Metal 2016

[The Ozzman]

First Carnivore album is getting reissued apparently so I just pre-ordered that..

 

[no country for old wainds]

awesome. it fucking rules.

 

[The Ozzman]

awesome. it fucking rules.

It has Pete Steele so I don't know why anything he does would be bad.

 

[EspaDa]

Pete Steele was a demigod. It's a shame that we've lost him.

 

[The Ozzman]

Pete Steele was a demigod. It's a shame that we've lost him.

Agreed man. Metal lost a true legend.

 

[requiem]

Agreed man. Metal lost a true legend.

Peter Steele was indeed a legend but I have to say that not everything he released did it for me. The 'Dead Again' album for instance was simply terrible. My friend and I actually had a ritual burning of one of our copies where we actually set fire to it. Good times. 'October Rust' is in my top 3 of all time though.

I can't wait for the new Borknagar. 'Urd' was a great album and I love the three pronged vocal attack - it works so well. Such an interesting band. The new Rotting Christ album interests me a lot but I'm not looking forward to any more of those recycled riffs they keep trotting out on the last few albums. I presume Fleshgod Apocalypse will put an album out in 2016 too which will easily be my most anticipated.

Although I'm still only just catching up with all the great releases that came out this year!

 

[Krow]

I want to like the new Rotting Christ but those vocals are just bad. The band being beyond past their prime doesn't help either...

 

[JontRevolting]

I see Agatus are putting out an album on HHR sometime!

 

[requiem]

I want to like the new Rotting Christ but those vocals are just bad. The band being beyond past their prime doesn't help either...

I really like the vocals so that's not a problem for me. I'm getting a little tired of the same riff progression/structure that they have on a good 80% of their songs from the last three or four albums, and the new song 'Elthe Kyrie' is exactly the same.

The thing is, it's a good structure and everyone (most) tends to love it and are all, "Rotting Christ are AMAZING", but if you listen to their albums from about 'Sanctus Diavolos' to this new one, the repetition is just crazy. In fact, I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that I can't think of another band in metal that copies themselves to such an extent, and I'm including Slayer in that call. I'm surprised more people don't call Rotting Christ out on it.

Having said all this, I'll probably still buy the new one because it's a cool sound.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

yea a lot of their songs sound literally identical.

 

[Baroque]

New Xanthochroid

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

New Aenaon. This is an early candidate for 2016 AOTY.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

New Xanthochroid

Really interesting stuff. Never heard these dudes before.

 

[Baroque]

Really interesting stuff. Never heard these dudes before.

Yeah. Their previous album "Blessed He With Boils" is equally interesting and worth checking out

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

lol that's a pretty hilarious album title.

 

[DarkGuitarLord]

New Exmortus is dropping in January. Love all their previous albums, pretty sure the new one will be great as well.

 

[NinjaSweater]

Exmortus is great! Can't wait for this new album!

 

[Baroque]

There are now 4 tracks from the new album up on Exmortus' bandcamp.

https://exmortus-official.bandcamp.com/album/ride-forth

 

[JontRevolting]

I have that crazy Xanthochroid green splatter vinyl, they're a very interesting young band.

 

[requiem]

New Borknagar video featuring all four singers. I have to admit that the song was great, and the Norwegian scenery as beautiful as always!

This is amazing. I love Borknagar, especially since Vortex joined full time again for 'Urd'. The three vocalists are just brilliant (and of course Garm in this case too).