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Satanic North - Satanic North

 

42 minutes ago, Necrolord said:

I'll check all these out. It will take several days but I'm well stocked for now. Got a craving for that Dissection sound.

Sorry...know you said you were good for now, but this one absolutely deserves attention

Vinterland - Welcome my Last Chapter

 

20 hours ago, Necrolord said:

Dissection - The Somberlain

Anyone know any albums that sound a lot like it?

Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun

 

Sarcasm - Burial Dimensions

 

 

EDIT: Forgot an obvious one

Thulcandra - Under a Frozen Sun

 

9 minutes ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

I'm kind of out of the loop for the big metal websites. Are Metalsucks the big bad guys for a lot of metalheads? What did they do

They're a relatively well known site because they're associated with both Metal injection and the PRP through the Blastbeat Ad network, but the site itelf is looked at as a joke.

i think originally it was started as site that had kind of a humorous take on metal news, while also doing reviews and announcements, but somewhere along the line they shifted to outrage clicks, basically writing "articles" about how band X might be NSBM or how band member Y once said something stupid online 5 years ago....I'm sure you've seen the type. that was when they'd actually bother to write something original...more often than not they would just take a news article from sister site Metal Injection, wait 2 days, and then post the same thing, slightly reworded in a more humorous/snarky manner.   

Additionally, their actual music coverage was garbage...as a site they seemed completely unaware of anything that came out in the last 30 years that wasn't on a label like Nuclear Blast or Metal Blade, and what new stuff they did talk about was either some kind of prog, tech, or trendy -core band. (this is why I said ACSM was over as a band, because if Metalsucks was aware of you, you were probably about to become mainstream as fuck)

The site lasted for the longest time on the fact that their audience hated the two main writers/owners, and enjoyed insulting them throughout the comments section on a daily basis. Gradually though, they started locking down what posts could and couldn't be made, to the point where most of their commenting audience finally wandered away. A couple of years back, the original guys apparently sold the site, or at the very least don't run the day-to-day anymore, and it has become marginally better, but overall you'd still be better getting your metal news and info from your local homeless guy under the overpass than from that site

Whelp...Metalsucks covered the new Antichrist Siege Machine...safe to say they're officially over as a band worth following 😆

 

11 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Death Metal Promotion channel got shut down?

Didn't get shut down (I don't think)

...dude did make it private because some clown was throwing out copyright claims (that weren't his to make) and fucking up channels since YouTube immediately defaults to the position that the person making the claim is always right, and any channel getting 3 violations gets killed. Think he had a back up channel set up to use, and he was planning to bring regular channel back when shit was safe to do

 

2 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

Fruity Beer is actually the name of my favourite BM band.

So you want everyone to hate your favorite black metal band? Im getting kinda mixed signals here

3 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

That would be like naming all the terrible BM bands.

Probably more along the lines of naming one terrible black metal band

 

Formless Oedon - Deathless Luminosity

Not sure where I found this, but Im digging the first track

https://formlessoedon.bandcamp.com/album/deathless-luminosity-2

25 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

and everyone should hate fruity beer

...but can you actually name one of these fruity beers you hate so much?

 

 Chymist - Opus I: Nox

https://chymist.bandcamp.com/album/opus-i-nox

 

 

47 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Blimey. First I got accused of hating kittens, now I hate beer.

Not at all...I know you've mentioned before you like beer. I was just betting on the fact that, despite what you were saying, you've probably had and enjoyed a style of beer that could be described as having some type of fruit flavor to it.

...but no, I didn't realize you were specifically talking about sours.

 

28 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

Stop being so sensitive.

No sensitivity here. I really don't have an issue with you liking beer, hating it, or being completely indifferent to it. I just disagree with the assertion that beer and beer that has hints of fruit in it's flavor profile are somehow two separate things.

10 hours ago, Thatguy said:

And fruit beer ain't beer.

I assume none of y'all enjoy stouts, porters, pale ales, dark ales, IPAs, DIPAs, ESBs, Kolschs, dubbels, trippels, quads, saisons, wheat beers, barley wines...

For that matter, considering the majority of beers out there have some degree of citrus or dark fruit flavor to them, what the hell kind of beer do you "real beer doesn't have any fruit flavor in it" guys actually drink?

 

Obscurial - Heretic

Preview tracks for the new Obscurial album due out next week

https://obscurialmusic.bandcamp.com/album/heretic?from=fandiscflw

Mark had asked about my never finished year end list for 2023, so I figured I'd share what I had before I gave up on it. I'd only just started making cuts, so this will be a lot longer than normal. Because of that I'm going to post it a little at a time and break it up by genre...and since the black metal list was the longest, I'll post it first.

Black Metal

 

Arnaut Pavle - Transylvanian Glare

 

Arbor - Behold... The Age of Pagan Blood

 

Atheosophia - Shadowgate of Winter's Spirit

 

 

 

As the Shadows Envelop Me – Fedrekult

 

Astral Tomb of Yearning - Summoning the Impenetrable Night

 

Aeon Furnace - Providence Descends

 

Abisma - Disciples of the Black Ram

 

 

 

 

Black Hurst – S/T

 

 

 

Blutschwur - Those of My Blood

 

 

 

Crucifixion Bell - Mirages in Izar

 

 

 

 

Ceremonial Crypt Desecration - Unholy Black Metal Against the Modern World

 

 

 

Dai-Ichi – S/T

 

 

 

Dominance - Slaughter of Human Offerings in the New Age of Pan

 

 

 

Demoncy - Black Star Gnosis

 

 

 

Ebony Pendant – S/T

 

Fellwinter - The Dawn of Winter

 

 

Final Eclipse - The Dark World

 

Flaming Ouroboros – Blood

 

Gauntlet Ring - Beyond the Veil of the Night

 

 

Graf - Rite of Nocturnal Passage

 

 

 

Gam - Alt hans væsen

 

 

 

Geistaz'ika - Midnatsbøn ved djævelens port

 

Helleruin - Devils, Death and Dark Arts

 

 

 

Hinsides - Hinsides hörs djävulsklockans urklang

 

 

Iron Firmament – Keepeater

 

 

Kringa - All Stillborn Fires, Lick My Heart!

 

 

 

Krigstjørn - Mod guders svig

 

Kurgan - Ascetic Dissociations

 

Lja – 1943

 

 

 

Mavorim - Ab Amitia Pulsae

 

 

 

Motstand – S/T

 

Mycorrhizae – The Great Filtration

 

 

 

Noitila – Langennut

 

Nöldr - Chaotic Mysticism from the Tormented Silence

 

Nahasheol - Serpens Abyssi

 

 

 

Nartvind – Breath of Night

 

 

 

Orkblut – Ghost Paths to Septentrion

 

Obsidian Grave – Blood of the Night

 

 

 

Oerheks - Grondslagen

 

Regnum Tenebrarum - Légendes noires

 

Ravensrealm - A Crash of Heathen Thunder

 

 

 

Sulphuric Night - Black Metal Tyranny

 

Tsjuder – Helvegr

 

 

 

Trest - Sorginak

 

 

 

Unholy Craft - Naar all tid er omme

 

 

 

Vestígio - Vestígios

(^Mark and FA will both want to check out the above album)

 

Versteck - Symbols of Seven Harmonies

5 minutes ago, navybsn said:

Manager: Quality Control, make sure all that shit beer tastes exactly the same. Bland and unoffensive.

QC: Got it sir. No problem.

I mean, you have to respect their commitment to being mediocre 😆

I don't know if it's worth a damn, not having tried it, but I've seen in my local that several of the better known foreign brewers like Paulaner and Weihenstephan are making non-alcoholic versions of their beer. If anyone can pull off a reliably decent tasting non-alcoholic, it's probably going to be one of them.

1 hour ago, navybsn said:

The mass produced stuff always disappoints no matter the style.

What's interesting about those breweries though, is because their beer is so "blah" in flavor, their quality control is absolutely topnotch. It has to be because being so lacking in actual flavor any deviation would be incredibly noticeable

>Brewers in Belgium using recipes crafted and honed over hundreds of years - "Our beers are malt forward, mildly bitter, with some noticeable dark fruit flavors"

>Some dude in Australia who thinks beer is a synonym for yellow, fizzy water - "Beer should taste like beer, not a fruit bowl"

Well, I'm convinced

Bro...are you having a stroke. you've said that like 3 times now 😆

IPA's and Pale Ales aren't my chosen style, but I won't turn my nose up at them if that's what's available...and there has been the rare occasion, on a really hot day, when Ive absolutely craved one. My go-to styles in the summer months are typically brown ales, hefeweizans, or vienna lagers (though fuck Boston Lager, that stuff is ass). I've also picked up a taste for cream ales in the last couple of years. Love Scotch ales and Bocks, and I'll drink them all year around, but they can sit a bit heavy when you're eating a big meal, like at a family cook out.

3 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Hazy, hoppy IPAs were the only thing that cut through the noise and tasted "normal" to me.

Funny you say that because my understanding of hazy ipa's are that they're typically not very bitter. That was supposedly the reason for their popularity... they caught on with the more casual market who wanted to be seen drinking trendy beers, but didn't like the bitter taste of the west coast style.

1 hour ago, AlSymerz said:

Wanting beer that tastes like fruit is like wanting bacon that tastes like ice cream.

Not at all. I think you've got the idea that when people are talking about beer with a fruit flavor they're talking about it like it tastes like orange soda or something, but they're really talking about more of a subtle aftertaste that's similar to bitter fruits like grapefruit or the rind from an orange. Those are flavors that lends themselves very naturally to the bitter, kind of piny and floral flavors that comes from beer hops.

...also, I can get beer that tastes like bacon, so anything is possible 😁

Yeah...I don't want it to sound like I'm complaining by any means. Md definitely isn't lacking for options, and if I have a craving for a certain style I can almost always find a well done version on the shelf. It's more that between the pandemic, the popularity of Hazy IPAs, and alternatives to beer fighting for the same shelf space, I've noticed there are far less options for a given style available than there was about 5 or so years ago...especially for styles that aren't in fashion with the Instagram crowd.

Like, the brewers in North America are really good at making various types of IPA's and Stouts, so if I can't get Yeti from Great Divide anymore, it's disappointing but someone local probably makes something nearly as good. When it comes  to a lot of the classic European styles though, well we don't have 1000 years worth of experience making Belgian style ales like Trappist monks in Europe. With a few exceptions, our versions of those styles are just pale imitations. So when a beer like that gets crowded off the shelf because local brewery #256 puts out another Hazy or Sour or whatever, it becomes a lot harder to find a replacement. Thats kind of what I'm disappointed about  

EDIT: I get it though. Both breweries and liquor stores need to prioritize what's selling, so from a business standpoint I totally understand why things are the way they are right now

7 minutes ago, navybsn said:

Usually a decent selection of styles although always heavy on the IPAs. Good lord I wish that trend would die off.

Holy shit...yes. Especially the "Hazy IPA". How many versions of that style do people need?

To be fair, I'm by no means hurting for good beer, and a lot of the local brewers are making some really good stuff. I just hate seeing the market contract to the point where certain styles are all but dying off because they aren't trendy. Like, give me a good bock or scotch ale, instead of the the 3000th fruited, imperial, milkshake sour

15 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

I haven't noticed declining quantities of foreign beer, but the market here is (rightly) focused on local products, so I wouldn't have. 

That's definitely a factor as well...was just wasting time today, hitting a couple of nearby stores just to see what they had, and local has absolutely eaten up the majority of shelf space. Ciders and alcoholic seltzers are cutting in too. It's just that it recently occurred to me that I haven't seen certain mainstay import beers on the shelf, and what they do have seems to be just the absolute basics...mostly hefeweizens

New Necrot is bland as fuck...

...that is all

Necrot - Lifeless Birth

https://necrot.bandcamp.com/album/lifeless-birth?from=discover_page

Trust me, while not as bad as it is for you, it's not exactly all sunshine and rainbows coming the other way. I was going to buy a Runespell (aussie black metal band) shirt the other day off of Bandcamp and they wanted $20 U.S. for the shirt and another $20 for the shipping...$40 for one t-shirt.

Honestly, these days it doesn't matter where you're at. Shipping from overseas is an absolute shitshow.

I wonder if thats why import beers are seeming to disappear from off the shelves. My area still gets some, but the sheer number has shrunken dramatically

9 hours ago, Thatguy said:

And what a band photo! Three of them look like school girls and the other looks like the bad dude who kidnapped them.

Think they were going for a Sarcofago vibe, but that works too

 

Rapture - Aeons of Devastation

Chilean death metal

https://rapturedeathmetal.bandcamp.com/album/aeons-of-devastation

Hellish - La Danza de las Cuatro Serpientes Elementales

Chilean blackened thrash

https://entheosrecs.bandcamp.com/album/la-danza-de-las-cuatro-serpientes-elementales