Rolling Metal Thread 2009

I like some stuff on Coldspring; I think Atavist are pretty good. I pretty much don't care what people's private views on things are as long as they're not using the music as a platform.

It was more the cowardice of Wodensthrone that annoyed me more than anything else. They claim to be anti-postmodern, getting all dewy eyed for a time when men said what was on their minds but their lyrics prove them to be a 100% disingenuous band. Mealy-mouthed. Unable to summon up the courage to nail their colours to the mast.

I'd say I had more time for Skrewdriver but they were equally as disingenuous with only nobrash being a committed Nazi and the others thinking it was a good marketing move.

I get emails from coldspring as i once bought 2 issues of rockarolla magazine from them. Seems a mostly noise/industrial label/distro. No politics at all.

Aren't Atavist on Invada?

Rockarolla mag is pretty good. I think some people would disagree that any label that featured Sol Invicticus was "no politics at all" but what I'm trying to say is I'm not about damning people by association or even saying that there's necessarily a fire when there's a ton of smoke billowing out of a window.

But given that I've got my labels mixed up I should probably shut up.

Ah right. A quick glance at my poorly ordered CD rack reveals that Coldspring put out an Atavist/Nadja/Satori split.

Justin who runs Cold Spring is in Satori isn't he?

Anyway, enough of this blustering about.

Yoga 'Megafauna' dist by Revolver.

Again, not really metal but some kind of hybrid, BM, industrial, ambient, murkcore sort of thing.

They're selling it as BM's answer to TG; a billing to which it nearly measures up.

Yoga album is on Holy Mountain isn't it?

Ha ha. Fuck me.

My copy, which is a press copy, just says Dist. Revolver on it.

But yeah, it's probably on Holy Mountain. I've lost the press release because I'm one badly organized, memory loss mother fucker.

http://holymountain.com/artists/yoga/

Label aside: what do you think of it? Great, no?

yeah i like it (i like a lot of things on Holy Mountain)

I saw Aufgehoben recently in Tilburg. They were fucking amazing. I thought I saw Sleazy P from TG in the audience and I must have been terrorizing him until he told me (some time later) that he was a Dutch guy with a beard into improv and not in Throbbing Gristle. And to leave him alone.

was it a put on dutch accent?

Either way it must have been slightly uncomfortable for him; I kept on trying to push my TG T shirt into his face and my photographer who'd been smoking ketamine with a black metal band started chasing him down the street going 'come back! We love you!'

Obviously the other guy found it really easy to 'escape'.

I'm liking this new Lifelover "EP" (7 songs, 26 minutes) Dekadens. I'd somehow never heard this band, or else never quite paid attention. Somewhere between black metal and HIM, which I assume means it pisses somebody off a lot.

so beyond all the list-making: what's new & worth hearing?

80s metal fans can get nostalgic over on ILX 1980s ALBUM POLL REDUX: Nomination Thread (nomination time ends on Sunday, November 1st)

The new Converge really is deserving of that '10' from Decibel, isn't it? I'm guessing this is by far the best record Epitpah has released in at least a decade.

I don't rate the last two tracks at all but I think it's a pretty kickin' metallic hardcore album if you hit the stop button before then

Tom Waits for no one, dude.

xp

I do not wish to load all 2,223 messages to check, so this may have been covered, but if xhukx & anybody else who digs a trad-ish sound hasn't heard this album by The Devil's Blood, y'all might really really dig it. It's on Profound Lore. Band's Myspace is here.

Tom Waits was on ANTI- though, so I'm using that technicality to say my post still stands.

Actually, speaking of the Devil's Blood, they have a new full-length out in Europe right now, which I was able to track down online a while back. Great band!

still trying to find the new devil's blood. i like to buy shit in stores when possible, but just like their last release this probably won't show up until i've broken down and bought it online.

I think some people would disagree that any label that featured Sol Invicticus was "no politics at all"

Backtracking a bit here but I just saw this, can I say that SI are very misrepresented with this, Tony Wakeford is on record as saying that his brief dalliance with the British Movement or whatever was decades ago and now irrelevant. Also, I know his wife (SI violinist) and she's a)not a Nazi and b)Jewish, so there.

Anyway, back to the metal! Should I go and see Gates Of Slumber?

Finally got Grind Madness at the BBC in the post today! I've heard some of it before (the Napalm Death sessions specifically) but I'm still really looking forward to giving it a spin when I get home.

I knew there was something I needed to order - the tape with the Godflesh session on it has been shot through overplaying for a long time now.

yes go see TGOS

Matt: I know all this but, with the greatest will in the world, that's not no politics - clearly.

And yes, go and see Gates of Slumber.

Finally got the new Baronness. Very cool. Different from a lot of stuff out there, one song almost sounds like the Drive By Truckers. For an extra 3 bucks I got some live thing which is all the good stuff from the Red Album done at some Dutch live festival. Great segues between songs, at one point they even go into Hendrix's "Machine Gun".

Good stuff.

That Baroness might be my favorite 2009 album of any genre. So excited to see them in NYC next month.

really enjoying the new comp of old stuff by Beyond Dawn. it's called Bygones. Has a lot of their early 90's singles, demos, unreleased stuff, etc. yet another Norwegian metal band a la Fleurety and Ulver who abandoned metal for beats and general weirdness. they always loved horns though, so even the early stuff has a trombone or two on it. and the early stuff is also the height of their celtic frost worship, which is fine by me. the early stuff is unpredictable, which i like too. all off-kilter riffs and weird digressions. but heavy too. definitely a band in the same cosmic boat as ved buens ende and ulver and manes and dhg. listening to the old stuff makes me wish i had a copy of beyond dawn's first album Pity Love handy. cuz it was a beauty (and already way less heavy than the stuff comped on Bygones).

they have a great sense of humor too. this is the video from their most recent album (caution: NO actual metal content):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WiNiLYg-AE

this is from pity love. such a cool record. if you ever wanted m. gira to put out an album of horn-heavy melancholic doom then you will dig it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrcY8DeHYW8

Man, do I really hate to have to do this here, but if any of you know of any outlets looking for a writer, please let me know. After almost a decade I got laid off from the architecture thing today, so I'm looking to pick up what I can. A very, very ridiculous long shot, but what the hell.

Back to your regularly scheduled headbanging.

man dude I am sorry to hear that you got laid off and I hope you are back in stride soon!!!

Yeah, that's lousy, alright. Openings at mags sure are scarce these days, but of course it never hurts to try. Hang in there!

Thanks guys. I figured it was a longer than long shot, but hey.

I got nothin'. Good luck.

Revolver is now a bimonthly:

http://www.metalinsider.net/gloom-and-doom/revolver-scaling-back-to-bimonthly

"I think anyone who picks up the new “Hottest Chicks in Metal of All Time” issue, which I’m personally very proud of, will see what I mean, and agree that we’re giving our readers a lot more bang for their buck."

I honestly haven't read that one in forever.

I hope Kate post here about why do women only get coverage in magazines based on their looks.

http://www.metalinsider.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/hottestchicks4-227x300.jpg
I don't think even Kerrang have ran this sorta thing since Nirvana broke big.

they still do that shit in guitar magazines

i've never bought a copy of revolver. ever. and let me make something perfectly clear: i will buy ANYTHING. everytime i picked one up since it started i've put it down again with a big shrug. it started out as a kind of rock god mag, no. jimi hendrix and stuff.

Why did you send me a link to this, Kerr?

What do you want me to say?

Apart from the obvious - that "chick" on the left has been very oddly photoshopped.

Or do you just want me to check in and go facepalm.jpg?

I'll only say three things:

1) I'm astonished it took this long for the market to start killing Revolver; when Edge was still running, the scuttlebutt was that Revolver was a money loser for its publisher and the big money was in Guitar World.

2) The women on this year's "Hottest Chicks In Metal" cover are wearing much more clothing than past "winners."

3) Landmine Marathon is a great band and I'm sure Grace Perry is happy for the publicity. I've never heard of the girl on the left, with the guitar.

wow Herman way to be a dick to people

"I know, maybe I can make somebody mad. My day will have been a success, then."