Rolling Metal Thread 2010

Heaven Shall Burn is a very good band, I always liked them. Their new CD is arguably their best one to date

I don't have HSB on this laptop - I'll have to dig that one up.

Are we talking about metalcore or deathcore? I mostly dislike deathcore, but that's probably because I prefer melodic death metal to brutal death. Also, recommending any of these bands to Pfunk/Herman/Algerian Goalkeeper is pretty much a waste of time. He doesn't like thrash or death or (as far as I know) hardcore, to begin with, so it seems unlikely that he'd be a very big fan of their derivatives.

I can't keep track of people's display names. I thought AG might be an entirely new poster.

Might not be him, I just assumed it was because of the posting style.

pretty sure its him

Yeah, Puya springs immediately to mind. I'm sure there are others; I'll look into it.
― that's not funny. (unperson)

Yeah, if you come across anything else, please post about it.
I've been searching around with no luck so far.

Here are some thoughts on the still unreleased Hell album
that I mentioned up thread.

http://isen-torr.blogspot.com/2010/08/hell-human-remains-2010.html

Hell posted this on their myspace blog.

Any thoughts or interest from anybody here?
Perhaps this is already old news to some.

Any thoughts or interest from anybody here?

"wow" is my main thought - read a big breakdown on this band in Snakepit not long ago. extremely interested in the ongoing history-work getting done about this era of metal -- I'll be buying that when it's ready.

Anyone heard the new Intronaut?

I have. I'm not a fan, but others seem to like it.

I think I'm just really over harsh/death vocals in music that doesn't require it. Intronaut's music is Tool-ish enough that they could offer clean vocals, and I think if they did, their music would be improved immeasurably. (I also like Mastodon more when they try to really sing.)

The new one does have clean vocals!

Not enough of the time.

I actually can't really argue with your point, though -- I mean, if the song is better served by clean singing than growling, there should be clean singing. I feel like a lot of bands are afraid of the cred police, or accusations that they've moved away from their style or gone "mainstream."

I actually agree with you Phil, I feel like cleaner vocals would really help them and I was kind of hoping to hear more of it on the new one. They really impressed me live though.

Anybody here a fan of Japanese death metal band Defiled? I've never heard of them and they're hitting me up about booking. Curious if there's anything special about them that I should know.

They don't sound very special.

the good metalcore is like the stuff from the 90s when it was called metallic hardcore - I guess some folks would say that it's essentially a different thing but there are standout branches on the subgenre family tree, eg Overcast turned into Shadows Fall and Killswitch

I am big fan of the crossover thrash and thrashcore stuff more-so than standard metalcore. Like D.R.I., What Happens Next, Vorhees, etc. I don't know if His Hero is Gone fits in with that or what you'd call them but they're pretty great IMO.

I have a big special place in my heart for Biohazard, though, mainly cause of adolescent nostalgia. I think people tend to categorize them as early nu-metal but I think they are pretty solidly metalcore, at least in pedigree.

I really liked Deadguy and Bloodlet. Those were seminal metalcore bands for me that predated Converge. I guess I like my metalcore to still have an artistic edge.

okay i know what i want for christmas you guys. if everyone pitches in you should be able to swing it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/EYEHATEGOD-lot-3-test-press-DOOM-SLUDGE-/120648913465?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item1c173c5239

a) these are being sold by a member of EHG who is broke
b) these were bought once upon a time from a member of EHG who is broke
c) all of the above

d) drugs

So no doubt everyone's seen this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFjI7gT1FvI&feature=player_embedded

They missed an obvious 'Welcome to the realm of Santa' joke...

You know Dasher and Dancer
And Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid
And Donner and Burzum.

Where does one hear Bongripper? Can one buy their MP3s online?

I don't want to miss out like I did with Gay Witch Abortion you see.

i saw bongripper recently as an opener for someone else (like 3 someone elses really). they were pretty good but i don't remember anything about their show at all.

i really popped in here to say new agalloch SO GOOD -- i'm so proud to sort of internet-know someone who was involved with making it. if i were 16 i would be rhapso-yapping on youtube about it, but i'm not.

In preparation for my BurningAmbulance.com review of the Ghost CD, I went back and revisited The Devil's Blood's The Time of No Time Evermore. At its absolute most aggressive, that record sounds like '70s Heart. And the Ghost disc reminds me of Blue Öyster Cult.

Man, this Bongripper album is awesome. Which of their other albums are good? I see they've had plenty out.

oh man I kinda want that Dopesick test press but no way.

yes all bongripper is great but some stuff is experimental drone (Heroin (i have that ltd set with the drug kit) but the crushing doom material is awesome.

man, I want to give ghost a chance but I kind of hate them because I keep getting tricked into thinking there's a new album by the japanese ghost every time I read about em.

^^^ OTM

I'm still not tired of the Ghost (SWE) album. I'm actually surprised it's getting so much acclaim, but I'm glad it is.

I don't get it at all. But I didn't get the Devil's Blood at first, so give me six months.

fucking A

also, if xhukx ever checks in here: check out Don Juan Matus. Peruvian psych/doom on the milder end of both sides of that slash, i.e., the guitar's overdrive but not too distorted, it's very melodic, the vocals are sung not bellowed...really, if I told you their 2010 album Mas Alla Del Sol Poniente was some excavated mid-seventies treasure, you'd wonder how they got it to sound so full & clean but you'd believe this band was from back when. Beautiful guitar work, excursions into dub...not perfect (I kinda hate the vocals, but I often have that problem with milder doom), but pretty damn good.

Have you heard Maligno, aero?

I haven't! I've been pretty much all death metal lately but this DJM took me by surprise.

got this from a link on the deciblog:

1. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
2. Watain - Lawless Darkness
3. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
4. Dawnbringer - Nucleus
5. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
6. Torche - Songs for Singles
7. Ludicra - The Tenant
8. Thou - Summit
9. Nails - Unsilent Death
10. The Austerity Program - Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn
11. Castevet - Mounds of Ash
12. Immolation - Majesty and Decay
13. Sailors With Wax Wings - Sailors With Wax Wings
14. Coliseum - House With a Curse
15. Horseback - The Invisible Mountain
16. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
17. High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine
18. Burzum - Belus
19. Atheist - Jupiter
20. Electric Wizard - Black Masses
21. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
22. Kvelertak - Kvelertak
23. Integrity - The Blackest Curse
24. Ghost - Opus Eponymous
25. Withered - Dualitas
26. Pivixki - Gravissima
27. Fear Factory - Mechanize
28. Unearthly Trance - V
29. Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium
30. Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part II
31. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
32. Father Befouled - Morbid Destitution of Covenant
33. The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood
34. Early Graves - Goner
35. Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
36. Decrepit Birth - Polarity
37. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
38. Hail of Bullets - On Divine Winds
39. Lantlos - .Neon
40. Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons

no Cathedral love?

Yeah, having that Darkthrone record but not Cathedral is kind of like criminal insanity. Some good shit on there though.

A terrible list, wrong in nearly every way.

It has The Wizard. It has The Body. It has High On Fire. It has Nachtmystium. It has Kylesa. It has Sailors With Wax Wings... it's not that bad.

man I haven't even heard a lot of that. I have become the metal fan who would rather listen to old-school death & proto-BM than know what's going on in the genre.

There are lots of good albums on the list, but almost without exception they're way lower than they should be, buried under boring unlistenable shit.

unperson you're getting crankier by the day!

hey, at least Burzum didn't crack the top ten (a mistake, imo), Phil.

Nachtmystium and Ghost should have placed much higher tho, tru.