This Year In Metal

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This Year In Metal

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This year has been so promising for metal albums so far. It gives me a big thrashy boner.

Revocation - Revocation
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
Arsis - Unwelcome
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Protest The Hero - Volition

6 absolutely SOLID albums. Show me what else you've got.

Honorable mention to Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth because, while awesome, it's just very typical and nothing exciting. Really worth a listen though, but if you've heard Agony, you won't be surprised.

It's too bad Trivium pussied out with Vengeance Falls. They really did top out with Shogun and I know some people will say they're not worth the hype, but they're so ridiculously talented and admittedly my guilty pleasure in terms of fandom, along with Steel Panther.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDPb8TnaM4[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pcmzz8Bl2Y[/video]

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[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4kCyXLwhN0[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aFCGTdub6M[/video]
Actual song starts at 0:58

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HjTs-y-ZQo&feature=youtu.be[/video]


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Yeah I've been liking this years crop haha.
Last year was great too though.
Gojira, Meshuggah, and LOG.

The new PTH is hands down my favorite metal album of the year so far though.
I like most of the other albums you mentioned but PTH really fucking nailed it with this one.
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K-Bizzle wrote:Yeah I've been liking this years crop haha.
Last year was great too though.
Gojira, Meshuggah, and LOG.

The new PTH is hands down my favorite metal album of the year so far though.
I like most of the other albums you mentioned but PTH really fucking nailed it with this one.


Volition is amazing. I'm glad the album mix wasn't as vocal heavy as the demo, but the bass is still too buried because it's so tasty. I don't like Life Embossed because I like politics to stay away from my metal, though the riffs are fucking on point.

Indeed. Wintersun, BTBAM, Abiotic, HAARP Machine, Loomis, Faceless (I know a lot of people didn't like Autotheism, but it's amazing)

I previously forgot Holy Grail and others, I'm sure.
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Kvelertak - Meir

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enrmDWVAZBw[/video]

Witherscape - The Inheritance

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwsLxPBknOk[/video]

Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z3spJ_z3Es[/video]

And Lost Society :D

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VYaSmFcfVM[/video]
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call me crazy but I am not digging the new amon amarth album at all, it does nothing for me and I friggin love that band.
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New Extol bitches!
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Lots of good ones already posted - here's two that stuck with me

[video]http://youtu.be/0RUES2CGi90[/video]

[video]http://youtu.be/RJEW2PHyspE[/video]
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Not really into any of this stuff.

Exivious just released their new album the other day. Only listened to it a couple of times so far, but it seemed pretty damn good to me. :idk:
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That Witherscape tune is great. I'll be checking them out.

I hadn't heard the new Exivious. It's excellent from what I'm listening to.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfPN0N9rzrk[/video]
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Aside from Extol and Carcass?

This:

http://unhumanofficial.bandcamp.com/
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SuperFlyinMonke wrote:I hadn't heard the new Exivious. It's excellent from what I'm listening to.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfPN0N9rzrk[/video]


Yeah I've only listened to it a couple of times on the computer coz I can't be arsed plugging in the iPod. Otherwise I'd probably have listened to it non-stop the last couple of days. Definitely still Exivious, but also different to the debut album.

Also kinda looking forward to seeing the artwork when the CD turns up.
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[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg6bWoH_aUU[/video]

Kinda generic but:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n71dH1XAE20[/video]
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missingastring wrote:Aside from Extol and Carcass?

This:

http://unhumanofficial.bandcamp.com/


:rawk: This is amazing!

Thanks for the new music, guys. I was in a Best of 2013 thread on the metal subreddit, but it might as well be called r/blackmetal.
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SuperFlyinMonke wrote:That Witherscape tune is great. I'll be checking them out.


If you're not familiar with them, it's Dan Swanö's new band (of Edge of Sanity and Nightingale fame).
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New Death Angel and Warbringer are both solid.
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This album is absolutely sick

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih_DYef9ue0[/video]
August burns Red - Rescue and Restore


Also this is a little more post hardcore then metal, but this band never fails to put out really good shit. This might be one of their best.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zffBOcaymQA[/video]
Silverstein - This is How the Wind Shifts

We came as romans also put out a new record that I've been digging
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headlessdeadguy wrote:New Death Angel and Warbringer are both solid.

You know what? I loved Ultra-Violence and Act III; but I cannot for the life of me get into any Death Angel stuff past that time period. I really don't know why. It's not like I view them with elitist goggles; they just always seem to have a rock vibe that I don't care for; no matter how "metal" they are trying to be. I dug the experimentation on Act III (and some of Frolic...); but new stuff just does nothing for me. Not to be hater :lol: ; I dig most of the old guard :rawk:
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missingastring wrote:Aside from Extol and Carcass?

This:

http://unhumanofficial.bandcamp.com/


I could not agree more. Unhuman is cranking out some next level shit.

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I love Revocation so much. Easily my current favorite metal band :rawk:

Every one of their albums is pure win
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So far, my two favorite metal releases from this year have been Deafheaven's Sunbather (not exactly metal for some purists but close enough for me) and Red Fang's Whales and Leeches

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Best album of the year IMO goes to Mutiny Within

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQbK5uIVjq0[/video]

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Also,
The Amenta - Flesh Is Heir
Ulcerate - Vermis
Altars - Paramnesia
Satyricon - Satyricon (very disappointing)
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Apparently Living Sacrifice has a new album that came out. Sweet.

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downstemmed wrote:Also,
The Amenta - Flesh Is Heir
Ulcerate - Vermis
Altars - Paramnesia
Satyricon - Satyricon (very disappointing)


I've missed that, will be checking out! :thu:
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ovid9 wrote:Apparently Living Sacrifice has a new album that came out. Sweet.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcTIJfZuOys#t=205[/video]

I love that these dudes are still around. Somewhere I have their original demo, a cassette tape, obviously copied by hand onto one of those old clear-cased tapes, the "cover" a piece of blue-green construction paper that was run through a copier with spotty black artwork and sounding like something recorded in a garage, MAYBE using four separate tracks. The music was incredible though. You could just feel the quality in the composition and playing, even if the packaging was sorta lulzy. That had to have been before '92, because I remember listening to it driving to High School.

DAMN that new tune brings the rock. :rawk:
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