Rolling Metal Thread 2010

cool. duly noted.

so, I've been listening to shining's blackjazz. still not sure if I love it yet, but imo, it really sounds like the midpoint between the fredrik thordendal solo record and zu. definitely give it a shot if either of those two do it for you. (esp thorendal - I'd be surprised if they weren't directly influenced by that record)

ooh you've timed your Blackjazz love-in to coincide with me looking at the metal thread!

i've written enough about them, but the record is vying with the Knife opera for my album of '10 so far - it's far-out industrial-prog-jazz insanity of the highest calibre

(and cheers for the indirect thorendal tip!)

Man I really hope the pitas thing is only temporary.

Oh no!

Yeah, Tom Ewing has something up on Twitter about pitas being down. I'm not sure what is going on.

I thought for a moment there you were going to say Tom Ewing had written an article on metal. I wonder if that's one of the genres he's never investigated. He did after all mellow in his attitude towards classic rock since the beginning of ILM. It's not gonna happen though, is it?

hey Louis do you like Astra?

(and cheers for the indirect thorendal tip!)

np! and fwiw, I prefer the original release to the "version 3.33" one that relapse put out. mostly because I don't care for one long bonus track that drags the whole thing down a bit. sounds kinda like allan holdsworth jamming over final fantasy battle music.

Cripes, that Scion festival had Liturgy, Ludicra and Absu in a row on one stage. How many boxy cars do I have to buy to get them to do that again in Boston?

I'd have liked to have gone to that, but then I would have had the worst time deciding who to see. That schedule was brutal.

Seven kids take on "Cowboys from Hell" and NAIL it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6VcyTcDr4

Metal kids these days are so technically skilled, it's frightening.

i dunno anything about astra - will be on thorendal

prog/art rock on Rise Above

well, WASP just cancelled another show, in PA, and gave no reason (yet), so I'm retracting my benefit-of-the-doubt on the NY show -- ppl are super-pissed

"I dig Dead Child!"

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Man, Scott is suggest banning like it's going out of print!

i'm just thinking it!

lol

btw I finally got the 12" Drastus put out back in December. Jesus Christ. so so far ahead of any other black metal act...no competitors anywhere as far as I'm concerned

Say could anybody recommend me a cd that makes good background music for arson? Because with the night I'm having tonight, it's going to happen, and I at least want to have good tunes in the background when it does.

There's always Arson Anthem, if you want to be literal.

wow. I want listen to them now.

xpost - Big Black "Kerosene" would be the best arson soundtrack IMO.

Acoleuthic check it:

xpost - new Rose Kemp? I must write her and inquire!

― Nate Carson, Saturday, 13 March 2010 08:32 (3 days ago)

Scion Rock fest: I saw Black Anvil, Ludicra, Voivod, YOB, Shrinebuilder.

Wasn't that tough to decide who to see. I would have caught Liturgy too but I had the worst flights of my entire life. 33 hours from Portland to Columbus. Just miserable.

But the festival itself was fucking fantastic. Scion logos were not prevalent, no weird corporate vibes anywhere. Just a total blast and great music. They treated us like kings and I hope to do it again soon.

Next up: Roadburn!

The new Chrome Hoof is phenomenal. Can I be the first to say that it's not metal? Also in the not metal stakes is Kellermensch, a Danish 8-piece who have sonic links to Neurosis, Godspeed, Arcade Fire who, visually can be split into members who look like they had a really tough time in jail and other members who look like they had no problem at all in jail.

In order to get to Austin, TX, you have to change planes in Dallas. High on Fire were on my Dallas-to-Austin flight. So I grabbed a quick interview with Matt Pike in the departure lounge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1HLCNuyyiU

I raise the kids playing Pantera songs youtube with this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDbAxhV2ofM

I enjoyed that interview Phil!

I still need to hear this record

The new Chrome Hoof is phenomenal. Can I be the first to say that it's not metal? Also in the not metal stakes is Kellermensch, a Danish 8-piece who have sonic links to Neurosis, Godspeed, Arcade Fire who, visually can be split into members who look like they had a really tough time in jail and other members who look like they had no problem at all in jail.

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gnarrr want

Ha, that's a some good timing, Phil...cool of you to post it, and very accommodating of Pike, too.

Meanwhile, I'm giving the new Woe of Tyrants a listen. I liked their debut from last year, they're not unlike Revocation, an extreme metal album that straddles different genres at once, brutal and technical without forgetting to toss in some good melodies. Anyway, the new CD is very strong, the kind of improvement you like to see from album #1 to #2.

Hey John, if I give you five bucks, can you send me the Peruvian Nightwish Coverband 7"?

Someone told me Albert was a Scion. But we did not meet :(

Is he a Transformer?

"at Scion", haha. Good one :)

He's totally metal -- literally!

Hey John, if I give you five bucks, can you send me the Peruvian Nightwish Coverband 7"?

one of those cases where I really really wish the thing I dreamed up actually existed

btw that kid singin folsom prison is completely rad

that twain keeps a wolling :) ever so cute.

so rad

i shot a man in weno just to watch him die. Awesome! You can hear a few giggles when he sings the when I was a baby line.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnjvS53svJY

this song was written by the 9 year old kid. J0hn, you got any songs you wrote at 9? ;)

I have a brief piano piece from when I was 8 entitled "the jungle"

was it about unicorns in the jungle? ;)

if I say yes can we get back to talking about heavy metal?

What was the first heavy metal band you got into?

well, this is weird!

dear metal thread, someone on the DiS board has suggested the following acts to someone interested in the gauzier side of BM

I would like some opinions on them

Firstly a non BM band I should have mentioned before is One Unique Signal - www.myspace.com/oneuniquesignal - I think they will absolutely give you everything you asked for: they even play with a drone tape backing their live sets - 3 guitars, bass , feedback, super heavy drumming.

For black metal bands I was definitely not thinking of Xasthur, there's no real driving grooves there, no feedback either, just that curtain of grey. So:
I second Contenttoplayvillain's Burzum suggestion, of course. Varg isn't the godfather of an entire genre for nothing.

Servile Sect - http://www.myspace.com/servilesect - this is pretty digital sounding, but it has a space/age sci-fi theme that is very unusual for something BM related – but then it’s very textural, rhythmic, kraut-tone-wave sounding.

Aluk Todolo - www.myspace.com/aluktodolo - Their last album, Descension, has a lot of industrial.kraut kind of grovve and occult clanking but their new Finsternis record is one long linear cycle of drone/feedback/rhythmic build to an overwhelming finish. Not so much 'shoegaze' because the pace is more more dead-eyed stare.

Lutomysl - http://www.myspace.com/lutomysl - ridiculously named album I(')MQUI(nt)ESs/cENCE is where you should go for deep mid-paced howling drone metal. Features the same drummer as Astrofaes and Drudkh, if those names mean anything to you. Both pretty relentlessly rhythmic.

Horna - http://www.myspace.com/thetruehorna - 2008 album Sanojesi Äärelle almost fits your request to the letter – especially the track Liekki Ja Voima, totally wild torrent of rhythms - http://www.last.fm/music/Horna/_/Liekki+ja+Voima

Fell Voices – http://www.myspace.com/fellvoicesca - Gnarly, ultra noisy psychedelic bass-line black metal with fast to slow grooves and a constant sense of momentum. My new favourite band, fwiw.

Menace Ruine - http://www.myspace.com/menaceruine - Creeped out atmopsphere and rhythm -try the track Utterly Destitute http://www.last.fm/music/Menace+Ruine/_/Utterly+Destitute

Wrath of the Weak – http://www.myspace.com/wotw666 - the first self-titled album especially – after that it’s more almost abstracted noise, but the first has a lot of rhythm.

You’re maybe a bit too far away from Shoegaze here by now.

This has made me want to go and make a mixtape now!

Aluk Todolo are great

What was the first heavy metal band you got into?

if we accept a really loose definition of metal, jethro tull
if we're going for a stricter definition, sabbath