Rolling Metal 2017

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.

An unverified story, from Twitter:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFwkCfCXYAEz_fx.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFwkCexWsAAppht.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFwkCeyXYAExNpU.jpg

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.
― jmm, Tuesday, July 25, 2017 9:31 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shit, i love cloud rat

i fucked up missing the Thou / Cloud Rat / False tour :(

I wish that had come to TO, and also wish that the Cattle Decapitation / Revocation / Full of Hell / Artificial Brain tour (!!!!) that's hittingTO on Halloween (!!!!!) didn't conflict with the Clientele

i fucked up missing the Thou / Cloud Rat / False tour :(

― alpine static

i saw Thou a year or so ago, and this time there were 5 bands on the bill (they added The Body in Portland at the last minute) so i'm guessing they were pretty short sets, and it was a weeknight ... but still.

I, Voidhanger is doing a physical release of the s/t Tchornobog album, which is also Name Your Price on Bandcamp. Epic lunatic black doom death chaos.

http://markovsoroka.bandcamp.com/album/tchornobog

New Temple of Void is sounding pretty great. Riffy as fuck death metal, generally slow to mid-paced

"Wretched Banquet" (!) has a pretty neck-snapping verse riff.

http://templeofvoid.bandcamp.com/album/lords-of-death

The Dead Cross album is streaming at Noisey and the lede might have been buried in the otherwise nice interview with Dave Lombardo and Mike Patton...

"This is the heaviest album I've ever recorded," Lombardo says.

Other lyrics require more unpacking, such as the menacing, inflammatory indictment on "Idiopathic": "We are all terrorists and fags / and niggers and spics and fuckin' dirt-bags / sketchy-cracker white trash / and we're coming / we comin' to get your ass."

"Well, you know, it's egalitarian racism," says Patton, who sounds aghast that journalists can get their hands on the album's lyric sheet. "You know how it goes. With friends, there's a vernacular that you use all the time—and I'm not talking about white friends. I'm talking about everybody. And everyone laughs and everything's cool. But all of a sudden, I use it in a hardcore song and it's a fucking problem? No. No it's not. This is the way people talk, and this is also important to realize that.

"I'm not targeting a Mexican or an African-American or anything else," he continues. "It's all of us. And we've all got our own little, you know, slang words, and pitfalls, and whatever you want to call it, and ways that we're discriminated against. I mean, shit, I think we've all felt that in some weird way. So I thought it was good to put that in there. Who knows? Maybe I'll get blasted for it. Who fucking knows?"

Oh, and the video for "Obedience School" features footage from actual cockfighting. No controversy from that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTtJXEpR-XA

The most important thing about the Dead Cross record is that it's fucking awful. One of Patton's most annoying vocal performances (and that's a high fuckin' bar) on top of utterly generic speedcore riff 'n' bash; a total waste of Lombardo's talents. And it's not even produced well - it sounds like shrill, distorted (and not in a good way) shit. It's got me revisiting Grip Inc. just so I can hear Lombardo actually play something.

Sweet, super-edgy lyrics, shitty vocals and boring music! Somehow I think Patton's fans will still tell me its brilliant every chance they get.

Obedience School has the worst guitar production I've heard in a minute

Just picked up an Anvil box set cleverly titled 5 Original Albums in 1 Box.

Strength of Steel (1987)
Pound for Pound (1988)
Worth the Weight (1992)
Plugged in Permanent (1996)
Absolutely No Alternative (1997)

Pretty sure there's a lot of filler here but it can be found for the price of one album.

http://scontent.fewr1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20604237_10159148027075597_4054508561794605442_n.jpg?oh=8608357a107d25dc03d2ea2b9c2d8d64&oe=5A311C36

I love those boxes. I just got one with the first five Montrose albums in it in today's mail. I've also got an 8CD box of all of Whitesnake's 1978-82 material on the way, and three two-CD sets that between them compile the first eight albums by Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush. Summer is the time for '70s rock.

Negative metal act REBEL WIZARD will issue four brand new anti-shamanic, pre-fetal anthems later this month in the form of The Warning Of One EP.

Set for release on August 18th via Prosthetic Records, the EP will be available on cassette and digital formats. Comments REBEL WIZARD mastermind NKSV, "negative wizard metal once again proves that in an era of 'the shell' and fevered, self-righteous evolution, we can abandon hope and rest blissfully within the mystical indifference of the wizards majestic riff."

Hear opening psalm, "The One I Seek," at THIS LOCATION. Preorder The Warning Of One HERE.

The Warning Of One Track Listing:
1. One I Seek
2. One I Know
3. One I See
4. One I Call

I know we're not all big on Warbringer but the new one seems much better than the last one. still not bringing anything new to the table and the Seasons-era Slayer worship is still on display but the songwriting is better for sure and at least they aren't one of 100 interchangeable crossover bands.

anybody heard the Expulsion disc?

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Just checked Expulsion out... fuuuuuuuuuck indeed. It's only like 15 minutes long, though?

Yup. Quick hitter

Well, this is...unexpected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06yQb4lbPk

I saw Converge/Neurosis last night. You know what was great about the Converge set? They were surprisingly restrained in volume! I was not expecting that. (Not sure if it was just the venue or if that's how they normally do things.) Neurosis seemed louder from my vantage point.

I saw them years ago, in between Mastodon and High On Fire, and they didn't seem particularly loud. Does Jacob still run up and down the stage doing that stiff-arm-waving thing that looks off-puttingly like a Nazi salute if you're not paying attention?