Rolling Metal Thread 2009

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.

That's because New Jersey SUCKS. (Just kidding, spent a lot of my time there when I was growing up. Where are they playing, PNC?) And I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of curious to see Whitesnake in 2009.

Also, Kylesa's two drummers still = 1/2 Brann Daillor.

Guys, thanks for the book reccs upthread. I just got the Deena Weinstein book in through my library and it looks perfect.

the new zu album is dope

Destruction posted this message today about tonight's cancelled show in Calgary...apparently they take muffins very, very seriously.

SORRY MATE BUT THIS "UNDERGROUND" CLUB HAS NO REAL PA & LIGHT RIG. WE TRIED TO TALK TO THE PROMOTER HE DIDN T GIVE A FUCK. YOU NEED AT LEAST SOMETHING THAT FEATURES/SUPPORTS THE VOCALS, OUR BACKLINE IS ALREADY 105 db. SO IT WASN T POSSIBLE TO PLAY,IT'S A BIG DISSAPOINTMENT CAUSE WE TRAVELED WITH A BROKEN TRAILER AND A FUCKED UP MUFFIN FOR TWO DAYS, TO PLAY THAT GIG. THIS SUCKS FOR US BIG TIME

A BROKEN TRAILER AND A FUCKED UP MUFFIN

This needs to be an album title.

>guys if we keep this up there wont be anyone left

That's so metal

thanks for your contribution!

Could some kind mod delete that idiocy? I don't mind idiocy, as long as it's on topic, but that just seems like trolling.

so i'm pretty psyched by the first half of the kylesa album. they seem to be doing the improve slightly with each album thing perfectly. i could hear a lot more cool two-drummer stuff on this one.

The new Unholy album is pretty great thrash-death. The guitar leads remind me of Rust In Peace-era Mustaine, both in terms of tone and speed/execution.

This needs to be an album title

Or a screen name.

Could some kind mod delete that idiocy? I don't mind idiocy, as long as it's on topic, but that just seems like trolling.

― Kickstart My Heartwork (J3ff T.), Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:42 PM (5 hours ago)

yep.

The Cobalt got delivered tonight, can't wait to dig into it.

Still loads and loads of metal to hear in 09, but the Cobalt is looking pretty darn unbeatable right now. It just keeps getting better the more I hear it.

Should I go see a midnight showing of black metal doc Until The Light Comes

I'm confused about Lacuna Coil... I've now heard this album called Manifesto Of. But the song Spellbound doesn't appear to be on it, and anyway I thought their new album was called Shallow Life? Anyone know what's going on, or what I'm listening to?

Nevermind, think I figured it out. It's a Greatest Hits something or other, I think.

I'm interviewing Cristina Scabbia tomorrow - anybody got any questions?

Can I mention hardcore albums I'm listening to here? Not exactly metal, but there's isn't another place for them...

(So far this year it would be the new Thursday album, "Common Existence," the Belle Epoque EP, "Wicked Ones and Thieves," and another New Brunswick screamo band, Let Me Run's new album "Meet Me At the Bottom.")

Speaking of hardcore, the new tracks by Reign Supreme (Philly band on Deathwish) sound really promising. And I'm extremely picky when it comes to hardcore.

http://www.deathwishinc.com/listennow/launch/55/

Should I go see a midnight showing of black metal doc Until The Light Comes

― 14 karat gold steen computer wizard (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, March 20, 2009 3:56 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

this was awesome btw

Philly + Hardcore = I'm totally there.

I'm finding the new Earth Crisis a little boring. Though I guess I kinda like that the lyrical content is more political than, say, Satanic.

This just in: Cristina Scabbia is a friendly and pleasant interview subject.

Yeah, I really enjoyed interviewing her a couple years ago. Very down to earth, nice person.

Oh, and the new Tyr is good, really good at times. A little top-heavy with more emphasis on the English more than on Land (I prefer it when they're singing in Norwegian and Faroese, their English lyrics can be goofy), the best track being the alliteratively-obsessed, pagan metal rave-up "Hold the Heathen Hammer High". Rousing little tune, that one.

I've been listening, rather repeatedly, to the two advance tracks from the upcoming Emperor live album. Oh man. It'll be the deluxe edition for me.

I'm also still pretty obsessed with this album Only Salvation by Artifact. Gothic death-metal via Gary Numan via Sisters of Mercy. You'll hate it if you can't get into the right mindset, but I think it's really impressive, and one of the catchiest dark metal(ish) albums I've heard in a really long time.

Oh, and I think I said a while back that I was still making up my mind about Saros' Acrid Plains. I've made up my mind. It's good. Not entirely coherent as an album, but coherence isn't everything. And this isn't entirely accurate, but I've started mentally thinking of them as Wolf Pups in the Throne Room.

The new Heaven and Hell album, The Devil You Know, has a great title but is merely good-not-great on a musical level. I don't want to chalk it up to age, but I can't otherwise account for the band's decision to record almost nothing but slow, doomy stompers this time out. Nine of ten songs are closer in spirit to "The Sign Of The Southern Cross" than to "Neon Knights" or "Turn Up The Night"; only "Eating The Cannibals" really lets it rip. And that was always what I liked about Dio-era Black Sabbath - they were a fast, hard-rocking metal band, able to hold their own with Judas Priest and other, younger acts back in 1980-81. This album has epic power, and Dio's voice is still there, but it almost never gets into high gear the way they used to.

Maybe it's time for a Gillan and Hell album...

Ian Gillan's got a new album coming out. It's not very good.

A little late on this, but count me in the camp of those enjoying the new Buried Inside.

Have any of you heard Distorted, and are they any good?

If you're talking about the Israeli death metal band that release Voices From Within last year, then yes I have (reviewed the for Phil). I thought they were alright, some potential but some of the gothier songs reminded me a little too much of Evanescance. But some of the middle-eastern influences that bled through were kinda cool. Isn't really my favorite mode of metal, but I've heard far worse.