Rolling Metal Thread 2010

I nearly bought the Mono 3xLP but it was £30 and I realised I could get 5 cds for that saving me a big Profoundlore order with risk of customs hitting me with vat.

Bong are big on the Sitar...actually I say Sitar, but is it really that or just some other Indian instrument? 'Cos the couple of times I've seen them it's not looked like what I think of as a Sitar, despite that being mentioned in reviews of the records.

Editing a giant (6000 words plus) feature on Eyehategod for the second issue of Burning Ambulance...stay tuned...

There's some (what sounds like a Coral Electric) sitar on some Amorphis stuff... hafta do some listening to remember which...

man I'm listening to The Seven Fat Years Are Over by Blind to Faith and loving it. A lot. Pretty sure that was a homophobic slur in the second song but it's hard to really say 'cause the dude doesn't really enunciate so good. But this is some quality sludge I gotta say.

ok I take it back I found a lyric sheet, he's saying "begging" - the lyrics are kinda decent crust-core doom

this record kicks ass - I guess it came out last year - got it for free download at holy terror's website: http://www.holyterror.com/downloads/

good stuff!!!

Facebook grapevine says Paul from Slipknot is dead. True or false?

I've seen at least a dozen reports, so I'm gonna say yeah. Sorry to hear it. I interviewed him once; like every member of Slipknot I've met (about half of 'em), he was a nice, soft-spoken Iowa farmboy.

Seems to be true. That makes 3 in a row.

http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/05/24/slipknot-bassist-paul-gray-found-dead/

rip bassist from slipknot

He's the one that played bass in unida briefly to help john garcia out, he seemed to be the guy in slipnot who had good taste in music

man, by all reports, the dudes in Slipknot are solid dudes who appreciate & love their fans. I also think that they are wrongly hated on for being popular with the "wrong" sort of people - that album of theirs with the goat on the front from 2005-ish I think? was quality. I worked with a lot of kids to whom Slipknot really meant a lot. sorry that this guy is gone.

Didn't we decide a while back that Slipknot made the heaviest multi-platinum recording ever?

I'm not a fan but I think they are far more legit that others in their scene.

I wonder if his replacement will be the same character or if they'll come up with a new persona?

anyone else go to wolves in the throne room in camden? to me they are ok on record, but live they killed.

oh man, that's fucked up -- Subliminal Verses is my only real exposure to the band, but it was one of those "thanks for being there when things are difficult" records for me in high school tbh

was listening to bits & pieces of it not too long ago, and i still really like some of it

I remember seeing them in '99; they were the first band on an all-Roadrunner bill co-headlined by Coal Chamber and Machine Head. Their first album was either just barely out or coming out in a couple of weeks; they came onstage and blasted through the first six songs from the debut, and that was it, nobody else on that bill had a chance.

You know? Fuck Hipster Runoff. Not to play captain save-a-Slipknot, but this is pretty tasteless and uncalled for. But of course I'm sure my reaction is exactly what carles or whoever wanted.

yeah, capitalizing on someone's death for pageviews is pretty fuckin shameless

i don't really think i'll be visiting that site much anymore

yeah, reading hipster runoff pretty much makes me want to kill myself

Me too, the only reason I saw that is it was linked on Twitter.

Ppl whose writing/discourse uses the word 'hipster' all the time are afflicted with a weird soul-rot.

hah, truth bomb

Slipknot's biggest problem is CD length. Like, they could probably knock out some pretty tight, vicious under-40 minute albums, but they have 80 minutes to play with, which leads to tons of filler. Heck, after four albums I'm not sure they have 80 minutes of great material, but their inevitable greatest hits record will be pretty killer.

Anyway, RIP Paul Gray.

Not a fan, but I believe I have repped for "Duality" somewhere. RIP.

Right up until their last album Slipknot had put together a very strong series of albums. That debut really took me aback in 99.

Terrible news about their bass player.

Thurston Moore the next member of Twilight? Blake Judd says it's in the works.

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/125345-forever-meddling-an-interview-with-blake-judd

(shameless plug, sorry)

Cool interview; I like the Twilight album, haven't heard the Nachtmystium yet. Btw I thought Tony Laureano did the drums on Assassins? But I agree, Wrest is a fine drummer with a very solid downbeat in his blasting, a bit like Dave Grave from Repulsion actually. I was pretty impressed with Nachtmystium's show at Roadburn, and I'm not really a big fan. Judd kicked some guys out of the band right before Roadburn, didn't he? They played with Astrosoniq's guitar player as a last moment replacementand a drummer who looked a *lot* like Wrest, but probably was someone else.

You're right about Laureano, Simmons was their live drummer for a spell. Thanks for that.

anyone else go to wolves in the throne room in camden? to me they are ok on record, but live they killed.

That's good to hear, I'm seeing them on Saturday in Utrecht.

Just a word of warning: I love mastodon, and I've seen them do great shows before, but they seem to be phoning in this tour. They were really... off when I saw them.

I got the feeling that Mastodon were sick of playing Crack the Skye in its entirety

Mastodon just cancelled their European tour, Bill Kelliher has pancreatitis.

I call them indie rock people, that’s a very fucking unfair generalization of a dude with short hair, jeans and a t-shirt that looks like he might have a day job.

lawl Blake Judd should post on ILX

new Black Tusk is out today, iirc. planning on heading down to the record store momentarily

Too bad about the Slipknot guy. The couple times Ive seen them, they fucking brought it live.

Greetings, rolling metal thread friends. I know some of you, like me, occasionally enjoy a slab of sludge-thick, slug-slow doom metal that seems to rise from some black pit of magma in a hidden crevice somewhere in a far region of the earth. Well, recently, during my ongoing-but-I-promise-the-next-thing-I-buy-will-be-the-last-for-a-while metal CDs-and-LPs spending spree, I took a chance on a band from Hong Kong called Hyponic - the album's from 2005 and is called The Noise of Time. If crushing downtempo doom is your thing, I urge you to see out this record as soon as possible. I am not really Mr. Doom Dude but I can dig it from time to time - I like Moss, love Cathedral of course but that's a little different - this is more in the slow-that-shit-way-down/roar-like-an-ogre style. But God damn is this doom done right in my opinion. The one thing is, the drums aren't really as huge as you'd normally expect doomy drums to be - but maybe that's why this record is standing out for me so much; the atmosphere is largely a product of the guitars. But it's not that the drums sound bad - just that they're not prioritized the same way as on lots of other "funereal doom" style stuff.

This album is really something else, anyway, and I recommend it.

That sounds great u.a.a.i.h.l. - right up my alley. If it's as good as prior recommendations on your part (Wetnurse rules!) I'll be very happy.

OK Smithy I'll check it out too.

is it trad doom vocals or death/doom stuff? Im guessing the latter?

Great interview with Blake, Adrien! That was a real treat to read.

YOB's set from Roadburn is streaming now: http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/43519001#ondemand.43519001

Yeah, this Hyponic album is excellent. I'm not sure I actually know what "trad doom vocals" are, but this has breathy, guttural moaning. The closest reference-point for me is Evoken, but this is slower and even darker than that.

i guess trad vocals are actual singing, like saint vitus, not gutteral howls from the pits of hell.

Not that im averse to gutteral howls as long as its not death metal :)

Moans, not howls. Howls would be if they were trying to get out of Hell...

you guys

the 70,000 tons of metal cruise

miami - cozumel - miami

amon amarth, epica, trouble, moonspell, obituary, testament, exodus, sodom

among others

you guys

just bought a ticket O_O

will be going to purchase a pair of sunglasses tomorrow A.M.

i just want to hear songs that contain truth about life

^ Try Blind Guardian?