RelentlessOblivion

Alrighty so I’ve been scouring the internet for 2024 releases, so far that’s search has given me two albums that I think are pretty decent

Lair - The Hidden Shiv

it’s not revolutionary by any means, but it’s some pretty solid sludge

Deconsecrated - Ascension in the Altar of Condemned

I would describe this as dawn of possession meets Covenant, the Immolation and Morbid Angel influence is there without the whole album. Just feeling like feel good throwback death metal.

influence is there without the whole album. Just feeling like feel good throwback death metal.

Okay, now that is over with:

bestial piglord - essence of brown

supposedly, experimental sludge, but I’m just not hearing it. Dude needs to get back in the lab and try some different ingredients because this experiment failed…

Crossroad - the funeral path

alright, let’s lay down some ground rules shall we? You don’t get to be an alleged doom metal band, call your album, the funeral path, and have absolutely nothing to do with funeral doom! No instead, it’s, actually, barely even doom might as well be a traditional metal album, honestly.

there was a third album. I was going to talk about, but honestly, it was such forgettable death metal that I’ve already forgotten the band and the album title.

Ondskapt - dodens evangelion (2005)

Horna - Askel lähempänä Saatanaa (2013)

Horna / Sacrificial Mortuorum - split (2010)

1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

One of my favorite Horna albums. Someone once told me it was a tribute to Bathory, implying that it shouldn't count as a regular Horna album or something, but regardless it's still one of my favorites from a band that I hold in high esteem.

 

Gruzja - I Iść Dalej, Poland 2019

 

Gruzja - Jeszcze Nie Mamy Na Was Pomysłu, 2019

It’s very Bathory sounding, but hey there’s nothing wrong with that.

NP Horna - Vihan Tiellä (2009), NP: Horna -

Horna - Sotahuuto (2005)

Miasma - A Glance of Miasma EP (2024)

This reminds me of Coffins, but not as heavy. Not something I plan to revisit

Baptism - Morbid Wings of Sathanas(2005)

Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (2005

G’Day, want tell us some of the bands you like? Or maybe how long you’ve been a metal fan? Anything at all?

Lair - The Hidden Shiv (2024)

I’d say this is reminiscent of a sludgey Rippikoulu 

2 hours ago, AlSymerz said:

I'm betting it will be the Back Street Boys and Britney Spears.

 

Nah he’ll be all about Taylor swift…

Funny GG as I was about to make a similar point, I know my taste has only skewed further and further towards the extreme in the last decade or so. Worth noting that extreme can be interpreted many different ways, which is just part of the fun,Azaghul, Cemetary Urn, and Evoken are all extreme in very different ways, for example

Ultimately it’s done with, we’ve all voiced our thoughts on the Dead matter, truthfully, I don’t see much benefit in continuing that particular conversation, flogging a dead horse as it were.

NP: 1349 - Hellfire (2005)

4 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

They were phenomenal. The Conductor's Departure is the one I play the most. I guess the melodies drew me in. But as far as cool ideas per minute, Under A Stone really goes hard. And the mix is better too, less pushed mids, more natural sounding. I wonder just how great that supposedly finished but unreleased last album is.

Maybe one day we’ll get to hear it, Until then Under a Stone… and Conductor’s Departure aren’t a bad way for Anata to sign off.

1349 - Liberation (2003)

1349 - Beyond the Apocalypse (2004)

Deconsecrated - Ascension in the Altar of Condemned )2024( [Chile]

Death Metal which borrows from the 90’s. It’s solid enough thus far

6 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Next week we can teach him about blackened death and how to be an elitist gatekeeper.

Given my pension for consuming copious quantities of black and death metal, it is somewhat ironic that I really don’t enjoy much blackened DM, even I don’t understand my taste in music sometimes…

2 hours ago, Innominate said:

Sinister - Diabolical Summoning

Necropolis - The Evil Never Dies

Coffin Texts - Gods of Creation, Death & Afterlife

Bathym - Into Darkness

1 hour ago, Arioch said:

Possessed - Beyond the Gates (1986)

 

That Sinister album is great, killer DM. Re Possessed I think seven churches is a pretty great album, but I can’t say I enjoy any of their other work that much.

37 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

It's not that it's a bad album, but the tempos and general feel are much the same in every song. It drags on with only a few moments of higher energy. The long last song was great for about 30 seconds but went back to the pattern of the others and dragged on and on to its demise. Not enough pay off for the time and effort. It's not adventurous, it's not cathartic, it's not fun.It's warm and fuzzy I guess if all you want from music is more of the same.

It is music for old metal biddies. 

I prefer durif to merlot. There's more to it than to shiraz or the merlot.

How about a nice Chianti, best with some favs beans and perhaps liver…

Apocalyptic Annihilation - Necrothrash (2023)

yep blackened thrash, our little orca is growing up…🤣

44 minutes ago, JamesT said:

Good evening, Mr. GG!  Oh yes, there are tons of albums that I don't enjoy.  I just steer clear of posting about them.  When I leave a post on this forum, it's to praise an album that I enjoy, with some very rare exceptions.  Even some of the great classic bands - Motorhead and Iron Maiden, to use a couple of examples - have albums that I just think are average at best.  In the case of Motorhead, their 2002 album "Hammered" comes to mind.  In the case of Iron Maiden, their 2000 release "Brave New World" comes to mind.  

They're definitely out there!  I just don't make a point to post about the stuff I don't enjoy.  Now, bands like KK's Priest, Saxon, Primal Fear, the mighty HammerFall?  Yep, I enjoy all of their releases.  My top 15 favorite bands of all time are:

PanterA

Overkill

Crowbar

Judas Priest

AC/DC

Accept

Bullet

Lamb of God

HammerFall

Girish and the Chronicles

Candlemass

DragonForce

Saxon

Primal Fear

Cradle of Filth

(I'd make room for Metallica, if I had a 16th slot)

You won't see many (if any) negative posts about these greats! 

I remember the days when I had similar feelings about my favourite bands, they could do no wrong, and everything they released was flawless. Time passes and tastes change, I’m sure 16 year old me would be horrified hearing that I would one day all but stop listening to Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, 25 year old would be just as stunned to learn. I would eventually do it same with Devin Townsend and Dark Tranquillity. I guess my point being that sometimes the bands we love the most, and also be the ones we are most critical of in years to come.

the bands we love the most, and also be the ones we are most critical of in years to come.

Actually come to think of it. I don’t think there is a single band I listen to, with caveats for those who only ever released, one or two albums, who is discography I could say is flawless.  Death probably, closest, but I think the vocals on Symbolic week, and parts of both human and individual thought patterns tend to drag. Bathory have eight truly excellent albums in my opinion, but the other three, is it three, I forget sometimes, anyway, there, other albums are so bad they are virtually unlistenable, and while I adore Inquisition my personal view is the peak was Dismal Orations with each album, they released since being slightly weaker than the one which proceeded it 

3 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

All three of them are on my short list. Verminous Serpent is still probably my AOTY, and Fossilization is easily top 3 in the black/death category. Still on the fence about Afterbirth, I do enjoy the album but I've never had a progressive album on one of my lists before. How can I be sure if I like the album strictly on its own merits or could it be partly because I'm friends with Cody? A few more spins and I'm sure the answer will reveal itself to me. 

I just want to say dude, if you've only grabbed three albums then you've missed some truly great music this past year. At least from this old goat's perspective anyway. 

 

NP: Tsjuder - Helvegr, Norway

 

I’m entirely aware that I’ve missed a lot, but like I said, I only listened to 10 albums total from 2023, that’s where I’m relying on the lists here to steer me in the right direction. Sidenote, my New Year’s resolution is to check out as much 2024 metal as I can

8 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Now I have to ask, what were the three albums you liked enough to pick up in 2023?

That would be Afterbirth, Fossilization, and Verminous Serpent, in a rarity for me I didn’t even enjoy the new releases from Ahab or Mournful Congregation enough to purchase

1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Just to add my two cents....I think Deadly is the kind of person who once banned would never come back even if we begged him. Even when after several warnings FA publicly told him to cool it lest he be forced to discipline him, his response was fine go ahead and ban me I'm done. I'm sure he feels he's been treated unfairly as any of us would if we were banned from a forum we had been a daily regular on for a couple of years. But I do remember him saying he'd been banned from lots of different places online so this seems to be his M.O. He says his piece and lets the chips fall where they may. And quite often those chips land him on the receiving end of the ban hammer.

I really wish it hadn't come to this, but at this point it's water under the bridge, a done deal, he's gone. And they say they did warn him several times, they tried to give him some leeway and the benefit of the doubt but he wouldn't take it, the stubborn bastard. I'm no angel, FA had to warn me one time and remove a post he found personally offensive, but he never had to warn me or delete one of my posts again. Some people need to learn to take a hint. No means no, stop means stop. Like my 9 year old for starters.

And believe me I do quite like to argue politics myself. I'm extremely opinionated and it can get heated at times. So I've just had to find somewhere else on the internet to do that. I don't personally see why it's such a big deal, but they've made it pretty clear they don't want that kind of thing here. And like it or not we all need to respect that.

Unfortunately Macabre is right on this one. In the decade or so we have both been here I would say 2/3 of political discussions, whether they are about inflammatory topics or the mundane, just end up in screaming matches with neither side willing to give any ground or end the discussion. while I do enjoy talking politics from time to time,  I don’t think it is healthy for the forum, particularly with how charged the political landscape is these days. Our job as moderators isn’t to be the thought police, but we also don’t want MF to resemble Twitter.content…

NP : Spite Extreme Wing - Non Decor, Deco (2003)