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.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
the last shining album was promising but seems they've doubled down on the vaguely industrial jock rock
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
this contrarian album is an enormous improvement on the last one, which i already liked! man!
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
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
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
anyone who's after big earnest alt-prog-metal could do plenty worse than the Caligula's Horse album
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link
(on this tip, the Leprous album is also recommended)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
― 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"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
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.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
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 :/
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
*Munkeby, haha
― imago, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
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
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 September 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
This Oculus album is pretty killer
Tchornobog too
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 29 September 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
Just did a Fireball shot w Steve Asheim.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 30 September 2017 02:40 (six years ago) link
Unsane has a new album out!
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
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.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
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.
― adam, Sunday, 1 October 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
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.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 2 October 2017 02:30 (six years ago) link
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.
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 October 2017 04:51 (six years ago) link
Also the new Kadavar fairly WHOMPS
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 October 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
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
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 2 October 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
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.
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
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.
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 08:00 (six years ago) link
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.)
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 10:52 (six years ago) link
Unsane has a new album out!― ArchCarrier,
― ArchCarrier,
and its great too!!! They are the one band who has reformed and kept releasing brilliant album after brilliant album.
― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
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.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
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
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 11:25 (six years ago) link
I like it too. gonna see them next month cos sounds like a fun show
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
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?
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
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
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
new WITTR is so lit, as the kids say
― alpine static, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
I feel like i'm in a black metal version of The Revenant when I listen to it
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
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
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
I like the new Annihilator single, which is called "Twisted Lobotomy," you know, for when regular lobotomies aren't twisted enough
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
High potency death/doom on Dark Descent, Spectral Voice, out of Colorado:https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eroded-corridors-of-unbeing
― Dominique, Thursday, 12 October 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
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.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 12 October 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
those are my kind of clean vocals, thank you
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 October 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
god yeah this is really excellent
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 October 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
Anyone listen to this German black metal band Der Weg Einer Freiheit? Their new album Finisterre is pretty great.
https://derwegeinerfreiheit.bandcamp.com/album/finisterre
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
loads of people have been raving about that album
― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
They're a great band.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
Just noticed Satyricon are on tour, apparently there was a new record? Any good?
― Siegbran, Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
Oh, ok, good. I admit I haven't paid much attention to metal news lately and since there was no mention on the thread I had no idea it was well-known.
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 12 October 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
No idea if it's well known but a bunch of ppl I know on FB raved about it enough that I gave it a few listens a while back.
― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Thursday, 12 October 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
maybe i'm just in a real death/doom mood but i'm also really enjoying the spectral voice record dominique posted
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 October 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
Metallica are apparently already starting work on the super deluxe ...And Justice For All and Black Album boxes. They just emailed fans to send them stuff:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DL92WDIWsAIS0xD.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 12 October 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
I checked to see if the closing track on the Enslaved album was indeed a Royksopp cover, and was not disappointed.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 13 October 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
holy shit
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 13 October 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link