Rolling Metal 2016

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.

At Amon Amarth. Entombed ADs set was half Left Hand Path/Clandestine.

Fuuuuuck yes

A friend of mine Steve Holtje turned me on to this:

https://ethicist.bandcamp.com/

Ethicist is from Cincinnati. They play what some call post-black metal, what I call bleak, blackened landscapes of doom-gaze.

The band has a name your own price download there as well as CD, LP and cassette options. It was released on 4/8.

If you like the idea of Deafheaven but are off-put by the output (or if you're like me and you actually like them) Ethicist might have something to offer you.

Amazon is currently selling the single disc Metallica reissues for $5 each.

Speaking of Metallica, I am currently thinking stupid thoughts about buying one of those Metallica Kill 'Em All box sets. Someone stop me.

Also Neanderthal or anyone, do I need to be fucking with those Entombed AD albums?

They're pretty weak, really. I just listen to the last two Entrails albums when I want to hear 'new' Entombed music, at this point they're better than the original band.

I was afraid of that. How about Firespawn?

That's great but not very "Entombed" - it has blastbeats etc.

I know this isn't 2016 but I was listening to sweven tonight and got so massively bummed that morbus chron broke up. what a record

never was a huge Aborted fan, always just aped other better bands, but I found myself liking "Necrotic Manifesto" from two years ago (just fun catchy death metal with horror soundbytes and horror-film score-sounding choruses), and the new one is actually kinda fun too!

nothing mindblowing but surprised I like them consider how quickly I got bored of their other stuff (other than maybe when they were a huge Carcass clone)

Does anyone sound like Asphyx these days or should I just keep buying Asphyx albums until my collection's complete? PS Asphyx rules.

I assume you've got the Grand Supreme Blood Court album?

I do not, actually! I guess I'll get on that.

I know this isn't 2016 but I was listening to sweven tonight and got so massively bummed that morbus chron broke up. what a record

concur. that's one of the strongest metal records of the last 10 years imo, it's a crying shame that we won't hear more from them

The guitar sound on that Blood Court album might actually be the best in the history of death metal. The album got some flak for being (even) less refined than Asphyx but it's totally won me over for being just so stupendously heavy. It's an eleven on the Bolt Thrower scale.

Wow! Kind of a shame their name sounds like the title of an anti-abortion pamphlet, but "less refined than Asphyx" sounds amazing!

funny enough I got the Grand Supreme Blood Court album at the exact time I started listening to Asphyx. great stuff

I started listening to Asphyx back when they were just a demo band (still have a copy of the Crush the Cenotaph demo somewhere) but kinda fell off after van Drunen left. I've been getting into them again lately, though, most recently been loving the unreleased first album Embrace the Death.

Well 'less refined' also means that at points they're wheeling out riffs so boneheaded they wouldn't feel out of place on an Emmure album.

Oh I

Oh.

(I actually checked out a couple of songs on Youtube, sounded pretty good. I'm a sucker for that guitar tone, though.)

Cloud Rat are excellent live and you should see them.

Man if they come to California I would

Man if they come to California I would
--a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ)

Saw them open for Thou w Kowloon Walled City.

If they come to Southern California I would

(Actually I probably wouldn't, I'm pretty lame anymore)

Hey, Vanhelgd is scratching my Asphyx itch.

If you like power metal, but miss how it sounded back when Epic wasn't quite so epic yet, this just-reissued Human Fortress album Defenders of the Crown from 2003 is pretty great.

https://open.spotify.com/album/21vGBh1O4VhnyJfavAyVjB