Rolling Metal Thread 2010

yes!

Last night, The Body were kind enough to test the structural integrity of the building that my record store is in. The building is sound. Thanks, guys!

(oh and if any of you get a chance to see Wolvserpent live, GO!)

To help out those making EOY lists I've revived Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday
and we should pick all 2010 albums on it for the rest of the year.
If anyone wants to join in/volunteer please post on the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0OLQiKVP-w&feature=related

Holy crap are Christian Mistress good live! Outstandingly tight, outstandingly awesome. Touring all through the month and totally worth catching if you can. Boston, then Providence, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, etc.

ok i mean this is just everyone otm but i'm working my way through the enslaved record today and it is just really fantastic--probably the best metal record and one of the best ten records i've heard this year.

even the things they do that i'm not super into, like the clean singing and some of the prog bits, are so fully thought out that they're inarguable. and i love how thick and defined the guitars are--like you can really hear every pickstroke on some of the riffs.

Seems I always miss something on my best so far list, and here's another slept on record: Across Tundras - Old World Wanderer. It's seriously heavy, if not seriously modern metal; kind of a Crazy Horse of Paul Bunyan proportions. Easily one of the best things I've heard this year and a great autumnal album.

Wonderful album, that one. I've been into them since their first record, but Old World Wanderer just might be their best.

I think we're the two enthusiasts on here Adrien. Such a great record, and perfect for a chilly New England day.

Phil just tweeted that Wingo has left The Sword and all dates are cancelled. Totally bummed as I was hoping to catch them next week.

Didn't even know that Across Tundras existed; I liked the last thing I heard by them, though.

The Sword news is very bad indeed. He was that band's not-so-secret weapon.

He is so good on Warp Riders in particular - his anchor allowed them to open up their sound.

Trivett brought a terrific sense of groove to the Sword's music from the get-go, that's for sure. Hope his replacement can equal that.

FYI, Across Tundras is giving away the album as a free download if anyone's curious to hear it.

So who else has heard the new TesseracT EP? This band pushes all my metal fan buttons: classy, a touch of prog, the ubiquitous Meshuggah influence, and an ability to creat actual vocal melodies rather than doing lazy hardcore screams over dexterous arrangements. Superb 28 minute CD, this one.

Seeing Fauna, Krallice, and Earthless in one weekend was sure a treat. Me tired.

Handbills and stickers discovered in the bathroom at Fall Into Darkness:

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I think I finally made it.

Which Sword guy left???? Say its not the drummer

Er, its the drummer.

lol nate.

Goddam it. This Warp Riders thing kicks all sorts of ass. I think it was Phil who said that there is a huge Thin Lizzy vibe on it: that's totally true.

Haha, wow, Nate.

Listening to the new Gnaw Their Tongues for the first time and I'm stunned. I liked the last one (once it made the year end poll and I finally heard it) but this is spectacular. Easily one of the best things, metal or otherwise, I've heard this year. Might just be the meds I'm on at the moment but this is seriously creepy majesty.

EZ S, did you get that in a package with the Nekrasov album? because I listened to the first 2 tracks from that'n last night and damn near got my head took off. amazing.

No, I borrowed the promo off the metal buyer at my local store and was getting ready to order it from Crucial Blast today. So I should order the Nekrasov too?

Gnaw Their Tongues is great. Are they one of the few things the metal thread unequivocally agree on?

Also in the 'kind of BM' frame, the Murmuure album is awesome. Sort of like if Zombi were secretly a BM outfit.

I've been really enjoying the new Gnaw Their Tongues as well, I already like it more than the last one. Should give the Nekrasov a spin too...

New Motörhead album in January. Apparently it's called The World Is Yours.

Nice! Their last three albums have been great fun.

Anyone like the new Intronaut album? It has some clean vox apparently.

so cosmic hearse slowed "ride the lightning" down to 33 rpm and suddenly it's a lot heavier and doomier

like

"ride the slightly slower lightning"

the slowed down title track almost sounds like something off the new sword record

No, I borrowed the promo off the metal buyer at my local store and was getting ready to order it from Crucial Blast today. So I should order the Nekrasov too?

have only checked the 1st two tracks so far. they were pretty facemelting I have to say

To tie it all together the Cosmic Hearse guy is Aesop Dekker, the drummer for Ludicra and Agalloch, and I guess now Worm Ouroboros too. Super nice gent as well.

Thanks aero - I'll check myspace and such to get an idea if Nekrasov will be my thing before I finish my Crucial Blast order.

omg @ that sticker!!

Pretty sure Aesop just posted the slowed down Metallica tracks that had been circulating for the last few months. I know I heard the 33rpm Master of Puppets played between sets at a show not too long ago and was very much enjoying it.

fair enough

Continuing the werewolf theme:

http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/point-of-origin.jpg

Aldo: I love Gnaw Their Tongues. I think that album or Barn Owl's Ancestral Star or The Body's All The Waters... will be my fucked up/esoteric/art metal album of the year. I like the way that by going even more like 'classical' music, Mories has kind of made it even more evil.

So the new Weapon album is the best Canadian metal album I've heard in quite some time. A big improvement over the debut, which wasn't too shabby in its own right.

Here's a piece I wrote for io9.com about metal bands helping to expose the reptoid menace... http://io9.com/5664162/

JD - I am looking forward to Barn Owl at Supersonic next weekend, definitely.

Here's a piece I wrote for io9.com about metal bands helping to expose the reptoid menace... http://io9.com/5664162/

Awesome! Also, pre-ascension-of-Icke, you've got Axegrinder's "Rise of the Serpent Men" LP and Dream Death's "The Elder Race."

I'll have to get you guys the lyrics I wrote to 1997 Witch Mountain song "A Power Greater." It's all about our Reptilian forefathers.

http://www.noevdia.com/images/enter/2010Paracletus.jpg

oh man, that's sick -- what's that from?

new Deathspell Omega. the final part of the trilogy

I think most on here will be looking forward to it.

CELESTE!!!! Jesus.

for any pentagram fans, my friend/coworker has a nice article this week on victor griffin's metal odyssey.

If Jamie is admittimg that readers of this thread should vote for the Celeste album in EOY then I can only agree. A brilliant record.