Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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?

That's a link to some sort of Amy Grant article, Smithy.

If I went on that cruise I'd actually be most geeked about seeing Raven.

That's a link to some sort of Amy Grant article, Smithy.

― X-Wing fighter in hand, "Godzilla" cranked on the stereo (J3ff T.)

thought the whole thing was a solid aerosmith joek b/c of the AG link, but Google tells me such a cruise exists, leading me to doubt said post's status as a joek

http://doublecrosswebzine.blogspot.com/2010/05/james-hetfield-of-metallica-on-straight.html

ooooooo sweet amber

lol oops

that's the actual link

we should all go on that damn cruise imo

Oh, man. Very seriously considering that.

Aren't all the $666 cabins sold out? You got $3000 for an ILX Metal Thread FAP?

*Suite

lol this totally seems like something where they came up with the name before coming up with the event

Oh, man. Very seriously considering that.

yeah me too. epica/amon amarth/moonspell/obituary...I mean come on. this is going to slay. to be honest, I can't see myself having the money to spare, let alone the time, but music cruises for all the lols they tend to generate are actually a whole lot of fun.

http://www.quadorb.net/dunajam/index.htm

do you think they'd let me tie a one-person homemade raft-with-a-cabin-on-top to the back of the boat and still participate in everything for a heavily discounted ticket price?

this is totally awesome. bow down and pander to me, capitalists!

i'm not going to do this metal cruise because the thought makes me kind of nauseated, but still.

Watain fans on last.fm not impressed with new album http://www.last.fm/music/Watain

Vintyr666 wrote:
3 hours ago

Lawless Darkness is an absolute snooze-fest, absolutely nothing stands out, it's over produced and souless. It's obvious the album was written to be played infront of an audience of low IQ metal fans. Shouldn't expect any less from a band who release a special edition of their album inside a Harry Potter book along with 100 different shirt designs, I guess.

# qattle wrote:
13 hours ago

Wow, they are just getting worse and worse. The new album is so soft they sound like a hard rock band or something at times. I am quite disappointed.

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# kryptopheleous wrote:
yesterday evening

Nowhere near as expected, thier worst and totally worthless work imo.

Daniel-Gray wrote:
5 hours ago

They are turning mainstream, they have soo much merch and soo many photos, But fuck it, They are still a brilliant band.

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*rolls eyes*

"soo many photos"

I love how this is now how tr00 bands are distinguished from the false ones.

Black metal kids with their heads up their asses have a pretty interesting idea of what "mainstream" is.

I'm not sure these guys are kids, they're older than you!

Well, they sound like kids.

that's tr00 keep my metal pure elitists for you

Those people are (obviously) dumb asses. Metal's easy miscegenation with other genres is what's kept it alive and vital for all these years. Some of the hybrids have been... less successful than others, but genres that keep their sound "pure" tend to either go away, become boring, or fade into an extreme niche.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that pirate metal is awesome.

just wait til hipsters adopt it ironically and see what you think then.

these people maybe are idiots but if so it's not because they hate the new watain, it's because they rated watain in the first place lol

j/k I love everybody but watain is mad boring you guys

^truth