Like Billy Joel said, only the good die young.
So France's sludge monster's YONL are back with a new full length that is both remarkably similar and remarkably different than "Nord," their masterpiece from 2007.
"Ausserwelt" is basically the same deal as "Nord," in many ways: crushing, epic, soaring sludge. If anything, they've just refined the formula even more.
The sludge band Bastard of the Skies has a song called "Can You Fly, Bobby?"
Best. Song. Title. Ever. Forever. The. End.
Do you like shredding? Sure, we all do.
Order of Ennead are one of those bands that just absolutely tear it up but I don't feel like get enough love. I would think, listening to them, that every not-brain-dead metal kid from here to Japan would be rocking to it, but I feel like I don't see too much press on them, at least when compared to plenty of other (decidedly inferior) bands.
So Celeste has ANOTHER awesome new record you can download for free. Once again, it's awesome. I feel like I just gave their last record a glowing review super recently, so I'm just going to give you the link to download the new one and you can see what I mean for yourself.
...with this apparently mostly true story.
We get it. The nebulous group known as "hipsters" dress stupid, are shallow, and enjoy underground music. How droll. Can we now, as a nation, put this all behind us and talk about something else? I'm on hipster reference overload.
If you're looking for more of the same drony metal that Italy's One Starving Day has rocked up until now, you'll probably be disappointed in their new beast of a full length, "Atlas Coelestis"
That's not to say there's not plenty to love here, it just branches way farther out than their previous work.
...with his new album cover:
I don't think that's a word, but screw it.
The Onion AV Club posted this nice little article today.
I really like the article, generally, but I think it's methodology is flawed, so to speak. As some people in the comments have pointed out, bands actually released MORE albums back in the day (Sabbath released like, 5 in three years), but those albums had LESS music.
Go figure that a band from Italy, home of the great Ennio Morricone, would produce a band that combined heavy and dusty better than anyone I've ever heard.
Vulturum are a three piece with, apparently, two drummers and a guitar player. I have no idea how that works, listening to the record, but holy shit does it ever. Vulturum kick out some of the best heavy jams I've heard in a long time.
