Banging the head that does not bang

[Curt McGirt]

You can't go wrong with the first two Crimson Glory. Granted, you have to be braced for the style -- think Queensryche. Slightly polished US power metal, but still with an edge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcWO4tIrDNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQse56PWDDI

"Glory, to red shaaaaarks..."

EDIT: Not picking up the CD of Transcendence that sat at 2nd Chance Records when I was a kid was a big mistake... but then there were a few of those, in retrospect. Vinyl wise I should have grabbed Death Angel - The Ultra Violence, Living Death - Vengeance of Hell (I just stood and wondered over the cover), Scandinavian Metal Attack II with Bathory and Oz, Loudness - Thunder in the East, who knows what else I'm forgetting. They had a picture disc of Venom - Prime Evil hanging over the metal section that was a whole whopping, price-restrictive $30! 

Edited July 20, 2024 by Curt McGirt

[Curt McGirt]

I gotta give a shout to my homies in Obscene from Indianapolis, who just released their third record, Agony & Wounds, on Nameless Grave Records. Old-school death metal (which I guess has its own acronym now, OSDM... lame) in the Asphyx/Obituary mold... or "mould", if you will (get it?). 

https://obscenedeathmetal.bandcamp.com/

https://namelessgraverecords.com/

Nameless also have some other good stuff like Altar of Gore, the tremendous re-release of Twisted Tower Dire's The Isle of Hydra, a demos record from (The Lord Weird) Slough Feg that they just put out, and they have a cool and varied distro encompassing the whole oeuvre of metal -- black, death, thrash, doom, trad., etc. Go pick up a copy of The Story of Death SS or Hellfire's Dominion by Desaster! 

[zendragon]

Gojira Become First Metal Band to Play Olympics Opening Ceremony (loudwire.com)

[zendragon]

OPETH - §1 (Radio Edit - Official Audio) (youtube.com)

growls are back on the menu boys!

[Curt McGirt]

Re: Opeth, a friend reminded me the other day -- never trust a metal band that just has flowers on the cover of their record  

ANYway. I've needed to own this for a long long time and never got around to it. Abigail later turned into purveyors of ultra-sleazy "street metal" (basically, Bulldozer with extra pornographic lyrics) along with their side band Barbados (who use Imperial Japanese imagery, but I highly doubt are actually political). Intercourse and Lust is a classic of insane black metal that never fit the mold. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMigNB_sasw

HOLY SHIT. IT'S NEW DECEASED. And it sounds like you could slide it right onto Fearless Undead Machines or Supernatural Addiction and it'd fit. Yesssssssss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swfEExdfaEA&t=1s

And just for a little cherry on top, some Northern Lights Haze the other night made me play this again for the first time in years. You might want some greenery, just for vibe. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sgAHjxluA

[Death From Above]

I love basically the first 9 Opeth albums and then they decided they don't really want to be a metal band, but whatever. That's still a wealth of content that I have enjoyed.

[Curt McGirt]

I couldn't even get into Morningrise. That's just me though. I don't like Ulver after the third record. I don't like Katatonia after the first EP and some of their first. I only like Sentenced's Amok and not even any of their death metal stuff. I don't like ANYTHING from Satyricon. I have heard the Behemoth demos and haven't bothered with any of their albums. I like the first EP by Enslaved, Vikingligr Veldi, and Eld if I'm in the mood. (Somehow all these bands are connected in my head, I guess as popular Nordic bands that I can't get down with. And yeah Behemoth are Polish but I would rather listen to Magnus.)

[RazorbladeKiss87]

Intercourse and Lust was a cd-r I constantly kept in my car during college. I haven't listened to it in a while but God damn does it rip. 

I'm looking forward to the Fulci record this week. 

[Curt McGirt]

I was pretty taken with Fulci's Zombie record so I'll probably be getting this one. Doing a New York Ripper concept record is pretty perfect for a death metal band.

[Curt McGirt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUqfASftDFs

I finally -- after many years -- bought this on vinyl. I actually had it on tape and pawned it off on a friend because it just wasn't hitting the spot for me when I was maybe, like 18? And then we get blazed, put it on the stereo in the car, and I immediately regretted it and made an unsuccessful request for the tape back 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INq5HCHp5N4

This came too; another band I was kind of on the fence about even though they were highly repped. I eventually overcame my silly opinion about their drum patterns and realized that like other bands of the same stripe, this is my main shit: blazing deathrash like Necrodeath, Hellwitch, Magnus, Mutilator, etc. This one is even a little more death metal than the first two (one of whom has probably my favorite album title for a metal record ever... Enjoy the Violence). 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmjbAS_sotA&pp=ygUScm9vdCB0aGUgYmVnaW5uaW5n

Last one. I unfortunately didn't get ahold of the Dema collection on vinyl when it came out, though I got the CD one. That's long buried but there was a single tape of this at NWN! Productions so I jumped. My love for the first three albums of Root is not to be understated in the least, so getting to hear these again (even though The Trial demo, the best one, is on another goddamn tape) is gonna be a pleasure.

[ohtani's jacket]

Anyone got some thrash recommendations from the year 2000 and beyond? 

[Curt McGirt]

Witchtrap from Columbia, for starters (especially their Sorceress Bitch record). Sauron is really good. Most of my favorite thrash-oriented bands are more death/thrash or black-thrash however. I'm really really really not a fan of pizza-thrash, Municipal Waste type stuff. 

[Curt McGirt]

Bwahahahahahahaha (and go figure, I look to my left and there's Dreamboat Annie on my shelf, I look to my right and know exactly where my copy of W.A.S.P. is)

[Curt McGirt]

Can't believe I found this, but guess what showed up on cassette at my house yesterday. 

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxLaxQyBGjE

 

[zendragon]

On 8/11/2024 at 3:00 PM, ohtani's jacket said:

Anyone got some thrash recommendations from the year 2000 and beyond? 

Hatchet, Wraith, whitchhaven, Bewitcher, Lich King, Bonded by blood

[RazorbladeKiss87]

On 8/11/2024 at 6:00 PM, ohtani's jacket said:

Anyone got some thrash recommendations from the year 2000 and beyond? 

I really enjoy Merciless Death. It's completely throw back thrash. Played a show with them years ago and they were awesome, even with only ten people watching. 

[zendragon]

[Curt McGirt]

I just put on a Lorna Shore song (don't know why I picked that band) and when the Dimmu Borgir keyboards kicked in I turned it off. 

If heavy metal becomes a dead genre with no progression, that is honestly fine by me. I don't give a shit and am fine with being an old curmudgeon. I'm no gatekeeper, but I'm fine living in my '80s/'90s world of music and there will always be good new bands that sound like that anyway. It's the same with punk; the kids can have their Turnstile and whatever, I'll just be over here listening to Kinetic Orbital Strike and Global Thermonuclear War and whatever other cool new shit that's still coming out. (Picked bands with three word names just for fun haha )

Something that's amusing to me is that everyone thought the future of music was gonna be electronic. House was truly revolutionary for its time, but I wonder what Frankie Knuckles etc. think about EDM. My boss had the aux cable in a speaker at work yesterday and guess what the new normal, 22-year old person's sound is today? The same pop R&B as in the '90s only mixed with rap (and always that shitty ticking closed high hat that goes really fast for a measure). I even caught a New Edition song! 

Edited August 15, 2024 by Curt McGirt

[RazorbladeKiss87]

The one place I did a lot of time had the Music Choice channels and the new metal one played a couple of Lorna Shore songs. I kinda dug them but I'm also a Dimmu Borgir fan. At least their first few records. Once a metal band adds too much to their sound I'm not as into it. 

Knocked Loose, yeah, I dig them. They get a lot of shit but I think it's partially because they're moving in to big venues. I wouldn't go to those shows because that's not my thing for heavier stuff but good for them. 

Sleep Token.... just no. I saw them described as "Imagine Dragons for the metal scene" and that's pretty fitting. 

 

[zendragon]

Hear ESCUELA GRIND's depraved new stalker anthem "Always Watching You" (revolvermag.com)

[zendragon]

Had a good time this friday at Whiplash's 40 years of Power and Pain show / Evil Dead's record release show, plus a cool Cross over band called Dead Heat out of Ventura opened up

[zendragon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm8Plg-XU-k

"Pantera" secret show

[zendragon]

The Five Best 2020s Thrash Albums, Chosen by Chained Saint (loudwire.com)

[zendragon]

Hellion (W.A.S.P. Cover) | Hatchet (bandcamp.com)

[Curt McGirt]

I woulda LOVED to see Whiplash play Power and Pain. That's crazy. 

In the last couple days I've gotten 

1. The last Undergang EP https://undergang.bandcamp.com/album/de-syv-stadier-af-ford-rv

2. Electro Hippies - The Only Good Punk... Is A Dead Punk (which I think qualifies as being metal enough for here)

3. Crimson Glory - Transcendence on tape

4. Macabre - Dahmer on tape

5. Rotting Ways to Misery: The History of Finnish Death Metal by Makkonen + Stromsholm. 

The book is really really good and may end up being better than Ekeroth's Swedish Death Metal. There are A LOT of bands I've never even heard in it, the first one I've looked into being Mordicus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SiCEWonyzk