Rolling Metal Thread 2012

Bruce jumps around a little too much for his own good – he fell off the drum riser onto his head at the Dance of Death show I saw.

I'm sorry the sound was muddy. I wonder how much was venue or band. I'm seeing Maiden in August for the first time in 25 or so years, and am really excited by the setlists that have been making the rounds.

I'm a small room show guy too. This will be my first thousands and thousands of people show in 15 or 20 years.

listening to new baroness for the first time right now. just finishing yellow but WOW.

The new Lamb of God goes on some interesting tangents, and I don't consider them mediocre, but I just don't need anything beyond Palaces and Ashes, you know what I mean?

Most intriguing new album in a while for me: Arbor's The Plutonian Shore. Black Metal, I guess, but with enthusiasm and real dynamics. Wolves in the Garage?

And Ankhagram are tiding me over on breathy funeral doom until the new Evoken comes out.

And provisional approval for Kråke, Thormesis, Uncertain, Bend the Sky and Natan. And the Agalloch "EP". And old Asrai and Xandria albums.

The brothers in metal thing is dumb.. its just dumb.

Trying to be the loudest band in the world. dumb! trying to be the fasted drummer, loudest screamer.. all that shit they tried to do to get notice and in the Guiness book years ago.. fucking lame! Only a pretentious prickface would try to do any of those things. Bands with real heart don't try and do those things, they just are..

Viking songs? from an American Band? lame!!! What the fuck do they know about Vikings?

Manowar to me is the very reason metal gets clowned on for being ridiculous, overly macho, homo-erotic, war-mongering and just not smart.. For some, Metal are burnouts, or dumb jocks that got kicked off the team for bad grades, and they fall into the latter.. They cover all the stereotypes, imo.

And I think Alice Cooper is hella silly, too. His music was never cool to me, certainly nothing heavy, and the theatrics seem to try and make up for lack of musical integrity..

back when all i knew about manowar was that they were 'the world's loudest band' (and i didn't really listen to any metal then) i listened to them once to test that claim and it was the most embarrassing thing ever. AND not the loudest.

I'm with you re: Manowar, Sean, but you just might want to reconsider Alice Cooper.

I've tried with Alice, it ain't happenin... lol!

Mgła With Hearts Toward None is probably my pick of the year so far. Somewhere in between Nachtmystium, Drudkh and Deathspell Omega, very well produced, great songwriting, not a weak riff to be found and all played with max intensity.

I posted my own January-June highlights at MSN earlier this week

I like the Asphyx album, for sure, I was singing its praises when it came out. I forgot to include it when singling out the better death metal releases, but in the end it won't make the cut on my EOY list come December anyway. Nile just might, I love the new one.

So I was poking around an antique mall in Bay City, Michigan the other day and stumbled across this, for $20:

http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af118/jon830/IMAG2522.jpg

Also, as we were driving home last night, some mid-Michigan rock station had a "Mandatory Metallica" block. So I thought, hey, at least a stretch of good music to keep me awake. Nope. The "block" consisted of 2 Death Magnetic songs. Come on.

Nice find!

Yeah, I was super excited!

I had no idea any part of the series was collected like that. Hella cool.

With the risk of sounding like the boy who cried wolf: apparently Summoning are working on their first album in more than seven years.

Siegbran you are only saying that to taunt me.

fucking A this is pretty exciting.

19.02.2012
After a longer winter-sleep summoning is back again and ow works constantly for a new release. We promise that in the near future we will regularly update the homepage again, so it will we worth the costs to check the page in regular intervals.

The present situation of Summoning:

In the past years we have worked on new material just very rarely because of different reasons (partly personal, partly being not motivated enough) but since the last months ,we intensified the work for new material and realised, that the old spirit is back again and we are very motivated for a cool new release and we are very committed in every terms of composing.

Meanwhile there are two songs which are fix starters for the album. 4 or 5 songs are in a more advance state and we composed riffs for at least 10 or 15 songs in a very early state. Btw. we still have one finished song from the last oath bound session which also will be in one or another way. so probably this time we are in the luck situation that we have more songs left, so maybe there will be some special limited fan releases beside the normal release, but this is of course just a wish right now.

We hope that until the end of this year most of the material for the new album can be finished. In the moment we have no concrete conception about the lyrical concept. All we can say right now is, that Summoning is still alive and middle earth will awake again.

I only have Oath Bound (which is pretty great), what's their classic record?

Ah so old news - hadn't seen that message yet, I heard it through one of my Austrian contacts.

Classic one...I guess Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame or Minas Morgul...they don't really have one undisputed classic. Oath Bound could've been monumental but it sounds like ass, either they were drunk when mixing it or they only heard the final master over the phone.

I think Mortal Heroes is probably the one that represents them best but Stronghold has "Long Lost to Where No Pathway Goes" which is an all-time jam for me. But Stronghold also suffers from the vocals of Tania Borsky, who on some lines ("I wait for youuuuuu!") literally does not seem to know where the right note is. I'll rep for getting their whole catalog to be honest - for me they're one of those bands who, when it's what I want to hear, literally nothing else will do.

Also, as we were driving home last night, some mid-Michigan rock station had a "Mandatory Metallica" block. So I thought, hey, at least a stretch of good music to keep me awake. Nope. The "block" consisted of 2 Death Magnetic songs. Come on.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, July 7, 2012 8:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol jvc, there's a real good chance that station was Q106, which was a fixture of my childhood. My band played a battle of the bands they hosted last year...they're totally corrupt.

Now that you mention it, that was definitely it. The only other thing I remember was a bunch of commercials for Pop Evil and Three Days Grace concerts. Sadly, by playing old Tool and Nirvana, it was one of the better stations we came across driving through that part of the state.

Pop Evil – why

Who knows? The new band I hear people talk about is the Hollywood Undead. I have no idea whether they get any radioplay or if they have more of a grassroots, word-of-mouth appeal.

I haven't heard much of them but they're p emblematic of why I try to never leave the house anymore.

I think boring radio rock is my least favorite thing ever.

Anyone else heard the new Nachtvorst album?

I think boring radio rock is my least favorite thing ever.

Seriously, modern mainstream radio rock is the worst. Of all the directions heavy rock could have taken over the past 10 years, how did the Creed descendents win out?

Laziness.

Just gave the Summoning a try. I have a hard time with nature-worshiping bands that use drum machines.

Like Fear Factory?

Just gave the Summoning a try. I have a hard time with nature-worshiping bands that use drum machines.

dude there's only a handful of bands ever with guitar lines as stellar as Summoning's

Dude, why are you guys all not listening to this Ptahil album RIGHT NOW?

Ha, the cover of their album is a picture of the Bohemian Grove owl statue.

Fair enough, Summoning is a love-or-hate band anyway. On paper the combo of BM guitars + faux-medieval melodies + endless endless endless repetition of the same synthetic timpani/snare pattern shouldn't work at all. Still it does something to you.

But seriously, if you guys are into early Venom, Celtic Frost, and Bathory (unlikely, I know), you HAVE to listen to Ptahil. Super awesome proto-black raw punk 'n roll metal Satanic awesomeness.

ha hold up they're from fucking Ft. Wayne, Indiana? I am so sold

I gave them a listen via their Facebook page and, um, no.

is it a new band then not old proto metal?

btw am i the only one round here into early Death S.S./Paul Chain? i wanted to do a thread on it but thought whats the point if im the only one on it.

Yeah, they're new. Like they aren't unabashed throwbacks, there is a modern vibe (Midnight, etc.), but it's definitely beholden to the metal gods.

you're the only one on a lot of things, Kerr... lol!

says the Stryper fan!

Michael Sweet is HAWT!! lol

Don't make me start a Stryper vs Manowar thread.

ok

LOL!!!!!!!!

Honestly?

btw am i the only one round here into early Death S.S./Paul Chain?

Well, no, but I don't know how much action that thread'd get with ten or twenty of us... Maybe a weird Italian occult metal thread?

Anyone else heard the new Nachtvorst album?

― Siegbran, Monday, July 9, 2012 9:22 PM (2 days ago)

I think quite a few ppl here would like it.