Rolling Metal 2017

enjoying this blog featuring posts of plagiarism in metal cover art https://artplagiarism.wordpress.com/

features a mix of no-name bozos and p well known bands

Watching this Van Halen show from 1983 (remember when Van Halen counted as metal?) and trying to imagine the balls it takes to put the drum solo after the second song of your concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY3vt-48Zzk

track 3 of the new mesarthim has started and...um...holy shit

nothing that brad said up there is in any way misleading

I have bought every mesarthim release and I plan on keeping it up, excited to dive in

The new Obsessed album is a lot better/more interesting than I thought it would be. Wino runs pretty hot and cold for me; I loved Spirit Caravan, and the second and third Obsessed albums, but could easily live without ever hearing Place of Skulls, the Hidden Hand, or any of his solo albums ever again, especially not the acoustic ones. But this new Obsessed record is really good - he goes even more early '70s than before (Thin Lizzy and Mountain covers, a talkbox), without losing his essential biker-doom awesomeness. Highly recommended.

I, too, reviewed The Obsessed record. I also liked it.
It has a live Stinking Lizaveta review as well.

That plagiarism blog is amusing!

I'm digging this Tehom "The Merciless Light" CD on Blood Music (a label I'm starting to think of as relatively reliable). Very 1989-1991 sounding death metal, a lot of Morbid Angel (AoM/BaTS) riff influence, nice guitar tone, nothing new but fun. Also metal album #751 with a stylized occult anus on the cover.

http://i.imgur.com/OutrKhk.jpg?1

Also the dude from Exocytosis posted about this band on FB and they're kind of amazing, like NYC 80s scum rock, Jesus Lizard and King Crimson rolled into one. Not really metal but I dunno someone here might dig it and I couldn't think of where else to put it.

http://the-mass.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-fleet

Yeah, The Mass are great. I reviewed that album for The Wire.

Cool! Any idea if there was/is going to be a physical release?

new blood command album is out!!! it fuckin rips!!!!!! https://bloodcommand.bandcamp.com/album/cult-drugs

Playing the new Body Count now. There is some serious fucking shredding going on on this album.
― Don Van Gorp

Oh yeah, the Body Count album is out now. I'm gonna check that out today.
― jmm

I finally checked it out on Spotify and yeah, this is good. I wasn't expecting much for some reason as I recall only the debut being good and I haven't listened to that in years but this is really solid.

new Schammasch coming. last one continues to captivate, really a wonderful, excessive trip

https://schammasch.bandcamp.com/album/the-maldoror-chants-hermaphrodite

Nobody discussed it above but has anyone checked out the Nergal's Me And That Man project Songs of Love and Death?
It came out in January but the CD evidently had a US release date at the end of last month.
It's not metal but, with Behemoth's frontman, of obvious interest to metal fans.
It's also very, very good - Nick Cave meets Johnny Cash.

Nick Cave meets Johnny Cash

Exactly why I deleted the promo unheard.

My what a rebel.

I've never liked Nick Cave. And the whole "metal dude gets old, goes 'dark country'" thing is...not for me.

Fair enough. I love both Nick Cave and Johnny Cash and I think he did it well.

New Full Of Hell.
24 minutes of Hell.
Love this band!

what i've heard from the full of hell record sounded incredible

This is pretty nice, not a million miles away from the LLNN record but less core more black

http://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/mind-mold

Bolt Thrower finally kinda clicked for me this morning; turns out they make excellent laundry-folding music.

There's a version of Metallica's Death Magnetic making the rounds that's supposedly "de-loudness-war-ized":

foobar2000 1.3.5 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-04-30 06:19:00

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Analyzed: Metallica / Death Magnetic Unloaded
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR9 -0.03 dB -10.82 dB 7:08 01-That Was Just Your Life
DR9 -0.46 dB -10.81 dB 7:52 02-The End Of The Line
DR8 -0.19 dB -11.06 dB 6:24 03-Broken, Beat & Scarred
DR10 -0.52 dB -11.78 dB 7:54 04-The Day That Never Comes
DR8 0.00 dB -8.96 dB 7:58 05-All Nightmare Long
DR9 -0.89 dB -10.73 dB 6:39 06-Cyanide
DR10 -0.14 dB -12.71 dB 7:46 07-The Unforgiven III
DR9 -0.63 dB -11.25 dB 8:01 08-The Judas Kiss
DR9 -0.15 dB -10.85 dB 9:56 09-Suicide & Redemption
DR9 0.00 dB -9.86 dB 4:59 10-My Apocalypse
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR9

I'm listening to it now, and honestly, I can't hear any major differences between this, the officially released CD, and the Guitar Hero version that leaked around the time the album first came out. But maybe my ears are just too cooked to register the subtleties.

誤訳侮辱, do you use any kind of a DAC when you're listening? I am totally not an audiophile but the difference in EVERYTHING I listen to since I started putting a DAC in line is night and day.

No, I just plug headphones into my laptop. But they're decent headphones - Sony MDR-ZX600s, not earbuds or anything.

Cool, yeah like I say I'm not an audiophile, but since I started using a USB DAC I hear so much more than I used to -- when I was auditing mixes of my own new stuff, it was really pronounced, like I could not variations that if I a/b'd w/o the DAC in-line the difference was "that seems fine" (w/o DAC) vs. "dial that effect back about 50%" (with). I'm also using Sonys. My right ear is pretty fried but I'm always preaching the gospel of the Microstreamer DAC because it really 3d'd a lot of shit for me, especially metal

And this will help even on only average-quality files? Cause the vast majority of what I listen to is either 320kbps MP3s or 256kbps AACs; I'm not a FLAC/AIFF/WAV guy at all.

that's what I listen to unless it's something of my own that I'm mixing/evaluating.. don't have room for bigger files otherwise. seriously from the first measure of anything you listen to, especially if it's something you're familiar with...night & day.

Ordered it this morning. Thanks!

But they're decent headphones - Sony MDR-ZX600s, not earbuds or anything.

http://scontent.fewr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18221744_10158627727120597_8276973726021520126_n.jpg?oh=ddfe482cbc250a3273dc36c69d77133a&oe=597B0128

lol I had the wrong model. I use MDR-7506, which is what p much every engineer I know mixes with - very neutral and unglamorous, just the way I like em. They cost me 80 bucks and you can basically back over em with a truck.

hope you love the microstreamer like I do, it has added so much to my listening

oh but I came to this thread to say NEW CONTRARIAN HELL YES

https://contrarianmetal.bandcamp.com/album/to-perceive-is-to-suffer

I assume you can get them cheaper than this?

Uh, yeah; the last time I got 'em from Amazon, they were $59, and the most I've ever paid for a pair (I've bought several, since my wife and I both use them) was about $75.

I should note that when I bought the Microstreamer this morning, I also bought this fine item (hope the image isn't board-destroyingly huge):

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61LCygmnxJL._UX679_.jpg

Listening to the debut - fuck it, I'm calling it the only - CD by Dead Cross, a "hardcore" band formed by Mike Patton, Dave Lombardo, Justin Pearson of the Locust and Mike Crain of Retox. It...sucks. Patton doing his funny voices schtick, with some additional Jello Biafra imitation thrown in (not DKs-era Biafra, but latter-day Biafra), Lombardo playing way below his usual standard (and not mixed to sound anything like himself), and the other two playing generic early-00s needles-in-your-ears noisecore riffs. Complete fucking garbage. Can't wait for Whiney's rapturous review in Rolling Stone.

i forgot to mention i saw Astronoid live and they were incredible and now i think literally every band should do that processed harmony vocals thing.

Ghost Bath were boring, but maybe i was in the wrong space for 'em.

File under "not metal but metal people like them," the new Oxbow is brilliant (and likely the least metallic thing the band has done).

Yeah, it's fantastic, and if you can get a copy of the accompanying hardcover book they're selling, do it. The band members take turns interviewing each other about the production process, there are a bunch of great photos, and a ton of other stuff.

lol I had the wrong model. I use MDR-7506, which is what p much every engineer I know mixes with - very neutral and unglamorous, just the way I like em. They cost me 80 bucks and you can basically back over em with a truck.

The venerable Sony 7506, a great headphone, impressive that after 30 years it's still relevant. I had the precurser, MDR-V6 for over 15 years. When it finally wore out, I went on Head-Fi to research what was new, and got drawn into the hobby in 2006. I've written about some of the ones I've tried over the years, like the beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro, which you can get now for just over $100. beyerdynamic has an even more impressive long run, the DT48 was in production for over 75 years! I currently use the open DT 1990 Pro at home. A couple weeks ago I went to AXPONA (Audio Expo North America) to hear the latest of the crazy expensive gear, like speaker systems that cost over $60K and the $50K HiFiMAN Shangri-La electrostatic headphone, which I was actually not that impressed with. One that I was impressed with for it's value was the new Meze 99 Neo, which ships in a week or so. It's $249, about $60 less than the Classic which featured wood cups.

With decent headphones, a DAC really does make a difference, even with streaming and MP3s, and there has been some improvement in the chips made in the past few years. Here's some good values: iFi Nano, Schiit Fulla 2 and AudioQuest Dragonfly.

More here - Recommend a pair of headphones for me

Nokturnal Mortum just announced that the new album drops Monday. Should be on their bandcamp then.

https://nokturnalmortum1.bandcamp.com/

Everyone who orders it wil be hacked by Russians.

No really, great news. No idea what to expect in terms of quality, it's been ten years since their last album.

surely they loathe + detest russians

stoked anyway

They're NSBM, they hate everyone

They're not NSBM anymore, supposedly.

Yeah this was made clear by their song "Adolf Doesn't Want Me for a Blitzkrieg"

new album is mixed and mastered by Greg Chandler btw

and it's up