The Rllmuk Metal Thread Part 2

[moosegrinder]

Newest Slipknot didn't stick for me.

 

I've bought more new music this year than last year so at least I'll have some kind of top 10 2022 but after looking through the end of year lists already out I've missed fucking looooooooooooooooooooooooooooads of shit.

[Talvalin]

 

Honourable mentions on the top row, then my top 10 ordered high to low from middle left to bottom right.

tl;dr Immolation was my album of the year.

[Nathan Wind]

I didn't like the new Slipknot album much either, but We Are Not Your Kind has some bangers on it. Nero Forte, Birth of the Cruel, Solway Firth and Red Flag are some of the best tunes they've ever put out, IMO.

[ngchol]

Hi, just a quick reminder that the RLLMUK favourite albums poll runs until 31 December - you can post your list here:

 

https://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?/topic/328831-rllmuks-favourite-albums-of-2022-list-thread-open-until-31-december

 

Every vote for a new or reissued 2022 album counts, even if you've just got one album you really liked this year! 

[evilwallpaper]

Made a massive spotify playlist last year with (almost) every band to play an ozzfest, its almost 100hrs long. Its good to stick on random and some blasts from the past.

 

 

[Girth Certificate]

 

 

[Flub]

I absolutely love this.

 

 

[Girth Certificate]

 

 

[Kingpin]

Just bought tickets to see Emperor in March 2024 in the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. Never thought I'd see them over here, and in that venue. Should be fairly bloody special.

[Flub]

Amazing scenes

 

 

 

[Stilllife]

I came across this last week, truely amazing. I love Iron Maiden and it's great to see behind the curtain with Bruce (scary how normal he is)

 

I can't wait, going to see him with my daughter again this year, 4th time we're seeing Maiden now.

[Girth Certificate]

 

 

This would be my ring music. or the soundtrack to a new Dragons Fury game

[Nergion]

Haiduk - Sea of Fire

 

 

[Girth Certificate]

some Young People music today. Don't let the spoken bit put you off  

 

 

 

[Arctic Feather]

The Ongoing Concept's new album finally released yesterday.
 

 

[Girth Certificate]

 

https://www.revolvermag.com/culture/metalocalypse-announce-new-movie-soundtrack-and-dethklok-album

 

New Metalocalype movie, Dethlklok album and tour with Babymetal \m/

[deerokus]

Was at Sabaton (supported by Babymetal) last night. I finally 'get' Babymetal, man, they're superb live.

[jonathanhoey]

New Therapy? album out today. Full thing currently streaming on their official YouTube: 

 

 

I love it. 

[Kingpin]

34 minutes ago, jonathanhoey said:

New Therapy? album out today. Full thing currently streaming on their official YouTube: 

 

 

I love it. 

I have the record waiting for collection in a local shop. Loved the singles I’ve heard so far. I’ll be very happy if this turns out to be a banger. Love T?

[Robo_1]

The first minute of this. A big fat old school metal riff to get your head bobbing: 🤘

 

 

[jonathanhoey]

Eurovision tonight, and Australia surely has to win. They’ve entered a legit prog-metal band with a song that features Maiden-style “WHOA-OH”s, an enormous open-G djent riff, a half-time beatdown, a guitar/keytar solo duel and even a cheeky death growl. It’s massive and I love it. 
 

 

Oh and the singer’s own actual Toyota MR-2 (with the keytar right there in the passenger seat at the start of the song like Chekhov’s gun).

 

Honestly this wouldn’t sound out of place on one of Devin Townsend’s better records, and I mean that as a really heartfelt compliment because I love Devin.

 

[T Pot]

I need to give them a listen. I can't stop listening to music by Germanys entry Lord of the Lost. 

 

Reset The Preset is amazing.

[danbot]

I've been listening to Esoteric Oppression and The Earth is the Sky by The Moth Gatherer a lot!

If you like a bit of Cult of Luna type stuff, give it a try.

 

 

 

[Lovelyman]

In not much surprise it turns out that Rammstein are probably horrible

 

 

 

[Captain Novaforce]

On 26/05/2023 at 18:41, Lovelyman said:

In not much surprise it turns out that Rammstein are probably horrible

 

 

 

 

Sounds like it's mainly Till, but yeah. Grim.

[Kingpin]

Good time to be an Andy Cairns fan. Latest Therapy? is a good 'un, and now he's playing in an Industrial supergoup thing that strikes me as early Therapy? meets Godflesh. I think this is stronger than the new T? record honestly, meaty drums and a really thick sound.

 

 

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JAAW is a post-industrial supergroug featuring Andy Cairns (Therapy?), Jason Stoll (Mugstar, KLÄMP, Sex Swing), Wayne Adams (Death Pedals, Big Lad, Petbrick) and Adam Betts (Three Trapped Tigers, Goldie, Squarepusher). JAAW glories in big riffs and massive hooks, while also pushing the boundaries of what that even means thanks to its uncompromising strangeness.

 

In the back of JAAW’s minds are the 1990s: an era when the experimental heaviness of acts like Ministry and Godflesh could find surprisingly large audiences. They also draw on the sonic ground that’s been broken since. The disorientating ferocity of Brazil’s DEAFKIDS. The gaseous, shapeshifted vocals on Burial’s records. The freakout-laden noise-rock of Lightning Bolt. Far from emulating the industrial metal masters of the past, JAAW will help shake lesser rock bands out of their generic complacency. With scant regard for typical verse/chorus/verse formulas, JAAW’s song structures are closer to the nonlinear approach of body-shaking dance music.

 

Recorded intensely in a matter of days at Wayne’s Bear Bites Horse studio in London, the result is one of the most distinctive and exciting records that will be released this year, so heavy in textures that repeat listens will prove endlessly rewarding.

 

Experimenting with squealing effects pedals selected from the studio’s racks, Cairns was reminded of his love for the feedback-drenched records of Helios Creed and Nuklear Blast Suntan. Having grown up listening to Therapy?, Adams loved throwing HM-2 pedals at Cairns and hearing his riffs through Entombed-style distortion. Bassist Stoll liked the idea of “Celtic Frost playing something by NEU!” This turned into the album’s bludgeoning centrepiece, ‘Bring Home The Motherlode, Barry’. As co-vocalists, Adams and Cairns wrote lyrics informed by the hallucinatory horror movies of Panos Cosmatos and the unforgettable set-pieces from Ari Aster’s Midsommar.

 

JAAW’s sounds, ideas and modes all bleed into each other. “The lyrics, too, are part of the same whole,” adds Cairns. “I feel you could drop the needle at any point on this record and you know where you are with it. To me, it’s like greyscale psychedelia. It’s just this… experience.”

 

[Robo_1]

Looks like Soen are preparing a new album. Clearly follows the same sound of Lotus and Imperial.... which is a good thing in my book:
 

 

[Thor]

Alright folks, it's Download this coming weekend and I'm going along with my brother and nephew. Other than the headliners (and Placebo) I'm not overly fussed on the line-ups. For the Saturday we're arriving kinda late, so will only really get to see Disturbed, PLacebo, Metallica. But on the Sunday I'll be there all day.

 

Below is the line up, who should I make my way to:

 

 

Bloodywood is a lock-in for me - only recently listened to them but they're fucking great!