Rolling Metal Thread 2010

thanks for the heads up on the beeps, I'll just ignore that email now & probably the albums too - that's a fuckin insulting promotional strategy imo

not a critic so I obv haven't heard any of these promos... but forget whether it's insulting or not. - that just seems like such a self-defeating strategy! I would totally end up hating any album that beeped at me every 30secs like that.

make the whole reviews about the beeping and how shite it is. They will soon stop doing it if everyone did that. They need positive reviews to sell their product.

That sort of review has been written before, and it's always really, really obnoxious because no one besides critics care. At all.

Yeah, I've read a few of those reviews before, and they just come across as kind of petulant. I do wish labels would knock it off though.

just decided to give The Locust another go with their Plague Soundscapes album...so far so good.

Argentinian heavy metal band with Hasidic lead singer -- Atzmus (Atzmus in Hebrew means 'essence')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKaN82PWkyY

Ironically enough, I read the Decibel review of the Howl record last night -- and the reviewer does mention the beeps. So there you go, Pfunk.

Decibel is sliding toward d-bagdom. I would never have run a review that included bitching about beeps on a promo.

just dont review albums then if they have beeps or voiceovers.

mortal kombat soundtrack an unfortunate victim of new "no beeps/voiceovers" policy.

it explains phils hatred of IDM ;)

I have a hatred of IDM? [Pretty much every Autechre release from LP5 through the new one in my iPod right now.]

curious - are you not into their pre-lp5 stuff? or is the newer material just what happens to be on your ipod right now.

Don't like the early stuff. Owned Tri Repetae (the 2CD US version that came paired with EPs), but it was too crunchy/industrial - not what I come to Autechre for.

interesting. I've never found anyone who only rates the later stuff but have found plenty of folks who feel the opposite way.

not saying this is a negative, btw. I (mostly) love it all.

also, my fave slab of ae probably is the US bonus disc for tri repeatae!

I would never have run a review that included bitching about beeps on a promo.

Yeah, in the end that's just not necessary, everyone forgets about beeps or voice-overs once the actual record's out. If I'm assigned such an album by a magazine, I bite the bullet and work around it, but if it's my decision I don't waste my time, and wait until I can get a proper copy.

Cethkyn rock

Thanks to all the talk about Killing Joke, I now have Night Time spinning around in my head. I know it's more mersh than the first few albums, but it's really fucking good.

Went to see Ludicra last night in Chicago and even down one person and they were so totally great that it was worth spending three hours sitting through two unbelievably dull opening bands.

I would write more but it's 7am and I have to go to day 1 of the world's more boring academic conference and STILL I had to note that this show was TOP FUCKING NOTCH. So very glad I went.

I shot a quick interview with three members of Bison b.c. at the Gramercy Theater in NYC on Friday night. Here 'tis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rMAiJWS9ng

Working my way through the whole Celtic Frost catalog, prompted by recent discussion, and I just got to the end of Vanity/Nemesis. I had forgotten about the amazingly great cover of Bowie's Heroes. Intense.

Maybe we should start a metal listening club. I know I've been listening to a lot of classic stuff lately (mostly Absurd, At the Gates, Atheist, Bathory, Burzum, Carcass, Darkthrone, Emperor, Entombed, Life of Agony, Paradise Lost, Sepultura w/r/t the work I'm doing on death metal growl vocals, and then like Ensiferum, Melechesh, Primordial, Skyclad, Subway to Sally, Ulver + Waylander...)

i would actually be into that

oh, great idea! totally would be into that.

I would be into that too! Might be a good way for me to fill in the gaps in my collection too.

Working my way through the whole Celtic Frost catalog

Me too, just finished my Roadburn build up feature on TGW and the Hellhammer book. Morbid Tales is still my favorite CF album, but really there's so much to love about that band, it's nuts. Tomorrow Triptykon will play its first show ever in Germany, very anxious to see which 1980s CF songs will be included in the setlist ("Mesmerized" has been mentioned).

I'd be up for some sort of listening club. I missed a lot of metal in my decades away - I'd love a guided tour.

How would it work? 3 albums per week of a specific era/scene/aesthetic and then discuss em starting the next monday or something?

I feel I've accidentally wandered into a bizarro world Friends set

I guess listening clubs aren't very kvlt.

more like Fiends.

Fiends is a great name for a listening club!

Question: Is everyone responsible for acquiring the albums or will there be a place they're posted?

I think it would be best if people were responsible for acquiring them themselves, just to keep any taint of the illegal from ILX.

Should be separate thread IMO.

There's always the advantage of Spotify for our UK friends and those North Americans who use it as well...though on this board that could still be a big minority.

If no one else has started one first, I'll start a Rolling Metal Fiends Listening Thread something something when I get home tonight. The real question is upon whose authority/advice we're going to be listening. We could maybe take shifts w/r/t our areas of expertise? Like I'd be happy to offer albums on folk metal, or oriental metal, or NSBM, whatever. (Stuff I've studied/studying.)

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/b/b4/Fiends.png

maybe we could trade off weeks on a volunteer basis? and going by genre sounds cool but I think it'd be fun to leave the picks fully up to whoever selects for the week. (by genre or whatever else floats yer boat.)

i would like to participate but i don't know if i can commit to this ^^ . is there room for someone like that?

Why not?

I'm more than happy to listen and discuss, but some of you dudes make me feel woefully inadequate when it comes to recommendations and I'll be thrilled just to hear what gets suggested to listen to.

Why not?
I have 2 jobs and other things to do; I also don't do well with commitment (ask the CHILX book club)

No, I mean, why wouldn't you be allowed to participate? It's volunteer recommendations. Probably kerr will be in charge most weeks or something like that.

ok then
i'll give it a tyr

Im in charge of nothing, but doing a different genre per week is probably a great idea. But im no writer so I dont think i'll be contributing.

Wouldn't one of the real troo metalheads like skot or j0hn be the best to run it anyway?

or everyone could have a turn to choose the album to be discussed

I think just taking turns would be easiest. this shouldn't be work for anyone.

quick thoughts on the new cathedral:

* how great is the post-solo riffage 4mins into "painting in the dark"? one of those, "oh yes, this is gonna be a great album" moments for me.

* despite his subdued performance, anyone keep waiting for lee dorian to bust out a "midnight mountain"-style "OH YEAH" during some of this? caveat: I haven't listened to a new cathedral album since the ethereal mirror so I have no idea if the dude stopped busting out "OH YEAH"s like seven albums ago.

* best "kinda metal but mostly hard-rockin psych" album since the last (totally, totally great) witchcraft lp?