Rolling Metal 2016

yeah this is supposed to be a genre about hating and killing everybody, getting picky about races is offensive and bad or something

Interesting heel turn

idk he may have a point, Agalloch's Fuck and Eat Everybody Twice is my fav

New Usurpress is up, $3 if you're a downloader.

http://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-regal-tribe

They're more of a retro blues-rock band than a metal band, but anyway: Graveyard have broken up and cancelled all tour dates.

Band statement:

Dark clouds above the graveyard today.

Due to the all so classic reason “differences within the band” the Graveyard is as of today officially closed. This is the unfortunate final decision we’ve had to make after going through a period of struggling n juggling with personal issues. Things have gone out of hand and now our energy is very low. As a direct result of this we’re sorry to say that all scheduled touring is cancelled.

Graveyard have always been more about the music than the talking and that approach is the way we intend to deal with this situation also. What we can say is that we don’t know if and when the Graveyard will re-open and return in full force.

Stay tuned, stay awesome & No endless night in sight.

Joakim, Axel, Truls, Jonatan

That sucks. Innocence and Decadence and Hisingen Blues are great albums.

Don't remember seeing mention of Martröð - avant-BM "supergroup" - two songs just out PWYW from Fallen Empire
First track is murky chaos. Second one breathes a bit more, but still pretty wooly. Whoof.

https://martrod.bandcamp.com/album/transmutation-of-wounds

Some ass-kicking death metal:

https://interment666.bandcamp.com/album/scent-of-the-buried-2

Has anyone checked out this Dark Forest (UK) album? It's wonderful epic fantasy metal with a strong Iron Maiden feel. Scrappier than most modern power metal and with a good ear for melody.

https://darkforest-uk.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-veil

New Haar/Ur Draugr split, 20 minute track by UD:

http://atmfsssdtp.bandcamp.com/album/ur-draugr-haar

Playlist is updated through September.
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/4tl2ax29gsTxxopSKgXqn7

Always find Thy Catafalque ultimately a bit lumbering and dull tbh

I've only listened to a sliver, but imago, have you checked out tge new Dysrhythmia?

Death Angel/Anthrax/Slayer tour is a blast. Anthrax's set sadly predictable (the same ole oldies + the new songs, which admittedly, I like Worship Music much more than I do For All Kings. Slayer's was a blast - we got "Fight Til Death", "The Antichrist" (after a loooong absence), "Black Magic" (same), and "Born of Fire" tonight.

Death Angel was great too, I just sadly arrived too late to take them in.

tho don't take my comment about Anthrax to mean they weren't great - "Caught in a Mosh" and "Indians" are always worth chanting along to

Here's a nice debut album by French black metal duo Pénitence Onirique

https://youtu.be/UuNFamprors

Cool art too

Listened to a couple of songs by Tengger Cavalry, the "Mongol metal" band. The main dude's attempts to fuse metal growls and throat singing just make him sound like Milan Fras, the singer from Laibach, to my ear.

There's a new album coming out by Poland's Deus Mortem. Typically blasting/stomping black metal but sometimes this hits the spot.
https://soundcloud.com/malignant-voices/deus-mortem-penetrating-the-veils-of-negativity

re: Tengger Cavalry tbh a little surprised they haven't changed their name to the Khalasar.

Imperial Triumphant and Luminous Vault (who have just signed to Profound Lore) are going on tour next month:

OCT 7 - Baltimore, MD (Yums)
OCT 8 - Elizabeth, NJ (Clafonos)
OCT 9 - Brooklyn, NYC (Lucky 13 Saloon)
OCT 10 - Providence, RI (Dusk)
OCT 11 - Rochester, NY (Flour City)
OCT 12 - Columbus, OH (The Summit)
OCT 13 - Detroit, MI (New Dodge Lounge)
OCT 14 - Indianapolis, IN (Indiana City Beer)
OCT 15 - Milwaukee, WI (Frank's)
OCT 16 - Pittsburgh, PA (Smiling Moose)

Gonna be hard to talk myself out of that 10/8 show, if I can figure out an address for the venue (can't seem to turn one up online).

the second letter in that venue's name is an i , not an l : http://www.eventdaddy.net/elizabeth/10-8-devoidov-luminous-vault-imperial-triumphant-galare/

the new Suicidal Tendencies is pretty fun and catchy. I think I like it better than the last one.

somehow Muir's voice is less annoying as he's gotten older

the spoken intro to "The New Degeneration" is so fucking eye-rolly though, it's like....Mike, you're 53 years old.

Am I misremembering or was there a long period of time where Muir sounded like he was trying to sing CYCOOOOO but oddly quiet, like he didn't want to wake his parents in the next room over?

Getting new Asphyx and Usurpress tomorrow, excited. New Void Meditation Cult next month, too...

Goddamn, I love this Dysrhythmia album!

Anyone else on their first trip through the new Alcest? If you have an opinion about Alcest I don't think "Kodama" will force you to revise it much, and if I hadn't read all the stuff about the influence of Japanese culture on Neige I don't think I would pick up on any musical indications of it. But goddamn, it sure is purty.

Also, if you like Alcest and you're the music-buying sort, I'd definitely recommend the 7 track version. The bonus track, though instrumental, fells very much of a piece - very leisurely dynamic swell (if you played it at half speed without dropping the pitch it might almost sound like Low) and it's a nice way to take the album out.

Goddamn, I love this Dysrhythmia album!

oh yass, thank you

spinning the new Asphyx now. opening track is a good start.

lol "The Grand Denial" has kind of an arena rock riff in it

the second letter in that venue's name is an i , not an l : http://www.eventdaddy.net/elizabeth/10-8-devoidov-luminous-vault-imperial-triumphant-galare/

Apparently it's spelled Cianfano's:

http://cianfanosrestaurantbar.dinehere.us/

Got my copy of the 2CD deluxe version of the new Opeth in today's mail. The second disc has two extra studio tracks, and three live tracks recorded with an orchestra and choir. I thought about going to see them tonight at Radio City Music Hall, but changed my mind because they're playing Damnation and Deliverance in their entirety, followed by a short set of other songs. (This is one of the only nights on the tour where they're doing that.) I love those albums, but I hate "play-the-album-in-full" shows. I'd much rather hear a well constructed set of new and old material. The best Opeth show I've ever seen was in 2011, when they were first touring Heritage; they put together a set that was half Heritage songs, and half back catalog songs that had that same mellow, proggy sound:

The Devil's Orchard
I Feel the Dark
Face of Melinda
Porcelain Heart
Nepenthe
The Throat of Winter (acoustic)
Patterns in the Ivy II (acoustic)
Closure (acoustic)
Slither
A Fair Judgement
Hex Omega
Folklore (encore)

New Asphyx is good. Not as good as Deathhammer, but still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEuI2Qeb5Wg

You know you're in too deep when instead of going "what the fuck is this noise?" you see the 1982 release date and think "whoa, this is ahead of its time"

That's pretty insane right there.

You guys ever try to remember some metal band you heard once and forgot about, only to have it surge back into your memory years later? I'm trying to remember this band I heard... late 90s or early 00s, simple black metal with a lot of synths, but the synths are super-basic, one-finger melodies that sound more like a garage version of the Twin Peaks theme than Summoning or something, with pretty simplistic black metal. My brain thinks it's Taake but my ears don't. Not Graveland. Kinda introverted sounding... one man band, I think. Urgh.

Sort Vokter?

Manes?

Nah, love both bands but this was way more simple than Manes. Closer to Sort Vokter but less punky. Maybe my brain's just generating fake bands as I progress into black metal senility.

Ah, I think I was Taake and Vinterriket in my head.

mixing them, that is

You may be interested to learn that Deathspell Omega are releasing an EP on the 8th of November called The Synarchy of Molten Bones.

I am very interested.

tonight at Witch Mountain/The Skull/Saint Vitus...

Eric Wagner: You know that Elton John song that goes....the microphone smells like a beer?
Me: you mean BILLY JOEL?
Eric: well...this one smells like SHIT

(they were the highlight of the night for me. Not a huge Vitus fan, love Witch Mountain, but maaaaaaaan I got to hear some classic Trouble w/ Eric finally)

I'm enjoying these a lot:

https://sumerlands.bandcamp.com/album/sumerlands
https://eternalchampion.bandcamp.com/album/the-armor-of-ire
https://highspiritsmetal.bandcamp.com/album/motivator
https://trollpdx.bandcamp.com/album/troll

Don't write off Sumerlands based one one opinion!

Has anyone checked out this Dark Forest (UK) album? It's wonderful epic fantasy metal with a strong Iron Maiden feel. Scrappier than most modern power metal and with a good ear for melody.

https://darkforest-uk.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-veil

― jmm, Saturday, September 24, 2016 9:57 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is really good!

Don't write off Sumerlands based one one opinion!

Yeah, it's good stuff. Maybe not hook-y, but definitely worth a listen.

New Okkultokrati sounds like Totalitar trying to be AC/DC. Produced by Asahito Nanjo. And there's some darkwave in there. And ground-scraping crust riffs.

Did you happen to remember who "You guys ever try to remember some metal band you heard once and forgot about" was? I'm intrigued now :-)
(Couldn't possibly be Lustre since he only started in 2008 + way more synths than metal, I guess?)

It was, I think, me misremembering Taake and Vinterriket. Unless Vinterriket did some black metal stuff I can't find (most of the stuff I was checking out was like ambient synth).

it wasn't Lunar Aurora, was it?
https://youtu.be/7yAm2beMgGg