Rolling Metal 2017

thanks for the heads-up, gp. have wanted copies of muukalainen puhuu and kosmomonument for quite a while, but haven't been willing to pay the going rate. less interested in the ep, but w/e.

This YouTube channel has suddenly uploaded every Danzig video in HD quality. Don't know how long they'll be there - they all went up on March 3 - but there you go.

John D4rnielle on Church of Misery in NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/09/magazine/25-songs-that-tell-us-where-music-is-going.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#/church-of-misery-make-them-die-slowly-john-george-haigh

Playing the new Body Count now. There is some serious fucking shredding going on on this album.

If there is someone who id read write about CoM ...its jd

Fen
Winter
(Aural Music/Code666)
Release Date: 3/10/2017

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/2/8/4/628426.jpg?2634

http://fenuk.bandcamp.com/album/winter

Video for "Winter II"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OenMFgZGE94

I fell in love with the British band's 2013 release Dustwalker after reading about it in the Rolling Metal Thread 2013 thread right here and I have a feeling that I will do the same with the new release which comes out tomorrow once I get to spend some time with it. Islander of No Clean Singing did get to spend time with itand streams the entire album of which he opines:

If it’s “self-indulgent”, it is so only in the sense that it indulges deeply felt emotions, memories, and creative impulses of the selves who made it. It’s ambitious in its reach, of course, seeking to capture the sensations of ancient landscapes and near-mystical revelations, but FEN’s ambitions haven’t exceeded their grasp.

While the spine of the music is atmospheric black metal, in its fully fleshed-out form it’s very much a prog album, intricate and rich in its textures and elaborate in its ever-changing instrumental variations. The drums will blast, the guitars will swarm, and the vocals will claw at your throat in abrasive snarls and impassioned cries. But the harsh, savage energy in the music is more than counterbalanced by other elements that become kaleidoscopic in the cascade of their sonic colors.

Trying to map all the ways in which the music changes over the course of these journeys wouldn’t serve much point. What might matter more is to say that despite the considerable distance the music travels both in time and in the range of its emotional resonances and instrumental and vocal variations, the songs are cohesive, and that might be the album’s crowning achievement. Everything seems to belong, and to integrate and unfold in ways that are fascinating, natural, and wholly immersive. Many minutes will pass, but if you’re like me, you won’t be counting them. By the end, you’ll wonder where the time went, and be glad for the time you spent with Winter.

I haven't really checked them out but I love that logo.

New Skaphe, wherein he gets all metal on us: https://skaphe.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-3

digging this Apostate Viaticum album:

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

Before listening to the song you’re about to hear, “In the Shadow of the Monolith”, I was seduced by Invictus‘ comparisons of the album to the likes of Diocletian, Bölzer, and Zom — along with Gospel of the Horns, Vomitor, and Throaat. And then the song itself seduced me. A melding of black and death, it’s a twisted piece of savagery that doesn’t unfold in a predictable straight line. It squeals, groans, vaults, and veers. It becomes a meat-grinder of morbidity and then a head-nodding, bone-mangling lurch, with a burst of frenzy at the end. My kind of nastiness.

Got a press release about Black Death. After forming in Cleveland in the late '70s, the group is reputably the first all-black heavy metal band.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-prnA3p2iVfo/U2hnUiVHd1I/AAAAAAAAHgY/aTvsIqDrXcw/s1600/blackdeath-thumb.jpg

The one album the band released, a self-titled album that came out in 1984, will be getting the reissue treatment from Hell's Headbangers sometime this year, presumably. It "consisted of a seven-song main LP and then a two-song 7", both of which Hells Headbangers will reproduce down to the same detail," says the press release.

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/8/6/5/4/8654.jpg?1734

Not to be confused with this Black Death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqteDk15Ud8

Psyched about that... Auburn was supposed to reissue that like ten years ago but it never happened, it's a fun heavy metal record.

Power Trip + Iron Reagan was v satisfying. IR's drummer didn't make it past the Cdn border, so there were a trio of fill-ins, incl the drummer from Skull Fist!

digging Funeral Chant (which should surprise nobody), reminds me of Vampire from Sweden

So apparently Nachtmystium are reuniting to play Louisville Deathfest? Anyone know anything about this? I can't imagine it'll happen.

Mentioned above, finally available to stream:

http://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/spit-forth-from-chaos

Free black jazz metal? With a little bit of Mind Flayer? I dunno how often I'll listen to it but I did order it.

This may already be known to all but Sweden's Sarcasm is putting out a new album at the end of next month (on Dark Descent ofc) and the advance track sounds exactly like where they left off over 20 yrs ago

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

this forum and metal-archives use the opposite youtube url's for embedding (or not embedding) vids and I always get them confused. dammit.

The Australian grind label Blastasfuk has put out complete-discography CDs by Assück and Mortalized (Mortalized being GridLink guitarist Takafumi Matsubara's previous band). Links:

https://blastasfuk.bandcamp.com/album/discography-1989-1998

https://blastasfuk.bandcamp.com/album/complete-mortality

That's fucking great! Will definitely pick up the Assück!

I bought the physical versions - $12 postage paid from Australia was too good a deal to pass up. And I can wait for the discs to arrive.

$6 digital Assück!

Hey, remember when Ulver were a metal band?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq0Kb4bFNzg

They call it "their pop album,”

all right, i'm listening

i'm pretty into that tbh

damn, mortalized rule & assück are straight-up one of the best grind bands ever. awesome.

The new Anomalie album, Visions (out on March 17 via Art of Propaganda), that I have been enjoying and hyping in this thread is finally streaming in full at Invisible Oranges. Joseph Schafer says of the album

The biggest weakness atmospheric black metal faces is thinness. I don’t mean production thinness, I mean a feeling that the music itself is slight. Listening to too many of these bands feels like ordering stew at a restaurant but reviving a bowl of hot broth.

Austria’s Anomalie know how to keep the soup hearty. The brainchild of live Harakiri for the Sky member Marrok, Anomalie mostly keep to the folksy side of the chilled black metal spectrum. You might think of them as gazpacho, soup to cool you down in the afternoon. At times, though, things get chunky, heavy and hot, thanks to some almost Heaven Shall Burn-ish melodic death metal riffage. Always every element is in balance, which makes their forthcoming third record, Visions, such a pleasant dish in a genre full of bland appetizers.

things get chunky, heavy and hot

block that metaphor

Do you get bread or crackers with it?

I'd be pretty ticked off if my gazpacho got chunky, heavy, and hot on me.

6
6 dollar
6 dollar Assuck

man I'm glad to finally be hearing this. love those vocals

Good couple of days in Philly... Monday was Deafheaven, This Will Destroy You and Emma Ruth Rundle and I just came home from Oathbreaker with King Woman and Jaye Jayle.

I wish I caught more of Emma Ruth Rundle's set since I like her albums but she went on so early... I like This Will Destroy you more as background music playing on my CD player than in concert, frankly... Deafheaven was probably the best I have seen them of the three times.

DEAFHEAVEN / THIS WILL DESTROY YOU

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17309650_10158358287420597_4163963446980559168_n.jpg?oh=d8fdb636e362055b26e78bb48f2718cb&oe=5967C978 http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17264890_10158358113875597_933427748867644324_n.jpg?oh=6040a193a9f9e38ad214f119fbda3b82&oe=59729756

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv739Qv7R1I

I really enjoyed Jaye Jayle's set, reminded me of Helios Creed if he used different drugs or was an earthling... Picked up the split they did with Emma Ruth Rundle, ironically enough! King Woman was fantastic, the singer jumping i the crowd at one point, really love the new album which I picked up at the show. Oathbreaker was a cathartic, thrilling, over the top force to be reckoned with. The amazing thing was after the show ended there was Caro at the merch booth without even a moment to rest, from screaming onstage to asking what size shirt you wanted in about as much time as it took to get from the stage to the merch table. It was funny to me how she spent the whole show shrouded in black fabric and with her long hair covering her face and suddenly people are taking pictures with her.

OATHBREAKER / KING WOMAN

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17361582_10158367761235597_6019386784612802952_n.jpg?oh=f451d8b7e5ff9d9c2a1eda0bf2f5eb09&oe=595B538D http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17343059_10158367623495597_7191381654189378199_n.jpg?oh=07dea856d87aadb433797461f0f056af&oe=59620510

JAYE JAYLE

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17309195_10158367406335597_4663312514551381169_n.jpg?oh=541583da08cf15e6dbe7b37f43f2d187&oe=592904B4

I could really complete the week if I caught SunnO))) on Saturday but I am old, tired and broke. Also, seeing Fishbone on Friday. :)

"such a pleasant dish in a genre full of bland appetizers" a pretty un-metal description of metal, but I'm still looking forward to hearing this album tomorrow.

This Anomalie album is great.

Yay! Glad someone else likes it!

But what kind of soup would you say it is?

goddamn the new Havok album is fun (even if the opening track makes me cringe a bit)

loving the new Obituary. I didn't care much for the last one - wasn't terrible, just didn't have many songs I was that into. My only disappointment is that it is largely bereft of some of the extended Celtic Frost-y groovy parts of their past, but then again I can listen to Slowly We Rot or "Redneck Stomp" if I want that.

I do like some of the forays into outside territory, like the heavy metal-ish moments during the first few tracks. the simplicity of the songwriting works too. I can see these songs going over well live (which I'll know for sure on Sunday)

I'm not particularly well-versed on soup analogies.

You need to start listening to more soup.

Broth in the Throne Room

De Mynistroniis Dom Sathanas

but spelled better

Wolf Layers a Bisque

Bak kut teh Attack

Bouillabaisse in the Northern Sky

Enjoying that Fen album

Great Old... Won Ton

Don't Bake the Okra

It's wayyyyy better fried