Rolling Metal 2019

Condenados were great. (the band I was talking about above)

I do enjoy the new Mayhem. It's pretty aggressive without purely just being a back to roots thing, still plenty of angular moments.

One of the riffs sounds like the Inspector Gadget.

Cautiously optimistic about the new Mayhem, I was surprised to read the glowing and practically fawning 4.5 review at Angry Metal Guy, since they typically don't really love anything over there.

Oh they love all kinds of stuff, like melo power prog and proggy power melo, preferably from the US.

Ha, yeah, I just meant more the final score. I can't tell you how many glowing reviews turn into a 3.0 rating, usually along with a complaint about DR scores.

Mayhem’s post-De Mysteriis discography is really strong and varied, only Chimaera was a bit redundant. Quite looking forward to hearing the new one. Timely since I finally saw Lords Of Chaos which is much better that I feared but still feels like it was designed by committee.

Siegbran and everyone else you are needed Lifetime of ILM 2000-19 Heavy Rock,Noise, Heavy Psych, punk, emo, nu-metal & Metal (or related) Poll Nominations (All welcome to participate) Noms close 23:59 November 8th

Cool, I had completely missed that!

well you have 2 weeks to nominate still but you want to add to the Spotify playlist early so that people will hear it

I'm an idiot; a bunch of those TONS of great Chilean bands I referred to are actually from Peru :(

I know Holydrug Couple are from Chile; they get lumped in w Follakzoid a lot. And this was one of my favorite albums from last year, as almost like a South American Daydream Nation

https://youtu.be/y0yQQNks6Kk

first Forcefield release in forever:
Voarm (black metal)
https://voarm1.bandcamp.com/

More Chilean leads...

Chilean metal: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-chileanmetal.html
Chilean black metal: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-chileanblackmetal.html

New Sunn 0))) , Desert Sessions in the mail. Alcest didn't arrive. Now I find out the new Botanist came out today.

Am at the Oranssi Pazuzu show right now. They’re about to start. Ails blew me away.

goddamn OP and Ails?! lucky

New Vastum (Leila Abdul-Rauf's band) is very good, if you're into atmospherically-inclined death-doom.

Pyroclasts is kind of boring compared to Life Metal, partly because Hildur Guðnadóttir's input is less audible.

Both Pyroclasts and Ecosystem have lived up to the hype for me. Been a good week for metal.

On follow up listens this is my fav Mayhem since Wolf Lair.

I doubt many Ordo fans will agree but it's just me

the new Alcest is superb. Best thing he's done in a decade

Booked a room on the 70000 tons of metal cruise today.

Emperor and Candlemass already confirmed

tempted

the bars on our ship never close - you heard us, bars that never close!

I'm not exactly teetotaling these days but I am pretty immune to the charms of the 24-hour bar at this point

Me too. Sadly not immune to Emperor tho.

Now book Mercyful Fate

I’m not a drinker, but on a cruise ship it’s nice not to have time restrictions on booze or fro-yo.

the new Alcest is superb. Best thing he's done in a decade

Very much agreed. And so Alcest remains the gold standard for blackgaze.

Anyone know what’s up with the NWN forum. It’s been down for a couple weeks, coincident with the Never Surrender Fest which raised some antifa awareness. Wondering if the two are related.

Yeah, it seems like there's a connection there...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHgAcVkVUAIUkKO.png

Does anyone know if the Pyroclasts vinyl comes with a download code?

Thanks for the info. I was really enjoying the thread about Indian metal over there. Hope it comes back with maybe a few less Nazis this time.

Does anyone know if the Pyroclasts vinyl comes with a download code?

You can order the vinyl from their Bandcamp page and get digital that way.

https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/pyroclasts

oh man the new Vastum is SO good

I haven't heard a note of Leprous's previous albums, but their latest is a) definitely-not-metal and b) squarely aimed at the The Voice crowd. What a waste of pipes.

Is it that bad? I haven't checked in on Leprous since Coal and The Congregation, which I recall being pretty decent progressive metal.

It's art rock with an overwhelmingly melodramatic slant. I have a high tolerance for the stuff but this was too much for me. YMMV, of course.

I love Leprous, but I agree that they are precessing away from metal...

oh man the new Vastum is SO good

― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:46 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh boy

anyone need some weird death/doom

https://pulverised.bandcamp.com/album/smoking-mirror

new Wilderun is a serious, major upgrade

Omg the new Angel Witch is pretty inspired

It practically sounds like it came out in 82

I thought As Above, So Below was forgettable but this one has hooks everywhere

I liked the last one so looking forward to this

On second listen, this might make my year end list.

This is as good as the last three Satan albums

As far as trad doom goes, the new Orodruin is mighty fine. I should check out their first album.

This Vastum is my kind of death metal.

Yeah it's really evil

Dave Davidson from Revocation is an Anthony Braxton fan:

Went to the #BerlinJazzFestival last night and got to meet living legend Anthony Braxton. His performance was completely awe inspiring, truly one of the most forward thinking musicians and composers of our time #AnthonyBraxton pic.twitter.com/6UIcjuqhJK

— David Davidson (@Dave_Revocation) November 4, 2019

Three new things I'm particular enjoying:

Finnish punk/rock/metal by IKINÄ: https://open.spotify.com/album/2UCiGRnp35IZR8ttel3RdX?si=VbVkUmqYQtS4MvRzqkWXvQ
Hungarian symphonic power metal by Tales of Evening: https://open.spotify.com/album/7neSlMMIKmqeV7ZaGcJbLL?si=Ex4ZK-PAR9-ZBLmc1eUxGg
A chaotic splatter of Norwegian solo-black-metal "albums" and EPs and whatever by Massemord: https://open.spotify.com/artist/018gIUaP08hROTOiVdiEQ3?si=NqADV275TDKOLBxezH6CEw