Rolling Metal 2018

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.

New Ragana/Thou split is great too, though I think the Ragana side is the better of the two

There's a new Behemoth coming I see?

Anyone heard Argonavis's Passing the Igneous Maw (awesome title btw)? Murky, blackened death/doom with the occasional horn chorale. Opens with an almost subliminal a capella piece, closes with straight-up chamber music. Really good shit:

https://katabasisargonavis.bandcamp.com/releases

The new High On Fire (out tomorrow) has a nine-minute song and a ten-minute song. I am enraptured.

can't fuckin wait. hoping I can finally see them again on that weird bill they're on, but my November is in flux atm

I like the HoF more than I liked the previous two albums. it's mega. also speedier, like their older material

new Behemoth feels like the album prior to a major pivot. small things, like clean vocals, less extreme moments, more choral moments, ambient passages.

I think I like it tho!

First listen and I agree the new HoF sounds more like old HoF which isn't a bad thing at all. It's got more weight to it and I think "man that's almost a Slayer riff" less often.

i know people revere HOF and they're a badass heavy band and i got lots of respect for Pike but more and more i just find their albums to be a chore to get through..

gasp

This review actually makes the Lords of Chaos movie sound interesting, which shocks me.

new Behemoth feels like the album prior to a major pivot

it does! totally rips shit anyway

kinda think its transitional quality is part of why it's so good, songs at times feel an instant away from shapeshifting into something different, and you can feel them really going for it

I've been listening to Sárr's Ávitun a lot this week. A solo EP by Þórir from Nyss that came out in April.

Would you kind dudes help a confused old man out? Is your man Nergal from Behemoth a racist? (I've seen a photo of him dressed as an SS officer and I know his name used to be Holocausto and obviously neither is a good look but is there some kind of screed where he nails his colours to the mast - some damning thing he's said that I'm not aware of? I mean, is he actually a card carrying racist or just a bit of spanner with poor judgement?) I've googled it and the first thing that comes up says he is because literally all black metal is racist, so that's not much help. I can't keep up with it all, tbh.

oh god if so i am not aware of it

Here’s a deleted Instagram post from the World Cup.

Well that didn't work.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgFHPUnW0AA2xbU.jpg