Rolling Metal Thread 2010

yeah, I got my issue

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I was just looking at Orphaned Land's wikipedia page and I saw this about their album:

Within the first week of being released in the United States, this album sold 600 copies and reached 80th place on the Billboard Heatseekers chart

600 copies in the first week? This number astounds me and tells two stores - 1) the record industry really is in bad bad shape if 600 copies can place on a Billboard chart, and, 2) metal albums don't sell for shit. I realized Orphaned Land is a long ways from even like Dimmu Borgir, but that is a tiny number.

my issue arrived a week or so ago tbh

Sounds like I'll have to go pick one up.

what exactly is a heatseekers chart though? obviously it's not a main one.

True, I mean it isn't going to reflect anywhere near the numbers of one of the main charts, but still... 600 copies in a week seems so low to me.

i haven't gotten mine yet. was it something i said? ;_;

just listened to the murmuüre album. (finally! thanks for the tip, glenn.)

so, this is a really nice mix of spacey, krauty ambiance and black metal but less generic than that sounds. brought celestiial and lurker of chalice to mind - it's similarly natural and loose. scott should listen to this.

Wasn't it Aldo who recommended it? I heard it because of him.

ah, yes. you're right. I just saw glenn list it above.

either way, it's very strong.

Just got the new Decibel yesterday. Last time one of mine was really late, I contacted Mark Evans and he was great about sending a replacement. Of course then the missing copy showed up too. I think there must be a lot of USPS workers enjoying this magazine.

Well, the mail delivery in my neighborhood is notoriously awful anyway, so I feel bad blaming it on anyone else. I'll give it a couple more days.

One more shameless plug...

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/134341-the-best-metal-albums-of-2010/

YOB were bluddy great last night, in case you were wondering.

Here's my Top Ten at MSN; the 10 worst albums of the year piece will come later today.

macdara to thread

I personally don't blame Mark at Decibel, he always replied quickly to my e-mails and got my refund sorted pronto. But as I've said here before, I only received three issues without having to ask for them. Mark pointed the finger at distribution problems with a new printer but they couldn't go on for that long. Sure the postal system here isn't brilliant but I'm still getting my other mail! Long story short: I'll never subscribe to Decibel again.

Holy shit, the Christian Mistress. Wow. Glad I heard this before I wrapped up my lists and voting in the metal poll. Her voice is fantastic, but its the riffs that make it such an absolute joy to hear.

i love the last track especially. I still need to order that one, was waiting on a vinyl but its so expensive now for shipping n stuff I think i'll just buy cd.

They tore it up live, too. Crowd was lovin' it, and they responded in kind. Really nice group of people as well.

Here's my Top Ten at MSN; the 10 worst albums of the year piece will come later today.

― that's not funny. (unperson), Friday, December 10, 2010 6:54 AM (2 hours ago)

love a handful of the top 20 -- i guess i need to check out that sword album, huh? they're from my city!

Does nobody else have a MASSIVE problem with the drum sound on the Decrepit Birth record? I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, but I know I'm not just imagining it because one of my friends noticed the same thing.

Otherwise, nice round ups, guys.

digging A.B.'s list on stylus

i couldn't care less about the actual #1, #2, etc. rankings on most of these lists, I'm just glad to be able to note a solid 15-20 metal albums i've yet to check out and can run with!

sorry, not stylus -- popmatters

R.I.P. stylus :(

fixing to place an order from profound lore, but i can't spend too much -- which of these are absolutely essential, awesome, worth buying, etc.? i've heard a couple tracks from agalloch, yakuza, but that's about it :/

* AGALLOCH - Marrow Of The Spirit
* SLOUGH FEG - The Animal Spirits
* DAWNBRINGER - Nucleus
* YAKUZA - Of Seismic Consequence
* LUDICRA - The Tenant
* ATAVIST/NADJA - II:Points At Infinity
* CORRUPTED - Paso Inferior
* DAWNBRINGER - Sacrament EP
* WATAIN - Lawless Darkness Ltd Digipack
* WATAIN - Rabid Death's Curse Re-Issue

Essential? I'd go with the Agalloch, Ludicra, and Yakuza. The Watain and Slough Feg are both really good, but not quite as great as the others I listed. Wait, that Corrupted is very essential too. I still haven't heard Dawnbringer, which I need to remedy before the poll.

haven't seen much talk about the new deathspell omega. loving it myself.

reminds me of the last few converge albums in approach. (though not sonically, obviously.) a band at the top of their game knocking out a razor-sharp, no-frills, and extremely aggressive release. this band is just SO in control of what they do.

vinyl is very nice too!

as for that list above, I'd go with the agalloch and corrupted records. haven't heard about half of em tho.

I'd go Dawnbringer, Yakuza, Ludicra and Corrupted.

You really can't go wrong with any of the first five.

essential

* AGALLOCH - Marrow Of The Spirit
* SLOUGH FEG - The Animal Spirits
* DAWNBRINGER - Nucleus
* LUDICRA - The Tenant
* CORRUPTED - Paso Inferior (far superior version to the vinyl version)
* DAWNBRINGER - Nucleus (dunno that sacrement ep but that album is essential)
* YAKUZA - Of Seismic Consequence - pretty good but id get the other albums listed above first.

Our tastes are pretty similar so i think you would like these.

oops the dawnbringer is in there twice

see, its so awesome im telling you to buy it twice!

oh and buy the swans album too if you havent heard it, it might not be metal but I think you would like it.

The first five for sure, but I'd also say get the new Watain digi as well. Not their best album, but it's still good, and the digipak is not only really nicely designed but a real bargain from PL as well.

Listening to Ghost now -- really, really liking the Blue Oyster Cult harmonies. I wish the production was a little more robust, though.

great album

Here 'tis...The 10 Worst Metal Albums of 2010.

People like Daath?

The guys at MetalSucks can't stop blowing them.

I think they were also psyched that Stereomud got back together, so while it's a fun blog, you have to take their music recommendations with a grain of salt.

I liked the first two Daath albums, they're good, they're catchy. The new one, though, is a disaster, nothing but a Guitar center circle jerk on record. It's like that Suicide Silence album last year, why even bother when you can't even remember how a song goes?

oh and buy the swans album too if you havent heard it, it might not be metal but I think you would like it.

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A couple listens later, I am going to upgrade my comment on this album The Road Less Traveled by Triosphere from "pretty good" to "really good". Norwegian traditionally-minded metal band with just a little "progressive" in the "guitarist probably learned a bunch of Alex Lifeson riffs when he was a kid" sense, and a great female singer with a deep delivery more in the old pre-black/death metal mold than the modern Nightwish/Epica opera-elf version. Like, imagine taking the melodic core of Dream Theater's "Pull Me Under" and grafting it back into something that tries to reinvent Savatage like Enslaved have remade Pink Floyd. I'm really hoping, for list making reasons, that this is the last stunningly good album I discover this year...

That sounds good.

So I went to the Rammstein show on Saturday night in NYC, and it was awesome. Here's my review (with photos, also by me), and here are more photos.

that looks awesome. and this is priceless:

"face-mounted flamethrowers"

The new Deathspell Omega is really good. But is it good in a new way? Not sure yet. I've provisionally decided that the new Blut Aus Nord isn't good in any new way.

imo, the new deathspell is nothing new. but what it does, it does extremely well.

hey guys go nominate some metal on THE 2010 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ is open for nominations thru January 2, 2011 @ midnight EST I just nominated some.