Rolling Metal Thread 2009

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.

I ordered the new Woburn House cd from Paradigm Recordings yesterday. Hadn't realised that I hadn't heard much of the last years output by the label.

I was swithering about that, because I wasn't all that bothered about the first one.

Hit me up if you want to try any of last year's releases. (Is it just Bosnia I sent you?)

Bosnia and Old Mayor it was.
I liked the 1st Woburn House a lot so I thought id order this one. Monorailmusic haven't been getting in any of the latest releases.

Once i get it i shall return the favour , maybe you will like it.

hey pagan metal fans whats this bullshit about ? http://209.123.234.153/reeelapse/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32332

hey metal dudes, question... what is the ~*most beautiful*~ metal ever

thanks in advance~

also what's good metal to poz someones neghole to

i dont understand the question!!!!!

Poz The Neghole 12"

roxy have u ever heard of bugchasers

maybe roxy was referring to your first question

i think bugchasing is just so cute

I believe that cankles may be what is commonly referred to in Internet parlance as a "troll."

what makes you suspect that?

ilm is not worth trolling you idiot shartlords, if i deign 2 post here it's because i want some gd answers

Anyway, I'm really digging the new 3 Inches of Blood. Endino really plays up the old school metal, the album's really rough around the edges, which is cool ("All of Them Witches" is an awesome song title). And the more Cam Pipes goes on, the more he's starting to sound like Udo Dirkschneider...he's got quite the plegm vibrato going on this record, which is quite surreal at times.

"All of Them Witches" = Rosemary's Baby?

So--at the YOB show in SF, Will Haven was main support. It was Grady's first show back as lead singer (not sure how often this is happening). They were STAGGERINGLY good. So fucking heavy and powerful. Everyone should listen to "Saga" off Carpe Diem right now.

"all of them witches" was a song on the stark naked album in 1971... this isn't a cover, is it?

Nope, not a cover. That track does sound cool, though (listening now).

Got the Woburn House in the mail.

hey metal dudes, question... what is the ~*most beautiful*~ metal ever

http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/3523/7479ir3.jpg

Pentagram had one of the biggest shows Satyricon has ever hosted last night. Way over capacity. Total madness. Bobby Liebling looks like something out the Dark Crystal. Fun time.

he remembered his teeth then?

Downloading the new 3IOB now and it's taking for-fucking-ever. I know they're sending me CD-quality audio cause it's already at 470MB...how fucking long is this album?

Haha, yeah, it took me six hours to get the 3IOB on light DSL. Great quality mp3s, though, and a very fun album.

It's finally finished. I'm reviewing it for AP, along with the new Shadows Fall. Hope that one's better than...oh, anything else they've ever done.

I always like 3IOB, but they're really turning a corner here, the screams are only sporadic, the metal a little truer, so to speak.

Meanwhile, over at Hellbound, my decidedly YOBerrific feature is up:

http://www.hellbound.ca/2009/07/yob-zen-and-the-art-of-crushing-skulls/

Nice piece Adrien. I think this new YOB is my album of the year at this point. I wish they would come eastward on tour, but I am getting a Bloody Panda/Ocean double bill next month so I shouldn't complain too much.

We are in discussions with Planet Caravan fest in Asheville for Sept 18-19 for possible YOB fly-out. Nothing confirmed yet but there is hope...

Yes--Bobby brought his teeth!

I'm gonna be in NYC then, unfortunately. Any chance of a New England tour date?

man, the new coalesce is gooooooooooooood.

never liked the vox too much, but like w/meshuggah, I can forgive the angry dude yelling at me in an intense way because the music is so head nodding and SICKK.

and imo, the ~*most beautiful*~ metal ever is "the secret of the secret" off of this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy-o2EwkDrw/SNQ6sPsxdoI/AAAAAAAAATE/Jmt4yWNZQac/s320/Front.jpg

which reminds me, I never really listened to the last esoteric album much at all. I should really do that!

it's just weird because subconscious dissolution was probably my most anticipated metal record the year that it came out. (whatever year that was...) and it was really good too. just never got around to the last one!

gonna check out this 3rd and the mortal record too. never heard of that. sounds like it might be up my alley.

I like the lyrical themes for the band on metal-archives:

Natural Beauty, Sadness