Rolling Metal Thread 2009

"I never cared who was in the crowd as long as they weren’t out to beat my ass."

This was the line that Jeanne wrote that resonated with me. It's an important stipulation because we all know the "bridge and tunnel" knuckledraggers can in fact ruin a good show if they don't behave.

whatever next:

KEEP OF KALESSIN Competing To Represent Norway In EUROVISION SONG CONTEST
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=131312

whatever next...this

10,000 metal releases came out this year
http://invisibleoranges.com/2009/12/10000-metal-releases-came-out-this-year.html

decibel 100 best of the decade special issue is pretty cool! and no martian i will not transcribe it for you. it's probably online somewhere by now anyway.

no sign of a blogger publishing the list yet, however i would expect the list to turn up on rateyourmusic.com soon

http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/recent

The Metal Minute: The Metal Minute's 25 Immaculate Receptions (and Honor Roll) for 2009
http://rayvanhornjr.blogspot.com/2009/12/metal-minutes-25-immaculate-receptions.html

1. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
2. Isis – Wavering Radiant
3. Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
4. Kylesa – Static Tensions
5. Candlemass – Death Magic Doom
6. Chthonic – Mirror of Retribution
7. Megadeth – Endgame
8. Sepultura – A-Lex
9. Zombi – Spirit Animal
10. Voivod – Infini
11. Slough Feg – Ape Uprising!
12. Pelican – What We All Come to Need
13. Slayer – World Painted Blood
14. Brown Jenkins – Death Obsessed
15. Skyfire – Esoteric
16. Sunn O))) – Monoliths and Dimensions
17. The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
18. Hacride – Lazarus
19. Shadows Fall – Retribution
20. Tyr – By the Light of the Northern Star
21. Mantic Ritual - The Executioner
22. My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
23. Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
24. Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
25. Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans

Honor Roll of 2009:

Lamb of God - Wrath
Arise - The Reckoning
Vader - Necropolis
Behemoth - Evangelion
Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
Leeches of Lore - s/t
Nocturnal Fear - Metal of Honor
Leaves' Eyes - Njord
Static-X - Cult of Static
God Dethroned - Passiondale
Job for a Cowboy - Ruination
Living Colour - The Chair in the Doorway
Ace Frehley - Anomaly
Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares
Mudvayne - s/t
Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Eternal
Bone Gnawer - Feast of Flesh
Assjack - s/t
Luna Mortis - The Absence
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
Shrinebuilder - s/t
Wino - Punctuated Equilibrium
Lillian Axe - Sad Day On Planet Earth
W.A.S.P. - Babylon
Killswitch Engage - s/t
UFO - The Visitor
Powerman 5000 - Somewhere On the Other Side of Nowhere
Nihilitia - Nihilist Militia
The 11th Hour - Burden of Grief
The Amenta - Non
Psyopus - Odd Senses
Gollum - The Core
Conspiracy - Concordat

Decibel's decade list has finally been blurted:

http://www.terrorizer.com/main-forum/music/decibel-mags-greatest-100-albums-decade

It's definitely eclectic, which is a really good thing. Lots of stuff to argue and discuss about (right off the bat, I don't agree with numbers 1 and 2!). Can't wait to read the real thing...whenever that'll be.

So it's not on the stands yet?

lol @ no 100

The complete absence of Slipknot on that list pleases me.

that list is hilarious. Decibel is trolling imo.

I'm ok with that list. A bit surprised to not see YOB or Sunn 0))) on there... Great that Asunder, Warhorse and Ewiz got the doom nods though.

on quick review it seems to be mostly lacking in doom

What's new? It's always been the ugly duckling genre of metal. And we like it that way, right?

true i guess i hoped decibel of all ppl would include at least as much doom as metalcore but hey what can you do

The fact that the specific complaint of the first person complaining there is that the top 100 doesn't feature Bad Religion, Ignite or Propagandhi really says it all about the tsunami of list-obsessed retardation that this part of the decade is creating

i think i posted this on another thread, but this was my ballot for the decibel decade list:

Top 40 Of The Decade

1 – Agalloch – Ashes Against The Grain
2 – Celtic Frost – Monotheist
3 – Katatonia – Last Fair Deal Gone Down
4 – Primordial – The Gathering Wilderness
5 – Converge – Jane Doe
6 – Deathspell Omega – Kenose
7 – Orphaned Land – Mabool
8 – Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets
9 – Intaglio – S/T
10 – Eyehategod – Confederacy Of Ruined Lives
11 – Grave In The Sky – Cutlery Hits China: English For The Hearing Impaired
12 – Amok – Necrospiritual Deathcore
13 – Vog – S/T
14 – Necrodemon – Ice Fields Of Hyperion
15 – Harvey Milk – Special Wishes
16 – Celestiial – Desolate North
17 – Blood Of The Black Owl – S/T
18 – Heinous Killings – Hung With Barbwire
19 – Magane – Beginning At The End
20 – Metsatoll – Terast Mis Hangund Me Hinge 10218
21 – Ahab – The Call Of The Wretched Sea
22 – Indesinence – Noctambulism
23 – Minsk – Out Of A Center Which Is Neither Dead Nor Alive
24 - Negative Reaction – Under The Ancient Penalty
25 - Ea – Taesse
26 - Skinless – Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead
27 - Tristwood – The Delphic Doctrine
28 - Virgin Black – Requiem – Fortissimo
29 – Gospel – The Moon Is A Dead World
30 – Kylesa – To Walk A Middle Course
31 - Destroyer 666 – Cold Steel…For An Iron Age
32 – The Black League – Ichor
33 – Tyr – Eric The Red
34 – Falkenbach – Heralding The Fireblade
35 – Opeth – Deliverance
36 – Caina – Some People Fall
37 – Gorguts – From Wisdom To Hate
38 – Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
39 – Moonsorrow – V:Havitetty
40 – Raging Speedhorn – How The Great Have Fallen

New Alcest! Split with Les Discrets:

http://www.prophecyproductions.de/cache/02f1b1bd074fa96b47b8573b50b32ff6.jpg

As promised, Alcest has the harsh vocals this time, and it's very strong, even though I really loved the clean vox of the last record. Bodes well for the full-length.

I'm doing a week-long trawl through the Decibel list; here's my take on #s 100-81... http://bit.ly/6vFsQf

I see the decade issue is available exclusively from their website and from "select indie record retailers'-- anyone got a tip on where I can buy it in NYC?

Phil -- dissecting the decibel list is a fine idea, but it should be noted that decibel considers itself an "extreme music" magazine, not just metal. That being said, the "The Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the Decade" is perhaps an inaccurate name.

i seem to remember the same thing said about a certain book :)

also, and I think this is a valid question, are you going off of what was actually written about each record's inclusion in the magazine, or are you just going by the list as a list? Because I think it would be at least worthwhile to read the justifications before going off blindly on an entry not being metal enough. I'm not blindly defending the list just because I'm a contributor, God knows there's a ton of stuff that I disagree with on there (Converge? Really?), but I do think it's at least unfair to instantly dismiss it without the full picture. If anything, I think that the decibel list speaks to two things: first, the sheer diversity of what could be considered to be metal in this past decade, and second (and probably less important from an academic standpoint but more important to understanding why the list is so seemingly random), the sheer variety of the tastes of the contributors to the magazine. Considering that the magazine is one of the few still afloat, and a lot of people from other late, lamented publications have wound up there, it's also kind of an interesting look at extreme music/metal journalism from this past decade as well.

I find that the likelihood of anybody's best-metal-of-anything lining up with my idea of Metal decreases rapidly once the size of the opining body rises above zero. Groups of 1 sometimes produce reasonable lists, but not so often once the 1 starts to include people other than me. Put more than a handful of people together and it's totally hopeless. That Decibel decade list has, out of 100 slots, only 10 bands I'd even consider, and at least half of them seem to me like the metal bands that people who don't really like metal like. Converge, Isis and Mastodon were collectively responsible for 10% of the 100 best metal albums of the whole decade? Of the 14 bands who have multiple albums on the list, I like only Enslaved.

But I'm sure it goes both ways, too, at least a little bit. HIM's Love Metal is likely to make my top 10 for the 2000s.

yeah, I think this is exactly what's wrong with that list. when a bunch of people vote, consensus picks take the top spots and the whole thing ends up blander.

heh, but even that doesn't excuse...

15. Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw

Only one Southern Lord album(Warhorse). Did decibel fall out with sunn o)))?

sunn o))) stroke?

sunn o))) poisoning?

I wrote that Pelican blurb!

Also, "bland" is not a word I would use to describe that list, whether you like it or not.

The lack of Sunn love from dB is not surprising!

Oh, and apologies for the Iron Maiden blurb in the decade issue, the band is refusing all interviews right now, so we were stuck using an old one from 2000.

i have never seen a opy of decibel anywhere so how is the lack of southern lord stuff not surprising?

Well, some folks just plain don't like Sunn O))). People either love them or loathe them, as we all know.

aww i was hoping that the magazines editor was butthurt over the abuse it took from the old southern lord message board hehe

yeah they were a rough crowd over there

http://www.delawareonline.com/blogs/spaceballs2.jpg

too rough for greg anyway he kicked us off

Magazine lists always feel boring, predictable and least-common-denominator-ish.

Also i know this is a massive xpost but I still think that the whole experimentalism-over-purism argument is a giant strawman for lazy journalists. After all, nobody has problems understanding that rap in the 90s was shaped by Wu Tang and Jay-Z and not by 2 Unlimited's bold combination of house and rap.

i kinda wish hip-house had dominated the 90's instead of jay-z, to be honest.

more wu in your music is never a bad thing though.

we all need a little wu in us.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uSOtp4gq6ls/SRcqBJy2SjI/AAAAAAAAAAg/um_BGljhds8/s320/All+the+Woo+in+the+World.jpg

...or whatever that groundbreaking record somewhere mid 90s was with rappers doing opera tunes. Anyway you get the point.

doesn't bother me not to see "avant" metal like SunnO)) on the decibel list. if they were on it i couldn't really get all pissy about pelican being on it. neither are very metal imo. wtf at no WiTTR tho.

many x-posts:

I wrote that Pelican blurb!

Also, "bland" is not a word I would use to describe that list, whether you like it or not.

hey, no offense intended! it was more of a lolsy aside than anything. I just think pelican are kinda boring and that position was waaaay too high for my liking. should have added a ";-)"

and the decibel list leans waaaay too heavily on hydrahead-friendly bands, imo. and I say this as someone with a high tolerance for that stuff. AND as someone who thinks the discordance axis album is possibly the best thing towards the top of the list!

but yeah, that plus the scarcity of records I'd never heard of is what I found "bland," though your mileage may vary.

also...

i kinda wish hip-house had dominated the 90's instead of jay-z, to be honest.

it did! but only if you managed never to step outside of a sports stadium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHO6thJFLBQ

HE
COULD
GO
ALL
THE
WAY!

http://www.terrorizer.com/content/grand-magus-sign-roadrunner

^quite unexpected, no?

Part Two of my troll through Decibel's best-of-the-decade list is up, covering #s 80-61: http://bit.ly/7IW1iy

http://www.terrorizer.com/content/grand-magus-sign-roadrunner

ewww... what will roadrunner do with a metal band?!

Maybe someone there found some Mercyful Fate in the warehouse and got thinkin'

man, the intro to "the gnashing" (blue record) gives me serious neu!/michael rother vibes. and now that I think about it, the fuzz guitar that pops up from time-to-time definitely has shades of the classic rother sound too...

really love this record. deserves the praise its been getting.

yet some people think its not as good as Red, yet those who loved the ep's but were disappointed by Red love this one.