Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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http://www.hellbound.ca/2010/06/fall-into-darkness-2009-dvd/

dog latin: my standard recommendation is Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars (from last year). i've fallen harder for it than just about anything over the last few years.

and since I know you're into electronic music, that recommendation goes double. I think you might really get off on the trance-inducing qualities this album brings out. some gorgeous melodies too.

the aforementioned cathedral and witchcraft's the alchemist are also quite good if you dig psych and/or prog.

man i gotta get back to that blut aus nord album, i liked it a lot but it seemed really, like, specific

OK, wow, anybody who likes Wetnurse ought to at least check out the self-titled debut from Norway's Kvelertak. Big, crazed, shriek-punk sprints with old-school hard-rock production clarity and metal force. Only halfway through it, but it's already sounding like a best-of-the-year candidate. Might even be a bridge between my tastes and the Mastodon/Baroness/Harvey Milk camp where everybody but me seems to love hanging out making s'mores or whatever it is you people do there.

Seriously, do it right now before we're hit by a meteor or something and it's too late. I don't know which half of you are going to be thanking me, but it's at least half. Kvelertak. John Baizley did the cover.

Wetnurse comparison is enough for me! Will have to check that out. Thanks Glenn.

Oh, that Kvelertak is one ripping album alright. Very, very impressed.

Recent posts make me want to get lifted and re-listen to stuff. If it weren't for the fact that none of my immediate friends do it lately and I have no easy access, I'd dedicate my weekend to the task. Maybe then I wouldn't care whether lists were ranked or not. Yar.

I think I might get more out of my new acquisitions this week in an altered state:
Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North - Wobbles between power metal and stoner rock, nice but a little predictable.
Black Cobra - Chronomega - Good propulsive, crunchy riffs, can take or leave the screamo vocals. Could be a metal offshoot from Amphetamine Reptile roster.
Black Breath - Heavy Breathing - Again, not digging screamo vocals lately, but nice and fast.
Watain - Lawless Darkness - I suppose it's an exceptional black metal album, but I quickly tire of most bm lately.
Reckless didn't have Yakuza when I stopped in.

I highlighted my personal Top Ten on that list, but I still didn't rank 'em in any kind of order.

I heard the new Iron Maiden.

are you allowed to talk about it?

I'm going to write at length about it as soon as the flippin' gag order ends. Which is still a couple weeks away.

I'm still pulling together my thoughts. I don't believe I was given a gag order, so I will say that it feels a lot like Brave New World with the more complex song structures of A Matter of Life and Death. A couple stone cold classics on there, too.

You just made me really really un-excited.

debonerized

I'm still pretty excited.

oh yeah, and I thought the new ozzy album was depressing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUSZrY9R7l4

:-/

I'm looking forward to that Maiden disc. I like Brave New World and A Matter of Life and Death a lot.

^^^

http://www.relapse.com/MYSPACE/BTU/tusk_cookin.jpg

Black Tusk's Taste The Sin on Relapse is very satisfying.

new issue (was hoping for a Dio cover/tribute special--the bulk of the thing, that is; not the measly one/two page piece i presume lies therein):

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0037/0342/products/dB_cover_0810_large.jpg?1277247755

Ioannis, RJD died a month and a half ago. Asking for a whole issue full of dedicated content in that space of time is a little unrealistic

the piece that's in it is cool and asks a number of musicians for Dio memories - obv. I have a horse in the Decibel race but really? "Not enough, he didn't get the cover"?

well, yeah, it isn't enough imo.

still love this cover tho!

I think it's a terrible cover. Decibel covers almost always are. I don't know what it is about them - the interior content is frequently terrific, but the covers are almost always lame.

Good idea, poor execution.

I almost always love Decibel covers. Don't think I'll get this one in the mail as my subscription apparently doesn't kick in until August, so I'll have to drop by the bookstore sooner than later to grab it once it's out.

the previous issue's cover was a beaut! cover of the year by me.

The Watain one? For sure.

yeah.

danzig interview in that issue is pretty hilarious.

and is this just a one-off cover? back to band pics next issue?

"Not enough, he didn't get the cover"?

It's disappointing. not enough to cancel a subscription over, but still a disappointment.

and is this just a one-off cover? back to band pics next issue?

presumably, and I don't speak from any inside knowledge here or anything, it's comics related because Danzig is a big comics guy and somebody had the idea to do that.

I think an RIP cover would be a really bad standard to set, because then the next 100 people to die would inspire "what! [x] got the cover, surely [y] was more important than [x]!" etc which is a tedious fuckin place to hang out even for a hypothetical sentence

Not everyone who dies will be of the status of DIO

Yeah, but it's Dio. Sports Illustrated does RIP covers, and they pick and choose who is "important" enough to get one, John Wooden last week, Walter Payton etc. I'm sure Time does it with political leaders, etc. I don't think arguing about who is more important to something is tedious, it happens all the time, hundreds of times a day on these boards. Choosing who is going to be on a magazine cover, dead or not, is a weekly or monthly determination of who is important if you think about it.

And yes, to the genre that Decibel covers, Dio is infinitely more important than Danzig.

I get why Decibel did the Danzig cover they did - I just wish they'd gotten a better artist to do it. That drawing looks like a fourteen-year-old did it.

Not everyone who dies will be of the status of insert name every time somebody dies after RIP cover precedent is set

that's my opinion anyway & is why I was pleased to see a cool Danzig cover instead of a somber RIP A LEGEND HAS PASSED cover

BTW, I agree with John - I don't think Dio should have gotten the cover. I think he deserved at least 5-6 pages, but he was old, he got sick, he died. End of story. Now, let's say Iron Maiden's jet crashes while they're flying around on tour - that's a cover.

yeah, just to clarify, for me it's not even a case of who is/isn't important enough to get the cover of any given issue. but rather that Dio's untimely demise is the METAL story of the year (if not the past decade or two) for a sizable percentage of the aging metalhead contingent, i'd say. granted, i don't believe that Decibel really care to cater to my middle-aged kind. but this just seems almost like a slap in the face, you know. almost as if they're saying: "hey, kids. here's our great new Danzig feature issue. (and, oh yeah, also included is a piece on some old has-been who once sang for influential 'hard rockers' Black Sabbath. but now he's dead. so we may as well give the dude a nod, right?) buy or die!"

Yeah, I'm not wild about that cover, but then again, I'm not the biggest Danzig fan.

If you want to see a cool comic book-style cover, the new Revolver issues look unreal.

They could do a limited edition issue or something. Im not in the print biz, so i am speaking from an amateur perspective.

"Now, let's say Iron Maiden's jet crashes while they're flying around on tour - that's a cover."

Only if they blot out Janick Gers and put a caricature of him in the top left corner.

I actually like Janick Gers, 'cause I'm not even convinced his guitar's plugged in half the time - I think he's just there to run around onstage.

Heh. I've gotten used to the guy. He livens things up a little on stage left. Really nice dude, too.

Just getting to hear the Kvelertak - holy shit, this is awesome! Completely up my alley - they've even got handclaps at the end of their first single, "Mjød". As with Glenn, this could be a bridge between me and the Barodon people; first listen and this is jumping right up near the top of my running list of the year's best. Massive in all the right ways, and it grooves like a mother.

Thanks for the heads up gentlemen! Anyone know if this is going to get a North American release, or am I dropping <$20 on another disc this year?

for once i agree with unperson. decibel covers are by and large completely retarded

I should have known it was Kurt Ballou who produced the Kvelertak. Probably the grooviest heavy album I've heard all year. What a blast, perfect for summer.

i really liked the dio r.i.p. in decibel. lots of great fan stories and jeff girly metal treppel comes correct with a very nice tribute.

streaming kvelertak now--this is fun! is that handclaps on the second track? awesome.