Rolling 2023 Metal thread

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

songwriting is more purposive and killer than simply 'jamming', but kinda yeah lol

I’ve heard some of the earlier Imperial Triumphant stuff, but I’m not familiar with that one. I actually don’t mind Kenny G at all, so that sounds doubly interesting. Thanks!

hoarse old man yelling vox:

jammin

and i hope you like jammin too

*intense horn honkin*

This shirt is amazing:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzNOISeWIAIT3vD.jpg

Limited edition; pre-order yours today!

Anyone remember this album?

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/5/8/3/1/58312.jpg

Imperial Crystalline Entombment (aka ICE) released this album in 2004. It came out when I was the metal buyer for an indie record store in Columbus, Ohio, and it's phenomenal! A black metal record with a coldness mimicking their name (purely intentional), great songs, great playing, well worth a listen.

http://open.spotify.com/album/3ifUNY4LxwoCLghz9oIb4z?si=eLggyDFwT7KLLB-dgO6NLw

Got a press release that suddenly almost two decades later (on 9/1) a follow-up "Ancient Glacial Resurgence" will be released via Debemur Morti Productions! Most unexpected and I cannot wait!

First single here:

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

It rips!

Okay, I was a little skeptical about another one-man black metal project, but finally hearing the new Kostnateni and it absolutely rips. There's a bit of noise rock thrown into the mix, which I like.

Saw Adrien tip off the single earlier upthread, but the entire Smoulder album smokes from start to finish.

What a fun album indeed!

Also it's super cool that they got Michael Moorcock to narrate on one of their tracks.

New Incantation album in August! Love that all the songs have parenthetical alternate titles, just like Radiohead on Hail To The Thief. And yes, I read the album title as Unholy Defecation when I first saw it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDbeI_3kWO0

gendo ikari full-length on the way, RIYL circle pits and/or anime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmqE-HMRtCE

New GridLink album in September. I've already heard the whole thing and it's amazing — blasting grindcore (with patented Jon Chang shrieks), but the songs are full of Swedish melodeath riffs. Album of the Year candidate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEL0yTfgCS8

Can't wait. They're the band that got me into grindcore.

jesus christ, had no idea they were still active. amazing!

keeping the grind train going, just caught the chepang record release set. have always liked them but feels like they’ve leveled up considerably. fantastic set.

haven’t even listened to the whole new record but… buy it on sight.

whoa, and takafumi is even playing on the new gridlink??? what a beautiful world

Chepang are great. Keep meaning to buy their stuff on Bandcamp.

K.K.'s Priest is naming their next album "Sermons of the Sinner" and the lead single is "One More Shot at Glory".

based on that, i'm just afraid the rest of the album is gonna be shit like

"Electric Eye(s)"
"Still Screaming for Vengeance"
"Many Sentinels"

oh sorry, the album is called The Sinner Rides Again.

having Ripper Owens as vocalist makes it an extra level of o_O.

but that said, the song is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sypj3SPBKKU

Breaking More Laws

The song's not bad. It reminds me of Ross the Boss more than Judas Priest, which is fine by me.

“victim of some more changes”
“painkiller II”
“still hot rockin”

Love Chews

KK's band is so beyond boring. I don't know if it's Ken's fault or Ripper's fault, but the vocal melodies on the new record are astonishingly forgettable. It's just screaming that's simply taking up space.

A maddening album, and a pathetic attempt to cling to the Priest brand.

I never spent much time with the first album - I was excited for it and was very let down on the first few listens. definitely was nowhere near as good as the Denner/Shermann releases, for a point of comparison.

I'll give this one a shot but I really wish he and Priest would just bury the hatchet and become another Iron Maiden where he, Glen, and Richie are now in the band in the studio (and him and Richie live).

but of course that'd put Richie in the unfair position of having to learn completely different solos for every song

Halford's first memoir hilariously painted KK as a very touchy fellow who was prone to tantrums. Glenn would always deliberately wind him up.

A six-piece lineup would be killer indeed. But with Richie they're doing just fine, and wow I'm excited to hear the new record.

yeah and Halford also touched on it again in his (admittedly disappointing) second book.

I'm reading KK's Heavy Duty now to compare his takes with Rob's.

yeah I'm very amped for the next Priest. still consider Firepower to be one of the most incredible late-stage metal albums in history

maybe i should update the 2022 thread but god idk how i completely missed the white ward record from last year. it's excellent like everything else they've done

Glad you found it Ivy, that record is killer. I thought there was no possible way for them to top Love Exchange Failure, but I was happily proven wrong.

So I saw a date listed at a local club for a couple black metal bands, Profanatica and Panzerfaust

Kind of caught my eye esp since Panzerfaust Records was a defunct white power skinhead label in Mpls

Not a ton of info but they seem sketchy - anyone know anything about them?

I think this is Panzerfaust the Canadian band, not the label? They're on Eisenwald Tonschmiede, same (German) label as Fluisteraars, Agalloch, Austere, etc.

yes the Canadian band, I just have the association, and the label name didn't exactly inspire confidence, so it's ok probably?

They did show up at the trucker convoy in Ottawa last year, so likely dumbfucks at the very least

https://www.reddit.com/r/rabm/comments/sft90f/panzerfaust_at_truck_convoy_rally_in_ottawa/

Yeah, anyone who sided with the convoy is instantly persona non grata in my books.

I'm digging this German band The Night Eternal. Dark and gothy heavy metal, like Danzig fronting Tribulation, pretty close to In Solitude sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suCxxWXRKn8

The Max and Igor Cavalera re-recordings of Bestial Devastation and Morbid Visions (plus two new songs dating back to that era) are really good. I'm writing about them for Burning Ambulance tomorrow.

Was morbidly curious about those, I normally am not a fan at all of re-recordings like that, but I might have to check them out based on your recommendation.

Just listened to *Morbid Visions* and yeah, lots of fun and sounded great; pretty clear to hear that they've kept to the spirit of the originals.

but lol at Nuclear Blast for releasing the 20-minute long EP separately and charging full price for it

damn jmm that night eternal is real nice. otm that it's like in solitude. I loved in solitude.

Yes, I love them. Pelle had a poetic spark which really elevated them. TNE's vocalist is eerily similar at times.

As promised, my thoughts on the new Cavalera records, plus some other stuff.

Re: Profanatica

They toured with sketchy bands and when I saw them on such a tour (doing a headlining show without the sketchy band) send shout-outs from the stage against "virtue signal" types. I count them as boneheaded and tolerant of stuff I am not so tolerant of. So I can see people having a problem with them or giving them a pass since they are not overtly Nazis themselves. I will admit they put a sour taste in my mouth and I probably won't see them again.

Was morbidly curious about those

nice

I'm looking forward to checking these out too. I was pretty disappointed with the old school morbid visions the first time I heard it, and specifically, with the production. but that was back when I was in high school (aka the nu-metal years). haven't gone back much since then.

Since this line of convo is still on-going, I'll chip in my two cents that I had a similar crisis regarding Panzerfaust based off their name when they toured with UADA and Imperial Triumphant a few years back. I spent way too much time trying to figure out their deal and my conclusion at the time was that they are classic dumb edgelord metal guys who are probably OK with sketchy shit (like choosing that fucking name), but not the types to promote gross stuff too directly in public at least.

At the time, the main search thing that came up was them was about them peeing on the Westboro Baptist Church ( https://loudwire.com/panzerfaust-piss-on-westboro-baptist-church/ ), which is low hanging fruit but pointed enough in the right direction for me to feel better about them. There were a couple little things about people protesting at their shows or trying to get them kicked off bills, but it didn't seem to be based in much concrete evidence apart from their name or their tour partners since I think UADA got in hot water for playing a big Euro fest with Graveland (or someone like that) around the same time.

Anyway, I decided to go to the show and all three bands were v good live, but Panzerfaust was a total highlight. I was genuinely mad that their set was as good as it was since I was kind of primed to dislike them based on how much kvetching I had done about it. They were selling some merch with dopey shit like "This is Not a Fucking Safe Space" written on the back though.

All that said, I do think them not only showing up to the trucker convoy but choosing to post about it on their own social media is enough of a bridge too far that I would try to avoid seeing them again, despite how good they were live. There's just too much great stuff made by people who aren't morons or who don't make you spend hours pouring through internet forums to figure out their needlessly opaque politics out there.

it's always implied that I don't "get" metal when I take issue with stuff like this but I don't see how the nazi name isn't the end of it

when I took issue with darkthrone having an album of the same name the backlash was pretty vicious and I'm still not sure exactly why

honestly, is there any reason to give a metal band the benefit of the doubt on this stuff?

no but metalheads will be metalheads