Heavy Music thread

Got this beauty in the mail:



Also this may be my favorite death metal release of the year (but I don’t listen to much new DM so take that for what it’s worth):

 

did anyone pay for that fenriz podcast?

 

I love Of Breath and Bone Odin

Maybe they will come to my neighborhood some day

 

They don’t have a bad album imo. Stone’s Reach is the one that got me into them

 

that packaging is very slick

 

It’s such great black metal too

 

new Rivers of Nihil album is coming out

Dan Seagrave did their art again, really looking forward to this one.

 

Joey Jordison died. Never was a fan of any of his bands but damn he was only 46

 

Ya never was into his music but he seems like a stand-up human by all accounts. Sad news.

 

Great drummer by any standard. Slipknot is what the are, but I loved The Subliminal Verses when it came out

 

If nothing else they got a shit ton of kids into the genre. RIP.

 

I love this band

 

Some upcoming new releases have me pretty excited:

new Hooded Menace: these guys have a great take on death/doom, and the new album has speedier elements from 80s metal. The singles I’ve heard sound incredible.



Aorlhac, melodic black metal from France (Occitan, specifically). I thought their last two albums were incredible and some of the best examples of this style you can get. Lyrics are about medieval French/Occitan history, which is pretty cool.

 

Big fan of Hooded Menace

 

Listening to that latest Aorlhac record, this is right up my alley Heavy Mental

 

it’s so good. the one before that is quite choice as well.

 

This bothers me way more than it should. One day I'd like to meet one of these twits that thinks Flame was anywhere close to Awakening. If anything Lost Horizon should be pretending Flame never happened like Pantera does their first 4 albums.

 

Never been huge on power metal but does anyone remember the one-off album/project from Andreas Hedlund of Gothic/Power Metal — HAVAYOTH from like 99/00? I remember the album being pretty solid

 

Hearing now that Mayhem, Satyricon, Mgla are off the Psycho Las Vegas lineup because of travel restrictions.

Emperor, Watain likely to follow.

Still going, but man this blows.

 

I still have the CD

 

You'd never guess that someone from Opeth was in this band

 

Liking the last Alcest record

 

It’s awesome. Haven’t been able to get into their earlier stuff, but that one has some excellent songs.

 

I like most all of their records. Ecailles de lune is probably my favorite

 

I have a new candidate for one of the best metal albums of the year — this shit rules. Proggy, symphonic, dungeon-synthy black metal. I couldn’t pick a favorite track to post but we’ll go with this one (the 3 min mark is so good):

 

I’m sure there are probably some fans of psyche/stoner doom but is anyone interested in heavy psyche here?

 

Also if anyone lives in Austin, I’m jealous, because Eastern Front Records just opened their store there

 

“Eastern Front” records, eh?

 

It’s the guy who runs the Nuclear War Now! label. It’s his brick and mortar store. He’s Japanese I believe

 

Kanonenfieber - Menschenmhle

pretty sick record, black metal with some slower death/doom parts.

one man concept band about WWI, from Germany. seen this on a few AOTY lists.

my nsbm radar was twitching a bit, but so far diligence indicates they're safe. sad state of affairs where i have to Google “[band name] + nsbm” every time i find a new band, but here we are.

 

Listened to that earlier this year based on the album art and enjoyed it

 

so the Psycho Las Vegas lineup has changed pretty dramatically, since all of the European bands (Emperor, Watain, Satyricon, Mayhem) can't travel due to Delta variant concerns.

i'm pretty disappointed not to be seeing all these legends of black metal, but they made some later additions (Mastodon, Knocked Loose, Goatwhore, Deafheaven) that are pretty solid.

Spoiler: Line Up

 

I’m sure it was mentioned in here but the new Panopticon is prettyyyyy good.

the track Dead Loons fucking GOES.

 

yeah that’s a great album.

Moth Eaten Soul is as heavy as they’ve ever been.

the production drives me crazy though. there are so many great riffs, and they’re just buried in the mud of the mix.

 

The mix does stink

 

HoB bringing the heat with Drab Majesty, Exhorder, King Dude, Profanatica, Eyehategod, Repulsion, Immolation

 

that's definitely a good run.

i'm partial to Primitive Man > Pig Destroyer > Dying Fetus > Cannibal Corpse, all back-to-back, all outside at the hotel pool. just unrelenting heaviness.

going to be hilarious watching people mosh in the water.

 

Dying Fetus puts on a good show, been awhile since I last saw Cannibal.

 

no clue how they do at festivals but mastodon in a 1400 person venue in 2014 is still the best live band i've seen fwiw. they were super tight in the way that you would hope to hear from a band that had toured relentlessly for like 15 years at that point.

 

Top 5 live performances you’ve seen? For the sake of the thread I guess keep it to Metal

no order and probably not definitive because I’m trying to remember all the shows but —

Enslaved (2000)
Marilyn Manson (1996)
ISIS (2008)
Cephalic Carnage + Acid Bath (2000)
King Crimson (2007)

 

Rage Against the Machine (2007)
At The Gates (2008)
ISIS (2010)
Behemoth, At The Gates, Wolves in the Throne Room (2018)
Watain (2018)

honorable mention: Rivers of Nihil (2019)

 

I saw them on the Crack the Skye tour and they were great. Excited to revisit.

 

Jealous of that Enslaved 2000-era show.

They are one of my favorite bands, but some of their newer albums are just duds for me. I've seen them twice more recently and I usually like about 50% of stuff in the setlist.

 

burnttatertot I finally found another good Italian band.

HM-2 riffs for days, songs about zombies. what’s not to love?

 

you can never have enough zombies

 

Seeing Megadeth/Lamb of God tonight

 

Should be... interesting.