Metal, etc.

[ska invita]

Anyone up for seeing Cattle Decapitation next March at the Islington Academy? They have Signs of the Swarm, 200 Stab Wounds and Vomit Forth in support

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Commited and found someone to go with

 

[ska invita]

Anyone up for seeing Cattle Decapitation next March at the Islington Academy? They have Signs of the Swarm, 200 Stab Wounds and Vomit Forth in support

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Great video this....I won't make it there till later because of work though

 

[hitmouse]

Think Municipal Waste are back here now, touring with Kreator and Lamb of God, wish they'd get around to doing a headline tour of their own.

Turns Municipal Waste are now doing a headline tour of their own, coming back here in October, but I didn't find out in time and their local date is sold out now.

 

[skyscraper101]

Me thumbs
Commited and found someone to go with

Sick. I’ll see you there hopefully

 

[ska invita]

Turns Municipal Waste are now doing a headline tour of their own, coming back here in October, but I didn't find out in time and their local date is sold out now.al

Mainstream
Looooseeerrr

 

[ska invita]

Sick. I’ll see you there hopefully

Let's try and make that happen.
Vegan doomer end of the world angst is an increasing party of my psyche these days...I think that's a big part of the appeal
I've seen them before, they sound great live, way better than on record imo ... The records are technically amazing but lack crunch. should be a good!

 

[spitfire]

Turns Municipal Waste are now doing a headline tour of their own, coming back here in October, but I didn't find out in time and their local date is sold out now.

Get signed up for an alert on twickets.

YOU MAINSTREAM LOSER.

 

[skyscraper101]

I’ve taken to regularly checking the listings at the New Cross inn lately as they are a mecca for metal bands and all dayers.

Gigs - New Cross Inn - Live Music Venue - London

Full list of upcoming gigs and live events at New Cross Inn, south east London's premier 350 capacity live music venue.

www.newcrossinn.com

 

[braindancer]

2023 has seen me fully absorbed in metal. I've listened to little else.

I might try and get to that cattle decap gig too... especially ai I see it's doors at 5, curfew at 10 - perfect for me as can get train home after . More early gigs please...

I'll post my recent faves on this thread later. Share the joy....

 

[ska invita]

was informed that it was too mainstream and they only do proper hipster metal.

is metal hip (lol) now then? what bit is hipsterish?

 

[spitfire]

is metal hip (lol) now then? what bit is hipsterish?

They clearly think it is. Municipal Waste are "too mainstream" and they prefer to sell Metal that they find in obscure corners of the internet that no one has ever heard of. Words to that effect.

I've been in many record shops and they really stood out as the least helpful and friendly I've been to. I always go into shops in a friendly manner with an open mind. Won't be back at that one.

 

[hash tag]

The guy in Crypt yesterday was friendly, helpful and chatty

 

[spitfire]

The guy in Crypt yesterday was friendly, helpful and chatty

Must be me then.

 

[hash tag]

Must be me then.

Maybe he had a thing for me and my flowing locks?

 

[spitfire]

Maybe he had a thing for me and my flowing locks?

Ah that's it, my short hair exposed me as a dilettante and not Very Metal.

 

[spitfire]

My Coldplay t-shirt probably didn't help...

 

[hash tag]

My Coldplay t-shirt probably didn't help...

I wouldn't have had you down as a coldplay fan.

 

[braindancer]

These are the recent metal albums I've been caning to death....

Dream Unending - Song of Salvation

Ethereal proggy doom - beautiful...



Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us

Highly melodic death metal - lots of piano, it is quite cheesy but it really hits the spot



Serpent of Old - Ensemble Under the Dark Sun

Rip-roaring death metal from Turkey



Calligram - Postion / Momentum
Slamming punky hardcore black metal



Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
Melodic death metal from Minneapolis

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[braindancer]

Grand Cadaver - Deities of Deathlike Sleep
Beastly old school death metal



Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
Incredible death metal with proggy elements - absolute trip of an album



Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
Cracking thrash from Scotland



Gridlink - Coronet Juniper
Sweet-as grindcore

 

[hitmouse]

is metal hip (lol) now then? what bit is hipsterish?

fwiw, I would think of "hipster metal" as a putdown for bands like Deafheaven, who play a kind of black metal that appeals to shoegazing dilettantes like me. I imagine Deafheaven would probably also fail the crypty wizard test.

My Coldplay t-shirt probably didn't help...

You need to get something with a bit more cred, come back in wearing this Cranberries t-shirt and I bet they'll be dead impressed.

 

[hitmouse]

Actually, is the definition of "hipster metal" not just "anything the Quietus likes"?

 

[mojo pixy]

I think it's metal you wouldn't want to mosh to, but would instead nod profoundly along as you sip your craft ale.

 

[mojo pixy]

I honestly can't see why anyone wants to play in a metal band but not have a pit bouncing away in front of the stage. That's what metal is, if everyone's standing about lost in their own little introspection as they absorb your angsty noise, that's not metal it's really loud emo.

So there it is, hipster metal is basically really loud emo. Nailed it

Still, I do quite like A Forest of Stars (quite old now, but this is totally the kind of thing I'd call hipstery)



(oh and probably Cradle of Filth)

 

[mojo pixy]

Another band I can't categorise easily (broadly black metal but beyond that hard to box) and have certainly mentioned elsewhere are Oranssi Pazuzu from Finland. I'd start with either their most recent album and work back, or their first and work forward, but it's hard to pick a favourite because they're just .. odd. They're a unique band in my music collection as I have all their (full, studio) albums, all on vinyl (what a hipster knob lol) and I can't recommend them enough. Psychedelic as fk, nothing quite like it.

 

[hash tag]

I'm old. I have loads of cd's and I like to browse in shops. If I don't go to crypt there are not many other places left, on the whole just HMV.
Where can I go to browse and buy metal CDs ( half just bought half a dozen in HMVs ).

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Wouldn't hipster metal sit in a very weird position of being too obscure (on the hipster side of the hipster/non-hipster divide) but simultaneously too mainstream (it's not 'proper' metal which is probably way more obscure and sceney). Poor old hipsters can't win can they.

 

[braindancer]

Actually, is the definition of "hipster metal" not just "anything the Quietus likes"?

Or possibly any metal that Pitchfork likes.

And Pitchfork massively rate the new Tomb Mold - which I posted above.

I massively rate it too. So that means I'm a hipster.

So hipster metal is metal that I like?

 

[xenon]

We've got a great, friendly, if very small venue gig wise, in Bristol, the Griffin, with record shop next door.

 

[newme]

Will be using this thread hopefully for new stuff. Seems the last metal bands I found were not even that new and that was 5-10 years ago. A lot of my musical taste appears stuck in my 15-30 years old group and it's just stagnated.

 

[hash tag]

Was in the world's end Camden tonight and there were many good tunes being played. Met with friends of family who recomended Hu. Is there anything more bizarre than a Mongolian band combining metal with throat singing?

The Hu - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org