Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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.

yeah, the last album was solid and slept-on, imo. excited for the new one.

It tops the debut easily. Too bad I haven't been able to check Adrien's Decibel piece on them yet, still haven't received the previous issue :(

Yeah, I was amazed at how strong the Hour of 13 album turned out to be.

On a different note, this is too awesome for words. Trve Kvlt Svrf: http://heavyrocks.blogg.no/1273518217_charlie_varg_vikernes.html

Dang, I wanted to do a surf 7" of Carcass covers.

picked up Monstrosity's "Spiritual Apocalypse". good stuff, different than I was expecting. kinda reminds me of Behemoth with the "blackened" style stripped out and more traditional death vocals.

Has anyone else heard the new Castevet album? More Brooklyn black metal, but this one has some very cool dips into Fugazi-style hardcore.

wow, that's an interesting mix.

Got it in the mail but haven't heard it yet; was too busy ranting about Limp Bizkit.

I want to hear the Castevet but theres an indie castevet going about too, confusing. Everytime i see the thread on vlv i think its about the new york bm band and its not.

More Brooklyn black metal, but this one has some very cool dips into Fugazi-style hardcore.

this is trollbait but I see through this stuff so y'all can quit trying to get me to be a hater. my hater days are over! people can play whatever kind of music they want and it's all ok by me, I'll just be over here with a Grave Miasma album.

lol

so i guess there's a gorguts/krallice/portal/bloody panda show happening down the street from me in a couple weeks? i want to go but it also sounds incredibly exhausting.

Thats my kind of exhausting!

oh man, i should go to that show

wow, it's cheap

seeing & really being able to enjoy four bands in a row is difficult for me but that's one hell of a bill. a couple of days ago I revisited gorguts' underrated imo from wisdom to hate -- what a fucking incredible band. portal will be super interesting and bloody panda great too.