Rolling Metal Thread 2012

I'm psyched to see Ghost/Blood Ceremony on Tuesday.

idk that guy just sounds really cranky, i've seen wittr live and they're pretty good.

i've also seen worm ouroboros live and until they play a venue with seats they're going to have problems with people talking over them. this is because metal crowds contain assholes and also because of their music.

Ugh, I gave up after the paragraph where he brought up illegible band logos for the third time. Also, its not the fault of the band if the venue's "cheery" intercom announcements ruined the mood.

good work leading in with a class-based zing there, it's about time someone remembered black metal's strictly proletarian roots

the sad thing is, wittr haters will probably think its a great article purely cuz its a negative review.

i can think of a board where some halfwits would think its a great article

at least WITTR's matching skintight sleeveless sweaters look good though.

Yes, it's uninformed and wrong in so many ways. But I did chuckle.

It amazes me why someone would review a show if they clearly don't like the genre of music. If you don't like it, you're not gonna know the nuances that appeal to those that like it, and if you do know it, and don;t like it, its those nuances that will be the things you slag.. I'm bummed I missed this show, but I probably would've been dissapointed by the fog machine.

Listening to the new album by Australia's I Exist, II: The Broken Passage. Apparently they started out as more of a hardcore band, but this album sounds pretty sludgy to me. Reminds me on a more playful Kylesa at times.

I was playing that yesterday, it pushed buttons pretty well on a limited level but not revelatory... the most interesting thing that struck me abt it was that I could see it finding the same quasi-mall metal audience that say Cancer Bats have now

Yeah, its definitely nowhere as good as Kylesa, but they kept popping to mind while I listened. I'm pretty generous when it comes to Southern sludge sounding stuff.

on spotify?

The one stoner/sludge album I love right now is Giant King's Dismal Hollow. They're like The Four Horsemen, but sing about the Civil War instead of the fact that rawkin' is their bidness.

Sounds interesting. I got sent a promo for the I Exist album, so I'm not sure if its out yet or on Spotify.

Surprisingly impressed with this new Behold! The Monolith recording. I'm generally not interested in new bands with growly vox (I like growly vox but I'm sick of them) -- but the songs on this record just keep throwing creative curve balls and high energy twists. It's gonna be infectious if I let it.

Yeah, the riffs on that album are impressive. Plus the cover art is great.

it the world of band vs band drama... being played out on facebook as we speak (sort of) the upset rambling of one Chris Kontos, drummer for Attitude Adjustment, (former drummer of Machine Head) upset that he recieved a nasty email from Donny Paycheck, drummer for Zeke, who books a club in Tacoma, Washington where Kontos had to cancel a show due to not being able to line all the bands up he wanted for a tour stop their. Kontos insists he was very apologetic about having to a cancel, but yet Donny was shitty about it.. Now there is tough guy stuff going on(I'm makin calls, he'll get his) and the response of, has anyone ever even heard of Attitude Adjustment?
I simply reminded Kontos via facebook, that he needs to remeber that he's dealing with a band(Zeke) who blew the advance of their first record on Harleys and crank..

Isn't punk rock great!! such a community of brotherhood and love!!

Zeke might be the worst band ever.

Come on man, Limp Bizkit exist.

Fastnbulbous--were we really on Decibel's list or were we on your addendum?

Yes, it's listed under summer releases.

Witch Mountain, TBA [Profound Lore]

Signed to Profound Lore, nice. Can't wait to hear the new stuff!

Martyrdod fucking crush!
www.thesleepingshaman.com/news/martyrdod-dark-lords-of-swedish-crust-sign-with-southern-lord/

Thanks Fastnbulbous. That's flattering! Good thing we are rehearsing every day right now. We will deliver!

BTW, Ghost + Blood Ceremony was great last night. I could go on and on, but hands down it's a FUN show. And based on the turnout, I will not be surprised if Ghost gets REALLY big soon. Especially with the just announced support tour they're doing with Opeth & Mastodon. Satan is very happy right now.

but is he laughing and spreading his wings like in the days of olde??????

So excited for that Mastodon, Opeth, Ghost tour. Although, a small part of me wishes the Chicago show was an Opeth headline since I've never seen them before and I've seen Mastodon 4 times now.

Opeth were amazing on their fall tour with Katatonia. I'm tempted because the stop here is them headlining, but I'm not a big fan of the others. Though I'm sure live I'd enjoy them more than I do on record.

i don't know anything about opeth but ghost & mastodon sounds like it could be cool

Of course I'm going to this.

I would go if Opeth still played metal. I'm all for bands "growing up," but I felt burned by their last show here. And Mastodon--ugh.

At this point, I would only go to see Ghost, and I just saw them two nights ago.

I want to thank aero, J3ff, and anyone else who was praising the new RAM album, Death, within my earshot. I liked the one song they had streaming (and said so above somewhere), but it didn't prepare me for the onslaught of awesome that is the record. Great start to 2012.

Ooh, I still need to hear that one.

Adrien was right about that King Giant record, its really good. So many bands would sound like they were playing dress up when singing out Appalachian hollows and moonshine, but these dudes sell every word.

RAM is preparing me for the arrival of my Judas Priest box set this afternoon. Rifftastic.

Hey Nate, would you agree that ghost is much much heavier live than on record? Because it seemed pretty notably different to me. Also lead dude sings better live imo.

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Okay, this Chaos In Tejas festival has the weirdest lineup. Saint Vitus! Winter! Municipal Waste! Church Of Misery! Ted Leo? The Clean? Best Coast? Thou! Loss!

Goofy.

ok, that is hilarious.

wait just one minute... winter reformed!??

So it would seem.

Love how many bands on that have 'UK' appended to their logos.

and JP and NZ too. Worst trademarks ever.

Yeah, Winter were awesome when I saw them at the Power of the Riff festival.

Holy crap, that might be better than spending the Bank Holiday weekend here.

Haha, I'd like to see Saint Vitus and then Best Coast, quite frankly.

wow that lineup is reading my mind

Am always so jealous of Chaos In Tejas, every year has a fantastic lineup

It's not that I'm disliking the Nightwish album, exactly, but my favorite gothic-metal thing of the moment is Memento Mori, by Lunar Path. First album after some demos and singles. Stripped-down compared to Nightwish, but with a melodic swoopiness that seems more in Nightwish's vein than, say, Lacuna Coil's. Also, their Facebook bio is a game attempt at second-language overwriting. "They're clearly out to kick ass and take names, no compromise." Nothing pisses me off more than compromised name-taking. Just first names, I guess. Or maybe asking for both names but only writing down the initials? Anyway, good to have none of that with Lunar Path. Helps the live shows run smoothly, too, when you don't have to take attendance.

wait what is the clean doing there?
that sounds like a pretty awesome weekend even though i freely admit that i don't know most of those bands.

Xeno & Oaklander seems even more incongruous than Best Coast or The Clean tbh

Death metal with vocals that sound like that one episode of Animaniacs where Wakko belches the ABCs! Plus you can download the whole thing free from the band's website via the link at the bottom of the article: http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/the-lazarus-pit-demilichs-nespithe/

Ghost sounded better than the record because it was live in a big hall with pro-sound. Otherwise, I was surprised how much it was produced to sound like the album.

I look at that album now as a soundtrack to the live show. You can't fully "get" Ghost until you've seen them. The music is only part of what they're doing. It's theater, and it works.