Rolling Metal 2016

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.

there were suspicions and someone on metal-archives said they were gonna contact peaceville

something about spectrum analyses of FLAC files not coming up kosher

so am I owed a refund then

fraud if so

since bandcamp took it down i would imagine you could get with them for a refund

really wish the cd version had that orange logo, as it looks badaaaaasssss

can't say I was too moved by the music but I guess we go to war with the Darkthrone we have, not the Darkthrone we might wish to have

do we know if it's a leak of the real thing or like the Metallica St Anger "sounds that sound like but aren't Metallica" type deal that was on Kazaa

I can't imagine that was anyone other then Fenriz singing Mr. Mister at the end

I got a promo email with a Haulix stream, so it's entirely possible someone else ripped those files and put them up for sale.

Which should raise many questions at Bandcamp.

Just got a promo of the new Hammerfall album. First song is called "Bring It!" (punctuation in original). Sold.

bandcamp refunded me for the Darkthrone

I got a promo email with a Haulix stream, so it's entirely possible someone else ripped those files and put them up for sale.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 18 September 2016 22:05 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Which should raise many questions at Bandcamp.

― Dominique, Sunday, 18 September 2016 22:58 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't see what they'd be expected to do in that scenario until they were alerted to it

It seems like anyone could do this, and get away with at least a little money. Unless someone at Bandcamp is monitoring every account that gets created, why shouldn't I decide to leak the new Metallica and make a quick thousand bucks before someone caught me?

Darkthrone aren't big enough to send ripples through the industry, but my guess is that at some point soon, there will have to be a validation process before people are able to sell stuff through Bandcamp (or any hosting/streaming service).

seems like the paper trail would lead p easily to anyone doing this unless they went to a degree of effort that the profits might not even make worth it

Seems like it'd be pretty easy to turn up who did it unless they pay in Bitcoin or loaves of cash in unmarked envelopes.

today's happy news is that Dead Congregation announced an upcoming album, entitled Sombre Doom; no info whatsoever, just that they're touring in Europe in Oct and Nov to promote it

Yessssssssssss.

In other metal news I dig this Sumerlands album w/the vocalist of Hour of 13. Proggy metal with a very 80s feel (to my ears), not usually my bag but sounds pretty good.

actually upon rereading that DC announcement, I'm realizing it could be an EP, as it says "release," not "album." Who knows, though.

I really hate the production on that Sumerlands album, and they don't have any songs. I'll stick with Hour of 13, who I liked.

I never thought H13 were super strong on songs, either, tbh. Good riffs though.

re Botanist:

If you're in the yes-I'm-going-to-buy-a-pricey-limited-split-LP-without-hearing-a-note camp

https://verdant-realm-botanist.bandcamp.com/

the other half of the split is Oskoreien -- on the quasi blackgaze/atmospheric melodic BM tip -- actually the split is slightly less pricey at

http://oskoreien.com/album/oskoreien-botanist-deterministic-chaos-green-metal

I got the new Dio set. Does anyone else find the album version of "Caught in the Middle" hard to listen to? There's an awful high-pitched ring on the cymbals which is especially audible in the 2016 remaster. It's like nails on chalkboard.

finally getting around to listening to the new Witch Mountain track, "Burn You Down". it fuckin slays.

can't say enough great things about new vocalist Kayla Dixon - she has phenomenal vocal ability.

this track is atmospheric as hell but reaaaaaaally heavy as well.

she does some sick growls on the song too. Uta was good at em but Kayla's are downright demonic

Suicidal Tendencies has a new song called "Clap Like Ozzy".

what, like...off beat?

it's actually a pretty cool song though

It's about the dangers of sharing groupies.