Rolling Metal 2017

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.

Should I file Les Cants du Hasard under L or C?
I am thinking C...

If you like bombastic power-metal, I highly recommend this new Force Majeure album.

https://open.spotify.com/album/71JtDT8hsqvB7zly51zCUb

xp C

No bandcamp page for Entrench's Through the Walls of Flesh, but perfectly fine brutal thrash with touches of death, a la Possessed, Kreator, earliest Death

The 66.6 Best Metal Albums of the Millennium, according to some zine I've never heard of.

Not really in agreement with most of it but it's not a terrible list tbf, they make space for Yellow Eyes and Krallice which is good. But placing Baroness above Mastodon is a pretty wtf move

Including Baroness and Mastodon on such a list is bad enough already I would think.

66.6, the less impressive number of the beast for when you can't put in the effort to get to 666

Got a press release from some band Reign of Vengeance.

Reign in Vengeance announces their new vocalist The Illuminated Man. Shrouded in mystery, The Illuminated Man will be replacing former vocalist Marshall Beck. Before stepping down Beck had this to say..

I'd have liked to continue on with Reign of Vengeance. However, given the material of this EP it seems better that I step down as Reign of Vengeance's frontman and hand over the responsibilities to an entity which has been fully rehabilitated by the ever expanding government and state. He seems to be better suited for this job and band now.

Enter the Illuminated Man: He is a Master of Finance, a Master of Brutality, and a Master of Psychological Warfare upon the common populace of all humans which he (like the government) believes to be nothing more than consumers and vermin filth..

Reign of Vengeance also announces the release of their new EP The Final Aeon For All Humans

The Final Aeon For All Humans is an EP that is both musically and lyrically styled to narrate through a "fictional" depiction of class warfare if it were to transpire in our modern world. This Ep takes a dual perspective lyrically including that of the common man as well as the Occultist Elite. This EP is best listened to in its entirety from start to finish, playing through like a blood soaked and very brutal musical. This album is loaded with true and mysterious-esoteric theology, American "conspiracy theories", revelation interpretations, and (most importantly)- gore, blood, brutality, and violence.

Hahaha what the fuck this is the worst Crimson Glory reboot

Lmao. That album cover is nuts.

You've literally come in here in the past arguing "I should be able to listen to Nazi bands if I want 'cause I'm not a Nazi and the music totally rips," and now you're rejecting a band over "conspiracy theory bullshit" without saying a word about the music...those are some pretty flexible standards you've got there.

Thanks Gott Punch for causing me to spit take

Oh great, Godwin's riff

Well, unperson, if you are going to make up imaginary quotes (you do know what quote marks mean, right?) that misrepresent where I stand, you can go fuck yourself.

is there something in that artwork that should be jumping out at me as obviously offensive, as opposed to garden variety trenchant social commentary

You mean the Reign of Vengeance cover? Did anyone call it offensive? I just called it dumb.