Rolling Metal 2017

Five Finger Death Punch have a best-of coming out in December with two new songs. The first of those, "Trouble," is pretty bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buDl_QY640k

what next, I ask, what next #gutter

I don't/can't keep up with much new metal but christ the new Bell Witch is magnificent.

This a fun Halloween release. Some of the spoken word parts remind me of The Residents!

https://acid-witch-detroit.bandcamp.com/album/evil-sound-screamers

the new Lustre album is out (this is somehow classified as metal)
https://lustre.bandcamp.com/

I don't even... what is that? It's like Vangelis-gaze.

it's "atmospheric black metal/ambient" :

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Lustre/3540266973

(I like all his stuff a lot, but I'm perplexed by the label)

this is where he started out, I guess the label stuck and the guitar/screams just went away over the years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9GvebVOP4k

Lustre is great!

If you like diseased doomy death, Serpentrance

http://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-besieged-sanctum

Chepang - vicious Nepalese grindcore with two drummers and two vocalists, one guitarist. I'm pretty picky about grind these days but this one singed my ear hair.

http://nervealtar.bandcamp.com/album/dadhelo

Aussie blackened hardcore with lots of diverse textural ("gaze"-y I guess) things happening, some "Nothingface" style weird melodic ideas, noisy one second and beautiful the next.

http://slowlybuildingweapons.bandcamp.com/album/sunbirds-2

Cavalera Conspiracy are doing their part to maintain 2017's status as The Year Old Metal Dudes Kicked Everybody Else's Ass. The new album (out 11/17) crushes - and does so in a totally different way from their last album. Max still has the fire.

I'm on a big Fuck the Facts kick right now. Great band, hope they do more stuff soon.

new Thantifaxath EP 11/24
https://www.discogs.com/Thantifaxath-Void-Masquerading-As-Matter/release/11112614

yesss

yesss

last track is apparently a piece for choir!

relistening to 'self devouring womb'. jesus christ this is going to be metal aoty isn't it

We doing a poll this year?

I'd get in on it

co-workers just hipped me eo Eefiomorfia's "Mortal Lacuna" – 21-min track of nearly-actionable DSO worship wich I kinda lukewarmly RIYL that sorta thing*
*loses points with me by not breaking up into tracks, which seems a bit of an arbitrary decision here

https://play.google.com/music/listen#/album/Bhcnz6v64tmnnffiqu3gyblvjia/Eeviomorfia/Mortal+Lacuna

flamenco death metal: https://impureza.bandcamp.com/

into it

I'm late to this but the Yellow Eyes album is sick

We doing a poll this year?

― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ),

I don't know. It gets harder each year to get posters from this thread to vote.

:C

If I hold it after Xmas people complain they're already burnt out on making their lists so don't do it.
If I hold it before Xmas they still don't.

haha

there's a chance the new Cleric will be out soon so let's just hold our horses for now

If I run it, I think we will do it in January. we dont need to do it before the big poll.

Anyone else have any feelings on the new Ayat disc Carry On, Carrio (Moribund)? It comes out on 11/24 but I am sure others here have the digital promo if I got it.

I think it's really unique in a modern black metal band incorporates Motorhead not unlike Impaled Nazarene but with an Into The Pandemonium avant garde feeling. That experimentalism doesn't often calm the unrelenting wall of hate. However their on-again, off-again anti-Islam shtick (based on their Bandcamp page for the new release which unambiguously states "AYAT are staunchly anti-Muslim," it's on again) is off-putting. One outlet I write for rejected a review at least in part because of this and also because who knows if they are really from Lebanon (after the Janaza thing a while back that's not paranoia either).

If they are from Lebanon, being anti-Muslim would be like other bands in Christian-dominated locations being against Christianity, a metal band rebelling against the dominant religious culture where they are from. Of course if they're not, it seems like a sneaky way to sneak in anti-Islamic sentiments that some find reprehensible and make them seem more palatable.

The record is interesting and heavy but I understand why some might not want to go out on a limb to rep for them. Not sure I would be comfortable doing so since I don't have a lyric jacket and who knows what singer
Members Reverend Filthy Fuck (ahem) is singing in charged song titles such as "Raw War (Beirut unveils her pussy once more)," and "Closure is boring?"

Anyone else have an opinion?

It's finally here!

https://clericmimicry.bandcamp.com/

GET EXCITED PEOPLE

aaaah

Oh the new Godflesh is quite lovely...

WHAT

https://sumac.bandcamp.com/album/american-dollar-bill-keep-facing-sideways-youre-too-hideous-to-look-at-face-on

Regarding anti-Islamic black metal yes I think the context is a lot different if the band/artist themselves are from the middle east rather than, say, someone like Amalie Brun having "concerns" about Muslims in Europe. After all these people usually face prison or worse if caught playing that stuff and take great care to hide their identities. I'm mostly thinking of acts like Al-Namrood and Abu Lahab, I don't know much about Ayat though.

lmao at the Sumac/Haino tracklist

Love the simple addition of "Pt. 2" after that long ass Haino title :D

seandalai prefers metal poll early before xmas as A) he wants to enjoy his xmas and b) after xmas is when he does big poll etc.

So it may be that it's we do it so it rolls out before xmas or not at all but when would be the best time for ALL of you? before or after xmas.

How could we improve the poll and get more participation?
Does anyone feel the poll has gone stale? Lots of people who used to take part dont now.

Would you all be more likely to vote if it was a bit fresher with somebody new running it? I've no problem handing it over if it will help the poll.

how many voters did we get last time?

cant remember but it seemed to be mainly lurkers! its gone down ever year though and lots of posters on this thread, who the poll is for, have either lost interest in metal or at least voting in the poll so I assume it's gone a bit stale for them somewhere and I'm wondering what we could do to get more participation.

the #1 got 33 votes so I'm assuming at least 40 - that seems like plenty to me.

alas I cannot offer a prize this year

we get voters but a fair amount never seem to post on any of the poll threads. It's odd.

maybe the artist polls are skewing my thoughts but it has felt that ilx in general is older and less into new music, this thread suggests otherwise because it's mainly about new albums , so maybe people are just tired of lists and polls?

if there's anything we can do to improve the poll please say

I don't have any bright ideas for more participation but you do a great job Odysseus and I don't see how it could be improved by someone else taking over.

I'm as bad as anyone but there never seems to be much discussion about music anywhere on ilm these days unless someone's done something shitty and/or criminal, or if people are talking about something from The Real Music Canon for billionth time.

I had a rad time with the poll last year and I expect to again this year, even if turnout drops a bit again

I'm as bad as anyone but there never seems to be much discussion about music anywhere on ilm these days unless someone's done something shitty and/or criminal,

that is about the tenth time I've heard that POV the past few weeks.

I think we are all getting old and getting into other things?

I really love the polls and count me in for a ballot, but I don’t have time to post as much on the rollout threads as I’d like to.

That said, 2017 is an exceptionally weak year in metal so far for me. I’ve listened to a lot of albums with good reviews from various sources but almost nothing has stood out. All the usual channels are failing me, I’m very annoyed.

How could we improve the poll and get more participation?