Written by Mercurial on 30.10.2018 at 11:19

One of the weirdest psychedelic doom / stoner / sludge things I've heard in a while. The vocal style is off the chart, and musically it's bizarre too. Everything sounds just a bit "off" and yet it seems to work so well.

Woah.

Written by Zap on 30.10.2018 at 13:08

Woah.

I wasn't sure if it was terrible or good at first, but pretty sure it's good.

Written by Mercurial on 30.10.2018 at 13:10

I wasn't sure if it was terrible or good at first, but pretty sure it's good.

Once the vocals started I was convinced

Bismuth continue to slay with their new one. Minimalist, atmospheric drone doom.




Very nice heavy-epic doom.




Absolutely beastly black / death / sludge.




Densely packed, crushing atmospheric doom.




Ballsy, Nordic atmos-black.




Death-doom that's way better than the art suggests. Slightly treated vocals by the sounds of it but works well.




Doomy atmospheres in this dissonant ambient black band.




Nice riffy, midpaced melodic black metal with an edge. +1 for their great logo too.




Tribal folk / doom. Straddles eerie and the atmospheric.




Low-fi black / doom from Hell.




This keeps popping up so surprised no one's shared it yet. Blackly dissonant mathcore with oodles of atmosphere. Really good.




Wicked mashup of old-school dm and black metal, differentiated by dual-vocal assault.




Nearly skipped this because of the art, but glad I didn't. Superbly evil, dense and fully formed black metal.




Heavy, slow, destructive sludge doom from the depths. Niiice.




Rather good black / death that focuses on melody and atmosphere while still supplying the riffs.




Uncompromising punk-fueled death metal, with art by Dan Landtomb.




Some sort of prog thing with prominent sci-fi synth. I dig it.




I'm guessing Sylvaine is going to be the next Myrkur. Gazey Norwegian atmos-black / rock helmed by one woman. It's quite decent. Looking like Britney Spears has to be a career boon too.




New Revenge EP coming out. Never got what made people so wet with this band but here it is.




I guess that's enough for the moment.

Great sounding extreme prog / death metal. Plenty of melodic / heavy / atmospheric variation.




Off-kilter avant-garde tech death weirdness. Nice feeling of discombobulation.




More deliciously vile blackened sludge-doom for ruinous days.




Lo-fi country doom psychedelic oddity.




Heavy but chilled instrumental post-doom compositions.




Good sounding post-ish black. There's also an instrumental version.

Written by Mercurial on 01.11.2018 at 13:30




More deliciously vile blackened sludge-doom for ruinous days.

Owlcrusher

Isn't that from 2017? I remember having had to review it in September of that year.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 01.11.2018 at 13:41

Isn't that from 2017? I remember having had to review it in September of that year.

Lol yep, even says so in the description. Guess I'm getting too old to notice details like that now.

Written by Mercurial on 01.11.2018 at 13:50


Lol yep, even says so in the description. Guess I'm getting too old to notice details like that now.

More not-to-be-missed black metal, this time dsbm.


https://ierdepression.bandcamp.com/album/-

Daaaamn, a new Karv Du EP. Amazed I missed out on this being released. Sadly it's only a short 2 track EP. but it's top tier regardless. For fans of Virus, and are every bit as good as them. Much cleaner, fuller production this round, but sounds fucking incredible, the second track especially.




I highly recommend their previous album to everyone that hasn't heard it (which is basically every except me and mz).


Recommended by Schammasch on their FB page. Pretty massive, intense sounding black metal.

Written by Zap on 21.10.2018 at 15:23

New Soul Grip sounds like some intense, aggressive black metal. There seems to be less of a hardcore side to it than with the debut, although it's hard to tell from one track and it has been a while since I listened to Avadon.

Streaming in full
Gonna give it a spin tomorrow, hopefully.

Written by 3rdWorld on 02.11.2018 at 17:07

Kuar Nhial

Listened to this one a while back and while I liked the music the vocals turned me off at the time. Might have to give it another try really.

Yeah I think what was good about that is that its not as lame as the usual atmoblack albums, it was sounding more akin to post metal heaviness. Vocals might not be the high point there.

It's hard to describe, but I absolutely love this band's sound. Some kind of twisted, off-kilter black / death with great percussive rhythm and and hellish vocals. Original, but gives me some Cloak of Altering vibes too. Tickles my fancy.




Thunderous metallic hardcore that hits everything I want from the genre.




I guess I would describe this as some kind of technical, progressive melodeath. It's definitley grittier and harder hitting than the average band of the genre.




More progressive death, this time much more focuses on the prog side. Somewhat dry for my tastes but there's definitely an audience for this.




Another record from Striborg. A sort of return to his black metal oddness, but still retains some of his electronic experimentation.




I don't know if this is just going to remain a single (I'm sure Marcel will tell me) but this new(ish) track from Verwoed is some absolutely killer post-black metal.




Not entirely sure, but I think is some kind of split / collab with Oak Pantheon. Some solid melodic, atmospheric black.




Jazz-influenced prog / avant-garde death. Their sound is fairly gritty but structurally interesting for the patient.




Bass and drum sludge-grind. Not bad at all.




"Sort of grindcore from Stockholm." Yeah that.




Great old-school black with high emphasis on dynamic riffage and melancholic melodies.




No, that's not Evoken, it's a A Flock Named Murder. Some rather good melody-laden black / doom.




Can you have an instrumental concept album? Cloud think so. Some fairly lo-fi, vocal-free psychedelic stoner / doom.




12 minutes of blackened / deathened mechanical hell.




Very decent modern epic, melodic metal. Maintains a good heavy style, whilst foregrounding vocal flare.




Cool, retro, psychedelic (or synthy at least) doom with very un-doom-like vocals.




More of that WitTR / Deafheaven atmos blackgaze. Big, dense atmospheres.




Not for the uninitiated: this is a 70 minute double album of dense ambient, noise and drone infused black metal. This kind of thing usually fails right out of the gate, but the balance here is top notch. and while it's alienating the atmosphere is also extremely compelling.

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.

Written by tominator on 29.10.2018 at 02:15

IAH - ll. Really great instrumental stoner rock with psychedelic elements to it. One of my favourite instrumental albums this year.

Stunning record this. Love how the near-vocal like and human voice mimicking guitar playing is in calm parts and the riffs. The songwriting is of unbelievable quality especially because it feels like it was written for song parts and then is released without vocals, truly one of the best Instrument metal albums this year.

Written by 3rdWorld on 08.11.2018 at 19:36

Stunning record this. Love how the near-vocal like and human voice mimicking guitar playing in calm parts and the riffs. The songwriting is of unbelievable quality especially because it feels like it was written for song parts and then is released without vocals, truly one of the best Instrument metal albums this year.

Couldn't have said it better. One of the few records I listened to more than 2 times this year. Usually I move on after 2 listens so that I can discover as many new albums this year as possible. But like I said this one is an exception. And it just gets better with repeated listens.

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.