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
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 31 March 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
I mean it's still totally a death metal opera, but a good one
― imago, Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:27 (six years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
Wrote a review of the Inhumankind album for Burning Ambulance this morning; it'll be up on Tuesday.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 1 April 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
Deceased are doing a one off in Tampa on 4/20. no way I'm missing that.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 April 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
That Messa sounds fantastic. Thanks, guys.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 1 April 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
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?
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 2 April 2018 13:40 (six years ago) link
I wrote about the 10th anniversary of The Sword's Gods of the Earth and "hipster metal" for Stereogum.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 2 April 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
Q1 bandcamp linkspamtacular:
Oppressive blackened death with curious production detailshttps://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-doomhttps://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/untitled
Dramatic melodic death-doomhttps://hamferd.bandcamp.com/
Suffocating atmospheric black metal in spaaaaacehttps://mahr-pk.bandcamp.com/album/antelux
Fairly standard but satisfying black metal with a couple of folkish toucheshttps://nahtrunar.bandcamp.com/album/mysterium-tremendum
Deeply atmospheric post-black/space ambient from Ethiopia <--- recommended ffo Progenie Terrestre Purahttps://nishaiar.bandcamp.com/album/irix-zerius
Spooooky raw ambient bmhttps://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 somethinghttps://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/loss
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 2 April 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
...and...
NEW MESARTHIMhttps://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/the-density-parameter
― imago, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 08:33 (six years ago) link
Yes! and still doing the space nerd stuff too
― StanM, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 09:15 (six years ago) link
recommended ffo Progenie Terrestre Pura
seen
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 11:50 (six years ago) link
omg new mesarthim
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link
is it good or is it going more in the float-y direction?
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 13:07 (six years ago) link
i’ve only listened to the first track but it’s p heavy and majestic from the jump
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
decode the morse code at the end :-)
― StanM, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
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.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
the new Morrow is *f a n t a s t i c*
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 April 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
(I'm not kidding about the morse code at the end of the final Mesarthim track by the way, it's worth decoding
― StanM, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
I can never remember remember which is Underoath and which is Unearth. Will this album help with that?
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
i actually don't know anything about unearth but given that they're both metalcore bands, maybe not?
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
They were both awful. Very, very awful.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 5 April 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
that isn't true! but thanks!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Friday, 6 April 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
Really liked that new HM, they're doing a great job of incorporating trad doom elements.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 6 April 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
Very much looking forward to the new Ghastly album, in that Tribulation/Stench/Morbus Chron zone.
http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/death-velour
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 6 April 2018 12:18 (six years ago) link
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.
― gman59, Friday, 6 April 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
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
― bedraggled vorticist (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
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.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
New Panopticon is interesting. I don't know that he really pulls off the vocals on the second half, but it's certainly bold.
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
Sort of a hardcore hybrid but the new Deszcz rips: https://deszcz.bandcamp.com/album/iii
― o. nate, Monday, 9 April 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
Also, in quasi-metal news, Lingua Ignota just signed to Profound Lore who are reissuing "All Bitches Die" this summer.
― o. nate, Monday, 9 April 2018 02:14 (six years ago) link
She's touring with The Body and Big|Brave.
― Simon H., Monday, 9 April 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
This is pretty metal for an electronic record (track #3 in particular).
https://citymusic33.bandcamp.com/album/skeleton
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 9 April 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
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
― gman59, Monday, 9 April 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
They have 3 songs up so far: https://thebody.bandcamp.com/album/i-have-fought-against-it-but-i-can-t-any-longer Big fan of the Body and Lingua Ignota. very excited for this
― gman59, Monday, 9 April 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
I am enjoying the Septic Tank disc whereupon Lee Dorrian, Scott Carlson and Gaz Jennings get all '80s hardcore up in this joint, but with a fuzzy guitar tone that betrays their usual doomy mood. I think it'll get lost in the shuffle but it's fun, as these things tend to be.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??!!
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
dude it's fuckin great and you will LOVE it.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 12 April 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
Same, w/ the album as a whole, likely helped by the neverending Ontario winter. Marston's recording/mastering splendid as always.
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 April 2018 02:24 (six years ago) link
HIRS album (ft. Laura Jane Grace, Alice Bag, Shirley Manson, and many others) is *awesome* on first contact
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/12/601100251/first-listen-ashley-monroe-sparrow
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 April 2018 12:01 (six years ago) link
monroe outdoing musgraves in changing her sound huh
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/12/601199902/first-listen-the-hirs-collective-friends-lovers-favorites
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 12 April 2018 12:18 (six years ago) link
lmao got my links crossed there
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 April 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
ok, I'm definitely into the two septic tank tracks that are already up on spotify
OOOH!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 12 April 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
totally picking it up when it drops tonight
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 April 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
Yeah that Panopticon is AOTY for me so far. Everything I ever wanted out of him. Agreed with the Marston recording. Dude always delivers. Still loving the last Cleric he produced and try to see Krallice every time I can. Just got a ticket to one of the Arctopus shows coming up next month. There is a small festival in Pittsburgh this summer I'm trying to go to with both Krallice and Panopticon on the bill.
http://migrationfest.com/index.php/bands/
Also these Septic Tank tracks are amazing. Thank you.
― gman59, Thursday, 12 April 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
When I first heard that Dimmu Borgir was coming back, I wasn't excited at all. But the new album fucking rules.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 12 April 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link