Rolling Metal Thread 2012

Yeah, they've become a good live band.

Their vocals were painfully flat and sometimes off-key when I saw them. Not sure if it was an isolated experience or if that's just how they are. I don't like them very much, so...

Another nice $10 lineup this Friday at Ultra Lounge. Anyone going?

Black Tusk
Royal Thunder
East Of The Wall
Hull

Saw Alcest a couple of years ago, pretty great (it was just before the US tour where he lost his voice), saw them for the 2nd time a few weeks ago & the interim touring has seriously honed the band. If you like them already I'd say go. Only problem might be the venue/soundguy has to be able to cope with them. The recent show I saw seemed like you had to be stood in the right place, which luckily I was for the most part, as some positions in the venue it wasn't sounding as good.

ahh they're playing at this stupid art gallery nonsmoking type place that's like a square cinderblock room, we'll see. torche sounded like farting mud in that space. but hey it's $5.

This new Black Breath kicks all kinds of ass. Just stunning from front to back.

Immortal/Tsjuder tomorrow in Lausanne - worth going? Haven't seen Immortal in years...

dunno if anyone cares but there's now
Doom Metal Room http://open.soundrop.fm/s/Vw6FRBau3Qe1JQ0X (doom/sludge/stoner/drone etc)
and
Black Metal Room http://open.soundrop.fm/s/Vw6FJO3toeFpfBqa
on spotify/soundrop now.

You need links to join as they're not putting it on the main page in an experiment to avoid trolls and to see how many join via word of mouth. There's a bug just now that means the room appears empty so just go back to the main page and the room should be there so just click on the room and it will work.

DM (which presumably will cove Thrash/Grind too) room is coming in the future they said.

Listening to the new Ancestors album, In Dreams and Time. The vocals are very Baroness-ish this time out, but some of the songs are more Pink Floyd-circa-1971 than anything they've ever done before. I really love their brand of retro stoner psych, and think this might be their best full-length to date.

Very curious to hear this solo album by Mike from Yob. Looks like he's channelling his inner Lebowski a bit more on this one.

That sounds promsing re: the Ancestors album, but I'm one for whom "Pink Floyd-circa-1971" makes me happy, rather than run screaming.

I wrote about the A Storm Of Light/Valient Thorr/Torche/Corrosion Of Conformity show on one of my blogs if anyone is interested.

http://notfromtx.tumblr.com/post/19237527640/my-corrosion-my-conversion

Short version: Great show, and I want to follow Valient Thorr around in an airbrushed van with shag carpeting in the back.

Yep, Valient Thorr absolutely kill it live. Would see them again anytime.

Seriously one of the best bands I've seen a long time. They have 4 shows the next 4 nights within about a 4 hour drive from my house, and I have to say I'm sorely tempted. The two at SXSW are making me itchy.

A bit early to review an Apr 3 release, but here's one for High On Fire's De Vermis Mysteriis
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/03/12/highonfirereview-2/

Valient Thorr are amazing live.. I've seen em 3 or 4 times.. the 1st time, the 1st year they did Warped tour, total fluke.. it was only 11am, butit was by far the best band I'd seen all day, and the fisrt one I'd seen doing big rock again. It was refreshing!

The new Asphyx, people! They've never sounded heavier, tad more doom than the previous one (don't let the video fool you). They've pretty much become the Motorhead of death metal, down to the inimitable vocals of Martin van Drunen.

i love the new asphyx! i've been listening to the title track ('deathhammer'!) obsessively. (but it's all good)

'this is true death metal, you bastards!' - it's no idle boast neither.

hi metal ppl, i'm listening to pallbearer right now and this is great, doesn't have the two things that i can never stand about lots of metal i hear ppl talking abt - shitty production and either gargling or screeching vox

Here's a thing I did for work: a Spotify playlist of 20 metal songs that use the "(X) of (Y)" titling formula.

"Rockin' like Wacken"? Really, J3ff? Otherwise, another great Lazarus Pit.

Ha, I was just coming here to link it. Well, while I'm here: http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/the-lazarus-pit-angel-dusts-enlighten-the-darkness/

That track you embedded is really solid. Didn't think I'd like it, but you're slowly making me appreciate power metal again.

It's a genre with really a lot of dreck in it, but when something in it hits me, it hits me hard. Angel Dust are one of those bands that do the style really, really well, and get zero credit for it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEAN

thanks Kerr!

Hey Konybrony--there are LOTS of metal bands with great singers and great production. You're on the trail man.

That Pallbearer album is good, another solid Profound Lore release.

This new Black Breath album is intense. As presented I'd say it is a good, solid record. However, if this was 15 minutes long I would love it to death. Even though it is a relatively short half-hour the intensity leaves me tired and a little bored. I appreciate that they try to change things up a bit by varying some tempos (particularly in the second half of the album), but even those initially slower songs tend to ramp right back up into the same tempo as everything else. I hope that songs like "The Flame" and "Obey" are received well, because they are trying to expand their palette of sounds (even if the former does escalate to familiar territory). A great record in small doses.

Oh wow, you guys, I've never listened to a Sigh record before and I'm listning to In Somniphobia right now. This is not at all what I expected, but I really like the OTTness of it all.

I haven't heard the new one yet but you should also check out imaginary sonicscape. that is a classic.

scenes from hell was also strong, I thought. it's what got me back on board after losing interest for a few years.

and pretty much everything these guys have ever done is way, WAY OTT.

Thanks, I'll definitely be checking out more after this. For some reason, I always assumed they would be some sort of deadly serious band like Corrupted or whatever, did not expect this!

Yeah, the new Sigh album is easily their most interesting work since Imaginary Sonicscape, which is their best.

tweet from the promoter of tonight's black metal extravaganza mentioned upthread:

Nachtmystum weren't "feeling sxsw & decided to go home" Fucking BS!

So no Nachtmystium and no Bruce Lamont. Not cool, but this should mean the other bands get longer sets. And it is total fucking BS.

That is "fucking BS". I don't understand the point of pull that shit either, its not like Nachtmystium are at a level where they can all fly first class down to Austin and turn around on a whim. Seems insane to travel all the way from Chicago to Austin and not even bother to do a show.

This was supposed to be a special gig before they headed out - a short trip to Dallas, play with some friends, make a few bucks, head on home.

Oh well - Alcest gets to be the headliner again.

laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame

why is the nachtmystium guy such a dick?

well now i can make fun of him for always wearing unbelievably tight pants
nice pants

I hope the show goes on - line of storms coming through an hour before show time with tornados and torrential rain, and huge numbers of power outages expected. Winds already gusting in the 50 mph range.

That's pretty metal.

True. And pretty wet.

3-6" rain in next 24-36 hours.

with tornados and torrential rain
i read this as tomatoes and loled

Sounds like Nice Pants may have had the right idea.

Ha ha, Nicepantsium

Biggest problem is nice pants didn't tell the booker until he was back in Chicago this afternoon. No chance to round up anyone else for the bill.