Rolling Metal Thread 2010

The new Melvins album is pretty bizarre. Nine tracks, the first and last of which are bizarre chants and singalongs. Plus, there's a 7:39 cover of "My Generation" that's straight jacked from Fudge Tunnel's version of "Sunshine Of Your Love." I think Osborne and Crover might be starting to get itchy feet after three albums with the same bassist (and second drummer). It's still really good, though.

I got the deluxe anniversary edition of Judas Priest's British Steel in the mail yesterday, and the booklet kinda pissed me off. So that's what I wrote about on MSN today.

Man, that is really weird.

Yup, especially because Holland's style of playing (dare I say... stiff?) was a pretty big factor in how Priest evolved towards a more 'mechanized' sound in the 1980s.

http://web.orange.co.uk/images/ice/quirkies/thomas_gurrath_europics.jpg

School governors have sacked a philosophy teacher from his job after discovering his secret life - as a blood smeared death metal rock singer.

By day shaven-headed Thomas Gurrath, 29, discussed ethics with his 14-year-old pupils at his high school in Stuttgart.

But by night he calls himself The Bloodbeast and writhes around on stage covered in animal blood with topless backing singers and his band Debauchery.

The band's biggest hits include 'Kill Maim Burn' and 'Torture Pit'.

"It was very worrying to listen to his music and then realise he was teaching our children," said one parent.

Shocked officials ordered Gurrath to quit saying his performances were a form of mental instability that made him unsafe to be around children.

They ordered him to choose between teaching and his music - saying he could no longer teach anywhere in Baden-Wuerttemberg state unless he gave up the band.

But Gurrath said he was too addicted to death metal music to quit and agreed to give up his career as a teacher instead.

Germans... He would've been fine had he been in a thrash or power metal band.

The first few songs on the In This Moment album are okay, but starting with "Blazin'" (which sounds like the song My Ruin have been trying to write their entire career), this thing is an absolute monster.

In case you thought I was joking, here's me and Geir in Oslo last Thursday. He was a perfect gentleman and a great tour guide.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/pointlineplane/Me_and_Geir.jpg

Is Geir really tall? I bet you had a great music chat with him.

Good pic and glad it went well! Are you going to be as nice a tour guide when I come to Portland at the end of the month?

how did geir like the Thrones/OvO/Nadja show?

jj check email please

I'm a great Portland tour guide. Look me up. Best to book me in advance though, I get really busy!

Geir is normal height. I'm not...

And now way was I going to try to seduce him into watching Thrones, haha. That's like the antithesis of what' he's into.

if its funk related, gotcha pfunk

I got the deluxe anniversary edition of Judas Priest's British Steel in the mail yesterday, and the booklet kinda pissed me off.

Kiss did the same thing when they re-released Creatures of the Night with Bruce Kulick on the cover. Yes, it's fine that Priest has been distancing themselves from Dave Holland and that whole controversy, but to ignore his contributions to the band is wrong. He had one of the sharpest rock backbeats you will ever hear.

thanks jj, (also sent non ilx related email)

THE HIGH CONFESSIONS, a newly formed band featuring Chris Connelly (MINSTRY, REVOLTING COCKS, KILLING JOKE), Steve Shelley (SONIC YOUTH), Sanford Parker (MINSK, NACHTMYSTIUM, BURIED AT SEA), and noted recording engineer Jeremy Lemos (SMOG, STEREOLAB, JIM O’ROURKE), as posted the first preview of music on the band’s MySpace page: http://www.MySpace.com/TheHighConfessions.

The track, “Chlorine And Crystal”, comes from the band’s debut album Turning Lead Into Gold With The High Confessions that will be released on July 20th via Relapse Records. Turning Lead Into Gold With The High Confessions was recorded in Chicago, IL with Parker and Lemos engineering. Additional album details can be found at http://shop.relapse.com/store/product.aspx?ProductID=38891

Steve Shelley (SONIC YOUTH)

O_O :-D

interesting song their on their MySpace page . . . i'll have to listen to it again. record has potential to be something, at least

I knew that you would be interested.

thanks, man

Most of ilx wont read this thread so feel free to start a thread about it

I've read your blog before but am just now noticing you were editor-in-chief of Metal Edge. that's badass. used to read that when I was in high school just getting into metal!

i bet you read his other mag he was in charge of too!

due to the major reductions in inventory the chains around here are doing, plus the closures of some FYEs, and the presence of only one indie store which tends to focus on indie rock and hardcore more than metal, I signed up for Amazon's "Prime" membership. It's $79/year, which I would normally say was pretty steep, but for someone who buys a lot of music like myself, I think I'll make what I spent back within a month -- basically you get two-day shipping for free on every order, and overnight for $3.99 per item.

So now it's essentially like, if I want an album and awnt the physical thing and not some burnt copy of it, if the indie store doesn't have it I can get it on Amazon and ship it fast. The beauty is their prices are cheaper since they do business in bulk, whereas the indies aren't. I'll still support the indie store though as I think there's much value in keeping it alive - but probably won't use them for metal.

So you all need to give me an assload of death metal albums from 2009-2010 (brutal death) to buy as I'm trying to catch up. I already have the latest Festered and Abscess.

and the latest Nile and Immolation (which I bought at their show)

Get Vaseleth, darnit. There's a death metal record right there.

added to list. oh this could be dangerous. if I'm homeless next year, this threadi s why.

Stuff in my hard drive right now that you might like: Coffinworm, When All Become None; Die, Rise of the Rotten; Fatalist, The Depths of Inhumanity; Hooded Menace, Never Cross the Dead; Lost Soul, Immerse in Infinity; Order of Ennead, An Examination of Being; Unleashed, As Yggdrasil Trembles.

Coffinworm is great, more doom/death ,but that suits me since i dont care for most death metal. Hooded Menace is great too, but I thought that was more sludgy. Anyway both are on Profoundlore who are one of the best metal labels around just now. You might want to check out the latest Cobalt (BM) and my mates who like DM would say check out Portal.

who are also on profoundlore

thanks guys! think that'll do me for a while!

from 2008 but if you haven't heard it yet, I'd throw a big recommendation in for decrepit birth diminishing between worlds. I'm not much of a tech-death guy but this album is killer. I still listen to it all the time.

"Last Night: Metallica Bassist Jason Newsted's First Art Exhibit"

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2010/05/jason_newsted.php

man, i've always thought Newstead was great, but i just read that and it makes me like him even more

love the quote at the end from his my mom.

from his my mom.

Woah! Alan "N," makes sense now!!

looooooooooooooool

I couldn't hide this secret any longer since it's mother's day and all

I've got some insider gossip for you guys too: metallica are a bunch of assholes

oh man, i love Metallica

http://images.philsfiles.info/napster-lars.jpg

oh man, i love Metallica

sorry to be the bearer of bad news :-(

hahaha, it's alright. still love 'em

Just heard the new Nevermore. Mmm. "Emptiness Unobstructed" goes straight into my best-songs-of-the-year candidate list.

Really in love w/ the opening track on the new Ludicra. I love how the singer shifts from black metal "screaming" to regular singing.

http://mashable.com/2010/05/10/twitocalypse-heavy-metal/

According to an e-mail we received this morning, the Twitter bug and ensuing 0 followers/0 following fiasco was inadvertently started by a Turkish fan of heavy metal band Accept. When this young man tweeted “Accept pwnz,” he found that the user @pwnz was suddenly following him.

Tee-hee. Surprise attack, coming from the back.

Really enjoying that new Hour of 13 album btw, Dio-era Sabbath with Ozzy vocals and some nice Lifesonesque riffage, excellent stuff.