Rolling Metal Thread 2010

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