Rolling Metal 2018

the great filter/type iii is the one (or two) for me, and i also think 'absence' rules fyi

absence and density parameter are my favs. great filter/type iii also amazing, i fell asleep to it nightly for like a week straight

sorta agree with joan that pillars leans a little too far into trance

Youse lot should listen to Nishaiar if you're into soft, ambient, spacey metal. They've already released two albums this year on bc (I haven't heard the more recent one though).

New Mantar is awesome.

Not metal but metal-adjacent: there's a new Ancestors album out today, their first in six years.

Revising my statement on the new Convulsing - it's definitely got its harsh moments but there's also some epic, post-y parts (albeit still slathered in grime).

Also the new Innumerable Forms on Profane Lore is excellent death/doom, RIYL recent Mortuous, Tomb Mold, etc.

The new Deicide comes out in three weeks (9/14) and it rips. But WTF is going on with this band photo? It looks like a gang of monkeys found a camera in the jungle:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dlec_IsWwAAD4Uc.jpg

lol. that's weird, Glenn is usually the scowler, Steve is good-humored. ran into him in Tampa at the Watain show in March (cos he still goes to all the shows) and he played me a demo of the new album. dude has the grip of a professional boxer tho.

can't wait for the new album....hope they come by again soon

Neanderthal, do you have a quick list of like... post Once Upon The Cross Deicide to check out? I kinda dropped them there. I did like Stench of Redemption but didn't actually buy it.

I really liked To Hell with God, which has the staple "Conviction", and In the Minds of Evil, of which my favs are the title track and "Thou Begone".

Like Stench, they moved into a wee bit more melodic territory, but the riffs are a bit more sinister and twisting than the stuff on Stench

Don't sleep on Till Death Do Us Part, which I always call death metal's Here, My Dear - it's a whole album about how much he hates his ex-wife. It's hilarious. But it's got riffs.

thanks guys!

Still very weird to hear a song like "Kill the Light of Christ" dripping with melody

Kill the light of christ and replace it with beautiful riffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IMhNSro3GE

did we notice there's a new album by SKULL FIST out soon?!

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

new Master Boot Record is totally on my short list for year's best metal and I ain't even jokin

https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/direct-memory-access

pig destroyer record streaming on npr. i was a little unsure of it from the singles but atm it sounds like it fucking rips https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/641382167/first-listen-pig-destroyer-head-cage

the riff that opens "circle river" @_@

lj go immediately to let the mortal heroes sing your fame

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, August 23, 2018 4:21 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this turned out to be a good idea

New stuff I like from old bands:

The new Satan record is more of the majestic metal we have come to expect from the band. While reviewing it I noticed that their debut was one of the best albums of 1983 and the first comeback album was one of the best albums in 2013. Can you name a band in any genre that can claim two of the best albums of the year thirty years apart?

The new one from The Skull is doomy and psychedelic, the best of both '80s and '90s Trouble rolled into one album.

Finland's Radux is Nuclear Assault Redux on their debut EP Disaster Imminent on Svart Records. Derivative but fun.

Can you name a band in any genre that can claim two of the best albums of the year thirty years apart?

Obituary came close; their last album was great, 28 years after their debut.

for some reason i got sucked into a looong (and only part 1) and somewhat cheaply made documentary about Rigor Mortis last night....hilariously narrated by Phil Anselmo who is also a talking head in it...

anyway kind of interesting, though jeez it's detailed almost a gig by gig breakdown

def some wild texas boys

new thou record is their best, very tuneful, nice guitar tones, there's a weird black metal interlude way down in the mix at one point for reasons unknown

I was at the debut of that doc with the Rigor Mortis guys doing a Q&A. They told stories they left out of the doc because they were “in poor taste”

um so how'd that go

They were in poor taste. And some slightly criminal.

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I met Bruce when Warbeast played NYC a couple of years ago. Super nice guy. And Rigor Mortis were great. Mike Scaccia was easily one of the most criminally under-recognized guitarists of the whole thrash era. He did some shit even with Ministry ("TV Song") that's fucking mind-blowing.

I feel like he was born with the speed picking ability of one of those 1960s country dudes lilke Joe Maphis but he turned it towards evil

The Rigor Mortis guys were such sweethearts to me every time I met them. Sadly I didn't get to see them with Mike.

i never liked ken mode before but their new album is sounding pretty alright

https://kenmode.bandcamp.com/album/loved

pret-ty dang alright

I liked the last one a lot, and this one sounds pretty good on first listen.

yeah, on first impression seems to split the difference between the last one and the older stuff, with a nice sheen.

New Satan album is out and, on first listen, would appear to have RIFFS

they can do no wrong in my book

Brian Ross is 64, still sounds awesome, and concurrently handles vocal duties for a whole-ass other band (Blitzkrieg)

I reviewed the Satan record and agree with all of the above comments!

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/satan-cruel-magic/

I love Satan

Listening to the Siege of Power album, which is Chris Reifert on vocals and three dudes from Asphyx and/or Hail of Bullets and/or Grand Supreme Blood Court on guitar, bass, and drums. Care to guess what it sounds like?

it sounds fuckin rad is what

If you like Krisiun, you will like the new Krisiun album a lot. It's head-down, blasting death metal with no intros or other BS. Eight tracks in 38 minutes: they come, tear your face off, and leave. I saw them completely smoke Nile live about 10 years ago. This year, they're playing with Suffocation (on Frank Mullen's farewell tour), Cattle Decapitation and Soreption, a band I'm not familiar with - the NYC date is 11/16, and I might just go.

Advance singles for A Forest Of Stars are making me excited a bit

I love the new Krisiun but one of the riffs is fucking "Chopsticks"

The new Satan and The Skull are amazing

Passing up Priest and Purple tonight to interview Aaron Turner when Sumac plays in town.

been revisiting some albums from earlier this year. so far, Usurpress and Tomb Mold seem to be the ones I'm most likely going to expend energy stumping for at year's end

A lot of good records, but I feel I haven't found the top 3 records of the year yet.
Recommended at least: Abigor, Krisiun, Necrophobic, Summoning, Ungfell, Urfaust, Wiegedood, Varathron, Skeletal Remains, Messa, Kły, Funeral Mist, Cosmic Church, Délétère, Ataraxy, Alrakis