Banging the head that does not bang

[Lawful Metal]

The new Carcass record is just fantastic.  It's like Heartwork was just a year ago, not 20 or so. 

 

[Tele-Viper]

I can't say I agree totally. The new songs smoked live but on record they just don't hook me as hard as anything off Heartwork or Necroticism. In some ways it just sounds like a blatant crowd-pleaser (and it did please the crowd last night) but where's the growth and challenge? It's the only Carcass record that doesn't offer anything particularly new or vital, instead just cobbling together the bits and pieces of their legacy that people liked best and smothering it in a too-crisp modern production. A good record, yes but not the masterpiece everyone is claiming.

 

Comeback of the year still easily belongs to Gorguts.

[Tele-Viper]

For anyone curious, here was Carcass's setlist:

 

• Buried Dreams
   
• Incarnated Solvent Abuse
   
• Carnal Forge
   
• No Love Lost
   
• Unfit for Human Consumption
   
• Edge of Darkness / This Mortal Coil
   
• Reek of Putrefaction
   
• Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System
   
• Genital Grinder / Pyosisified / Exhume to Consume
   
• Captive Bolt Pistol
   
• Corporal Jigsore Quandary / Forensic Clinicism - The Sanguine Article
   
• Ruptured in Purulence / Heartwork
   
• Carneous Cacoffiny
   
• Lavaging Expectorate of Lysergide Composition
   
• Keep on Rotting in the Free World
   

[Curt McGirt]

Waaaaaaaaay too much Heartwork in there, but I dig them busting out "Carnal Forge". This is coming from somebody who just downloaded the Requiems of Revulsion tribute album a couple days back though.

[Tele-Viper]

Yeah, its pretty clear that Heartwork is their personal favorite album as they seemed the happiest playing songs off it. That, and all their setlist are always stacked with tunes off it. I dig Heartwork quite a bit so that's okay with me.

[Biz Smarkie]

Forget my earlier post about the Amon Amarth doing the Black Sabbath tribute being the best, because I found another tribute by them from the same exact album that rocks just as fucking hard.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyvfFOeM7nI

 

Any song with

 

Some fellas like their women shortSome fellas like 'em roundBut me I like the kind of girlThat makes me stand up to go down!

 

as part of the lyrics is infinitely awesome.

[Brisco]

While looking over the lineup of shows coming to our local metal club (Ground Zero, Spartanburg, SC) I came across a pretty good Death Metal band from South Carolina. Your Chance To Die features brutal rhythms, contrasting melodic sections and amazing female death vocals. They have done some overseas tours and their second album came out this year. I had no idea there was a death metal underground in South Carolina.

 

[Beech27]

On the subject of female fronted metal bands, I've been listening to Oathbreaker's "Eros/Anteros" pretty much everyday for the last few weeks (along with Touche Amore's "Is Survived By", but I'm emo like that). Just another post-hardcore Belgian outfit with some tinges of black metal influence, floating around with some other stuff, probably. This is one of their more atmospheric tracks.

[Tele-Viper]

Been rollin' up my sleeves and listening to a lot of metal lately. Here have been some of my favorites:

[stoner]

I think I'm a bit in love with Conan...

 

In other news

[necroyampy]

Conan are fucking brilliant. Played with them a fortnight ago, completely face-shudderingly heavy beyond belief.

[stoner]

I need to see this band live

 

[Tele-Viper]

Did another metal-marathon while working this morning. Here were my favs:

http://youtu.be/AFhrTZc4ItE

[Curt McGirt]

My next personal comp is gonna be spearheaded by these three songs. I make no apologies for shrill vocals or complete insanity

 

 

 

[cwoy2j]

Prong's newest album "Carved into Stone"

 

[Zheroen]

I'm going to see Fates Warning tomorrow night, and Kreator/Overkill/Warbringer on Thursday.  I'm rather pleased with this.

[Curt McGirt]

No John Arch no peace

[Tele-Viper]

Monday metal marathon:

 

[Tele-Viper]

Euro Thrash Friday:

 

[Curt McGirt]

Huh, I had no idea Messiah put out anything after Extreme Cold Weather. Doesn't sound as intense, little more generic. Still not bad.

[Control]

BIG BUSINESS has a new album. You should be listening to it.

 

[Tele-Viper]

Huh, I had no idea Messiah put out anything after Extreme Cold Weather. Doesn't sound as intense, little more generic. Still not bad.

 

They put out three more records after that but only Choir Of Horrors and Rotten Perish are worth a listen. A little more generic, yes, but still pretty killer.

[Tele-Viper]

Incantation-a-thon:

[Library Dude]

I'm really out of the loop with new metal and hardcore (my job and my kid have put paid to most of my spare time and I only have an FM radio and tape deck in my crappy car. I mostly listen to the same Def Leppard and Status Quo songs over and over again thanks to my local shitty classic rock station). Anyway, I went on the Relapse website for the first time in years just to find out who the hell is on there nowadays and found this. Surprised I hadn't read it here: Ultramantis Black signs to Relapse.

 

That new Big Business is great, brilliant band. Anyway, just so this post isn't a bunch of boring shit, here's some raging grind/crust from Sayyadina.

 

 

Their album Fear Gave Us Wings is fucking brilliant. Hammering grindcore with a guitar tone like lead, if you like Nasum check them out.

[Tele-Viper]

Counting down my twelve favorite metal records of 2013 (three per day):

 

12) Grave -- Morbid Ascent EP

It's Grave, so you know what to expect: pulverizing Swedish death with lots of crushing grooves and old-school morbid atmosphere. And Grave delivers. This EP picks up right where last year's full-length left off and consolidates Grave as the best of what's left of the old Swedish scene.

 

11) Carcass -- Surgical Steel

How funny that my favorite song on this sounds the most like their most reviled album. It's the Swansong moments that get me the most on Surgical Steel, an insanely overrated but still solid record. Wish they'd been a little more adventurous and filthy with this but that's just me being non-conformist since apparently most people worship this record front-to-back already.

 

10) Coffins/Noothgrush -- Split 12"

Coffins may be 2013's most improved band, dropping an impressive slate of releases (this split, an EP and LP) that all killed. Just listen to that fat slab of a death-n-roll riff, the brute swing of it is madness. I love it! The Noothgrush side is their first new music in 17 years and it's pretty dope: dark bluesy sludge ala Eyehategod but with a crustier vibe. Try "Humandemic" on for size:

https://soundcloud.com/user3105090/noothgrush-humandemic-6