Rolling Metal Thread 2010

If there was any justice in the world, God Forbid would be bigger than Killswitch Engage.

I liked Killswitch's older vocalist better than Howard Jones.

when they got him I was hoping it would be the 80's pop singer :(

what is metalcore love?

Baby don't hurt me

no one is to blame (for metalcore)

Metalcore Can Only Get better

(no it cant remix)

New Metalcore Song

Enjoying the two-song Embers preview that Cosmo stumped for on Invisible Oranges recently. Not quite as druidic as Wolves in the Throne Room or Blood of the Black Owl, but with a vaguely similar density.

Got advance CD-Rs of the 30th anniversary reissue of British Steel in today's mail. Disc One is the remastered album, plus two bonus tracks: "Red, White and Blue" and a live "Grinder." (I think these are the same bonus tracks that were on the last reissue of this album.) In addition to a full in-concert run-through of the album, the live disc includes versions of "The Ripper," "Hell Patrol," "Victim of Changes," "Freewheel Burning," "Diamonds and Rust" and "You've Got Another Thing Coming." The third disc is a 90-minute DVD which has the same live concert as the CD (with "Prophecy" added) and a new interview about the album. So there you go.

Was the previous remastering decent?

got my profoundlore order in today, but they have another couple of albums new on sale now I wish I had waited and ordered too. Oh well maybe next month, im totally skint now. spent all my money i had saved up this year

Was the previous remastering decent?

Yeah, it sounded good. One other thing this version does, though, is restore the original running order, with "Breaking the Law" as track 3 instead of opening the disc with it, the way the first US version did.

XPost: Cheers Acolethic. It's quite frightening how many people think it's real. (Although I'm not sure how international a thing April Fool's Day is.)

Caught part of this on the way home today — Acrassicauda was on NPR's Fresh Air:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125471921

Day two of Ludicra tour, John Cobbett's appendix burst and is surrounded by an abscess the size of a baseball. Olympia, Seattle, Boise, and Salt Lake City canceled so far. So much for "De-cancelation".

I spent my Friday night in the E.R. with John. Here he is throwing the horns through a shroud of mortal agony. "The Trooper" in real life...

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs429.snc3/24758_409254006413_741406413_5043196_7700616_n.jpg

With luck, dates will resume as scheduled in Denver this Tuesday. There will likely be a paypal account set up soon for the uninsured and bummer-prone. First Mayhem ditched us, now this. I love Ludicra.

Hope he'll be OK.

They've had the worst luck as far as touring goes this year! Yay Ludicra, boo US healthcare.

Soooooooooo.

What do you guys think of Finntroll?

A++

According to Profound Lore, Cobbett seems to be doing better. Re-de-cancellation FTW! Man, if there was one band I would love to see coming to Europe it would be Hammers of Misfortune. But I'd definitely settle for Ludicra too :)

There was room for a Ghetto Boys homage photo session here somewhere. Get well soon.

so i was in a specialty store looking to rebuy fear factory's obsolete on cd, which of course wasn't there (how this disc now is impossible to find in local chain stores here, I'll never guess). but I saw the new High on Fire and based on the raves here, checked it out.

wooooooooooooooooooooooow. \m/

That scares me abt the burst appendix, especially the abscess part! Was there much infection? I hope he plays it safe if necessary even if that means disappointing some heads.

Seeing Opeth at Terminal 5 on Wednesday. Super stoked. IIRC from the announcement, one normal set and one set comprising all of Blackwater Park. Catching up on Damnation and Ghost Reveries today neither of which I've heard yet.

There will likely be a paypal account set up soon for the uninsured and bummer-prone.

John Cobbett fundraiser: http://www.gigposters.com/classifieds/detail.php?siteid=10951&pre=1

Great poster for a great show. And so far the only show of this tour :(

Just finished reading TGFW's Only Death Is Real, about his Hellhammer days. For such a physically imposing book, it's actually fairly thin as art. Tons of pictures, but most of them are promo photos, and most of those are blurry. The snippets from people other than TGFW are, as a whole, less guarded and more interesting than TGFW's own writing, which, like in his blog, tends to be stiff and declaratory instead of personal and revealing. And there isn't that much of it, either, and the story doesn't end so much as stop. I'm not upset I bought it, or anything, but it's definitely not a book I'd recommend as anything other than a TGFW artifact.

I enjoyed it, the photo's provide a nice down to earth contrast to TGW's amusing selfpromotion in the writing. But yeah, too bad it stops just when Celtic Frost really starts taking off. Guess we'll have to wait until he finally rewrites Are You Morbid?, which I haven't read. Pretty psyched for Triptykon @ Roadburn next week!

Ludicra tour resumes with a quartet lineup this Thursday in St Paul, MN until John can rejoin the group. Hopefully much sooner than later.

Meanwhile, here's the paypal/donations link set up by Wolves in the Throneroom:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=10894259&blogID=532297242

Holy fuck. Just getting around to Triptykon, this thing is massive. I love it.

I think scotts rule of shorter albums applies here. It's no Monotheist sadly, but some of it's really good.

Oh I don't know, it keeps up such a good pace throughout that I don't mind at all how long it is.

Is Monotheist something I should look into more or less immediately?

yes!

One of the greatest comeback albums of all time

ok, just bought it. thanking you

You live in a record store or something?

I would still say that Candlemass s/t is the best reunion album I've ever heard. Monotheist is... ok.

Never liked Candlemass. Monotheist, though...that's some almost Gira-esque shit.

Had a good time interviewing Brian Posehn today. We only barely talked about metal, I mostly wanted to know about his writing process and the evolution of his performing style, comedy-nerd stuff like that, but the whole conversation was enjoyable and easy. Smart dude, and didn't just use my questions as an excuse to vomit up schtick, which I was worried about, having never interviewed a comedian before (unless Christopher Hitchens counts).

xpost to Herman

iTunes

4 hours to Opeth argghrhrrgh

ksh, i know, but it's just strange to see someone paying for mp3s instead of lovely vinyl or cd.

:-)

All labels should sell vinyl with download copies so that way you get something physical to play + mp3s for your ipod. Fuck all this need space bollocks!

^ completely agree with this

btw nate are you actually out on the tour w/ludicra? because if so ill try to find you on thursday

xpost Current 93 did exactly that with their vinyl reissues. You could DL the MP3s immediately.

solid screen name Jon L, good work