Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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.

― Doran, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 10:07 (6 hours ago) Bookmark

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

in re: lj's list, I'm a huge horna fan since '03 or so, they've been around forever & they keep getting better -- recommend pretty much anything from their catalog

the rest I've never heard of

lj, you need to get on the utech tip. best label in the u.s.:

Utech Records S/D

ah cheers guys! utech looks pretty promising; i'll hopefully digest some of this stuff presently :)

Wrath of the Weak is really good, Burzum-inspired stuff. And yeah, Horna has their moments.

What was the first heavy metal band you got into?

Quiet Riot back in 1983.

First metal band I got into: Blue Oyster Cult. (They were my first concert, too.)

New albums whose counterpoised greatnesses I still don't feel I've noted strongly or frequently enough: HIM's Screamworks and Immolation's Majesty and Decay. The sounds of people perfecting some particular thing they've chosen to absolutely dominate...

You beat me to it Glenn. I have crystalline memories of running around in 1978 with an X-Wing fighter in my hand while "Godzilla" was cranking on the stereo.

But the first metal album I really "got" was Metal Health.

METALLICA! Well... Black album Metallica... and then I spent a while lost in the mid-90s alternative wilderness. But the Black album was the first CD I ever bought!

What was your first metal metallica album? ;)

Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning, don't remember the order in which I got them.

LOL ^ it's true!

"Drop out of life, x-wing in hand, follow Godzilla to the promised land..."

First metal band I truly got into was either Maiden or Priest, thanks to a dubbed tape a friend made me with multiple selections from both. First real album I got into on my own was And Justice For All. Fell away from metal in the early 90s thanks to absolutely no metal presence at my lolcollege, so I missed out on a lot of good stuff. Checked back in 98-99, heard a bunch of shitty nu-metal - promptly checked out again (though Slipknot stayed with me). Picked up again major in 2004 and have been filling in gaps ever since.

I had heard Zep & Sabbath from my cousin when I was about 6 ('78 or '79), as well as stuff like BOC and Nazareth; but the first metal I claimed as my own was the Judas Priest compilation Hero, Hero. I saw it at a used record shop and it had the coolest cover ever, plus it was two records and cheaper than buying a single new one. Would have been late '81 - was just entering my heavy D&D phase. Metal Health was when I started to get that there was a whole genre of stuff to explore. That was also when the local record shop carried newly released stuff and not just 70s back catalog - their MTV presence changed everything.

But the Black album was the first CD I ever bought!

same here! well, either that or nevermind. I can't remember.

first lp: some monkees best of
first tape: sir mix a lot "baby's got back" cassingle

I was huge into Justice and Bleach. 1991 disgusted me at age 18 and I skipped the Black Album, Nevermind, Psalm 69, and Angel Rat. Of course I can see the merits in all of these albums now, but of all 4, I've only gone back and actually purchased/examined the Voivod.

first lp: Michael Jackson - Thriller
first tape: Sammy Hagar - VOA (given to my as 8th bday present along with my first boombox, given at approx. 3 PM, tape taken away for alleged swears at approx. 4:15 OM)
first cd: Nirvana - Nevermind

"me" = "my"

it took me about a decade but I just started listening to nevermind again. never really stopped liking it but the overexposure coupled with the perfect mental recollection I had from listening so many times at a young age never really made me want to throw it on.

can't really say the same for the black album. first band that broke my heart. also, it really is a pretty sorry record.

psalm 69 never stopped being awesome, imo.

on another note, I'm watching the iron maiden flight 666 movie and it rules. just thinking about bruce bruce flying all of iron maiden + their crew + their family + their gear all across the world in a giant jet named "ed force one" puts a huge grin on my face.

hm, i didn't know we were doing this but these are the ones I remember buying/stealing:

first LP: Police - Synchronicity
first cassingle: Prince - Batdance
first tape: Metallica - $5.98 EP
first cd: Fu-Schnickens - FU Don't Take It Personal

first cd: Fu-Schnickens - FU Don't Take It Personal

hah - love this!

To get off metal and on topic, my first 7" was Gary Numan "Cars" and my first LP was Yellow Submarine. First cassette was probably Metal Health and first 3 CDs were Pink Floyd - Meddle, Iron Maiden - Killers, and Tad - God's Balls.

i find it hard to believe no one's done this thread before. Where's Jaymc when you need him?

It's been done many times. Just not within the Metal thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnpkcfkQ4lA&feature=related

^^^ jammin this right now

really stretching my memory here...

first full-length tape: probs ride the lightning or master of puppets
first mailorder purchase: nine inch nails - broken
first 7"s: the two brujeria 7"s on alternative tentacles