Heavy Metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5B0rVKPcCU

Came to spaff off about Pest Control, but it seems my last post ages ago was also about them!

https://open.spotify.com/track/5Z8sRDlOoXhYuMSJeQuOHC?si=1b5cd5d53df14a55

I need to expand my noise of choice, but I keep coming back to the good stuff

Yes, I like this noise.

https://open.spotify.com/track/3mduN26ufQQd29RcB86U8R?si=c0e4417033474108

We Butter The Bread With Butter, German metalcore, a new genre I enjoy.

Not strictly metal but Full of hells latest release Scraping the divine on heavy rotation
https://fullofhell.bandcamp.com/album/scraping-the-divine

Top track Burdened by solar mass

Hoping I can go see them with Crowbar and Napalm Death soon…

Any recommendations for doomy stuff with sung vocals? I’m really into Pallbearer (first two albums), YOB, Candlemass, some Melvins, OM, Electric Wizard, that kind of thing. Preferably where 7 minutes into a song, there’s a drop or key change that makes me want to smash whatever surroundings I happen to be in at the time. But also with impressive, perhaps operatic, singing.

Hangman’s Chair, of (comparatively) new bands. Warning from the old guard. Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard for spacey weird shit

Khemmis, Woods of Ypres, Borknagar.

Thanks! I quite like Ypres in a Pagan Altar way but can’t stand the lyrics.
Hangman’s Chair could be a grower, kind of goes where I wish Pallbearer went.
Familiar with Bork, will check out Khemmis

I don't really frequent this thread but Pest Control are pals of mine. I used to live in Leeds and our old bands used to play together a lot. Great to see them doing so well!

I've spent the year going to as many gigs locally as possible, supporting the scene and having a laugh. Some really good local bands here ApathyUK being a highlight and Emerald Eyes also kill it live.

Hardcore is also big here so got to see a few bands with Pintglass being a standout band.

Best band of the year for me was a few weeks ago, Vulvodynia but I do love slam.

Best non local small band (I'm Cornwall so they're kind of local from Bristol) Chewing glass collective.

So many good bands I've missed. Truly forgot how much I love live music. Next year I already tickets to Cryptopsy, Decapitated and Scordatura.

Awesome!
Tell them from me I love their shit!

Pillar of Light - Caldera
A Swarm of the Sun - An Empire (bit more post-rocky than riffy)
Warning - Watching from a Distance
40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

the first two I reminded myself via this tag/website - so might be worth a scroll (my fav metal review site in general):

https://www.angrymetalguy.com/tag/doom-metal/

Nice, I love Warning but the rest I’ve never heard of. And yeah I enjoy angry metal guy.

It's that time of year where i refer to my .txt file to see all the things i've already forgotten about and try to listen to them again... 2024's highlights:

Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus
Antichrist Siege Machine - Vengeance Of Eternal Fire
Apes – Penitence
Apparition – Dismal Emanations from a Tranquil State
Arstíðir lífsins - Aldrlok
Avalanche Kaito - Talitakum
Black Curse - Trodden Flesh
Black Wound – Warping Structure
Blasteroid - Crypts of Mind
Blaze Of Perdition - Upharsin
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Bombus – Your Blood
Borknagar – Fall
Brodequin – Harbinger of Woe
Cabinet — Hydrolysated Ordination
Castle Rat - Into The Realm
Cave Sermon – Divine Laughter
Ceremony Of Silence - Hálios
Civerous - Maze Envy
Cognizance - Phantazein
Concrete Winds – Concrete Winds
Conifère - L'impot du Sang
Construct of Lethe - A Kindness Dealt In Venom
Convulsing – Perdurance
Cosmic Putrefaction - Emerald Fires Atop The Farewell Mountains
Death Like Mass - The Lord of Flies
Defacement – Duality
Doedsmaghird – Omniverse Consciousness
Feind – Ambulante Hirnamputation
Föhn – Condescending
Fulci - Duck Face Killings
Gigan - Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
Hamferð - Men Guðs hond er sterk
Hideous Divinity - Unextinct
Huntsmen – The Dry Land
Ihsahn - Ihsahn
Ironflame – Kingdom Torn Asunder
Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
Knoll - As Spoken
Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer
Locusts and Honey – Teach Me to Live That I Dread the Grave As Little As My Bed
LVME - Of Sinful Nature
Malconfort - Humanism
Malist - Of Scorched Earth
Misotheist – Vessels by Which the Devil is Made Flesh
Mutilation Barbecue – Amalgamations of Gore
Necrot – Lifeless Birth
Odium Humani Generis - Międzyczas
Oxygen Destroyer – Guardian of the Universe
Ponte del Diavolo – Fire Blades from the Tomb
Primitive Warfare - Extinction Protocol
Pyrrhon - Exhaust
Sacrificial Vein - Black Terror Genesis
Scavenger - Beyond The Bells
Spectral Voice – Sparagmos
Spectral Wound – Songs of Blood and Mire
Tenue - Arcos, b​ó​vedas, p​ó​rticos
Thanatotherion - Alienation Manifesto
Traveler – Prequel to Madness
Tzompantli - Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force
Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
Unaussprechlichen Kulten – Häxan Sabaoth
Undeath - More Insane
Vanhelgd – Atropos Doctrina
Vemod – The Deepening
Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness
Vitriol – Suffer & Become
Vomitrot – Emetic Imprecations
Vuur & Zijde – Boezem
Warorath — Verikirous
40 Watt Sun - Little Weight

Föhn – Condescending

So that's what the brand team have been up to since the demise of Wiggle

haha! niche! but be careful, someone might get the idea that this is a cycling forum..! :D

bringing it back on topic, my own heavy if not exactly metal record of 2024

https://cripplingalcoholism.bandcamp.com/album/with-love-from-a-padded-room