Rolling Metal 2016

sometimes i just post about metalcore in the emo thread lol

haha, I suppose tbh that's more likely to be the audience for it but you do have a habit of making me want to check out horrible albums you like just because of how you write about it, lol

^new board description

So i bought a ticket to see Blind Guardian tonight not realizing they are playing IFTOS in its entirety. *gasp*

one day i might even like one of them

xp

omg

Yea im stoked

so that BG show was beaten by only Iron Maiden this year. if you miss this one you're an asshole IMO.

ok not really but go check it out

Do you guys like Repulsion and early Master? Do you like Finland? Do you like free demos?

http://sonicpoison13.bandcamp.com/album/harsh-demonstration

man if you were a car salesman I'd have just driven off the lot with an entire row of vehicles

new Bolzer track: https://soundcloud.com/bolzer/i-am-iii

first listen not necessarily amazed

I like it but it hasn't hooked me as quickly as their EPs. But I'll give it some time.

Only two weeks until the new Asphyx Incoming Death comes out. At this point there are no original members left, but they'll probably sound exactly like they always do. There's also a US tour coming in April.

They put up one of the short uptempo tunes as a teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYNkQh6VDNk

I hadn't realized they were down to MvD as sole original-ish member (being on the first official album)... wow. Looking forward to the new one.

New Meshuggah video. I really like the chromatic solo on this.

The new Dysrhythmia album "The Veil Of Control" is now streaming in full over at Clrvynt prior to its Sept 23 release date.

http://clrvynt.com/dysrhythmia-the-veil-of-control/

Really looking forward to that one.

Black Sabbath's Paranoid is being reissued as a 4CD "Super Deluxe Edition" in November - it includes the 2012 remaster, a 1974 quadraphonic mix (that's been "folded down to stereo," which seems like it would kinda defeat the purpose to me), and two full live shows from 1970, one widely bootlegged but newly remastered from original tapes and one never before released. Full details in the Rolling Reissues thread.

Apparently Nahash have been laboring away in Lithuania for more than 20 years without producing a full length album? And now they have, and I think it's pretty keen. Black metal with lots of fast palm mute chugging over stately, sometimes vaguely classical-feeling melodies largely established by string/dense choral arrangements. A few soundscape interludes help establish a sense of spaciousness, a handful of show-offy leads demonstrate proggy chops, and there are a few thornier bits on offer (the end of "March Funebre" has a 4-note "solo" that's positively Slint-y).

https://drakkar-productions-official.bandcamp.com/album/nahash-daath

This is about as metal as GYBE/ASMZ but the latest Wrekmeister Harmonies is terrific.

ok this is maybe a long shot, but the memory of this collective has better better than mine many times before, so ...

looking for the band behind a youtube clip that was widely circulated a couple few years back. young women (like, high-school young?) I THINK from South America playing I THINK a "Justice-era 'tallica cover and really kinda kicking ass at it.

(because somebody sent me this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OegCtXhWc4g if you wonder)

New releases by Ghost and High Spirits today. I've played the High Spirits album once, and it's the usual, simple and infectious.

Poll finishes today. we're almost in the top 10
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thx for High Spirits headsup, didn't know about that one

There's a new Ehnahre EP out today. It's really good.

https://ehnahremetal.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-and-nothingness

Oh, and there's a new Attila song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H1I63FkUeY

^^ band is still 100 percent reprehensible

Showcasing the two opposite ends of metal right there

The vandalized parental advisory label is so good.

I don't like Attila as much as I love Emmure, but I still like 'em. Fronz knows his audience and he gives 'em what they want, same as the dudes in Dream Theater or Agalloch or whoever else.

idk seems like they're racists and misogynists to me

woah edgy chorus

why do they keep showing the Eurasianist Youth Movement logo? Are they fighting for the freedom of Novorossia?

https://i.sli.mg/Au7RM5.jpg

I wondered what happened to the drummer of Kenickie

Nox Formulae album is good. Like you know later Watain, Blaze of Perdition, Der Weg Einer Freiheit? Like that but better and with memorable songs, and very few of those bullshit post-Ministry, lazy power chord riffs said bands base entire songs around.

Khanus - Rites of Fire EP
https://khanus.bandcamp.com/releases

Debut EP from Finnish death metal band. Hard to pin a style on this, though I would quickly recommend to the folks who dug the Cadaveric Fumes EP. Non-cavernous, guitar figures that I'm not sure I've heard in death metal, or really anywhere else outside of, like, Euro-folk. Playful occult/psychedelic DM?

That's pretty good. I want an album.

Great list of all-time top 10 albums: http://towardselectricity.blogspot.be/2016/09/the-guitar-solo-in-dokkens-in-my-dreams.html

6. Scald 'Will of the Gods is Great Power'

great choice

Been a good couple of weeks for shows and now that I am working days I was able to attend a bunch of them...

The Body and Full Of Hell show was in the basement of a church and it was like 120 degrees in there. I would have liked each band to do a set and then the collaboration but instead they just did 40 minutes together, mostly culled from the album they did, closing with a cover of Devo's “Gates of Steel" which was incredible. I don't think metal fans give these two bands enough love - the crowd was mostly punk kids.

The next night was a great triple bill with Tribulation doing a headlining set (I had only seen them as the perennial opening act to date). They really do their own thing and don't give a fuck what anyone thinks, a very admirable quality that comes off live even more what with the guitarists glammy ballet moves and anti-corpsepaint. Horrendous was the first band on the bill and honestly they are about to jump out of the Death Metal tag because the genre is too limiting for them, but don't be surprised if it's great. The middle band Youth Code was a total industrial band and not the guitar-infused stuff of Ministry, but old school electronics but a lot more harsh with a screamy punk rock gal on vocals. I was glad they were there.

The very next evening, an industrial show featuring Pig and En Esch of KMFDM fame doing Slick Idiot stuff.

Finally this week I saw a fantastic triple bill of Wolves In The Throne Room, Sabbath Assembly and Cloud Rat. Three very different bands but I love each of them - Cloud Rat for their passion, energy and grind; Sabbath Assembly for their glorious prog-doom hybrid, and Wolves for creating some of the most textured black metal you will find.

Next up in the Philly area: Lotus Thief (supporting Seraph In Travail who I don't know yet), Thou, the great Saint Vitus tour with The Skull and Witch Mountain and just a few days later more doom with The Obsessed! It's a great time to be alive...

http://darkthrone.bandcamp.com/album/arctic-thunder

Best case scenario happened, I'd say: the first song they leaked is the most boring thing on the album. I'm actually liking the rest of it. Some sort of rocking melodic borderline doom metal very clearly made by two of the three people who made Under a Funeral Moon once upon a time.

Anyone looking for (very) old-school psych-leaning heavy metal could do worse than Spell, from BC. Sweet cover art, too.

https://spellofficial.bandcamp.com/album/for-none-and-all

"Take... these broken wings... and learn to fly" lol

I enjoyed that first listen of the Darkthrone album immensely. They have a nice sound on this one. Very Celtic Frosty, with some moments that do sound like a fullier, bassier Under a Funeral Moon.

wait did they really just leak their new album a month early? O_O

and for like 1/4 the price of a CD? hmmmmmmm

I'd hold out and buy it physically, they've always got interesting+funny liner notes... but I'm old and can't ever see myself buying music nonphysically anyway

I've already pre-ordered the CD but I hope they make some bank off of their Bandcamp. And the album sounds pretty damn good.

Thanks for the Spell tip. I really like it. Big and organic-sounding heavy metal.

Was the Darkthrone bandcamp thing real? The whole thing is gone now (not just the album but the account)

Lol. Well i got it.