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Anyone listen to Baroness’ new album “Gold and Grey”? I like it better than their last couple of albums, but I think I’m stuck on Blue more than anything else. This sounds like the right evolution for them compared to where they’ve been. I need to give it a couple more listens.

I'm listening to it today. I liked both Yellow & Green and Purple, but for some reason I have not been very enthusiastic about this album's release. I've had a nagging feeling that this is where they're going to start to lose me.

Wat?

Yeah I saw that some time ago. Technically I like Wind Rose with one exception: the actual structure of the songs they write. I like the sounds they produce, primarily vocally, but none of the melodies or rhythms are of interest to me.

So it makes me wonder if this is just me having pedestrian tastes in music or everyone else being way too obsessed with the elaborate costumes they wear.

And Diggy Diggy Hole feels more Gloryhammer, and probably would have been better written by Gloryhammer, as Wind Rose has never written anything silly like this before. Not as a single, at least.

I've been digging that new Moon Tooth disc since it dropped. Their first LP had some exciting moments, but this feels way more cohesive to me. A really fun listen IMO.

Also the new Destrage is pretty killer, if we haven't already discussed it.

Here's some grand prog-metal that has been doing for me what last year's Rivers of Nihil could not:

It's got vintage Opeth style heavy riffs and soft parts. It's got blackened vocals. It's got avant-garde Portal-like noise. It's got a vocalist in a Julio Jones jersey. The album's long and they cover a lot of ground in it.

A lot of ground? Feels like they cover all the ground.

new band im obsessed with. well new band to me.

Black Fast. Modern Thrash that has a ripping Thin Lizzy cover!!!

GrandSlamSingle wrote:

new band im obsessed with. well new band to me.

Black Fast. Modern Thrash that has a ripping Thin Lizzy cover!!!

Black Fast are an old favorite of this thread! I've seen them twice. I loved their second album, but need to take the time to give their third a full listen.

Thin Lizzy are pretty good, too.

We've discussed Spirit Adrift recently. They're currently touring, but were skipping Houston. About a week ago they suddenly added a free date at Rudyard's Pub, a cool pub in the hippest part of town that is half a block from where Sigsbee and I used to live. I'm thinking about going if this week doesn't wear me out first.

Edit: They're very much traditional metal, lots of Sabbath influences, no extreme metal to be found.

*Legion* wrote:

Here's some grand prog-metal that has been doing for me what last year's Rivers of Nihil could not:

It's got vintage Opeth style heavy riffs and soft parts. It's got blackened vocals. It's got avant-garde Portal-like noise. It's got a vocalist in a Julio Jones jersey. The album's long and they cover a lot of ground in it.

garion333 wrote:

A lot of ground? Feels like they cover all the ground.

I enjoyed what I listened to yesterday while at work, so much so I continued to listen in my car. Now I hate them. The production sucks, until the soft parts.

Fedaykin98 wrote:
GrandSlamSingle wrote:

new band im obsessed with. well new band to me.

Black Fast. Modern Thrash that has a ripping Thin Lizzy cover!!!

Black Fast are an old favorite of this thread! I've seen them twice. I loved their second album, but need to take the time to give their third a full listen.

Thin Lizzy are pretty good, too.

Thrash, you say......? I’ll check them out.

garion333 wrote:

I enjoyed what I listened to yesterday while at work, so much so I continued to listen in my car. Now I hate them. The production sucks, until the soft parts.

That's impossible. The holy DR rating has decreed it a 7.

The treble-heavy (some might say shrill) production works for me here.

*Legion* wrote:
garion333 wrote:

I enjoyed what I listened to yesterday while at work, so much so I continued to listen in my car. Now I hate them. The production sucks, until the soft parts.

That's impossible. The holy DR rating has decreed it a 7.

The treble-heavy (some might say shrill) production works for me here.

I believe the 7 is only because of the quieter, ambient stuff.

You got further than I did, at the very least. I didn't even make it through that one posted track..

Ok, I have to share this. It's one of my favourite little music discoveries in a while.

It's like Baby Metal for fans of depressive black metal.

But they also do power metal!

And early thrash/speed metal!

And while I enjoy Baby Metal from time to time, I can't shake the feeling that they ride their gimmick a bit too hard. Despite the genre-hopping, I find this group a lot more grounded. I'm having a lot of fun poking through their discography. So far, the first album I linked it my favorite. It's just so delightfully weird.

The thing with Baby Metal is that I've never found a song I enjoyed as a song since Headbanger. Oddly enough, that was back when they still had studio musicians rather than a "proper band" (I think, after a while, some actual metal musicians of Japan joined and began to help with music writing). The problem is, as you state, it sounds like everything else they do is a gimmick. They do other genres of pop but throw in metal riffs to the background, but they're not really interesting metal riffs. Similarly with the lyrics. I have no idea what Headbanger is about, but the video at least seems properly metal in that it's got the imagery and is effectively demonstrating a girl shedding her socially acceptable persona for her true metal self.

No clue what the lyrics are.

But then you have a song called "GIMME CHOCOLATE" or something and it's like "Okay this is just a gimmick". Karate I think was one of their more recent ones, and it wasn't bad, just... uninteresting.

I have a feeling Necronomidol also uses studio musicians given the last video (and middle one) don't show any musicians performing the music, but the lyrical content and music itself sounds like what you'd expect a band sincerely trying to make good metal sounds like. They're a "metal idol group", but less as a gimmick and more as "we're idols that sing metal songs", if that makes sense. I mean, cripes, I was shocked to see them doing crowd surfing in that bottom video, but they went and did it.

I guess it's that Necronomidol feels sincere in what they're doing, and the exploration of different sub-genres and sounds shows an appreciation (at least on the part of the studio musicians) for the medium.

The only female Japanese metal I care about is Serenity in Murder, who I think were mentioned here eons ago. They are a totally legit melodic death metal band with a female vocalist, at a minimum - can't find that much info about them. Their album The Highest of Dystopia is on YouTube.

New Slough Feg today and it's what you would expect. Scalzi is throwing more philosophy into this release (and less scifi) and this song is likely the best example of it. Probably my favorite song on the album.

Overall it's Slough Feg, every song is its own journey and angle. A bit more metal riffing on this album, but it's still very much a 70's-80's amalgamation of rock and metal Blue Oyster Cult-like weirdness we've come to know.

Hah! I used to work with the old drummer for Slough Feg. They were so excited when they got Erol Otis to do their album cover.

Love Blayne talking about Deathspell Omega right here:

Spoiler:

"And hey, if killing Jews and being racist isn't upsetting to you enough, because apparently for a bunch of you, it isn't..."

Love that line.

American Black Metal with late-era-Isis-Aaron Turner-esque growl vocals. Not sure why I keep hearing Aaron when there's tons of other vocalists to pick from, but so be it.

Anyway, very one note, intense black metal that has one amazing moment about 8 minutes in. Some of yall might eat this sh*t up.

garion333 wrote:

Some of yall might eat this sh*t up. ;)

Can't imagine who you could be referring to, coming in here and throwing "Aaron Turner" and "American black metal" around.

Has anybody seen the Wayne Static Slipknot mask guy?....

garion333 wrote:

Some of yall might eat this sh*t up. ;)

You're right, I ate it up!

That sucks about Deathspell Omega. I had no idea the band was made up of terrible racists. Took them out of my playlists after watching that video, that's for sure. Usually I check bands out just to make sure I'm not discovering and starting to follow someone terrible, but I missed that one somehow.

Edit: sorry, forgot to mention, on a very similar note, has anyone else seen this? Riffs for Reproductive Justice
A great compilation for a great cause. Really quite a wide range of metal, from unlistenable in my opinion to amazing.

d4m0 wrote:

Edit: sorry, forgot to mention, on a very similar note, has anyone else seen this? Riffs for Reproductive Justice
A great compilation for a great cause. Really quite a wide range of metal, from unlistenable in my opinion to amazing.

Yep, saw that, thought, "hey, Kim Kelly would dig this", then looked at who put it together, and it was Kim herself.

Worth the price of admission for the Thou cover of "In the Pines" alone.

The tracks from Ails and Woe are both from each band's most recent release (EP release in Woe's case) but won't ever complain about hearing these tracks again.

d4m0 wrote:

That sucks about Deathspell Omega. I had no idea the band was made up of terrible racists. Took them out of my playlists after watching that video, that's for sure. Usually I check bands out just to make sure I'm not discovering and starting to follow someone terrible, but I missed that one somehow.

Yeah, that frontman asshole does his dirt away from the DSO name, so people go around dismissing the idea of DSO as a racist band.

Here's a Finnish article on the frontman that goes into some stuff.

MaxShrek wrote:

Has anybody seen the Wayne Static Slipknot mask guy?....

I saw they were touring with a new lead in Wayne's place, but I am not sure what he sounds like.

I was a big fan of their Industrial sound too!

MaxShrek wrote:

Has anybody seen the Wayne Static Slipknot mask guy?....

speaking, indirectly, of Slipknot. I was perusing Reddit and found out that Corey Taylor does cover of Tenacious D songs on off days or after shows...apparently.

im way into this. Long Live The D

hello all.

HELL NIGHT. The lead singer of Shadows Fall new project. And by new project i mean a pair of albums already. Really fun. it has that shadows fall sound if your into that. The newest album just came out this past week or 2. 16 FULL STEAM AHEAD SONGS!!!!! The album is quick to go through and makes you want to run through a damn wall.

check it out!!!