Rolling Metal Thread 2012

I got this last year from a publicist I assume but didn't get to it til now. Trad 80s metal which I am fucking loving, I'm going to take some glucosamine for my knees and then get the fuck down to this

http://www.widowusa.com/images/splash/lb_cover.gif

Yeah, I've long liked Widow, and the new one's a blast, I reviewed it for Terrorizer a couple months ago.

Not a bad time for doom, really enjoying both the Pallbearer and Pilgrim debuts.

has j3ff said what he thinks yet about

http://plotn08.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1324408060_fcland2.jpg

I kind of like the Freedom Call album.

Meanwhile the new High on Fire track sounds great:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13243-fertile-green/

That's a huge step up from Snakes. Nice mix.

that sounds really good!

Windhand just released their album on purple vinyl. So I guess it wasn't officially released last year? I just ordered the CD. They're touring the East Coast and South Feb. 29 to Mar. 10.

http://windhandva.bandcamp.com/

Regarding Huntress, looks like they're opening for the PaganFest tour with Turisas, Alestorm and Arkona. I'll find out which leaves a stronger impression, Jill Janus' Julliard-trained opera pipes or her silicone-enhanced outfits.

Pharaoh is pulling ahead of RAM to my ears. It probably helps that I'm also impressed with After The Fire (2003) and The Longest Night (2006).

That Huntress album is unbearable.

i bet it gets lots of attention

just popping in to say the new COC totally rules

Huntress was tack(i)ed onto a bill I promoted last year. Supposedly she's a former porn star?

Well, it was a spectacle. They were actually pretty solid live. Can't imagine listening to it at home, though.

In other news, Witch Mountain starts tracking a new album this Friday with Billy Anderson producing at Audible Alchemy studio run by Steve Lobdell. Out in June. Stoked.

Is that Steven Wray Lobdell?

*stirs from his slumber*I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED… For Freedom Call? Haven't listened to the new one, but I've never been particularly impressed with them in the past.

Meant to listen to a bunch of the metal back log when I was on vacation, but I ended up mostly listening to bandcamp stuff. Not as impressed with Spawn of Possession as Jon, but really digging the Black Breath. Also, why did nobody tell me that Asphyx were so damn good?! Well, besides Siegbran, I suppose.

anyone else listen to the new terrorizer? of course, this is nothing like world downfall (and nowhere near that level) and I wish the drums didn't sound so damn stiff. but what the hell, this still satisfies. some fun guitar work on here.

I did! I actually really enjoyed it, having not listened to their previous work. Made good background music for putting together the Matt Putrid feature I did for the zombie issue of Decibel.

Yeah, the new Terrorizer is pretty cool. Even though, as Phil said, they're pretty much Resistant Culture With a Couple Other Guys now.

yep, this is really nothing like classic terrorizer at all. guess I have to listen to some resistant culture now.

and you have to listen to world downfall, j3ff! so awesome.

Is it free on bandcamp?

it's on spotify.

Is that Steven Wray Lobdell?

Yes, he played in Faust for a while. Between Lob and Billy Anderson, we'll be in great hands!

Yeah, that's a great combination there! I love Lobdell from Davis Redford Triad and stuff. Pretty awesome.

hellbeard are on spotify
http://open.spotify.com/artist/0o4q44oE19NvxNacve7u7C

thatnks Kerr.. you're sweet! lol

thanks

from the p4k review: "But most of these bands don't have Christine Davis, a frontwoman who trades the tight t-shirt machismo of Christian Mistress' more obvious peers for an understated, alluring command." (italics in the original)

while i really like her voice, and i do think it's notable that this kind of band is being fronted by female vox, the dichotomy the writer is setting up (tight t-shirt machismo V. understated, alluring command) is sorta bogus, not least bc i don't find her vocals particularly understated or alluring. maybe i wouldn't disagree that she has a "warm rasp," but he also writes that she "practically coos" (!) which iirc is how we describe parents speaking in baby-jibberish to their babies. like, obv i think it's important (and important to my enjoyment of the band) that Davis has a female voice, and not just a cookie monster voice or another generic metal voice, but holy shit sexism.

Listening to Freedom Call right now. Definitely fun, they have a rousing sense of melody, but it is super generic Euro power metal.

A friend got us tickets to see Iron Maiden. Outside, in Dallas, in August. Should be stupidly hot, but it's Maiden!

UP THE IRONS!

I haven't seen them since the original Somewhere In Time tour, so this is fitting.

Okay, "Crimson Dawn" on this Freedom Call album has won me over. I love me some cheesy vocal harmonies.

Oh, I thought this was Somewhere revisited not Seventh Son. My Bad.

Bummed we get Coheed and Cambria instead of Alice Cooper, but them's the breaks.

ha, i knew you'd like it jeff.

i used to love coheed and cambria. first two albums are still classic imho

I'm heading to Calgary for Maiden in July. This'll be fun, the spring '88 tour with GNR skipped my city, so it'll be nice to see that setlist revisited a little bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhJ9pAnSTug&feature=share
NEW BLACK BREATH TUNE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Listening to a stream of the new Torche right now. Don't know if it's appropriate for the rolling metal thread, maybe the rolling Foo Fighters thread? They've definitely moved fully into alternative rock at this point, although it's still heavier/noisier than the average radio fare. Nothing jumping out at me so far like the best songs on Meanderthal did. That might require listening to more than four tracks, though.

I actually like the new Torche more than Meanderthal.

I dig the winding riff on "Snakes Are Charmed" – and hey, "Sky Trials" paints a pretty nifty vapor trail. This does feel like a record I'm going to have to listen to a few times.

I am glad they found a second guitarist. They did not work nearly as well as a power trio. Did they have the second guitarist on Songs for Singles? I never heard that one.

They didn't! Yeah, big improvement. I'll stop babbling now.

Okay, opinion revised: this is freaking great. Should probably stop posting thoughts on things before I've listened through the whole thing.

I needed a few listens too!

where is this torche stream goin down?

hellbeard are on spotify
http://open.spotify.com/artist/0o4q44oE19NvxNacve7u7C

― fuck deathcore and metalcore (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, March 2, 2012 5:42 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw this is good! very well-recorded especially and i like slow sludgy stuff so it's all good here.

it made it into our 2010 eoy poll. Thats how sean turned up here as i messaged the band on myspace when i found out they were unsigned, i wanted to know if there was cds to buy

you guys are awesome... thank you!!