Rolling Metal 2017

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

god yeah this is really excellent

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

loads of people have been raving about that album

They're a great band.

Just noticed Satyricon are on tour, apparently there was a new record? Any good?

loads of people have been raving about that album

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.

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.

maybe i'm just in a real death/doom mood but i'm also really enjoying the spectral voice record dominique posted

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

I checked to see if the closing track on the Enslaved album was indeed a Royksopp cover, and was not disappointed.

holy shit

it's pretty good!

That cover seems to have appeared previously (a couple weeks ago) on this comp:

https://open.spotify.com/album/7KhHt41OKUEpHjJ3XDc5H0

For those of you who like their music dark, merging electronic elements with the organic and cathartic, you could do worse than the new Kainskult by Trepaneringsritualen album that came out a couple weeks ago.

I still cannot pronounce the band's name however.

Spectral Voice record is definitely on my list right now.

Also there's a new Gloam EP coming out and Blood Harvest is reissuing their excellently titled Hex of Nine Heads album on CD. Blackened doom with great guitars, kinda unique sound.

new Tetragrammacide album is completely bananas blackened death noise. I posted the cover art in one of the rolling threads a while back cos I thought it was rad and the music is every bit as good, top 5 metal album of the year for me I reckon

Decapitated's guitarist and drummer have been officially charged with rape and kidnapping. The singer and bassist will have their first court appearance on Thursday. The band has released a statement:

An update – following extradition from California to Washington, the band has now been charged. We’d like to emphasise; the Spokane Police Department has pressed charges as procedural formality, without doing so, they would be forced to release band – this is not a conviction or any indication of guilt or innocence. Once again, we ask that everyone wait for each party’s case to be presented and await the court’s decision. With that said, whilst cases are being prepared on both sides, some facts are indisputable at this point – that the original officer who took the complaint from the accuser stated, "I do not have probable cause that a rape occurred”, and it’s taken a full 30 days to file charges, which is right up against the point at which the defendants would legally have had to be released.

The band firmly refutes the allegations and are confident that once the facts and evidence have been seen and heard, they will be released and able to return home.

Individuals who were present on the night in question with information about the case are asked to reach out to the defense lawyer, Steve Graham of Spokane, Washington.

"we'd like you to wait for each party's case before deciding, however here's why you should think we're innocent"

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, October 12, 2017 3:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't know em and thanking u for sharing holy shit

Cannibal Corpse's new album comes out November 3. They went back to working with Erik Rutan, and it sounds amazing. Favorite song titles this time around: "Remaimed," "Heads Shoveled Off," "Scavenger Consuming Death," "Destroyed Without A Trace," "Firestorm Vengeance."

hell yes

I initially thought this Swedish band had a guy with high range, but it's a woman, the bad ass Sofie-Lee Johansson. Lyrical themes: "Freedom, supernatural vengeance." \../

https://listenable-records.bandcamp.com/album/exterminator

that rocks

sweet

The Antiversum album is out now. An immense-sounding death/doom hybrid, reminds me a bit of the excellent Mare Infinitum album from a couple of years ago:

https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/cosmos-comedenti

ah the magic words "reminds me a bit of the excellent mare infinitum album from a couple of years ago"