Rolling Metal Thread 2014

Mordy, I assume you already know about Narjahanam, right? Rotting Christ : Greece :: Narjahanam : Bahrain. I hadn't, but their album Wa Ma Khufiya Kana A'atham hit Rdio last week, and I'm just getting to it. I see elsewhere they're compared to Orphaned Land, but this album, at least, seems much darker than that to me.

i hadn't but i'll check them out!

xxxposts: Pallbearer is playing a one-off in Portland 2/11, too. What are they up to with these sorta random shows? Are they recording in one or both of those places, I wonder?

Recording in Portland

Cool.

Pallbearer/Pinkish Black would be a rad bill.

They've become good friends and try to pair up a few shows in each band's hometown once or twice a year. Little Rock and Fort Worth are close enough they can pull it off.

Everyone welcome.
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All added will be made co-owners too

Any interested writers, I have a new project coming out Feb 4. All press welcome:

AVRAM - Metal Noam e.p. -- we wrote and recorded metal songs that use actual Noam Chomsky speeches in place of vocals (with his permission). One tune black/thrash, one doom number, one hair ballad. All hilarious, yet lyrically chilling and poignant.

Self-recorded, mixed by Billy Anderson, mastered by Justin Weis, artwork by Sam Ford.

All proceeds go to a charity of Noam's choice (or as we like to call it, "the Noam retirement fund.")

Hit me over email (heavymetalladiesnight - gmail) if you want the advance link.

Thanks and metal nerds unite!

My promo of the new Grand Magus just got here. Weekend: made.

It is delightfully dumb.

No idea what my first show of the year will be.
I got rough mixes / demos for a couple of records I'll be working on later this year. New Earth and Pallbearer are going to make the summer pretty exciting.

Another year, another NAILS album? pretty please.

Well, rocky, they put out two things last year, right? Didn't they do an EP as well, or was that the end of 2012.. I'm sure they'll have another thing put out soon, if they are on that type of output

I can't believe those dudes are from Ventura County. I mean, no wonder they're so pissed, but...

lol!!

Sean: I was just being hopeful.

barranca jagger (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ): are you in the 805?

Just stumbled across Knuckle Duster, the second album by Asomvel, which came out back in October. It lives up to its name—pure 200mph punk-meets-NWOBHM-meets-bar fight soundtrack. On Spotify.

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According to my stats calculations from metal-archives data, the top 10 reviewed metal albums of 2013 are:

1. Stratovarius · Nemesis
2. Satan · Life Sentence
3. Atlantean Kodex · The White Goddess
4. Darkthrone · The Underground Resistance
5. Voivod · Target Earth
6. In Solitude · Sister
7. The Ocean · Pelagial
8. Carcass · Surgical Steel
9. Ghost · Infestissumam
10. Cultes des Ghoules · Henbane

http://www.furia.com/em/releases-year.html

by my count full 1/2 of the bands on that list are at least 20 years old, correct? (Voivod, Darkthrone, Carcass, Satan, Stratovarius)

you saying metal archive users are old farts who hate modern bands?

I dunno, 11-20 includes Bölzer, Hatriot and Sulphur Aeon, who are all pretty new. And Black Sabbath. Seems like an OK variety. Established bands attract more reviewers, of course. And remember that in this case I'm imposing the ranking with math, the reviewers aren't ranking anything, so don't over-attribute motive to the results...

hehehe hat riot

Kim finally started her own zine.

http://necrolustzine.com/

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Yeah, I've been trying to check it out most of the day and keep getting that same error.

Is that most reviewed or best reviewed, Glenn

necrolustzine.com works for me.

Best reviewed. Follow the link and you can see both the scores and the counts...

YES! Now 2014 may begin...

Slough Feg launch title track and pre-orders for “Digital Resistance”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuTgTrhzUCo

http://www.metalblade.com/us/covers/SloughFeg-DigitalResistance.jpg

Slough Feg have launched the title track from their brand new album, “Digital Resistance.” The record was recorded with Justin Weis (who produced the album with vocalist/guitarist Mike Scalzi) at Trakworx in South San Francisco from January-October 2013 andmarks the band’s first new studio album since 2010′s “The Animal Spirits.” When asked if the new album was a concept album, singer and vocalist Mike Scalzi explained that “Digital Resistance“is a concept album in the sense that The Beatles Sgt. Pepper is a concept album. “It has somewhat of a consistent lyrical theme that runs through several of the songs, but not every song— it is not a concept album in the sense that our “Traveller” album is.” Listen now and pre-order your copy at metalblade.com/sloughfeg.

Mike Scalzi elaborates on the concept behind the title track: “This song represents a last ditch effort to escape the inevitable. There will be no victory over technology– nor should there be in a broader sense— but I do fear what we are becoming. Biological evolution moves so slowly that we cannot perceive it. But social and moral evolution may come in great jolts or leaps. This can be dangerous to the preservation the species, biologically and morally/socially. But it’s also just fun to sing about ‘killing technology’ (like that other band from Canada did a long time ago). It’s a very dramatic subject. That’s why I call it “Voi-Vaudeville”.”

Scalzi discusses the cover art: “The artwork for this album was, as usual, a bit of a struggle. I had no idea how to represent an album called “Digital Resistance”. We finally decided that we wanted the background of Kiss’s “destroyer” album (a city in ruins), but instead of a rendering of our band in the forefront, I wanted the space-dog (Vargr) from “Traveller.” But we’d already used him, so I thought about wolves. I thought maybe a symbol (involving a wolf) representing the birth of a civilization might be appropriate. And that’s what we did—- we put Romulus and Remus, the two mythological children who founded Rome, and were raised by a wolf, in front of this destroyed civilization. What does it have to do with “Digital Resistance”? Modern primitivism? An atavistic civilization? Nothing whatsoever? Well, I suppose only time will tell.”
So what does Mike hope the listener will walk away with after listening to “Digital Resistance“? “Hopefully just enjoyment, entertainment. Perhaps a little bit of a lesson about the dangers of technology’s tendency to sort of dumb us down when things become so easy. The more we indulge in technology and allow it to do everything for us, especially allowing it to think for us (as in the case of looking everything up on your phone or computer rather than trying to remember and retain information), the more physically and mentally “flabby” we become. So there is somewhat of an urgent message, or complaint about this increasingly human tendency.”

Digital Resistance is set for release in North America on February 18, 2014 and will see SLOUGH FEG on the road with a few West Coast shows scheduled in March with the guys’ “sister band” Bible of the Devil, from Chicago. The band is hoping to do a short tour of Europe in May/June, and then hopefully to Chicago in July to do the “Ale Horn of Power” Festival.

Slough Feg is:
Mike Scalzi – Guitars/Vocals
Angelo Tringali – Guitars
Adrian Maestas – Bass
Harry Cantwell – Drums

Digital Resistance track listing:
1. Analogue Avengers / Bertrand Russell’s Sex Den
2. Digital Resistance
3. Habeas Corpsus
4. Magic Hooligan
5. Ghastly Appendage
6. Laser Enforcer
7. The Price Is Nice
8. Curriculum Vitae
9. The Luddite
10. Warriors Dusk

Great news!

It's a mighty fine album. Better than the last one, I think.

if you click on the order in uk button it takes you to amazon and no sign of the album.

As I just said on Twitter, metal must be doing way better than I think if Metal Blade is willing to sign Slough Feg and Relapse is willing to sign Ringworm. Slough Feg's last album hasn't even sold 1000 copies yet, and Ringworm's last one has sold a little under 1600 copies.

I wonder how the Slough Feg reissues did for them last year.

Well in Slough Feg's case its time a good metal band was given a chance. An alternative to Avenged Sevenfold and Attila is needed!

Slough Feg are terrible. You want a trad metal band that deserves to be huge? Grand Magus is that band.

I hate to be that guy but I think Grand Magus were much better earlier in their career.

What, when they were doomier? Nah. Hammer of the North and The Hunt are definite peaks for me; the new one hasn't 100% won me over yet, but it's still really solid. It's just kind of all-of-a-piece and doesn't have any real standout tracks that I've noticed so far.

The new Grand Magus needed some time to grow on me last month, but I'm really into it now. Not as hooky and Rainbowy as The Hunt, but very, very solid front to back. They can do no wrong, I've been into that band for a long time now.

Long-time lurker... Anyone else thinking the Aevangelist album got kind of lost in the year-end shuffle? It seems to beat Gnaw Their Tongues in the found sound/classical samples/weird chaotic noises game. But brutal as f--- too, in a Streetcleaner kind of way, with accomplished musicianship and actual riffs.

I think the big thing for a lot of critics is that it technically came out in 2012.

I just got emailed a promo on that - it's being reissued on vinyl. Gonna check it out this week.

It's from 2012? Had no idea. I only started seeing reviews of it recently. Anyway, it's pretty rad. Need it on vinyl.

I'm talking about the "Omen Ex Simulacra" album btw. Are you sure it's 2012? Everything I'm seeing says November 2013.

Ah, I was talking about their debut, De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis.

Phil -- have you ever seen Slough Feg live? I don't listen to any of their albums. But every time I see them, they blow the roof off. It's a superlative performance. But I won't argue on the studio output.

Early contender for album of the year:

Dad Metal

hai kvlt ppl you probably saw this already but a friend posted it on facebook so i thought i'd share in case you hadn't
http://www.cvltnation.com/world-burns-bolt-thrower-live-1993-now-showing/

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I'm really enjoying this Aevangelist album, now that I'm finally getting around to listening to it. In the subgenre I think of as "monster music", like Mitochondrion and Ulcerate. More waves of noise and groaning than anything rhythmic.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=56

I sent a message to Ned via Facebook to hopefully expedite things and apologized to KK for posting it.

It's not until next year but apparently beloved doom troupe Acid King has reformed!

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18, 2014 – Acid King, pioneers of the San Francisco doom scene and one of the genre’s first bands to be helmed by a woman, return from their self-imposed 10-year recording hiatus on April 14 with the release of Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere.

“We had several songs in the works over the years that we spent most of our time touring Europe but in between working our day jobs, we didn’t put the effort into recording,” explained singer/guitar player Lori S. “I really wanted to accelerate the process and get new music out. It’s time. This music that we’ve been playing for so long, that was initially obscure and underground, seemed to grow over these past 10 years and the timing was right to release this now!”

Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere was recorded at both Sharkbite and Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco, mixed at Different Fur Studios and produced by Acid King and Billy Anderson. The digital release will be released independently via Acid King while physical copies, both CD and vinyl, will be available via Svart Records.

Acid King bubbled up from San Francisco in 1993 through a fog of revved up riffs, thunderous drums, and a hypnotic vocal howl. They unleashed three EPs and three full-length albums, starting with Zoroaster in 1995, the 1999 full-length Busse Woods, and their most recent release, Acid King III, coming in 2005. Their seismic chemistry transfixed audiences everywhere from high-profile festivals such as Hellfest and Roadburn to now iconic shows alongside peers such as Sleep and Mystick Krewe of Clearlight.

The band recently confirmed their participation in Desertfest, April 24 to 26 in the UK. North American tour dates will be announced soon.

Sweet.

awesome! was listening to busse woods the other day, wondering when/if they might be recording again.

#metalgate smdh

http://www.returnofkings.com/50614/what-is-metalgate

why even link to that garbage

ugh, yeah, goddamnit. I'm pissed off I just gave them a pageview.

http://pissvortex.bandcamp.com/

stupid name... amazing music

Piss Vortex... my favorite find of 2014

Hail Santa!!!

Deck the hells
Tralalala lalalala

Renounce Christ
And worship Satan
Tralala la la lalala laaaa

just sent my metal friend a link to the High Spirits album. he loves it but he almost didn't even listen to it bc of how bad the cover is.

that cover is so terrible.

I love that cover except for the font on the band's name.

For an album that sounds so much like Coney Hatch, that cover isn't quite ludicrous enough to resemble a Coney Hatch record.

holy shit that album RULES. listening now for the 1st time - thanks so much for this, static!

cover is terrible tho, hate to break it to u :(

xp Still wondering what the hell a Coney Hatch is.

Free demo by Devil Ancestry has been in rotation lately:

http://abysmalsounds.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-seat-of-evil-ecstasy

If you like low-slung, bass-heavy Beherit style pharmaco-satanic blackened death... well, there it is.

Fully expecting to find out it's another Stargazer side project btw.

xp Still wondering what the hell a Coney Hatch is.

http://cdn.discogs.com/ZLrF_YQD4DJx4OtMm7EIDnoGmqU=/fit-in/585x590/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-1513789-1225284633.jpeg.jpg

also:

http://cdn.discogs.com/LN3ky-bfAiLd5ksutwcMKqx5--Q=/fit-in/597x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-1812059-1244984587.jpeg.jpg

Oh yeah I know the band; just that name, man.

they're named after an insane asylum

the metal thread in 2014 has referenced Coney Hatch

I am frankly giddy about this.

xp That seems totally obvious... now.

Oh yeah I know the band; just that name, man.

lol, no, i was being dumb. i've always figured that the band name must be a slangy way of saying mouth ("coney" being a regional hot dog). this seemed to be supported by the album covers, so i posted 'em.

but no...

Ah! Well, when faced with a name like "Coney Hatch" the mind reels...

Revisiting the classic 1982 debut now. Has that edgy Max Webster meets UFO feel, but with that little early-'80s Canadian weirdness to it.

^ me too, so good ("stand up"!)

which has me now listening to the stupid grate Sea Hags LP

the earlier High Spirits stuff is fantastic, think I missed this new one coming out tho

listened to the new Goat Semen album yesterday and it fully kills, so I'm looking forward to spending however long in 2015 cheerleading for a band called Goat Semen

New thread!

Rolling Metal Thread 2015