How I discovered over 22 AWESOME metal bands in one year!

This year was a  majestic metal journey through the best damn bands metal can offer for me. I discovered a LOT of new bands this year I didn't know about before and 80% of them were awesome. I specifically went looking for viking/folk metal/folk inspired black metal and atmospheric black metal to listen to.  I went "fishing" through websites looking for new music and through google searches and spotify I ended up becoming a huge fan of the following awesome metal bands.

Mithotyn (Classic viking folk metal)

Windir (AMAZING folk inspired black metal band, very somber and haunting - best on the list by FAR!)

Wolfchant (great pagan metal)
 Manegarm  (good viking metal - very fast and aggressive and black metal based)
 Falkenbach (epic viking metal - like bathory plus flutes)

Moonsorrow (epic fucking band - 15-18 minute long pagan metal epics!)

Wuthering Heights (amazing folk/power/prog metal band!)

Mistur (sick black metal band founded by an ex-windir member)

Finsterforst (sick epic progressive folk metal)

Thyrfing (best viking metal band ever)

Valtiari (awesome underground melodeth 1 man band from Australia)
Be'lakor (sick progressive melodeth band from Australia too)
Ulcerate (brutal technical death metal band from new Zealand)
Obsidian Tongue (cool atmospheric black metal from my own state)

Summoning (sick atmospheric black metal - second best band I found by far)

Myrkgrav (cool blackened folk metal 1 man band from norway - very good music)

Menhir (german pagan metal with folk elements and amazing opera like vocals)

Gernotshagen (epic folk/pagan metal - similar to Be'lakor meets ensiferum)

XIV Dark Centuries (excellent folk metal)

Black Messiah (amazing viking metal from germany, really cool and haunting sounding)

Thrudvangar (germanies amon amarth!)

Forefather (sick pagan metal from England! Really good band)

 It all started with me googling info on Amorphis. I just got into them and thought they were ok. I was into Folk Metal like Ensiferum, Wintersun, etc at the time. That's all I listened to. I had all the Ensiferum Cd's and listened to them to death. I planned massive virtual tours of places around the world and ensiferum was always the band I chose to listen to while touring North America (esp Canada!), Europe, south america and Australia. My google search on Amorphis lead me to a site. I was lucky to find it. It was a metal forum post asking a simple question... "What is the most influentual, underrated folk/viking metal band?". Some band named Windir won it. Now a long time ago I heard Windir on Internet radio and liked them but soon forgot about them all together. So I started to purchase albums in a purchasing frenzy that would last an entire month. The forum recommended Mithotyn. So I bought their king of the distant forest cd. Right away I knew I would love them. They were heavy and had insanely brutal growling that I loved. But then I listened to windir for the first time a short while later and it blew Mithotyn to shreds.

Describing Windir is tricky. The band sounded a lot like black metal but had really cool folk, industrial and atmospheric touches. Within a few listens they had far surpassed mithotyn and were endangering Ensiferum's place as my second favorite metal band ever. the guitar solos on the song Martyrium are insane. Then there is Fagning. Then I listened to 1184 and was blown out of the water by that. I thought Likferd was good. This was even better. The same thing happened when I finally bought Arntor online. That made 1184 look bad. By Far the most atmospheric band I have ever heard and Nothing comes close. Windir is very underrated. People trash it as crappy black metal. But it's not, It's amazing sounding and nothing comes close to it. Of all the bands I got into this was the best.
By a mile. Windir got me into far darker kinds of folk inspired metal. It got me away from crap like Korpiklaani and fintroll and made me like stuff like Thyrfing, Menhir, and much more.

Pretty soon I was on spotify and getting into other great Atmospheric folk inspired metal bands, such as Moonsorrow, Falkenbach,Wuthering Heights, Mistur, Finsterforst, Thyrfing, Myrkgrav, Menhir, Black Messiah, Gernotshagen, and Forefather. All of these single handily blew Ensiferum out of the water to the point where it was no longer even good in my mind anymore. It had been replaced by tons of non-cheezy Epic Folk inspired bands that actually had some really haunting melodies to them.

All of the bands I listed above are great. They are all worth listening to. Some of them however are insanely good. One band that captivated me all month was Summoning. This was not a folk inspired band but a really good black metal band that did atmospheric non folk inspired metal. Their latest cd is a masterpiece. I loved the sound on it. It was black metal + middle ages music. Their style is amazing.  It's only a 2 man band with 2 guys doing keyboards, and playing another instrument too...

Overall I had a blast getting into awesome new music this year...

Rancid Abomination Update 12/4/2016

This is the latest in a series of video updates for Rancid Abomination (my black metal band). I filmed this last night. I will do these every 2-3 days. This one was the one done just after the new cd released... I plan to do these regularly from now on..

Enjoy.. \m/

New Rancid Abomination Cd "The Devouring" Finished...

I've been working hard on the 7 new tracks for the new Rancid Abomination (my black metal band) CD. New cd is called the devouring, and it has 7 songs on it. 5 out of 7 are songs with vocals on them, the other 2 are instrumentals. The music for these songs is amazing sounding for the most part, minus 1 song.

Musically, it feels like a throwback to the cd "eternal hate and pestilence" which was done in 2003, only this time with slightly better production. The melodies are so similar, it's not funny. Both cd's have dark sinister melodies done on lead guitar and keyboards. Both cd's have thrashy  riffs, but this one has more of a groove metal influence in the rhythm guitars than Eternal Hate and Pestilence.

It took me a LONG time of constant work to get it sounding good. I had to alter the mixes by adding new lead guitars to them several times and had to fix the vocals an hour ago, to add more distortion which makes it sound better, vocal wise. Still not great sounding but better than before. Before it was sounding bad...

Whether I release this album on soundcloud depends. I really don't want negative comments so I think I will only release 1,2 songs. The whole theme of the cd (anti-(C)Rap) will piss of lots of people there I think, so I may only put it on noisetrade. Either way, It will be the last RA cd ever. I don't intend to do any more besides the upcoming greatist hits I am releasing on noisetrade on December 24.

Soon I will be posting this album on noisetrade. I hope it does well.. Until the Greatist Hits album launches there I will be posting updates here telling how RA albums do.

Enjoy Metalheads. Stay EVUL... Remember to Eat, Sleep, Drink, Piss, Fart and Wank BLACK FUCKING METAL \m/

EDIT : Here is a link to it!

New Rancid Abomination CD "The Devouring" being worked on...

Today, I was looking through tracks I had written in 2003-2004 to see if I could write an album with them, one final album to finish off Rancid Abomination's sick Black Metal Career. I found tracks for 5 songs and decided I was going to use them to write one final album. Several hours later, the work on "the devouring" had been done.

The Devouring consists of guitar, drum and bass tracks put through a remixing process and lead guitar and keyboard tracks added into to make them more hideous sounding. The Guitars on the new album were 90% done in 2003-2004, and the drums are all from that period. 90% of the keyboards, minus one track, are new however, and the lead guitars were tracked with my PC yesterday and today.

The Result is the most sinister sounding RA cd ever. By far.

Number 1, the evil emanated from this cd's music is insane. It even dwarfs Eternal Hate and Pestilence.  It sounds a LOT more sinister. Most of that comes from the keyboard and lead guitar tracks added on, the original music was NOT this way minus 1 track.  The result is quite good. Sick black metal here. Which brings me to the lyrical theme of this album... Which is insanely evil.

I am writing, what best can be described as, a black metal anti-rap themed cd. The lyrics are HIDEOUS on this one. I felt like I needed to do this after trolls from the Rap Community pissed me off by listing our band as HIPHOP without checking first and assuming our music was rap when they liked it over and over again. They sent tons of (C)RAP promoters our way that were completely unwanted. It pissed me off. So I intend to get my vengeance... MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! EVUL! BLACK FUCKING METAL >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (C)RAP!


THIS is what will mark the end of Rancid Abomination's unfortunately unpopular career... It might be the meanest damn cd ever but it is the last. And I don't intend to do more. I could but I don't want to... Pushing the boundaries in taste is something I don't really want to do too much so Lets just end it here with a funny bang... Hehe.... Anti-(C)Rap black metal = funny!

Rancid Abomination Music Videos

Here are home made music videos recorded for Rancid Abomination songs. They are not the best music videos you can find because:

1) They only show me (Z.A. - the bands founder)
2) They have no real special effects
3) They are home recorded..

They do however have a creepy air to them... They all have an eerie type style to them. I recorded all of them with the lights out, to make it scary. They have me doing scary facial features too as well. I look like a complete lunatic during these videos and that's the kind of effect I was going for.

They might not be the best music videos ever recorded but they are ok. They are not cheezy. They are a bit boring, that's the only negative I can find... But they do have excellent creepy effects, so they are worth watching for that, alone.

                                           The Terrible Sound of the Demonic Hordes:

The Bleeding:





Something Horrible:


Harbinger of Fate (new song):

Rancid Abomination releases 1 new CD and 2 new EP's on noisetrade

Despite the troubles on twitter, I still managed to release some new material for Rancid Abomination (My Black Metal Band) on noisetrade. That's really good news considering all the issues I've been getting on twitter, so lets go into it. The new cd "the exploding death of christmas" was released 2 days ago. It came out great... Lots of excellent tracks... I took last sunday off to record 5 new bonus tracks... 3 of those 5 were demos, songs that I had backed up tracks from 2003-2004 to remix and re-record vocals for. There were tons of these tracks but only a few made it because only a few had lyrics associated with them and the rest had them in text files which all died in hard drive failures.

The 5 new bonus tracks were boosted by instrumental only remakes of two other songs I loved that I needed to do. These were also based on old tracks, but these lacked lyrics. So I remade them as instrumentals.

Last night was another recording session for me. Since it was not a sunday, I couldn't get away with doing my normal vocal style for the band (harsh blackened growling) so I relied on the old ra vocal style from 2003-2006 that was more quiet and whisper-y.  These turned out very quiet and hard to hear but still fit the music for the EP fine. The EP was recorded and the first track was a sequel to a long lost but highly enjoyable track I recorded in 2005 called harbinger. This song was inspired by the EBAY haunted painting story and was very eerie sounding. The new one was even more eerie with the creepy quiet vocals...  It came out great. I renamed it "harbinger of fate" because harbinger was it's prequel and that is gone thanks to me accidentally deleting it in 2006.

So now we have the full cd, an EP of the bonus tracks from that cd and the EP recorded last night on noisetrade for metal fans, especially black metal fans to enjoy. The 2 new EP's are a lot more Black metal oriented than the album. The album is more like blackened melodeth.  I also recorded a cover of the brilliant song "Todeswalzer" by Windir. Windir was a FANTASTIC black metal band that I happen to love listening to. They had a very dark, hopeless sound to them with really creepy, haunting keyboards and amazing melodies that were amazing sounding on top of that. They are my second favorite band to listen to now besides my own stuff so I felt that it needed to be done. That cover will not be released (due to royalty concerns - we are broke now...). But it was my way to do a tribute to Valfar (Windir's founder - used to be a one man band just like Us - He died tragically in 2004), since it was His music that inspired me to get back into black metal and my stuff later, which I ditched because I was a Pussy and thought it was too evil. Thanks to me listening to Windir I got into lots of other cool bands with heavy black metal elements in them such as great viking metal bands and such and without listening to them, I doubt I would have returned to Rancid Abomination in 2016.

Here is a link to the new album.
Here is a link to the EP with the bonus tracks from the above album
Here is a link to the second EP..


Sneak peak from the second EP

Sneak Peak from the First EP
Sneak peak from the Album

(C)RapGate : How (C)Rap Fans/Producers totally fucked up my Black Metal bands Twitter presence.

I am part of a 2 man Black Metal band from Boston (Rancid Abomination). We play extremely thrashy black metal and are as underground as you can get. So when I re-discovered some of Rancid Abomination's Music, I immediately wanted to put it online. I made a twitter site for it. Seemed fine at first, but.... Well something horrible happened to it over the last few days on twitter.

We had marketed it on twitter using the hashtags #unsignedartist and #newmusic. We thought it would be a good idea. Because it was really a one man band and #unsignedartist made sense, right? What I didn't know is tons of (c)rappers spewing their shitty fake music form called (c)rap use the same fucking hashtag. And before I knew it, stupid braindead gangsta thugs from 
@HipHopParallel_ labelled US, a Black Metal Band as Rap and put us on a hip hop list, without even CHECKING FIRST SO SEE WE AREN'T FUCKING RAP/HIPHOP.

So I blocked the fuckers. And they took me off the list. Didn't help. Soon I was inundated with STUPID (C)RAP PROMOTERS DAILY. Promoters like the ones listed below..  I didn't want any promoters, period, because I promote our music myself. I don't need promoters, especially fucking rap ones. Rap ones promoting a black metal band sounds absurd right? Sounds stupid. What fucking stupid (c)rap fan would like something as evil and extreme as black metal? No one. So why were these fucking stupid losers harassing us? They were too stupid to read the obvious thing that said we were BLACK FUCKING METAL and Not rap, and instead looked at the retarded list that listed us as rap.

But that's not the worst part. No... That is bearable. I could actually handle them. So I trolled them and their stupid fanbase saying how their "music" form was crap. I posted some funny tweets such as the ones below (paraphrased).

"We're about 100000000000000000000000000000000000000 Times better than the music (C)Rap fans listen to" (and we are, Ra's music is sick!)

"BLACK FUCKING METAL >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (C)RAP"

"Stupid (C)Rap Promoters thinking we're (C)Rap is the stupidest, yet funniest thing ever"

"We're the Kind of music (C)Rap Fans think is complete noise, get that straight MPG | Faggotry/
Promote Shit!"

and last but not least...

"Why are (C)Rap Fans Ignoring the Obvious?, it says right here we aren't rap!"

But that trolling shit just got them to like it like the idiots they are. And before you know it I had (C)Rap fans liking our posts on recording a new album, ALL ASSUMING IT WAS RAP without reading the OBVIOUS profile photo that says we aren't fucking rap. One even pissed me off when I said I wasn't gonna release the new songs on soundcloud due to how bad it's been doing there...And they liked that to taunt me... Fuck them.

So I then renamed the account. By  this point I had stopped using the #unsignedartist hashtag and changed to #unsignedmetal. Didn't help. They didn't go away. I then got rid of the #newmusic hashtag to try to stop them. But apparently these (C)Raptards were reading #unsignedmetal and #blackmetal (which I was using) and still liked this shit thinking it was rap.  Renaming the account did absolutely nothing. I had changed it from @RancidAbomBand to @OfficialRABand. Didn't do shit.

So I wake up this morning to find yet ANOTHER DUMB (C)RAP promoter following us like we're a fucking (C)Rap group! (@King_Promo_LLC) Fuck off! So What I did was shut down the twitter account. See.. That's how (C)Rap fans ruin metal bands online presence...

It's stupid because RA has been doing shitty. They even made it worse with their fucking retarded (c)rap stupidity.  RA has never been popular NEVER. Even online almost no one knew about RA. So by doing this, they have pretty much made sure it will NEVER be popular outside of sites it's on where it is doing well.. (which are few and far between).. With a non-fux0red twitter account I could at least get it out there better.... But I can't due to these stupid (C)Raptards... THEY ruined it.

Several times during the thing I made it OBVIOUS we were metal. To everyone looking at us. Our twitter description clearly read BLACK METAL BAND FROM BOSTON. None of them looked at that. So I changed the profile photo to at least say "NOT RAP!". None of them cared. To them they simply couldn't read.  They all assumed we were rap and pestered us. The promo guys were the worst at that. They followed us and didn't even bother to check what kind of music we were first, which is STUPID for promo guys. What are these guys, ghetto thugs? They sound like complete idiots.

THIS is the band they ruined:






Ok... If you are a metalhead and hate this kind of shit... I suggest you fucking give these POS losers a peice of your mind. I don't mind you trolling them. I think they deserve that, for fucking up OUR twitter... This band is alive by the skin of it's teeth now and has less than 300 plays on soundcloud, less than 10 downloads on noisetrade and frankly, they could have really ruined it bad if it weren't for the fact I have been seeing RA stuff every day in the charts there... They could have killed the band dead. They made it impossible for me to get a quality following on twitter because 90% of the likes came from rap fanbase for fucking metal songs. If it weren't for me using those hashtags and these idiots I would still be active on twitter...

Stupid Rap promoters that have been bugging us:
@King_Promo_LLC
@amanda_jkiss
@indienationapp
@djgianka
@beatsuniversity9
@mpgmediauk
@somepromotion
@musicpromoguys
@power1068miami
@HipHopParallel_





Stupid Rap Fans that have been bugging us:
@darrickcollins
@GS_neech
@Lapletta
@IamTheRealGod
@WeAreMod3Sto
@thepinotpapi
@johnnysosaaa
@djkingassassin
@MixMastaKing(who seems to be the same person as the above using a second account to avoid my blocking of him - they have the same damn profile photo)



Note if you want to follow RA online, and get albums go to noisetrade.com and search for us there....