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.
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 2 October 2016 11:02 (seven years ago) link
Ah, I think I was Taake and Vinterriket in my head.
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 2 October 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
mixing them, that is
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 2 October 2016 11:20 (seven years ago) link
You may be interested to learn that Deathspell Omega are releasing an EP on the 8th of November called The Synarchy of Molten Bones.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Sunday, 2 October 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link
I am very interested.
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 3 October 2016 03:16 (seven years ago) link
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
― Neanderthal, Monday, 3 October 2016 03:59 (seven years ago) link
(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)
― Neanderthal, Monday, 3 October 2016 04:00 (seven years ago) link
I'm enjoying these a lot:
https://sumerlands.bandcamp.com/album/sumerlandshttps://eternalchampion.bandcamp.com/album/the-armor-of-irehttps://highspiritsmetal.bandcamp.com/album/motivatorhttps://trollpdx.bandcamp.com/album/troll
Don't write off Sumerlands based one one opinion!
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 3 October 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
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!
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 October 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, it's good stuff. Maybe not hook-y, but definitely worth a listen.
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 3 October 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
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.
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 3 October 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
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?)
― StanM, Monday, 3 October 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
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).
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 3 October 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
it wasn't Lunar Aurora, was it?https://youtu.be/7yAm2beMgGg
― Devilock, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
that was just a random cut, but most of their stuff during that time kinda sounded the same
The new Oathbreaker album is tremendous.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 01:39 (seven years ago) link
https://sumerlands.bandcamp.com/album/sumerlands
I'm kinda digging this, but I kinda hope Viv Campbell is getting royalty checks for some of those riffs
― summervillain, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
There's an Opeth albums ranking on Stereogum today that...well, it kinda sucks. The three prog albums are all stacked at the bottom, and the rest of the list reads like the writer (Jonathan Dick, ex-Steel for Brains) is ranking them in order of "Metal-ness." I mean, he puts Orchid at #2, and that album basically defines juvenilia.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
It also has better riffs than any of the later Opeth albums.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
and that album basically defines juvenilia.
giving the kids what they want?
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
Out of nowhere, a new Zemial EP -- sample sounds wonderfully nutso; for now digital and vinyl only, which have to be acquired through his fb (or email), but thank god he has plans for a CD version too.
https://youtu.be/XsqVyD4pjIo
― Devilock, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
oh, right, that's the same guy who's in Agatus, who also have a new one out this year
so much Greekness
― Devilock, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
uhhhh that previously mentioned Agatus, which I'd not checked out til now, is shaping up to be something massive, and I'm only on the 3rd song
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLllnVeLhvMLIbNqGuDjnBoJpqkd-yDr2f
it's like Di'Anno era Maiden via Hellenic black metal
― Devilock, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
Checking out the new Vader album now. Sounds like a Vader album. So, onto the year-end list it goes.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 6 October 2016 00:38 (seven years ago) link
omg, this metal riff generatorhttps://djen.co/
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link
3 tracks into the new Meshuggah and my jaw's dropping.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 7 October 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
hell yeah!
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 7 October 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
cw: power metal
the new epica is ridiculous
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 7 October 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I liked that one - gotta give it another listen.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 7 October 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
i like this oathbreaker tho i think they lean p hard on the quiet/loud/quiet folky section to all out screaming thing too much
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 October 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
In the realm of stuff where I don't know what genre it is and someone will probably get mad at me if I guess and I'm old so shut up
LLNN - Loss. Kinda hardcore, kinda sludge, maybe a few too many dumb, juddering pit-friendly riffs but there's some great, bleak-sounding sci-fi keyboards and slightly dissonant guitar melodies to balance it out. Never heard anything quite like it but I want more.
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 October 2016 04:57 (seven years ago) link
"that album defines juvenilia"
All the best metal is juvenilia. Think about it, great metal happens when uncool, not-so-talented kids with 0 self-consciousness accidentally touch greatness through intuition or instinct: Facta Loquntuur, early Burzum, INRI, Morbid Visions, old Immortal, ad infinitum
Which is part of why metal is so dire now. Overqualified musicians who play by the rules even when they're breaking the rules, and metal dudes now are too savvy and ironic by default since our era is so media-saturated...
― punksishippies, Saturday, 8 October 2016 05:45 (seven years ago) link
literally none of that is true - the best metal is made by people who play well and know what they want to accomplish, on down the road w/the "great art is accidental" romantic nonsense plz
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 8 October 2016 12:38 (seven years ago) link
lemme guess, Death "went downhill after Leprosy"? xpost
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 8 October 2016 13:06 (seven years ago) link
There is a lot of wrongheaded bullshit posted on the metal threads, but this is an all-time winner.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 8 October 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
Finally getting around to a promo sent me of Shamanic Lvnar Cvlt by SVLFVR - now, it could be that we had the tail of a hurricane sweep us this weekend, resulting in a lot of water in our house and the sump pump unable to get it outside because there aren't any gutters on right now so the water kept flowing in and out, straining the motor which mercifully didn't break but we had to kill the electricity to a bunch of stuff etc., and the kids were pretty lit up all weekend and also the internet died and still hasn't come back (I'm at the office now), so I didn't get my usual metal dose for like three days
as I say it could be all that but fuckin A this record is really working for me this morning. Couple vocal styles, one of which is a direct lift from the secondary style used on Pandemonium-era Celtic Frost (the one they lifted wholesale from Christian Death), slow-to-midtempo doomy riffs over some seriously caveman drums, obligatory barking-death style in there too plus some haunted-opera-house mugging...some fast intervals to keep it lively...just a giant minor key drown-in-a-bathtub party
rules
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 10 October 2016 14:33 (seven years ago) link
Looking forward to hearing Witch Mountain's new singer tonight, and of course The Skull and Saint Vitus. I also want Nate's book Starr Creek:
"Unlike Stranger Things, Starr Creek was written by someone who knows the milieu from experience, not from watching E.T., and describes it accurately (as I can attest from my own experience). It was a time when kids were just expected to go off on adventures, and if those adventures involved the quest for porno magazines, playing with machetes, heroic doses of LSD, and encounters with goat-kissing Lovecraftian rednecks, at least the kids were out of their parents' hair."
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 10 October 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
Kayla is great. They were fantastic in ATL.
The Skull won the night tho lol
― Neanderthal, Monday, 10 October 2016 22:23 (seven years ago) link
When I saw Saint Vitus last week, I got to see a rare and awesome thing.And I got to record it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqtqEsThspU
Sorry for the drum-heavy, trebly cymbal sound, the disadvantage of being right up front was getting the drums and monitor mix.
But man, how cool was that...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 01:52 (seven years ago) link
When I saw Vitus open for Down, Anselmo came out and sang "War Is Our Destiny" with Wino.
Your video is cooler.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 02:30 (seven years ago) link
Meshuggah tonight...if you are a fan and within 100 miles of a venue, go.
Best show of the year and not even close.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 03:23 (seven years ago) link
Pretty fucking cool!
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 07:08 (seven years ago) link
Also how about a raw blasting death metal demo u guys? I think these guys have some potential (dig that atmospheric little break in "Our Punishment" before they resume hammering).
http://infernalcoil.bandcamp.com/
― "raw buttin' these toilet seats" (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 07:11 (seven years ago) link
interesting read, don't agree with all of it but does make the (imo correct case) that Judas Priest are really the fathers of modern metal in a way sabbath/purple/zep et all aren't
http://thequietus.com/articles/21109-judas-priest-sad-wings-of-destiny-review-heavy-metal
however honest to god could metal writers EVER FUCKING STOP WITH THIS BULLSHIT?
For almost its entire history, heavy metal has been forced to endure derision, incomprehension and mirth from all quarters, viewed as the stuff of shrieking and vulgar overstatement, or as some kind of retrogressive and primitive throwback, Kubrick-style, to the days of prehistoric man.
Yet the fact that new generations of fans still embrace music that spent most of the 1990s derived as a laughing stock tells another story, more that classic heavy metal has an appeal, rooted in its primal charge and fearsome intensity that transcends fashion and artifice will not fall prey to rust and ruin over the passing of years.
**jack off hand motion**
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
I dunno if I can read that (I'm allergic to music writing) but Priest do deserve a little more credit than they seem to get anymore.
This SVLFVR record JCLC recommended upthread is pretty damn good, btw. Moves in a lot of different directions but is a blast throughout.
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 09:10 (seven years ago) link
xpost - ugh, yeah, the butthurt and smug "nobody GETS metal, maaaaaaaan" shit raises my hackles
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
the first song on this album is pretty generic to me - black metal, sure, why not, go team Trondheim
but then the second one kinda fucking slays and is interesting and has a bunch of different looks without feeling gimmicky, and is SUPER atmospheric for being mid/uptempo! as is often the case with me these days, I have no idea how this ended up on my hard drive.
https://recitations.bandcamp.com/album/the-first-of-the-listeners
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
A children's choir performs Manowar's "Heart of Steel" at a school assembly in Belgrade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpJm6uMrc7M
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I can't remember if Sweden's Panphage has come up in this (or the last) thread but it's an excellent if not really innovative 2nd wave kind of frosty black metal one man deal with a bit of a pagan feel - sorta like Kampfar. (I've seen ppl compare Panphage to Arckanum but somehow I've never gotten around to hearing Arckanum.) There was a demo collection released last year and a full length the year before that, both of which were very strong. Well there's a sophomore album dropping on Nov 28 (incredibly, the same day as the new Antaeus) and the advance track is fantastic.http://panphage.bandcamp.com/
And since I brought it up, here's an excellent interview with the Antaeus dude, as well as a preview track:http://www.bardomethodology.com/articles/2016/10/08/antaeus-interview/
The end of this year is just an avalanche of awesome: DSO, Dead Congregation, Zemial, Agatus, Myrkgrav...
― Devilock, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, October 12, 2016 7:29 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
even more so because the instant it's not "metal doesn't get enough respect!!!" it switches instantly to "this is bullshit poseurs and hipsters are invading metal wah wah wah"
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link