Rolling Metal 2016

Bongripper can be really intense, especially if they play anything from Satan Worshipping Doom. "Satan" is incredible live. But I like Uncle Acid a lot, and in the right setting their live show can be quite good, so given the choice I'd probably go see them. Wish I was making the trip!

I'll probably end up at Uncle Acid.

BOC: Worth seeing in 2016? Over Acid King? They (BOC) played to like 200 people (not including me) at our county fair a few years ago. :(

I saw Acid King and they were great but I don't know if I could turn down BÖC

as usual, new Inquisition is a feast of minor chords and dope tremolo riffs over blast beats, Popeye vocals, and a clinically chilly sounding atmosphere.

I'd say I have a boner but what else is new

Getting my copy tomorrow, psyched. Dagon is rifflord.

it ended even better than it began.

booyah

I love their attitude. Black metal needs a bit of inadvertent cheesiness, or else you end up with fancy spiritless music that just feels like the band misses the point (see: Deathspell Omega, the orthodox BM trend in general). And Inquisition bring the cheese.

But man, they've survived on infinite variations of three riffs for 20 yrs.

Worth catching live though.

Who is this guy?

He's right tho.

I enjoyed the Inquisition! Are they sketchy or what? I hear mixed vibes about it.

The members of Agalloch that aren't the Visionary Leader have formed a band lead by the frontman of Giant Squid, called Khorada. I'm glad they're carrying on but I could never get into Giant Squid, mostly cos of the guy's voice :/

Playlist is updated.

Ugh Carcass/Deafheaven co-headlining tour. No word on puppet show.

Digging this Finnish doom band with a cool, loose psychedelic feel to the guitar work. Goes well with the Garden of Worm and Goatess records I've been digging.

http://stoneship.bandcamp.com/album/the-eye

If only I could edit my thousands of posts where I use the same word twice.

If you're into Ved Buens Ende/Virus and Fleurety, check out the Taarenes Vaar demo comp on Kyrck btw. Not as accomplished, maybe, but still enjoyable.

new Mesarthim album outta nowhere at Bandcamp. Dumb ass title, first track sounds amazing.

http://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/-

remorseless!

Is the title morse code or something?

I think it's Absence in morse code

Ha, ok. At first I was wondering if it was the Wow Signal or something else spacy.

have listened to it all. think Pillars is better but will relisten soon

Uhhh Demilich is touring. The United States. Or at least the west coast, with Vastum and Hooded Menace.

the mesarthim is fucking amazing. again!

jeez these guys could be my new favorite band

Brad have you heard the Astronoid record yet? It's like Mew gone death metal.

I wouldn't want to see Demilich live, I have it in my head that they are actual space mutants and I don't want anything to destroy that.

Brad have you heard the Astronoid record yet? It's like Mew gone death metal.

from this description and the tags on their bandcamp i wasn't sure how i'd feel (i mean, theoretically i'm super about mew as death metal but you can see how that combination could go wrong or boring), but wow i love this, huge devin townsend vibes

wish i were still in contact with my ex from college who loves devin townsend, she would go nuts over this record

this is also like, "what if that last cynic record were any good"

the vocal melodies are very mew, but they're also very coheed/elliott

possibly this record was built just for me

<3

Excellent running album.

Trying to figure out why Okkultokrati's albums all come in under a 3 score on rateyourmusic

cuz weird gothy metal-crust is sounding pretty good to me right now

Remember when Black Metal was Black Metal? These guys do:

Nordjevel - s/t
https://nordjevel.bandcamp.com

Don't know if any of you have heard of Devil to Pay from Indianapolis, but they have been around for quite a while and have a new album out. Steve Janiak the lead singer is also now in Apostles of Solitude which tours Europe and is a doom band from Indy too. Both bands are really good. Anyway Devil to Pay has a new album out.

http://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-bend-through-space-and-time

for whatever it's worth, my main takeaway from Psycho Las Vegas was that Tribulation is the best band on Earth. man, I loved their last two albums, but they were *mind-blowing* live, and that was with a 45-minute set on a temporary stage next to a pool at a second-rate casino.

Tribulation rules.

* OK, "best band on Earth" is hyperbole but wow they were great

Who else stood out at Psycho Las Vegas? Did Colour Haze play? They were announced in the bill, but then I didn't seem them listed in the end. They were the main reason I was planning to go but then had to cancel.

Colour Haze had visa issues. Which was good because otherwise would have needed to choose between Wizard and Boris.

Fav performances:

YOB
Zombi (who I thought were surprisingly punchy live)
A Place To Bury Strangers
Boris
Jucifer
Mantar
Acid King

Midnight were also highly entertaining. Cosmic Dead I really wanted to see but was getting to midnight on Sunday and did not have stamina post-Sleep. There was no one I missed that I was really invested in seeing.

Small room was a little disappointing as almost every time I went in seeming to vacillate between generic big voiced lady doom and instrumental doom.

I actually thought sound at every single venue (including pool) at the Hard Rock was great btw second rate casino or not. I've seen probably a dozen of the bands live in other settings (including at some pretty decent SF venues) and uniformly each of their performances at PLV sounded better than the other times. A friend attributes that to a certain "getting it up for the big game kind of mentality" by the bands, but still thought rooms themselves were great. $15 beers and constant ripoffs everywhere else not so much. :|

I wish that had been a week later. I'm in Vegas next week and we're seeing David Guetta. ;_;

I totally agree that the sound was really good ... second-rate casino wasn't meant to be any sort of commentary on the fest or production, just a weird place to see Tribulation is all.

My highlights were:
Tribulation
Elder (holy SHIT)
Yob (excellent as always)
SubRosa (inspiring)
Alice Cooper (super fun)
Lumerians (alien kraut-bloop)
Highlands (shoegaze)
Candlemass (better than I expected)
Mars Red Sky

Baroness was good, but the sound seemed funky. That was the only time all weekend I thought that.

I took a nice swim during Bongripper, that was awesome.

I was bummed Colour Haze bailed, but not devastated. Would've liked to have seen Boris but needed a nap at that point. Some other stuff I wish I hadn't missed, but I saw my top priorities.

Was disappointed in The Cosmic Dead and Mondo Drag.

Also, Electric Wizard is boring.

Overall, I thought it was run "well enough" ... security lines were ridiculous early Friday as they wanded everyone wanting to go into the big room, but that got better the rest of the weekend as the security basically backed off. But, like ... why are you wanding in two venues but not the third? That didn't make any sense. I don't drink beer so that wasn't an issue for me but my friend was shocked at the prices. Vegas is expensive.

Bottom line: Would go again.

I think I would too actually. $15 beers is insane even by Vegas is expensive standards though. Security was moronic. I actually had a security lady INSPECT MY WALLET....

Spire
Entropy
(Iron Bonehead Productions)
Release Date: 08/22/2016

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2936662536_16.jpg

http://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/spire-entropy
http://metalbandcamp.com/2016/08/spire-entropy22.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjV_M1vEb0I

Australian band's debut full-length album after a couple of EPs and a split with Midnight Odyssey. Atmospheric blackness that manages to accentuate both the mood and the metal, not an easy feat. Slow to mid tempos, rolling along like fog disturbing a moonlit night, fans of Funeral Doom will find a lot to like here even though this is far more dynamic than most of that genre.

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hope nobody wanted to see Marduk on their US tour

Cancelled?

visa issues. though at least here, the show is continuing and you still get Rotting Christ.

Rotting Christ not likely to toss drunk ass fan over shoulder way Marduk lead singer did last I saw them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffxbailr-dg

I bought that spire thing from bandcamp. just the files tho as i couldnt afford the vinyl :(