Rolling Metal Thread 2010

I'm excited for the Fear Factory because they now have Dino back along with Strapping Young Lad's rhythm section.

I didn't know Hoglan's on the new one...nice!

Hoglan's always looking for the next paycheck, eh?

ian christe has put out a big fat hellhammer/celtic frost book you can buy me:

http://www.bazillionpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/onlydeathisreal.jpg

me wants

Will be buying this to go on my shelf next to his other books.

oh yeah!

holy shit, where can i get that immediately

also AYO NEW YORK DUDES come see me play doom/black metal tomorrow night?? will buy 1 beer for yuns. 2010 is gonna kick so much ass. i just quit my job for the sake of metal btw

oh woops i mean day after tomorrow - that is the 4th. at a place called Lit in downtown manhattan iirc

I'll book your Portland show ;)

ok, when?

Well, if you're going to play in Portland, you have to do an LA date.

none of us do jobs or anything normal anymore so i mean

ma i met "grim kim" of terrorizer and general awesomeness last night, and she was like "oh u know c0smo l33?" and i was like "yeah" and she was like "you know all these critics -- do you know KSP????" it made me lol

lol @ "ma", i was not referring to yall as maternal figures, i meant to say "man", fwiw

For a Portland gig I need 3-5 months notice and a link to your myspace tunes. And if you have an EPK with Sonicbids I will automatically take you less seriously ;)

lol, not in this band

http://www.myspace.com/argentinumastrum

consider this your 3-5 months notice

Man this Ihsahn record is amazing. Hell of a way to kick off 2010.

The guy who did the Axxis album cover from last year strikes again!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6IxeL1PRYH4/SuumiBSEYiI/AAAAAAAABSs/Gdk6SpGINEc/s400/Heavenly+-+Carpe+Diem+by+Eneas.jpg

I wonder if that chick on the right is the same one that was wielding the flame whip?

xpost - Nice southern sludge Roxy. Pick a date, I'll hold it.

You're playing bass?

J3ff -- I think those are both the same chick, right? I wonder if he's doing a blue-skinned Avatar version of that cover for Japan?

I think they are supposed to be different, but I don't think he's very good at making the faces look different. It's possible that it's the same model. In which case, she's about to make out with herself... which is just kind of weird.

maybe each is a different aspect of the same person and they are reconciling by making lusty tongue faces at each other

Man this Ihsahn record is amazing. Hell of a way to kick off 2010.

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Yeah I'm feeling this a lot - he has turned into, idk, a metal version of Barry Adamson or something. Walks a v v corny tightrope but is fully upright as far as my ears can tell me

Was there any discussion of the Nokturnal Mortum record "The Voice of Steel" in the '09 thread? (I think it came out late '09; I still can't find a version of the album with English-translated titles, so it may not have worldwide distro yet.) If so, I apologize for bringing it up here, and for any redundancy, but man it is a MONSTER. I resist even using the words "folk-metal" because they totally destroy any of my old associations with that term, but yes, there are strings and synths and Ukranian folk elements. But it's insanely brutal and epic and expansive and even catchy. Can't say enough. Thing absolutely destroys.

whoa, will check that one out. sounds good.

pulled out my copy of DHG supervillian outcast the other night. the rob zombies of black metal. fun!

nate -

yes, bass

ill be in touch

Was just doing some quick research for a preview of the upcoming Behemoth tour and found this hilarious Nergal stalker video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k4wBw9pVBo

hahahahaha!!!

also, I guess metal guys have it easier in every conceivable way in europe, huh? not too many metal dudes in the USA w/model gf's I imagine.

I love how the song really kicks in to photos of them running on a beach

Ha, someone at MSN Music must have linked my blog post on the Soundgarden reunion to the main page, because folks were just lining up to call me a dick: Check it out. I love the Internet.

Listening to the new Through The Eyes Of The Dead right now and just not hearing anything new. Borrowed riffs, standard-issue attitude, the same ol' typewriter drums...how is anyone supposed to be excited about this album, this band, this genre? Even when I try to take the standard metal-fan approach of appreciating tiny incremental change within an overall landscape of structural sameness, there's just nothing here for me to grab onto and say, "Okay, this is Through The Eyes Of The Dead's unique little patch of ground that enables me to tell them apart from their peers and appreciate their contribution to the metal gestalt in 2010."

dear phil, im sorry that you couldnt write about a stupid band, like your fav one, Airsupply, or something along that line.

ya burnt

I love this Shining album. I mean, it automatically sounds slightly dated because of the industrial element to it but man alive, it's so exciting.

And the reissue of the three Summer Sessions albums by Causa Sui. Danes in flares on acid.

hey, i finally got around to falling in love with the Avenger album, Feast of Anger, Joy of Despair which J0hn liveblogged on the 2009 thread. Thanks for another great recommendation, dude.

It took a few listens for this album to really sink in, but now that it has, I can't seem to listen to anything else. The first song is flat out amazing - I almost wish it would go on for another minute or two at the end instead of fading out so quickly. it struck me on the train this morning that you could actually dance to a lot of the songs on this album - I don't mean manic mosh pit stuff, but like some kind of actual dance, maybe around a big fire or something. The drummer is great, I will never get sick of slow tempo double-kick style playing, and the kettle drum things, though overbearing at times, really add a lot of atmosphere and uniqueness to their sound. I love the way the vocals sound: blackened with a touch of reverb and delay on them. and then the rhythm guitar playing - maybe I'm high but some of the chord progressions almost remind me of stuff George Lynch might come up with if he were in a black/death band. J0hn is way better at explaining the appeal of this than I am, so if you missed his posts on this, click my link to his post. Did anyone else ever get around to listening to this? I haven't checked the best of 2009 threads, but this should definitely be on there.

oh yeah, I meant to check out that avenger album but promptly forgot!

xpost - Air Supply's best songs are way better than the best Soundgarden tunes.

Listening to the new Through The Eyes Of The Dead right now and just not hearing anything new. Borrowed riffs, standard-issue attitude, the same ol' typewriter drums...how is anyone supposed to be excited about this album, this band, this genre? Even when I try to take the standard metal-fan approach of appreciating tiny incremental change within an overall landscape of structural sameness, there's just nothing here for me to grab onto and say, "Okay, this is Through The Eyes Of The Dead's unique little patch of ground that enables me to tell them apart from their peers and appreciate their contribution to the metal gestalt in 2010."

well, half the time I'm with you on this kinda thought, and the other half I'm like: is it really your position that the point of metal is Make It New a la the Imagists or whoever? like, I dig Coffins. Coffins are breaking exactly zero new ground. But that's cool, because the ground they're working is awesome.

I love Coffins too. But even when they're doing their most old-school-Swedish grinding, I can tell them apart from, say, Grave. Same way I can tell Grave from Unleashed from Entombed even though they're all working off the same template - they do little things that reflect the desire to be recognized as individual creative spirits. But TTEOTD don't do that. They are totally indistinguishable from, say, Whitechapel or Suicide Silence.

I think a lot of it has to do with modern studio techniques, honestly - with digital recording and drum triggers and such it's possible to walk in and tell the producer/engineer "make me sound like Band X" and if you punch in the right codes, you can sound exactly like Band X. When you're working with live instruments in a room and recording to tape with air between you and the microphones, there are too many variables for ultra-precise cloning to take place.

xpost: glad you dig coffins, j0hn. got the impression you weren't much of a fan from some old posts. the other side of blasphemy is such a hugely satisfying listen every time I throw it on.

and yeah, digital recording/drum triggers/etc. - that stuff is easily one of my least favorite things about modern metal. nothing against these techniques per se and I honestly don't know a hell of a lot about it all... but the antiseptic drum sounds, bass mixed down so low that you wonder why they even bothered someone in (tbh this really isn't anything new and is maybe my least favorite thing about metal now that I think about it), coupled with some dude yelling at you for an hour just makes this stuff exhausting to listen to. and not in a br00tal way, either. it's just so tedious.

oh man I am sorry to have given that impression. they kind of slay. I mean, it's fun to point out that they're not reinventing the wheel, but I'll take their brand of derivative over any dozen bedroom black-metallers.

yeah <3 coffins.

and on modern production: meshuggah are one of my favorite bands and you could throw a lot of those same complaints at them too. so, this is something I'm willing to tolerate if I like the material. but it makes the generic bands sound so, so generic. and how awesome would it be if meshuggah put out an album that sounded like mental funeral? man, it would be totally awesome! (but they never will, of course.)

holy shit this avenger album! love when they morph into moonsorrow on the second track.

opening riff on the album is killer. that one-two, strumming up, strumming down one note thing (while one guitar keeps strumming the same note the whole time if I'm hearing this right) is something I'm a sucker for.

love the acoustic build to the riff that kicks off the (awesome) penultimate track.

good news..

New Rosetta record, "A Determinism of Morality", goes to mastering next Monday
http://twitter.com/rosettaband/status/7413450005

Totally agree with Phil on Through the Eyes of the Dead. I've listened to their last one and the new one, and they are about as middle-of-the-road as you get. Competent, thoroughly uninteresting. You don't have to be original to be enjoyable (I really liked the Mr. death record from last year), but mediocrity is mediocrity no matter how you slice it.

flute, not flute comment

I love the new track Cauldron is sharing on their myspace.
Are they sharing any others elswhere?

I think that's the only one so far. It's a good indicator of how the entire album is, though.

Rolling Metal Thread 2011

Please lock thread.

no dont. delete new thread. its not new year yet

ilx runs on UK time plus there's no Aussie metallers.

this is still 2010

this is still 2010

― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 31 December 2010 17:38

Rolling Metal Thread 2011 [Started by Doomsday Derelict (J3ff T.) in December 2010 looks stupid.
No-one else will steal the thread start from you, just start it in 2011 please.

So let's stay here

bitch bitch bitch.

What time is it where you are?

Time for metal.

10am jan 31st?

Has anyone actually got advances of 2011 albums?

Several folks talking about the Cauldron record, so yes.

I have a few 2011 releases already: the new Cauldron, the new Destruction, the new Full Blown Chaos, the new Motörhead, and a double disc by some black metal band called Helrunar.

how is the Motörhead?

New Motorhead's as solid as ever.

Cauldron and Ken Mode are the best 2011s I've heard so far, but there are some biggies I'm hoping to hear next week.

Oh, and Graf Orlock's Doombox is great fun too.

I like Ken Mode. Not familiar with Cauldron at all.

Is the Cauldron release available online in the usual crevices?

You mean journalists who never buy music?

I wish I didn't have to buy as much music as I did this year.

Rolling Metal Thread 2011

Okay, NOW lock thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

hi metal dudes did any of u hear this album out last year and/or dig it? my drummer showed it to me today and i loved it! not the type of thing i consider my thing at all, i guess it's like... power metal? kinda proggy? rly have no idea how to talk abt this, but it's like, relentless, epic, ongoing soloing (exclusively in triplets), really energetic, kinda posi. gave me a bit of a 70's psych vibe, too

http://www.mindovermetal.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/titan-300x300.jpg

..?

Quite a few people love titan here (myself included) but noone probably responded to you as you revived the 2010 thread! I didn't notice this one had been revived.
their first release on paradigm recordings is still my fave thing they have done

sweet i'm glad u guys dig it, i revived this thred bc i didnt want to be scorned

imagine ppl in this band high five each other on the reg

Titan are okay, but like most of those prog revival bands they leave me kind of cold. I would rather listen to Area.

huge late pass but I'm just now hearing Stargazer and it fucking kicks ASS.

double disc by some black metal band called Helrunar

Haven't heard their new one (iirc their label only deals in digital promos now, fuck that), but I wrote this a few years ago about an earlier album by them and one by their labelmates Noekk, both of which I still pull out and play, three years later -- still like the Prophecy-label Nucleus Torn album from that year, too:

http://blog.rhapsody.com/2008/03/excellent-boring-metal-from-germany.html

Otherwise, people will perhaps be shocked to learn that I actually agree with lots of the people on this thread! Or at least people who say the Cauldron album is their favorite metal album from this year. In fact, as I already mentioned on Past Expiry Hard Rock, it's one of my favorite albums from this year, period, and one of the catchiest metal albums I've heard in years. Also been liking the Holy Grail and Christian Mistress albums from 2010 (hey, I'm slow, sue me), though the latter with reservations; wish it was less thinly and fuzzily produced, so I could hear the singing and songs more. But I do detect real potential in that band.

Thought the new albums by Burzum, Crowbar, and Stryper (all of which I reviewed for Rhapsody) were bearable; will never play them again, though.

And finally, here's something halfway amusing I wrote a couple weeks ago on all-covers albums by metal bands. (Garage Days and the Def Leppard one from a couple years back aren't available on Rhapsody, so those got left out; I'm sure I left out other obvious ones too, but this was still fun to do):

http://blog.rhapsody.com/2011/02/metal.html

I'm slow, sue me

So slow that I probably just posted, for maybe the very first time, on last year's thread! (Didn't notice 'til now, oh well.)

lol