Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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.

Really? No snarky/imagebomb/lolfest ksh circa 2010 reply?

iron maiden are not reformed or reunited.

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I try my best to keep that stuff out of Rolling Metal.

ksh -

The Maiden album to start with is probably Live After Death, because it's simultaneously a best-of and proof that they're a world-crushingly awesome live act. After that, dig into the '80s catalog. Everything from the s/t debut through Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is good to great.

Maybe we need a Lolling Metal thread...

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The Number of The Beast was the one I started with thanks to "Run To The Hills" on MTV. It's a great, fun entry point, with several memorable songs, though my favorite ended up being Piece Of Mind with the improved drumming and overall awesome playing.

Maiden's last album is fucking ace and, arguably, the best thing they've done since Powerslave. So it's not really that mad a comment. And what Unperson said about Live After Death, the first Maiden album I bought when it came out. Although my mum wasn't keen on the in between song swearing.

They have a pretty spinal tap-esque list on the sleeve letting you know how many gallons of OJ they drank and how many miles of toilet paper they used on the entire tour.

Thanks, unperson!

For those not following along, over on the Nachtmystium thread we have been talking about Taylor Swift and a dog that looks like Blake Judd.

Taylor Swift

a dog that looks like Blake Judd.

^ referring to two diff people iirc ^

imo the 2-disc best of is a perfect maiden intro

they are the fucking best

but then again Killers is phenomenal and you could argue that to hear a little Di'anno style and then what came next would be a cool way to go

i don't think i've ever gotten into an artist via a best of before -- i usually head for the consensus "classic" pick first or dive in with their latest release, depending

yeah, I was gonna recommend killers too. kinda punk/kinda thin lizzy/completely awesome. then proceed chronologically to tons and tons of classic records.

I agree with Phil, Live After Death would be a phonomenal album to start with. But yeah, one cannot ignore the Di'Anno stuff, which is classic in its own right. Much more confrontational than theatrical.

Taylor Swift
a dog that looks like Blake Judd.
^ referring to two diff people iirc ^

:-(

I really hope the new one is less underwhelming than A Matter of Life and Death. I'm a little worried just because the song lengths seem longer like on the last one, but hopefully that freaky album cover portends good things.

I'm not allowed to talk about it for a full month. That's pretty much torture for anyone with a blog & twitter.

Aw, you can tell us...

i don't think i've ever gotten into an artist via a best of before

no time like the present - this is a band whose best-of really gives you a sense of just how good they are, how many bullets they have in the belt. but do get Killers also.

Electronica superstar Moby discovers ironic cock rock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aupFA9JQMM&feature=player_embedded#!

noooo thanks

Come on, you know you want to!

nachtmystium real badass last night. even more excited to pick up new album now; also watain.

hey did you guys who read decibel see my interview with my pal mary in the newest issue? probably the one and only interview that i will ever conduct! though i hope they run with my metal moms idea and have other people do them. mary was my inspiration for that. they even used the photo i took of her at my record store.

(when i first started doing stuff for decibel they asked me to interview some band - kylesa? - and i actually got as far as e-mailing the band and then i remembered that i really didn't want to do stuff like that. so i haven't. i'm not a journalist and i like to have as little contact with musicians as possible as a reviewer.)

posting a moby video on the metal thread is a new low. even for you, girly man!

With a nice mom like that, how could her child be evil enough for metal? She seems like a sweetheart.

Just read that this morning, she's an awesome mom! Also more pictures of metal dudes in their childhood Sesame Street costumes please!

this may be kind of anathema here, but can anyone help out with venue names or any help for booking in these cities, for my and locusta's sake:

7/12/2010 Fort Wayne, IN (or Flint, Michigan)
7/15/2010 Des Moines, IA
7/18/2010 Cheyenne, WY
7/19/2010 Salt Lake City, UT
7/20/2010 Boise, ID
7/23/2010 Redding, CA
7/24/2010 Reno, NV
7/27/2010 San Diego, CA
7/28/2010 Phoenix, AZ
7/29/2010 Albuquerque, NM
7/30/2010 Amarillo, TX
8/03/2010 New Orleans, LA

So I'm loving the new Watain, but after reading the interviews in the new Decibel and on IO, I'm not such a big fan of them when they aren't making music.

io interview confirmed my love tbh

I'd like to see a metal moms feature about Watain, preferably with childhood corpsepaint photos.

My story on Fear Factory...I didn't read the Decibel cover story on them, so I have no idea whether Cazares' allegations came up therein.

io interview confirmed my love tbh

I don't know, their whole "we're soooooo evil, we're soooooooooo evil" schtick just rubs me the wrong way. Of course some would argue thats the point, but the stronger they deny that its all an act - the more I'm inclined to read it as such.

i mean

Are we missing part of your post?

Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with schtick (hello, I am a metal fan), but trying to convince me that you actually spend weeks sleeping in the filth of slaughtered animals? No thanks.

but that is schtik?

Are we talking about Watain? The feature made the dude out to be pretty sincere, tbh.

The Decibel cover story, that is.

Decibel's not in the business of deflating bands' mythologies, as far as I can tell.

What would it mean for a writer to "deflate" their "mythology"? I mean, the Watain dude seems to just be saying where he's coming from, and the writer's trying to present that in an interesting way. I don't see how someone could "deflate" what the guy's saying without pulling a sort of "This dude's full of shit" move, and there seems to be no ground for doing that, really.