Rolling Metal 2016

it was already ultimate and then we penned that shit up

new Amon Amarth is really stickin to my ears, moreso than the last one.

can't wait to see em on tour. it'll be a first.

omfg

http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/deaths-scream-bloody-gore-reissue-bobblehead-coming

i want that fuckin' bobblehead

I have zero desire to own that type of stuff normally but come on... that's awesome.

there's no way I'm not buying that.

Yeah I want one too, hope they're making more than 2 I guess

Hey anyone heard of B.A.R.F.? Blasting All Rotten Fuckers from Montreal. Trying to figure out why no one ever talks about these dudes. Unless Ignorance Chaos Suicide is their only good album or something.

GUNS N' ROSES NORTH AMERICAN SUMMER STADIUM TOUR

All dates, cities and venues below subject to change.

Thursday, June 23, 2016 Detroit, MI Ford Field
Sunday, June 26, 2016 Washington, DC FEDEXFIELD
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 Kansas City, MO Arrowhead Stadium
Friday, July 1, 2016 Chicago, IL Soldier Field
Wednesday, July 6, 2016 Cincinnati, OH Paul Brown Stadium
Saturday, July 9, 2016 Nashville, TN Nissan Stadium
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 Pittsburgh, PA Heinz Field
Thursday, July 14, 2016 Philadelphia, PA Lincoln Financial Field
Saturday, July 16, 2016 Toronto, ON Rogers Centre
Tuesday, July 19, 2016 Foxboro, MA Gillette Stadium
Saturday, July 23, 2016 East Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 Atlanta, GA Georgia Dome
Friday, July 29, 2016 Orlando, FL Orlando Citrus Bowl
Sunday, July 31, 2016 New Orleans, LA Mercedes-Benz Superdome
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Arlington, TX AT&T Stadium
Friday, August 5, 2016 Houston, TX NRG Stadium
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 San Francisco, CA AT&T Park
Friday, August 12, 2016 Seattle, WA CenturyLink Field
Monday, August 15, 2016 Glendale, AZ University of Phoenix Stadium
Monday, August 22, 2016 San Diego, CA Qualcomm Stadium

lol St Louis was originally on the list

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/music/kevin-johnson/guns-n-roses-spokesperson-discusses-the-st-louis-show-s/article_34382f10-7d2f-590e-ae38-cf58fc2c598d.html

Man, that Ripper album. Bassist is NUTS. And audible. I hope he doesn't quit metal to play fusion or something.

Just got a promo for a new Nervosa album coming out in June. They're a Brazilian all-female thrash trio on Napalm who sound a lot like Destruction. I liked their first EP and first full-length back in 2014; intrigued to hear this one.

I like the Ripper album -- really, it's one of the most faithful old school death-thrash albums I've heard. Death/thrash (along with black thrash) is one of my favorite kinds of metal to listen to, so I have a feeling I'll be spinning this album a lot this year. The bassist seems very DiGiorgio to my ears, which is probably part of the point. Still, at this point, I hear a little too much early Death/Kreator/Possessed, so hopefully after a few plays, I'll hear more of what Ripper actually bring.

(also, last few years, there is always a band who makes me think stuff like this -- last year it was Inculter, year before it was Vampire. I still listen to those bands, so am hopeful for Ripper)

Yeah, DiGiorgio was the first thing that came to mind, though this guy doesn't hit chords for emphasis like Steve did. They're definitely sort of beholden to their influences, but it's thrash; I'd love to hear a new thrash band that was really doing something different but it's just always going to remind me of older stuff, it's kind up to how ferociously you can play. Or what other genres of metal you can fold in...

yeah, thrash is weird as far as how much you can mess with it and have it still be thrash. I feel like particularly now, retro thrash is the expected method -- bands like Vektor are about as "new" as you can be, and to my ears, those guys aren't really unique sounding at all, just "modern". For some reason, you just can't fool around in the genre like you can in pretty much every other kind of metal.

IMO, thrash in this century that tries bring something new would be stuff like the Cadaver Inc record from 2001. It's a one-off mix of thrash, death and black metal, with bits of prog in there too -- and surprise, you hardly hear people talk about it today.

Recombinance is the key to making good metal these days, I think, but you have to really own the thrash, black, death, purple, whatever parts and not sound patchwork. Like Black Fast's album was ok but I could see some of the joints.

I'm going to have to check that Cadaver Inc album out.

Listening to the new Destruction. I've always liked them, and this one is as good as all of their 21st Century material has been. I think, with Motörhead gone, they might easily become my new bare-bones/head-down/go-see-'em-whenever-they-come-to-town band. (I've only seen them once, in 2011, with Warbeast and Heathen.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-4xELUpMs

Just heard these new Cult of Luna/Julie Christmas singles...very impressive. CoL sound like they're coming from the sky rather than the earth these days. Lovely enormous building.

Envy Vocalist Leaves Band

I'm going to have to check that Cadaver Inc album out.

I cosign this record - it's good-not-great, but it's weird - I feel like '01/'02 was an interesting time in metal, a lot of people kinda reacting to how themes & moods that had been specifically metal territory were a little more mainstream now - I don't have a formed thesis on how that played out but I feel like some bands felt a little ambitious, and this album reflected that.

11 minutes Black metal track from Italian artist Chiral, found via Glenn's weekly New Particles list: http://furia.com/newparticles/

tracks starts off acoustic, develops into instrumental rock riffs, then blasts into hyper-speed black metal with rasping vocals, ends acoustically

Chiral - Abisso
https://open.spotify.com/track/5PkYkNCtTT5dLhF75x30vA

from the album

Chiral - Abisso
https://chiral27.bandcamp.com/album/abisso-2

Chiral is an Italian one-man band, from the countryside near Piacenza, started at the end of 2013.

yay for new Desaster! anybody heard it?

Does anyone here like Volbeat? I saw them once supporting someone and I thought they were horrible.
A friend pointed out that they draw from things I usually like, but I said "the worst parts."

Wondering if I should care about the new thing coming out.

I've seen them twice - once opening for Metallica in 2008/2009, and once opening for Megadeth on the last Gigantour. Their core idea - rockabilly plus metal - isn't an awful one, but in practice it just adds up to a slightly heavier Social Distortion. The one thing I will say for them is that the second time I saw them, they had Hank Shermann from Mercyful Fate on lead guitar, so some of the solos were pretty ripping.

reminder, two albums mentioned previously on this thread are now released and available on Spotify

Geryon – The Wound and the Bow
https://www.profoundlorerecords.com/products-page/plr-items/geryon-the-wound-and-the-bow/
https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-wound-and-the-bow

Sinistro - Semente
http://www.terrorizer.com/news/sinistro-stream-full-album-semente/

2 debut albums by Black Metal artists, released in the last few days:

Manchester's Wode - Wode
https://wode.bandcamp.com/album/wode
not on spotify

Portland, Oregon band UADA - Devoid of Light
http://records.eisenton.de/album/devoid-of-light

Another debut album to listen, from iceland's Zhrine

released April 8th on Seasons of Mist

ZHRINE'S NEW ALBUM 'UNORTHETA' ELEVATES ICELANDIC EXTREMITY TO ATMOSPHERIC NEW HEIGHTS
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/zhrine-unortheta-stream

Zhrine has been slinging noxious, elevated Icelandic extreme metal since before anyone was really looking to the wintery island nation for anything of the sort, starting up just a year after confirmed OGs Svartidauði lit the flame in 2006. Originally known as Gone Postal (a name that was wisely swapped for Shrine in 2014, then further supplanted by Zhrine come 2015), the Reykjavík-area band features members of other notables like Ophidian I, Naðra, and the aforementioned Svartidauði.

The album is an imposing, dissonant mass of unorthodox death, heavily atmospheric and weirdly progressive.

Zhrine - Unortheta
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/zhrine-unortheta-stream

recommended track for the playlist:

Zhrine - Empire
https://open.spotify.com/track/2pVCMHCaaP2TfAmI3ROEKq

luv the twisting atmospherics on this track

on RYM:
Zhrine - Unortheta
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/zhrine/unortheta/
Descriptors dark, atmospheric, ominous

new Desaster is good which is to say it sounds like all Desaster

The Geryon album's pretty great btw

A stream of the new Woman is the Earth album is up over at Invisible Oranges

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/woman-is-the-earth-torch-of-our-final-night-album-premiere/

I am digging the Geryon too; Lys is fucking monstrous. I find this way more appealing than Krallice, but that might be 'cause I'm a sucker for bass metal.

This is the cover to the upcoming Blut Aus Nord/Aevangelist split (4 BAN songs, 1 Aevangelist song), coming out in June:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cf8BLOJVAAEryLt.jpg

New Withered track - Distort, Engulf

https://youtu.be/7GM3zFGxKKA

half way through turns into a blast hyper-speed vortex

via

AN NCS PREMIERE: WITHERED — “DISTORT, ENGULF”
http://www.nocleansinging.com/2016/04/13/an-ncs-premiere-withered-distort-engulf/

I like Withered. saw them live once, they committed the cardinal sin of asking the sound guy to turn them up so loud it was painful and destroyed any sense of dynamics.

was surprised when I got the cd afterwards anyway how much I liked their music

Just got a promo of the new Vektor, so pretty fucking excited about that. The female backing vocals on the first track are so amazing in context.

Metal shows in Philly...

Last night was Napalm Death and Melvins and tonight will be Kvelertak and Torche (Oceano is also in town).

Because I have to pick and choose my battles, I couldn't go to those. :(

But Friday is the Decibel Magazine Tour and on Saturday is the Choosing Death Fest.
Saturday afternoon there is a Grimposium of some metal panels and they're screening the "Death By Metal" documentary.
I will be going to those, thankfully!

Lots of great bands but I am especially looking forward to seeing Abbath, Skeletonwitch with their new singer, Deceased for like the dozenth time and Horrendous for the first.

The new Vektor album is amazing. Voivod + Krallice + post-Waters Pink Floyd (I half expected to hear a saxophone at one point) = a truly impressive prog-thrash epic. Easily one of the best albums I've heard this year.

just got an email about a band called Conclave fronted by the vocalist from Warhorse, Jerry Orne. not listened yet but if I had written that email I'd have made a heck of a lot more of that fact

Just got an email about a Soulfly/Suffocation tour with one of the best typos ever in it:

"Metal icons SOULFLY will embark on a four week headlining tour across the United States starting this April. Joining them are brutal death metal legends SUFFOCATION, Metal Blade recording artists BATTLECROSS, along withABORMALITY and LODY KONG. Comments mailman Max Cavalera. 'We are coming again with another kick in your face package! Get ready to sell your soul to metal!!'"

C.O.D.!

His performance pushes the envelope, but I think it really delivers.

the typo aside, "Comments mailman Max Cavalera." is an elegant sentence

That show was fucing great...

http://scontent.fphl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/13015612_10156804339900597_2298039190330878628_n.jpg?oh=c04461f320ed0212ef35fb67debb6864&oe=577769CD

i had to suffer through Psychostick yesterday. textbook definition of "trying too hard", like an unfunny Primus performing whilst being vivisected

good call on that Ritual Chamber. this is entirely in my moody death metal wheelhouse.

Only one song on soundcloud from this Polish band, Morthus, but I like it quite a lot. The blurbs say stuff about Dissection and Bathory, which aside from a lead guitar line here or there, I hear none of. Definitely sounds like "Polish blackened death metal" for the most part, and I particularly like when it kicks into that hardcore beat.

https://soundcloud.com/witchinghour-2/morthus-gospel-for-evil-and-chaos

I've been hearing good things about the new Interment too. One of these days I might get around to listening to it.

Oh and there's a new Vanhelgd album coming.
https://soundcloud.com/pulverised/vanhelgd-rebellion-of-the-iniquitous

Also if that Soulfly/Suffo opening act is supposed to be Abnormality, they also rule pretty well. (And after checking their metal-archives page, turns out they have a new one on Metal Blade coming later this month. Killer.)

Oh, yeah, guess they have a video out and everything. Can't say I'm blown away but eh.
http://www.metalinjection.net/video/abnormality-are-being-followed-by-the-cia-in-mechanisms-of-omniscience-music-video

Not exactly safe for work, and I'm not sure we needed another "person being tortured in a chair" video.

"First Kill" from the new Amon Amarth might be one of my fav metal tracks of the year. great lyrics too.

damn i love that UXO album, maybe my fave of the year so far

https://youtu.be/QDGBOTy6fXM

Supposedly this is Beherit playing in a mall for some kind of music contest -- in 1990, when they looked like Hanson. They're only in the video from 2:58 - 4:20.

Haha, I came to post that Beherit clip. Amazing.