Rolling Metal 2018

dunno if this is appropriate for this thread or the nonexistant rolling punk/non-indie underground 2018 thread, but these guys fuckin' rip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec1U7QXqEpE

any good epic doom out lately. presumably stuff that sounda like witches of Salem made it

Oceans of Slumber album is indeed v good!

I love brutal death metal bands' album covers. I just bought these three albums based on 30 seconds of listening each, and their cover art.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXVW7jDVoAAFUPT.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXVW7jIVwAAZj3M.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXVW7jLUQAE4ABf.jpg

I'm not kvlt enough to decipher those band names

Top to bottom: Gamma Sector, Organectomy, Manifesting Obscenity.

You're not kidding about the bdm covers.

https://i.imgur.com/iJz8nHd.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ff9WEU3.jpg

The new Gorevent EP is really good too, if adorned with unspectacular art. Looking forward to the new Cranial Contamination, Injurious, and Godsfarm.

On a completely different tip, specifically Finnish black metal that's less raw and punky and more table-pounding pagan triumphalism, there's this amazing album from like a year and a half ago that I'm only now discovering. Brilliant stuff with (underused) cool key sounds.
https://antimateria4.bandcamp.com/releases

That Antimateria sometimes reminds me of the German one-man-band Horn, which is about as high praise as it gets.

I feel like some of you are really going to love this.

https://amongtherocksandroots.bandcamp.com/album/raga

The bandcamp tags say it best:

experimental shamanic ambient avant-garde heavy noise rock Richmond

I'm digging the new Monotheist record quite a bit.

has Carpenter Brut's Leather Teeth been brought before the committee yet

since the exorcism seems to have been a success, we'll just quietly enjoy one last convulsion of that whole weird "the Miami Vice OST ruled" retro movement that possessed the internet a few months ago
https://carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com/album/leather-teeth
because track 2 features Garm and track 6(!!!) has Kvohst, and frankly the album itself is cool, though very much not metal

I like that album but holy fuck is it mixed/mastered loud. The first time I pressed play (wearing headphones) I almost fell over.

New LLNN album in April, one track up:

http://llnn.bandcamp.com/album/deads-2

More keyboards is frankly just fine with me.

I'm seeing Lisa LeBlanc tonight. She is a Canadian "thrash folk" artist whose Twitter account says, "I like banjos and headbanging."

Here she is doing "Ace of Spades"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvXlMdfspwg

The video is a montage of several different clips of her doing it. When I watched it, I swore that I saw Voivod at one of them. Sure enough, they jammed on the tune at a Canadian festival before (a handheld clip of it is also on the YouTubes).

Her last album was great, incidentally: http://open.spotify.com/album/0oTTQnhihdD5IDQeW2xoVL

I'm passing up Exodus and Municipal Waste to see her. I have a feeling I won't regret the decision one bit.

Judas Priest album is awesome. I like the production/mixing much better than on Redeemer of Souls, which always sounded a bit off to me. This feels solid and punchy.

yeah so far I've loved it, haven't finished it yet.

it does sound more like classic Priest through 2018 sheen, production wise, which is nice

Yeah, this Priest record really is something. It's too long (14 songs, 58 minutes - 10 in 40 would have been better IMO), and I don't like the cover art, but the songs are heavy as shit.

The Priest album fills me with so much joy. I've said it re: Maiden, Rush, Metallica's last one, it's so rewarding to hear bands that were so important to you 30+ years ago making inspired, vital music.

This is a really great interview.
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/bj5eaa/the-enduring-humanity-of-rob-halford-metal-god

Could I ask if you were a theater kid?
Yeah, I’m a heavy metal ham. As a kid growing up, I was always watching movies on the TV or going to see movies and various shows ,and just enjoying the human capacity in drama and in expressionism and thinking about the way these other great people would give their performances, so that’s kind of instinctive for me now, you know? Before I left school, one of the things [I had to decide] was did I want to go to drama school, or did I want to continue as a singer? I went for what makes me feel good, and that’s singing. Singing is a gift. It doesn’t matter whether you’re singing in tune or out of tune, there’s nothing better than singing in the shower in the in car along with your favorite band. It’s the best feeling in the world, singing. You don’t have to learn how to play guitar or the drums or whatever. Singing, to me, is one of the most purest form of expression. It’s a beautiful thing. Even now, I always feel the most complete as a person when I’m singing a song—mostly metal.

Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, that’s my big Emperor album.

finished the new Priest.

Firepower > Redeemer of Souls

Kreator were so good tonight. no Saboton so they threw in extra oldies like "Total Death"

back to the Priest, I feel like if Redeemer of Souls was their 21st century Painkiller stylistically, this one was more their Screaming for Vengeance. the songs are a bit less "face melty" and a bit more ear-catchy, a few of the songs could even be radio hits.

Halford seems to have recovered a little of his range on a few of the songs too. I did notice that they add a squealy guitar to double his high pitched shrieks though to conceal their waning power, neat trick.

Kreator were so good tonight. no Saboton so they threw in extra oldies like "Total Death"

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/live-review-kreator-sabaton/

Best Priest album in 28 years. Andy Sneap is a fan, and you can hear how he helps bring more aggression to the album's sound. It has more bite than their last few.

feels more cohesive than Redeemer, which I liked, but had more clunkers. this one I only dislike the third single.

https://i.imgur.com/EpLhLG4.jpg

WHOA.

Demilich? damn

wait that's weird, cos Incantation are literally doing a show here in two weeks, then they're going to come back in May?

Blood Incantation?

lol no not them. that makes it a lot more clear

Am I allowed to write about Watain and still be a card-carrying SJW?
Debating reviewing their concert at the end of the month.
I know that if I do I won't be giving Destroyer 666 any ink...

Watain have always had very strong anti-Christian views, I guess check with your publishers if that's aligned with their diversity policies.

As self-avowed theistic Satanists, they're also implicitly anti-Judaism and anti-Islam. That might be a problem if you want to be thorough in your PC-ness.

Anti-Christian and anti-religion in general are probably okay.

I can write about almost anything I want, but I am becoming less tolerant of certain things from a personal standpoint.

There's a distinction between anti-religion and cultural bigotry.

Of course there is. Granted, some people use anti-religion as a way to camouflage their cultural bigotry but I'd rather give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

I've been feeling pretty anti-HM2 lately but the Anarchos album is enjoyable.

The new Earthless album, Black Heaven, is out tomorrow. It's short - six tracks, 40 minutes, and four of them feature vocals (by guitarist Isaiah Mitchell). The songs are much more '70s rock (James Gang, etc.) than the sprawling jams of their previous work, but I'm kinda into it.

I like the Earthless! interviewing them when they play Philly this weekend. It's odd that they are in town the same day that Weedeater is at another venue though. Only so much kush to go around...

I keep confusing Earthless with Earthride.

Anyone heard the Conjurer LP? Can’t say I’m bowled over but I like their synthesis-oriented approach.

RIP Killjoy...Necrophagia is one of my favorite bands. like, I write up stuff about their albums just for myself to think in full sentences about how much I like them. he was still doing good work and it's a shame he's gone.

Aww damn RIP

Bought the Scumpulse record today and damn it's good. "Broken Reflection" is like Carcass-level songwriting tbh, just riffs flying all over the place, catchy as fuck, and that bouncy-ass d-beat.

Live Nation is offering a $70 lawn ticket in My Local Area that covers four shows:

• Rob Zombie/Marilyn Manson
• Avenged Sevenfold/Prophets of Rage
• Five Finger Death Punch/Breaking Benjamin
• Shinedown/Godsmack

Wotta bargain!

whomst would like some very fine pagan metal

https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/horn-retrograd

lol @ that title.

Here's some post-black/sludge metal from Bucharest, Romania, if anyone's interested. It occasionally tries to do away with the usual Transylvanian clichés about nature spirits and the like (which I love btw):

https://ucigan.bandcamp.com/album/ucigan