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Post by ualaw557399 on Jul 7, 2020 7:50:07 GMT
I love these threads selfishly because I always find new music every single time. Excluding VC who is comfortably in this list.
I don't know if the new Convocation came in under the six month deadline or not, but fuck it. That is primo funeral doom. Immediately captured my attention, and that genre is usually a slow burn obviously.
Aara's new album is tremendous. Right in the feels.
Unreqivited's Mosaic II is beautiful. Haven't listened to his newest release much yet. He puts out stuff at roughly the same rate as the dude from Jute Gyte used to do.
Garganjua's Toward the Son is what I wish people who like Pallbearer would listen to.
Neo di Marte - challenging but extremely rewarding listen.
Ditto Postvorta.
Xenobiotic is awesome, fun technical hardcore music.
Myth of I is a bunch of Berklee kids doing Animals as Leaders worship very, very well.
The Drown "EP" is the only other pure doom I have heard close to Convocation.
Sutrah as a new EP which no one is talking about, but it is one of the best technical black/death albums I have heard this year.
Fluisteraars new album is black metal so pretty I want to commission someone to draw it for me.
Love Wake's new release....really tight songwriting.
Bolt Gun out of Australia is a cinematic post metal band that is great with headphones on...
Barishi's new one is solid.....wish each song was about two minutes shorter but it's good stuff.
Not first half 2020 but the upcoming Wren release sounds like promising doom/sludge.
Lot of great non-metal this year too....Yves Tumor, Activity, Sam Gendel (reimagined jazz standards), Kraken Quartet/Adobo, Chris Keys, everything the Flenser label has put out, Cassowary (more jazz)...
My 11 year old and I were both a little disappointed with Thundercat's latest. I think he was going for a specific vibe, but it sounds flat to me.
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Post by cherylprime on Jul 7, 2020 9:16:17 GMT
I have loved a lot of music this year but far and away, the new Paysage d’Hiver has become an obsession. It’s so beautiful, cold, isolated, meditative. It’s incredible and transformative.
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Post by arnoldlayne on Jul 7, 2020 9:54:34 GMT
OP: I actually haven't heard any of those, which is a treat for me.
Favourite heavy-adjacent releases of the YTD:
Infant Island - Beneath
Shin Guard - 2020
Nuvolascura - As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination... Screamo is like my desert island genre, and these bands are doing it for me.
Uniform & The Body - Live at the End of the World... I like the collab records, but this live album is just mean as hell in a way that's even better.
Code Orange - Underneath... Seems divisive? But I'm totally on board with how they're spending that major label $$$.
Hellish Form - MMXX... Keeper/Body Void side project. Slowwwwwww.
Envy - The Fallen Crimson... Might be my favourite record by them.
Ozzy Osborne - Ordinary Man... Total Ozzy fanboy, so automatic.
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Post by Biert on Jul 7, 2020 10:57:15 GMT
The Flashbulb - Our Simulacra
Poppy - I Disagree
Tycho - Simulcast
Elder - Omens
Moses Boyd - Dark Matter
Looking through the list of 2020 releases I realize there's a bunch of stuff I still need to check out and some interesting things still to look forward to (The Ocean, Ulver, Enslaved, Steven Wilson).
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Post by lordbeavis on Jul 7, 2020 12:48:46 GMT
Ozzy Osborne - Ordinary Man... Total Ozzy fanboy, so automatic. I keep forgetting about that, I need to check that out too. |
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Post by circumbendibus on Jul 7, 2020 15:40:30 GMT
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Post by metaldipshit on Jul 7, 2020 16:27:10 GMT
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Post by chris on Jul 7, 2020 16:40:54 GMT
Gonna have to look back at what records actually came out this year. Throatruiner has put out some INSANE music so far. One record I feel is super underlooked is the new Satan release. Hardcore-influenced experimental black metal. The intro track was off-putting at first, but now I love it. Such a weird, menacing album. Also the Fange LP and EP is some of my favorite industrial metal in a long while. Anyone who fucks with Uniform, Godflesh, or The Body needs to give this a shot. Super cold and mechanical, total misanthropic shit. Code Orange - Underneath... Seems divisive? But I'm totally on board with how they're spending that major label $$$. Forever did a bit more for me but I'll always be happy to see a DIY hardcore band get major support the way they are. I kind of wish they either chased more abrasive or more catchy/verse-chorus-verse rather than aiming for both together. |
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Post by kay double you on Jul 7, 2020 17:26:58 GMT
i wish i had been spending more time in the earlier portion of the year paying attention to new releases, but the two that have stood out most to me so far are
SEA - Impermanence
FORMER WORLDS - Iterations of Time
SEA is a great mix of doom and black metal with some alice in chains vibes thrown in for good measure
FORMER WORLDS is absolutely punishing sci-fi doom that features a drummer, a baritone guitar, a noise person, and a vocalist.
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Post by metaldipshit on Jul 7, 2020 17:57:57 GMT
i wish i had been spending more time in the earlier portion of the year paying attention to new releases, but the two that have stood out most to me so far are SEA - Impermanence FORMER WORLDS - Iterations of Time SEA is a great mix of doom and black metal with some alice in chains vibes thrown in for good measure FORMER WORLDS is absolutely punishing sci-fi doom that features a drummer, a baritone guitar, a noise person, and a vocalist. That Former Worlds album is killer. I bought it on one of the last BC days after I saw you recommend it on Twitter - haven't come back to it as much in the onslaught of recent releases, I should definitely revisit soon. |
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Post by Grackle Wizard on Jul 7, 2020 18:25:10 GMT
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Post by cereal on Jul 7, 2020 18:36:58 GMT
Also I'd like to say that it makes me happy to see how many people like that Former Worlds record. I didn't play on it but I was in the band doing noise and vocals for most of the writing process (all but one song) and I'm really proud of how it turned out and what they did with it.
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Post by lordbeavis on Jul 7, 2020 19:07:16 GMT
I don't have much new metal this year yet, I have to check out all the the stuff mentioned above. Here's the highlights of what I've bought this year I'm a sucker for a slow heavy riff Vile Creature - Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! doom metal vilecreature.bandcamp.com/album/glory-glory-apathy-took-helmI actually forgot about this one, I think I pre-ordered it or something a while ago and I'm just now listening to it. Still sad I missed them last time they came through Chicago with Emma Ruth Rundle and Cult of Luna Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions metal intronautband.bandcamp.com/album/fluid-existential-inversionsIndustrial type music: Be My Enemy - All That I Love, I Destroy Industrial bemyenemy.bandcamp.com/album/all-that-i-love-i-destroyI really like this album, and it starts with a Black Sabbath sample so that's a plus too haha It's got some heavy industrial sounds and it's a really interesting hip hop album, if you're in to that sort of thing. Backxwash - God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It hip hop, horrorcore grimalkinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/god-has-nothing-to-do-with-this-leave-him-out-of-itIf you like that gothy crooner music, from Chicago Panic Priest - Second Seduction darkwave, synthpop panicpriestngp.bandcamp.com/album/second-seductionObviously heavily influenced by John Carpenter's music, they are pretty great live too Carpenter Brut - Blood Machiens OST synthwave, sountrack carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com/album/blood-machines-ostSteet Fever - GOLD BLOOD EP darkwave, hip hop streetfever.bandcamp.com/album/gold-blood-epFull disclosure, these bands are friends, but they are cool and I do really like them: Cocksure - Operation C.O.C.K.S.U.R.E. electronic, industrial cocksure.bandcamp.com/album/operation-c-o-c-k-s-u-r-eecso - Ichijiro lo-fi hip hop ecso.bandcamp.com/album/ichijiroThis technically isn't out until the end of the month, but some of the songs are available now Ganser - Just Look At That Sky post-punk ganser.bandcamp.com/album/just-look-at-that-sky |
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Post by ualaw557399 on Jul 8, 2020 9:28:17 GMT
I have loved a lot of music this year but far and away, the new Paysage d’Hiver has become an obsession. It’s so beautiful, cold, isolated, meditative. It’s incredible and transformative. Two hours seemed daunting to me but enough people have raved about it that I am going to have to give it a listen. |
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