Rolling Metal Thread 2012

I've ordered CDs through Bandcamp without any problem. Just like Amazon resellers, it just depends on who you're dealing with. Maybe Bandcamp needs to have an Amazon like feedback rating system.

I do hesitate to pay more than $10 too, especially when a hard copy of a reissue might have interesting packaging and liner notes. But it's a positive step to at least have the lossless files available.

Yeah, I can see it being hit and miss. I'm just mostly annoyed because I ordered the new Krallice directly from the band and never got it. Nor have they answered my five emails asking what happened. I'm going to have to pony up another $15-18 to buy it AGAIN. But at this point, I'm pretty much tempted to say "fuck Krallice" and give up on 'em. I'm sure the logistics of releasing your own records can be a pain in the ass, but I'm pissed that they took my money and won't even offer a half-assed excuse.

those songs are best heard on a third-generation cassette dub anyway

That's how I heard Scum for the first time!

I'm sure the logistics of releasing your own records can be a pain in the ass, but I'm pissed that they took my money and won't even offer a half-assed excuse.

Maybe they got overwhelmed and never put the mechanisms in place to handle the volume of orders. Not the first time for musicians to crumble after soliciting their fans' direct involvement in projects - didn't that Animal Collective guy make a mess of his Kickstarter recently?

But on Krallice specifically: it's not as if they're a mega-selling band, but they spread themselves very thin, don't they? How many bands is Colin Marston either in or producing? I'm sure Mick Barr et al are similarly prolific. Maybe take a break from that and fill some orders for a while, yeah?

Go w/ God and torrent at will, jvc

http://www.metalstorm.net/bands/albums_top.php?album_style=Thrash

I was poking around for thrash metal lists and this one had some interesting entries I hadn't heard:
Paradox - Heresy (1989)
Toxik - Think This (1989) & World Circus (1987)
Kat - Oddech Wymarlych Swiatów (1987)
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form (1990)
Annihilator - Never, Neverland (1990)
Sabbat - Dreamweaver (1989)
Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare (1988)

Will start listening on the way to work.

Speaking of great obscure thrash, here's my Lazarus Pit on Believer's Sanity Obscure: http://t.co/9r1oJNhZ

Forbidden's Twisted Into Form is not as good as Forbidden Evil, the first record.. and Vio-lence's Eternal Nightmare is essential!!!! my favorite thrash metal record, hands down!

Coincidentally, I wrote a bit about Sacrifice's Forward to Termination, a Canadian thrash classic that's in my opinion Decibel Hall of Fame-worthy.

http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blogpost.aspx?post=daf14e1f-ba04-4154-a68a-e62e93dcd6e1

I reviewed the new Yakuza for Burning Ambulance; I like it more than you guys, it seems.

I meant to ask, does Decibel send the special issue with Top 100 Death Metal albums to subscribers or no? If I have to order it, I'll also get their Thrash special and find out what they were thinking in placing Holy Terror - Mind Wars (1988) at #5. Also surprised that Coroner's Punishment For Decadence, Mental Vortex and Grin didn't make the list, and that Seasons In The Abyss was only #44.

I've been listening to Vio-lence and many others, and need more time with them. However I think in both lists there is a tendency to overrate some of the more obscure albums, because it is, at least for a while, more interesting to listen to something that's kind of new to our ears than what we've been familiar with for 22+ years.

Others I'm listening to from the list:
#9 Dark Angel - Darkness Descends (1986)
#24 Sabbat - History of a Time to Come (1988)
#25 Blind Illusion - The Sane Asylum (1988)
#26 Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican (1990)
#30 Anacrusis - Reason (1990)
#32 Carnivore - Carnivore (1985)
#38 Believer - Sanity Obscure (1990)
#39 Sacrifice - Forward to Termination (1987)
#41 Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence (1987)
#43 Infernäl Mäjesty - None Shall Defy (1987)
#45 Sadus - Illusions (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xnS80YI7MzQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnS80YI7MzQ

Neurosis: Metal for 10-year-olds.

Off to see Witch Mountain.

nice!!

have fun, mane

Holy shit, this new Voivod song sounds like a leftover from Dimension Hatross.

The new Voivod material is really strong live so I'm glad to hear that. Very much looking forward to that album (even if the cover art is a bit shite; sorry, Away, but it is).

The last few albums haven't been really strong in the cover art department. But I'm really looking forward to the new one despite the art.

Witch Mountain were absolutely killer last night. Castle was really good, too (as was the first local opener - it was a good night of music), but Nate & company were firing on all cylinders. Definitely helped that the crowd was really into it, hooting and hollering and clapping like mad between songs.

I also got to meet xhuxk for the first time, which was very cool.

All in all a great night, even though my car died and I needed AAA to help me get back to Dallas.

The local openers that really impressed me were Unmothered. You can check them out here if you're curious:
http://unmothered.bandcamp.com/

castle were definitely v. good at their thing, couldn't decide how much i was into their thing

That kid is amazing.. he knows his shit!!

xp I just recently heard Voivod's self-titled from 2003, which is not bad. Have not yet heard Infini (2009) where they assembled guitar parts recorded by Piggy before his death. I was talking about the Decibel thrash list before, which listed Killing Technology (1987) in the top ten and War And Pain (1984) lower down, but no mention of Dimension Hatröss (1988), Nothingface (1989) or Angel Rat (1991). Maybe they were considered too proggy to be thrash?

Yeah, they shed the thrash tag once and for all with Hatross.

aw that kid is cool

Another great installment of "Mixtarum Metallum": http://www.popmatters.com/pm/tools/full/164888

Two albums I didn't know about were Hellwell - Beyond The Boundaries Of Sin with Mark Shelton of Manilla Road, and Indesinence — Vessels of Light and Decay, recorded and mixed by Greg Chandler from Esoteric. Also happy to see Ufomammut, Spiders, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and Blues Pills covered.

The Indesinence is pretty good, but yeah, that article really made me want to check out that Hellwell.

Don't sleep on the Oak Pantheon record either. Really good.

I wish I liked the Hellwell album more. And the Oak Pantheon album is very good.

Indesinence is really miserable, and they do a good job at it, but I have zero recollection of it even after listening to it a bunch to review it.

huh oak pantheon is from mpls!

New Kowloon Walled City..... CRUCHING!!!!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/11/07/164604989/song-premiere-kowloon-walled-city-cornerstone

Is that like a mix between crushing and crunching?

I haven't listened to any music for over a week. Not bought anything for like a month either. Have I missed anything good?

Yes.

new soundgarden is ok! some horrible lyrics and some bad songs

i forgot what a bad motherfucker kim thaiyl is

Couldn't have put that better myself. Gonna listen to King Animal again tomorrow.

In honor of that Neurosis review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heg8l0zspSg

i mean, the new soundgarden is about as good as you could have possibly expected a new soundgarden album to be...but i'd say half of this is pretty ace

oh man, that rules (xpost)

It was nice to meet EZ Snappin as well -- and yep, that Cathedral (who I'd never heard before)/Witch Mountain show was a lot of fun.

I do not like the new Soundgarden album much:

http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/soundgarden/album/king-animal-seven-four-entertainment-republic-2012

I liked that self-titled Voivod album back in 2003; wrote this when it came out (scroll down):

http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-09-02/music/music/

Finally, another monthly roundup: I wrote 600-character reviews of 17 of these 20 new albums (though now you have to click on their covers individually to read the reviews. And to figure out which ones I like most and least, you need to read the intro.)

http://www.rhapsody.com/blog/post/top-20-metal-albums-november-2012

Albums I've liked a lot since I wrote that roundup: Venomous Maximus, Spiders.

Undecided about: Bison BC, Abiotic. (Though suprisingly, I think I like the latter more so far).

That Bison BC was surprisingly good; don't really go for that sort of thing, personally, but they sell it well.

Er, I obviously meant CASTLE opening for Witch Mountain, not Cathedral (who I have, in fact, heard of before.) My wife liked them so much she bought their CD at the merch table. (Also meant "surprisingly," not however I spelled it.)

Bison BC album sounded better to me second time through this morning. (They sure do hide the "B.C." on the cover, though -- not on the spine at all, I don't think.)

I beleive the BC was added later, I'm thinking for legal issues.. The logo is probably pre BC.

Yeah, they're still known around these parts simply as Bison. They indeed added the BC for legal reasons when they signed with Metal Blade.

Finally, another monthly roundup: I wrote 600-character reviews of 17 of these 20 new albums (though now you have to click on their covers individually to read the reviews. And to figure out which ones I like most and least, you need to read the intro.)

Dude, I know it's not your fault, but that is a new low bar for a click-whore gallery UI. Whoever decided to stripe the text down a thin left column like that should have to actually read text in that format, like, forever.

Nice to see New Castle's Tygers getting some respect, and a not-half-bad album after all these years.

Not remotely metal, but the thing I can't stop listening to lately is Chris Lawhorn's Fugazi Edits. Kev Eddy's review nails, it, I think: http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17299/reviews/4145697

Is Fugazi Edits for Fugazi for Fugazi fans who don't like Fugazi's singers/songs or the Wu-Tang Clan?