!!!!!!!! ILX METAL ALBUMS of 2009 POLL RESULTS!!!!!! (FINAL RESULTS NOW IN! LISTENING TO THESE ALBUMS WILL MAKE YOU STRONGER FRAIL INTERNET PERSON!)

lol

YOB is great! Why did I not hear them before?

You weren't following the rolling metal thread?

According to the Grammys, the best metal thingy of 2009 was a live performance of a 23-year-old Judas Priest song.

oh man, that's pretty hilarious.

fingers on the pulse

lol @ 2004 winner:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Metal_Performance

spineshank were robbed.

and "iron man" wins in 2000 because it was on some comp called the best of black sabbath?! maybe the laziest thing I've ever seen.

I had forgotten that Nashville Pussy were nominated for a Grammy.

2000 Black Sabbath "Iron Man" (track from The Best of Black Sabbath) Won

uh waht

hahaha xpost

No mention of jethro tull beating metallica, alan?

According to the Grammys, the best metal thingy of 2009 was a live performance of a 23-year-old Judas Priest song.

It does kick major ass at least.

xpost.

they didn't for this caregory.

This choice led to widespread criticism of NARAS, as journalists considered that the music of Jethro Tull does not belong to the hard rock or heavy metal genres.[2][3] ... The NARAS then created the Best Hard Rock Performance and the Best Metal Performance categories, thus separating the genres.

actually, the nominations for 2010 are about as good as you could hope for.

I mean, jeez...

2004 Metallica "St. Anger" (track from St. Anger) Won
2004 Korn "Did My Time" (track from Take a Look in the Mirror) Nominated
2004 Marilyn Manson "Mobscene" (track from The Golden Age of Grotesque) Nominated
2004 Spineshank "Smothered" (track from Self-Destructive Pattern) Nominated
2004 Stone Sour "Inhale" (track from Stone Sour) Nominated

The category was originally presented as Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental joining two of the most popular music genres in 1980s.[1] Jethro Tull won that Grammy Award for Crest of a Knave beating Metallica, which were expected to win with ...And Justice for All.

xposts

jethro tull are pretty cool, anyway.

The Grammys are the most pointless awards going aren't they? Totally worthless. Does anyone good ever get nominated?
Thank fuck the brit awards dont have a hard rock and metal category, imagine the kerrang emo shite that would win.

Sorry Glenn, but I just dont like this Madder Mortem at all.

The Madder Mortem was a grower for me. At first I was all WTF? but I kept hearing bits of it I could relate to, and then it just clicked. Probably third listen, if I remember correctly.

Does anyone good ever get nominated?

Mastodon, a few years back... ;)

so the answer is no.

EZ would rather you checked out Baroness

Eh, Madder Mortem isn't for everybody. I hate pretty much everybody else's #1s, myself!

Glenn - is it worth going backward into the MM catalog? I haven't checked anything else out, and I saw you mention a new reissue on the rolling metal thread.

I don't think I will be.
Will try that album that Alan recommended upthread today sometime

cool. hope you dig it!

Still not listened yet haha. Will do so this evening.

I finally got around to reading this thread - took me like two full days! I wish I had voted in the poll this year, but I felt like I hadn't heard enough of the nominees (now I realize I wasn't the only one who hadn't).

Anyway, I am having a lot of fun going through listening to stuff I missed before. So far I am really loving: Revocation, Horseback, and especially Hacride.

I was sad not to see Transitional's Stomach of the Sun (which I thought was better than Greymachine), and Hypocrisy's A Taste of Extreme Divinity on here. If I could, I would go back and nominate those and Avenger's Feast of Anger + Joy of Despair and put them in my top 10. Blut Aus Nord would be my #1 and Funeral Mist #2.

I finally got around to reading this thread - took me like two full days!

Consider yourself lucky, I have entire threads bookmarked from months ago that I've been meaning to read...

haha, I can't ignore bookmarked thread bumps any more than I can ignore the Office new email icon in my systray. I crawled through this thread from bookmark to bookmark on and off, like I was scaling a cliff.

I have to say, I had the 1st Horseback album a few years ago, and I'm really surprised at the direction he/they took with the vocals. Nothing about that first album said "extreme outsider black metal vocals" to me. The vox hit me weird at first, but I think it is growing on me.

I PROMISE I WILL PLAY THIS TONIGHT

listening now, Alan.

OK, I liked it a lot. Nice tip. What should I check out next?

glad you dug it. it's a cool record.

if you haven't heard it yet, blut aus nord is still my top recommendation. and if you have... listen again. ;-)

Of course I know BaN!

o_O

Re Madder Mortem: Eight Ways is where I started, and it sounds the most like itself of their albums, so none of the others are as powerful for me, but they're all worthwhile. The reissue of Deadlands was a good excuse to focus on that one; mostly I've been playing the earlier ones as a unit without really distinguishing between them...

Thanks Glenn. I may delve deeper at some point, but I'm on a Kinks & Fugazi tear at the moment with no letup.

Hey EZ, Baroness 3xLP is shipping. Did you grab one?

Don't you just know it! I got eleven to share with friends and family. And they're all getting Mastodon for Flag Day.

I wondered why they all sold out. But when you say friends and family you actually mean eBay, right?

Actually, I mean people I hate and no longer want for friends.

Why would you no longer want to be friends with people because they have good taste in music?

I think my baroness 3xLP has finally arrived 3 months after pre-ordering it. Just got wakened up by parcelforce at the door.

I just did a catastrophic misreading of your last sentence.

This Baroness 3xLP looks so great.

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o84/888888eight/baronesslp-1.jpg

some stuff I voted for that I don't imagine will place:
* pulling teeth - paranoid delusions / paradise illusions

― ' ( *_*) ERROR HANDLING (^_^ ) (Alan N), Friday, January 22, 2010 4:22 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

fuck yeah. love this