missed this thread yesterday ... two things:
1. lol at arguing Wovenhand and Mastodon's metal status within the same space. no shade at anyone, just, y'know ... that's pretty funny.
2. no way Woods of Desolation is the token metal pick this year. just not enough momentum behind it, plus it came out in January. and not with Pallbearer, Mastodon and, to a lesser extent, Triptykon and At The Gates albums available for those slots. i wish i thought we'd see a mini-Deafheaven-style surge for WoD but it ain't gonna happen.
― alpine static, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
I'd have pegged Agalloch for the Deafheaven slot, but I'm not sure anyone's still listening to that album.
― jmm, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
As The Stars just isn't good enough, and their choice for a much rougher sound also doesn't help their crossover appeal. Torn Beyond Reason would've been huge if it were released this year.
― Siegbran, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
I love As The Stars and think it's as good or better than Sunbather (yes, I like Sunbather), but I haven't heard Torn Beyond Reason. I should remedy that...
― alpine static, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
OMG this Spectral Lore.
Also, the Blut Aus Nord is surprisingly different from the last one but is really nice.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 December 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
Wait, Spectral Lore turned into U2 for a minute.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 December 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link
2014 is probably one of the best years for metal I've ever known, though I've got a preference for experimental/proggy/shoegazey stuff rather than 'metal' metal though. Y'know what I mean.
At the start of the year I thought I was pretty much done with metal and then I kept hearing crazy shit and well, here we are. It's weird that the older I get the more metal black metal I listen to. idgi.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 1 December 2014 02:49 (nine years ago) link
I never got U2 vibes from Spectral Lore I must admit
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 1 December 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
It was just that break in "Cold March". Album is mostly awesome so far.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 December 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
Also, I may have been listening from the next room at that point.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 December 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
Bastard Feast - Osculum InfameBaptists - BloodminesCode Orange - I Am KingCouch Slut - My Life as a WomanIdylls - Prayer for TerreneForeseen HKI - Helsinki Savagery Krokofant - KrokofantOozing Wound - Earth SuckSecret Cutter - "Self Titled"Trioscapes - Digital Dream SequenceVampire - VampireYautja - Songs of Descent
― anonanon, Monday, 1 December 2014 08:13 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure we allowed Wind's Poem by Mount Eerie a couple of years ago. If that fits a BM definition then Wovenhand is surely ok.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 1 December 2014 08:38 (nine years ago) link
It's weird that the older I get the more metal black metal I listen to. idgi.― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 1 December 2014 02:49 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkp
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 1 December 2014 02:49 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkp
same
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 December 2014 10:39 (nine years ago) link
I got big into it once i passed 30 and once I passed 40 it hasnt changed
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, 30 was when it started clicking for me too. Seems to be the norm here!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
Looking back, I guess it was more 28/29.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
tbh it was the nazi association stuff that put me off investigating. It was much easier to find who was and wasnt than it was at the time
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
Just the one nom from me, it came out very recently and is great
Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Serpentine Path - Emanations
― original bgm, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
i'm 27 & enjoy some black/extreme/etc. metal as well as classic thrash like slayer but am OCCASIONALLY put off by the real dirge-y stuff or make snap judgments to not easily pursue bands/albums with names & titles that sound like third-rate lovecraft.
so what y'all are saying is in 3 years i'll be like "this shit is absolutely the move"?
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
*not readily pursue
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
many xposts to whoever mentioned this agalloch record: i quite like it thus far.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
The Agalloch is excellent but maybe not quite as good as the previous 2. Not far off it mind you. Agalloch never do anything less than excellent imo. Ashes Against The Grain is quite bloody marvellous and , for me, up there with any metal album of the last 20 year,
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 1 December 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
xpost to talk of this years crossover hit - -Yob make the rolling stone top 50 albums of the year. I was a bit disappointed with this years Agalloch album after Marrow of the Spirit.
― auto focus, Monday, 1 December 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
i think the band were bemused with that. It certainly was a pure wtf moment
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
2 days left to nominate
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 11:22 (nine years ago) link
erm 3 days left
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 11:23 (nine years ago) link
Interesting, I got into black metal at around 30 too. That was 2000. However by the end of the decade I got sick of it and mostly stopped, except for an occasional Enslaved and Darkthrone album. Yr 30s perhaps you encounter some truths that are far more horrifying than your 20s angst, but by 40 you're ready to leave it behind ;)
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
I'm 30 now, and I'm definitely much less interested in black metal than I was three years ago. A big part of that is that I'm bored with harsh vocals. I want to hear powerful and expressive sung vocals.
― jmm, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
Yes but there's only so many Sabaton records you can listen to before you crave some good oldfashioned throat-tearing roars.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
it works both ways as people get fed up with screaming/singing and seek out the opposite
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
i don't mind screaming, really - the death growl shit can be kinda fuckin corny though, when poorly executed.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
speaking of the sabaton record from this year fuckin rips
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
catching up on some stuff i missed now after seeing it on year end lists - so far most impressed by YOB
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
It does, it's not quite Carolus Rex but it's not far off.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
Bloodbath - Grand Morbid FuneralCoffin Dust - This Cemetery, My KingdomChildren of Technology - Future DecayExordium Mors - The Apotheosis of DeathPyrrhon - The Mother of Virtues
sure to vote for coffin dust, but i figure i oughta put the others in too
― j., Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
Kayo Dot - Coffins On IoCynic - Kindly Bent To Free UsHave A Nice Life - The Unnatural World
One part-time metal band, one former metal band and one outfit on a metal label with crossover appeal.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure the last have a nice life made the poll . Kayo Dot are now Ulver clones.
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
Kayo Dot made a late 70s yacht prog record.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
Sadly true. They're my favourite band, Coffins etc is my least favourite of their releases so I'm not going to defend it too hard. The next album will be completely different probably. They are like Ulver in that sense but Kayo Dot have a far better amazing-to-dull ratio imo.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
I really like the new record. Took a few listens to get a handle on it, but it's a keeper.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
hellooooo
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
It's amazing Brad. Takes a few spins before it opens up.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
the Have A Nice Life album is so great. I stopped short of nominating them here because of the slow shoegazeyness, but it makes sense.
same story with Planning for Burial. oh heck:
Planning for Burial - Desideratum
― alpine static, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
slap 'em both on here.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
added
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 12:30 (nine years ago) link
I really like the Kayo Dot but I don't think it's metal at all, even by a broad definition. Closer to a cross between "yacht-prog" and 80s goth or something.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Haikai No Ku - Ultra High DimensionalityShroud of The Heretic - Revelations In AlchemyCold World - How The Gods ChillBastard Sapling - Instinct Is SurvivalGhast - Dread Doom RuinNazaronai - the most painful time happens only once has it arrived already..?Amulet - The FirstHenry Blacker - Hungry Dogs Will Eat Dirty PuddingsPig Heart Transplant - For Mass Consumption
― proper maoist (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
how the gods chill - is this some kind of epicurean concept album
― j., Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
if by that you mean "a 90s NYC metalcore throwback" then heck yes
check it out on bandcamp to confirm that no-one else will vote for it
― proper maoist (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link