Rolling Metal 2017

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?

He didn't do anything noticeably Nazi-esque when I saw them, and it's tough to pay attention to anyone but him really, he's quite a showman. Also it wasn't until seeing them live that I noticed he looks a bit like the goth ghost of brad lol

I confess I left midway through the Neurosis set, I'm not the hugest fan of theirs and they seemed weirdly sloppy?

I'll be seeing/reviewing that Converge / Neurosis show on Monday in Philly if I get tix.

Tomorrow I see Melvins whose sprawling double album sounds like a self-indulgent bizarro world Flaming Lips. Not sure what I think about it but the Dale Crover solo release is a little more palatable (or at least immediate).

The new Incantation album, unsurprisingly, rules.

forgot that's out later this month (well, for the rest of us!)

\m/

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

― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, August 3, 2017 5:29 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup. Quick hitter

― Neanderthal, Thursday, August 3, 2017 9:14 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was going to say Matt Harvey has found his niche as a mimic w/ this band and Gruesome but he kinda has done that his whole career, w/ Exhumed largely being Carcass worship.

It's a weird niche, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

Anyone checked this Iron Bonehead demo from Blooming Carrions yet? Aside from the Evil Outback Steakhouse name I'm not a huge fan of the production - the guitars feel overly EQ'd and it gives them a monotonous quality on my speakers, a little less so on headphones. But there's promise here for people that like the somewhat hypertrophied Incantation wing of death metal.

https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/blooming-carrions-sparkling-rotten-dreams

if you didn't listen to this last year...listen to it this year. somehow threads a knot of the more technical style of EARLY death metal (not modern tech-death), sludge, and...art-rock?

https://oksennus.bandcamp.com/album/sokea-idiootti

Very, very good.

Oksennus are cool. Some of my favorite cover art. I love Finland.

ha wtf that Oksennus. have I even heard any metal that sounds like this?

if I've done my time zone math correctly, Emperor should be coming up on the Wacken livestream in about an hour (3:30 EST/9:30 Wacken time)

http://stream.wacken.com/

(and after that, Megadeth, Turbonegro, and Annihilator)

fucking sun going down as they play "...Nightspirit," this is incredible

honestly wasn't expecting much, as Emperor's music seems to lose something in a live setting but uhhh this is cool

Thanks for posting - I didn't realize they were streaming, and this is awesome. Emperor!

Keijo Niinimaa of Rotten sound has a new band, Morbid Evils, who do a kind of postpunk doom thing that I like a lot, so I interviewed him for Bandcamp.

too lazy to repost but the cover art for the new bell witch album mirror reaper is fucking incredible and may compel me to buy it on LP unheard

Kayla Dixon of Witch Mountain was apparently let go from her other band Helion Prime.

one less reason to care about HP I guess

Mayhem resurrecting its "De Mysteriis in full" tour from earlier this year, and Black Anvil is rejoining them, only replace Inquisition with.....Immolation.

...

fuck yes!

They played pretty much the whole album anyway on their regular tours, don't they?

a good chunk of it, I think. the first time I saw them (2015), they played Funeral Fog, Freezing Moon, Life Eternal, and uhh.....maybe the title track? the rest was spread out over their other albums/Deathcrush

I will admit I was bummed when I found out that literally it's the album and nothing else when I first caught this set in Feb, cos nothing is more fun than hearing "Deathcrush" live. will hope against hope that they bring back an extra set (I like the new stuff too so like....bring it too!).

but really the thing I'm excited about is Immolation cos I never get to see em

Yeah, I'm interested in that tour, but not interested in sticking around for Mayhem. (I kinda sorta like some of their weirdest stuff, but De Mysteriis... nah.) Black Anvil are really good live, and I've never seen Immolation but their last 3-4 albums have been pretty incredible.

yeah I enjoyed Black Anvil (what I heard of their set).

Immolation was my first death metal show so I have warm memories of it. last saw them on the Decibel tour in 2013 promoting Kingdom of Conspiracy.

they're one of those bands where the setlist doesn't matter, it all sounds amazing

(tho it'd be nice if I could get "Father, You're Not a Father" this time)

I saw Black Anvil and Tombs open for Marduk...fuck, that was eight years ago.

ahh nice, Withered too. only thing that bugs me about them is the first time I saw them they had the sound guy turn up their volume to painful decibels, I had to leave. last time they were much more, uhh, sparing with the loudness

Immolation + Mayhem tour is crazy! potential bad-scene-pairings yes, but why wouldn't I want to see them?

no reason, get thee there!

loling at the nearest show to me being Tampa (90 minute drive) the day after Thanksgiving. guess I'll burning off those calories in the pit.

ok so I'm three tracks into the new pyrrhon and I think it stands a fair chance of being my metal AOTY

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/08/07/201787full-album-stream-pyrrhons-what-passes-for-survival/

Relapse really dropped the ball when they dropped Pyrrhon, but I guess that's the direction they're going and they're still putting out great stuff like the new Atriarch so whatevs.

Yeah I thought that was strange - it was like signed-album out-dropped in a very short period of time. But it doesn't seem to have slowed the band down, thankfully.

Bonehunter album is pretty good punky black metal with more depth than you might expect. For an album with a bear-man with a huge erection stuck in a science tube on the cover.

Dunno if I mentioned it or whatever but Nuclear War Now seems to have gotten some wider distribution (through the Alliance one-stop) so there's a good chance their releases will turn up at well-stocked record stores they might not have previously. I picked up the Rites of Thy Degringolade "Arch Spatial" LP (an anthology of their demo, EP etc) recently and highly recommend it for anyone who likes Canadian black death with some really excellently weird drumming.

The new Enslaved album is exciting, a big return to form after In Times. It sounds like the Bardspec and Skuggsja projects have inspired more experimentation in Ivar's songwriting, because there's more of an experimental feel than we've heard from the band lately. A couple really catchy, hard-charging tracks are on there, too.

anybody heard the Venom, Inc album due out tomorrow?

how did I not know they were actually recording? had thought they were just touring.

we have two Venoms now. and two Entombeds. cray

"Ave Satanas" which I'm listening to now is....alright. kinda fist pumpy heavy metal, not really what I was expecting. somewhat catchy but a bit generic. and the spoken word bit in the middle sounds like the one from "Thriller".

7 minutes....oi.

ok listening to "Dein Fleisch" and idk what they're going for but it's not interesting to me.

guess I'll post my "stuff I like from 2017" list since it's August. no particular order

Decrepit Birth - Axis Mundi (one of the few tech death bands I like)
Decapitated - Anticult
Memoriam - For the Fallen
Broken Hope - Mutilated and Assimilated
Dying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck With
Origin - Unparalleled Universe
Iced Earth - Incorruptible (I will stress there is absolutely nothing essential about this album)
Sinister- Syncretism
Body Count - Bloodlust
Ruinous - Graves of Ceaseless Death
Danzig - Black Laden Crown
Beheaded - Beast Incarnate
Mastodon - Andromeda
Immolation - Atonement
Warbringer - Woe to the Vanquished
Expulsion - Nightmare Future
Cemetery Urn - s/t
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Venenum - Trance of Death
Lantern - II: Metamorphosis
Suffocation - ...of the Dark Light

I left a buncha stuff off that I've only listened to once cos this summer was brutal w/ work

You might dig the Contaminated album, Final Man, if you haven't heard it.

For anyone who digs Maryland doom, there's a Force "Discography 1981-84" compilation out. Mastered from none-too-quiet vinyl but still, recommended if you dig the style; they're really good at writing hooky songs with riffs that have an almost Witchfinder General feel and great low key female vocals, couple of members went on to Iron Man.

Maybe the greatest album ever of gothic symphonic metal covers of pop songs:

https://open.spotify.com/album/1z2VqMp0MNni68SZ37N1m4