[Album] The Metal Thread! (The Zombie Edition)

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Ok, so why are you being so difficult with this one band?

Because "I'm openminded" doesn't actually mean "I am a brainless pleasure drone and I enjoy absolutely fucking everything thrown at me", maybe? Jesus.

I was speaking idiomatically.

That Anaal Nathrakh album is excellent. I do think Eschaton is a better album overall (plus it has more of a BM influence going on), but Virus Bomb is pure fucking gold in musical form.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

metal releases i have enjoyed so far this year:

between the buried and me - the parallax: hypersleep dialogues
kind of a spacier continuation of the great misdirect. really good. apparently it's a lead-in to their next full-length, which is pretty exciting

falkenbach - tiurdia
a mixture of the usual rigidly structured folk metal stuff and some more BM-leaning songs. time between dog and wolf is the freshest thing he's done in like forever

protest the hero - scurrilous
insanely intricate progressive metalcore. i think these guys' initial gimmick was that they wrote their debut album, then actually learned to play the required instruments. there are lots of solos and breakdowns and silly shit, and the vocals are admittedly pretty tasteless, but it's a fun record with a lot of memorable bits

ulver - wars of the roses
still undecided on this one. it's ulver, so it's automatically great, but it hasn't got as consistent an atmosphere as their previous stuff. it's like a more modern perdition city with lots of piano and synth, and a gorgeous talky-poem-ambient thing on the last track, but i feel like i need to listen to it a lot more before i can form a proper opinion

lots of stuff still to look forward to this year, too. two devin townsend albums, new stuff from samael, anaal nathrakh, amorphis, sigh, boris, and more

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