Rolling Metal Thread 2014

Really enjoying the Harakiri for the Sky album.

yeah good album but terrible band name

speaking of which, this new Secret Cutter album is also very rad

http://secretcutter.bandcamp.com/

While this style of music, sort of "rust flaking from enormous iron hinges" death doom, isn't up my particular alleyway, I'm thinking there might be appreciation for it in this thread. It was a random find by someone on metal-archives, and seemed to get some love. Winter, Conan, and Indian were mentioned as comparisons.
http://forn.bandcamp.com/album/the-departure-of-consciousness

Throw the word "sludgy" in there, too.

Relapse Records is proud to announce the signing of Virginia hard rock riff worshippers VALKYRIE. Formed in 2002, VALKYRIE consists of brothers Jake and Pete Adams (Baroness, Samhain) on guitar and vocals, Alan Fary (Earthling) on bass and Warren Hawkins on drums. Drawing heavily from the classic eras of hard rock and heavy metal, VALKYRIE play guitar driven rock n’ roll replete with infectious solos and catchy, powerful vocals. The band has drawn numerous comparisons to greats like Thin Lizzy, Scorpions, Black Sabbath, early Iron Maiden, and Deep Purple.

Never heard their earlier stuff. Should I pick some things up in advance of the Relapse release? It sounds up my alley (and if performed well, up the alleys of about 90% of the people who post here).

http://concert.arte.tv/de/wacken

Accept is currently on at Wacken.

Got there just in time for "Losers & Winners!" Thanks!

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/27/333726142/first-listen-panopticon-roads-to-the-north

new panopticon, 'bluegrass + black metal' band. never heard their last, 'kentucky', but this is really something. engaging throughout.

Kntucky was great, looking forward to giving this one a spin.

Saw Yob and Black Cobra the other night in Oakland.. My buddies band Augurs opened and was hand picked by Yob to do so.. pretty rad show.. I get home today and the new Yob is there from earsplit.. Its so fucking heavy!!!!

New Hellbeard very soon... I know a guy that knows a guy ;p

finally found a good time to listen to the Triptykon record, I'd been putting it off

holy fucking shit

I've only listened the once but this thing is just great from beginning to end in my opinion

Just heard the new Slipknot song. It sounds like a rejected early take of one of their older songs, but I can't exactly pin down which one. Oh, well. (BTW, I stopped working at Roadrunner back in May.)

I saw Valkyrie in 2008 and they were good, and a year or so later with Torche and Baroness and they were great. First S/T 2006 album sounds kind of crappy and weak vocals, but has some good tunes, and Man Of Two Visions (2008) is better. Best thing about those are the solos, but I'm confident they'll make a huge step with the new one. Can't wait!

Reminder: Carcass in one hour.
http://concert.arte.tv/de/wacken

Awesome lineup tomorrow. I need to catch Emperor at least.

I think Carcass might be starting momentarily...

whoops, yes indeed they did

Looking at the list, the band whose absence from the top 100 most strikes me is Supertramp. They are intrinsic to my sense of Classic Rock.

To mine too. I voted for "Hide in Your Shell" and "School". I've never seen them get much love on ILM so I wasn't that surprised. If I squint a little, I can sort of see those songs as anticipating Radiohead in a weird way.

Wrong thread, sorry.

I watched the new Electric Wizard "video accompaniment" to their track "I Am Nothing" and man is that title an accurate description. I've liked/loved most of their records from the past decade, but this song is so interminable and boring. If this is their idea of a lead cut to get people excited about the upcoming album I'm definitely worried. Bereft of riffs, ideas, or anything resembling momentum or excitement. What a turd.

Been hearing good things about the new Fallujah, worth getting?

it is interesting. but the word about it being NONSTOP LOUD is also tru.

That mix is unforgivable. Hard to tell if it's actually good or not.

Ah shit that EP they did last year suffered from that too.

I read a comment from the guy who mixed it (can't remember where now) that it is exactly what the band wanted. Which is a shame, but give the client what they want.

Is it the mix or the mastering though?

Thing is these overcompressed ultra-intense on-edge-all-the-time records would be a lot more enjoyable if bands would release them as two or three 20-minute EP's over the course of a year. Take a band like Bölzer, I'm perfectly fine with them releasing EP's only for the rest of their career.

I mainly want Bölzer to stay as perfect as they are right now. I'm sure they could sustain interest across a whole album, since they're definitely judicious about shifting pace or dialing back the intensity at appropriate moments...but, they're really good at EPs.

This might've been the Fallujah comment? http://www.angrymetalguy.com/fallujah-flesh-prevails/#comment-1485283695

Yeah, I think that was it. So it was mastered hot, but that's what they wanted, and the lack of dynamics is inherent in the mix. The result is a tiring, samey, nigh-unlistenable record that wears out its welcome rather quickly.

Hmm too bad then.

Meanwhile, I'm still caning the shit out of Witchrist "The Grand Tormentor", a record that will change your life and make you inflict unspeakable horrors upon your unsuspecting neighbours. The good news is, they've got some new material coming out, a split with Antediluvian.

Witchrist's name makes my brain stop working. I'm trying to figure out how to pronounce it. Witchwrist? Wit-Christ? Witch-riced?

Fucking great guitar sound, though, I'll have to check out their album.

It's Witch-Christ

Well I figured it was that. But the spelling scrambles my brain a little.

Siegbran has been right about that Witchrist album for a long time

that name tho

That Fallujah record hasn't even begun to wear out its welcome for me.

'thchriste

So eBay banned the selling of Burzum stuff:
Metal Sucks

I personally hate this kind of shit. Grown people can make their own decisions. But eBay can do whatever it wants.

New Opium Warlords album is pretty great! Something I scribbled on my Facebook page:

Sami Albert Hynninen has lent his doom-encrusted hands to many slow-moving projects - most notably the mighty Reverend Bizarre - but Opium Warlords is his solo outlet for more experimental sounds. The latest album "Taste My Sword of Understanding" occasionally churns in a fashion befitting classic Candlemass when his vocals get grandiose and operatic (especially on "The Self-Made Man," thirteen-plus minutes of sprawling shade), but spends most of it's time garnishing bass-heavy languid tempos with psyche-rock slop and noise-rock skronk. There's brilliant bursts of accessibility that permeate the experimental, existential soundscape; you can bob your head to it or marvel at the artifice. It might confuse some folks, but it sure won't bore anyone.

I guess as a company there's three ways you can deal with controversial artists:
- refuse material with questionable content
- refuse material that in itself has nothing offensive on it but happens to be made by an artist with questionable opinions
- just arbitrarily ditch stuff whenever someone complains

Ebay have banned Skr3wdr1v3r records for years, it's a bit inconsistently applied, I often see other neo-nazi skinhead bands on there but they're not so well known I guess, I expect it'll be the same thing with NSBM bands who are far more explicit than Burzum still being available on Ebay. Or people will just sell Burzum records as VV or something like they do with Skr3wdr1v3r (just search for oi isd rac and you'll see what I mean)

Yeah but those records have pretty explicitly racist lyrics and liner notes, Burzum has none of that. It's more akin to banning Wagner records - the material itself is not racist, but the guy was.

(difference is obv that Wagner is long dead)

i dunno, i mean eBay is free to moderate their "store" anyway they choose

this is all second hand sales so it's not like varg is really being hurt by this though

Oh yeah they can do whatever they want, I don't think there's any law in the US against inconsistency?

i almost wonder in a weird way if this benefits varg, making it harder to get 2nd hand copies forcing more to buy new?

can't imagine eBay cares how much it benefits him as long as they can avoid the irritation of having to process a few complaints now and again

do they not sell nazi historical memorabilia either?

just checked - appears there is ton of german ww ii stuff all over ebay