Rolling Metal 2017

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

I did (not a leak a digital promo). I liked it. Need to listen a few more times to see if I love it.

Ha, that's good to hear. I'll have to go and look for it in the dark corners of the internet.

Meanwhile, here's something for anyone who isn't sick of post/atmospheric black metal:

https://violetcold.bandcamp.com/album/anomie

My Bandcamp interview with Iranian black metal dude Akvan is up now.

Good interview. Picked that up per your mention, and it's very enjoyable.

I drove an hour and a half each way to the land of Rumspringa, Lancaster, PA, to catch the Astronoid / Moon Tooth tour. I am very glad I did.

Like how a Simon H. said above, if I closed my eyes during Astronoid's set I would have sworn that they had keyboards, but they got the sound out of three guitars that modulated with clashing harmonies to create shimmering soundscapes. The singer is an acquired taste with a high falsetto-like voice but it fit in with the dreamlike quality of the band's self-described "dream thrash." I spoke with one of the guitarists after the show for a bit, Mike is his name. Nice guy, stoked that we came from so far away to see them. He liked my Agalloch shirt so I asked him if they liked the emotive moods that shoegazing black metal conjure but felt such stuff wouldn't allow them to stretch out musically (honestly, prog fans would enjoy this band a lot too) and he hedged a bit saying they listen to everything, surprising me by saying they started off listening to pop punk! But also thrash which made more sense. Great band.

I liked the Moon Tooth album but live they were so much better, very tight with a singer who commanded attention. The wife thought they sounded like Incubus and then I read a review on Encyclopaedia Metallum and it also makes the comparison, though I also hear a lot of Dillinger Escape Plan crazy-catchy-crazy as well. I surmised that the guitarist was the real metal guy in the band and then come home to find out that he's in the latest incarnation of Riot, kinda confirming my suspicious.

I don't often make long drives to see bands anymore. Being in Philly it's usually not necessary. But I'm glad I did, it was a lot of fun.

Astronoid:

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16729539_10158204540895597_1704618321795902066_n.jpg?oh=7bb65afe15e766435a936cbbc18bff82&oe=590753D4

Mopon Tooth:

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16665631_10158204545155597_2625154205625184550_o.jpg?oh=97198454aa9d8c5e459f370e34e24a19&oe=5944AA64

new Overkill is pretty good! seems to be less high octane metuhl than their latest few releases and more like the sleazier 80s stuff they did, even a few elements of cock rock here and there. hooky as hell too.

surprising me by saying they started off listening to pop punk

ha! knew it

oh, blood command's funeral beach is one of my favorite metal records of the last few years and they're finally putting out a new one in april!

new song is definitely the poppiest thing they've ever done, i love it https://soundcloud.com/tigerfysisiskformat/blood-command-cult-drugs

new Overkill is pretty good! seems to be less high octane metuhl than their latest few releases and more like the sleazier 80s stuff they did, even a few elements of cock rock here and there. hooky as hell too.

― Neanderthal

I want to see them with Nile on Tuesday but I have seen both bands numerous times before and the same week Mayhem, Inquisition, Black Anvil is playing Thursday and Alcest with The Body is playing Saturday (and that same day Xibala is playing a matinee) and it's tough paying for three shows in a week (and also doing so with a 50+ hour work week).

New Pyrrhon EP has two free-metal improv pieces, one new song, one Death cover.

http://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/running-out-of-skin

Man, you people who saw Astronoid are making me envious.

Also wow that the singer plays those lines while singing those lines!

yeah that was unreal

huh, apparently Dallas Toler-Wade is leaving Nile. There's a tiny part of me that hopes this'll be a positive change: as much as I like his song contributions, it seems like over the years his thrashy, more direct style was getting farther and farther away from what I loved about the first two albums. OTOH I fear an album full of 10 minute Sanders epics, which I likewise have grown weary of.

New guy is from some fellow SC band called Enthean. Never heard of em but will check out.
https://www.facebook.com/nilecatacombs/posts/10154238517646016

ha, check that, I have in fact heard this Enthean before (they were mentioned at m-a), sort of a swirl of varying vanillas, but overall probably closest to late Emperor or even Zyklon's first one (in vox esp), with some Dimmu/Arcturus/Covenant and an occasional tech death part thrown in. Actually Bound by Entrails comes to mind, who I like much more.

https://enthean.bandcamp.com/album/priests-of-annihilation

I thought I had already posted this one but guess not

https://wiegedood.bandcamp.com/album/de-doden-hebben-het-goed-ii

Second album from this Belgian black metal group (features members of Amenra and Oathbreaker)

Dudes. Inquisition are PHENOMENAL live. Holy shit fuck

I've seen videos of them live that looked amazing. One of the live at Saint Vitus ones they play for like 15 minutes with no break and when they stop the drummer looks like he's going to die... then picks right back up after 30 seconds.