Rolling Metal Thread 2010

they are playing at my store in october. pussygutt. or, um, wolverspent now.

i will be sure to buy a copy of the album when they come here.

they are touring with this band and both of them are playing at the store. excited to see these guys. they have a new album coming out on crucial blast. atonal, serial, improvisational bm/doom:

http://www.myspace.com/ehnahremetal

Enahre I have worked with a number of times. Never seen them live, but they are good guys and reportedly put on a killer show.

hope my basement can handle them.

UPS was supposed to deliver the new Blind Guardian tomorrow. Amazon overachieved again and I got it today, day before street date. What an awesome surprise.

And so far, this album is the album I've been wanting BG to make for the last 7 years. I hope this keeps up.

New Torche song! "U.F.O."

http://stereogum.com/484402/torche-u-f-o-stereogum-premiere/franchises/haunting-the-chapel/

The Sword's Warp Riders hit the streets today, and on first listen it's even better than I anticipated. I didn't really dig their first two - perfectly fine for what they were, but I didn't need more by the numbers stoner doom thank you very much. This is something else; the Southern Rock touches are strong to even dominant on a few tracks. Reminds me of a more metal version of Clutch circa the amazing From Beale Street to Oblivion. I expect this will be in heavy rotation for a long time to come.

had no idea that was out today -- thanks for the heads up!

$8.99 at Newbury.

The Sword album keeps growing on me the more I hear it. I was hoping for an improvement over their last two, but wasn't expecting something as good as Warp Riders.

As for the new Torche, it's a solid CD, but the last two tracks ("Face the Wall", "Out Again") are particularly great.

thanks EZ, think I'll head out to Newbury in a bit. definitely looking forward to the Torche record to drop. that song Stosuy posted is fantastic

Still perplexed at the negative decibel review.

And I heard a fair amount of Slough Feg in the new material -- I think The Sword were paying attention when the aforementioned band opened for them.

everyone should listen to Slough Feg then.

A whole bunch of stuff came out today.

Stargazer, Great Work of Ages (Profound Lore): Stargazer are progressive/arty black metal from, I think, Australia.

hey markers tell your puppetmaster about that, sounds like he would love it.

As long as it falls somewhere close to the "arty Wilco" center of the universe, I think acoleuthic (*cough* MARKERS...) will be able to enjoy it.

lol @ the idea that I'm LJ

yea markers hasn't posted about how sad he is about how sexist 80's metal was yet

deeply regret missing that convo

^ booming admission imo

hmm is the theory that LJ has created a sockpuppet to act out his subconscious desire to shed his gender guilt?

"Black Metal Theory Symposium II: Melancology"

http://blackmetaltheory.blogspot.com/2010/06/black-metal-theory-symposium-ii.html

no new stuff to report, have spent the last 4 days listening to Cancer Death Shall Rise over and over and wondering why I haven't spent more of my life up until now doing so.

there was a thread where lj hated 80s metal as it was sexist?

or was it markers? sometimes I can't tell the difference..

"sometimes"

If so please send me a link ASAP. It's been a long day, and I need to inject some humor.

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It's funny how whenever acoleuthic is at a London FAP, markers isn't there... v. suspicious, methinks.

It's funny how whenever markers is at a Boston FAP, acoleuthic isn't there... v. suspicious, methinks.

O_O

See what I'm saying?!!

i bet newbury comics has never heard of this "markers"

weird thing to realize you actually havent been going somewhere for five years ;_;

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agreed

it explains how "both" of you forgot to vote in the metal poll.

I thought acoluethic/markers voted and that's why the likes of Ulver, Boris and Gorilla Time Museum placed so well.

no, that was JJ

Gorilla Time Museum

loooooool

bill's feeling a bit sleepy

no there wasn't a thread of LJ calling 80's metal sexist, it was me saying that if markers really was LJ, that's what he'd be saying in this thread.

but ya know post a few sexist lyrics maybe he'll show up within moments

lj did show disgust at the idea of a hair metal poll

but so did a lot of people..

at the hair, or the metal?

the mention of those 2 words together still makes grown men over 30 shudder.

Here's the new "high concept sfx" video from the Sword.

It's not convincing me.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=106319665

I have been listening to the new album by Astriaal. 35 minutes' worth of competent but sterile melodic black metal is not the comeback I expected. Not exactly a bad record, just a disappointing follow-up to a great debut and a rare miss from Obsidian.

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man post this on every fuckin thread imo