Rolling Metal Thread 2009

New Dysrhythmia is very good.

Since when did Job For a Cowboy get good??? The new album is shockingly enjoyable, not to mention some pretty catchy death metal. No 'core' in sight on this record.

And the new Behemoth (leaked last night) is ace.

Haven't listened to the new Behemoth front to back yet, but the one song I've had time to check out sounds like a very good Behemoth song, something I can always use more of. And yeah, JFAC have been good for a while. They recorded this one with their live drummer, who's a big improvement over the guy on their last record. The new Born of Osiris is out there too, and I'm enjoying that one quite a bit - it's weirder than their first EP, but not in a trying-to-be-Cephalic-Carnage way or anything; they're just imaginative Sumerian-core. I really like that label's output. Between them and Willowtip, the underground is in really good shape right now.

Dysrhythmia co-signed.

Seriously though. Anyone else heard 'Buster' by Admiral Angry?

Fuck me, it's awesome.

hey thanks for the answers guys

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nate carson what is this and who is it by

Anxious to hear the new Born of Osiris. I've been paying attention to those guys for some time, my younger brother went to school with one of the dudes.

canks that is feedbacker by boris

it is good btw

yes feedbacker is dope as fuck

^^^^^^ Hoos truthbombin'

New Born of Osiris is even better on third and fourth play. Really good stuff. Just downloaded the new Vader, which I'm extremely excited about since they've got the guitar player from Decapitated now. Looking forward to the tour in November.

try Boris - Flood

I like both feedbacker and flood a bunch. kind of a toss-up but the delay pedal looping shennanigans on flood never clicked with me... but when it gets going, yeah, it's great.

Yeah, didn't mean to be so mysterious re: Feedbacker. I've never owned Flood so can't comment there. But if you can handle the slow-build... Feedbacker blooms like a motherfucker. So gorgeous but also just completely on the edge of destruction the whole time. Endlessly rewarding. The best Boris these ears have encountered. I've had the good fortune to see them perform that album live more than once. Wata is such a tone master (and she looks great in a pool of her own blood, eh?)

I love Feedbacker but Flood is better (they played a 40 min version live when I saw them, it was amazing, it pissed all over the Pink material from the rest of the set)

I guess I need it then. I don't care for their rock stuff much... but their heavy psych is sublime.

This Amorphis album is, among other things, shamelessly catering to my love for Big Country-esque guitar hooks.

They were pretty great at Fall Into Darkness festival last year. I don't know that I need to hear new Amorphis but I guess I'd give it a listen...

Yeah, the new Amorphis is very good..."Silver Bride" is as good a hard rock tune as I've heard all year. They're on quite a roll as of late.

The new Priest live album is smokin'. No surprise, I saw the last two tours, but for a somewhat haphazard collection of live lesser tracks recorded in various locales, it's pretty awesome.

Is it wrong to refer to Lacuna Coil in a show preview as "Asiago Metal"?

Made me laugh.

Sweet, thanks. :)

There's a really nice review of my new book on Invisible Oranges today, and you can dowload three chapters (about the Melvins, Mike Patton and Oxbow) free if you want.

A thread some of you guys might be into
LOL Scottish Pirate Metal

Got the Moss 10" on thursday in Glasgow. It's great! Also picked up the Sunn 0))) & Panasonic 12".

I am crushed at the lack of worship here for the new Madder Mortem cd.

Seriously, when it comes to metal bands whose name starts with 'M', MM simply obliterate Mastodon by any criteria one can imagine aside from 'swinging dicks'.

The Madder Mortem is pretty good. Whatshername keeps reminding me of the way less bombastic Hanne Hukkelberg, who I greatly prefer. The heavy guitars actually sound a little intrusive on this album at times.

do mastodon swing their dicks????

have seen this tbh

Name is Agnete M. Kirkevaag but she understandably just goes by Agnate.

The thing is, she doesn't fit any metal femme template. She isn't operatic (Nightwish etc), rockin' (Lacuna), ethereal gothic or misplaced-indie-chick (Serpent Cult).

Sometimes she's almost gospel, but David Lynch gospel.

I think they may be evolving themselves out of metal entirely, which may be why those guitars seem intrusive. And for fear of being first wave feminist, but I think if she were a dude, their profile would be vastly higher. Or if she were anorexic.

I forget which mag it was, but they gave the record raves--except they had a wee problem with Agnate's tendency to scream.

Imagine--someone screaming in a metal band, how tactless.

Another awesome thing about Madder Mortem are the quiet/clean guitars. They way the parts are so perfectly sculptured and play off one another/around each other or answer the vocals. For real, Isis needs to steal some shit from these guys.

omg a girl that cant be categorized

Maybe it's because I'm not feeling 100%, but Kylesa didn't really do it for me tonight. Great at times, but overall just... underwhelming.

made yall an igoogle theme

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Atheist and The Faceless were both fantastic last night. Atheist played stuff from all three albums, and the Faceless just ripped shit. The Agonist had a van breakdown so didn't make the gig, which was sort of good since it solidified the whole tech-death sausagefest atmosphere; a hot babe onstage would only have been a distraction. Gnostic were good, but unsurprisingly since they include both of Atheist's touring guitarists and drummer Steve Flynn, they sound a whole lot like Atheist and Death, but with a frontman who's like a cross between Jamey Jasta and Michael Chiklis from The Shield. Psyopus are just awful. They should go home, download Brutal Truth's Need To Control and OLD's Lo Flux Tube and then break up in shame. The whole spazzy-noisy psych-art-grind thing is just so fucking played at this point.

I'd give the kylsea another shot. it's a grower.

Roxy, you have made my morning super happy fun.

Meant the Kylesa live show, have already tried and liked the album.

Has anybody heard this Legion of Two CD, Riffs? It's a metal-electronica crossover thing, but instead of being sampled thrash riffs over drum 'n' bass beats or whatever is usually done, it's got live drums which everything else is built upon. It winds up being more like Sunn/Boris meets Isis with extra dubby noise. Not all that far away from what Kevin Martin and Justin Broadrick were doing as Ice before they brought all the rappers in on Bad Blood, or some of the Techno Animal stuff (Vs. Reality, Radio Hades), but a little (sometimes a lot) prettier. It's on Mu; I read a review of it in The Wire and...obtained it.

Looks like YOB is finally officially out tomorrow.

YOB – The Great Cessation (Profound Lore)

Since people here had it three months in advance, has anyone heard this yet?

Solace - A.D. (Small Stone?)

More on retro/stoner/riff rock - Retro rock itch

I didn't like the Legion of Two CD half as much as I hoped but I do intend to give it a fair crack of the whip

My store had the Yob last week - it's amazing, easily their best and at this point the best new thing I've heard this year.

Yeah can't say enough good about the YOB. The more you listen to it, the more you'll like it. It's their heaviest and most brutal as well. But still exceptionally listen-able and rewarding.

Brilliant album, that YOB. I was a big fan of The Unreal Never Lived, but this one tops it. Love the vocals.

Going to spin the new Ensiferum tonight, which should be fun.

Occasional metal listener here - has anyone heard Bergraven's Till Makabert Vasen? I think it's fantastic: atmospheric, melodic, furious, pretty freaky in how everything comes/holds together - it works. For me. Don't know previous albums so can't compare..

Mine is still in the post.

Aldo did you check out the Woburn House?

The new Bergraven is fantastic. Much more Opeth/Enslaved influence than on previous records, and much faster and harder/heavier than earlier stuff too. He's moving away from the atmospheric Burzum/Nortt feeling of the last disc toward a more organic sound that I really love. Might well wind up on my year-end list.

Am listening to the Madder Mortem, thanks to the mention above. Haven't decided how much I like it, but it's definitely interesting, and I'd never heard of them, so another point for Rolling Metal.

Other thing I just discovered is l'Acephale, whose semi-new album Stahlhartes Gehäuse is worth a try if you like Wolves in the Throne Room.

And did I ever mention how great the new Amorphis album is? Yes, I see I did. But it's been a few days, so you might have wondered if I'd changed my mind. I haven't.

xpost to Kerr

Yeah, sorry for not getting back. Enjoyed it a lot more than the first one, but something about them just not clicking for me. Will give it some more attention soon.