Rolling Metal Thread 2009

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.

i didn't even know he had a new project. had kind of forgotten about the dude, actually, since he hasn't done anything in a long time, but a friend of mine wanted to hear his stuff recently and i dug out "ewige blumenkraft" and it's still good.

check out the red veil

Got hold of a copy of Nargaroth's 'Jahreszeiten' on the strength of Glenn's recommendation a week ago. I'm coming to the end of the first spin now, and it's going straight back on again. What I'd heard from them before in no way prepared me for this. Four sprawling, epic chapters of cold black weirdness, church bells and howling wolves. Insanely ambitious, and it seems like some kind of deranged masterpiece at first listen.

OK I have to hear this.

A few listens later I haven't changed my mind about Jahreszeiten at all. I have no illusions about the universality of its appeal, but it's definitely doing some distinctive, memorable thing.

No, not for everyone, but that's the appeal - it's such a totally uncompromising vision. The production really hits the spot for me, too - perfect mix of clean and dirty sounds, wild experimentation and plain brutal riffage.

So happy to see Gojira last night in Chicago! They looked like they were having a blast (despite the fact the show was pretty sparsely attended)! Sure hope they come back.

i just saw gojira with zoroaster (who rule) in knoxville and they were a snooze bore

i meant to say (who ruled). im sure you know zoroaster rule in general

In honor of Columbus Day, here's a bunch of videos by Italian metal bands:

http://music.msn.com/superfans/heavy-metal/blog/columbus-day-italian-metal-video-special/

some sad news from the Minneapolis metal community.

Don Decker, promotor, leader of Anal Blast, former owner of Nightfall (extreme metal record store) basically singlehandedly made the extreme metal scene in Minneapolis from scratch, died :(

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

some memories of him here:

http://musicscene.org/forums/t/57841.aspx

story on blabbermouth

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=128545

nightfall record label site:
http://www.nightfallrecords.com/

Dickie Peterson of Blue Cheer died early this morning, too.