** Metal ** The Thread! II

Rodrigo y Gabriela released the title track for their new album:

 


These Swedish vikings are getting old. Still entertaining, though.
 
Really digging this new Battle Beast disc. It's gonna bug the older fans by continuing a lot of that 80s glam pivot from Bringer Of Pain, almost like ABBA-metal in places, but there's plenty of the harder hitting stuff at play too. I tend to prefer their older style too, but you can't just do the same stuff forever, never bothered me when bands branch out a bit. This sorta p*ssed-off Pat Benatar meets freakin' dancing ABBA by way of balls-to-the-wall Judas Priest tack they've taken lately is a blast.

Really fun album, the metal scene needs more of this oldschool vibe. Noora's a monster of a vocalist too, almost like a female Halford. :up:
 
I haven't been listening/playing any music for a solid 3-4 years, as any free time I have, I dedicate to audio books or podcasts, so I've been out of the loop for a bit, but one of my friends showed me a few Ghost tracks, and I've been hooked. Really like them. Very catchy and "radio friendly" short tracks. I'm really diggin them.

I guess Ghost can count as "metal"? Or maybe not? I dunno, whatever., I'm enjoying them :hehe:
 
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Ghost are sweet, yeah. Sort of coincidentally a similar situation to Battle Beast, that new album went full-on 80s pop vibes, half the fanbase are p*ssed. I love that album though, so much great hook-y stuff on it just like their former material.

Yeah, Ghost would be some mix of metal & loosely-defined prog-rock I guess. The recent album being more like if those types of musicians had been listening to Thriller on loop for a month before hitting the recording studio. :oldrazz:
 
Travesty said:
I haven't been listening/playing any music for a solid 3-4 years, as any free time I have, I dedicate to audio books or podcasts, so I've been out of the loop for a bit, but one of my friends showed me a few Ghost tracks, and I've been hooked. Really like them. Very catchy and "radio friendly" short tracks. I'm really diggin them.

I guess Ghost can count as "metal"? Or maybe not? I dunno, whatever., I'm enjoying them :hehe:
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I know there are quite a lot of Ghost fans here but I never could get into them. I don't think I even finished their latest album. Like you described, I had found many of the songs too "pop-rock'ish" to my ears. I liked the instrumental songs more than the lyrical ones...

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Ooh, sweet! New Rammstein is good Rammstein. :) Sounds a little more like the first two albums in some ways, very synth-heavy and a little more lo-fi/grimey. Me likey. Till's voice just never gets any less badass over the years either.

Ridiculously huge chorus, Rammstein gonna Rammstein. Heh. And that video's crazy even by their standards, check out the budget on that thing! Wild.

Really dig that other new track they've been playing live for a couple years now too, Ramm4.





Heh, tapdancing tophat Till, too awesome. :D Saw them live years ago down in Australia, think it was the Sensucht tour, they were just as crazy then. Nobody puts on a pyrotechnics show like crazy-ass Rammstein. Amazed Till hasn't injured himself badly Hetfield-style yet.

Hope that's making it onto the new disc, always love their cheesy band-name themed things where they just run through a bunch of their previous songs as lyrics. :word:

Heh, see the "controversial imagery mixed with singing in German, they must be Nazis!" crap is flaring up again in the wake of the new thing dropping. Hilarious. C'mon, ya stooges, everyone knows by now the guys are basically eastern-bloc Commie born, raised, & loyal. "Links 2 3 4" is all about it, they're 1980s Commie-East-German. They're lefty guys, not goosesteppers. This ****'s hilarious every time they release something new, it's like clockwork.
 
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Went to an As I Lay Dying show last week and it was phenomenal. Never heard of the opening bands (Currents, Phinehas) but after that show I checked them out and they're both pretty awesome, if you're into that sort of Metal.

All bands that played that night were great. One of the best shows I've been to in a long time. Crowd was totally into it as well.
 
Rammstein's "Radio" music video is out. Not posting it here cuz there's a bit of nudity.
 
New Sunn O))))) has maybe the most massive guitar sound ever captured. It sounds like it was volcanically loud.
 
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New Sunn O))))) has maybe the most massive guitar sound ever captured. It sounds like it was volcanically loud.
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I gave it a quick listen the other day. I have to be in a specific mood when it comes to Sunn O)))...
 
The Damned Things finally released their second album, HIGH CRIMES, after 9 years.

Vocals - Keith Buckley (Every Time I Die)
Guitar - Scott Ian (Anthrax)
Guitar - Joe Trohman (Fall Out Boy)
Bass - Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio)
Drums - Andy Hurley (Fall Out Boy)

 
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So every week I try to get a batch of 3-4 (sometimes 5) new albums that i check out during the week, usually spinning them all 4-5 times to get a decent foundation of opinion to stand on. This week I somehow ended up with 2 metal albums that are both album of the year contenders so far.

*Inter Arma - Sulphur English (Sludge/Doom/Post-Metal)
I was familiar with these guys before because I did check out their last album in 2016 and was really impressed with that. On this album however it feels like they took it a step further. Everything from the beautiful artwork to the music itself, the album pulls you in. The guitars have that alarming screeching tone, the drums in some of the songs are kinda tribal and evokes the feeling of early Neurosis, like Enemy of the Sun-era. Vocals are blended with the music in a way and are on the harsh side of the spectrum, I kinda want to say black metal-esque. It isn't really until the 5th track that you get some more clean vocals but overall I think this album is really atmospheric and if you like your metal more on the slow, rough side you might really enjoy this.

*Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis (Doom/Sludge/Black-Metal)
This was a brand new discovery for me, saw this album getting good reviews and figured I'd check it out. I'm honestly pretty mindblown. This album has that quality of sucking you into its world and its so atmospheric and so interesting that I found myself getting surprised a few times through the album. Surprised in a good way, as in they kept doing things I would not expect. It's a very versatile album in my opinion. Opening song is an instrumental that sets the tone, then we dive straight into madness in the second song with vocals that have almost a nightmare quality to them. Fourth song is a stand out for me, "Journey to the Center of Mass" has this slowly building groove which reminds me a lot of modern Swans and how they use repetition very effectively. There's a song in the second half of the album that has almost demonic chanting in it and it feels like you've been transported into a hellish landscape or something. Honestly this really blew me away and might be my metal album of the year so far.

As for other metal releases I've also been digging the new Periphery quite a bit.
 
This is the cleanest version of the new Tool songs I've found. Most are all muddled, but these I can make out everything as clearly as you possibly can from a live recording.



 
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New Tool tunes are quality, I'm especially digging Invincible. Album release date is 30th of August.

Autumn is going to be killer:
New Tool
New Suns of the Tundra in September
New Opeth September/October.

Scale the Summit & Russian Circles haven't announced release dates yet, but they'll be later in the year also.

Oh, and here's Jinjer's full 40min set from Resurrection Fest last summer. Insanity.
 
Zantera said:
So every week I try to get a batch of 3-4 (sometimes 5) new albums that i check out during the week, usually spinning them all 4-5 times to get a decent foundation of opinion to stand on. This week I somehow ended up with 2 metal albums that are both album of the year contenders so far.

*Inter Arma - Sulphur English (Sludge/Doom/Post-Metal)
I was familiar with these guys before because I did check out their last album in 2016 and was really impressed with that. On this album however it feels like they took it a step further. Everything from the beautiful artwork to the music itself, the album pulls you in. The guitars have that alarming screeching tone, the drums in some of the songs are kinda tribal and evokes the feeling of early Neurosis, like Enemy of the Sun-era. Vocals are blended with the music in a way and are on the harsh side of the spectrum, I kinda want to say black metal-esque. It isn't really until the 5th track that you get some more clean vocals but overall I think this album is really atmospheric and if you like your metal more on the slow, rough side you might really enjoy this.

*Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis (Doom/Sludge/Black-Metal)
This was a brand new discovery for me, saw this album getting good reviews and figured I'd check it out. I'm honestly pretty mindblown. This album has that quality of sucking you into its world and its so atmospheric and so interesting that I found myself getting surprised a few times through the album. Surprised in a good way, as in they kept doing things I would not expect. It's a very versatile album in my opinion. Opening song is an instrumental that sets the tone, then we dive straight into madness in the second song with vocals that have almost a nightmare quality to them. Fourth song is a stand out for me, "Journey to the Center of Mass" has this slowly building groove which reminds me a lot of modern Swans and how they use repetition very effectively. There's a song in the second half of the album that has almost demonic chanting in it and it feels like you've been transported into a hellish landscape or something. Honestly this really blew me away and might be my metal album of the year so far.

As for other metal releases I've also been digging the new Periphery quite a bit.
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You seem to be into Blackened Sludge/Doom Metal so check out Dead to a Dying World's new album.



 
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