the fifth to infinity album is really really good.
Yeah this sounded really good last time I heard it. Gotta get a hard copy of it.
Currently listening to the Electric Funeral 2LP on Southern Lord. Super noisy d-beat that is probably a bit much for two LPs, really, but the first one's sounding pretty good.
― bearded flack trickster god (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 08:39 (eight years ago) link
solid atmoblack from South Africa:
https://wildernessking.bandcamp.com/album/mystical-future
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Thursday, 17 March 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
So the dude from Blut Aus Nord and Debemur Morti started a new label called Sundust, the first release on it is Mutterlein - Orphans of the Black Sun, couple of tracks are up for free right now:
http://sundustrecords.bandcamp.com/album/orphans-of-the-black-sun-ep
Not metal, really, but recommended if you like Swans type heavy dirging and female vocals...
― bearded flack trickster god (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 18 March 2016 11:22 (eight years ago) link
Skuggsjá, the piece that Enslaved and Wardruna were commissioned to write to celebrate 200 years of the Norwegian constitution (!) has been recorded and released as an album. It's really good.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Sunday, 20 March 2016 11:29 (eight years ago) link
It's released as A Piece For Mind And Mirror, btw.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Sunday, 20 March 2016 11:30 (eight years ago) link
Is is all traditional intruments like Wardruna?
― Siegbran, Sunday, 20 March 2016 13:00 (eight years ago) link
No, it's a mixture of traditional and contemporary.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Sunday, 20 March 2016 13:18 (eight years ago) link
I've downloaded that but haven't listened to it yet. Very interested to check it out.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 20 March 2016 13:34 (eight years ago) link
the new Convulse album has been sitting in my Amazon cloud for two days and I keep forgetting about it.
no more! here we go
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 20 March 2016 13:43 (eight years ago) link
sounds nothing at all like any other Convulse release. a lot closer to what Tribulation did on their last one, with rock and roll/psych elements.
fairly sure the fanbase is gonna be divided on this one, I like it so far.....
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 20 March 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
ok now I'm confused, track #3 sounds like something from Sepultura's "Roots"
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 20 March 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link
sold
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 20 March 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
Saw Absu live tonight.
Jesus fuck are they amazing
― Neanderthal, Monday, 21 March 2016 04:27 (eight years ago) link
Going again Wed
Nice. Didn't know they were touring.
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 21 March 2016 07:44 (eight years ago) link
Yup! First time in a few years
― Neanderthal, Monday, 21 March 2016 12:38 (eight years ago) link
If like me you can't get enough of the DMDS style done in a grimier, more hallucinogenic or otherwise weirder fashion, eg: Cultes des Ghoules or Hostium, there's Recitations' The First of the Listeners. The third song is all dark ambient, and completely awesome.https://recitations.bandcamp.com/
― Devilock, Monday, 21 March 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
^^^ That is VERY nice. Also you got me to check out CdG and already ordered one of theirs, thanks.
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 08:13 (eight years ago) link
Absu in NY pretty soon, debating going. Tho I did go see Archgoat this wkd (speaking of Cultes des Ghoules style), and they were great. Pretty positive vibe too, for such a Satanic/blasphemous band -- nice candles/incense stage decoration. Openers were a Swedish black metal band called Valkyrja that I'd never heard of, but they were also good (great drummer too), in a very traditional black metal way.
Anyway, encouraged me to go to more metal shows. will check that Recitations too!
― Dominique, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:17 (eight years ago) link
Here's my list of stuff that I have checked out or will be, mostly culled from above but some not.Some I have checked out, some I have not.ILM is if I "discovered" it here; RYM is Rate Your Music.
Band Album SourceAbbath Abbath ILMAluk Todolo The Wire ILMAnthrax For All Kings ILMBeseech My Darkness, Darkness ILMBison Machine Sweet Leaves Vol. 1 ILMBlack Tusk Pillas Of Ash RYMBloodiest Bloodiest RYMThe Body No One Deserves HappinessBorknagar Winter Thrice ILMBrimstone Coven Black Magic RYMBrutus Murwgebeukt ILMCauldron In RuinChthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule ILMChurch of Misery And Then There Were None ILMCobalt Slow Forever ILMConan Revengeance RYMConvulse Cycle of Revenge ILMThe Cult Hidden City RYMCult of Erinyes Transcendence ILMCult of Luna / Julie Christmas Mariner ILMDakhma Astiwihad-Zohr ILMDestroyer 666 Wildfire ILMDream Theater The Astonishing RYMEggs of Gomorrh Rot Prophet ILMÉglise Église RYMEhnahre Douve ILMEight Bells LandlessEntropia Ufonaut RYMExmortus Ride ForthExumer The Rising Tides RYMFallujah Dreamless ILMFjørt Kontakt RYMForndom Dauðra Dura RYMFuath I ILMGeryon The Wound And The Bow ILMGorguts Pleiades' Dust ILMHeadspace All That You Fear Is Gone RYMHexvessel When We Are Death RYMHoly Grail Times of Pride and PerilHostium The Bloodwine Of Satan ILMHowls of Ebb Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows ILMHyperion Seraphical Euphony RYMInherit Disease Ephemeral ILMInverloch Distance | Collapsed ILMKrallice Hyperion ILMKvelertak Nattesferd ILMLatitudes Old Sunlight ILMLycus Chasms RYMMagrudergrind II RYMMaster An Epiphany of Hate ILMMechina Progenitor RYMMegadeth Dystopia ILMMesarthim Isolate ILMMesarthim Pillars ILMMoon Tooth Chromaparagon ILMMourning Beloveth Rust & Bone RYMMütterlein Orphans Of The Black Sun ILMMyrath Legacy RYMNaðra Allir vegir til glötunar ILMNovembre Ursa ILMNucleus Sentient ILMObscura Akróasis ILMOmnium Gatherum Grey Heavens RYMOndt Blod Finnmark ILMOranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä ILMPlateau Sigma Rituals ILMPrimal Fear Rulebreaker RYMR.I.P. In The Wind ILMRecitations The First of the Listeners ILMRipper Experiment of Existence ILMRotting Christ Rituals ILMSavage Master With Whips and Chains ILMSinistro Semente ILMSkáphe Skáphe² ILMSkuggsjá A Piece for Mind & Mirror ILMStriker Stand in the Fire ILMSturm, Lacey Life Screams RYMSuspiral Delve into the Mysteries of Transcendence ILMTemisto Temisto ILMТі, що падають вгору Divina ILMUlver ATGCLVLSSCAP RYMViolet Cold Magic Night ILMVoivod Post SocietyVotum :Ktonik: RYMThe Wakedead Gathering Fuscus: Strings of the Black Lyre ILMWildernessking Mystical Future ILMWitchcraft Nucleus ILM
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link
Ugh, so wrapped up in the formatting my intro above is a mess. Oh well, you get the idea.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link
This Circus Maximus album is really great melodic progressive metal if you think you'd like Dream Theater better if they were a little more fond of the later Rush albums without so many 20-minute concept-suites.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link
new Drudkh/Hades Almighty split EP June 3rd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCIg3-1ae-8
― StanM, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 18:52 (eight years ago) link
Decibel is streaming the collaboration with The Body and Full Of Hell:http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/exclusive-album-stream-the-body-and-full-of-hell
I love both bands, cannot wait to listen to this one.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:40 (eight years ago) link
All the years of working way too hard at keeping up with new metal music have worn me down, to the point where I can't handle listening to much new stuff at all anymore. However, the handful of albums to excite me in 2016 so far are Cobalt, Oceans of Slumber, Gehennah, Oranssi Pazuzu, Aluk Todolo, Grave Miasma, and Vektor. And the new Megadeth is swell. Eight keepers in three months is still pretty good!
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
the 'mighty' Brass Mug of Tampa has always been a local favorite for no good reason but after the terrible sound they put Absu through last night (compared to the crisp sound they got in Jacksonville), that place should be razed to the ground IMO
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
2016 albums I like a lot so far: Aluk Todolo, Amon Amarth, Oceans of Slumber, Plebeian Grandstand (French noisecore a la Converge), Wormed. I haven't heard the new Vektor yet but I'm looking forward to it.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 24 March 2016 01:45 (eight years ago) link
Thanks for the heads up on Wormed.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 24 March 2016 02:08 (eight years ago) link
And Amon Amarth! What a week.
Now time for Absu night #3
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 24 March 2016 02:22 (eight years ago) link
I am digging the Ritual Chamber album; no surprises, it's just Incantammolation style death metal but it's Dario Derna (of Krohm and Evoken and 20 other bands) and is extremely well done.
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 24 March 2016 08:15 (eight years ago) link
(Also some great guitar work that reminds me of Autopsy. Pinch harmonics!)
Just got Temisto and I'm listening to it for ten minutes before work. Excellently rabid vocals and riffs but with some stealth progginess.
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 24 March 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
Forgot about Amon Amarth! The new album is so much fun, us usual.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 24 March 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
It's fun, but they're also stretching out in a way they haven't since Twilight of the Thunder God. They're experimenting with a bunch of different things (concept album, guest vocals from Doro Pesch) and it all works. Don't know if I need to see them live again, but I'm thinking about it just because Exmortus are opening the show.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 24 March 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
On a somewhat similar not, there's also a new Moonsorrow coming. Not sure if they, or anyone really, can top a song like Huuto but expectations are high nonetheless.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 24 March 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
highly anticipated:
Be'lakor - New Album Title, Cover And More Releasedhttp://www.metalstorm.net/events/news_comments.php?news_id=28938
Album Title: Vessels
Tracks:
01. Luma02. An Ember's Arc03. Withering Strands04. Roots To Sever05. Whelm06. A Thread Dissolves07. Grasping Light08. The Smoke Of Many Fires
Release dates:June 24th worldwide, through Napalm RecordsJuly 1st in Australia and NZ, through MGM
The band said regarding the record: "Vessels is the product of well over a year's hard work - without doubt, it's the album that has challenged us the most. It's much richer and more textured than any of our other albums. There are parts which sound like the Be'lakor that fans know, while other sections might surprise some people. Our goal was to keep the music exciting and varied, for us as much as for anyone else. Vessels is also our first concept album, which has meant that lyrically we've really pushed ourselves this time around. We hope our fans will enjoy it as much as we do!"
― djmartian, Thursday, 24 March 2016 23:42 (eight years ago) link
Dunno if Aldo still posts here or not but there's a new Book of Sand album he can check out
https://mouthbreatherrecords.bandcamp.com/
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 25 March 2016 11:36 (eight years ago) link
Digging this lil thrashcore EP RIYL DRI after the first 2, Straw Dogs, Nuclear Assault...
https://larrydistribution.bandcamp.com/album/triage-power-beat
― summervillain, Friday, 25 March 2016 11:46 (eight years ago) link
^^^ You caught me at just the right time with that, been listening to Sacrilege and English Dogs... itch scratched.
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 25 March 2016 12:21 (eight years ago) link
I'm definitely going to listen to that Book of Sand album later, the guy has some interesting ideas though I haven't been massively impressed by the execution of anything he's done yet.
― space prophet wogan (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 25 March 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
I really like the new Cobalt & I got sent an advance of the new Sumac which is probably going to be the album to beat this year.
― Oblique Strategies, Saturday, 26 March 2016 15:13 (eight years ago) link
holy FUCK the Wormed album!
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 27 March 2016 03:46 (eight years ago) link
i like to imagine the vocalist looks like Rocksteady from the Ninja Turtles when he screams like this
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 27 March 2016 03:49 (eight years ago) link
Man the music there is good, but those vocals. Sounds like a Tibetan monk with strep throat.
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 27 March 2016 07:32 (eight years ago) link
The contrast between the vocals and the music is one of the best things about them. I described their last album as sounding like a caveman running around a spaceship.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 27 March 2016 10:06 (eight years ago) link
Nah that dude does not sound like a caveman. Paul Baloff sounded like a caveman. That dude sounds like one of the aliens from V with a guinea pig stuck in his gullet. It's like a modern super-extreme!!!! style I'm not into.
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 27 March 2016 11:25 (eight years ago) link
I liked the Putridity album last year so I suspect I'm gonna dig this guy's vocals, excited to hear something heads are going pretty nuts about
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 27 March 2016 11:57 (eight years ago) link
lol the monk with strep throat thing is so otm. the only diff between you and I is that I see that as totally awesome.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 27 March 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link
I have no problem w/ Wormed's vocals. Stoked to dig into the new one, Exodromos was something else.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 27 March 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
I'm not into the BREEEEE BREEEEEE vocals, I'll leave it at that.
Anyway, Sindrome's demos got reissued by Century Media with a second disc of a live bootleg. I've always liked those dudes' music even if the singer did write an angry letter about a review I wrote of one of their demos. It's really solid thrash stuff, they should've gone somewhere but their second demo came out in '91 and, well, who wanted to sign thrash bands in 1991?
― bulbs in the VU meters of God (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 28 March 2016 02:29 (eight years ago) link