Rolling Metal 2016

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!"

Yeah that's what I was assuming.

I like this new Sewercide album. Someone complained that it sounds like Consuming Impulse; I say yay it sounds like Consuming Impulse!!! Kinda. But the vocalist definitely has a van Drunen quality.

You know who I'm feeling lately? Garden of Worm, especially "Idle Stones." Might be more Rolling Doom/Stoner/whatev appropriate, really, cause it's weird doom with psych and prog elements.

And Mortal Decay's "Forensic" is one of the better things I've heard on Unique Leader. Brutal death but fun, with vocals that tend towards more standard DM/Bill Steer and riff writing that's got Carcass, Suffo and Cryptopsy strains running through it. Also largely non-misogynistic lyrics.

Do Brocas Helm get any love around here? Black Death is the only traditional 80s metal album I could describe as "dreamlike" without feeling like a douche.

Brocas Helm are great!

I fucking love Brocas Helm. Bastards arise, we bring you death!

The new Negura Bunget is really good. Reminds me of Popol Vuh's soundtrack to Herzog's Nosferatu, but with blast beats.

SOLD.

BTW I saw Malokarpatan discussing Popol Vuh on their Facebook page. I'll be pretty happy if I start hearing more PV influences in metal.

Not exactly metal, but I reviewed the s/t studio debut by Australian jazz-dub-metal improv group Kurushimi for Burning Ambulance. RIYL Painkiller (the John Zorn group, not the Judas Priest album), and available on Bandcamp for pay-what-you-want.

Also not exactly metal, but this folk-noise-doom thing by Völur is pretty enthralling and dark: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Y2XCmgrMhdMpoNdGibU01

totes into PV-inspired metal <3
saw pallbearer last night, enjoyed

I love that Volur record, beautiful stuff. That and Blood Folke's albums are my favorite heavy music w/violins picks for the past year.

does any band do quiet-buildup-to-thunderous-crescendos better than Russian Circles? my god...

I'm going to be at Psycho Las Vegas next weekend. Any recommendations on the lessor known act stage?

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I though that Kurushimi album is quite good but I didn't love it, I probably need a higher tolerance for free jazz tbh.

xp I've not seen them live but White Hills (heavy space rock), Crypt Sermon (excellent trad doom), Spelljammer (stonery doomish), Lecherous Gaze (retro high energy hard rock), Lycus (epic crushing crust/doom) and Ides of Gemini (like a heavy version of ethereal goth stuff).

white hills live are VERY LOUD highly recommended. like eyehategod loud.

That is a cool looking festival. There are a bunch of bands I know on that list I would check out, but they are spread out. The others might be good, but I don't know them. Nice thing is that there is a fair amount of variety in bands although this looks to have more of a desert rock/rock and roll vibe than death metal.

Saturday @ The Joint looks like the place to be in the evening (High on Fire, Uncle Acid, BOC & Electric Wizard). A Place to Bury Strangers is pretty interesting, they are more Jesus & Mary Chain noisy than metal - but cool they were booked.

Sunday @ The Joint is pretty impressive too w/ Fu Manchu, Dead Meadow, Candlemass, Baroness, Sleep & Alice Cooper.

Black Mountain, Lecherous Gaze, the Shrine, Lo-Pan, Mothership are all pretty groovy. I'd bet quite a few of the other bands are good too. Boris would be wild to see live. Acid King is pretty doomy. Jucifer I've heard some, they raise alot of racket for a 2 piece and been around for a long time.

new favorite band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8flypGO0nHI

New Obituary song. They're putting out a CD in October, Ten Thousand Ways to Die, with two new studio songs and 10 or 11 live tracks. I don't love this on first listen, but maybe it'll grow on me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI8gz54O-i8

it's about as meh as their last one

I liked the last album, but this song is slow and boring.

the main riff doesn't really do anything

New Dysrhythmia track. It's tight, and is interesting, but I think I prefer the intricate, dissonant "Internal/Eternal" from July

I am listening to Erosion of Sanity by Gorguts and wanted to say it's a record you should be listening to.

I kept waiting for something to happen in that Obituary track, and nothing did.

Cockerels, dogs, water pump

I, too, am heading to Psycho Las Vegas this weekend. Woot.

Bongripper vs. Belzebong vs. Uncle Acid ... what say y'all?

I've seen UA and they were kinda snoozy BUT Bongripper's not really my thing and I just like Belzebong OK.

Anyone wanna ride for any of them as live acts?