Rolling Metal Thread 2014

Told ya. Best drumming on any metal record since Wolf's Lair Abyss.

hah, god, yeah, the drums sound massive! everything does.

and this is pretty subjective, but I gotta say, the kriegsmaschine sounds really EVIL man. like, most metal records go down more like satanic horror movie fun times (which I love, don't get me wrong) but this is one mean-sounding record.

and I STILL need to listen to that blut aus nord. and darkspace! what the hell is my problem?

hah, god, yeah, the drums sound massive! everything does.

Yeah the first track isn't even that amazing, but from Lies Of The Fathers onwards it's just a rollercoaster ride of awesomeness piled onto awesomeness. I also love these records where the drums take center stage and basically are the hooks.

If you haven't heard it yet btw, check out the older Kriegsmaschine track "Onward Destrudo" from their split w/ Infernal War, that was the point where they got the new drummer dude and I was totally sold on them. Has to be heard to be believed.

kriegsmaschine sounds really EVIL man.

Somehow the Poles are good that. Azarath is another example of such a truly vicious, hateful sounding band.

have not heard that split. will be checking it out, thanks!

and yeah, good call on azarath. only one I've heard is diabolic impious evil, so looks like I have some catching up to do...

I'm curious why they don't make their debut Come The Mountain (2001) available on the Bandcamp.

Sorry to take so long to respond, Fastnbulbous. Been on the road or in the studio a lot this year ;)

Anyway, short answer is that we wanted to have 3 Uta albums out before we reissued the first record. Probably will start with a deluxe 2xLP sometime in 2015.

Also for anyone curious, we have had some incredible auditions so far. When we come back, it will be better than ever. xo

Great to hear, Nate! Uta made some incredible contributions to WM and doom in general, but I have no doubt the band will be as great as ever.

Bottom five (#s 25-21) of the Burning Ambulance Best Metal Albums of 2014 list.

so, memoria vetusta iii is really impressive. spun it twice in a row (which I very rarely do) and was pretty tempted to keep going but I had to get on with my damn life. closer is phenomenal.

still working out how I feel about the live drums and the production in general. prob at least partially due to extreme familiarity, but I find pt.2 to be extremely relaxing. really warm and inviting record, pt. 3 maybe less so.

guitar interplay on these records is really mesmerizing to me for some reason, I totally love it

Burning Ambulance's Best Metal Albums of 2014, Day 2. Yes, Emmure over Machine Head.

That sounds about right.

Day 3. That Crown the Empire record is really good if you're into pomptastic theatro-metal.

did we already discuss that the new stargazer sounds fucking awesome and that the bassist is just killing it in every way

http://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/a-merging-to-the-boundless

― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Saturday, October 18, 2014 6:32 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2014. There was a lot of really good metal. I put some of the things I personally liked on this list:

http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/50yPYEJDGM06YYOd3Dcjfw

this stargazer record sounds v special and mysterious

this year's darkspace album closing with "dark 4.20" is prob much funnier to me than it should be http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/smoke/getting-stoned.gif

420 stare into the vast, featureless void and be thrown into despair by your insignificance everyday

well, yeah. what happens when YOU toke?

this stargazer record sounds v special and mysterious

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, December 3, 2014 5:29 PM (Yesterday)

the mystery is, why don't more bands have, like, atmosphere and learn to play some more scales

PopMatters' 2014 metal albums list is now up.

http://www.popmatters.com/feature/188347-the-best-metal-of-2014/P0/

liking stargazer
bassist has some jazz fusion in his background or something, in a good way

haha SOME

oh, forgot to pot here that nominations end in just over 8 hours time approx so make sure everything is there
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voting will start right away so you can work on your lists to get in early

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(to .j)

i'm just sayin, like, hella weather report albums in that dude's collection somewhere

ah ok gotcha yeah i said that before the total jaco bass solo came up even

i kind of figured

The complete Burning Ambulance Best Metal Albums of 2014:

25. Torch Runner, Endless Nothing
24. Baring Teeth, Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins
23. Cretin, Stranger
22. AEvangelist, Writhes In The Murk
21. Mastodon, Once More 'Round The Sun
20. Machine Head, Bloodstone & Diamonds
19. Decapitated, Blood Mantra
18. Monarch, Sabbracadaver
17. Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Enfant Terrible
16. Emmure, Eternal Enemies
15. Crown The Empire, The Resistance: Rise Of The Runaways
14. Behemoth, The Satanist
13. Ringworm, Hammer Of The Witch
12. Obituary, Inked In Blood
11. Vader, Tibi Et Igni
10. Cannibal Corpse, A Skeletal Domain
9. Incantation, Dirges Of Elysium
8. Body Count, Manslaughter
7. Cavalera Conspiracy, Pandemonium
6. Opeth, Pale Communion
5. GridLink, Longhena
4. Exmortus, Slave To The Sword
3. Rigor Mortis, Slaves To The Grave
2. Job For A Cowboy, Sun Eater
1. Judas Priest, Redeemer Of Souls

there was a new body count?

talk shit get shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sokdL-0iV9s

I was not an existing Body Count fan, but I enjoyed the new album pretty well.

Heh, Babymetal! Opeth #1, wow. I saw Opeth the night before last and they were awesome. Surprisingly they only played a couple songs from the new album, not that anyone was complaining. But I do like it better than at first.

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Howls of Ebb's Vigils of the 3rd Eye is pretty bonkers too.

Holy shit, this record. Bits of it remind me of Stargazer (or maybe Cauldron Black Ram) and Demilich, just great weird death metal. Was really surprised these guys were from the U.S., this isn't a style we seem to do well.

(Until now, obviously.)

That Thantifaxath track is excellent. By far the most interesting song on the album, too. The rest has its moments, but has yet to grab me like that song does

Searching ILM for quotes on this band, as their record snuck up on me to become one of the coolest things I heard in 2014. Super disagree with the above statement, as the first track on the record, it almost put me off hearing them at all. I don't generally like BM super technical/progressive, and that guitar lick at the beginning of this came off pretty cheesy to me the first couple of times around. The rest of the record doesn't feature as many lines like that, though plenty of cool harmonies and different kinds of riffing (perhaps more traditionally BM riffs to my ears, though generally a lot more interesting harmonies than typical BM). It's hard to even call this BM for long stretches, as it touches on some death metal, and even reaching way back to straight out prog or fusion, a la Mahavishnu Orchestra ("Dance of the Maya" seems like a song these guys must have memorized). The vocals are the most BM thing about it, along with the blastbeats and big, 6-string chords it features (which is hardly all the time). Anyway, cool band.

Yeah, it's one album I've really enjoyed this year. Has a shot at top 5 on my metal poll ballot.

you have just under 29 hours to do that

I am aware.

Not since Yngwie's Odyssey have I bought an album strictly for the solos but this thing by Nashville tech death band Inferi has bowled me over. Everything around the leads is pretty much plastic Black Dahlia Murder meets Necrophagist tedium with the occasional quasi-symphonic flourish, but ... man, those leads. Dueling leads at that. I just want to transplant them all into a more deserving album.
http://inferi.bandcamp.com/

One of the guitarists has a melodic black metal band called Oubliette, fronted by his wife. I think I like them more than Inferi, overall. No transcendent, snake-charming leads though, but plenty of surprisingly warm and pretty passages.
http://oubliette.bandcamp.com/

fake edit: and as I type during my first run-through of the Oubliette, there are in fact some leads beginning to show themselves. Sweet.

i like that inferi record! the leads are definitely the star

Thantifaxath made my top 5 I think.

The completely awesome Oubliette album art looks like an after hours, perspective shifted version of Genesis' Trespass.

http://i.imgur.com/cL95TWQ.jpg

revisiting the inferi and i like it even more than i did the last time i heard it. it's a little long but i have a real soft spot for dazzling helixes of melodeath

Heard this? http://521records.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-dissonance I'm not sure how much attention it got (2013) but it's really good. Supposedly they have a full length coming next year. I would definitely categorize it as a dazzling helix of death.

Oh Unique Leader got them. Of course they did.

omg this is great

love how every tech death metal album review says "this is the good kind of tech death, not that other kind"

'the drums are actually loud on this one'

Got sent the new Crown album. I'm into it.

It sounds strange. Good songs, but weird production this time around. And I don't usually complain about that stuff as much as others do.