The Atrocity Exhibit's new one now fully streamable. Punky grind delights <3




And once again, black metal is winning it. Vocals that sound like they were taken from an Arizmenda album, and music that's both recognisable, but somehow weird and unique to this band. This is just great in sound and form.




Depressive (at least in sound) post-black. Another band that has that great warm, comforting tone I really dig. The heavenly riff at 2.43, along with the overt German nature of it, reminds of Hünengrab im Herbst (or possibly Aaskereia) in a roundabout kind of way. I hope the rest of the album is as good as this track.




Alternative / Industrial metal, that in a way borders the lame, but actually comes across as really well done. This is the kind of thing that had it been released in the late 90s would have everyone going crazy on the dance floor, people emphatically mouthing the words to one another during the chorus in grotty metal clubs.




Spanish mathcore / -core, that sounds surprisingly on the ball to me.




And from Russia, some somewhat SikTh-y -core / djent that seems more than competent.




Haven't posted any psychedelic rock for a while, so listen to some psychedelic rock, for a while.

Written by 3rdWorld on 06.11.2018 at 09:03

Cavernous, dissonant and almost psychedelic but still heavy as fuck black metal.

Abyssal Vacuum

Has been on my list for months guess I'll let you off though as I clearly didn't tag the post on this thread.

This is an interesting take on experimental, sludge I guess? While it contains some more traditional sludge elements, it takes on a much more shapeless form, aiming to explore various facets of dark ambient and death industrial. It's very well put together, and I like that the sludge elements are merely an extention of the sound, rather than being the focus. Artwork looks very Wrest-like, but I don't think it is [EDIT] it is.




Bright, chirpy piano / jazz / even video game sounding instrumental metal from Japan. A fun and pleasant panacea to all the gloom.




In light of the recent midterms and mild victory for the dems, here's a politicised 100, 1 - 10 second, grind songs. Grind just like how grandma used to make. It's funny, but watching the song titles change every few seconds is basically like watching historical soundbites from Trump's last two years.




And on the other side of the spectrum, something melodic death doom fans will enjoy.




I was expecting a well done, if bog standard sludge / stoner doom record, but I wasn't expecting microtonal dissonance and death metal bells and whistles. A fairly inventive take on the overdone, and one that's actually somewhat uncomfortable to listen to.




Really nice, incredibly moody, ambient / atmospheric lull-focused black metal from Belgium. Might have to turn your sound up for this one but the production style is my kind of thing.




Only an EP but Coughdust go for big when constructing a sludge sound. Heavy.




Fast but melody focused German black metal. Germans really are perfectly suited as bm vocalists.




Kyuss vocal legend John Garcia has a track streaming from his new album. Some pretty classy, fun desert rock.




New Deitus record on I, Voidhangar. Modern, slightly orthodox black metal.




Excellent post-metal, combined with some ambient and very occasional black metal flare. This has a much more disembodied approach to the genre, so there's little big booming hardcore-laden riffs, but rather scattered jams that quickly fall into atmospheric texturing.




Not my thing, but this seems like some good violin and piano laden funeral doom.




Pa Vesh En also released their first full length last month. I was really impressed by the demos / EPs, and this carries that on. Thickly layered, ominous black metal that hides eerie melody in its depths.




Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' reimagined by dozens of bands, including The Melvins, Mos Generator, Pallbearer, Mars Red Sky, Yawning Man and a lot of other big names.




New Swamp Witch song (the band that headlined the 2015 metal recs thread). Massive sounding doom with gutteral vocals.




Indie rock, stoner metal, with a distinctly death metal artwork. Sounds fresher than the hoards of stoner bands that think psych-rock jamming is still something worth listening to.

New Clandestine Blaze record. It's black metal, you'll be surprised to know. Actually I quite like it.




"Celestial" post-doom with extraordinary pleasant female vocals. I would listen to this on that merit alone. She's really something. [EDIT] Whoops, I already posted this but it's out now in full so all good.




And if you like that one then you'll like this one too, by Esben and the Witch.

Think this is going to be one of those albums that's hard to gauge from one song but it promises cross-genre experimentation. The available song is some quite nice melodic and atmosphere exploring black metal though.




Prog metal that I could actually see myself listening to, mostly owing to the vocal style, but musically it's very much a non-boring approach I can appreciate.




A couple of great sounding things coming up on Sentient Ruin. This is one a heavily metalicized deathrock / post-punk number that really works well.




The second is cascading yet slightly sinister doomy black metal.




Ambidjent which makes me miss Chimp Spanner a little less.




Somewhat atypically structured doom death. Bouncy, staccato and definitely foul.




More modern prog that I can really dig. Fun songs with quality songwriting.




Slow burning black metal that pretty much only I'm gonna care about.




Didn't think I'd like this but I kind of do. Slightly techy old school death metal.




Not sure if this was posted some time back, but here's the full thing. This is some amazingly full-formed combinations of black, death and doom metal (and probably other bits and pieces). It doesn't sound progressive in the slightest, but the songmanship is of crazy quality so it remains a very direct and hard hitting mixture of styles that come together seamlessly, with super-refined production.




Rather great sounding, insanely fast dissonant yet atmospheric blackened death metal due next year. Nice sound and quieter moments too, with some definite Ulcerate vibes in. Possible 2019 rec thread springboard material if anyone can be arsed.




I think this is about as aggressive as punk can be before becoming grind.




And new Suffering Quota now fully listenable, for stellar grind. A shame, these guys were featured in the MS awards, and that featured album still only ended up with 4 votes in the album thread.

Two prolific artist spin offs that both sound good.

Mories' chilled but intense gazey, shimmery project Seriom.




And another Matron Thorn thing, though this time it actually sounds good. Weird avant-garde metal.

What even is this? Some kind of black metal meets thrash meets guy who likes to shout more than Alex Jones? That's definitley an artwork.




Some wicked, chunky technical grind coming up. Lots of personality to this one.




Don't know how to describe this really, but it sounds fucking great. Dillinger Escape Plan members along with those from Extol and Sea + Air, the result is a weird mixture of poppy singing and eclectic math metal. Energetic and quite catchy.

New Myrkur EP, for those that can't get enough of her.




Rather excellent Polish black metal. Has an old school vibe but is far more modern and varied than first appears.




Some solid stuff so I can clear out my tabs:

Some actually pretty great sounding moody, atmospheric rock.




Very cool progressive metalcore, from Russia (seriously the most burgeoning location for metal these days).




Upcoming doom death from the UK.




More solid Polish black. A mix of old and new in sound.




Dutch, instrumental djenty prog. Didn't really expect this kind of thing from there.




Bonus, awesome rumbling death industrial / dark ambient / pure fucking creepfest, that I'm too lazy to put in the non-metal thread.

Found the Russian Xasthur (actually really good though). Even the logo is kind of a rip-off.

Exceptionally evil and unknowable black / death metal, that sounds like an expansion to BaN's 'Liber' EPs. I love their sound; it runs the gamut of cavernous death metal as well as highly dissonant black metal, but thankfully not mindlessly so, as there's moments of weird, Blut aus Nord-ian melodies (most notably track 4) and eerie quieter lulls. Great stuff, they did an amazing job creating a swirling atmosphere here.




And another excellent release on Amor Fatti, this being the sequel to To Call, To Speak released last year. Two very lengthy black metal compositions that could be described as moderately dissonant Darkspace-esque. Murky, latent-synths swirl beneath ambient, cosmic black metal. Let yourself fall into the black hole.

One of the best "post" things I've heard in a while. I guess you could call it post-black metal at points, but it doesn't really feel like it overall, mostly owing to the pace. Feels like something like Deathspell Omega distilled down into a pure avant-garde post-metal album. Very technical, often Virus-like, but there's so much space and freedom in their sound which gives it a really unique, and distinctly ominous, atmosphere. Absolute must listen for post-metal fans that want something different, or fans of dissonant black metal that want a slow and bleak experience.




I really need to clear some tabs:

Pretty great, almost industrial feeling, black / death dissonant niceness.




Yet another two-long-song Darkspace alike on Amor Fati.




Legit good sludge with some alternative elements. Feels better than a lot of the similar ilk.




Very nice atmospheric, instrumental prog.




Disgusting cavernous death.




Belgian black. Actually pretty good songwriting, if not original or anything.




Solid female fronted heavy doom.




Upcoming sick, filthy grind.




Very nice, no-frills death metal.




More putrid cavernous grind.




Ancst have released a whole bunch of record this year, all varying genres. This one is a fairly chilled ambient drone record.




And an upcoming Acid Mothers Temple record, for psychedelic wickedness.

Kind of extremely badass death metal. Atypical structures, technical musicianship. old-school production, left-field melodies and soloing, moments of progressive interluding and integration. Definitely a good one. Bandcamp only has samples but the full thing is on Youtube.




Absolutely brilliant old-school black / thrash / death that somehow has a psychedelic atmosphere. Seriously masterful.




New Comatose Vigil track from the Russian spacey-synth funeral doomers. Probably won't be as good as the new Monolithe but still fine music.




Massively expansive, cosmic blackened doom / drone. I thought their sound was a bit thin at first but after a bit I totally got what they were going for. Absolutely great.




New Eagle Twin is some top-notch feedback laden sludge. Gritty, heavy and almost improv in approach.




Hard to describe this so I'll defer to one of the reviewers: Sounds like Protest the Hero meets Tool meets early/mid period Mastodon riffs mixed with mid/late period Mastodon solos.




Surprisingly good tech-death with pleasing production that isn't as clean as a surgeon's knife.




Old-school, pretty cavernous black / death. Yep, it's one of those.




Not sure how much to my taste this is, but it's a good fusion of black and death metal with folk music. Definitely an audience for this.




Pretty yet restrained blackgaze. Nice palette of sounds, and obviously great art by that guy.

Wicked Dutch, blackened punk that reminds me a tad of Ildjarn, which makes me question whether or not Ildjarn were just nature punk all along.

Comprised of members and ex-members of a bunch of bands I'm mostly unfamiliar with, except The Great Old Ones, this is some rather pleasing dissonant post-hardcore laden black metal. Angular and atonal, but also adopting some good post-atmospherics.

New Meads EP out.

Damn sick, ambient / avant-garde / industrial black metal.

Heavy sludge is heavy.

Pretty incredibly sounding doom-gaze with serene female vocals.




Absolutely herrifying sludge.

Full new Cosmic Atrophy out now. Very nice Demilich-inspired death metal.

Very cool EP comprised of members of Insect Warfare and Ocean of Slumber. Riffy and melodic black metal.

Rather good slab of modern black metal (and another band with "void" in the name)

Razor-sharp, technical grind / death. Like licking salt off a knife.

This seems good. From Sweden, black metal with perhaps some hardcore and post influence, but doesn't skimp on the atmospherics despite being visceral and organic.

Absolutely awesome "raw," sprawling, ostensibly psychedelic black metal. One of those band types I love that just says fuck you to the conventions of black metal and riffs into whichever direction it fancies going. Absolutely for fans of Black Twilight Circle's approach to black metal.

^ Yeah it's Fallen Empire blowout week:

Lubbert Das in particular should be good:




And these guys of course:




These too I would imagine:






Some very effecitve drone sludge with occasional hellish shriek. Fucking LOVE that artwork.




And yet more thoroughly excellent, eerie and ominous black metal. Too much choice.

Written by Vombatus on 30.12.2018 at 02:33


Been listening the new Lubbert Das for the last couple of days and thought it to be excellent, and naturally was going to post it here. Good thing you listen absolutely everything that is published on Bandcamp and did so before me

I don't have to search for new music when I can't keep up with your posts

Haha, tbh I wasn't sure anyone really listened to the stuff that's posted on here but glad to hear a reason for me to keep doing so