Kevin Hufnagel (Dysrhythmia, Gorguts, etc.) is going to be doing a duo performance with keyboardist Craig Taborn at The Stone in NYC on Tuesday.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:19 (six years ago) link
Revolver Magazine has relaunched with four separate Mastodon covers and a limited 7" single from the band.
"The new issue of Revolver magazine hits newsstands on September 12th and features an all-new editorial direction and visual design," says the press release.
"The issue is both the culmination of a long journey and the start of a new one. When we started down the road to reinventing Revolver over a year ago, we had many goals. We wanted to create the smartest, most sophisticated metal magazine and website that have ever existed. We wanted to champion artists — particularly younger, up-and-coming artists like Code Orange, Venom Prison and Full of Hell — who really have something to say and who are pushing heavy music into brave new places. We wanted to show heavy music to be the intellectually and technically challenging art form that we've known it to be since we first became fans. But maybe most of all, we wanted to celebrate metal not only as a particularly badass style of music but also as a hard-fighting, never-give-up attitude and an empowered, iconoclastic way of living. It's a philosophy embodied in everyone from blue-collar road dogs Mastodon, to gravity-defying skateboarder Elliot Sloan, to gate-crashing fashion designer Ashley Rose, to any diehard fan who has ever had to dig deep to persevere through tough times or overcome a daunting obstacle. And it's a philosophy that, we think, is embodied in the first issue of Revolver 2.0."
Any ILXors involved with this? I am hopeful it will be decent - I am a Luddite who likes metal magazines and the overseas ones are cost-prohibitive to subscribe to.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
Wouldn't this be Revolver 3.0, since Revolver started out as a classic-rock-worshipping Rolling Stone wannabe? I mean, they had Jim Morrison on their first cover.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
thank you for the context about that podoshen essay! i also like physical magazines and that thing kinda turned me off of decibel
― adam, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
Wouldn't this be Revolver 3.0, since Revolver started out as a classic-rock-worshipping Rolling Stone wannabe? I mean, they had Jim Morrison on their first cover. ― grawlix (unperson)
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 31 August 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
Doug Moore of Pyrrhon has thoughts about metal and fascism.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
damn that was well done
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 31 August 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
Good read. And I like Neill Jameson, too, dammit. Even if he's said and says some dumb things he's evolving and I feel like it's important for metal dudes to see it's possible.
And this is nowt to do with that, but it's good discordant death metal with bass that sounds like it's being played by a giant scarab creature.
http://daemogog.bandcamp.com/releases
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 1 September 2017 04:21 (six years ago) link
New Mastodon song. New four-song EP out 9/22.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u44bs_Cwoms
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 1 September 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
new Botanist! now with full-band action
https://verdant-realm-botanist.bandcamp.com/album/collective-the-shape-of-he-to-come
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 1 September 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
The Botanist is fucking great...
Also out today is the new one from SxuperioN:http://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/myriad-e-p
I like them both lots as well as the new Dalek that also came out today (not metal, of course, but they've always been indie-rap-metalheads-like and the new one is a return to the noisier stuff of old).
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 1 September 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
yeah the new Botanist is instant top 10 material
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 1 September 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
I liked it a lot on first listen, although it's a surprise. Sounded a bit like melodic folk-metal epics!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 1 September 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
Man I love a lot of black metal but the lyrics to Goat Mockery Ritual are so otm
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
that title just gives me a hard-on
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
I forgot I bought that Pyrrhon the other day...lol
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
so I'm hearing the new Akercocke is actually good?
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
one of my old SSMT buddies apparently reviewed it for Decibel. givin it a spin now....
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
damn those vocals
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
damn went from Pazuzu-taunts to full-on Morrissey-cum-Danzig warbling
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
I've never really liked Akercocke before and what I've read abou the new one is equal parts intriguing and offputting, might give it a bash at some point.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
I loved olde Akercocke. so far I'm digging this one a bit........
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
wow, by "Familiar Ghosts", it gets downright amazzzzzzzing
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 September 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
new Botanist is sounding wonderful
― imago, Sunday, 3 September 2017 11:07 (six years ago) link
Instrumental doom/stoner-type UFO themed album by Reptilian Illuminati :-) (just the kind of gimmick that gets me to press play, dammit)
https://reptilianilluminati.bandcamp.com/releases
― StanM, Sunday, 3 September 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
anyone else get into the khashm record on iron bonehead from earlier this year?https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/khashm-asmodeus-rising
riffy, head nodding black metal. not too fast, sounds nice and mean. and even the dark ambient shit is p cool & well done. I've found myself going back to this one a lot.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 3 September 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
anybody catching Orphaned Land on this US tour?
― Neanderthal, Monday, 4 September 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link
Currently rediscovering Asomvel's Knuckle Duster, released back in 2013. They're pretty much a clone of Motörhead circa 1980-81, so if you're in a mood for that, dive in. It's on Bandcamp.
https://badomenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/knuckle-duster
Their 2009 album Kamikaze is up there, too:
https://asomvel.bandcamp.com/album/kamikaze
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
love that khashm record. the jordablod record, also on iron bonehead, is also up there: https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/jordablod-upon-my-cremation-pyre
― adam, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
Darkspace + dozens of other bands also playing at Maryland Deathfest 2018 : http://www.deathfests.com/event/mdf-2018
― StanM, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
(they're not on that poster yet but their label just said it -> https://www.facebook.com/avantgardemusiclabel/posts/10154692774487260 )
― StanM, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
new Usnea is streaming at Vice and it's a bruiser
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/mbbz84/usneas-impossibly-heavy-new-doom-metal-album-is-a-sci-fi-odyssey
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 7 September 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
New Electric Wizard song. Bluesier than usual for them, and it kinda rules. New album later this year, I guess?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h8x0NE0Hqw
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 8 September 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
Out today, epic/power influenced Argus and the proto-metal of Demon Eye, both touched fleetingly by the hand of DOOM.
https://argusmetal.bandcamp.com/album/from-fields-of-firehttps://demoneye.bandcamp.com/album/prophecies-and-lies
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 8 September 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
And I'll leave this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srm6_pwgfA8
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 8 September 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
Interesting interview with Doug Moore of Pyrrhon on Bandcamp today. Quote re metal's Nazi problem:
It seems to me that the best way to deal with these boneheads is just to ostracize them. You ultimately can’t stop people from making bad art about their revolting political ideas, but you can starve them of support and rain scorn on them until nobody else wants to be seen with them. Unfortunately, the threshold for misbehavior necessary to evoke this kind of response is quite high because of how pervasive regressive attitudes are in metal culture. A lot of canonical metal records were written by various species of bigot and psycho, and many people whose sympathies were shaped by those ideas are in positions of power in the genre now. And while that’s unfortunate, it’s also unsurprising—a style of music so thoroughly wrapped up with violence, hatred, and barbarism is, of course, going to appeal to some violent, hateful, barbaric people. On some level, most metal fans know this, which is part of why so many of them fly into a defensive rage when the subject comes up.To further complicate matters, it’s often impossible to differentiate between sincere appeals to racism or authoritarian politics and troll-y transgression-for-its-own-sake—a kind of coyness that is popular among both metal bands and the online right. This kind of edgelord shit is just totally pervasive in metal, a genre where iron crosses are so common as to be basically invisible, and where you can literally scream excruciating descriptions of various sexual tortures for a whole album and everyone will just shrug. In this kind of environment, where basically everyone has enthusiastically consumed at least some ‘problematic’ work regardless of their actual sympathies, it becomes difficult to determine which kinds of behavior are genuinely reprehensible and which should just be shrugged off as ‘part of the deal.’ There are nonetheless plenty of clear-cut cases of bad guys whom most sane people would agree to shun, but the truth is that the line differentiating fascist sympathizers from run-of-the-mill metal scumbags is often much fuzzier than some people would like to admit.
To further complicate matters, it’s often impossible to differentiate between sincere appeals to racism or authoritarian politics and troll-y transgression-for-its-own-sake—a kind of coyness that is popular among both metal bands and the online right. This kind of edgelord shit is just totally pervasive in metal, a genre where iron crosses are so common as to be basically invisible, and where you can literally scream excruciating descriptions of various sexual tortures for a whole album and everyone will just shrug. In this kind of environment, where basically everyone has enthusiastically consumed at least some ‘problematic’ work regardless of their actual sympathies, it becomes difficult to determine which kinds of behavior are genuinely reprehensible and which should just be shrugged off as ‘part of the deal.’ There are nonetheless plenty of clear-cut cases of bad guys whom most sane people would agree to shun, but the truth is that the line differentiating fascist sympathizers from run-of-the-mill metal scumbags is often much fuzzier than some people would like to admit.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 8 September 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
what the FUCK?!
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/decapitated-members-arrested-for-suspected-kidnapping-in-spokane/
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 9 September 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
Weird. Wonder what the fuck happend.
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 9 September 2017 22:45 (six years ago) link
going to guess something p damn bad
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 9 September 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
New Yellow Eyes sounds fantatastic
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/yellow-eyes-velvet-on-the-horns/
Not as different from their earlier stuff as the author seems to think; though it's a bit more complex than usual YE's music largely sounds pretty similar to each other, which usually bothers me, but man they have the best chord changes in the biz.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Sunday, 10 September 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
best chord changes in the biz = thantifaxath tbf
this is sounding ok
― imago, Sunday, 10 September 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
'm probably a sucker for wanting to hear those riff tapes, but I do.
― Siegbran
there's a riff tape that mcgovney used to have doing the bootleg circuit. it is interesting!
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 September 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
Was about to say that I miss Thantifaxath but apparently they've got something in the pipeline
― ultros ultros-ghali, Sunday, 10 September 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
oh shit!
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/track/thantifaxath-self-devouring-womb
there you go folks
― imago, Sunday, 10 September 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
hahaha this is fucking amazing
― imago, Sunday, 10 September 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
holy fuck
― ultros ultros-ghali, Sunday, 10 September 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
the charges against Decapitated, are, uhh, pretty fucking serious:
http://www.metalinjection.net/metal-crimes/decapitated-accused-of-gang-rape-band-still-in-los-angeles-jail
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
awesome news about Thantifaxath! funny about chord changes, within like 2 seconds of hearing their track, I could tell I liked the harmony (kinda similar to Dodheimsgard and Carl-Michael Eide projects)
― Dominique, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
The new Wolves in the Throne Room... Holy shit...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
That bad, eh?
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link