Rolling Metal 2017

My favorite metal albums of 2017 are Impetuous Ritual 'Blight Upon Martyred Sentience' and Condor 'Unstoppable Power.' Also love the reissue of Morbid Saint 'Spectrum of Death.'

I'll listen to that Father Befouled Jon! Really well done death metal in the Incantation style doesn't really ever get old for me -- but it does have to be REALLY well done (like this Morpheus Descends I just discovered) to lift it above the pile of bands going for that sound.

not been overly metal this year, but faves are Funeral Chant, Impetuous Ritual, Contaminated and the Urarv that nobody else will actually hear until September. I should probably relisten to the Artificial Brain. Biggest anticipated albums are Portal and Aura Noir.

More like Jute Shite

Not really I just wanted to say that

imago you might find the latest Todesstoss jam interesting, I'd call them divisive but repellant is more accurate (I actually like them though). The new Emptiness album's probably worth a bash too though I wasn't exactly bowled over

this Father Befouled is good. I would urge those of you hearing it to make sure you actually have heard the Incantation records, because the influence isn't exactly subtle. AND god I am getting sick of brickwalled production. Some metal can sound good like this -- but when your main stock in songwriting is huge headbanging riffs, why suffocate them in compression????

haha but yeah I like it

I didn't think it was that bad but I was listening to it really loud in a car so

(compressionwise I mean)

I've heard worse, and I am listening on crappy laptop speakers -- put the whole record on my phone, so will definitely get repeat listens on my commutes. I could tell it was good writing anyway, which is the most important thing to me

Wish I was still writing for European metal magazines so someone would fly me out to cover this...

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OZZFEST
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4

MAIN STAGE
Ozzy Osbourne
Prophets of Rage
Deftones
Children of Bodom
Orange Goblin


SECOND STAGE
Kreator
Baroness
High on Fire
Iron Reagan
1349
Havok
Kyng
Tombs
Night Demon
Thrown Into Exile


NUCLEAR BLAST EXTREME STAGE
Possessed
Suffocation
Fallujah
Rings of Saturn


KNOTFEST
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5

MAIN STAGE
Rob Zombie
Marilyn Manson
Stone Sour
Eighteen Visions
Prayers


SECOND STAGE
Testament
Life of Agony
Black Dahlia Murder
Upon a Burning Body
Goatwhore
Death Angel
Code Orange
ONI
Stitched Up Heart
DED


NUCLEAR BLAST EXTREME STAGE
Repulsion
Exhumed
Warbringer
Ghoul

Nuclear Blast Extreme is my third favorite Monster Energy Drink flavor.

This Mexican death metal album just got reissued and it's got that creepy old school Asphyx kinda flavor. It's from the late 1990s but these guys started in '86 and some of these songs definitely sound like they were lingering around since the days of Possessed, Celtic Frost, Autopsy, etc.

http://oldtemple.bandcamp.com/album/sargatanas-the-enlightenment

German deathgrinders Blood are back to their lineup from O Agios Pethane and are putting out a new album that sounds very much like that wonderfully hideous beast (if the single released is any indication)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKtpSF4FTw4

Sounds pretty good. And they got the guy from Deathcore, a band whose name did not seem ill-advised in 1987.

I was looking to see if there was any news of new Magic Circle, and was surprised I missed this live EP last year. Easy to miss as they lay low from social media.

https://magiccircle.bandcamp.com/album/scream-live-e-p

For more rock 'n' doom, Age Of Taurus, Las Cruces, Procession (from Chile) and Argus have new albums coming out this fall. Maybe Serpent Venom too. I ended up on a digital shopping spree, filling holes if my lossless collection for Age Of Taurus, Las Cruces, Orchid, Hour Of 13, Magister Templi and Italian band Return From The Grave.

Digging this Costa RIcan metalcore outfit quite a bit more than I expected. Nothing groundbreaking maybe, but nice sense of space and dynamics.

https://dumahcr.bandcamp.com/

Oh my word what is Todesstoß and why haven't I been pointed this way before

It's like the slow flipside to Forgotten Spell

New Execration release date was yesterday in the US. Except it's not out anywhere. Called the other record store and they have it scheduled for the 21st as an import; our distributor says August 4th as an import.

Fuckin Metal Blade.

what I'm saying is GIMME EXECRATION

I keep forgetting they have a new album, their last one was very impressive. It's up on bandcamp btw.

Oh my fucking god there's a song on there titled Unicursal Horrorscope. I don't know if that's moronic or amazing, probably both

It's metal so both.

Thanks btw!

Drudkh/Paysage D'Hiver split EP on Aug 25th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYT-Fugbv0U

fuck yeah new propagandhi

https://open.spotify.com/track/2MQg48PyosvgPe8OmCKzeH

I treated myself to the double deluxe reissues of Voivod for my b-day. They await me in the mailbox when I get home tonight.

It was really tempting to binge on all the ones of Celtic Frost, Kreator and Helloween too.

http://www.noiserecords.net/releases/

we never posted the third ClouD Rat split of the year, with Disrotted. Side-long tracks!

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/cloud-ratdisrotted-cloud-rat-disrotted-split-album-premiere/

I treated myself to the double deluxe reissues of Voivod for my b-day. They await me in the mailbox when I get home tonight.

It was really tempting to binge on all the ones of Celtic Frost, Kreator and Helloween too.

http://www.noiserecords.net/releases/

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 22:04 (twenty-eight minutes ago)

Save your money on the Celtic Frost ones. They're really sketchily put together, and have no real extras or sleeve notes.

The Voivod ones are brilliant though. Finished the first two and diving into Dimension Hatross tomorrow.

FnB (any anyone else) I'd love to know how the new Voivods sound vs. the old Noise discs. The Frost ones too (I was under the impression that TGW was involved during the remastering process, but maybe that's wrong?).

I bought the recent reissue of Tiamat's "Sumerian Cry". It's actually pretty good. The Treblinka demo collection and Loudblast have been on my playlist lately: death metal from the era of weird guitar sounds and inept engineering.

Also this weird, proggy sludge album from Fleshpress is kinda great

http://fleshpress.bandcamp.com/album/hulluuden-muuri-2

Sumerian Cry is a very overlooked album indeed, same with the Therion debut.

a twitter follow was saying he didn't buy into the "hype" on the new Undergang - not sure where this hype is unless it's Dark Descent's admittedly very large scene presence right now - but anyway, dude's gripe was that Putrevore had already done the same thing much better. I don't hear it, myself, and the Undergang record is fucking aces.

https://undergang.bandcamp.com/album/misantropologi

Never heard of this band before today, but this album rips: Psymbolik by Lustration, from Australia...

https://forgottenwisdomprod.bandcamp.com/album/psymbolik

Yeah that's a good album. Shares members with Spear of Longinus, FYI, originators of "Nazi Occult Metal."

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Save your money on the Celtic Frost ones. They're really sketchily put together, and have no real extras or sleeve notes.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo)

not sure how to classify it but holy shit do I love Brutus' Burst on contact. sending up the brad signal

They're baaaack.

https://soundcloud.com/invictusproductions/malokarpatan-v-hustej-hore-na-stracich-nohach-striga-chalupu-svoju-ukryva

If you are a fan of King Diamond's wacky rock opera stuff like The Puppet Master or The Spider's Lullabye (or, really, all his stuff, but the classics like Abigail are sort of cordoned off in their own realm of greatness for me) -- and if you dig the wackiness: the plotting, the multiple characters with different voicings, the ridiculous ambition of it all -- then you could do a lot worse than to check out the new one from Carach Angren, Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten, which is a bunch of ghost stories / occult tales with, check, multiple characters in different voices, a ton of riffs (mersh symphonic black metal style), and some synth-strings that really work when they work ("Three Times Thunder Strikes"). I feel like this kind of poppy black metal is usually not my thing at all or this board's either, but this is kind of a cool record imo. Makes me feel like a kid to be corny about it

When it's band photo day, maybe don't do forced perspective with giant candles that make you look like dwarves.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFSFYQdXgAAhUhd.jpg

not sure how to classify it but holy shit do I love Brutus' Burst on contact. sending up the brad signal

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.)

Speaking of Astronoid, I saw them last night supporting Ghost in Philly. Spoke with Mike from the band and they are reading up for recording a new album soon which hopefully will see the band build on the momentum from Air.

Astronoid reference got my attention.

the funny thing is I discovered it completely by accident, I was planning to listen to Burst's Lazarus Bird

Astarte's first album "Doomed Dark Years" has been reissued, for fans of Greek black metal. I maybe wish it had more of a Greek vibe, tbh, but it's pretty damn good. First all-female black metal band.

There are two new Converge songs on Spotify.

wow, "Eve"

yeah it's really something, wonder if they're both on a new album or what

The 18-minute Cloud Rat song is pretty good also. In the description:

Voyage of the Acolyte was a big influence for this track, lol.

Apparently they're collecting all five splits on a CD at year's end. Will need to nab that.

Mikael Åkerfeldt picks his 10 favorite metal albums. His thoughts on each album are fascinating to me.

so this fucking Dio hologram tour....

New Prong album tomorrow. Everything they've done since 2012's Carved Into Stone has been solid (the covers album was spotty, but it was a covers album, so I don't really think about it that often), and this one maintains their streak.