Rolling Metal Thread 2010

Yeah, pretty good traditionalist doom. Didn't really do much to grab my ears outside of some decent tunes, though. I just love the harmonies and atmosphere of the Ghost record the more I listen to it.

Yeah, the Hour of 13 album is terrific. Old fashioned doom that's not afraid to employ good melodic vocals.

By the way, over at Hellbound we've put up our critics' poll of the best Canadian metal albums of 2010:

http://www.hellbound.ca/2010/12/hellbounds-top-10-canadian-metal-albums-of-2010/

Have you heard the new Cauldron, Adrien? I love it.

I'm nuts about it. The cover of Halloween's "I Confess" is brilliant. And I had a blast talking to Jason about obscure Canadian 80s metal bands. They used Scorpions' Blackout as the template for this album, and they really pull it off, it's got more of a German metal feel than the NWOBHM comparison that people keep tossing out.

Yeah, I can totally hear the Scorpions in "Frozen in Fire" and stuff like that.

Plus I love how "Queen of Fire" has a total George Lynch rip-off riff and tosses in the line "under lock and key".

does everyone else who's heard the Cauldron record hear 'Tears Have Come' as "tears of cum"? :/

So I really, really love this one Shadow Theory song ("I Opened up My Eyes") that has some crazy awesome Jethro Tull flutecomment but then the rest of the album is decent but generic Dream Theater/Symphony X worship, which makes me sad.

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