cheese and crackers!
― the world over the crotch. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
cool track from upcoming hammers of misfortune LP:
http://www.metalblade.com/hammersofmisfortune/
sounds like hammers of misfortune
― the world over the crotch. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
That new Hammers track makes me very happy.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, that is nice.
― jmm, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link
The new Whitechapel album is a big change of pace for them - they're basically abandoning deathcore for Lamb of God-style "modern metal," clean vocals and all, which is a very good move if they want a fan base that can drink legally.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 9 June 2016 22:59 (eight years ago) link
new Flotsam and Jetsam is p good! there's a song called "Iron Maiden" where dude sings like Bruce and they play Maidenesque harmonized leads and it fucks with me a little.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 11 June 2016 02:02 (eight years ago) link
Holy shit the new Sumac is indeed a massive step up from the debut. Its crushing.
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 13 June 2016 13:01 (eight years ago) link
yeah I'm feeling it, esp when it's on a kind of Dazzling Killmen/other 90s metallic math-rock sorta tip
― reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Monday, 13 June 2016 13:20 (eight years ago) link
I'm digging this new Ghoul track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGuh6t8g3cY
― jmm, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 03:05 (eight years ago) link
saw them open for Skeletonwitch. they were fun. I have one of their albums on mp3 and have yet to listen
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 03:06 (eight years ago) link
Aldrahn is doing vocals in some kind of avant black metallish thing called Urarv. Some of it sounds almost post punk, even gothy. Hooray for prominent bass guitar.http://www.tgnd.no/urarv/
Whatever the hell it is, I'm digging it.
― Devilock, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 11:41 (eight years ago) link
listening to sumac. can def hear the dazzling killmen (& isis & neurosis & khanate). a bit seriousface scowly for me but damn good.
― the world over the crotch. (contenderizer), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
The singer for Pyrexia has been arrested for triple murder. What interests me (a little) is that the metal "press" has jumped immediately to labeling him the band's ex-frontman, but I saw these guys live, with him, opening for Suffocation just a couple of years ago, and don't remember any announcement of a new vocalist in the period since. So what, he became the ex-frontman the minute charges were filed? I mean obviously, yeah, but it feels kinda Stalinist for metal blogs to immediately leap to a "Oh, that guy? Yeah, he's our ex-singer" position.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
Dunno what happened after May of 2014 but
http://lambgoat.com/news/comments.aspx?id=22455
Wednesday, May 07, 2014 7:39 AM PTNew York death metal band Pyrexia (Unique Leader Records) and vocalist Erick Shute have parted ways. Details have yet to be revealed, with Shute only offering up the following yesterday: "I officially recuse myself from Pyrexia. I wish the guys all the best."We can't help but think that this is somehow related to Shute's attempt to crowdfund a large metal festival. If you read our news item last week, you may recall that Shute is seeking $175,000 for the Texas Metal Festival. Unfortunately, roughly six days in, Shute and his partner have netted only $35 (said partner personally contributed $100). Though Shute had not openly been using Pyrexia to promote the endeavor, we suspect that his association proved to be a source of acrimony.
New York death metal band Pyrexia (Unique Leader Records) and vocalist Erick Shute have parted ways. Details have yet to be revealed, with Shute only offering up the following yesterday: "I officially recuse myself from Pyrexia. I wish the guys all the best."
We can't help but think that this is somehow related to Shute's attempt to crowdfund a large metal festival. If you read our news item last week, you may recall that Shute is seeking $175,000 for the Texas Metal Festival. Unfortunately, roughly six days in, Shute and his partner have netted only $35 (said partner personally contributed $100). Though Shute had not openly been using Pyrexia to promote the endeavor, we suspect that his association proved to be a source of acrimony.
― Devilock, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
Unfortunate last name there
― On this timescale, all matter is liquid. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 00:47 (eight years ago) link
Opeth have signed with Nuclear Blast and will be releasing a new album, Sorceress, by the end of the year. I wasn't that excited about their upcoming Radio City Music Hall show (October 1), but now I think I'm gonna go see 'em again.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
DHG posted on their FB yesterday that Aldrahn is out of the band to focus on that Urarv thing. Everything sounded really amicable though. Vicotnik will be doing the vox.
Also:http://i.imgur.com/3mReSTl.png
― Devilock, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
Vicotnik will be doing the vox on their upcoming euro tour, to be more accurate.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
aw + lol
― imago, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
they were amazing live a few months ago, playing quite a small venue, wonder if they're upscaling now
― imago, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
Heard the new Sumac album now; it's fucking massive and a definite improvement on the debut.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
told ya
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
Is anyone excited about Terra Tenebrosa? I feel kinda meh about what I've heard.
― On this timescale, all matter is liquid. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 18 June 2016 06:49 (eight years ago) link
oh man the new Nails yessssssssss
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 18 June 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
Blut Aus Nord, Terra Tenebrosa, Nails, Inter Arma, Gojira. That's just this week.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 18 June 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
I like this Portuguese band Dead Procession. Sort of LLN vibes sometimes. Sort of 1970s weirdo vibes sometimes (like German Oak or something). Maybe not metal exactly but where else am I going to talk about it?
http://dunkelheitprod.bandcamp.com/album/rituais-e-mantras-do-medo-demos
― On this timescale, all matter is liquid. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 20 June 2016 08:31 (eight years ago) link
Bought the recent Revenge album. It was that kind of day. They always sound like they were formed by members of a cargo cult who had a crate of copies of Reek Of Putrefaction dropped into their, one assumes, isolated bunker.
― On this timescale, all matter is liquid. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 12:39 (eight years ago) link
dude that is such a great description.
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 12:52 (eight years ago) link
the Sumac record is pretty good yes
― imago, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 12:59 (eight years ago) link
in realizing I want to hear way more thrash stuff than death or (esp) black metal, pitting the Occult Burial vs the Ripper from this year. Both are old school, but to my ears from different eras -- former going way back to Venom-style proto-thrash with a punk edge, and the latter opting for early proto-death metal, a la Death, Master, Possessed. I think I prefer Ripper tbh, as Occult Burial gets a little sloppy in both the song and playing departments. However, more of these ilks appreciated!
― Dominique, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
Deviant ProcessParoxysm(PRC Music)Release Sate: 3/11/2016
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/5/6/4/2/564223.jpg?3212
http://open.spotify.com/album/0USr3Ye1aDtm3U2JtmTNVahttp://deviantprocess.bandcamp.com
Quebec is known for churning out quality Tech Death (Cryptopsy, Gorguts) but this debut is fantastic even held up against those lofty standards. I checked it out since it was on the Rate Your Music charts for the year (Top 100 overall; #33 Metal; #12 Death Metal) and even though I tend to get bored by this genre, this is really well done. The chops are evident but the super fast scales and time changes are constructed in a way that is a lot of fun! It's plenty heavy too.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link
the three tracks from paradise gallows up on inter arma's bandcamp page are fucking ~~~IMMENSE~~~
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
*thirty seconds into this deviant process record* holy shit yes thank u nycnative
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 June 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/AnataDeathMetal/posts/1375508039132696
We understand that a lot of you guys are still waiting for the new or whatever album and we absolutely LOVE you guys for hanging in there.So here's what. Mastering of the long awaited album will take place in July.And then we'll see. Times are changing and there are different options when it comes to labels, formats etc.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
(also there's something about Infernal Depths of Hatred being reissued on vinyl)http://www.kaotoxin.com/anata-the-infernal-depths-of-hatred-vinyl-reissue-details-revealed/
― Devilock, Thursday, 23 June 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
fuck yes!!!
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
so that First Fragment album is something, huh
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 23 June 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
I'm enjoying this new album by Finnish black metal band Korgonthurus. Very much in the desperate-shrieking-over-relentless-waves-of-lo-fi-distortion mode of black metal, but that's a thing I like a lot when it's done with sufficient intensity.
https://open.spotify.com/album/39ChoIwnmDGO2yEMUicr5B
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 23 June 2016 22:49 (eight years ago) link
Also just getting to Deviant Process now. Bracing chewing-your-brain tech-death. The music is incredible, but the vocals are in this gargly just-beginning-to-vomit part of the spectrum that wears on me pretty quickly, so I'm not sure I'm going to make it through the whole thing.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 23 June 2016 23:56 (eight years ago) link
FUCK YES. thought i was the only one.
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:54 (eight years ago) link
metal is where we say fuck yes
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:55 (eight years ago) link
I wish more tech-death (hell, metal in general) was that straight-up fun
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 24 June 2016 00:59 (eight years ago) link
i know! makes great driving music.
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Friday, 24 June 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link
provided you like crashing into everything while air conducting tech-death symphonies
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Friday, 24 June 2016 01:08 (eight years ago) link
^ not symphonic metal
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Friday, 24 June 2016 01:18 (eight years ago) link
I always wanted to like Anata, I mean I get that they were *slightly* more ear-catching than usual tech-death but were still pretty one-dimensional. Warms my heart that they're finally managing to get something else out though.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 24 June 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
More on xpost Dio reissues:
Decade Of Dio: 1983-1993 Boxed Set Available for Pre-Orders Now Featuring Remastered Versions of Dio's First Six Studio Albums Available via Rhino:CD Version - July 22Vinyl Version - October 4
Ronnie James Dio's sinister howl and wicked songcraft bewitched hard rock fans in the Seventies and Eighties during his memorable stints with Elf, Rainbow and Black Sabbath. In 1983, the singer formed his own band, launching a successful solo career that led to 10 studio albums and sales of more than 10 million records around the world. Earlier this month, it was announced that Rhino would release a new boxed set, A Decade Of Dio: 1983-1993, that brings together Dio's first six studio albums - each one featuring newly remastered sound. It includes: Holy Diver (1983), The Last In Line (1984), Sacred Heart (1985), Dream Evil (1987), Lock Up The Wolves (1990) and Strange Highways (1993). Both versions (CD and vinyl) come housed in boxes featuring new artwork by Marc Sasso, who was responsible for many of the band's iconic covers. The CD set will hit stores on July 22, 2016 for a list price of $34.98. The vinyl incarnation of the set will be available on October 4, 2016 for $99.98, and comes with a bonus 7" single. On the first side is the 1983 version of "Evil Eyes," which was originally released as the b-side on the "Holy Diver" single. In addition, this version is different from the one featured on the 1984 album The Last In Line. The flip side features "Time To Burn," which was the only studio track featured on the otherwise live release, Intermission (1986). After two albums with Black Sabbath, Ronnie James Dio left in 1982 and formed Dio with fellow Sabbath band mate Vinny Appice on drums. The group's platinum-selling debut Holy Diver arrived in 1983 and is now revered as a heavy metal masterpiece, including two songs that would become rock signatures: the title track and the epic "Rainbow In The Dark." The band returned the following year with The Last In Line (1984), which became the band's second platinum seller and included the single "Mystery," as well as "We Rock," a song the band often used to close its shows. Sacred Heart (1985) achieved gold certification and introduced fans to the concert staple "Rock 'n' Roll Children." Dio's fourth studio album, Dream Evil (1987) included the singles "All The Fools Sailed Away" and "I Could Have Been A Dreamer." In the Nineties, the group released two more stellar studio albums. Lock Up The Wolves arrived in 1990 and featured the single "Hey Angel" and rocking title track. Following a brief reunion with Black Sabbath in 1992, Dio returned with Strange Highways in 1993. The album featured future fan favorites like "Jesus, Mary and The Holy Ghost," "Evilution," and the title track. Although Ronnie James Dio lost his battle with stomach cancer in 2010, his towering voice and legacy live on. The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund, co-founded by Wendy Dio, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable fund dedicated to supporting cancer-prevention research, raising awareness and educating the public about the vital importance of early detection and prevention when dealing with this deadly disease. A Decade Of Dio: 1983-1993 Album Listing:Holy Diver (1983)The Last In Line (1984)Sacred Heart (1985)Dream Evil (1987)Lock Up The Wolves (1990)Strange Highways (1993)
― dow, Friday, 24 June 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
the vocals are in this gargly just-beginning-to-vomit part of the spectrum that wears on me pretty quickly,
oh i was actually relieved that they're at least felt a little lighter/higher than the traditional beginning-to-vomit garglecore
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 24 June 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
Already pre-ordered that Dio set (on CD, of course).
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 24 June 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
Vividly aware that arguing over the precise part of the throat the singer sounds like their vomit has reached is a textbook example of the narcissism of small differences.
My new-songs list for the week ends with the roaring extended coda of Sinsaenum (4:44), Korgonthurus (14:19) and Gevurah (19:48).
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 24 June 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
great list, and I really really like the rant that runs down the right hand column.... so many nails hit on heads, and well worded too.... is it also somewhere else on the site, all in a block?
― m0stlyClean, Friday, 24 June 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link