Rolling Metal Thread 2010

and its a good track

Anybody who thinks of any metal-archives.com statistical thing I didn't already list in the Discordance, let me know and I'll see if I can add it.

(I feel like I should clarify that although I did all the data-analysis and metal-specific processing, the underlying database software itself is not a solo project. I'm the designer and product manager, but there's a whole team of people building/testing/supporting it. This is the same software I used to administer the 2009 Pazz & Jop, and to build a huge World Cup History explorer, and various other things. Our parent company is (as of last Thursday) now in the process of being acquired by Google, which could have interesting implications for the future of the system...)

I mentioned this before, but I'm really into this German band Mandrake. Semi-gothic semi-death metal, with both a female lead singer and a male growler with (it seems to me) more personality than is often the case. Innocence Weakness is the new album.

for ksh
http://www.opinz.com/the-worst-albums-of-all-time-metallica-st-anger-2003/

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 2:57 PM (Yesterday)

proud of Hetfield & crew whenever SA makes a worst of list

YOB vinyl is coming. There was a rumour that it was only available to southern lord series subscribers but it appears that mailout by SL was only referring to a particular colour vinyl. The normal black version is available as normal so all is ok and we can still get the vinyl (which has 2 vinyl only tracks not on the cd)

While I'm endorsing metal bands with female singers, and those of us on the Metal Club thread are still savoring last week's Warlock album, I'll also toss in a cheer for the shamelessly trad Sister Sin, who sound to me kinda like the Sounds as a late-80s vintage metal band. New album is called True Sound of the Underground, and it has lots of churning guitar riffs with guys chanting "Hoy!" over them, and a Doro-style power-metal singer almost audibly strutting back and forth. Fab.

Yeah, I've liked Sister Sin for a while now, and the singer definitely has a cool Doro thing going on. The new album's really good, too. Sleaze-power, I guess you'd call it, as if Warlock came from the Sunset Strip.

Hmm, "sleaze" seems like an unfortunate choice of terms here. "Raw power"? Or just "Heavy metal", which is what EM seems to have settled on for them? Fun, whatever you call it!

I mean sleaze in a good way. Late-'80s Strip. LA Guns, Faster Pussycat & the like. There's a strong touch of that in Sister Sin.

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

http://www.myspace.com/mooseboner

anybody heard the new bloody sign album? what's the news?

No, but I heard the new Christian Mistress in its entirety. Lotsa folks are gonna be very happy with this one.

I sure am!

Listening to the new Acacia Strain album, Wormwood, right now. No major changes to their sound that I can hear.

all right so I sometimes do this thing (most often with vinyl releases) where I'll buy a record and put off listening to it until "just the right time." naturally there really isn't ever a "just the right time," and I've known this since high school, which was when I started with this buy-an-LP-wait-til-the-moment's-right nonsense. but when it's an album by a band I know I like, I will still sometimes set it aside and wait. until a day when I'm less busy I guess. or until I feel like I've cleared the decks for it or something. and this is how sometimes I will run across an album and go, shit, you didn't actually ever listen to that did you, and you had specifically been looking forward to that album coming out.

well my friends. this morning I finally got around to putting Ares Kingdom's Incendiary, a 2010 heavy metal release don'tcha know, onto the turntable. Ares Kingdom is the band that Order From Chaos became; if you don't know Order From Chaos, but you like metal, you should get to know them -- they're only canonical at a deep-cult level, but for those of us who dig them, they're all-time. Incendiary, on the evidence of the first side, which has been blasting off the top of my skull for three and a half tracks now, is on the level of OFC's best. It's kind of not in these guys' nature to frontload an album and let it drop off, so I'll be pretty surprised if things don't just get better. The only thing that's a little weird is how loud & clear the vox are mixed. But fuckin A. Incendiary by Ares Kingdom. They're a kind of black metal very in touch with the genre's thrash roots, very in touch with the death metal side of things but just the way the songs are put together is more black-metal sympathetic - almost like operatic thrash, "operatic" not vocally (the vocals are proper vokill style) but in terms of this sweeping-composition feel. The guitar solos kick fucking ass. Nowhere near as noisy and fucked up as Order From Chaos -- whether a more focused OFC is your thing is a matter of taste I guess. For me, this record would have to fall off a fucking cliff on the 2nd side to not make my year-end list.

fucking A this song "Ashen Glory" is some kinda perfect heavy metal song. wow wow wow.

So yesterday I was at the Albert Ayler Festival, a free all-day out-jazz event with performances by five or so groups and a bunch of solo, duo and trio saxophone bits in between. In addition to the live music, which was awesome, they had record vendors there, one of whom had at least two Graveland albums in one of his bins. Free jazz + Nazi metal = a good look in 2010? I guess I missed that meeting.

xpost to aerosmith:

gave that ares kingdom a listen a few months ago and it didn't do much for me. the mix was an issue. thought the vox were way too loud and the band sounded a little muted in comparison.

re-listening to "ashen glory" now and I still think that the vox are distracting. but the thrashy songwriting you mentioned definitely satisfies. particularly like the bit during the solo where the band switches gears to half-time and then picks up again. this is probably better than I gave it credit for.

maybe order from chaos would be more to my liking.

anyone else catch bastard noise live? saw them in brooklyn a few weeks ago and they have an undeniably killer sound. but waiting a pretty ridiculous amount of time for the band to start playing (well over an hour) in the ABSOLUTELY BRUTAL heat while jam-packed into a tiny venue filled with sweaty, stinky boys... well, I was basically worn down before they even started.

new record (a culture of monsters) is solid, though. still digging the return to the sludgy man is the bastard sound but I think I prefer the more direct approach on the endless blockade split. still, the "noise" stuff on here is certainly better integrated this time around.

will have to listen more before I fully make my mind up on this one but it's well worth a listen.

Man, I have a big backlog of metal that I've accumulated over the past few months that I still need to attend to!

You know, I've been thinking of retiring the "ksh" moniker on ILX, so I think I'm just gonna do that right now and take a few days off of the boards to focus on going through that backlog and doing other irl stuff that I need to attend to. I'll be back itt on Thursday under a new name. Goals upon returning: follow fewer threads, less unnecessary negativity, significantly fewer insubstantial posts, and a way more mindful approach to how I'm coming across. Think this will be good. See you all in a few days!

Awwwwwww.

hey Scott, good news! The new October Tide is really depressing!

The members of Iron Maiden were too busy touring to give the Cleveland Scene an interview, so...I went this route instead.

Ha, great idea Phil.

Very glad he's more cockney than cookie monster :)

As for Ares Kingdom, I don't think I'd listen to this regularly, but it does slam pretty hard. Good riffs and the blackened drum production works (at least on computer speakers).

Guitar melody at 5:10 in Descent of Man is pretty fucking classick.

It took me far too long to dig into Bloody Panda, but damn am I glad I finally did.

I've been a fan for years, but I finally met them in person a few months back. Was kind of dreading it in case they were dicks. But they are fantastic people and now I love them even more. Bloody Panda rules.

so is ksh back? or was he ILXOR all along?

Nate's right - super nice people who put on one of the most intense, creepy shows I've experienced. Plus unlike so many of their peers, they were able to capture some of that magic in the studio, particularly with Summon.

I'm thinking about starting a company to design T-shirts grown-up metalheads can wear without embarrassment.

so is ksh back? or was he ILXOR all along?

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ilx fight club

You're right about metal t-shirts, Phil. There are a lot of atrocious designs out there. For me, the more spartan the better.

I suppose it goes without saying but the giant, colorful prints metalcore bands dig are particularly NAGL:

http://www.imperial-clothing.com/shop/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/l/g/lg_iwabo_popcorn_white_18.png

http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/c/0/0/30/f/AAAADEg-41YAAAAAADD_-A.jpg

https://cdn.indiemerch.com/i/4/8/48339cb9db.jpg

BARF.

The Black Dahlia Murder sells a logo shirt, too, though:

http://pad.indiemerch.com/i/0/3/03d9e2d3a8.jpg

sure. I'm just sayin, this is a trend that the world's most violent pizza delivery man does not approve of.

so, anyone heard the autopsy awakened by gore demos that nuclear war now just put out? love me some autopsy but their actual albums already sound so raw! are the demos listenable?

someone should be killed for that devil wears prada one

on the other hand its probably good that the i wrestled a bear once one sends up the douche signal flares, because that way even people that havent suffered through their music will know not to talk to the dude wearing it.

lol, xpost

man, that devil wears prada model looks 100% punchable. sorry for making you guys look at him.

i like tshirts with just a bands name on it, but i dont mind it being other stuff sometimes. but i wouldnt wear an eddie logo or the really stupid electric wizard/sleep bong stuff. Luckily i got non druggy shirts by them.

man, the electric wizard satan bong hit design is CLASSIC! but I guess we had this argument already.

reminiscing about more tasteful metal times...

http://www.thedevilsdemons.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/deicidesweats.jpg

disclaimer: was too young/scared to see real live death metal guys wearing deicide sweatpants in the flesh but I do have fond memories of the blue grape merch inserts.

holy shit @ this starting bid!

http://cgi.ebay.com/OBITUARY-CAUSE-DEATH-SWEAT-PANTS-METAL-SEPULTURA-/390217269543?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5adac30127

loling hard at those sweat pants

blue grape is kvlt as fuck

ok guys I wont mention this again until the very last day to remind stragglers.
But if you want to participate
~~~ VOTING THREAD : ILM ALLTIME METAL/HEAVY ROCK ALBUMS/TRACKS POLL~~~ Voting ends 11.59pm UK Time AUGUST 2ND

Any good doom metal albums out lately that I may have missed?

I don't really fuck with a lot of doom but the new DoomDogs sounds kinda interesting

http://www.myspace.com/doomdogs