Rolling Metal Thread 2009

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

right there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VOTE HERE for ILX METAL ALBUMS OF 2009 !!!!!!!!!!!!! (non-metal thread regulars welcome. Everyones welcome to vote, please join in!) Voting Ends Jan 17.

my mistake, i hit grey machine in firefox search find, not greymachine

terrorizer typo stated: grey machine

go stand in the corner djmartian

Nice to see Kylesa that high, i.e. above Baroness and Mastodon. Good list overall, but wtf no Slayer?

Metal Injection - The Top Albums of 2009 as decided by the Metal Injection Junkies
http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/top-albums-2009-decided-metal-injection-junkies

1. Mastodon – Crack the Skye 264 votes
2. Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect 188 votes
3. The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate 185 votes
4. Lamb of God – Wrath 172 votes
5. Behemoth – Evangelion 167 votes
6. Baroness – The Blue Record 138 votes
7. The Red Chord – Fed Through the Teeth Machine 135 votes
8. Cattle Decapitation – The Harvest Floor 105 votes
9. Converge – Axe To Fall 101 votes
10. Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague 92 votes
11. Obscura – Cosmogenesis 91 votes
12. Nile – Those whom the gods detest 79 votes
13. Dying Fetus – Descend into depravity 64 votes
14. Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Agorapocalypse 61 votes
15. Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic 59 votes
16. Immortal – All Shall Fall 57 votes
17. Dethklok – The Dethalbum II 55 votes
Slayer – World Painted Blood 55 votes
18. Devildriver – Pray For Villains 54 votes
Goatwhore – Carving Out the Eyes Of God 54 votes
Megadeth – Endgame 54 votes
19. Revocation – Existence is Futile 53 votes
20. Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue 51 votes
21. Suffocation – Blood Oath 49 votes
22. Katatonia – Night Is The New Day 48 votes
23. Kylesa – Static Tension 46 votes
24. Despised Icon – Day of Mourning 45 votes
25. Devin Townsend – Addicted 44 votes
26. Born of Osiris – A Higher Place 43 votes
27. Skeletonwitch – Breathing The Fire 42 votes
28. Daath – The Concealers 34 votes
Magrudergrind – Magrudergrind 34 votes
29. God Forbid – Earthsblood 33 votes
Job For A Cowboy – Ruination 33 votes
Municipal Waste – Massive Agressive 33 votes
30. Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divinity 32 votes
Suicide Silence – No Time To Bleed 32 votes
31. Augury – Fragmentary Evidence 30 votes
Epica – Design Your Universe 30 votes
Swallow The Sun – New Moon 30 votes
32. Cormorant – Metazoa 29 votes
Ulcerate – Everything Is Fire 29 votes
33. Devin Townsend – KI 28 votes
34. Isis – Wavering Radiant 27 votes
Napalm Death – Time Waits For No Slave 27 votes
Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade 27 votes
35. Gorod – Process of a New Decline 26 votes
36. Ensiferum – From Afar 25 votes
37. Chimaira – The Infection 21 votes
38. Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow 19 votes
Burnt By the Sun – Heart of Darkness 19 votes
39. Darkest Hour – Eternal Return 18 votes
Doomriders – Darkness Come Alive 18 votes
40. Vomitory – Carnage Euphoria 17 votes
41. Coalesce – OX 16 votes
Winds of Plague – The Great Stone War 16 votes
42. Be'lakor – Stone's Reach 15 votes
Impending Doom – Serpent Servant 15 votes
Insomnium – Across The Dark 15 votes
Paria – The Barnacle Cordius 15 votes
Psyopus – Odd Senses 15 votes
Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder 15 votes
The Agonist – Lullabies For The Dormant Mind 15 votes
Vader – Necropolis 15 votes
43. Animals As Leaders – Animals As Leaders 13 votes
Architechts – Hollow Crown 13 votes
Ghost Brigade – Isolation songs 13 votes
Kreator – Hordes of Chaos 13 votes
44. Austrian Death Machine – Double Brutal 12 votes
Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings 12 votes
maudlin of the Well – Part the Second 12 votes
45. Brand New – Daisy 11 votes
46. Absu – Absu 10 votes
After the Burial – Rareform 10 votes
GWAR – Lust In Space 10 votes
Lazarus A.D. – The Onslaught 10 votes
Obituary – Darkest Day 10 votes
Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us 10 votes
Sybreed – The Pulse of Awakening 10 votes
The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Worse Than Alone 10 votes
47. Ancestors – Of Sound Mind 9 votes
Assjack – Assjack 9 votes
Blood Red Throne – Souls of Damnation 9 votes
Enfold Darkness – Our Cursed Rapture 9 votes
HORSE the Band – Desperate Living 9 votes
Keelhaul – Triumphant Return to Obscurity 9 votes
Miss May I – Apologies Are for the Weak 9 votes
Pestilence – Resurrection Macabre 9 votes
Worm Ouroboros – Worm Ouroboros 9 votes
48. Black Cobra – Chronomega 8 votes
Blood Tsunami – Grand feast for vultures 8 votes
Fondlecorpse – Creaturegore 8 votes
Giant Squid – The Ichthyologist 8 votes
Infernal Revulsion – Dead But Breathing 8 votes
Malefice – Dawn of Reprisal 8 votes
Pelican – What We All Come to Need 8 votes
Portal – Swarth 8 votes
Punch – Punch 8 votes
Tenet – Sovereign 8 votes
The Lonely Island – Incredibad 8 votes
Insect Warfare – Noise Grind Power Death 8 votes
Soulfallen – Grave New World 8 votes
49. Alexisonfire – Old Crows Young Cardinals 7 votes
Horrific -Your Worst Nightmare 7 votes
The Crimson Armada – Gaurdians 7 votes
The Empire Shall Fall – Awaken 7 votes
Vomit the Soul – Apostles of Inexpression 7 votes
Old Man's Child – Slaves of the World 7 votes
Impetuous Ritual – Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence 7 votes
50. Eternal Tears Of Sorrow – Children Of The Dark Waters 6 votes
Man Must Die – No Tolerance For Imperfection 6 votes
Mournful Congregation – The June Frost 6 votes
Nashville Pussy – From Hell To Texas 6 votes
Revolting – Dreadful Pleasures 6 votes
Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions 6 votes
SWWATTS – The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry 6 votes
Viatrophy – Viatrophy 6 votes
Suidakra – Crógacht 6 votes
51. 3 Inches Of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom 5 votes
August Burns Red – Constellations 5 votes
Believer – Gabriel 5 votes
Belphegor – Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn 5 votes
Ingested – Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering 5 votes
Iron Age – The Sleeping Eye 5 votes
Loan – Gontziria 5 votes
Rammstien – Liebe ist Für Alle Da 5 votes
Rose Funeral – The Resting Sonata 5 votes
Samael – Above 5 votes
Sanctification – Black Reign 5 votes
YOB – The Great Cessation 5 votes
Zoroaster – Voice of Saturn 5 votes
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone 5 votes
52. Azarath – Praise the Beast 4 votes
Gaza – He Is Never Coming Back 4 votes
Insidious Decrepancy – Extirpating Omnicient Certitude 4 votes
Lay Down Rotten – Gospel Of The Wretched 4 votes
Warbringer – Waking Into Nightmares 4 votes
Weekend Nachos – Unforgivable 4 votes
Altar of Plagues – White Tomb 4 votes
God Dethroned – Passiondale 4 votes
53. Beherit – Engram 3 votes
Candlemass – Death Magic Doom 3 votes
Chthonic – Mirror Of Retribution 3 votes
Hellwitch – Omnipotent Convocation 3 votes
KISS – Sonic Boom 3 votes
Lye by Mistake – Fea Jur 3 votes
Muse – The Resistance 3 votes
Steel Panther – Feel the Steel 3 votes
Struck by Lightning – Serpents 3 votes
Threat Signal – Vigilance 3 votes
Within The Ruins – Creature 3 votes
Pussygutt – Gathering Strengths 3 votes
Neaera – Omnicide 3 votes
54. Devourment – Unleash the Carnivore 2 votes
Gorgoroth – Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt 2 votes
Hatebreed – For The Lions 2 votes
Skyfire – Esoteric 2 votes
The Burning – Rewakening 2 votes
War From A Harlots Mouth – In Shoals 2 votes
Darzamat – Sulfernu's Path 2 votes
55. A Hill To Die Upon – Infinite Titanic Immortal 1 vote
Blackguard – Profugus Mortis 1 vote
Brutal Truth – Evolution through Revolution 1 vote
Goes Cube – Another Day Has Passed 1 vote
Gory Blister – Graveyard Of Angels 1 vote
Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage 1 vote
Septycal Gorge – Erase the Insignificant 1 vote
Squash Bowels – Grindvirus 1 votes
The Binary Code – The Binary Code 1 vote
Throwdown – Deathless 1 vote
Ignivomous – Death Transmutation 1 vote
Antigama – Warning 1 vote

What time is it in Japan?

Japanese time <custos>

All the best metal lords everywhere. I'll be playing a segway of Ace Of Spades/Raining Blood/For Whom The Bell Tolls/Snap Your Fingers Snap Your Neck/Breaking the Law/Supernaut/The Four Horsemen (Aphrodite's Child not Metallica) just after midnight and raising the horns to you all wherever you may be. \m/

Awesome Aphrodite's Child song.

There's an argument for it being my favourite rock song of all time, when the wind's blowing in a certain direction and I'm at the right temperature.

I got into it via being a verve fan (who years later after going on about it actually ripped it off for the rolling people)

I don't know those coves, but I have a fair few mutual friends up in Wigan, St Helens, Manchester, Liverpool. It's that North West scallydelia thing. I never got into the Floyd or Genesis or what have you but it was good being played loads of the 'Child, Hawkwind, Beefheart, Cardiacs and that by acid crazed loons in tracksuits when I was a callow youth. Certainly extravagant prog and that kind of thing didn't go out of fashion in the north west like it did elsewhere.

There's an urban myth about house breakers doing over someone's entire flat and stripping out everything including carpets and furniture and the only thing they leave is either a copy of 666 or The Wall.

Interestingly, this is either seen as a kind act or a diss depending on whether it's told in Merseyside or Lancashire.

dare i ask which is which? you're all southerners to me

Rolling Metal Thread 2010

Shall we lock this thread now, or keep it going for totally off-topic Aphrodite's Child/Britisher talk?

Liverpool and places like Wigan, St Helens and Warrington lean more toward psychedelia in rock music and Manchester and Lancs tend to lean away from it.

You can only really make the broadest of generalisations here but bands like the Stone Roses, The Engineers and The Verve, while usually being lumped in as Manc, have this through line to psych and prog that goes with the territory they actually come from (Stone Roses were more of a Warrington band, The Verve, Wigan etc), imho. Even bands like The Coral and Teardrop Explodes kind of fit this theory.

I think Julian Cope has it down as a Catholic Irish/Anglo Protestant split between the two areas; which is partially true and partially over-romanticized.

It falls apart if you examine it too closely.

XP: Sorry Jeff! All done now.

hey, that was really interesting! the merest whiff of 'cardiacs' and i'm in like flynn :D but the psych/non-psych lancashire divide is pretty intriguing. i'll have to try and keep tabs on my favourite north-west bands and see if it holds true!

The Year in Metal (BBG's best of 2009)
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/01/the_year_in_met_1.html