Rolling Metal Thread 2009

wau i know that i do

nadja tracklisting makes me want to kill myself

Because you didn't think of doing it first? ;)

lol yeah I've just been waiting to cover all the stuff I liked in my twenties "metal style"

I was in my teens (just) when most of that stuff was out. I have the A-ha 7", i think i was in 1st or 2nd year at secondary school when that was out. Wasn't that actually a cover anyway?

btw I want to go on record and say I had written the next SPD before I caught wind of this malodorous album

you can't talk that way about ned's favorite album of the year!

i like the cover; kinda looks like the work of comix great Chester Brown to me.

http://theendrecords.com/images/stories/bandpics/nadja_promo.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/17259181/Nadja+l8124062366_6148.jpg

who's the artist?

conor oberst

I lol'ed.

heheh

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f253/Klawful-image/COVER-1.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f253/Klawful-image/COVER-interior.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f253/Klawful-image/NEEDLE_ESMITH_FLAT.jpg

Posted by the artist himself on dffd http://www.foreverdoomed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=159&start=990

i hope the next cover is done by the penny arcade dudes

hahahaha.

i wish i had the skills to do a pic of Fonzi jumping the shark in that same style.

from what I've heard of the new Blut Aus Nord, I am going to love this album for a long time.

yeah, that's my fave of the year so far.

http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/store/muze_new.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442196427&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302028381&bmUID=1236783588943

i hope the next cover is done by the penny arcade dudes

― WEREWOLF CONGRESS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:13 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I like Nadja a bunch but this is basically the first thing I thought of when I saw the first pic the guy did, and not at all in a good way. I actually have the album on now and the MBV cover sounds exactly how you'd expect, which I'm OK with. It came in the post with the Karl Sanders solo album, which sounds quite intriuging if not really at all metal

not heard it, but id like to

It's cheesier than dark, but I'm surprised how much I'm enjoying the gothic-industrial-metal-album The Only Salvation, by the Norwegian band Artifact. Kind of like an amped up version of (later) Gary Numan, with the occasional death-metal blurt.

Also, both the new Kreator and Sirenia albums, which I've had around since before the new year, continue to impress me anew every time something from them comes up on my Shuffle.

And yeah, Blut Aus Nord. And Nightbringer. And Absu. Already another really good year...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Music-instruments/Music-memorabilia/Other/auction-207392280.htm

digging the dragon painting to the right of the cabinet of deth.

If I had $10,000, I would totally get that.

http://www.exclaim.ca/images/up-7dead.jpg
http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=130&csid2=804&fid1=37081

In which our intrepid, forest-dwelling hipsters absolutely fucking brutalize the Slayer classic.

This album's going to be incredible.

The Gathering new singer is... Silje Wergeland from Octavia Sperati
http://bit.ly/4hnAO

The Gathering on myspace
http://www.myspace.com/gatheringofficial

The new songs are good, and I was a fan of Octavia Sperati, but I was expecting something a little bolder. Instead the new stuff, while lovely, sounds a bit pedestrian.

no anneke no credibility

i'll tell you one thing about nadja's slayer cover, it's long.

It might be long, but it's far from tedious.

"forest-dwelling hipsters absolutely fucking brutalize the Slayer classic"

There is something very wrong with this sentence. Please tell me "absolutely brutalize" doesn't mean marimba and a flute solo.

I meant brutalize in the positive sense.

It's a boring version of my absolute least favorite Slayer song (and yes, that includes the stuff on Undisputed Attitude). Nadja are now and forever in my "I don't get it" pile.

I thought it was great, probably the best thing on the album going on initial spin

I think they make the song a lot creepier and heavier than the original. And I've always liked Slayer's version. No question, going in, you know exactly what Nadja's going to do with these cover songs, just draw them out as long as possible, but with these songs especially, the shtick works really well.

i don't agree. but i love you anyway.

i mean, it's not creepier and it's not heavier. it's just not. and i think it is a little tedious. and putting stuff through the nadja machine can probably work fine in some instances, but i don't think it does the trick in this case. different strokes and all that.

and i got no problem with shtick either. speaking as someone who loved all the songs that mark k. put through the red house painters machine to make them red house painters songs. (post-RHP though, i don't have a lot of time for john denver and modest mouse covers.)

I get the impression listening to Nadja's cover of Dead Skin Mask, that if you were in the same room with them while they were recording the track, you would barely hear them playing. It doesn't sound to me like they are playing their instruments vigorously at all.

I would bet good money that their whole process with the exception of their vocals (and maybe drums on certain records) are all internal using VST distortion on guitars and synths (to create that fake feedback/drone sound they bury all of their songs with). It's a sound I used to find really compelling, but now that I've had six or seven of their samey albums to deconstruct their sound, it sounds kind of dull and flat and doesn't really fit my personal definition of metal at all.

Oh no! False Metal Alert!

What will people who like it ever do?

Discuss them on the indie rock thread. (I kid)

You take Mastadon into some sort of prog hell thread and I'll take Nadja off too. I kid, only kinda.

You won't catch me talking about Mastodon on any thread, so it's a deal.

Cool.

So, uh...

Amoseurs? Or does the Joy Division & Swans influence make them verboten too?

Amesoeurs will definitely have some of the purists hollering 'false!', but the new album's not without some vicious moments, including one track of full-on, stripped down black metal.

There was some pretty traditional black metal stuff on the EP, IIRC. Really excited about the upcoming full length. Have they set a hard date yet, or still just sometime this spring?

i thought this dude's version of slayer's reign in blood album was really great and quite lovely, by the way:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/erikhinds3/