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wimps and posers leave the hall!

Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 15:05 (five months ago) link

Saguzar's Total Necro D-Beat Desecration sounds exactly like you think it will, but it's doing the job this morning.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1041989003_10.jpg

https://saguzar.bandcamp.com/album/total-necro-d-beat-desecration

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 16:25 (five months ago) link

lol i love albums that have their genre descriptions in the title

Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 17:10 (five months ago) link

It won't make my playlist of great metal covers of non-metal songs because it's a metal song to begin with, obviously, but this Sershen&Zaritskaya version of "Rainbow In The Dark" is great.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6Wpuzey15pwj1mN0EBRw8s

glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 4 January 2024 00:37 (five months ago) link

This week’s post had the coloured vinyl reissues of Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. Haven’t spun the latter yet but the former sounds fantastic, far from the crackly experience that is the shitty pressing of From Enslavement to Obliteration that came out a few years ago (I can already hear unperson chastising me, vinyl is a sucker’s name, I know I know).

Also, RTL came with a download card but Puppets didn’t. Hmm. I’ve opened a ticket on the Metallica website and let’s see if that gets anywhere.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 6 January 2024 16:54 (four months ago) link

*weeks not years (that FETO reissue was in November I think?)

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 6 January 2024 16:54 (four months ago) link

new (old) corrupted incoming. not my fave release but haven't listened to this "much darker" version yet...

Out 26 Jan: CORRUPTED 'Felicific Algorithm / Mushikeras' CD/Shirt

Corrupted is a mysterious Japanese doom metal band, formed in 1994. Immensely downtuned guitar and crushingly slow bass are shrouded under deep layers of feedback. They are rightly hailed as one of the heaviest and darkest doom metal bands of all time.

This is not a simple reissue of the 2018 multi-speed, vinyl-only release "Felicific Algorithim" (Cold Spring). Though the first two tracks were created using the same field recordings / source material captured in Amagasaki, Osaka, and Fukushima, the tracks have been carefully reworked into a much darker sound. The new track titles 'Felicific Algiorithm' and 'Felicific Aligorithm' reflect this; like a mind virus appearing the same at first glance.

The 27-minute track 'Mushikeras' was recorded 2022-23 as a four-piece line-up of Kaz Mike (howling guitar and bass), Rie Lambdoll (vocal and bass), Mark Y. (guitar and bass), and Chew (drum and high carbon steel). A self-released digital-only track in autumn '23, this is the first physical manifestation of this doom metal behemoth, full of loud sludge, funeral dirge, haunting whispers / howling harsh vocals, and atmospheric build-ups.

6-panel flood-printed digipak with striking photography by Rie Lambdoll, Mark Y, Chew, and collage by Hyng Hoian.

Also accompanything this release is a new Corrupted black t-shirt with white print.

Track listing:

1. Felicific Algiorithm (11:15)
2. Felicific Aligorithm (9:34)
3. Mushikeras (27:45)

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/felicific-algorithm-mushikeras-csr333cd

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 01:34 (four months ago) link

There's a new Ministry album coming in March and it's...almost good? A lot of songs about needing to stamp out Nazis, a lot of samples of January 6 insurrectionists howling stupid shit into hot mikes, big thrash riffs with better production than he's had in several years...and it's pretty short (nine tracks, 42 minutes). On the other hand, Jello Biafra's on one song. Oh, and it's called HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES (all caps in original). So, a mixed bag.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 01:57 (four months ago) link

lol, oh Al, never chamge.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 15:36 (four months ago) link

ffs, autocorrect lets "chamge" go through?

Not a 2024 release, but just heard that Triumph of Death live album Tom G. Warrior did for the Hellhammer stuff, much better than I expected.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 15:50 (four months ago) link

the live set I saw of them in 2019 was incredible. was cool to hear those songs live

Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 15:55 (four months ago) link

just got tickets for the Sepultura farewell tour in.... November. so a way off, but still hyped that supports include Obituary and Jesus Piece.

Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 16:40 (four months ago) link

half expect Ministry to just like do an album of industrial metal version of Beatles songs but just make them all about Trump.

Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 17:39 (four months ago) link

I haven't listened to the three albums(!) he did ranting about GW Bush in at least 15 years, but I remember them being decent.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 18:50 (four months ago) link

Lots of good new metal and related this week, but my favorites are the new Leaves' Eyes (symphonic), Vnreal (vaudevillian), Magnum (hard rock), Dead Crown (death metal that sounds like a Big Country b-side) and Dödsrit (black metal that sounds like a Big Country b-side).

glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 11 January 2024 03:53 (four months ago) link

Bow before Hoplites!

https://hoplites.bandcamp.com/album/--8

This is a Massive Breakthrough ftr

imago, Saturday, 13 January 2024 09:37 (four months ago) link

Here's a list of things I endeavor to listen to.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/419722320_10168737295070597_8711372815624815562_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=3635dc&_nc_ohc=sCHcx2wOOecAX9RE7lI&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=00_AfAqkiZtyHIbQwxLdCYq59sQlY0rRI2-9JUxwXZ-IAyThw&oe=65A8B922

I blacked out the non-metal ones; you can guess what they are.
Not as trve or cult as other things here but I listen to those things as well.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:25 (four months ago) link

anybody got a favorite site for researching older tour itineraries for indie/small-theater/club level artists? setlist.fm is very cool but it doesn’t include dates no one had a setlist for, and I need to play games with drive times and off-days

summervillain, Monday, 15 January 2024 20:19 (four months ago) link

I'm not sure if there is a better resource than setlist.fm, I'd be curious to hear if anyone knows of anything. Undoubtedly there are probably some artist-specific tour sites that show old itineraries, but not sure if there's another collective place.

I have seen dates listed on setlist.fm for some bands, even if there are no setlists - for example this Boris show I saw at Empty Bottle back in 2008 is listed, but no setlist:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/boris/2008/empty-bottle-chicago-il-3bd68c38.html

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 15:00 (four months ago) link

New Vemod is out. It's good!

Frederik B, Monday, 22 January 2024 13:18 (four months ago) link

It came out towards the end of last year, but I'm still finding new things to enjoy in this Baring Teeth album:
https://everythingisnoise.net/reviews/baring-teeth-the-path-narrows/

o. nate, Monday, 22 January 2024 20:17 (four months ago) link

I was a huge fan of the progressive turn Lord Dying took with their last album and the new one continues in that vein, though it isn't quite as great. Got a whole new rhythm section, including Alyssa Maucere (Matt Pike's wife) on bass.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 22:06 (four months ago) link

The new Vitriol album, Suffer & Become, is absolutely kicking my ass this Friday afternoon. Face-punching death metal of the Vader/Vital Remains/Hate Eternal school...totally merciless. Blast beats and roars and dissonant guitar squiggles and Tom G. Warrior-esque "URGH"s. Loving it.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 26 January 2024 22:42 (four months ago) link

One of the reasons this album kicks as much ass as it does is that Matt Kilner (aka Nithing) is on drums.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 26 January 2024 23:31 (four months ago) link

Yeah the drumming is incredible

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2024 00:11 (four months ago) link

Spun a few tracks from the Dissimulator debut Lower Form Resistance on 20 Buck Spin and I can dig it. It’s being sold as tech-thrash and I can tell what they’re going for with that description.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 27 January 2024 10:05 (four months ago) link

ok yeah this vitriol rips

its sort of a given here (mostly) but this thing really is heavy. esp when it slows down a little. also loving the solos and the parts where “i am the black wizards” keys pop up.

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 27 January 2024 16:06 (four months ago) link

It's atmospheric as hell and there's an assload of stuff going on that's going to require several listens to fully appreciate.

Their riffs are so angular

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2024 16:25 (four months ago) link

I love the new Lucifer.

Hooky af and Johanna's vocals are still great as always.

Opening track seriously slaps

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 January 2024 18:05 (four months ago) link

i checked out that vitriol album now i'm a fan.. i'm still pretty confused about what i'm hearing but it's definitely exciting me. plus the singer is hot.

ꙮ (map), Thursday, 1 February 2024 18:37 (four months ago) link

Anybody who knows what the hell is going on in Spain, let me know, because all of a sudden I am waist-deep in totally rockin' power/trad/speed metal bands from Spain that sound like Accept, like Judas Priest circa 1979, like...everything good in life. This is Savaged:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0032148295_10.jpg

Their debut album Night Stealer has songs called "Tons of Leather," "Knights of Metal," "Stealing the Night" and "Running for Your Love (Tonight)." They rule.

https://savaged.bandcamp.com/album/night-stealer

I've also been listening to Iron Curtain's Savage Dawn, their fifth album (and first since 2019), and they do the same type of thing, but maybe even a little speedier, in an early Motörhead/Tank mode:

https://ironcurtainattack.bandcamp.com/album/savage-dawn

I need more of this stuff!

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 1 February 2024 20:24 (four months ago) link

Anybody know how fashy Unaussprechlichen Kulten is or isn't? New one is the sorta of weird chewy death metal I like ... buuuuut it's on Iron Bonehead

summervillain, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:41 (four months ago) link

and I feel like naming yrself after a Lovecraft thing is distinctly unhelpful, coz, y’know, you can been into the Mythos because tentacled horrors from beyond space are cool .... or because of what the dude named his cat 🙄

summervillain, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:51 (four months ago) link

My big Bandcamp Friday splurge this month is the whole discography of Lady Beast, a Pittsburgh, PA trad/power metal band who've been around for like 15 years but I just discovered them tonight. I bought a compilation of their first two albums and an EP, their third and fourth albums, and another EP, all for about $20. If you're a fan of Crystal Viper, Christian Mistress, Huntress, and other trad/power metal bands with female singers, this will be your kind of thing.

https://ladybeast.bandcamp.com/

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 3 February 2024 02:41 (four months ago) link

oooh a rainbow cover!

summervillain, Saturday, 3 February 2024 12:47 (four months ago) link

Best album credits of 2024 so far:

L.B. - Six Strings of Doomed Dementia
B.P. - Six More Strings of Delirium, Choir of Madness
L.V.L. - 4 Chthonic Vibrations of the Earth, Blower of the Blossoming Horn, Choir of Blasphemy
T.H. - Beater of Skins from the Depths of Hades to the Heights of Olympus
N.C. - Invocator of the Primordial Fire and Spells of Enchantment

From Dionysiaque's Diogonos, out next month on I, Voidhanger (of course).

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 5 February 2024 18:19 (three months ago) link

I'd been off and on trying to fill a countries-of-the-world bingo card with music and movies to listen/watch, and this thread has been pretty great -- what's the most obscure country or region where you've found metal gems?

Philip Nunez, Monday, 5 February 2024 18:31 (three months ago) link

sorry this is not exactly within the focus of this thread, but i'm not sure where else to post it. i've been really into that vitriol album, and wanting to know what else sounds like it, i asked my partner's metalhead nephew what else i should check out. i had never heard and now really like hate eternal. i'd never heard gorguts. i like it ("colored sands") but i think i should probably try an earlier record.

he told me he hadn't really listened to them but that he keeps hearing about deathspell omega. so i copped "the last defeat" and oh my fucking GOD it's completely blowing me away. it's just the best thing ever.

ꙮ (map), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:22 (three months ago) link

I liked some of Deathspell Omega's earlier stuff - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice and Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum - but vocalist Mikko Aspa is both a Nazi and a pedophile, so...

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:32 (three months ago) link

ah shit

ꙮ (map), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:36 (three months ago) link

xpost - unperson, have you heard that Dionusiaque album yet? was considering ordering it with some other stuff from I, Voidhanger but was wondering if it was worth it.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:37 (three months ago) link

I haven't listened to the whole thing, but the two tracks streaming on Bandcamp are pretty good — I like the prominence of the bass.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:39 (three months ago) link

Cool, thanks. I liked those two, was just curious if the whole thing held up like that. Usually try to bundle a few things when I order from them since shipping is pretty high.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:42 (three months ago) link

If there's one thing everyone in the music industry knows, it's Do Not Tempt The Wrath Of Sharon Fucking Osbourne. I almost feel sorry for Kanye West.

. @kanyewest ASKED PERMISSION TO SAMPLE A SECTION OF A 1983 LIVE PERFORMANCE OF “WAR PIG” FROM THE US FESTIVAL WITHOUT VOCALS & WAS REFUSED PERMISSION BECAUSE HE IS AN ANTISEMITE AND HAS CAUSED UNTOLD HEARTACHE TO MANY. HE WENT AHEAD AND USED THE SAMPLE ANYWAY AT HIS ALBUM…

— Ozzy Osbourne (@OzzyOsbourne) February 9, 2024

In case the tweet doesn't populate:

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Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 9 February 2024 21:47 (three months ago) link

Was it Iron Maiden that she had people throw eggs at because they outplayed Ozzy at one of his festivals? She should start that up again.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:48 (three months ago) link

There's a new Chapel of Disease album out today:

https://chapelofdisease.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-light

I liked their last one (...And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye, released in 2018) a lot, so this was an instant purchase for me.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 10 February 2024 03:54 (three months ago) link

got the apartment to myself (well, myself and some sleepy cats), so taking the opportunity to loudly try out the new spectral voice (along with the new kali malone, which is metal adjacent and quite good). i love their demos comp and some of their splits, liked the first full-length tho thought it dragged a bit, and am pretty on board with the new one midway thru. currently at the big payoff moment in “sinew censer” 😈

they def lean more into the disembowelment sound than most of their contemporaries in the very crowded death doom field, which i enjoy

is this band really hyped or something? blood incantation connection? a quick glance at the bandcamp and rym comments is showing more negativity than expected from - i’m guessing - young skeptic types

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 10 February 2024 18:23 (three months ago) link

I need to hear the new Kali Malone before I buy it. I like her organ stuff but this one seems like it might be a little too...active?

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 10 February 2024 18:27 (three months ago) link

i had the same concern looking at the (long-ish) tracklist but the shorter choir pieces work as interludes for me and compliment the longer, slower organ drone tracks well imo

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 10 February 2024 18:34 (three months ago) link

New Coffins album March 29! The first song is so gross (in the best way). I swear their guitar tone gives me literal chills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6FS5br7MYY

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 17:58 (three months ago) link

The first two Accept reunion albums were really, really good, but the last three are just recycling riffs, and EGADS the lyrics are embarrassing. I don't know if it's because Wolf ran off with some skinny woman half his age, but Accept has made some questionable choices lately. That symphonic thing? GTFO.

Both Accept's new one and KK's record are two of the year's dumbest albums so far, but I'll probably see the Montréal show to hear the classics and deep cuts.

A. Begrand, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 19:28 (four weeks ago) link

And for the record, that new Inter Arma is a revelation through headphones. You've got the right idea, Neanderthal.

A. Begrand, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 19:30 (four weeks ago) link

Not exactly metal (and even less so given what I've heard about its Italian giallo influences), but anyone heard the new Uncle Acid?

Rise Above absolutely botched this one. First new album in six years and it is impossible to get on day of release. Out of stock in every format direct from Rise Above, "unavailable" from Amazon, I've searched dozens of US based records stores and either it doesn't exist in their database or it's listed as "out of stock, rare item". No Bandcamp option, either from the band or label. I would be furious if I was in a band and my label failed so miserably.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:54 (three weeks ago) link

I admire the effort that went into the new Uncle Acid, it's a fun idea. The attention to detail is spot-on, faithful to Giallo/Poliziotteschi films of the 70s. I hope the physical product, if we can ever get our hands on it, helps flesh out the story, because without the little plot summary journalists were given, it would have been confusing as hell.

A. Begrand, Friday, 10 May 2024 15:53 (three weeks ago) link

Ha yeah, I was wondering about that with it being all in Italian. I've been a fanboy for these guys ever since I first played Blood Lust and when I caught them on the Mind Control tour. I thought the concept sounded like a cool new path for them and I've dug the artwork so far.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 May 2024 17:07 (three weeks ago) link

Oooh child. I finally feel old for the first time. Was at the Welcome to Rockville festival the past two days. This is one of those Wimmer festivals that really celebrates rock mediocrity, so I don't go often, but this year, both Judas Priest decided to do their only Florida appearance at this festival, and MR BUNGLE....same.

Plus some other funsies like Nitzer Ebb, Anthrax with Dan Lilker on bass, etc.

Priest were incredible as always and it was great to hear the new stuff live. Condensed set meant a lot of staples cut out.

Anthrax with Lilker was just a standard Anthrax set, but it was cool to see Danny on the bass.

Bungle was a fuckin riot. Part of me is still disappointed that they're still mostly just doing Easter Bunny tracks (and don't get me wrong, I like that re-recording a lot), but we DID get "My Ass is on Fire", as well as his typical 70s AM nerd covers ("Hopelessly Devoted to You", "I'm Not in Love", and "True", which in ace trolling fashion came after the intro to "Hell Awaits"). He also sang the Pepto Bismol "upset stomach diarrhea" jingle after MAIOF , and legitimately farted into the mic. Multiple times. Incredible set and oddball behavior, now one day I hope I get to hear classic Bungle!

Nitzer Ebb were a fun EBM trip in scorching daylight.

Kerry King's set featuring his solo act was kind of disappointing. First of all, only one track released, so majority of the set nobody knows. He did end with two Slayer covers, which of course got the biggest response, which I'm sure he wasn't thrilled about (but whadya expect dude).

Not sure what I think of his solo material yet....I need to hear it in headphones, not outdoors at a festival w dodgy sound. But y'know some of it was good.

Anyway my gout flared up today so I walked back to the car on a toe I can't bend and recuperating at home, just having soaked in the bathtub.

Metal up yr tushy!

RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 May 2024 05:07 (three weeks ago) link

Apparently Nuclear Blast spotted a nickel at the bottom of the barrel and has signed Marilyn Manson.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:05 (two weeks ago) link

oof, rough

J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 19:47 (two weeks ago) link

gross

RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 19:49 (two weeks ago) link

He's heading out on tour with Five Finger Death Punch, too, which says a lot about who his audience is at this point.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:04 (two weeks ago) link

Christ, just imagine the type of people that'll show up to that thing

RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:08 (two weeks ago) link

You could not pay me enough money to be within 1000 yards of that crowd of knuckleheads.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:43 (two weeks ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIqcEiaOpM8

probably not gonna get much love here (not knocking ilm, i get it, besides which their current sound kinda lurks between deathcore and nu-metal) but i'm soooo excited for the new kittie record

ivy., Thursday, 16 May 2024 15:45 (two weeks ago) link

I don't need to hear a whole album, but that's a good song. Their current lead guitarist is pretty good. I still remember meeting them at Irving Plaza in 2001, opening for Disturbed; the sisters' dad was there with them.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 16 May 2024 16:06 (two weeks ago) link

all of the new (nu?) kittie tracks have been cool. I'm also looking forward to it!

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:49 (two weeks ago) link

I am admittedly very picky when it comes to what I like and don’t like about metal; I’m definitely out of step with the genre overall.

Nevertheless! The band that consistently does everything exactly in line with my tastes is Ufomammut. Their new album today is GREAT. Since last year they’d released 4 out of the 6 songs here but they all sound better as part of a sequenced whole. Absolutely loving it.

sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 17 May 2024 15:44 (two weeks ago) link

Ufomammut is band I thought about with the Albini discussion, but I dunno if it would work because of the laptop loops they play along with. The electronic flourishes are more forward on this one, I think. Which I love.

Bertold Brak (bendy), Friday, 17 May 2024 16:05 (two weeks ago) link

I saw this on Twitter and pulled it up on Tidal mostly because I thought it would suck and I could move quickly on, feeling superior to people I saw praising it. Well, it fucking rules. Ten Ton Slug, Colossal Oppressor. Get some.

https://tentonslug.bandcamp.com/album/colossal-oppressor

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3691132613_10.jpg

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 17 May 2024 16:10 (two weeks ago) link

that slug looks like it would weigh more than 10 tons.

Bertold Brak (bendy), Friday, 17 May 2024 16:38 (two weeks ago) link

Didn't you know? Slugs have hollow bones, which is why/how they can fly.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 17 May 2024 16:43 (two weeks ago) link

This Ten Ton Slug is fun. Some great grooves.

husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 17 May 2024 18:53 (two weeks ago) link

Kerry King album is kind of what I felt like when I heard the shit live a week ago. not terribly exciting.

Mark Osegueda can be REALLY annoying when he overdoes it, even on Death Angel songs, and he's in his worst tendencies here, over-elocuting/over-emoting to the point of cheese.

some of the songs are decent but literally nobody would give a fuck about this if it wasn't KK. not to say it's bad. there's good moments here and there. but live, we felt a bit letdown and halfway through this disc, it's kinda confirming it wasn't just 'festival fatigue'.

Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 May 2024 00:15 (two weeks ago) link

btw, for Nocturnus AD fans, they put out a (not very well-publicized) new one. i haven't gotten to all of it yet but...in case you are a fan of og Nocturnus's "The Key", it's still in that vein

Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 May 2024 00:16 (two weeks ago) link

I listened to about 2/3 of the Kerry King album earlier and...the cover art looks like a streaming service's "modern metal" playlist, and that's kinda what the album sounds like. Kerry and a bunch of thrash lifers doing songs that aren't quite as good as Slayer songs, but frequently sound close enough to make you perk your head up for a second. And Osugueda is trying really hard to sound like Tom Araya on several tracks. But I gotta admit, when I heard his guitar on the opening instrumental, it almost gave me the same thrill I used to get from classic Slayer.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 18 May 2024 01:05 (two weeks ago) link

Heresiarch - Edifice
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4232526190_10.jpg
Doesn't totally sound like Ulcerate, but the vocals remind me of them--great riffs IMO, RIYL the blast sections in Formulas/Gateways-era Morbid Angel but also the suffocating Aussie/NZ 'war metal' sound I assume? (Still v much a metal newb, pls forgive me)
https://heresiarchofficial.bandcamp.com/album/edifice

Melanie Loves Death Metal review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_pqeyf-fh8
The-reviewer-formerly-known-as-Grizzly-Butts review (now Mystification Zine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4qzAOJ50ks

Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Saturday, 18 May 2024 12:08 (two weeks ago) link

The new Unleash the Archers album is great, and if that’s your kind of thing, check out the new Elvellon album, too.

glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 19 May 2024 13:39 (two weeks ago) link

Update: the Nocturnus AD is great and you should listen. Little more leaning into the cosmic stuff and slightly less death. Browning speaks lyrics often on this one.

But it's not a great departure.

Also enjoying the new Pallbearer, which is somewhat shoegazy in comparison to older Pallbearer

Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 May 2024 15:30 (two weeks ago) link

that heresiarch album is great

he/him hoo-hah (map), Sunday, 19 May 2024 20:11 (two weeks ago) link

was almost turned off enough not to check out the new Vale of Pnath because metalheads were calling it 'symphonic deathcore' and comparing it to Lorna Shore (one person compared it to Dummy Burger, which was completely wrong), but on listening to half of it thus far, I actually like it a lot? it's more black metally, less techy.

I find the deathcore label completely wrong, there's no breakdowns, nor are the vocals deathcore, nor did Lorna Shore invent the pairing of symphonic music with death metal. but I'm the wrong guy to talk LS with, I feel like their music sounds like it was created by AI and has zero human touch at all.

Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 May 2024 14:50 (one week ago) link

i caught vitriol on tuesday night. great show. their stage presence at the start was very "pro metal guys" but they revealed over the course of the set that at heart they're sensitive and ambitious. kyle broke a string halfway through which threw them off a bit but they finished strong. matt kilner's drumming is something to behold.

he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 24 May 2024 15:16 (one week ago) link

oh killer! would love to see them live

Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 May 2024 16:13 (one week ago) link

There
is
a
new

Nightwish

song.

glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 25 May 2024 01:11 (one week ago) link

Nightwish has gotten so wackadoodle, the campiness is off the charts, and I kind of LIKE this song because of that? I mean, this is utterly ridonkulous.

A. Begrand, Saturday, 25 May 2024 04:27 (one week ago) link

Just sounds great to me.

glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 26 May 2024 23:33 (one week ago) link

I couldn't claim to have ever been the most diligent Death fan, but I had a free evening yesterday and checked the concert calendar to see that Death to All was doing the second of two nights here. I admit I bought the ticket thinking I was going to see Cryptopsy, too, but at least half the information sources noted correctly that they weren't doing this date. NJ thrash-metal band Morbid Cross handled warm-up with admirable destructive glee. Death to All were tremendous, playing all of The Sound of Perseverance and a bunch of other mostly-later Death stuff. I read Choosing Death recently (also recommended), so the whole original scene had been on my mind again. DTA would sound like a dubious premise in most other contexts: former members of a band whose only constant member has been dead for longer than the band existed, playing songs that in many cases they weren't individually involved in creating at all, and certainly not together, with a singer who was never in the band. I would not pay to see Doobie Brothers To All. But these guys all have other bands, and the will to keep Chuck's music alive live in the world justifies this parallel project pretty well. Worth a night if your schedule and theirs line up.

glenn mcdonald, Monday, 27 May 2024 13:53 (one week ago) link

I love Death to All because it's just basically a warm "we love and miss you, Chuck" experience. The band always sounding great helps too.

The best version of it that I saw wasn't actually officially Death to All, but a two day Death tribute that was attended by the surviving Schuldiners on the 20th anniversary of his death.

They had a mini-museum in the back featuring his guitars, pedals, original handwritten lyric sheets, as well as other odds and ends. And James Murphy was present.

Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Monday, 27 May 2024 14:41 (one week ago) link

I've never seen Death To All but their existence always reminds me of a show I went to, fuck, almost 20 years ago now. It was a whole night of tech-death bands, and one of them ended their set by saying, "We've only got one song left. We know an Atheist cover and a Death cover. Let's have a vote!" (The Atheist cover won.) The whole thing was...charming, is the only word I can come up with.

yo if i really like the new heseriarch album, what else new or old should i check out?

he/him hoo-hah (map), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 02:53 (six days ago) link

err heresiarch

he/him hoo-hah (map), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 02:54 (six days ago) link

RIYL the new Heresiarch album (IMO):

Incantation - Unholy Deification
Pneuma Hagion - Demiurge
Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
Portal - Avow (the U.S. Maple of this shit, kinda/vaguely?)
VoidRot - Descending Pillars
Of Feather And Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration
Altarage - The Approaching Roar

River Through Howling Ska (Craig D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 13:24 (six days ago) link

New Nile album in August, for those who like Nile. I'm not a big fan; saw them once and they bored me senseless. But anyway, the new song is called "Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes," so there's that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmwqMQ2g0NQ

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:14 (six days ago) link

Reasons To Be Grateful Brutal

River Through Howling Ska (Craig D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:29 (six days ago) link

Really liking this new album from Belgian thrashy/heavy/power metal group Scavenger. Energetic old-school 80s stuff. The funny thing is that Scavenger has a previous album from 1985, and re-formed in 2018, but the original members left, so the current band has no membership overlap with the 80s band.

https://scavenger1985.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-bells

jmm, Friday, 31 May 2024 12:46 (four days ago) link

Defacement (whose previous S/T album back in 2021 bore one of the most artfully gory metal covers in recent memory IMO) return with Duality, out in full on July 30th: https://totaldissonanceworship.bandcamp.com/album/duality

River Through Howling Ska (Craig D.), Saturday, 1 June 2024 00:48 (three days ago) link

MEEEEMORIIIIIES
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1502519686_10.jpg

River Through Howling Ska (Craig D.), Saturday, 1 June 2024 00:49 (three days ago) link

whoa, that defacement preview track is really something! I hope there's at least one more epic on there when the whole thing gets released

(⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:07 (three days ago) link

Unclear whether this means Colin Marston is closing his studio, or something else, but Krallice have just announced their 15th album and it's described as the "final caves album."

https://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/inorganic-rites

I finally got a chance to see Liturgy a few days ago, and while Ravenna and crew were as great as I expected (played a couple 96936 tracks, a couple from Aesthethica, and a cover of MBV's "No More Sorry").

But it was Vermin Womb who completely floored me. Floored, and deafened. My ears are still a little tender. The grind/death/sludge they do is next-level: devoid of frills, just this massive roar coming from three guys, no triggers, no click tracks, just organic and ungodly filthy. I saw them at a great little venue with a wicked PA, so the intensity and volume was insane. Fun times!

A. Begrand, Monday, 3 June 2024 16:06 (yesterday) link

RIYL the new Heresiarch album (IMO):

Incantation - Unholy Deification
Pneuma Hagion - Demiurge
Aeviterne - The Ailing Facade
Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
Portal - Avow (the U.S. Maple of this shit, kinda/vaguely?)
VoidRot - Descending Pillars
Of Feather And Bone - Sulfuric Disintegration
Altarage - The Approaching Roar

― River Through Howling Ska (Craig D.), Wednesday, May 29, 2024 2:24 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

thanks for this!
incantation - meh
pneuma - ok
aeviterne - sick
ulcerate - already like
portal - wild, not sure it clicks with me
void rot - ok
of feather and bone - sick
altarage - sick

he/him hoo-hah (map), Monday, 3 June 2024 17:22 (yesterday) link

and i checked out vermin womb's retaliation - sick. good on you, denver!

he/him hoo-hah (map), Monday, 3 June 2024 17:58 (yesterday) link


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