Rolling Metal 2016

Kinda bummed to find out Vomitor have connections to that scene though

feel like I'm sending a mischievous goblin back to its home dimension every time I try to say the band name.
― Devilock, Monday, 11 July 2016 22:43

lol

finally getting around to this Ghoulgotha -- this is fucking good. The lead lines in particular stand out, and the structures might actually reach back to that Timeghoul stuff Jon referenced later. IMO no death metal album should be 54 minutes long -- Pack all that extremity into 33 or 36 minutes -- but definitely good while I/it lasts

occult burial lp arrived today, good times

xp yessss I love that record. Definitely agree re the length though.

Anyway, Bloodway and Valborg collaborative LP:

http://bloodway.bandcamp.com/album/karbon-winter

Don't worry, the guy from Valborg sings. First track is really cool and doomy, second is almost like some Kranky records 90s shit.

wow this ghoulgotha is nasty

At work I'm trying to improve our thing that calculates "similar" artists, so I fed it Ghoulgotha as a starting point, and had it make a playlist. Came out pretty well, I think:

https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/79f1nol1TsIGyOYWwdz2cH

friends: do i need to go see Beyond Creation and Rivers of Nihil when they come to my town? or no?

Beyond Creation sounded great live when I saw em open for Psycroptic

here's a song from the new subrosa album. they're coming to town in a few weeks here and i'm pretty psyched to see them. i haven't been to a metal show in years tbqh.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/subrosa-releasing-new-album-for-this-we-fought-the-battle-of-ages-share-wound-of-the-warden/

Bolzer just posted the Destroyer 666 album with the wolf "representing the spirit of the white man" on the cover and then disclaimed their politics in the comments. I'm starting to think these guys want just the tip of fascism.

well, they want the charge of the iconography - that's not a new development. fascism gives off "you should legitimately fear this" vibes more than much else.

I interviewed former Dio guitarist Craig Goldy for Burning Ambulance today.

Thread spotify playlist updated.
You guys are maniacs; this is as active a genre thread as any on ilx.

Xp - very much dug the Goldy interview

I forgot to post here saying voting has opened. Would be nice if everyone from here and wider ILM took part but even if you dont vote I hope you still feel like posting on the thread.

http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=41&threadid=104302

apparently Suffocation were not at the opening of Summer Slaughter tonight due to a one-off conflict and this was not made apparent to fans leading up. lots of people pissed.

fortunately I'm going tomorrow where they are supposed to be there.

way too much 'core' in this lineup still

New Coroner album in 2017, new 3DVD/CD best-of package in September. "Autopsy is a 3 x Blu-ray + LP or a 3 x DVD + CD set that is jam packed with a documentary movie of the band’s history, live recordings, previously unseen interviews and a best-of compilation."

Nice. Sony Switzerland is apparently more adventurous than the US branch...

I've been digging the Blizaro album Cornucopia della Morte on I, Voidhanger. Apparently was recorded in 2013 and not released until this year. I've not heard these guys before, but this is crunchy '70s doom with some boogie in it, a la Kadavar or King Heavy.

saw Sleep last night for Pulse fundraiser. won a Obituary autographed cymbal plus a Obituary t-shirt/hat for $100 at auction. Sleep were great as expected. Loud and punishing. got like 20 mins of Dopesmoker too as per usual.

My copy of the Dio box set arrived in today's mail.

I have a confession: I only have the first two Dio albums. I've only ever had those (well, and Rainbow). Do I need to fuck with later Dio?

Yeah, they're all good (well, these first six are - I haven't heard Angry Machines, Killing the Dragon, Master of the Moon, or Magica either), and for $30 you can't really pass this box up.

I might have to pick it up, I've developed a habit of buying cheap boxsets lately.

I'm not listening to the Tliltic Tlapoyauak compilation of Black Twilight Circle artists and man, Kampilan! Anticolonial (lyrics are about the Battle of Mactlan in the Philippines), epic, disembowelment-esque dirge-death. I think this is the only song they've released and it's great.

Does it transition into blasting, cavernous death metal and almost-crusty riffing? Yeah, man, it does EVERYTHING.

That compilation is great. I reviewed it for The Wire when it came out.

enjoying the new Be'lakor, but the vocalist totally wants to be Dr Claw

new anicon record is excellent https://anicon.bandcamp.com/ and they slay live

goddamn Colin Marston gets around

I know, I know, we've all heard enough Christcrushing virgin-defiling church-despoiling filth metal to last us a lifetime but honestly, seriously, hear me out, the new Anal Blasphemy is fucking outstanding. the second track, "I Am the Claw of Vengeance," sounds like they listened to a lot of super-early-80s dystopic post-punk like Killing Joke or Theater of Hate and then ran it through the Black Metalizer or something

awesome stuff

sold already by the title "i am the claw of vengeance"

whole album is great. it should be noted that about fifteen minutes of research while listening shows that the main dude runs a pretty big Finnish distro that stocks a whole shitload of the most questionable shit you can stock, e.g. swastika patches, totenkopf patches, an act called the Auschwitz Symphony Orchestra, etc. the band itself seems strictly focused on virgin-defiling et al but depending on how pure you keep it, you know....idk as a bleeding heart sjw-sympathetic type I'm used to having do perform some elaborate calculuses about this kinda thing but thought I'd mention it.

however if you just go on "what is the actual work like?" the anal blasphemy album is incredibly solid and great, easy year-end candidate. fuckin' Finnish metal bands and their nazi preoccupations, complicating fun listening since for fuckin' ever.

not just the connection to NS, I'm having trouble pulling the trigger on this because it would be the fourth band in my collection whose name begins with Anal and I can't deal w/ that atm

Ringworm are one of my favorite live bands as they are insanely energetic live, always felt their recorded material was good but didn't quite capture that raw energy...but the new one seems to do that! it's not anything different stylistically, but the production does them more favors than usual.

I really like that new Ringworm album. But I liked their last couple, too. (Have never seen them live.) They do that face-punching hardcore/death metal thing better than anybody IMO, certainly better than bullshit artists like Nails or Black Breath, and come on, "Human Furnace" is one of the best stage names of all time.

I probably like all of the albums I have of theirs (which is most), only feel like the production never captured their raw energy. the last album was good too, Hammer of the Witch? love the title track on that one.

I went to ATL just to see them and Black Breath (heh) last year, they whipped everybody into a frenzy for a solid 40 minutes.

Indie Recordings is on Bandcamp now - mostly singles so far, but a few albums too:

http://indierecords.bandcamp.com/

i don't really keep up with the metal scene too much because there's just too much music out there for me to keep track of, but have y'all heard of this moroccan dude who goes by the name "abu lahab"? pretty wild stuff. some of the other stuff i've heard of his goes more into coil territory, but this tape sounds pretty f'n metal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-pkdi-zXpg

Kinda like a metal Dissecting Table.

This is way over on the goofy end of metal, but I'm enjoying it: Vivaldi Metal Project!

https://open.spotify.com/album/101QAiyXgnzVDV9LCmhtt8

I mostly do not give a fart about any of the bands they're in (Witch, Draugar, etc) but this Eerie album on Tee Pee's fun. Doomishness with a touch of black metal in the riffing.

Deafheaven are opening for Slipknot on three dates in late September; they used a hilarious flyer to announce the shows on Instagram, which you can see on Pitchfork. (I wasn't able to embed it here.)

cosign the Eerie album. not knocking down any doors but punches several buttons

There's a new Opeth song floating about. It's really really bad.

I've heard almost the entire new Opeth album, including said new song. (Got the promo this morning, but haven't made it all the way to the end yet.) I think it's quite good. But if you're hoping Mikael was gonna "give the real fans what they want" and record Blackwater Park 2, well...sorry! This one has a full-on Mellotron-and-bongos instrumental, and there ain't a growl to be heard.

It's not the lack of metal I have a problem with it's that they're not a very good retro-prog band. At least I think so.

new anicon record is excellent https://anicon.bandcamp.com/ and they slay live

yeah liking this

What i like about the new Opeth album is how it utilizes a smidge more heaviness, and that darker tone really adds vividness to the band's current progressive rock direction, which I still contend is the best decision they, well Åkerfeldt, ever made.