Rolling Metal Thread 2009

" www.myspace.com/graveinthesky

love how specific they are too (!!):"

Any metal band that cites Flux Information Sciences as an influence definitely gets my attention. That Flux record was produced by Gira for Young God records and is sadly overlooked (and quite excellent). The live show was even more crushing. Too bad only about 10 other people in Portland were there to enjoy it...

After all the Amesoeurs talk up thread - and my excitement after the EP and the stunning Alcest album - I got a chance to hear the self-titled new album and my reaction is pretty meh. All over the place; purist black metal a couple of times, one very Joy Division influenced track, a bunch of other chanteuse-y tracks that are almost a French Lush and one that appears to be trying to blend Blondie and Curve. Unlike Ruines Humaines, it sounds like different bands on different tracks; all together a little slapdash. I'll try again - I really like Neige's prior works - and I hope it gels.

I think it's more cohesive than that, but yeah, you do get two or three indie-oriented tracks ("Video Girl"), and the one straight BM track sticks out a bit. Neige's guitar work and the girl's 4AD style vocals cinch it for me, though, I'm a total sucker for that stuff.

I think "La Reine Trayeuse" perfectly encapsulates what they're trying to achieve on this record...

Wow. That Static-X is just not good at all.

what a surprise!!

i have been awaiting this new amesoeurs for what seems like forever ( 2 years anyways) and what i have heard so far has not disappointed. i just hope it does well enough that they follow it up with at least one more. although i was getting used to the idea that all i was ever gonna get from them was the ep and the split single.

i just hope it does well enough that they follow it up with at least one more.

The little coded message in the title of track 6 might indicate otherwise...

in other words they already split up

SPOILER

ya i had read they broke up but so had the pixies and numerous other bands. you just never know :)

I had no idea...it was only today when I did a little searching that I learned of their almost comical girl-related squabble.

so apparently judas priest is going to be playing at our local free summer festival a few blocks from my house on july third.

good omens for summer

>Short version I don't think people who like Loveless should be allowed to make metal

Should be a fuckin amendment to every countries' constitution.

I saw Mötley Crüe at MSG last night.

^
Mick Mars is 65? I knew the guy was older when Crue started, but yikes.

Anyway, as for new tunes, I'm really impressed by the new album from Hull. Hull the band, not Hull, Quebec or Hull, England. Best signing by The End since Made Out of Babies...

http://www.myspace.com/hull

I don't think people who like Loveless should be allowed to make metal music.

If people who like Loveless shouldn't be allowed to make metal, then I'm sure people who like Drastus shouldn't be allowed to make plaintive acoustic indie music.

and guys with poodle haircuts shouldnt be allowed to make any form of music

guys if we keep this up there wont be anyone left

People who like music shouldn't make music.

I'm okay with that.

I adore Loveless, and what is this 'music' you speak of.

RIP music

it had a good run

heaven needed something to have annoying conversations about

We're done here. Lock board.

But wait--

Announcing: the rebirth of Music!

I have never had much use for Kylesa, but I really like what I've heard from their new album. I get really strong Fugazi vibes from several songs, and a few times there's almost a stoney Grails vibe to some of the lead guitar work.

...and the guy's voice doesn't annoy me like it used to.

i found their earlier stuff reasonably enjoyable, but that's a great endorsement.

gaK! blah, why'd ya have to go and mention fugazi in the same breath as a great band like kylesa.

people who like fugazi should be loveless.

i like mbv,kylesa and fugazi.

Murderer.

Groups who are influenced by Fugazi are more enjoyable to me than Fugazi themselves. I can't handle their off-key singing any more. I'm on board with the Loveless hate, though.

All this Loveless hatred explains why I've really been enjoying Rolling Metal Thread.

You Loveless haters are all nuts. Nuts, I tells ya.

Metal or 'metal' groups who are influenced by Fugazi Loveless are more enjoyable to me than Fugazi Loveless themselves itself.

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Actually, Sundar OTM, come to think of it.

Groups who are influenced by Fugazi are more enjoyable to me than Fugazi themselves

Not sure about that (don't think I have much use for either Fugazi or their disciples, in other words), but it's what I always thought about Frank Zappa -- hence, my love for MX-80 Sound, Tin Huey, the Tubes, Plastic People of the Universe, and stuff like that.

i enjoy actual frank zappa music more now than i thought i ever would. i can't imagine this ever being true of fugazi. but, honestly, i just blame that horrible 2nd vocalist dude. i can't listen to him at all. whereas ian is one of my favorite singers of all time. which just makes that band MORE painful to listen to. such a waste.

oh, but i AM a my bloody valentine fan. i don't need that much MBV in my metal though. a little goes a long way. and it really depends on how people use "the gaze". as i was mentioning earlier about nadja.

CHUCK, have you heard the new Giant Brain album yet?

i started a thread on it, but nobody on ilx has heard it yet.

OMG! I Can't Stop Listening To The New GIANT BRAIN Album!

cuz you would dig it. i think.

xp I could imagine dogs howling in pain at Ian's attempts at singing in Fugazi, too. He's a great yeller, though.

Not at all sure about the upcoming Judas Priest U.S. tour. Not only will they be performing British Steel in its entirety as part of their set, but the opening band (the only one announced so far, anyway) is Whitesnake. WTF?

Yeah, that doesn't seem right, even though folks have been saying that the last Whitesnake album was a decent return to form. Maybe they think they'll get better attendance numbers by pandering to the summer classic rawk geezer crowd.

They are playing smaller venues, though, which will be cool. Doing the same place in Los Angeles that Iron Maiden played on their Dance of Death tour (in fact, that was the show where Bruce fell off the riser onto the drum set). I'm totally going to this.

Also agree with all the positive pixels spilled about the new Kylesa. They've really come a long way since boring the hell out of me opening for High on Fire in 2005.

i just told my friend clay about that priest/whitesnake tour and he's freaking out.

it is basically as if they called him in advance to plan this.

>They are playing smaller venues, though, which will be cool.

Here in NJ they're playing the same outdoor amphitheatre they played with Testament, Motörhead and Heaven & Hell.