None of the stuff is outrageous, but highest prices I've seen at a Dallas show thus far (not counting Tori Amos - I didn't check but assume hers were higher).
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
anyone hear the new aura noir yet? always like those guys.
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hey guys, since we have Absu, Abzu and Apsu, what are the odds 2013's Absu album will be called Abba-Zaba-Zu. Please let this happen.
― benernienie taumaupin (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think it's just going to be called "Abs".
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 11:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
didn't know there was one! love them, always good
― plastic surgery dizbusters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Got the new Job for a Cowboy in my inbox yesterday. So far, sounds good.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, I think the new aura noir officially drops this week! read a little article in decibel about the recording and they've supposedly never spent nearly as long writing an album and writing together as a band. bodes well, I'm sure. plus, hades rise was so killer. a real high water mark in their catalog.
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
x-post, obv
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yup, new aura noir is good. Not too familiar with their back catalog, but I know quality when I hear it.
Unfortunately, the new Lullacry doesn't have it. Which is too bad, because I loved their last two records.
― NWOBHamster (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
lots of love for black thrash attack and hades rise but it's all good
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
New metal album roundup I wrote (10 albums from 2012; 5 from 2011 that I didn't hear until this year, including at least one that I probably had no right to call "metal"):
http://www.rhapsody.com/blog/2012/03/metal
Favorite metal album of 2012 so far (not rounded up yet): Thunderkraft's Totentanz.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
nice write-ups xhuxk. Happy to see you back exploring the heavier side of things and finding stuff worth your time.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
i didn't know there was a new freedom hawk! shows how behind i am with my aquarius new release emails.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
I liked about half the songs on the new Lullacry, but it's definitely going to have a hard time competing for listening time against Christian Mistress, Nightwish, Ideas, Lyriel, Xandria, Liv Moon, Diabulus in Musica, Epica, L'Ame Immortelle and Lunar Path.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 02:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow this is a fun blog. Calling JD to the thread.
http://metal2thebone.blogspot.com/
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 09:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just got a promo of the new Pelican EP, hope to be reviewing it soon. Any thoughts?
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Give me two seconds to listen to it, geez.
― NWOBHamster (J3ff T.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
that every time i die record is great
/rolling metalcore
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
On the same note as Nate's link (although I think this guy has permission to put this stuff up), here's a bandcamp site with links to obscure Irish metal albums from the mid-80s to today: http://irish-metal.bandcamp.com/
― NWOBHamster (J3ff T.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, I was pretty excited for about the first 8 measures of the Black Breath record. But I didn't make it through the whole thing. I'm totally down with the vocal-as-drum explanation of non-melodic voices in metal. But I don't want to hear someone hitting the same drum over and over, without varying tempo or articulation, whether it's a metaphorical drum or an actual one.
Meanwhile, I really can't stop listening to this new Lyriel album Leverage. On some level it's wildly less impressive than the new Nightwish, of course, but for me it's 80% as gripping on 5% of the artifice, which is proportionally more surprising and maybe even more interesting.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 23 March 2012 02:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
you're trippin Glenn.. that new Black breath owns.. its kinda the same record as the previous one, a couple of different things here and there but its awesome imo... I don't want the vox to sound any other way than they dude.. Dudes voice is great, very powerful
― SeanWayne, Friday, 23 March 2012 04:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
actually.. there are some cool surprises.. On my second listen I realized there are asome pretty cool guitar breaks, melodies and solos that were not the norm on the last offering..
― SeanWayne, Friday, 23 March 2012 05:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
another thumbs up for the new Aura Noir here
― Cantera: Vulgar Display Of Puyol (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just got a press release that The Sword are signing with Razor & Tie... Does this mean hipsters no longer like metal?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 26 March 2012 16:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
:/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 04:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Really liking Monnos, the debut full-length of Liverpool stoner/doom warriors Conan. The guitar tone is nice and fat, but the really joy for me is the drumming. Also, love the cover:
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
these guys own and the drummer is completely great to watch
like he has that performative sense of drama that drummers (or whoever) do when they play v slowly/sparsely, but he's not wacky with it
― Cantera: Vulgar Display Of Puyol (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 18:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
going to have to check them out sometime.
picked up the new Angel Witch and 3 Inches of Blood albums over lunch, anxious to dig in
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Will I see any of you at the Profound Lore showcase in Pomona this Saturday?
http://scionav.com/event/250/YOB,-The-Atlas-Moth,-Loss,-Wolvhammer,-Pallbearer
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
What a lineup. If I was anywhere near California I would be there in a heartbeat. Convince 'em all to swing by Chicago.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 19:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
new meshuggah is fun
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 20:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm liking the new(ly released) Líam album MMIX, but I kind of don't want to go check to see if it's actually just a relabeling of one of the Mono albums I haven't played in a while.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 29 March 2012 02:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I heard High On Fire's De Vermis Mysteriis and it's excellent. I listened to all five of the previous albums to see where it fits amongst it all, but I'm a bit wobbly now. So much rock, so much growling. I can't even tell from right and wrong.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not heard it yet but that's the first positive report i've heard of it.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's streaming at NPR. Made it three songs in and decided it was fine, but I don't need more High On Fire in the same way I don't need more Motörhead. I'd just listen to it a few times and shelve it forever. If I want High On Fire I'll pull out Surrounded By Thieves or Blessed Black Wings.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty much what everyone said except they included the 1st (and best) album too
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
death is this communion is really good though
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
or whatever it was called
I don't like the first record much.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
you always were a contrary bugger ;)
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm really digging the Astra record that came out recently, The Black Chord. More spacey/proggy than heavy, but it mines that early 70s proto-metal vibe pretty well.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
not heard that yet either but again a lot say its not as good as the wierding. but im damn well looking forward to hearing it
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
i prefer to trust my own judgement i guess. Tho if people really hate something it can influence me to avoid it.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Based on this record I need to go back and hear The Weirding. Somehow missed it.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
got pallbearer cd in btw along with a couple of mournful congregation cds. Glorious doom
xp
you're in for a treat. I played a track in outloud once, im sure you were there.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think the new Astra's a step up from The Weirding. They're always derivative, but I still thoroughly enjoy their stuff.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Listened to the first High On Fire the other day for the first time in years. It really does sound like a whole different band, but some of my favorite of their songs are on there ("10,000 Years" in particular).
In other news, I have a copy of the upcoming Gojira album and you don't.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
10,000 years is my alltime fave
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Interested to hear what you think of the Gojira album, Phil. It's been a very long time coming obviously.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's really good. They haven't changed their style much - they're still Gojira - but the more young, idea-less djent bands I listen to, the more brilliant these guys sound. Plus, the first song is one of the great album-opening tracks of all time. Seriously crushing.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink