Rolling Metal Thread 2009

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."

yeah, actually i was thinking the same thing. really uncalled for.

Hey! I don't think he did it to make me mad. I mean, we do have that kind of a ribbing-each-other friendship. I'm certainly not implying it was mean for him to send the link. At all!

I just don't think I have anything I could possibly add to the conversation.

okay. sorry. just seemed like: hey, kate's been upset about this stuff in recent days, let me fuel the fire! which just seemed mean or something. but i certainly don't think that herman is mean.

No being mean on the metal thread, guys.

my bad I apologize Herman.

Man, I'd forgotten how much I hate Hatebreed. Listening to their new album (and their covers album) tonight. They really are one of the stupidest, knuckle-dragginest bands on earth. And yet, just like John's old posts about Creed and why some people love them, I can understand the appeal of Hatebreed.

i dont know if anyone here still likes to buy metal, but century distro is having a crazy sale right now. i just got mayhem de mysteriis dom sathanas on blue vinyl for $20. but there's tons of stuff in the $8 - $12, too. worth a spin through.

link is cmdistro . com

i have enjoyed hatebreed in the past. but i'm a fan of mookcore from way back. they really have perfected something in their way. they've distilled this very specific thing and made it an industry. it's kinda crazy. i had trouble getting through the new one. maybe i wasn't in the mood. if hatebreed are your thing though they definitely give you what you want. the same thing. again. forever. they could do it until they are old pissed-off men.

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Man, I'd forgotten how much I hate Hatebreed. Listening to their new album (and their covers album) tonight. They really are one of the stupidest, knuckle-dragginest bands on earth.

No arguments here. They're bringing Cannibal Corpse and Hate Eternal out here in December, so after digging the real talent, I'll likely watch the idiocy from a safe distance.

isn't hatebreed the band whose singer is named jamey jasta? I think "jamey jasta" is an all-time stage name for sure

Jasta has presence, that's one big thing he's got going for him. He can wind up a room like no other.

His overzealousness can yield some real gems, though, like this classic I heard him do last year: "It might be Wednesday here, but it's Friday somewhere else in the world."

HAT BREED

(they all wear hats all the time)

Back in the late 90s when Hatebreed was a vocally straightedge band, me and Steve Austin from Today is the Day blew pot smoke at them from side stage and laughed.

If anyone ever has to interview Hate Breed, ask them about the middle east question as regards to the fucking huge 'Holy Land' tattoos that they have.

The reaction is pretty amusing.

Last time I'll mention this on here but this weekend is my annual Fall into Darkness festival in Portland.

Thursday - Earth, SubArachnoid Space, Makoto Kawabata, ?Alos, Aerial Ruin
Friday - Agalloch, Amber Asylum, Soriah, Fauna
Saturday - YOB, Ludicra, Witch Mountain, Saviours, Atriarch

Probably won't be posting much this weekend.

Argh, that weekend looks awesome. Portland always has such amazing metal shows. I live in Saskatoon why?

That said, Saviours killed here the other night opening for 3IOB.

Will Kawabata be playing his zipper? It's awesome - and I'm totally fucking serious.

haha what?

walt disney sent me a copy of the new atreyu album. do i need to listen to it?