Rolling Metal Thread 2010

Plus I had to go back and like a total nerdy idiot explain that there were two parts to this silly power metal thing.

Apparently not everybody knows that. I read a review once (and I can't remember where) that actually claimed Helloween never made a part II to the Keeper saga.

need some 90's metal, and all I have is Eyehategod. any suggestions?

Sepultura

Prong

what kind of 90's metal? death metal acceptable to include (as that is the brunt of my 90's ownership)?

I second Sepultura above, particularly "Arise" and "Beneath the Remains" (not technically 90's but close enough). Below are some 'essential' purchases from various subgenres.

Crowbar (s/t or Time Heals Nothing)
The Haunted--s/t
Cathedral--Forests of Equilibrium
Immolation--Dawn of Possession, Here in After, Failures for Gods
Emperor--Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Death--Symbolic
My Dying Bride--Turn Loose the Swans
Nevermore--Dreaming Neon Black
Slayer--Divine Intervention
Dying Fetus--Destroy the Opposition (ok this was technically 2000 but close enough)
Suffocation--Pierced from Within
Opeth--any of the releases really
Carcass--same except for Swansong

etc etc

OK, so that Alcest album that converted me to liking Alcest was, in fact, a fake leak! Only one of the six songs was Alcest. I've listened to the real leak now, and like it much less than the fake one! So I'm back to not caring much about Alcest, but investigating Pest Productions, the Chinese label whose comps the other five songs came from! Skyy, Soliness, Heretoir and Dopamine!

yah, that's pretty much what I wanted, 90's death and black metal, cause I've only been listening to recent metal, and I hadn't any 90's metal. so ya, thanks.

Hey, did I mention I'm giving shit away on MSN? Enter today!

Phil, is there any way you could get the powers-that-be at MSN to enable an RSS feed for your blog?

best believe i entered that shit....

Weird, I'm not liking the other bands from that Alcest fake nearly as much when they're on their own, either. What a weird testament to the power of (imaginary) context.

Phil, is there any way you could get the powers-that-be at MSN to enable an RSS feed for your blog?

It's a persistent issue. I'm hoping they'll get it resolved soon, 'cause traffic keeps going up, especially when they link posts on the MSN Music homepage, which they're gonna do tomorrow - I'm posting an interview with Marwan Riyadh, the drummer from Acrassicauda.

Awesome! Would love to subscribe to it in Google Reader.

Ah, the irony of complaining about the lack of an RSS feed on RSS-less ILM...

i don't really mind that ILX doesn't have RSS, but i definitely prefer feeds for blogs. :-)

Oh, and that was Shyy, not Skyy, on the fake Alcest leak. My apologies to disco.

Here's a link to my interview with Marwan Riyadh of Acrassicauda.

Has anyone heard the full Triptykon album yet? The myspace tracks sound great. I've grown to love Monotheist and these seem a logical progression from that record. Thoughts?

Haven't heard any of it yet actually, off to check those MySpace tracks. If it does sound like Monotheist, I will be thrilled!

Someone posted that they had the complete Triptykon album and Unleashed's new one, which I'm also curious about. I'm really looking forward to hearing more of the Triptykon album -- the myspace tracks sound promising and the cover art looks really great as well.

"OK, so that Alcest album that converted me to liking Alcest was, in fact, a fake leak!"
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, March 7, 2010 7:48 PM

Interesting. I think I have the fake leak as well, but it wasn't working its magic on me anyway. I noticed the track lengths were different from what's listed on Metallum and was thinking I might not have the right one.

I'm really jealous of all those who have heard the new Cathedral.
They do have one track streaming on their myspace now for anybody who hasn't yet gotten a taste:

http://www.myspace.com/cathedral

I have the Tryptikon and Unleashed albums - and the new Nachtmystium, too. The Tryptikon is very Monotheist-ic, and the Unleashed album is an Unleashed album. I haven't listened to the Nachtmystium disc all the way through yet.

Im jealous of Phil

The Tryptikon is very Monotheist-ic,

Sold. All I needed to hear.

Nachtmystium's the best thing I've heard in 2010 so far.

What I said about it on Twitter on Friday:

The vocals are much too comprehensible on this new Nachtmystium disc. If you're gonna enunciate so clearly, dude, write better lyrics.

The intro track is actually kind of funny. But this album kills, it's like they were listening to a lot of Killing Joke prior to writing.

Seeing Orphaned Land tnite!

The Tryptikon is very Monotheist-ic,

Sold. All I needed to hear.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0)

I'm right with ya. I'll pre-order it tomorrow at my local store - it's out in two weeks!

i'm not sure if it fits in here, but the s/t daughters album is crazy.

That Daughters album is great, indeed. They keep getting better.

Saw the retro thrash bacchanal of Megadeth, Testament, and Exodus tonight, and it was great. 95% of the tunes came from before 1991, Megadeth doing Rust in Peace of course, Testament doing The Legacy (+ "Into the Pit"), and Exodus playing a fabulous set of 85-89 material. So much fun was had (the RIP deep cuts were the clear highlights, and it was great to see Ellefson back), it was like 1990 all over again, but with a little more grey hair in the crowd.

Cathedral is the best metal album I've heard this year so far. Although the sample of the baby crying is quite upsetting.

Finally getting to the Tryptikon album...is it better than Monotheist? I don't think so. But like Phil said, it's definitely cut from the same cloth, and what's not to like about that? I just love Fischer's vocals these days, he sounds infinitely more evil than he did in the early '80s.

I don't know about "more evil" but he sounds so good these days you kind of wonder what the hell he was trying to do between ITP and Monotheist.

In the Triptykon interview in Decibel, Tom apparently just overlooks Apollyon Sun entirely?

Orphaned Land concert did not disappoint!

I keep waking up each morning this week and realizing that I'm going to see Voivod this Saturday.

You're so lucky. Voivod inexplicably skipped my province again. Still have never seen them in 26 years!

Um, yeah, really bummed about being unemployed and broke this week.

Friday night @ Bottom Lounge: Kreator, Voivod, Nachtmystium, Evile
Sunday night @ Bottom Lounge: Orphaned Land, Indian, A Storm of Light

Not that either are all that expensive, just so not in the cards for me right now.

rats
i would like to go to the friday show but i have to WORK on saturday morning at 9 :(
wouldn't be a big deal if i weren't a lol teacher

Nachtmystium's the best thing I've heard in 2010 so far.
new LP? in its entirety? where?

Think its just the press promo, I don't believe its floating around out there just yet.

"You're so lucky. Voivod inexplicably skipped my province again. Still have never seen them in 26 years!"

It's a rare and wonderful thing. This will be my 4th time. Outer Limits tour, Phobos, Voivod, and now Infini.

I badly wanted to see Nothingface tour but it was at a 21+ club and no fake id would have ever worked for me. When I was 16 I looked 11.

I've never seen 'em either, but I've never tried. Might catch 'em in a week, though, as they're on the bill with Motörhead at SXSW.

I interviewed Dark Tranquillity frontman Mikael Stanne; we did a track-by-track rundown of the new album. Here 'tis. http://bit.ly/cC1cXC

Holy crap, the new Yakuza album is something else. I loved Samsara and was quite indifferent to Transmutations...Of Seismic Consequence is a huge return to form.

Interviewed Anders Johansson, drummer for Hammerfall, in this week's Cleveland Scene.

Also wrote a thing about Ludicra on MSN; the new album is really impressive.

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/huge-metal-fan.gif

I saw you guys were talking about Yakuza ... the Chicago Reader profiled Bloodiest, another band with the singer from Yakuza, this week: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bloodiest-chicago-tony-lazzara-bruce-lamont/Content?oid=1515439