Rolling Metal 2017

If you don't mind your metal slathered with pop exuberance, the new Battle Beast song is pretty tremendous:

https://open.spotify.com/track/7eCw8ZXslDD5C5B6bRHc1H

I am listening to the new Immolation album. It is awesome. More later.

Aww fuck yea!

Aargh what a tease

hah this Battle Beast track is great! very false, very fun.

New Mord'A'Stigmata track is pretty hot, weird, epic, Polish:

http://paganrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hope

The Black Anvil album's really good!

just Mick Barr things
https://ocrilim.bandcamp.com/album/srilimia

Iron Maiden touring with Ghost!

I might have to splurge and get good tickets from a scalper. Something I have never done before except for sporting events.

they're coming here again, this time two hours closer! w00h00!

This is the kind of stuff that doesn't really get a genre tag that makes any sense to me, like progressive sludge or stoner prog or something but this new Jagged Vision is shaping up nicely.

http://jaggedvision.bandcamp.com/album/death-is-this-world

Uniform
Wake In Fright
(Sacred Bones Records)
Release Sate: 1/20/2017

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16105500_10158094442650597_4408646075777939833_n.jpg?oh=ee3c2cd00e476f01c376491c6c60b941&oe=590B6306

http://open.spotify.com/album/5clvJZcsu9jRhk6S0XFiIn
http://unifuckingform.bandcamp.com/album/wake-in-fright

Although I liked (and still do like) old industrial music, as a self-identified metalhead and punk rock fan I always wanted that stuff to be more evil. This band (duo, apparently) were made with me in mind. The whole record is thrashy with electronic beeps and screeches cutting through the mayhem. If old school Ministry was aping the then-current thrash metal scene, Uniform takes cues from the chaos of our times accordingly. Pummeling Armageddon on the dance floor the way it should be.

Someone mentioned the Lorn up-thread as an upcoming I, Voidhanger release. It's now out and worth a listen. I can't tell if the drums are real or programmed - definitely getting a bit of a Bathory circa "Blood Fire Death" vibe:

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/arrayed-claws

Wake in Fright is both a great movie and a great name for an industrial metal album

that Lorn sounds good

Not metal, exactly, but some folks here will like it: Japanese noise guitarist KK Null and Hungarian grind/free-improv drummer Balász Pándi have just released a collaborative album, Demon Core, on the Ohm Resistance label, for only $2.

https://ohmresistance.bandcamp.com/album/demon-core

nice!

I was just reading the wikipedia page on Massacre's "From Beyond" and learned this

Walter Trachsler played rhythm guitar on this album but was not credited.

Which is weird because he's also in one of my favorite demo-only bands, Rotting Corpse out of Texas and was a super-nice dude when I met him (gave me an RC demo and shirt). Kinda weird that they wouldn't credit him and kind of plays into the rumors at that time that Rick Rozz wasn't a super-solid guitarist.

Falls of Rauros - Vigilance Perennial leaked early and I'm liking it a whole lot. Very cool mix of post-rock/folky interludes/atmospheric black metal stuff.

The Chasm, again on their FB, and in response to a comment, say that the new album is in fact going to be totally instrumental, which I can't say I'm looking forward to. The last one was really pushing it by being about 50/50. Here's to hoping it'll be some kind of psychedelic trip, I guess. (I'm just not a fan of instro metal.)

Seems to be a lot of it around now and yeah, I feel the same. It either encourages wankery or invites the listener to wish they had a vocalist IMO.

man I do not feel the same. I always welcome a break from DM vokills

like i prefer them to black metal but still...don't feel like there's a lot of interesting ground to tread. instrumental dm with cosmic solos will work for me fine!

DM really needs its next Sylvian Houde or Lord Worm

JCLC any instrumental bands you rate?

In other news this forthcoming release on I, Voidhanger sounds potentially interesting.

CELESTIAL BODIES "Spit Forth From Chaos" CD

Out on March 17th, 2017

With such a premise – a cosmic war between monstrous deities from an ancient, mythological past – it doesn't come as a surprise that Celestial Bodies' debut, “Spit Forth From Chaos”, is one of the most intense, hallucinating and mind-shattering sonic experiences ever put on record.

A duo based in The Netherlands and comprised of members from NIHILL and Dead Neanderthals, CELESTIAL BODIES are exactly the fruit of their unholy union. From Nihill they inherited the pitch-black and noise-drenched sound, as well as a conceptual approach with deep roots in gnosticism and occultism, while from Dead Neanderthals they borrowed the avant-garde sensibility and a free-jazz nature built on improvisation.

The result is “Spit Forth From Chaos”, a blasphemous and cacophonously disturbing blend of anti-cosmic black metal and raw noise, propelled by an imperious drumming that breaks through the gates of perceptions, tossing the listener into a nightmarish, sense-altering dimension where everything is Chaos, and Chaos is everything.

Nihill and Dead Neanderthals in the same band? And it's out on St Patrick's Day? Sign me up right now.

Anomalie
Visions
(Art Of Propaganda)
Release Date: 03/17/2017

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/2/6/8/626825.jpg?3030

The album doesn't come out until March but here's a video that the band/label put out there recently.

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

I am unfamiliar with the previous output of this Austrian project, essentially a solo undertaking of Marrok, though unlike on the previous two releases (all on Art Of Propaganda) he enlists the assistance of two studio musicians on Visions. The album takes Pagan black metal and tempers it with contemplative post-blackgaze. The video that was released for "Vision IV: Illumination" illustrates the nature of the band perfectly. As the song title alludes to, it seems to be a conceptual piece with every song a chapter of the story. It's ambitious and grandiose and very, very epic, but manages to avoid hyper-pretension despite the lofty goals, mainly because it's all done so stunningly well. The percussion is especially good, really driving the speedy metallic parts but letting the more delicate passages - sometimes augmented with piano or female vocals - take hold of the listener.

I would put this album up there with anything Alcest has done and they are only my favorite band that does this kind of thing, though Anomalie embraces metal in a way that French forefathers have somewhat abandoned as of late.

post-blackgaze? man, we're gonna run out of modifiers and hyphens

Well, I evidently didn't coin it, but it fits.

New Orthodox album is weird, crushing... jazz.

http://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/supreme

Yeah, it's great - I reviewed it for The Wire. A single 36-minute piece. Reminds me of Naked City's Leng Tch'e.

yet another amazing-sounding pre-order from Avantgarde

https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/nessun-luogo

I know Brujeria are kind of a novelty band but there's something invigorating about listening to "Viva Presidente Trump". for that song alone I'm goin to check em out tomorrow........(I do like their first album too)

A track from the upcoming Dodecahedron album

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QyQNvDt8Jk

Well that's nuts. Season of Mist seem to like the weird discordant stuff lately.

New Lantern track posted. I know I'm the only person who likes them, you don't have to say it. But they're Finnish, you see.

http://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ii-morphosis

I was just listening to that Lantern track, and yeah I'm not feeling it too much, I'm afraid.

In other news, the new Falls of Rauros album is really nice.

The first new Lantern track I don't like as much as their first album but I'm hopeful.

holy hell, I really dug that Lantern.

like old Unleashed but more blast-beaty

ha Gott Punch I am not as severe in my "send me more Finnish metal CDs, and send them here now" tendencies as I once was but I feel you

Brujeria are incredibly entertaining live.

However i learned attending shows sober is v alien to me

New album from Au Champ des Morts (French BM) out today

https://dmp666.bandcamp.com/track/dans-la-joie

new Kreator is...weird again. so many power metal-ish moments, triumphant-y sounding choruses, whereas I like to go to Kreator to have my face torn off with the angular riffing.

I'll have to listen again to see what I think but that's the issue I had with the album before too.

The weirdness - the orchestral stuff (done for them by the Fleshgod Apocalypse dudes), that epic final track - is what makes the album great for me. I love their head-down thrash stuff, but knowing that they're still trying to challenge themselves is really cool. I mean, the face-rippers-and-nothing-but approach is what we have Destruction for, right?

i liked the intro and I like that they're not doing rote thrash revival retread of their past, it's just those triumphant choruses sometimes feel like jarring.

i was also nursing a sore back and neck and driving home 80 miles at midnight tho so i'm gonna give it a headphones listen now

regardless tho I am positively stoked for that tour in March. w/ fucking Midnight, Horrendous, and Obituary (the latter I really, really don't ever need to see ever again - they seem to do multiple shows in FL every year and I'm beyond burnt)

Astonishingly (to me), I've never seen Obituary live, and I really want to. The new album's great.

They are actually a really good live band. I recommend catching them if you can.

I'm just burnt - seen them 8 times in the last few years

They are actually a really good live band. I recommend catching them if you can.

I'm just burnt - seen them 8 times in the last few years

Oops