Mr. Amalgamoth if you read this I don't know how to/if I can reply to ilx emails so: I'm glad you're carrying on and I have all your stuff anyway because Ophidian Forest fucking rule. Thanks.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 29 October 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
Happy Halloween. 2CD out today, other formats in the coming months. Really glad bands can still pull off these sneak attacks nowadays.http://i.imgur.com/op4mxgJ.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTGw5xbhvyI
― Devilock, Monday, 31 October 2016 06:22 (seven years ago) link
ah, correction: the release date was changed for the CD version - Nov 25
― Devilock, Monday, 31 October 2016 06:30 (seven years ago) link
New CdG sounds promising! New Hail Spirit Noir is awesome. This Prostitute Disfigurement (sigh) CD from 2006 I got today? Also awesome.
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 31 October 2016 09:38 (seven years ago) link
Dio fans rejoice(?) - Elf's two albums, Carolina County Ball and Trying to Burn the Sun, are being reissued next month on one of Cherry Red's sub-labels.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 31 October 2016 12:26 (seven years ago) link
Cannot wait for the Cultes des Ghoules. My favorite black metal band going, and the vocalist is amazing.
― Dominique, Monday, 31 October 2016 13:31 (seven years ago) link
the bandcamp article continues to be a great resource
https://highspiritsmetal.bandcamp.com/album/motivator
this is so fucking great, great songwriting and sense of fun. gets at a lot of great stuff about 80s metal w/o feeling like it's just aping it.
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 31 October 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
Email I just got: "EARACHE RECORDS ACQUIRES NACHTMYSTIUM BACK-CATALOGUE TITLES"
Wonder if they got a used toaster and car stereo as part of the package.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 31 October 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
I wonder if they just paid him in drugs or
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 31 October 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
new Khanus track here, where they up both the Finnish folk quotient, and general occult vibe. Maybe closer to dark ambient than metal actuallyhttps://khanus.bandcamp.com/album/dance-of-the-shaman
if the Cultes des Ghoules doesn't trump them, 2016 may go down as the year two metal EPs (Khanus & Cadaveric Fumes) topped my best of list.
― Dominique, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 13:15 (seven years ago) link
about to buy the hell outta the new Ulcerate, one of the best death metal bands in the world
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
It's really dope. Nice Halloween soundtrack
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
hey hey the new DSO is streaming in full
https://deathspellomega.bandcamp.com/album/the-synarchy-of-molten-bones
They have not gone pop metal, in case you were worried.
― summervillain, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
Oh, the Lifespell Omega conversion album is going to be amazing.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
Ditto the tropical-metal album from Blut Aus Sud.
Sweet Hollow by Them is pretty fun King Diamond mimicry. The vocals, the horror album concept... they actually pull it off not too badly.
https://them6.bandcamp.com/ (whole album is on Youtube)
― jmm, Thursday, 3 November 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
This Bhavachakra album... scrapy, trebled out guitars (with that modern underdriven distortion sound I'm not super fond of), discordant, DsO, probably own "Obscura," yeah yeah. Some of the riffing attempts eloquence successfully but the production's kind of distracting - sounds like the guitars were recorded on a cassette four-track while everything else was done in a pro studio. Especially those drums.
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 3 November 2016 05:28 (seven years ago) link
That's not to say I'm not going to listen to it a lot for a week or so, though.
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 3 November 2016 05:29 (seven years ago) link
xxpostThat's the second mention of Them I've seen in the last day or two and it finally jogged my memory of this bizarro world, Brazilian, Christian KD clone, with pretty much plagiarized music and song titles, and album art that dips far enough below the threshold of embarrassing to flip around and become awesome again. Anyway, turns out that they, like apparently every other band in existence, have a new one out this year. As usual, the music sounds stiff and almost programmed, esp compared to something like the actual KD. And haha those verses of "Silent Tears" are outright stolen from "A Mansion in Darkness." I binged on this band a couple years ago when I first saw them mentioned at metal-archives and I wish I'd remembered in time for Halloween this year.https://visionofgodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dark-night-day-of-the-dead
but I mean this is really the purpose of this post:http://i.imgur.com/S7koot5.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/W3GyLYm.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/49RQ6rs.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/hVIUJYx.jpg
― Devilock, Thursday, 3 November 2016 07:33 (seven years ago) link
Amazing covers!
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 3 November 2016 10:12 (seven years ago) link
just in case any of you wanted to hear some synth-heavy, dreampop-vocall'd welsh psych-doom then you may wish to get in touch with your inner mammoth weed wizard bastard*. it's really quite something. heads-up courtesy of tt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2g0g3r6hY
*british humour
― imago, Thursday, 3 November 2016 10:42 (seven years ago) link
I countersign Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, although it took me some serious psychological effort to get past the name.
The new Madder Mortem is out, and I won't be terribly surprised if it ends up being my album of the year. What a fantastic band. They're like a midpoint between djent and Voivod and Nightwish, which is a pretty good targeting formula for me.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2rXW7pX2XlPi23Gs97rIOI
Also, if you like big happy turbo-melodic power-metal, give the new Theocracy album a listen.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3asAAUyg67JJa8VAvsfmVK
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 3 November 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
I think I'm about ready to put this Ysengrin/Sartegos split in my cart
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/resvrrezionespiritval
2 songs apiece, plus interludesYsengrin offer cavernous doomy BM with lots of textural and dynamic shifts, big spooky choirs, some of the weirdest snare hits this side of the Shaggs, hideous clanky bass, and a dash of rawk swagger.Sartegos are I guess blackened death? (deadened BM?) with refreshingly bright guitar solo breaks -- lots of up/down fast 8ths verging on explosions in the sky-style post rock territory
Both bands are new to me and I'm curious to hear more from both.
― summervillain, Thursday, 3 November 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link
more metal with crayon covers plz
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Thursday, 3 November 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
Great album covers. They do promise some darker-than-average nights.
― jmm, Thursday, 3 November 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
MWWB are great
digging the first couple of tracks from this EP by Rivette from Finland - NWOBHM for softies p much. not as good as High Spirits but worth an ear
https://rivette.bandcamp.com/album/in-vertigo
― The Codling Of The London Suede (Legal Warning Across The Atlantic) (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 November 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
Just booked tickets to see MWWB tomorrow, supporting Ufomammut. I expect to be doomed into space
― imago, Thursday, 3 November 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
I was just listening to that Rivette EP today! Not bad. The Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard made our Doom Chart last month - https://doomcharts.com/2016/10/11/the-doom-charts-for-october-2016/. New one should be out by the weekend hopefully.
Glad to hear someone is enthusiastic about Madder Mortem! I reviewed it and raved about it elsewhere and it's been crickets.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 3 November 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
Dark Night album art made my day thank you!
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 November 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
Here's another UK stoner doom psych band that has an interesting release: https://spiderkitten.bandcamp.com/album/ark-of-octofelis
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 3 November 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
Ya good call on Dark Night. I mentioned them in my Halloween piece where I also offered up Hail Spirit Noir and Slasher Dave as ideal additions to yr Halloween mixes. I guess I should have posted before Halloween.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 3 November 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
I've been so anticipating the new Furia full length that I didn't notice they'd slipped another of their oddball EPs into the world earlier in October. Says it was recorded in an actual mine 300+ meters below the earth, so, uh, ok. Sort of droney, jangly, folky, but seething with that Polish black metal life force that seems to be powering half a dozen brilliant bands right now.https://paganrecords.bandcamp.com/album/guido
Speaking of, according to W.T.C. there's a new Medico Peste album coming. Their wonderfully diseased debut Tremendum et Fascinatio got overshadowed by everything else coming out of Poland, but it's quite good for fans of that slithering, visceral strain of black metal akin to Glorior Belli's Manifesting the Raging Beast or for that matter Polish stuff like Cultes des Ghoules or Blaze of Perdition (or even Arioch-era Marduk when they're not full speed ahead).
― Devilock, Friday, 4 November 2016 01:48 (seven years ago) link
Decibel is streaming the new Ruinous album. One of my favorite death metal albums of the year.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 4 November 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
the new Furia finally appeared and made my album of the year decision a lot easierhttps://paganrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ksi-yc-milczy-luty
good god
― Devilock, Saturday, 5 November 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
Furia is a great band that should have a much higher profile than they do, I'm looking forward to the album.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 5 November 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
Furia's last album was kinda drifting into the sort of "post black" (or whatever) that didn't really hit me, but this fucking thing. This fucking thing. It's like a black metal version of an Earth album. I'm on my sixth listen just today and I can't even remember the last time something like that happened.
Songwriting aside, the sound of it is just ...
― Devilock, Sunday, 6 November 2016 05:42 (seven years ago) link
why the hell couldn't this be the Polish black metal band to put out an hour and a half long album this year
― Devilock, Sunday, 6 November 2016 06:00 (seven years ago) link
to be fair, no album really needs to be an hour and a half
― punksishippies, Sunday, 6 November 2016 06:24 (seven years ago) link
Ulcerate's new album is boring me to tears
― imago, Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Do I just not like avant-death any more? But I like Gorguts. And I quite liked the Dysrhythmia, which is basically a Gorguts spin-off. So idk. Maybe you have to be Gorguts. Will check out DSO shortly but ugh tbh
― imago, Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
Ulcerate are always hyped but I've always found them pretty boring too, not even going to bother with this new one. Gorguts are on another plane entirely.
I think the new DSO is awesome but if you haven't been convinced by them before, I don't think it'll change you mind
― ultros ultros-ghali, Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
oh I have been convinced by them before. so far this is great. far, far better than ulcerate
― imago, Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
the ugh was just residual disgust at ulcerate being boring
― imago, Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
OK cool :D
― ultros ultros-ghali, Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
ha wow the new furia sounds kinda like a metal gvsb
imago yr wrong about ulcerate but I don't think you'll ever see yr way clear to that because for metal to work for you personally it has to have several this-is-not-from-metal elements in it and ulcerate is all metal. no shame in that alloys are fine too but I wish you could get yr mind free enough to hear how great ulcerate is because damn they're great.
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
Dysrhythmia, which is basically a Gorguts spin-off
lol no btw
it's 2/3 Gorguts! point taken that they're doing something v different
― imago, Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
will try again with Ulcerate soon too. it probably requires a dark room and lots of space to contemplate. it is true that I often find it hard to like pure metal, so I'm sorry for ruining yr thread
― imago, Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
in the next chapter, i will express incomprehension at the new Meshuggah
― imago, Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
tbh somebody sent me a promo of Vermis when it was new and I played it and went "ho-hum, honestly I love death metal but I'm not hearing anything that sets this apart" and it sat in a box for a year or more and then I was cleaning out the box and found the disc minus the packaging and said "ok what's this, am I keeping this" and listened and about halfway through I went "fuck...this is pretty interesting actually" and I dug up the packaging and now they're one of my favorite bands. but my initial reaction was "who gives a fuck"
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 6 November 2016 19:42 (seven years ago) link