Rolling Metal Thread 2009

i loved the last hope conspiracy album. oh wait i said that already. kurt is my production god though. i will listen to anything he produces but really it was great. one of the best punk albums i've heard in years.

I would say isis have a slightly classier/more boring design sense than the spraypaint + giant font hell that is the deathwish inc. back catalog.

I'll check out the hope conspiracy.

new converge song i heard sounds like dragonforce.

just kidding. the intro kinda does though!

it sounded good though. i'm looking forward. katatonia and converge. i'm happy.

It looks like I will be going to the Converge/High On Fire/Dethklok/Mastodon show after all, fairly excited.

is the jane doe reissue up for pre-order??

ahh no, its not up yet, whew.

hahaha, I really like the new converge song that sounds like dragonforce!

New Katatonia! Just a streaming promo, but I guess that'll have to do.

Goatsnake are reuniting for Roadburn, that's cool imo - not quite a 'must spend money I don't have to get there' deal but I bet they'll go in hard

Yob are playing too

I will be there! Hadn't heard about Goatsnake yet. That's awesome. We gigged with them a few times around Dog Days e.p. Crushing live band.

from asva's myspace

It's pretty early in the morning but the coffee is kicking in and it seems to be motivating me enough to write. Recent developments include:

Finally finished mixing the new Asva record 'Presences of Absences' and tonight drawing up some kind of a plan of how to release it. Nobody has heard this beast and I'm not sure a label would touch it... it sounds like a cross between Arvo Part (minus the orchestra) and Burning Witch (minus drums and vocals). Speaking as the guy who wrote and played it I love it; no idea if anyone else will though.

Speaking of Burning Witch: Edgy 59 and I have started a new adventure in listening; we're calling it 'The Poisoned Glass' and have so far recorded one song which we'll soon be posting a small section of on our page here at myspace.http://www.myspace.com/thepoisonedglass Falling Down has agreed to release it on the upcoming compilation and in the meantime we're going to go ahead and put together a full length. Its great playing with Edgy again; he sounds better than ever and our collaboration sounds absolutely chilling.

Ok then! I've got to run off to work!

This must be what my early a.m. voicemail from Stuart was about. I will investigate.

Can't wait for BW's Central Park shows in 2011 amirite

lol, Edgy 59.

Having an old Venom day today. Black Metal / At War With Satan. Haven't played these in a really long time, and they're better than I remember.

I saw this morning there is some special edition of Black Metal that comes with a DVD of a show from the era. Tempting, but one of those $30 imports I can't really justify.

I just picked up a reissue LP of Black Metal. I traded away my original years ago for some die cast metal Shogun Warrior figures. LOL.

dj mencap and aldo might be interested in this http://www.musicfearsatan.com/en/reference/5800.html
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The 1st album on paradigms recordings was the best thing on the label.

The Gates of Slumber disc sounds really good so far, but not all that distinct from your average doom/stoner-type stuff to me. i like it fine, but can't really see why it's being praised to the skies; i mean, the second coming Sabbath it is NOT.

okay, i HAVE to post this from albert's year-end Decibel list e-mail:

"Now, for the bat-shit insane list: I'm also looking for your top 40 records
released from 2000 to 2009. No real point system is necessary for these.
Just put them in order of your favorites from 1 to 40. Unnumbered lists and
SunnO))) releases will be discounted."

hahahahaha!

boo.

hahahaha!

I agree with your top four of the decade, Scott.

???

This is the thread where we talk about the best METAL albums of the decade!

aha, gotcha.

And, of course: Best ov Metal 2009

Feels weird not to be putting together a year end list right about now.

its way too early! No wonder end of year polls in most publications suck.

Every Time I Die is a great band. I think the new one is a bit cluttered but hits pretty hard anyway.

played last night with this BM band liturgy from brooklyn. they were good, nice too. did an elaborate gregorian kind of chant with the help of a loop station. they have an interesting style (imo, and i mean live -- i haven't heard their record yet and i don't know what it's like). a lot of weird pausing, but not like intricate bizarre timing/crazy stops or anything like that, just kinda like weird, heaving pausing before going back into a repetition or going into a change. thumbs up.

<3 liturgy!!! dudes are totally super nice for real.

i think their first record is OOP and the new one is out now/soon?

The first lp is drum machine. The new one is live drummer. Both are excellent.

yeah i think it might be out now, anyway they were selling it at the show. it was reviewed on invis. oranges last friday too.

[are they your pals? they were sweet guys, hemmed and hawed trying to ask permish to use my amp <3.]

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lol, not pals exactly but we're friendly and wave when we see each other on the street.

cute

Did an email interview with the guy from Liturgy last week, and I came away mightily impressed. Smart guy. Not often you get a fella who goes into great detail describing the similarities between black metal and spectralism.

The drumming on that album is nuts.

he seemed like there was a lot going on upstairs. that's good to hear. the drumming was crazy!

Listening to a five-song sampler from the new Lita Ford album, Wicked Wonderland. She can still play. Unfortunately, she still can't sing. And the production is more Rob Zombie than Runaways (or even her early solo stuff). Oh, well.

The Gates of Slumber disc sounds really good so far, but not all that distinct from your average doom/stoner-type stuff to me. i like it fine, but can't really see why it's being praised to the skies; i mean, the second coming Sabbath it is NOT.

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Not being a dick but I kinda wonder how hard yr listening if it comes off as 'doom/stoner type stuff' to you - there's like one long sludgy song on there and near enough everything else has a bunch of Priest/NWOBHM/Dio type grandstanding about it... I think people are just saying that if you like stuff like that these guys are pretty much at the top of the class right now

no i get that, just surprised at the amount of praise it's getting is all. i mean, the riffs are ok but nowhere near Sabbath worthy; likewise the vocals & songs. as i said, i like it, just wish it was better. i much prefer the Heaven & Hell album, tbh.

OK, I'm having one of those "holy crap, how did I not know about this before?" days. This time it's Thy Catafalque. Only three reviews in EM, though, so maybe I'm not the only one here who didn't know about them. Hungarian, experimental/electronic/symphonic/gothic/atmospheric black metal. The new album, their 4th, is called Roka Hasa Radio, with a whole bunch of accents, and I don't know what it means. The experience I'm having is like the ones I had discovering Negura Bunget, and before that Rotting Christ: like I've stumbled into some whole culture I didn't know about. In this case, thick with folk melodies via Xennakis via Jean Michel Jarre, layers upon layers, surges of noise shot with twittery melodic glitter. Exciting.

tbf all gates of slumber fans are doom metallers

tho this album might pick up new fans (theyre already getting stick for joining Rise Above)