Metal (\M/ METAL \M/)

[Heathen]

some pals of mine just released their first CD, and i did the artwork for it. the bass player also plays bass in my band.

give it a listen if you like Mustasch, Orange Goblin, and similar stoner-type hard rock bands.

http://downinblack1.bandcamp.com/

I'll check it out, I'm always up for some stoner

just played: the new Year of no Light



now playing: new Vastum

[bada]

some pals of mine just released their first CD, and i did the artwork for it. the bass player also plays bass in my band.

give it a listen if you like Mustasch, Orange Goblin, and similar stoner-type hard rock bands.

http://downinblack1.bandcamp.com/

They are pretty good! Vocalist is kinda Shinedowny which isn't really my thing but still impressive range. Tough to find good singers like that.

[Heathen]

wow, that's some nice fucking DOOM

and fuck, another player that doesn't start on track 1

[mf]

in bandcamp bands can choose which song to start playing first...the idea being to lead with your best i guess.

[Heathen]

yeah I figured, but I'm not sure it's a very good idea to put your last song first when people are trying to listen to the whole thing

[Heathen]

So Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2013 List is out, let's bitch about the great stuff they ignored and the crap they included:

1. Carcass - Surgical Steel
2. In Solitude - Sister
3. Gorguts - Colored Sands
4. SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods
5. Inquisition - Obscure Verses For The Multiverse
6. Cult of Luna - Vertikal
7. Melt Banana - Fetch
8. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
9. Noisem - Agony Defined
10. Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
11. Deafheaven - Sunbather
12. Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry of Consciousness
13. Nails - Abandon All Life
14. Inter Arma - Sky Burial
15. Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
16. Secrets of the Sky - To Sail Black Waters
17. Purson - The Circle and the Blue Door
18. Lycus - Tempest
19. Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
20. The Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer
21. Antigama - Meteor
22. Kylesa - Ultraviolet
23. Immolation - Kingdom of Conspiracy
24. Exhumed - Necrocracy
25. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Mind Control
26. Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
27. Ulcerate - Vermis
28. Anciients - Heart of Oak
29. Craven Idol - Towards Eschaton
30. Iron Reagan - Worse Than Dead
31. Portal - Vexovoid
32. Coliseum - Sister Faith
33. Cathedral - The Last Spire
34. Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
35. Noctum - Final Sacrifice
36. Ævangelist - Omen Ex Simulacra
37. Watain - The Wild Hunt
38. Corrections House - Last City Zero
39. Dark Tranquility - Construct
40. Batillus - Concrete Sustain

My 2 eurocents:

Agree on
Immolation
Gorguts
Portal
Inter Arma

Good but probably not best-of-the-year good
Inquisition
Ulcerate
Darkthrone

Meh
Cult of Luna
Nails
Deafheaven
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
everything that can be described as punk

I should have heard those by now but for some reason I have not
Watain
Tribulation

Glaring omissions aka what the fuck were you thinking Decibel?
Vastum - Patricidal Lust
Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
Rorcal - Vilagvege
Antediluvian - Logos
Desolate Shrine - The Sanctum of Human Darkness (understandably not on your 2012 list as it came out too late but then it should be on this one because it slays)

Less glaring omissions aka I'm not gonna throw a tantrum but let's face it they would have made your list better
Aosoth - IV: An Arrow in Heart
Sacriphyx - The Western Front
Dressed in Streams - The Search for Blood
In the Company of Serpents - Of the Flock
Gigan - Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery and Super Science
Wolvserpent - Perigea Antahkarana
Wrekmeister Harmonies - You've Always Meant So Much to Me
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury

Surprised they didn't make it
Vhöl
DEP

[harmless]

[quote="Heathen"]Meh
Cult of Luna

[kreng]

http://www.steelforbrains.com/post/6806 ... -loud-2013

[Heathen]

http://www.steelforbrains.com/post/68063595979/necessarily-loud-2013

The amount of stuff I like/dislike might be similar but I prefer that list, at least it looks like they know there's a whole world of music beyond high profile releases. Bonus points for having Antediluvian, Wolvserpent and Eight Bells.



Ensemble Pearl was boring for the most part. Abyssal's previous album was 100x better. The Body are overrated. And still no Paysage d'Hiver, Rorcal or Vastum.

edit: Alraune sounds good so far

[mf]

http://www.steelforbrains.com/post/68063595979/necessarily-loud-2013

i've been slowly working my way through that behemoth of a list the past few days. lots of stuff i haven't heard. most of it is quite good. i just wish their blog was formatted a little neater.

[spike]

anybody listened to Deafheaven's Sunbather yet? it's pretty good. i like the black metal meets post-rock approach.

I'm liking this a lot.

I think this kinda rules.

[mf]

anybody listened to Deafheaven's Sunbather yet? it's pretty good. i like the black metal meets post-rock approach.

I'm liking this a lot.

I think this kinda rules.

[Heathen]

You've heard this Scale the Summit album, MF? Sounds like something you'd like. Instrumental mathy-proggy stuff. I'm kinda reluctant about calling it metal because of how "bright" it sounds at times.

[Birds in Hell]

So Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2013 List is out, let's bitch about the great stuff they ignored and the crap they included:

3. Gorguts - Colored Sands

5. Inquisition - Obscure Verses For The Multiverse

14. Inter Arma - Sky Burial

About to check these out.

[Heathen]

You don't strike me as an Inquisition kind of guy

[Birds in Hell]

You don't strike me as an Inquisition kind of guy

We'll soon find out!

[Heathen]

All of these albums are on bandcamp btw

[Birds in Hell]

All of these albums are on bandcamp btw

Yeah, that's where I got 'em.

[mf]

You've heard this Scale the Summit album, MF? Sounds like something you'd like. Instrumental mathy-proggy stuff. I'm kinda reluctant about calling it metal because of how "bright" it sounds at times.

i've been meaning to. they've popped up on my radar a couple times this year but i haven't given them a chance until now.

[nyquillyn]

Just bought tickets for The Sword in March. It's at a tiny venue and tickets were only $22.