Rolling Metal 2017

i am psyched

Champ Morgan, vocalist for awesome Texas grind act Kill The Client, has a new solo semi-ambient electronic noise project, Derelict Satellite. The debut release is four tracks, running about 55 minutes total:

https://derelictsatellite.bandcamp.com/

so Immolation opening for that Max/Iggor Roots show, eh? wish I'd known - I never get to see them.

dude that Artificial Brain record is the TRUTH

I refuse to listen to any album by any metal band with vowels in their name this week

there's a song there at the link, I should add, sounds very Artificial Brainy

― Devilock, Thursday, February 16, 2017 1:54 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg it really does, i love it so much

feels like there's a bit more space in the composition and everything sounds a little brighter than anything i remember from the previous record. so down

Looking forward to the new Apostate Viaticum. Atmospheric death-thrash from Ireland:

https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-gates-of-gomorrah

MIA on metal so far this year, but just heard this track from new Bay Area supergroup Extremity, and very much recalling old school Bay Area and Florida death metal:

https://soundcloud.com/20-buck-spin/extremity-crepuscular-crescendo

Looking forward to the new Apostate Viaticum

They played Dublin last weekend with Asphyx and Vircolac, another great Irish (OSDM) band. I missed it 'cause I'm old and tired and I had a cold.

there's uh another band called Extremity on Spotify. the tracklist of their 2016 album is errr

Very sad to hear about Tony Saarka above - that was a moving remembrance write-up ... Ophthalamia is always such an epic listen for me - all my fave metal touchstones in one band - Dominion and A Journey Into Darkness rule so hard.

the new Montfaucon is super interesting and good except for the vocals, which are super not necessary at all

https://youtu.be/EGX3tUWX4WM

Dimmu Borgir have a live 2CD/2DVD set coming out containing two full concerts they did with (real) orchestral backing. I haven't thought about Dimmu Borgir in years, but I was into this. (Not as into it as the trombone player, though!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg6n3ZhKwt4

I've been meaning to pick up the Vircolac EP from last year. The Extremity track sounds good too.

if anybody is near Miami, Churchill's Pub is having a black metal festival on 3/3 with Nocturnus AD and INQUISITION for $15.

just paid for my ticket and an Airbnb room. after seeing Inquisition open for Mayhem, it should be sweet. hope I can make it in time for Nocturnus AD, who are always a blast (I think I saw them four times between 2014-2015).

are Kult Ov Azazel any good?

as someone who will listen to just about any "traditional" black metal of the 90s variety, I say without reservation that KoA is terrible. their first album had the novelty of being this insanely relentless and one-dimensional black metal assault from Florida of all places, but thereafter they imagined they could write songs and things got boring fast.

Lol. Thanks!

apparently KoA's debut came out in 2001, could've sworn it was from like 98 or 99. either way, file them alongside stuff like Blood Stained Dusk, Abazagorath, Blood Storm, and Summon (though not even as decent as those last two)

Triumph of Fire is worth one (and I stress "one") listen just for the silliness; it was like everyone in the band was Animal from The Muppet Show

My Saturday Night

Went to Kung Fu Necktie in Philly to see Xibalba. About two songs in some asshole windmilled out of control into my face. Nose smashed. Blood dripping. Not nearly as metal as it sounds. I still love the band but it attracted some of the mookish assholes I have seen and the venue had nobody near the stage.

Cleaned myself up and walked ten minutes to the Fillmore where Creepers were just finishing up. I love Deafheaven but found the Creeper stuff boring and didn't mind that I missed most of their set. The Body were seemingly inert with three dudes (three this time, not two) behind setups creating staticky noise that bemused and confused a rused Alcest crowd. I went to clap when a song decayed before the next one started and I was literally the only person who did this.

Alcest was brilliant as usual, a fantastic crisply performed set of their best material. The crowd connected with this band - looking at the room the ratio of fans with eyes on phones checking Facebook and fans rapt with attention was definitely much higher for starstruck fans than usual.

I still think that The Body and Alcest is one of the weirdest fucking bills you'll see but I'm glad I did.

XIBALBA

http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16826078_10158245341170597_5424859231704717325_o.jpg?oh=8aa072d781ae5c51194e901d55c11f99&oe=59365EE2

MY BLOODY FACE

Not posted, here's the link

THE BODY

http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16797063_10158245881735597_3768273937581982520_o.jpg?oh=08747ba419ecd29fc4cb8e2f6bd3d91d&oe=5942C2EA

ALCEST

http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16836554_10158246033030597_1374641943941093355_o.jpg?oh=ec7f1ee78f80d841e26c3cd3a07c1224&oe=58FF5574
http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16864585_10158246032440597_8637496917468063632_n.jpg?oh=43c94c8be36d3fcd0ecc3a3927c567ad&oe=5937D2D2

So The Body are doing like straight-up noise?

(Sorry 'bout your face btw - glad it wasn't broken!)

Assholes thwacking around and hitting innocent bystanders is getting old

It was old 40 years ago too.

So The Body are doing like straight-up noise?

Noisey is streaming the new Bathsheba release here.

As Kim Kelly says:

Whatever you'd like to call them, the most important overall point is that Bathsheba is a very good band, and their Svart Records debut, Servus, may well be one of the finest contribution to the so-called "occult doom" subgenre in recent years. The guitar work is unexpectedly lively and nimble, cradled in distortion, lashings of feedback, and a sludgy tempo; the overall product is heavily atmospheric, in that cosmic YOB-ish, Samothrace-y sort of way, and retains a faint air of menace—a conjuration of fire.

There's a bit of a kitchen sink mentality present here, as scraps of black metal, true doom, stoner doom, sludge, and witchy 70s rock all coalesce into an immensely engaging whole. Michelle's winsome vocals are a clear focal point, her versatility behind the mic adding dynamic layers to the studied heft of Bathsheba's slowly unfurling riffs, especially when she stretches and contorts her vocal chords into an ululating wail and heated growl on closing epic "I At the End of Everything."

This is a really interesting and solid album and I would think that it would get love in this forum especially.

Power Trip's Nightmare Logic has leaked and it's been on repeat ever since. It's out this Friday, and you can preview three tracks on their bandcamp page. "Executioner's Tax" is so damn fun. The liner notes tell me that the intro to "Waiting Around To Die" was done by prurient!

https://powertripsl.bandcamp.com/album/nightmare-logic

Bathsheba sounds great so far

I already pre-ordered that Bathsheba based on the first song I heard.

http://i.imgur.com/myVLWHG.jpg

Got a promo of the new Naudiz album Wulfasa Kunja which drops in April on Iron Bonehead Productions.
It's the second album from the Italian band, the first since 2014.
It's really solid Hellhammer worship with blastbeat bursts that modernize it a bit.
But the riffs are vintage and grinding; between that and grunted "Ooh" one thinks Tom Warrior would approve.

Lead track on the album "Garmr" is on SoundCloud"
http://soundcloud.com/iron-bonehead-productions/naudiz-garmr

Stream three tracks from the new Woe, "The Din of the Mourning" is particularly relentless

https://woeunholy.bandcamp.com/album/hope-attrition

This isn't metal the way it's commonly defined in this thread, but it's fairly badass power trio instrumental rock.

https://apeshifter.bandcamp.com/releases

read that as Apeshitter at first

That Woe is pretty good. And gotta love a track called "No Blood Has Honour."

Randomly came across this through someone else's purchases on Bandcamp (one of their best features is being able to stalk peoples' tastes):

http://hyponic.bandcamp.com/album/-

I see that Hyponic were mentioned in Rolling Metal 2010 but this is a new album. RIYL Aluk Todolo, Kadura, Fushitsusha and a little bit of diseombowelment's twangy weirdo atmospheres. Track 5 is kind of reminding me of old Lycia doing psych, though.

OK it resembles Emptiness a bit too.

Wow that's really great. The funeral doom label put me off a bit but I'm glad I listened to it.

Here's some slightly weird folksy black metal that's a bit disjointed at times but usually in an intriguing way:

https://ungfell.bandcamp.com/album/t-tbring-re

The new Benighted album Necrobreed (they've been around forever, but I've never listened to them before) is pretty good. It's kind of a combination of Rotten Sound-style grind, brutal death metal (occasional pig squeal vocals), and beatdown hardcore. Not subtle, but effective.

This made the rounds yet? (The final two paragraphs are the key.)

http://gizmodo.com/this-400-million-year-old-worm-monster-is-metal-as-hell-1792584414

this is cool

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/manetheren-the-end-album-premiere/

A full-fledged concept album, The End tells the story of one man’s almost Nietzschean journey towards godhood as the world comes to an end. Each of the six tracks signifies a different event along the way, starting with Biblical plagues and pestilence and ending with the protagonist ruling over the dystopian wastes left behind. The sheer gorgeousness of the music, however, more than offsets the relative bleakness of the lyrics. Darkly atmospheric and characterized by layer upon layer of guitars, Manetheren’s approach to black metal brings to mind more overtly melodic bands like Woods of Desolation, but they also occasionally veer into the same sort of depressive rock territory as Amesoeurs – particularly on tracks like “And Then Came the Pestilence” and “The End,” both of which have sections that seem to draw influence from The Cure.

(also, no one is talking about the new Immolation album but I guess it's because Immolation making a great album is kind of a given)

i'm stoked for when it hits my Amazon music library. first death meta lband I ever saw live!

Really wanted to see Immolation and Full of Hell last week (they're opening for the Cavalera brothers' "playing Roots in its entirety" tour) but...didn't. New album's great, though.

I found out about the Atlanta show too late - the killer is if an impromptu project at work hadn't come up, I could have probably done it. I would have loved seeing them again (and the Roots set).

they have a headlining set in Arizona but I don't think I can make that work. kills me that the one time they came to my hometown three times in a year and a half, I missed them all three times back in like 2003.

I like that Ross doesn't use his death voice to talk between songs, just his thick Yonkers accent

the Cavalera brothers' "playing Roots in its entirety" tour

Really?! Sweet. That's definitely the Sepultura album we all want to hear live, right?

I know you're joking, but I would be more excited about a Chaos A.D. tour. (That was the tour I saw them on in 1993, with Fudge Tunnel, Fear Factory, and Clutch opening up.)

lol they only picked that one cos the tour was supposed to be all last year and it was 20th anniversary (and then some of the leg got cancelled or somethin idk).

I actually like Roots even if it isn't even the fourth best thing THEY did.

Heh

xp I would be way more excited by a Chaos AD tour! But Arise would be better. Or Beneath the Remains. Schizophrenia. Morbid Visions. Bestial Devastation. The list is endless, really...

I like Roots a lot and I bet it's a blast live