Rolling Metal Thread 2010

I also kinda hate critics that throw themselves into the "true metal" pissing match. That's one that no one is ever going to win, so why bother?

"but typical of ilx to stand up for it."

it's not horribly written and its fairly distinctive! he's one up on 90% of everyone else who writes music reviews right there.

Xiu Xiu. It's been driving me mental all day trying to remember which band it is.

I cannot for the life of me imagine anyone ever actually extracting any pleasure whatsoever from listening to Xiu Xiu. If you extraordinarily renditioned me to Mordor and then waterboarded me with Phil Anselmo's septic arse broth for 24 hours solid I would still not be able to convincingly tell you that I believed that anyone sane got anything other than deep displeasure from listening to this bunch of twits.

But logic (and the trace remnants of human decency) tells me otherwise. It's not for me to say how people consume and enjoy music.

I think I once fell into the massive wanker pit of describing someone (probably coldplay) as music for people who hate music but I hope I've become a less shit writer since then because there's just no such thing. If you read the way Douglas Adams writes about Dire Straits you can tell he had a very deep, almost profound, love for that band. You just can't infer anything about a person (in this sense at least) - especially not their love for music - by what music they listen to.

I kind of feel sorry for this clown, wanking himself to sleep every night over his original Tank vinyl.

Nigel and proud. That's me.

Of course none of this applies to people who like Sting or The Police.

They're just cretins.

that Xiu Xiu paragraph is quality writing I can get behind!

Jeff Gilbert of Guitar World was the best reviewer ever.

like his review of Grave's Extremely Rotten Live: "Yes, it is."

wait that stewart dude wrote that about xiu xiu or what did i miss?

nah

if he did he will have wittered on about how mastodon and torche fans are republican voting hipster scum who read vice.

ok whoa guys this high on fire is fucking amazing

i might give it the nod over blessed black wings also o_O

no complaints over the vocals too high in mix?

have only had a chance to listen to it in the car so far, so i reserve my vote on that until i listen to it on an actual stereo. didnt notice it yet tho

"but typical of ilx to stand up for it."

ilx" saying "what exactly is your criticism of this?" doesn't seem all that hive-mind to me dude, given that your sole criticism seemed to be "I hate him and so do ppl on metal boards, so that settles it"

no complaints over the vocals too high in mix?

I love it. Can't get enough of that gurgly voice.

Nope, still hate High on Fire. And haven't heard Cathedral yet (but happy to know there are still "insiders" who have some privileges). And am deliberately waiting on Tryptik Frost until I can hear the whole thing.

But in the meantime:

- Eluveitie+Acoustic is good, but Eluveitie+Metal is magnificent.
- HIM+Acoustic is good, but HIM+Metal would be my #1 if I had to pick one today. Anti-Nihilist Metal.
- Watching my 2yo daughter bopping to Immolation while eating a bowl of Peanut Butter Pows is a great way to start a morning.
- The Rotting Christ album is so good that the Diamanda Galas collaboration at the end is an anticlimax.
- Dark: Dark Fortress vs Dark Tranquillity; Dark Fortress in a walkover.
- Ov: Ov Hell vs Overkill; Ov Hell, but it's closer.
- Juliana Hatfield: Best album since-- oh, wait, wrong thread.

That Eluveitie album isn't doing anything for me at all. Maybe it needs more spins, but it sure hasn't grabbed me like their past stuff.

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wazzap with the dig at dire straits? "sultans of swing" is one of the best tracks of all time!!

ilx" saying "what exactly is your criticism of this?" doesn't seem all that hive-mind to me dude, given that your sole criticism seemed to be "I hate him and so do ppl on metal boards, so that settles it"

pfunk's vitriol towards some random writer dude IS a little o_O but in his defense, I took that comment more like "lots of people on ilx are music journos, so they may be more into flowery music reviews than most"

i haven't seen any evidence that ilm likes any kind of critical writing more than any other

haha now that I think of it, ilm probably hates flowery music reviews more than most!

but that's just how I read the comment.

off-topic but this is immediately what I thought of when I saw "worst piece of music writing ever":

http://www.autostraddle.com/why-taylor-swift-offends-little-monsters-feminists-and-weirdos-31525

Listen up; if I ever get my life together enough to reproduce other life forms, they will not be joining Taylor Nation – they will be brave, creative, inventive, envelope-pushing little monsters who will find a pretty, skinny white blonde girl in a white peasant shirt strolling through nature-themed screensaver-esque fantasylands singing about how “when you’re fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna believe them” not only sappy, but also insulting to their inevitable brilliance.

I'm sorry. carry on.

yeah that thing was awful

and i think she had a valid point or two but the whole time i was just like "i would hate you if i met you"

but also insulting to their inevitable brilliance.

Seriously, fuck you. I hope your theoretical daughters grow up to be dumb sluts.

I'm really biased and pro-swift/anti-gaga anyway but I just felt like the one or two valid points in there are just absolutely buried under the many, many desperate leaps she's taking to prop up gaga.

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it's an awful, terrible, nonsensical false dichotomy that would only be raised by someone who essentially doesn't understand pop music

totally.

plus, I just hate this clever but not really "bloggy" type of writing that just comes across as someone completely in love with the sound of their own voice blabbing on and on.

and I ESPECIALLY hate people that write this way in office emails, let me tell you what!

not slandering all blogs btw. just ones that are written like... that.

lol i work with software engineers and can barely get a complete sentence out of 'em which is annoying, but yeah emails in the self-regarding blog voice would be much worse

lolz I am familiar with that as well

I'm gonna watch some homicide episodes and pass out. sorry about bringing swift vs. gaga into this metal dudes

I am anti-swift and pro-gaga. I am also anti-Perry and pro-Allen.

On a more metal note, complaining about the prominent vocals on hof seems crazy to me.

If you hate on this HOF album, you deserve to have the motorhead back-patch torn from your denim jacket and burned before you.

btw (and this is my measure for great rocking party time awesome metal) this cd makes my dog flip out and run around and want to play tug of war. last time he got this nutzoid was for slough feg, so its obvious that the animal has great taste.

I am also anti-Perry

oh oh, what did Dan do to you now?

xp

HOF rules (vox-mix sounds fine to me)! fuck the haterz!

Yeah I'm really confused by the haters on this. I guess I can hear that the vocals are high in the mix, but to me thats part of why its so fucking great. His vocals sound just right to me. I just unequivocally loved it from first listen and am surprised that this would be the album to really split opinion on them.

i might give it the nod over blessed black wings also o_O

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Oh man if this is true. I havent heard it yet, cant wait.

ok so I guess I have to listen to the new HOF when I'm not working and doin thangs

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/107031291_c015acf0ee_o.jpg

^^^thangs I was doin during my first listen to the new HOF

Got my copy of the Best Buy version w/three bonus tracks (two live ones, but one extra new studio song) in today's mail.

This might be obscure for many of you but Tommy Atkins from incredible prog/doomsters The Great Tyrant (formerly Yeti) died yesterday. RIP :(

Did he die fighting in the first world war?

I don't know how many ILMers are gonna be at SXSW, but I'm gonna be attending for the first time ever, because my friend Wes Orshoski, who directed the documentary Lemmy, has asked me to come down and interview Lemmy for an hour, live on stage. So if you're gonna be in town anyway, stop on by.

that's awesome phil!

btw i went to the store yesterday to pick up the high on fire and some other stuff and spent a minute looking around for the more expensive super-special edition with a dvd or a 5.1 mix or whatever. only this morning did i realize they're no longer on relapse!

This might be obscure for many of you but Tommy Atkins from incredible prog/doomsters The Great Tyrant (formerly Yeti) died yesterday. RIP :(

awww, man. bummer news. yeti were a totally cool band but I never checked out the great tyrant. probably should.

I love the single-sided 12" with the yes-styled logo. and didn't someone in yeti die at an early age too? :-/