Rolling Metal 2017

Midnight album is fun as per usual. gonna be great to see them on the Decibel tour

attn Brad, this album has you written all over it I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjoIXjI7pok

Fuck, this Rebel Wizard album. Vicious, thrashy black metal with some Maiden/Priest guitar heroics thrown in. And it's Australian.

I wrote about Immolation.

If you like your female-vocal metal a little closer to Madder Mortem than to Xandria, check out the new Ravenscry album.

https://open.spotify.com/album/7vMCkszcwn6iLOpwtBcUim

(I just realized that I don't know if that's supposed to be ravens-cry or raven-scry. Kinda hoping it's the latter as an Odin reference.)

oh my god simon WHAT IS THAT SONG

dude the whole album is insane

aaaaaah

ostensibly they're considered a djent band? or used to be? I've listened to it like a half dozen times and I'm still confused

Junius were basically the only listenable djent band when their 1st album was out.

State Theater in St Pete STILL has Exodus listed on their website even after ST THEMSELVES were forced to go into the FB event to clarify the confusion.

People are getting massively confused, I am going to laugh my ass off if a shitload of Exodus fans show up and then start flipping things over when they realize they won't be there.

several of us have emailed them too, so dunno if they're just lazy or they really want to will this thing into existence.

If you say Exodus five times while staring into a mirror they suddenly appear and start thrashing behind u

I wish i hadn't just tried that when i was on the toilet

If your issue with BABYMETAL was that it still sounded too human, you might appreciate this:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5yoy8hzsgNMkAYHb350q7H

(It's vocaloid metal.)

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

― Dinsdale

Also, for those of us who prefer physical format, there is a CD available and it's relatively inexpensive for US consumption.

For Vocaloid metal, I'll stick with Utsu-P:

https://open.spotify.com/album/7ex8PWSObIK1VQsUpixjnC

Medico Peste is yet another Polish band doing something a little different, somewhere in the Mgla/Furia/post-punk orbit. Apparently there's a cover of "Stigmata Martyr" on this upcoming EP.
http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/2017/2/26/streaming-medico-peste-hallucinating-warmth-and-bliss

Their debut album was really good, fwiw.

I wrote about Immolation.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, February 27, 2017 7:43 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great article. I really wish more people wrote about them (granted, Decibel gives them their due). never thought the one time I saw them headline in 1999 would be the *only* damn time.

Their releases over the past decade—2007’s Shadows in the Light, 2010’s Majesty and Decay, 2011’s Providence EP (a free giveaway from Scion AV), and 2013’s Kingdom of Conspiracy—have been some of their most bludgeoning.

this is otm. I have forgotten what Shadows looked like because that was during my weird showtunes phase (shut the fuck up, everybody), but I remember raving about Majesty on here after I got it, and Kingdom of Conspiracy I still play the fuck out of.

I think the only one I elevate slightly above the rest is Close to a World Below. I also have love for Failures for Gods, despite the clicky drums (I won't say typewriters, AG, won't do it), as it was the first one I owned.

some boring people might say Dawn of Possession is the best one or the only one worth owning. they'd be RONG. the angular atmospheric riffing is just hard to replicate. It's not about pummeling your skull a la Cryptopsy, it's making you feel like you're ambling slowly in Hell, crawling through an endless cesspool of blood, molasses, and raw sewage, and slowly losing your will to keep fighting upstream.

Since there was a lot of (justifiable) Astronoid love in the thread, the band will be playing a couple weeks of dates on the West Coast with Ghost Bath:

4/14/2017 The Park Theatre - Winnipeg, MB
4/15/2017 TBA - Regina, SK
4/16/2017 Distortion - Calgary, AB
4/17/2017 Astoria - Vancouver, BC
4/18/2017 Highline - Seattle, WA
4/19/2017 Ash Street Saloon - Portland, OR
4/20/2017 Thee Parkside - San Francisco, CA
4/21/2017 Complex - Los Angeles, CA
4/22/2017 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA
4/23/2017 Yucca Tap Room - Tempe, AZ
4/25/2017 Marquis - Theater Denver, CO
4/26/2017 Riot Room - Kansas City, MO

I expect full reviews from ILXors.

lol that should be a nicely polarizing bill

it's making you feel like you're ambling slowly in Hell, crawling through an endless cesspool of <yik>

in addition to the new immolation, have of late dug power trip, the great old ones, tomb mold, lorn & rebel wizard. ominous circle lp is okay, maybe better than okay, not sure yet. cultes des ghoules operetta thing is an endurance test but kind of fun. new portal & solstice soon?

Oh man the Great Old Ones record is killer. Lovecrafty black metal but just super fun to listen to.

Rebel Wizard and Tomb Mold are both spending a lot of time in my earholes. Waiting for my copy of the Lorn CD, secretly hoping Marc Maron will accidentally agree to interview them on his podcast.

Cathartic shrieky epic black metal by the aforementioned Ghost Bath: https://open.spotify.com/track/6eKu3fqaUDQm0iwwkFquy0

Re: Disperse

That was terrible.

hahaha no one but brad was meant to listen to that

Did Brad lose a bet?

(And for the record I listen to everything that is posted in this thread at least once as soon as I can hear the full album. Most don't get more than one listen, however. :) )

I love that Disperse song.

for real though I dig the hell out of that Disperse album, it sounds like someone went into the 1975's studio when they were off on spliff breaks and tried to make prog-metal using their setup xp

Simon OTM! I listened to the Disperse a few days ago when it got reviewed on AMG, and the first thing I thought was, "This sounds like that last 1975 album. But, you know, better." I think I even said something like that in the review comments.

It's not terrible, I don't think, but it's definitely not my kind of thing.

Hey guys. I haven't been contributing to this thread because frankly I'm severely burned out and need an extensive break from the new metal stuff. There's not much new stuff that makes me happy anymore. However the new Power Trip album is a hugely pleasant surprise in that it's ultra-formulaic thrash that remembers how catchy thrash is supposed to be. Hooks aplenty, great dynamics, the kind of filth and speed and tightness that has me comparing this record to Possessed and Exodus, with Slayer divebombs for good measure. Regressive metal for the proverbial win. It reminds me of being 17, at the height of my thrash obsession, in 1988.

And for those who like the girly metal (Glenn, take note) the new Kobra and the Lotus is a long-overdue strong effort by a band that always had a bad habit of underachieving in the past. They're a great fit on Napalm, and I hope they do well with the Euro-metal crowd.

Yes! I like "Gotham" a lot, and am looking forward to the rest of the Kobra and the Lotus album.

You guys.

Nocturnus (AD) debuted a new song at this show tonight.

And it is gooooood

Like Key good

WHAT

would die 4 that

Yeah man. If they can write 7 more songs like this daaaamn

Dread Sovereign
For Doom the Bell Tolls
(Ván Records)
Release Date: 3/3/2017

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/2/3/9/623928.jpg?0611

One Sheet

Doom metal without any of the hippie-dippy stuff. Even when they get a little psychedelic, it is only to make the music seem heavier. Doom metal is often morose and mournful; in the hands of this Irish group, it's all about anger and it's not a bad look.

The album is streaming via SoundCloud at Noisey, where Kim Kelly says

For Doom the Bell Tolls is dark—immensely dark. The sound of church bells ring out, puncturing the murky, twilit atmosphere and punctuating the howling ripples of distorted riffs. Joined by drummer Johnny King (Malthusian, Sodb) and guitarist Bones (Wizards of Firetop Mountain), vocalist and bassist Nemtheanga (AKA Primordial's Alan Averill) lays aside his usually epic vocal stylings in favor of an eerie sort of ur-wail, a wavering cry that undulates through the sepulchral fog to bring tidings of doom. A perfectly grimy (and extremely fitting) Venom cover at the end sees them ramp up the sleaze in a gritted-teeth reminder that doom has always been dirty. Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.

Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.

WHOA LORD YEAH

well fuck

omg I spent the whole first track thinking "wow this guy sounds like Alan Averill". Well duh.

got Incubus's drum stick after the Inquisition set. the thing was beat to shit. he plays the hell out of them.

It's not just a little matchstick?

Lol kinda is now.

NBD just met Corpsegrinder

http://i68.tinypic.com/xmsizl.jpg

Overkill still rule live and they play the best two songs (#1 and #3) from the new album live.

Caught Anvil with Night Demon and Graveshadow this evening in Philly. The venue, Johnny Brenda's, doesn't do a ton of metal shows and it is in the hipster neighborhood of Fishtown so I kind of expected some ironic attendees at the show but instead it was filled with lifers who put me to shame. I wore a Diamond Head shirt (Night Demon's Jarvis Leatherby approved, I said I thought maybe he heard a song or two of theirs and he laughed, "Yeah, one or two.") and at one point was at the bar next to someone in a Budgie shirt causing me to exclaim that we were responsible for half of Metallica's cover songs. It was certainly nice to not be the oldest person at a show for once.

I missed locals Hound because I was eating a cheesesteak, but they're quite good if you ever come across them, solid shit-kicking rock and roll will be your reward.

I was intrigued by Graveshadow enough to make sure I caught them. They have a video out which is really cheesy, but it's also quite infectious and has stuck in my head. I post it here so those who were offended at my negative views of Disperse can mock me for my questionable taste.

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

Live the band was a lot heavier than the clip and debut album I checked out on Spotify and the singer was having a great time, shrugging off rude catcalls and winning over a lot of the crowd by sheer will and an ability to sing quite well and also growl at times, something that helps set her and the band apart from the bulk of female-fronted, gothic metal bands. The bassist spent the whole set playing from the area in front of the stage or wandering around the balcony area and the singer did this as well. They were utterly uncool but a lot of fun too.

I really love Night Demon's updated NWOBHM and the two new songs they performed from an April album makes me think that will continue.

Anvil was Anvil (which can be a posthumous album title since they seem to love those three-word deals) which is fine with me since I liked 'em before the documentary. Lips was smiling all the time, making crude sexual jokes that might be unbecoming from someone past sixty, but the dude still does a guitar solo with a vibrator so, yeah, and he told some cool stories about Lemmy and stuck up for Metallica for letting them open for them in Singapore a few years ago when some dude in the crowd inexplicably started screaming how they suck.

I would have liked to hear a lot more old songs, but I understand that is unrealistic, and looking at the setlist (Philly got the same set, save for an encore of "Born To Be Wild" because we were a better crowd than Boston, ha!) I think they did fine overall. But man, it would be great to hear them do "School Love" live.

Overall a fun night out with two young bands that sound old and an old band that is classic.

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17098345_10158308973450597_8305012159831817383_n.jpg?oh=9220055992aa8bc638ec108f1191648f&oe=593AA546 http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17155682_10158309115105597_3495316403875898951_n.jpg?oh=50bf07c0592aa18e7452e765aa74213c&oe=596CA7DD

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17022136_10158309115000597_6566456682048178797_n.jpg?oh=1ab26c36c3b122bc513eb9d90f38c386&oe=59739CA2

Nice pic, Neanderthal! Surprised that you could get Corpsegrinder's neck in a shit and have room for you... :)