Rolling Metal Thread 2014

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.

2014 POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN - ILM Metal Albums of the Year

Finally got Pyrrhon's "The Mother of Virtue." Man. I love dissonant death metal so this is right up my alley, but the kind of looser feel they have - less of a quantized death metal clickclickclickclick, maybe some sludge/crust influence in there - makes the more chaotic parts that much more effective. I really like this.

nice, sounds like my kinda record. this one got buried in one of my gigundo 'listen' spotify playlists, so thanks for the reminder!

has anyone posted about this? lineup is kinda up my alley:

http://psychoca.com

PSYCHO CALIFORNIA 2015
The Observatory, Santa Ana, California, May 15-17

Three more headliners announced 1/15/15

EARTH
KYLESA
ORANGE GOBLIN
RUSSIAN CIRCLES
BEDEMON
CONAN
EYEHATEGOD
OM
INDIAN
EARTHLESS
PALLBEARER
CROWBAR
STONED JESUS
OLD MAN GLOOM
CAVE IN
ACID WITCH
TRUCKFIGHTERS
TOMBS
BANG
ELECTRIC CITIZEN
COFFINWORM
SUB ROSA
EAGLE TWIN
MAMMATUS
TRUE WIDOW
ANCIIENTS
BELLWITCH
LORD DYING
DEATH BY STEREO
RADIO MOSCOW
ANCIENT ALTAR
SAMSARA BLUES EXPERIMENT
ELDER
MOTHERSHIP
THE WELL
DEATHKINGS
WO FAT
ROSAMOV
DESTROYER OF LIGHT
HIGHLANDS
BLOODMOON
SLOW SEASON
CRYPT TRIP
LORDS OF BEACON HOUSE
TUMBLEWEED DEALER
SINISTER HAZE
BLACKOUT
RED WIZARD
BANQUET
LOOM

Festival Interludes:: Author & Punisher
Record Rotations:: Bob (Relapse Records)

I stuck it in the rolling Psych thread. Heckuva lineup!

I wanna go anyway, but the three headliners tba on 1/15 have the potential to really put it over the top. not that i know who they are, jsut saying ... wow, if they're good, this'll be amazing

Can someone link to the drama that happened with Cobalt? I see that Erik kicked Phil out of the band because of shit Phil did, but cannot find out what that shit is.

Phil posted hateful, sexist, misogynistic screeds first against Caina and then a journalist. Erik decided enough was enough.

Any idea what the Loss guy's involvement was? I read somewhere that he chimed in with his own hateful statements. The Loss album finally clicked for me the other day; I've been listening to it a ton. I'd hate to see yet another talented metal musician fall by the wayside due to his own ignorant idiocy.

same sort of attack on the same journalist. Apparently feminism is the scariest thing to big bad metal guys.

I never liked Cobalt anyway.

I'm so stoked about Psych CA. I've been trying to get it together to make it to Roadburn, one of the Desertfests or Duna Jam for 5 years now and something always comes up. It's been killin me that most of those bands don't play in the U.S., even the ones who fuckin live in the U.S. (I'm lookin at you Wo Fat!). Good news is that Ufomammut announced they're playing Maryland Death Fest May 21. Chances are EXTREMELY good that they will also be booked as one of the headliners at Psych CA the week before that. Remaining on my wishlist are Colour Haze and Motorpsycho. Colour Haze played some fest in Ohio a decade ago, their only appearance in the U.S. Not sure about Motorpsycho. To get them all would be amazing.

Re: Cobalt

I was thinking "I wonder if K1m K3lly was the journalist," because she is a prominent metal journo who happens to be a female and she is also opinionated and has lent herself to controversy. Then I was like, no way, there are tons of female metal journalists I don't know, I just happen to know her, stop being so myopic! And then I just saw it was her... She's had a rough year between some deaths among her friends and family and being blasted on some other occasions by the underground metal internet wolves.

I hope she's okay but her Facebook feed about it has 900 replies and most of them seem to be supportive of her, which is nice.

controversial mod edit

it's about ethics in metal journalism, right?

"no limitations. now here is something which cannot be discussed." what a dummy.

Social Justice Warriors easily the weirdest pejorative I can recall. "Look at these jerks trying to make the world a better place. More fool them, I'm just going to complain about how whites can't get a fair shake in this crazy mixed up world."

a lot of animus in certain metal circles toward the likes of antifa, right? heads feeling peevish about "outside" efforts to deny them access to cult nazis (or at least make them feel bad about the graveland collection). results in feelings of persectuion, backlash, etc.

Maybe but it strikes me that most of this #metalgate stuff is just typical "liberals trying to police our language that's not metal stupid jerks with glasses can't tell me what to think."

yeah, (at least) six of one...

Social Justice Warriors easily the weirdest pejorative I can recall. "Look at these jerks trying to make the world a better place. More fool them, I'm just going to complain about how whites can't get a fair shake in this crazy mixed up world."

To be fair, when it first popped up, it was used to make fun of people whose political action was entirely limited to posting pissy rants on Tumblr and other social platforms, rather than engaging in real-world action. Now, of course, like all things, it's been latched onto by dickheads.

Social Media Justice Warriors would have kept it "pure".

So this is where it all started
http://www.deathmetal.org/article/metalgate/

yea I dunno being a "social justice warrior" sounds p cool to me

amen

Guys, could we maybe not mention her by name? I know it's all "out there" but it's irrelevant who they went after, and having name attached to it is not making her life any easier because people are horrible. No need to inadvertently add to the pile-on.

maybe a mod could googleproof the mentions itt? k1m k311y etc

or just remove those? Googleproofing doesn't keep people who read it from figuring it out and it adds nothing. That's why I didn't mention who it was when I explained what happened.

She is posting about it on her own Facebook page so.......

You mean her private Facebook and Twitter? Yeah, that.

It's all over the internet, but hey, by all means, wipe it from existence here in a forum that is on her side and not being trollish about it.

Whatever dude. Really, don't know why I bother sometimes.

You're just overly sensitive. You probably need a hug.

i don't think anyone who's ever said "you need a hug" ever really intended to hug anyone

what is it about #gates that rips communities apart? maybe chill out a bit, nycnative?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZCYXGZ2FL.jpg

we're not going to actually shit up this thread by feeding prozak's troll here, are we?

DON'T INVOKE HIS NAME (or whichever hemmorhoid took the reins at that site)

Are you guys all talking about the Stargazer on Nuclear War Now! records, or the metalcore Stargazer?

THE FORMER