Written by Boxcar Willy on 30.08.2018 at 21:49


Hey this band is local to my hometown! Cool to see them posted.

Noice, I can see them putting on good shows.

New Sleeping Peonies. Feel like I haven't heard from this band in a while. Interesting, highly textured ambient black metal with vocals that may not be for everyone (I like them). Has a heavy, emotional force to it, not entirely unlike Angelic Process at times.




Rather nice hyper-emo atmos-black. Maybe even some melodic death doom notes in it as well.




Standard but quality psychedelic doom, that nails the dark trippy vibe.




Interesting thing on Profound Lore. Sort of intense, cascading black metal effortlessly meets ambient electronics. It works well.




Super-solid tight death metal, with no bells and whistles.




Pretty fun primitive death 'n' roll.




So Mizmor ( מזמור) who I recall a bunch of people liking, released a new thing which seems to have gone under the radar. Expect massive, lengthy compositions of crushing doom, drone and black metal. Probably the single worst example of marketing and publicising a record I've ever seen. It practically doesn't exist outside Spotify and that Youtube link (which seems to be unofficial). [EDIT] apparently it's a comp of older tracks.




Stunningly good noise-rock from Poland. Just an amazing, intense experience. I am smitten.

Written by Mercurial on 30.08.2018 at 23:19

New Sleeping Peonies.

Oh wow. I thought they have ended after the death of the band member. Wasn't expecting that.
This should be good

Written by Karlabos on 31.08.2018 at 00:05

Oh wow. I thought they have ended after the death of the band member. Wasn't expecting that.

I somehow forgot / didn't know that had happened. Should add some emotional gravitas to this record then.

Written by Mercurial on 30.08.2018 at 23:19

Interesting thing on Profound Lore. Sort of intense, cascading black metal effortlessly meets ambient electronics. It works well.

Bliss Signal

James Kelly of Altar Of Plagues is back!

^

New "Xasthur" album (note quotations to avoid disappointment).




Noise-rock laden post / sludge. Not bad.




Heavy sludgey grind thing.

New Mamaleek is out!

Stop what you're doing and listen to this.

Written by Mercurial on 31.08.2018 at 12:09

New "Xasthur" album

Sounds better than Portal Of Sorrow.

Some traditional heavy metal from Italy.

Written by Mercurial on 30.08.2018 at 23:19

New Sleeping Peonies. Feel like I haven't heard from this band in a while. Interesting, highly textured ambient black metal with vocals that may not be for everyone (I like them). Has a heavy, emotional force to it, not entirely unlike Angelic Process at times.

Sleeping Peonies

Sweeeeeeet

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Interesting thing on Profound Lore. Sort of intense, cascading black metal effortlessly meets ambient electronics. It works well.

Bliss Signal

This is the boyz from Altar Of Plagues new band.

Feels like a return to form for Thou.




Sentient Ruin punky blackened death.




Unflinching atmospheric blackened death.




Old school black with nice sound and accordions that work well.




Nice sounding, moody post-punk.

Haven't had chance to listen to it yet but Vola are absolutely one of the best prog bands of our time. Looking forward to it.




Gnaw Their Tongues / Crowhurst collab. It's not really anything special; passable noise. Both parties have done better. That artwork though.




One for LoG.




Absolutely hellish blackened dissonance.




Don't usually dig blasty black metal but I can get on board with this stuff.




New Carpe Noctem song.




And a new Megaton Leviathan record coming out too. I recall them being much more of a psychedelic drone band than this, but not bad all the same.

Speaking of grind there's a new The Atrocity Exhibit coming out. These guys make awesome grind, and super fun live.

Written by Mercurial on 02.09.2018 at 20:18

Vola are absolutely one of the best prog bands of our time.

Why am I only hearing about them only now then? Anyway their back catalog sounds good and this new track is even more promising. Thanks for this heads up.

Written by 3rdWorld on 05.09.2018 at 21:17

Why am I only hearing about them only now then? Anyway their back catalog sounds good and this new track is even more promising. Thanks for this heads up.

I caught them live before hearing them on record and was super impressed. They do some good ting.

This sounds pretty Goddamn good. Black metal, old-school death and even some clean vocals thrown in. Glad it's as good as the art suggests.




Batshit technical cybergrind.

Written by 3rdWorld on 22.07.2018 at 15:27

New Ennui track streaming. Haven't checked out their earlier albums but this sounds like great funeral doom.

Ennui

This one streaming in full now, sounds really great.

^ That Ramprasad EP sounds extremely cool.



This hits so many notes with me. Drone-touching, room filling ultra-sludge with vocals I would design if I could, that are so blackened they pierce dark matter. Touches of feedback, distortion and occasional mournful clean vocal only add to its greatness.




I love this. Kind of moderately industrial sludge / post-metal meets Boards of Canada. Great chilled but encompassing atmosphere.




Occult black / death metal for occult black / death metal fans. I don't think the cover art could be any more occult.




A Storm of Light give us more quality industrial post metal.




Murky, sprawling black metal I dig. Love the tortured vocals.




Vicious, punishing and chunky grind.




Ultra-expansive atypical post-metal with a heavy focus on ambient aesthetics. It borders on drone doom at many points.




Can't profess to really follow Racetraitor's politics but they do make some killer ultra hard hitting metallic hardcore.




Not really sure how to categorise them, loosely black metal with some symphonic / synth and maybe folk-touches, of sorts. Two track EP, kinda interesting.




Described on MA as death / doom, but to me there seems to be a strong black metal component here. Either way it's kind of cool and alien.




Strong sounding atmos / post-black. Has been popping up here and there recently.




Black meets sludge meets -core. The result is heavy.




Can't quite tell if this is production genius or production mishap. It's unique sounding for a death metal demo anyway.




Rather good noise-rock laden sludge from the UK.




Upcoming psychedelic, droning noise-rock. Probably better suited for the non-metal thread but hey ho.




Fun as fuck not boring prog from the UK.




A pretty damn cool chasmic maelstrom coming out on Iron Bonehead at some point.

New Sorcier Des Glaces out in a week

Yay, new Maquerelle coming!
(besides I think only mz likes this band around here but me)

Couch Slut make Zeni Geva sound like wimps. Just disgusting sludge with an addictive noise drip like morphine.

Written by Mercurial on 02.09.2018 at 20:18


And a new Megaton Leviathan record coming out too. I recall them being much more of a psychedelic drone band than this, but not bad all the same.

omfg

Stoner metal from Germany. Both male and female vocals which gives this album some extra variety which I could definitely appreciate.

Melodic and atmospheric sludge. Really good songwriting.

Stoner metal/rock from Greece.

New suffocatingly dark, black as fuck black metal.



Traditional black metal from yet another Mories side project. Anybody keeping count?




And new Cultes des Ghoules as well. Slower and more desolate.

Symphonic/melodic death metal from Russia. They used to be more of a gothic metal band if I remember correctly. Has some odd moments (I'm thinking of some of the intros for certain songs. Like for example the song Storm and the Lake of Tears cover Devils Dinner) but that gives this album a certain charm.