Imprecation's Damnatio Ad Bestias is one of the better death metal albums I've heard so far this year.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
As usual, Esoctrilihum delivers the esoteric goods:
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-telluric-ashes-of-the-o-vrth-immemorial-gods
It's at least on par with last year's Inhüma.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 June 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
On the tech death end of things, I'm really enjoying Sinners Bleed's Absolution:
https://war-anthem-records.bandcamp.com/album/absolution
I should probably check out their debut.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 15 June 2019 11:30 (four years ago) link
:(
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/megadeths-dave-mustaine-diagnosed-with-throat-cancer/
― pomenitul, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
do your best Dave, hopefully you've got years of recording albums i have no interest in hearing ahead of you
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
In a way it's a real shame since their last one Dystopia had a couple of really excellent songs but man those lyrics. I'm not easily offended but it's just facepalm after facepalm.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 10:41 (four years ago) link
I don't want him to get cancer but I would like it if he wasn't such a right wing tool.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
exactly
btw Siegbran if you remember the track titles could you post them, I'd be interested to hear them
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
For example The Threat Is Real is a pretty awesome song but I dare you to sit it out.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
Well the music's good
There are several ways to interpret the lyrics and I don't think I like any of them
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Not sure how long this has been floating around out there, but I just found out about it today - not so excited about anything new from Vektor any longer.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 June 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
DiSanto's wife's appeal for help got RTed by Kim Kelly but I don't think it mentioned Vektor so I'm just figuring this out too. Yeah, horrifying and I'm done with them.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
Yep, that's exactly how I found out about it. Awful story.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
from what I gathered, he was the only remaining member.
― beard papa, Friday, 21 June 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
The new Organectomy album, Existential Disconnect, is out today on Unique Leader.
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2958267555_10.jpg
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
So are Meads of Asphodel sketchy? I hope not. I always thought they were genius weirdos and the new one out today doesn't change my mind.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
They're pretty sketchy, yeah.
meads of asphodel, whose song titles include the lovely "jew killer" and "children of the sunwheel banner"— machine girl kelly (@mulchlord) June 12, 2019
Are Meads of Asphodel one of those problematic acts? I honestly need to start keeping a spreadsheet.— Jeff Treppel (@JeffTreppel) May 20, 2019
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
That Treppel tweet begins a thread to which I contributed.
I know you're gonna "BUT DA RIFFFFFS" anyway, but hey, at least you asked. That's something.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
That thread doesn't really say much. The band was asked about Sonderkommando:
What is the story of Sonderkommando? From what I’ve read, it’s taken from the point of view of the individual who takes the bodies from the gas chambers and searches their bodies for valuables before finally putting them in the incinerators.The story is of hatred and how racism can create such horror. The album deals with Hitler and the German war machine that cloaked the racial elimination of the Jews. It tells of most European countries being complicit to the crime of murder where women and children were slaughtered because of a twisted ideology. Anti-Semitism, no matter what your view is on this subject; can be no excuse for killing children and treating a race of human beings like vermin. Hatred is the key lesson the human race needs to learn as it is hatred that drives us to obscene cruelty and illogical acts of brutality. The Sonderkommando were the unfortunate Jews who dragged the naked corpse covered in piss and vomit from the gas chambers. They pulled out the gold teeth of the dead and cremated the remains. It was mass murder unlike anything else in history. Maybe not as vast as Stalin’s crimes, but the deliberate European scale of an industrial death machine that involved vast logistics and efficiency is beyond comparison.The Grim Tower
The story is of hatred and how racism can create such horror. The album deals with Hitler and the German war machine that cloaked the racial elimination of the Jews. It tells of most European countries being complicit to the crime of murder where women and children were slaughtered because of a twisted ideology. Anti-Semitism, no matter what your view is on this subject; can be no excuse for killing children and treating a race of human beings like vermin. Hatred is the key lesson the human race needs to learn as it is hatred that drives us to obscene cruelty and illogical acts of brutality. The Sonderkommando were the unfortunate Jews who dragged the naked corpse covered in piss and vomit from the gas chambers. They pulled out the gold teeth of the dead and cremated the remains. It was mass murder unlike anything else in history. Maybe not as vast as Stalin’s crimes, but the deliberate European scale of an industrial death machine that involved vast logistics and efficiency is beyond comparison.
The Grim Tower
Also, kindly keep your self-righteous snark to yourself.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
I snark because we've done this dance before, and we'll do it again. You always come down to "separate the art from the artist" (even when the art is called "Jew Killer") and "but the music's good" (as though there's not multiple lifetimes' worth of good music in the world without the taint of Nazism on it) and "I know I'm not a Nazi, so it's OK". So whatever. Be happy with what makes you happy. So far as I know, Miles Davis beat every woman in his life at one point or another - I'm not throwing away any of his records.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
You haven't been paying attention but that's okay. I don't have the ego you do so I don't take it personally.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 22 June 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
Invisible Oranges contributors put together Top Ten lists for the best albums at the midway point of the year.
Here is mine.
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9mmaJIW4AI8-YX?format=png
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 23 June 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
i know i'm a few years late but the last Raspberry Bulbs album, Privacy... phew. Like Bone Awl but with catchy melodies and arena rock riffs. A little like Okkultokrati but from a different angle.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 23 June 2019 11:12 (four years ago) link
Blackened funeral doom from Aalborg, Denmark:
https://hethe.bandcamp.com
Angry Metal Guy hates it so you know it must be good.
― pomenitul, Monday, 24 June 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
Add 'drone', 'trip-hop' and 'Stuart Dempster-ish' to the list of labels. It's quite the trip.
― pomenitul, Monday, 24 June 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
Nature Ganganbaigal from Tengger Cavalry has died.
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/tengger-cavalry-frontman-nature-ganganbaigal-has-died
I wrote about his band that I saw twice. We hung out a lot when I ventured to Brooklyn a while back for a panel when Brian Slagel's book came out and he was there; we went over to Saint Vitus and talked all night about music. He was engaging and friendly.
He had a somewhat public suicide attempt some time ago but the prevailing thought was that he was doing much better. Perhaps not. Mental illness is a bitch.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
Revolver Fans' Top Five Albums of 2019 (so far)http://www.revolvermag.com/music/fan-poll-5-best-albums-2019-so-far
1. Rammstein2. Motionless in White3. Whitechapel4. Baroness5. Death Angel
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 27 June 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
man that news about tengger cavalry is so sad.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 28 June 2019 01:32 (four years ago) link
I wasn’t interested in this Rammstein record at all but I saw them live last week. They absolutely killed it and the new songs sounded great so I probably should listen to the new album.
― Siegbran, Friday, 28 June 2019 09:03 (four years ago) link
scathing doom-sludge w/an ex-Moss member
https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/nightfucker
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 28 June 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
Is this a band that people know? Sounds kinda like shoegaze-y black metal.https://yelloweyes.bandcamp.com/album/rare-field-ceiling
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 28 June 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
hell yeah
― Simon H., Friday, 28 June 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
i played their last album a lot
― j., Friday, 28 June 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
er, next-to-last, i guess! i knew there was one in 2017 but i wasn't really feeling it like 'sick with bloom' so i just gave it a pass
― j., Friday, 28 June 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
yellow eyes are great. New Slough Feg album just arrived
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 28 June 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
at least based on the first couple tracks, this Ashbringer album is really great. post-black-metal stuff with hints of 70s prog. also a weirdly appealing collision of ambitious songs vs. not-too-polished production
https://ashbringermusic.bandcamp.com/album/absolution
― Simon H., Friday, 28 June 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
Wtf Delta
http://www.metalsucks.net/2019/06/29/delta-airlines-employees-robbed-high-on-fire-sleep-frontman-matt-pike/
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
that's f'ed up hope he gets his pedals back
hey there's a new Valborg for anyone who likes weird industrial metal with a guy screaming in German
https://valborg.bandcamp.com/album/zentrum
This one's less caustic than Endstrand (which was like the guy screaming in German was also punching you), a little more gothy vocal presence here and there.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 1 July 2019 06:26 (four years ago) link
This is delightfully nasty
http://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/black-nuclear-magick-attack
Black/death/war metal vibe but some nice moments of creepy ambience that remind me of Temple Nightside or early Disembowelment.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 1 July 2019 06:32 (four years ago) link
The new Organectomy is great, if you like broooootal death metal. I reviewed it.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
Riffs for days, and a paragon of 'this fucking rips':
https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/the-anatomy-of-unholy-transformation
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
At the other end of the spectrum, Floyd-esque psych-doom couched in pretty melodies:
https://fleshofthestars.bandcamp.com/album/mercy
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
The Chinese secret service doesn't like Japanese grindcore:
However, the surveillance app also searches for information on a range of other material – from fasting during Ramadan to literature by the Dalai Lama, and music by a Japanese metal band called Unholy Grave.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
Come to think of it, I doubt I've ever heard any Chinese metal.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
https://pestproductions.bandcamp.com/album/past-evil
is good
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
Thanks, I'll check it out.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
God dammit. I actually liked the first two Tau Cross albums a lot.
Relapse has dropped Tau Cross for thanking a Holocaust denier in the liner notes to their upcoming album.
Over the weekend the German magazine Ox brought it to our attention that a person named Gerard Menuhin was prominently thanked in the new Tau Cross album, and specifically credited in the liner notes for inspiring Rob Miller. All Relapse records go through a vigorous proofing process–checking for spelling and punctuation mistakes, mostly. We all read this name, but didn’t recognize it or think that it was anything other than a personal friend of the band’s, that we did not know. Ox however recognized the name as a far right conspiracy theorist, focused specifically on Holocaust denial. Suddenly the lyrics and themes of the new record were cast in a new light, for me. I spoke with Rob Miller, who is the individual in the band who Ox was interviewing, and while he denied being a Holocaust denier, I cannot comfortably work on or sell a record that dabbles in ideologies such as these. There are certain issues that rise above mere political differences and this is one of them. I spoke with the rest of the band on Monday, and NONE of them had any idea who Gerard Menuhin was, and were as shocked by these references in the record, as we at the label were. I firmly believe that these references and mentions in the record do not represent the band as a whole. but rather just Rob Miller’s. In light of all this, Relapse swiftly decided we cannot move forward with this album–we gave the masters back to the band, together with the rest of their catalog.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
Apparently his father is Yehudi Menuhin
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Menuhin
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link