Life Metal/Pyroclasts2. BIG|BRAVE - A Gaze Among Them1. Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
I like the #1 choice and a few others, but this is otherwise a typical twitter hive mind top 20: heavy on black metal (sorry, when I see black metal titles these days I dibs out instantly), ignorant of every metal subgenre that emphasizes melody save for that mediocre Baroness album as a token selection.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Good list, all things considered.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
9. Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect
fuck, i completely missed that this record came out
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
I live the top 6 records for sure, nice to see some love for the BIG|BRAVE record and I think I'm one of the few people that really loves that Baroness record.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
I like the Baroness (it's not as good as Yellow & Green but it's better than Purple) and love both Sunn O))) titles, but otherwise that list has nothing to do with my experience of metal in 2019.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
I strongly disliked the Baroness and didn't get much out of Pyroclasts but Life Metal will be in my top 50, alongside Blood Incantation, Esoteric, Tomb Mold, Inter Arma, BIG|BRAVE and Waste of Space Orchestra. Maybe Drastus as well.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
I definitely have nothing bad to say about Big Brave and Immortal Bird. Two tremendous bands! And 2019 was a great year for death metal.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
I've been surprised to see Immortal Bird on so few lists (so far)
― Simon H., Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
I remember really liking that Yellow Eyes record too, should revisit
Wish I could get into Dawn Ray'd cause their politics are great but they leave me cold for some reason
― Simon H., Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
If you're looking for straight-up antifascist black metal, I recall the Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze record being pretty good.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
::thumbs-up::
― Simon H., Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
2019 metal releases I liked enough to buy on Bandcamp that will not show up on any year-end lists:
Beastwars, IVBrand of Sacrifice, God HandCatatonic Effigy, Putrid TendencyCemican, In Ohtli Teoyohtica In MiquiztliDecomposition of Entrails, AbnormalityEpicardiectomy, Grotesque Monument of Paraperversive TransfixionFacelift Deformation, Cybernetic Organism AtrocitiesTakafumi Matsubara, Strange, Beautiful and FastOrganectomy, Existential DisconnectRetortion Terror, s/tSmoulder, Times of Obscene Evil and Wild DaringSplattered, CarnivortexTyrannotophia, Distant
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
had to look up a couple of those to make sure you hadn't snuck any fakes in
― Simon H., Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
Intriguing. I'll have to check those out.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
Pay special attention to Catatonic Effigy. Despite the band and album name, they're extremely avant-garde. Colin Marston's on bass.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
Noted, thanks.
Likewise I doubt many of these will pop up on the usual lists but I might be wrong:
Abyssic - High the MemoryAkrotheism - The Law of Seven DeathsAsphodelus - Stygian DreamsDesecresy - Towards NebulaeHerxheim - Cultivating Throne of FurHWWAUOCH - Into the Labyrinth of ConsciousnessIgnivomous - HieroglossiaImperial Cult - Spasm of Light Kvelgeyst - AlkahestNifrost - BlykroneOmination - The New Golgotha RepvbliqOssuaire - Derniers chantsPanzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I: War, Horrid WarRingarë - Under Pale MoonSinners Bleed - AbsolutionTroll - Legend MasterUnaussprechlichen Kulten - TeufelsbücherVeiled - In Blinding Presence
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
I liked that Ignivomous record.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
There's a new Kvelertak song w/ their new vocalist. It's mysteriously overlong but it's nice to have the Ballou production back.
― Simon H., Friday, 29 November 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
So apparently the drummer from Phish is a huge Cattle Decapitation fan and delivers a spoken monologue on their new album. I never liked them anyway, but a Phish affiliation is just a bridge too far, sorry.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 29 November 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
I thought they were strict vegans
― Simon H., Friday, 29 November 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
Damn, I feel for them:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/full-of-hells-gear-whole-van-stolen-on-cattle-decapitation-tour/
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 November 2019 09:27 (four years ago) link
Btw unperson that Catatonic Effigy album is very good indeed, although I'm generally less enthused by instrumental metal for reasons that I've yet to fathom.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 November 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link
I have to say I'm intrigued by a band named Une Misère.
― Siegbran
I've now listened to this record a few times, it turned out to be metalcore (so much for the intrigueing band name!), but it's...really good! From Iceland of all places.
― Siegbran, Monday, 2 December 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
Old news (but new to me) but consider me off the Absu train:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/absu-member-says-i-lost-my-band-when-i-came-out-to-them/
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 December 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
god bless melissa <3
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 2 December 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
That ones new to me too, such a shame.
I love the thought of Jon Fishman on a Cattle Decapitation record, my copy doesn't get here until Wednesday to hear for myself. It's hilarious to see that a member of Phish now has his own page on Metal Archives.
I lolled.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 2 December 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
Anyone doing a 2019 metal poll?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 05:59 (four years ago) link
I hope so.
As advertised, there's some good stuff on this list:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2019/12/03/2019-a-year-in-reviews-the-good/
Its poorer cousin:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2019/12/02/2019-a-year-in-reviews-the-disappointing/
(The 'great' is yet to come.)
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link
Found this utterly delightful
http://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/witchbones-the-seas-of-draugen
― "Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
Angry Metal Guy gave it a 2/5 so I'll be sure to check it out.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:13 (four years ago) link
"minus 1 point for sound quality, minus 2 points for releasing too many things this year"
― "Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
Onwards to 'the great':
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2019/12/04/2019-a-year-in-reviews-the-great/
I'm on board with most of these picks.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
You know most of them? Kudos. Thanks for linking to it (and the 'good' list seemed to have some fine stuff, too), my xmas will be black metal again!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
idg finding the Townsend album a disappointment if you already like his stuff
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
i do, this was sold as his best and most original yet and it was a fitfully-good mess
― imago, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
without much in the way of memorable songwriting
Yeah, I think that's more the issue, this was billed as some tentpole in his catalog and I found it to be patchy and messy.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
deconstruction did crazy maximalist devin way better, although i guess this was his attempt to fuse that side of him with boring new-agey devin
― imago, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Anyone doing a 2019 metal poll?― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 05:59 (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 05:59 (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I dont know.
― Vote with a prog record (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
I guess it depends on the success of this Lifetime of ILM 2000-19 Heavy Rock,Noise, Heavy Psych, punk, emo, nu-metal & Metal (or related) Poll VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread(All welcome to participate) Voting close 23:59 December 13th
to see how much interest there is. Its harder each year to get voters as some ilxors aren't as interested in current music as they were.
― Vote with a prog record (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
I'm afraid the tracks poll would just destroy me but I would most definitely be interested in a 2019 metal poll.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
It seems like a lot of work for whoever would do it. We could just represent the genre in the main site year end poll.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
I wish.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
And finally, No Clean Singing's top 10:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2019/12/05/2019-a-year-in-reviews-the-critical-top-ten/
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
lots of Angry Metal Guy overlap in that list
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
Of those I've heard, Misþyrming and Tomb Mold are the only two I'd put in a top 10.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
I like that Car Bomb record a lot.
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
I haven't heard it yet, mostly because mathcore bores me for the most part, but I'll check it out nonetheless.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
I liked the White Ward, and the Disentomb was OK but not even the best thing Unique Leader put out this year (Organectomy, Distant and Omophagia were all better).
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
White Ward is vaguely enjoyable while it's on – top 100 EOY material, maybe. Can't say I got much out of the Disentomb either, and I'm not familiar with Organectomy, Distant and Omophagia.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
wait there was a new disentomb this year? that band rocks
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
I'm listening to it again and it's sounding much better than I initially gave it credit for.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
very cool & good undertaking by NCS but weird of them to leave the aoty off every single list
― imago, Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
I always feel like such a lump in that I buy hundreds of metal albums a year and then I look at the top ten list and have only heard two of them. and it's not like I have big subgenre blind spots!
more to listen to, I guess. I legit love the Tomb Mold and it's a top tenner for me, though I think Blood Incantation beat it slightly. IMO a great year for death metal in that a lot of the bands found progressiveness through economy rather than technicality. the Teitanblood is also great, need to spin that again.
I saw Venom Prison got an honorable mention - that would also make my list. surprised not to see the Crypt Sermon place.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 December 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
crypt sermon was on the disappointments list iirc (where it belongs!)
― adam, Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
nahhh
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
@imago the NCS person stated upfront that they hadn't heard the Wilderun lol
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
Actually, my initial assessment of the Disentomb was a wee bit too harsh but the album is kind of frontloaded and its chugging same-iness wears you down by the time you hit the second half, although 'The Great Abandonment' features a mercifully memorable riff.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
I hear you on this, this year particularly feels like there are SO MANY things I'm missing out on or slide right by me. In part I think it's down to the continued expansion of tiny, more niche labels. It seems like more and more bands, particularly in metal, are moving away from even the more well-known labels to set up their own or work with European outlets. Which I'm sure is great for them in terms of controlling things, but it makes it a more difficult task to try and keep up with everything!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
I've never listened to as much new music as I have this year, with metal as the backbone of my pathological diet, and I still feel a slight bit of awe (and a pinch of disgust) when I come across EOY lists that remind me of how utterly unending and overwhelming it all is.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
An embarrassment of riches, yes, but it also makes it more difficult, if not impossible, to separate the chaff from wheat or to have so much as a common ground for cultural discourse. It also emphasizes how disposable and isolated most of this music is, even the better stuff: you listen to it a couple of times and discard it by necessity, as there is always so much more to discover.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
for me I think it's cos I spent most of my earliest metal leaning years (late 90s) playing decades of catch-up, then took several years in the early 2000s barely listening to it at all, so had to play catchup again for several years around 2010 when I started aggressively listening again. so only the last few have I been in a place where I'm acquiring more new music than pre-existing.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
lol yeah I'm def catch and release with the majority of it
it also makes it more difficult, if not impossible, to separate the chaff from wheat or to have so much as a common ground for cultural discourse. It also emphasizes how disposable and isolated most of this music is, even the better stuff: you listen to it a couple of times and discard it by necessity, as there is always so much more to discover.
― pomenitul, Thursday, December 5, 2019 11:26 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is as true as it is depressing
my lone contribution to the EOY talk: the White Ward album has really grown on me. I enjoyed it right off (certainly more than Futility Report), but it didn't totally click until I listened three or four more times. Really into it atm
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
Really feeling the last string of posts... :-/
I'm w/ Paul Ponzi, White Ward has grown on me. I got my black metal fix this year mostly from Örmagna, Mgła's 'Age of Excuse' and 'Serpent Column's 'Mirror in Darkness'. But I dread all those classic albums I must have missed.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
it helps to only really bother with about ten metal albums a year ;)
― imago, Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
lotta falseness itt today
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
xp that is why it seems pointless to run a metal eoy poll
― Vote with a prog record (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
I might run one anyway if you're not up for it this year, Neech. I have no idea what the exact rules are but I could probably figure them out.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
As poll runner you get to make the rules except one. That is the most important one and it must not ever be changed.
NEVER listen to anything imago suggests.
― Vote with a prog record (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
lol, I suspected as much.
Seriously though, I'd aim to maintain tradition, i.e. whichever rules we've been using for the past, what, ten years?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
I still feel a slight bit of awe (and a pinch of disgust) when I come across EOY lists that remind me of how utterly unending and overwhelming it all is.
Covering metal full-time in the 2010s was fun, but nearly destroyed me. It's honestly impossible to gauge the entire genre with any semblance of accuracy - the global scope is far too huge - which partially explains the online critic hive mind. You're focusing on a couple dozen records and don't dare venture out of it because thousands of new titles are waiting to bury you.
And I love the new Crypt Sermon! They've become an American answer to Atlantean Kodex.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
Rule #1 -Don't let Johnny Fever participate
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
It's honestly impossible to gauge the entire genre with any semblance of accuracy - the global scope is far too huge - which partially explains the online critic hive mind. You're focusing on a couple dozen records and don't dare venture out of it because thousands of new titles are waiting to bury you.― A. Begrand
I'm sorry you feel that way - I can never understood this kind of FOMO/angst 'at our age' - it's so incredibly easy to venture out! Just pick a random record out of the RYM top 300 for 2019 with a cool looking cover, intriguing title or a weird/appealing combination of genre tags and listen to it a few times. Go to a random dive bar in town with bandnames on the bill you've never heard of. Who cares if the 5-6 biggest metal sites/mags have reviewed it or not, that was important to me when I was thirteen years old and wanted to get properly educated and felt I had to hear the stuff those all-knowing critics raved about. I love reading a well-argued review as much as the next guy but in the end these reviewers don't know more about metal than you or me.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
I mean not to imply that you care too much about reviewers A, that's probably poorly worded. But their limited pool of reference for this years essential records doesn't necessarily have to be yours.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, December 5, 2019 10:03 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Harsh.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
pomenitul there's no rules as such. I've always allowed unlimited nominations, been loose on the definition of 'metal' and have up to 100 choices on the ballots, ran a top 101 rollout, allowed lurkers to participate. The online voting form is much better than the old email voting system.
― Vote with a prog record (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
"As advertised, there's some good stuff on this list:
― pomenitul"
"Both brutal legends Nile and progressive overlords Borknagar responded to some unfortunate line-up changes"...
I can't take this seriously. Oh no did something UNFORTUNATE happen to a band who call themselves "Borknagar"
"I've never listened to as much new music as I have this year, with metal as the backbone of my pathological diet, and I still feel a slight bit of awe (and a pinch of disgust) when I come across EOY lists that remind me of how utterly unending and overwhelming it all is.
That was my 2018. My 2018 longlist was over 500 entries, and it's gotten longer since. And since then, well, it's done. I don't know most of the good stuff that happens. I don't need to, I'm not Aristotle trying to encompass all human knowledge. I can listen to good music when I want and if I hear something really good I'll probably want to hear it again at some point. I can listen to a song for ten seconds and decide I'm not interested in the band and they're not for me, which is fine because I can always change my mind later. I've never expected to recognize anything on these year-end lists; I browse them cursorily and if something jumps out at me I listen, "White Ward"? Sounds good. This other one? Doesn't, don't ask me what it's called, that was five seconds ago, I can't remember. Tell me your favorite 500 records and I'll find three that I like, more or less at random, and move on to something else. There's good metal in 2019, and I've heard a little of it. What could be wrong with that?
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Friday, 6 December 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
I can listen to a song for ten seconds and decide I'm not interested in the band and they're not for me
you're missing out on some really good harmonized lead guitar solos
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 6 December 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
But Toto sucks
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 02:07 (four years ago) link
no, they do not
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 6 December 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
Ignore me i am plasturred
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
― Paul Ponzi
you say that but i'm listening to and enjoying bob wills' "twin guitar special" right now. i also once listened to a youtube video of all of thin lizzy's guitar solos even though they never much grabbed me as a band, they were pretty good
yeah i'm missing out on, like, wishbone ash or whatever but i can live with that
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Friday, 6 December 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link
fwiw, i love love love metal poll rollout and hope it happens this year
if it helps at all, i promise to vote. in the past, i have always meant to and never actually done so. (maybe once, i did.)
― alpine static, Friday, 6 December 2019 04:31 (four years ago) link
Quality posts, Sieg & rush. Yeah, I have no idea why inflicted this upon myself – I guess because metal as a genre is especially prone to it and I only got into it 2-3 years ago so I had to get it out of my system.
― pomenitul, Friday, 6 December 2019 09:47 (four years ago) link
I can totally understand in your situation pomenitul, catching up to 45 years of metal in the space of 2-3 years *is* an intimidating task.
― Siegbran, Friday, 6 December 2019 10:45 (four years ago) link
And I love the new Crypt Sermon!
it is great imo! also I for one love the late-Floyd vibe of the Borknagar album
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 6 December 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
Pomenitul please check your ilx webmail, I messaged you.
― Vote with a prog record (Oor Neechy), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
Got it. Just emailed you back.
― pomenitul, Friday, 6 December 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
same
― Vote with a prog record (Oor Neechy), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
Rumours of the metal poll's death have been greatly exaggerated:
2019 Metal 'n' Heavy Rock Poll: NOMINATIONS thread (open until the 3rd of January 2020)
― pomenitul, Friday, 6 December 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
In the spirit of the earlier posts about losing track of new releases, I just remembered how much I love the new Cattle Decapitation
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 6 December 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
ok so i don't actually listen to a lot of metal and i am broadly ignorant of it but i guess i will share the stuff that's grabbed me from this year:
Apparatus - Yonder Yawns the UniverseDisentomb - The Decaying LightJucifer - FutilityLiturgy - HAQQOranssi Pazuzu - Live at Roadburn 2017Sankara - Total Liberation of the Human RaceTomb Mold - Planetary ClairvoyanceWędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi - Marynistyka suchego ląduWhite Ward - Love Exchange FailureXoth - Interdimensional InvocationsZeal & Ardor - Live in London
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 7 December 2019 02:50 (four years ago) link
You should definitely nom those (assuming glenn hasn't already!).
― pomenitul, Saturday, 7 December 2019 08:20 (four years ago) link
yeah it looks like that thread has already been taken over as a Spotify Thread, my "i've listened to ten metal albums i like this year" ass is staying far far away from that morass
big data! quantity over quality! throw enough shit at the wall and some of it will stick
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Saturday, 7 December 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
I hear you. It's been partly rectified (I hope).
― pomenitul, Saturday, 7 December 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
Dude, I was trying to make it so people could vote in the poll and find the albums they wanted to vote for on the ballot. I've voted in ILM polls for years with that usually not being true.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 7 December 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
we can add it at the end but unperson usually complains there are too many nominations to sort through and wont vote so poll runners are damned either way
― Dog Is Daed (Oor Neechy), Saturday, 7 December 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
I'm not voting this year either so do whatever you like and don't drag me into it.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 7 December 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
wasn't dragging you into anything. And its a pity you wont vote.
― Dog Is Daed (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 8 December 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
Why don't you want to vote, unperson? I'd be curious to see your ballot.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 8 December 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
If I voted it would be for the following 15 acts/albums: Amon Amarth, Baroness, Beastwars, Destruction, Distant, Ecstatic Vision, Grand Magus, Memoriam, Misery Index, Opeth, Organectomy, Saint Vitus, Splattered, Sunn O))) (Life Metal, yes; Pyroclasts, no), and Tanith.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 8 December 2019 12:47 (four years ago) link
Then you should nom those that haven't been nommed yet and vote. A 15 album ballot is perfectly fine.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 8 December 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
As a side note, I wonder if anyone here seriously prefers Pyroclasts to Life Metal. Challop of the year if that's the case.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 8 December 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
I didn't know there was a new Ecstatic Vision until unperson mentioned it!
― alpine static, Monday, 9 December 2019 07:38 (four years ago) link
Hey rusho you mind if I c+p yr list in the noms thread (I'll edit out duplicates, don't worry ON)...there's some stuff on there I'll prob vote for and some stuff I want to check out
― the oxford book of chaos (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 9 December 2019 08:06 (four years ago) link
as long as rushomancy votes. Also I'd really like unperson to nominate and vote.
― Dog Is Daed (Oor Neechy), Monday, 9 December 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
I'd like it if everyone on this thread voted actually.
― Dog Is Daed (Oor Neechy), Monday, 9 December 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
help pomenitul out by nominating & voting. He's doing a stellar job.
― pomenitul, Monday, 9 December 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
I will nominate and vote, although like many I haven't listened much to new metal.
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 December 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
So you say, but I'm sure you'll nominate some stuff that hasn't made it onto the spreadsheet yet. I look forward to it.
And yeah, unperson, rushomancy, Brad, imago, Sund4r and everyone else should participate.
― pomenitul, Monday, 9 December 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
I've really not gone that far out left field this year I think.
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 December 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
I'll vote this year. And I resolve not to make comments regarding non-metal records that place.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 9 December 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
brad,imago and sund4r usually vote
xps
― Dog Is Daed (Oor Neechy), Monday, 9 December 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
He's doing a stellar job.
This is OTM
― the oxford book of chaos (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 04:12 (four years ago) link
Calling GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ to the nominations thread. Every year there's always at least a dozen incredible albums that I wouldn't have discovered without him.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
Hey thanks! I've had kind of a slow year wrt music so there's only a few that weren't up already but I posted them.
― "Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 11:58 (four years ago) link
new Reveal album is monstrous
― "Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
It's on my list.
Also, looks like a new Turia will be coming out in February. Here's a foretaste:
https://montturia.bandcamp.com/album/degen-van-licht
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
― the oxford book of chaos (Drugs A. Money)
yeah please go for it, i'd do it myself but i can't figure out what's a duplicate and what isn't
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
rush, all you need to do is check the spreadsheet at the top of noms thread. Ctrl + f is the surest method.
(No pressure, though.)
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
the disentomb record is brilliant, glad i have this in my life
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link
like a song-by-song confirmation that they're as special as i thought they were
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
this is making me feel better about ultimately not loving the tomb mold record as much as i wanted to
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
How do we rate the year in metal out of 10?
― Dog Is Daed (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
11
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
the teitanblood, abonormality, and facelift deformation records were my disappointments of 2019. spun previous records way more than these. all three just go in one ear and out the other.
liked the pissgrave (sick live btw) and blut aus nord but haven't gone back to either much. new darkthrone was cool I think but I barely remember it. tomb mold was OK (fun live tho).
need to hear the mgla. and a million more, I suppose. but I keep just playing the first convulse record instead. which works too.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 12 December 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
good death metal that maybe leans on the synths for padding, but i love a beholder on an album cover
https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/altered-state
― "Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 December 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
i like the teitanblood album a lot.
also thank you for the Disentomb rec, this is incredible.
― gman59, Friday, 13 December 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
Was just reminded on Twitter that Chuck Schuldiner died 18 years ago today. Wasn't planning on listening to Human and Individual Thought Patterns tonight, but now I guess I will.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 13 December 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
I wish when the two Entombed factions split, they had naned themselves Disentombed and Datentombed
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 December 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
Yeah always a good time for Death. Think ill throw Human on
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 December 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
I've already been going through a Death revival over here because I watched that documentary about Chuck but any excuse to put on any of their records tbh
― "Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 December 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
Ran into one of my exes a few weeks ago and she was with a friend. He saw how I was dressed and asked me if I knew who Chuck Schuldiner was.
On seeing my face light up, he starts telling me he went to high school with Chuck. Not shocking, he grew up within five miles of the building we were in. He recalled where his house was, all that.
But this guy wasn't a metalhead. He just said he knew him growing up, said he was a very quiet guy, and that he didn't even know he was a musician.
He talked about hearing about Chuck being sick, and eventually dying, and saw the outpouring of sadness from the metal community for Evil Chuck...he was stunned. He had no idea dude was a musician, much less a legend of an entire scene.
Kinda the amazing thing about the scene at the time. A casual friend of yours could have secretly been a metal god and you had no idea the dude even played music.
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 December 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
I... like? this new Ihsahn tune? I like that it features a horn section too.
― "Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 15 December 2019 06:31 (four years ago) link
After Turia, Fluisteraars have also announced a new album, to be released in February:
https://fluisteraars.bandcamp.com/album/bloem
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
this is probably the right/wrong place to point out that the white ward album is imo kind of boring, and as ever, if you wanted abstract BM with saxophones, head to the last dodheimsgard album
― imago, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
Def the right place (otm btw).
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
I for one will fire up Dodheimsgard asap.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
in the last week, the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise added:
ToxikBrujeriaWhiplashExodusVio-lencePossessed
this is gonna be a fun cruise.
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link