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The Metal Thread |OT2| All Riffs, No Gifs
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New Ackercocke album out today. It's so good, really what you'd expect from them. Same tech/black/death/proggy thing they've got going on and I can't recommend it enough. Here's a song off of it. https://youtu.be/-DX21xOdQo0
Man, i'm so eager to listen to it. Akercocke is one of my fav bands that people don't even know it exists. Issues at work will probably make me listen much later today or tomorrow =(
Also looking forward to the new Pagan Altar and Leng Tch'e.
Corpsepyre
Banned
For the fans of Stoner/Psychedelic, highly recommend new Ruby the Ratchet album.
https://thehatchet.bandcamp.com/album/planetary-space-child
https://open.spotify.com/album/2DKx9ldhq4lKL75vq21HXJ
Simply amazing!
https://thehatchet.bandcamp.com/album/planetary-space-child
https://open.spotify.com/album/2DKx9ldhq4lKL75vq21HXJ
Simply amazing!
Cyhra (Jesper Stromblad's new band) new song Karma
Music is great, but I don't like the vocals. Too clean.
Music is great, but I don't like the vocals. Too clean.
Andrew Korenchkin
Member
Anyone from Texas? Hope for the Best, damn.
Saw Pallbearer last night. Good show, but was surprised they were pushed to the smaller upstair stage (capacity 138ish) which didn't fill up either. Maybe 80 people? Thought these guys would have drawn more than that in a college town.
My buddy and his girlfriend left halfway thru saying this wasn't what they were expecting with Pallbearer. This was after telling me a few days ago that he had listened to about 20 songs and was digging it. Ok.....
My buddy and his girlfriend left halfway thru saying this wasn't what they were expecting with Pallbearer. This was after telling me a few days ago that he had listened to about 20 songs and was digging it. Ok.....
MezzoForte
Member
Yellow Eyes quietly has a new full-length just around the corner. There is a review out already, but no official previews yet. Being the hound that I am, I found an online radio archive that includes one track off the new album which will be entitled Immersion Trench Reverie. I was already of the opinion that these guys have one of the most idiosyncratic yet unforced styles of black metal in the world, and this track has blown me the fuck away. I was able to hold off my own hype for a pretty long time, but now I can't wait for this.
"Blue as Blue"
"Blue as Blue"
parrotbeak
Member
I dig it. Threw a little bit to help put a down payment for your next $20 pedal.
Brian_FETO
Banned
Totally unnecessary but very much appreciated. Thanks, friend. Glad you dig it!
That is sorta bizarre, but then again, I wouldn't think they'd be a hit among college kids.
How was their sound? I saw them a year ago with Baroness and their sound was so thick and warm while still absolutely crushing.
vatstep
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Brian_FETO
Banned
This is cool, thanks for sharing it
I like the blackgaze-type sound but there's so few bands/albums that actually click with me (doesn't help when most abandon the metal elements completely). Definitely wish it had vocals though
Thought they sounded great! Pretty much like you described. One of the bad things of seeing concerts at a bar in Iowa is that alot of the bands just go thru the motions to get the show over and I felt that with them. Still, it was a good performance.
choodi
Banned
I still find it bizzare watching a video and seeing those deep growls come out of someone female. She's a damn good singer, but there is a certain cognitive dissonance thing happening when I watch her do it.
This is nice. I'm digging it. Gonna check out the whole album.
Melchiah
Member
Then you must check out Onielar's voice on Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult: https://youtu.be/jRe4Caed-Wg and Bethlehem: https://youtu.be/dRe5BtzBi3Y, and Lori Bravo's on Nuclear Death: https://youtu.be/0Z491nMRCfA
Both play guitar as well, and beat many of the male vocalists in their genres.
choodi
Banned
The higher pitched vocals are fine, it's specifically the deep death growls at the start of the Arch Enemy song.
Melchiah
Member
choodi
Banned
Oh yeah, I noticed that, but because there was no video of her singing, the dissonance wasn't there. It's a visual thing, rather than an aural thing, if that makes sense?
Either way, they all do a great job and I couldn't care less what gender they are, but actually seeing them do the deep growls is...odd in some way.
It's beautiful.
Royal_Flush
Member
I know, right? I absolutely dig women doing harsh vocals. Probably some fetish I'm not even aware of
Melchiah
Member
In that case, here's an old live clip from 1990 of Nuclear Death: https://youtu.be/D0PKwrAeGII
Plus, live clips of...
Mythic (1992): https://youtu.be/4P0KRthlWN4
Derketa: https://youtu.be/t2KmgHD7wG4
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Derketa is great. I don't even like doom/death much usually, but this is a rare exception.
TerminalDogma
Member
Hey guys, just got back from a vacation so pardon the late reply, but thanks again for those power metal rec's! Salem Spade, Powerwolf and that Goblin King song stood out the most to me, definitely gonna look into them more.
MezzoForte
Member
re: fucking brutal female-fronted death/doom. One of the absolute finest examples.
Thorr's Hammer (WA)
Thorr's Hammer (WA)
Wolfgunblood Garopa
Member
Lithopedion - Antagonist (Symphonic Black/Doom, Venezuela, 2017)
I didn't know what a lithopedion was before this, that is some dark shit. Killer album, kind of a cross between Colosseum and Sarpanitum. I don't hear of too many Venezuelan bands, and none this good that I can think of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGtsmaiwOqs
I didn't know what a lithopedion was before this, that is some dark shit. Killer album, kind of a cross between Colosseum and Sarpanitum. I don't hear of too many Venezuelan bands, and none this good that I can think of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGtsmaiwOqs
Soften the Glare's new album Making Faces is up on Bandcamp
It features Ryan Martinie (Mudvyane). They're a jazz/funk/prog rock/prog metal band.
It features Ryan Martinie (Mudvyane). They're a jazz/funk/prog rock/prog metal band.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
Member
Another new banger, ffo: Sarpanitum
Antecantamentum - Antecantamentum (Symphonic BM, US, 2017)
https://antecantamentum.bandcamp.com/
Quality everything here, all killer. BM AOTY contender for sure. There's one track on here that sounds like Super Metroid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn9pPYv24ik
Antecantamentum - Antecantamentum (Symphonic BM, US, 2017)
https://antecantamentum.bandcamp.com/
Quality everything here, all killer. BM AOTY contender for sure. There's one track on here that sounds like Super Metroid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn9pPYv24ik
That's what I was thinking of too when I saw that discussion. Haven't listened to this in ages.
Speaking of going back to stuff I haven't listened to in a while, if anyone is in for some droney doom/ambient with some black metal I guess should check out Kodiak. That build up towards the end about halfway through kills me every single time. It's a shame they split up.
Why do music documentaries get me into a band? I had zero interest in Cannibal Corpse until I ran into a doc about them on YouTube which was pretty cool. Watching one on Morbid Angel now but didn't get too far before I had to head to work. Again, no real interest in MA either but now I'm taking another look and kind of digging them too.
Cannibal Corpse vid. This is like 3 hours long.
https://youtu.be/aGPot3rP53o
Cannibal Corpse vid. This is like 3 hours long.
https://youtu.be/aGPot3rP53o
I have this DVD, pretty good documentary, it was fun to see "Corpsegrinder" so addicted to WoW, lol.
Hesemonni
Banned
The Haunted just released a new album on the 25th of August and I completely missed it. Haven't had the time to listen to it properly, but the little I've managed to is really good. My biggest problem with the current line up are the vocals. Aro's output is just so one dimensional it fails to bring much needed depth to the songs. The song writing is varied and there's surprising amount of interesting stuff in there, but the vocals... I wish Dolving was still with the band.
Speaking of Dolving, he's current project IAmFire is quite trippy:
I Am Fire - Eyes Wide Open (lyrics video)
Inkvoterad
Member
I'm getting more and more into alot of metal that seems to mix Black Metal type stuff with more melodic and atmospheric aspects, on top of well, uh, better sound mix.
I know of Deafheaven, Alcest, and i recently found out about Harakiri For The Sky and they're awesome. Here's Jhator by them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXNBM6HJCSA
Anyway, as i understand people often name it as blackgaze, right? Or atmospheric black metal i guess, or maybe not black metal at all. Iunno, metal has so many fucking sub-sub-subgenres.
Anyway, that stuff is awesome. Someone gimme more
I know of Deafheaven, Alcest, and i recently found out about Harakiri For The Sky and they're awesome. Here's Jhator by them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXNBM6HJCSA
Anyway, as i understand people often name it as blackgaze, right? Or atmospheric black metal i guess, or maybe not black metal at all. Iunno, metal has so many fucking sub-sub-subgenres.
Anyway, that stuff is awesome. Someone gimme more
Les Discrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIH5QLjGCf0&ab_channel=prophecyBC
Sylvaine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eOfGQyKE5o&ab_channel=SumofEveryLostShip
Oh Hiroshima
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWmWgNeT3Nw&ab_channel=Innsmouth815
Over the Ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWWrY7fO3S4&ab_channel=PolllkaAA
Inkvoterad
Member
aw yiss, thanks. Gonna check 'em out.
Royal_Flush
Member
I'll throw in Oathbreaker and Der Weg Einer Freiheit
In case you're drifting into postrock (It's a fluid transition), check out the awesome youtube channel wherepostrockdwells for tons of great albums from bands with the most beautiful names you never heard of.
MezzoForte
Member
if you're in NY you would be a fool not to be at this tonight.
Inkvoterad
Member
Thanks for all these tips. Oathbreaker was awesome, so i think i'll try to focus on them tonight.
Heavy/Power: Wings of Pterodactyl Fire
hobblygobbly
Member
A lot of good recommendations by others already that I agree with, but you may also like "Au Champ Des Morts" which is a band I recommended earlier this year in this thread and "Year of No Light", both are also French bands. The latter is kind of a fusion of stuff, there's definitely some blackgaze tracks but they're really post-metal but I recommend checking out both.
Au Champ Des Morts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RNzbpnVdlA
Year of No Light (it's not every day you see two drummers). Not a blackened track but it's one of my favourites from the band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0VuOfvYpko&t=3m8s This one is more blackened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdeJ_ylcVf0
And yeah I'd say blackgaze is the correct genre - some people say "blackened shoegaze" but it 's the same thing, Alcest being the quintessential example of blackgaze. There's a bit of cross over of atmospheric black metal and blackgaze because some bands do a fusion of it with some tracks/albums. You may also want to explore all the genres that are "blackened" like "blackened doom" if you're a doom metal fan. The thing with "atmospheric black metal" can be confusing because a lot of black metal tries to invoke atmosphere with how instruments are sometimes overlayed and how a lot of vocals aren't even supposed to be audible to "listen to" but part of the atmosphere, however some bands are very distinct with its themes of atmosphere, like using nature or bands like Summoning with Tolkien themes. I'd say black metal that invokes traditional satanism themes is what one can differentiate from atmospheric black metal, so bands like Bathory, Gorgoroth, Behemoth (early) are not what I'd call atmospheric for example but for example some of Agalloch's albums, Wolves in the Throne Room, Summoning are what I'd call atmospheric black metal.