Rolling Metal Thread 2010

i like that locrian album. i reviewed it last year for my noize column when it was vinyl-only.

i saw locrian perform a few months ago and it was kind of dull and grueling, but i suspect i was just feeling impatient (they opened for ludicra and there was another opening band after them and that band was pretty terrible) and also because i was hungry. i liked what i heard, though, and would probably prefer to hear it in the privacy of my living room while i was reading or doing something else.

I went to see Entombed, Woe of Tyrants and Gwynnbleidd last night. It was good.

New Soilwork record is pretty strong on first listen. I've always loved this band, but it feels like they were treading water on the last few releases. Nothing significantly different sonically this time around, except for the return of their good guitarist, but it sounds like they've returned to a little more technical and brutal sound this time around. Lots of arpeggios, less chugging. nothing ridiculously catchy yet, but I'm only on the third track.

Oh, here we go. "Deliverance Is Mine" fits the catchiness bill nicely.

hey quick ? for metal dudez:

what are good metal labels these days? like i looked at roadrunner and they seem pretty wack now, though they did sign steve miller, good first step IMO

(also this is cuz i'm doing a podcast and wanted to do some metal for bumper tunes, so like either reeeaaally extreme gore/grind/black or arty sunnO)) drone stuff is probably out)...

like, um, stuff like mastodon that is cool w/metal dudes but has some larger appeal would be perfect, i can't get TOO abrasive on this stuff

or like power stuff that's more a throwback to the old dio/maiden style melodic stuff would be perfect too

try Baroness or Torche?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qii59-7JAM

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

^ cool w/ some metal dudes, at least

For your traditional power/thrash/death stuff, Nuclear Blast has most of the best acts signed at this point. For your more artsy/hip/pitchfork-friendly stuff, you can't really go wrong with Relapse or Profound Lore.

Century Media and Metal Blade have some great stuff, but they're both currently undergoing a bit of an identity crisis, so there's no real consistency and there's a lot of crap. E1 has a lot of the bigger acts like High on Fire, but they don't really have any sort of signing philosophy other than the stuff they think will sell. You might want to check out Prophecy, though -- they have a lot of the "prettier" ambient black metal acts and stuff with lots of cred.

Southern Lord have a lot of the hipper, heavier groups. Hydra Head and Translation Loss have a lot of the high-level post-metal type groups. Prosthetic has a lot of cool stuff, but they might be a little more brutal than you're looking for.

high on fire might be a good choice, they are kinda 70s guitar hero/rock band friendly (this is a video game podcast)...torche would work too def.

will investigate all suggestions, thx a bunch :)

i think southern lord might be too "weird", i get complaints sometimes even when i do stuff i think is pretty normal to boring

M@tt, link us to the podcast w/ the metal in it when it goes up? :-)

will do. i gotta clear everything that's on like "real" labels and sometimes they don't go for it

I saw Isis' farewell tour last night. I don't care for the newer material, but they really played it with feeling. Looking forward to the inevitable reunion in 2016.

Screener copies of the Fall Into Darkness Festival DVD 2009 are now available. If you have a press outlet or well-trafficked blog, shoot me your mailing address. It turned ou great!

Nate -

make sure and drop me a line when these go onsale. Very excited to see it!

Dunno who else here other than me is into the Hungarian semi-gothic-metal band Gyöngyvér, but I only just realized that they had a new album late last year, called Álmokból Álomba.... Just listening for the first time, but it sounds really great so far. Kind of like what I wanted Paradise Lost to turn into before they got all stiff, or even a little like a more-metal version of Muse rediscovering their lower-gloss roots.

I was really fond of Without Face, a Hungarian goth-metal band - any points of comparison there?

J0hn, you might appreciate this. Shadow Kingdom just called me asking if I'd book some of his clients :)

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Hrm, I had one Without Face album long ago, but I don't remember it all that well, and had forgotten that they were Hungarian, too. Male and female singers, though, right? Gyöngyvér are more gothic in the melancholy, Sentenced-ish sense, not the operatic Nightwish-ish-ish-ish sense.

So I totally missed out on this last year, but I picked up The Weirding from Astra yesterday and am really loving it. Its pretty derivative prog that could have been recorded in 1971, but thats right up my alley.

And on the subject of metal covers, which I was thinking about since hitting Thunderstorm's covers via Metal Listening Club, Gyöngyvér has a storming and yet not entirely unfaithful version of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" on that album from last year!

Haven't been on Rolling Metal in a while.

My hiatus, in metal terms: played with Ludicra on decancelation tour (BRAGGIN '10), saw Watain, Gorguts, Nazgul and DRI @ Deathfest (DRI were weird, imo, and i am a huuuge fan), met Erik from Watain who liked (or, at least, indicated) my Beherit shirt, got Only Death is Real, going on tour with Locusta yall! Come see us on that west coast

When/where is the Portland date Roxy?

This MetalSucks.net post on the history of screamo, metalcore and all the music nobody here listens to, but I do since I write about it for Alternative Press, is a must-read. Especially love the family tree.

the dude shouting "in the terror twilight" at the end, though, makes me keep thinking of the Pavement album of that same name which, incidentally, I've never heard

Hear this album now. It is Pavement's best album, even if 99% of their fans won't recognize or admit it.

There's a big Maiden doin' happening in four and a half hours at www.ironmaiden.com .

Iknow what it is too...it's a doozy.

ilxors: will have to pick it up at some point :-)

Your Los Angeles tour date is comic con weekend! You need to reschedule.

There's a big Maiden doin' happening in four and a half hours at www.ironmaiden.com .

Iknow what it is too...it's a doozy.

Announcing partnership with Steve Jobs to tie in to today's new product announcement, band to be renamed iMaiden.

Why did I even bother signing legal forms promising to not spill the beans when Ned just goes and blurts out the news anyway?

While we are talking abt Maiden I see that Bruce Dickinson's movie 'Crowley: The Chemical Wedding' is on netflix instant. Fun/worth it?

It's currently like jamming a couple billion people into a phone booth, but Maiden's awesome new track "El Dorado" is indeed here: http://www.ironmaiden.com/download/index.html

Personally I love it. I'm not allowed to discuss the rest of the album for another month (!), but I will say this new song is a really appropriate teaser.

Hear this album now. It is Pavement's best album, even if 99% of their fans won't recognize or admit it.

man I don't agree with you at all & would be shocked if I ever met anybody who did on this question, but I gotta show for-real-no-joke respect for a guy voicing the opinion that Terror Twilight is the best Pavement album! I do love Carrot Rope to bits

so far i've heard all the Pavement LPs through Brighten The Corners, and Crooked Rain, hands down, wins for me. but I still need to listen to Terror Twilight

It's good. But yeah, I'm one of those dummies who is stubbornly attached to the first four albums.

pretty much impossible to d/l that new maiden track from their site right now but blabbermouth posted a youtube stream:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=141208

diggin the album cover!

http://www.ironmaiden.com/The-Final-Frontier-cover.jpg

also, cmon, wowee zowee is the best pavement! or the only one I still listen to, anyway.

disappointed that there's no track named "what does god need with a starship?" on the tracklist, tbh

oh man, I shouldn't have directly linked to maiden's site. reloading this thread makes a request to their server now which is already being bombarded by crazy fans.

if you're a mod, feel free to swap the img for a link. sorry!

I'm supposed to review the Iron Maiden for a certain distinguished publication, but I've yet to receive my watermark in the mail. I look forward to it.

Cool stuff! Looking forward to your write-up, Jeff.

"El Dorado" holds up tremendously a couple days removed from my initial listens. Smith brings the 70s hard rock riffs on this track, that's for sure...it's no surprise that Maiden went back to being awesome the day he returned to the band.

Looking forward to picking up the new Nachtmystium, and perhaps the new Watain too, later today.

When/where is the Portland date Roxy?

― Nate Carson, Monday, June 7, 2010 1:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

it's july 22nd. i don't know the venue name, but i'll let you know.

Fucking awesome cover!

Yeah, that cover is pretty great. I've never even heard a Maiden record, but I'll probably be starting with that one.

Starting with reformed/reunion albums by classic bands with huge back catalogs = usually dud. I mean, if you wanted to check out the Stooges for the first time, would you really go pick up a shiny new copy of The Weirdness and expect to be awed?

You're right.