Rolling Metal 2017

thank you for the context about that podoshen essay! i also like physical magazines and that thing kinda turned me off of decibel

Wouldn't this be Revolver 3.0, since Revolver started out as a classic-rock-worshipping Rolling Stone wannabe? I mean, they had Jim Morrison on their first cover. ― grawlix (unperson)

Doug Moore of Pyrrhon has thoughts about metal and fascism.

damn that was well done

Good read. And I like Neill Jameson, too, dammit. Even if he's said and says some dumb things he's evolving and I feel like it's important for metal dudes to see it's possible.

And this is nowt to do with that, but it's good discordant death metal with bass that sounds like it's being played by a giant scarab creature.

http://daemogog.bandcamp.com/releases

New Mastodon song. New four-song EP out 9/22.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u44bs_Cwoms

new Botanist! now with full-band action

https://verdant-realm-botanist.bandcamp.com/album/collective-the-shape-of-he-to-come

The Botanist is fucking great...

Also out today is the new one from SxuperioN:
http://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/myriad-e-p

I like them both lots as well as the new Dalek that also came out today (not metal, of course, but they've always been indie-rap-metalheads-like and the new one is a return to the noisier stuff of old).

yeah the new Botanist is instant top 10 material

I liked it a lot on first listen, although it's a surprise. Sounded a bit like melodic folk-metal epics!

Man I love a lot of black metal but the lyrics to Goat Mockery Ritual are so otm

that title just gives me a hard-on

I forgot I bought that Pyrrhon the other day...lol

so I'm hearing the new Akercocke is actually good?

one of my old SSMT buddies apparently reviewed it for Decibel. givin it a spin now....

damn those vocals

damn went from Pazuzu-taunts to full-on Morrissey-cum-Danzig warbling

I've never really liked Akercocke before and what I've read abou the new one is equal parts intriguing and offputting, might give it a bash at some point.

I loved olde Akercocke. so far I'm digging this one a bit........

wow, by "Familiar Ghosts", it gets downright amazzzzzzzing

new Botanist is sounding wonderful

Instrumental doom/stoner-type UFO themed album by Reptilian Illuminati :-) (just the kind of gimmick that gets me to press play, dammit)

https://reptilianilluminati.bandcamp.com/releases

anyone else get into the khashm record on iron bonehead from earlier this year?
https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/khashm-asmodeus-rising

riffy, head nodding black metal. not too fast, sounds nice and mean. and even the dark ambient shit is p cool & well done. I've found myself going back to this one a lot.

anybody catching Orphaned Land on this US tour?

Currently rediscovering Asomvel's Knuckle Duster, released back in 2013. They're pretty much a clone of Motörhead circa 1980-81, so if you're in a mood for that, dive in. It's on Bandcamp.

https://badomenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/knuckle-duster

Their 2009 album Kamikaze is up there, too:

https://asomvel.bandcamp.com/album/kamikaze

love that khashm record. the jordablod record, also on iron bonehead, is also up there: https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/jordablod-upon-my-cremation-pyre

Darkspace + dozens of other bands also playing at Maryland Deathfest 2018 : http://www.deathfests.com/event/mdf-2018

(they're not on that poster yet but their label just said it -> https://www.facebook.com/avantgardemusiclabel/posts/10154692774487260 )

new Usnea is streaming at Vice and it's a bruiser

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/mbbz84/usneas-impossibly-heavy-new-doom-metal-album-is-a-sci-fi-odyssey

New Electric Wizard song. Bluesier than usual for them, and it kinda rules. New album later this year, I guess?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h8x0NE0Hqw

Out today, epic/power influenced Argus and the proto-metal of Demon Eye, both touched fleetingly by the hand of DOOM.

https://argusmetal.bandcamp.com/album/from-fields-of-fire
https://demoneye.bandcamp.com/album/prophecies-and-lies

And I'll leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srm6_pwgfA8

Interesting interview with Doug Moore of Pyrrhon on Bandcamp today. Quote re metal's Nazi problem:

It seems to me that the best way to deal with these boneheads is just to ostracize them. You ultimately can’t stop people from making bad art about their revolting political ideas, but you can starve them of support and rain scorn on them until nobody else wants to be seen with them. Unfortunately, the threshold for misbehavior necessary to evoke this kind of response is quite high because of how pervasive regressive attitudes are in metal culture. A lot of canonical metal records were written by various species of bigot and psycho, and many people whose sympathies were shaped by those ideas are in positions of power in the genre now. And while that’s unfortunate, it’s also unsurprising—a style of music so thoroughly wrapped up with violence, hatred, and barbarism is, of course, going to appeal to some violent, hateful, barbaric people. On some level, most metal fans know this, which is part of why so many of them fly into a defensive rage when the subject comes up.

To further complicate matters, it’s often impossible to differentiate between sincere appeals to racism or authoritarian politics and troll-y transgression-for-its-own-sake—a kind of coyness that is popular among both metal bands and the online right. This kind of edgelord shit is just totally pervasive in metal, a genre where iron crosses are so common as to be basically invisible, and where you can literally scream excruciating descriptions of various sexual tortures for a whole album and everyone will just shrug. In this kind of environment, where basically everyone has enthusiastically consumed at least some ‘problematic’ work regardless of their actual sympathies, it becomes difficult to determine which kinds of behavior are genuinely reprehensible and which should just be shrugged off as ‘part of the deal.’ There are nonetheless plenty of clear-cut cases of bad guys whom most sane people would agree to shun, but the truth is that the line differentiating fascist sympathizers from run-of-the-mill metal scumbags is often much fuzzier than some people would like to admit.

what the FUCK?!

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/decapitated-members-arrested-for-suspected-kidnapping-in-spokane/

Weird. Wonder what the fuck happend.

going to guess something p damn bad

New Yellow Eyes sounds fantatastic

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/yellow-eyes-velvet-on-the-horns/

Not as different from their earlier stuff as the author seems to think; though it's a bit more complex than usual YE's music largely sounds pretty similar to each other, which usually bothers me, but man they have the best chord changes in the biz.

best chord changes in the biz = thantifaxath tbf

this is sounding ok

'm probably a sucker for wanting to hear those riff tapes, but I do.

― Siegbran

there's a riff tape that mcgovney used to have doing the bootleg circuit. it is interesting!

Was about to say that I miss Thantifaxath but apparently they've got something in the pipeline

oh shit!

https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/track/thantifaxath-self-devouring-womb

there you go folks

hahaha this is fucking amazing

holy fuck

the charges against Decapitated, are, uhh, pretty fucking serious:

http://www.metalinjection.net/metal-crimes/decapitated-accused-of-gang-rape-band-still-in-los-angeles-jail

awesome news about Thantifaxath! funny about chord changes, within like 2 seconds of hearing their track, I could tell I liked the harmony (kinda similar to Dodheimsgard and Carl-Michael Eide projects)

The new Wolves in the Throne Room... Holy shit...

That bad, eh?

I'm only about halfway through it so far. Steve Von Till does a spoken-word bit on the second track that I seriously thought was a sample from a Joe Frank routine. Now I kinda want to hear Joe Frank collaborate with Sunn O))).

the charges against Decapitated, are, uhh, pretty fucking serious:

Jesus fucking Christ, vile as shit.

I can't believe WITTR and Ufommamut have new ones that are both wonderful on the same day.