the occasional thread for mean, nasty, ugly, evil metal that doesn't smell good and that takes itself way too seriously

:)

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

this makes my top ten of the year. if i had one. love the atmosphere. and its from the states too! which surprises me for some reason. maybe because i love it. but there are people hidden away doing good things here. hiding. hiding makes sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4x70_zYNuk

(to be fair to americans who don't hide i really did like that Horrendous album a lot and they are very popular in that world of theirs...)

There's a new Petrification album coming out in February. They're from Portland, Oregon, but they're on Svart, a label from Finland. Anyway, here's "Twisted Visions of Creation":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzg7l7iN_dc

amazing artwork too!

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0333397984_10.jpg

i bought stuff from NWN on vinyl. the stuff i don't love will go in the store. some stuff i just needed for myself like the undergang and grave upheaval records. it all belongs on this thread though:

Mefitic "Woes of Mortal Devotion"
Bunkur / Mordor Split
The Satan's Scourge "Threads of Subconscious Torment"
Howls of Ebb / Khthoniik Cerviiks Split
Detritivore "Pakt"
Har "Baal Ha'ov"
Undergang "Aldrig i livet"
Undergang "Misantropologi"
V/A Vestibule of Hell LP + Booklet
Capitis Damnare "Ex Regnum Spiritus in Manifestus"
Funerary "Starless Aeon"
Adversvm "Aion Sitra Ahra"
Sete Star Sept "Beast World"
Sektarism "Hosanna Sathana"
Sator Marte "Termonuklearni Evoluce"
Deep Desolation "Boski Jad"
Blasphamagoatachrist "Bastardizing the Purity"
Pneuma Hagion "Demiurge"
Pneuma Hagion "Voidgazer"
V/A "Far East Gate In Inferno" Double LP (Sabbat, Sigh, etc.)
Trifixion (Venezuela) “Demo 1996″
Grave Upheaval "1st Album"
Grave Upheaval "Demo" LP
Mortuary Drape "Secret Sudaria" Double LP
Cerebral Rot "Excretion of Mortality"
Cénotaphe "La Larve Exulte"
Blasphemy "Fallen Angel of Doom...."

oh man that petrification video speaks to me. also, luring sounds great.

this is kind of 'random old metal' but i think fits this thread. i got curious about seeing what kevin drumm interviews were floating around out there, and in one of them he mentions this band from edmonton, revenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WKDTU8_790

love Cerebral Rot

i never get tired of this record. someone should reissue it. unheralded sludge classic! i might have heralded it in Decibel Mag at the time. definitely one of my fave rock records of the 21st century.

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

got a copy in at the store that still has the wooden match in it. keeping it.

https://i.discogs.com/LNSKynBuZA9P4ltRHcjnZCVPtOJUvwkmK5E_5YeMr5Q/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:400/w:457/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMTcx/NDA4LTE1MTExNzg0/OTMtODI5Ni5qcGVn.jpeg

Aha I remember this

one of my bleaker reviews! from 2007? my economic message is almost Trumpian here. who knew? i was in a bad mood.

Defcon 4 - The Bad Road
You ever see the movie Defcon 4? Yeah, me neither. Or wait, did I? Eh, probably. Who knows anymore. I’m so jaded when it comes to kitschy apocalyptica. And my memory is poor. And I’ve seen a million movies. Today at work I was emptying one of those big outdoor ashtrays. You know the ones. A Rubbermaid. Jesus, Rubbermaid, there’s a movie for you. Thousands of Ohioans living and dead could tell the whole dirty story while gritting their teeth at the memory of the loss and the misplaced pride. What, like the end of the world hasn’t actually come yet? You need futuristic neon dystopias to tell the tale of man’s folly? Take a look around, buddy. Anyway, this big-ass plastic ashtray with the gaping metal mouth was beyond full. The butts crammed to the top formed a single tube of soggy and yet hardened nic fit. It took forever to get them out of there. And I couldn’t help but feel like I had seen this movie before. And I had. In a way. When I was 16 and wiping shit off of supermarket bathroom walls. When I was 26 and on my hands and knees cleaning mouse shit off of dirty deli floors. And when I was 36 and changing stinky diapers by myself in a small damp house far from everyone and everything that I knew and trying to embrace the love I felt for my son, while, at the same time, ducking dark storm clouds of isolation and fear.
Which is just another way of saying that Defcon 4 are a decent Boston punk band that mixes doom and crust and sharpened Eyehategod teeth all in the service of…what? I don’t know. Another pennant? Hatred of Ben Affleck’s street cred? All I know is, from the area of the universe that gave me SSD and Converge, I expect MORE pain. And MORE convincing wails of torment. Their stylistic twists and turns aren’t as compelling as the more advanced cosmic crust moves of Kylesa or Baroness either. But, hey, they are young, right? I have no idea, are they? Well, they sound young. And kinda peppy even. And hanging out with Steve Austin was a good move too. Their record sounds smooth. I’m just not feeling very smooth. I give any young band the same advice I gave a guy I met last week who only has two months to live (gallbladder): It’s never too late to become a reader. You might not want to start with War & Peace though.

so cool...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WufFxQIzU4Q

love!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppU5jHOD6RU

I like US Disgorge and Disgorge Mexico

i don't really need much more out of life really. don't get me wrong i like lots of new death but the form was perfected so long ago. all its many forms were. i do love variations on a theme though. the reinvention of the death wheel. forever and ever. but there are some days, like today, when cruddy demos and singles and EPs are all one really needs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNH9-Cj811k

my problem with death metal now is the definition of 'brutal' death has changed to this homogeneous, unimaginative glut of bands that are basically just breakdowns, pingy drums, and pig-vocals with sterile, pristine production, whereas 'brutal' death in the 90s had this wide gulf of talented bands with earthy, raw production and personality. oh, there was shit too, lots of it, but like nowadays idk who is even at the forefront of 'brutal death' that isn't just an old school band that didn't retire.

which is...why I liked Disgorge (US) a lot, tbh.

(the non-brutal wing of death metal, otoh, seems to be fine as it has always been, thriving even)

oh yah all the flavors like prog/tech/blackened/doom have so many great bands doing it now. an abundance of riches. that crunchy riffy swedish style. i love all the stuff that sounds like that now. even some people who know how to write songs! like, memorable songs.

listened to nihilist and entombed demos today too. they never get old. they could come out today and they would be my new favorite band!

my problem with death metal now is the definition of 'brutal' death has changed to this homogeneous, unimaginative glut of bands that are basically just breakdowns, pingy drums, and pig-vocals with sterile, pristine production

I love that shit, but I freely admit that it all sounds the same. I buy those albums based solely on cover art, because I know they're gonna sound indistinguishable from one another. I feel like I should put them all into a giant playlist like I do with all the Total compilations on the Kompakt label, and just shuffle it. Gurgh gurgh gurgh gurgh gurgh, ping ping ping ping ping, all day long.