Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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.

yeah live they're basically just bros who are having a blast rocking out

i'm very partial to this brand of "melodic, throwback"-type metal. critical metal darlings, like baroness and that masto-what's-it's-name band, are very different, but i can't really pin-down their subgenre.

Torche falls in the "critical metal darlings" camp too, btw -- Decibel's 2008 album of the year was Meanderthal and *checks Pitchfork* Raposa gave it an 8.2

pitchfork only loves them for their costumes.

yeah live they're basically just bros who are having a blast rocking out

― call all destroyer, Monday, August 30, 2010 9:45 PM (5 minutes ago)

this is correct

my brain skipped right over the word "live" in cad's post for some reason -- I actually haven't seen Torche live, although I'm hoping to change that this year. I've only seen, like, a live snippet or two on YouTube. still, I wouldn't really describe Meanderthal as particularly arty

i have never seen a musician smile more during a show than steve brooks does

yeah, I could see that being true -- Meanderthal is totally the kind of record you can put on if you want to get really pumped about life

Daniel Esq

Whoops. I was just starting to write when my arm slipped off the desk and hit return. Anyway, if you didn't already know, been skim reading this thread recently, Torche are releasing a singles collection called Songs For Singles on Hydra Head on Sept 20.

Well, it's not a singles collection, just a CD of eight new tracks. The first six are pretty good, the last two are great.

haha i thought you were suggesting me as a sacrifice to the angry "gods of metal."

I am sitting here not hating the new Waking the Cadaver album Beyond Cops, Beyond God, and not quite knowing how to feel about that. I mean, it's not like the evolution from total joke brootal death metal to mediocre deathcore is the difference between fish and caveman, but still, considering where they started, competence is a huge leap. I almost wanna pat them on the head and say, "Good job, boys!"

not that ^these guys are ever likely to be more than a semi-meme on Metal Inquisition for me, but I like that album title

Only thing I know about them is that a bunch of dudes are pissed off they're supporting Napalm Death on tour for some reason

I did kind of wonder why I hadn't heard any of them before.

The Quest For Fire album unperson mentions in today's release list on msn sounds interesting - anyone else heard it? I generally like stuff on TeePee, and the idea of some Hawkwind/Crazy Horse hybrid sounds like bliss.