Rolling Metal 2018

Awful news about Caleb Scofield. RIP.

Metal thread's probably the wrong place for it, but Zeal and Ardor has a new track out: bandcamp.

No obvious trace of BM in the sound. Basically just a big, booming gospel-industrial stomp. Don't particularly care for it, tbh.

New Lychgate for people who like their death metal with a massive Castlevania church organ vibe.

http://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/the-contagion-in-nine-steps

This Inhumankind album on I, Voidhanger is... something.

http://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/self-extinction

Double bass, flute and vocals. It's quite insane.

So Ad Hominem is pretty much unapologetic NSBM and therefore irredeemable, is that correct?
Google searches has me 90% sure this is correct but I welcome opinions here.

That's a hilarious metal band name.

In other news, anyone making the trek to Philly for the Decibel metal & Beer Fest?

http://scontent.fewr1-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/29542823_10160236218730597_1995971344426030973_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&_nc_eui2=v1%3AAeFy1I5tWEdl8j6dz9ZgH5TxUEokUHR-XW4nWGobFcsohpPtxjOvEKKl2e-rSuczTZZC4gOo-stFN05EPSrrzKEupo20yEB1SSt1EqbKSx23uw&oh=89bdc59ffc26f02f1002cabbb22d7494&oe=5B6A9F6B

Oceans of Slumber, whose new album The Banished Heart is out now and fantastic, are touring the US with Insomnium in May and June.

Awful news about Caleb Scofield. RIP.

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Thursday, March 29, 2018 1:05 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i learned this during my band's set last night and suggested we abandon our current setlist to just play until your heart stops straight through (we are not capable of playing anything like until your heart stops straight through)

this is so sad and awful

Dont know what the guy’s private views are but I never got an NSBM vibe from Ad Hominem, their records are all over-the-top misanthropy clearly aimed to be as offensive as possible, with songs like Glory Hole Jesus and Anus Of Yahweh & all that so I’d stay clear of them if that isn’t your thing.

New Lychgate for people who like their death metal with a massive Castlevania church organ vibe.

http://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/the-contagion-in-nine-steps

I just listened to this last night/this morning and was pretty intrigued and engaged. Some nice intricate dissonant guitar work.

Kim Kelley at Noisey previewed the new album from Italian jazz-doom-drone merchants Messa.

http://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/vbx7d4/jazz-drone-and-doom-collide-on-this-genre-defying-new-album-from-messa

You can stream it at the link via SoundCloud.

While generally I tend to like whatever Kim recommends, I really enjoy this and am surprised at how simple and accessible it is with so many moving parts.

That was featured in the monthly metal column on Stereogum, too. I like it a lot more than their debut, which was missing the jazz elements.

https://messa666.bandcamp.com/album/feast-for-water

Really enjoying the Lychgate. It's a subtler record than the first one, with less church organ, which may place it a little closer to some of your tastes

I mean it's still totally a death metal opera, but a good one

That Messa SoundCloud won't play for me. I don't hear any jazz-drone in "Leah," but I liked Belfry, and looking forward to hearing the new one. Kim mentioned Jex Thoth, who told me at a show back in 2014 that a new album was on the way, perhaps this will be the year. There's been a similar long wait for Finnish occult band Mansion -- they told me the mix is done on new album and announcement coming soon. Things to look forward to.

Wrote a review of the Inhumankind album for Burning Ambulance this morning; it'll be up on Tuesday.

Deceased are doing a one off in Tampa on 4/20. no way I'm missing that.

That Messa sounds fantastic. Thanks, guys.

Was at my mum's yesterday, cleaning out shite from my old room. Found a tape copy of the first Immolation album, which some dude is selling for £££ in Discogs, and the second Cancer album, which goes for similar. Also found a box of 7"s which I'd not seen for years, where the inbuilt kudos wasn't quite as comprehensive: Skid Row, Wratchild, Faster Pussycat. Did have a couple of nice BrutalTruth and Fu Manchu 7s, however. Where did the time go?

I wrote about the 10th anniversary of The Sword's Gods of the Earth and "hipster metal" for Stereogum.

Q1 bandcamp linkspamtacular:

Oppressive blackened death with curious production details
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pandaemorthium-forbidden-formulas-to-awaken-the-blind-sovereigns-of-nothingness

ADD bedroom tech-death with a bit of character (NYP)
https://estuarinemetal.bandcamp.com/album/sic-erat-scriptum

Cold and moist cavernous death-doom
https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/untitled

Dramatic melodic death-doom
https://hamferd.bandcamp.com/

Suffocating atmospheric black metal in spaaaaace
https://mahr-pk.bandcamp.com/album/antelux

Fairly standard but satisfying black metal with a couple of folkish touches
https://nahtrunar.bandcamp.com/album/mysterium-tremendum

Deeply atmospheric post-black/space ambient from Ethiopia <--- recommended ffo Progenie Terrestre Pura
https://nishaiar.bandcamp.com/album/irix-zerius

Spooooky raw ambient bm
https://sunsunmoon.bandcamp.com/album/demons-in-medieval-times

Slightly nuts rustic bm:
https://ungfell.bandcamp.com/album/mythen-m-ren-pestilenz

Harrowing blackened funereal something something
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/loss

...and...

NEW MESARTHIM
https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/the-density-parameter

Yes! and still doing the space nerd stuff too

recommended ffo Progenie Terrestre Pura

seen

omg new mesarthim

is it good or is it going more in the float-y direction?

i’ve only listened to the first track but it’s p heavy and majestic from the jump

decode the morse code at the end :-)

This is a couple of years late and slightly off topic but this album by Harm Done is really running a rusty shovel through my brainpan right now

http://harmdone.bandcamp.com/album/abuse-abused

Nasty, super-pissed French hardcore with some power violence/grind vibes and excellently septic production.

the new Morrow is *f a n t a s t i c*

(I'm not kidding about the morse code at the end of the final Mesarthim track by the way, it's worth decoding

the new underoath album is only... sorta metal. (about half of it could be read as a real sell-out move, the choruses are occasionally stock rock radio.) but i mostly wanted to mention it bc i think unperson may potentially like it

I can never remember remember which is Underoath and which is Unearth. Will this album help with that?

i actually don't know anything about unearth but given that they're both metalcore bands, maybe not?

They were both awful. Very, very awful.

that isn't true! but thanks!

i would also like to generally recommend to the ppl of this thread who love sludge metal underoath's 2010 album disambiguation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrG3nXvFeJ8

I forgot to check out Hooded Menace when everyone was talking about it a couple of months ago, but am finally getting around to it now, and glad that I did. Crunchy death-doom with some interesting songs.

Really liked that new HM, they're doing a great job of incorporating trad doom elements.

Very much looking forward to the new Ghastly album, in that Tribulation/Stench/Morbus Chron zone.

http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/death-velour

Played through the new Panopticon once so far and it's truly incredible. The first half is probably my favorite thing he's put out so far and I'm still unpacking the post rock country second half but sounded great on first listen.

That's nice, but can you name a socialist realist metal band? We're talking about metal here.

― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, March 28, 2018 12:21 PM(one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not really trying to revive this discussion, and am not sure thus even counts, but Sordide's Fuir la lumiere was a killer RABM album from a couple years ago

anyone else catch malokarpatan & negative plane? man, the NY show was a great gig. been binging on both since then.

could use a new negative plane record, it's been a while.

New Panopticon is interesting. I don't know that he really pulls off the vocals on the second half, but it's certainly bold.

Sort of a hardcore hybrid but the new Deszcz rips: https://deszcz.bandcamp.com/album/iii

Also, in quasi-metal news, Lingua Ignota just signed to Profound Lore who are reissuing "All Bitches Die" this summer.

She's touring with The Body and Big|Brave.

This is pretty metal for an electronic record (track #3 in particular).

https://citymusic33.bandcamp.com/album/skeleton

The second half of the Panopticon grows on me with every listen.

The Body has put out 2 new ones with her so far which both sound great. "Can Carry No Weight" and this which I love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3EAujCdfJ4