Rolling Metal Thread 2009

haha

Scott how could you embarrass yourself like that ;)

that's not me, it's chris farley back from the dead!

most fucking stupid and irresponsible merch ive ever clapped my eyes on.
http://www.bluecollardistro.com/hydrahead/product_info.php?products_id=3363&cPath=4_141&store=0
http://www.bluecollardistro.com/hydrahead/images/hhi-kn-173-full-pre.jpg

wow

I don't see the problem. Art-metal fans can't be trusted with sharp objects now?

well, if someone gets stabbed or killed with it imagine the bad publicity the label and band will get. The customs will also have a field day if anyone outside the usa tries to order it.

kind of tempted to buy it though tbh.

i dig it. that blue collar distro place is cool. they'll put your name on anything. the harvey milk stadium cups are cool too:

http://www.bluecollardistro.com/bcd/images/hhi-sc-159-02.jpg

isis pint glass is sweet

http://www.bluecollardistro.com/bcd/images/isi-pg-001-01.jpg

ok i think i need that pint glass

I'm loving the new "acoustic" Eluveitie album. I was kind of worried it was going to be noodly and gutless, just to prove some sort of cultural point, but it's not. It's basically a metal album performed on acoustic instruments (including drums). And a really good one.

Yeah, the Eluveitie was a really pleasant surprise. Pretty darn heavy for an acoustic record, too.

Acoustic metal sounds EXACTLY what I've been looking for. Thanks for the tip :)

Yeah, I liked that Eluveitie disc too.

Some of the songs were a little weird. Can't remember which off the top of my head, though.

i almost hit everyone in Opeth with my car on friday

also, akerfeldt was wearing a gingham red/white shirt at that time

nothing else to report

you hated his shirt that much?

it was cute actually, and i didnt see him until it was almost too late, the drummer guy pointed at me like "look at this crazy girl driver" and akerfeldt skipped up the bus stairs with some astounding agility

all this was to chase grutle and ice dale who tbh i passed earlier on the street carrying to-go containers from old city java and grutle gave me possibly the gruffest "HI." i've ever received.

had a great weekend with opeth/enslaved on my birthday and then day 2 of deathfest the following day. BOLT THROWER! <3

it was my favorite time seeing opeth, despite incongruous theater setting -- actually kinda made it more awesome. it was definitely a crowd there to see opeth, which was odd because in my head enslaved were the main event, but then it was obviously a different thing altogether when i got there. grutle did this great, hissing intro to "ruun" where he mimed the shape of the "daeg" rune with his hands and I looked around and everyone in the audience was kinda blank. :/ when opeth came out the place practically went up in flames, and i understood what was up. akerfeldt's banter is great. heart were playing across the street at the tennessee theater, and he said "i am very sad tonight because heart playing. i think i want to fuck them both." haw!

Yeah, I was shocked at how much more exciting Opeth were than Enslaved this year.

But tell us more about Bolt Thrower!

I will tell more later, but for right now I'll just call it blissful and wild. My first headbang of the season!

The whole scenario (kids eavesdropping from the overpass, group headbanging, amazing band, etc) made me proud to be a metalhead.

Opeth always delivers...sure wish Enslaved's headlining tour wasn't nixed.

heart were playing across the street at the tennessee theater, and he said "i am very sad tonight because heart playing. i think i want to fuck them both."

Further proof we need a book of the collected stage banter of Mikael Akerfeldt. There was a thread on the BW&BK board that was just hilarious.

Hey, it was nice meeting you at Deathfest, Adrian. Though I don't know that you know that was me.

hey ps i implore everyone:

http://invisibleoranges.com/2009/05/argentinum-astrum-self-titled.html

Hey, it was nice meeting you at Deathfest, Adrian. Though I don't know that you know that was me.

I'm afraid I actually spent the weekend 1500 miles from Baltimore. Did my evil twin escape or something?

I think someone made me the victim of a ruse!!!!!!!!!!

Haha, wait! False alarm, I was thinking that you were Al Mudrian. I smoked a little weed this weekend tbh. :/

I am embarassed!

Haha. No biggie!

Haha, actually I had you both confused with Anthony Bartkewicz!?

Anyway, how about that metal

Decibel does own the record for hiring the most writers with the initials AB, that's for sure.

The Decibel table at Deathfest was a beacon of calm in a sea of insanity btw

Grabbed a drink with Albert a few weeks ago when he was in Los Angeles for Murderfest, he seemed a bit stressed out but he was a nice guy. I know this because he didn't fire me when I revealed my love for Roxette.

Meanwhile, saw Gojira put on a seriously star making performance at the Key Club last night. I've seen them open for bands a couple times, but the sound always sucked. Last night, the sound was great, the crowd was there for them, and my God, I had forgotten how transcendent concerts could be. They seriously made the club shake.

Also:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/reviewpics/warrior_war.jpg

roxy you will approve

my fave bit is the solo (its Whiplash btw)

infact the crowdsurfing lego guy is even better

Is that ever great.

just chiming in to say that misery index were my big surprise at deathfest. napalm death were probably my highlight and tbh i was kinda disappointed in WITTR but misery index, who i'd never heard, actually had me stopping what i was doing and listening. fucking captivating.

Lego Metallica made me smile. Then it made me sad, because Hetfield used to be such a great singer.

HOOS just out of curiosity how big was the venue where you saw wittr? i saw them just a few days ago in a v. small club and thought they legit killed.

I think I've come around to Adrien's way of thinking -- new Fairyland, Score to a New Beginning, scratches exactly the same itch that pre-chicken-dancing Nightwish used to.

I haven't heard the new Fairyland yet. But despite the rather unfortunate name, their last album was definitely some quality power metal.

Chicken dancing Nightwish? Please explain, that flew right over my head!

The new vocalist does this weird, jerky chicken dance on stage because she's a pop singer who has no idea how to front a metal band.

Ah. I also hear she's taken to wearing muumuus onstage as of late.

That's pretty metal, I guess.

hey dudes just upping this for a friend of a friend but cool metal zine called Worm Gear

http://www.crionicmind.org/wormgear/

9.04.07
A couple of new interviews are up now with MORRIGAN and SAPTHURAN, as well as a bunch of new reviews and what not. I also added minimal archives for the rest of the alphabet that has been missing. Currently they just contain reviews done since I got the bright idea to change the website, but at least it's something and I will ad new ones here and there. Hopefully this will be less intimidating than trying to hammer out a whole section for an update in addition to everything else.

In addition you will notice a link for a podcast in the menu bar. This isn't a Worm Gear podcast technically, but one I do myself called "Professor Gruntsplatter's Spookatorium" It features a wide crossection of music as well as tales of weirdness and the supernatural, roadside attractions and all of that kind of thing. There is a corresponding blog with news updates regularly and hopefully several other things in the coming weeks.

3.24.07
A mess of new reviews have been posted along with new interviews with EYES OF LIGEIA and WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM. In addition I got the archive for "X" posted as well. Completed archives right now are A-C, J, O, Q & X-Z. So if you want your band in the archive quicker, give it a first letter no one uses because it's less work for me.

There are other interviews in the cooker right now, some have been sent out and haven't been returned, others are still being nailed down. I say it eveytime , but I am going to try and get the archive caught up a bit, if for no other reason than to get that stone from around my neck.

Interesting piece of Worm Gear Trivia: For the first 3 months of 2007 the most viewed review in the limited archives was for CIRCLE OF OUROBOROUS - "Shores".