Rolling Metal Thread 2014

damn, did not realize there's a new aevangelist. and sax! sweet.

i absolutely love everything going on in the new disentomb record

https://newstandardelite.bandcamp.com/album/disentomb-misery

Gotta get that Aevangelist. Also just discovering Royal Arch Blaspheme, who are great if you dig the line of descent from Profanatica/Havohej.

I love these GoPro videos Ben Koller is doing

Concubine/Fault and Fracture live in London: http://youtu.be/lY6WjJXCOOM

copying from the Year End Critics Polls thread.

glad to see Thou so high, missing Nux Vomica and Skull Fist imo.

Decibel's best of 2014 list:

1. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
2. At The Gates - At War With Reality
3. Horrendous - Ecdysis
4. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
5. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
6. Thou - Heathen
7. YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
8. Vallenfyre - Splinters
9. Panopticon - Roads to the North
10. Morbus Chron - Sweven
11. Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall
12. Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
13. Woods of Desolation - As The Stars
14. Tombs - Savage Gold
15. Krieg - Transient
16. Iron Reagan - The Tyranny of Will
17. Cult of Fire - मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान
18. Gridlink - Longhenna
19. The Oath - The Oath
20. Behemoth - The Satanist
21. Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere
22. Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
23. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
24. Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
25. Wreck & Reference - Want
26. Teitanblood - Death
27. Trap Them - Blissfucker
28. Young and in the Way - When Life Comes to Death
29. Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
30. Eyehategod - Eyehategod
31. Cretin - Stranger
32. Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem
33. Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
34. Lord Mantis - Death Mask
35. Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
36. Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
37. Solstafir - Otta
38. Execration - Morbid Dimensions
39. Incantation - Dirges of Elysium
40. Floor - Oblation

surprised they like Vallenfyre that much

actually I'd replace all three of the Kurt Ballou-style entombedcore albums they picked

Code Orange, Bastard Feast, Baptists > Vallenfyre, Trap Them, YAITW

The most interesting thing about the list to me is how Electric Wizard went from cover stars to overlooked completely in the space of 2 months. I don't particularly like them and wouldn't rank the album highly in my own list but it seems like a pretty large editorial about face.

It wasn't a positive cover story.

True, but, it was still a cover story and generally that implies support even if the interview turned into a tiring missive against everyone who ever crossed them.

17. Cult of Fire - मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान

The list is December to December.

I voted for strictly 2014 albums. Not that Cult of Fire would have made it on my list anyway. It's a decent list, and the absence of Priest aside, I can't complain. The usual suspects, plus some decent variety.

Wow, I'm really liking this new A Pregnant Light album My Game Doesn't Have a Name. It's kind of epic-melodic black metal with a little hardcore, maybe.

http://open.spotify.com/album/4R17xrjlNhg72GNKtryyfz

omg this crucifyre record is the most fun http://pulverised.bandcamp.com/album/black-magic-fire

So is the Electric Wizard really not liked very much? I love it, I like the shift back to more of a druggy, lo(wer)-fi sound from the last couple albums.

i only listened to it once but i liked it okay! couldn't really understand the h8

seriously that crucifyre record is pretty straightforward old school dm but they sound like they're having the best time playing it

There are several albums on the Decibel list that I haven't heard, and I was going to scan through them all, but I hit Panopticon first and didn't get any farther. Wow.

I hate the Electric Wizard. My least favorite of their records by a fair margin.

I wish the Panopticon record was half as long but otherwise it's good stuff. Just too much of it, which makes it hard to absorb as an album.

I think it's generally kind of a dick move to throw an album 99 percent of your readership hasn't heard, since it's not even out yet (Primordial) onto your year-end list. But whatever.

I hate the Electric Wizard. My least favorite of their records by a fair margin.

I mean, it's definitely not near the top of my list, but I think it nails a vibe that I'd always wished they spent more time exploring.

Come to think of it, here's how I'd probably rank 'em:
Come My Fanatics...
Dopethrone
We Live
Let Us Prey
Time To Die
Witchcult Today
Black Masses
Electric Wizard

hey guys are there any good bands now that do FM radio AOR type 81-83 keyboard metal/hard rock?

like: Joe Lynn Turner era Rainbow, "Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio, etc

also watching this now and it rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx2B8ii_Yf4

Panopticon RULES. That is all.

do they sound like Perfect Strangers era Deep Purple?

Good to see Thantifaxath get a nod in the Decibel list.

OTM! That album is so good.

hey guys are there any good bands now that do FM radio AOR type 81-83 keyboard metal/hard rock?

like: Joe Lynn Turner era Rainbow, "Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio, etc

― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

How important are the keyboards? Because Joe Lynn Turner literally has a band right now with Carmine Appice and the other guy from Blue Murder.
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/rated-x-featuring-joe-lynn-turner-carmine-appice-tony-franklin-this-is-who-i-am-video-released/

In a related question, how important is the "good"?

Also, Domains and Emptiness sorely lacking in Db list. And much as I'd love for Mayhem to make my, or anyone's, year end list, it probably shouldn't. I just gave it another shot the other night and oof. They went from Ordo Ad Chao, maybe my favorite album of the post-2000 era, to ... whatever Esoteric Warfare is. Now I really want to hear, if true, the allegedly DMDS-type album they recorded then scrapped before coming up with what became EW.

Heh, EW.

i'd like a few keyboards but i'll check out joe lynn's new band

i'd prefer good haha

any of these 8 zillion bands i've never heard of any good?
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/huskerchief21/best_melodic_rock_metal_aor_albums_of_2014/

The band is called Rated X, which makes for a fun googling. The song I heard last night, "Lahsa," is I assume the album's "epic" number. It has that "Kashmir/Stargazer/Valley of the Kings" vibe.
http://youtu.be/Wj9485YEf_A

I'm sure there's a lot better, more inspired AOR out there; I just happened to catch a JLT/CA interview on Eddie Trunk's show last night so I figured I'd chime in. This really isn't my specialty.

If you don't mind a bit of a cheese glaze, the new Axxis is surprisingly great.
http://youtu.be/tVMk6ZfQmtA

edit: the only thing from that list that I've heard is Accept, which is good, yes. It's very ... German. Nightingale seems to be loved by many but I hate Dan Swano's breathy vocal melodrama. He ruled when he roared in Edge of Sanity and on Moontower. Nightingale makes me cringe. But, again, others dig 'em.

OK, working through the Decibel list I just heard the Horrendous album for the first time. Wow. Thou will be up next, although maybe I already heard that. Then Vallenfyre.

i love that horrendous record

yeah it's incredible

Add me to the list of Horrendous lovers. That and the Dead Congregation album are my favorite death metal of the year.

And note my use of a capital "H" in Horrendous (I'll let my wife decide on the truth of the sentence with a lowercase "h").

gotta listen to that horrendous album some more. remember really liking it but I can barely remember it at this point. too much music >_<

gridlink still prob my #1

disentomb album is a lotta fun btw, thanks for the recommendation upthread

yeah! it's probably my favorite of the year, but i'm still (always) catching up. maybe it's not very imaginative but it's everything i like about brutal and kinda technical death metal executed well

at least a few times a week I typically get into this headspace where I need straight up comfort food death metal that just delivers the damn goods and the disentomb has definitely been that album since I first heard it

I'm still not completely sold on the Horrendous album. It's very promising, but it feels like a great big deal is being made out of an extreme underground band that's only just learning to write classic heavy metal riffs.

that's part of the appeal, i think

Adrian if you listen to their previous one it really sort of puts the new one in relief - I think they've been working toward a style and they've got there

I'll tell you what though I've been revisiting the Morbus Chron album all week and that's the one I'm just loving the most of my year-enders right now. so good.

gridlink still prob my #1

Same. It's also easily the album I've played the most this year (three or four times a day at one point).

I need to listen to the Morbus Chron some more. It's a really interesting sound, but the songs haven't exactly stuck in my head.

on that rym "melodic rock" list linked upthread is the human contradiction by delain, if you have a taste for gothic symphonic metal a la within temptation, it's a total blast

also just remembered i haven't even touched the new devin townsend double album (!)

I'm still not completely sold on the Horrendous album. It's very promising, but it feels like a great big deal is being made out of an extreme underground band that's only just learning to write classic heavy metal riffs.

yeah kind of breezes by, maybe i'm looking for at least more of a tech-deathy rigid crunch, but so far i've felt like the songwriting/riffwriting is kind of indistinct

imo the riffs are less indistinct than extremely lean but i get being underwhelmed by it, i only locked into the record in the second half

could be in the drumming, too, who knows so far - i feel like the remainder of the sound is correspondingly light because the drum style is so snare-heavy somehow

put it on the day after i listened to the new bloodbath, tho.