I'm not there with Scalpture yet though I'll admit it's really good. It's mainly due to me being absolutely OBSESSED with Fer de Lance at the moment. Got that album (and the EP) on repeat.
I'm possibly the only person in the world that put that one up at #1, and I believe I was the ONLY vote for it on the Metal Archives year's end list (although most of my top choices were very high up). So I know I'm in the minority. Voivod is equally worthy and one that I will probably listen to more in the long run, but Scalpture is just too damn fun and sounds immense.
I dig the Kreator half at least, but most of it just sounds like a cookie cutter back and forth, and I'd rather Mille's vocals were over the whole thing, Randy's never done it for me.
Enjoying Delain's Dark Waters quite a bit. If you're already lukewarm on the band, I doubt this album is going to change your mind; but if you dug them before and are open to the combination of new/old line-up they have going on now (returning guitarist Ronald Landa and drummer Sander Zoer, and the new additions, bassist Ludovico Cioffi and singer Diana Leah, join keyboardist Martijn Westerholt), it's a really solid album with no real weak tracks. Foregoing some of the electronica influences that crept into previous LP Apocalypse & Chill, it's more rooted in the band's earlier strains of symphonic metal (and some formats also include an instrumental version of the album as the likes of Nightwish did once or twice). The pre-release singles give a pretty good representation of the album, and from what I've seen on Youtube from fan recordings, the new line-up is doing the business live too.
In news that is far, far less shitty, the new Ulthar albums have dropped, and they're pretty damn cool as you'd expect, raunchy and morbid. And I just got a notification that the CDs are out for delivery today!
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i got these over the weekend, haven't had a chance to spin then but Ulthar do the weird angular thing while still maintaining the ferocity that i like in death metal
I'm almost positive we already posted this one but the full album is out on physical tomorrow and I've been listening through it and it's pretty interesting, atmospheric doom with ethereal vocals but also a lot of 90s Euro Goth metal influence.
New Tulus album is fantastic, a great mix between their trad Norwegian BM and the black & roll stuff like Sarke or Slegest. They've been killing it since they got productive again.
I'm almost positive we already posted this one but the full album is out on physical tomorrow and I've been listening through it and it's pretty interesting, atmospheric doom with ethereal vocals but also a lot of 90s Euro Goth metal influence.
Loved this. How all metal vocals don't sound the same. Mara Lisenko demonstrates nine different voices. (In the grand tradition of clickbait: you won't believe what the last one is!)
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edited February 2023
i realised i havent really listened to much soilwork since figure number five when i loved them* and queued up the most recent album
after the first 2mins i was like dam they still soilwork tho that rules i feel like that riff is such a classic soilwork thing
like a cheesy version of insomnium in terms of keeping it consistent by having illegally catchy choruses and the occasional hard bit to spare the embarrassment of their listeners who really want cheesy 80s music but just cant admit it
*there is a funny (tragic?) story here
an attractive goth girl invited me to a soilwork concert in 2005 and i did not realise that she probably had an ulterior motive and i thought we were just going to appreciate the music
it turned out the live mix was bad and i spent the meal afterwards malding about the fact the synths were drowned in the mix and she seemed somewhat disappointed for undefinable reasons
in retrospect... i was right damn it the synths are important ok and she ended up going on a multiple months-long tour of the graveyards of europe so really who was the winner here
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this evaded me earlier but i think the best summary of soilwork for me is this:
some bands you feel like they put in melodic bits to make the fanbase happy
but with soilwork it feels like bjorn strid holding an umbrella and wearing sparkly shades leaning close to you and whispering "a spoonful of medicine to help the sugar go down"
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In conclusion, Soilwork is now for people too embarrassed to admit that they like Night Flight Orchestra?
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edited February 2023
Fear Factory has announced their new vocalist: a man named Milo Silvestro from Italy. I'm curious to see how that works out. They were a huge deal to me when I was getting into the more extreme side of metal, but kinda lost me with Digitmortal and since then I've had mixed opinions. I thought the last album they did was pretty good, though. Someone posted a video a while back of the new guy covering Fear Factory's "Dielectric" here and he sounds like a reasonable facsimile of Burton.
So I stumbled upon the new Xentrix album and was like "damn, that sure looks like an Ed Repka cover" and that brought me to Dan Goldsworthy's list of art credits on Metal-Archives and I'm pretty sure he's an AI art generator where they fed the words "Ed Repka" in 90% of the time, and Dan Seagrave or John Baizley the other 10% of the time. The Angelo Sasso of art credits.
The only album by Fear Factory I still want is Archetype and fuck me that ain't happening.
I had no idea I was picking up a future rare album when I bought that one years ago. And now none of the people who play on that album are actually in the band!
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I think someone linked to a song by Them a few years ago on here and I wasn't into it at the time, but I just listened to their latest and liked it a lot. And it didn't sound as much like King Diamond as I thought.
I think someone linked to a song by Them a few years ago on here and I wasn't into it at the time, but I just listened to their latest and liked it a lot. And it didn't sound as much like King Diamond as I thought.
There was definitely a lot of King Diamond influence initially, but they've been musically veering away from that, a lot heavier actually, I've got all four albums and enjoy them quite a lot.
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Sounds kinda like a bonus track from last year's Star One album.
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Oh yeah, I'm digging the hell out of this. Definitely got that early Gathering/MacBeth/Sins of Thy Beloved feel.
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Really digging Theophonos. Very riffy. Normally I'm not a fan of high screamy vocals but it seems to work here
Loved this. How all metal vocals don't sound the same. Mara Lisenko demonstrates nine different voices. (In the grand tradition of clickbait: you won't believe what the last one is!)
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after the first 2mins i was like dam they still soilwork tho that rules i feel like that riff is such a classic soilwork thing
like a cheesy version of insomnium in terms of keeping it consistent by having illegally catchy choruses and the occasional hard bit to spare the embarrassment of their listeners who really want cheesy 80s music but just cant admit it
*there is a funny (tragic?) story here
an attractive goth girl invited me to a soilwork concert in 2005 and i did not realise that she probably had an ulterior motive and i thought we were just going to appreciate the music
it turned out the live mix was bad and i spent the meal afterwards malding about the fact the synths were drowned in the mix and she seemed somewhat disappointed for undefinable reasons
in retrospect... i was right damn it the synths are important ok and she ended up going on a multiple months-long tour of the graveyards of europe so really who was the winner here
some bands you feel like they put in melodic bits to make the fanbase happy
but with soilwork it feels like bjorn strid holding an umbrella and wearing sparkly shades leaning close to you and whispering "a spoonful of medicine to help the sugar go down"
(it's no secret here that that I like both)
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yes, and i said it, so its a fact probably
Pre-ordered.
edit: Milo, not Dino
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Examples:
Seagrave: https://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/0/4/7/1047072.jpg?1007
Repka: https://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/0/2/0/1020488.jpg?3034
https://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/0/7/3/1073104.jpg?1903
Baizley: https://www.metal-archives.com/images/3/4/6/8/346847.jpg?0255
I had no idea I was picking up a future rare album when I bought that one years ago. And now none of the people who play on that album are actually in the band!
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In other news Bandcamp finally added playlists!!!
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There was definitely a lot of King Diamond influence initially, but they've been musically veering away from that, a lot heavier actually, I've got all four albums and enjoy them quite a lot.