Rolling Metal 2018

The intro to this month's Black Market column on Stereogum is very interesting

The self-awareness of point number 9 is refreshing to read.

fwiw i brought it up cos my brother's band was supposed to open for them on a few dates. they were targeted as well by someone who confused them with another band and didn't bother letting that getting in the way of calling them neo nazis just the same

easy to waaaah waaah when you don't have two kids and people are doxing your friends left and right and you're hoping nobody shows up to your house to prove how anti-hate they are

the "waaaah waaaah" was obviously meant for Taake, do you always intentionally miss the point so you can grind whatever axe is on your agenda that day

goddamn the new Rolo Tomassi is FANTASTIC

wow that Therion review is some fucking navel-gazing trash

I chuckled but I already miss Doug Moore's snark-free column

I need to get off my ass and start checking out some new stuff, but I'm enjoying still being in the honeymoon period with the new Tribulation, which gets deeper and richer with each listen.

wow that Therion review is some fucking navel-gazing trash

― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi)

if you're going to make a listicle, sell it as a listicle

I miss Jeff Gilbert's one liner metal reviews from Guitar World

Pallbearer had a bigger crowd than I expected in Lexington on Sunday.

love them

Hi metal people, as someone who listened to a lot of metal in the '90s (some experimental, lots of Century Media-type stuff, some corny [and even I knew that Theli was corny at the time]), I enjoyed that Therion piece, thx for that.

My Bandcamp interview with Usurpress bassist and Swedish Death Metal author Daniel Ekeroth just posted:

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/03/02/usurpress-interregnum-interview/

I like and appreciate that album more every time I listen to it

Another good Priest track. I'm getting excited for this album.

new Sludge album out today!
https://slugdge.bandcamp.com/album/esoteric-malacology

*Slugdge

xxxpost I don't like it anywhere near as much as the previous two but I'm mega-stoked for the album.

Transilvanian Fungus
Salt Thrower

very good band concept

I don't have much time for Priest ballads anymore. The two previous songs were way better than this one. But yeah, I'll still be checking the album out.

The second Oceans of Slumber album, The Banished Heart, is out today on Century Media, and it's fucking great.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2ZNoxhNbYKfdIk79d0K8UE?si=zj4Jlx7HSvSlMEFpx5T6vg

dunno if this is appropriate for this thread or the nonexistant rolling punk/non-indie underground 2018 thread, but these guys fuckin' rip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec1U7QXqEpE

any good epic doom out lately. presumably stuff that sounda like witches of Salem made it

Oceans of Slumber album is indeed v good!

I love brutal death metal bands' album covers. I just bought these three albums based on 30 seconds of listening each, and their cover art.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXVW7jDVoAAFUPT.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXVW7jIVwAAZj3M.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXVW7jLUQAE4ABf.jpg

I'm not kvlt enough to decipher those band names

Top to bottom: Gamma Sector, Organectomy, Manifesting Obscenity.

You're not kidding about the bdm covers.

https://i.imgur.com/iJz8nHd.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ff9WEU3.jpg

The new Gorevent EP is really good too, if adorned with unspectacular art. Looking forward to the new Cranial Contamination, Injurious, and Godsfarm.

On a completely different tip, specifically Finnish black metal that's less raw and punky and more table-pounding pagan triumphalism, there's this amazing album from like a year and a half ago that I'm only now discovering. Brilliant stuff with (underused) cool key sounds.
https://antimateria4.bandcamp.com/releases

That Antimateria sometimes reminds me of the German one-man-band Horn, which is about as high praise as it gets.

I feel like some of you are really going to love this.

https://amongtherocksandroots.bandcamp.com/album/raga

The bandcamp tags say it best:

experimental shamanic ambient avant-garde heavy noise rock Richmond

I'm digging the new Monotheist record quite a bit.

has Carpenter Brut's Leather Teeth been brought before the committee yet

since the exorcism seems to have been a success, we'll just quietly enjoy one last convulsion of that whole weird "the Miami Vice OST ruled" retro movement that possessed the internet a few months ago
https://carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com/album/leather-teeth
because track 2 features Garm and track 6(!!!) has Kvohst, and frankly the album itself is cool, though very much not metal

I like that album but holy fuck is it mixed/mastered loud. The first time I pressed play (wearing headphones) I almost fell over.

New LLNN album in April, one track up:

http://llnn.bandcamp.com/album/deads-2

More keyboards is frankly just fine with me.

I'm seeing Lisa LeBlanc tonight. She is a Canadian "thrash folk" artist whose Twitter account says, "I like banjos and headbanging."

Here she is doing "Ace of Spades"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvXlMdfspwg

The video is a montage of several different clips of her doing it. When I watched it, I swore that I saw Voivod at one of them. Sure enough, they jammed on the tune at a Canadian festival before (a handheld clip of it is also on the YouTubes).

Her last album was great, incidentally: http://open.spotify.com/album/0oTTQnhihdD5IDQeW2xoVL

I'm passing up Exodus and Municipal Waste to see her. I have a feeling I won't regret the decision one bit.

Judas Priest album is awesome. I like the production/mixing much better than on Redeemer of Souls, which always sounded a bit off to me. This feels solid and punchy.

yeah so far I've loved it, haven't finished it yet.

it does sound more like classic Priest through 2018 sheen, production wise, which is nice

Yeah, this Priest record really is something. It's too long (14 songs, 58 minutes - 10 in 40 would have been better IMO), and I don't like the cover art, but the songs are heavy as shit.

The Priest album fills me with so much joy. I've said it re: Maiden, Rush, Metallica's last one, it's so rewarding to hear bands that were so important to you 30+ years ago making inspired, vital music.

This is a really great interview.
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/bj5eaa/the-enduring-humanity-of-rob-halford-metal-god

Could I ask if you were a theater kid?
Yeah, I’m a heavy metal ham. As a kid growing up, I was always watching movies on the TV or going to see movies and various shows ,and just enjoying the human capacity in drama and in expressionism and thinking about the way these other great people would give their performances, so that’s kind of instinctive for me now, you know? Before I left school, one of the things [I had to decide] was did I want to go to drama school, or did I want to continue as a singer? I went for what makes me feel good, and that’s singing. Singing is a gift. It doesn’t matter whether you’re singing in tune or out of tune, there’s nothing better than singing in the shower in the in car along with your favorite band. It’s the best feeling in the world, singing. You don’t have to learn how to play guitar or the drums or whatever. Singing, to me, is one of the most purest form of expression. It’s a beautiful thing. Even now, I always feel the most complete as a person when I’m singing a song—mostly metal.

Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, that’s my big Emperor album.

finished the new Priest.

Firepower > Redeemer of Souls

Kreator were so good tonight. no Saboton so they threw in extra oldies like "Total Death"

back to the Priest, I feel like if Redeemer of Souls was their 21st century Painkiller stylistically, this one was more their Screaming for Vengeance. the songs are a bit less "face melty" and a bit more ear-catchy, a few of the songs could even be radio hits.

Halford seems to have recovered a little of his range on a few of the songs too. I did notice that they add a squealy guitar to double his high pitched shrieks though to conceal their waning power, neat trick.

Kreator were so good tonight. no Saboton so they threw in extra oldies like "Total Death"

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/live-review-kreator-sabaton/

Best Priest album in 28 years. Andy Sneap is a fan, and you can hear how he helps bring more aggression to the album's sound. It has more bite than their last few.

feels more cohesive than Redeemer, which I liked, but had more clunkers. this one I only dislike the third single.

https://i.imgur.com/EpLhLG4.jpg