Rolling 2023 Metal thread

H. L. Hunt is like a real-life Montgomery Burns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Hunt

Books

Fabians Fight Freedom. Dallas: H. L. Hunt Press.
Alpaca. Dallas: H. L. Hunt Press (1960)
Alpaca Revisited. Dallas: HLH Products (1967)

was reading that exact wiki page just now. couldn't stop thinking of Succession, esp the 'lobotomising the initial heir' part

HRHH's mum seems to have been the one who rebelled, went off and married a psychotherapist. the black sheep lol. or, at least, the Lindsay Bluth

damn h.l. hunt will drink yr milkshake for sure

^this also came to mind

re: Alpaca

Rare utopian novel by oil tycoon HL Hunt - with his Constitution appended. The TV series "Dallas" is said to have been inspired by Hunt....It is known that Hunt published his novel privately and sent it to heads of state around the world.

the problem is that it SOUNDS like it was made by a bushwick landlord

No dodgy politics in this week's BA newsletter — I review the new albums by Memoriam, Voltax and Hellripper.

i should just stay out of metal! i don't know enough about all this shit, too many pitfalls.

No need to beat yourself up over it. Happens to all of us. Hell, it happened in this very thread alone to Neanderthal, one of the coolest dudes I know re: Havok.

You're not obligated to like metal, or even care about it, of course. But when you're the first person to respond to your own post pointing out a band is sketch, that tells me you're cognizant of these matters and react accordingly. That's all you can do whether you're "in league" or not.

I, for one, welcome you here.

Oh, and Liturgy is still metal as fuck.
Saw them live last month. There was nothing not metal about it.

It's @LITVRGY "Subterranean Dissonance Fest" @UndrgroundArts pic.twitter.com/XqVMs64D1G

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) February 12, 2023

Hellripper rules. I've been listening to that album a lot this last week.

yeah it's fantastic

Majesties (Can't recall what prompted me to add this, sorry if it's not metal)

Just figured out why it's on my radar: Side project for guys in Obsequiae and Inexorum who are both all kinds of awesome.

This is all kind of '90s Gothenburg worship, but it is absolutely hitting the spot for me today.

also... what the fuck. 25% commission? not just the good ol' USA trying to kill off touring.

Paris we are sorry to announce we will not be selling merch tonight. pic.twitter.com/sq9FtrDqSr

— Russian Circles (@RussianCircles) March 22, 2023

I will admit to being ignorant/blind to some of these predatory venues that take hefty-assed commissions on merch-sales, but I'm glad to see a movement of bands who are basically giving them the middle finger and telling their fans "hell, just order the shit online, you still get the merch, we get the money, and the venues get fuck all".

I would literally not cry about the inability to get a snazzy new tee at a show if that was the reason.

amazes me that people keep robbing artists at about every conceivable opportunity and then act genuinely aggrieved when artists lash back.

I wonder what the venue would do if a band got onstage and said “Merch table’s in the parking lot after the show”…pull the plug, probably.

English venues are very intense about merch cuts & local sellers

But they probably pay the artists super well right

Lol

Withholding VAT is one thing but 25% commission? Yeah, no.

late pass for me on this -- tchornobog have really grown, the latter half of the track is super great. especially if you like sonic youth lol but seriously it's good

https://abyssal-home.bandcamp.com/album/tchornobog-abyssal

Man, there's so much good stuff in the epic heavy metal mold coming out right now. New Gatekeeper album, Savage Oath EP, another great Smoulder track. I can't get enough of this kind of stuff.

New Spirit Adrift in August, too! First track is out now:

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

https://powertrip.live/

which is the former Desert Trip Festival in Indio:

Oct 6 : Guns n' Roses & Iron Maiden
Oct 7 : AC/DC & Ozzy Osbourne
Oct 8 : Metallica & Tool

passes : https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/972532647261794358/1091033597357588592/FB_IMG_1680192793045.jpg <- !

seating map: https://powertrip.live/tickets/#location-chart <- general admission is the lawn at the back

Maybe it's just me, but I was immediately put off by them hijacking the Power Trip name after Riley Gale died.

maybe it was inspired by the Monster Magnet album? (yeah, probably not)

I mean, maybe had nothing to do with it, just felt weird to me.

https://nakay.bandcamp.com/album/seized-ep

vocals by inter arma's mike on the whole EP

The only EC appearance of the reunited Ludicra is happening at Saint Vitus in June.

https://dice-media.imgix.net/attachments/2023-03-29/5b53d4c8-9d82-4966-b68a-60158af15742.jpg?rect=0%2C0%2C1584%2C1584

I got tickets, will make the trek up the turnpike.
Looking forward to seeing a rare event and reconnecting with friends and the city I once roamed.

Roof collapse at Apollo Theater in Chicago during Morbid Angel show in Illinois.

Fuck

https://www-mystateline-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/first-responders-called-to-belvideres-apollo-theater-on-reports-of-collapsed-roof-due-to-powerful-storm/

https:/www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/first-responders-called-to-belvideres-apollo-theater-on-reports-of-collapsed-roof-due-to-powerful-storm

Fuck. Sorry. I can't get the link to post but it's on Google

everybody in the bands is ok per revocation's twitter

That's good to hear. What a scary situation. :(

One person dead, 28 injured is what I'm seeing on Twitter.

Every once in a while I'll read reviews on Angry Metal Guy. The actual writing is terrible, across the board, but I find out about records I might want to hear. So while I was there, I looked up their review of a record I already owned and liked — Stabbing's Extirpated Mortal Process. (It's really good; I reviewed it for The Wire.) They didn't like it, but in the comments people recommended Wretched Inferno as a superior alternative. So I bought all three of their releases (two albums and an EP) on Bandcamp, and yeah, they rule. Really thick, gooey brutal/slam death metal. Their first EP, 2020's Fester, has some sweet guitar solos and some nice Black Dahlia Murder-esque gurgle/screech vocal tradeoffs. The production on their first full-length, 2021's Decayed Butchery, is a little thin, but they recover really nicely on last year's Cacophony of Filth. If you're in a mood for squeals, grinding guitars, and snares that sound like coffee cans tapped with a pencil, this will be your shit as it is mine.

https://wretchedinferno.bandcamp.com/

snares that sound like coffee cans tapped with a pencil

i'm out

Completely randomly came across this Brazilian album of black metal using all acoustic (!) instruments, it kinda rules?

https://kaatayra.bandcamp.com/album/s-quem-viu-o-rel-mpago-sua-direita-sabe

Looks like a one person band too

the only thing good about Florida is that there are certain bands I get to see often even if not officially on tour. Obituary is one, Cannibal Corpse is one, and Deicide, who I saw last night, is one.

a special treat, because I missed the "Legion in its entirety" set last year, and surprise....they did that again!

weirdly, Benton doesn't really do much stage banter anymore. I remember watching the When London Burns DVD and seeing him make bad "lol Brit" joke after joke between every song, and now he doesn't even introduce the songs or anything. guess someone told him "u not funny!".

I didn't even realize they're on yet ANOTHER set of guitar players, having gone through what seems like 1,000 of them in the last 5 years. I'm sure they offended Benton over some menial bullshit just decided to move on.

Asheim's drum kit seemed like it was ten feet tall, like any higher and you wouldn't have been able to see the top of his head as it would have been obscured by an awning.

only downside is the Legion in its entirety meant less tunes from other albums. they actually didn't really play anything post-Stench of Redemption. But I did get "Lunatic of God's Creation" for the first time in a few shows. Glen's voice sounded great, as always.

Only downside of the night is the friend I decided to invite. I wanted him to see them with me, as he likes them but doesn't know much of their old music, and he doesn't know all their music, so he asked me what they usually play and promised he'd do homework, so I sent him a list. He gets to the show, admits he listened to zero of the songs, spends much of the night drunkenly whining about not knowing the songs, FARTED ON ME at one point, and was so drunk by show's end that I booked an Uber to his house and rode in it with him and walked him into his house. I'd wanted to stay and try and chat w/ Steve Asheim (I don't know him or anything, but one of my friends used to fuck him so one night the three of us hung out at a show and he bought me a shot once and played me unreleased Deicide from his phone). but couldn't cos I had to babysit him.

then this morning he tells me it was one of the worst shows he's ever seen, doesn't even thank me or anything for babysitting him. yeah belongs in boundaries thread but uhhh known the guy 18 years and I forgot what a buzzkill he can be drunk.

but anyway, great show, next up Morbid Angel.

New to me, but Hellish Form, this "funeral drone sludge" duo, is hitting me in the right spot today. Crushingly heavy.

https://hellishform.bandcamp.com/album/deathless

Also, always good to discover a new band fighting the good fight:

Deathless is meant as a judgement of the purveyors of systemic transphobia and a balm to those suffering beneath its hold.

The new Dodheimsgard is sounding fabulous ofc

As is this

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

https://fest.prophecy.de/

Bethlehem (Germany)
Darkher (UK)
Dornenreich (Austria)
Grab (Germany)
Disillusion (Germany)
Laster (Netherlands)
Vemod (Norway)
Illudium (USA)
My Dying Bride (UK)
The Vision Bleak (Germany) “The Deathship Has A New Captain” exclusive show
E-L-R (Switzerland)
Amenra (Belgium)
Darkspace (Switzerland)
Novembers Doom (USA)
Agalloch (USA) exclusive reunion show

Just discovered this fantastic hard-rock band Tanith. Russ Tippins of Satan is one of the leads. I hear a definite Satan similarity but also crossed with the smooth melodies of BOC or Heart.

https://tanithnyc.bandcamp.com/album/voyage

Yeah, Tanith are great. They were a quartet on the first album (I wrote about it here) but are now a trio.

oooh I love this Tanith

they remind me of Ashbury a bit, but w/o the Southern rock element and more metal