[Fiend]

A LOT to catch up on here:

https://caskethuffer.bandcamp.com/album/filth-ouroboros
FILTH 

https://gravemiasma.bandcamp.com/album/abyss-of-wrathful-deities
More FILTH 

https://blackcurse-svr.bandcamp.com/album/endless-wound
Even more FILTH 

https://akhlys.bandcamp.com/album/melino
Symphonic black metal 

https://marecognitum.bandcamp.com/album/solar-paroxysm
More symphonic black metal 

https://tropicalsun.bandcamp.com/album/tropical-sun
Groovy goregrind 

https://celestialsanctuary.bandcamp.com/album/soul-diminished
Mid-paced death 

https://eximperitus.bandcamp.com/album/ahrartu
Brutal techdeath 

[teestub]

https://blackcurse-svr.bandcamp.com/album/endless-wound
Even more FILTH 

One of my favourites from 2020. Bit of a supergroup with members from Khemmis, Blood Incantation, Spectral Voice and Primitive Man,

Speaking of Blood Incanation, Fiend I'm assuming you've listened to Hidden History of the Human Race? One of my favourites in the last few years. Bonus that the singer has a proto Bill Bailey look going on

[Fiend]

TBH I have tried some stuff by the well-respected acts listed and it's never really caught my ear until Black Curse, not really sure why

[Fiend]

Carcass definitely re-mellowing (or fermenting?) with age, but this is still metal AF. I think a lot of you DM-dabblers could get on with this, the riffs could almost be a soundtrack to something (dusty western horror movie?)

[teestub]

New Wolves in the Throne Room album today 🤘

[Oldmanmatt]

I’m mildly impressed that there seems to be a global movement of young women playing and listening to some quality stuff. No.1 daughter (16) introduced me to these guys, Vigil of War, and they definitely have a classic, old school feel, that I can’t articulate well, but really enjoy.


And Kiki Wong, their lead guitarist, is worth a follow on insta, for her “Gone Metal” takes on pop/rap/old themes etc, is pretty good.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CSHwrhah2Pr/?utm_medium=copy_link

[JamieG]

That's got quite a punk rock vibe to it, I thought it was going to be full on metal. Quite enjoyed that.

The Guardian had an article on a similar vein recently. Women taking over what was a typically a stronghold of young white men, pop punk / skate punk. Band like Blink 182 and Sum 41. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jul/23/there-are-no-rules-now-how-gen-z-reinvented-pop-punk Is quite an interesting read.

[Fiend]

Women taking over you say?? Good point, here's the latest Rolo:



Time signature + synths in the main riff 

[Oldmanmatt]

Women taking over you say?? Good point, here's the latest Rolo:



Time signature + synths in the main riff 

Nice, not heard that before.

I’m guessing you know the Butcher Babies? I stumbled across them a couple of years back and it was me passing them on to No.1, that got her hunting around for other “Girl Metal”, she’s been a Black Sabbath/ Metalica/Disturbed fan since she was around 11 (though, weirdly, has a playlist that shuffles between Thrash/ Metal  to “Panic at the Disco”  and then, like “show tunes” of  a “Greatest Showman/Les Mis” type of thing, whilst including stacks of Linkin Park, Green Day and then wandering off into Imagine Dragons/Awol Nation. It’s the most  schizophrenic playlist I’ve ever heard, it’s even got Toto in there).

[mark20]

New Wolves in the Throne Room album today 🤘

Good shout, thanks. I've been meaning to check these guys out more, loving the ambient synthesizer sounds in black metal at the moment 
Also, Wolves In The Throne Room is a brilliant band name !

[Fiend]

Nice, not heard that before.

I'd expect not, since it was released 2 days before I posted it!

Wasn't a fan of the Butcher Babies stuff I tried, quite conventional in tone. Girl Metal wise I've always liked the quirkier stuff: Rolo Tomassi, IWABO (defunct), Mares Of Thrace (defunct), Employed To Serve, Ithaca, etc....

[Fiend]

Let's talk......   C A R C A S S 

Not enough discussion of their new album, Torn Arteries...



Is it a great Carcass album - maybe not
Is it a great death metal album - maybe
Is it a great METAL album full stop - YES

Following on from Surgical Steel it sees Liverpool's finest export tread further down the long and winding path of lead-driven, nods-to-NWOBHM, eminently-palatable melo-death, in a fairly similar but also more varied vein. So if you're a die-hard fan of the Reek / Symphonies era, you're going to be even more furious how far they're strayed for from their gore-grind roots. For everyone else, you'll just be trying, unsuccessfully, to get the earworm lead of The Scythe's Remorseless Swing out of your head for the next year.

[Fiend]

FFS forum decided to edit out the playlist thing whatever....

https://carcass.bandcamp.com/album/torn-arteries

[Fiend]

But if that's all a bit evolutionary and progressive, how about something that could have come straight from the classic Entombed-pioneering era of Swedish buzzsaw guitar death metal from nearly 30 years ago??

https://grandcadaver.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-maw-of-death

This hits the mark exactly if you like that style. So down-to-earth it's clawing through the graves.

[Fiend]

You've waited months for another massive metal top tip from the fickle Fiend and two come along at once....

Erdve - Savigaila

If you ever think "I really liked Helmet but I wish someone had done a skull-crushingly heavy version with a guitar weight that wouldn't so much annoy the neighbours as structurally separate our respective residences" ......then this is for you. Earth-shattering sludgehardcoredoom with anguished vocals.


GOAT TORMENT - Forked Tongues

On the other hand if you want more straight up slightly charred death metal full of furious riffs and pounding artillery blastbeats (it's "Torturer" on drums), this is straight to the point.


Both on repeat since I bought them 

[Fiend]

Sigh. I guess that was too mellow for you lot. Fine. Here's something furiously riotous enough that it could almost make Aerocap fun (it's about the right length). But not quite....


https://concretewinds.bandcamp.com/album/nerve-butcherer

[Fiend]

Saw Rolo Tomassi and Pupil Slicer at the Manc Academy last night. If you live in BRISTOL they're playing tonight, if you live in LONDON it's tomorrow, just go see them FFS, as brilliant as usual.


Rolo's first encore track, the intro to this is brilliant, as is the breakdown. The bass on this live 


Lovely and epic.


My own quote from Youtube:

Listened twice in a row. Gonna get a paint scraper to peel my ears off the wall a few metres behind me....

Pupil Slicer were great and suitable support, even more riotous and grindy, but this more epic track was my favourite.

[Fiend]

Not my personal thing but some of you lot who always ignore this thread might appreciate it:



Still got it, classic vocal style, and topical AF.

[BrutusTheBear]

Love a bit of Killing Joke..  Their 2015 release I am the Virus is also topical AF but 5/6 years before the topic arrived. How'd they do that?

You'll be pleased to hear I am taking my eldest to his first proper gig in a couple of weeks.  Napalm Death in Torquay 

[Fiend]

You'll be pleased to hear I am taking my eldest to his first proper gig in a couple of weeks.  Napalm Death in Torquay 

good stuff!

[Fiend]

Okay here's something even more topical. An excellent bombastic blackened death / doom album.....

from a Ukrainian band....

about the horrors of war.....

[slab_happy]

Positively light and fluffy by the ambient standards of this thread, but wow, Bloodywood are making some FUN noise:

[Fiend]

Positively light and fluffy by the ambient standards of this thread,

Blame Fiend for his passions. Or blame all the other people who don't contribute!

but wow, Bloodywood are making some FUN noise:

You're not wrong there!! A lot of fun, they should be as big as any nu-metal / metalcore band. Twin language / twin vocals is an especially good hook, as is presence of traditional instruments that don't overwhelm the metals.

[slab_happy]

May I commend the podcast DEATH//SENTENCE to people's attention? I recently got put onto it and have been enjoying it a lot recently. They talk books (leaning towards sf/f and other genre fic, but not exclusively) and play a couple of metal tracks each ep. Sometimes they do interviews with metal bands.

Their self-description is "A podcast about books for people who don't like books, podcasts or capitalism, but who like extreme metal."

If you want to spend over nine hours listening to an in-depth analysis of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun (and I personally did and had a great time), this is the podcast for you.

[GCW]

WTF?