Rolling 2022 Metal Thread

it is a bit weird that it's 15 tracks. that beats their previous high of 12, on Majesty and Decay.

not really any filler tho. hard to complain when every track smokes. “derelict of spirit,” holy moly.

I wrote a full review.

Phil Kusabs aka VK of Qrixkuor, Vassafor, Diocletian, apparently (according to one source) pleads guilty to distribution of child sexual abuse imagery: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300524972/death-metal-musician-admits-sharing-child-sex-abuse-material

oh fucking hell

(he also played bass for the Chills on one tour, just for the record)

If you just heard the Blood Incantation ambient synth record, Timewave Zero, cold, you would have no idea it's by Blood Incantation. It consists of two 20-minute, four-part suites that are pure synth atmospheres, and not even particularly "dark" or "heavy"; they remind me of some of the soundtrack stuff Steve Moore of Zombi has done. Not as melody-focused as, say, Klaus Schulze, and totally drumless. I like it, but I listen to a fair amount of endless cosmic synth stuff anyway. People likely to sit down with this one and just angrily think BUT WHY NO RIFFS? for 40 minutes should just not bother with it at all.

I am anxiously awaiting my copy of that to show up this weekend, really excited for it.

I really, really enjoyed the rage over at Angry Metal Guy over it. The review itself wasn't bad, the writer was pretty fair about how far out of his wheelhouse this was, but the comments are gold.

picked up the new Embryonic Devourment and Corpsegrinder solo album, starting with CG.

That is, uh, some cover art for the Embryonic Devourment album.

so far CG doesn't sound like a CC carbon copy, which is cool. little more melodic.

I was gonna ask if this was the first death vocalist to go solo (which I'm sure it's not), but also Six Feet Under is basically Chris Barnes solo by now

just noticed that two of the lizard people are Trump and Kim Jong-Il

And Putin!

And I think the Queen and I'm not sure if far right guy is supposed to be Biden.

oh is that who it is? I was thinking "dad from Alf"

CG album is fun like I expected. songs a bit verse/chorus/verse-y though.

not really 'necessary' but glad to have it nonetheless.

xpost - haha, I'm actually not sure, it also kinda looks a little like prez Bush senior too

Getting a promo for a new Sabaton album on a day when there's an actual invasion/war happening in Europe really drives home how hard Sabaton's music fucking sucks.

excited for a new batch of inzanejohnny Blood Incantation memes

i'm gonna peep the BI ambient album soon.

Sabaton has been a case of slowly diminishing returns, but Carolus Rex is legit one of the best metal albums of the previous decade.

Listened to the new Scorpions record out of obligation, not expecting much, but hey, it's pretty good!

It runs a little long but has some good high points: "Peacemaker" in particular is a total jam.

I just purchased the 2xLP Isolation released by New Hampshire Post-Metal group KYOTY.

http://i1.wp.com/distortedsoundmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Isolation-KYOTY.jpg?resize=768%2C762&ssl=1

The band spent the COVID lockdown digitally releasing a stream of singles. This LP compiles all of them and tacks on one new song. It's only the second full-length release for a band that has been around since 2010.

Over at @invisoranges, @tednubel hyped me to KYOTY. The New Hampshire instrumental sludgy post-metal has a dark accessibility to it, falling somewhere between Neurosis and Tool; in a world of COVID-compelled darkness, they search for light and find it.https://t.co/RIuflQIkcL

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) February 26, 2022

The band has released a string of videos as well. Clips and links to full album streams below...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmIJDPxMGjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2dlui4G9DI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2dlui4G9DI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Ca65z3XQk

http://open.spotify.com/album/1imbw9BG6kokDfR0enPbPQ?si=fNmUOIIOSe-yPI4wWa31IA
http://kyoty.bandcamp.com/album/isolation

I've always liked Shape Of Despair but this new one, I just can't handle how out of tune she's singing. Is it just me?

news from Kharkiv: Drudkh album on the way

https://metalstorm.net/events/news_comments.php?news_id=45245

Ukrainian metal scene was mainly in Kharkiv, and most of them are now fighting. Here's the Facebook pages of the main Ukrainian metal bands, a few of them now get updated daily:

Kharkiv:
Khors
Nokturnal Mortum
Drudkh
Kroda
Burshtyn
Svrm
Ulvegr

Lviv:
1914
Zgard

Odessa:
White Ward

Kyiv:
Vin De Mia Trix
Raventale
Stoned Jesus
Bergrizen
Ignea

Dnipro:
Severoth

Rivne:
Colotyphus

Thank you Siegbran

Hmm, so Testament announced their new drummer, okay, let's see who got the gig... OH FUCK IT'S DAVE LOMBARDO!!!!

A good choice. I liked The Gathering, the album he did with them back in 1999, and as much as I like them, his talents were being wasted in Suicidal Tendencies given their current punk direction. I mean, why would you hire Dave Lombardo and have him play D-beats?

Maybe he enjoys playing d-beats

fuck like 5 of the bands in Kharkiv are about a degree or two away from NSBM or RAC

Yeah, I was gonna say..

You could add Somali Yacht Club to the Lviv list, on the stoner metal tip. Not aware of any problematic aspects, but maybe someone will come along to disabuse me of that.

New Dysmorfectomy is some beautiful slammy brootal shit. It brings me joy.

Didn't even know there was a new one, and I'm pretty up on that stuff. Thanks for the tip!

200 Stab Wounds were confirmed as being part of an upcoming Rochester festival, and they publicly made a post telling their fans not to buy tickets, that this was not something they agreed to and they have no idea about it, and they and their team were looking into it.

then the promoter putting on the festival publicly shared a screenshot of a cropped portion of the email agreement.

just realizing disputes like these are this much more awkward now on social media.

https://amenra.bandcamp.com/track/amenra-roads-written-by-portishead

single track for bandcamp friday

I interviewed two members of Hath about their excellent new album, which is out today.

Kolovorot metal merch store in Kharkiv destroyed

new Midnight is out. if you like Midnight, you'll enjoy this. if you don't, you won't.

that's my byline, now pay me.

xpost aw fuck, that's so sad :(

A posthumous Eric Wagner solo album was released this week on Cruz Del Sur. It's really good. The band is mostly members of Trouble and The Skull, but Victor Griffin (Pentagram, Place of Skulls) plays guitar on one track.

http://ericwagner.bandcamp.com/

All songs on this release originally adapted from traditional Turkish songs of the same respective names by unspecified authors.

https://kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/ohe-ho-tam-kde-padl

good stuff

2022 Metal(lic) records I like enough to have purchased (or will be doing so shortly)

Backslider - Psychic Rot
Buñuel - Killers Like Us
Crowbar - Zero and Below
Eight Bells - Legacy of Ruin
Karmanjaka - Gates of Muspel
Krallice - Crystalline Exhaustion
KYOTY - Isolation
Maule - Maule
Napalm Death - Resentment is Always Seismic
The Neptune Power Federation - Le Demon de L'amour
Sanhedrin - Lights On
Saxon - Carpe Diem
Scorpions - Rock Believer
Venom Prison - Erebos
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor

A posthumous solo album by former Trouble/The Skull vocalist Eric Wagner came out last week on Cruz del Sur; I wrote about it because it's really good (without being a major departure from his previous work).

International Women’s Day means lots of things to lots of people. Few will say it’s all about multiple emails on the subject from The Great Kat’s publicist.

To be fair, every day is Unsolicited Messages From The Great Kat’s Publicist Day.

— CSTB (@cstbtweet) March 8, 2022

I kind of admire the dogged persistence of the Great Kat's PR, who have been flooding my email for nearly 20 years. I don't have the heart to request removal from the mailing list.

I am not on that list, which as a former employee of her first label, kinda bums me out a little.

I was not expecting the new Destruction album to end with a cover of GBH's "City Baby Attacked By Rats".

Cavalera Conspiracy tour of all Beneath the Remains and Arise songs, which I've been waiting for since they hinted at it 4-5 years ago, is finally here, and......nope, no Florida or anywhere close. dammit.