interesting Russian act that sort of tries to do an explosions-in-the-sky-goes-katatonia thing
https://dir666.bandcamp.com/album/elimino
― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi)
I know Lunatii from their earlier stuff which wasn't too remarkable but this is a huge leap forward, especially in production quality.
Also good to see Lumnos with a new record, gotta check it out. Previous material was pretty basic Lustre-meets-Summoning, somewhat 2nd tier-stuff but enjoyable all the same.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
Listening to the new Danzig album for the first time. It's pretty good. His voice is a little rough on a few tracks, showing his age, but he makes it work 'cause the songs are mostly slow and heavy, with a really strong occult vibe. Female vocals on the first track make me feel like he's definitely heard Sabbath Assembly. Tommy Victor's soloing a lot. But I feel like this promo photo is making me feel more positively toward the whole thing. He's into his rec-room-Satanist period. (There are other shots where he's wearing a Henley shirt with the sleeves pushed up to his elbows.)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAEjflsXUAArYfa.jpg
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 18 May 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
Draping himself in velvet, nice.
― Are you Thurston Moore (but enjoying it less) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 18 May 2017 08:52 (six years ago) link
his head becomes more and more of a grapefruit with each passing day
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 May 2017 04:56 (six years ago) link
So Steve Tucker says the upcoming tour will have no Vincent material.
Okkkkkk
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 May 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
Like i even like Formulas and Gateway and these seems like the most boring set imaginable
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 May 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
Re: Danzig pic: I've scrolled past that pic several times now and it never occurred to me that those weren't her elbows :-/
― StanM, Saturday, 20 May 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
Got an email that said Radkey was playing the local amphitheater in October. I saw them play in front of like a dozen people the last time through so I knew it was part of as package. I looked it up and it's the Rock Allegiance Tour. Then I saw the rest of the line-up:
Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, Marilyn Manson, Halestorm, In This Moment, Steel Panther, Radkey, Black Map, Mastodon, Gojira, Asking Alexandria, Starset, Bleeker, Greta Van Fleet, Badflower, While She Sleeps, August Burns Red, Beartooth, He Is Legend, Biters, Them Evils and Ded.
Despite the inclusion of a couple of bands I like, I am glad nobody is going to make me see that show.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 20 May 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
Just found out there's a new Azarath record. One listen in and it's very much the same as Blasphemers Malediction five years ago: seriously pissed-off sounding death metal.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 20 May 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
this is great news
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 20 May 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
Is there an ILX consensus on Alestorm? I cannot help but think there's a lot of hate for this band here but also a few fervent supporters.
The new one is fun but it won't change anyone's mind about the Scottish Pirate Metallers most likely.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 21 May 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
i think the consensus is that they're only the third worst band on some blogger's list of "five unique metal bands you should be listening to". here's the thread from two months back.
Worst sounding band in this blogger's list of '5 unique metal bands you should be listening to'
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Sunday, 21 May 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I remember that poll, haha!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 21 May 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
Plenty of hate here
LOL Scottish Pirate Metal
― Odysseus, Sunday, 21 May 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
anybody checked out the Asofy album on Avantgarde? feel like it came out last year but metal-archives shows 2017...pretty nice stuff, usually post-rock metal is in that sweeping Explosions in the Sky style but this owes a bigger debt to Louisville..clean spacious electric guitars, atmospheric Tara Jane O'Neill feel here and there, crypt-whisper BM vox & gothy rolling drums...really worth spending some time with
― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 22 May 2017 11:24 (six years ago) link
Man, this Celestial Bodies. It's like a free jazz drummer, a noise dude with a synth and Cronos jamming. It's kinda one-note, sounds a little bit like some weird Lightning Bolt side project, but when I'm in the mood for scraping tartar off my brain it's great.
― Are you Thurston Moore (but enjoying it less) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 11:05 (six years ago) link
Never heard The Ruins Of Beverast before but the new album is exceptional
― imago, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
Now listening to Rain Upon The Impure. Dammit ILX you're supposed to tell me about music like this
― imago, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
Just got a promo of an upcoming Dream Evil album, their first in seven years. Interesting quote from the press release:
“We had a heavy metal jury, which are fans we invited, to pick the 12 songs that we're going to have on the album,” Fredrik Nordström explains. “And we have a rule; if you're going to be part of the jury you can't be able to play a musical instrument. You just have to be a heavy metal fan. We've done this since “The Book Of Heavy Metal” and I think it's a good idea because the fans are buying the album, so why shouldn't they pick the songs? This time, however, I couldn't pinpoint the songs they were going to choose. There were some songs they picked that surprised me, so we had to go back and listen with different ears.”
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
saw Suffo/Morbid Angel last night. went as expected.
Revocation was good as per usual. Withered, I like this band, but they overdrive everything to where you can't make out what they're playing during shows, always drives me insane.
Suffocation was the highlight. debuted two new songs (from what I heard, they were killer). no Frank, of course, but Kevin did a nice job filling in.
Morbid Angel was, well, after the fourth Gateways/Formula song, I peaced. they sounded fine but frankly pulling a setlist from only the Tucker albums meant that I was going to lose interest fast.
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 12:42 (six years ago) link
There's a 14CD box gathering all of Rob Halford's solo material. There's way too much repetition (three live albums, two of which are double discs, a Fight remix album and a collection of Fight demos) but I still kinda want it. I like both Fight and Halford, and I've never heard the 2wo album.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
Lol thats insane
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
I kinda want it too tho
Thankfully it includes the Christmas album.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
there's a vid of a new Morbid Angel track played live, def sounds Gatewaysey in tempo and groove, those doomy parts are cool, almost like newer Gorguts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOHIiUn8hTY
― Devilock, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
haha, that must have been right after I left. tbh new material in that vein would be fine by me
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
This sounds promising as fuuuuuck
http://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/track/salt-for-the-healer
― Are you Thurston Moore (but enjoying it less) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 26 May 2017 09:39 (six years ago) link
Same label did the Suffering Hour, which I'm going to pick up soon. "Through Vessels of Arcane Power" is "Entranced by the Wolfshook"-level songcraft.
― Are you Thurston Moore (but enjoying it less) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 26 May 2017 10:29 (six years ago) link
Had this made the rounds?
http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160407271482/metal-band-names-invented-by-neural-network
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 May 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
excellent rifftastic lo-fi black metal very much of the "standing atop a cliff surveying the landscape" variety, kinda reminds me of Horn
https://youtu.be/NQOCxW-wmxohttps://youtu.be/_9HmiZeJHA8
unfamiliar with them, I scrolled through the discography and approx 98% of their songs feature a prepositional phrase in the title. also lots of references to wolves. and blood. and the past. and the sun and moon sooooo
― Devilock, Saturday, 27 May 2017 02:45 (six years ago) link
oops, forgot to put the band name in the previous post: Blood Strongholdhttps://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Blood_Stronghold/3540381470
― Devilock, Saturday, 27 May 2017 06:17 (six years ago) link
I actually like the new Danzig!
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 May 2017 11:30 (six years ago) link
Linnea Olsson (from The Oath) and a couple of dudes from In Solitude - and ONE MORE BONUS DUDE. Sounds not unlike the last IS album, musically.
http://maggotheart.bandcamp.com/album/city-girls
― the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 28 May 2017 08:29 (six years ago) link
want to reiterate that the Lunatii album is really pretty special and merits sit-down-and-really-dig-in listening sessions
― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 01:05 (six years ago) link
also Ingurgitating Oblivion's Vision Wallows In Symphonies of Light deserves more attention than it's been getting. This style of progressive death is kinda Death Metal Porcupine Tree, which I think few around here have much use for -- it doesn't go as far out or dig as deep as Gorguts or Ulcerate...but it's still really good imo!!
― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 02:48 (six years ago) link
Helluva good album title, that.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 04:18 (six years ago) link
Checking out that Ingurgitating Oblivion on Bandcamp and it is sounding pretty good right now. Might have to pick it up tomorrow. I'm liking this creeping, cleanish guitar in "A Mote..."
The Suffering Hour album is worth checking out, too, for fans of discordant but not completely unhinged death metal. Some really great guitar work on that.
― the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 08:58 (six years ago) link
This style of progressive death is kinda Death Metal Porcupine Tree
i can get down
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
damn, second track on this is wild
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
more metal records should have prominent vibraphone
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
ok here's post no. 4 of me live-blogging my reaction to recent recommendations in this thread but:
holy fucking shit this lunatii record is knocking me on my ass
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
yeah it's really something
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
why did oranssi pazuzu come all the way to the USA for MDF and not stay to play more shows? :(i'd love to see them but their website makes it look like they're straight back to europe for more shows there
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
I can't remember if Earth Rot's Renascentia was discussed here or not. It's been out since March. It has some black metal to it, but it's mostly big stomping grooves and Swedish death metal, so I'm into it. They're from Australia.
http://earthrot.com.au/album/renascentia
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
Oh, and here's a trailer for the upcoming Incantation album, Profane Nexus, out on Relapse in August:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e--bLVnIQgY
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
cover looks like a gloomy satanic version of Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
Good call! Hope it doesn't sound like that, though. Alright, maybe a little bit of banjo.
― the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
banjo in Incantation would be dope
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 June 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Pete Sandoval nust took a whiz after me in the men's room
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 4 June 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
Did he try to convert you to Christianity y/n
― the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 4 June 2017 07:57 (six years ago) link