Rolling Metal Thread 2009

That sounds disappointing to me, loved the last Arsis but haven't really ever been a huge Arch Enemy fan. They're okay, I guess.

Not a big fan, but whadaya know, I'm seeing Arch Enemy toninght with Destruction and Abigail Williams. Saw them once before on a festival and liked them much better than on the albums I've heard of them.

More interested in seeing Destruction though, hopefully they don't sound as protools-y live as on their recent albums. I always loved how their awesome-crappy thrash polka beat used to mutate into a jump blues shuffle groove mid-verse back in the day. Still hoping for them to do a Bull Moose Jackson cover instead of The Knack.

Decibel list-griping, Day 5... http://bit.ly/8BfnuO

Not to put more work on you now Phil, but I'd love to see a follow post detailing the bands you feel were slighted by the list.

Where in god's name is Blessed Black Wings? A bizarre omission

by no means new, but I listened to aura noir black thrash attack last night. many, many great riffs on this one. 100% awesome.

and the last track sounds like it might morph into "ace of spades" at any moment!

Are we going to run an ILM metal best of the decade poll? I want phil to write a blog complaining about it too!!

I for one will nominate as many non-metal-metal albums as I can think of.

This is the ballot that I ended up submitting for the decade list:

1. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
2. Nightwish - Wishmaster
3. Baroness - Blue Record
4. Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
5. Machine Head - The Blackening
6. Torche – Meanderthal
7. Mastodon – Leviathan
8. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
9. Soilwork - Figure Number Five
10. Lacuna Coil - Comalies
11. Shadows Fall - the Art of Balance
12. Arch Enemy - The Wages of Sin
13. Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth
14. Slough Feg - Traveler
15. DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
16. Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
17. Opeth – Watershed
18. Gojira- From Mars to Sirius
19. Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
20. Earthless- Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky
21. Nachtmystium - Assassins
22. High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
23. Corrosion of Conformity - in the Arms of God
24. Cradle of Filth - Midian
25. Agalloch - The Mantle
26. Armored Saint - Revelation
27. In Flames- Clayman
28. Clutch - from Beale Street to Oblivion
29. Rammstein - Mutter
30. Behemoth - Evangelion
31. Strapping Young Lad - Alien
32. Into Eternity - the Incurable Tragedy
33. Kylesa - Static Tensions
34. Hammers of Misfortune- Fields/Church of Broken Glass
35. Enslaved - Vertebrae
36. Testament - the Formation of Damnation
37. Turisas - The Varangian Way
38. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - II
39. Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation
40. DHG - Supervillain Outcast

After looking over the Decibel list, there are a few things I would swap out (I should probably have Killswitch, Iron Maiden, and Queens of the Stone Age in there), but not as many as you would think.

Sadness at Wishmaster not making it.

Well, I wouldn't really call that particularly surprising, but I heart that record.

wait so can anybody tell me is sons of northern darkness getting passed over on everybody's list because if so that is some o_0 wtfness

Good series, Phil, thanks for linking here.

I haven't heard Sons of Northern Darkness since its original release, and that was when I couldn't listen to black metal at all, so it would have been disingenuous to put it on my list. I'd probably put All Shall Fall on there now, though.

If you like Gojira, you'll really enjoy France's Hacride. Their last two albums are superb.

This recommendation was spot on. Thanks. I enjoyed the Hacride stuff I found on YouTube. I'll probably queue some of this up for download once my eMusic credits refresh. I tried the Ulcerate too, but didn't dig it as much - not as melodic as I was hoping for.

One other pleasant surprise on the Decibel list was Katatonia's Last Fair Deal Gone Down placing so prominently. If there was one Katatonia record I would have predicted would make the decade list, it would have been Viva Emptiness.

I like Jeff's list a lot...Arch Enemy, Bodom, DragonForce, and Nightwish all should have made the top 100.

Interesting to read a List that does not include
LVTHN 'Tenth Sublevel of Suicide'
Emperor 'Prometheus...'
Mayhem 'Ordo ad Chao'
WitTR 'Black Cascade'

I voted for Prometheus, and was shocked it didn't make the cut.

I'm honestly not that big into the pure kvlt blackness. Emperor are cool, but Wolves always struck me as kind of background music. Really neat background music, but I've never really been blown away.

Yeah Wolves bored me and i did try more than once.

I've tried every Wolves release and been bored surly every time.

hehe you're always surly!

i was gonna say! that is so phil. bored AND pissed off.

yall liking that alcest split?

yes

ordo ad chao is decade top 20 for sure imo

ordo ad chao is one of my favorite albums of all time tbh

I finally scored the 2xLP Ordo Ad Chao at a swap a few months back. It was worth the wait!

what record do you guys like better, ordo ad chao or ad majorem gloriam sathanas

I'd probably go with Mayhem on that one. I find myself greatly preferring post-lawsuit Gorgoroth to pre-lawsuit Gorgoroth, quite frankly.

Definitely Mayhem out of that pair, but OAC isn't my favorite Mayhem disc; I rep hard for Grand Declaration of War.

i prefer ordo ad chao as a single, continuous piece of work. there may be an individual song on ad majorem that i prefer to any individual song on ordo ad chao -- maybe a couple, even -- but ordo ad chao is better throughout. imho.

need your help:

what member of watain is this speaking at 7:03? don't want to assume it is the singer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIxW4PeoWBM

(and i think it goes without saying, WS)

'Grand Declaration...' is about on a par with 'Ordo...', imo. 'Wolf Slayer Abyss' is their classic.
Aborym 'With No Human Intervention' is also to my taste, though with a techno clunker thrown in.
I play the new Gorgoroth more than any since 'Destroyer'.
Pest's old band, Obtained Enslavement, I prefer to any Gorgoroth.

this is slightly OT, but have you all ever listened to attila's old band Plasma Pool? <3 him (also, kinda them) but the term "techno clunkers" is what reminded me of them.

PS pelican played here the other night and failed to be slow or heavy enough.

No, but I have heard and enjoyed the black-thrash 'Ano Domini' by Tormentor.

tormentor = great!

has anyone seen severed ways? about norse discovery of north america? i have mixed feelings about this movie. it's a small part herzog (complete with popol vuh? how did they swing that?) and part ridiculous. features a guy actually shitting in the woods and burning churches.

trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUdxd0J-ujA

yeah I thought it was well-directed, I have to say!

Yeah, I got it from Netflix awhile back. Wrote about it here. Really nicely filmed and well put together, though I definitely did not need to watch that dude take his morning dump.

I enjoyed most of it in spite of the weird overdubbing, shitting, etc. What took me out of it a little was seeing a recognizable Hollywood actress, even in a small role.

Money where your mouth is time: I spent all last week bitching about Decibel's Top 100 of the 2000s list, so this week I'm posting my own. Here are #s 100 through 81. Enjoy!

Phil, I just finished the first paragraph but I just wanna mention that ppl make fun of me for needing a 160GB ipod as if I'm some kind of OCD basket case. Now i feel less alone.

(I am an OCD basket case though).

I only have a 120 GB iPod, and it has been full for quite a long time now. I constantly have to delete stuff out in order to add anything. I'm going to wait until they come out with an even bigger size to upgrade, though.

i already like phil's list more than the decibel list. not that i'd probably listen to most of it, but i like it better. i like any list that makes room for prostitute disfigurement. well, not ANY list. like, if it were on someone's to-do list, i might worry...

J3ff OTM. I want 320 GB, but half a TB would be ideal. It's okay if it's the size of a Star Trek tricorder, i don't care.