\m/(~_~)\m/ Bring the Metal! \m/(~_~)\m/

I completely love the Shadows Fall album "Of One Blood"; they were melodic death metal at the time. "The War Within" is okay with some bright spots, but I preferred their earlier sound. I assume this is more like their more recent output?

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I completely love the Shadows Fall album "Of One Blood"; they were melodic death metal at the time. "The War Within" is okay with some bright spots, but I preferred their earlier sound. I assume this is more like their more recent output?

some one put the new album on YouTube. Give it a spin

Last week I saw Too live for the first (Maynard still has a great voice) and went to a 2-day metal festival (Slipknot, Trivium, Arch Enemy, Gojira, Lamb of God, etc), for which the highlight was Slayer playing for the last time (in my country, at least). All in all, pretty amazing stuff, but even more amazing (and confusing) was the amount of families there. I saw some really young kids there. Of course, pretty much all of them were in the stands of the arena, but still... Is this normal?

The last time I went to a metal festival, was 2011 or 2012's Download Festival and I don't remember it being like that.

Damn right you bring your kids! Raise them right!

I've yet to go to a metal show that I thought would be an unsafe environment for younger/smaller people. Most feel less sketchy than the average Raiders game.

Gojira rules, at least.

The only real reason not to bring them would be if your kids don't handle loud noises well.

I feel like metal shows are very welcoming, whereas punk and related shows feel very insular, sadly.

Oh, and this happened...

slazev wrote:

Oh, and this happened...

Check the solo on the second one (around 3min30sec).

That there is some drumming

1349 owns.

New album from Yellow Eyes.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I feel like metal shows are very welcoming, whereas punk and related shows feel very insular, sadly.

Luckily I think my little ladies first big kid/adult concert is going to be the aquabats this fall. Should be fun!!

New Opeth

Digging that new Opeth. If the whole album is like that, I'm in.

Found a couple great new bands thanks to that Riffs for Reproductive Justice compilation. I don't know how I hadn't heard Immortal Bird before. They just released a new album too.

It's Fake-tushka release day!

Anthony Fantano did a video on "The Batushka Situation" on his secondary YouTube channel:

Fake-tushka album isn't bad. It's good in parts, but it runs out of ideas, and it lacks the uniqueness and cohesive vision of real Batushka. And the way they try to shoehorn in some of real Batushka's elements feels halfhearted and artificial. They clearly don't get the core concept the same way as, you know, the guy who conceived it and wrote the original blueprint.

It feels like a black metal album consisting of a few good ideas these random musicians have had in their back pockets, some random attempts at copying Batushka's elements, and black-metal-by-numbers filling in the rest of the gaps.

Torche dropped their new album.

The title track single is very shoegazey:

Some tracks still have the heavier sludge-pop grooves, but overall it is a lighter, dreamier affair than Restarter.

I've enjoyed the new Torche. Lighter and dreamier is definitely a good description. It seems like it would be especially enjoyable after smoking a doobie. I think I'd put it behind Restarter though, as I like their heavier stuff more.

Speaking of doobies, if you go for the psychedelic stuff, Green Milk From the Planet Orange (their name says it all, really), a trio from Japan, just released a new album today. It's their first actual release in over a decade. They're amazing. Three songs, the shortest one is almost 10 minutes, and the longest one is 20 minutes, somehow it never gets boring. Someday I'd love to see them live.

New Tomb Mold album is out today!

What adjective would you use to mean, "resembling or relating to an abyss"? Abyssal? Abyssic?

Well there are bands with both of those names that have dropped new death-doom metal albums this year, and it's taken a little effort for me to keep them straight.

Abyssic plays death/doom with some strong prog-rock influences. They work Mellotron and Minimoog into their sound. What's more, the album name is a Yes reference, from Tales From Topographic Oceans. Listen to the title track for the percussion-less instrumental break at around the 11:00 mark:

... and then the section in Yes's "The Remembering (High the Memory)" that starts right before the 8:00 mark:

Abyssic pushes the melody lines way into the back of the mix, but besides that, a clear reference to the Yes track.

Abyssal, on the other hand, play death/doom with that cavernous style like Portal and Altarage, and this is sitting right alongside this year's Altarage release as my favorites in this style so far this year:

This is fun

Previously, I was listening to a lot of early death metal, to try and gain a bit more context and perspective on the genre. But then I realized that I needed to go even further back, so now I'm listening to all the '80s thrash albums that I never listened to outside of the classic Metallica and Megadeth albums (and Reign in Blood).

garion333 wrote:

This is fun

Inside of every fast song, there is a drone track trying to get out.

I finally got to listen to the new Tomb Mold today. Great stuff, as expected.

Legion, I was a huge fan of Anthrax back in the day. I got to see them headline a show that also featured White Zombie on the Sound of White Noise tour. Probably my first metal show, and it rocked!

Cattle Decapitation debut new song One Day Closer to the End of the World

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Legion, I was a huge fan of Anthrax back in the day. I got to see them headline a show that also featured White Zombie on the Sound of White Noise tour. Probably my first metal show, and it rocked!

Fistful of Metal (unsurprisingly) didn't get very far with me, but Spreading the Disease is faring much better.

Among the Living is my favorite old-school Anthrax album. Sound of White Noise is my favorite, well, non-old-school.

They also have a really cool album where they remade old-school songs with John Bush.

Sound of White Noise is fantastic, but it's barely an Anthrax album.

Seriously, though, I think it's a great album. A pop album, but a great album.