Rolling Metal 2016

["sounds like it was great!!!!!" -subsequent mind blowing post]

lolll

wow, the opening Oranssi track is indeed great. I loved their last album too. excited for the rest of this. also the new Destroyer 666!

man this goes from trance-inducing to intense all over the place. love it...especially the fourth track

oh man the Destroyer666 is fucking dope too

I will join in the love-fest for the new Oranssi Pazuzu.
There's not much about the album I don't think is amazing.
"Havuluu" sounds like a psyche-rock film noir.
Cover art matches the album sound too.

Playlist somewhat updated.

ILM's Rolling Metal Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

listening to Oranssi Pazuzu now, call me crazy but this sounds like an extension of Circle circa early 2000s

it does

I've never heard Circle but I read an interview with Jun-His from OP and he named them as one of the band's influences.

Also loving the new album, quite different from Valonielu but equally great.

listening now as well, this is fucking exceptional

they are riding to war

somewhere in andromeda

Also got around to listening to the Chthe'ilist album - technical death is not really my thing normally but this hits the right buttons.

AAAAAHHHHHHHHH

You broke him

I remember loving the first Oranssi but the new one has a way of startling you. Like by track 4 when that intense string-cum-guitar riff just appears.

Such a headphones alb

This album broke me

It's just too good

Will rep again but the new Destroyer666 rules

"Hounds At Ya Back" is such a killer old school sounding song. So glad to be excited over a D666 album again.

I'm working my way toward that OP, not being in much of an "out there music" mindset lately.

I've not been much impressed by Howls of Ebb before but this new track is pretty good

https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/cursus-impasse-the-pendlomic-vows

To me it sounds "squidgy." I don't know how that works or if anyone else knows what I'm talking about but there we are

reviewing the Sinistro album (on Season of Mist) at the moment and while it hasn't blown me away it seems to be really successful at its attempted niche, which is Lana Del Rey type pop noir meets modish doom metal. think quite a few ILM types would be into this one off it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR1fILkvSlA

one-man blackened death metal project The Wakedead Gathering, surprisingly coherent (not sure I know other one-man DM bands), with a dark, old school vibe. Demigod is the first old band that springs to mind with this stuff, but thinking fans of the 2014 Domains album might also like.

https://thewakedeadgathering.bandcamp.com/album/fuscus-strings-of-the-black-lyre

and there's probably some Incantation in there too

I've not been much impressed by Howls of Ebb before but this new track is pretty good

https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/cursus-impasse-the-pendlomic-vows

To me it sounds "squidgy." I don't know how that works or if anyone else knows what I'm talking about but there we are

― space prophet wogan (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, March 1, 2016 8:12 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Think I get you. It's kind of slow and awkward and horrible in a really cool way, like it's dripping through the speakers or something

the Pazuzu album is so dense. like the layered shrieks that appear over the riffs towards the end of the opening track

I'm listening to it now on an Amtrak train while the sun is setting. I am seriously stoked for when it gets dark out as this is concluding

Just got the new Inherit Disease, their first in five years. I know there's not much love for brutal death metal with "what's wrong with the toilet?" vocals around these parts, but these guys are really, really good at it, so I'm very excited.

I love a lot of bdm but whatever fine line I have for enjoyable vox is crossed by Inherit Disease, at least on their last one. It might just be a combo of being mixed too loud and not having enough variation from a drawn out monosyllabic GLURRRRRRRRGH. But I'm sure I'll get around to the new one. I probably should relisten to their debut because I vaguely recall it being less in your face vox-wise.

There's an unintentionally hilarious bdm thread on ultimatemetal that's pretty much three or four easily disgruntled dudes flying the flag. It's where I learned about the Jenovavirus demo which is one of the more ridiculously awesome things I've ever heard.
https://youtu.be/bdc0ssOvs9I

Yeah, that Jenovavirus is amazing. Downloading it now.

Aluk Todolo's Voix is so good, and perfectly recorded. The cymbal work on track 4 alone.

yeah this is better than I expected, if not quite as monstrous (or fun) as OP. feels more like jazz if anything

and yeah, just reached the 4th part. this is great

the most obvious magma influence in bm history but they use it well

I hear the similarity to OP too, although more focused and restricted in terms of instrumentation. And I want to say more of a sense of chemistry, which might be because it's a live album.

yeah, where OP is a boundless cosmic opus, this is very much a performance, and a brilliant one too

I thought the Aluk Todolo album was mildly impressive on a superficial level but really pretty boring. I don't get the black metal connection either, it just sounds like noisy jam-rock which is fine but not something I personally want to listen to

it's pretty much a fusion prog jam yeah, but idk - do you like magma?

(obviously i prefer OP and the song 'vasemann käden hierarkia' has ruled my entire life for the last 2 days)

Magama are another one of those bands that I should like, probably even love but I can't get into. I've tried, believe me.

I also don't really understand how I can enjoy OP so much when AT leave me apathetic but it just depends on what I have a gut reaction to honestly

I don't hear Magma in Aluk Todolo at all. I hear Fushitsusha sometimes, though.

I still need to listen to the Oranssi Pazuzu album (someone else wrote the Burning Ambulance review).

oh man the Destroyer666 is fucking dope too

speaking of black metal that recalls Fushitsusha, check out the new Skáphe (again on I, Voidhanger, home of earlier mentioned Wakedead Gathering, Ævangelist, Spectral Lore) -- cold spacey, yet dead black atmosphere a la Darkspace, but with expansive psychedelic guitar. Swirling, claustrophobic, cosmic.

https://skaphe.bandcamp.com/album/sk-phe-2

another new Vektor track:

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/03/02/468701046/vikings-choice-vektor-charging-the-void

"Charging The Void" is the first track of the album and sets the scene for the story that follows. It begins with the lone astronaut from Outer Isolation, who is actually an Isolation test subject. He overrides the autopilot and is compelled to go forth on his own and search for his purpose. Years in isolation have twisted his mind, and he teeters between insanity and vengeance. His travels bring him to the now-exploded star, Alshain. Within the stellar nebula, he finds a life-giving molecule that revitalizes him and extends his life. With an entire haul of the newfound molecule, he believes he's found his purpose. He has an epiphany about life and death and decides to bring his life-giving molecule and his new way of understanding to the Cygnus Regime.

I don't like Voivod, and Krallice bores me, but I love Vektor! Weird...

Can't imagine either of those bands pulling a move like this track does in the last 2 mins

Wow, that is epic.

Man, new Howls of Ebb already. Love those dudes and their pioneering work in shitty guitar sounds.

"Shitty" with regards to standard metal guitar paradigms, I mean. I think they way out of the infinite regress of HM-2 or Incantation derived sounds is through textural guitar weirdness.