Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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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.

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^^^ 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

the first metal tape I bought was Master of Puppets, second was Maiden's Somewhere in Time. '86 was a huge shift in taste for me. Before that the hardest stuff I liked was AC/DC and Zeppelin. partially because of MTV, I got into hair metal after that - was big into Twisted Sister, the first Tesla album, Judas Priest, Quiet Riot, stuff like that.

Menace Ruine are pretty good. I was listening to Radiance by Nadja yesterday and the new Blood Of The Black Owl; both awesome.

The first metal album I bought was Iron Maiden ST (a few years after the fact), then a couple of weeks later Live After Death. The first Metallica album I bought was Ride The Lightning. But then I got into drugs and the Butthole Surfers and didn't buy any metal for a few years.

Listening to the new Lair of the Minotaur disc, Evil Power. I don't know...I want to love this band, because on the surface they're the ultimate metal band - their name, the fact that their albums have titles like Carnage, The Ultimate Destroyer and War Metal Battle Master, the video for the last album's title track - but I just don't feel like they're living up to their potential. In my opinion, they peaked with The Ultimate Destroyer.

I love the new LOTM album! They've gone totally primitive, very Darkthrone-ish at times, and the more simplified, direct approach pays off hugely. It's huge, it's blunt, it's dumb, but it's the catchiest stuff they've ever done. This band was made to make true, rousing battle metal anthems, and they've finally done that.

first 3 CDs were Pink Floyd - Meddle, Iron Maiden - Killers, and Tad - God's Balls.

I didn't think God's Balls was released on CD except for that truncated version tacked to the end of Salt Lick?

Anyway, these are my firsts:

First single: Def Leppard - 'Animal'
First tape: Michael Jackson - Bad
First LP: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles OST
First CD: Soundgarden - Superunknown (I still love this one)

Can't wait for LOTM. Just received new Darkthrone though... which should be good.

I stand by my take on the LOTM disc. I think it's been all downhill for them since The Ultimate Destroyer. Based on the new song they played last night, though, I'm very excited for the next disc by The Sword. (I also hope they record and release the version of Thin Lizzy's "Cold Sweat" they played, 'cause that kicked all kinds of ass.) I didn't get either of those on video (I was still online during the new song and only heard it because it was an outdoor show, and...well, I just didn't record the other one), but you can see them play an older song, and see the first song of Motörhead's set ("Iron Fist") right here.

I gotta tell you, this Flip Video camera/device is fucking amazing. It cost me $185, and the recording quality is fantastic. I feel kinda goofy using it, because the model user in the TV commercials is, like, a six-year-old girl, but fuck it - the thing works.

Oh, and as far as firsts are concerned, my first metal album was by Judas Priest...might have been Point of Entry, might have been Screaming for Vengeance, I don't remember exactly, but it was right around 1982-83 that I discovered them and immediately became a huge fan and had my dad (parents were divorcing) buy me pretty much their whole catalog from Sin After Sin through Screaming, which was new then. I specifically remember picking up British Steel and Hell Bent for Leather in one of those big chain stores where the cassettes were in almost indestructible plastic sleeve things that I had to chop open with a knife because the cashier hadn't removed them before we left the store. I had those two and Screaming on cassette, but the others - Sin After Sin, Unleashed in the East, and Point of Entry (I never had Stained Class) were on vinyl.

I should be more nervous about interviewing Lemmy in front of what I'm thinking is gonna be 5-600 people today, but I'm weirdly calm. I'll probably flip out and shit myself (only figuratively, I hope) about 4 PM CST, when we're meeting up - the event starts at 5PM CST. It doesn't look like it's gonna be webcast or anything, fortunately/unfortunately.

Lemmy was the coolest guy ever when I met him at an aftershow my sophomore year of college and clumsily asked him for an impromptu interview. He gave me 10 minutes of his time, answered all my stupid questions, and then offered me some Jack Daniels at the end.

But yeah, I can understand how interviewing him in front of a big audience would be an entirely different thing -- DON'T CHOKE.

Good luck Unperson, and say hello to Lisa and Jenny from me. Would love to be there for the Home Of Metal shizzle alone.

Wish I could see that Q&A with Lemmy, as well as to see all the Voivod shows down there this week. Best of luck, Phil!

Yeah, my nervousness is all about the presence of a live audience. I know exactly how cool and helpful/friendly Lemmy himself is; I've interviewed him twice before. In fact, the first one is one of my favorite stories ever, and I don't think I've ever shared it here. So here goes.

The interview took place in 2003, when Motörhead was supporting Hammered and I was still EIC of High Society. I met up with them at The World, a club owned by the WWE, and since it was for High Society, we brought along two female models. Lemmy and I did a half-hour interview, which went great, and then he sat down on this big leather couch to be photographed, and the girls took their clothes off. Whereupon the WWE flack in the room shit himself, immediately trying to quash the whole thing and have all of us ejected from the building. We started frantically arguing, pointing out that there were no WWE logos in the shot (the couch was propped up against a blank wall) and that we promised not to reveal the location of the shoot in the final piece (we didn't; we just said "High Society caught up with Motörhead when they came through New York), and on and on. Either way, I was dragged upstairs afterward to meet with some VP of something or other at WWE Entertainment, had to sign some papers swearing to all of the above, blah blah blah. Totally bonkers, to my mind; oily dudes in Speedos are okay, but naked women aren't? Oh, well. Lemmy was totally good-humored about it all, of course.

I didn't think God's Balls was released on CD except for that truncated version tacked to the end of Salt Lick?

That's what I had. Didn't realize that this has never been corrected? I'll have to ask Tad about that next time I'm in Seattle.