Thanks to @causalityloop, I now have this excellent guide (maybe the best I've ever seen) to many metal bands and their respective types/categories (all up for interpretation/debate, of course, there might be a few missing or ones that cross over!)
@jake4480@HailsandAles Thanks, I've listened a couple of times now. My issue with it is that it is very 'on the nose', there isn't much 'messiness' here. So there are cool riffs and a good production, but for modern OSDM I really crave some 'slipperiness', around the beat. I'd enter Swallowed's "Lunarterial" into that kind of conversation (re: interesting 'war metal' stuff that captures a very unpredictable vibe).
HOW did I not know about Memoriam, the Bolt Thrower singer's new thing? They have 3 albums (edit: there are 3 on Bandcamp, they have 5 full lengths total), and all of them are 🔥
@jake4480 Bolt Thrower and Memoriam are from near where I grew up, along with Napalm Death (and Scorn/Godflesh etc) and ofc Black Sabbath & Judas Priest a little earlier plus Anaal Nakrath a little later. I think there must be something about the concrete hellscape that is Birmingham / Coventry that inspires great metal.
Starting to compile my list for best albums of 2023 (and for some kind of album of the year). It's super tough because there's so many great ones this year-- and several still to come! Will put out (or keep putting out) an updated list(s) once I narrow it down more or add more.
CONTENDERS:
Cannibal Corpse
Desekryptor
Dripped
Dying Fetus
Flesher
Hot Ocean
Molested Divinity
Nuclear Remains
Serpent of Old
Suneater
Vomitheist
Zorn
Malaysia's OBSCURIAL just put out their second full length yesterday, and WHAT an album this is. 'Heretic' might be my favorite metal LP of the year so far. Some REALLY wild, unique stuff on this one.
@jake4480 I swear a lot is pure musical and mental/emotional lottery, it all depends on so many things. Something might get accepted or rejected on mood, I'm aware there's things that don't gel with me and I can see it's decent stuff, it just doesn't fit at that moment.
Dickes Danke jedenfalls an den @metality_foundation Verein für die nette Aufnahme! Ich hoffe, das mit den Membertreffen kriege ich bald mal auf die Reihe. Bin neugierig!
@BigJesusTrashcan@TheMetalDog I quite like the idea that Orcas know what a mosh pit is and what to do with the kind of people who listen to hair metal when they accidentally wander into it (let's just ignore the fact that in this metaphor the hair metal person would also be carrying a boom box playing metal contrary to their own tastes).
I get the feeling an Orca would definitely throw the devil horns if they could.
For anyone who's heard any of these (my current top 5 metal albums of 2024), curious to know your favorite (and if you haven't heard one or more, I highly recommend them).
@thomas schau die mal das an was früher unter industrial fiel, also nicht das Technozeugs sondern sachen wie NineInchNails und co. Außerdem evtl. die Sachen ala #CarpenterBrut oder #Perturbator oder teilweise die Sachen von @lukhash
@HailsandAles Can I recommend the Dutch avant-garde black metal group Laster (Slander) to you? They call it obscure dance music, and it is way out there on the experimental scale, but it grooves when it does and it rocks like no other. At other moments the music is a whole disjointed mess and it still works.
I did review the new Brodequin album, Harbinger of Woe, out tomorrow but we haven’t been able to put it on the website yet so I’ll post it here in thread form…
@jake4480@HailsandAles song titles are glorious on Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol. Another heavy band that does that brilliantly is Oozing Wound, love them too. Will check out Tuff Guac, as I do like country-ish music (not mainstream country though, bleurgh).
@lambdatotoro But I will voice my opinion on things I don't like. What is super important here is that my taste in music has absolutely NO impact on its value. Opinions are a dime a dozen.
I can dislike a song and I will not hold back criticism, but that says nothing about its listeners. There is music that I can't even explain why I dislike it, and it sometimes even baffles me because I just can't figure out the reasons.
I tend to believe I'm more open to music than the "turn that off"-crowd.
Albums I have my eye on that are coming out this month or next:
Afterbirth - In But Not Of - Oct 20
Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts - Oct 27
R.M.F.C - Club Hits - Nov 3
Suffocation - Hymns from the Apocrypha - Nov 3
Scream - DC Special - Nov 10
The Dwarves - Concept Album - Nov 17
The Judges - Judgment Day - Nov 24
