Rolling Metal Thread 2012

I didn't know that about Janus! But, I'll be honest.. it doesn't come through on this album. Maybe live. But then I don't know much about opera. Foot is firmly inserted in mouth.

Neurosis and Godflesh

What? Godflesh?!

We are actually taking a night off on our US tour to see Neurosis, Voivod, and YOB in Oakland. What a stunning lineup!

Is that show actually happening? It's not on the Fox Theater website.

Yeah I hope Godflesh play in the U.S. at some point.

xp Don't mean to call you out re Janus, was just surprised. However, despite how she talks about all she does to prepare and protect her voice, it is hard to tell, as she obviously roughs it up when she sings and it doesn't sound all that natural for her. I read somewhere she was supposed to have been not only trained since 10, but a successful opera star of some renown, but that could have just been PR hyperbole bs.

New Menace Ruine is some really rad noise at the junction of female-fronted psychedelic occult rock, shoegaze, and dark ambient, but hell if I know why Profound Lore is putting it out.

I am really annoyed that Fell Voices, Ash Borer, Menace Ruine, Servile Sect, Sutekh Hexen are playing in Oakland on a Thursday night. If this was anywhere in the city (or a Fri/Sat) I would so be there.

I really like the one tune (Salamandra) I've heard of the new Menace Ruine. I figure they're weird and Canadian and that combo is enough for Profound Lore. He's put out some similarly not crushingly heavy stuff before, like the last Angelic Process record, or the last few Caïna records.

xp Don't mean to call you out re Janus, was just surprised. However, despite how she talks about all she does to prepare and protect her voice, it is hard to tell, as she obviously roughs it up when she sings and it doesn't sound all that natural for her. I read somewhere she was supposed to have been not only trained since 10, but a successful opera star of some renown, but that could have just been PR hyperbole bs.

Don't worry, I don't feel like you were calling me out, I was just shocked to learn that. I feel bad for pigeonholing, I just didn't really hear her in that way.

Yeah I just got that Menace Ruine too. Looking forward to their show here next week. Also spinning the new Atriarch, Eight Bells, Ash Borer, and finally got the Author & Punisher. Great week for new music.

saw huntress a while ago and thought that they were awful

thx to a temp money shortage, missed out on the hydrahead $100 deal for 40 cds and 4 vinyl and (i dont care, i have closets full of this shit) 40 posters. pissed. still bought 20 cds plus posters i will prob throw away for $40

I interviewed the guitarist from Witch Cross, a very early Roadrunner band whose one album, 1984's Fit For Fight, is being reissued by Hells Headbangers. Click the link just for the video.

Witch Cross reissue? Fuck yeah.

80s metal reissues are my fucking kryptonite. I am constantly loading up a shopping cart at Shadow Kingdom and then having to talk myself out of the items in it one at a time

Pagan Altar reissues man. You know you need them.

they have been in the cart several times, it's just a matter of time really

I saw Pagan Altar in a small room at Roadburn. What's their best (ie doomy-est) album?

Judgment of the Dead AKA Vol. 1. Recorded in 1982. The Time Lord has some earlier version of the same songs, but JOTD is kinda definitive. Lots of people liked their two newer ones but they didn't quite leave a mark for me.

i think they got better as they went on myself

Wait, you don't think their first EP was the best? That's uncharacteristic of you.

Clearly a poll is called for.

Man, my Krallice album still hasn't shown up yet.

Neither has mine! That might have something to do with the fact that I never ordered it…

The new Witchcraft is just fine.

I wish it were more than that, but alas, it is not to be.

That sounds disappointing.

its as good as the previous 2

Legend a good retro-rock record. It just doesn't have that "lost album from 1971" vibe that The ALchemist did. It's more riffs, less psych, and will likely triple their fanbase.

Their first EP was the best.

The demo before the first EP was best. But it only sounded right on the blood and semen splattered shellac hand lathed by the singer in a limited edition of 2 copies mastered for 78 rpm.

It's actually my least favorite of their albums. The big-riff style doesn't work for them nearly as well as the jazzy-psych-blues thing they were doing, and their new interest in political lyrics is a big turnoff.

political lyrics

Yeah, this sounds ever more disappointing. In a list of things I do not want from a band like Witchcraft, that would be fairly high up there.

awww, jeez. you guys are bumming me out for real. I loved the alchemist so freakin much.

and the "jazzy-psych-blues" thing was pretty key. I like the 70s as much as the next guy but a little 60s is nice sometimes too.

Exactly, hearing that they're focusing more on big riffs kind of misses the point of the band's strengths, at least for me.

I finally got the Timeghoul reissue and I'm loving it. Mildly clearer sound than the demo rips that were making the rounds.

The last song is about an alien archaeologist finding the fossilized brain of the last human on earth and extracting the history of a war between humanity and aliens from Mimas... Who arrived on earth when a civilization they were at war lopped off their half of the moon and sent them hurtling towards Earth. Now that's fucking songwriting.

OMG I want to hear that!

witchcraft vinyl reissues are up on rise above now

The Menance Ruine that J3ff was repping earlier is amazing. Now I want a Menance Ruine/Pinkish Black split and tour.

Anyone going to see Saint Vitus tonight in Brooklyn?

Are they playing at Saint Vitus?

idk if that is even in Brooklyn

Yep, Saint Vitus at Saint Vitus... Pretty sure that qualifies as BK *just barely*

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That's a magazine cover, all right!

Hope to see a few of you on 5 week US/Canada Witch Mountain/Castle tour this Oct/Nov. \wm/

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Wish I could! But you'd probably play to 12 people in Saskatoon.

Isn't that the entire population?

Sorry, the Canada jokes are just too easy.

Yeah keep cracking wise, one day soon they'll drive their army of wendigo and sasquatches down here and lock us into an eternal winter of socialized medicine.

XXXP I think I now cross-file Rob Halford under Cenobites in my mind.