Dunno about the Gorguts - after the new Slice The Cake had me bowling over with laughter I don't know if I can take more "progressive" death metal.
― Siegbran, Friday, 6 May 2016 06:25 (eight years ago) link
this gorguts is great and a breath of fresh air in what has been a boring year for metal so far imo but then i hate metal as you're all aware
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Friday, 6 May 2016 11:08 (eight years ago) link
I've avoided listening to any of the excerpts from the Gorguts EP, I think I might wait til I actually get it though I'm really tempted by the stream. I've also read some good things about a band called Scammasch but I think I need to be in the right mood to tackle a 100 minute black metal album.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 6 May 2016 13:27 (eight years ago) link
Actually you know I'm going to be grossly self-indulgent and list the "interesting" metal releases that I've dug this year
Ecferus - PangaeaEhnahre - DouveGeryon - The Wound and the BowHowls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic VowsKrallice - HyperionOranssi Pazuzu - VärähtelijäPalace of Worms - The LadderTemisto - TemistoWormed - KrighsuZealotry - The Last Witness
Also I admit the latest The Body album is worth a bash if you want something truly different, the only problem is I haaaated it.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 6 May 2016 13:33 (eight years ago) link
Vektor will be hard to beat this year. It's an incredible album, especially this final track. They're going to need huge pyrotechnics for the climax when they take it on stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C71_QwZt69A
― jmm, Friday, 6 May 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, that was great.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
Bought the new Vektor and Novembre today - both are different metal-epic fun listens and will get lots of spins this weekend. I expected Vektor to be great and that last track is indeed the stand-out. I hadn't ever heard Novembre - this has such a great prog atmosphere - really glad I tried this out.
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 6 May 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
I've also read some good things about a band called Scammasch but I think I need to be in the right mood to tackle a 100 minute black metal album.
It's really good and, handily/annoyingly, broken into 3 discs. Doing 2 at a time seems to work best. I feel like their last one (a double disc) was a bit ponderous and wanted to be Triptykon a bit too much, Triangle is excellent proggy/atmospheric/avant black metal. 100 minutes is too much, though.
― Arch Godliness of Purplefull Magic (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 6 May 2016 23:37 (eight years ago) link
All hail Vektor! I still prefer Outer Isolation so far - this is an exhausting listen - but damn it is a mighty fine thing to have them back.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 7 May 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
SO MANYRIFFS
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 7 May 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, wow, this Vektor album is fantastic. The Schammasch thing is really interesting, too.
Lots of interesting things on this metal list in particular:
https://open.spotify.com/user/particledetector/playlist/4gWxVKO4msK8uMaJ6jj1z8
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 7 May 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
didn't know there was a new Zealotry, those guys are good I should check that out
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 7 May 2016 01:41 (eight years ago) link
gah they're throwing Horrendous on at 3:00 - 3:30 on the Friday at MDF. now meaning I gotta try to check in early, or dump my shit at the hotel and check in later to avoid missing them
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 7 May 2016 03:12 (eight years ago) link
Man, only 30 minutes? Thought those dudes were kind of cresting a wave right now.
― Arch Godliness of Purplefull Magic (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 7 May 2016 04:19 (eight years ago) link
yeah I'm bummed about the length too :(
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 7 May 2016 04:24 (eight years ago) link
I enjoy Anareta more every listen
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 7 May 2016 04:25 (eight years ago) link
god "Cygnus Terminal" off of the new Vektor is fucking gorgeous
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 7 May 2016 04:32 (eight years ago) link
Alright, Alastair Rintoul from Begrime Exemious is my Metal Dude Of The Week.
http://i63.tinypic.com/2qsrxts.jpg
― Arch Godliness of Purplefull Magic (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 8 May 2016 12:41 (eight years ago) link
"Collapse" is turning into one of my favourites from the Vektor album. I didn't initially like the overdubbed singing-screaming section, but I dunno, it's a weird idea that somehow completely works.
― jmm, Sunday, 8 May 2016 14:08 (eight years ago) link
If anything I think the album could have used a couple more "breather" sections like that.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 8 May 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link
don't think anyone has posted this yet:
http://cdn.theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/psycho-las-vegas.jpg
― alpine static, Monday, 9 May 2016 07:10 (eight years ago) link
holy sheep shit
― da vinci beaver testicles (contenderizer), Monday, 9 May 2016 11:45 (eight years ago) link
Made a playlist for that.
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/1l3ELOu54bjK0xPYyjNEQx
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 9 May 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
think i'm going. stooooked.
― alpine static, Monday, 9 May 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
I am going. :D
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 May 2016 22:53 (eight years ago) link
I'm gonna make another attempt to like Morbid Angel.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 13:22 (eight years ago) link
Two things: Pleiades' Dust is brilliant and I'm enjoying the Vektor album a lot more than I thought I would (I'm just not that big on thrash)
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
I have tried so much to appreciate Morbid Angel, but to this day I cannot remember how any of their songs go. Can't tell them apart. Except for the ones on that hilarious album a few years ago.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link
So this is happening in my backyard...
http://dinv6bnu2wkbe.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Rock-Allegiance-5.6-website.jpg
A mixture of things I like with things I abhor.My 13-year old son wants to go!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:44 (eight years ago) link
I still regret missing the Psycho Cali in May 2015 so yeah, I'm going to Vegas baby. Finally get to see Colour Haze!
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
"gourmet man food"
― jmm, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
Buried deep in that Psycho Vegas lineup is UK psych prog band Family. That could be interesting!
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
Wonder how his voice holds up now
― Odysseus, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, May 10, 2016 6:22 AM (5 hours ago)
i do not like morbid angel. of course i'd never admit it. i do like the new vektor. and that weird buzzy orange pazuzu thing and chtheilist not that i can spell it plus howls of ebb. i've also been lurking due to slacking on music basically but hugs & hails to mtl ppl.
http://erinhunter.katecary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/kitten-hugs.jpg
― da vinci beaver testicles (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
OK this Sxuperion album is pretty cool, violent black metal with a vaguely cosmic feel and death metalish vocals:
http://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-void
I want to compare it to Zemial but that isn't really accurate. Super monotonous/trance-inducing guitars, almost-almost qualifies for the Branca-metal thread.
― You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 09:48 (eight years ago) link
also vampire (swe) had an EP out late last year that i failed to notice. it's good! more of the same, but good-same.
― da vinci beaver testicles (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 13:06 (eight years ago) link
i do like the new vektor. and that weird buzzy orange pazuzu thing and chtheilist not that i can spell it plus howls of ebb.
^ I wholeheartedly concur with all of this, and also (especially) the kittens.
I came here to say that I can't not hear Vektor's 'Pillars of Sand' as Christina Milian's AM to PM, which slightly enhances it for me, if anything.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link
And there was much rejoicing.
https://www.facebook.com/AnataDeathMetal/posts/1343725292310971
Obviously this isn't much, or anything, to go on, but I'm just gonna let my hopefulness consume me.
― Devilock, Thursday, 12 May 2016 23:02 (eight years ago) link
1) devilock, holy shit!!
2) not really metal, but on a metal label being serviced to metal pubs presumably because the drummer is from Alcest - Sylvaine, which is kinda Explosions in the Sky but ethereal-gothier...my resistance to midtempo shoegazey "post metal' is pretty strong but the groove here is nice, not breaking down any doors but pretty pleasant stuff
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 13 May 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
anyone going to Temples Festival in Bristol?
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 13 May 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
checked out the Metal Church album from this year. not mindblowing or anything but v listenable and catchy, I lieks.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 13 May 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
Assuming Anata is indeed back, I guess there wasn't room for two great bands that start with "a."
https://www.facebook.com/AgallochOfficial/posts/10154268288083606
― Devilock, Friday, 13 May 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
wow what
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 13 May 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
Damn, Agalloch were never one of my favourite bands but that sucks
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 13 May 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
listening to the Schammasch. expect raptures
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 16 May 2016 07:04 (eight years ago) link
hmm, it's quiiiite good i guess
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 16 May 2016 08:40 (eight years ago) link
The Schammasch is much better than quite good! The ambient final third feels a little unnecessary imo, but the first two sides bring fury.
I'd recommend 'Metanoia' as a highlight.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Monday, 16 May 2016 10:48 (eight years ago) link
I liked Schammasch a decent amount but it really doesn't sustain the 100 minute run time. If they exercised some restraint/editing it could've been a killer... saying that, it never really gets too spectacular but enjoyable nonetheless.
As for Vektor I've listened to it through fully three times I think but keep going back to the first and last tracks becasue they honestly oveshadow everything else on the record entirely.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 16 May 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
I generally have a problem with that hollow guitar tone they use but it fits better during the more progressive moments than it does during the 'heavier' moments, which is why I suspect they use it.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 16 May 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
Vektor album reminded me of Ayreon
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 16 May 2016 14:40 (eight years ago) link