Rolling Metal Thread 2009

right there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VOTE HERE for ILX METAL ALBUMS OF 2009 !!!!!!!!!!!!! (non-metal thread regulars welcome. Everyones welcome to vote, please join in!) Voting Ends Jan 17.

my mistake, i hit grey machine in firefox search find, not greymachine

terrorizer typo stated: grey machine

go stand in the corner djmartian

Nice to see Kylesa that high, i.e. above Baroness and Mastodon. Good list overall, but wtf no Slayer?

Metal Injection - The Top Albums of 2009 as decided by the Metal Injection Junkies
http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/top-albums-2009-decided-metal-injection-junkies

1. Mastodon – Crack the Skye 264 votes
2. Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect 188 votes
3. The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate 185 votes
4. Lamb of God – Wrath 172 votes
5. Behemoth – Evangelion 167 votes
6. Baroness – The Blue Record 138 votes
7. The Red Chord – Fed Through the Teeth Machine 135 votes
8. Cattle Decapitation – The Harvest Floor 105 votes
9. Converge – Axe To Fall 101 votes
10. Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague 92 votes
11. Obscura – Cosmogenesis 91 votes
12. Nile – Those whom the gods detest 79 votes
13. Dying Fetus – Descend into depravity 64 votes
14. Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Agorapocalypse 61 votes
15. Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic 59 votes
16. Immortal – All Shall Fall 57 votes
17. Dethklok – The Dethalbum II 55 votes
Slayer – World Painted Blood 55 votes
18. Devildriver – Pray For Villains 54 votes
Goatwhore – Carving Out the Eyes Of God 54 votes
Megadeth – Endgame 54 votes
19. Revocation – Existence is Futile 53 votes
20. Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue 51 votes
21. Suffocation – Blood Oath 49 votes
22. Katatonia – Night Is The New Day 48 votes
23. Kylesa – Static Tension 46 votes
24. Despised Icon – Day of Mourning 45 votes
25. Devin Townsend – Addicted 44 votes
26. Born of Osiris – A Higher Place 43 votes
27. Skeletonwitch – Breathing The Fire 42 votes
28. Daath – The Concealers 34 votes
Magrudergrind – Magrudergrind 34 votes
29. God Forbid – Earthsblood 33 votes
Job For A Cowboy – Ruination 33 votes
Municipal Waste – Massive Agressive 33 votes
30. Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divinity 32 votes
Suicide Silence – No Time To Bleed 32 votes
31. Augury – Fragmentary Evidence 30 votes
Epica – Design Your Universe 30 votes
Swallow The Sun – New Moon 30 votes
32. Cormorant – Metazoa 29 votes
Ulcerate – Everything Is Fire 29 votes
33. Devin Townsend – KI 28 votes
34. Isis – Wavering Radiant 27 votes
Napalm Death – Time Waits For No Slave 27 votes
Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade 27 votes
35. Gorod – Process of a New Decline 26 votes
36. Ensiferum – From Afar 25 votes
37. Chimaira – The Infection 21 votes
38. Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow 19 votes
Burnt By the Sun – Heart of Darkness 19 votes
39. Darkest Hour – Eternal Return 18 votes
Doomriders – Darkness Come Alive 18 votes
40. Vomitory – Carnage Euphoria 17 votes
41. Coalesce – OX 16 votes
Winds of Plague – The Great Stone War 16 votes
42. Be'lakor – Stone's Reach 15 votes
Impending Doom – Serpent Servant 15 votes
Insomnium – Across The Dark 15 votes
Paria – The Barnacle Cordius 15 votes
Psyopus – Odd Senses 15 votes
Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder 15 votes
The Agonist – Lullabies For The Dormant Mind 15 votes
Vader – Necropolis 15 votes
43. Animals As Leaders – Animals As Leaders 13 votes
Architechts – Hollow Crown 13 votes
Ghost Brigade – Isolation songs 13 votes
Kreator – Hordes of Chaos 13 votes
44. Austrian Death Machine – Double Brutal 12 votes
Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings 12 votes
maudlin of the Well – Part the Second 12 votes
45. Brand New – Daisy 11 votes
46. Absu – Absu 10 votes
After the Burial – Rareform 10 votes
GWAR – Lust In Space 10 votes
Lazarus A.D. – The Onslaught 10 votes
Obituary – Darkest Day 10 votes
Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us 10 votes
Sybreed – The Pulse of Awakening 10 votes
The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Worse Than Alone 10 votes
47. Ancestors – Of Sound Mind 9 votes
Assjack – Assjack 9 votes
Blood Red Throne – Souls of Damnation 9 votes
Enfold Darkness – Our Cursed Rapture 9 votes
HORSE the Band – Desperate Living 9 votes
Keelhaul – Triumphant Return to Obscurity 9 votes
Miss May I – Apologies Are for the Weak 9 votes
Pestilence – Resurrection Macabre 9 votes
Worm Ouroboros – Worm Ouroboros 9 votes
48. Black Cobra – Chronomega 8 votes
Blood Tsunami – Grand feast for vultures 8 votes
Fondlecorpse – Creaturegore 8 votes
Giant Squid – The Ichthyologist 8 votes
Infernal Revulsion – Dead But Breathing 8 votes
Malefice – Dawn of Reprisal 8 votes
Pelican – What We All Come to Need 8 votes
Portal – Swarth 8 votes
Punch – Punch 8 votes
Tenet – Sovereign 8 votes
The Lonely Island – Incredibad 8 votes
Insect Warfare – Noise Grind Power Death 8 votes
Soulfallen – Grave New World 8 votes
49. Alexisonfire – Old Crows Young Cardinals 7 votes
Horrific -Your Worst Nightmare 7 votes
The Crimson Armada – Gaurdians 7 votes
The Empire Shall Fall – Awaken 7 votes
Vomit the Soul – Apostles of Inexpression 7 votes
Old Man's Child – Slaves of the World 7 votes
Impetuous Ritual – Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence 7 votes
50. Eternal Tears Of Sorrow – Children Of The Dark Waters 6 votes
Man Must Die – No Tolerance For Imperfection 6 votes
Mournful Congregation – The June Frost 6 votes
Nashville Pussy – From Hell To Texas 6 votes
Revolting – Dreadful Pleasures 6 votes
Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions 6 votes
SWWATTS – The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry 6 votes
Viatrophy – Viatrophy 6 votes
Suidakra – Crógacht 6 votes
51. 3 Inches Of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom 5 votes
August Burns Red – Constellations 5 votes
Believer – Gabriel 5 votes
Belphegor – Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn 5 votes
Ingested – Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering 5 votes
Iron Age – The Sleeping Eye 5 votes
Loan – Gontziria 5 votes
Rammstien – Liebe ist Für Alle Da 5 votes
Rose Funeral – The Resting Sonata 5 votes
Samael – Above 5 votes
Sanctification – Black Reign 5 votes
YOB – The Great Cessation 5 votes
Zoroaster – Voice of Saturn 5 votes
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone 5 votes
52. Azarath – Praise the Beast 4 votes
Gaza – He Is Never Coming Back 4 votes
Insidious Decrepancy – Extirpating Omnicient Certitude 4 votes
Lay Down Rotten – Gospel Of The Wretched 4 votes
Warbringer – Waking Into Nightmares 4 votes
Weekend Nachos – Unforgivable 4 votes
Altar of Plagues – White Tomb 4 votes
God Dethroned – Passiondale 4 votes
53. Beherit – Engram 3 votes
Candlemass – Death Magic Doom 3 votes
Chthonic – Mirror Of Retribution 3 votes
Hellwitch – Omnipotent Convocation 3 votes
KISS – Sonic Boom 3 votes
Lye by Mistake – Fea Jur 3 votes
Muse – The Resistance 3 votes
Steel Panther – Feel the Steel 3 votes
Struck by Lightning – Serpents 3 votes
Threat Signal – Vigilance 3 votes
Within The Ruins – Creature 3 votes
Pussygutt – Gathering Strengths 3 votes
Neaera – Omnicide 3 votes
54. Devourment – Unleash the Carnivore 2 votes
Gorgoroth – Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt 2 votes
Hatebreed – For The Lions 2 votes
Skyfire – Esoteric 2 votes
The Burning – Rewakening 2 votes
War From A Harlots Mouth – In Shoals 2 votes
Darzamat – Sulfernu's Path 2 votes
55. A Hill To Die Upon – Infinite Titanic Immortal 1 vote
Blackguard – Profugus Mortis 1 vote
Brutal Truth – Evolution through Revolution 1 vote
Goes Cube – Another Day Has Passed 1 vote
Gory Blister – Graveyard Of Angels 1 vote
Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage 1 vote
Septycal Gorge – Erase the Insignificant 1 vote
Squash Bowels – Grindvirus 1 votes
The Binary Code – The Binary Code 1 vote
Throwdown – Deathless 1 vote
Ignivomous – Death Transmutation 1 vote
Antigama – Warning 1 vote

What time is it in Japan?

Japanese time <custos>

All the best metal lords everywhere. I'll be playing a segway of Ace Of Spades/Raining Blood/For Whom The Bell Tolls/Snap Your Fingers Snap Your Neck/Breaking the Law/Supernaut/The Four Horsemen (Aphrodite's Child not Metallica) just after midnight and raising the horns to you all wherever you may be. \m/

Awesome Aphrodite's Child song.

There's an argument for it being my favourite rock song of all time, when the wind's blowing in a certain direction and I'm at the right temperature.

I got into it via being a verve fan (who years later after going on about it actually ripped it off for the rolling people)

I don't know those coves, but I have a fair few mutual friends up in Wigan, St Helens, Manchester, Liverpool. It's that North West scallydelia thing. I never got into the Floyd or Genesis or what have you but it was good being played loads of the 'Child, Hawkwind, Beefheart, Cardiacs and that by acid crazed loons in tracksuits when I was a callow youth. Certainly extravagant prog and that kind of thing didn't go out of fashion in the north west like it did elsewhere.

There's an urban myth about house breakers doing over someone's entire flat and stripping out everything including carpets and furniture and the only thing they leave is either a copy of 666 or The Wall.

Interestingly, this is either seen as a kind act or a diss depending on whether it's told in Merseyside or Lancashire.

dare i ask which is which? you're all southerners to me

Rolling Metal Thread 2010

Shall we lock this thread now, or keep it going for totally off-topic Aphrodite's Child/Britisher talk?

Liverpool and places like Wigan, St Helens and Warrington lean more toward psychedelia in rock music and Manchester and Lancs tend to lean away from it.

You can only really make the broadest of generalisations here but bands like the Stone Roses, The Engineers and The Verve, while usually being lumped in as Manc, have this through line to psych and prog that goes with the territory they actually come from (Stone Roses were more of a Warrington band, The Verve, Wigan etc), imho. Even bands like The Coral and Teardrop Explodes kind of fit this theory.

I think Julian Cope has it down as a Catholic Irish/Anglo Protestant split between the two areas; which is partially true and partially over-romanticized.

It falls apart if you examine it too closely.

XP: Sorry Jeff! All done now.

hey, that was really interesting! the merest whiff of 'cardiacs' and i'm in like flynn :D but the psych/non-psych lancashire divide is pretty intriguing. i'll have to try and keep tabs on my favourite north-west bands and see if it holds true!

The Year in Metal (BBG's best of 2009)
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/01/the_year_in_met_1.html