Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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.

xpost so many x's I can't be bothered

I didn't even get my last issue of Decibel. Lost in the post, maybe. That makes me sad.

ok, if girly metal jeff wrote the Dio piece, then i already feel much better about it.

and, yeah, the kvelertak disc is a hoot.

i think he means girly jeff wrote a part of it?

I wrote the obituary part. Not the quotes from artists part, obviously. Thanks for the kind words, Scott -- I tried to write something that capture just how important Dio was to me and metal in general, and I hope I succeeded.

Speaking of girly metal, keep your eyes peeled for a future issue of decibel...

vote for some metal ILM Top 100 2005-2009: VOTING THREAD (Ends when June 29, 2010 is over in every timezone in the world.)

wow! and youre still posting on last year's results thread

its not a metal poll. It's a general ILM half decade poll by johnny fever & jordan s. Which probably wont have much metal in it unless everyone here bothers to vote.

I voted for a couple "metal" albums...

Tame Impala doesn't count, dude

I've only listened to the Yakuza all the way through once so far, but I keep playing "Deluge" again and again -- what a closer

it's really ok with me if no metal places on that poll

it's just a poll

agreed

I belatedly heard Black Tusk. I kept confusing them with the other similarly named Black Breath and Black Cobra. And really to someone who doesn't know any of those bands, they sound sort of similar too, particularly Black Cobra and Black Tusk. They should all tour together and really confuse the hell out of people. I'd enjoy that show. None more Black \m/

ksh, smithy hates polls. despises them. would love to ban them. would love to eradicate poll lovers from the earth.

Enjoyed the new Danzig. Is his 2004 album worth hearing too?

I heard 777 on a drive to Seattle this weekend and it sounded ok.

Just tried to listen to an EP by some band called Sicarus; new on Century Media. Metalcore + power metal vocals = suck.

777 is pretty good. If you can get past the Marilyn Manson bandwagons single, there's some great stuff on there. The one from 2004, Circle of Snakes, is his failed attempt to go for a more stripped down garage rock sound. He failed.

this thread is always so hard to keep up with!

Fastnbulbous: I became partially tumescent at the thought of such a tour. For it would be righteous.

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Maiden tonight. Wooooo.

St. Vitus here tonight.

Vitus was incredible. One of the best reunions I've seen.

Besides Iron Maiden, Zoroaster, possible Torche EP, what upcoming heavy releases are people excited about? I think it's about time for some new Gojira but haven't heard any news that they're working on anything yet. What else?

New Electric Wizard at some point, and Caïna is working on a new album though I'd be surprised to see it this year. Would love a new Witchcraft.