Rolling Metal Thread 2012

the new christian mistress makes me feel like beavis and/or butthead every time a riff locks in for more than, like, one bar

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There's yet another remaster of Lightning To The Nations? You'd think there'd be remasters for the first two Def Lep albums by now.

Speaking of NWOBHM, or NRWOTHM, these two new releases share those roots.

RAM - Death (Metal Blade)
Pharaoh - Bury The Light (Cruz Del Sur)

I believe both are on their third albums. Swedish band RAM's Lightbringer (2008) and Philadelphia-based Pharaoh's Be Gone (2008) are also good. Still loving Christian Mistress' album the best by far though!

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/02/announcing_the_1.html

Killing SXSW line up.. I wish Iwas going just for this shwocase...

NRWOTHM

Huh??

"New retro wave of traditional heavy metal"? Never heard of that before.

I like the Ram album a lot, but I've been enjoying the new Pharaoh even more.

Finally got to hear the new Christian Mistress in it's entirety and it's... solid? Not a disappointment exactly, as there are a couple of songs that really blew me away ("Black TO Gold" and "Haunted Hunted"), but it doesn't hold a candle to their live show. It's a bit too restrained or something. I'm with Nate in that they absolutely killed me live, but for some reason this record doesn't. I'm sure I'll listen to it a bunch through the year but maybe my expectations were too high.

i found that it got a bit more involving the louder i played it (duh, big surprise). the low end filled out more too. the interplay is more exciting than it sounds like at first when all you can hear is davis and the leads wheedely-wheedelying.

Got my package from Profound Lore today with the Pallbearer and the Witch Mountain reish, ready to dig in!

Heard the new Meshuggah this morning. Really impressed on first listen. Denser than obZen and not as Tool-damaged, and/but it's not Chaosphere 2 or anything like that. In fact, it might be their most human album to date - there are drum tracks on a few songs that actually sound like drums, in a room, being hit with actual sticks by a living drummer. I made it all the way through on the first try, and definitely want to hear it again soon - that's a first for me with Meshuggah. I've always kind of admired them from a distance and only rarely felt the need to actually push through a whole record. (That said, they were ferocious live when I saw them around the time of Catch 33.

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oh man, really getting excited for the new meshuggah.... (xpost)

I got this last year from a publicist I assume but didn't get to it til now. Trad 80s metal which I am fucking loving, I'm going to take some glucosamine for my knees and then get the fuck down to this

http://www.widowusa.com/images/splash/lb_cover.gif

Yeah, I've long liked Widow, and the new one's a blast, I reviewed it for Terrorizer a couple months ago.

Not a bad time for doom, really enjoying both the Pallbearer and Pilgrim debuts.

has j3ff said what he thinks yet about

http://plotn08.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1324408060_fcland2.jpg

I kind of like the Freedom Call album.

Meanwhile the new High on Fire track sounds great:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13243-fertile-green/

That's a huge step up from Snakes. Nice mix.

that sounds really good!

Windhand just released their album on purple vinyl. So I guess it wasn't officially released last year? I just ordered the CD. They're touring the East Coast and South Feb. 29 to Mar. 10.

http://windhandva.bandcamp.com/

Regarding Huntress, looks like they're opening for the PaganFest tour with Turisas, Alestorm and Arkona. I'll find out which leaves a stronger impression, Jill Janus' Julliard-trained opera pipes or her silicone-enhanced outfits.

Pharaoh is pulling ahead of RAM to my ears. It probably helps that I'm also impressed with After The Fire (2003) and The Longest Night (2006).

That Huntress album is unbearable.

i bet it gets lots of attention

just popping in to say the new COC totally rules

Huntress was tack(i)ed onto a bill I promoted last year. Supposedly she's a former porn star?

Well, it was a spectacle. They were actually pretty solid live. Can't imagine listening to it at home, though.

In other news, Witch Mountain starts tracking a new album this Friday with Billy Anderson producing at Audible Alchemy studio run by Steve Lobdell. Out in June. Stoked.

Is that Steven Wray Lobdell?

*stirs from his slumber*I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED… For Freedom Call? Haven't listened to the new one, but I've never been particularly impressed with them in the past.

Meant to listen to a bunch of the metal back log when I was on vacation, but I ended up mostly listening to bandcamp stuff. Not as impressed with Spawn of Possession as Jon, but really digging the Black Breath. Also, why did nobody tell me that Asphyx were so damn good?! Well, besides Siegbran, I suppose.

anyone else listen to the new terrorizer? of course, this is nothing like world downfall (and nowhere near that level) and I wish the drums didn't sound so damn stiff. but what the hell, this still satisfies. some fun guitar work on here.

I did! I actually really enjoyed it, having not listened to their previous work. Made good background music for putting together the Matt Putrid feature I did for the zombie issue of Decibel.

Yeah, the new Terrorizer is pretty cool. Even though, as Phil said, they're pretty much Resistant Culture With a Couple Other Guys now.

yep, this is really nothing like classic terrorizer at all. guess I have to listen to some resistant culture now.

and you have to listen to world downfall, j3ff! so awesome.

Is it free on bandcamp?

it's on spotify.

Is that Steven Wray Lobdell?

Yes, he played in Faust for a while. Between Lob and Billy Anderson, we'll be in great hands!

Yeah, that's a great combination there! I love Lobdell from Davis Redford Triad and stuff. Pretty awesome.

hellbeard are on spotify
http://open.spotify.com/artist/0o4q44oE19NvxNacve7u7C

thatnks Kerr.. you're sweet! lol

thanks

from the p4k review: "But most of these bands don't have Christine Davis, a frontwoman who trades the tight t-shirt machismo of Christian Mistress' more obvious peers for an understated, alluring command." (italics in the original)

while i really like her voice, and i do think it's notable that this kind of band is being fronted by female vox, the dichotomy the writer is setting up (tight t-shirt machismo V. understated, alluring command) is sorta bogus, not least bc i don't find her vocals particularly understated or alluring. maybe i wouldn't disagree that she has a "warm rasp," but he also writes that she "practically coos" (!) which iirc is how we describe parents speaking in baby-jibberish to their babies. like, obv i think it's important (and important to my enjoyment of the band) that Davis has a female voice, and not just a cookie monster voice or another generic metal voice, but holy shit sexism.

Listening to Freedom Call right now. Definitely fun, they have a rousing sense of melody, but it is super generic Euro power metal.

A friend got us tickets to see Iron Maiden. Outside, in Dallas, in August. Should be stupidly hot, but it's Maiden!

UP THE IRONS!

I haven't seen them since the original Somewhere In Time tour, so this is fitting.

Okay, "Crimson Dawn" on this Freedom Call album has won me over. I love me some cheesy vocal harmonies.

Oh, I thought this was Somewhere revisited not Seventh Son. My Bad.

Bummed we get Coheed and Cambria instead of Alice Cooper, but them's the breaks.

ha, i knew you'd like it jeff.

i used to love coheed and cambria. first two albums are still classic imho

I'm heading to Calgary for Maiden in July. This'll be fun, the spring '88 tour with GNR skipped my city, so it'll be nice to see that setlist revisited a little bit.