Rolling Metal Thread 2013

Just because – http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/dave-mustaine-or-billy-corgan-who%E2%80%99s-crazier/

Oh man, that's being unfair to wrestling. I mean, Rick Rubin was a stakeholder in Smoky Mountain back in the '90s but no one thinks he's crazy, do they?

I interviewed Eugene Robinson for Burning Ambulance.

Thought you meant

http://i50.tinypic.com/2q37jbc.jpg

Which would've been cool but probably not thread-relevant.

Ha, I made that clear in the first sentence, actually: "Eugene S. Robinson (the S. is to distinguish him from the political pundit)"

Speaking of grind, I'm liking this new Blockheads record well enough. The cover art is pretty awesome, really devastating picture that fits well with the lyrics.

Just picked up those Pagan Altar reissues over lunch. I kinda don't like that Shadow Kingdom is only PayPal or Money Order. My PayPal account got jacked up years ago thanks to a mistake by my bank and every time I've tried to start reusing it, its been a huge pain in the ass.

The new rolling grind thread is here for side discussion among interested parties.

Don't want to be all AG about it, but the metal poll ends tomorrow night – get in your votes! 2012 NON-ELITIST ILM METAL POLL VOTING THREAD (Closes Jan 11th 2013 11:59pm Britishes Time)

Hey, so one of the previews for the film "Zero Dark Thirty" is set to a soundtrack that features the beginning of Scala & Kolacny Brothers ' goth-ethereal take on Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" that segues into an absolutely crushing instrumental, monster guitar tone, much heavier than the full electric bit at the end of Metallica's own studio version. It's not on the (score) soundtrack. Any of you bright folks know anything about this, and how I might be able to (pay to) score a copy, so I can listen to it on repeat for a solid hour?

I suppose Kurt Ballou recorded/produced records are high on my 2013 anticipated list by default since I've come to seek out just about anything he works on. His 2013 slate so far, that I have been able to determine:

Nails
Skeletonwitch
Kvelertak
Nice Hooves
All Pigs Must Die
Baptists
Phantom Glue

I've heard tracks from Baptists, Nice Hooves and Phantom Glue so far -- all sound great.

Oh yeah, I heard the Baptists record yesterday and it rages. Sounds a lot like Converge when they play fast - that's probably Ballou's touch right there.

Got a press release for the new Ill Bill album. This hip hop release is relevant for the metal thread for three reasons:

1) The disc features HR of Bad Brains on a track.
2) The second song on the album is called "Paul Baloff" after the late Exodus singer.
3) He used to be in Non Phixion whose logo aped Voivod's nicely.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/20019593/Non+Phixion+NonPhixion.gif

I am hoping the album is loud and guitars and/or guitar samples are utilized in some way but I'm (still) a sucker for that.

The first track from Corrections House, "Hoax The System", is pretty great. Good enough that I'll try and catch them next month when they come to town.

http://youtu.be/RFrr4uXDihM

i've been enjoying this abnormality album from 2012 - i wish i had had more time to spend with it before balloting days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqTZWpq8M0k

very groovy tech-death (but not very finicky), it seems

very groovy tech-death (but not very finicky)

did somebody call my name

aw hell yeah this rules

hey guys Kim has an article in the torygraph!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9807985/Queens-of-noise-heavy-metal-music-encourages-heavy-hitting-women.html

Thanks for posting that, pfunkboy! I'm really pleased with it (and especially chuffed to have gotten bands like Derketa and Repulsion mentioned in the "Torygraph," hehe).

It sure came as a surprise when Nate posted it!

best thing about it is theres no guardian comments

great piece!

i need to hear Eight Bells as I loved SubArachnoid Space.
Also yay noothgrush!

Eight Bells has a new tune up on bandcamp. It's pretty great.

http://eightbells.bandcamp.com/

best 2013 album I have heard this year is Fen - Dustwalker
http://www.auralwebstore.com/store/product.php?id_product=569

Pre-orders got sent out early and i got mine on like the 3rd

its on spotify

trying to persuade mordy its from 2013

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9807985/Queens-of-noise-heavy-metal-music-encourages-heavy-hitting-women.html

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper)

What I really took away from that was that "Ozzy Osbourne is the face of heavy metal to many." LOL.

to bill magill its sharon

new Darkthrone track is Mercyful Fate worship. I worship Mercyful Fate, so I'm 100% down w/this

http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=88153

I've lost count how many times I've played that Darkthrone track. It is glorious.

Wow I wasn't expecting that vocal intro!

i love darkthrone so much right now and also before this and also probably forever

For the person who was asking about that zero dark 30 Metallica cover: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=SABPBly90Nk&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DSABPBly90Nk

new Darkthrone track is Mercyful Fate worship

Holy shit. Could've called this Isengard, actually, but it fucking rules.

I guess it's not folky at akk, but the clean singing kind of takes me back.

all not akk sorry will stop posting now

thanks for the heads up about the new Fen, Goalkeeper. love them and so far the new one sounds good.

the darkthrone makes me wish i had a kid to raise badly

thats good to hear beard papa!

That track is awesome! I'm super excited for the new Darkthrone!

saw Repulsion last night in Philadelphia, which is an almost unbelievable thing to by typing. They fucking kicked so much ass. I did not make it to the end of the night so I didn't see Converge, I suck at life, but I did see Repulsion play a literally perfect set so whatever

to *be* typing

did you meet jeff?

I have to wait til May to see Repulsion but I've got my ticket already, not missing that one.

youve met jeff though, mark. Much better.

Saw Kowloon Walled City last night at their album release show in SF, it was SOLD OUT. They played like gods! they were crushing! they pretty much played the whole new record

New KEN mode steaming on their badcamp..

http://kenmode.bandcamp.com/track/counter-culture-complex

hey susan whats the offer your band got?

i bet ozzfest is back and you have to pay $100000000000 to open the 9th stage at 6am

That should be epic. I had too much epic last night - Cleric, Pinkish Black, Kill the Client and Eyehategod. Even with decent plugs my ears are tired as shit today.

In the Suffo vid for "As Grace Descends," at 2:30 the whole room does the chop, whatever we're calling it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp1YSf_5mr8

That video would've been better if it were just the performance footage; everyone is having a freaking blast.

Oh, this is rich. If you google "Frank Mullen," the first auto-complete suggestion is "hand chop," there's a Facebook page for it ("That thing Frank Mullen does with his hand"), and an Urban Dictionary entry ("the blast hand"). I also see something about "death metal spirit fingers," the best of all.

Also Pyrexia's Sermon of Mockery album is a thing of twisted beauty, right at that last stop between brutality and inscrutability. Everything afterward indeed did go into the knuckle-dragger direction and pales in comparison, but that album is something special. It's like a death metal Transilvanian Hunger, utterly pure and monomaniacal with the kind of atmosphere death metal usually isn't known for.

Terrorizer Albums of 2013
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Technogoat/terrorizer_albums_of_2013/

Carcass @ Number 1

suspect the placing of Cultes des Ghoules there is almost/entirely down to my vote. drunk on power right now tbh

I'm not on Twitter so I'll put this here: great lists from Basement Galaxy! I agree with lots of the choices but I'm even more impressed by the amount of writing. Beats the EOY output of many magazines.

Neurosis, Bla'st, YOB and The Body at the Regency Ballroom, SF.. I've never been to this place, and I might not go back-the sound is not that great. Maybe an old system, or shotty sound guys, but there were a lot of crackles and noise and other sounds not of the musical type...

But besides that it was rad show!. The Body had an additional drummer, and that guitar player did his normal thing of just super low end, why even bother fretting any chords type thing.

YOB was fucking amazing. a great set, smartly put together for maximum crushing heavy impact.

Bla'st could've stayed non-active.. No, thats not nice, but they didn't do anything for me, but I wasn't ever a fan of that era hardcore. But they did get the crowd moving, and a lot of people were stoked that they were on the bill..

Neurosis opened with Locust Star, and I lost my shit! For an hour and 15 they just slayed.. It was my first time seeing em without the screen behind em, and I didn't miss it one bit. It does allow them to not be locked into a certain set from night to night, so I'm sure thats fun for them. I usually watch them from a balcony or the back of a hall, for sound reasons, but since the sound was sub-par, I decided to get in the very front. Pretty intense. Not as intense as I've seen them before, but they still bring it. Dave Ed broke a bass string at the end of one of the tunes, which allowed for an extra freakout noise session from him which was rad to see a moment happen a noises that you would hear otherwise-something subtle I guess, but i thought it was cool... A really, really good show!

So cool you could see that Sean! I was bummed to miss those gigs, especially the OC show with Helen Money opening.

Best time I ever saw Neurosis remains the Word as Law tour. Their films were very new at that point. Seeing them without the films is interesting, but not sure it works that well at venues that large. Not much to look at...

I'm such a gear geek, Nate, that I never have a shortage of things to look at-always trying to figure out what cats are using..

*Resisting urge to post a death metal fat cat video*

Thanks, jmm. I used all my previously published reviews because I had no time to write new blurbs. That sure came in handy.

New Year's resolutions, metal style! http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/new-years-metalutions/

Rolling Metal Thread 2014

my top 10 of 2013