Rolling Metal Thread 2009

hah, I happen to be taking some every night for a cold. but I don't know if I would be willing to sacrifice the time I would normally spend watching star trek: tng. (which is frequently unbelievably boring as well, to be fair.)

my moss review from last year:

Moss – Sub Templum

Mmm, mossy. Did you know that actual moss growing on a tree moves faster than your average song by U.K. doomsters Moss? It’s true. Did you also know that 75% of all fans of the band Moss have moss growing somewhere on their bodies? Also true. Mostly it's between their toes, but there have been cases of Moss fans with mossy underarms, mossy teeth, and even mossy elbows. There was even one case of a Swiss Moss fan who was found dead in his apartment – He died of shock after being outbid on Ebay at the last minute for a limited-limited-limited-limited die hard edition Aurora Borealis vinyl pressing of a rare Moss single (only two are known to exist) that was pulled from distribution when the band decided that the 27 minute track wasn't long enough to be properly evil - and when Swiss authorities did an autopsy on his body they found high quality black truffles growing in his underwear and several varieties of exotic mushrooms growing out of his ears. It turned out that he hadn't seen daylight since his 13th birthday when he was given a copy of Sleep's Jerusalem by a favorite uncle.
That Swiss dude would have loved the newest Moss album. It's the mossiest! Sub Templum might be divided into four tracks, but who are they kidding, it's just one long slow Moss attack that never relents in it's quest for what lies beyond tedium and lethargy. We always hope that what lies beyond is made of chocolate or at the very least made by Ben & Jerry, but what Moss usually find after their transcendent trawls through low-end doom metal hyperspace is some sort of massive and ungodly pillow that they can lay their heads down on to dream the stuff of Cthulhu nightmares and, thus, begin the creative process all over again. Yeah, a 35 minute track ends the album, but to Moss that's just a glass of warm milk before bedtime. These dudes eat miles of dirt before they sleep and they eat it gladly.

Moss are great

hahaha, how did I know you love these guys? ;-)

maybe I just wasn't in the mood but this was doing zilch for me.

It's definitely mood music

moss are boring as hell. sorry dudes.

PSSSSEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWW TROOFBOMB

that four burials split LP that i reviewed in the same issue with moss was a much better beast for me. maybe it's cheating though cuz you got four flavors of doom with that one. but i just enjoyed it a lot more. i don't mind moss. they are good at what they do. i just prefer to listen to other similar stuff. i don't think they are a "great" band. like, in the way that diSEMBOWELMENT was a great band. trouble is, there are 4 zillion bands these days mining the same territory and it becomes harder and harder to stand out. having said that, Moss's tedium DOES make them stand out. they should cover "being boring".

I think lately my tolerance for doom shit is even lower than my tolerance for black metal. At least black metal has coughed up that new Funeral Mist album.

there is still a lot of good doom out there. i do think that some of the doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom how low can you go crowd has painted themselves into a corner. the only way out is up. but if you dig the subatomic crawl of stuff like moss there is plenty more where that came from.

THIS, by the way, was the extreme doom release of 2008. and none of you bought it!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MmykTbf9oLY/SidNel66zRI/AAAAAAAAAbw/bkBEnQMgF14/s320/VA+-+What+Pleasing+The+Lord+Looks+Like+Marriage+Extreme+Noise+And+Terror+From+Japan+And+Israel.jpeg

that album is so good it might even wake phil up!

whoa, what is that?

I'd that doomy stuff harvey milk, gates of slumber, and coffins put out last year was up there with the best of em for me. but that ain't doooooooooom, yeah. and the droney bands are getting a little tedious at this point.

Liking Amorphis' Skyforger even more a couple days later. Chuck might even like this. It's got songs!

Also, speaking of things Chuck might like, I was surprised to discover that there's a new UFO album! The Visitor, and I had to look it up to be sure it wasn't a reissue of some old album of theirs whose title I'd forgotten. Before I heard it, I mean. Although after I heard it I would still have had to look it up to know for sure when it was recorded. UFO is, if anything, even more timelessly themselves than Black Sabbath.

Also also, I'm still thinking the new Funeral Mist has album-of-the-year potential, and I'm at least tentatively in favor of the new 1349.

Surprised to see how much Cosmo L33 didn't like that 1349 record, I have yet to hear it. But really, his negative descriptions made me want to hear it more than I did before!

i would definitely recommend this new thing to art doom drone fans. very cool:

http://www.crucialblast.net/blackrollercroprotation_prayers.html

plus, it's a concept album about the dustbowl and dust! just like my fave woody guthrie album. i think i might ask to review this for decibel for the metal review section and then review this guy's light of shipwreck album for my noize column. both excellent releases.

So anyone heard Om - Live Conference yet?

Saw Anthrax in London last night. Tiny show, was great. New singer actually did a pretty great job which i hadn't expected from youtube videos. Little bit too much Phil Anselmo style wannabe grunting but overall he fit in pretty well. They also did a cover of New Noise by Refused which was pretty confusing, apparently it's gonna be on the new album. Played two other new songs, both sounded fairly good and bit more old school thrashy than their last few albums.

yikes! whole lotta metal over here

http://freemetalalbums.wordpress.com/index/browse-by-name/

From the above link...I so have to hear this.

http://maytag235.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/tsotflof_2001.jpg

01. Demons from Within (Your Fridge)
02. Among the Dishes
03. Gods of the Heat
04. Frigid Backwoods
05. Legion of BWOOOM
06. Chow Down
07. Call of the WinterBWOOOOOM)))
08. The Valley of Lost Souls, Part 7
09. SEAbwoom (Part III – Solace Through Chaos)
10. 2001: A BWOOOO)))MMM Odyssey
11. The Refrigeration of Mankind
12. Lost BWOOOM Echoes Under Black Forest Ice
13. The Thing in the Fridge
14. Frigidaire
15. Ruler of all Thou See
16. Impaled by Winter’s Breath
17. Frigid HeartBWOOOM
18. Ice-Laden Coma
19. Tritone
20. Back Shelf Blizzard
21. Bwoom in a Box
22. Freezer Burn
23. Of the Grim, Frostbitten Steppes of the Khans

call me a skeptic, but while the metal bands on that page seem well or less known, I have my doubts that they are all worth to listen to.

love this one:

http://freemetalalbums.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/thou-tyrant/

adrien, do you remember an 80's band from toronto called hype? i'm enjoying their 1987 album Burned on Fringe Records. funny crossover stuff.

http://www.lpcd.de/10/E9341_01.jpg

hah! here they are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIWclWxO7YM

I like to think I'm decently-schooled in obscure Canadian 80s metal, but crossover, not so much. I would have scoffed at that band 22 years ago.

Want to read a transcript of my conversation with Suffocation guitarist Terrance Hobbs? Of course you do.

I just read that Pentagram have pulled out of Hellfest (big open air metal thing in France) because Bobby Leibling forgot to bring his teeth with him. There wasn't anything that indicated this was a joke

Pentagram pulled out of a gig at the last minute?! Unprecedented!

The new Judas Priest album sounds really good. The set list is drawn from all the album cuts they played on their last two tours - stuff like "Eat Me Alive" and "Between the Hammer and the Anvil." Plus two tracks from Nostradamus - "Death" and "Prophecy." No "Hell Patrol," unfortunately.

Nice! Anxious to hear that, especially since they picked my two favorites off Nostradamus.

xxp sure but if that's a real excuse it's on a Motley Crue snow-on-the-roof level of 'wait what'

Really curious to hear that new Nachtmystium mini-CD, but it looks like the limited run is already sold out. Anywhere to, ahem, "acquire" this yet?

is it this?

http://awkwardmedia.blogspot.com/2009/06/nachmystium-doomsday-derelict-ep-2009.html

It is that. Thanks! I guess my google skills were off last night.

The Eluveitie album is really cool and I dig it, but I'm a bit confused about what makes it metal. Can someone elaborate?

helvetic accordion

Beelzebagpipes?

anyone else hear the hamsoken album? nick forte from rorschach doing black metal? it's taken me a while to get around to it, but the electronics/keyboard stuff is really, really well done and abraded/crunchy enough to fit in with the metal. check out "skull through time," the weird, processed organ rules...

http://www.myspace.com/hamsoken

Mordy: metal isn't entirely a sound; it's also an attitude and state of mind. And Evocation definitely has a metal sensibility to it. Also, their last album was undeniably ferrous. This is just their acoustic record, which Euro metal bands love doing for some reason (that reason being that it usually sounds cool).

So obviously we're cheating here by knowing, for reasons external to this particular album, that Eluveitie "is" a metal band. But if we didn't, I think you still have as prominent clues the more-rock-than-folk drumming style on a bunch of songs (most particularly "Memento"), the growly male vocals on "Brictom" and "The Cauldron Of Renascence", and the thunking cadence of "Omnos" (even the regular version). But probably the more accurate thing I mean to say is that this feels to me like an album from the same band that did Slania, rather than, as the premise might have just as easily lead to, an album of some wholly other music that happens to share personnel with the earlier one.

I agree with Glenn. Metal is like porn: you know when you hear it.

Jeff, is it fair to say that your ideal film would be a metal version of Pirates Of The Caribbean? (with added porn scenes It seems)

Guys that kinda already exists. Pirates, like the most expensive porn ever made. Complete with horrible CGI sequences.

and a drinking mans metal soundtrack?

My idea of hell: metal video + porn soundtrack.

Sounds like a Whitesnake vid for one of their ballads

someone will be along soon with a Hall & Oates song dubbed to a Dragonforce video

Time for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vil-s82_LM0 again

hahaha, wow. that really, really works.

works in that just as you think power metal couldn't possibly be any more shitey...?