Rolling Metal Thread 2010

whoa, full stream of the new thou album on npr.org! awesome.

― The world’s most violent pizza delivery man (Alan N), Monday, August 2, 2010 2:51 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

i just stumbled across this stream looking for some tunes to listen to during work and i think i really like these guys.

yeah, I really dig this band. they've put out a ton of stuff already but they only seem to be improving with time.

tons of mp3s available on their own site if you're interested:
http://noladiy.org/mp3/thou/

degradation of human life, we pass like night from land to land, and peasant are some of the better releases that come to mind.

I still have to give summit a proper listen.

oh cool, thanks for that link.

just wrapping it up now, it's a strong record and i think it's going to sound great when i'm able to play it loud. they're not incredible musicians but i find their limitations really charming. they're kind of like a sludge version of wittr.

yeah, playing it loud is exactly what I'm waiting for!

Finally gave the new Enslaveda really good listen on the drive home from the Rush show. Wow, they've done it again.

gave summit a listen last night. very good overall, and they're getting there, but this is not their masterpiece. more of their "clean up the band's sound and add some embellishments" record. (horns and viola and some other stuff I'm not remembering, in this case.) will be playing this a lot.

and destroyer, on your comment about thou's musical limitations - I've never actually looked into it, but these guys have got to have some connection to 90s hardcore. their lyrics, politics, love of splits, aesthetic, etc. all scream it to me. their musicianship follows with that and I find what they pull off and how they go about it charming as well.

Hey Everybody, I've been a lurker on this thread off and on for almost 2 years now. I've really enjoyed all the discussion and recommendations. I'm a fairly new fan of metal. I dabbled in it just a little when I was a kid, but only recently got really obsessive over it. It's one of the very few genres I haven't fully explored. I don't want to go on too much just yet, but I just want to thank the contributors here for a lot of good leads and information.

Most recently I've been exploring a lot of Finnish metal -- death, doom, black, etc. Today I was particularly blown away by doom bands Thergothon and Unholy. I listened to them almost all day at work.

In general, I've been listening to a lot of black thrash and classic death metal, but I'm open to just about anything as long as it moves me or bludgeons me into some happy oblivion.

Thergothon has me wondering what other funeral doom I might enjoy. It's not a genre I thought I'd like that much, but I have listened to a lot of drony and dirgy stuff ranging from the Swans to Birchville Cat Motel.

Skepticism
Winter

And have a wee look at the poll we're running ~~~ F&*^ THE MOJO/ROLLING STONE CANON, HERE IS THE ILM ALLTIME HEAVYROCK/METAL ALBUMS POLL RESULTS! - WITH SPECIAL GUEST : HENRY, ILM'S FAVOURITE HEAVY METAL DOG (TOP 100!) ~~~
Most people here have voted. Lots of black,doom,stoner,death,thrash & trad heavy metal in it so far.

oh and check out Corrupted.

Hey, thanks Herman! Winter looks really interesting.
I'll check out the others as well and the poll.

Has anyone heard Atanatos's last album, Beast Awakening from 2006?
It's really good blackened thrash with some aspects of death and NWOBHM,
and even some subtle symphonic elements.

This sort of mix might sound nightmarish to some, but man, it works so well!
I haven't heard anything quite like it.

So much good stuff has come out this year, too, but I've been delving
in the past so much, I've almost forgotten. The new Abscess really stands out for me.
What else? I need to jog my brain a bit.

Oh yeah, the Polish band Preludium is supposed
to have a new EP due out soon, but it seems to be
indefinitely delayed. I'm looking forward to it.

welcome, seren!

Over at Hellbound I posted an interview with my favourite new Canadian metal band, a wickedly good female guitar/drums duo called Mares of Thrace, whose debut album is a cool blend of Neurosis and the Jesus Lizard: http://www.hellbound.ca/2010/08/introducing-mares-of-thrace/

They're a ferocious live act, and the drummer is one of the better female metal drummers I've seen. Well worth checking out!

"Thergothon has me wondering what other funeral doom I might enjoy."

Do you have Asunder's last album on Profound Lore?

Seeing Slayer/Megadeth in east rutherford, nj tomorrow night. Very stoked.

ok, why did I wait so long to listen to the new ihsahn and immolation records? both are just excellent.

Thanks for reminding me about Ihsahn. New Immolation is good.

yeah, new immolation isn't reinventing the wheel or anything but it's way solid.

Very solid. And even better live. I just keep waiting for them to out-do Close To A World Below and it keeps not happening. Still have mad respect for Ross and co.

yeah, seeming them live was what made me think, "why the hell haven't I listened to yet?" every time they said, "this is off the new one" I was floored.

*seeing them live

"a thunderous consequence" just kills

So the new Kylesa seems to be channeling early-90s indie rock in a big way. You know, back when the big riffs were still cool, like Sugar and Drive Like Jehu. Good stuff.

So not just the wrong thread but the wrong board entirely here... but I felt I should say 'Valhalla Rising' is the most metal film I've ever seen! Like Hawk The Slayer for grownups, if that doesn't make it sound too rubbish. Don't want to spoilerize it but if Wardruna were a film, I reckon this would be it. Really ace ambient, drone, Krautmetal/Current 93 meets Coil meets Hair and Skin Trading Co. soundtrack by two guys called Peter Peter & Peter Kyad. There's a little bit about them on the internet but if anyone could tell me if any of their other stuff is worth buying I'd appreciate it.

Oh I want to see that so bad. The international trailer looks fantastic. The US trailer is lackluster in comparison.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/valhallarising/

It looks amazing. Kind of like Von Trier, post Dogme 95 but without any of the gross over stylization/perfume ad bits that marred Antichrist but with all of its deranged violence left intact. But in other ways a bit like Greenway... every set up is framed like a painting. And in some ways like a Takeshi Kitano flick... lots of broody, contemplative scenes, that stretch on and on, occasionally punctuated with extremely unpleasant and implacable violence.

But with Vikings. And drone metal.

Oooh, that does look good.

Synopsis:

For years, One-Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner - forced to fight for his life and the amusement of his pagan slavers. Aided by a boy, he finds his moment, furiously kills his captors and together they escape, beginning an odyssey through an unknown land. After falling in with a band of Vikings, One-Eye and his young companion find they must confront terrible fate in the quest for their freedom.

So the new Kylesa seems to be channeling early-90s indie rock in a big way. You know, back when the big riffs were still cool, like Sugar and Drive Like Jehu. Good stuff.

Don't take this the wrong way cos I do like those bands to an extent, but that sounds really wrong for Kylesa. I missed them with Converge the other week for some reason.

Some people aren't going to like the album, that's for sure. The sludge has been thinned out a fair bit, with more emphasis on psych influences.

seems to me like kylesa have increasingly been steering in that direction for a few albums now. last album definitely had its share of 90s indie.

I'm interested to hear the new Kylesa. Not so interested in seeing Valhalla Rising, which bums me out. I love the subject matter, but hate Refn's other movies. I thought the first Pusher was boring, turned off Bronson and the second Pusher movie halfway through, and never even bothered with #3.

"Thergothon has me wondering what other funeral doom I might enjoy."

Do you have Asunder's last album on Profound Lore?

― Nate Carson, Wednesday, August 11, 2010 6:01 AM

No, I hadn't heard that one but I gave it a listen.
It seems difficult to capture the strangeness and mystery
conveyed by bands like Thergothon and Unholy, but Asunder does
not a bad job of it. I enjoyed Works Will Come Undone for the most part... Thanks!

Maybe I need to give the new Ihsahn another chance.
I found his voice hard to listen to and some of his song structures
a little showy and lacking a good flow. The saxophone is cool though!

Over at Hellbound I posted an interview with my favourite new Canadian metal band, a wickedly good female guitar/drums duo called Mares of Thrace, whose debut album is a cool blend of Neurosis and the Jesus Lizard: http://www.hellbound.ca/2010/08/introducing-mares-of-thrace/

They're a ferocious live act, and the drummer is one of the better female metal drummers I've seen. Well worth checking out!

― A. Begrand, Wednesday, August 11, 2010 4:05 AM

Man, this band is super badass! I like them better than Jesus Lizard!
For me, they bring to mind a little some of the better resurgences of No Wave.

Glad you like!

Unperson: I've not seen those films but I'm gathering it was more of a personal film for the director and perhaps one he took slightly more seriously. Especially if all the distraught comments on IMDB from angry action movie fans are anything to go by.

Locked in, rapping with my corpsepaint and a mullet,
Let's see how my sword stands up to your bullets
Like Hecate, I'm enthroned, and if you disrespect
You'll be lying in a Graveland like Oystein Aarseth

I grab the mic, and I drop Norwegian coldness
Truly underground, don't need no radio hits
Bringing obscure sounds to your town, you better harken
I bring pride pure white like my homie Rob Darken

I do not like Christians, Samoth-I-Am
Burning down churches and I don't give a goddamn
Now I'd advise you not to fuck with this
Or I'll disfigure your face, and leave you looking like Mortiis

Marduk duck goose, I choose you to be my victim
I rip you up and stab you in the back like Bard Eithun
I rock cold like a Blizzard, with the mark of a Beast
Ripping up posers right and left I bring 'em down to their knees

And like the Nightspirit, thus I have spake
Don't try to disrespect, cuz that's a big mistake
Like a Beherit EP, sorry to end so soon
But this is me signing off, Under a Funeral Moon

Amazing.

Wow!

I saw Slayer last night. Ive seen them about 5 times since 1988 and this may be the best show Ive seen. Two words that may be proof that there is a god: Dave Lombardo. I cant even describe how good he is.

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Listening to Kylesa's new one now. They've finally become great on this album; it's like a cross between Baroness and recent/current Melvins. The double drumming thing really, really works, and they've got these psychedelic/90s indie rock guitar melodies that are just fucking awesome. Highly, highly recommended.

excited!!!

definitely gonna pick up that one

damn i have to wait until 10/26? that feels really far.

sounds like itll be worth it

oh, man. really excited about that one now too!

got Blind Guardian on pre-order

I'm agreeing with Phil, the Kylesa's really good. Not as heavy (when they were sludgy they were a less interesting band), but they've really ogt the melodies down now.

I haven't listened to a new Iron Maiden album in 15 years, and haven't liked one in 20, but pfunk prodded me into playing The Final Frontier one, and I like it! Solid, shamelessly unexaggerated and nearly nuanced! Kinda reminds me, in hard-rock feel, of that last Uriah Heep album from a couple years ago. The tonal skew between the music and the cover art has gotten pretty wide, though, and this sounds about as far from a Frontier or a Finality as anything; quite the opposite, it sounds like they're settling into a groove they might be able to sustain indefinitely.