Rolling Metal Thread 2009

dude unrelated but did u get my email on solange?

not even close to 2009 but... super underrated gorguts album: from wisdom to hate

this stuff always sounds killer when it comes up on shuffle.

that is all.

love that album. i love all their albums though.

got a cool doom album from australia by atolah. an EP actually. very nice. very heavy.

I did! I thought I sent you an e-mail back of thanks, but I see now I didn't. I appreciate it!!

(xxpost)

no prob dude just wanted to make sure!

xxxxpost

yeah, every gorguts album has its charms, no doubt. anything ever surface from that new lineup?

I can answer that as I just interviewed Luc from Gorguts - new album in late '10, both the Byla guys and the drummer from Origin/Skinless etc on board, mostly written but not recorded, pretty long songs (like 7 min average), bit proggier than Gorguts of old. Sounds good

oh, awesome. am psyched to hear that.

but late '10 - damn!

also, listening to gorguts is always a little bittersweet now. r.i.p. steve mcdonald. god, what an amazing drummer.

Yesterday my brother played me the Black Anvil reissue on Relapse. NYC dudes playing retro Swedish death metal. Really excellent.

Someone recently told me that the next big trend will be kids playing Swedish death metal. I believe this prophecy. Begone retro-thrash!

I don't believe that's a reissue... I'm seeing them in a couple weeks with Nachtmystium and Marduk.

the retro-death train has been chugging along for awhile now. but, like the retro-thrash stuff, hardly any of it is as good or great as the stuff its aping.

Yeah, Decibel's been touting the whole retro-death thing. Personally the thrash revival appealed to me more quite frankly, only because that was my era, right before death metal came along.

But yeah, that Black Anvil album is really good. One of many standouts I couldn't vote for this year! And I do believe it came out in 08 in some capacity.

at best a lot of it is just a carbon copy of the old stuff. which i guess is cool if you need new stuff that sounds exactly like the old stuff.

something else you can blame katatonia for in a way. if you feel like blaming them for something. a lot of younger people got in to the old death stuff via bloodbath. (see, ten years ahead of their time even when it comes to retro fads!)

"I don't believe that's a reissue."

Black Anvil's record came out on Momentum Records. Then Relapse reissued it.

Anyway, that's great news that they're on the Marduk tour. That means I get to see them soon!

Oh nevermind. Not in Portland :(

Yeah, it seems the kids like Bloodbath a helluvalot more than Katatonia.

Speaking of Katatonia, did it even chart in the US? No mention of it at all on this week's Metal Insider's Metal By Numbers column.

Tell you what, they'd have had a hell of a better chance at charting here if they'd have had decent distribution for it. Still haven't seen it in a single store (though I haven't been to any metal specialty shops since it came out), think I'll just order it online.

It debuted at #33 on Canada's metal soundscan chart, which is really friggin' low.

what jon said. i've said enough. it's a shame. what else can you say. i have NO idea where i could find the album around here. and i'd like to buy one! so, it's probably gonna be amazon or wherever for me.

It's available on eMusic now if you roll that way.

I can pretty much guaranty that I could walk down to 2nd Avenue Records in Portland and pick up the new Katatonia.

We are spoiled here with culture.

Oh, I'm sure I could drive down to Metal Haven and pick up a copy, I was just trying to make the point that, like it or not, if you are a metal band trying to break America - you need to get your record in places that aren't metal specialty shops.

I just phoned 2nd Avenue. They thought they might be sold out, but they checked and still have a few copies for sale.

Y'all should move here.

Trust me, the thought of Portland or Seattle has been discussed in our household many a time since our vacation out there a few years ago.

i bought it on amazon cuz i'm lazy like that.

I downloaded it so I can see if I want to order the deluxe LP cuz I'm fickle like that.

even crazier is this: peaceville's catalog is huge and you should really be able to buy darkthrone albums in every mall store in this country.

I want to see Darkthrone play on the ice skating rink in Lloyd Center mall. I mean, Tonya Harding practiced there. It's fucking grimm.

Darkthrone CDs are very plentiful where I am. One mall chain has Transilvanian Hunger and A Blaze in the Northern Sky as part of their 2 for $25 deal, which is nice to see. Maybe "Canadian Metal" won them a bunch of new fans up here.

So Earthless are opening at the Baroness show tonight and I expect to like 'em based on shit you guys've said. If this proves true, what should I buy from their merch table?

all of it

but the live roadburn double lp is a real must have

Yeah I'll probably only have $$ for one thing.

Definitely get Live at Roadburn, but I recommend CD not LP, because it's two long jams, one per disc. Absolutely killer.

Thanks guys.

The eternal question (Do you wear a band's T-shirt when seeing them live?) in poll form: http://bit.ly/4YZjAj

My friend and I were discussing this. We came to the conclusion that it's cool to wear a band shirt to their own concert once they've been around for 25 years, or if they are your very favorite band and it's your first time seeing them.

For Maiden and Rush, it's definitely acceptable. I don't do it myself, but I actually have no problem with folks who do.

sometimes it's just easier to go ahead and put the new t-shirt on than carry it around all night.

But then what d'yo do with the shirt you wore in?

you wear the new shirt over it

wasn't it always kind of a badge of coolness to wear the old rare t-shirt from before the band was popular? or was that just the badge of geekiness?

i often wear shirts for loosely affiliated bands. napalm death at jesu &c

i used to do that when i bought more band t-shirts. i should start buying them again. i wore an ancient aphex twin shirt to a sunn0))) show sort of on accident (was wearing it under my dickies hoodie and i had to take it off). not sure if that is cool or nigel.

xxxxpost yeah, just put it on over the t-shirt you're already wearing. tougher if you have an oxford or sweater or something.

we're talking metal shows, though, aren't we?

yeah, so pretty much you're just putting it on over another t-shirt.