Rolling Metal 2018

RIP Brett Hoffman

New Immortal is pretty killer tbh. Saw a review that talked about it lacking the "arena rock" flourishes that Abbath would've brought but, come on, "Gates to Blashyrkh" is lighters-up anthemic.

Also this Pact album

http://moribundrecords.bandcamp.com/album/enigmata

RIYL Blizzard Beasts and Morbid Angel derived death metal with a dash of modern black metal. Very fun. I know after the Northern debacle Moribund is looking pretty bad but I like to report on the rare occasions they release something interesting.

New Pig Destroyer song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ5HxdNlpMk

Listening to the album now. 12 tracks, 31 minutes. A few guests (Kat from Salome, Richard Johnson from Agoraphobic Nosebleed, some other folks). I continue to believe PD peaked with Terrifyer, but Metal Twitter and all the blogs will jizz in their pants over this one.

oh that's exciting, couldn't tell what to make of the new song except that it's groovier and slower in an interesting way i think

it reminds me of....slipknot? (in mostly a not-bad way)

That does nothing for me. The drums, I don't like the drums - they lack the kind of oomph I expect from them. And the song itself is fairly blah, I've already forgotten the riff. I just stuck on Book Burner for comparison and yeah, I won't remember the riffs from this either, but it still leaves me with a feeling.

New Mesarthim EP just dropped!

Pyrexia have a new album coming out in September. They also have a new lead singer, since their old guy is still facing trial for a triple murder in West Virginia.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiAEBs8XUAAyayt.jpg

The second album of triumphant folk metal from Wytch Hazel. I said this about their first album -- The band wear medieval tunics, delve into Christian biblical themes and cite late 70s folk era Jethro Tull as an influence. It’s understandable to assume this Lancaster band is a local group of renaissance fair geeks, and not the blazing new hot shots of British heavy metal. Well, they’re not exactly well known enough to be considered that just yet, but that will hopefully change. While Wytch Hazel work in similar territory as San Francisco’s The Lord Weird Slough Feg did twenty years ago — Celtic folk melodies mixed with Wishbone Ash and Thin Lizzy inspired dual guitars, Slough Feg featured a more hectic early Iron Maiden/NWOBHM gallop, while Wytch Hazel dig deeper into folk and ancient music and the Aolean and Dorian scales which vocalist/guitarist Colin Hendra studied in school. Add obscure early 80s bands like Dark Star, Ashbury andVirtue into the mix, and the result is an alluringly unusual blend of exciting, triumphant anthems and mesmerizing musicianship.

https://wytchhazel.bandcamp.com/album/ii-sojourn

the new Revocation single is good and considerably harsher than usual. They continue to be my go-to comfort food metal band and I really admire their work ethic

Everytime I see Gruesome I get angry at the bullshit healthcare system that took Chuck from us

Word

Really hoping the new Aura Noir gets into my hands at some point. Having a lot of bad luck ordering European bands over the past year, like the last Execration - shit comes out and immediately is listed as Out Of Print on our one-stop's website, pre-orders be damned.

Man somebody really needs to do an anthology/reissue of the Doomwatch album A Symphony of Decadence and their demos. They were bros of Dream Death and have a similar rough punky quality, albeit applied to uptempo thrash instead of doom. Somebody... do that.

New split EP from Daemogog (excellent weird brutal death with churning bass and noisy riff-vortices, made my best of 2017 list) and Aumnarium (a little more straightforward brutal dm but still very well done)

http://daemogog.bandcamp.com/album/anagogic-imposition-ep

the new one from a Dutch band called Shylmagoghnar, on Napalm - I hadn't heard of them before - is arrestingly beautiful music -- synth-loaded mersh black metal style, reminds me a little of Borknagar but not chaotic/herky-jerky. And a little of Agalloch, though since I never warmed up to Agalloch I might just mean "the guitar textures are kinda soft in that PNW dreamy metal style."

anyway, I find this music really inspiring - the synth lines are something else, they really go someplace

https://shylmagoghnar.bandcamp.com

^^^listening to this now, it is very very cute and powerful, ty

I pre-ordered Ineffable Demise's Beyond the Marrow Gates and promptly forgot all about it, until it landed in my inbox today. As expected, it is broooootal death metal that slamz, with a snare drum that sounds like someone tapping on an aluminum screen door with a ball-peen hammer.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dif-DnJVQAAQvoy.jpg

https://realityfaderecords.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-marrow-gates

the new "radical departure" Skeletonwitch album is growing on me

Please enjoy Neckbeard Deathcamp's White Nationalism is for Basement Dwelling Losers:

https://neckbearddeathcamp.bandcamp.com/album/white-nationalism-is-for-basement-dwelling-losers

Track titles:

"Cucked (Intro)"
"The Left are the Real Fascists"
"Zyklon /b/"
"XXXL Obersturmfuhrer Leather Duster"
"Incel Warfare"
"Please Respond (I Showed You My Penis)"
"The Fetishization ov Asian Women Despite a Demand for a Pure White Race (Outro)"

The lyrics (visible on the Bandcamp page) are fantastic.

tick

I'm a little late to the party, but the new Skeletonwitch album is quite stunning. Its sense of dynamics amidst all the black metal bridges thrash and prog. What a vibrant piece of work.

oh my god those Neckbeard Deathcamp lyrics. Pro.

Anyway see you and raise you:
https://i.imgur.com/1ZLnF7h.png

why u do this

I mean on of those things is...not like the other

American metal summed up in a six-word email subject line:

"RELAPSE RECORDS now carrying 4XL T-Shirts"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r9iS6fWnMA

new horrendous in september, new song utterly magnificent

I was just wondering about these guys!!

they're getting proggier god bless

gotta love that bass sound

The new Horrendous is Not For Me, but neither was the last one, so that's fine.

same blog that informed me of the new horrendous also just posted the new album by xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx https://xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx.bandcamp.com/album/gore-20

The drastically pitch-shifted stacked harmonies put this one over the top for me (in a good way)

https://vermiliaofficial.bandcamp.com/album/k-tkyt

ok this is *awesome*

drastically pitch-shifted stacked harmonies

what is up

this record is v cool and i like it, thank you!

And the Chicago Reader is the first to cross the finish line with a Neckbeard Deathcamp interview.

There's a new Axegrinder but it's terrible.

RIP Mark "The Shark" Shelton from Manilla Road

http://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/633051009/manilla-roads-mark-the-shark-shelton-traditional-metal-s-innovator-dead-at-60

props to Deafheaven for giving is their best last night despite Kerry not making it past the border

I tried several times to get into Manilla Road but never could. Oh, well. RIP to a dude who lived it for real. Nothing but respect for that.

I greatly admire Manilla Road, and Shelton was a true gentleman who exuded positivity. Open the Gates and Crystal Logic are two of the best underground metal albums of the '80s. He will be sorely missed.

The Sadistik Forest album fucking RULES

Kerry not making it past the border

What happened?

Good musical taste on the part of the border guard? (I kid, I kid)

It's official: new Sunn O))) album in 2019, engineered by Steve Albini.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjXjLgaU4AEoZtq.jpg

Good musical taste on the part of the border guard? (I kid, I kid)

well they're still making albums so

The new Khanus is even better than I was hoping from the teaser track above. I would say it's kind of a progressive Viking black metal thing, but it's hard to pigeonhole.

Lychgate is another interesting progressive black metal one. Maybe not as immediate as the Khanus but well worth checking out, especially for name-your-own-price:

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

I liked the Lychgate a lot but maybe not as much as the previous one. But I'm a sucker for those gothic (as in architecture) church organ breakdowns. Totally looking forward to the Khanus!