Rolling Metal Thread 2010

Decibel site showing new July 2010 issue w/ Watain on cover

Watain is everywhere then.
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Is Terrorizer any good? It's really expensive -- like $9+ -- in the US.

I wish they would drop the promo CD and go back to charging $6.66. But it's definitely the most comparable in quality to Decibel.

Oh wow, didn't know they made that move. Yeah, I'd rather not pay an extra $2+ for a CD. But I'll at least peek at it on the newsstand.

because of the current economic climate they're having to cover some more of the bigger knuckledragging acts but its still a good mag. Its hardcore readers hate the deathcore coverage but they say they have no choice.

but they dont seem to cover the extreme but not metal end spectrum like they used to. You wont see Diamanda Galas on the cover now.

Only hipsters read decibel.

:-D

Don't you mean write for? ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDLigcWHE44

I'm sorry to do this, but I always find these threads so overwhelming and I don't know where to start. I don't know much about metal but I'm guessing I tend to like the so-called "hipster" stuff. If I have been given, and really like, the following albums, what are 3 more I should buy to try out?: Torche - "Meanderthal" // Black Breath - "Heavy Breathing" // Baroness - "Blue Record"... thanks and hope I haven't derailed things too much.

You looking more for new/current releases?

I guess so... I have eMusic credits to spend, so I've just looked up Coffinworm and the band that supposedly sounds like Fugazi mentioned above on there and they have both - I'm checking them out right now.

I would say the new Harvey Milk album then, but beware, it's very very bleak, but it might well be the best album they have done.

Might want to check out Baroness's first record, Red Album, too!

Mastodon's Crack the Skye, which came out last year, is also quite excellent

And Torche - Torche

Don't waste your time with Harvey Milk. They're like a more boring Melvins. Definitely look into Baroness's Red Album, though.

Becky, on eMusic, check out Slough Feg, Agalloch, Madder Mortem, and Opeth off the top of my head. Listen to the samples first and follow your nose. eMusic is a GREAT place to DL metal legitimately.

and the 2 Baroness eps (now on 1cd) which are even better than the albums.

I'll have to check that out, too. (Just bought Dimensional Breakthrough two hours or so ago, though, so that's on deck.)

I pre-ordered that a few months back on vinyl and it's supposedly shipped so hopefully it will be here next week.

Don't waste your time with Harvey Milk. They're like a more boring Melvins.

BOOOOOOOOOOOO

Seriously, of all the bands praised on this thread, they are the one that provokes the most serious you-must-be-joking response from me. I do not get it.

Sidenote, those of you who dig the dark-folk/evil-ambient kind o' metalz should srsly try to hear the croaking, chanting, droning film score by Christian Henson for the new medieval adventure movie The Black Death. It's on Movie Score Media records. Great, palpable shit.

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you heard special wishes? the little mini-suite (that it closes with is masterful, imo.

I'll concede that the melvins are probably the better band, tho. harvey milk are like a more raw (sometimes sloppy) take on the formula. I can get with that.

Sure, Melvins are inarguably better. And I haven't really spun any Harvey Milk albums. But I did host them live a few years back, and they put on a positively titanic headlining set.

I have heard that they are inconsistent, so perhaps if you've seen them live, it was an off night. But the show I was made me a believer.

BTW, a second trailer for the Fall Into Darkness 2009 DVD is now online. These are going to sell out fast.

http://www.vimeo.com/12135236

What's the best Melvins record? I own zero, although I'm interested in maybe picking up the one that's coming out this Tuesday.

Depends who you ask and I'm sure there are many threads about it...

Old school ultimate: Bullhead
One track monster: Lysol (aka Melvins s/t)
Cobain-approved: Houdini
The quiet album: The Bootlicker
Latest greatest: A Senile Animal

Thanks, Nate! I think I'll look into Bullhead. Excited.

That's where I'd start. :) Enjoy!

Houdini will always be my fave as it was my entry point but you cant beat Bullhead

Gluey Porch Treatments!

^This.

guys i dig harvey milk but am bored to death by the melvins like 90% of the time O_O

i am kicked out of the coven now aren't i

As much as I like the new Harvey Milk, the new Melvins is even better. What a fun album.

i am kicked out of the coven now aren't i

no the coven is busy contemplating appropriate repercussions for mistreatment of newcomers by its members, to wit, somebody unfamiliar with the genre asked for recommendations and the coven came w/TORCHE, MASTODON, AND BARONESS right out of the gate

"Guys, I'm new to jazz, what should I hear?"
"Oh man, go cop some Ben Sidran without delay"

They're good recommendations if we're talking first two Mastodon albums and recent(ish) brilliant but accessible fare. 'Snakes For The Divine' by High On Fire, 'Eater Of Birds' by Cobalt, 'Eve' by UFOmammut, Hey Colossus And The Van Halen Time Capsule, Cathedral 'Guessing Game', Sloath, the last Napalm Death and in the slightly more careworn department Exodus and Slayer's last albums are pretty good, plenty here will rep for Megadeth's last album. Coffinworm are awesome. If you like that really bleak shit check out Buster by Admiral Angry, Things Viral by Khanate, All The Dread Perversity... by Gnaw Their Tongues and Greymachines. And for more 'esoteric' drone-y stuff, Monoliths And Dimensions by SunnO))) probably comes recommended by most people here and there's always Solar Anus, Blood Of The Black Owl, Dillinger, Rolo Tomassi, Shining, Altaar, Wardruna, Arabrot, Overmars, Zu, Gnod, White Hills, Meshuggah, Municipal Waste, Oneida (yeah, yeah, I know...) And no-one's life can truly be considered complete without ownership of at least one Electric Wizard album. And there should be another one this year.

I genuinely feel jealous of someone getting into metal now. It's pretty fucking amazing. I keep on hoping that something that I find impenetrable like free jazz or country music will become clear to me. Getting into a new genre of music is a fucking blast.

hey smithy, the newcomer said what she liked and asked for new/recent stuff in a similar vein, I know you were joking, but that could be misinterpretated by someone who doesn't know you, as being hostile and could put her off participating in this thread and then subsequently missing out in the "more awesome" stuff you prefer.
Everyone has to start somewhere in a genre then they can dig deeper into other sub-genres and the canon.
I don't know what got you into metal, but you can bet somewhere there was someone who thought it was the wrong thing to get into

Also great to see Solar Anus mentioned here.

Hermann our new friend said she had, and liked, records by Torche, Mastodon, and Baroness. You & ksh told her that if she enjoyed those, she might get other albums by Torche, Mastodon, and Baroness. I get to give you shit about that. Sorry but those are the rules.

Yes I know you then followed up with other stuff but anybody who doesn't lol at "I have albums by Torche, Mastodon, and Baroness, like 'em, what do the experts here recommend?" "Try the other albums by the same bands!" is dead inside imo

When I come across a band I like I then like to hear everything by them.

Hermann tell me three bands you like & ask me for a recommendation and then tell me you can't actually see what's hilarious about the response you get

and I did suggest Harvey Milk first. My Torche and Baroness suggestions were because ksh suggested the others but left out the better releases by the bands!

yeah I'm standing by my "lol @ that" because it made me lol

you know what? I haven't seen you suggest anything to Becky yet.
I really hope the metal thread isn't going to degenerate into a rolling hip-hop type "club".