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Sounds promising. Blasty black-death.
That ELDER – LORE album is so so good...
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Blaze of Perdition - Near Death Revelations
Black Metal
Gothic Funeral Doom Metal
Uhh ... hyper-Gorguts? (TDM)
Medieval/Melodic Black Metal
Death/Doom Metal
Brutal Death Metal
Black Metal
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I love Sunbather, but this cracked me up
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I think you deserve as long of a break as you need but I have to admit that yours is a voice that is already missed. Your reviews have had a hugely beneficial effect on me, but I'm also a working dad so I understand the complete loss of free time that you are experiencing. Basically, this is a crappy Libra way of saying enjoy your vacation, good luck, Godspeed, and I am excited for your return!
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I'm still probably going to keep refreshing the blog every few hours though. Old habits die hard...
Some Sabbat (Japan) inspired raw blackened doom/speed metal whatever:
Throaat isn't far off, but they're from New York and play here in Mass sometimes. Amazing song title.
Both of these bands have new releases coming (EPs) that are pretty sweet, if you're into this style.
Lately I've been playing the Metal Opera parts I and II on the way to work.
Thinking about Allen and power/progressive metal, Symphony X's latest dropped on Friday and I'm doing my first serious listen to it today. It's got a nice balance of heaviness and progressive elements, kinda like a mix of Iconoclast and The New Mythology Suite and Russell's vocals go all over the place:
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I've been playing the fuck out of this brutal, atmospheric and seriously catchy shit. Despoilment Of Origin, which they released in '07, was a stand-out release that year, for me, and got very heavy rotation in my playlist. This 2015 release features a mostly new line-up from '07, including several members of Mithras and a sound that fuses Mithras's latter two full-lengths style to their own idiom as found on DOO. This is Sarpanitum's finest hour, and I think slightly (very slightly) edges out Mithras' best.
Edit: Also digging this (thanks to Desc for pointing it out):
Abyssal - Antikatastaseis (Death/Black/Doom Metal)
This is their best work to date, IMO.
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Cave of Swimmers - Reflection (Doom Metal/Progressive/Hard Rock)
Satan's Wrath - Die Evil (Black/Thrash Metal)
Back after 8 years of quiet:
Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega (Avant-garde/Black/Industrial Metal)
Very interesting and dissonant, Gorguts and Ulcerate influenced TDM:
Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est (Technical Death Metal)
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I almost feel like this sound should have it's own sub-genre. I suppose we have enough of those already though. Either way I fucking love how it sounds like pure insanity in musical form.
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Also, while I really enjoyed their two most recent full length releases, the new one from Sickening Horror absolutely sucks ass.
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"Experimental, flamboyant doom"
I look forward to it! :twisted:, Hell's very own Satan.
And thanks (also if you need me to re-up some old covers just let me know which ones).
It is definitely weaksauce compared to the first two albums. Quite shocking, really, would have been better just to shelf that.
To compensate, I offer this other Greek death metal band, their old albums were meh but this new one has a more raw, old school direction and effective, resonant evil songwriting. Whole album is solid.
Unrelated: the new Tribulation continues to grow upon me like a creepy kudzu. I now enjoy it more than Formulas of Death.
I sent an e-mail to @TerribleMisathrope to send an e-mail to you with all of the images that need to be re-upped because I don't have your e-mail.
Edit: Allow me to return the favor with this:
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New Macabre Omen is out after 10 years and its worth the wait.
Porta Nigra is some entertaining avant-garde (I think) black metal
Some straight death metal that's really good
Ambient black metal side project of the guy behind Nightbringer.
A really nice Spanish black metal debut
And a new Greek black metal band that's really promising (seriously, where are they all coming from all of a sudden?!)
Xibalba is a mix of hardcore and death metal. I enjoyed this quite a bit.
Haar is a new progressive black metal group out of Scotland
And the new Cradle of Filth is really solid. This is pretty much the stuff that I dredged up after stalking Reddit's and NCS's 2015 lists
EDIT: Forgot the sister band to Cult of Fire. Surprised no one has mentioned this baby yet.
Also, check out this stoner doom band I just discovered: https://horselungdoom.bandcamp.com/album/gethsemane-haze
The band picture is a hell of a thing... It feels like hipster kids getting into doom, but it looks so earnest that I don't really want to dunk on them too hard or anything. Camel Caravan is a good song for anyone who checks out that album.
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Oh well, differing tastes.
I really thought I recognized that Horse Lung name but I'm probably thinking of Demon Lung, which is also some sort of doom.
Not sure if you saw it or not but I reviewed our favorite album of the year over on the blog
Pretty solid album. I feel it'd be better with some (well-done) vocals, but I always feel that way about instrumental metal.
I disagree on the hipster-ish feel of the band pic. Mustaches fit the doom 70's aesthetics, the guy's just so fucking redhead. And have you shopped glasses recently ? Pretty impossible to find good looking ones that aren't big black plastic frames.
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I wear these glasses: http://www.ezcontactsusa.com/index.php?action=item&id=2790602&individual=all&color=0FU5+Purple&size=&&gclid=CjwKEAjwueytBRCmpOyZ2L-xrG8SJADwH5c6FXu8kcQOsvMOIJNhC2dLPSbfCxYBGoU_sFPTOaGfHhoCaPLw_wcB
There are definitely options that don't involve looking like Buddy Holly. Again, though, I don't think they're actually hipsters. I just saw the picture and laughed the first time I saw it, because it looks like a fake mustache.
I agree super hard that some good vocals would be nice, and I also feel that way about instrumental metal.
Profound Lore best lore
They are the one label from whom I always open up announcement emails and immediately click links
27-second teaser clip from The Book of Souls here, by the way:
I keep meaning to give that a listen, haven't got around to it yet.
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Although they're nowhere near as prolific as they used to be (seriously, this "one new album every four/five years" thing by so many of my favourite bands is getting seriously old, but then, so are the bands themselves I guess), their last few albums have generally been great, so I'm definitely hopeful.
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I've heard that too. Sounds like Paul Allender leaving was the best thing that could've happened to them. There's actually harmony guitars again, so I hear.
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I'm in a phase where I listen to a lot of "non-musical" metal (lo-fi instrumental, drone-ish, ambient) and this really does it for me. I'll be sure to dig in their discography !