Rolling Metal Thread 2014

maybe yr right, i am for the moment all hung up on the beatleyness of "the lion's roar". and the title track, and "moon heart sun head" and "holy fallout", and... like most cynics, i'm sure it'll take some time before the whole thing really settles in, but nearly every track here has some fair best-on-the-album claim. and yes, remotely as awesome as "nunc stans" is the operating principle.

"stans" is Latin for "standing" (present participial iirc). "nunc" is Latin for "now."

good to know

oh also i don't think i like any of these new cynic songs as much as i like "box up my bones" from that ep a few years ago but who knows, it could grow on me

this particular usage seems to be from Boethius whose name you hardely ever hear any more

“Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.

(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)”

"nunc stans" = "the now that remains"

"nunc fluens" is also the intro to traced in air. cool

http://www.manowar-collection.de/Manowar1984Poster.jpg

Last, this Artificial Brain thing on Profound Lore is lining up nicely along the Demilich-Gorguts-Mitochondrion axis of weird: http://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinth-constellation

a lot riff-groovier tho, and very loose guy-in-a-room feel on the drums

that sounds great in a 30-second sample, will bookmark for later

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2014/02/coffin-dust-this-cemetery-my-kingdom/

cheers

yeah ok that one is a lot more fun (cuz of thrash probably) than the artificial brain

seriously fuckin a TWIN GUITAR LEADS

i feel bad for people who lived in dark historical times where it just wasn't possible to double up some sweet guitar leads, it's like not having sunlight or blue skies

If you're not a fan of shredtastic technical death metal, you should probably avoid Hannes Grossmann's The Radial Covenant. He's the former drummer for Necrophagist, current drummer for Obscura, and also plays with Ron Jarzombek a lot. Jarzombek is on this album, as are Jeff Loomis, Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry), Christian Muenzner (Obscura, Spawn of Possession), V. Santura (Triptykon) and a bunch of other folks. It's more melodic and power-metal-ish than you might expect, with less jazz-fusion bass than I'd hoped for, but still definitely an excuse for lots and lots of guitar solos.

oh fuck that sounds great

I think that Wayne still is in the Bay area. This seems like a fun couple of nights out for him and/or those who are:

Brainsqueeze Fest

Friday - April 18, 2014
Oakland Metro - All Ages
Ghoul
Cannabis Corpse
Final Conflict
Iron Reagan
BAT
Fucktard

Saturday - April 19, 2014
Oakland Metro - All Ages
Municipal Waste
Negative Approach
Fucked Up
Impaled
The Shrine
Kicker
Conquest for Death

Sunday - April 20, 2014
Eli's Mile High Club - 21+
Brainoil
Deny the Cross
Connoisseur
+ wild and unpredictable guests
BBQ + Andrei Bouzikov art showing

k has anybody heard of a d00d named J0hn F!nb3rg (aka F!rst R0w T@l3nt aka 3nt3rT✧✧✧@u✧✧.c✧✧)?

Basically, I bought a ticket to see Iced Earth on 4/24 of this year. The day after I purchased, I got a second email and ticket confirmation. I emailed to ask why and they (he) claimed I bought a second ticket. Instead of offering to investigate for me, he insisted I bought the ticket. After five emails and subsequent refusals to investigate any fraud, I initiated a chargeback.

To my surprise, I lost. He submitted documentation "proving" that I submitted two orders (his proof consisted of purchase orders his own company sent which didn't even contain IP addresses).

I began putting together my appeal and wrote them back demanding they investigate fraud, but he merely said he'd 'pass it onto legal' and since my anxiety has been out of whack lately, I decided to give up since it's less than $30.

I searched for the guy's name on the net and found SEVERAL character assassinations so I was wondering if this is a persona non grata I've never heard of? Honestly can't believe the shit this guy has put me through over one ticket - if I'd have ordered it by mistake, I'd have just eaten the cost, I've done dumb stuff like that before...but I was at a bar watching football at the time of the alleged 'purchase'.

If it's the same guy I am thinking of, he has been a booking agent for metal bands, mostly on the level of Metal Blade, Earache and the like, for decades now. He's also known as a douchebag of the highest order, fucking over bands and labels and managers all the time. Back when I was booking bands (and I discovered what a thankless job it is) he was considered a "necessary evil" to work with because hardly anyone would take on the bands that he did. But nobody enjoyed the experience and there were people who simply didn't work with him. So... Good luck if it's him (and I'm pretty sure it is).

this is exactly what I found when I searched his name on the net. and yeah, at this point, I've essentially given up...$25 isn't worth the stress involved.

my credit card 3-digit auth code and exp date have changed since that transaction, so there's no chance of him pulling another fast one on me. just don't like being dicked over. like seriously, forwarding my complaint to 'legal', as if he's going to threaten to sue me for threatening to file an AG report? lord.

Ha ha ha ha, NOW I know who you're talking about – I remember some of my industry friends talking about this guy a few years back and how much of a scumbag he was.

"Necessary evil" was the exact phrase they used as well.

so so glad to have met this crucial metal pioneer :/

I was going to say this seems like a bad business model, but apparently he's still around, so I guess I'm the one who's wrong here.

Listened to the Nervosa album tonight. They're an all-female thrash trio from Brazil who sound uncannily like Destruction, to me anyway—not just the riffing, but the vocals, too. They're good, though, so I hope they don't get dismissed the way, say, Gallhammer did. (I liked Gallhammer; I thought they brought a healthy dose of silliness and fun to crusty black metal, and their last album was pretty goddamn bizarre.)

Gallhammer were great. Who dismissed them? Terrorizer/Zero Tolerance magazines here loved them.

There was a weird perceived-hype-backlash with them and probably some sexism in there, too. I thought they were awesome, for the record.

there was definitely a lot of grousing about how they couldn't really play etc, from people/a demographic of people who... didn't usually take such a principled stance on the matter

the second (?) album Peaceville released over here was really good iirc imo

I loved Gallhammer.

lol Pitchfork and all that, but the new Slough Feg album is on Spotify and is sounding p great: http://open.spotify.com/album/4BPyUjCnERSNMLQ23Z5P1w

otm. "laser enforcer", which has been kicking around for some time now, is still my favorite, but it's a damn solid album overall. better than the animal spirits, if not quite down among the deadmen.

did any of you guys ever watch this one man metal doumentary that vice did a while back? http://www.vice.com/noisey-vbs/one-man-metal-part-1

they get pretty good access to these dudes and overall it's interesting.

leviathan dude seems like typical functional misanthrope, they do get into some of the actual bad shit that's happened to him (this is pre-assault charge).
striborg dude seems pretty well-adjusted, regular guy who just likes to wear capes and walk in the woods occasionally.
xasthur dude i would actually be concerned about, he seems unwell.

Yeah, I got a real weird vibe from the Xasthur dude. Actually creeped me out quite a bit. The Leviathan guy seemed dishonest to me, like he was exaggerating some of the stuff he talked about. I'd have Striborg over for a potluck dinner any day of the week.

it made me dislike wrest even more. something about how he said he didn't like talking about the bad stuff thats happened to him, then detailed it and took the camera crew on a tour of the house or w/e. if he didn't want to talk about it, he would be like malefic and not talk about it imo. dude just came off really hype to give his status as dude worthy of sympathy, while saying he hated discussing it, which is gross to me in light of who he is. i realize thats my problem and not his. i just dont like him! haw.

it made me like malefic more. i thought it was interesting that he dresses like a such a reg dude, but it makes sense with his personality/desire for privacy. striborg was a very lovable dork. on one hand i wish there had been more people profiled in it, but on the other hand i kind of wish it were a full length doc about malefic because he seemed like the most interesting dude in it.

I like the Exmortal disc tho was surprised at the amelodic vox since i had no previous knowledge of them

yeah wrest did not seem like a cool guy. with malefic i just wanted to give him a hug and buy him a shirt that fit.

lol yes

Hey, good Behemoth album. I like the title-track a lot... funky bass for a black metal tune.

i want to get a beer with striborg

I have no idea how this happened, but the cover of the fanzine I did back in 1989 suddenly wound up in my Facebook feed:

http://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1/1622754_384686898339006_581431431_n.jpg

No, I don't have any more issues for sale... And yes, I am sure that the writing is pretty bad. But I have to thank Print Shop for the awesome fonts, Word Perfect for the layout and dad for letting me do it on his IBM XT. And my bud Jerry Rutherford who assisted in the writing.

He wound up working for Metal Blade and then writing for a bunch of magazines so some of you may know the name. He's been in the Dallas area for a while (and it's possible he is responsible for the cover winding up online even though he was just tagged in the image - he didn't post it himself.)

Ha, before I even got to your 2nd graf I was thinking, I know that name from Metal Maniacs, don't I? Apparently so. Since that was the first extreme metal mag I read regularly, all those names are burned into my neural circuitry and I occasionally wonder what became of them. Some are still kicking around, either writing or playing, but many seem to have evaporated (or taken up new pseudos).

I don't, however, wonder what happened to their editor, Mike G, because almost everything he wrote made me wince, especially when he wrote about women in the music scene. I pray he's nowhere near a public outlet anymore.

Also, what was the deal with metal musicians always grabbing the heads or hair of bandmates in photo shoots? The first that comes to mind is the one of Araya doing it to Lombardo on the back of Reign in Blood.

God I miss zines. Do people still do them? Like, paper ones? I don't think I've seen one since Lamentations of the Flame Princess.

people do!

ahh good ole J!m Raggi, Opeth-fiend.

Fittingly enough I was handed my first issue of LotFP in the parking lot after my first Opeth show, by JR himself. That would've been the Blackwater Park tour, Opeth's ATL debut, back before the demystification began. They did play "Advent," though; I think I may have been levitating during that one.

The tour also featured Angel Dust, who on the marquee were known as Angel Lust.

Last, this Artificial Brain thing on Profound Lore is lining up nicely along the Demilich-Gorguts-Mitochondrion axis of weird: http://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinth-constellation

a lot riff-groovier tho, and very loose guy-in-a-room feel on the drums

― j., Wednesday, 19 February 2014 23:24 (5 days ago) Permalink

vocals on track 2 sound like sméagol/gollum for a few seconds.

sounds pretty good. will give it a proper listen later.

Where my band rehearses in Oakalnd, Neurosis and Sleep share the room next to us... (they share a drummer, so why not?)
I heard Sleep in there today, which was rad cuz we don't hear much from that room that often. I go to the restroom and Pike comes in to use the sink.. I say, "you guys rehearsing, cuz if you guys get going, we'll have to stop recording this acoustic thing we're trying to do.." We both laugh, cuz lets face it, next to Jucifer they are the loudest thing doing.. He says, "naw, Its just me and Jason, we're writing some new stuff..."

Let me repeat... Sleep is writing new stuff!!! you didn't hear it from me....

In an ongoing series where I alienate former musical heroes, I got former Anthrax guitarist Dan Spitz angry at me because I called him out on his anti-vaxxer bullshit. His evidence that he was right about the link between autism and vaccines was Alex Jones, which is sad.

Supposedly I will be attending a Scott Ian spoken word performance with VIP passes. If I get to reconnect with Scott, I have an amusing story to share. Scott ain't perfect but he's not certifiably insane either.

Meanwhile guess who pled guilty...

Lambesis explained he wanted his wife dead because she was going to get up to 60-percent of his income and would not allow their children – ages 4, 8, and 10 – to go on tour with him, the deputy testified.

That monster. How dare she not want a 4 year-old going on tour with a rock band (even a "Christian" one)?