Rolling Metal 2017

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

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

new Mythyrming song. fucking A I just think this band is great.

https://misthyrming.bandcamp.com/track/hof

i started playing that loudly and just remembered I'm on a conference call

http://www.vintag.es/2017/01/27-awful-heavy-metal-album-covers-from.html

major props to Kreator for "Side by Side", anti-homophobia song.

that IS awesome! I hadn't gotten that far on the album yet.

lol I finally just did. I'm warming to the album now - some of the power metally chorus moments still don't sit right with me but the riffing and songwriting is inspired. the angular riffing from their 80s output like Extreme Aggression is fully present.

anybody listen to Blood Freak? what are they up to, if anything?

man thanks for the Lantern mention, their first album is fantastic

Awesome! Good call on the early Unleashed vibes, reminds me of them but even more dank.

Invisible Oranges has a really interesting interview with Tom Allom, who produced all of Judas Priest's '80s albums, and engineer Jack Ruston, who worked on the live concert appended to the Turbo reissue coming out on Friday.

dudes from thou put this together for the greater baton rouge food bank, buy it: http://thrilljockey.com/products/many-waters-baton-rouge-flood-relief-2017

Checked out the new album by UK thrashers Solitary The Diseased Heart of Society (release date: 3/3/2017) and if you're the kind of person who grew up in the '80s, it will definitely appeal to you. Most of the album sounds like Legacy-era Testament with the chunky riffs, catchy songs, strong Chuck Billy-like vocals and excellent leads.

You can hear one of their new songs here:
http://soundcloud.com/imperative-pr/solitary-unidentified

I don't listen to much new death metal, even though I grew up on the stuff. I have found the genre becoming self-limiting and while some of the old bands that I loved still put out a good album from time to time, I usually just play the classic stuff when death metal I want.

The exception is Horrendous, who I think are brilliant, mainly because they have been able to expand the parameters of the genre while still unambiguously remaining a death metal band. I just checked out another newer band that has the same impact as Horrendous - Venenum.

The German group had a very well-received self-titled EP in 2011 on Sepulchral Voice Records but nothing since. However a debut full-length "Trance of Death" (which evidently was hinted at a release as far back as the middle of 2016) will finally come out on March 17th. The band remains on Sepulchral Voice for most of the world however The Ajna Offensive picked it up for the United States and Canada which should help the band's profile in North America considerably.

I never heard the EP as of yet, but the LP is really fantastic. It's eerie at times, with enough extra instrumentation and tempo-changing moodiness that some people will be tricked into hearing black metal, but make no mistake, this is death metal - just not boring or stereotypical stuff - with riffs that are brutal but actual dynamic songwriting that never seems pretentious.

No music online that I could find since it's still six weeks away from release though if a publicist sent me advance music, I am sure the active music critics in this forum have got it.

the body/full of hell do devo on that flood relief comp i posted. it's great. buy it.

Saw them do it live when they toured together... Inspired!

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

― Dinsdale, Friday, 27 January 2017 10:03 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Full album here:

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

It's pretty good, like a more depressive Ecailles de Lune in parts

bookmarked for later

as for now it's death metal from Portugal
http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/appalling-ascension

"Appalling Ascension!" sounds like something the narrator on the 1966 Batman series would say, like if the Penguin was flying with a magic umbrella.

That's a great album (Ominous Circle).

It sounds really good, I should've said. On my never-ending list of metal to buy.

This is pretty cool (Iranian blackened folk metal): https://akvan.bandcamp.com/album/--3

(Buy on Friday!)

I interviewed that Akvan dude for Bandcamp. Should be on the site sometime in the near future. He's really sharp; I'm proud of the piece.

came here to post on that Au Champ du Morts album, that's a keeper

Bandcamp has a monthly metal column now. Some interesting-seeming stuff there.

No bylines makes me sad... Anyone here contributing to that?

All Bandcamp pieces are single-author. The byline is all the way at the bottom. It's by Brad Sanders.

I just saw "Editorial" but I looked at it quickly... Thanks!

Checking out the new Six Feet Under, out 2/24. Normally I wouldn't go within a hundred yards of a Six Feet Under album (and within a hundred miles of one of their covers albums), but this time out it's Chris Barnes and two ex-Brain Drill dudes - Jeff Hughell on guitar and bass, and Marco Pitruzzella on drums. So it's a little blast-ier and squigglier than they've been in the past. Still mostly chugga-chugga groove-death, though.

so wait, the last one was Cannabis Corpse guys, and this one is other ringers? lol

ok how am I just learning that Sodom's last album has a song called "Vaginal Born Evil"

Hey look, a Moon Tooth cover of Manic Depression. I love this band.
https://moontoothny.bandcamp.com/track/manic-depression