There is nothing more satanic than gay sex!
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 07:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I BROKE THE GAAHL STORY IN ROLLING METAL 2008
nobody ever listens to me, i might as well be leonard cohen record.
― stuffy old songs about the buttocks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 08:43 (fifteen years ago) link
no, wait, it was the gorgoroth c or d thread.
― you go, gaahl! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 08:47 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, i saw it on there today!
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link
fig'd it wasn't NEWS news as terrorizer were like "so, how are ppl reacting to your gayness"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/02/saxon-rock-music
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I missed Saxon supporting Motörhead last month, irritatingly -- got there just as they were finishing. No idea whether I'd have enjoyed them, but I think seeing Saxon is something everyone should strive to do at least once in life.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
just like everyone needs to vote in the ilx metal poll once in their life ;)
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, dude, genre polls: not for me. I'll vote in the main one but that's all. Sorry.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
(Also: I didn't listen to nearly enough metal last year anyway, so it'd be a skewed vote.)
heh there's 267 albums nominated. I bet you've heard a good few of them.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Great NWOBHM article. That new (27th?! I make it 20th, but whatever) Saxon album is also pretty good, which I find kind of alarming as I hadn't paid any attention to them since loving Strong Arm of the Law in 1980.
I locked my 2008 lists at the end of the year, but have already found one 2008 metal album since then that probably would have made it: Monuments by Brave. DC indie progressive-metal (in the song-oriented sense, not the 18-minute wank-out sense) band with a very good female singer. It's on the 2008 poll-list, so somebody noticed it while it was still current.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh glenn just make an exception for my poll please :) Help me out here. If everyone votes I wont need to bug everyone and roxy will be happier if i stop. :)
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
You meant "grimly", not "glenn". I already voted!
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
haha so you did
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
but yeah the more votes i receive the happier roxy can be. do it for roxy!
One or 2 people couldnt skew the vote anyway simon, so dont worry.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a few mates who still go see saxon. I know one guy who even ran the scottish fanclub.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I locked my 2008 lists at the end of the year, but have already found one 2008 metal album since then that probably would have made it: Monuments by Brave. DC indie progressive-metal (in the song-oriented sense, not the 18-minute wank-out sense) band with a very good female singer.
There's an album I didn't investigate soon enough. She's one of the more tasteful female metal singers you'll ever come across, and the songwriting is strong, in a restrained, Mandylion kind of way. Plus the electric violin is kinda cool.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
The Wino solo record isn't surprising at all, considering the source, but it's also about as good as you would expect, considering the source.
― Agent ov Fortune (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Has the man done anything that could be considered outright crap? I can't think of anything off the top of my head.
xpost a perfect summary of that album. (It is good and all but yeah.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
So the legal hoops I had to jump through to hear three new tracks by a certain band, oh, let's call them Shmannibal Shmorpse, was a new experience.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I love Shmannibal Shmorpse! Especially Shombs of the Shmutilated.
― Agent ov Fortune (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
And Shmutchered at Shmirth.
― Agent ov Fortune (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, but what new tracks! I mean, who even knew George played the bassoon?
― unperson, Thursday, 8 January 2009 00:59 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah but spill beans AB! is it good?
― J0hn D., Thursday, 8 January 2009 01:14 (fifteen years ago) link
One thing I hate about samplers is how it's impossible to tell what the album's like. But the three tracks are excellent, pretty much what you'd expect. One track's a swift excercise in the usual brootality (with some insane O'Brien leads), another's a fast, groovy two-minute thrasher, and another (my fave of the three, the title track) is a creepy-riffin', four and a half minute slow crawler, total old school CC. Or, I mean SS.
And Rutan's one of the best things to ever happen to these guys.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 8 January 2009 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
read that as "the usual botany"
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 8 January 2009 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
so there's a new autopsy single coming out? whoa.
― stuffy old songs about the buttocks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 9 January 2009 05:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Interesting line-up for the Scion Rock Fest, Atlanta, Feb. 28 --
MastodonNeurosisHigh on FireBoris1349CryptopsyTorcheNachtmystiumWolves in the Throne RoomBaronessHarvey MilkKylesaZoroasterWitheredKralliceToxic HolocaustSkeletonwitchRwakeA Storm of LightWarbringerSalomeSuidakraTyrAlestorm
― Brad C., Friday, 9 January 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
That may be one of the best top to bottom festival lineups I've ever seen. Although Krallice were kind of boring when I saw them.
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Friday, 9 January 2009 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
With apologies to the spectacular Maryland deathfeat lineup, I think I'd rather see this one.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 9 January 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Deathfest. Urps.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 9 January 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Totally approve of this Century Media 2009 "Maidens of Metal" calendar, I have to say, even if I never heard of any of these ladies' bands, and even if a few get repeated on different months. (So...what do Luna Mortis sound like?)
― xhuxk, Friday, 9 January 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Luna Mortis is sort of Into Eternity meets Symphony X meets the Gathering. Melodic prog stuff, tastefully done, with a singer who goes from Anneke van Giersbergen to Sabine Classen. Some folks here were lukewarm, but I like the new album.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 9 January 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
So...what do Luna Mortis sound like?
Boringly competent.
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Since when was metal being tasteful a good thing? =p
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.metalelegance.com/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 January 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,040,000 for: tasteful metal
(The first result is, of course, about Dragonforce.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 January 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
S mortiis hasn't done a genesis p-orridge then?
― Shmutchered a Smurf (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
haha since when could Dragonforce be called anything other than utter shitetasteful?
― Shmutchered a Smurf (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
'So you'd like to...Get into some REALLY brutal metal that's still tasteful?'
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 January 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I've created this guide, for people who think as I once thought; that death metal was nothing but a bunch of monkey noise. Of course, I had good reason, being that the only band's I'd heard were Cannibal Corpse and Six Feet Under.
― Pfunkboy formerly known as ... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I was just about to link to that! Not quite sure I would call Dying Fetus tasteful...
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Results 1 - 100 of about 136,000 for monkey noise metal. (0.40 seconds
― Pfunkboy formerly known as ... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Atlanta lineup = [scanners.gif]. Wish it were somewhere closer to home.
― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, you haven't done much to convince me that tasteful metal is a good thing.
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Friday, 9 January 2009 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
By tasteful, I mean prog metal that's disciplined enough not to fly off into either boring, Dream Theater-style circle-jerking or over-the-top operatic silliness. I tend to prefer a little restraint in my prog metal. BTBAM being one exception...
― A. Begrand, Friday, 9 January 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, do you mean tasteless in subject matter or what jeff?
― roxymuzak, Friday, 9 January 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link