Rolling Metal Thread 2010

Wow. Thanks for passing along the news.

not shocking but i think they had one more good one in 'em based on how good wavering radiant was. bands don't really "break up" anymore unless there are mad personal issues (which isn't the case here) but this is certainly a fair time to take a break. guess i'll check tickets for those boston shows in june.

two nights in a row at the Paradise with the Melvins. gonna try to go i think

gonna try and catch the montreal show now. i really wanted to go because of cave in, but now i have to go. too bad the fucking website for buying tix is DOWN. arg.

wavering radiant was a good note to end on. like they said, i'm glad they didn't force it. i think what's most disappointing about this whole thing is that none of the members really have any satisfying side projects outside of isis.

I wish they'd broken up after Oceanic. But still, a very good band and great people (in my experience).

On a separate note: Portal melted my brain tonight and made me feel all kinds of violated. If heavy and unearthly music is of interest to you, don't miss this tour. I can't say I enjoy listening to that music exactly, but I definitely respond to anything that utterly weird, impressive, and crushing.

The YouTube footage of Portal's show the other night is unreal. What an imposing band, I'd love to witness that.

As for Isis, I think they went out on a high note, Wavering Radiant is right up there with Oceanic if you ask me.

I'm gonna check out the final Isis NYC show with the Melvins on 6/18. The last time I saw Isis (on their 10th Anniversary tour, with Jesu opening up) they bored the crap out of me (so did Jesu) but I'm willing to go one more time just to see their self-declared sendoff. Plus, I wanna see the Melvins again; I saw them for the first time on the recent tour with Down and dug it, and the new record's really good.

yeah, I like isis, but they were one of the most boring bands I've ever seen live!

(circa panopticon)

i saw then circa panopticon and they were fantastic

Phil I will prob also go to that one, for the Melvins. But hoping to enjoy Isis as well. I go in and out of liking them.

I saw them touring panopticon and it was so boring, great band but I could not imagine why one would bother to do that live - it was just one long yawn

then mastodon came on and ripped shit up

i saw them in a very small room like 8 years ago and it was rad. in bigger rooms yeah they're kinda uninspiring

Patton/Melvins ATP was the last time I saw them and they had the misfortune of being after Torche downstairs in Reds (the legendary show just after Montoya was kicked out that he insisted on playing which led to an... interesting... mood on stage) and up against Zu in Reds. In those comparisons they ended up feeling kind of boring.

So... are Watain Nazis?

word is yes iirc

could be wrong tho - I had an album of theirs and I don't remember any flags goin' up! I'll look around, don't wanna wrongly think of a band as nazi who isn't

I know they've done shenanigans like dressing up in SS uniforms, giving the Hitler salute, and naming their first demo Fuck Your Jewish God, but they've said in interviews that they think NSBM is stupid, so I can't tell whether they're doing it for shock value/irony or because they're big Third Reich fans.

i wish there were a little spreadsheet i could consult when i want to figure out if the metal band i like is NS or not

saw isis open for tool just before they put out in the absence of truth and thought they were pretty solid. my friends, who were unfamiliar with their stuff, thought they were boring.

so i managed to get tickets to see them play with cave in in montreal. i'm pretty excited.

Repost: We played with Isis on the Celestial tour. Lineup was Soilent Green, Isis, Witch Mountain, and a little known local band called YOB.

and naming their first demo Fuck Your Jewish God

this always struck me a bit o_O

Nazis or no, they smell terrible.

Is it true the 30th anniversary Ozzy remasters are restoring the original rhythm tracks?!?!

That's what the reputable black-sabbath.com said on the weekend. It's certainly cause for rejoicing, every time I hear the retouched songs on Sirius I cringe. It sounds awful and just plain wrong.

I've never actually heard the retouched versions, which is how I'd like it to stay.

Probably only restored because they know that a) noone will buy the retouched ones, B) all the poor sods who have those will want to "upgrade" to the proper version therefore making the osbournes more money. It wont be because of anything else.

I was just logging on to mention this good news, haha.

Sharon's getting soft!

Soft like a fox, as Herman's pointed out...

I have the original versions of both in my iPod, but I don't currently own them in physical form, and since these are deluxe anniversary editions I'm expecting bonus tracks and maybe even a contemporaneous live disc appended to each, so I'll be picking them up.

new Black Tusk streaming at Stereogum: http://stereogum.com/377291/stream-black-tusk-taste-the-sin-stereogum-premiere/franchises/haunting-the-chapel/

haven't listened yet, but i think i'll do so later

Just announced today:

DAY OF HEL fest in Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan

Friday, July 9th:
Brothers of the Sonic Cloth (Tad), SubArachnoid Space, Atriarch, Galdr - 8:30pm, 21+

Saturday, July 10th:
Fauna, Altar of Plagues, Velnias, SubRosa - 8:30pm, 21+

http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2103725

Man, kind of depressing reading all the comments on Invisible Oranges and other sites about Isis calling it quits. I realize it may just be the vocal minority, but I didn't realize there was so much hatred of them for what they inspired. I'll certainly miss them and, hey, its not Pearl Jam's fault that Puddle of Mudd is a going concern in 2010.

its not Pearl Jam's fault that Puddle of Mudd is a going concern in 2010.

yes it is

like an hour ago i was just listening to an acapella version of "Blurry" a friend emailed me -- band's an ongoing inside joek

IO encourages that kind of elitist bullshit, though. And it doesn't help that in his original post, Lee praised stuff about them that I don't like (the early EPs in particular, but also Panopticon). Lee's got "first-release/best-release" disease real bad.

i don't know why ppl read that blog

The main reason I read IO is when they post unsigned band demos, they got me way into Coffinworm last year.

wait, what's wrong w/ IO in general?

(still trying to seek out good metal writing -- so, i've looked at IO a bit but not much)

As Phil pointed out, it tends to be a hang-out for a vocal portion of the "tr00 metal" only/elitist crowd that do a lot more denouncing than they do championing.

i only have the vaguest idea of what "tr00 metal" even means -- gotta say, getting so far into indie for five years that you ignore most other music is nagl. but i'll catch up

i think cosmo is an awful writer who rarely has anything interesting to say, but that could just be me

I don't find him "awful" by any means, but I don't like how he pads out so much of his writing with snarky commentary. Like I said, it seems like he spends more time talking about what he hates rather than what he loves, a trait which drives me crazy in any critic.

Scott over at Stereogum just said in a comment:

BTW, if any of you guys want ONLY Stereogum’s metal coverage, you can just bookmark hauntingthechapel.com.

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So: hauntingthechapel.com

i dunno, like:

I discovered Isis’ discography – the prime years, anyway, 1998 to 2004 – nearly all at once. Thus, I forget which was my first Isis record. But I vividly remember my first impressions of each one. The Mosquito Control and The Red Sea EP’s blew me away with their intensity. Celestial, SGNL>05, Oceanic, the Oceanic remixes, and Panopticon were all “interesting”. They were all different, but a line clearly ran though them. The involvement of Justin Broadrick at times didn’t hurt. In this age of MP3’s, Isis may be one of the last bands whose physical releases were events.

first a boring, super blogging "i first heard band x" sentence that no one actually cares about. then, really? those are your "vivid" impressions? intense? interesting?

then a tossed off line about broadrick that doesn't explain what he did w/the band or why it was good, then he's claiming that isis are one of the last bands where physical releases mattered? really? why?

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btw thx for that link i really like stosuy's interviews

No problem dude! There's an RSS feed too: http://stereogum.com/category/franchises/haunting-the-chapel/feed/