Rolling Metal Thread 2010

Blown away by the new Nechochwen album Azimuths to the Otherworld, as seen on Invisible Oranges. If you thought Wardruna was cool, but wished it had metal bits, this may be your album.

Really digging the new Danzig album. Working in a trio (he plays bass as well as sings; Tommy Victor's on guitar and Johnny Kelly's playing drums) suits him. No keyboards, a stripped-down blues/hard rock sound. He's in full-on Elvis mode on "Ju Ju Bone," but there's one song here, "On a Wicked Night," where he sounds uncannily like Ian Astbury from The Cult. I said on Twitter that it's not as good as Danzig, but it's at least as good as Danzig 4, and I'm starting to think it's better. Really a striking return to form.

so, I guess I'm interested in a new danzig album now. stranger things have happened... but that's pretty freakin' strange.

last "new" danzig album I've listened to: Danzig 5: Blackacidevil (lol)

isnt a small turn of human kindness an old harvey milk song from My Love Is Higher... ?

yep

saw cannibal corpse last night, was bummed because I showed up late since 1349 was supposed to be opening & I don't really give a shit about 1349 but they'd been replaced with Diabolic, who I totally fucking love and would have like to have seen

cc was awesome anyway & skeletonwitch put on a good show

April 19, 2010
For Immediate Release:

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are 1349 off the tour? they weren't there at my show either and the opening acts were apologizing fori t but there was no replacement at my show....

idk but if diabolic has replaced them that's better value for money imo - diabolic are a great band and I'm sorry I missed them

I was happy that George Fisher didn't follow suit of like EVERY DEATH METUHL FRONTMAN EVAR and thank the audience for not being trend-following sheep that support that "flavor of the month" crap......

saw ludicra tonight, they ROCKED.

(roxymuzak's band opened, they ROCKED pretty good too.)

Yeah, 1349 got volcano-ized and will apparently be joining the tour a few dates in.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G0CCWUr9caQ/S9LqkiJdDwI/AAAAAAAAAw4/CPpxsBovS2k/s1600/doom_in__june_poster-final.jpg

used my gambling winnings to go on a shopping spree, checking out the new Abscess and Skeletonwitch atm....

the skeletonwitch is awes

I really liked them live....frontman has a lot of charisma. and their sound is definitely up my alley.

This might interest some folks...on Sunday night, I recorded Anna Murphy of Eluveitie explaining and demonstrating the hurdy-gurdy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT89FrGpMLI

neat!

Cool clip! It's neat when she does the wah-wah bit with the hurdy-gurdy on "Grey Sublime Archon".

awesome. they're such a good live show.

If anyone here has a last.fm account please join our group http://www.last.fm/group/ILX+Rolling+Metal+Group

Glenn, Manowar and Amon Amarth aren't metal?

new Decibel is on newsstands -- just grabbed a copy. unfortunately, the record store did not have last year's Converge, so i got Caribou -- a decidedly not metal record

so uh i was super-psyched to buy the new cathedral today, annnnnd.....the first disc is fucked. i only got it to play once in the car (wouldn't even cue on 5 other tries) and there was some fucked up digital noise on every track. disc 2 is fine, and really enjoyable. should i just return/get another copy? scared that one will be damaged too.

yeah return it

Return it. The copy I bought is fine.

pfunkboy, I think you meant that comment for the Listening Club thread. Where I was joking...

Nightwish fans, check out 1:07-1:14 and 1:26- 1:31:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JjMBsh8x_g

What...the...

just got around to the new overkill. it RULES.

Seriously Pitchfork, do you just hate giving metal that much attention? A very deserved 8.4 for the new Alcest, but still won't give it the 'Best New Music' tag.

I guess the better question is, why do I keep visiting that site?

they obviously dont think their readership will be interested in metal.

I guess it just irks me because a lot of bands get a boost from getting the BNM tag anymore, and I'd certainly love to see Alcest get the boost in attention (and just maybe income) instead of another boring hipster band.

countdown to the 1st alcest are a hipster band post ..

Hahaha yeah, I figured I would just run with that risk.

Who chooses what gets the BNM tag? I assume it's not the reviewer, so blame the moron who gets to choose.

I'm assuming its an editorial thing. I know its a stupid thing to care about in the least.

alcest are a hipster band just fyi xpost

yawn

And....... SCENE.

Pitchfork has a metal column right? Maybe they should have a Best New Metal tag ;)

maybe we can have a poll over how Pitchfork should tag new metal releases

I figured I'd get my pointless bitching out of the way in this thread, no point starting a whole new thread over it.

yeah because it would just become yet another pitchfork thread where they discuss the usual shit and ignore your post

Like I said, its kind of a stupid thing to care about, but I was talking to a dude at my local store and he was telling me that he pretty much has to automatically double the orders for any album Pitchfork BNM'd album.

Pitchfork has a metal column right?

More like HAD a metal column. The last edition of Show No Mercy was almost a year ago.

Pardon my redundancy above.

I never read pitchfork unless a review is linked to from ilm. I dont even know what bands they give a best BNM tag to, but Im not surprised they wont give it to a metal band.

but I was talking to a dude at my local store and he was telling me that he pretty much has to automatically double the orders for any album Pitchfork BNM'd album.

Now I didn't realise a BNM tag was such a big deal. I can see why its sought after then.

I remember way back in the early - mids 90s (before britpop really)if an album got 5 K's in Kerrang or a 9/10 in NME, Our Price in Hamilton would get loads of ppl asking for said album (including myself haha). Half the time they didn't have it and would need to order it in. I think I bought the 1st Marilyn Manson because of a glowing Kerrang review Plus trent reznor had produced it. I probably discovered Dirt by AiC that way too tbf.

So i suppose a BNM tag could help pitchfork readers get out of their comfort genres and check stuff out. Did Boris or Mastodon ever get a BNM tag?