Rolling Metal Thread 2012

where is this torche stream goin down?

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

― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, March 2, 2012 5:42 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw this is good! very well-recorded especially and i like slow sludgy stuff so it's all good here.

it made it into our 2010 eoy poll. Thats how sean turned up here as i messaged the band on myspace when i found out they were unsigned, i wanted to know if there was cds to buy

you guys are awesome... thank you!!

Torche stream is for reviewers only at the moment. You can download the first single for free from their website: http://www.torchemusic.com/

ah, suspected as much. thx.

Also, Lazarus Pit this week isn't entirely out of the blue, what with all the recent NWOBHM chat: http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/the-lazarus-pit-savages-loose-%E2%80%98n-lethal/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC2oVhnpaQA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogMi1jvPqMY

you guys have always been good to the 'Beard!! Thank you

Kerr, thats the same song.. the top one is the better version.

a newer song called River's End

that Kimo's clip was the last show we did.. We've been on a break due to a surgery, we'r getting back to it now..Hope to be recordeing an EP very soon.

That Savage album really is a lost gem. Happy to see it hit the Pit!

Wow, this final Woods of Ypres album is fantastic. It's really wrong that good metal can't make you impervious to car accidents.

Woods of Ypres is my favorite metal album of the year thus far.

That Savage album is a wickedly great choice, Jeff. Nicely done.

I'm actually really surprised at the reception the Woods of Ypres album has been getting. A lot of people adore their early, rawer, BM-derived stuff. so I was wondering if the slick new record would turn some off. Nice to see that hasn't happened much.

Man, between new St. Vitus, Bereft, and Pallbearer, first quarter 2012 is a pretty damn good time for doom fans.

Like, obviously I love Wino's solo projects, but recently it's felt like he's been retreading the same territory. So him hooking up with the old gang feels really refreshing.

new st. vitus!!

And for those of you with a fondness for gothic metal, Johnny Icon from the great Icon and the Black Roses (who only had one record, back in 2004, but have reformed and are working on a second!) is now also the singer for the otherwise Italian band Ace of Hearts. Who aren't technically a HIM cover band, but close enough.

it's really nice - i like it - but i don't hear HIM or gothic metal in it at all?

No?! Weird, his delivery seems so similar to Ville's to my ears.

i'm confused. are there two bands Ace of Hearts who have brand new albums out?

lol, apparently so

http://s15.radikal.ru/i189/1112/e8/093533d14dcf.jpg

i was listening to:

http://image-3.verycd.com/f9dc6412ea6b475f4012328bd814e6b023523(600x)/thumb.jpg

Hah. Never heard of the horse one. Although a little Googling suggests that that's _Ace of Hearts_ by Green Pitch, which came out in 2005...

tbh, i spotify'd ace of hearts and that came up and was identified as 2012 so i just assumed without any further research or even examination...

But yes, _Monster_ is the one I meant.

The new Lullacry is pretty cool, too.

Man, I went on vacation for a week and I can't believe how far behind I got in my listening to new stuff.

Don't get me started on Spotify metadata.

Oh, this new Lyriel album Leverage is really good, too. Seriously, this is the year of gothicfolkpower metal.

it died on me. Sorry chaps

frick, wrong thread.

liked that pallbearer demo from a couple years back, so I'm excited to hear the debut.

What's your complaint with the Huntress record, Adrien? I could see how you might find her voice irritating, but I don't know, I think it's a fun combination of traditional metal and blackened thrash.

Idea for poll thread that nobody will vote in: Better Accept album in 2012 – the actual Accept album, or the new 3 Inches of Blood?

The band is competent, but yikes the singing is shrill. Annoyingly so.

I haven't listened to the whole Huntress record yet, but so far I like her voice better than Davis's - she's much more technically accomplished and, to my ear, better suited to retro-metal material.

Couldn't disagree with you more there, Phil. I love what Davis does vocally, it's so unorthodox. Huntress singer does go for bombast like the style of music typically demands, and the effort is there, but vocally she's a total hack. The melodies are terrible and the frequency of her awful shriek is seizure-inducing.

I like both bands! It's okay to like both bands! The Huntress singer sounds like Doro after a nervous breakdown, which I like! Also, while they have elements of traditional metal, they definitely aren't retro metal. Too many modern elements in the mix.

Yeah, after listening to seven of the album's ten tracks, I'm definitely pro-Huntress. The music is a) more modern, and b) just played better and produced more crisply. As I said when we discussed the possibility of signing them, they're 3 Inches of Blood with tits, but her vocals are very impressive to me. She combines a gruffness that reminds me of Sabine Classen from Holy Ghost with genuinely powerful high notes, and I don't hear her shrieks as that frequent or shrill. They're just one tool in her kit.

This might be the best $10 show I've come across in recent memory:

Nachtmystium
Alcest
The Atlas Moth
Hull
Mutilation Rites
Bruce Lamont

I think all these bands will be in Texas for SXSW so they've scheduled a shindig in Dallas. Was happy to see Alcest & Hull (the original bill), but I'm not turning down the rest.

whoa! chicago explosion.

That is an astonishing amount of awesomeness for ten bucks.

Slight hitch: The booker doesn't know why the ticket agent doesn't have tickets for sale, and the ticket agent told me they have no idea this show exists. Slight hitch.

You're going to get there and it's going to be Better Than Ezra playing.

Hitch resolved. Booker was really nice, ticket agent oblivious. Tickets paid for.

Wow, Killing Joke is empty tonight. 100 people, maybe? At the absolute most?

Shame on those folks for taking the mighty Killing Joke for granted!

(seeing them FINALLY for the first time ever in a month, and am super-excited)

Where are you catching Killing Joke? Oh wait - you're going to Roadburn.

Maybe they were right. That's probably the weakest Killing Joke show I've ever been to, and I've been doing it for over 25 years (including the Outside The Gate years). More to follow, but a massive let-down.

hey all, profound lore sez -

CASTEVET Update
KRALLICE bassist/vocalist Nicholas McMaster has joined CASTEVET as their new bass player. The band also have a string of upcoming live dates which will mark the band's first appearance in Canada and an appearance at this year's Maryland Deathfest. Dates are as follows:

3/23 - w/ Aesahaettr, Ensorcelor + more @ Death Church (Montreal, QC Canada)
3/24 - w/ Aesahaettr, Ensorcelor, Sound Asleep & The Sustained Low ‘C’ of Richard Strauss “Also Sprach Zarathustra” @ Soybomb (Toronto, ON Canada)
3/25 - w/ Phantom Glue + more @ Radio (Boston, MA)
4/27 - w/ Inquisition & Villains @ Saint Vitus (Brooklyn, NY)
5/24 - Maryland Deathfest X @ Club Sonar (Baltimore, MD)

The band are also in the process of writing and rehearsing new material.

anyone know if mcmaster remains krallice's bass player as well?

(and what happened to castevet's old bass player? i like his playing a lot more than mcmaster's on 'diotima', though it may just be the nature of the songs that gives them different things to do.)