the occasional thread for mean, nasty, ugly, evil metal that doesn't smell good and that takes itself way too seriously

sabbat japan? s'gotta be. yeah, i think everyone missed out on them for a long time. back when i first got into metal the only japanese bands i remember hearing about were gastunk and casbah, and some of the hardcore bands. (well, and loudness/ezo/etc. but they're not superrelevant here.)

but yeah, they're great. the early singles comp on time before time is really cool and crude

The album I listened to, Evoke, is pretty weird. It's kind of all over the place. there's of course some old-school black metal, some more traditional metal songs, and even this extremely long death/doom sort of song. It's really a fun record

that's more or less the template for most of the albums i've heard, and they're definitely a fucking fun band to listen to, makes me wish i knew metal dudes so i could share their awesomeness. oh well.

looking at their nightmarishly huge discography - i think boris would be envious - it doesn't look like they've done a proper album since karmagmassacre in 2003! tons of live albums though.

i like midnight! or at least the thing i had on shifty. which is all i've heard, but i liked it a bunch.

not ugly enough for this thread, but i am digging the new album by WINTERFYLLETH on profound lore. and i don't feel like finding the other metal thread right now. u.k. doom guys making "English Heritage Black Metal". one of the dudes is in Atavist, and I dig them too. nice atmosphere. nice chanting. sorry for the non-ugly shout-out though. Winterfylleth make bedtime lullabies as far as black metal goes.

this live footage of sabbat (japan) is awesome:

(i like the u.k. sabbat too. though a whole 'nother thing entirely.)

(well, not a WHOLE 'nother thing, come to think of it...)

need more covers on this thread. i hope these show up. i found a great page for death stuff.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_H9F1DlCd0bY/SE8t0M4ITVI/AAAAAAAACxI/wxyPSbG_tuo/s1600/Inhume%2B-%2BIn%2BFor%2BThe%2BKill%2B-%2BFront.jpg

okay, guess not. that's sad.

are you guys familiar with the band MINCING FURY AND GUTTURAL CLAMOUR OF QUEER DECAY? i dig them. if you are a fan of DESTRUCTIVE EXPLOSION OF ANAL GARLAND you would probably like them.

http://www.myspace.com/mincingfury

Listening to this:

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Really amateurish crude poorly-recorded black metal! I love stuff like this!

http://static.metal-archives.com/images/3/3/7/1/33710.jpg

that would be Armatus - Blutvolk
i'm retarded today

i've got a stupid question. what else sounds like 'reign in blood'? or what should i get next if i love it? metal is so huge, idk much about the sub-genres. i haven't really heard any of the classics, not even metallica! i love the fuck-you lyrics on RIB and the fact that i can still understand them. growls are cool but i need to ease into them. something else nasty and unhinged but not self-conscious about it. and evil. i like 'south of heaven' too, it kicks ass but it's more uh melodic i guess.

Absu "Tara"

"what else sounds like 'reign in blood'?"

Not the same, but similar in quality and importance: try Voivod Killing Technology and Dimension Hatross.

Also recommended as it has the exact qualities you seem to be looking for (big hooks, evilness and understandable vocals):
Samael "Ceremony Of Opposites"

Does anyone know if Samael still performs any of that classic old material? They are playing my fest here in Portland next month and I'm not quite sure what to expect...

"what else sounds like 'reign in blood'?"

nothing. but check out epidemic - decameron.

Two of my favorite Slayer-iffic albums are Necrophobic The Nocturnal Silence and Vader The Ultimate Incantation. But both channel it into death or black/death and the vocals sound accordingly...

i was listening to satan today. i love this album. nwobhm gives thrash a big wet kiss.

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/S/SA/Satan/Suspended/satan-suspended-20.jpg

um, that is not a response to the slayer question.

every time i hear a new nu-thrash album that sounds slayer-ish i always like it, but then i listen again and realize how much further most bands would have to go to REALLY sound like reign in blood or whatever. that blood tsunami album with faust on drums comes to mind. it's good and all, but there is really no comparison.

i enjoyed some of Entombed's latter-day Slayer impressions. morning star and inferno are cool records. just don't get the last album, whatever it was called. pretty stinky. and you can understand all the words for sure!

this track is from inferno:

one thing about that last album though! and this is sad, but it opens with the totally killer slayerific title-track "Serpent Saints" and then gets suckier after that. which is a shame, cuz if all the songs were half as great as serpent saints the album would have ruled.

here's a live serpent saints:

Samael still play Baphomets Throne and Black Trip if I recall correctly.

Just get Entombed "Left Hand Path" then, it doesn't sound like a Slayer copy but is ten times better than any recent Entombed. Can't imagine any Slayer fan disliking that. The guitar sound alone flattens whole city blocks.

speaking of Satan, here's a cool live clip from 1986:

everyone should own left hand path. this is true. i was just being specific as far as the question went. i'm actually a fan of early/middle/late when it comes to entombed. i love left hand path, clandestine, wolverine blues, uprising, and morning star. which is a pretty good stretch of time. (and if you go back to nihilist stuff, then an even bigger stretch of time)

speaking of the nwobhm, why don't i own any tank albums? i love that shit. i better get my act together.

there's a metal mind box set, dude! i've got the first one on LP, some euro press where the vinyl's a little bit thicker than a flexi.

i enjoyed some of Entombed's latter-day Slayer impressions. morning star and inferno are cool records.

second this. esp. "morning star," "inferno" has some rilly dumb lyrics and the production's a little crap.

metal mind spams me every day, but they will never send me anything no matter how much i beg. their release schedule is fucking nuts.

Another perfect companion to Reign In Blood:
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

When they still looked like this:
http://www.hardrockhouse.com/Interviews/Sepultura6.jpg

okay, so i knew grave were back together. and i knew they had a new album or five out. but i didn't know that "back from the grave" had a second disc with all of their 80s demos on it, so i bought the shit out of it wednesday. and it brings back memories, man, hearing them after listening to nihilist (pre-entombed) demos for like a year straight and then "anatomia corporis humani" kinda blowing those out of the water for guttural basement creep. scandinavians really had death metal locked down for a while there. then they had to go and ruin it with "melody."

funebre, from finland, were pretty good too. i always wondered why euro guitar tones were just so evil back then. i think they made their guitar pedals out of bog bodies and uranium or something.

(was gonna post this in rolling metal but they're too busy pretending the new enslaved is GREAT and then there's the amon amarthing.)

haven't even listened to "back from the grave" yet, btw.

i came home from a long day of mopping up blood and hauling laundry and the new stuff from willowtip made my day. phobia, kill the client, maruta. viva the 22 minute album! those bands will give people a reason to keep on living. the new kill the client is nasty in all the right ways.

Sweet, I just heard the latter two bands on This Comp Kills Fascists. Grind is very much alive and well (although this trend of grind bands sans bassists is a little bit White Stripes for me. One Pig Destroyer is plenty, thank you very much).

On second thought, my appreciation for Discordance Axis completely undermines my point. I'll get my coat.

Tonight we rock.

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3953/fullwp2.jpgThis album fucking rules.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh400/h412/h41226wf0fd.jpgAnd of course you can't go wrong with this.

YES

Oh go on then
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thread needs more baphomet album covers

I have a stack of stuff on my desk with names like Alghazanth and Those Who Bring the Torture and Impiety and Chthonian and Dagoba that I'm kind of afraid to listen to.

this thread type bands i have enjoyed lately:
SABBAT (JAPAN, NOT THE PUFFY SHIRT METAL DUDES FROM THE UK)
VOMITOR
DEAD (the US one)
MIDNIGHT

sabbat are really eternal favorites, but i just bought their first proper album and getting reacquainted with what a great, sloppy, fun fucking band they are.

I don't know how to make it sound smelly, but this Christbait album by BLOOD is pretty serious. The dudes, I mean. They do one track called JOIN STOCK COMPANY

funnily enough i've had songs by BLOOD going through my head lately. mostly from their "spasmo paralytic dreams" demo, because that's the one i got by them first. the immortal line "you feel like a chicken in a cow-house - like a rebel!" always sticks with me.

listening to DEMOLITION HAMMER again right now, though. "mammoth charges with malice/tries to feast upon his death/armed with a broken rampike, impale its massive chest." fucking best, wordiest ridiculoid thrash metal lyrics ever. "lead-forged exit wound exempted me from/melancholic psychosis! cybernetic annihilation, finally set me free."

"snare a woolly rhino in a camouflaged abyss!"

okay!

Well, If you really need a woolly rhino, that's got to be the way to go!

http://metalinquisition.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-metal-dead-yes-but-only-in-certain.html

tip for retro thrash dudes, BRAND NEW JEAN VESTS COVERED IN BRAND NEW PATCHES MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE POSEUR OK

OK that blog is brilliant and I am going to read a ton of it on and off today. Thank you

np man i love that blog.

also this thready, DISHAMMER. the DIS- d-beat bands finally meet the -HAMMER hellhammer clones. from spain! and i've only got four songs right now but i'm buying the album.