Rolling 2023 Metal thread

Go Be Forgotten, the album’s title track is my favorite and may not sound out of place on this.

Demonic Wealth has a lot of similarities as well

particularly the song "Stil"

new Frozen Soul rips.

shame that the one time I saw them live as an opener, it felt like they didn't know how to play live shows yet. the stage banter was awkward, and the crowd wanted to like them but they didn't feed off of them at all. I had just told my friend how good they were and he was bored and I said "ehh I just don't think they're really great at live shows yet".

weirdly even THEY'RE doing the horror synth thing only unlike Krallice, they're purely interludes and not worked into the music at all.

Gost guests a gazillion times on the album

More 80s-style stuff that I'm digging: this Chilean band Shadows. They're closest to early Mercyful Fate, I'd say, with more reverb and keyboards. The production is rough and imperfect but really works with the foggy horror movie vibes.

https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/out-for-blood

thanks for the recs above!

New Horrendous album in August! First song is really good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz8tHOwWHnk

Ahhh, this new Botanist album is lovely.

https://open.spotify.com/album/02pgsDRPLkny6RLJL57v5Y

I found a site taking pre-orders for the Japanese edition of the new Khanate album — July 5 is the release date — so I ordered one for about $30 including shipping. I'm sure I'll have forgotten all about it by the time it hits my PO box, making it a pleasant surprise.

that new horrendous track is goddamn great

Whoa, huge Denis d'Amour vibes in that opening riff. Tremendous.

*big sigh* - for the one time I'm going to a black metal festival (not to see Marduk but still) - this is how the headliner gets in the news https://www.metalsucks.net/2023/05/23/marduk-says-nazi-salute-incident-with-bassist-happened-because-he-was-drinking-covertly/

https://votsband.bandcamp.com/album/dance-you-monster-to-my-soft-song

not a metal diehard like some but victory over the sun is very much in my wheelhouse (i mean, pdx trans experimental black metal...)

it's amazing, that and the new Kostnateni have elevated 2023 metal for me

Whoa, huge Denis d'Amour vibes in that opening riff. Tremendous.

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wow yeah super Voivod. they are one of those bands with such a unique tonality to their riffs and music, like they had access to their own scales that no one else knew or something.

New Wytch Hazel out today.

https://wytchhazel.bandcamp.com/album/iv-sacrament

and also Thantifaxath

Omg the Thantifaxath is a beautiful labyrinthian nightmare.

I am really loving the Wytch Hazel. They basically do one thing only - melodic 70s-style hard rock, heavy Christian imagery - but they're masters of the craft.

Still think the Tanith album is better though (my AOTY at the moment.)

Other than bizarre clippy production....which one definitely lowers things a half letter grade...

the new Metal Church is inspired.

I had liked their previous few and wasn't sure if new guy would fill Howe's shoes well, but Marc Lopes of Ross the Boss fame is great. Reminds me of Stu Block in his dynamic style.

The music goes way harder than I expected.

But man, whoever brickwalled this album deserves tainted yogurt. It's a real bummer

I guess the opener of The Dark was foreshadowing

the new Wytch Hazel continues their knack for strong melodic 70s hard rock/metal. I discovered them through a metal thread years ago.

but dang the whole "is this band Christian?" radar I had going off was definitely right, feels like it gets way more explicit on this one than it used to or maybe I'm just noticing.

Unfelled (feat. members of Woods Of Desolation, Austere and Drudkh) have an album out that's quite black metally: Pall Of Endless Perdition

idk if anybody is into Torture Rack but uhm the new Torture Rack is fun if not indebted to mid-period Cannibal Corpse a bit.

I hear a bit of Bolt Thrower in the Torture Rack too, especially in the solos. But that’s just me.

Yeah I hear that too!

Probably the wrong thread for it because they are pretty much not at all metal at this point, but since they don't have a dedicated thread and we've discussed them in past metal threads - the new Blood Ceremony record rules.

Oh it's a GREAT record. Maybe my favourite of everything there done.

"Eugenie" is crazy, psychedelic sleaze.

new Saturnus tomorrow, only 11 years after the previous one

Lots of live stuff from Hellfest on Arte Concerts youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL66OD4JjS_2PQTMDC3jP1iZJx30dG2Eia
(so far only been impressed by Amenra (predictably) and DVNE (did not know them, Scottish, "progressive sludge doom metal" :-) )

the Amenra video has been removed apparenly (maybe to fix the sound, the guitars did sound a bit weird earlier)

unusual lineups on festival days? https://www.lokersefeesten.be/en/line-up/6-aug/

I caught the Brooklyn Ludicra show on Friday.
Was well worth the trip there, especially since I didn't catch them when they were active.
Honestly the show was one of those life-affirming moments of metal joy for me. What a great band!

the Saturnus album is released on Bandcamp now, phew

the new Sarmat is leagues above, worlds beyond, unbelievably elegant and monstrous jazz + death metal, staggering compositions, if track 3 doesn't end u like it did me then we are not the same

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/determined-to-strike

I downloaded that promo but haven't had time to listen to it yet. I,V has a ridiculous batting average when it comes to weirdo jazz-metal.

feels like we're in a golden age of such

never thought I'd be so excited for a flute solo on a metal album but that's the new Thy Cantafalque

oh, I've been looking forward to that one

so, what are some of the other jazz metal highlights on I, V? I've been looking forward to that sarmat as well

from what i've heard, neptunian maximalism are alright but not something I am often in the mood to go back to. it's... a lot.

this record by -s- was more my speed, like the midpoint between om and dISEMBOWLMENT or something -

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dom-w-kt-rym-mieszka-w-a-house-where-dwelled-a-snake

I haven't heard big chunks of the big catalog tho

The Dolly Parton song with Rob Halford sounds like a Halford song with Dolly singing to a guide vocal laid down by, like, Liv Kristine or somebody. I don't know why I'm disappointed, since I went in with zero expectations, but I am.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQTM3Dwpk0I

If you liked -S- you could see if my Canonical Path thing starting from them yields anything else for you:

https://everynoise.com/canonicalpath.cgi?uri=spotify%3Aartist%3A2ekAeR9i79NtPR4PnMsORI

oh, neat. thanks for sharing!

New Baroness single is fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7vROjNY9Gk

New Cannibal Corpse album in September.

https://cannibalcorpse.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-horrific

I’m also curious about recent jazz metal highlights. Other than Sarmat and Neptunian Maximalism, what should we be checking out?

Have you heard the last Imperial Triumphant album, Spirit of Ecstasy? Came out just about a year ago (July 2022). It's pretty wild; their drummer, Kenny Grohowski, works with John Zorn a lot lately. There's one track where Kenny G plays a guest solo and his son, Max Gorelick, is on lead guitar, and it doesn't feel jokey or dumb at all; the shrillness of the soprano works really well with the music.

dang!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywcshfrpO3A

sarmat record is kinda like from wisdom to hate era gorguts jamming with some friends with horns. pretty good!