Rolling Metal Thread 2012

Seen Converge a couple times, never been that impressed. I don't know, they're fine, but not really my thing.

I think I may have already said that on here… Apparently I'm going senile in my old age.

Converge were pretty great here on Friday night, I have to say. Bannon was darting around too, but no Nazi salutes, just random gestures (nothing like the best on-stage gestures I've seen, from the frontman in Zen Guerrilla).

I saw High on Fire with Goatwhore over the weekend... Really good show, but HoF was mixed so in the red that their sound actually lost a bunch of oomph (drums were totally buried, Pike's guitar was hard to hear beyond just a deep thrum). Goatwhore, on the other hand, totally owned. I'd never heard them before, but I seem to have a really high tolerance for Celtic Frost worship. They were insanely tight, mixed perfectly, and had amazing stage presence.

How's Pike looking these days? When I saw HoF last, back in March, he was looking a little haggard (which makes sense, given what transpired since). Just hoping dude is doing well.

Doing some catching up on 2012 releases I missed, really enjoying the Lunar Aurora album, Hoagascht.

Pike looked pretty good, I thought. No shortage of energy...

One of my editors wants me to interview Paul Di'Anno for his upcoming show. Anybody got a good PR contact for the man, the myth? Thanks.

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xpost - Thanks for including us in your top 20 Fastnbulbous!

xxpost - I have been seeing Converge live since the 90s. They have been incredible every time I've seen them -- except for on that Dethklok tour. Something wasn't right about that one.

As for the new album, I streamed it, and it sounds great like all their stuff. But I don't know that I need any more music like that in my life. Pretty happy to put on one of their mid-era records to scratch that itch, or more likely a Deadguy album instead.

Either way, I hold them in very high esteem. I just think most of us are too old to be the target audience for Converge in 2012-13. Too bad because they are really fine artists that are aging well. And if they toned it down for our old ears, they'd piss off everyone else.

Gracias Sh@kedown!

oh jeez i'm an a-hole that was supposed to be a joek :(

sorry the formatting thing made it look legit

Oh whatever, no biggie. Haha!

the new Kowloon Walled City is streaming at Lambgoat

also on Spotify here in the UK, sounding good!

yeah i listened to it yesterday, really excellent

Also for "name your price" download on Bandcamp: http://kowloonwalledcity.bandcamp.com/album/container-ships

Also looks like Ludicra has started tossing stuff up on Bandcamp for name your price: http://ludicraofficial.bandcamp.com/

Oooh!! Now that's interesting. Thanks for the alert!

Yesssssss

https://twitter.com/BillCompton10/status/275823621522460673/photo/1

Noooo

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_meingdq0qi1r9a32bo1_500.jpg

Hopefully that worked.

I now have a weekly column on the Decibel blog to spam you guys with! For my debut, I talk about things that aren't metal, because it's me: http://t.co/0sdyP0Vj

Nice one J

Good start J3ff

Nice work! Glad you have a new wheel to spin around on.

Does this mean Lazarus is dead again? Has the Pit been filled in?

Eh, I'll probably still be knocking out the occasional one as part of the weekly thing – but it was starting to become stressful finding albums to talk about, and the formula that I found myself stuck in was starting to get old.

Randy Blythe finally formally charged with Manslaughter. I didn't realise the guy had died, I just thought he ended up in hospital.

So that's why his name was popping up on Twitter again last night.

http://www.hailsandhorns.com/reviews/record-review-hatebreed-the-divinity-of-purpose/

My first record review...

Man, rough day. Dave Brubek, Oscar Niemeyer, and Harvey Milk?

SeanWayne - solid first review. I'm not a Hatebreed dude, but you do a good job capturing the appeal and expectations of the new record.

xp oh no! Never managed to see them live either.

In other splitting up news, the UFOMammut merch guy told me at Supersonic that Zurich have called it quits. Apparently the drummer went off to Japan and came back obsessed by techno and now only wants to be in a band like Scooter.

never let your bandmates go to Japan unaccompanied...

lol

noooooo to harvey milk hanging it up

Haha, I just got an email from N1ck Mc@st3r, the Krallice CD I ordered on August 26th just got shipped yesterday. Now, if only I could get my Thrill Jockey order settled, I'll be happy.

Did he at least apologize or give you a back rub or something?

Lol, yeah, he actually apologized a couple times for it getting lost in the shuffle, seemed pretty sincere. Glad I finally heard SOMETHING though.

Brain stopped being good for anything useful last 30 min of work so I tallied albums of what musicians are voting for so far in 'The Best Metal Albums of 2012, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves' on Metal Sucks, up through Part VI (using points PazzJop style).

251 Gojira — Elephant Sausage
237 Meshuggah – Koloss
125 Deftones — Diamond Eyes
120 Devin Townsend – Epicloud
115 The Faceless – Autotheism
134 Testament – Dark Roots of Earth
107 Neurosis – Honor Found in Decay
104 Katatonia – Dead End Kings
103 Swans — Seer
97 Dying Fetus — Reign Supreme
93 Pallbearer — Sorrow & Extinction
93 Kreator – Phantom Antichrist
92 Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
86 Spawn of Possession – Incurso
84 Lamb of God – Resolution
84 Periphery – Periphery II
83 Napalm Death – Utilitarian
82 Enslaved – Riitiir
82 Cannibal Corpse -– Torture
79 Killing Joke – MMXI
74 Rush — Clockwork Angels
73 Aborted – Global Flatline
69 Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity
66 High on Fire — De Vermiis Mysteriis
66 Accept – Stalingrad
62 Jeff Loomis – Plains of Oblivion
61 Psycroptic – The Inherited Repression
58 Baroness – Yellow & Green

Heh, there's no alternate mix of L’Enfant Sauvage, just Fetus Stench being cheeky.

Haha, I just got an email from N1ck Mc@st3r, the Krallice CD I ordered on August 26th just got shipped yesterday. Now, if only I could get my Thrill Jockey order settled, I'll be happy.

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, December 6, 2012 4:43 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good news!

Thanks EZ!

This is a band I haven't heard anyone talking about. We played with them in Montreal and they blew me away.

Imagine if Atriarch had Kat Bjelland on vocals. Great death-rock/doom hybrid and catchy songs.

http://showofbedlam.bandcamp.com/

Wow, that's pretty nice! I like the feedbacky, kinda fried guitar tone.

Lol, yeah, he actually apologized a couple times for it getting lost in the shuffle, seemed pretty sincere. Glad I finally heard SOMETHING though.

That's how I felt when my Decibel subscription stopped arriving in the post randomly. I cancelled it and never resubbed; a shame as I really dig the magazine, content and design. If they did a digital edition I'd be all over it.

they do a digital edition now! you can get it on the ipad, at least.

Thanks for that EZ, I see it's in the Newsstand store now. I have an iPhone, no iPad - if I could read it on the desktop too, I'll seriously consider a re-sub. Funny, there's zilch about digital subscriptions on the Decibel website...