Rolling Metal Thread 2012

What's with everyone discovering Nightwish in the past couple days? To answer your questions: They are a Finnish opera metal band from the late 90s. They used to have an amazing opera singer on vocals, but then they fired her and got a chicken-dancing pop singer who isn't nearly as good. It is a scene, yes; there's a whole bunch of stuff that sounds like this, some of which I cover in a column for decibel. And it is awesome.

i dunno! i'm totally random i was just looking at a video for the band Nile on youtube and this was one of the sidelinks and i clicked it randomly.

anyway thx for the info :)

false metal poseur out.

If you're interested in exploring their back catalog, I would start with Wishmaster.

RIYL Nightwish: Epica, Within Temptation, Sirenia, Leaves Eyes, Tarja (their original singer's solo project)

1) Nightwish is one of the best power metal bands ever but that's post-Tarja. Tarja is/was a singer of incredible talent and power; her replacement...is not. Will rep for the guitarists power riffs any day though

2)

If you're lucky enough to make it to the show in Charlotte, NC, this tour cross paths to combine with the Vektor trip.

3) still listening to that Nightwish YouTube (not watching it though), that is still awesome ppl who do not love Nightwish are unkvlt forever

4) but the best metal album I've heard in a LONG time is the Jess & the Ancient Ones album holy FUCK is it awesome

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What's with everyone discovering Nightwish in the past couple days?

Are you touring with them?

Also, new Enslaved is pretty alright.

RIYL Nightwish: Lyriel. I love their new album.

Are you touring with them?

if they get back w/Tarja we can talk otherwise I am #teamEpica

Super excited for new Enslaved. As for now, I'm really loving the new Old Man Gloom. I've always kinda appreciated those dudes more than I loved them, but the new album hits all my sweet spots. Its a nice balance between the chunk hardcore riffs and some more dissonant, noisy bits. Plus there's a ballad!

Nightwish is definitely different without Tarja. Not always worse ("Amaranth" may be my favorite song of theirs), but not always better. Epica, Xandria, Lyriel and Shear all also have worthwhile new albums in some variation on this style.

ok i am scanning through mordys metal spotify list and HOLY SHIT this woods of ypres is the fucking shit

Hope you like it, dude is dead so you aren't getting any more of it. I guess unless you go listen to the previous four albums.

Oh goddamnit I forgot about that. Fuck that sucks.

Well, now you've been reminded in the coldest, most inhumane phrasing I could have possibly come up with. Good job me.

This has been doing the rounds of the Internet, and it's pretty god damn awesome:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7toiemgV71ru05e5o1_500.jpg

long time lurker, first time poster.

Just wanted to say that I'm loving that Maiden pic.

you posted a month ago rocky.

i saw san francisco's PRIZE HOG tonight and they were fucking sick

especially the drummer

oceanborn and wishmaster are totally monumental records

ha umm I had something to do with it but it's a secret more will be revealed!!!1!

i have no idea what this means but i'm psyched anyway!

http://media.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/benante.jpg

Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante and his wife spent a night in jail following a violent incident in a hotel, reports say.

The pair were arrested at the Hilton Garden Inn in Elkhart, Indiana, on Friday night, charged with domestic battery in front of a child, reports WSBT.

They were released from Elkhart County Jail last night (Saturday) but no other details have been made available.

The musician, 49, has been forced to miss the current leg of his band’s US tour due to a hand injury. He’s been replaced by Jason Bittner of Shadows Fall.

Classic Rock Magazine

I guess he hurt his hand on his wife's face...

What is this "in front of a child" bullshit? Is that an extra charge now, like the anti-abortion "fetal pain" laws right-wing fucknozzles keep trying to pass?

yes

it's psychologically very very very bad for children to see domestic violence

He always seemed like the classiest member of Anthrax, too – in comparison to Scott Ian, anyway. Shame.

What is this "in front of a child" bullshit? Is that an extra charge now, like the anti-abortion "fetal pain" laws right-wing fucknozzles keep trying to pass?

It's an extra charge, but it's not a bullshit extra charge. Children who witness domestic violence get pretty fucked up & it takes years of work to undo the damage. I understand the reflexive urge to say "oh what is this A CHILD bullshit you fundie fucks," but this is not related to "fetal pain" laws (which are horrendous, and unconstitutional besides). This is a good law; if in the course of fucking up your marriage you go the extra mile and damage your child, society has a vested interest in holding you accountable

imo

well i mean don't those kids have a higher change of going on to become involved in those relationship in the future (either as abused or abuser)

that ends up costing the state a lot of money down the line

they do - I'm in favor of the statute we're talking about - that should be clear from the graf I wrote

has anyone else heard prizehog?

i didn't know anything about them before the show - though when they went on i recognized them from amoeba sf - and i was thinking a lot about how dynamic the drummer was and so it was funny to see they have something on gravity

i wish i knew the names of the songs they did

http://saintroserecords.com/2012/05/14/new-prizehog-ep-on-gravity-records/

yeah i understood you were in favor, i was just checking to see if my understanding of "why" was right

whoa, I did not realize gravity records was still going

By the way, I don't know how my fellow denizens here feel about this summer's Maiden tour, but for me, Thursday's show in Calgary turned out to be the best Maiden show I have ever seen. Performance, live mix, crowd, venue, vantage point, camaraderie, everything converged perfectly. What you always wish will happen whenever you see that one all-time favourite band.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing them in a couple of weeks.

Had to miss this tour due to life obligations. There were problems three of the five times I've seen Iron Maiden - twice the sound went out (Hammerstein Ballroom 2003 and MSG 2008), and once I was outdoors and it rained (Ozzfest 2005). But I've never seen them give a bad show.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/7009344.bin

So all Bruce Dickinson did on his day off Saturday was fly a vintage WWII plane from Edmonton to the Northwest Territories and back.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Iron+Maiden+joins+Pilots+historic+northbound+plane/7009343/story.html

Well, I mean, it's Edmonton, what else is there to do there?

Initially thought you were referring to Edmonton, NE London. Now that would have been a journey!

listening to Jess & the Ancient Ones pretty much once a day. So amazing.

i listened to one song and i liked it, not sure why i didn't go back to listen to the whole thing. will do, thanks for reminding me.

Really liking the new Bosse-de-Nage.

Yeah, the Jess & the Ancient Ones album is awesome stuff..."Sulfur Giants" is as good as an epic metal song as I've heard this year.

Yes Prize Hog are great. I've thrown a number of shows for them and reviewed them here and there. Very Melvins meets Butthole Surfers to my ears. And that's a good thing. Plus they are D&D nerds.

Huh. Apparently Charlie Benante was the one assaulted, by his wife.

okay, i'm sure this definitely outs me as "false", but i'm really excited for this development:

In his post (?) Sonic Youth career, Thurston Moore has taken a bit of an aesthetic turn: he's joined the black metal supergroup Twilight. Nachtmystium guitarist/vocalist Blake Judd, also a member of Twilight, revealed this in an interview with the 1st Five.

For their upcoming album, out this fall on Century Media, the Twilight lineup will consist of Moore, Judd, producer Sanford Parker, Stavros Giannopoulos from the Atlas Moth, Wrest of Leviathan, and Imperial from Krieg. Judd told the 1st Five that he hopes to get Isis' Aaron Turner, Lichens' Rob Lowe, and Malefic of Xasthur to also contribute.

in other news there's a new rap supergroup featuring me & Sufjan

^^^^ and there it is, right on schedule.

so long metal thread.

just, ugh, there are so many other places on the internet to find that kind of elitist bullshit wrt to metal, i don't really like reading it here too. kind of surprising to hear it coming from steven tyler but oh well.

jon - calm down. that is really not much of a jab after you set yourself up with the "false" thing.

I don't care because I'm not a Judd fan. I like Parker and Giannopoulos but I'd rather listen to them in other settings.

lmao steven tyler is like the biggest metal purist here!

fwiw, i'm not taking it personally, i'm just sick of reading snark fucking everywhere these days and i think that kinda was the tipping point for me tonight. i really love this thread thanks to the unironic love of pretty much everything (girly metal, whatever) but i guess this was a good reminder to not get my expectations up too high for the internet.