Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npr

So the new Agalloch album is killing me right now. No surprise there.

Ever so slightly envious here.

Listened to a few tracks from the new Atheist today. Almost all of the McLaughlin-esque jazz-fusion side of them is gone; it's a much harder, heavier brand of tech-death they're playing now, which is probably why they chose to work with Jason Suecof. I'm not at all sure I like it, at least not yet.

That defeats the whole purpose in my opinion. If I'm going to listen to Atheist I want jazz-fusion-death, not dime-a-dozen Suecof tech-death.

I've since moved on to the new Salome album. It's alright. My indifference is probably due to my mood, I want to keep listening to Agalloch. But they mix it up decently enough, some little EHG touches breaking up the doomy monotony.

Ohhh new Salome! Do you have the Slough Feg too?

Yeah, for a while now, and it's terrific. Scalzi's as commanding a presence as ever.

I'm just gonna wait and order them all together with the dawnbringer and mans gin cds. Will save up.

You've gotta buy these first, though... amirite?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250699797598

http://catbird.tumblr.com/post/1178660030/i-hear-they-do-the-same-thing-for-ozzy-just-wheel

totally cave in

My buddy Jeff who did the short film "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" is back with another one, kinda a prequel -- "Heavy Metal Picnic."

http://decibelmagazine.com/Content.aspx?ncid=389191

Decibel writes about it and the trailer

Hour Of 13 signing to Earache makes them the best band on their roster for... how long a timespan can we get for this? Longer than a decade?

I see Nanowar have a new album out
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lYM_06wLnzQ/TKNWNRZkN5I/AAAAAAAAD8o/IOGkCD_hZMo/s1600/Nanowar+Of+Steel+-+Into+Gay+Pride+Ride+%282010%29.jpg

love that s/t hour of 13 record from a couple years back. good for them! (if they get paid.)

It's not precisely metal, but I'm enjoying the newest Unheilig album, Grosse Freiheit. It's like they listened to Vision Thing and muttered "Zis ist nicht GERMAN ENOUGH!"

Kinda guardedly into the new Mael Mordha, too. Thought before that their singer is terrible, but somehow this time I feel like the terribleness is working for them as personality.

But still basically it's Enslaved and BXI destroying all, around here in my head.

anybody heard the new stargazer on profound lore? it's pretty weird, and pretty awesome, but i haven't seen much mention of it anywhere. only other thing i've heard by them is the split with invocation from 1999, which is also pretty great.

TODAY IS THE DAY - In the Eyes of God (CD/DVD reissue)

wait what now

New Black Anvil eh? On Relapse I presume? LOVED their last one.

thinking about today is the day got me thinking about am rep which made me realize that i should prob bring this to the attention of (some of) yall, because its cool and really cheap:

http://apurgeofdissidents.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=181

I'd never heard of Salt Lake City 80s band Crisis, but their first album (newly re-released on Shadow Kingdom) is EXACTLY the kind of post-NWOBHM I was listening to in the mid-80s. Needless to say I love it.

anybody heard the new stargazer on profound lore? it's pretty weird, and pretty awesome, but i haven't seen much mention of it anywhere. only other thing i've heard by them is the split with invocation from 1999, which is also pretty great.

Yeah, they're a great band overall. You need to go get The Scream that Tore the Sky! Also recommend their caveman alter-ego Cauldron Black Ram, the only pirate metal band worth listening to.

And the new one is really cool, but I feel like the production is a little less clear than the last one. Kinda worried their next album will be their equivalent of Atheist's "Elements," though.

Listened to the new Hail of Bullets on my tram ride to work this morning. I still like them. Easy-listening death metal.

I heard something Adrien & Smithy might like today.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lYM_06wLnzQ/TKimbLaatvI/AAAAAAAAEBM/ZN9LrK0q4Iw/s1600/Atlantean+Kodex+-+The+Golden+Bough+%282010%29.jpg

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=146091

That's definitely right up my alley. I like what I hear so far...

I told ya!

should probably listen to this Enslaved record the whole way through, but I just keep playing the last track again and again and again

just popping in to say: this friday night at my store in greenfield (in the basement) we will be having a show around 8 pm just in case there are any masshole lurkers on here or if you know any hampshire college professors who are down with the heavy stuff. bands:

TSANTA (my friend jeremy kelly doing his very heavy duo thing. guitar + drums.)

http://www.myspace.com/satanswhiskers

THE BODY

http://www.myspace.com/thevisionshallcometopass

EHNAHRE

http://www.myspace.com/ehnahremetal

WOLVSERPENT

http://www.myspace.com/wolvserpents

ahahahaha there is a band called HELLBEARD
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xidKY9MOr-M/TKil2vsMH7I/AAAAAAAAAeM/o6zJHQ_3ZVk/s1600/untitled2.bmp

Smithy have you started a metal band?

http://www.myspace.com/hellbeardband

I like the record cover/logo/whatever that is

the logo looks like ass, if you lopped that off you'd have a pretty OK sleeve imho

Not sure if they've been mentioned in this thread yet but there's a new Place Of Skulls (Victor Griffin, ex-Pentagram) out just now and oh mayyyne... you know how before they were a Christian band who rocked, as opposed to a Christian rock band? This is actually a Christian rock record. I mean nothing with Victor Griffin playing guitar is going to be irredeemable but I think they're making an active play for the CCM crowd :(

I dunno, the lyrics were always a bit like that.

TODAY IS THE DAY - In the Eyes of God (CD/DVD reissue)

wait what now

― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, September 30, 2010 11:45 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark

Would also like to hear about this. What's on the DVD? Or is one of those pointless 'audio only' DVDs?

xp yeah no I mean the actual songs, to be fair there are some bangers here but a bunch of this sounds like radio rock of the Creed kind, it's not pretty

ahh, ugh

Listening to this:

http://s43.radikal.ru/i101/1010/c5/5c4a0e0d683b.jpg

and I'm liking it a lot.

Hey if you're in Portland this week:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs613.snc4/59317_435510729013_141384714013_4937963_2854397_n.jpg

So what are people thinking, end-of-year-list-wise? Here's what I have so far:

Nachtmystium - Black Mettle Part 2: Addicts
Yakuza - Of Seismic Consequence
Jucifer - Throned in Blood
Arsis - Starve for the Devil
The Sword - Warp Riders
Watain - Lawless Darkness
High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine
Zoroaster - Matador
Cathedral - the Guessing Game
Landmine Marathon - Sovereign Descent
Rotting Christ - AEALO

Four or five of those have a shot a being on mine (Nachtmystium, Yakuza, Watain, High On Fire, and maaaaaybe Zoroaster). Didn't really feel the Arsis or The Sword that much, although the latter is growing on me a bit (I think I just had too high of expectations given the early buzz and the lovely cover art). The Cathedral is... well, interesting. LOVE about 3/5ths of it, can't stand another fifth, and waver back and forth on the rest.

The Landmine Marathon was also okay, but I haven't listened to it again since I heard the promo. Maybe I should remedy that. Haven't heard the others.

Alpha order:

Black Bombaim - Saturdays and Space Travels
Cathedral - The Guessing Game
Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium
The Flight of Sleipnir - Lore
Ihsahn - After
Kvelertak - Kvelertak
Samsara Blues Experiment - Long Distance Trip
The Sword - Warp Riders
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
UFOmammut - Eve

I have yet to hear Gnaw Their Tongues and Kylesa, but wouldn't be surprised if either made my list.

Yeah Triptykon would probably be on my list and I'm super excited to hear the Kylesa. Off the top of my head the Ihsahn record would probably make my list.

I can't remember everything that came out, but off the top of my head I would put: Iron Maiden, Yakuza, Enslaved, Drudkh, Ov Hell, Sorgeldom, Twilight, 1349, Ludicra, and The Howling Wind on my list, and maybe Celestiial, and I have a feeling this Wolvserpent is gonna make it too. Oh yeah, and I bet Kylesa will, but I haven't heard it.

I have a gift certificate, so I'm going to make a run to Best Buy and pick up a couple things I never got around to checking out (if they have them), including Ludicra because I suspect I'm going to love that one. Honestly, the Enslaved is good, but I'm not as blown away by it as everyone else here seems to be.

Man your Best Buy must be a whole lot better than the ones around here if you can find Ludicra there. The only metal albums I was able to find this year were the Maiden, the High On Fire, and Ov Hell.

My list of candidates is fuckin' LONG. Here 'tis:

The Absence, Enemy Unbound
Armored Saint, La Raza
Bison B.C., Dark Ages
Brain Drill, Quantum Catastrophe
Danzig, Deth Red Sabaoth
Decrepit Birth, Polarity
Defeatist, Sixth Extinction
Deftones, Diamond Eyes
Embryonic Devourment, Vivid Interpretations of the Void
Enforcer, Diamonds
Flesh Consumed, Ecliptic Dimensions of Suffering
High On Fire, Snakes for the Divine
Ihsahn, After
In This Moment, A Star-Crossed Wasteland
Inherit Disease, Visceral Transcendence
Iron Maiden, The Final Frontier
Kill the Client, Set for Extinction (just got the promo today, but it's awesome)
Knut, Wonder
Kylesa, Spiral Shadow
Ludicra, The Tenant
Misery Index, Heirs to Thievery
Ratt, Infestation
Shining, Blackjazz
The Showdown, Blood in the Gears
Steelwing, Lord of the Wasteland
The Sword, Warp Riders
Violator, Annihilation Process EP
Waking the Cadaver, Beyond Cops, Beyond God
Whourkr, Concrete (digi-grind)
Xasthur, Portal of Sorrow
Yakuza, Of Seismic Consequence
Rob Zombie, Hellbilly Deluxe 2

I'm not sure about the Triptykon disc yet (or the EP that's coming out soonish). I'm going to see them, 1349 and Yakuza tomorrow night, though. That may inspire me to revisit the studio recordings.