Rolling Metal Thread 2009

what label?

napalm

Blutvial. Yes.

And Angry Admiral. Yes. Yes.

and YOB. YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!

listen to Salome - blueprint(fugazi):
http://www.myspace.com/salomedoom

And Yes. Er, Yes!

Anyone here like Worship? Last Vinyl Before Doomsday 10th Ann. LP is up for pre-order

what label?

worship = ESSENTIALEST DOOM

DOOMEST

I'll repost from DFFD

Post subject: update WORSHIP Last Vinyl Before Doomsday 10th Ann. LP
PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:53 pm

Just to give an update on the Worship "Last Vinyl Before Doomsday" 10th Anniversary reissue on LP. The vinyl is late. The cover and the inner sleeves are here (and look great), but we just got the test pressings (which sound great) so it will be another 2-3 weeks. Sorry but we are at the mercy of the pressing plant, who is slow these days.
Thanks to everyone who has already pre-ordered it. We will be including a free CD with each order. If you'd like to pre-order it (which means it will be shipped to you as soon as we get them) go to http://www.myspace.com/doommantrarecords and there is a link to order with paypal. it is $15 plus shipping.
For those who ordered the Colossloth LP, it will be here at the same time as the Worship.

THX U HERMAN

Listening to a stream of the new Voivod. ( http://www.voivodinfini.info/ )
I'm really digging it. What do the rest of you think?
Tried a search but can't find any threads on it.

I have tried and tried but have finally resigned myself to the fact that Voivod does nothing for me.

Currently revisiting Cryptopsy's Once Was Not.

I thought Katorz was Voivod's best album since Nothingface, but Infini goes even further. Plus the production is a little better this time. "Destroy After Reading" and "Volcano", those are the two knockouts in my opinion.

I'm devastated their tour is skipping my province.

I wasn't expecting much but it floored me on first listen.
Seems like the spotlight continues to escape them.

Listening to the three new Saviours 7"s (I believe the A-sides will all be on the next album, while the B-sides - which include covers of Saxon's "Fire in the Sky" and Judas Priest's "Running WIld") are exclusives. The Priest cover sounds more like Di'Anno-era Maiden, actually, but all six tracks are noisy, dirty Motörhead/Venom punk-thrash-rawk.

The Priest cover sounds more like Di'Anno-era Maiden, actually, but all six tracks are noisy, dirty Motörhead/Venom punk-thrash-rawk.

That sounds awesome, I've ben looking forward to those singles.

I can't see how Katorz is better than the self-titled on any level. But I'm a pretty obsessive Voivod fan. This discussion probably deserves its own thread.

Phil--really? Not even Nothingface, Dimension Hatross, or Killing Technology?

Phobos is their other great work that is sadly overlooked by most.

Herman--thanks for the Worship link. I need that!

I can't see how Katorz is better than the self-titled on any level. But I'm a pretty obsessive Voivod fan. This discussion probably deserves its own thread.

I just dug the more streamlined, insistent, catchy aspect of Katorz a lot. Of course all that was due to the fact that the arrangements on Piggy's final 23 songs were rather skeletal, they had no way to fine-tune those songs and add those proggy elements that they normally did. But in the end it's something that I feel worked extraordinarily well.

the lack of interest in the appearance of gzeus in the decibel letters section proves that there is a surprising disconnect between dudes on ilx that A) love metal and B) love video games

whoa! had no idea that there is a new ahab coming out. sick!

I still play call of the wretched sea pretty frequently. like I'm doing RIGHT NOW.

yep, still rules.

you lie, you were listen to michael jackson according to your last.fm!

I can't stop listening to that Katy Perry power metal remix...

that I do believe

you lie, you were listen to michael jackson according to your last.fm!

haha the fact that I also can't stop listening to a mariah carey remix is also documented, which I thought would be funnier on a metal thread. but srsly, I was listening to ahab on my ipod at work. this will be scrobbled in due time and become a matter of public record.

http://i352.photobucket.com/albums/r356/mattmatt-/liar-1.jpg

(sorry, but I just wanted to post that)
:-)

Thanks, I needed to hear that.

;__;

(x-post)

I can't stop listening to that Katy Perry power metal remix...

― don't cry, emo hamster (J3ff T.), Friday, June 26, 2009 7:26 PM (2 hours ago)

hahahaha me either!

I even downloaded the MP3. I don't know what exactly this says about me or the song. Maybe it's that I enjoy pop songs when they are actually songs instead of weird non-musical robot beeps? Or maybe it's that the vocals don't matter to me at all as long as the backing track is cool. I would listen to an entire album like this.

can someone email that to me?

Here it is:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/metalinjection/audio/Katy%20Perry%20-%20I%20Kissed%20A%20Girl%20%5BPower%20Metal%20Version%5D.mp3

thanks!

ok so im sure this is old news for everybody here, but (courtesy of last.fm recommendations) i am totally loving Solefad - Black For Death an Icelandic Odyssey Part II

I think I was the only one who liked that

oh man really? i think it is great (so far)

(Here's a cross-post from the Encyclopaedia Metallum forum, as it might amuse this audience differently...)

Here is a statistical answer to the eternal question of which subgenres of metal are better than which others. I took the ~2500 bands covered by my similarity analysis, got their listed "genre(s)" from EM, and then for all the frequently-mentioned genre words, calculated the number of bands whose genre description includes that word, and the average of all reviews of all albums by bands with that word. Here, then, is the ranking to settle things.

word          Rating  Bands
Viking        85.365     37
Funeral       84.788     37
Stoner        84.527     30
Avant-Garde   84.004     29
Atmospheric   83.965     44
Folk          83.413     91
Epic          83.305     31
Doom          83.235    250
Progressive   82.642    180
Sludge        82.247     49
Traditional   82.048     52
Brutal        81.392    110
Speed         81.235    107
Grindcore     81.21      68
Power         80.391    280
Black         80.225    715
Heavy         79.908    213
Metal         79.809   2213
Symphonic     79.712     60
Hard          79.689     33
Gothic        79.574     66
Death         79.53     761
Thrash        78.815    394
Grind         78.638     59
Industrial    78.513     47
Technical     78.492     69
Rock          78.464     95
Ambient       78.432     70
Dark          78.159     40
Experimental  77.749     34
Melodic       77.486    206
Groove        67.721     40
Metalcore     65.34      48

So now you know.

"I think I was the only one who liked that"

people on here liked it. i liked it.

hirax still rules, i checked in my car earlier.

I think I might actually end up liking the new Divine Heresy album. Go figure. The new singer sounds a bit like Devin Townsend.

Does anyone have the new Killswitch Engage yet? And is it worth buying?

You would expect it to be?

They have their moments, I've been wondering the same thing actually.

The new Killswitch is only okay, in my opinion. They're good at what they do, but the new record isn't anything extraordinary. When it comes to recent melodeath/metalcore, All That Remains have trounced KsE with their last two albums, in my opinion.

As I said in Alternative Press (and on my blog, it's a holding action. I've never been a fan, but existing fans will like it just fine.

It seems like at this point that they've settled into a comfortable groove of putting out totally solid but safe records.

Okay, I listened to the new Moss disc this morning for an AMG review, and while the first three tracks are typical Moss, the fourth track won me over - Discharge's "Maimed and Slaughtered" stretched from 65 seconds to six minutes. Hilariously awesome.