Rolling Metal Thread 2009

Poivod

Chapel of Goulash

Fried Eggs Sunn 0))) Side Up

Burning (sand)Wich

Gravy Digger

Celtic Frosty

One for the French Canadians:

Severe Tourtière

Ok then, how about -- Smoothiesayer?

burgerzum

may-ham

Porknagar

Custos would be proud of you all

^^^ ile board descrip

maybe it's just the grim, frostbitten weather, but the last absu album is sounding pretty good to my ears after a disappointing few spins when it first came out.

still ain't no tara, tho.

totally no snow in ancient sumer, dude.

yea, yea. plus, they're texans.

yet, these riffs chill like the gusts of blizzards.

or something.

It gets cold at night in the desert!

now it all makes sense!

absu have surely have studied with hans GRIM, yes?

http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=grim+texas&fb=1&gl=us&hq=grim&hnear=texas&cid=0,0,14215893366586610380&ei=0tMvS_OfBc7ElAeWm7WeBw&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQnwIwAA

news...

Stereogum Launches Metal Music Column “Haunting The Chapel” & Releases Top 30 Metal Albums Of 2009
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/12/prweb3373114.htm

Brandon "Show No Mercy" Stosuy defects from Pitchfork to Sterogum for the metal column

“Haunting The Chapel”
http://stereogum.com/archives/cat_haunting_the_chapel.html

Haunting The Chapel: The 30 Best Metal Albums Of 2009 (Plus Dozens Of Guest Lists)
http://stereogum.com/archives/haunting_the_chapel/best_metal_albums_2009_106711.html

30 Weapon - Drakonian Paradigm [Ajna]
29 Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way [Century Media]
28 Marduk - Wordwood [Regain]
27 The Atlas Moth - A Glorified Piece Of Blue Sky [Candlelight]
26 Merrimack - Grey Rigorism [Moribund/Osmose]
25 Portal - Swarth [Profound Lore]
24 Coalesce - OX [Relapse]
23 Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution Of Ceremonial Excrescence [Profound Lore]
22 Tombs - Winter Hours [Relapse]
21 Culted - Below The Thunders Of The Upper Deep [Relapse]
20 Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ [Debemur Morti]
19 Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs [Code 666/Profound Lore]
18 Katharsis - Fourth Reich [Norma Evangelium Diaboli]
17 Ruins Of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite [Ván]
16 Hiems - Worship Or Die [Moribund]
15 Mournful Congregation: The June Frost [Enucleation]
14 Baroness - Blue Album [Relapse]
13 Absu - Absu [Candlelight]
12 Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough [Profound Lore]
11 Katatonia - Night Is The New Day [Peaceville]
10. Beherit - Engram
9. Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
8. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With The Stars
7. Funeral Mist - Maranatha
6. YOB - The Great Cessation
5. Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor
4. Kylesa - Static Tensions
3. Drudkh - Microcosmos
2. Cobalt - Gin
1. Converge - Axe To Fall

as good a list as any I've seen. I really don't get why the Converge is so great. need to listen to it more, I guess. I love to see that Drudkh placed so high on a year end list.

still haven't listened to that drudkh. I heard that there's slap bass on it or something... that can't be true, right??

also, w/drudkh and peste noire both in the top 5, stereogum sure are into racist dudes, huh? (low blow)

hahah @ the "slap bass" ... yeah there's a single riff/solo thing that may start out with a slap, but it's not an ongoing theme.

i can't really tell if it's a slap or if the dude just pulled on the strings causing it to hit the frets a little. it's actually one of my favorite little moments on the disc, because i love bass and it doesn't get to shine enough in black metal.

i think the whole Drudkh racist thing is one of those internet rumors gone "where there's smoke there's fire". i haven't seen any evidence of it.

also <3 (and play) bass, so def not a problem with me either. just thought it was funny.

so now I'm trying to think of great bass on black metal records but I'm coming up short. all I can think of is the dubby stuff wrest does on leviathan/lurker of chalice. I'm sure there are others but what am I forgetting?

The bass outro of 'Into Utter Madness' on the new Marduk is kinda cool. But off course bm is basically all about the treble, right?

http://www.bestalbumsof2009.com/2009/12/best-metal-albums-of-2009.html

i like the bass playing on Ludicra's Fex Urbis Lex Orbis. Nachtmystium's bass stands out more on some songs than others, but can be good. i agree w/ you about the dubby bass on Lurker and some Leviathan records.. good stuff.

I was just gonna cite Ross Sewage of Ludicra!

think the whole Drudkh racist thing is one of those internet rumors gone "where there's smoke there's fire". i haven't seen any evidence of it.

main dude was in hate forest, who generally seem to be regarded as NS. and there are tenuous connections to astrofaes and nokturnal mortum, the latter being really try-hard NS dudes (swastikas made of ak-47s in their album art and shit). drudkh does seem to leave it alone, though.

Filed an all-metal P&J ballot this year. Although it's not actually the case that I liked ten metal albums more than any non-metal albums, my metal list is vastly better informed than my non-metal list, so I decided to just go ahead and consider myself a genre specialist for voting purposes. Of the 10 albums I voted for, 7 were by artists I'd never heard of before this year (including 3 debuts), 2 more were by bands I had basically written off before, and exactly one is a repeat inclusion of any kind.

(Whereas on the non-metal side I've got down to 20 albums, of which 18 (!) are artists who have appeared on my lists before...)

Mine was 70% metal and 30% other stuff that I liked, including one bona fide Pitchfork top 10 finisher (Fever Ray). I guess I'm a sellout.

Although most of the stuff I write about now is metal, I still combine all genres for my P&J ballot. Love the metal, but can't live on it alone, I need the variety (it goes both ways, if I only reviewed indie I'd be bored silly)...my metal to non-metal ratio this year is 6:4. After the top 20 I put together for the blog, though, it's a severe drop-off, there were not many more non-metal albums that I found particularly interesting at all this year.

I did a metal top ten list for the Village Voice Media chain, which I'm guessing is gonna run sometime in the next week or so on the blogs of various VVM papers, and I also sent a top ten to the Voice jazz critics' poll. So with two of my primary areas covered, I decided to tick box #3 and submit an all-Latin ballot to P&J. You can read more about that here, and I wholly recommend all those albums. Adrien, I think you'd really like Bebe and Natalia Lafourcade, even with the language barrier.

Also, my #2 non-metal album is Tori Amos' Christmas record, and I had a bad feeling that people seeing that and Funeral Mist on the same list would assume I was joking about one or the other...

Listening to the 2009 Drastus EP Serpent's Chalice - Materia Prima. Never heard this guy's stuff before but I can see why J0hn D. likes him so much. There are these awesome, clean but off-key vocals on the first track that make it sound like a cross between Xasthur and Jandek. Really digging this so far.

this how sexto9 listeners voted on total rock radio

Listeners Top 20 of 2009
http://www.sexto9.com/index.php?item=playlist

Immortal - Arctic Swarm - All Shall Fall - Nuclear Blast No 20

Absu - Amy - Absu - Soulfood No 19

Insomnium - Into The Woods - Across The Dark - Candlelight No 18

Hearse - Sundown - Single Ticket to Paradise - Megaphon No 17

Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us - Century Media No 16

Behemoth - The Seed Ov I - Evangelion - Nuclear Blast No 15

Kreator - Warcurse - Hordes Of Chaos - SPV No 14

Nile - Utterances Of The Crawling Dead - Those Whom The Gods Detest - Nuclear Blast No 13

Candlemass - If I Ever Die - Death Magic Doom - Nuclear Blast No 12

Epica - Unleashed - Design Your Universe - Nuclear Blast No 11

Delain - Invidia - April Rain - Roadrunner No 10

Sirenia - Led Astray - The 13th Floor - Nuclear Blast No 9

Mnemic - March Of The Tripods - Sons Of The System - Nuclear Blast

Hacride - Act Of God - Lazarus - Listenable No 8

Trail of Tears - The Desperation Corridors - Bloodstained Endurance - Napalm No 7

Scar Symmetry - Ascension Chamber - Dark Matter Dimensions - Nuclear Blast No 6

Fleshgod Apocalypse - In Honour Of Reason - Oracles - Candleight No 5

Amorphis - Sky Is Mine - Skyforger - Nuclear Blast No 4

Megadeth - How The Story Ends - Endgame - Roadrunner No 3

Riverside - Egoist Hedonist - Anno Domini High Definition - InsideOut No 2

Katatonia - Day & Then The Shade - Night Is The New Day - Peaceville No 1 Album of 2009

Katatonia - Onward Into Battle - Night Is The New Day - Peaceville No 1 Album of 2009

It's like a list Jeff chose

YOUTUBE companion thread to the Metal Albums of 2009 Poll for your convenience

oops wrong thread that was meant for the poll thread

list from Portugal similar music coverage to Rock-A-Rolla and Terrorizer

Amplificasom: Depois de amanhã começa 2010
http://amplificasom.blogspot.com/2009/12/depois-de-amanha-comeca-2010.html

Here it is: my Top Fourteen Metal Albums of 2009.

Aesop Dekker's 100-albums-of-the-decade. Great list, though why he would choose Hammers of Misfortune's debut as their best is beyond me.

Except for the fact that he listed them chronologically off course... [/d'oh]

Terrorizer Top 40 Albums of 2009

so another Terrorizer album of the year award goes to Converge

1: Converge - Axe To Fall
2: Cobalt - Gin
3: Kylesa - Static Tensions
4: Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
5: Napalm Death - Time Waits No Slave
6: Mastodon - Crack The Skye
7: Megadeth – Endgame
8: Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
9: Funeral Mist - Maranatha
10: Immortal - All Shall Fall
11: Drudkh - Microcosmos
12: Beherit - Engram
13: Portal - Swarth
14: Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
15: Marduk - Wormwood
16: Absu - Absu
17: Tombs - Winter Hours
18: Burnt By The Sun - Heart Of Darkness
19: Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
20: Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
21: Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
22: Baroness - Blue Record
23: Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
24: The Devil's Blood - The Time of No Time Evermore
25: Archgoat - the Light Devouring Darkness
26: Shining - VI - Klagopsalmer
27: Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
28: Hacride - Lazarus
29: Fuckpig - Spewings from A Selfish Nation
30: Amorphis - Skyforger
31: Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
32: Grey Machine - Disconnected
33: Behemoth - Evangelion
34: Unanimated - In the Light of Darkness
35: Obscura - Cosmogenesis
36: Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
37: Shrinebuilder - S/T
38: Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
39: Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
40: Evile - Infected Nations

note: albums NOT nominated on ILM metal poll

12: Beherit - Engram - cult black metal band overlooked at the nominations stage

25: Archgoat - the Light Devouring Darkness - obscure black metal band

26: Shining - VI - Klagopsalmer - depressive black metal band ignored at the nominations stage

29: Fuckpig - Spewings from A Selfish Nation - never heard of them, low ratings and rather obscure on rym

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/fukpig/spewings_from_a_selfish_nation/

32: Grey Machine - Disconnected - more of a Rock-A-Rolla magazine band their label advertises in the Wire magazine

34: Unanimated - In the Light of Darkness - old school DM from Sweden return

38: Teitanblood - Seven Chalices - who? a rather obscure band, although they are rated at 493 for 2009 albums on rym

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/teitanblood/seven_chalices/

40: Evile - Infected Nations - brit thrash metal band

Teitanblood are awesome my friend

greymachine were nominated djmartian