I was just handed the new DragonForce album. There was some mild dismay at the fact that while there is a song with "Storm" in the title, and one with "Sword" in its title, there is no song with "Fire" or "Flames" in its title.
More seriously, this is a more aggressive, and more concise, album from them. There's only one song that's more than six minutes long, plus you get an acoustic version of one song (presumably this will be a bonus track on the deluxe edition, or something). I like it, but I've always liked DragonForce.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 23 January 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, tbh, if I'm going to listen to DragonForce, I want long songs! Only one song over six minutes isn't really a selling point for me.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 23 January 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
Well, the other songs are all in the 4-5 minute range, and the new singer is much better than ZP was, at least to my ear.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 23 January 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds promising. I can't ever not like DragonForce.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
I'm about halfway through the album now, and while it still sounds every bit a DragonForce album, there are a lot of different sounds on it (more human-ish guitar playing, weirder synth tones, occasional slow drumming) and it's really, genuinely heavy at times. I'm liking this a lot.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I'm definitely going to check it out, I've just always liked the longer epics.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I also like DragonForce.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
Wolves in the Throne room plyed in SF tonight and I didn't go... for fucks sake I'm getting old!
― SeanWayne, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
i continue to be shocked by people enjoying meshuggah. however considering i have gotten a few calls about ordering the new ibanez $5000 meshuggah signature, i support them from a business perspective. go meshuggah, you terrible terrible band!
― blurgh (jjjusten), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 08:14 (twelve years ago) link
btw i just did the sabermetrics on our sales of metal guitars last year and we sold more 7/8 strings than 6 strings. which is insane, and thats w/o counting baritones.
― blurgh (jjjusten), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 08:15 (twelve years ago) link
7-string guitars are still a thing? damn.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
Of all the bands to single out as "terrible terrible", Meshuggah strikes me as a weird one.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
They're not terrible, but unless I hear something really revelatory on this album, I'm probably gonna shrug them off.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I'd say Meshuggah is mediocre at worst.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
crazy
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
I like to think of them as the powerman 5000 of tech metal.
― blurgh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not even sure what that means but yeah basically I think they are awful
― blurgh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
You're meshuggina, John.
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
jjj actually likes powerman 5000 so just ignore him.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
A big ol' Fenriz interview:
http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/fenriz-isengard-darkthrone-interviewed/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
that reads really weirdly, like part email interview part telephone
still cool tho
― Saltines of Pink - 'Whites Me Tumblr?' (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it also kind of just dives right into the commentary track question with no setup or anything, sort of confusing without some sort of context via an introductory paragraph. Anyway, minor quibbles, its a cool interview.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Decibel's Feb issue has the Top 25 most anticipated albums and a pretty thorough release schedule. I'm surprised they didn't include the Electric Wizard and Ufomammut releases in their top 25, but otherwise was a cool feature. These stand out for me:
Ancestors - In Dreams And Time (Tee Pee) AprBible of the Devil - For the Love of Thugs and Fools (Cruz Del Sur) May 8Christian Mistress - Possession (Relapse) Feb 28Corrosion Of Conformity (Candlelight) Feb 28Death - Vivus (Relapse) Feb 28Drudkh - Eternal Turn Of The Wheel (Season Of Mist) Feb 24Napalm Death - Utilitarian (Century Media) Feb 28Orange Goblin – A Eulogy For The Damned (Candlelight) Feb 14Sigh - In Somniphobia (Candlelight) Mar 20Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Primum (Neurot) AprVan Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth (Interscope) Feb 7
Also coming: Ancestors, Baroness, Black Math Horseman, Black Sabbath, Church Of Misery, Cobalt, The Darkness, Electric Wizard, Ghost, Gojira, Gozu, Graveyard, Greenleaf, Gypsyhawk, High On Fire, Horisont, Kylesa, Kyuss, The Mars Volta, Neurosis, Om, Queens Of The Stone Age, Saint Vitus, Shrinebuilder, Sons Of Otis, Tool, Torche, Truckfighters, Wight, Witch Mountain.
Anyone heard anything?
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
ugh ghost show is tonight and i am really stuffed head sick do i go
― blurgh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
buddy of mine on fb had a blast when they were here
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard one cut from the Christian Mistress and it was great. Word from on high is that it is consistently good.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
It is!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
This is only Ghost's second tour, correct? They're in Mpls tonight, I believe. I was sick as a dog for Slayer/Megadeth over a year ago, and I just loaded up on cold meds. Glad I went. I was at the Ghost show last night, and it was awesome. So great to see a band committed to costumes and stage show, not to mention the anonymity. An Anonymous Ghoul addresses that in an interview:
Offstage, do you guys like to get wild and party or are you pretty straitlaced?We have this anonymity bond. We don't regularly get invites because nobody really knows who we are. I wouldn't say that we are a hundred percent clean in every aspect, but we are quite innocent in comparison to a lot of other groups that would jump at every opportunity to go nuts. We're here for something else. Some of the single guys in the band might think it's a drag, but those of us who aren't are pretty happy.
One of the strangest/greatest moments of the show was when they launched into a pretty straight, and quite pretty, version of "Here Comes The Sun." It was oddly moving, the spell not even completely broken in the end when someone inevitably shouts, "SATAN!!!"
A dude was wearing a Repugnant t-shirt. I guess Papa Emeritus is supposedly Tobias Forge of Repugnant/Subvision. It's hard to tell listening to Repugnant's Epitome Of Darkness. It would be just as well if it's unconfirmed, as it would be more fun if they maintain the mystery.
Blood Ceremony were great too. I feel like their sound (especially the thick Sabbathy drum sound!) and musicianship was better, but Ghost still put on a more exciting show. But they're very different kinds of bands, despite the common occult interests.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
Christian Mistress is probably my second favorite album of 2012 (I'm counting The Devil's Blood as 2012 because screw Europe). It is METAL.
Also, John: yes. Are you going to let tiny germs overcome METAL?
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, this is my case exactly as of right now.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
I would also like to nominate Iron Savior's "Heavy Metal Never Dies" for inclusion in the pantheon of super awesome/cheesy European power metal anthems about heavy metal alongside Primal Fear's "Metal Is Forever" and Dream Evil's "the Book of Heavy Metal."
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
heard Christian Mistress and CoC once each so far
the former is sounding on point and the latter respectably solid, if not a candidate for 'old folx showing younguns how it's done' status
― Saltines of Pink - 'Whites Me Tumblr?' (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Agreed, very stellar. Will be reviewing it for the AMG.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
can someone explain to me Ghost? I'm mean I get it, but I don't don'tget why everyone is digging them.. they're terrible.
― SeanWayne, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Do you hate Blue Oyster Cult too?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
Super-catchy Blue Oyster Cult-inspired hard rock about Satan with fun imagery? What's not to love?
Yeah, digging the COC, it's more a return to the Blind sound than the Animosity sound, but considering how good Blind is, I'm okay with that.
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
maybe thats exactly why I don't like it..
― SeanWayne, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
:O You don't like Blue Oyster Cult?!
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
BOC are great; maybe Ghost will be, but that first record isn't.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
only listened to "black to gold" and "haunted hunted" but !!! re christian mistress
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
Not really. but I only know the crap I hear on the radio and it never did anything for me, so I never bothered to look any further.
― SeanWayne, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
Get thee copies of Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune, Spectres, and Fire of Unknown Origin, stat!
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
tbh my main motivation for going to the ghost show (which is looking less likely with every wave of headcrushing pain) is to see blood ceremony
― blurgh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
I'd love to see Blood Ceremony. Alas, no southern swing on this tour.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Headcrushing pain is metal.
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
Bummed I couldn't make it to the Ghost/Blood Ceremony show last night.
Man, Sean, I used to feel the same way about BOC, but hearing Secret Treaties really opened my eyes - there is so much more to love about BOC than what classic rock radio would have you believe.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
I have a soft spot for Spectres.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
Fastnbulbous: You don't have release dates for the rest of that Decibel list do you?
― Doran, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
Ok against all good judgement I am going to go and patient zero this show. Because, yknow, horns
― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry guys.. BOC is dudsville.. its a little before my time, so I guess I can't put into perspective, and I have a hard time calling it metal... Hard rock for sure, but the organ wipping through it, or their brand of big anthem rock type shit just doesn't dop it for me. its not dangerous, and I can't imagine it being dangerous even for the time. Maybe thats why I'm not feeling Ghost or Blood Ceremony.. its overthought Camero Rock at best. I'll take Thin Lizzy anyday over that shit.
― SeanWayne, Thursday, 26 January 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link