Rolling Metal 2016

def excited about new Darkthrone, but actually hoping they steer away from the sound of the last couple of records. The quality on the 2005-2008 era was inconsistent, but there was still black metal bite in the performances, even if they were essentially applying them to Motorhead/Venom style tunes. Starting w/Circle the Wagons, their traditional heavy metal love came a bit too close to the fore IMO.

Also very happy to hear Culto is doing all the vox on the new one, because he is incapable of sounding cheesy.

ha and totally expect to hear that Black Viper on a Fenriz radio show

Drum Machines? Godflesh. 'Nuff said.

Darkestrah
Turan
(Osmose Productions)
Release Date: 4/29/2016

http://shop.season-of-mist.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/500x500/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/D/a/Darkestrah-Turan-49179-1.jpg

http://open.spotify.com/album/2fqE80hDwkXqcHst0jV3jP
http://darkestrahofficial.bandcamp.com/album/turan

Never heard this band before despite them having a slew of releases going back to 2004 with the new one and 2013's Манас on Osmose Productions. My loss. The new album takes elements of folk, classical and prosaic black metal and makes all of them work, and work together. If you like your atmospheric black metal to have some substance or your pagan metal to not be cheesy, you will likely find something you will like here. A lot of things, actually.

For the record, I posted that thing because it made me laugh. Drum machines aren't what makes black metal a garbage genre.

I know that's a challops but I want to pick at it so bad

Revisiting the Full of Hell/Merzbow album today. Still not as glorious as I'd hoped when I bought it - I was anticipating something in the vein of, I don't know, Kill the Client crossed with James Plotkin's Atomsmasher - but it's an excellent soundtrack to a hot day.

Man this Inter Arma record is pretty great. Aside from the cover, which looks like blacklight art from a pirate bar.

new Cadaveric Fumes is fucking outstanding. just great loosey-goosey guitar work in a black metal context, it's like Jeffrey Lee Pierce or Kid Congo recruited to play in a black metal band

seriously this shit is GREAT

It kind of has a Tribulation/Stench/Morbus Chron vibe to my ears... I feel like someone gave all these kids copies of King Crimson's "Red" and it's starting to pay dividends. I definitely hear a looseness there, it's a great direction to take death/black in after two decades of super-uptight, rigid precision. Well maybe moreso for death...

(it is great!)

yay Cadaveric Fumes love! Between that, Ghoulgotha, and Wakedead Gathering, this year has been great for not-clinical/overly-precise, DIY death metal. I feel like there's been the birth of a sort of new style in the last few years along these lines (see also last year's Khthoniik Cerviiks, Domains from 2014, the various Stargazer releases) for death metal that doesn't feel constrained by the genre, allows for a little black metal ambiance, and song structures that aren't just emphasizing brutal upon brutal upon brutal.

I'm split between wanting a name for that style so I can easily refer to it without naming a bunch of bands and being afraid it'll be called something really stupid.

>> I feel like someone gave all these kids copies of King Crimson's "Red" and it's starting to pay dividends. <<

YES!

and not even sure it's a "style", but an organic evolution of death metal, which actually seems cooler to me

that said, hypnagogic metal

I didn't realize that Joel Violette from Woods of Ypres had another band. Thrawsunblat. Wowwowwow. Epic melodic black metal. https://open.spotify.com/album/27M8aMOAQ4feeqMYwdFWEB

into this concept but I always like modifiers of extant categories so how about hypnopompic death

I also like a lot of this OSDM that's kind of progressive without being "prog" (I'm not suggesting that's what anyone should call it). Howls of Ebb are another good one, as are Execration - Morbid Dimensions is a good album from a couple of years ago if you're into that sort of thing.

Hypnopompic is a good word though.

Execration album totally up my alley, kind of reminds me of Head of the Demon crossed with Autopsy. was this on the metal poll spreadsheet?

https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/765579594086883328

adding to the chorus of "man the cadaveric fumes record is so cool"

xp that leather chair is siiiick

also love that Execration, too!

the Execration was great.

I like the new Ghoul - maybe it's time I listen to the old Ghoul that's been on my Amazon Cloud for two years now.

Was just urged to listen to Blood Incantations's Starspawn and it's kinda in the same line as Cadaveric Fumes/Khthoniik C. I especially like "Chaoplasm" -- def waves the ol' King Crimson banner

will check it

first track off new 40 Watt Sun sounding good https://soundcloud.com/40wattsun/beyond-you

hoping this is gonna be a whole album of indie rock just because it'll piss ppl off

listening to the new Darkthrone track now, and right off the bat getting Ravishing Grimness vibes (which is good). Does go into 80s heavy metal territory midway through track, but encouraging!

Is that the one with that Celtic Frosty opening riff? Loved it.

Yeeeesss, Blood Incantation delivers. I listened to their debut EP a couple of times last year and though it was quite good but ended up not buying it because I thought the Timeghoul worship was a bit too on the nose iirc. This is great though.

I dunno if I could have too much Timeghoul worship. Am I missing a bunch of Timeghoulies out there making records about wars in the guts of giant monsters and deros and teros and shit?

Way too uncool for the room, I know, but there's a new Metallica song out today, and a new album in November - a 12-track, 80-minute double CD called Hardwired...To Self-Destruct. The first track rips. YouTube embeds won't work, I know, so here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhBHL3v4d3I

I'm into it. I'd have pre-ordered the album already, but their webstore doesn't take PayPal.

It's a scorcher! I was excited about the new Darkthrone track this morning, but this tops it.

Ehhh... wish they'd just go back to dad-rockin', getting tired of them faking the funk.

It's really weird how concerned they are about being perceived as a thrash band suddenly.

Lukewarm on that track. Why are Metallica going back to Exodus-style thrash after they played it for maybe one album?

I don't hate the song, but if I were to weigh it against any number of thrash acts in 2016, it's nothing special. James actually kinda sounds ok on it which surprised me, but I dislike the production.

Listenable but....I'll wait for more leaks to see how excited I should be.

i did like it more than anything on Death Magnetic that wasn't "That Was Just Your Life" though

I realize it will feel like a "throws up hands, what DO you want?" moment for some, but hearing them regress all the way back to "Whiplash"-type songs isn't really what I ever wanted from them - I play KEA so much less than the three after it, which isn't to say I don't like the songs, but what they became is so much more interesting to me than where they started.

in the chorus he said the S word less than 2 seconds after saying the F word. radical. good thing my mom didn't hear

straight thrash isn't what i want to hear from metallica either, but it's a double album, so maybe there'll be places where they stretch out. imagining/hoping this is sort of like what if "mistress dread" had been the first single from lulu

anyway the song is super fun!

yeah I mean I *sincerely* doubt they would release one of the more ambitious tunes from the album as the first sample, so that makes sense. put it this way, it's not enough for me to not at least be interested in what the rest will sound like.

might also make more sense in the context of the album

The D-throne camp doesn't exactly blow me out of my shoes as usual, hope the rest of the album is better.

I don't want them to pretend it's the 90s, but after their trilogy their idiom got maybe too predictably spartan. Moments of dreamlike beauty like the trippy guitar harmonizing in "Paragon Belial," or the slightly melodic march-like riffs in "The Pagan Winter?" Gone forever! Is sad.

xpost *it's not bland enough for me

it's a double album, so maybe there'll be places where they stretch out

80 minutes total, 6 tracks per disc...I bet there'll be at least two 10-minute tracks on this thing.

Unforgiven 4 - 6

digging the new Skeletonwitch E.P. thus far. new vocalist though is a bit generic, though inoffensive enough that he doesn't detract from my enjoyment. he's no Chance.

like that the first track is more heavy metally than blackened death/thrash.

It's weirdly adorable how Varg opens all his recent youtube videos with some loaded question, then points at the camera and says "let's find out"

I hope it's questions like "how much toothpaste is in a tube?" or "can I kickflip this children's skateboard?"

"Can I talk outrageous racist bullshit and still keep my French residency permit? Let's find out!"