Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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.

i remember liking the last Quest for Fire, but i haven't listened to it in a long time. they definitely fit on the teepee roster.

I need that Slough Feg album

Yeah, you do. I expect it to grow on me more in the coming weeks.

Cant see it online anywhere. In related news my vinyl copy of twilight of the idols arrived. Good price too! Need to get Down.... as well, but I can never get that at a good price.

The new album by In Lingua Mortua is released next week. Judging by this sample track, it will be massive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9X-YzwCU48

Excellent tour just announced for October/November - Suffocation, The Faceless, Through The Eyes Of The Dead, Decrepit Birth and Fleshgod Apocalypse. All across the US and some Canadian dates, too.

listening to vital remains, dawn of the apocalypse. classic. what's another good one by these guys? dawn is the only one I've ever heard in full.

also, father befouled have been singed to relapse! unexpected but pretty cool.

dig this cover btw:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/reviewpics/fathermorbid.jpg

hmm. html to bbcode button killed my link. one more time:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=144259

The best Vital Remains disc is Dechristianize, with Glen Benton on vocals throughout. He's also the vocalist on Icons of Evil, which is okay.

duly noted. thanks!

Dammit. Dimmu Borgir are touring the US in November and December, and Enslaved is opening up for them. Which means I'll miss Enslaved, because they're playing the shittiest venue in Manhattan.

Yeah it sucks, Enslaved were going to do their own tour in the UK playing at venues like Camden Underworld then they cancelled the whole thing to support Dimmu Borgir. WTF.

they're playing at the house of blues in chicago
yuk

Awesome. I'm just sad we don't get the same bill as the European dates, which are Dimmu + Enslaved + Sahg!

Just got Salon des Refusés. My (very) initial impression is that it may be the best album of its kind since Mardraum. Give me a week or two and I will probably regret having made this claim, but right now it seems so obviously true.

man ive been listening to the Thrones disc and am now very very excited about the tour w/christian mistress

also in catching up with the rest of the world moment, i have just realized that Carcass - Heartwork is way better than I remembered - i think i confused it w/something else that was much more techno drum vibed (yeah i know, i am an idiot)

better late than never.

when Heartwork came out, I was like "wow, they sooold out, maaan" Now, I'd say it's one of my favorites from that year, and it's pretty much impossible for me to comprehend how I could have had that kind of reaction to it.

I saw the Heartwork tour. It was very good. But I was also under a similar impression at the time.

Slayer/Megadeth/Testament was fantastic last night.

Lombardo is so much better now than he was in the 80s.

The new Therion album is cringe-inducing. I was a huge fan of the previous band lineup (post-2001), and the new band shows little imagination at all. I've never been a fan of Vikstrom, either. But the songs are incredibly clunky. You take the operatic/symphonic stuff with a grain of salt with these guys, but the hooks are nowhere to be found.

would just like to say that I have been listening to the new Therion for the last few days & I disagree with this post. it is just really working on me, love the riffs, LOVE the solos, love when the Hammond drops in. just like this record so much! when glenn writes:

Therion are my dream band, or at least that's what I always think when I read about them. And then I try to listen and it all just sounds so clunky to me.

this has actually been true with me and the other Therion albums I'm familiar with - Deggial & Secret of the Runes. every time I'd try to get into them, it'd be like, this is great musicianship, and a cool idea, but it's too static. whereas the new one is kind of all over the place. it has a confused sort of thrashing quality not musically but in the sense that there are a lot of ideas being thrown out, one after another, just to see how they work: rock vox, opera vox, that completely nuts folk-violin solo. what on earth. and the completely unabashed use not only of choirs but of solo operatic voices is just so weird & great. I love the new Therion!!

(yeah i know, i am an idiot)

I stopped listening to Carcass for years because of this. I think the idiocy was widespread.