Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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.

I much prefer older GM, so I think Sahg are probably better than current GM.

Liking new Drudkh

I like the latest Grand Magus more than the Sahg. Not hearing what others are in III - seems dull and generic. The Sword's latest is much more interesting to these ears.

"Ambient Metal" used to be my joke genre, but here it is"

tellin' ya, the new lustre album is the one to beat this year.

I tell you, this is probably just a dumb coincidence, but it's pretty darn intriguing...Dimmu fans, does this not sound like Vortex singing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=250iKj95l1w

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here, but the video is called Dimmu Borgir featuring Vortex.

Ah, watching the video helped. No idea.

When I posted that video to my Facebook page, the Capcha text was "serfs machine." That made me laugh.

That Lustre album did nothing for me, sadly. Today's other deletions were Netherbird, Dråpsnaat and Drudkh. But I'm liking this BXI (Boris + Ian Astbury) EP a lot.

hah, i guess the drudkh wasn't different enough for you to like it

Been rocking the upcoming Dusted Angel (ex-B'Last) album today. Wow, what a great band!

man, this christian mistress album rules. great riffs, excellent solos, nice live band sound, and I LOVE the vocals.

Yeah, I didn't like it much on first listen, but it really hooked me the second time I played it. The vocalist reminds me of the singer from Znöwhite. (That's a good thing.)

That Znowhite comparison is a really good one. The one comparison I kept thinknig of was Kim McAuliffe from Girlschool. And yeah, this album has steadily turned into one of my 2010 faves. I gave it a very positive 7 in this month's Decibel, but should have given it an 8.

October Decibel just arrived!! :-D

I hear the cover story is really superduper awesome.

;-D

THRONES / CHRISTIAN MISTRESS tour 2010

Mon 9/27 - Portland, OR @ Tube
Tue 9/28 - Boise, ID @ Redroom
Wed 9/29 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Vegas
Thu 9/30 - Denver, CO @ 3 Kings Tavern
Fri 10/01 - Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theater
Sat 10/02 - Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club
Sun 10/03 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Borg Ward
Mon 10/04 - Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle
Tue 10/05 - off
Wed 10/06 - Newport, KY @ Southgate House
Thu 10/07 - Lansing, MI @ Mac's Bar
Fri 10/08 - Toronto, ON @ The Shop
Sat 10/09 - Montreal, QC @ The Playhouse
Sun 10/10 - Portland, ME @ Geno's
Mon 10/11 - Boston, MA @ O'Brien's
Tue 10/12 - Providence, RI @ Machines With Magnets
Wed 10/13 - New York, NY @ Acheron
Thu 10/14 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
Fri 10/15 - Baltimore, MD @ Golden West
Sat 10/16 - Richmond, VA @ The Triple
Sun 10/17 - Charlotte, NC @ The Milestone
Mon 10/18 - Athens, GA @ Caledonia Lounge
Tue 10/19 - Atlanta, GA @ 529
Wed 10/20 - Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone Cafe
Thu 10/21 - Dallas, TX @ Nightmare
Fri 10/22 - Austin, TX @ Red 7
Sat 10/23 - San Antonio, TX @ TBA (**no Thrones)
Sun 10/24 - El Paso, TX @ TBA (**no Thrones)
Mon 10/25 - Tucson, AZ @ Solar Culture
Tue 10/26 - Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
Wed 10/27 - Santa Cruz @ Blue Lagoon
Thu 10/28 - Oakland, CA @ Stork Club (tentative)
Fri 10/29 - San Francisco, CA @ The Hemlock
Sat 10/30 - Arcata, CA @ Alibi
Sun 10/31 - Eugene, OR @ Oak St Speakeasy

Tue 10/05 - off

lol'd at this -- what a packed schedule!

Kim McAuliffe from Girlschool

I really have to listen to girlschool one day. just watched, lol, zombie nightmare, and while it was too horrible to even work as a mst3k episode, the soundtrack ruled and the girlschool tracks sounded awesome.

listening to the christian mistress again. love the last track.

If you think Zombie Nightmare was a disaster, you need to check out Rock 'n Roll Nightmare -- the last 10 minutes literally exploded my mind.

I'm excited to check out your cover story, Adrien. Readers who aren't colorblind may also catch a giant three-quarter page pink column in the reviews section written by a certain other contributor to this thread...

just looked up rock n roll nightmare on wikipedia. lol at the entire "plot" section:

It is about a rock band who end up in the middle of a confrontation between Heaven and Hell.[2]

thrones any good live? records never did much for me.

"That Lustre album did nothing for me, sadly."

do you enjoy ambient music or minimalism? cuz that might make a difference. it is more those than it is metal, probably. and, yet, it is metal.

You don't want spoilers. You want to watch the entire mediocre slasher movie just for those last 10 minutes. It is transcendent.

haha jeez, thanks a lot j3ff! this forced me to queue it on netflix:

Also includes a documentary featurette about Thor titled "Revelations of a Rock 'n' Roll Warrior."

if it does not live up to the hype, you'll be hearing from me.

you and thor

do you enjoy ambient music or minimalism? cuz that might make a difference. it is more those than it is metal, probably. and, yet, it is metal.
this sounds good to me. will check it out. i think i looked for it on grooveshark and didn't find the album you posted.

"listening to the christian mistress again. love the last track."

That's my favorite track too.

@ Alan - Thrones is way better live than on record IMO. Especially his latest set which is pretty eclectic--covering Melvins-ish rock, Sunn0)))-like drones, and high concept/brute force vocoder-metal.

cool! I definitely want to hit up this tour.

Readers who aren't colorblind may also catch a giant three-quarter page pink column in the reviews section written by a certain other contributor to this thread...

Is it me, or has it been a really slow year for the girly metal?

The year started out pretty fallow, but it's picked up a lot recently -- besides the stuff in my column, there's new music from Tristania, and the new Tarja solo album is actually quite excellent -- far better than the last Nightwish.

Infernaeon are a just-okay death metal band. But their new album includes a cover of "Creeping Death" with vocals by Oderus Urungus, and that's an idea so brilliant it's just put them into Album of the Year contention.

It's a fun cover, I'll give it that.

Oh, I like plenty of ambient music and minimalism. Lustre is a kind of thing I like, which was why I was sad about not liking it!

Excited to hear those Tristania and Tarja albums.

"Teeth and Claws", the first track on that BXI EP, is sounding like another shoo-in for my 2010 song list.