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
Another voice to say that the Tomb Mold is exactly my kind of death metal. Atmospheric and on the "spiritual" side, but also chops and chugs.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 13:51 (nine months ago) link
I was really impressed by the Tomb Mold review Pitchfork had the other day, but man I really don't agree with Currin's review of the new Baroness. Like at all.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 15:38 (nine months ago) link
Yeah, he's completely off base. Stone is a fucking great record. Currin's smart, but he often thinks he knows better than the artists he's reviewing and when he goes that route, he's usually wrong.
The new Cannibal Corpse album is...good but not great. There are a couple of amazing songs, which have already been released as singles, and the rest is up to their usual standard but the album feels really short (39 minutes, feels like less) and ends very abruptly. The last song could have used a fade, but instead it just ends.
― read-only (unperson), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 15:44 (nine months ago) link
the super clean and jazzy parts of that Tomb Mold record remind me of another band, but i can't quite place who it is ... clean and jazz not being my area of expertise, by any means. help? i'm not even sure if it's another metal band or some other style ...
― alpine static, Friday, 22 September 2023 14:55 (nine months ago) link
Neptunian Maximalism?
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:56 (nine months ago) link
Atheist? Cynic?
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 22 September 2023 17:02 (nine months ago) link
Dream Unending (the guitarist's other band)?
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 September 2023 17:06 (nine months ago) link
Orthodox?
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 22 September 2023 17:09 (nine months ago) link
certainly Dream Unending, though that's not the imaginary band in my head ... Cynic/Atheist seem too heavy for what I'm thinking. I should revisit that NepMax album.
i thought, 'maybe this is what Animal as Leaders sounds like' but then i listened to Animal as Leaders and that's not quite right.
maybe it's just cool Tomb Mold jams and i should not worry about it.
― alpine static, Friday, 22 September 2023 17:18 (nine months ago) link
Would I be wrong to throw Sweven and Morbus Chron amongst these?
― beard papa, Friday, 22 September 2023 17:55 (nine months ago) link
Australian deathcore band Thy Art Is Murder released their new album today, and along with it an announcement — not only have they kicked out their singer, who was apparently a transphobic piece of shit, but they wiped his vocals and brought in a new guy.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6ptSJVWcAA5MER.jpg
Partial quote from the above:
Our new album "Godlike" is now available worldwide digitally with an unforeseen change - Chris McMahon is no longer a part of Thy Art Is Murder and does not feature on the record. We understand that this may come as a surprise and we want to assure you that this decision was made to preserve the band's integrity and direction.What transpired over the past month was not the cause of this action, but just another symptom of the drawn out breakdown in his character and judgment. The straw that broke the camel's back if you will.Long story short, the fallout has been immense. We were lobbed with threats to destroy Thy Art Is Murder from the inside if we did not capitulate to various ideologies that he holds.Everyone has their own right to free speech and to seek their truth; they are also free to receive the consequences that come with it.
We understand that this may come as a surprise and we want to assure you that this decision was made to preserve the band's integrity and direction.
What transpired over the past month was not the cause of this action, but just another symptom of the drawn out breakdown in his character and judgment. The straw that broke the camel's back if you will.
Long story short, the fallout has been immense. We were lobbed with threats to destroy Thy Art Is Murder from the inside if we did not capitulate to various ideologies that he holds.
Everyone has their own right to free speech and to seek their truth; they are also free to receive the consequences that come with it.
― read-only (unperson), Friday, 22 September 2023 19:25 (nine months ago) link
new desecresy
https://xtreemmusic.bandcamp.com/album/deserted-realms
i knew i was in good hands when it kicked off with mandy (the movie) sounds
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 12:30 (nine months ago) link
What’s the story with Blue Grape Music? Looks like it’s mostly ex-Roadrunner people, with ex-Roadrunner bands. They’ve got the new one from Code Orange, which was recorded by Steve Albini and sounds nothing like a Steve Albini recording.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, 29 September 2023 12:13 (nine months ago) link
Moonlight Sorcery full-length is out today. The Dan Swanö production is much more polished and power metal-sounding than the EPs. Liking it so far, especially "Into the Silvery Shadows of Night"
https://moonlightsorcery.bandcamp.com/album/horned-lord-of-the-thorned-castle
― jmm, Friday, 29 September 2023 13:25 (nine months ago) link
xp wasn't Blue Grape Roadrunner's merch company back in the day? would be curious for the story behind the label.
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 October 2023 01:35 (nine months ago) link
NEW CORRUPTED SONG
https://corrupted1994.bandcamp.com/track/mushikeras
― read-only (unperson), Sunday, 1 October 2023 15:15 (nine months ago) link
!!!!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 1 October 2023 22:42 (nine months ago) link
it is almost boring how reliably brilliant Ayloss is. new Auriferous Flame is yet another masterpiece
― imago, Saturday, 7 October 2023 12:54 (eight months ago) link
https://auriferousflame.bandcamp.com/album/ardor-for-black-mastery
― imago, Saturday, 7 October 2023 12:55 (eight months ago) link
New Judas Priest album in March:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwC_KNT24kU
If the music in the teaser is indicative of the record as a whole, it's gonna be Turbo II... and honestly, I'm up for that.
― read-only (unperson), Sunday, 8 October 2023 20:35 (eight months ago) link
Definitely hear a Turbo style gloss to it! I'm all-in if that's the case.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 8 October 2023 21:17 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQh2xNa_Bv4
Glorious. Wow.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 12 October 2023 23:34 (eight months ago) link
New Priest above. I was so excited I used a New Zealand VPN to hear it, so it should be working soon, whatever time zone you're in.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 12 October 2023 23:35 (eight months ago) link
ffs, just found out that my friend and former poster of this parish Sean Boyles aka SeanWayne (drummer of Hellbeard and various bands) passed away yesterday.
He will be sorely missed.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 08:40 (eight months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/rkXFo9o.jpg
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 08:43 (eight months ago) link
I remember him. RIP. Way too young.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 23:04 (eight months ago) link
He was a great guy. He did comedy clubs too. His grandaughter posted on fb yesterday, she's utterly heartbroken. He adored her.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Thursday, 19 October 2023 08:24 (eight months ago) link