Rolling Metal Thread 2012

oh, word, thanks!

yeah nice one (you traitor)

I just had two extremes pop up in my facebook feed.. couldn't be more opposite really..

First this, and band called The Algorithm (wasn't someone asking about dubstep metal? This sounds pretty close..)

http://basickrecords.bandcamp.com/album/polymorphic-code

then this behemoth from Thou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjGCVOX6tOA

I just thought it funny these two extremes in metal popping up back to back in my feed..

I got to see Rush and Voivod in a 48 hour period. Life is grand!

Tempted to post a picture of Nate in that 'pictures of people who have figured out how to live' thread, tbh.

Twitter just blew up with this, if anyone is curious what the Decibel top 40 list is this year before receiving the magazine, here you go. SPOILERS: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/11/decibel_magazin_2.html

I'll wait until I get my copy. Hey bloggers, just because you CAN print something, doesn't mean you SHOULD. Let me climb on my grumpy old man horse here, but does everything have to be instant gratification anymore? Fuck. I like some anticipation in my life.

Yeah, me too, but like 18 people already spoiled the winner for me. Super lame.

Anyway, Jon, we both know that that's antithetical to the blogging philosophy: if they don't publish it, somebody else will, so they may as well be first.

The band who got the top placement put it on their facebook page before the whole list made it out there.

sweet, that was gonna be my #1 record this year too. i don't read decibel, so i don't know - is that gonna help make me seem more kvlt and less false?

yes.

whew! safe to look for a spot for taylor swift downlist then

print media is dead. deal with it losers.

your FACE is dead

Man, Viceroy is wrong on this count. And I'm not just saying this because of all the posters here that write for it, but Decibel is one of the only mags out there keeping my hopes alive for print media as a viable thing.

Tangentially related, I picked up the Cryptopsy comp today. Nice liner notes Adrien, congrats! And I like how you, erm, let's say "delicately" handled covering their last album.

it's so weird to me that graveyard's singer can actually sing

Best Black Friday sale EVER – entire Seventh Rule catalog going up for free download at midnight tomorrow: releases.seventhrule.com

so many good things on there, too.

wait whoa seriously

Man, that is an awesome sale. I can pick up the rest of the stuff I didn't get back when they had thier last $5 CD sale.

Seventh Rule ‏@seventhrule

On BLACK FRIDAY we don't care about your money. ALL Seventh Rule Digital Downloads are free via Bandcamp. Midnight. http://releases.seventhrule.com

So unless the twitter account is lying, I'm going to undo all the work I've put into clearing out space on my iPod on Friday :/

speak loud pay nothing

Most other labels and I'd be super skeptical, but Seventh Rule is known for uber-cheap sales.

Oh hey, looks like they've already started tossing stuff up for free. Have at it!

if you dont grab wizard rifle from there you are wasting your life

Gimme a list of 5-10 of the best titles, please...

Definitely these:

Ursus Americanus - Author & Punisher
Wizard Rifle - Speak Loud Say Nothing
Wetnurse - Invisible City
Kongh - Shadows of the Shapeless
B A T I L L U S - Furnace

Wetnurse and Kongh are already up for free. I also like Raise the Red Lantern, but they are basically just very good High on Fire-style stoner metal, nothing necessarily essential. Other people might have thoughts about the stuff I haven't heard.

not a complete endorsement but i do get a kick out of author and punisher

I'm also into Sweet Cobra, super sludgy stuff, not sure how into them you'd be, though. Wizard Rifle also went up for free just now.

Indian is awesome.. and that Batillus is AMAZING!

Don't forget about Atriarch. And the new Millions album is really solid as well.

I will also vouch for wetnurse and batillus

I'm woefully behind the curve, as ever, but this Witchcraft album is really good.

i once accidentally slept through a batillus show in the next room, i was really pissed at myself. ive been begging them to come back since

I sampled a whole bunch of those Seventh Rule albums, but the only one I ended up downloading was The Makai's The End of All You Know.

Because Blood Stain Child wasn't quite over-the-top enough on their own, look up their collaborative project called Imaginary Flying Machines. Speed power robotrance metal versions of Studio Ghibli movie songs. Really. Two whole albums of them.

WHAT

WHAT

― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Sunday, November 25, 2012 5:28 PM (12 minutes ago)

Didn't Phil point me in the direction of that comp in 2011? I had access to a media page with a streaming thing but the label never sent a proper download.

Yep, I was on that shit last year. Pretty sure I found an illegal download link for it, too.

Imaginary Flying Machines on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/artist/1AMEAzmCc3kJ2pNLDNSoFC

I am absolutely smitten with a new Shadow Kingdom band called Corsair. Total Thin Lizzy style heavy rock, but not a blatant rip-off like Gypsyhawk. The singer actually has a little soul in his voice, like Lynott or Glenn Hughes. I just might be making a little room on the EOY list for this one.

http://shadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/corsair

Yeah, Corsair is really great. On my second stream of the album now, loving this.

Looks like this is getting a physical release in January, maybe I'll save this one for my 2013 lists. Either way, scooping this up as soon as I can buy a physical copy.

Curses, Corsair's all the way down in "C"! That's 138 albums away on my iPod from where I am :-(

Well you can only stream it for now, so technically you wouldn't be cheating on your iPod. :p

The band self-released it in April, so physical copies should be out there.

Oh, nevermind me then. I wasn't having much luck in my (admittedly, brief) Google session and only found references to the Jan 2013 release. On any account, excited to throw money at these guys. Like I finally got my physical copy of Uncle Acid just last week!!