Rolling Metal Thread 2010

Agalloch still in pre-production. With luck it could be out by year's end.

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I'm hoping that my love for this new Cathedral will unlock some of the secrets of their catalog. I've only liked their purist doom albums until this latest...

Saw Immortal in '02; didn't feel the need to see them again in '07 or last night (especially since last night's gig was in Brooklyn). Next shows I'm going to are High On Fire/Priestess/Bison B.C. next Friday, and then Amon Amarth toward the end of April.

That Amon Amarth is in nyc? Date?

Irving Plaza, April 25.

saw immortal live last night btw. it was a blast! (of course.)

― ¬_¬ (Alan N), Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:06 AM

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Did they play this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehnRt3LaLUc

yeah, when the lights went on. kinda like maiden and "always look on the bright side of life".

Immortal would be great fun to see. Too bad they're not into more extensive touring.

And congrats, Nate! The wait for that Agalloch album has been far too long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLkOYHYQ2tc

really like the new Fear Factory. it's amazing how simple a formula they've stuck to for all these years, and while they aren't exactly genre defining artists, they know how to craft a solid tune.

saw em tonight tho and boy was Burton hoarse. and I don't mean by the end of the show, I mean by the third song.

ok so was at the high on fire etc. show this evening and i dont want to ruin anyones hopes but U_U

not good? :-(

bison b.c. - super awesome
black cobra - also super awesome
priestess - had me for the first 3 songs and then got BORING. also let the not lead singer dude sing more because he was 1000% better than the regular dude
high on fire - ok seriously how stupid are you dudes. PLAY SOME SHIT OFF THE NEW ALBUM. and lets be clear i dig the blessed black wings stuff (none of which seemed to be happening) but yer new shit is the reason i got dudes that hated yer stuff to come out to the show. waited patiently for snakes for the divine and bastard samurai, but you had to spend an hour fucking noodling and boring the fuck out of me. fuck your back catalog, and fuck you for making me get bored enough not to care if you were going to bother to encore with shit i cared about.

fucking terrible

haha uh xpost yeah NO

on the positive side, i have locked my AWESOME GIRLY METAL vote for the year, and it is the devin townsend project - addicted. amazing.

I love that Devin Townsend record! Made my P&J poll last year.

Also, I would definitely say that Fear Factory are genre defining artists -- they pretty much defined their hybrid of industrial and death metal.

also (and i know this is old news by now) but holy shit the ex deo romulus is the album i should have voted up in last years metal poll (or uh would have if i had heard it). so so good.

xpost yah srsly, track 7 (ih-ah?) is the prettiest poppy thing i have heard in years. i would listen to the radio if it sounded like that!

oh boo i just checked the release date and my 2010 girly metal vote is DENIED

high on fire -

fucking terrible

haha uh xpost yeah NO

― HOT DISH THYME MACHINE (jjjusten), donderdag 1 april 2010 8:22 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

with love to jjjusten, I have never been disappointed (like, in the slightest) by a high on fire show, and the # of people at a show - by any band, usually - whose complaint is "not enough new stuff!" is generally pretty dang low

I can't wait to hear the new High on Fire stuff live. Hopefully they'll be trekking across Western Canada soon (they always do). And yeah, I can see Priestess being absolutely dwarfed by the other three bands on that crushing bill. I don't really understand the love for that band at all.

Oh, and the new Cathedral is pretty darn great. Especially the first half.

Priestess 'meh' co-signed, but their drummer is quite something tho, one of the hardest hitters I've ever seen. He broke *three* snare drums in the first three song when they opened for Bigelf last month in Amsterdam.

^ Jealous you got to see Bigelf! I passed on seeing the Closer To Doom tour and have regretted it ever since.

Hmm...

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/ludicra-the-tenant-review-extreme-metal-gender/Content?oid=1604619

That article had me, and then swiftly lost me.

I'm kinda surprised Bison are the first band on that bill - Black Cobra should be opening the show. And I like Priestess. But whatever.

Yeah, Bigelf is a pretty sweet live band. Fun moment at that show: when Damon Fox gave a shout-out to former tour buddies Dream Theater to thunderous applause, he happened to look straight at me (arms folded across my Bolt Thrower tee) and my equally non-impressed mate who gave him a nice big Taake-style thumbs down. Luckily that put a big smile on his face, although he did say he would "tell Mike Portnoy". Good times.

that review should be posted on its own thread for all to read it.

what is the most masculine genre of music?

ok in the cold bright not quite as drunk as i was last night light of day, i was maybe a bit too harsh re:HOF upthread, but it def was a disappointment not to hear much of anything off the new album. i also have a mongo hatred for the save the new shit for the third encore ploy, which i assumed was what happened. idk tho, because the dude who i convinced to go to the show by getting him into the new album was getting super irritable so we left towards the end of the main set.

Usually when an albums only out for a few weeks people complain there's too much new stuff and want older material they're more familiar with.

I don't say this super-often: Herman otm!

Yeah, but I just listed the Snakes again, that shit fucking rocks. Id be bummed if it didnt get a big air at a concert i went to. Hell, its short enought to play the whole thing.

Guys I have tried with Blessed Black Wings like a half-dozen times but, though I really like its sound and style, it just never sticks to my ribs, never draws me back for more listens. Is the new one likely to turn me?

BBW snared me halfway through the first song, I must have listened to that twice a day for a month when it first came out. The new one is different, a little faster tempo most of the way through, but i dont really have the writer chops to describe it.

the only way it's gonna be a big deal that there are women in Ludicra, is if writers make a big deal out of it.

hey guys i'm thinking about stopping by the record store today, and have bought almost no metal so far this year (just new arsis and new hof). what's one thing i should get? if you want to sell me on it in a sentence or two that would be awesome.

Ludicra

If the new Cathedral is there BUY IT. Everything ppl are saying upthread about it is true.

I just don't get the Cathedral love. I'll keep trying..

The Triptykon album is out.

xpost I wasn't crazy about the Cathedral I'd heard before, but the new thing is just an undeniable conquering force.

If the new Cathedral is there BUY IT. Everything ppl are saying upthread about it is true.

^^^^

album of the year

I love the new Abscess, like, a lot a lot, so there's that, too

ok guys; i hope they have it!

Cathedral should be out if you're in the UK; US release is April 20.

I like the new Cathedral a bunch. It makes me giggle a bit without being ~wacky~ and some of the riffs are all-timers

There should be a name for the thing they do on the last song on the album, where they incorporate all their old album titles into the lyrics

oh n/m; it will not be out

You need to download it and write an IOU to remind yourself to pick it up. I have it pre-ordered at my local shop but couldn't wait after all the effusive praise.

i'll remember---i try to download in advance as little as possible.

"Guys I have tried with Blessed Black Wings like a half-dozen times but, though I really like its sound and style, it just never sticks to my ribs, never draws me back for more listens. Is the new one likely to turn me?"

i'm in the minority on ilm, they bore the hell out of me. i tried with every album. i really liked the first ten seconds or whatever of blessed black wings. that drum intro. i never liked anything by them more than that. so, i've kinda given up. watched the video for the new song off of the new album and hit the snooze button. hey, ten seconds of pleasure is better than nothing, i guess.