Albums currently kicking your ass

[Addo_Of_Nex]

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Great album. Hell even the Theomachist demo version is bad fucking ass and pretty much untoppable.

 

[damnromulans]

Kvelertak, "Kvelertak"

Not every track is strong but the good ones are REALLY good.

 

[VelociBrad]

yay for new black metal that isn't full of post-rock/shoegaze/ambient crap.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

That looks great. Polish BM? What's it like?

 

[Eligos]

Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu

They do a much better job of combining psychedelic rock with black metal than Nachtmystium did on Assassins. I'm totally hooked on this album. Echoey, spacey, groovy, and weird.

Yay for new black metal that's full of other stuff.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

It's full of weird, not-even-tangentially-related krautrock/spacerock, and it sounds kind of awkward, but it's an endearing album.

 

[Hell Patrol]

 

[Eligos]

It's full of weird, not-even-tangentially-related krautrock/spacerock, and it sounds kind of awkward, but it's an endearing album.

The transitions are smooth enough that I've never raised an eyebrow, and I can't say that for a lot of albums lately, so they must be at least tangentially related and not necessarily non sequiturian in nature.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I mean that krautrock isn't really even close to BM enough to establish the kind of connection they're trying to do. I hope their next album is better, because that one was cool for a few listens.

 

[Eligos]

Neither is bluegrass but Panopticon made that work. I think black metal is a versatile enough genre that it can connect well with genres that are more than one degree off.

I mean post rock is an obvious choice because it's equally minimalistic. Death metal and doom metal come from the same extreme sphere so they're understandable too. But I always like to hear musicians mixing in shit that's entirely unexpected. That's why Fleurety is such a hit for me.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I heard Panopticon, and I thought it was garbage (along with the aesthetic, fuck everything about that).

 

[Eligos]

I think most of the bands that are similar to Panipticon (that whole red/anarchist scene) don't have much going for them, but I enjoyed the musicality of Panopticon enough to look past the anarchoprimitivist ideology.

 

[VelociBrad]

That looks great. Polish BM? What's it like?

It's like good straight up black metal from Poland. listen to it!

 

[Onder]

NECROMANTIIIIC FOOOOOOG.

EDIT: On topic, my ass gets kicked regularily by the same albums as usual lately. Out of the new stuff it's the Filtheater EP and the Mutant Supremacy full-length. Out of the non-metal circles, the best one of this year is most definately the new Royksopp, which fucking rules. The new M.I.A. also caught my attention. New Carbon Based Lifeforms too early this year. I'm pretty sure there's much more and I'm just being a lazy bastard.

 

[Personified Hatred]

 

[VelociBrad]

Good to hear someone else praise the new Mutant Supremacy.

 

[Zephyrus]

Still don't know what to think about this.

 

[Personified Hatred]

Still don't know what to think about this.

In my opinion it's very good.

 

[Zephyrus]

Well no shit.