Rolling Metal 2018

Don't miss Rob Halford on the cover of the next issue of Sunglass Connoisseur - I mean Revolver:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVTDSRxVAAELrna.jpg

This is one of the dumber revamps I've seen in a while. Making a metal magazine look like Ocean Drive is not the key to driving up newsstand sales, I promise.

O man listen to Consuming Impulse or Testimony of the Ancients too....

I definitely will. Thx.

can't figure out a better place to post this but there's a new rolo tomassi album coming out in march and they're one of the best bands going, rily: metalcore on the converge side of things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdyg8k5qZFM

hell yeah

simon check out the song they just put out, "aftermath," IMMEDIATELY

Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It is a fantastic title that Converge will be kicking themselves for not coming up with first

wow she sounds so much like Andrea Zollo from PGMG on this! (this rules, obv)

North American tour dates for Ozzy Osbourne's "no, seriously, this is it" farewell tour (Stone Sour opening):

April 27 – Jacksonville, FL – Welcome to Rockville
April 29 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – FortRock
Aug 30 – Allentown, PA – PPL Center
Sept 1 – Syracuse, NY – Lakeview Amphitheater
Sept 4 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
Sept 6 – Boston, MA – Xfinity Center
Sept 8 – Wantagh, NY – Jones Beach Amphitheatre
Sept 10 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
Sept 12 – Camden, NJ – BB&T Pavilion
Sept 14 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
Sept 16 – Cuyahoga Falls OH – Blossom Music Center
Sept 19 – Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Center
Sept 21 – Tinley Park, IL– Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Sept 23 – Noblesville, IN Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
Sept 26 – Dallas, TX – Starplex Pavilion
Sept 28 – Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Sept 30 – Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater
Oct 2 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center
Oct 4 – Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre
Oct 6 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
Oct 9 – Chula Vista, CA – Mattress Firm Amphitheatre
Oct 11 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
Oct 13 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena

I might go to the PNC show, but honestly, I'm torn, because I saw him in 2010 and he was fucking great, so I'm worried about being let down this time. Plus, he's got Zakk Wylde back in the band; I liked him better with Gus G.

new Rivers of Nihil track slays (more sax!)

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/rivers-of-nihil-announce-new-album-tour-with-dying-fetus-stream-a-track/

great artwork too

Nicely crushing new track from the next Usurpress:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3gpEJnymJU

The new Agrimonia is sounding really good!

Just turned in a Bandcamp article on Usurpress (interviewed Daniel Ekeroth). The album's really good. The keyboards and jazzy drumming add a lot, and there's this one weird Goth song that's a lot of fun.

new Windhand track from a split with Satan's Satyrs

http://smarturl.it/WindhandSatyrs
https://windhand.bandcamp.com/

Looking forward to this new Ataraxy album, epically doomically deathiness

http://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/where-all-hope-fades

I was just about to check the full stream over at Decibel:
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2018/02/09/full-album-stream-ataraxy-hope-fades/

Oh nice! Thanks!

Weird drum/bass hardrock from Austria that's like somewhere between Motorhead, Lightning Bolt, Turbonegro and DFA1979 lol

http://heckspoiler.bandcamp.com/album/cracktickertape-2

Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton has Parkinson's, so producer Andy Sneap will be playing guitar on the upcoming tour.

Such terrible news for so many reasons...

3 tracks into this Horizon Ablaze stream, it's quite good so far

Full of Hell signed with Relapse, a good move for both parties, methinks.

Lee Dorrian has a D-beat/hardcore band! Who knew? They're called Septic Tank, and their full-length debut (they put out a Japan-only 7" in 2013) is called Rotting Civilisation. If there wasn't a song on it called "Social Media Whore," it could have been recorded in 1986. Coming out in April on Rise Above. RIYL Off! or other similar old-man-can't-hang-it-up retro punk acts.

Maybe I'm biased because they're fellow Montrealers but the new Basalte, Vertige is blowing my mind right now. It's free on Bandcamp, to boot.

Forgot to post the link: https://basalte.bandcamp.com

Ooh sounds pretty good so far. Love that cover.

Prong and Helmet are doing a co-headlining US tour.

I went to a Helmet show once, but only because Caspar Brötzmann Massaker was the opening act. Once he was finished devastating the place (four songs in 45 minutes), we left. I've never seen Prong, either, though I'm a big fan - I like their last few albums just as much as the stuff from their late '80s/early '90s heyday. So even though the NYC date is midweek, I might just have to go to this.

New Rebel Wizard EP on Bandcamp:
http://rebelwizard.bandcamp.com/album/great-addictions-to-blindingly-dark-wordly-life

I thought their album would have done better on the 2017 poll that recently was tabluated. It was definitely very high on my ballot. The EP seems just as fun on first listen, if a bit darker.

I loved Rebel Wizard album and I think JCLC was a big fan too.

I'm not gonna go, but I am amused to learn that Pig Destroyer are playing a sports bar-lookin' dump called Crossroads in Garwood, NJ, which is two towns over from me, next Friday night.

yes I added the new RW to my cart immediately - RW & Nekrasov are making wonderful music to me

in a totally different vein, the new Ilsa is riffs for days, love it

Wow, "Ce que le corps doit au sol" from the Basalte is wonderful. Wishlisted it already and will listen to the rest.

Quality Branca-metal moments on "La sclérose coule dans ses veines"

Glad you like it! I belatedly realized they'll be playing tomorrow at a bar nearby but I've already got other plans. :(

The corporate names on those arenas Ozzy is playing at gave me a chuckle.

Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live

Chula Vista, CA – Mattress Firm Amphitheatre

will i see anybody at the Decibel tour in Irving Plaza tonight? just flew in!

Anything good out recently or soon?

Digging the Ataraxy album a lot, cool to hear death metal that isn't trying to be crushingly heavy all the time and they've got a nice epic feel to their longer songs.

I never got a digital promo of the Summoning record so I only now got a chance to listen and it's completely brilliant! Will definitely wind up high on my best albums of 2018. If it doesn't, that means this year winds up being too good for words or I have died.

I just got done reviewing two records I like: Scumpulse, Antifa-loving crusty Scottish black metal, and the new Ilsa record - the first for Relapse. I always liked the band but this is likely the best album they have done.

Scumpulse sounds promising just based on the name!

Those Scumpulse songs are good!

Here's my Ilsa review:
http://agitreader.com/wp2/ilsa-corpse-fortress

Black metal with a distinct folk flavour, but not overbearing, like Obsequiae or Ophidian Forest with a bit more post-rock influence maybe. I really like it.

https://eigenlicht-metal.bandcamp.com/album/self-annihilating-consciousness

Should appeal to WitTR fans I reckon

ack metal with a distinct folk flavour, but not overbearing, like Obsequiae or Ophidian Forest with a bit more post-rock influence maybe. I really like it.

https://eigenlicht-metal.bandcamp.com/album/self-annihilating-consciousness

― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, February 20, 2018 4:04 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

woah my friend was in obsequiae

another new Primordial track
https://youtu.be/b7-FYDMtqo8

The new Memoriam album is good. Like the second Tau Cross album, it's more of the same, with a few tiny tweaks (one song includes samples from Martin Luther King speeches). I'll be reviewing it on Burning Ambulance on Friday.

This new Atheist band photo looks like their logo magically appeared in their living room, and only two members (Baldy and Guy With His Own Couch) have noticed so far but they're thinking they should let the others know.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWkNcdJUMAIbQwF.jpg

lol Kelly "Bret Michaels Before Shot" Schaeffer

Listening to the Suffering Hour album again, so good. Some of my favorite guitar work in recent memory.

new Panopticon double album, first with a full-band lineup, The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness is out April 6th.

Fuck Antifa Metalfest featuring Burzum, Graveland, and Disma (Craig Pillard).

raging just seeing that poster.