Rolling Metal Thread 2013

yeah, the suffocation guy is hilarious for sure. like if your goofy uncle happened to front a killer death metal band.

I'll third "always see Suffocation when they're in town." just a blast

I'm listening to Hooded Priest's 2011 album a lot lately. fucking awesome doom band.

Seeing Neurosis, Bla'st, YOB and The Body tonight in SF.. so stoked!!

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