Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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.

definitely want to check out the Lustre & Tarja records

The forthcoming Kamelot album is very impressive, their best in ages. Very classy, disciplined stuff, doesn't fly off the hamdle like too much power metal does, and the songs have a lot more staying power than I was expecting.

This Wolveserpent is strongly in my top 5 this year along with Ludicra, Cathedral, Enslaved, and whatever else I'm forgetting.

^ Interesting band, them. I'll keep an eye out for the album.

The new Slough Feg album is as good as you'd expect. Tough to decide whether it's better than Ape Uprising, which I loved, but there are no duds on the new one, that's for sure.

There's a big article on Eyehategod in the second issue of Burning Ambulance, which is available here, now. End of commercial.

A couple of the new Slough Feg tracks have been posted at Stereogum. Listening as I post and they sound pretty great.

Kylesa - Spiral Shadow, Oct 26. Can't wait! I wonder if it will feature more Baizley artwork?

I hope not, his stuff has been done to death. It doesn't even suit the Kvelertak album.

Here it is. It was done by Santos rather than Baizley this time.

http://thesodashop.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kylesaspiral.jpg

What a great album it is, too. Listening to it with headphones, it's sonically light years beyond what Static Tensions did. Apparently with the creative packaging that Season of Mist puts out these days, the deluxe edition of is going to look pretty incredible.

they should have put that logo on the back cover. otherwise, it looks cool.

finally made it to Newbury Comics to buy the Sword record . . . that'll be nice to dig into later

dunno if I've already said this, btw, but I need to go to this show:

TORCHE [...] 10/23 Cambridge, MA @ Middle East w/ High On Fire, Kylesa

so killer

i'm not a metal fan normally, but i'm digging this new christian mistress disc.

reminds me of the more melodic metal stuff i grew up listening to.

i should add i love some drone-metal (is that the right term?), e.g., earth.

Daniel, have you heard Torche? I have a feeling there's a chance you might like this:

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

October Decibel just arrived!! :-D

― markers, Friday, August 27, 2010 3:47 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I hear the cover story is really superduper awesome.

― A. Begrand, Friday, August 27, 2010 3:49 PM (3 days ago)

good article, btw -- I knew nothing about them & really haven't listened to them at this point in my life, but I still found it to be a really solid read

hm. torche is a miami-based band? that would endear them to me.

if we're talking about the same act, emusic has four albums of theirs. where's the best place to start?

I've only heard Meanderthal, which seems to be their huge critical success

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

those guys look "art-y."

torche? no way.

I still think the S/t torche is best. but its all great.

i say this solely based on the playful video costumes.