Oh nevermind. Not in Portland :(
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
It debuted at #33 on Canada's metal soundscan chart, which is really friggin' low.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
It's available on eMusic now if you roll that way.
― five minutes of iguana time (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 20 November 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 November 2009 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 20 November 2009 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 November 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i bought it on amazon cuz i'm lazy like that.
― Buck Utah (rockapads), Friday, 20 November 2009 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I downloaded it so I can see if I want to order the deluxe LP cuz I'm fickle like that.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 20 November 2009 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Friday, 20 November 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 20 November 2009 04:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 20 November 2009 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― five minutes of iguana time (Jon Lewis), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
all of it
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
but the live roadburn double lp is a real must have
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I'll probably only have $$ for one thing.
― five minutes of iguana time (Jon Lewis), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Definitely get Live at Roadburn, but I recommend CD not LP, because it's two long jams, one per disc. Absolutely killer.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks guys.
― make love to a c.h.u.d. in the club (Jon Lewis), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
The eternal question (Do you wear a band's T-shirt when seeing them live?) in poll form: http://bit.ly/4YZjAj
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Friday, 20 November 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Van Slyke Paidbreed (J3ff T.), Friday, 20 November 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
For Maiden and Rush, it's definitely acceptable. I don't do it myself, but I actually have no problem with folks who do.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 20 November 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
sometimes it's just easier to go ahead and put the new t-shirt on than carry it around all night.
― mte, Friday, 20 November 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
But then what d'yo do with the shirt you wore in?
― make love to a c.h.u.d. in the club (Jon Lewis), Friday, 20 November 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
you wear the new shirt over it
― Buck Utah (rockapads), Friday, 20 November 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― scott seward, Friday, 20 November 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i often wear shirts for loosely affiliated bands. napalm death at jesu &c
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 November 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Buck Utah (rockapads), Friday, 20 November 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxxpost yeah, just put it on over the t-shirt you're already wearing. tougher if you have an oxford or sweater or something.
― mte, Friday, 20 November 2009 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
we're talking metal shows, though, aren't we?
― Buck Utah (rockapads), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, so pretty much you're just putting it on over another t-shirt.
― mte, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Surely it's best to wear a shirt from every tour the band has done at the same time, layered in reverse chronology.
― make love to a c.h.u.d. in the club (Jon Lewis), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Over your Oxford or sweater.
― Van Slyke Paidbreed (J3ff T.), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
usually head to shows straight after work, so I've worn sweaters to metal shows plenty of times. sometimes with collared button-downs underneath, even!
― original bgm, Friday, 20 November 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Wore my Severe Torture shirt to a Dead Weather show a couple weeks ago, which turned out to be quite an OTM description of the evening.
― Chuffed Wiff Morrisound (Thijs), Friday, 20 November 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been wearing my levi jacket with the 2112 back patch everywhere for the last few months and you would not believe how many handshakes I get from strangers.
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 21 November 2009 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I can believe the amount of pointing and sniggering you get too
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 21 November 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Nah. The days of blindly hating Rush are subsiding.
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Baroness has made my favorite record of 2009, but I really felt Earthless (whom I'd never heard before) was the best band on the stage on Friday night at Bowery Ballroom -- to the extent that Baroness seemed kind of dull by comparison. Why would ANYBODY voluntarily follow that?
― Sonic Bum, Monday, 23 November 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
really? i saw that show on saturday and i thought earthless was really dull. tbh my buddies who play blues rock covers in local bars could just ditch their vocals and songs to focus on jamming and they'd sound a hell of a lot like earthless.
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't speak for the show itself since I haven't seen them on this tour, but I could totally understand Earthless being boring to a certain type of person. But your second sentence is just whaaaaaa? Its kinda like someone looking at a Pollack painting and thinking "hmm, well, if I had the space I could do THAT".
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i cry bullshit too. Earthless are great, go fucking prove you and your buddies can do better.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
haha damn guys.
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
they just sound like an instrumental jammin power trio to me. it's a little boring.
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I wasn't clowning you for calling them boring! Twenty minute jams aren't for everyone, I was just clowning the second part about "oh its pretty easy to do".
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahaha, yeah I thought they were completely, insanely epic. And I don't typically dig 45-minute single-song instrumental sets (in fact, the idea of a 45-minute single-song instrumental set is completely nauseating to me). Dunno why exactly, but they blew me away.
― Sonic Bum, Monday, 23 November 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno man, i mean they're good musicians, but like lots of people are good musicians.
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Monday, 23 November 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't get Earthless, either. I wanted to, as a big fan of Loop and Circle and stuff like that, but they just sound like a bluesy jam band to me.
― Buck Utah (rockapads), Monday, 23 November 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link