Finally! :D
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 5 February 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
xp I think he calls any of his releases that aren't literally an hour and a half long demos.
― scroot gyte (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 5 February 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
80 Succumb - Succumb 118.0 Points, 4 Voteshttps://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3799906335_16.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/1rVN0ivyBmCfg74LTJl9QH?si=klkJglhFQcmD9QzkfScIbQ
There’s no one simple riff here on this album to spur highlight reels. The riffs are somewhat progressive, and dissonant, so black metal fans will raise eyebrows with the rung notes and tremolo-picked riffs, death metal fans will headbang to the sound of shredding and blastbeats, while metalcore and doom fans will also find slower sections and chugging riffs to love. Forget what you thought you hated about these various sub-genre elements. Put together in the way Succumb does here, they make no simple fodder for a small scene of metal pundits. All bow down to Succumb’s mighty thunder. Their self-titled album is not a hitmaker or two or three track wonder. Apart from Venenum’s Trance of Death, it is modern metal’s most exciting release this 2017.
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
The Cannibal Corpse and Obituary records are both very good; the Obituary is definitely better.
That Zeal & Ardor record is so bad and misguided.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 5 February 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
Hey two of mine in a row!
xp I've been neaning to check out that new Obituary, esp. now that everybody agrees it's a true return to form!
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 5 February 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
Ooh, Dreadnought sound good so far!
― imago, Monday, 5 February 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
EMO GOON CRU ASSEMBLE
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
oh hi i'm here
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
is it creeper
79 Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms 119.0 Points, 3 Voteshttps://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/248/MI0004248405.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/4Q3AGdThgRrZmYaFtDbWmP?si=uV3-FwstS6Cgzd2QZLG4jg
The much-anticipated full-length debut from the English goth-punk collective, Eternity, in Your Arms arrives after a three-year build-up that saw Creeper honing their Alkaline Trio-meets-the Damned blend of glam rock and post-hardcore-kissed horror-punk in sweaty halls and drink ticket-strewn green rooms. While all of the Misfits, A-Trio, and AFI comparisons are apt, what Creeper has that those giants of bar-chord brooding lack is a keen sense for the pageantry of rock & roll, and it's that propensity for almost Meat Loaf-worthy grandeur that makes Eternity, in Your Arms so consistently compelling. It's a world where pit-worthy, minor-chord verses almost always yield fist-pumping, arms-around-your-mates choruses, and that the proceedings are shepherded by a pair of charismatic vocalists (frontman Will Gould and keyboardist/backing vocalist Hannah Greenwood), makes things all the more spellbinding. With Eternity, in Your Arms, Creeper have truly proven themselves masters of the dark arts, as they've managed to create something as genuinely inspired as it is stylistically derivative.
wow i'm good
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
Aawww
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
great record
whenever they announce their next album I'm gonna track its development obsessively
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
also if any fans of this have not listened to the EPs yet, they're worth your time
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
That's a description that sounds worth a listen.
― jmm, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
I've actually only heard the EPs...completely slept on this release past a couple of the singles. I will enjoy playing it to imago in full
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
am I emo or goon enough for this? guess we'll find out
― imago, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
A brief intermission.
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
First song from the Big Brave album is right up my alley, wow. Happiest discovery so far.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
78 Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine 120 Points, 4 Voteshttps://i.imgur.com/5ogFR7w.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5EXqFb0ch5dqP2ncl63XVY?si=Xi51xQ33TsaDOBZt1Sq9JQhttps://gnod.bandcamp.com/album/just-say-no-to-the-psycho-right-wing-capitalist-fascist-industrial-death-machine
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/19874/reviews/4150918
GNODJUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINEAs we embark on a new year more characterised by fear and uncertainty than hope and optimism, a chronic shortage of dissent can be detected in the artistic community amidst a harrowing socio-political climate. Yet the Salford-based collective Gnod have wasted little time in kicking against the doom and disquiet with everything at their disposal.“It seems like we are heading towards even more unsettling times in the near future than we are in at present.” reckons Chris Haslam of Gnod. “2016 is just the beginning of what I see as the establishment’s systematic destruction of liberalism and equality as a reaction to the general public’s loss of faith in their system”Charged by this outlook, Gnod's new album, ' Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine’ represents a hitherto uncharted level of antagonism and adversarial force for the band - an artistic statement as righteous, fervent and direct as its title. which far from being an echo of an anarcho spirit of yore, denotes a record firmly entrenched in the psychic... morecreditsreleased March 31, 2017
JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE
As we embark on a new year more characterised by fear and uncertainty than hope and optimism, a chronic shortage of dissent can be detected in the artistic community amidst a harrowing socio-political climate. Yet the Salford-based collective Gnod have wasted little time in kicking against the doom and disquiet with everything at their disposal.
“It seems like we are heading towards even more unsettling times in the near future than we are in at present.” reckons Chris Haslam of Gnod. “2016 is just the beginning of what I see as the establishment’s systematic destruction of liberalism and equality as a reaction to the general public’s loss of faith in their system”
Charged by this outlook, Gnod's new album, ' Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine’ represents a hitherto uncharted level of antagonism and adversarial force for the band - an artistic statement as righteous, fervent and direct as its title. which far from being an echo of an anarcho spirit of yore, denotes a record firmly entrenched in the psychic... morecreditsreleased March 31, 2017
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
I saw a lot of hype for this but haven't really been up for new GNOD since Infinity Machines
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
I think I nominated this, but it didn't quite make it onto my ballot, because it didn't get many repeat listens. It's still decent though
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
My first one to show up.
I def think they lifted the cover from this book btw:
https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9781784786229
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
Lol wow
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
Ha!
― imago, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
OK, Big Brave is on the to-buy list.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
Battle of the 5-track, 55-minute epics
TIE76 Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna 120.0, 5 Voteshttp://www.metalmusicarchives.com/images/covers/progenie-terrestre-pura-oltreluna-20170425081507.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/5PXXQiqStTTfM3goTYoihp?si=1Eb9yy9yRTi_SxBQC9hCzQ
U.M.A. was often unrelenting in its pacing, as if the entire album was a psychedelic trip through a wormhole from sci-fi cinema (there were ambient passages, sure, but they felt more like changes in volume than a shift in environment). OltreLuna, on the other hand, gives the listener ample time to stop and observe the surrounding cosmic objects, locations, and inhabitants. This is done both with the band’s heightened compositional prowess — that great combination of everything feeling natural while still offering surprises — and an even wider range of “extra” sounds (female vocals, synth squeals, heavy dubstep pulses, trip-hop drums, and some other less expected sounds we’ll get to later). Add in a meticulous, ludicrously detailed production, and far more noticeable vocals from newcomer Emanuele Prandoni, and you get an album that is simultaneously more accessible and deeper than the debut. Our hypothetical starship crewmen are more battle-hardened by their experiences, yet they have lost none of their awe for the universe.
76 Usnea - Portals Into Futility 120.0 Points, 5 Voteshttps://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/6/0/6/660680.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/2qC0LCLQYikfbz08odBMvN?si=4A_Gm4JCTxOheyir0OPnVg
Usnea were a band out of time. They had always felt to me like an outfit rooted in the halcyon days of the early 2000s, when a slew of bands were creating tidal wave riffs and tidal wave imagery – Isis’ Oceanic, Graves at Sea’s Migration and Ocean’s Hear Where Nothing Grows. Of course, Usnea don’t quite fit in when it comes to the imagery (replacing it with sci-fi infused darkness), but they are of that ilk: a band willfully slowing staggeringly heavy riffs down even further, screaming woeful tirades as if from mountaintops, and heating the whole cocktail of bile up in the studio to a point that it boils down to a primordial sludge.Their early self-titled release particularly reminded me of Ocean’s gargantuan debut, and the follow-up, 2014’s Random Cosmic Violence (and their first for Relapse) cemented Usnea as ‘ones to watch’ to a worldwide audience. Both albums offered a collection of four songs with only one of those less than twelve minutes long, with most averaging at quarter of an hour, and therefore – of course – the albums clocked in at around an hour. Portals into Futility features a similar running length, but with the middle three tracks all under ten minutes duration, the pacing and overall structure of their third full-length is radically different than that which has gone before. Portals into Futility paradoxically constricts and lets its music breathe, while also wearing their influences a little closer to the surface than on previous efforts.
Their early self-titled release particularly reminded me of Ocean’s gargantuan debut, and the follow-up, 2014’s Random Cosmic Violence (and their first for Relapse) cemented Usnea as ‘ones to watch’ to a worldwide audience. Both albums offered a collection of four songs with only one of those less than twelve minutes long, with most averaging at quarter of an hour, and therefore – of course – the albums clocked in at around an hour. Portals into Futility features a similar running length, but with the middle three tracks all under ten minutes duration, the pacing and overall structure of their third full-length is radically different than that which has gone before. Portals into Futility paradoxically constricts and lets its music breathe, while also wearing their influences a little closer to the surface than on previous efforts.
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna
already onboard with this album cover
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
great album, pretty sure I voted for it
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
whoa the dreadnought record is super endearing
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
^^ I am finding this to be the case as well
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
I liked the Usnea album prior, I'm sure I'd love this one
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
the dreadnought record also features sax so it's possible i'm being catered to
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
The Dreadnought record really impressed me as well, was expecting a floaty soft nautical prog thing but then it bares its jaws
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
I think smithy is a fan of itxps
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
only listening to sax metal in 2018
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
Lots of good stuff already! I wasnt very impressed with CC and Obituary this year, even though I love OSDM...anyway, glad at least two people like Colotyphus too, it’s nothing revolutionary but the songs are awesome & I always dig death metal vocals over black metal songs, way more bands should do it.
Progenie Terrestre Pura was a bit of a letdown after the debt, I gotta say.
― Siegbran, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
(debut not debt)
― Siegbran, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
Yeah this didn't hit me like the debut did
― imago, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
fave title+cover combo of the poll so far
75 Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos 121.0 Points, 4 Voteshttp://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Wode-Servants-of-the-Countercosmos--e1497889150334.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/3H2DBHz90QNuEezDMACfj2?si=2XUGKFxpT_CnsGsFOgDgIQ
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
ooh what is this
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
dreadnought still kicking my ass btw, i usually don't go for songs this long but they're packed with ideas
The Wode record rules hard - probably my fave black metal release last year.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
also there's some good flutin' on the second track of the dreadnought
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
Also - why do we have Pop Punk records and 2016 records shutting out, probably better 2017 metal records in the poll - it blows.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
Ooh yeah Wode, I forgot to vote for that one, it’s really good!
― Siegbran, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
BIP I count 1 (one) of each of those things you're complaining out of 25 records so far (and I haven't seen the full results but I don't anticipate any more of either out of the 100 slots) so maybe relax
― Simon H., Monday, 5 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, February 5, 2018 12:23 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk, the nominations thread included the phrase "heavy rock" which adds p huge margins to the poll
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
Yeah! This made it onto my ballot. It brings a heavy wizardry and some twisty tunefulness and is never boring.
― Launch of new ILM school business management programmes! (tangenttangent), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link