https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/25/whitesnake-guitarist-bernie-marsden-dead
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 25 August 2023 18:33 (ten months ago) link
Marsden is really underappreciated. He co-wrote so many great Whitesnake tunes. Those "Here I Go Again" residuals alone, I can't even imagine.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 25 August 2023 19:00 (ten months ago) link
celestial sanctuary sounds up my alley. think I'll throw it on this afternoon to add some spice to cleaning my apartment, paying bills, vacation planning, and similarly brutal tasks.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 26 August 2023 19:44 (ten months ago) link
unsure if this is the right thread but I've really been enjoying this new radiation blackbody record:https://nervealtar.bandcamp.com/album/dead-seed-planted-in-dead-earth
if you've heard their other records, this one isn't a radical departure. but it rules.
if you haven't heard their other records, it's a drum + bass duo with members of anodyne + defeatist, who I loved. kinda like a very tight set of new instrumental man is the bastard songs.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 26 August 2023 23:20 (ten months ago) link
My label, Burning Ambulance Music, is putting out a record in October that I think many folks here would like. It's by guitarist/composer Diego Caicedo, it's called Seis Amorfismos, and it's extreme metal guitar & vocals paired with a string quartet. Here's the first track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1DC0Ih1YPE
Street date is October 13, but pre-orders will launch on Bandcamp on Friday.
― read-only (unperson), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 20:26 (ten months ago) link
Really digging Vultures Like You, the full-length debut from Portland's Viral Tyrant:
https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/vultures-like-you
Don't let the Ripple label fool you (for those of you who are stoner averse), this is actually pretty grimy sludge and much darker than Ripple's usual fare.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:45 (ten months ago) link
finally listened to the new horrendous today while making a big batch of chili. they've always been good but i think they might've finally made a classic
― ivy., Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:49 (ten months ago) link
STOP THE PRESSES
NEW AUTOPSY ALBUM ANNOUNCED
― ivy., Thursday, 31 August 2023 17:45 (ten months ago) link
another one? hell yes
― I can't turn a fart into a question (Neanderthal), Thursday, 31 August 2023 17:48 (ten months ago) link
It’s not metal, but it’s on a metal-ish label: the new Sprain is out tomorrow and it’s immense.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Thursday, 31 August 2023 17:53 (ten months ago) link
New Dying Fetus is solid, if a bit generic and underwhelming on first blush. Hope it hits me better on revisiting.
Currently listening to the new Nithing record that was mentioned a little bit up thread and its brand of brootal chaos is fucking hitting the spot for me today.
Gonna queue up the new Blut Aus Nord after this . . .
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 4 September 2023 17:07 (ten months ago) link
The Horrendous album has pretty much taken over my AOTY spot. I just love it, it's everything I look for in metal.
― jmm, Monday, 4 September 2023 23:35 (ten months ago) link
I feel the same way about the new molested divinity lol. I can’t stop listening to it. it’s everything I look for in (brootal) metal.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 01:24 (ten months ago) link
Horrendous sounds like straight from the melodeath era (In Flames, Dark T, Soilwork), I was not expecting this but I'm intrigued.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 06:24 (ten months ago) link
I had some thoughts on seven new metal albums (Celestial Sanctuary, Cryptopsy, Dead And Dripping, Exmortus, Incantation, Sarmat, and Spirit Adrift)...
― read-only (unperson), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:16 (ten months ago) link
lol at having Cryptopsy and a band named after one of their songs in the same article.
very cool!
still need to hear the Exmortus, the Celestial Sanctuary is dope.
― Dinglebert Humperstink (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:30 (ten months ago) link
Imperial Triumphant just put out a really cool cover of Rush's "Jacob's Ladder". Great choice of song, it suits them very well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8geD0Ok_20
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 7 September 2023 04:07 (nine months ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw-mOLOrb-A/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
― gman59, Sunday, 10 September 2023 03:25 (nine months ago) link
okay the Fleshvessel album is indeed really good and bonkers in the best way, but would be even better with a real drummer. the programmed drums lack the oomph this needs.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 September 2023 19:28 (nine months ago) link
also the last track has more false endings than The Fellowship of the Ring
but I do really love how crazy this is
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 September 2023 19:52 (nine months ago) link
Doesn't The Fellowship of the Ring have no endings, false or otherwise?
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 11 September 2023 20:50 (nine months ago) link
yeah, I guess "false endings" is not correct, it's more like a long, drawn out ending
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 September 2023 20:52 (nine months ago) link
I don't make a habit of watching interviews with Corey Taylor, but this one, starting at about the 33-minute mark (in case clicking the link doesn't take you right to it), was fascinating for me personally, because I was there during the era he talks about (I worked for Roadrunner Records from 2010-2014):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvtPKBAo9ng
It was all over the minute the label moved from its own offices in lower Manhattan to the Warner Brothers offices in midtown, but I stuck around for another year before I was let go, and it really did seem to get more dismal every day. Nobody around was excited about the records we were putting out — they all wanted to push Panic! at the Disco and Fun.
― read-only (unperson), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:25 (nine months ago) link
for those who care Behold... The Arctopus is unveiling a new album at 6pm est that evidently has no drums/synths/amps or distortion involved. I'm guessing it's going to be pretty far out therehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y9gP1FMapA
― gman59, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 19:53 (nine months ago) link
Really wild stuff. Sounds a bit like King Crimson and Autechre on first listen.
― gman59, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 22:32 (nine months ago) link
Haha that is bonkers, but I kind of love it.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 September 2023 13:59 (nine months ago) link
yeah that is cool, have enjoyed it
― imago, Thursday, 14 September 2023 14:42 (nine months ago) link
The Tomb Mold album sounds like two albums playing simultaneously, and frankly I wish someone would turn down the caveman death metal record so I can listen to the jazzy prog fusion record. (There are some serious hooks, though.)
― read-only (unperson), Friday, 15 September 2023 02:24 (nine months ago) link
This thing with Harley from the Cro-Mags is kinda nuts:
https://www.wearethepit.com/2023/09/cro-mags-involved-in-brawl-at-show-singer-harley-flanagan-stabbed-and-maced/
Mainly the two stories are so completely different from each other. I don't know what to believe. Harley has not always been a super nice guy but they make him out to be a violent predator lunatic.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 15 September 2023 03:57 (nine months ago) link
Harley has been a violent predator lunatic since the age of 12. He himself would tell you so, assuming you don't work in law enforcement.
― read-only (unperson), Friday, 15 September 2023 04:02 (nine months ago) link
for whatever reason i struggled with the last one but this new tomb mold record is perfect
if you can’t handle me at my caveman death metal you don’t deserve me at my jazzy prog fusion
― ivy., Saturday, 16 September 2023 04:30 (nine months ago) link
Tomb Mold are a bunch of nerdy sci-fi hippie kids and I love em. I'm so happy to have new music from them.
finally popping it on right now after waiting all day.
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 September 2023 04:32 (nine months ago) link
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 September 2023 04:39 (nine months ago) link
^^^ true
tbh I'm still digesting the new tomb mold and gridlink records. which makes sense, since they both came out yesterday
the production sounds a little off on the gridlink, maybe. I'll play it nice and loud later today and see if that helps.
new cognizant too, with the same drummer:https://nervealtar.bandcamp.com/album/inexorable-nature-of-adversity
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 16 September 2023 16:35 (nine months ago) link
New Tomb Mold sounding fucking killer so far.
Also gonna chip in a recommendation for the Fabricant album that finally came out over a decade after their memorably great (to me at least) demo. It's a fun nest of dense skronky Demilich style tech death.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Saturday, 16 September 2023 17:00 (nine months ago) link
The GridLink album is a melodeath record played at grindcore speed. It's incredible.
― read-only (unperson), Saturday, 16 September 2023 17:06 (nine months ago) link
Tomb Mold's "Will of Whispers" is one of the best metal tracks I've heard all year. What a band, they just keep getting better.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 16 September 2023 18:47 (nine months ago) link
this Arcotopus record is just so wonderful. in a less crowded metal landscape it would be making giant waves -- I mean, it's not as severe an outlier as its predecessors in the genre (Cynic and Voivod imo) were when they were new, but it's just so great to hear a band setting arbitrary limitations for the sake of finding something great within them
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 16 September 2023 20:24 (nine months ago) link
the clean intro with a bruef but memorable melodic solo on “will of whispers” really caught my attention
also the exhaled growl over that first ringing, jazzy chord makes me laugh, which i also like
xpost
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 16 September 2023 20:46 (nine months ago) link
*brief lol
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 16 September 2023 20:47 (nine months ago) link
I have tried and repeatedly failed to get past the Tomb Mold vocals, but this Gridlink thing is great, I'll be fine over here.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 16 September 2023 23:25 (nine months ago) link
well, I love the songs on this thing. +1 unperson the melodeath + grind formula is pretty novel. it's fun to just mentally try and keep up with what they're playing, so I'm really really looking forward to seeing them live next month. but there is also a black metal or and justice for all-like lack of low end on the recording too. I just a/b'ed spotify and flac files from bandcamp, and unsurprisingly, the latter sounded more full. I think my solution here will be to never listen to this on spotify, and otherwise, crank up that bass.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 16 September 2023 23:29 (nine months ago) link
Arctopus album is so cool. Someone in the Youtube comments compared it to Univers Zero and I think there's something to that.
― jmm, Saturday, 16 September 2023 23:38 (nine months ago) link
The new LP by Angelus Apatrida is one of the best metal LPs I've heard all year. Tight, aggressive thrash accentuated by strong vocal melodies, kind of a cross between Beneath the Remains and early Testament. Absolutely killer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCfydI2I1MI
― A. Begrand, Monday, 18 September 2023 00:09 (nine months ago) link
Was just listening to the Gridlink album and was really puzzled by the quiet quasi-orchestral fills in the song-breaks. Finally realized I hadn't muted the broadcast-not-started-yet loop on the Apple TV app I have open for a soccer game about to start.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 18 September 2023 00:29 (nine months ago) link
Lol
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Monday, 18 September 2023 03:48 (nine months ago) link
It took me a few tries to adjust my ears to the production on the Gridlink, but yeah, it is totally insane
― jmm, Monday, 18 September 2023 14:12 (nine months ago) link
Ha, just got to this, that is such a good transition
― jmm, Monday, 18 September 2023 14:29 (nine months ago) link
Some new things I'm looking forward to checking out:
Undergang (crusty old school death):https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/de-syv-stadier-af-ford-rv
Temperance (symphonic metal with vocal harmonies):https://temperance.bandcamp.com/album/hermitage-darumas-eyes-pt-2
Malokarpatan (Eastern European folk/thrash black metal):https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/vertumnus-caesar
― o. nate, Monday, 18 September 2023 21:07 (nine months ago) link
undergang are pretty high on my list of stuff that seems like it should be right up my alley but never really clicks. but… i will dutifully try again… i do like the cover art…
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 04:04 (nine months ago) link