Rolling Metal Thread 2009

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9/01/2009 Square One - Greensboro, NC - hell yeah!

it's my fault. i got the thing in the mail and assumed it was new. i'd never heard them before! which makes sense when i see their discography. lots of 7 inch splits and stuff that never made it over here. (i'm sad and don't download, so i miss a lot.)

cheer up charlie

Is there a thread for the worst misinformation you've let into print? Because I once wrote a review in Pit magazine that said that Dead Meadow and Orthrelm shared a guitarist. Doh!

there's a song on the new abigail album called "metal bitch intern."

also, i am enjoying the songs on irritate's myspace and need the album j0hn wrote about.

i don't get why irritate has "groove" and "hardcore" attached to their genre by other people, though, sounds like pretty straight up death metal to me. like good, old school death metal.

I'll have to go back and look through my iPod, but I think Augury's Fragmentary Evidence is the first truly "holy fucking shit" metal album I've heard all year. There have been lots of great records in '09, obviously, but I kind of saw a lot of them coming or expected them based on prior releases, etc., etc. This one totally blindsided me.

Burst has announced plans to disband following their upcoming U.S. tour and several European shows. Here's a statement from the group:

"Following a band meeting at the end of June, we have decided that it is time to let Burst sleep. We will honor our commitments, play the planned No Budget fest in Larissa, Greece as well as the US tour, and a possible best-of show in Sweden in late fall. But after that and for the foreseeable future, Burst will lay down its arms. Whether it is definite or indefinite, we can't say. Thus, in accordance with modern internet heavy metal news site lingo, we'll call it an 'indefinite hiatus.'

Interviewed them once, they were nice... pretty sure they spoke better English than I do too. Origo was a good album but not sure I heard anything outside of that

Anvil have a song in The Final Destination! The Nazi redneck guy listens to them in his toe truck before he tries to burn a cross on the lawn of the black security guard but instead meets with a hilarious and appropriately ironic demise.

I'm so glad those guys are finally getting paid.

How awful is that movie? The trailer I saw before Funny People had the audience in stitches, especially the girl that died in the car wash.

What do people think of "adventure metal," a sub-genre I just learned about today?

In an article about this local band, who sound pretty proggy (and they only do instrumental music), which I guess is part of the "adventure metal" concept:

http://www.myspace.com/scalethesummit

I mentioned them way back at the start of this thread. I definitely pick up the prog, but don't really see the connection to "adventure metal".

Wouldn't Manowar be adventure metal?

I mentioned them way back at the start

Sorry I searched the thread for "adventure metal" but didn't look for their name.

And I didn't think "I should read the beginning of the thread in case someone mentioned them in one of the first posts."

Anyway, they are pretty young and definitely sound tight as a band. Maybe they aren't exceptionally young, it's just that in their photo in the paper here they looked strikingly young.

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

i'm not gonna start calling power metal adventure metal, okay? maybe just call it D&D metal, but power metal is already all about D&D. i think it's a fine name.

and, yeah, scale the summit are just prog-metal.

Yeah, it sounds like unnecessary label proliferation. And now I'm thinking this may not even be the band I read about. I thought they were Albuquerque-based. Anyway, this one sounds okay.

I wasn't calling you out for not reading the thread, I was just kind of excited about their new album way back at the start of the year and no one else seemed to talk about them so I let it die. Listened to it again last week, still enjoying it. Nothing particularly amazing, but hits my prog buttons just right.

That Augury album is still my go-to prog metal of the moment...

Yeah, the Augury album is great. So is the new Gorod, which I just got in the mail yesterday from Willowtip. They're Necrophagistical tech-death but with more high-pitched ultra-repetitive arpeggios and fewer wanktastic solos. Sort of like if Steve Reich started a tech-death band. They had a female drummer on their first two albums (also on Willowtip), but she quit before this one.

xp It's... watchable. I was never bored, but I wouldn't exactly recommend it.

Adventure metal sounds stupid to me as a concept. Pirate metal makes sense, because those bands have a pirate theme. Would adventure metal bands have an Indiana Jones theme or something? Scale the Summit are good, but I agree with everyone above.

i've reviewed the last three gorod albums and that band must really hate me by now. but they are so fun to review!

here's my review of the new one:

If there is a theme to the third full-length album by French tech-death masters Gorod it is this: “We hate you and we want to kill you with our virtuoso noodle-bomb guitar solos and we kinda hate the fact that we are French even though France is such a cool country filled with some of the best wine and unpasteurized cheese that the world has ever known, but, let’s face it, despite the best efforts of people like Deathspell Omega and others it’s never going to be thought of as an “evil” country which is totally bogus considering the fact that our form of capital punishment for generations was CHOPPING PEOPLE’S HEADS OFF! Ah, well, what are you going to do? If anything this just makes us hate things even more than we already hate things and fuels our hate-filled metal and makes us despise our students at the guitar clinic who keep bugging us to teach them Gojira songs – AHHHH, nothing makes us hate more than that. Basically, we hate you AND we want you to be dazzled by how speedy and hateful we are and marvel at our hatefully nimble fingers and bow down to us because we are some sort of gods, non? Oui! We are gods. And for some reason we don’t hate Willowtip records. We don’t know why. We hate everything else though! We most certainly hate the most hated of all magazines, this thing you call Decibel, for allowing the SAME cretin to review all three of our masterpieces and EVERY time he makes, how you say, the mock of our hateful art! Bah! We shit on this American and all who read his lying words. We are Gorod! We rule and we hate you so very hard!”

NP: all three Hatebeak singles. The sound of an enraged parrot never gets old, I swear.

actually, this is the best gorod review i ever wrote. again with the wine and cheese! they are my muse, apparently, this band.

Gorod – Neurotripsicks (Willowtip – 2005)

Thomas De Quincey once wrote, “Here, perhaps, the reader will exclaim – ‘Avoid, Satanas!’ to me, falsely supposing that I have some design upon his eyes, and wish to blind them with learned dust. But, if he thinks that, he is in the wrong box; I must and will express scholastic phrases; but, having once done this, I am then ready to descend into the arena with no other weapons than plain English can furnish.” Gallic gore-goons Gorod take this to heart. You may think, upon first listening to their epic assault on the ears, Neurotripsicks, that they are trying to confuse your senses with dizzyingly high-tech noodle-grind guitar solos of a sort that would no doubt incite Yngwie to unleash the fucking fury in a highly pressurized cabin if he ever heard them on his in-flight headphones. You may think that 4000 riffs and shifts in tempo per song is a tactic designed to keep you on edge – a little uneasy - and perhaps make you rethink that whole “college is for sheep” philosophy you’ve been working on at mom’s house for the last ten years. And, by the way, that’s not your bong you are filling, that’s the vacuum cleaner. But, no, Like De Quincey, Gorod put on their fancy duds – those prog-level displays of nimbleness that are every guitar-store cowboy’s dream – only to share simpler reveries in a plain English that anyone can understand. For instance: “Gutted/Minced/Mashed/Soiled/We stay horrified/We must find him/GOROD can release us/Damned as spectrums/Gorod open its stone door/To pillar Neurotripsicks/Easy to smell/Pig’s bloated face/Zero tolerance for uncunt creatures/Pig’s bloated face/Pityless under sauvagery.” An entire worldview as easy as you please. See, the Gorod is the ancient enemy of the Neurotripsick, and…but that’s not important. What IS important is that France is second to no nation when it comes to screwed-up grindcore. And they have 30 hour work-weeks, national health-care, and free wine and cheese for all citizens. So fuck you, Dubya!

haha was that gorod review in decibel? i think i read that and didnt realize it was u

As long as we're discussing cheese, here's a preview I wrote a few months back:

Lacuna Coil, Kill Hannah, Seventh Void, Dommin
[ASIAGO METAL] It’s funny how Europeans ingest music so differently from Americans. Italian symphonic nu-metal act Lacuna Coil overproduces grinding pop hooks as a vehicle for hot babe/siren Cristina Scabbia. Her wild hair and outfits (and bust) are far more alluring than any of the songs. The backing band dress in what I refer to as “Tatooine metal” garb—they look like a band of Jabba’s henchmen that wandered off the set of the Sarlacc pit during a sandstorm. Apparently this much pomp and pap sells out big rooms to kids overseas. I guess when you’ve tried every kind of cheese there is, you end up with a broader palate. NATHAN CARSON.

NATHAN CARSON!

And as for "Adventure Metal", have y'all heard of the Metal Shakespeare Company (formerly Dagger of the Mind)? It's "bardcore"--power metal with mostly Shakespearian lyrics. They're based in Portland, but they do have some roots in New Mexico so I'm guessing they went to high school with Scale the Summit.

It's a really fun show: myspace.com/bardcore

xp - Roxy that's just how those pieces run in the paper.

I know this, it just provided me with a brief flicker of mirth!

Anything I can do to bright your day. NATHAN CARSON

brighten NATHAN CARSON

haw, you should sign all your posts like that in a similar fashion to classic ilx poster "Old Fart!!!!"

Lacuna Coil have some phenomenal songs, they just seem to have ditched those in favor of nu-metal the last few years.

The new L Coil is horrendous. I mean, wasn't Linda Perry around? Or was this her fault?

As for Italian Surm und Drang metal, why doesn't Novembre get any love here?

fuck Adventure Metal, I want Ducktales Metal

as in Uncle Scrooge & co.

there's a noise dude from NJ works under the name "duck tails"

not metal though

not noise, even. i dunno what you call it. and its ducktails. nevermind.

gonna listen to black witchery in a minute.

Holy crap, the Grind Madness at the BBC box set that Earache is putting out is CRAZY. Prime Napalm Death, Carcass, Bolt Thrower... good stuff.

That looks like a really interesting comp. Is it the complete Earache Peel Sessions?

"Earache has obtained the rights from the BBC to release these groundbreaking radio sessions in their entirety for the first time." I would assume that that's a yes?

Nice, I'll have to hunt that down.