Rolling Metal Thread 2009

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The greatest album ever and the inspiration for Lighting Bolt.

Primus Rib

Lamb of God

Meatallica. *hides*

Ha ha.

Codflesh

But not Quorn.

Been looking at the Utech Records catalog lately: http://www.utechrecords.com/Releases.html

Thinking about ordering the Plotkin, Nadja and Final releases. Has anyone here heard them? Thoughts, comments? A bit pricy at $14 apiece, are they worth it?

Buy them all. Then buy the William Fowler Collins album - Perdition Hill Radio - that I can't stop playing (on Type Records). Deep dark one man guitar drone that even a troo black metal warrior could love.

But Scott, I am not a troo black metal warrior, I am a metal crossover fan from the shoegaze/psych/drone school of thought... :(

DEATH TO FALSE METALLERS

last night i discovered that some poor unfortunate metal dude had donated his collection to the salvation army.

there is something totally surreal about buying dodheimsgard, cancer, candlemass, and king diamond cds from the salvation army racks.

uh surreal and AWESOME, esp since in desperation to get the foulness out of the store they 99 cents each.

speaking of which, do I go back for the late period Annihilator stuff they had, or does that stuff suck (the band photos looked dangerously nu-metalish, so i held off)?

buy everything!

The only Utech release I have is the Runhild Gammelsaeter one. It's great. If you know any small children, you should play it for them right before they go to sleep at night.

I am listening to the new Flipper studio album. It's not metal but it's awesome. They've also got a live album coming out the same day (about two weeks from now, I think); I haven't listened to that one yet.

So far the big out of the blue winner out of the bunch is The Pain Tears by Pentacrostic which i had never even heard of. its kind of awesome. xpost

Nice haul jjj, I never find anything but Mantovani and Streisand in my local thrift stores.

yeah this is kind of out of the norm, im normally just in there to keep building my collection of persuasive percussion/faux-ethnic/big new sounds of stereo vinyl.

btw, anyone gone to this years paganfest? show is here tomorrow, wondering if i should continue to be all bent out of shape because of Eluveitie getting pulled, or just shut up and enjoy it.

Wow, what a secondhand score, congrats.

btw, anyone gone to this years paganfest? show is here tomorrow, wondering if i should continue to be all bent out of shape because of Eluveitie getting pulled, or just shut up and enjoy it.

I'm going on Monday. Very excited for this lineup, even though the Eluveitie/Swashbuckle trade-off wasn't exactly the best thing to happen. Still, though, Primordial, Moonsorrow, Korpiklaani...going to be a very fun show, I'm sure.

New Flipper? Cool news, thanks!

I finally heard that Hail of Bullets album. Whoa!!!

whoa - new flipper (!!!)

been meaning to pickup the vinyl reissues too. nice to see their catalog out there.

My post about Stonerrock.coms top 28 albums of 2008 list as voted by members of stonerrock.com (including my list)

ok so capsule review of paganfest:

swashbuckle: not at all what i expected, pretty much straight thrash done by dudes in pirate attire, occasional pirate moments of brilliance, #1 of which was "we are back for attack, we are bringing scurvy back"
blackguard: meh
moonsorrow: so fucking good i cant even put it into words, best of the night for sure
primordial: probably would have been awesome on a different night, kind of a sore thumb within the whole paganfest deal
korpiklaani: pretty great, lots of fun, super nice dudes, def worth seeing - still srsly moonsorrow should have been the long set headliner (tbf violinist and accordian dude were arrgh totally buried in the mix.)

overall: not nearly as good as last year, but still well worth going to.

Gojira is on monday, so the live frenzy continues. hooray for summer (spring)! oh and (soon) mayhem/marduk and wolves in the throne room too. great year for MN metal fun!

crowd for koriklaani was the happiest and cuddliest metal crowd ever, btw, and happy little boozer live singalong was led by the 9 year old kid of the promoter who was throwing horns and totally awesome throughout, which warmed many a black heart in the crowd.

Pagan metal shows are so joyous and nerdy...total, unabashed fun. As much as I love going to other metal shows, I'm so sick of the thugs and idiot kids. At shows like Paganfest and Amon Amarth, even though you get people in the crowd who are really devout in their pagan beliefs, plastic sword-wielding kids who dress like it's a comic book convention, and your average gas jockey metalheads, there's a camaraderie, respect, and sense of jubilance at those shows I just didn't sense at, say, Lamb of God or Mastodon last month.

Needless to say, I can't wait for Monday.

Last night I saw YOB play a secret show for the High School Metal appreciation club at Westview High in Hillsboro, OR; one of the more surreal and gorgeous concert experiences I've had the pleasure to witness. It was me, a couple of teachers, and about a hundred kids with Beaverton school district i.d's witnessing some of the heaviest cosmic doom ever written. At least a few young lives were changed.

wow, that's amazing.

at my high school we got a bunch of old farts playing santana and kenny loggins covers as a treat.

This guy shot some nice pictures of the show. http://www.flickr.com/photos/afrojet/sets/72157617826648497/

that's awesome.

rigor sardonicus played at my high school!

Just back from ATP and fucking SLEEP. Wow. First night was Holy Mountain in the 'right' order with some of the more experimental sections of Dopesmoker and a 'new' track (Not Against Art? Apparently it was something they were working on in their last rehearsals.), second night was more mixed up in order and was a lot better. Al hinted at the end that this maybe wasn't the "one-off exclusive never to be repeated" that it was billed as, which is good because they were having SO much fun on stage it clearly wasn't just for the money or whatever.

Other metal thread type bands:

Jesus Lizard killed. The first show was better, far more chaotic, though the band were tighter second show. It's like they never split up.
Grails were disappointing, I thought. I like the records but the live show just didn't hang together - they barely got grooves going, and when they did they dropped them far too quickly. Reincarnation Blues, for example, clocked in at under 2 minutes.
Harvey Milk were fucking great, a lot of older material in the set and played as trio.
Jesu were good, although the Conqueror material (which was most of the set) just isn't as good as the Heart-ache/self titled stuff. Massive full sound though.
Electric Wizard SLAYED. Disappointingly small crowd, and the first half wasn't nearly loud enough, but the last half hour was awesome.
Lords are the boogie mclusky. This is not a bad thing.
Killing Joke more than made up for the disappointment of the Forum show last year, by mixing the set up a bit (although I have no idea why anyone alive would think including My Love Of This Land off the universally reviled Outside The Gate was a good plan) and the atmosphere was much improved by having a normal gig going crowd and not a pile of pricks running around like they own the band and you can't have fun unless they say so.

I'm seeing Jesus Lizard/Harvey Milk/Grails in a few hours, have high hopes.

Impossible not to enjoy.

trying to decide whether to go see gojira tonight or save some money and listen to all the stuff i havent caught up on recently

So I'm delivering a paper next week that heavily features Jamie Saft's new heavy metal album. Wish me luck!

cool. you gonna blog it?

The paper? I'll post it up somewhere after I deliver it.

You'll do a great job on what is a godawful album (if that one track u sent me is any indication). Break a leg!

:'(

oh btw scott followed your advice and bought the annihilator stuff - LOVE IT - although the album cover for criteria for a black widow is sort of stunningly lol awful.

I would invest in Gojira and a pair of earplugs, JJJ.

SO excited for Opeth/Enslaved tomorrow!

And tonight, if you're in Boise, ID--you can see Wolves in the Throneroom open for Opeth & Enslaved.

Paganfest was so much fun. Moonsorrow was great (especially "Jotunheim"), Korpiklaani brought the house down, but Primordial was AWESOME. What a frontman Nemtheanga is, and whatta voice.

I suspect it's because Primordial *are* awesome.

On record, we are all aware of the awesomeness of Primordial, but I wasn't quite expecting that awesomeness level to be raised as high in a live setting as it turned out to be. Exhilarating night of metal.

Oh, and Blackguard was cool, I've been into them since the Profugus Mortis days. Though I think I prefer them more with the violin instead of the synths they have now.

Al hinted at the end that this maybe wasn't the "one-off exclusive never to be repeated" that it was billed as

Pretty sure some minds'll be blown with amazement if this turns out to be the case haha. The half hour of Sleep I saw on Sunday was hueg but I had to get a lift home. I was a free ticket fukk tho so no complaints.

Lords are the boogie mclusky. This is not a bad thing.

Not sure Lords would share your view there but I think both bands are rad so all gravy imo