Rolling Metal Thread 2009

how can a cartoon tour?
youtubes?

tbh i never got into that show. kinda left me... cold?

live band on stage in the dark, big cartoons on big screen

I think it's one of the funniest tv shows I've ever seen, and the second season REALLY raises the bar for pace and complexity. The art is stunning, the situations are ridiculously OTT, and there is an larger story arc/world conspiracy tale unfolding in the background.

I dunno--this shit is aimed right at me, so I can't deny it.

I can't remember which season I watched, but it didn't make me laugh. And I don't mean I sat there with my arms folded glowering and muttering "How dare they make fun of metal!" - I just mean I watched it and I didn't think it was funny. It bored me.

agreeing with this. the episodes i've watched have had about a laugh each.

yeah, I couldn't get into the show either. too much gross out stuff. I dunno, I might try s2.

If you're not into gratuitous violence, you will not like Metalocalypse.

not so much the violence as the dick jokes, but yeah.

I'll give it another shot sometime. I just watched random episodes on youtube a few years ago.

I did 3-4 episodes on Youtube last year and thought it was cute. I recently did both seasons of DVDs in anticipation of a Brendon Small interview and was blown the fuck away. (didn't hurt that I have a projector and could see a lot of subtle background details not visible on a tv screen).

It helps to be able to pause on the hell scenes and look at all the detail--particularly in Season 2, when the pace is aggressively cranked up.

I think Go Into the Water fans should check out the double-whammy of "Laser Cannon Deth Sentence" and "Black Fire Upon Us" on Dethalbum II.

Metalocalypse is a lot better with DVD captions, I find. The show's funnier when you can actually tell what they're singing about.

^^^ u&k

I'm not polling it, but I want to know what you all think (especially j0hn) of the Rate Your Music all-time metal list?

Well, Symbolic and Crimson are oddly high-ranked, for starters.

"I'm not polling it, but I want to know what you all think"

i think it's a list. of metal albums. lots of metal albums. some of them are better than others. some are worse than others. many of them have colorful covers. some of them came out in the same year. some in different years. there is at least one rage against the machine album on this list. this list is web-based.

The ranking is pretty arbitrary, but nothing really jumped out at me as not belonging somewhere on that list. Haven't heard the Edge of Sanity record, though.

Tool should not belong in anything else than the Steaming Pile Of Shit list.

i think my issue with metalocalypse is that like, you don't really need to satirize metal because it's pretty much intrinsically funny? maybe i was missing the point.

nothing really jumped out at me as not belonging somewhere on that list

You mean like any W.A.S.P. album post-The Last Command?

lol tool fans

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Tool-Sober-video-screencap.jpg

"i think my issue with metalocalypse is that like, you don't really need to satirize metal because it's pretty much intrinsically funny?"

this was actually my problem with spinal tap when i finally saw it. but i think i was the only person who felt that way. everyone else on earth loves it.

that's funny--i sort of agree but think the individual performances and the way the scenes in spinal tap are constructed are just funny on their own. whereas, metalocalypse is like a cartoon with bad animation.

you can't satirize something funny?!

my award winning satire on looney tunes coming any day now.

"i think my issue with metalocalypse is that like, you don't really need to satirize metal because it's pretty much intrinsically funny? maybe i was missing the point."

Definitely think you're missing the point. These guys are metal fans who are satirizing celebrity culture.

Shame on me for not listening to the new Revocation sooner. What an incredible album. Traditional yet proggy in places, and can that dude ever shred. Why aren't those meatheads at Liquid Metal not playing the hell out of this? This is groovy American metal at its finest.

so the new converge album is pretty great. anyone else heard it? it's a really solid set of songs. i'm not really sure how i feel about the barrage of guests, because i don't think they really make the disc unfocused like some others have been saying, but some of them just strike me as being unnecessary.

TIS GREAT STUFF. nOT SURE ABOUT THE LAT 2 SONGS MIND YOU.

ugh my keyboard fucked up there. In english

It's great stuff. Not sure about the last 2 songs mind you.

i feel the same way, although i'm warming up to "wretched world."

OK, I justed listened to the new Lita Ford album. The whole thing. Where's my medal?

On the other hand, never having to listen to it again is probably reward enough.

Yeesh.

I'm not sure if my enjoyment of the new The Red Chord record is more indicative of it actually being a good album (which I think it is) or of my increased tolerance of tech-death-core stuff.

That's an album I'm looking forward to hearing. Too swamped with other stuff right now, though. Deathcore's really taken a nose-dive since Clients (more oversaturation than anything), so I'm hoping this record wil make the scene kids cower.

Cool Girly Metal piece in dB, Jeff! Like the idea...if they do BM, then why not GM?

lol @ "GM"

I shoulda trademarked it

I hated Clients, and consequently skipped Prey For Eyes, but I'm liking Teeth Machine so far.

The new Lita Ford disc is...yeah, whatever. But I had fun interviewing her.

ahem

Decibel hates SubArachnoid Space, apparently :(

That's a shame...I think they're cool. I love spacey Krautrock metal.

Never heard them before, but "spacey Krautrock metal" just ensured that I will be looking them up tonight!

SubArachnoid Space rule. Fuck which ever journo slagged it off

jon via chi OTM.

Listening to samples on iTunes right now, loving the shit out of these 30-second clips. That descriptor is actually pretty good because I do hear a bit of Circle (probably my favorite band right now) in these. Any recommendations on the album to start with?

I like their earlier, trippier, less rockin' stuff. Try These Things Take Time and/or Almost Invisible, both on Relapse. Avoid Endless Renovation, and here's a link to my review of the new one.

i love endless renovation! and the new one.

I think starting with the newest one is a good idea. I think handing it to a journalist who hates it to review for a major magazine is a bad idea.

i'm looking forward to hearing the new SAS, never thought they were that great on record before. always good live, though.

This one was captured mostly live in the studio by Steven Lobdell from Faust. It's analog and good.

uh, steven wray lobdell from davis redford triad, ya mean. yeah, i mean, he was in faust, but it's kinda lame that that's all people know him from.

and sufi mind game, baseball astrologer, and his solo works too.

...and Lords of Falconry, his current project.

I have a DRT lp. And I'm personally acquainted with the guy. But since people were touting the "kraut metal" above, I thought the Faust reference would be more tantalizing.