Rolling Metal 2018

Brian Ross is 64, still sounds awesome, and concurrently handles vocal duties for a whole-ass other band (Blitzkrieg)

I reviewed the Satan record and agree with all of the above comments!

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/satan-cruel-magic/

I love Satan

Listening to the Siege of Power album, which is Chris Reifert on vocals and three dudes from Asphyx and/or Hail of Bullets and/or Grand Supreme Blood Court on guitar, bass, and drums. Care to guess what it sounds like?

it sounds fuckin rad is what

If you like Krisiun, you will like the new Krisiun album a lot. It's head-down, blasting death metal with no intros or other BS. Eight tracks in 38 minutes: they come, tear your face off, and leave. I saw them completely smoke Nile live about 10 years ago. This year, they're playing with Suffocation (on Frank Mullen's farewell tour), Cattle Decapitation and Soreption, a band I'm not familiar with - the NYC date is 11/16, and I might just go.

Advance singles for A Forest Of Stars are making me excited a bit

I love the new Krisiun but one of the riffs is fucking "Chopsticks"

The new Satan and The Skull are amazing

Passing up Priest and Purple tonight to interview Aaron Turner when Sumac plays in town.

been revisiting some albums from earlier this year. so far, Usurpress and Tomb Mold seem to be the ones I'm most likely going to expend energy stumping for at year's end

A lot of good records, but I feel I haven't found the top 3 records of the year yet.
Recommended at least: Abigor, Krisiun, Necrophobic, Summoning, Ungfell, Urfaust, Wiegedood, Varathron, Skeletal Remains, Messa, Kły, Funeral Mist, Cosmic Church, Délétère, Ataraxy, Alrakis

Will give those all a try, ty - there's usually at least two things in your yearly metal trawl that I love

Likewise.

Twelve days.
https://i.imgur.com/E7NFQEw.jpg

There's an advance track on their bandcamp, I've seen some dispiriting reax to it, I'm going to wait to hear the whole thing at once. Coven was a bit of a chore but I'm hopeful some of the magic of their prior work comes back.

saw Sumac the other night and they completely blew me away. new stuff sounds great live. touring with Dalek who also crushed

I also caught that tour in Philly. Did an interview with Aaron Turner that I am very happy with. Will link to it when it runs next week.

new Deicide is dope

Sektarism
Fils de Dieu
(End All Life Productions)

French funeral doom mines the same cacophonous desolation of avant-guitarist Caspar Brötzmann's Massaker. Only two songs punctuated by "Sacrifice," a half hour of menacingly twisting depressive areligious genius. #TwitterLPReview pic.twitter.com/nerippLuuW

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) September 15, 2018

https://open.spotify.com/album/5NfjG9FxOK8zuptocJZVzu
https://sektarism.bandcamp.com/album/fils-de-dieu
https://youtu.be/lupQlka2ZqQ

also caught Judas Priest again the other night. they pulled out "Electric Eye". I was happy.

http://youtu.be/lupQlka2ZqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lupQlka2ZqQ

going to have to check that Sektarism out later, you've definitely intrigued me

but let me just say before I take a nap: the expanded Saxon reissues rule

Saw that Moon Tooth are shooting a video for a new single, so I'm assuming there's going to be an album announcement relatively soon.

sektarism p nice stuff - feel like there's a sort of live-room-sound thing going on in weirdo doom right now. like some late jeweled antler collective impact here or something

The new Monstrosity snuck up on me but it's really good! Very melodic but still technical and face punchy

Holy dickballs i love the new Voivod

Somehow I missed that there was a new Mizmor album this year. It's not on their bandcamp but is on spotify. Excited to crack into this.

xp The Wake is sounding really good so far! "The End of Dormancy" is like their take on King Crimson's Red.

bit on the fence between physical/digital purchase for The Wake, anyone wanna try to sway me one way or the other?

like for instance, I went physical for the Jean Grae/Quelle Christopher album coz I wanted to pore over the detailed credits of every track, but it didn't actually have detailed credits to pore over. I would also like detailed credits for The Wake, and if there's a weird little story like with Hatross, so much the better.

I got the deluxe CD version, there's a booklet (mostly lyrics and a picture of the band) and a cool but small 9 panel storyboard kind of thing printed in the digipak. Definitely not impressive - the LP comes with a poster that might be the same thing but bigger, which would be cool.

Like effort put into the digipak: 5/10
Effort put into, say, Nothingface: 9/10

https://horrendoussom.bandcamp.com

new horrendous out tomorrow!!

thanks, that's super helpful

Will def have to check Sektarism and (I'm told) rejuvenated Voivod. Meanwhile, just past what should have been the end of what in my neck of the woods is a lingering and most everywhere ill summer, seemed like the right time to repost my ancient Charloaf review of Sepultura's Dante XXI:
http://nodepression.com/album-review/technically-end-summer-sunday-flashback-symptoms-ov-life

holy shit the new A Forest Of Stars is sounding AMAZING

https://a-forest-of-stars.bandcamp.com/album/grave-mounds-and-grave-mistakes

Wow this is fantastic. The singer sounds like a cross between David Tibet and the guy from God Bullies.

2 bonus tracks on the 'Luxus' edition: https://a-forest-of-stars.bandcamp.com/album/grave-mounds-and-grave-mistakes-luxus

Excellent song titles too.

yeah he's played up the David Tibet thing this time around. you get the real thing in a couple of weeks too!

My perspective from a long-term fan is that they often come close to self-parody but certain tracks are still pretty amazing (Tombward Bound, fuuuuck)

New Horrendous reminds me of Human era Death.

Not that it sounds like it but in its ambitions.

Of course the irony being that it's not forward thinking anymore but hey.. it had a good beat qnd I can mosh to it

Bandcamp is donating proceeds from today's sales to the Voting Rights Project. I picked up Irreversible Mechanism's Immersion, along with a bunch of jazz and avant-garde stuff.

I know nobody in this thread will care, but Machine Head are breaking up - basically, everybody but Robb quit on Wednesday. But they're going to finish out their current tour. If the show I saw in 2015 is any indication, it'll be a blast.

I first saw them live in 1999; Robb was wearing a tracksuit and had cornrows. I saw them about a half dozen times after that, including headlining dates in NYC, a show on the Mayhem Festival tour, an opening slot for Metallica, and finally the 2015 show I mentioned, which was a no-opening-act "An Evening With..." performance that ran well over two hours. They were fun to work with at Roadrunner, too, and while I didn't like their latest album much, i still listen to the four before it from time to time.

I don't spend a lot of time listening to Machine Head these days, but there was definitely a time when they seemed to me like the definitive metal band of that moment.

Burn My Eyes is a fantastic record, the drop after that was huge unfortunately.

I saw one of those long 2015 shows, too. They were pretty awesome.

I'm not big on power metal, but amateurs should check out Immortal Guardian's Age of Revolution:

https://immortalguardian.bandcamp.com/album/age-of-revolution

shit I've dug of late

the aforementioned Satan and Voivods

the new Pyrexia (now with 25% less murderer)
the new Monstrosity
the new Pig Destroyer (tho admittedly, it's not one that I'm revisiting a lot)
new The Skull (heavy af)
new Horrendous

need to wait for the right moment to try the new Anaal Nathrakh

The new Thou album is absolutely terrifying.