Rolling Metal Thread 2010

^ 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

This new Blind Guardian album is so darn good. You listen to power metal album after bland power metal album (Rhapsody of Fire being the latest, bleh), and these guys always come along and outclass them all.

yea it's awesome. I also rebought Tales from the Twilight World which I'd sold during a brief period where I was dangerously broke....and THAT album is fucking amazing too. I've missed it.

It's been a fairly slow month for stuff I like (yay Iron Maiden, but no thanks on Blind Guardian and The Sword), but that just means more time to bask in Celestiial's awesome Where Life Springs Eternal. "Ambient Metal" used to be my joke genre, but here it is.

Oh, and due to jabs from JJ and Pfunk I'm listening to this new Sahg album, III. Never heard of them before now, but I'm like this pretty well. It's kind a like taking Deep Purple's most metal moments and pushing them a little way further towards Candlemass.

[gets distracted by something]

Yeah, a few more songs of this have gone by now. It's good. I'm off to find their first two albums now.

Er, Jeff, not John. But hell, everybody should dig this.

I'm guessing their earlier stuff is more trad doom than this stoner biker metal album.
Following Grand Magus trajectory perhaps?

It's impossible to not like Sahg. I have high expectations with III...maybe I'll give it a listen tonight.

I wouldn't even call Sahg's stuff doom, it's straight-up heavy metal.

Yeah, I'm with you, this is what I grew up thinking of as just Heavy Metal.

Celestiial's awesome Where Life Springs Eternal. "Ambient Metal" used to be my joke genre, but here it is

The Celestiial is a stunner. His first album from a few years back was also a corker; Scott turned me onto it at the time and I seem to remember a Decibel review as well.

I've been trying to get "Damnbient" across as a genre and this sure qualifies.

OK, Sahg I is crushingly awesome, too. And two hours ago I was saying I hadn't discovered anything new and great for a while.

Glad to be of use.

I saw some of the Sahg set at Roadburn but I didn't really know what I was watching.

I'm starting my morning with Sahg II now, and am still basically agape. How had I not even heard of this band? Because the name sounds like spinach, so my ears filtered it into Food before it reached my brain? Man.

Still puzzled, as I read various reviews around the net, by their being labeled "Stoner/Doom". Is this an age thing? Do people who grew up with later, faster metal as their formative introduction think slower metal must be a result of drugs?

well a lot of people since the early 90s reckon its only metal if its fast. Met plenty of people like that.

still loving the new Blind Guardian, although I'm starting to think Tales from the Twilight World-Imagionations is the era i liked the best. but this has enough thrashy moments for me.

sounds like I've gotta check out this sahg.

co-sign on the new celestiial. field recordings are a major component of the celestiial sound and it just works so freakin well.

might prefer the less metal one from a few years ago, tho.

At this point, "stoner rock" has as much to do with drugs as "indie rock" has to do with being independent. It's just a description for the genre/sound.

The 3yo demographic's succinct assessment of Angra's Aqua: "Good." Still making up my own mind. I liked Angra a lot a long time ago, but skipped the 2 or 3 albums before this. Not sure my power-metal affections run as deep, at the moment, as they once did. Although that reminds me that I liked the new Gamma Ray album and haven't played it again recently…

at one point I had Angra's first two albums on a special 2 for 1 package. I sold it. I'm really upset that I did...."Carry On" is a great tune.

This is awesome: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=145147

Glad to see some Sahg appreciation. I'm really enjoying III right now. You could say their trajectory is similar to Grand Magus. I need to go back to the latest GM to see if I need to buy the CD at Allthatisheavy when the Sahg comes out.