Rolling Metal 2017

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

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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

Bathsheba is a Belgian group that has a bunch of people in it from bands I don't know much about - ex-Serpentcult vocalist Michelle Nocon, Dwight Goosens of death metal act Disinterred, Raf Meukens of Death Penalty and Jelle Stevens of, the under appreciated, SardoniS.

Their forthcoming debut (after an EP), Servus will be released 2/24/2017 on the Svart label.

You can call it doom metal and you wouldn't be wrong because it's slow and grindy and menacing, but it's also a lot more than that. Michelle Nocon's vocals and the lurching chasms and drone disbursement the band throws into the proceedings will bring to mind the likes of Oathbreaker and Chelsea Wolfe.

CVLT Nation is streaming one song, "I At The End Of Everything," from the album. Good song on a pretty great disc.

I interviewed Resistenzia, a metalcore-ish band from Cuba, for Bandcamp.

is there any music that sounds like the aural equivalent of internal rage exploding and excising of internal demons cos I really need somefing like that now and don't say Cryptopsy cos I've heard every note of theirs 35,435352454ou2p5uo42i5425428549 times

here

and this one

or this on spotify

anybody get the Turbo re-release?

OK SO MOON TOOTH + ASTRONOID

Astronoid played through Air from front to back (minus "Violence"). I was sure they'd have some kind of keyboard/synth element but nah - three guitars! One of the few times I was wishing for a slightly bigger venue as their sound overwhelmed the space a bit. Still, they were great - absurdly locked in, and (as you might imagine) utterly enveloping. The vocalist managed to cut through the din, albeit with the aid of a harmonic backing track. (This threw me a bit at first but it was way preferable to, say, having someone else in the band doing less-than-perfect backing vocals). Also, that has to be the first time I've seen someone sing gently while performing an intricate tap line.

I gotta say, though, Moon Tooth ran way with the night. Seeing them at this stage felt like lucking out and catching an early set from Mastodon or Soundgarden. Their drummer is insane but really the entire instrumental trio is just so fun to behold. The vocalist lacked power but made up for it with writhing stage presence (he sort of makes me think of an endearingly chubby Jake Gyllenhaal). They were somehow mathy, groovy, and even occasionally a little bit bluesy. My favorite bit was probably when they got everyone to clap along only a few seconds before a carefully choreographed on-a-dime stop and start. The set ended with sweaty hugs and high fives all around. Killer vibes.

All in all a really great night, especially considering the low price tag. (I also very much enjoyed local conceptual metal-jazz-prog openers Earth's Yellow Sun.)

is there any music that sounds like the aural equivalent of internal rage exploding and excising of internal demons cos I really need somefing like that now and don't say Cryptopsy cos I've heard every note of theirs 35,435352454ou2p5uo42i5425428549 times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtwSnxnD2is

I've been on a bdm diet since, oh, let's say early November, and pretty much all of these Mountains of Death clips have been hitting the spot. There's an excellent Suffo show in there somewhere too.

and there's a crazy Disavowed show where the vocalist spends much of the time in the pit and getting crowd surfed, it's awesome, they end up with like 20 people on stage

speaking of internal rage exploding, Ululatum Tollunt

http://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/quantum-noose-of-usurpation

If you're in a mood for broootal death metal, Cranial Engorgement's Horrific Existence is worth your time.

https://gorehouseproductions.bandcamp.com/album/horrific-existence

I'm kind of stoked to see Astronoid (just got their LP delivered!) and Moon Tooth tonight!

I got Marduk and Incantation tomorrow. and Mayhem on the 13th!

Disharmony
Goddamn The Sun
(Iron Bonehead Productions)
Release Date: 3/3/2017

http://www.themidlandsrocks.com/wp-content/uploads/Disharmony-Goddamn-the-Sun-600x600.jpg

Decibel is streaming a track from the album
http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/2017/1/24/track-premiere-disharmony-open-the-gates-of-elthon

Despite having formed in 1991 and disbanded four years later, this is the Greek band's actual debut album following reformation a few years ago, although they did have a collection of demos and an EP appear during that time.

As Decibel says, "If you like your black metal arcane and your riffs memorable and slightly melodic you’ll instantly fall for this album. Goddamn the Sun sounds like something earnest and evil enough to have come out in ‘94, except the production rings true to the modern era, and there’s not an ounce of affectation to be found anywhere within earshot of this thing."

The Flight Of Sleipnir
Skadi
(Eisenwald)
Release Date: 1/20/2017

http://images.bigcartel.com/product_images/190154045/TFOSSkadi2017.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&h=1000&w=1000

http://open.spotify.com/album/1pmCC3WVzkJSYzGg45zbyF
http://theflightofsleipnir.bandcamp.com/album/skadi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HraGatggx6c

This is the Denver band's sixth album, which is an accomplishment in and of itself. Every release has beautiful and intense artwork and packaging from what I can tell and that attention to detail certainly makes it's way into the music which merges heavy psych rock and folk influences but still embraces being a metal band, albeit a really unique metal band.

The band Venenum I was hyping above has a track on the Decibel forums available for streaming.

http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/2017/2/6/track-premiere-venenum-issue-cold-threat

sweet. I actually got their prior EP after you posted about them the other day - good stuff.

anyone listen to the Pillorian album yet? apparently it has leaked