Rolling Metal Thread 2013

I guess it's not folky at akk, but the clean singing kind of takes me back.

all not akk sorry will stop posting now

thanks for the heads up about the new Fen, Goalkeeper. love them and so far the new one sounds good.

the darkthrone makes me wish i had a kid to raise badly

thats good to hear beard papa!

That track is awesome! I'm super excited for the new Darkthrone!

saw Repulsion last night in Philadelphia, which is an almost unbelievable thing to by typing. They fucking kicked so much ass. I did not make it to the end of the night so I didn't see Converge, I suck at life, but I did see Repulsion play a literally perfect set so whatever

to *be* typing

did you meet jeff?

I have to wait til May to see Repulsion but I've got my ticket already, not missing that one.

youve met jeff though, mark. Much better.

Saw Kowloon Walled City last night at their album release show in SF, it was SOLD OUT. They played like gods! they were crushing! they pretty much played the whole new record

New KEN mode steaming on their badcamp..

http://kenmode.bandcamp.com/track/counter-culture-complex

hey susan whats the offer your band got?

i bet ozzfest is back and you have to pay $100000000000 to open the 9th stage at 6am

I'd take it.. even after taxes..lol

Beardfest is a better alternative I think

Who could play ILX Metal Beardfest? Witch Mountain? Nate has an honourary beard

And another Summoning street team update:

19.01.2013
We have finished all vocals and choirs for the new album. This means that we slowly come to an end now. Until the end of the month we have to finalize the sound, the booklet and the two bonus songs. This time we also have an English speaker who contributed with some spoken words for two songs. At the end of this month give the master CD to napalm records and fix the release-date which probably will be in march or April.

Graves at Sea just announced a SF show in March..

New summoning cover is predictable but I can't act like it isn't super exciting to see that!

Is this new Attic album worth getting? The samples I've heard tell me that its total Mercyful Fate "homage" to the most blatant degree, but that actually sounds like something I might want.

This might be the only Summoning record we'll get this decade so I'm not complaining.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/397505_10151256285878036_1239353260_n.jpg

Haven't been able to resist Desertfest in Camden any more. Seriously:

UNIDA, PENTAGRAM, COLOUR HAZE, FATSO JETSON, DOZER, UFOMAMMUT, LOWRIDER, NAAM, YAWNING MAN, KADAVAR, WO-FAT, BONGRIPPER, RAMMESSES, COUGH, WITCH MOUNTAIN, CONAN, TURBOWOLF, PAGAN ALTAR, BONG, PLANET OF ZEUS, ABRAHMA BELZEBONG, STEAK, TRIPPY WICKED, BLACK MOTH, THE ADMIRAL SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL, BLACK MAGICIAN, GURT, PROSPERINA, WHORMOAN, THRONE, INDESINENCE, HUMANFLY, ANGIST.

And more to come.

This might be the only Summoning record we'll get this decade so I'm not complaining.

^^^

could not be more excited. one of the few bands where I'm just confident it'll be great.

would consider Desertfest if you can get day tickets and the bands get split up nicely as per my personal taste

camden is close enough that i'm very tempted...

add me to the list of people who can't stop playing this new darkthrone track. is this still just fenriz and nocturno??

My 2013 honor roll doesn't have a lot on it yet, but I just added this great, thrashy goth-speed album Frozen Legends, by the German band Skadika. I'd never heard of them, although this is actually their second album. Melodic Viking Metal, says EM, which I didn't realize was a thing, but if it's a thing, I'm probably into it.

I don't really keep up with Darkthrone. Is this even the same band that did Transilvanian Hunger? Sounds very different.

she's got a little bit of an anna murphy thing going on vocally - which i have to admit i'm totally a sucker for. lyrically i'm not sure i ever need to hear vague references to nordic heroes and legends (haha good luck it's called frozen legends). i dig it, esp in january when i really haven't heard a lot of new metal yet and it has a nice seasonal thing happening.

FUCK. The Cannibal Corpse/Immolation/Napalm Death tour is only coming to Brooklyn, not Manhattan.

Is that really a big deal? IIRC those two places are pretty close together.

It does if you live in New Jersey. Absolute pain in the ass -- and maybe impossible on public transportation late at night -- as 誤訳侮辱 has said many a time.

OIC I thought perhaps he was in Manhattan and I was like "don't you just cross like one bridge?" Forgot 誤訳侮辱 was in Jersey.

Like last year I'm keeping a rolling metal spotify playlist that I thought ppl here might dig:
http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/67l1qaBwnlxe5iGlyfSp6j

How come no one told me how rad Zozobra is!?! I've been checking out Harmonic Tremors and Bird of Prey.. both excellent!

In which I interpret my hamster's reactions to metal songs (and music journalism dies a little more): http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/for-those-about-to-squeak-ozzys-nibbles-of-the-week/

Zozobra is pretty damn excellent, that's for sure. So no one's heard the Attic album? I guess maybe I'll have to potentially take the bullet for you guys on that one.

Oh, I heard the Attic album, wasn't particularly impressed one way or the other with it.

Thanks, for some reason the Mercyful Fate homage sounded like something I might need to hear, but maybe I'll just pop in my copy of Don't Break the Oath during tomorrow's commute instead and just get it out of my system without spending the ten bucks.

BTW, Ozzy's Darkthrone reaction was fantastic.

Yeah, it's definitely a Mercyful Fate homage, to the point where I'm not really sure why you wouldn't just listen to Mercyful Fate – the songs just aren't as good.

Who could play ILX Metal Beardfest? Witch Mountain? Nate has an honourary beard

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:39 AM

I turn 40 this year, and I still cannot grow a beard. Maybe when I'm 50.

Hope to see a few of you at our Desertfest show!

PS - we're on the Desertfest in Berlin too. And for anyone that's going to Roadburn, we're on the same day as Electric Wizard, Uncle Acid, and the Pretty Things. Bummer, eh?

tragedy!
good lord, what a lineup.

Another couple leftovers from last year I just came across:

- Hacktivist's 5-song EP: kind of sounds like djent with a grime vocalist. A combination which, for some reason, I really like.
- Blacksoul Seraphim's Alms & Avarice: solemnly ethereal doom, not quite whispery enough to be funeral. Reminds me a bit of Pantheist.

Undecided on the new Helloween after 1 listen. Not yet convinced by the new Darkthrone after 3.

Oh, and I was pretty sure I wouldn't ever like a Deftones album, but that turns out to be wrong. Koi No Yokan is really good, and not at all the lunkish, shouty thing I expected.

fwiw, i don't think Deftones have been very shouty or lunkish for at least the last three albums now

My beard is now somewhere between these two extremes:

http://brianoneill.us/BefAft.jpg

I don't think my current employers would let me grow it out again... The wife says she would let me though!