Rolling Metal 2017

I wrote a thing for Bandcamp about Ireland's heavy underground.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/09/21/ireland-heavy-underground-list/

x's and p's

Love that Contrarian - feel like it's way better than the first one? It's been a minute since I heard that album.

I feel like I shouldn't like the Contrarian album now, for *some reason*

Don't be an Arbitrarian

maaaaaaaaan that new Wolves in the Throne Room

The new Incantation album, unsurprisingly, rules.

Indeed. Wish some of the songs were longer but that's a good complaint to have.

Squalus
The Great Fish...
(Translation Loss Records)
Release Date: 9/24/2017
Formats: CD/LP/Digi

http://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Squalus-TheGreatFish1-500x500.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/0z4YWEx3lv6vxm3tL7mrWe
https://squalus.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-fish

Emerging from the ashes of cult-prog group Giant Squid, Squalus' debut is an ode to all things Jaws from the name and artwork to the lyrics and samples from the classic movie. The album is surprisingly fun and unpretentious.

New Akvan is really intense, a cut above the EP from last year.

There's a new Shining (the Norwegian one) song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3La4C7yxo4

Not great.

What happened to them? That sounds like WWE pay-per-view theme music.

That is the worst Turbonegro song I've ever heard

New Akvan is really intense, a cut above the EP from last year.

Really trebly, cutting BM vocals and guitars, but still melodic, and the Persian music elements are more prominent and integrated well. Guy plays tar and setar.

the last shining album was promising but seems they've doubled down on the vaguely industrial jock rock

this contrarian album is an enormous improvement on the last one, which i already liked! man!

xp sounds kinda like 'Halo' by Soil

think I must have missed an album or two of theirs if there was any previous clue they were devolving towards this point

anyone who's after big earnest alt-prog-metal could do plenty worse than the Caligula's Horse album

(on this tip, the Leprous album is also recommended)

this contrarian album is an enormous improvement on the last one, which i already liked! man!

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:31 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how good is it when they go full cynic on "at fate's hands"

Man I can't believe how much worse Shining get with every album after their avant-rock phase (Grindstone and In the Kingdom of Kitsch...) I even enjoyed Blackjazz for a time until I realised its obnoxiousness outweighed any good qualities it may have.

Akvan sounds very cool though, I like idiosyncratic takes on lo-fi black metal.

New Blut Aus Nord song available if anyone's interested

https://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/album/deus-salutis-meae

Still waiting for him to really win me over myself :/

Hahaha I heard a preview track from the new (not-racist) Shining and it was almost unbelievably shit! What is Munkelby *playing* at these days, my god

*Munkeby, haha

Oh it's the song posted above. Abysmal

Man I am so confused about which Shining we're even talking about anymore that I don't dare type about it and post it on ILX lest everyone make fun of me for being dumb wait why am I typing this here why am I clicking Submit Post

This Oculus album is pretty killer

Tchornobog too

Just did a Fireball shot w Steve Asheim.

Unsane has a new album out!

Venom Inc was so dope last night. Joel Grind, Corpsegrinder, and Steve Asheim all came to the nearby bar afterwards. Corpsegrinder was geeking out to Mercyful Fate, growling along to Deicide's "Deicide", and he was showing us pics of other metal musicians he took pics with. super nice dude.

Goatwhore boring again. idk why so many people go out just to see them - they're a fairly blah live band.

they used to be ferocious in the mid 00s. idk if i have told this story before but about ten years ago my buddy and i had a practice space across the hall from theirs. they practiced at full volume with their fancy pro gear, easily overwhelming any soundproofing--and they practiced in full regalia, spiked wristbands and all.

I like them fine on disc. and Falghoust really gets into the live show. just live never clicks for me.

Venom Inc killed again last night. so did Toxic Holocaust for that matter.

I got accidentally throat punched in the pit. so moshing was immediately over at that point.

Dunno how many people follow Evil Spirit in here but they put a new track from their forthcoming (December) album up and it's... weird.

http://evilspirit.bandcamp.com/album/the-imageless-mirror

Clean vocals, strings, horns that sound vaguely drunken, drifting guitar leads... it's different.

Also the new Kadavar fairly WHOMPS

I love Kadavar but was disappointed by the end of the album (Serge Gainsbourg style spoken word French, really?) and an unnecessary cover of "Helter Skelter." But it does start out good n heavy.

Dreadnought from Denver are an interesting mix of avant prog, psych and black metal, out Fri.
https://dreadnoughtdenver.bandcamp.com/album/a-wake-in-sacred-waves

Spirit Adrift is one of my recent epic doom faves from Arizona, on 20 Buck Spin label with Magic Circle and Khemmis, also out Fri. Excited for this.
http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/curse-of-conception

Also looking forward to the latest from Sweden's Sorcerer on Oct 20. Everyone will be freaking over Bell Witch, but this shouldn't be overlooked.
https://sorcererdoom.bandcamp.com/album/the-crowning-of-the-fire-king

yeah the Helter Skelter cover is unnecessary but I guess technically a bonus track...

Going to have to check out all three of those links, I really like Spirit Adrift.

Gene Hoglan is the guest drummer on Late Night with Seth Meyers this week. Sadly their milktoast band will probably not cover We Have Arrived.

Milktoast is sad to hear about a band with Eli Janney and Marnie Stern, both of more interesting backgrounds. (We don't get the Myers show on TV over here, I've never heard them in this incarnation.)

Unsane has a new album out!

― ArchCarrier,

and its great too!!! They are the one band who has reformed and kept releasing brilliant album after brilliant album.

Clouds Taste Satanic have a new album coming out on Halloween. Preorders of digital and limited CD are up on their Bandcamp, as is the first track. It looks like they've gone back to the long-form doom of the first album; The Glitter of Infinite Hell is four sidelong tracks on a double LP.

Well I bought the new Belphegor album for some reason

Oh yeah cuz it's awesome party death metal u nerds

also the least boobs of any Belphegor album cover in years

I like it too. gonna see them next month cos sounds like a fun show

yknow I love Bell Witch but the prospect of an 83-minute single track is a bit mindnumbing. surely that's one of the longest rock recordings in history given that it can't fit on any physical format?

Sabazius's "The Descent of Man" is still the champion at 11 hours and change. Earache released it on a flash drive packaged in a pretty cool-looking plastic skull. And then posted it on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrmBnN7aQ9s

new WITTR is so lit, as the kids say

I feel like i'm in a black metal version of The Revenant when I listen to it

the new Battle Dagorath is fucking amazing. put on headphones and listen to that motherfucker in the dark with nothing else going one. what a great, great album.

New Cavalera Conspiracy song, from their album coming out in November, too late for most year-end lists (but not mine). I like this band a lot and will be buying this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfM6DRqGsuk

I like the new Annihilator single, which is called "Twisted Lobotomy," you know, for when regular lobotomies aren't twisted enough

High potency death/doom on Dark Descent, Spectral Voice, out of Colorado:
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eroded-corridors-of-unbeing

If anyone has 100 minutes to spare here's some progressive funeral doom from earlier in the year:

https://vindemiatrix.bandcamp.com/album/palimpsests

I don't like the clean singing much apart from the more choral-sounding bits, but apart from that it's extremely rare for funeral doom to hold my interest so this is pretty damn good.

those are my kind of clean vocals, thank you