Heavy Metal

I'd be up for that.

New Red Fang is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwQPJ1G2n5o

Ahhh my mate is doing their press, need to catch up on this!

Cool. I used to deal with A&R peeps a stone age ago. Album should be good.

Hopefully the pent up demand for touring will be released soon. Fuck do I miss nights of earplugs, a sweaty North London venue and an overpriced Tuborg/Red Stripe

Nuts that it's been five years since the last one, is that right?

still not sure how i feel about this record - melodic DM with almost new-romantic-esque (?) clean vocals. feel like perhaps @Sumo would dig based on previous posts...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPw4mW7UwCA

Hmm, on paper there are some parts I like but it the singing swings between being a little too Morissey and a little too Avenged Sevenfold for me. Also the drums sound like a Korg preset. Anything that's melodic death metal goes up against WITTR in my mind and most can't compare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI5XACAy0vE

Missed Wolves at the Fighting Cocks a few years ago, I'll forever kick myself for that!

Wait... That was 11 years ago!?

Lots of 80's sounds coming through atm, not sure how I feel about it. Me and a mate are starting a new project post lockdown... So far heading towards The Cure - Seventeen Seconds era / Drab Majesty (his influence) crossed Devil Sold His Soul - Fragile Hope era and various post rock/metal. We'll see where that goes haha.

I saw them twice, once supporting Slayer at Ally Pally and once headlining at GAY, I think I preferred the one at GAY because it's a smaller venue and they spent about 20 minute filling the place with burning sage.

free for all this year online: ROADBURN festival but in 'reduxed' version. Still a lot to choose from though. Most streams can be played back for a couple of days after the event too. Check it out:

https://www.roadburnredux.com/

Finally got round to putting a list of my favourite 2020 releases together. Alphabetical order, but Vredehammer probably took the top spot.

LPs:

Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
Akhyls - Melinoë
... And Oceans - Cosmic World Mother
Black Curse - Endless Wound
Black Royal - Firebride
Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
Carnosus - Dogma of the Deceased
Dearth - To Crown All Befoulment
Earth Rot - Black Tides of Obscurity
Exocrine - Maelstrom
Fists of Fury - New Age of Dread
Fluisteraars - Bloem
Fornicus - Sulphuric Omnipotence
Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota
Kvaen - The Funeral Pyre
Lantern - Dimensions
Nexorum - Death Unchained
Omegavortex - Black Abomination Spawn
Omnivortex - Diagrams of Consciousness
Panzerfaust - The Sons of Perdition: Chapter II
Pile of Priests - Pile of Priests
Recorruptor - The Funeral Corridor
Sölicitör - Spectral Devastation
Terminal Nation - Holocene Extinction
Ulcerate - Stare into Death and be Still
Undeath - Lesions of a Different Kind
Vredehammer - Viperous
Wayward Dawn - Haven of Lies

EPs:

Atrae Bilis - Divinihility
Cosmovore - Into the Necrosphere
Fuming Mouth - Beyond the Tomb
Sensory Amusia - Bereavement
Sutrah - Altheia
Unurement - Self-Immolation Suite

And a few of the best tunes:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=E0-hmFcd_n0

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0YGSq0T_hv4

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1zPfpIP7bZY

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xchh5-PkTR0

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CAzbWJ5WZ9I

I think I’ll make a day of going through this list. I thought I was reasonably well-listened but the only one I’ve even heard of is Havukruunu (which I loved)

Do it! There are some absolute gems in there. Total range of stuff from brutal death, tech, thrash and a bit of black so should make a varied day of listening if nothing else!

Thanks for this. That Undeath track is particularly good. Slowly making my way through them all.

Currently in rotation:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PSSc67K_zfQ

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5lgvlgPN9RE

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HwSLtbV60uk

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8bLmULTKZeI

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GICh7pdsbbI

Have had this on repeat, such a great track.

missed a few of these, thank you!
got a few from your end of year list to check, too - though quite a few overlaps :)

That Kvaen track has so much dissection feel to it, but thrashier arrangement. Like it a lot, thanks.

So many hooks in that album, catchy as hell. Super talented guy.

Some recent releases that are getting plenty of airtime:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AYER2_Ox9Hs

https://youtube.com/watch?v=612MLJsgChc

https://youtube.com/watch?v=65n0I-ccmBk

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Ff3fHS13FU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AmNlhXMWPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udEqg4A15d4

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

...and because this album's 20th birthday is coming up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKpIwX2P118

Only 8 months too late but they are amazing. Edgy 59 (or is it 29)'s vocals are amazing. The Poisoned Glass are also amazing. I missed them at a couple of Desertfests ago (sad face)

.Only 8 months too late but they are amazing

Yes , Stunning performance.

Yeah the pre-releases from Helslave ripped, looking forward to getting into the album!

Desert fest line up has been posted...

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